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Families of Pilots Killed in Osprey Crash Want Record Set Straight
A few years after the Osprey crash that killed her husband, Connie Gruber began a quest to clear her husbands' name. The Osprey on her TV stand was a gift after the crash. (Stars and Stripes/Tara Copp)
Stars and Stripes | By Tara Copp
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — The chopping of the tilt-rotor engine was soft at first, but Connie Gruber knows the sound by heart. "That's the Osprey," she said from her living room sofa, looking up toward the room's arched windows. "We're in its flight pattern; sometimes I can see it through that window." Fifteen years ago, on April 8, 2000, Connie's husband, Marine Corps Maj. Brooks Gruber, and Lt. Col. John Brow were testing an Osprey that crashed in Marana, Ariz., killing them and 17 other Marines on board. Years later, investigations into the crash would show that the men boarded the aircraft that night lacking the knowledge, training or warning systems that could have saved their lives. Still, when the Marines issued a statement in July 2000 on their findings of the crash, they allowed Brow and Gruber to take the blame. "Human factors" were said to be the primary cause of the accident. After the crash, or "mishap" as it is called in official correspondence, and a second fatal crash a few months later, the Osprey was kicked back into development to identify the speeds, descents and altitudes of safe flight. Training was overhauled, and an electronic warning system was installed that would alert crews if the airframe was nearing speeds and descent rates that could put them in jeopardy. On April 8, 2000, Brow and Gruber didn't have any of that. In the 15 years since, the families of both pilots have relentlessly pushed to clear their names. They have enlisted the help of Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., who has become so dedicated to their cause he says he'll die before he lets the issue go. Through the years of pressing the Department of Defense to clear Brow and Gruber, many of the officials who were involved with the program have said the men were not to blame. This week, they are making their case again, this time with Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work. They want a letter spelling out that the cause of the crash was not pilot error, to set the record straight. They want to make a point of honor, said Brow's widow, Trish: The pilots "discovered an aerodynamic phenomena that was unique to the aircraft — and then they were blamed for it."
An exciting start Almost 25 years ago, in a friend's living room not too far from her current house, Connie was a Camp Lejeune schoolteacher getting ready for a blind date. "And he walked in, said, 'Hello,' and smiles … and I thought, 'Wow,' " she said. "It was just that feeling like you've always known him." The pair married under the Marines' crossed swords on Valentine's Day in 1992. Gruber had his vision set on the Corps' highly competitive new aviation program to fly the V-22, and he and his wife worked through a long application process. When he was selected, they moved to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. Gruber took his first flight in the Osprey with Brow. When they landed, the guys got sprayed with a firehose to celebrate. "He'd just come home from flying it." Connie recalled. "We're sitting down at the dinner table and he's just talking to me with the energy of like a little boy, a little kid, and he said, 'It smelled like a new car, and it felt like a rocket.' " Brow's wife, Trish, and their two boys, Mike and Matt, were already settled in the area; Brow was a career C-130 pilot who'd take his 7- and 8-year-old sons onto the base to its fishing hole and into the cockpits of the C-130 and the Osprey. As wives of this unique testing crew, Trish and Connie knew each other casually then. But Connie was quick to return to North Carolina when she and her husband found out at Christmas 1998 they were expecting a baby. Gruber was to be permanently stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville after training finished anyway, and Connie's mother lived there, so they quickly had a home built close to the base and settled in. Connie last saw her husband on Valentine's Day in 2000. It was their eighth wedding anniversary and the sixth month of their new life with infant daughter Brooke. Gruber was getting ready to deploy, and he was excited. The career CH-53 pilot was packing for several months of critical flight tests in Arizona with the Osprey. Later that fall the Pentagon would decide whether the program was ready for full-rate production, and the Navy and Marine Corps were eager to keep it on track. Boundaries unknown The V-22 Osprey was envisioned as a hybrid: half-plane, half-helicopter and designed to give the military the forward speed of fixed-wing flying and the flexibility of rotary takeoff, hover and landing. But by the time Brow and Gruber prepared to board the Osprey for operational tests, the program was under tremendous pressure. "This was a program that Dick Cheney wanted to kill when he was secretary of defense because of the costs and technology problems," said Larry Korb, who served as assistant secretary of defense (manpower, reserve affairs, installations, and logistics) under President Ronald Reagan. Cheney was about to return to a position of influence over the program, as vice president under George W. Bush. To protect the Osprey, the services needed it moved into full-rate production. "The longer this thing stays around [in testing] before moving into [full-rate] production, the greater chance it will be canceled," Korb said. "That's why they did it." The program was $3 billion over budget and eight years behind schedule, according to Richard Whittle, a former Pentagon correspondent who tracked the program and reported its story in "The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey." To rush the Osprey into full-rate production, the Navy cut critical developmental testing that the Osprey's contractors should have performed, according to a General Accountability Office investigation after the crash. As a result, the boundaries of safe flight on the Osprey were unknown when the men tested it that night. Neither the training manuals nor the training program warned them that the rate of descent and speed could induce a dangerous turbulence known as "vortex ring state," which could be fatal. April 2000 was to be the last month of critical testing. Gruber and Brow had about 100 flight hours each in the Osprey, and thousands of flight hours in their former aircraft. They were known, the subsequent investigation found, as "some of the Corps' most professional and seasoned pilots." No warning The night of April 8, 2000, Brow and Gruber's Osprey served as the wingman of a two-ship formation, and they were tailed by two Osprey crews assessing their performance. The Ospreys were interacting with more than two dozen fighter jets and helicopters over Arizona as part of the Weapons Tactics Instructor course 2.0, which pushes airframes and crews and provides the only realistic environment to test the Osprey's performance other than sending it to war. As they approached their target that night, the lead Osprey, Nighthawk 71, and Brow and Gruber's aircraft were 2,000 feet above their assigned altitude. One minute from their target, the lead aircraft's pilots realized the Ospreys were too high and began to descend, according to the crash investigation report. Nighthawk 72 followed their lead. To drop faster, the crews cut speed. At that point in the flight, Nighthawk 72 was in its helicopter configuration and, according to the flight recorder, it was dropping altitude at more than 2,000 feet per minute. In the final minute of the flight, to slow the fall, Brow increased power to the Osprey's two engines. According to the accident report, the added power increased the amount of disturbed air under the Osprey that was pushed up through the rotor blades. The aircraft then entered vortex ring state. It was a known risk for helicopter pilots, but for the Osprey in 2000, there were no identified triggers, no training on avoidance and no in-flight system warning. "As the [Osprey] encountered Vortex Ring State … flight control inputs/responses were normal," the initial crash investigation found, up to the point when Brow maneuvered right to land. The Osprey began an uncontrolled roll, slamming inverted and nose-first into the ground, exploding and killing all 19 Marines on board. Nighthawk 71 made a hard landing but all crewmembers survived. 