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Biography of John Gould Fletcher
John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in January of 1886. His father, also named John Fletcher, had fought in the Confederate Army and supported the family through a career in banking. Fletcher was not close to his father who was already fifty-five years old at the time of his birth. Fletcher's mother was much closer to the young boy and was a known lover of literature and art.
When Fletcher was still quite young the family moved into a mansion in Little Rock. It was here that they remained for a number of years. Fletcher considered his home to be both gloomy and desolate. He spent long periods alone, a fact that would make its way into his later works. A great amount of influence came from the emotions and experiences associated with solitude. He spent most of his time reading, especially the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.
Fletcher went on to attend Harvard where he became familiar with Gautier, Baudelaire, and Dante Rossetti. It was during this time that he began writing his own poetry. Fletcher did not enjoy his time at university and after his father died in 1906 he returned to inherit the family fortune. He left the country in 1908 and did not return for many years. He eventually relocated to London, but he was unable to get any of his poems published.
In an effort to get his work to the public, Fletcher gave in and published five volumes of his poetry independently. They appeared in 1913. He did not get great reviews from critics and was even harder on himself. He went on to destroy his own unsold volumes. It was around this time that Fletcher was introduced to Amy Lowell, an "Imagist" poet whose work he would be closely associated with throughout his career and after his death.
The poet was also deeply influenced by the works of the Impressionist painters. He wrote a biography of Paul Gauguin which was published in 1921. This was followed by an autobiography in 1937 titled, Life Is My Song: The Autobiography Of John Gould Fletcher.
Fletcher was married twice, once to Florence Arbuthnot, and then later to Charlie May Simon, a noted author of children's books. Fletcher's life was not a happy one though, he was plagued by depression and in May of 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock.
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Emma graduated from East Carolina University with a BA in English, minor in Creative Writing, BFA in Fine Art, and BA in Art Histories. Literature is one of her greatest passions which she pursues through analysing poetry on Poem Analysis.
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A pediatrician referred a 7-month-old baby boy to Eye Care Hawaii to exam his left eye, which was turning. The boy's parents mentioned that the eye turn was frequent since birth. During the exam, we discovered the boy had limited ability to abduct (movement outward) the left eye. All other vision and ocular health testing was normal.
The patient was diagnosed with Duane's Syndrome Type 1, which is caused by faulting wiring of the eye muscles. Unfortunately, Duane's Syndrome cannot be cured; most cases are not inherited, and presentation often starts from birth. Surgery cannot eliminate the abnormal eye movements but can minimize severe head turns or eye turns, but most cases do not need surgery.
We advised the boy's parents to watch for any abnormal head turns or up or down shoots of the eye in the future. No treatment was necessary in this case.
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A summer Yellowstone rafting trip offers great opportunities to catch a glimpse of the breathtaking scenery. The Yellowstone River is the longest free-flowing river in the continental US, and this means rafters can enjoy riding the thrilling rapids of the river for much of the year. However, rafters typically opt for a Yellowstone white water rafting trip during the summer season, when the temperatures are warmer and a Yellowstone vacation is at its most pleasant.
Flowing from the northern part of the Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone River offers great fishing opportunities besides whitewater rafting; this is one of the things that makes it popular among many different types of travelers. The Gardiner section of the river is well-known for its rough waters and excellent cutthroat trout and medium-sized rainbow fishing opportunities.
The first few miles of this section, up to Corwin Springs, is mostly fast water and ranges from Class II to Class IV rapids. However, if you really want to enjoy fishing, then the section from the Corwin Springs to Yankee Jim Canyon is quieter and great for angling. Once you reach Yankee Jim Canyon, however, there are rougher waters, so skip the fishing here and just enjoy the challenge of navigating the river.
West Yellowstone also has excellent rafting options, including the thrilling rapids of the Gallatin river and calm waters of the Quake and Hebgen Lake. The Gallatin River, which flows from the north out of the Yellowstone National Park and into Montana, offers excellent Yellowstone rafting trips early summer and has rapids ranging from Class I to Class IV. Adventure-seekers visit every summer to enjoy day trips spent kayaking or fishing. There are many outfitters and Yellowstone white water rafting companies that provide Wyoming rafting trips to the Gallatin River.
The Hebgen lake is known for its tranquil waters and is popular for sailing, canoeing, and kayaking. Quake Lake was created by a massive earthquake in 1959, and though it is relatively new, it attracts a large crowd of boaters as well. One of the best options for a range of Yellowstone National Park rafting trips is to head into Montana and raft along the Madison River, which is known for its Class I through Class IV rapids. You can enjoy single-day or multi-day Yellowstone rafting and kayaking trips and enjoy fishing as well.


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Port of Douala seeks its independence
Without waiting for the outcome of its legal action against Bolloré, the Port autonome de Douala has hunkered down and is running operations itself. [...] (235 words)
Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano
AP Moller-Maersk
Bolloré Transport & Logistics
Douala International Terminal
Port autonome de Douala
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CAMEROON Infrastructure Business 15/07/2021
As it battles with Bolloré, the Autonomous Port of Douala is on a hunt for investors
A delegation from the Autonomous Port of Douala (PAD), the company which owns the country's biggest port in Douala, travelled to Paris at the beginning of July to meet with the French business community hoping to find financing for expansion works. [...]
Adélaïde Ngalle-Miano, the shadow queen of Douala port
A behind-the-scenes adviser to the director of Douala port, the Cameroonian businesswoman is the driving force behind the independent authority set up to take over from Bolloré. [...]
Port of Douala: business goes on as normal at container terminal despite arbitration ruling
A 10 November arbitration ruling in favour of the former operators of the port of Douala's container terminal has had no effect on opeations at the site. Now under the control of the port authority, which has taken over the installations previously run by Bolloré and APMT, the terminal is generating a healthy revenue stream. [...]
Edéa-Kribi line study could give Bolloré another headache
The World Bank plans to hire a consultant to study various public-private partnership setups for the construction of the railway [...]
CAMEROON Politics 04/03/2020
Anglophone crisis plays into hands of government hardliners
The sudden flaring up in less than a fortnight of the latent security crisis in the north-west and south-west ('No/So') anglophone regions, together with tensions generated by the 9 February elections, has upset the delicate balance achieved by President Paul [. [...]
CAMEROON Infrastructure 20/01/2020
A bridge too hard? Yaoundé challenges Vinci subsidiaries' multi-million claim
Sogea Satom and Soletanche Bachy, which built Douala's second bridge over the river Wouri, mounted arbitration proceedings against Cameroon, claiming it downplayed the project's technical challenges. [...]
Port autonome de Douala to do without concession holder
As anticipated by the West Africa Newsletter (WAN 812), the [...]
Two contenders in running for Douala container terminal
On 17 September, the Port autonome de Douala will announce who is taking over the Douala container terminal concession. After failing to get shortlisted, Bollore is battling to stay in the running. [...]
Multinationals slug it out over container terminal at docks of Douala
The standoff that began last year between the giants of maritime logistics which are in the running for the Douala container terminal concession has entered a critical phase. Currently held by Bollore and Moller-Maersk, the contract is up for renewal [. [...]


