INDIA: The wait for the much-anticipated phone is over now as Apple today unveiled its iPhone X, which it calls 'the future of the smartphone'.
"iPhone X enables fluid new user experiences — from unlocking your iPhone with Face ID, to playing immersive AR games, to sharing Animoji in Messages — it is the beginning of the next ten years for iPhone," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing during the unveiling of the phone today.
The only irony is that the phone does not even look like an iPhone- a bezel-less design with an all-glass front and back encased in a stainless steel band, while maintaining the water and dust resistance aspect of its previous generation.
The phone features a 5.8-inch Super Retina OLED display and comes in two color variants- silver and space gray. The iOS 11 is also redesigned to take full advantage of the Super Retina display and replaces the Home button with fast and fluid gestures, allowing users to naturally and intuitively navigate iPhone X. You can simply tap the screen to wake it up and go to the home screen, by just swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
iPhone X features the 7MP TrueDepth camera and a redesigned 12MP rear camera with dual optical image stabilization.
The iPhone X comes with dual 12-megapixel cameras on the rear, with larger and faster sensors than on the iPhone 7. There's also a new color filter and deeper pixels, and apertures of f/1.8 for the wide-angle shooter and f/2.4 aperture on the zoom camera (which Apple says allows in 36 percent more light than before).
The dual 12-megapixel rear camera system has the ƒ/1.8 aperture for the wide-angle shooter and an improved ƒ/2.4 aperture on the telephoto camera for better photos and videos. The improved image signal processor delivers advanced pixel processing, wide color capture, faster autofocus in low light and better HDR photos. A new quad LED True Tone Flash offers twice the uniformity of light and includes Slow Sync, resulting in more uniformly lit backgrounds and foregrounds.
The 7-megapixel TrueDepth camera brings Portrait mode for taking selfies with a depth-of-field effect.
The new camera also delivers the highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone, with better video stabilization, 4K video up to 60fps and 1080p slo-mo up to 240fps.
With iOS 11, iPhone X supports HEIF and HEVC for up to two times compression and storage for twice the photos and videos.
The advanced depth-sensing technologies of the trueDepth camera system and A11 Bionic chip help to securely unlock iPhone, enable Apple Pay, gain access to secure apps and many more new features. The Face ID projects more than 30,000 invisible IR dots on your face. The IR image and dot pattern are pushed through neural networks to create a mathematical model of your face for real-time facial recognition. It is also designed to prevent spoofing by photos or masks.
The TrueDepth camera also brings emoji to life in a fun new way. Working with A11 Bionic, the TrueDepth camera captures and analyzes over 50 different facial muscle movements, then animates those expressions in a dozen different Animoji. Available as an iMessage app pre-installed on iPhone X, customers can record and send Animoji messages with their voice that can smile, frown and more.
At the heart of the phone works the A11 Bionic chip which features a six-core CPU design with two performance cores that are 25 percent faster and four efficiency cores that are 70 percent faster than the A10 Fusion. The performance controller can harness all six cores simultaneously, delivering faster performance for multi-threaded workloads, and even lasts two hours longer than iPhone 7.
A11 Bionic also integrated an Apple-designed GPU with a three-core design that delivers up to 30 percent faster graphics performance than the previous generation.
The neural engine in A11 Bionic is purpose-built for machine learning, augmented reality apps and immersive 3D games. The dual-core design performs up to 600 billion operations per second for real-time processing.
The cameras on iPhone X are also tuned for the AR experience. With ARKit, iOS developers can take advantage of the TrueDepth camera and the rear cameras to create games and apps with immersive AR experiences. The camera is individually calibrated with new gyroscopes and accelerometers for accurate motion tracking. The A11 Bionic CPU handles world tracking, scene recognition and the GPU enables graphics at 60fps, while the image signal processor does real-time lighting estimation.
The glass back design enables Qi wireless charging solution. Two new wireless charging mats from Belkin and mophie are available from Apple Stores. Apple also gave a sneak peek of AirPower, an Apple-designed wireless charging accessory coming in 2018, which offers a generous active charging area that will allow iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus or iPhone X customers to simultaneously charge up to three devices, including Apple Watch Series 3 and a new optional wireless charging case for AirPods.
iPhone X will be available in silver and space gray in 64GB and 256GB models starting at $999. India pricing starts at Rs 89000. The 256GB storage version will cost Rs 1,02,000.
Pre-orders will start from October 27.


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Digital Réunion, unveils the 2017 action plan of the French Tech
The Digital Réunion association, which is piloting the "e-health" themed French Tech initiative on the island of Réunion, presented its 2017 action plan on Thursday 23 March 2017. The plan focuses on 5 main areas and will be coordinated by 5 commissions representing the local ecosystem.
This action plan, which aims to be both collaborative and efficient, offers new services to innovative companies and local startups:
Accelerate the development of start-ups, notably through greater coordination with existing accelerators and programs through mentoring and digital health expertise;
Supporting training and research in digital health within Réunionese companies and startups;
Promote the emergence and development of private financing for projects;
Animate the dynamics through local, national and international events, such as the NxSE Forum.
A more dynamic ecosystem
In order to instil more collective dynamics in the territory's ecosystem, a series of actions will be set up by Digital Réunion. In particular: the creation of a "FrenchTech" acceleration fund, mixing public and private financing, the organization of a "hacking health's camp", and the participation in the FrenchTech "Health's tech" tour.
HACKING HEALTH CAMP – NxSE 2017
For the first time, this year, Digital Réunion wishes to organize on NxSE 2017, a competition aimed at all project holders and start-ups working in the field of e-health: the Hacking Health Camp 2017.
A fruitful collaboration
The implementation of this action plan will be delegated to a steering committee made up of 5 commissions: companies and startups, healthcare players, funders and investors, research and training and international attractiveness. The event will be coordinated by Digital Reunion, and hosted by Elodie Royer, Vice-President of Innovation and Research.
"This action plan has been designed to operate under a collaborative model. We hope that all the players concerned by the issue of e-health in the broadest sense of the term will join us in order to make Reunion shine", insists Philippe Arnaud, the President of Digital Reunion.
A team of experts at your disposal
A variation of the "5,000 Startups" scheme, developed by Syntec Numérique, will also be proposed as part of this action plan. The startups that call on it will be entitled to legal or technical advice, and will be able to access a one-stop shop for guidance and information, as well as financial labelling and insurance packages.
An assured accompaniment
In order to meet the demands, Syntec Numérique has designed a "360°" support, i.e. a program that covers all areas of a company's development. Since the launch of the program supported by French Tech in September 2015, more than 350 companies have joined Syntec Numérique as part of this scheme.
"This program will complement existing facilities such as incubators and business incubators, with which we will work closely to improve the offer without duplicating existing solutions," explains Philippe Arnaud.
Since July 2016, Reunion Island has been part of the French Tech network, becoming the1st French overseas ecosystem recognized as a member of the thematic network. Reunion's application was led by the Digital Reunion association, in collaboration with the players in the ecosystem and partly financed by CINOR and the Saint-André town hall.
The primary ambition of FrenchTech is to create a collective dynamic with the aim of placing France among the great startup nations.
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Control over the labour market situation is maintained through the State Employment Programme which is developed on an annual basis.
The State Employment Programme 2012 is approved by Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of January 30, 2012 No.96.
- ensuring informational and methodological support and vocational guidance for promotion of employment.
- promoting employment of target population groups.
- ensuring the registered unemployment rate of no more than 1,5 percent of the economically active population by the end of 2012.
Labour market trends suggest that one should not expect any sharp deterioration in the employment situation in 2012. It is expected that the unemployment rate will not exceed the projected rate – 1,5 percent of the economically active population.


In continuance with our Men's Health Week posts, we're highlighting the Wear Blue campaign. Wear BLUE was created by the Men's Health Network to raise awareness about men's health issues. This campaign is active all throughout the year, and encorages people to not only wear blue in support of men's health awareness, but share knowledge and take action as well.
The Wear Blue initiative works at spreading the word and reducing the predominantly silent crisis in the health and well-being of men. It is because of limited awareness, poor health education, and culturally induced behaviors men's health and well-being are deteriorating steadily. We can all do our part to make this better.
Not only can you wear blue, but also host your own educational event to spread awareness helping yourself and other men in your life get, or stay on the right track. A Wear BLUE event can educate men, women, and their families of the need to raise awareness of this silent crisis in men's health. Let's make sure our men are as healthy and educated as can be, while setting an example for young boys, the men of our future.