'Human factors' The operating manual that Brow and Gruber had before the crash was called the NATOPS, for Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization. It warned them to avoid descent rates of 800 feet per minute or greater at air speeds less than 40 knots. It says nothing more. There is no discussion in the manual that failure to follow these speeds could lead to vortex ring state. According to an investigation in 2000, the 800 feet-per-minute/40 knots speed limit was established by the contractor at altitudes above 10,000 feet "for safety purposes" — nothing like the operations being tested that night. Naval Air Systems Command, NAVAIR, "chose not to continue the testing or explore the V-22 [vortex ring state] characteristics" and greenlighted the airframe to move to Brow and Gruber's team after "receiving assurance" from their testing command "that the 800/40 limit would be acceptable." A GAO investigation in 2001 would find that "developmental testing was deleted, deferred or simulated in order to meet cost or schedule goals." The command that reassured NAVAIR was led by Lt. Gen. Fred McCorkle, and he led the press briefing July 27, 2000, that launched the families' current nightmare. He wouldn't allow TV cameras to show his face as he read the findings from the 8,000-page crash report out of respect "for the families that have buried their loved ones." Then he tore those families apart. "Apparently, neither pilot recognized the danger presented by their high rate of descent and low forward airspeed, which is the same in any helicopter that you fly," McCorkle said at the briefing. "Although the report stops short of specifying pilot error as a cause, it notes that the pilot of the ill-fated aircraft significantly exceeded the rate of descent established by regulations for safe flight." Then McCorkle read from the press release: "Unfortunately, the pilot's drive to accomplish that mission appears to have been the fatal flaw." The print version of the release is slightly different, instead saying "fatal factor." "When most of us first saw [the press release] we thought it was euphemism for pilot error," said Whittle, who covered the Pentagon for the Dallas Morning News. McCorkle said at the briefing that they chose "human factors" instead of "pilot error" to reflect actions from both crews. "You'll see that there were human-factor errors that were committed by the two crewmembers, the pilot and the co-pilot, of the lead airplane, to put the mishap aircraft into the position that he was in," he said. "And both the pilots in the mishap aircraft were in there with human factors too." Thirteen years later, Philip Coyle, then-head of the Pentagon's operational test and evaluation program, questioned how McCorkle and the Marine Corps could tarnish the reputations of Brow and Gruber. "These pilots died trying to accomplish a mission that had been laid out for them in advance," he said in a 2013 letter to help Jones clear their names. "The Marine Corps was trying to demonstrate that the V-22 Osprey could descend rapidly into a landing zone under hostile circumstances that might be encountered in battle at night. Coming in slow and low would not be consistent with hostile battlefield conditions. "The sentence implies that the pilots knowingly did something wrong when they didn't," Coyle wrote. "The boundary conditions for safe flight were not known on April 8, 2000, not to the pilots of the aircraft that day nor to anyone else." In January 2001, CBS news program "60 Minutes" tied McCorkle to a scandal at New River where the Osprey squadron commander was removed for falsifying maintenance records to improve its readiness rating. In an email obtained by CBS, McCorkle's subordinate, then-Brig. Gen. James Amos, warned him six months after the crash that the readiness rates of the Osprey were plummeting. "Had hoped to be able to use some recent numbers next month when you meet [with then-Navy acquisition head Lee] Buchanan" for his full rate decision in December, Amos wrote. "But there's nothing they can do about the current numbers at 204," referencing VMMT-204, the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron at New River. "Remember that their Maint Dept is on the "improved NALCOMIS," which you can't cheat on," Amos wrote McCorkle, referring to an automated system to record maintenance instead of making handwritten entries. In March 2001 the Department of Defense Inspector General seized computer files from McCorkle and Amos. McCorkle retired in October 2001. 'A good pilot' A few days after the crash, a memorial service was held at the chapel at New River. As the district's representative, Walter Jones was there. "I will never forget ... we sat behind Connie Gruber. I did not know her at the time, but that little girl, Brooke…," the congressman said, getting emotional during an interview with Stars and Stripes last month. Jones was a relatively new member of the House Armed Services Committee. He didn't know much about the Osprey, except to follow the lead of his colleague, then-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., who had convinced him that "we have to save this plane," Jones said. In December 2002, he got a letter that Connie Gruber had written to every member of the committee. "It basically said, 'These two men deserve to have their integrity restored, and if you are a man of honor and integrity then I'm calling on you to do it,' " Jones recalled. It inspired the congressman to join the families' cause, which he now says he'll die before he gives up on. For years the Navy and Marine Corps have resisted requests to clarify the record. They told the families they regret that the pilots have been blamed in the media. In 2009, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said, "These men do not have blights on their names and need no exoneration." So there was none. But words on the Internet live on forever. In 2009, for example, when a new book on Marine Corps history and a local news channel reported on the crash, each cited pilot error as the cause. "It's hard enough to lose someone. But to have the Marine Corps put a shadow over it," said Trish Brow from the family's Maryland home. "He was a good pilot." Troublesome qualifier Brooke Gruber just had a Sweet 16 party. She's petite like her mother, with her father's blue eyes and smile. While her party was about youth and the future, the past was part of it. Brooks Gruber is always in their hearts, from the gold wings that the mother and daughter wear — Brooks gave Connie the jewelry when they were dating — to how they included him in her party by sharing a slideshow Connie hadn't shown since his funeral. "I … felt sad remembering that someone most special to me could not be there to celebrate a very important moment of my life," Brooke said. "When people ask me about my father and what happened to him, I don't want to have to explain and defend all the reasons why it wasn't his fault. I want them to know the truth of how he died with honor." Matt Brow was 7 when his father's Osprey crashed. Now 22, he's thinking of joining the military. He's interested in serving even though this long fight has shown him the ugly side of Pentagon bureaucracy. "But for every instance over the last 15 years that it could have done more … like change two words," he said, he has come across individual soldiers "who have still made me respect the people in it, and value it." "At this point I think I am past any feelings I get from seeing an Osprey in the air," Matt said. "After it got decommissioned for a while and put back, it did better, and now it's deployed and actually saving people lives and helping the war effort. But if everyone's moving past it, it seems like it would be an easy thing to go back and right the wrongs." The closest Jones and the families came to getting their wish was in 2013, when then-Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Amos wrote Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Jones about the 2000 crash. "Among the greatest misfortunes in the wake of the tragedy was the mischaracterization — not by the Marines Corps but by others — that pilot error was solely to blame for the mishap," Amos wrote. "That characterization failed to adequately account for the many intangibles contributing to the outcome … The MV-22 program did not significantly recognize the potential safety threat from Vortex Ring State." So close, but still the words stung — not "solely" to blame. "We sat down and read that — all three of us [Trish and sons Matt and Mike Brow], silently, in Congressman Jones' office," when it came out in 2013, Trish said. They all jumped on the same qualifier, the same hedging they'd received for so long. Under review The next few weeks may tell whether the families will get the correction they seek — a definitive statement from the DOD with the following words: "After review of many reports, it is my conclusion that Lt. Col. Brow and Major Gruber could not have been responsible for the crash, because they had neither the knowledge nor the training to avert the crash." The letter, and a large packet of support are under review by deputy secretary Work. Because the packet reflects "ongoing discussions between senior leadership and Congress," Work was unavailable to be interviewed. The change would not affect the official documents or the current Osprey program, Jones said. The lawsuits are over, so there would be no legal ramifications or further monetary gain. (Manufacturers Bell Boeing settled out of court with the families; the details are sealed. A spokeswoman for Bell's V-22 program deferred comment to the Marine Corps, where a spokesman declined an interview.) If Work does not approve the change, the families will not give up. "I think this fight only has one end," Matt Brow said. He said that while there are memorials to his dad and the crew, clearing his father's name is one of two tributes that mean the most. "That, and living our lives well, is the main thing we can do to honor him." For Connie, setting the record straight is something she deeply needs to feel at peace. "We proudly accept this, knowing his life sacrifice directly helped pave the way for the safety and success of today's Osprey," she said. "What we don't accept is the failure of leadership in making it perfectly clear both in the press and in the history of Marine Corps aviation that the aircraft was not ready. The pilots were not properly trained, the mission should never have been flown that night." Just as she finished, another Osprey flew over, heading for the base.
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Наиболее известные памятники архитектуры инков — это крепости и города Саксауаман, Мачу-Пикчу, Ольянтайтамбо, Кальис, Пумакарка, Куско и другие.

Городская архитектура инков

Город-крепость Саксайуаман строился на протяжении восьмидесяти лет (начало строительства приурочено ко времени Пачакути, а завершение — Уайна Капака). Его монументальная архитектура представлена стенами сложенными из блоков из известняка весом до двухсот тонн. Транспортировка таких блоков из каменоломен без техники требовала применения колоссальной мускульной силы. Исследователи АЯ объясняют возможность постройки таких сооружений, как и пирамид Гизы, при помощи более развитых цивилизаций или тайных знаний инков. Официальная история признаёт единственно верной точку зрения, что на строительстве было занято пол-империи под руководством опытных зодчих и строителей. В частности, известен случай, когда одна плита из-за ошибки похоронила под собой от четырёхсот до трёх тысяч человек.