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US History/Reconstruction
Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act on 2nd March, 1867. The South was now divided into five military districts, each under a major general. New elections were to be held in each state with freed male slaves being allowed to vote. The act also included an amendment that offered readmission to the Southern states after they had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and guaranteed adult male suffrage. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed the bill but Congress re-passed the bill the same day.
Andrew Johnson consulted General Ulysses S. Grant before selecting the generals to administer the military districts. Eventually he appointed John Schofield (Virginia), Daniel Sickles (the Carolinas), John Pope (Georgia, Alabama and Florida), Edward Ord (Arkansas and Mississippi) and Philip Sheridan (Louisiana and Texas).
During the American Civil War, in which the nation decided how to handle the return of the seceded states and the status of the Freedmen (the newly freed slaves). Most scholars have accepted 1865-1877 as the boundaries for Reconstruction.
The era itself was controversial and pitted various segments of American society against one another. Differing conceptions on how to restore the former Confederate States into the Union collided with diverse opinions concerning the status of African-Americans.
The meaning of freedom itself was at stake in this crucial time period. The nascent Republican Party was divided between the mainstream which wanted a modicum of protection for blacks, and the Radicals, who wanted a thorough reorganization of Southern society. Conservative elements of this time period (in particular the Democrats) believed that the old order that governed relations between the states and between blacks and whites should remain intact.
The bulk of African-Americans desired equal civil and political rights, protection of their person, and in many cases a redistribution of land and the break-up of the plantation system. These diverse perspectives enabled the period from 1865 to 1877 to be, in many ways, a grand experiment in interracial democracy, but the period was also dominated by tense political relations and a preponderant violence across the South.
2 The Problem of Reconstruction
2.1 Ku Klux Klan
3 Lincoln and Reconstruction
3.1 African-Americans in Congress
4 The Panic of 1873
5 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
6 Republicans fall from power
7 Sinmiyangyo
8 Religion During the 19th Century
8.1 The New Wave of Jewish Immigration
8.2 Catholic America
11 Native Americans After The War
11.1 Battle at Little Bighorn
12 Women's History of the Period
12.1 Victoria Woodhull
12.2 Woman's Christian Temperance Union
DefinitionEdit
Reconstruction, in United States history, refers both to the period after the Civil War when the states of the breakaway Confederate States of America were reintegrated into the United States of America, and to the process by which this was accomplished.
For victory in the American Civil War to be achieved, Northern moderate Republicans and Radical Republicans concurred that the Confederacy and its system of slavery had to be destroyed, and the possibility of either being revived had to be eliminated. Controversy focused on how to achieve those goals, and who would decide when they were achieved. The Radical Republicans held that reaching those goals was essential to the destruction of the Slave Power, and necessary to guaranteeing perpetual unity of the states, as well as a solution to the many problems of Freedmen.
United States Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a Radical Republican, held that Congress should abolish slavery along with the Confederacy, extend civil and political rights to blacks, and educate black and white students together.
The "moderates" claimed early success in achieving the goals by assurances that the former Confederates had renounced secession and abolished slavery. Most moderates, like Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, wanted suffrage for black army veterans but not other African Americans. Southern political leaders renounced secession and gave up slavery, but were angered in 1867 when their state governments were ousted by federal military forces, and replaced by Radical Republican governments made up of Freedmen, Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.
Their primary instrument was the Black Codes (1865). These restricted the rights of Blacks and limited economic and educational opportunities. For example, there was very little, if any, employment available in the south. The Yankees may have won the war to end slavery, however the reconstruction did not benefit the African Americans who searched for employment.
The Problem of ReconstructionEdit
Reconstruction was the effort of rebuilding the South based on free labor instead of slave labor. The issue to Northern politicians was how it would be done. At the end of the Civil War, Congress proposed the Thirteenth Amendment, which sought to prohibit slavery. A state was not to gain re-admittance into the Union until it ratified the Amendment, but some states such as Mississippi were admitted despite failing to ratify. The Amendment became a part of the Constitution in December 6,1865.
During this time many Northerners moved to the South to start new lives. Sometimes carrying their belongings in briefcases made of carpet, they were known by Confederate Southerners as "carpetbaggers." Confederate Southerners also had a derogatory name for southern whites who sided with the Republicans. They called them scalawags. The period just after the war also saw the rise of black codes, which restricted the basic human rights of freed slaves. Some of the more common codes seen were: race was dependent on blood, which meant if you had any amount of black blood in your body, you were considered black, freedmen could not get together unless accompanied by a white person, public restrooms and other facilities were segregated.[1]
This time in history was really volatile. Many racially motivated riots broke out all over the country. The hostilities the south held toward the north and the African Americans grew stronger and stronger.
Ku Klux KlanEdit
KKK in Mississippi
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, racism, homophobia, anti-Communism and nativism. These organizations have often used terrorism, violence, and acts of intimidation, such as cross burning and lynching, to oppress African Americans and other social or ethnic groups.
The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866. A year later, a general organization of local Klans was established in Nashville in April, 1867. Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the American Civil War. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks, white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Immigrants, who they blamed for the election of Radical Republicans, were also targets of their hatred. Between 1868 and 1870, the Ku Klux Klan played an important role in restoring white rule in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
The Klan's first incarnation was in 1866. Founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Reconstruction. It focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves. The KKK quickly adopted violent methods. A rapid reaction set in. The Klan's leadership disowned violence as Southern elites saw the Klan as an excuse for federal troops to continue their activities in the South. The organization declined from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed in the early 1870s by President Ulysses S. Grant's vigorous action under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act).
At the end of the American Civil War, members of Congress attempted to destroy the white power structure of the Rebel states. The Freeman's Bureau was established by Congress on March 3rd, 1865. The bureau was designed to protect the interests of former slaves. This included helping them to find new employment and to improve educational and health facilities. In the year that followed, the bureau spent $17,000,000 establishing 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals and providing homes and food for former slaves.
Violence against African Americans started on the first days of Reconstruction and became more organized significant after 1867. Members of The Klan looked to frustrate Reconstruction. They also, tried to keep freedom in subjection. Terrorism dominated some counties and regions so, nighttime harassment, whippings, beatings, rapes, and murders became more common. The Klan's main purpose was political, even though, they tormented blacks who stood up for their rights. Active Republicans were the target of lawless night riders. When freedmen that worked for a South Carolina scalawag started to vote, terrorists went to the plantation and, in the words of a victim, "whipped every ... [black] man they could lay their hands on."
Lincoln and ReconstructionEdit
Lincoln firmly believed that the southern states had never actually seceded, because, constitutionally, they cannot. He hoped that the 11 states that seceded could be "readmitted" by meeting some tests of political loyalty. Lincoln began thinking about re-admittance early on. In his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which was issued in 1863, Lincoln established a simple process, hoping that Unionists would rise to political power rather than secessionalists. This plan would have granted presidential pardons to all southerners (save the political leaders at the time) who took an oath of future allegiance to the Union. Under Lincoln's plan, a state could be established as legitimate as soon as 10 percent of the voting population in the 1860 general election took this oath and a government was set up accepting the emancipation of the slaves.
Rejecting Lincoln's Presidential reconstruction plan, radical Republicans in congress arguing that it was too lenient, passed the Wade-Davis bill in 1864, which proposed far more demanding terms. It required 50 percent of the voters to take the loyalty oath and allowed only those who could swear that they had never supported the confederacy to run for office or hold federal employment. Lincoln rejected this plan and pocket-vetoed the bill. In March 1865, Congress created a new agency, the Freedman's Bureau. This agency provided food, shelter, medical aid, help to find employment, education, and other needs for blacks and poor whites. The Freedman's Bureau was the largest scale federal aid relief plan at this time. It was the first large scale governmental welfare program.
In 1864, his Vice Presidential running mate was the only Southern Senator to remain loyal to the Union - Andrew Johnson from Tennessee. After Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, and Johnson became President, the latter proved to be an obstacle to the Radical Republicans in Congress, who attempted to completely overhaul the Southern government and economy, which would have caused further tensions.
In May, 1865, Johnson made his own proclamation, one that was very similar to Lincoln's. Offering amnesty to almost all Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the Union, Johnson also reversed General Sherman's decision to set aside land for the express use of freed slaves. Not long after Johnson took office, all of the ex-Confederate states were able to be readmitted under President Johnson's plan. In 1866, Johnson vetoed two important bills, one that bolstered the protection that the Freedmen's Bureau gave to blacks and a civil rights bill that gave full citizenship to blacks.
After realizing that if all of the Republicans, moderate and radical alike, united, they could overcome Johnson's vetoes, they soon passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment. This amendment declared citizenship for all persons born in the United States and required the states to respect the rights of all US citizens. The Civil Rights Act outlawed the black codes that had been prevalent throughout the South.
Over Johnson's vetoes, Congress passed three Reconstruction acts in 1867. They divided the southern states into five military districts under the control of the Union army. The military commander in charge of each district was to ensure that the state fulfilled the requirements of Reconstruction by ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment and by providing voting rights without a race qualification. Tennessee was not included in the districts because it had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and was quickly readmitted to the Union.
In 1868, the House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson. Earlier, Congress had passed the Tenure of Office Act (over Johnson's veto), which required the President to dismiss officers only with the advice and consent of the Senate if he appointed them with the same advice and consent. Johnson believed that the Act was unconstitutional (and the Supreme Court, years after his Presidency, agreed in 1926), and intentionally violated it, to "test the waters." Radical Republicans used this violation as an excuse to impeach Johnson, who was acquitted by one vote in the Senate.
In the election of 1868, Ulysses Grant was nominated for the Republican ticket and won on an incredibly small margin. Republicans noticed that if they did not act swiftly to protect the voting rights of blacks, they might soon lose a majority. Thus, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869, which enforced that the suffrage of male citizens shall not be denied on account of race. This was a major blow to the women's movement, as it was the first time gender was deliberately placed into the Constitution. Republicans claimed that if the amendment had included both race and gender discrimination clauses, it would have never had a chance to pass in Congress.
African-Americans in CongressEdit
A number of African-Americans were elected for the first time in American history during this period. With the Reconstruction Acts sending federal troops in the southern states where African-Americans held majorities in South Carolina and Mississippi, and nearly equal numbers with whites in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, Blacks were elected to Congress from these states.
John Willis Menard was elected in the 2nd District of Louisiana in 1868. His challenger, Caleb Hunt, filed an objection with the election result and the House of Representatives, upon hearing arguments from both candidates, decided to seat neither of them.
Hiram Revels was elected by the Mississippi Senate by an 81-15 margin to finish the term of Mississippi Senator Albert G. Brown, who vacated the seat during the Civil War. Revels served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1871.
Joseph Rainey was elected to the US House of Representatives from South Carolina's 1st District in the elections of 1870. He was the longest serving African-American member of congress prior to William L. Dawson in the 1950's.
Blanche Bruce was elected to serve a full term in the US Senate by the Mississippi state senate in 1871. Bruce was the only former slave to ever serve in the US Senate.
The Panic of 1873Edit
The Panic of 1873 was the first depression experienced by America and Europe following the Civil War. The depression was a result of the fall for an international demand for silver. Germany stopped using the silver standard after the Franco-Prussia war. The United States enacted the Coinage Act of 1873 which shifted the backing of our monetary system with gold and silver to just gold. The act immediately depreciated the value of silver and hurt western mining operations. Another factor that influenced the Panic of 1873 was the risky over investment into railroad companies that would not bring quick returns. The Jay Cook and Company was a United States bank that declared bankruptcy on September 18, 1873. The bank went under as a result of over investment in the railroad business. As a result, the New York Stock Exchange closed for ten days starting September 20, 1873. 89 of 364 railroad companies failed during the depression. Real estate values, wages, and profits by corporations decreased over the course of the panic. Thousands of businesses fell during the depression as well. The depression was a major highlight in President Grant's second term.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877Edit
The strike started on July 14, 1877 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The strike was caused by wage cuts from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The workers refused to let the railroad operate. State militia was sent in to quell the strike but would not fire upon the strikers. Governor Henry Mathews called upon federal troops to put down the strike and resume operations of the railroad. The strike spread to Cumberland, Maryland. Troops in Maryland fired upon the mob of strikers and killed ten rioters. The strike occurred in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and even spread to St. Louis. The strikes resulted in millions of dollars of property damage the casualties of many. The great strike lasted 45 days, after finally being put down by federal troops from city to city.
Republicans fall from powerEdit
Grant's presidency would bring about the decline of the Republican Party. He appointed a great number of corrupt officials to federal positions and to his cabinet. Many split with the party over that issue. Others grew tired of Reconstruction and proposed reconciliation with the South in a peaceful manner. These people called themselves Liberal Republicans, and nominated Horace Greeley to run against Grant in 1872. The Democrats also endorsed Greeley. Despite wide support, Grant won the election of 1872 decisively.
During the election season, Liberal Republicans were busy pushing the Amnesty Act through Congress, and in May 1872, it passed. The Amnesty Act pardoned most former Confederate citizens, and allowed them to run for office. The act restored the rights to the Democratic majorities in the South. Soon, Democrats had control of the Virginia and North Carolina governments. In states with black Republican majorities, the Ku Klux Klan (formed after the civil war as a white supremacist group) terrorized Republicans and forced them to vote Democratic or not at all. By 1876, Republicans controlled only three states in the South: Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-- all of which were still occupied by Union troops.
Republicans continued to decline during Grant's second term, after many high level political scandals came to light. Most shocking to the public was that a scandal involved the Vice President, and another involved the Secretary of War. The Northern population's confidence in the party was shaken even more when the nation slipped into a Depression that same year.
In the congressional elections of 1874, Republicans would suffer huge losses in both houses, and for the first time since before the start of the Civil War, Democrats were able to gain control of a part of Congress (the House). Congress no longer was able to be committed strongly to Reconstruction.
In the election of 1876, Democrats nominated New York governor S.J. Tilden to run, and the Republicans nominated Ohio governor Rutherford B. Hayes. On election day, it seemed that Tilden would win by more than 250,000 votes. But the seven, four, and eight electoral votes from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, respectively, were disputed (Northern troops still occupied these states). Also, one of Oregon's three electoral votes was disputed. If Hayes won all 20 votes, he would win the election. Congress created a special commission of seven Democrats, seven Republicans, and one independent to review the election and decide a winner. But the independent resigned, and a Republican was appointed to take his place. The commission voted along party lines to award Hayes the election, but Democrats warned that they would fight the decision.
The certificate for the electoral vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler for the State of Louisiana
Republican and Democratic leaders secretly met up to draw up a compromise, and the result of the meeting was the Compromise of 1877. Proclaiming that Hayes would win the election, troops left the South and more aid was given to the South; it marked the end of Reconstruction. Ultimately, Reconstruction and the Compromise itself would be failures, as Democrats refused to hold up their end of the compromise, which was to protect the rights of African Americans in the South.
The period after Reconstruction saw the rise of the Democratic "Redeemers" in the South. The Redeemers vowed to take back the South from Republican rule, which had been ousted after the 1876 election. They passed Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, and put voting restrictions on blacks that wouldn't be outlawed until the next century. Jim Crow laws were challenged in Plessy v. Ferguson, when the Supreme Court voted to uphold the laws if and only if segregated facilities remained "separate but equal."
SinmiyangyoEdit
The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, also known as Sinmiyangyo (Western Disturbance of the Year Sinmi year) was the first American military action in Korea. It took place predominantly on and around the Korean island of Ganghwa. America sent a military expeditionary force to Korea to support an American diplomatic delegation sent to establish trade and diplomatic relations with Korea, to ascertain the fate of the General Sherman merchant ship, and to establish a treaty assuring aid for shipwrecked sailors. The isolationist Joseon Dynasty government and the assertive Americans led to a misunderstanding between the two parties that changed a diplomatic expedition into an armed conflict. The United States won a minor military victory, but the Koreans refused to open up the country to them. As the U.S. forces in Korea did not have the authority or strength to press the issue, the United States failed to secure their diplomatic objectives.
Religion During the 19th CenturyEdit
The New Wave of Jewish ImmigrationEdit
Between the years of 1820 and 1880, about 250,000 Jews came to the U.S. The immigration was not only based in a troubled European economy but also in the 1848 failure of liberal revolutions in the German states.[2]
Railways and the great steamer ships opened up immigration to America in the later 1800s and early 1900s. Yet the trip was dirty, uncomfortable, and dangerous. While prosperous families in upper-class compartments had private cabins, most of the immigrants went across in steerage class: three hundred tightly-packed men, women and children, sleeping on double- or even triple-bunk beds. The beds were about six feet long and two feet wide, with only two-and-a-half feet separating each bunk. Their goods, such as they were, rested on the bunk. The people had little or no running water, the stench was incredible, and there was little recourse against vermin. One witness, a Sophia Kreitzberg, said, "When you scratched your head [. . .] you got lice on your hands."[3] This close environment joined with the background of privation and the strain of long travel to cause break-outs of diseases. The Jews were served unkosher meat and soup, which many refused to eat. Instead they nibbled on what they had brought with them, mostly dried fruit, hard bread, or stale cheese.[4]
At the other end of the passage was often a few ports of entry to the United States. From 1855 to 1890 this was predominantly Castle Garden (also called Castle Clinton), a point at the tip of Manhattan Island in what would later be called New York City. From 1890 onward a vast number of immigrants came through the new reception area at Ellis Island.[5] In these places human beings were duly categorized by ship, country of origin, past employment, and other relevant information. (This next footnote shows one such document from Castle Garden.)[6]
Catholic AmericaEdit
A massive influx of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Russian Empire (most notably Poland) caused a dramatic increase in the U.S. Catholic population during the latter half of the 19th century. From 1840 to 1851 Ireland suffered famine and oppression. The other immigration was caused by nationalization and national upheavals. By 1850 Catholicism had become the United States' largest religious denomination: between 1860 and 1890 the Catholic population tripled, mostly because of immigration. This massive influx of Catholics to the United States eventually led to a significant increase of power for the Catholic church. The so-called American Protestant movement was a fear of this increased power. In pre-Civil War America anti-Catholic prejudice was shown through the "Know Nothings" and the American branch of the Orange Institution. After the war the American Protective Association, and the Ku Klux Klan regularly persecuted and discriminated against Catholics with such acts as The Philadelphia Nativist Riot, "Bloody Monday", and the Orange Riots of New York City in 1871 and 1872[7]. The severe anti-Catholic activities revealed the sentiments of Nativism, which encouraged all "native-born American men" to rise up against foreigners. (This appeal went out to European-descended Protestants, of course, rather than the actual Native Americans who lived there before the had settled here.) The first Nativist publication was called The Protestant; its first edition sold on January 2nd, 1830. Its editor was George Bourne, and as he wrote, "the goal of the paper is centered around the denunciation of the Catholic faith" [8] Anti-Catholic rhetoric was occasionally met with violence; yet the Nativists produced one of the greatest violent acts of the 1830's. On August 10, 1834, forty to fifty people gathered outside the Ursuline Convent school and burned it to the ground. [9] In 1834 F. B. Morse, a nativist leader who was a professor of sculpture and painting at New York University, wrote "The Foreign Conspiracies Against the Liberties of the United States", in which his basic message is centered around protecting the American birth right of liberty. The concern, and fear of the foreign and Catholic communities grew out of the Protestant fear of the monarchial tendencies of Catholicism, during this time urban areas were also starting to grow rapidly with the massive influx of immigrants who all congregated and lived in the same areas. Nativists saw this as an act of "clannishness", and an attempt to avoid or resist "Americanization." With the success of Morse, and his contemporary Lyman Beecher, the nativist movement reached a point where the public did not care whether the stories they heard were true or false, but began to accept works of fiction as truth as well. In 1836 Maria Monk authored a worked called "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal." In her book she tells of her experiences with Catholicism, which involved forced sexual intercourse with priests and the murdering of nuns and children, the book concludes with her [Maria] escaping to save her unborn child. Monk's mother denies her work, and said that Maria was never in a nunnery, and that a brain injury Maria received as a child may have been the cause of her stories. In the Midwest and northern sections of the country Catholics were seen as incapable of free thought and were said to be "anti-American Papists" because it was thought that they took every direction from the Pope in Rome. During the Mexican-American war Mexican Catholics were displayed in the media as silly or stupid due to their "Papist superstition". It was because of the general attitude in America about Catholics that about 100 American Catholics, mostly recently immigrated Irish, fought against the United States in the Mexican-American war. These men fought for the Mexicans and were known as "Saint Patrick's Battalion ([10]). In 1850, Franklin Pierce presented several resolutions that would remove the restrictions on Catholics from holding public office in New Hampshire, these resolutions that were, at the time, considered "pro-Catholic' were defeated (Battle of Religious Tolerance," The World Almanac, 1950, 53). However as the 19th century passed, hostilities between Catholics and Protestants eased due to the fact that many Irish Catholics fought alongside Protestants during the Civil War, for both the North and the South.[11]
EducationEdit
Ex-slaves everywhere across the nation reached out for education. Blacks of all ages really wanted to know what was in the books that had been only permitted to whites. With freedom they started their own schools and the classes were packed days and nights. They sat on log seats or the dirt floors. They would study their letters in old almanacs and in discarded dictionaries. Because the desire to escape slavery's ignorance was so great, ignoring their poverty, many blacks would pay tuition, sometimes $1 or $1.50 a month.[12] Blacks and their white allies also saw a need for colleges and universities, in this case to train teachers, ministers, and professionals for leadership. There were seven colleges founded by the American Missionary Association, Fisk and Atlanta Universities, between 1866 and 1869. The Freedoms Bureau helped to establish Howard University in Washington D.C. As well as Northern religious groups, such as the Methodists, Baptists, and Congregationalists, supported dozens of seminaries and teachers' colleges.[13] The earliest forms of education that blacks received was from the missionaries to convert them to Christianity. The education of blacks was very low during the civil war, until Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The Department of Education was developed in 1867 to help start more effective schools systems. Howard University was developed in Washington D.C. for black youth "in the liberal arts and sciences." The first public school day was in Boston in 1869.
TechnologyEdit
Just before the Civil War a vast source of petroleum was discovered in and around Titusville, Pennsylvania, and after the War this began to be exploited. At first oil was used for medicinal purposes alone. However, as the supply increased, it also began to be used for industrial purposes, and instead of whale oil. The dangerous and expensive whaling industry collapsed. While some cities used coal gas for night illumination, others began to use oil lamps, and major cities were lit at night. Petroleum, lamp oil (for the great engine lamp), and machine oil increased the usefulness of railways.
Information could be transmitted across great distances via the telegraph. In the 1870s and 1880s inventors vied to transmit a human voice. The two major competitors were the Scots-born Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray. In the year 1875, Alexander Graham Bell used an electromagnetic machine to transmit the sound of a steel reed. On February 14, 1876, a partner of Bell presented his patent to the patent office in Washington, D.C., on the same day as his rival Elisha Gray. Three weeks later, on March Seventh, Bell's patent won out and was granted.
Native Americans After The WarEdit
The injustices that Native Americans dealt with during the Civil War did not go away at War's end. The U. S. National government made it clear that though these people were indigenous to the continent, they were not going to be citizens of the country. The Native Americans were forced to live out in the west on reservations. Their travel was restricted and scrutinized by government agents who monitored them. Traveling off the reservations to hunt, fish or even visit the neighboring reservations was frowned upon by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Subsequently, the Bureau instituted a pass system in order keep them under control. This system required the Natives to get a pass from the agents before they were allowed off the reservation.
White settlers also took issue with Indians traveling on trains. However, the Central Pacific Railroad in Nevada granted the Native Americans permission to ride on top of the trains in exchange for their railroads being allowed to cross through the reservations. Many Indian agents were unhappy with this free travel arrangement. They began writing letters to the Bureau to stop it. One of the agents commented that "The injurious effects of this freedom from restraint, and continual change of place, on the Indian, can not be overestimated."
With the 14th amendment the civil rights acts were contrived. For the Indians however, their positioning was made clear. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 states "That all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States."
Battle at Little BighornEdit
In 1876, after a few uneventful confrontations, Col. George A. Custer and his small cavalry came across the Sioux and some of their allies at the Little Bighorn River. To force the large Indian army back to the reservations, the Army dispatched three columns to attack. One of these groups contained Lt. Custer and the Seventh Cavalry. They spotted the Sioux village about fifteen miles away just along the Rosebud River, Custer also found a nearby group of about forty men. He ignored orders to wait, and decided to attack before they could alert the main party. He was unaware of how much he was outnumbered. The Sioux and their allies had three times as much force. Custer divided his forces in three, He sent troops under control of Captain Frederick Benteen to try to stop them from escaping through the upper valley of the Little Bighorn River. Major Marcus Reno job was to pursue the group, then cross the river, and attack the Indian village in a conjunction with the remaining troops under his command. He Intended to strike the Indian camp from the north and south, but he had no idea that he would have to cross a rough terrain in order to achieve this. As the Indians descended Custer ordered his men to shoot their horses and stack the carcasses in front of them in order to form a wall. But this did not protect them against bullets. In less than an hour, Custer and all his men were killed in one of the worst American military disasters of all time. After one more day of fighting, Reno and Benteen's now unified forces fled when the Indians stopped fighting. They [who?] knew two more columns of soldiers were coming towards them, so they escaped toward them.
The massacre of Custer's final battle eclipsed any success he had had in the Civil War. Custer was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876,while fighting Native American tribes in a battle that has come to be known as "Custer's Last Stand".
Women's History of the PeriodEdit
Victoria WoodhullEdit
In 1872 Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for President of the United States. She was nominated by the Equal Rights Party on May 10. Though it is undisputed that she was the first female to run for president, the legality of her petition is questioned; her name didn't actually appear on the ballot and she was under the age of 35 which is the required age for a presidential candidate according to the constitution. Woodhull did not receive any electoral votes, but evidence supports that she received popular votes that were never counted.
Woman's Christian Temperance UnionEdit
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was formed on December 22, 1873. Fredonia, New York is credited as being the birthplace of the group. The temperance movement was a social movement that pushed for the reduction of alcohol consumption. The movement spread all over the country, and women would go to bars and drug stores to sing and pray. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union was established in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. The women demonstrated use of non violent protestation of the consumption of alcohol by praying in saloons. Often, they were denied entrance and yelled at by patrons. The movement ultimately contributed to prohibition in America's future.
↑ http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h411.html
↑ Stone, Amy. Jewish Americans. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: World Almanac Library, 2007. Pp. 6-9.
↑ Stone, p.15
↑ Stone.
↑ http://genealogy.about.com/od/ports/p/castle_garden.htm Retrieved on March 15, 2015.
↑ http://www.castlegarden.org/manifests.php Retrieved on March 15, 2015.
↑ Michael Gordon, The Orange riots: Irish political violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (1993
↑ Baker, Sean. The American Religious Experience, American Nativism, 1830-1845.
↑ Baker, Sean
↑ Amy S. Greenberg: Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
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Over a three-year period (2013-2015) the APT and the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) worked together to increase the torture prevention capacity of African National Human Rights Institutions.
In addition to these thematic activities, the project included two high-level opening and closing conferences, in Rabat, Morocco and in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The heads of NHRIs that gathered for these two events drafted and committed to two landmark documents: The Rabat Declaration and The Yaoundé Declaration. These declarations include long-term and specific commitments to torture prevention by African NHRIs that will ensure the sustainability and impact of the project, long after its completion.
The project has resulted in a number of impressive initiatives and activities by participating NHRIs in their countries. The outcome report shows the many innovative and creative ways in which they have used their new skills and knowledge to more effectively prevent torture.
The APT appreciates the support of the EU, which funded and supported this project.