I got a new flashlight last week; the FL-1W-70 from SuperbrightLEDs.com.This is a compact, aluminum-bodied "tactical" light that uses three AAA cells to power a single, high-performance LED. According to the listed specifications, it outputs 100 lumens with a beamspread of 10 degrees and a throw of 100 meters. Input power is specified as 1 watt for a claimed battery life of 180 minutes, presumably with alkaline cells.
This flashlight has a nice,even, black anodized finish. The head has a crenelated bezel, and the body is just the right diameter (1.1 inch) and length (4.8 inches) for a firm grasp if you need to use those serrations to fend off an attacker.
The switch is located in the end cap and is covered with a rubber diaphragm. The end cap is also sealed with an O-ring for weatherproofing.
Overall, this is a really nice little flashlight for daily use. It puts out way more light than those little 9-LED jobs, and more than a 2-cell incandescent Maglite, too. It's not one of those lights that roast your retinas and destroy your night vision if you turn it on indoors, but it does produce enough light to illuminate stuff on the far side of the yard at night. And it is quite affordable. Similar lights at Walmart typically cost as much or more than this light costs including shipping, and then you have to factor in sales tax and your time, if you buy at Walmart. I prefer to buy stuff like this online anyway.
If you have a need for a compact, powerful flashlight that won't break the bank either in initial purchase nor operating costs, check it out here.