Городская архитектура Саксауамана представлена также храмовыми постройками, наиболее известной из которых является храм Окльо. Считается, что в городе были потайные ходы, некоторые из которых выходили в Куско, а некоторые — вели в горы.

Уникальным в архитектурном отношении является горный город Мачу-Пикчу, одна из резиденций Пачакути, которая была покинута инками ещё до прихода испанцев. В 1911 он был обнаружен и обследован профессором Йельского университета Бингхемом. Архитектурное богатство затерянного города представлено дворцовыми постройками аристократии в юго-восточной части города, главным храмом на западе, жилыми застройками и террасами напротив него, многочисленными зданиями, улицами и площадями.

В Куско и Кито дома для аристократии были выполнены из тёсаного камня. Горожане жили в зданиях-канча, состоящих из нескольких одноэтажных домов, отапливаемых печью. Вокруг города располагались многочисленные сельские домики с соломенными крышами. Ко всему прочему, был предусмотрен водопровод (Кольке Мачаквай), доставлявший воду в дома. «Русла» этого водопровода переплетались так, что напоминали змей (отсюда название — Серебряные змеи).

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Choosing subjects for Grade 10 is an important decision that might influence the course of a child's studies at tertiary level and their future career. And then again, it might not. By Nia Magoulianiti-McGregor.
"When your child has no idea what course of study he or she wants to undertake at tertiary level, when they are clueless about which subjects to choose for Grade 10, when their future career choices flip-flop between rock star and radiologist, breathe out."
In fact, says Bernice Dexter, Reddam Bedfordview's life orientation educator, because it is so confusing, and ramifications are long-term, she starts discussing possible career choices and subject choice years before decision time in Grade 9. And even then it's usually still baffling for many.
"First and foremost," she says, "there is nothing wrong with going to a TVET college – a technical college – to learn a trade. These can translate to top salaries. But it's undeniable that a degree is held in high esteem. If a student has decided on university as an option, I start by telling them universities don't care how nice a person they are. 'They just want your brain,' I tell my students."
And brain power, she says, in the eyes of the university admissions departments at least, is reflected in the number of points they get in matric. More recently, for many universities, these points are looked at in combination with their National Benchmark Test results, which they will also write in their matric year.
"What they need, most of all, to keep as many options open as possible, are good grades," says Dexter.
Rezana Hoosain, Career Counselling and Assessment Programme Co-ordinator in the Counselling and Careers Development Unit at Wits University, agrees that confusion is fitting.
"It's developmentally appropriate for Grade 9 learners to be unclear of their career paths – they're still developing their own identities," she says.
"Choosing subjects for Grade 10 can be a challenging time for both parents and learners, as decisions may have an implication on what career they can pursue or not."
She says before choosing, it's useful to explore where the learners' career interests lie, even if they're unclear on which career they'd like to pursue.
"They should also assess their abilities in various subjects as well as their strengths and weaknesses," she says.
Aptitude tests may help, says Hoosain. "Learners may consider a subject choice assessment – these are psychometric tools that are used to narrow down career fields. They're offered at some universities or by psychologists in private practice or at schools."
Dexter says her Grade 11s all do two days of job shadowing to help them make more informed decisions about future careers.
Both Hoosain and Dexter agree that parents and learners should gather as much information as possible on careers and the subjects that are required for the different career fields. "Look at the entry requirements for particular courses at the various universities and universities of technology."
But, says Dexter, parents need to understand they are there as a support and should try to hold back some of the pressure despite their anxiety. "It's the child's future," she says.
Maths is usually the sticking point for many. Seen as the 'gateway subject' to medicine, engineering, science or finance, Dexter says it will give students access to more career options than maths literacy.
Science is also known as a gateway subject for those wanting to study medicine, chemical, civil or electrical engineering as well as complete a Bachelor of Science.
Common sense suggests if you're good at maths, continue with it. If you don't like maths, but you perform adequately in it, continue anyway. If you don't enjoy it and if you're performing badly – even with extra help, drop it for maths literacy.
"Even though choosing maths literacy may close many doors, opting for pure maths is not useful if it's going to drag your points down," Dexter says.
Hoosain says if the learner is certain that a humanities degree is what they want to pursue, then they can give up pure maths.
"They just need to make sure that they know that maths literacy may limit some choices, so the learner is not shocked when they reach Grade 12 and are applying to tertiary studies to discover they need maths for their chosen course.
"It's important for learners to research the different career fields to help guide their choices. For example, if a learner would like to pursue a career in science, engineering or health sciences after Grade 12, usually mathematics, English, life sciences and/or physical science are needed.
"But," she says, "not everyone has the desire to pursue maths or science-related careers."
Many humanities degrees, including Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Social Sciences don't require pure maths. Neither do structured diplomas in the performing arts and creative arts.
Director of Schools Development Unit/Schools Improvement Initiative at UCT's School of Education, Dr Jon Clark says: "While dropping maths means you limit your choices, nobody is going to enjoy studying engineering or accounting if they don't like maths. Also, I don't pooh-pooh maths literacy as a subject. It's well intentioned and for most, it's usually more useful to know how to do your taxes than how to master geometry.
"'If you're not performing well in Grade 9 in maths and you don't enjoy it, it may be a signal that you're not suited to courses that require it. Maths is not for everyone."
He says there's no value in failing a subject. "Besides anything else, it's bad for self-esteem."
He agrees with Dexter that choosing subjects "should never be the choice of the parent".
Clark advises: "If you have the luxury of choice, choose an area of study where you can imagine some career satisfaction."
But, he says, this idea of a career for life is an old-fashioned notion. "Things are much more fluid these days. An architect may decide later in life she wants to be a chef, while I know of a few former engineers doing a post-graduate diploma so they can teach instead."
While Dexter says some tertiary educational institutions prefer to start from scratch in subjects like accounting, Clark says those students from township schools will benefit by being exposed to the subject before they reach university.
And even if a student completely changes their mind later, Julie Plester, spokesperson for Master Maths – an IEB registered organisation that offers maths and science lessons – says all is not lost: some students decide to upgrade their maths marks or study the maths they left behind in Grade 10.
"It usually takes about two years to get through the school curriculum," she says."It can be done in one year but that's a real push."
Dexter says there are three main things parents and students should know: the requirements for the university degree they're thinking about, that students keep their options open as far as possible, and that they should take subjects they love, which is more likely to reap better results.
Panic is futile. As Hoosain says: "Career decision-making is a life-long process and as the learners grow and develop, their choices will become clearer."
A recent study by the HSRC (2017) shows only 1.3% of South African Grade 9 mathematics pupils scored at an "advanced level of achievement".
Globally 6% of pupils were at this level.
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Marc Séguin: on 9/11/14 at 23:37pm UTC, wrote Cristi, Congratulations on reaching 10 votes! You left comments on the...
Cristinel Stoica: on 9/11/14 at 16:32pm UTC, wrote Dear Mr. Roth, Thank you for watching my videos. For both of them, you can...
Alexander Roth: on 9/11/14 at 15:59pm UTC, wrote Dear Mr. Stoica, Congratulations on a very fine entry. Your use of...
Cristinel Stoica: on 9/11/14 at 5:41am UTC, wrote Thanks Garrett. I also liked your talk very much. Best regards, Cristi
Cristinel Stoica: on 9/11/14 at 5:41am UTC, wrote Thanks Jonathan, and good luck to you too! Cristi
Antony Lisi: on 9/11/14 at 3:05am UTC, wrote Nice animations. Voted this video up.
Jonathan Dickau: on 9/11/14 at 3:05am UTC, wrote I enjoyed this Cristi, The graphics were great, but I wish the narration...
Marc Séguin: on 9/9/14 at 2:37am UTC, wrote Cristi, Interesting video, with a lot of elaborate graphics! It gets...