The World Series of Stock Car Asphalt Racing will begin at New Smyrna Speedway on Thursday.
The half-mile, high-banked oval in Samsula will play host to several marquee races, including the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East kickoff race Sunday night.
A new series champion will emerge at season's end, as 2018 champion Tyler Ankrum has moved up to run the NASCAR Gander Outdoor Truck Series slate with DGR Crosley.
The competition this year will be fierce, ranging from series veterans to up-and-coming rookies. A plethora of venues highlight the schedule, from short tracks, to tracks over one mile to road courses.
Among those battling in the series this season is Hailie Deegan, who became the first female driver to win a K&N Pro race last season.
The World Series features nine consecutive nights of racing, with the grandstand gates opening at 5 p.m. and racing scheduled for 7:30 p.m. each day.
There are several classes of cars which will compete including Super Late Models, Pro Late Models, Modifieds, Sportsman and Trucks.
With several influential drivers including Richie Evans, Tony Stewart, Kyle Bush and Ryan Newman furthering the track's success, the hometown speedway continues to advance.
New Smyrna Speedway opened in 1964 as a dirt track before being converted to asphalt six months later. The track was repaved in January 2007 and hosts the NASCAR Whelen All- American Series.
The quick oval has 600-foot straightaways and 720-foot turns with 23 degrees of banking and has a grandstand capacity of 8,000.
It is a very demanding track. The late Modified driving legend Richie Evans famously said, "If you can win at New Smyrna Speedway, you can win anywhere in the United States."
The World Series continues through Saturday, Feb. 16, when it hosts the Orange Blossom Super Late Model 100.
For more information, go online to newsmyrnaspeedway.org.