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Über Tatsachen
Thomas Antonic
Ulrike Freitag
Saša Ilić
Norbert Mappes-Niediek
Evelyn Schalk
Stefan Schmitzer
Gastautor*innen
KNOCK DOWN! And then?
13. Juni 2020 16. Juni 2020 Evelyn Schalk Interview
Voices from the Crisis, Voices against the Crisis – 06
English translation by Alexandra Hudson
(Text in German: here)
What do the omnipresent media imagesof this crisis call forth? How do they affect our perception and behaviour, now, as well as in the future? How are emotions translated into speech, what are the consequences for private and political action? And what does freedom mean in this context? Barbara Philipp has created a graphic Knock Down diary – some pictures can be seen here, the captions are the artist's own notes. In a multimedia exchange with Evelyn Schalk, she speaks about the very personal balancing act between artistic reflection, political analysis, lived-out multilingualism, the struggle around gender roles and touching our way towards a reality, which hasn't yet become real.
TATsachen: Since the start of the Corona crisis you have documented your experience of this exceptional period in the form of a graphic diary. When I look today at your drawings of this week, it is like a journey through the media images and front pages, inseparably entwined with personal references, emotional reflections and very precise observations of individual details and how they fit into the wider whole. What impulse propelled you to begin to draw and how has your recourse to this changed over time?
Barbara Philipp: Shortly before the outbreak of Corona my father was taken to hospital in Graz. 24-hour intensive care was briefly discussed and this type of treatment would have been recommended for him had his condition not rapidly deteriorated. My family and I could say goodbye to him and on 14 March we left Austria for the Netherlands.
That was still quasi the old world. The first regulations appeared shortly before the funeral. Total Lockdown in Austria came two days later. I travelled to a country, where an "intelligent Lockdown" was imposed. Every day and every decision in this first period counted, because shortly after it would not be possible to be take them freely and individually.
My family life in different countries catapulted me directly into the continuously changing responses to the Corona pandemic. That is why I started to draw. To understand, to record and to reflect.
Suddenly we were hit by…
… the virus invasion …
…the pangolin in us lurks everywhere …
The first impulse was the question of the origin of the virus. The pangolin, which we only know here from schoolbooks, gave flight to my fantasy. We read media reports, snap up headlines. What do we do with these? How do we process this information? And above all, what sticks with us? My children heard of bats as the transmitter and suddenly this hearsay is amplifying traditional fears, stoked by the famous vampire stories.
and suddenly it became the bat, the night animal, so feared in the form of the Vampire, which flutters around in our heads.
The carer who has her family at home, her children are cared for by her parents because of her work.
Politically devalued, suddenly they have become "key workers". What would happen if they all went on strike?
The 24-hour care service in Austria for example, which is principally staffed by mostly female carers from Eastern Europe, has been on the brink of collapse for weeks. These workers were eagerly viewed as exploitingthe "Welfare State of Austria" and cuts to their family support were accepted by society. And suddenly in one stroke the current situation has exposed the sanctimonious aspect of this populist move: because without help from outside the so-called "Social state of Austria": in terms of health care for the elderly, crumbles to the floor! Now who has exploited whom? Already here was something which wasn't functioning at all before. My drawings in the first two weeks of bats and pangolins, border closures and care of the elderly connect these thoughts, reports, and personal experiences, which are perhaps more easily expressed through images than language.
In these weeks, my Austrian-Italian family and I followed events and political decisions in different European countries. At present (week 8) I'm interested in the debate around Schwarzen Löchern (black holes). By this I mean the gaping emptiness in concert halls and theatres, in front of cinema screens, and on our own screens infront of us, which show numerous little black boxes during every conference call, which are supposed to suggest the presence of other participants. A strange feeling. Balconies have also gained in importance in these weeks, balconies and staycations are experienced as the new outside. Balconies were and are still used as a political stage. Here they meet again – the public and the private.
I'm interested in the restrictions of the moment in the private and the politicial. There is not one reality in the Corona age, rather each of us must battle with the terms of the Lockdown and go about this differently. The crisis shows us society's wounds, which were eagerly overlooked before. I think that my recourse to drawing during these weeks can perhaps be pinned to these verbal exclamations and it changed as slogans like 'Stay Home' and 'Social Distancing' sparked my artistic interest, but also in that I occasionally used my own terms in relation to developments, as a starting point for drawings, (for example black holes and balconies.)
… a de-
-bate …
The extent of this crisis is perhaps most evident in the linguistic dimension. As you have just mentioned balconies, Peter Weibel said today the word Wohnhafthas only now acquired its actual meaning through Corona.
Wohnhaft, wow, I hadn't thought about that word yet. I find it very apt.
From the very start communication has been almost exclusively through imperatives (Stay Home, Look after yourself, Look out for yourself – look out for me, Keep distant etc.) and following a very militaristic arsenal of words, many politicians (of course Trump, Orban, Vucic, but before that Macron) said literally: We are at war. It is a fight, a battle, medical equipment becomes to some extent war machinery, there are restrictions on going out, border closures, directives, orders.. which are not empty, but rather become bitter reality, yet they hold a surreal emptiness, because this is about an illness and not a war; the war is being made out of it. To what extent is this monumental experience multiplied for you through your multilingual everyday, which allows you to follow developments and, particularly in the media, in many languages and perspectives in parallel?
Yes, experiencing this in different languages gives me images as in a Kaleidoscope which I am looking through, and because I get dizzy sometimes, I try to capture individual images through drawing and in that way make them my own and give them their own order. That is to say to create other Patterns, depending on how one turns the picture.
And that happens with language as well, in particular when you dive into another language and understand the context but perhaps not all the intricacies. But also every known word in another language has for me its own heights and depths, its own resonance and tone of meaning. In language you understand a lot intuitively and then you fly with the form of the sentences, travel with them, when you live with them. Language is a source of inspiration for me and when for example I see Guiseppe Conte and then the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaking, I notice huge differences in how announcements can be made public. Conte speaks about punishments and last week he gave me the feeling as if he were talking as a father to children. Shortly before I'd heard Rutte's press conference on the radio, which mentioned self-responsibility and advice a lot. He spoke of an "adult society", I asked myself if these words, in transmitting a feeling of superiority, didn't actually disguise more than what freedom would allow. These are nuances, codes of behaviour, which with time, one can either understand and decode, or maybe not. I lie somewhere inbetween, a lot appears raw or unfamiliar but this feeling of the unknown also makes me vigilant. I don't want to accept so rapidly the "general understanding" – with the risk of misinterpretation.
Through misunderstanding, through failure, there is for me however a recognition which brings one closer to the meaning of the word. That interests me. There is not one wisdom or one truth. And so I come back to the image of the kaleidoscope. Drawing sorts this information anew, allows my self to acquire it. As a consequence I can then start dialogue with others.
As you say, the war rhetoric used by some politicians is interesting and also shattering. Isn't war diametrically opposed to illness?When people are fighting for their lives due to medical reasons, a war is waged ad absurdum. Perhaps we shouldn't lend our ears to the linguistic warmongering, but rather we should listen to the voices of those who are caring. The German, this intricate word "sich kümmern" – to take care – s´occuper de qn/qc. Here again different worlds and fields of meaning swirl around with it.
Closing the borders to neighbours, solidarity is twisted and used whichever way the state wants: solidarity in national terms but not in European and global thinking – Europe talks about solidarity. For whom? A mask to respect others.
Certainly, it is tempting to reproduce this specialised vocabulary of war jargon and taking care – with both, it is about fearing for your life. But the strategy for creating a solution is not the same. How does a politician loyal to the state speak to their citizens?
I find the closing of borders and thinking in terms of the national state alarming.
I am a convinced European and believe in the idea, the ideal of a united Europe. The fact that Europe is not united in solidarity weakens the many positive tendencies and easily makes room for a mode of speech that splinters Europe. And you can clearly recognise that in the newspaper reports in the different languages and jargons. Unfortunately I don't speak an Eastern European language, that would certainly be a huge broadening of my perspective.
Verbal Paranoia …
… attacking, spying …
Generational lockdown
Before the crisis I only rarely bought Dutch print media, sometimes the Amsterdam city newspaper Het Parool, to be informed about local events. This has now changed. Although you can still read a little of nrc or die Volkskrant (two of the largest daily Dutch newspapers) online, I have made a habit of buying the weekend editions to be informed about the country in which we live. That is the danger when you have moved somewhere, to remain locked in one's own language bubble.. I enjoy reading in German, Austria's Standard newpaper everyday, but also articles from Germany's FAZ or Switzerland's Die Zeit newspaper ensure I don't become detached from my mother tongue. My partner is Italian and together we speak French. That means I hear a lot about the Italian media from him. At the start we often watched the Italian news on television, also because his mother has been stranded with us and hasn't gone back to Italy since the start of February. Apart from that, television doesn't really play much of a role with us, but the Internet is all the more important. As we both still have a strong connection to our friends from our student days in Paris, we also wanted to keep informed about the situation in France.
And yes, because Amsterdam is very international and we communicate a lot in English, I also like to read articles in the Guardian or from other newspapers which friends send to me on certain topics.
I see your linguistic and pictorial appropriation in this context, not least as a self-empowerment, as a taking back of the power to define, publicly and personally – is this perhaps where art attains its real meaning?
I can't give a general answer to the question of the real meaning of art. Art for me is like one's own language, which one can learn, and the better you understand its vocabulary, the more you can, spiritually moved, free yourself from your shadow and broaden your horizons.
Art blows borders apart – the opposite of what is happening now. Is that perhaps a reason why support for the arts, that is to say emergency funding, is now failing in so many countries?
Furthermore, art would be a language which is not tied to one nation. We are steered by this national thinking, but art is transcendental, it can cut across things and liberate the spirit, (now I have to laugh and think about the saying of the Vienna Secession, Der Zeit ihrer Kunst, der Kunst ihrer Freiheit, To every age its art, to every art its freedom, which still has its relevance, particularly so today.
In one of your notes you mention the "malelanguage", as the one that forges plans – if I am not mistaken – in the same week as which you take up hooped skirts as the new old idea of Social Distancing in your drawings. Do you think that in this crisis as a result of increased financial pressure, but also as a result of having to stay at home more, and the public presence of power, that old gender roles and modes of behaviour will strengthen further/return? Images transmitted by the media, at least in my opinion, seem very similar internationally… or are processes changing because of an enforced and different situation offering chances for new interpretation and formations?
Slipped through the net, caught by the net, hooped skirts as a new fashion in our heads and in "Social Distancing" on the street (I don't know anymore what is behind the masquerade. Malelanguage, which forges plans, but deliberately fails to balance things.
That is an interesting question. I have just written a short text for a book presentation in Vienna. I think that the answer to your question already lies in part in this text. Yes, I think that financial pressure in families is forcing women back into a role that "they do better anyway". That is the view of the herd that often resonates in the press. Women go back to the kitchen! Isn't that normal in crisis times. It makes me angry. I simply cannot agree with this. Whether female or male, Transgender or Transsexual, I think that every person can help provide. And that one should share these tasks in a family, without one person feeling more responsible than another. Social and economic factors however yank the corset around women tighter. And with unequal pay or a part-time job, which women often have, precisely to have more time at home with the children, the question of who runs the household is obvious. Women still live with the feeling of responsibility for the domestic sphere. They still grow up with this. Patriarchal structures live on inside people's heads and then become suddenly very evident in emergency circumstances like this one, and difficult to circumvent because of a lack of alternatives. As an artist, the question of earnings and division of labour is naturally even more precarious, because there is seldom a steady income.
I can only hope, that the laying bare of these sore points in society makes politicians more aware, and that they use the opportunity to lay the roots for change. With the climate change movement of the last years some things have taken place, although not enough. It trigged a media maelstrom, but action should now follow. But we need dynamic advocates for climate change and equal rights. The outcry and protest in society must be very strong, for things to be heard and not to peter out – I'm concerned that the voices will be drowned out, because the power of rules, particularly in an exceptional period, can be very appealing, and some states have already used this to depart away from, instead of moving towards democracy. Equal rights then quickly become just an uncomfortable minor issue.
To mention something positive as well though: I am hearing from many friends of mine that spending time at home has brought them closer to their partners, and that they have been doing things together or trying out new things together precisely because they have had the time. Along these lines, we can allow ourselves the luxury of asking – does our economy have to keep growing? What would happen if we, as a society, took more time for ourselves and to consider things, rather than just working?
There is such benefit to be had from this – because then not every step we take each day would be efficiently calculated. There would be time to be creative, and my thoughts are leading me to the idea of an unlimited basic income.
In the preserving jar …
… and outside
In Amsterdam (I can't speak for the whole country, capital cities are always different) it appears that the burden of childcare is shared more equally by partners – there are the renowned Papa and Mama days of the week, and many fathers only work 4 days a week when their children are young. Same-sex marriages are an everyday part of society and often it seems to me that same-sex partners have an even fairer division of childcare.
However, when you look deeper at society, you see that part-time workers, also in the North, are mostly female, and that only since 2019 has there been a Papa/Partner week after the birth of a child. Since 2020 partners can request 5 weeks off. You wouldn't think it, but in this respect, Austria offers more choice. Maternity leave is limited to 16 weeks in the Netherlands, after that you must return to work – mostly out of financial necessity, which many women don't find necessarily a good thing. In this respect, people's needs receive only minimal consideration.
The comment by Austrian Chancellor Kurz, however, that one shouldn't be ashamed to send children to childcare if you can't manage anymore, made me feel very queasy. Precisely because Kurz is not an old man, this antiquated comment alienates me even more. What is it supposed to mean? It surreptitiously suggests that nurseries and childminders are less professional than parents when it comes to education, and therefore that training to become a childminder or infant teacher is held with little regard.
This low regard is felt by many of the key workers who are keeping society going now. It would have been good, if politicians had been clearer earlier, that the salary and benefits in these jobs are completely inadequate.
You can see that more or less across the whole of Europe. An aim we should work for, politically and as a society, is the proper recognition of care, so that women don't fall into poverty in old age and so that it also becomes an issue for men in their working and private lives.
I have the impression that the current situation is oscillating (given the different conditions and progressions of events) between a new consciousness of the fragility (and unequal distribution) of freedom but also of fear. How free do you feel at present?
That's funny, I was thinking of precisely this question yesterday in my study. About the volatility, and about what still remains. The fear, the uncertainty, because it is still not normal to go out and drink a coffee. In Amsterdam Cafés and Restaurants aren't open yet, we are not obliged to wear masks, (this comes into force on June 1 on public transport) but still it seems like we have to wait and see what will come.
"Please wait!", we are in an endless queue. And what happens, if you simply want to get out? Getting out would mean, jumping out of an airborne aeroplane. It is just they aren't flying at the moment. Jumping out of this new reality, I would like to do that a lot. But as there are hardly any "aeroplanes" we have to fall back on ourselves. Everything revolves around being able to maintain our balance. Mastering a balancing act. We have been putting this into practice for two months. A friend told me, that she had to get out of her bubble, and that was in no way easy. If the bubble bursts suddenly, then the impact will probably be painful. That is how I feel at the moment.
Our bubbles are at risk of bursting…
Bailout for essential work
Feeling the borders
And as another consequence, this 10th week will be the last of my Knock Down drawings. It has just turned out that way, I didn't take the decision rationally. The parametres have changes. Looking for the return is the approaching of a reality, which I would like to explore more now through performative meetings in my "Vienna Coffeehouse" in my Amsterdam studio. I don't know what will come. Now I need to pause. To write and compare notes. Maybe my work cycles are completely at odds to the movement of a general sigh of relief after this paralysis.
But as mentioned already: To every age its art. To every art, its freedom. I hope that the Sektionsabteilungen, (the Austrian bureaux which run the arts for the state) and which like to claim the credit for the art and culture agenda in Europe, will better incorporate the unexpected and non-traditional work patterns in the creative sector in future, as well as the concerns and needs of the many self-employed, particularly those with children. Children need to be thought of first, so that they don't miss anything. What are we so afraid of? Did we have enough time to talk to them (kids?) about what is happening? These fabricated urgencies have hidden a lot. Luckily not everything. But these appear to be a general mechanism to prevent us thinking about why we are doing something. That would also be interesting for children to explore. Also for things to become fairer in future. That would be a shimmer of hope. A chance.
Presentation of the Artist's book Mothers Matter at Galerie Ortner2in Vienna, 12.6.2020: Mothers Matter is relevant to all of us. The title has two meanings: a mother's issue and mothers are important. What is a mother's issue? The Never come Back Story presents the theme of the book in the first chapter. As the physical transformation leads to a social restructuring, which poses questions about the why and how. Whey should childcare just be a female matter? How is it related to ideals in reality? And how does political language influence the wider understanding of roles in society? Finding a volume, is the title of the second chapter, time to discuss the theme. Not just internally. This book concerns us all. Having Balls and I am not the man I used to be (life as a female artist) show the duplicitous morality of the patriarchal system in which we still live. And the question over who owns the most, a question of financial survival, takes the power to decide away from some couples, as women are still not given equal pay to men. The system manipulates. There is no better time than now for questioning the division of labour in the family according to gender. Through drawing, the art book leads you through the isolation that mothers can feel and looks at how the protagonist takes up her search for a voice in the public and political spheres. Often this search is a lonely exercise but it represents the experience of a large number of women, who find themselves in positions they could never have imagined would happen to them. What life experiences are we passing on to the next generation.
Another drawing of the Knock Down Series you can find at the cover of the latest issue #93/94 of ausreißer – Die Wandzeitung
Barbara Philipp is an artist who works in Amsterdam and Vienna. In her work she explores the ephemeral nature of the physical being and its projections and interpretations in society. Language is an important starting point in her work. Her artistic spectrum spans drawing, painting and performances. She took part in the Mothernists Conferences in Rotterdam (2015) and in Kopenhagen (2017), campaigns for m/other voices and is particularly active in the international feminist exchange of artists with children. She studied at the énsba in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna und the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
www.barbaraphilipp.com
www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/
Foto: (c) Adrian Pasi
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At Covenant, people of all ages and backgrounds are united by a singular goal: to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
Whether you are looking for a new church, visiting on vacation, or attending church for the first time, you will find a warm welcome within our doors. We look forward to worshiping with you!
Covenant is located at 1965 FL 16, St. Augustine, FL 32084.
Our location is less than 1 mile east of I-95 at Exit 318, and is a short drive from the Old City and beaches areas via US-1 and FL-16.
Our worship is marked by simplicity and reverence, joyfully focused on our triune God and the glory of his gospel.
At Covenant, we believe the sounds of little ones are proof God is adding to his church! Families are always welcome to sit together.
We hold two public worship services each Sunday, at 11am and 5pm. Our adult and children's Sunday School classes begin at 9:45am.
The order of worship for the coming Sunday, including the sermon text and hymn selections, is posted in advance each Friday evening.
We have accessible parking and wheelchair seating. We also provide a nursing room with one-way glass, and a staffed nursery for children under 2.
We are happy to provide assistance with our facility or reserve accessible parking or seating for you.
If you have any questions about Covenant prior to visiting, whether about our beliefs, worship, location, or facility, one of our officers would be happy to discuss your question.