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TOPIC: Can a black hole keep a secret? by Cristinel Stoica [refresh]
Cristinel Stoica wrote on Aug. 8, 2014 @ 21:22 GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SErmAxLDU
Objects falling into black holes reach a singularity. They seem to vanish at the singularity, and together with them, any information they carry. This is very bad for Quantum Mechanics. I present a proposed solution, based on recent advances in the geometry and physics of singularities. The video aims to explain the main ideas without equations, in a graphical and accessible manner. Technical details can be found in C. Stoica, Singular General Relativity, PhD Thesis, arXiv:1301.2231, and references therein.
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Cristi Stoica is currently mathematical physicist, former computer programmer, former math teacher. His main research interests are general relativity, quantum mechanics, and the connections between them.
David Goehring wrote on Aug. 8, 2014 @ 21:29 GMT
Fascinating! Black holes are so interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Cristinel Stoica replied on Aug. 9, 2014 @ 05:54 GMT
Thanks Dave! Glad you like it!
Member Marc Séguin wrote on Sep. 9, 2014 @ 02:37 GMT
Cristi,
Interesting video, with a lot of elaborate graphics! It gets fairly technical near the end, but I could follow most of it and Penrose's way of representing an infinite spacetime by a finite area is certainly very interesting.
I hope the video creators vote more in the next few days, so more videos, like yours, can get to 10 votes... The 2nd and 3rd videos of my trilogy are still in need of votes, so if you haven't already done so, it would be great if you could leave an appreication.
Good luck in the contest!
Jonathan J. Dickau wrote on Sep. 11, 2014 @ 03:05 GMT
I enjoyed this Cristi,
The graphics were great, but I wish the narration could have been more animated and a bit clearer sounding. I'm spoiled by having nice microphones, I know, but if the words are needed for comprehension, they must be conveyed clearly. I already like the work on which this is based, and I almost like this video.
Cristinel Stoica replied on Sep. 11, 2014 @ 05:41 GMT
Thanks Jonathan, and good luck to you too!
Member Antony Garrett Lisi wrote on Sep. 11, 2014 @ 03:05 GMT
Nice animations. Voted this video up.
Thanks Garrett. I also liked your talk very much.
Alexander Roth wrote on Sep. 11, 2014 @ 15:59 GMT
Dear Mr. Stoica,
Congratulations on a very fine entry. Your use of graphics to illustrate some very complex features of black holes receives high praise. I have the same criticism as for your other video --- the narration going too fast and being too difficult to understand. However, because of the high quality of the graphics I am planning to return to it, several times, to attempt to fully appreciate the presentation which appears so interesting.
Thanks and good luck for the competition.
Alexander Roth
Dear Mr. Roth,
Thank you for watching my videos. For both of them, you can enable subtitles on youtube. I wish you all the best in the contest!
Member Marc Séguin wrote on Sep. 11, 2014 @ 23:37 GMT
Congratulations on reaching 10 votes! You left comments on the first two parts of my trilogy "This Is Physics" (and presumably left a rating), but not on the third part,"Physics Into Darkness"... and since this video is still one vote short of getting 10 votes (the first two parts have at least 10 votes), I was wondering if you had left a rating as well?
I hope your second video soon gets to 10 votes... you've already got my votes! Good luck!


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Those long, meaningless end-of-year book lists
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https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/those-long-meaningless-end-year-book-lists/
It happens every year now: long, heavily-linked end-of-year book lists with the "best" 100 books of the year, or the 500 books from 2021 that everyone should read, or the year's 50 most transgressive books.
The New York Times, for example, just published it's "100 Notable Books of 2021." Publishers Weekly has a list of the top 150 books of 2021, though it also provides a "best of the best" list of 10 books. NPR takes the prize for size so far. It has a list of the 369 "Books We Love" from 2021. Talk about indiscriminate passion.
There are some good books on these lists — Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual, John McWhorter's Woke Racism. How can there not be when they are so long, which is, of course, one problem with them. They aren't selective enough to be useful.
The Millions, which probably started this frenzy for lists, hasn't posted its nearly 100 "Year in Reading" columns yet, but it will shortly, I'm sure. I like that these lists are personal. I also like that they are not limited to books published in 2021. But there are so many of them.
The lists at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal are shorter. Here, too, there are some good books, but the Post in particular tends to focus on the buzzy books — books that have had splashy releases, that have been covered in all the major outlets, and that you're already sick of reading about.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the best recommendations come from people and publications you trust. I like John Wilson's annual "Year of Reading" list, which I hope he does again this year (here's last year's), and, of course, The Spectator's "Books of the Year" column. How could I not?
Richard Rorty "thought that philosophy's perennial abstractions—including Truth, human nature, and the Good—had by now led Western thought into a dead end and should be retired." Was he right? George Scialabba explores.
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Beyond the meter wars: one of the most stubborn myths in contemporary poetry, Austin Allen writes, is that "Metrical verse is politically regressive unless proven otherwise. Free verse is politically progressive unless proven otherwise." Hogwash.
What is a subscriber? "Do you mean 'people who pay a news company hundreds of dollars a year'? Or 'email addresses we have in a spreadsheet somewhere'?"
Henri Cole visits Elizabeth Bishop's childhood home in Nova Scotia:
The elms were long ago dismantled and replaced by sugar maples whose dense crowns offer ample shade. The church bell is silent. The pump organ gathers dust. I see no geese or cows in the village. I picture Bishop's maternal grandparents, the Bulmers (the l is silent; it's sometimes spelled Boomer), lying one hundred years ago in the front bedroom under the sloping walls where I sleep now. There are no National Geographics on the shelves. No sewing machine chatters in the kitchen. No odor of coal gas lingers in the much-too-steep stairwell. No caged canary tweets out of loneliness.
The Toronto District School Board has cancelled an event with Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad because it might offend Muslim students:
The event was supposed to carry discussion on two books in presence of their authors — Marie Henein's Nothing But the Truth: A Memoir and Nadia Murad's The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State. The board said it has withdrawn support to hold the October event with Henein, the daughter of Egyptian immigrants and one of Canada's most prominent lawyers, because her book was "problematic" as she "defended" former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi when he was accused of sexual assault. For Murad's event, which was to be held in February 2022, the board said the book written by her could "promote Islamophobia" and "offend" their Muslim students. Murad, a Yazidi human rights activist, was 19 when she was taken as a sex slave in 2014 by the Islamic State militants who invaded her village in northern Iraq.
Miles Smith provides a short history of national flags in churches.
Lincoln Michel defends MFAs — sort of:
MFAs are in the discourse again thanks to a Substack article by Erik Hoel that argues (yet again) that MFAs are destroying literature, using the year 2006 as the time when there were "popular literary writers with widespread name recognition at the height of their powers and careers." After that, MFAs blew it all up I guess. It is a bit surreal to see a time I remember as fraught with MFA debates held up as a golden age before the MFA decline. And pretty funny to see someone claim that no one critiques the influence of MFA programs when the exact same arguments are trotted out year after year.
Micah Mattix is a senior editor of The Spectator's World edition and the author of the Prufrock newsletter. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, the Atlantic and many other publications.
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Escaped inmates wanted for allegedly killing two Georgia prison guards
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Substantial reward leading to the capture of Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe
by Anne Cox
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A $60,000 reward is being offered by law enforcement authorities for information that leads to the arrests of two Georgia escapee-inmates, Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe. The amount is apt to increase, according to spokeswoman Nelly Miles, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
Dubose, 24, and Rowe, 43, stand accused of overpowering, shooting, and killing two guards on a prison bus at approximately 6:45 a.m. this morning. The fugitives are armed and dangerous "beyond description," said Sheriff Howard Sills, Putnam County, GA. He asks that anyone who sees or comes in contact with them not approach but immediately call 911.
Accused killers escaped prison transport bus
A group of 33 inmates were being transported between prisons on Tuesday morning. The bus was traveling from Hancock County to a diagnostics center in Jackson. Dubose and Rowe allegedly disarmed the guards. One of the pair shot and killed correctional guards Curtis Billue, 58, and Christopher Monica, 42. They hijacked the bus between Sparta and Eatonton.