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Holly Willoughby shares a glimpse into half-term break from This Morning... including her spiritual morning ritual, spending time with her beloved cat and 'plotting' for her next work plans
By Rianne Addo For Mailonline
Published: 12:55 EST, 25 October 2020 | Updated: 10:20 EST, 11 November 2020
She is currently enjoying some rare time away from This Morning as she spends half-term with her husband Dan Baldwin and their three children.
And Holly Willoughby has treated fans to a glimpse at her week-long break as she uploaded a series of her daily activities to Instagram over the weekend.
The presenter, 39, shared images of herself taking part in a spiritual morning ritual, playing with her adorable cat Bluebell and 'plotting' for her next work plans.
'Plotting and planning': Holly Willoughby has treated fans to a glimpse at her week-long break as she uploaded a series of her daily activities to Instagram over the weekend
On Sunday, the media personality appeared at peace as she 'purified' her home with white sage.
The TV star captioned her post: 'Morning rituals... #whitesage for purification not inhalation before you ask!'
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Earlier in the weekend, the host proved to be loving her time away from the ITV programme as she posted a cute photo of her pet wrapped in a plastic bag, alongside the playful note: 'Cats in the bag...' (sic).
The former Celebrity Juice captain looked typically radiant as she 'plotted and planned' for a secret project on Thursday.
'Purification': The presenter, 39, shared images of herself taking part in a spiritual morning ritual (pictured),and 'plotting' for her next work plans
'Cats in the bag...': Earlier in the week, the TV star proved to be loving her time away from the ITV programme as she posted a cute photo of her pet Bluebell wrapped in a plastic bag
Sat by her laptop, the blonde cut a casual figure as she teamed jeans with a slogan T-shirt which read: 'For freedom'.
While she's regarded as one of Britain's most recognised presenters, the mother-of-three is no doubt excited to be spending time with her kids Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and Chester, five, after admitting she suffers from working parent guilt.
She previously told Red Magazine: 'Becoming a mum was the only thing I knew I definitely wanted when I was growing up, but the image I had never involved me being a working mum and that's been the biggest challenge.
'I've been riddled with guilt about getting that part wrong. You love them so much and you don't want to mess them up.
Priorities: While she's one of Britain's most recognised presenters, the host is no doubt excited to spend time with her three kids Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and Chester, five (pictured in March)
'The truth is, I didn't do the drop-off on Harry's or Belle's first day of school because I was working. I hate that I wasn't there because those are memories you can't get back.'
Holly and her co-star and close friend Phillip Schofield were recently among a host of stars whose portraits form part of new campaign urging people to 'take a moment' for mental health.
In the black-and-white image, taken by esteemed British photographer Ray Burmiston, the This Morning presenting duo are seen smiling while posing with their eyes closed as Holly rests her head on 58-year-old Phillip's shoulder.
The stars are lending their images to charity Mind's virtual exhibition called Take a Moment – featuring a plethora of celebrities.
In sharing her snapshot on Instagram on Monday, Holly wrote: 'We took a moment for @mindcharity with the brilliant Ray Burmiston.'
Also featured among the stars who have posed for Burmiston are Sir Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue, Anthony Joshua, Idris Elba, Helena Bonham Carter, Liam Gallagher, Rita Ora, Russell Brand, and Ricky Gervais.
More than 250 personalities have endorsed the use of their pictures by Ray, including Mind's President Stephen Fry, in the hopes it can raise funds for the charity, following a shortfall in donations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Portrait: Earlier this month, Holly and her This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield joined a host of stars who have posed for powerful black-and-white portraits for mental health charity Mind
Holly Willoughby shares a glimpse into half-term break from This Morning
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Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial could take just three days when it finally begins and Lindsey Graham admits ex-president is struggling to find lawyers to defend him