Spray 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. In 3-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Add marshmallows; cook, stirring frequently, until melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat.
Stir in both cereals and the raisins until coated well. Pour mixture into pan. With sprayed rubber spatula, spread evenly in pan, pressing lightly.
With handle of wooden spoon, make 36 deep indentations in 6 rows of 6 on top of bars. Place 1 candy, deep into each indentation, pressing slightly. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
Cut into bars with 1 candy in center of each.
Okay, these aren't baked. But they're perfect for a hot day when you don't want to turn on the oven.


Sunteţi de acord cu Legea Vaccinării Obligatorii! Legea care ar trebui să înfunde puşcăriile de părinţi care ar fi avut tupeul să ceară să fie pe deplin informaţi despre ce conţine vaccinul, unde a fost fabricat, dacă este compatibil cu românii şi ce riscuri comportă atât vaccinarea, cât şi nonvaccinarea celor mici.
Check out how an anti-vaxxing mom deals with Whooping Cough compared to the rest of the world. LIKE A BOSS- that's she deals with it!
Brief Report: What Happens When I Can No Longer Support My Autistic Relative? Worries About the Future for Family Members of Autistic Adults.
Very little is known about autism and adulthood. Family members are often the primary support for autistic adults and frequently express concerns about what the future will hold and what support will be available for their relative. 120 family members of autistic adults completed an online survey exploring concerns about the future for their relative. The most endorsed concerns were "their needs won't be met" (77% worried weekly), "whether they will be happy" (72% worried weekly) and "who will care for them" (58% worried weekly). The results highlight the importance of implementing structured and timely support through collaboration with governmental policy, local commissioning and communication with charities to help prepare family members and their autistic relative for the future.
Vaccini: la parola ai medici contro l'obbligo delle vaccinazioni.
Vaccines: the word to doctors against vaccination.
A disturbing patent discovered this week reveals plans to hide vaccines within food particles without the public knowing about it.
US Patent application 'US20080044481 A1' ("Microparticles for oral delivery") was filed in 2005, and allows drugs and vaccines to be embedded into tiny invisible particles of food.
Are we to assume the technology hasn't yet been applied?
The inventor and assignee is listed as Mordechai Harel, who was associated with Advanced BioNutrition Corporation of Columbia, Maryland. Here are a group of quotes from the patent application. The statements leave no doubt about the wide, wide application of the technology.
The invention provides microbeads containing oil-associated biologically active compounds and methods for their manufacture and use. The microbeads consist of a soluble complex of non-digestible polymer and emulsifier with oil-associated biologically active compounds embedded in a matrix of digestible polymer. The disclosed microbead complex protects the biologically active compounds, such as vitamins, fish oil and carotenoids, from oxidation, taste and odor degradation. The disclosed microbeads also provide protection from the stomach digestive distraction, and allows for the delivery of the biologically active compounds in the intestine.
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The IWC Call for proposals for small grants has been opened and the deadline for submission of the application forms is 10 February 2019.
Thanks to the generous support of donors and sponsors, embassies, as well as local and foreign businesses, the IWC community is able to raise funds to help different projects for the ones in need in Bulgaria.
In 2018 our club supported 24 different charity organizations in Bulgaria by distributing more than 210,000 Bulgarian leva to help these organizations implement their projects.
We have opened our Call for Grants for 2019 and hope to help many different organizations with the funds raised at the IWC Bazaar 2018.
Visit our website at https://iwc-sofia.org/ to find the application forms and the details for the grant process.