They carjacked a driver, who pulled up behind the bus that stopped on a rural highway, according to Sills. The vehicle is a 2004 four-door Honda Civic, Georgia license plate number RBJ-6601, described as grass-green, and last seen headed west on Highway 16 toward Eatonton which is southeast of Atlanta.
The fugitive-inmates are armed with the slain guards' 9mm pistols. GBI, the FBI, and United States Marshals out of the Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force are investigating.
The inmates took and tossed the carjacked driver's cell phone to get a head start, Sills said. They left 31 inmates locked in the bus.
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Madison is the heart of the manhunt
The escapees broke into a home in Madison and stole clothing, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. They fled after they changed out of their prison uniforms and into the stolen clothing. According to Sills, two men fitting the fugitives' descriptions were seen going into a Family Dollar store also in Madison, which is less than a mile from the home that was burglarized.
Authorities do not a have reason to believe the pair split up, Sills said. Madison is the focus of authorities' manhunt for the escapees.
Under investigation is how the pair overtook the guards and out of the caged area of the bus where they were riding and how they managed to get through the locks, Sills said. During transfers, guards don't wear bullet proof vests, according to Greg Dozier, Corrections Commissioner.
Dubose and Rowe are both inmates at Baldwin State prison, according to the Department of Corrections. In 2015, Dubose started a 20-year prison sentence. Since 2002, Rowe has been serving a life sentence without parole.
The Elbert County sheriff's office released a photo depicting Dubose with a crown tattoo about his right eyebrow.
He also has a tattoo featuring large letters covering the entirety of the front of his neck. He is 6-feet tall and he weights roughly 150 pounds.
Rowe also weighs 150 pounds and is approximately 6-foot-2 tall. He has blue eyes and brown hair.
Governor Nathan Deal, GA, offered condolences to the families of the slain guards and said that neither they nor their service will be forgotten. He also stated that no effort and no state resources will be spared in pursuing the accused killers and bringing them to justice.
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Blade Reforged
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Category: Epic Fantasy | Paranormal Fiction
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Enter the "fascinating world"(Fresh Fiction) of the Fallen Blade in this thrilling fantasy novel from Kelly McCullpough.
After the fall of the goddess of justice, temple assassin Aral Kingslayer lost his purpose in life and turned to the bottle. That might have been the end of him if luck hadn't given him a few people to help him get back on his feet—notably the irresistible Baroness Maylien Dan Marchon, who once sought his aid in claiming the throne that's rightfully hers. Reluctant to resume the role of an assassin, he turned her down.
But now Aral has learned that one of the few people willing to help him in his darkest days has been imprisoned by Maylien's uncle, King Thauvik. Aral knows he can't let an old friend die, but the alternative is to return to the life he left years ago. It was the death of Thauvik's half brother that earned Aral the name Kingslayer, and now he is thrust into a war that will see no end until he lives up to his name…
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"Aral the jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero: damaged, cynical, and despondent, yet needing only the right cause to rise from his own ashes."—Alex Bledsoe, author of The Girls with Games of Blood
"Filled with multifaceted characters, layered plots, and the type of quixotic scenarios that only the imagination of Kelly McCullough could possibly create. The author, once again, crosses genres…Stories by Kelly McCullough are one of a kind—just like him. I found Aral's world to be compelling and highly addictive. Brilliant!"—Huntress Book Reviews
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A U.S. Geological Survey study shows Hurricane Florence broke 28 flood records in the Carolinas, the News & Observer reported.
Eighteen USGS stream gauges in North Carolina and 10 in South Carolina registered record-setting water levels, called peaks of record, according to the report, which looked at peak stream flow and water level data measured at 84 stream gauges in the Carolinas with records going back 10 years or more. In addition, 45 stream gauges in North Carolina and four in South Carolina recorded flows that ranked among the top five on record. Some of the sites with record-breaking flooding had more than 70 years of historical data.


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Twelve teams reportedly paid $25 million each to join a new esports league
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The developer Activision has decided to create a franchise league for electronic sports teams who want to compete in Call of Duty, one of the most popular first-person shooter games in the world. According to ESPN, the teams had to pay at least $25 million each to obtain one of the 12 franchises offered.
The Call of Duty video game series is one of the best sellers of all time, with regular releases that attract millions of followers every year. According to Business Insider , the latest installment in the series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, is already the best-selling game of 2019, barely a month after its release. More than 100 million people have also downloaded the Call of Duty Online mobile phone game in the first month of its release.
Building on these successes, and in response to the explosive growth of e-sports, Activision Blizzard decided to take advantage of the situation by creating a professional league for Call of Duty competitors called Call of Duty League . It will have 12 teams and will be officially launched in January 2020.
For years now, the company has been supporting various series-based international competitions, but this time it is launching an official league that operates on a multi-million dollar system of franchises and adopts a structure similar to that of sports. major leagues.
This is the second franchise league of electronic sport for Activision Blizzard, after the very popular league centered on the game Overwatch , which ended its second season in September 2019.
A base salary of US $50,000 per year
Call of Duty League teams will have between 7 and 10 members each. Players enjoy a guaranteed base salary of US $50,000, as well as health insurance and pension benefits. Teams do not have to house their players, but they will have to prove to the league that they have at least helped them find a home during the season.
Teams can earn extra cash prizes during the season, and each franchise must share at least 50% of those prizes with members.
The 12 teams that have managed to secure a place come from four different countries. Here are the cities or states that will be represented: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Florida, London, Los Angeles (two teams), Minnesota, New York, Paris, Seattle and Toronto.
Participants will compete against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in five-on-five games on the PS4 console. The season will begin on January 24 and end in August or September 2020. The route will bring teams around the world, with two stops in each city represented.
Several teams left behind
Activision has created a franchised league with a limited number of places to offer added value to investors who want to monetize e-sport in the same way as traditional sports.
Proof that the model works, the Overwatch League has negotiated multi-million dollar contracts with the ESPN sports channel and the Twitch streaming service, as well as seeking out major sponsors like Coca-Cola, Intel and Toyota.
According to ESPN's Jacob Wolf, the teams had to spend 25 million US dollars, about 33 million Canadian dollars, to secure their place in the league. This left several competitive teams behind, which failed to reap the necessary investment. This is the case of Team 100 Thieves, who had gone to the finals of the Call of Duty World League Championship last summer.
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Sera Cahoone – Only As The Day Is Long
"I'm safe for now, but I know the rest is on its way…"
The music on Sera Cahoone's second album, Only As The Day Is Long, is solidly in a country vein, complete with acoustic and steel guitars, fiddles and banjos. This set of ten songs has been aptly described by her record label Sub Pop as "country noir," as the lyrics are often marked by unease or tension, but listening to the record is hardly the heavy going "country noir" may imply in the minds of some potential listeners, as the focus here is on solid, stylish songwriting and musicianship, highlighted by Cahoone's lovely and evocative voice. Definitely recommended for mainstream country and alt-country fans alike. Standout cuts: "Baker Lake," "Only As The Day Is Long," "Shitty Hotel" and "You're Not Broken."
http://www.myspace.com/seracahoone
Tags: alt-country, country, country noir, Only As The Day Is Long, Sera Cahoone, singer songwriter, Sub Pop
Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds
Circular Sounds, the fourth album from San Francisco based artist Kelley Stoltz, finds him partying like it's 1969 (or so). As with his other albums, it's mostly a one man show, with Stoltz playing the vast majority of the instruments himself. That said, Circular Sounds has a pretty full sound, with nothing much suggesting the low fi home recording style for which Stoltz has been known. The reference points for the music seem pretty clear, the Byrds, the Beatles, the Kinks and the Beach Boys among them, but Stoltz still manages to put his personal stamp on the genres that influence his songs. It's actually a pretty delightful album, with a nice mix of psychedelic pop and garage rock material, and other points between. Standout cuts: "Tintinnabulation," "Gardenia," "When You Forget" and "Your Reverie."