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(NYDailyNews) -- The former Marine shot by cops in his apartment died from a single bullet that entered his right arm and ripped through both lungs, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Daily News.
The lawyer for Kenneth Chamberlain's family said the autopsy contradicts the police account of his death.
Cops say Chamberlain, 68, was advancing toward police with a butcher knife on Nov. 19 when White Plains Police Officer Anthony Carelli fired two shots to stop him.
Randolph McLaughlin, attorney for Chamberlain's family, said the trajectory of the fatal bullet suggests Chamberlain was neither facing the police nor holding up a weapon.
"The report clearly shows that Mr. Chamberlain's arm could not have been raised in a threatening manner with a knife at the moment he was shot," McLaughlin told The News on Monday night.
It went through his arm without hitting bone and entered his right chest, "then passed through the upper lobe of right lung ... through the thoracic vertebra 4 and then through the upper lobe of left lung," the report said.
"The direction of the wound track is from right to left in a straight line," Ashar wrote.
Chamberlain died from hemorrhaging in the lungs. The second shot apparently missed.
Police officials have said the officer fired in self-defense and that the shooting fell within department guidelines.
The report offers no opinion as to whether Chamberlain was holding a knife in a threatening manner.
The medical examiner's office couldn't immediately be reached.
Since Chamberlain is right-handed, his right arm would have to have been at his side for the bullet to pass through his arms and lungs in a straight line, McLaughlin said.
Because the bullet came from the side, not straight on, the report "makes it impossible for him to be holding a knife in his hand and advancing on police," he said.
Chamberlain, a heart patient whose yelling from inside his apartment had attracted police to his house before, was killed inside his apartment after police responded to a mistaken medical alert.
They ignored his repeated screams and yells telling them to go away and broke down his door, shooting him with a Taser and a beanbag gun before felling him with a bullet.
After a campaign by Chamberlain's family crying foul, a grand jury will begin reviewing evidence this week to see if cops committed a crime.
The 14-page autopsy report was released by the medical examiner's office after repeated requests by McLaughlin, who made a copy of it available to The News.
Ashar also found a "1-inch linear red abrasion" on Chamberlain's neck, and another abrasion in his abdomen surrounded by burned skin.
Those appear to be signs of the two prongs of a Taser that police shot at Chamberlain when they first entered his apartment.
If one prong grazed only his neck, it would explain why the Taser didn't knock him to the ground. Chamberlain, was 5-feet-10 and weighed 178 pounds, and had no drugs in his system, according to a toxicology report that accompanied the autopsy.