The study of climate physics (meteorology and physical oceanography) will provide students with advanced knowledge and skills using the terms and laws of physics in atmosphere, ocean and the climate system. Students will become familiar with experimental and theoretical methods, and will be guided toward current research. The courses will provide instruction on how to present physical context, how to critically assess scientific problems, and how to apply modern methodology in experimental and theoretical climate physics. Mathematical methods are an indispensable tool for processing physical relations, and they are essential for the comprehension of physical context.
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Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries: the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps
Shingo Kasahara, Shunji Sano, K. Yoshizumi, Y. Oshima, K. Ishino, M. Kawada
The arterial switch operation (ASO) has become the primary surgical approach used for correction of transposition of the great arteries. All the prerequisites for a successful ASO were recognized in time and dealt with, which allowed general acceptation of the technique. We report on our technique for the procedure and the result to date. From January 1991 to January 2008, a total of 100 patients underwent ASO at our unit using medially-based trapdoor flap method. The neo-pulmonary artery (PA) was reconstructed using a single rectangular pericardial patch. The initial patient having intramural coronary artery died due to ischemic event after Aubert procedure. Three patients had re-right ventricular out flow tract repair (RVOTR) in a long-term follow-up period. There was no significant aortic insufficiency, no ischemic event and no lethal arrhythmia.
Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
Dive into the research topics of 'Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries: the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Arterial Switch Operation Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Transposition of Great Vessels Medicine & Life Sciences 92%
Pulmonary Artery Medicine & Life Sciences 21%
Cardiac Arrhythmias Medicine & Life Sciences 20%
Kasahara, S., Sano, S., Yoshizumi, K., Oshima, Y., Ishino, K., & Kawada, M. (2008). Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries: the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps. Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery, 61(4), 287-292.
Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries : the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps. / Kasahara, Shingo; Sano, Shunji; Yoshizumi, K. et al.
In: Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery, Vol. 61, No. 4, 04.2008, p. 287-292.
Kasahara, S, Sano, S, Yoshizumi, K, Oshima, Y, Ishino, K & Kawada, M 2008, 'Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries: the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps', Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 287-292.
Kasahara S, Sano S, Yoshizumi K, Oshima Y, Ishino K, Kawada M. Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries: the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps. Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery. 2008 Apr;61(4):287-292.
Kasahara, Shingo ; Sano, Shunji ; Yoshizumi, K. et al. / Surgical treatment of transposition of great arteries : the coronary buttons transfer using medially based trapdoor flaps. In: Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery. 2008 ; Vol. 61, No. 4. pp. 287-292.
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With developing receivers, USC's tight…
With developing receivers, USC's tight ends may need to step up
USC Trojans tight end Cary Angeline (86) during USC football practice on Brian Kennedy/ Howard Jones Field on the campus of the University of Southern California on Saturday, Aug. 05, 2017 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
By Joey Kaufman | jkaufman@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: August 25, 2017 at 12:23 a.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 11:42 a.m.
LOS ANGELES >> Last week, part of Daniel Imatorbhebhe's recovery from a sore hip flexor included playing catch with his coach.
Midway through one practice, Imatorbhebhe ran a variety of routes on the south end of Howard Jones Field. Clay Helton, the Trojans' head man and a former college quarterback himself, lofted passes to the injured tight end.
"The great ones, it's like riding a bike," Imatorbhebhe said of Helton's arm. "You never forget. That's what he says."
However, he longed to catch passes form Sam Darnold, the Trojans' quarterback. Imatorbhebhe had, after all, missed most of training camp after he was limited for most of spring practice.
The waited ended this week.
Imatorbhebhe returned to take part in workouts on Tuesday and Wednesday. He was held out Thursday in order to receive a pre-planned cortisone shot to allow for additional rest, Helton said, before he returned next week in the lead-up to the season opener against Western Michigan.
Helton said he participated in live portions of practices and had been "feeling good."
"It's a little more rubbing the rust off," Helton said.
USC could use continued production from its tight ends this season. One reason: Its wide receivers are inexperienced, and Helton iterated this week that they "have some work to do" to establish chemistry with Darnold.
At tight end, the Trojans have depth and some experience.
Imatorbhebhe caught 17 passes for 250 yards and four touchdowns as a redshirt freshman last fall, while Tyler Petite snagged 10 passes for 156 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Cary Angeline, a 6-foot-7 redshirt freshman, has also seen repetitions with the first-team offense in practices this month.
"I hope we get Daniel back," Helton said. "I think he's really close, but if not, it'll be next man up."
In general, Darnold displayed a good rapport with his tight ends in his first season as a starter. According to data collected by SB Nation's Football Study Hall, he targeted tight ends 12.6 percent of the time, a 4 percent increase from the pervious season with Cody Kessler behind center.
It helps to have targets.
The Trojans have five tight ends on scholarship this season, most of them agile pass catchers.
When Helton recruited many of them, he sought tight ends who could do more than block.
"He wanted guys who can stretch down the middle of the field," Petite said. "Every single one of the guys can do that."
It helps that Imatorbhebhe, Petite and Angeline have some past experience at receiver prior to joining the Trojans. That background has helped. Helton has said his top priority is signing tight ends who can "push the ball vertical." But Petite believed the group had become well-rounded too.
"If you can have a threat inside who can block and also be able to run like a receiver, there's no person like that on the team," Petite said. "The other side of that is, if we can't block, then there's a receiver that can replace us. That's kind of the emphasis, especially when we come in. Yes, we're good receivers and that's a big reason why we were recruited, but you also have to develop your blocking."
Senior right guard Viane Talamaivao was held out of practice on Thursday, Helton said. It was the second consecutive practice he missed after sustaining a foot injury Tuesday. He will not take part in the Trojans' "mock game" scrimmage on Saturday. Freshman Andrew Vorhees has started in his place. … The "mock game" scrimmage on Saturday will "mainly" feature the first-team offense and the first-team defense, Helton said. … USC's home game against Texas on Sept. 16 at the Coliseum is nearly sold out. About 1,000 tickets remain, according to an athletic department spokesman.
Clay Helton
Sam Darnold
Joey Kaufman | Reporter
Joey Kaufman is the USC beat writer for the Southern California News Group. Since joining the Orange County Register in 2015, he has also covered Major League Baseball and UCLA athletics. His work has been recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors and Football Writers Association of America. Kaufman grew up in beautiful downtown Burbank.
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Robin Hickman-Winfield has worn many hats during her five-plus decades woven into the tapestry of St. Paul.
Educator. Activist. Documentary producer. Mentor. Shepherd of the legacy of her late great-uncle, filmmaker and Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks.
Did you know she's also an artist, creating dolls?
As a child, Hickman-Winfield used her dolls to escape the stresses of having "social justice warriors" for parents. Later, she incorporated them in teaching hundreds of Twin Cities girls to love the skin they're in. Now, she creates new dolls and dioramas as art — all to inspire children and adults with visions of the possible.
Her work has been featured on HGTV, Twin Cities Public Television and in the Star Tribune. Her dolls are currently highlighted by the St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation. And her exhibit of dolls honoring ancestors and elders of the local Black community can be seen at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery.
In a recent interview with Eye On St. Paul, Hickman-Winfield talked about how she grew from a girl playing with dolls to an adult using dolls to inspire a community.
Robin Hickman-Winfield
Black Lives Matter doll.
This interview was edited for length.
Q: When did you start using dolls to tell these stories?
A: I've been doing it for more than 30 years, but in the last six months I have used a grant from the St. Paul and Minnesota Foundation to create customized soulful dolls, to honor the elders. I have dolls of my parents. Of Gordon Parks. I have a [local civil rights pioneer] Katie McWatt doll, [local activist] Josie Johnson. I have elders in my life who were invincible.
It all started with the importance that Black girls have dolls that look like them.
Q: Why is that important?
A: There was a famous experiment with dolls in the '50s. [the Doll Test, showing a majority of Black children preferred dolls with white skin] In fact, the photograph for that experiment was taken by my uncle Gordon Parks.
It's a very serious issue that still plays out today. I've done that experiment with my [students] and unfortunately it continues.
Q: Did you play with dolls as a child?
A: When I was really little, my sister and I had dolls. My parents were agents of change. Social justice work back then was tough. I played with dolls to sometimes escape from my reality, so I created this little world of dolls. I didn't just play. I started writing narratives. Stories.
Q: What color were your dolls?
A: It was very important to my mother that we had Black dolls. We grew up basking in the power of our culture. It was the '60s. My mom would go to Black conferences, part of a network of early child development teachers, and she would bring them back. Mattel came out with Christie, a Black doll. And there was Diahann Carroll and the "Julia" doll.
She had to look harder, but she found them.
Q: You have used dolls to teach your class "Lovin' the Skin I'm In" to hundreds of girls. Now, you use them as art. When did that start?
A: I started getting back into dolls after losing a job. I had a deep depression and had spent time in California with my cousin and her young daughter. Oh my God, we played with dolls every day ... It reignited a love from my childhood. I started making furniture. Designing clothes. I found there were doll clubs in the area, creating dolls of Black women in history.
I'd made a doll of my uncle [Parks] and handed it to him in New York. He said, "Baby, is that me?" He'd been feeling down and this cheered him up. He loved my dolls. He said, "What are you going to do with those? You need to do something."
Q: People all over the world have seen pictures of your dolls. What you're doing now is a long way from a little girl playing with dolls, isn't it?
Dolls created by Hickman-Winfield (standing) and her late parents — Bobby Hickman and Patricia Frazier-Hickman.
A: My dolls can help people envision new possibilities, in the ways that I create new worlds.
James Walsh is a reporter covering St. Paul and its neighborhoods. He has had myriad assignments in more than 30 years at the Star Tribune, including federal courts and St. Paul schools.
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Comedy Events & Festivals Reviews
Dark Comedy Festival Day #3: EDDIE PEPITONE – Saturday, June 8th @ The Comedy Nest
Natasha Hynes
Photo Credit: Nathalie Farrat
This Saturday night was the last night of the Dark Comedy Festival at the Comedy Nest. I have to admit I was pretty intimidated to write this blog, because how could I ever put into words how funny this show was. My abs were seriously hurting from laughing so much. At one point, during Eddie's set, I was laughing so hard that I literally choked on my drink and my life flashed before my eyes. I thought "No! I can't die now! The show's not over yet!." Then again, it might have added to the ambiance of dark comedy.
Tyler Morrison, who headlined Fridays show, hosted on Saturday night. Tyler, who has been on BITE TV on more than one occasion, is from Muskoka Ontario. Muskoka, a town somewhere north of Barrie, possibly in the woods, is a land I had never heard of before Saturday night. It explains how his jokes, including a story about his awkwardly comfortable relationship with his grandmother, were so heavily influenced by small town life.
Opening first was Evan Desmarais, who has been featured on MTV, a music channel that no longer plays music. Evan was probably the dirtiest comic of the night with his jokes about creative blow jobs, and… ahem… tossing salad. For those of you who don't know what that means, there's google.
Montrealer, Peter Radomski was next up. This was my first time seeing Peter, and I was very impressed not only by his jokes, but by his snazzy outfit. Peter had some jokes about rape, not to be confused with rape jokes, which had a message we can learn from.
Rob Mailloux, who produced The Dark Comedy Festival, and hosted a good part of it, was the last opening act on Saturday. His tasteful abortion jokes, and other insightful perspectives demonstrated that he too delivered and intelligent humour, my favourite kind.
With a thunderous presence, headliner Eddie Pepitone enters the scene speaking at a decibel level that could reach the homeless people on the street. You know he's a generous guy when he makes sure that even people who can't afford to get into the venue can hear the show. Eddie mentioned that he lives in L.A. but it's pretty clear that this guy is east coast all the way. You know us east coasters, we're a bit rough around the edges. He later mentioned that he's originally from New York and it all made sense.
Eddie doesn't just tell jokes, he plays a character, which is most likely an exaggerated version of himself. Dressed all in black with a cute french baret like a cliche near-mute brooding artist, he shows us his love of irony as he yells out his frustrations like the crazy guy in the metro at one in the morning. Halfway through his long angry rant he abruptly, like changing the channel on a TV, breaks into a calm and quiet public service announcement about the health benefits of juicing. It's as if he was externalizing the inner conflict between his L.A. life, and his New Your upbringing. I think Eddie is more of an artist than we, or maybe even he, realizes.
If you want to really laugh, and Eddie Pepitone is in town, he's definitely worth the cover charge.
If you want to follow any of these acts you can find them here:
Eddie Pepitone: eddiepepitone.com
Rob Mailloux on Twitter @roblovesarguing
Evan Desmarais on Twitter: @evancomedy
Tyler Morrison website tylermorrison.ca
Check out more shows @ The Comedy Nest
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Kevin Harvick is having a very good season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series so far with three top-five and six top-10 finishes in seven starts.
While he ranks third in the Cup Series standings at the moment, it's hard not to look back at what the driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford did last season. That's when he won a career-high eight races and also captured the NASCAR All-Star race.
You can now compare the 43-year-old Harvick to many of the sport's all-time greats. Going into Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, he has 45 career wins, which puts him one ahead of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott on the sport's all-time wins list.
Two of those wins have come at Bristol, including the 2005 Food City 500 the weekend Harvick swept the Xfinity Series and Cup races. Three years ago, he won for the first time since the track was reconfigured. Once the harshest critic of the reconfiguration, he praised the speedway's innovation of adding a sticky compound to the track surface.
Harvick liked the old track surface because he felt like it gave him a leg up on the competition. Similar to Mesa Marin Raceway, his home track in California, he used Bristol's unique layout to his advantage.
Harvick said the fans' reaction to Bristol and the challenge it presents the drivers make it one of those marquee stops on the tour like Daytona, Indianapolis and Darlington.