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Tags: garage rock, indie rock, Kelley Stoltz, psychedelia, retro, Sub Pop


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HOUSTON: "Creativity has no pretense" and when it is straight from the heart, it can work wonders as was seen at Berry Center on Saturday, October 28, when Moksh Community Arts presented 'Dil Se Naach – 'Band Baaja Baraat' Directed & Choreographed by Houston's own Bollywood Maestro Mahesh Mahbubani and the exceptionally talented crew of Naach Houston: Anita Vyas, Shah Ahmed, Zohair Alam, Prita Kapoor and Twinkle Khanna while Arif Memon, the Light Designer created a magical space with every dance act.
Spread over 4 acts, Dil Se Naach – Band Baaja Baraat was a celebration of life. The show opened to a sold out audience at the Berry Center Auditorium with a revived retro "Jaanu Meri Jaan" followed by the visually appealing titles. All the four acts featured the Performance team interspersed by the student team, displaying the amazing homegrown talent that Mahesh Mahbubani has cultivated in the last decade. "Its all about influencing lives by the positive power of movement & dance", says Mahesh about Naach Houston.
Act 1 – "Chhaya Geet" (named after the one of the first 'songs only' television program that started in India in the 1980's), featured songs from different eras of Bollywood including Tamma Tamma, Udi Udi Jaai, Mercy and a remix of Mohra fame 'tu cheez badi hai mast mast' that had the audience in sync with everyone on stage.
Act 2 titled around the world, went beyond Bollywood and included current favorites "Shape of You", "50 Cents" and "Touch me" & Galti se Mistake, concluded with a session of Bombay Jam mixes.
Naach Houston is the only dance studio in Texas offering 'Bombay Jam' – a Bollywood based fitness program that mixes 'masti' and fitness, approved by AAFA (American Association of Fitness & Aerobics). The Student show case in Act 2 opened with the amazing seniors accompanied by Mahesh to the latest song Sweety tera Drama followed by "Ishq Bina", "Dishoom" and "Swalla" performed by the junior student team to a thunderous applause from audiences.
The next act was crème de la crème of the evening with contemporary dances in 'Sufianna' inspired by Sufi Poems. Dances & visuals to songs such as "Channa Mere aa", "Chaar Kadam", and "Baarish" were a treat to the eye. Memories of these dances will remain imprinted with the spectators for a long time. The student showcase in this act included "Haanikarak Baapu" and "Ae Dil hai Mushkil".
Act 4, Band Baaja Baraat was a true celebration of life as student show case and the Naach performance team came together to bring some brilliantly choreographed songs to life including Kehna hi kya from the movie Bombay, "Prem Ratan Dhan", "Radha on the Dance floor" and "London thumakda".
Before the much-awaited finale, Dr. Manish Rungta – the president of Moksh Community Art came on stage to introduce Moksh and announce creative arts awards acknowledging the contribution of three prominent Houston personalities involved deeply in promoting arts in the city – Navin Mediwala for Photography & Visual Arts, Arif Memon for stage lighting design and Dr. Anita Vyas for website design, movement & dance. Malay Vyas, the Vice President of Moksh spoke on how Moksh plans to support creative arts across all platforms, nationalities and backgrounds in our community. Dr. Rungta thanked all the sponsors, audience and the parents for supporting Moksh Community Arts and Naach Houston.
The dancers then took stage for the finale featuring Hawaa Hawaa and Badri Ki Dulhania bringing the house down.
The show was sponsored by The Rungta Foundation, Neel A Patel CPA, Vasu M Bommanna M.D., Shelina Malick , and Media sponsors Indo-American News. Photographed by Navin Mediwala and Videography by Shivendra Singh.


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Child dies after hit by mum's car during toilet stop
Police on Port Davis Rd, where a little boy was struck by the family car during a toilet stop. Roger Wyman
by Mitch Mott, The Advertiser
22nd May 2017 7:07 AM | Updated: 7:35 AM
A YOUNG boy has died in tragic circumstances during a toilet break on a rural road.
Police say the boy's mother pulled over on Port Davis Rd, just outside Port Pirie, about 11.30am on Sunday, so the boy could go to the toilet.
It's thought the Toyota Kluger was still in gear as the mother, 29, got out of the car, and it ran over the boy, who was two-and-a-half years old.
The boy's younger sister was inside the car when the accident occurred.
Paramedics rushed to the scene but the boy died on the unsealed road.
The mother was taken to Port Pirie hospital in shock, while the father received the devastating news at work.
The family is from Port Pirie.
A 2 year old boy has died after a car rolled over him on a rural road during a toilet break. Sgt Griggs said the mother was in shock. pic.twitter.com/xDo3cbAyr9
— Mitch Mott (@MitchMottTiser) May 21, 2017
Sergeant Steve Griggs of the Yorke Mid-North Highway Patrol said the devastating event would be felt through the Port Pirie community.
"Attempts were made to save the child, but to no avail," he said.
"These are a very tragic and devastating set of circumstances for the family, for the community and everybody involved.
"It will hit deep in the local community."
Port Davis Rd remains closed while Major Crash investigators scour the scene to piece together the minutes leading up to the fatal accident.
The loss of the boy has hit the community hard with many locals hearing the sirens as emergency services rushed to the scene.
Mothers Terri-Lee and Renee saw police and ambulance heading or Port Davis Rd as they drove into town.
The news left the two young mothers shocked and holding their children tight.
"I can't even imagine the kind of pain they would be going through," Terri-Lee said.
"We saw the ambulances coming into town but had no idea."
For Renee the tragedy hit close to home with her young children enjoying a Sunday playing in the park nearby.
"There are no words to describe what that family must be going through," she said.
"Especially the mother, my heart goes out to her."
Sgt Griggs said it was a hard day for the emergency services who were first on scene.
"It is never nice to respond to anything like this," he said.
Many locals reported hearing the news via social media as the tragedy unfolded.
The accident happened only kilometres from the scene of a fatal collision where a two-year-old girl was killed in 2013.
In that incident closer to town, the young girl was hit by a car as she ran out on to Port Davis Rd.
She was thought to be chasing a cat at the time.
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Bank Norwegian, en filial av Nordax Bank AB (publ) is a Norwegian digital bank which provides loans, credit cards and savings accounts to consumers. The company was founded in November 2007 and is headquartered at Fornebu, Norway and have customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Spain. Bank Norwegian cooperates with Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA on their loyalty program available in selected markets. in 2021, the bank has more than 1,7 million customers in total.

History
In May 2007, Norwegian announced that they planned to enter the banking sector, with Erik Jensen as CEO of the new company, Bank Norwegian. Mr. Jensen was previously CEO of yA Bank og Forsikring AS (yA Bank and Insurance). In September 2007, Bank Norwegian received a commercial bank operating license from the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. In October 2007 Norwegian announced that they planned to start a combined credit and bonus card program (Norwegian Reward) with up to 20% bonus for international flights and 1% of the purchase price on all credit purchases. The bank began providing services in Sweden in May 2013 and in Denmark and Finland in December 2015. On 19 August 2019, Bank Norwegian's parent company Bank Norwegian ASA (Previously Norwegian Finans Holding ASA) announced that Norwegian Air Shuttle had sold its entire shareholding in the company to Cidron Xingu Limited. Bank Norwegian was enlisted on the Oslo Stock Exchange from 17th of June 2016.

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Life Care Center of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, was recently featured on Qualis Health's Medicare website. Our director of nursing, Heather Kent, shares about how we were able to reduce pain for our residents.
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Boys basketball: Shaw helps Edison break drought against Elmira Notre Dame
Jack Shaw scored 20 points as the Spartans picked up their first win over the Crusaders in several years.
Boys basketball: Shaw helps Edison break drought against Elmira Notre Dame Jack Shaw scored 20 points as the Spartans picked up their first win over the Crusaders in several years. Check out this story on stargazette.com: https://www.stargazette.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/12/06/jack-shaw-20-points-edison-beats-notre-dame-boys-basketball/4360614002/
Andrew Legare, Elmira Star-Gazette Published 10:26 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2019 | Updated 10:30 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2019
Thomas A. Edison broke through in two ways Friday night on the road against Elmira Notre Dame.