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Eating & Drinking | Restaurants | Reviews
Small, mighty and impossible to get into: Finest Reviews The Sparrows
We review the restaurant everyone is talking about serving sake, spätzle and all things good.
By Manchester's Finest | July 16th '19
Since opening at the start of the year, The Sparrows has made quite a splash on the Manchester restaurant scene. Impressive for such a dinky little place and situated in a hard to reach location, these are just two factors that contribute to its hidden gem status.
Since that Jay Rayner review, everyone and their dog has been talking about Sparrows, but going to this little restaurant tucked into an arch on Mirabel St still feels like discovering a secret, and a pretty special one at that.
The food is, for me, the ultimate combo – as comforting and indulgent as your mum's mac n' cheese, but light enough to feel sophisticatedly European.
I start with spätzle, the dish they're known for and named after. For the uninitiated, spätzle is Germany's answer to pasta, though its texture has more in common with gnocchi or dumplings. During the cooking process, the dough is added to water, where it rises to the surface and takes on a shape similar to a sparrow in flight.
My experience of it so far has been confined to mounds of cheesy, often stodgy dough – no complaints here, it's absolutely ideal hangover food. But what's on offer at The Sparrows is somewhat more refined and, quite simply, the best I've ever had.
I kept it classic and opted for the Käse Spätzle (£6), which comes in a delightfully creamy, rich sauce of melted gruyere and Emmental cheese, perfectly contrasted by sweet slithers of braised onion. This is nicely washed down with a glass of crisp Grüner Veltliner, which makes me feel like I'm in a beer garden in southern Germany, rather than an inconspicuous side street off the Manchester Arena.
When I order another main, I sense a flicker of alarm in the face of owner and solo waitress Kasia, which makes sense once the complimentary hunk of home-made, freshly baked focaccia (perfect for mopping up) also arrives.
It comes alongside a pot of sauerkraut – never an easy sell – which actually provides a light, tangy contrast to the main dishes, the addition of seeds and cranberries almost enough to trick you into feeling healthy.
Next up is the Mushroom and Sauerkraut Pierogi (£7). These filled savoury dumplings are one of Poland's national dishes (a nice nod to Kasia's heritage) and are basically everything you want on a grey, rainy Manchester day. They come served with a hearty dollop of sour cream and are pan-fried in butter, giving them a crispy texture more similar to gyoza.
East Asian influence doesn't stop there. Sake to wash down your spätzle? Why not. Kasia has been supplying to legendary sushi restaurant Umezushi, which is just over the road, for the past seven years, so she knows what's good.
Green tea and shochu also appear on the drinks menu, alongside Swiss pilsner, German gin and martinis. This blend of cultures is everywhere. Japanese-style cutlery trays sit next to those ubiquitous cork cup holders Ikea seems to be doing a roaring trade-in.
Food-wise there's ravioli, pelimeni (Russian dumplings), goulash, soup and brunch. The whole thing could so easily not work. But rather than be a confusing mashup, the space is calm and relaxing (despite being full to the brim with lunch-goers), and the menu a perfect combination of complementary flavours.
Dessert is the Earl Grey Panna Cotta (£3). I'm told that Franco, Kasia's partner and the chef responsible for the Italian influence, makes the best around.
The Earl Grey flavour (achieved with tea from the only European plantation) is delicate and light, and I love that they paired it with homemade marmalade on top. I don't know if I'm holidaying in Piedmont or breakfasting in colonial Britain and I don't care, it's delicious.
During my visit, Kasia juggles hungry students (who've been before and whose likes and dislikes she's remembered), ragu-hungry local builders, and two suits clearly straight from the train from Euston who she has to turn away.
It's a testament not only to the universal appeal of the food, which is freshly made and well-priced, but also how well they have already integrated into the community. Including brownie made by the postman's wife on the dessert menu is a nice touch. Giving me a taster of it alongside my Italian coffee (strong and black) is even nicer.
Clichéd as it may sound, thought, love and passion have got into every inch of The Sparrows, and it shows. Kasia and Franco's cultural heritage, expertise and depth of knowledge shine through to offer an experience that's warm and welcoming but also seriously high-quality.
No wonder it's a roaring success, though how much longer they'll be able to operate from such a small space is doubtful. They're clearly thinking the same- as I leave Kasia mentions plans for a beer garden… see you there
The Sparrows, Unit3 Mirabel Street, Manchester M31PJ
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Philips created updates to mitigate a vulnerability in the Philips' IntelliSpace Cardiovascular and Xcelera cardiac image and information management systems, according to a report with ICS-CERT.
Successful exploitation of this remotely exploitable vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information stored on the system, modify device configuration, and gain access to connected devices. Philips discovered and reported the vulnerability.
Philips is a global company that maintains offices in many countries around the world, including countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America.
The Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular and Xcelera systems (a predecessor to IntelliSpace Cardiovascular) are comprehensive cardiac image and information management software.
IntelliSpace Cardiovascular and Xcelera systems see action across the healthcare and public health sectors. Philips estimates these products see use on a global basis.
In the vulnerability, credentials end up stored in cleartext in system files that may allow an attacker with elevated privileges to gain unauthorized access to data to include patient health information, system resources, and misuse of connected assets.
CVE-2017-14111 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2.
No known public exploits specifically target this vulnerability. However, an attacker with a low skill level would be able to exploit this vulnerability.
Philips is producing software hotfix updates for all IntelliSpace Cardiovascular and latest Xcelera versions, some of which are available upon request, while other versions are in the process of development and are expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Philips has initiated a voluntary medical device correction aligned with IntelliSpace Cardiovascular proactive field change order (reference FCO83000202) to be issued as IntelliSpace Cardiovascular updates become available.
Users with questions regarding their specific IntelliSpace Cardiovascular or Xcelera installations are advised by Philips to contact their local Philips service support team or their regional service support. Click here to view Philips' contact information.
Click here to view the Philips product security web site for the latest security information.


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#include "mitkDataNode.h"

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#include "mitkNrrdDiffusionImageWriterFactory.h"
#include "mitkNrrdDiffusionImageWriter.h"
#include "mitkDiffusionImage.h"

#include "mitkNrrdQBallImageIOFactory.h"
#include "mitkNrrdQBallImageWriterFactory.h"
#include "mitkNrrdQBallImageWriter.h"

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#include "mitkNrrdTensorImageWriterFactory.h"
#include "mitkNrrdTensorImageWriter.h"

#include "mitkCompositeMapper.h"
#include "mitkDiffusionImageMapper.h"
#include "mitkGPUVolumeMapper3D.h"
#include "mitkVolumeDataVtkMapper3D.h"

#include "mitkPlanarFigureMapper3D.h"

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typedef mitk::DiffusionImage<DiffusionPixelType> DiffusionImageShort;
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mitk::Mapper::Pointer mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::CreateMapper(mitk::DataNode* node, MapperSlotId id)
{
  mitk::Mapper::Pointer newMapper=NULL;

  if ( id == mitk::BaseRenderer::Standard2D )
  {
    std::string classname("QBallImage");
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::CompositeMapper::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
      node->SetMapper(3, ((CompositeMapper*)newMapper.GetPointer())->GetImageMapper());
    }
    classname = "TensorImage";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::CompositeMapper::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
      node->SetMapper(3, ((CompositeMapper*)newMapper.GetPointer())->GetImageMapper());
    }

    classname = "DiffusionImage";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::DiffusionImageMapper<short>::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }

  }
  else if ( id == mitk::BaseRenderer::Standard3D )
  {
    std::string classname("QBallImage");
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::GPUVolumeMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }
    classname = "TensorImage";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::GPUVolumeMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }
    classname = "DiffusionImage";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::GPUVolumeMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }

    classname =  "PlanarRectangle";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }

    classname =  "PlanarCircle";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }

    classname =  "PlanarEllipse";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }

    classname = "PlanarPolygon";
    if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
    {
      newMapper = mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::New();
      newMapper->SetDataNode(node);
    }

  }

  return newMapper;
}

void mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::SetDefaultProperties(mitk::DataNode* node)
{
  std::string classname = "QBallImage";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::CompositeMapper::SetDefaultProperties(node);
    mitk::GPUVolumeMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

  classname = "TensorImage";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::CompositeMapper::SetDefaultProperties(node);
    mitk::GPUVolumeMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

  classname = "DiffusionImage";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::DiffusionImageMapper<short>::SetDefaultProperties(node);
    mitk::GPUVolumeMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

  classname = "PlanarRectangle";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

  classname = "PlanarEllipse";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

  classname = "PlanarCircle";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

  classname = "PlanarPolygon";
  if(node->GetData() && classname.compare(node->GetData()->GetNameOfClass())==0)
  {
    mitk::PlanarFigureMapper3D::SetDefaultProperties(node);
  }