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JACET ESP SIG Kanto:
Implementing a genre-based ESP curriculum at university
Date: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Shi Jie (English Department, UEC Tokyo)
As the need for ESP in tertiary English education rises globally in tertiary education, a new English pre-program called Technical English was developed at a Japanese university of science and technology in Tokyo. This first university-wide compulsory ESP program at national universities in Japan was put in action in the academic year of 2012. The basic concepts and design of the ESP curriculum of this program have been reported previously at the JALT conference. As a follow-up research on this new ESP program, this presentation focuses on the results of the end-of-year investigation on the implementation of the whole program which includes both Spring and Fall semesters of two different courses. A closer examination of the academic genres selected by the whole science faculty for the new curriculum, such as academic presentations using ppt and posters, oral reports of academic articles and original research, abstracts, research papers, will be conducted in this study. Students' feedback on the learning of the genres and teachers' perspectives on the effectiveness of the instructions of the main genres will also be reported.
Organization: JACET English for Specific Purposes SIG (Japan Association of College English Teachers) Kanto (JACET ESP SIG Kanto)
Venue: The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo (East 1 Building, Room 705; No. 7 on the map of east campus)
Location: Chofu City, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Contact JACET ESP SIG Kanto
Website: jacet-esp-kanto.org/
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This review first ran in the Sept. 26 edition of The Hamilton Spectator.
UPS was having a rough start expanding into Germany.
The company's sales force was running out of leads.
So everyone was brought together to regroup, recharge and kick around ideas for drumming up new business.
A senior executive joined the conference and was asked to give closing remarks.
Instead of a pep talk, he announced they were staying an extra night.
They had an hour to change out of their dress clothes and meet in front of the hotel. And they had to show up brandishing knives and scissors.
Locals lined the streets as the executive led the UPS parade out of the hotel and into the heart of the village. They wound up in an alley behind a stretch of shops and stores. The executive then rolled up his sleeves and led the team into dumpsters where they pulled out boxes and cut off shipping and receiving labels.
Once they had cut up every box, they marched back to the hotel conference room.
The dumpster-diving senior executive demonstrated an ability to be creative, one of four key characteristics for effective leadership identified by Wallace in his book Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver.
Matching the right person to the right job. "The best leaders execute the selection and assignment process with surgical precision," says Wallace. They also know when the right person is in the wrong job and have the courage to make the necessary change.
Wallace worked at UPS for four decades, getting his start as a part-time driver. He credits the no-nonsense, no-frills company for giving him a PhD in teamwork and leadership.
Wallace worked his way up in the company, becoming president of UPS International and leading more than 60,000 employees working in over 200 countries and territories.
A part-time driver becoming president of international operations is par for the course at UPS with its preference for promoting from within and a founding principle of treating everyone equally. That equal treatment includes giving all staff opportunities for training and development and moving into leadership roles.
Effective leaders work both smarter and harder than anyone else on their team and also stay humble. They're focused on getting things done through others rather than drawing attention and accolades to themselves.
Even if you're not keen on taking your team dumpster-diving in downtown Hamilton in search of sales leads, this book is loaded with common sense leadership lessons from a 99-year-old company that delivers 18 million packages and envelopes every day.
@jayrobb reviews business books for the Hamilton Spectator, serves as director of communications for Mohawk College and lives in Hamilton.
George Easterbrook, contributing editor of The Atlantic and Washington Monthly, posed the question that's worth debating here in Hamilton.
Joel Kotkin would make the argument that we need densification downtown plus dispersion on our suburban edges if we want continued economic growth in Steeltown. He'd also tell us that reports of suburbia's death have been greatly exaggerated.
Kotkin is a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University, executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism and author of The Human City.
As churches, vacant lots and parking lots get turned into condos downtown, we're banking on high-earning and free-spending young professionals moving in. Many will eventually want to start a family. That'll be tough to do in a one-bedroom, 800 square-foot glass box 20-storeys above James St. North.
So one of three things will happen.
Young professionals will move out of their condos and into affordable single family homes with backyards, front porches and driveways in middle-class, family-friendly and congestion-free suburban neighbourhoods.
A shortage of homes for growing families will young professionals out of Hamilton and into smaller, surrounding communities where they can buy more house for less money.
Or they'll postpone or cancel plans to have kids because it's unaffordable and there's nowhere to go to raise a family.
While the second option is bad, the third choice is even worse.
"Cities with few children and families will prove fundamentally unsustainable, deprived of a base from which they can draw new workers and consumers, as well as critical sources of both parental motivation and youthful innovation," says Kotkin.
San Francisco's a cautionary tale. There are now 80,000 more dogs than kids and the urban core has the highest percentage of households without children of any major U.S. city.
For many families, those less dense places will be out in the 'burbs.
Kotkin sees cities as more than the dense and crowded places envisioned by planners, downtown developers and urbanists.
Kotkin's unlikely to be invited to deliver the summit keynote speech to a banquet hall full of Hamilton urbanists. Yet he makes a convincing case for why doubling down on densification while restricting dispersion in suburbia is a bad idea if we want our city to be the best place to raise a child.
Jay Robb serves as director of communications for Mohawk College, lives in Hamilton and reviews business books for the Hamilton Spectator.


The chairman of Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC, Gwagwalada division, Bishop Chikwendu Williams, has given indication that he is seeking legal redress to stop the factional executive of the committee from parading itself as leaders.
Williams during interaction with journalists in Gwagwalada alleged that there was no dissolution of the exco, neither had they committed fraud or impeachment processes were carried out rather some group gathered to conduct kangaroo election when he was out of Gwagwalada for treatment.
The chairman condemned the act describing it as unconstitutional saying that the ideal thing to be done was to serve him a query or panel to be set up to investigate the exco if there were allegations of fraud.