The Spartans' 62-56 triumph was their first victory of the season in four tries. It also ended a long losing streak to the Crusaders. Although veteran Edison head coach Lenny Smith wasn't positive on the last time the Spartans beat their rivals, he believed it was 2008. A look back into the archives revealed Edison beat Notre Dame in January of that year, 61-51.
"It's been a long time," Smith said.
Jack Hourihan handles the ball for Thomas A. Edison as Elmira Notre Dame's Joseph Sheehan defends during boys basketball Dec. 6, 2019 at Notre Dame High School. (Photo: Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette)
Jack Shaw led Edison with 20 points, Xander Burch scored 14, Jack Hourihan had 13 and Ryan Benedict notched 11.
Isaiah McKay was top scorer for Notre Dame (0-2) with 17 points. Adam Ward scored 16, Joseph Sheehan had 10 and Brody Nemier scored nine on three 3-pointers.
"We struggled our first three games, especially at the free-throw line. Again we struggled tonight (4-for-10 at the line in the fourth qu, but this is huge for us," Smith said. "This is a stretch of the schedule where we've got Notre Dame, Watkins and Waverly back-to-back-to-back. It's always tough every year. But my guys will be ready for each fight."
Thomas A. Edison head coach Lenny Smith talks to his players during a timeout in a 62-56 win over Elmira Notre Dame on Dec. 6, 2019 at Notre Dame High School. (Photo: Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette)
The Spartans built themselves an 18-8 lead through one quarter and were up 34-22 at the intermission.
"I think the big difference for us is we came ready to play tonight," Smith said. "We jumped on them early, we took the lead. We got a little sloppy in the second half, which I wasn't happy with, but we were able to hold on and get the win."
Notre Dame closed the gap to 47-41 with a 19-point third quarter. Perhaps the biggest shot of the night came from Shaw, who nailed a 3-pointer with 2:56 remaining to give the Spartans a 58-50 edge. It was the third 3-pointer of the night for the senior.
"Jack Shaw had a great game tonight," Smith said.
Adam Ward of Elmira Notre Dame goes up for a shot between three Thomas A. Edison players in boys basketball Dec. 6, 2019 at Notre Dame High School. (Photo: Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette)
Defensive-led win
Although four Edison players scored in double figures, Smith said it was the defense that spearheaded the win.
"My guys did what I wanted them to do on the defensive end. That was key," Smith said.
Edison trailed by 26 at home Wednesday against Whitney Point but closed to within six before losing by a 71-60 score. Smith said that comeback bid was also led by the defense.
"That's the way we can play defense and the way we want them to play," Smith said.
McKay stepped up in second half
The Crusaders' ability to get back into the game was largely because of the offensive output of McKay, who scored all 17 of his points in the second half. That included eight points in the fourth quarter, when Ward added five.
Photos: Edison at Notre Dame boys basketball
Action from Thomas A. Edison's 62-56 win over Elmira Notre Dame in boys basketball Dec. 6, 2019 in Southport. Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette
Thomas A. Edison head coach Lenny Smith talks to his players during a timeout in a 62-56 win over Elmira Notre Dame on Dec. 6, 2019 at Notre Dame High School. Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette
Adam Ward of Elmira Notre Dame goes up for a shot between three Thomas A. Edison players in boys basketball Dec. 6, 2019 at Notre Dame High School. Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette
Xander Burch of Thomas A. Edison goes up for a shot as Elmira Notre Dame's Erik Charnetski defends during boys basketball Dec. 6, 2019 at Notre Dame High School. Andrew Legare/Elmira Star-Gazette
Notre Dame plays at Waverly on Tuesday, with varsity action scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.
Edison is home at the same time against Watkins Glen.
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PETA: Saying 'Bring Home the Bacon' Is as Bad as Racism, Anti-Gay Slurs
Penny Starr
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling for an end to what it calls "speciesism," or using animal names in negative contexts, such as "beat a dead horse" or "take the bull by the horns."
"Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it," PETA posted on its Twitter account on Tuesday, comparing these idioms to racist and homophobic language.
"Here's how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations," the tweet said:
Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here's how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations. pic.twitter.com/o67EbBA7H4
— PETA (@peta) December 4, 2018
The tweet includes a graphic recommending substitute language when referencing animals.
Instead of saying "kill two birds with one stone," people should say "feed two birds with one scone," although the first phrase refers to using resources wisely to accomplish multiple goals and nothing to do with feeding or literally killing birds.
Instead of "beat a dead horse," PETA recommends saying "feed a fed horse," even though "beat a dead horse" means one should not waste time doing something that will not work–nothing to do with feeding horses.
"Be the guinea pig" should change to "be the test tube" and "bring home the bacon" to "bring home the bagels," referring to PETA's stance that everyone should be a vegan.
The final entry on the graph is that "take the bull by the horns"–which is meant to express that people should tackle a challenge head on–should become "take the flower by the thorns."
CNN reported:
PETA's tweet comes after a UK-based academic argued last month that an increased awareness of vegan issues may lead to new modes of expression.
"Metaphors involving meat could gain an increased intensity if the killing of animals for food becomes less socially acceptable," Shareena Z. Hamzah of Swansea University wrote in the Conversation.
"If veganism forces us to confront the realities of food's origins, then this increased awareness will undoubtedly be reflected in our language and our literature," Hamzah said.
"The legal system is already getting to grips with the subject," CNN reported. "It was announced this week that a British employment tribunal will decide whether ethical veganism is a 'philosophical belief,' that should be afforded the same protections as religion."
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The Cinema Buzz Movie Trip Awards celebrate movies and TV shows that inspire people to travel. Recently the travel trend of 'location vacations' has exploded. More and more people are planning trips based on locations they see in movies and on TV shows.
Each year the Cinema Buzz Movie Trip Awards gives special recognition to a movie or TV show that used locations that people visit that were inspired by the unique way the locations were featured.
Last year the Cinema Buzz Movie Trip Awards recognized Disney's "The Good Dinosaur." The state of Wyoming's Tourism Department partnered with Pixar and Disney to promote the animated movie whose scenery was inspired by Wyoming landscapes. They created an entire advertising campaign to promote tourism in Wyoming based on the movie.
Netflix is continually changing the way people watch TV and with shows like "The Get Down," "Stranger Things," "Luke Cage" and "The Crown" now Netflix is also influencing the way people travel and vacation.
"The Crown" follows the story of Her Majesty The Queen in her accession to the throne, and as a young monarch faced with a country in the depths of turbulent post-war Britain. Set in the 1950s, the series has featured some of Britain's most regal locations to tell the story of Queen Elizabeth II. The show has sparked a travel trend to England, already a popular tourist destination, as thousands flock to see the locations used on the show.
On the set of "The Crown" Season 1 in England.
Netflix's "The Crown" has inspired lots of people to travel to England visit some if Britain's most regal locations.
"The Get Down" was shot on Location in New York City. The first six episodes of the Baz Luhrmann series "The Get Down" debuted on Netflix last year, immersing viewers into a fantastical version of 1977 in the South Bronx — a world of graffiti, disco and hip-hop.
Netflix's "The Get Down" is set during the '70s in New York. Season 1 was primarily shot in The Bronx.
Baz Luhrmann creates a fantastical version of 1977 in the South Bronx with "The Get down" which immerses viewers into the world of hip-hop during the genres origins.
Marvel's "Luke Cage" debuted on Netflix in September 2016, bringing viewers yet another superhero show filmed in New York City. But this show was different. Much of "Luke Cage" — whose hero specifically hails from Harlem — was shot in Harlem and Washington Heights, but the series also filmed in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx.
Netflix's "Luke Cage" filmed mostly in Harlem. Based on the Marvel comic book the series explores the many neighborhoods of the New York borough.
Marvel's "Luke Cage" was set in Harlem.
Although set in Hawkins, Indiana, "Stranger Things" is primarily filmed in Georgia. The scenes featuring a quaint small town square were filmed in Jackson, an economically depressed city about fifty miles southeast of Atlanta.