}

const char* mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::GetFileExtensions()
{
  std::string fileExtension;
  this->CreateFileExtensions(m_FileExtensionsMap, fileExtension);
  return fileExtension.c_str();
}

mitk::CoreObjectFactoryBase::MultimapType mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::GetFileExtensionsMap()
{
  return m_FileExtensionsMap;
}

const char* mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::GetSaveFileExtensions()
{
  std::string fileExtension;
  this->CreateFileExtensions(m_SaveFileExtensionsMap, fileExtension);
  return fileExtension.c_str();
}

mitk::CoreObjectFactoryBase::MultimapType mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::GetSaveFileExtensionsMap()
{
  return m_SaveFileExtensionsMap;
}

void mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::CreateFileExtensionsMap()
{
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.dwi", "Diffusion Weighted Images"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.hdwi", "Diffusion Weighted Images"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.nii", "Diffusion Weighted Images for FSL"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.fsl", "Diffusion Weighted Images for FSL"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.fslgz", "Diffusion Weighted Images for FSL"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.qbi", "Q-Ball Images"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.hqbi", "Q-Ball Images"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.dti", "Tensor Images"));
  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.hdti", "Tensor Images"));
  //  m_FileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.pf", "Planar Figure File"));

  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.dwi", "Diffusion Weighted Images"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.hdwi", "Diffusion Weighted Images"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.nii", "Diffusion Weighted Images for FSL"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.fsl", "Diffusion Weighted Images for FSL"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.fslgz", "Diffusion Weighted Images for FSL"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.qbi", "Q-Ball Images"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.hqbi", "Q-Ball Images"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.dti", "Tensor Images"));
  m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.hdti", "Tensor Images"));
  // m_SaveFileExtensionsMap.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::string>("*.pf", "Planar Figure File"));

}

void mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::RegisterIOFactories()
{
}

void RegisterDiffusionCoreObjectFactory()
{
  static bool oneDiffusionCoreObjectFactoryRegistered = false;
  if ( ! oneDiffusionCoreObjectFactoryRegistered ) {
    MITK_DEBUG << "Registering DiffusionCoreObjectFactory..." << std::endl;
    mitk::CoreObjectFactory::GetInstance()->RegisterExtraFactory(mitk::DiffusionCoreObjectFactory::New());

    oneDiffusionCoreObjectFactoryRegistered = true;
  }
}

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Trevor Noah Bringing Loud & Clear Tour 2019 to Phoenix on November 22
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Trevor Noah is continuing to cross North America on his arena outing with the Loud & Clear Tour 2019. The tour, which kicked off January 18 in Toronto, will now make a stop in Phoenix at Talking Stick Resort Arena on Friday, November 22nd.
The Emmy-winning The Daily Show host and celebrated comedian is known around the world for his insightful and authentic take on politics and current events. Born in South Africa during the end of apartheid, he often shares incisive social and political commentary on his Comedy Central The Daily Show platform and through his various stand-up specials and writing. In 2016, Trevor released his first book Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which became an instant New York Times bestseller. In April, Trevor launched a new podcast series "On Second Thought: The Trevor Noah Podcast" exclusively on Luminary where he challenges all listeners to explore unfamiliar angles, embrace differing viewpoints, and celebrate the contradictions.
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Is the fan-made Obi-Wan Kenobi movie better than the Disney+ Star Wars series?
By Michael Green July 14, 2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi launched this spring in a flurry of excitement that included breathless articles suddenly proclaiming the merits of the prequels. Fans not only hoped to see Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader again — the protagonists turned adversaries of Star Wars Episodes I-III — but they were also psyched to see them played by the original actors, Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen. As such, many were thrilled when the show debuted. Then, slowly, the realization that comes with almost every Star Wars project dawned … this isn't that great, is it?
Issues with the series
What does the movie version change?
Does the movie make the material from the show better?
This is why every Star Wars show and movie has been recut, rewritten, restaged, reconceptualized, and regurgitated by online fans — to make better quality Star Wars. The most recent fan remix to attain wider attention — even getting a write-up in Variety — is Kai Patterson's compression of the show's six episodes into a feature-length film of two and a half hours, which Patterson created to fix things "that were easily fixable in the script and in the edit."
Does this new version indeed "fix" the show's issues? Is it better? Is it yet another example of how the application of a little more common-sense storytelling and filmmaking could radically improve a flawed original? Obi-Wan Kenobi the series certainly had its problems, but if Disney had opted to go the movie route like Patterson's edit did, does that make it a better Star Wars experience?
The show begins slowly. Do we really need to see Obi-Wan at his blue-collar job three separate times to get a sense of his life in hiding 10 years after the events of the prequels? But viewers had patience with the setup because of the massively reassuring presence of Ewan McGregor (who is even better as the character in the series), as well as the introduction of that precocious future Hutt strangler, 10-year-old Leia Organa (Vivien Lyra Blair). There are other good bits in the first episode, including an exciting opening sequence in which Younglings escape the Emperor's Jedi purge from Revenge of the Sith.
The second episode, in which Obi-Wan searches for the kidnapped Leia, feels a tad rushed, but the action and VFX are engaging, and the Inquisitor Reva (Moses Ingram) makes for a sufficiently diabolical villain. More importantly, after spending way too much time on that insufferable sandball, Tatooine, in The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian, Star Wars finally departs for a different hive of scum and villainy: the cool Blade-Runner-ish planet, Daiyu.
The third episode gave viewers a real belief that Disney had got this series right. The episode features a chilling appearance by Darth Vader that rivals even his classic Rogue One appearance. The savagery of Vader's fight with Obi-Wan, the intensity of his hate, and Obi-Wan's complete lack of preparation for the encounter are moving and disturbing.
The show then delivered its first weak episode. Not only is episode 4 a lil' Leia rescue mission just two episodes after the first one, but it is yet another "homage" to a previous Star Wars story, the rescue of Leia from the Death Star in A New Hope, already "reimagined" as the rescue of Rey (Daisy Ridley) from Starkiller Base in The Force Awakens.
It was this episode that had some viewers wondering if the show was in trouble. Among other issues, Obi-Wan is all but fine after suffering serious physical and psychological wounds at the hands of Vader at the end of the third episode. Then he and the Jedi sympathizer Tala (Indira Varma) easily infiltrate a supposedly impregnable Imperial base, with Obi-Wan using a breathing apparatus to sneak in underwater.
Unfortunately, the episode misses a beat when Obi-Wan is later trying to hold off a phalanx of stormtroopers and the ocean threatens to flood the corridor he's in. He uses the Force to keep the plexiglass wall from imploding while being fired upon and all I could think was, "YOU HAVE A BREATHING APPARATUS WITH YOU. Put it in, drown these mothers, and swim out of there!"
Alas, no such elegant payoff emerges from the earlier setup, which more or less sums up the series as a whole. Then we get the now infamous scene in which Obi-Wan and Tala stride out of the stronghold with Leia stashed underneath a trench coat. Even assuming that a trench coat would be on hand (for cosplay maybe?) it appears that Imperial officers have a pretty rigid facial hair code and Obi-Wan looks like Rip Van Winkle after a rough hypersleep.
Episode 5 is an improvement, and maybe the best episode of the series. Not only does it provide more Vader badassery, but as more of Reva's backstory and motivation are revealed, we recognize her as a more sympathetic and compelling figure. Finally, we get to see Hayden Christensen as young Anakin in an elegantly staged training duel flashback with Obi-Wan.
The final episode undoes much of what the penultimate episode restores, not only because of the cringe dialogue and lazy plotting but in the way it shows how the settled Star Wars canon constrains the drama. The episode delivers parallel subplots in which Vader and Obi-Wan clash on Tatooine, while Reva threatened young Luke Skywalker at his homestead. But because we know that neither Luke nor Obi-Wan is in real danger, both plots feel rushed and anticlimactic, even if the battle between Vader and Obi-Wan does provide some emotional closure for their relationship.
Even the details are wrong, something for which Star Wars can typically be relied upon. After what we know that Star Destroyers can do with tractor beams and squads of TIEs, how they completely annihilated all those First Order cruisers in The Last Jedi, for example, suddenly Vader's Star Destroyer can't hit or catch a piece of junk that's barely ahead of it (never mind the many heartfelt conversations our heroes make time for on the ship when they're supposedly seconds from death). Finally, the filmmaking is subpar in this episode. Even on the Dolby Dark settings on my new TV, I could barely see the action during any night scene not lit by lightsaber (didn't Game of Thrones teach them anything?). It feels like an attempt by the filmmakers to stretch the technology, but it ends up being impenetrable.
The overall issue with Obi-Wan Kenobi was that it never had anywhere to go. Everything is more or less in the same place as it was when we started except that Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) finally shows up after a decade of making Taken movies or who knows what to keep Obi-Wan company in the desert until the events of A New Hope. And yet, we always knew the show would dead-end narratively because there is no genuine peril for any of the legacy characters. Could it have been more suspenseful and emotionally involving? The showrunners tried with Reva's arc, given that it didn't have a foregone conclusion, but bungled it with the ham-fisted treatment of her character in the final episode.
So what are we left with? Some cool new environments, some great lightsaber battles (which virtually every iteration of Star Wars has), some nice moments with Obi-Wan, Leia, and the Organas, some immortal Vader wickedness — in all a few above-average episodes along with a few mediocre ones.
Patterson's stated goal for his version was to improve pacing and get rid of the fluff. He generally achieves this by cutting the most material from the three weakest episodes: 1, 4, and 6. He entirely excises the subplot in which Reva goes to the Skywalker homestead, by far the weakest part of the series. This makes the final battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin more impactful. Although Star Wars is famous for its effective use of parallel action, Patterson shows that the better choice here is to let the duel build without interruption to its emotional climax.
In contrast, the first act of his cut (about 25 minutes) feels truncated and choppy without sufficient setup and exposition. For example, Patterson omits the scene in which Leia insults her cousin at a diplomatic reception on Alderaan, which isn't a big deal, except he leaves in a later scene between Leia and her father, (Jimmy Smits), in which he asks her to apologize for that incident, which is no longer in the movie. These early scenes in the series also establish more of Leia's character, her bull-headedness, and desire for autonomy. We hardly spend any time with her in Patterson's version before she is kidnapped, so our sympathies, as well as our understanding of how capable she is, are not as developed.
Cause and effect are also confused at times. In the series, the Inquisitors show up on Tatooine and we think they are looking for Obi-Wan until it turns out they've discovered another Jedi and Obi-Wan ally, Nari (Benny Safdie) who narrowly escapes them. A few scenes later, Nari finds Obi-Wan and begs him for his help in handling this new danger. In Patterson's version, Nari finds Obi-Wan wandering around the desert at night before the Inquisitors arrive. Not only is it a very awkward transition, but the viewer has no idea who Nari is, or what his motivation is for finding Obi-Wan because they haven't first seen him almost killed.
One thing that Star Wars fans rejoiced over is Patterson's inclusion of much more of John Williams' music, including the famous Duel of the Fates score from The Phantom Menace. Natalie Holt's music for the series is perfectly stirring, but Patterson instinctively understands that our pulses race a little faster when we hear the master's themes.
Largely, but not entirely. The movie does ironically highlight how well done many scenes from the show are in terms of the filmmaking (the acting, apart from McGregor and Christensen, remains mediocre), a testament to the overall quality of the series. The narrative momentum already works pretty well in episodes 2, 3, and 5 of the show, so it makes sense that Patterson's cuts flow better during these sections of the movie too. Not surprisingly, his editing of the material in the lesser episodes isn't as smooth, especially his transition from episode 5 to 6.
Not omitting the entire fourth episode is probably Patterson's biggest mistake (one he could still fix in a future edit if he wants). Yes, the episode features some decent action, great visual effects, and snazzy production design. But even more so than television, movies can't repeat beats. They need to constantly escalate the stakes in new ways, which means you can't include two rescues that achieve the same thing narratively. Patterson could easily cut from just before Reva kidnaps Leia at the end of season 3 to Obi-Wan convalescing in the Bacta tank after his fight with Vader, then cut to Obi-Wan, Leia, and Tala joining the refugees at the beginning of episode 5, with the Empire en route.
As to the question of whether Obi-Wan Kenobi should have been a movie instead of a series, a better question might be: Why tell this particular story at all when we all know how it turns out? Engaging drama runs on just the right recipe of surprise and suspense, and both are compromised when we know the ending. Rebels and The Clone Wars had better ideas about how to use legacy characters, which didn't always involve them as leads, and which often diverted from the main Star Wars storylines.
Why not give Obi-Wan a secret love, then send him off on a mission to help her on some planet we haven't seen yet? If Obi-Wan stands to lose someone he loves deeply — especially given the guilt he already feels over Anakin — then you have real jeopardy and stakes. In other words, if we must have new Star Wars stories, stop filling in the gaps and start expanding them. That said, Patterson proves yet again that less is probably more when it comes to recontextualizing old material.
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The Romhacking Central (formerly known as Sonic Masters Forum (short SMF)) was a small general ROM hacking releated forum run by Eduardo Knuckles. It was formerly a small multi-language (mainly Brazillian Portuguese and some English) Sonic hacking forum founded by Master3k in mid-2007. It was hosted by Alphard.
The forums were entirely in Portuguese, except for one category for some English information. In its last days, it became a complete english forum with some leftovers from its SMF time, though. Information and tutorials about ROM hacking were available (including some guides made by Esrael). Only a few of these tutorials have been translated into English.
In mid-2009, many server errors caused the site to go offline. However, in October 2009 it was put back online on a new domain.
In January 2010 the site went offline because of a big site revamp.
One month later the site went online again under its new name Romhacking central, with the new owner Eduardo Knuckles.
Because only a few Brazilians have an interest in ROM hacking, and not many people understand Portuguese, the community has had little growth in recent years. The idea to change it entirly to an english forum barely made a difference, which led to the site closing down in March 2010.
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Will We Stroll the Boulevards Of IndieCity?
News by Jim Rossignol Contributor
Published on Dec. 14, 2011
Blitz Games have decided to do something quite ambitious in their foray into the wider sphere of indie game publishing/distribution/production, and that thing is called IndieCity. It aims to be a "one stop shop" for indie gaming, and boasts features such as a downloader client that will both recommend things you might like, and automatically download free games and demos that you might like. It opened for general usage today. More on this below.
We've been tracking this project for a while, and you might recall I interviewed project mastermind Chris Swan over here. His ambitions seem to be coming to fruition now, and there's quite a bit of game up there for us to get our teeth into.
Announcing the end of the public beta today, Swan said: "The fundamental reason for IndieCity existing was the lack of a single destination website that allowed gamers to explore the entire breadth of the indie gaming scene. So I'm already delighted that the variety of the games being sold, even in this early phase, fully backs up our beliefs." What does it back it up with? Well, 45 games, some of which are interestingly esoteric. Becoming a one-stop shop, of course, means getting hundreds of other developers and their games on board, too, as well as people buying them. It's something of a gamble, particularly now the indie world seems to be getting "organised" and the cash has begun to flow. Now the real competition - the competition for the limited attention and wallet-span of gamers - takes place.
So it's fair to say that IndieCity has a lot to prove, and quite a bit of ground to cover, but the project is fascinating, and seems to have the best intentions. Developers get 85% of the cash from sales, and the developer site itself is loaded with tips and stuff from various industry types. Blitz have drawn on their own long experience of being a small studio, and are calling in the favours. Mr Swan even asked that shady Rossignol character for some advice on approaching the press, so that's in there too. Yes, it's got a way to go, but there's definitely something here. Probably worth you taking a look?