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Deacon Hill doesn't care about the distance, he just wants to play ball
The recent commit talks to B5Q about choosing UW, regional burger chains and his fit with the Badgers.
By Drew Hamm@drewhamm5 Jun 26, 2019, 2:36pm CDT
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When recruiting quarterbacks, a lot of them tend to make their decisions early on in the process. Recent 2019 commit, Graham Mertz, decided to sign on with the Badgers in October 2017, over two years before he signed his actual letter of intent. The signal caller then can act as a catalyst to recruit other players to join him, in a perfect world. Wisconsin isn't looking to take a quarterback in the 2020 class and as such, it is important that they get their top choice in 2021.
Deacon Pe'a Hill is that choice.
Hill, who already seems excited to play in Madison, said during our conversation via Twitter direct message about recruiting guys to play with him, "Yes most definitely. I'm super excited to help get the best guys around me so that we can go beat every team."
The rising junior from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbra High), California gave head coach Paul Chryst his verbal pledge on Tuesday and locked down the one open QB slot that the Badgers had in that recruiting cycle.
@throw_to_win @Coach_Jordan_4 @SB_DonsFootball @K12Elite @Feholi @JohnUribe5 pic.twitter.com/BD28OvfTft
— Deacon Pe'a Hill (@dhillsb10) June 25, 2019
Hill was the backup QB for Santa Barbara last season but started the final game of the regular season, where he went 14 of 20 for 201 yards and three touchdowns in a 24-7 win, and started in the first round of the playoffs where his team fell to Culver City (the team that eventually won their section). He does not intend to lose in the first round again.
"My goals are to go deep in the playoffs and to break at least two passing records," Hill said.
The 6'4" sophomore also used to star on the water polo team, which is a trait that runs in the family. All three of his sisters played and his eldest sister, Sami, was on the American Olympic gold medal winning team in 2016. Family is clearly important to Hill who responded best to recruiting pitches that made the school seem like a home away from home. "The ones about how the program is just a family atmosphere," Hill mentioned, "and everyone is super close."
Hill, who weighs nearly 230 pounds, sees himself in the mold of a young Ben Roethlisberger. He also noted that he models his game after 2009 Santa Barbara All-State quarterback, John Uribe. Modeling your game after Big Ben, on the field of course, is definitely something Badgers fans want to hear. Roethlisberger is strong, mobile for his size and can throw the ball a mile.
Santa Barbara runs an offense where the quarterback primarily takes snaps out of the shotgun, and that is something Hill thinks he'll have to focus on, "I think I'll fit in well with the offense because I'm a pocket passer but I'll have to adjust to being under center because we run shotgun in high school."
One of the questions that I'm sure Hill is expecting to hear from friends, family and opposing coaches trying to get him to flip is "why go so far from home?"
"I honestly didn't really care about distance as long as I was getting to play ball," he stated succinctly.
Despite being precocious on the football field, Hill still has a bit to learn when it comes to regional fast-casual burger chains. I asked him if he would miss In-N-Out Burger and mentioned that Culver's was probably better but he countered with "I don't know about that, In-N-Out is pretty good."
During our chat we managed to cover some other very serious matters like whether or not he heard any weird rumors about the state of Wisconsin before visiting ("Honestly I didn't hear too many rumors."), if Paul Chryst was a good griller at his house ("I did not go because of the NCAA rules but I am looking forward to going to one soon.") and if he was holding a grudge against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons for not recruiting him based on his name alone ("Hahaha, no I am not.").


A Resolution of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
works with the CIW, tomato industry representatives and tomato suppliers to establish a code of conduct that would ensure workers' fundamental labor rights by defining strict wage and working condition standards required of all Taco Bell suppliers.
Be it further resolved that the Assembly requests each communion to submit a record of their activities on this issue to the NCC annually.
Be it finally resolved that a monitoring committee, appointed by the President of the NCC that consists of both staff and elected representatives, be constituted to consult with the CIW in the monitoring of the boycott, to give regular reports to the Executive Board and to make final recommendations for the termination of the boycott when appropriate conditions have been met.


Lubbock TX — Santa Claus was shot dead by a jealous husband late Tuesday night in a double murder. William Joseph Courouge, 38, has been charged by police with the murder of Mr. Claus and Cindy Lou Courouge, 31.
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So this is my painting and Chinese ink drawing (which I just did yesterday) for my entry into the Golden Ticket Contest for my illustration class! Whew! The deadline was this morning at 9:00 a.m. to get them to the lady who is stacking them for us! I couldn't get a little bit of the sidewalk outside cut out of them, but I take my pictures in sunlight and didn't have much time. I think she can fix that, though.
I couldn't view the webinar on Friday, because of our crummy internet connection which didn't reset until yesterday. For some reason I assumed my friend was referring to the painting I posted where the hermit crab's shell was yellow (which I thought was the one she critiqued and looked better than the crab's first lavender shell.) However, she was critiquing the one where he had the lavender shell! She said there wasn't enough contrast between the color of his shell and red body, which I agree! That's why I changed his shell color to a bright yellow in my second or third revision (I've lost count,) but I ended up getting it too dark in this final piece. It is too late to do anything about it now, but I am just thankful for Claire's critique!
Well, getting back to what I did this time in the painting…I used watercolor instead of the Inktense pencils for the background. I also made other little changes, too, adding detail to the sea turtles which she suggested in the critique. She also said my characters were fun and the scene was energetic. And she complimented my composition. That really encouraged me!!!
And again, getting back to this revision, Friday night I spent the evening redrawing the composition onto my heavier watercolor paper which also made a huge difference. Then Saturday I began working on the painting around 9 or 10 a.m. and finished it and the ink drawing around 10:00 p.m. last night! And amazingly, because I got up frequently and did some stretches, I am not in pain today! I still can't believe it. I really enjoyed the process.
I feel like I have learned a lot from this class. The instructors are super encouraging and kind. I still have a lot of material that they posted in the Bonus 6th week that I haven't had a chance to even read yet. I watched a couple of the interview videos, but I am glad we have 6 months of access to all of the materials, because I want to go through it again SLOWLY!!
I plan on getting back to doing as much of the Inktober ink sketches as I can. I will be going through a free Photoshop course at the Children's Book Academy soon which was a free bonus given to me when I signed up for the illustrator course. A different instructor has posted tons of videos teaching how to use it. It is very different than the program I had years ago. I plan to wait a week or two (if I can) before going back to that. I really need a break but am so excited about all of this! So that is all for now, my friends!
So this is my finished assignment for this week! It is an 11×17 watercolor of some characters I've been working on. Mr. C. Turtle is telling Hermie he needs a haircut! I hope you can see Hermie's eyes well. I also did not sign it as it shouldn't have anything on it. The facing page of the picture book would have their dialogue with some background color, etc., but I didn't have time to get that done.
I worked so long and hard on this yesterday, but my phone camera is not doing the colors justice for some reason. To me it looks more washed out than it actually is. But this was the best picture I could get this morning.
I need to get my day started earlier than usual because I am meeting a friend in town today.
Here are the other two characters that I have in my story I am working on!
So our assignment this week was to do sketches of our character with different expressions and in different poses. Do you know how hard it is to figure out how to get a sea turtle to look like he is bowing?? (That's the last one by the way.) In the one next to that, he is supposed to be looking smug, but I didn't get his eyes exactly like I wanted them.
He is wearing a monocle and a top hat because he is supposed to be a very "proper" and sort of pompous sea turtle in the story I don't have worked out yet. This is the same character from my story that I posted some of a long time ago and did the sketches in watercolor. Those include the little fish character, too. The post is probably in my Sea Turtle Stories. Anyway, I don't have time to go find the link.
Well, I hope everyone is doing okay out there in the blogosphere! Our weather has been so cool here in the last few weeks that we have been able to leave the windows open at night! I don't even turn the A/C on until late in the afternoon when it warms up a bit.
So…back to the drawing board as they say!
and swims. He is hoping to find a new friend.
He is missing Alicia so much, he forgets to eat! So Larry decides to look for his favorite food.
and deeper. Diving is Larry's favorite part of swimming.
he sees another Leatherback sea turtle swimming in his direction, but she does not see him!
Suddenly they are face to face. They bump noses.
Larry smiles widely. He thinks to himself, maybe she will be my friend.
"Hi. I'm lonely…I mean…Larry." He feels embarrassed.
"Hi. I'm Lucy." She giggles. Then she winks at him. "Do you want to go catch jellyfish with me?" she asks.
"Yes, I do! I almost caught earlier today!" Larry answers happily.
So Larry and Lucy swim away to catch jellyfish together. Then Larry, the lonely Leatherback sea turtle isn't lonely anymore.
I know I have been working on this first picture book for a long time now, but it is coming about slowly. Here are the paintings I have done of my illustrations so far. They are really watercolor sketches on low-quality paper right now. I plan to keep working on the colors; I'm not quite satisfied with the shades of grays or with how the yellows came out. To me they look too washed out. I have not finished all of the paintings of the illustrations yet either. Also, I skipped painting some of the illustrations so I could do the jellyfish. I am planning to do backgrounds for the title pages and do something for the cover, the back, and the end pages inside the book as well.
So here is my first picture book so far….
Larry is lonely. He does not have any friends to play with. Last week he had to say goodbye to his best friend, Alicia, because she wanted to go explore a different part of the ocean.
Then suddenly he is surprised when his tummy starts growling. He was missing Alicia so much, he forgot to eat!
So Larry decides to look for his favorite food.
him! Suddenly they are face to face.
So Larry and Lucy swam away to catch jellyfish together.
Then Larry, the lonely Leatherback sea turtle wasn't lonely anymore.
Thomas was a red-eared slider turtle. He was called a red-eared slider, because he was able to slide off of rocks easily in the pond, and there were small red stripes around his ears. Sometimes he put a claw in each ear hole and made faces at himself in the bathroom mirror. He also liked to admire his red stripes.
One day when he had his eyes closed and was reaching for a towel to dry his face after washing it, his sister walked up behind him and grabbed his sides – the squishy part of his body underneath his hard shell.
He turned to her with angry eyes and yelled, "Don't do that, Tamara! I don't like to be tickled by surprise!" He finished wiping his face and hung up the towel.
Thomas went to his bedroom, put on his favorite baseball cap and jersey, picked up his mitt, and ran out the door without saying good-bye to Tamara.
He walked down to the baseball diamond at the park to look for Garrett. They were supposed to meet there to toss the baseball around after lunch. When he reached the dugout where they usually sat after playing, no one was there. He still felt angry at Tamara, but he decided to look down in the dirt for money which he and Garrett sometimes found lying there. Just as he spotted a shiny quarter and bent down to pick it up, someone grabbed his sides and tickled him. Not only did it scare him, but he lost his balance and fell over on his back. He wobbled around on the back of his shell and stretched his neck and front legs out so he could flip himself over when he heard a familiar laugh. Then someone grabbed his front leg and pulled him up which brought him face-to-face with Garrett.
"What? Why not?" Thomas felt even more frustrated at the disappointing news.
"My mom has to take me to the shell doctor." He turned around and showed Thomas a big crack in the side of his shell.
"Whatever. I'm leaving. I'm glad you can't play. I don't feel like it now anyway!" Thomas turned and ran away.
Garrett's feelings were hurt. He really hadn't meant to make Thomas angry. Then he thought about all the times Thomas had asked him not to walk up behind him and tickle him like that. He felt badly, but when he looked up, Thomas was already gone.
Thomas decided to wander over to the pond. He saw his friend, Maya, which already made him feel better. She was the nicest friend he knew. Maya was a painted turtle so her shell was flatter than Thomas's, and a deep olive green color. She had bright yellow stripes on her face. Thomas thought she was beautiful. He had known her since they were two years old. They had both had their 12th birthdays that year.
She crawled out of the cool water just as Thomas ran down the hill and jumped off a rock making a huge splash.
Maya ran up the hill, turned around, and yelled, "Watch out, here I come." Then she came barreling down the hill, but at the edge of the pond she spread out all her legs, went flying through the air, suddenly pulling all her legs in and did a cannonball and splashing Thomas.
They sat in silence for a few minutes thinking about how to solve their problem. Maya's face brightened suddenly.
"Yeah. I think I did." She smirked and nodded her head, then leaned over and began to tell Thomas her plan.
Then Thomas bent over to one side and then the other. Sitting underneath the sides of his shell were his baby twin porcupine friends, Patty and Paulie. They pulled in their heads to hide when they saw Tamara's angry and confused face.
He laughed and hollered back, "You're welcome!" Then he asked Tamara if she wanted to go play a game. She happily said yes.
Later that day his friend Garrett came over. He had called Thomas the night before to apologize again so Thomas forgave him. Garrett hadn't promised not to tickle Thomas anymore, though, but Thomas wasn't worried.
When they walked by the pond on their way to the park, Maya was sitting on a rock sunning herself. She and Thomas winked at each other as he and Garrett walked by.