"Stranger Things" is set in Hawkins, Indiana but is primarily filmed outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
"Stranger Things" takes place in 1983 in a small town in Indiana.
The 2nd Annual Cinema Buzz Movie Trip Awards are proud to Award Netflix with Special Recognition honors at this year's show.
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Or: you can simply say, I am going to be a creepy cat lady because I really want to wear this cat dress I got at goodwill that I have no other excuse to wear so you can pretty much do what you want, you could also be a cat person. Or Macgruber.
The attentive partner then responds by taking your John and Kate plus eight wig from last year, wearing it backwards, grabbing a roommate's fur vest and a pair of women's sweat pants and becoming EL GATO!!!!
The couple can then, together, develop a really elaborate narrative that link their costumes, that takes a really long time to explain as it requires backstory, such as El Gato is the harlequin romance fantasy man-cat that comes to life in the Cat Lady's dreams. Genius.
…or a two part clever contemporary reference, like a rescued Chilean miner and the Gold he went looking for.
I told Anne she could be the mistress that one of the rescued miners came up to find. She said she didn't want to be a mistress for halloween. Why? Because she has integrity.
I don't claim to be an expert in anything but my own fear, but the thing I find more terrifying than this actual cartridge discovered yesterday in a package en route from Yemen to the US (which I think now is confirmed to contain a device that could have been detonated remotely by cell phone) is that it's just as possible that Al Qaeda planned on doing NOTHING with this device – other than inducing terror / fear, and testing our response times and means for later attacks.
At least I'm unafraid of run on sentences.
So maybe when in Europe I went all the way to Salzburg JUST so I could take the sound of music tour of the city and maybe I still really want to write a play about that. Maybe there are ceramic collector's plates of stills from the movie in my bathroom at home. Maybe I love this movie, just a little bit, and am so not ashamed.
The cast of the Sound of Music was on Oprah yesterday and I pretty much loved every second and even cried a little bit.
I can't say that I've ever even watched an hour of Oprah before, but this was grand. It included interviews with people whose lives have been touched by the movie (a deaf girl for who the movie was the first thing she ever heard after surgery), an old man who watched the movie 127 times while in Nam because it reminded him of his wife, etc. Basically, the movie means so much to so many people. For me I just really really really used to like to watch it with my Mom. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plumber didn't write it, sure, but they sort of became it. It was such a magical movie even in the making to the point were all of the Von Trapp kids, pictured above, most clearly with Work Done, still hang out. How nice is that? Gah. Sometimes things are just so. Nice.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, Maria and Captain Von Trapp's great grandchildren are STILL singing as the Von Trapp family singers, and they sang Edelweiss for me, and it was beautiful.
SO MUCH. So. Much. I've seen it maybe 30 times and if I even THINK about it I smile and get all Christmasy. So the question is – will I love / must I then also see this? Elf the musical. It's tagline is discover your inner elf. So I will pretty much see you there, at every show.
I'm researching the Peace Corps, Argentina and how Tom's shoes came to be for my high school reunion play. Sometimes when doing research, I feel a bit sad like I've missed out. Like I've spent so much time and energy studying writing, and writing, and absorbing everything I hear and overhear, that I haven't done as much actual living as I should. A good writer is equal parts writing and living, I think, so have I maybe not done enough of the latter?
Okay fine. I will join the peace corps, right now.
Or maybe just buy some cordorouy Toms that I can't afford.
For some ALHL research (gearing up for draft #17 in which I change everything all over again) I drove around Bedstuy and East New York.
– Brooklyn is big. I'm small.
– The giant trucks will start to honk at you BEFORE the light even turns, just because you're being alive, ie stupid.
– Park for a minute and school kids will start to lounge on your car then make fun of you while you parallel park.
– The fancy bakery I ventured to (RESEARCH / CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS) was boarded up and gone.
– The stoop where a 15 year old was shot a few months ago looks exactly like any other stoop.
– I must try Trinidad / Trinidadian? Curry.
– Brand spanking new luxury apartments sit unoccupied, it seems, between rundown buildings.
– Again: world: Big , me: small.
I just successfully moved Final Draft from old to New computer via external hard drive, installed, sleuth-ily found Customer number on old computer, and activated. Now I can use final draft on my new computer to write really brilliant TV shows and movies whose successes will surely afford a private jet for my Dad, justifying the new computer.
…..but I'm pretty much done for the day.
You should just do this. 4 bars, 4 bloody mary's, dance parties inbetween. Tshirts, prizes, bacon. November 7th. Info here.


Well, what's a trip to Hyderabad without visiting the Charminar? Even though I was in Hyderabad for only one day, I decided that I will visit Charminar, no matter what. So, after the Salar Jung Museum and Chowmahalla palace, I headed straight to Charminar!
Ok, I do agree that the Charminar captured by my camera doesn't look as big or majestic as other photos available on the Internet, but this is a more realistic version. I have seen some night photos/long shots of the Charminar which look amazing, but then with finite amount of time to spend in this place (and due to the lack of long-shot photography skills), this is what I was able to get.
Actually, when I started from the Chowmahalla palace, it was around 5:00 PM. If I had gone straight to the Charminar, I would have been able to climb above the spiral stairs and enjoyed the view from near the clock (in the above picture). I could have even taken photos from there and enabled you people to see the view from there too. Little did I know that the timings for going up the stairs in the Charminar closes by 5:30 PM!
So, I was able to only watch these people from outside 🙁 But the butter masala dosa was too good – don't miss 😉 Now for some gyan on Charminar – 'Char"Minar' means Four Minarets. As you can see in the photos, there are four tall (56m) towers/minarets in the corners of this square structure, which measures – 20m x 20m. It seems that the Charminar was built in 1591 AD by Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth ruler of Qutb Shahi dynasty. It seems it was built to commemorate two events – The shift of capital from Golkonda to proper Hyderabad and the elimination of a plague epidemic from the city.
This is the best shot of Charminar I was able to get. Near to the Charminar, there is one more mosque (actually the biggest mosque in South India and third biggest mosque in India) – Mecca Masjid. Before going there, I asked one shop-keeper if I can go inside (as I was not a Muslim) and he told me, 'Just go. How can anyone know that you are not a Muslim?'. But since I didn't want to incite any Hindu-Muslim problems (my small contribution to maintaining cultural harmony) and the websites clearly mentioned that entry to the mosque is restricted only to Muslims, I decided not to go inside. Here are two photos that I took from outside the mosque though.
You can find more information on this Mecca Masjid from here.
beautiful shots D.I thanks for showing us all this ..
Wow! Charminar! The pictures are gorgeous DI! Loved every bit of it. The charminar is glowing with the sunshine hitting them. Thanks for those information.
I've been to Hyderabad quite a few times during summer hols coz my aunt and cousins stay there. I've been to every place there, but I don't have any pictures to reminisce about them. And i never knew any of these info about the place. I love chudi bazaar (bangle bazaar) – the street parallel to the entrance. And if you go there during night, it's the most happening place with dazzling lights and shimmering glow that comes from the bangles. .
This is one place I want to see one day!
This Charminar is located right in the center of the old city. Whenever you go to Hyd, it's going to be very easy to reach this place.
If you had not eaten TWO masala dosas but climbed the Charminar, you could have saved some money, time and LOST calories too! Hmmm….
I had climbed this place and visited chudi bazaar too, a few years back, but missed to meet Saritha! Your pictures are good!
I liked the huge saambaar vada they gave in the hotel! Masala dosa will wait for my next visit!
Next time I am going there, I have decided what to eat – Sambar Vada! 🙂 Yes, I should have gone straight to the Charminar and climbed it. But I didn't know about the timings.
How I wish I could stay on in Hyderabad for at least ten days. This place seems to have a lot of interesting tourist spots.
Fantastic angles and an impressive historic building.
Never been to Hyderabad. Want to see Hyderabad and also Vizag. If you have some money to spare for tourism, then people prefer to go to Singapore, Malaysia and all. So distant Indian places become not so attractive.
People are stunned when I say I don't have a passport. Strangely, I think I am not going to take one in the near future.


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