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We all know Apollo 13 from it's Hollywood depiction which was portrayed by Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon. Without argument behind one of the best space films of all time, there is a widespread appreciation for the impossible task these would-be moon walkers had to go through just to get back home.
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itbusinessedge > Blogs > IT Unmasked > Arm Looks to Transform In-Store Shopping Experience
Arm Looks to Transform In-Store Shopping Experience
By Mike Vizard, Posted January 10, 2019
With Arm Retail, Arm is trying to extend its dominance of smartphones and other embedded systems used, for example, in digital signage and point of sale systems into the realm of advanced analytics.
Arm, which provides the processors widely employed in smartphones, announced today an Arm Retail offering that promises to enable retailers to transform the in-store shopping experience by applying algorithms to massive amounts of data in real time.
Charlene Marini, vice president of the Internet of Things (IoT) Services Group at Arm, says Arm is combining the Arm Pelion IoT platform with the Arm Treasure Data customer data platform (CDP). The Arm Treasure Data CDP is based on technology Arm gained via its acquisition of Treasure Data last year.
Announced in advance of the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2019 conference next week, Arm is trying to extend its dominance of smartphones and other embedded systems used, for example, in digital signage and point of sales (PoS) systems into the realm of advanced analytics.
Marini says Arm Retail will make it simpler for retailers to optimize store layout and product placement based on inferences drawn from real-time data using metrics such as item popularity, turnover, aisle traffic and dwell time. By analyzing metrics, retailers in turn would be able to personalize in-store advertisements displayed on digital signage at a specific aisle in the store.
"Retailers can now have a more holistic view of the shopping experience," says Marini.
Arm Retail then provides a mechanism for collecting in-store data in a way that makes it possible to either analyze that data on the Arm CDP or share that data with another enterprise platform that is being employed to apply AI, says Marini.
Despite the rise of online commerce, retailers still generate most of the revenue from in-store sales. AI in theory creates an opportunity to bridge the divide between e-commerce and in-store shopping experiences. Whether that gets more customers to buy products in stores remains to be seen. But at the very least, the in-store shopping experience should soon become a lot more rewarding for customers and retailers alike.
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