On Monday, Scientist in Israel unveiled a 3D print of a heart with human tissues and vessels. It is to be called first and a major medical breakthrough that advances the possibilities for heart transplants.
The heart, about the size of a rabbit's, market " the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and chambers," said Tel Aviv University Tal Dvir.
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Q: What method gets called on swipe? when someone closes my application by swiping it off, i would like to send a message to a server (in this case, another phone that is working as a hotspot).
The problem is that i can't figure out what method gets called when someone does that. I tried onDestroy(), but it doesn't always get called, only works sometimes, i guess it deppends on the memory resources, etc.
I need to inform the server when a client leaves.
Does any of you know how i could do this?
PS: My minimum api is 9, so i could use the onTaskRemoved() for API > 14, but what about the others?

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Q: What's the escape character in AT-commands? Im using a BG96 modem to connect to AWS iot over MQTT.
I'm trying to set my MQTT Last Will and Testament with the following AT-command:
+QMTCFG:"will",(0-5),(0,1),(0-2),(0,1),"willtopic","willmessage"

Which works great.
But now I'm trying to add a JSON formatted string to "willmessage", so I need to add "" (double quotes) in there, which means I need to escape them in my command. But I have no clue if I can escape them or what the escape character is.
Things I tried: \" (backslash) and "" (double double quotes)
I looked in all of the BG96 datasheets, and I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

A: I had the same issue while using MQTT commands on a SIMCOM SIM800c, and I noticed that the regular backslash (\) escapes the quotation marks (as it does in c) when communicating directly with the GSM unit via a USB to TTL converter. To implement this in software I printed the following string to the UART connected to the GSM Modem:
AT+SMPUB=\"testTopicPost\",0,1,\"{\x5c\x22Key\x5c\x22 : \x5c\x22Value\x5c\x22}\"

What this basically does is send the raw \ and " characters to the GSM unit. Hope this solution works for you as well.

A: Escaping of " within a string is covered in chapter 5.4.2.2 String constants in the V.250 standard - which is a MUST READ for anyone writing code handling AT commands (read at least all of chapter 5):

String constants shall consist of a sequence of ... except for the characters """ ... . String constants shall be bounded at the beginning and end by the double-quote character (""" ... . ... The double-quote character, used as the beginning and ending string delimiter, shall be represented within a string constant as "\22".

So the escape mechanism is \22 not \x22. This should be universally the case for all modems and not something that is implementation dependent.
I did not find reference to documentation of MQTT and BG96 and you did not link any of your "all of the BG96 datasheets" so I am just providing example syntax for an imaginary command to send a JSON payload of {"key": "value"}:
AT+SOMECOMMAND=...,"{\22key\22: \22value\22}"

A: Some special characters have different values between the ASCII character set and the GSM character set.
i.e.

*

*In the ASCII character set: \ = 0x5C.

*In the GSM character set: Ö = 0x5C.

Beyond this point, some special characters must be entered using a specific way, such as a 2-byte representation. I suggest you check the standard/version of AT commands implemented on your hardware (i.e. GSM 07.07, GSM 07.05, manufacturer specific set...).
i.e. I'm using a GPS+GPRS modem from Ai-Thinker called A9G. In this one, to use the AT+MQTTPUB command with data formatted in JSON style, I need to append \x5c\x32\x32. So the module will interpret this as \22 and the server as \".
i.g.
"{\x5c\x32\x32Key\x5c\x32\x32:\x5c\x32\x32Value\x5c\x32\x32}"

at the cloud it will be:
{"Key":"Value"}


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Alison Gazzard
Dr. Alison Gazzard has published widely on a range of ideas about game play, game design, interactive media technologies, and histories of games in journals such as Game Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and Games and Culture. Her books include Mazes in Videogames: Meaning, Metaphor and Design published by McFarland in 2013, and Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro, published by MIT Press in 2016 as part of the Platform Studies series.
A History of the Everyday
The Playfulness of Games and the Games That We Play(ed)
What if the history of games wasn't about what came first, what was the most obscure, or what was the most memorable? What if we told a history of games about the everyday? What would these histories look like and how would they contribute to what has already been done and the work that continues to happen?
In many ways it is the concept of play that becomes more focal within this type of history of games. Without getting into arguments about terminology or pitching games versus play, if we open up both of these terms within the history of games then we start to see how playing with games, playing through games, and playing around games also starts to feed into our understanding of how people once experienced and continue to experience games in their everyday lives.
In a recent project, I interviewed a range of people about their own histories of digital games and play in the 1980s.1 Some of these people went on to work in the computer games industry, some of them worked in the technology sector, and some of them didn't like games at all but had used them as a way of understanding computer programming routines. Many of the most interesting discussions that arose from these interviews were not always about particular games themselves, but how the industry was viewed at the time, how games were or weren't discussed within their educational experiences or in the home, and how other people within their lives viewed games. Themes often emerged around how making computer games wasn't considered a proper job and the misconceptions and misunderstandings around what computer games were or could be. Similarly, the creativity of playing around with game code and/or game design was often at the core of some of these memories. This play was, at times, referenced in relation to other objects and activities, such as playing with Lego, or composing music, or even cooking. Therefore, these histories of games did not exist in a vacuum but were connected to other cultural artifacts and forms of expression from the sciences, the arts, and the everyday.
Instead of trying to uncover the latest, the first, or most innovative histories within these discussions, it is possible to focus on what to some might be the mundane or everyday experiences of people and where games may or may not fit into their lives. However, not only does this allow us to create even more detailed, localized, regional histories, but it also allows us to see how games and play coexist among the other facets of our daily lives. For many that I interviewed, their histories of games and play moved within them and were often defined by where they lived or where they went on holiday, thus creating a further regional awareness of how and when games were experienced.
This regional awareness of everyday play and games can also be seen in the current Playing the Archive project that builds upon the work of Iona and Peter Opie.2 Not only does the project seek to understand present-day practices in the playground, it is also generating yet another insight into a history of digital and nondigital games of the everyday. Here, the histories of games emerge through various forms of observation and documentation. Different methods of how we record present-day practices and also revisit and re-present memories of play and games to the public become important as we navigate both of these landscapes.
Therefore, as much as capturing or remembering the everyday might seem like an impossible or even meaningless task, it is by recognizing moments of the everyday that we can start to situate past and present game practices. These moments open us up to new ideas, new connections, and new methods of recording, exhibiting and archiving games of then, of now, and of the future.
1. ^ Alison Gazzard, "Re-Program, Re-Play, Rewind: An Alternative History of Computer Game Creation in 1980s Britain," accessed June 8, 2019, www.britishgamehistory.com.
2. ^ Playing the Archive, accessed June 8, 2019, www.playingthearchive.net.