T-Mobile's Marcus Burghardt is bouncing back from an injury-filled 2006 season to become the team's captain in the Spring Classics, a role he feels he handles well. Cyclingnews' Susan Westemeyer caught up with him before the Ronde van Vlaanderen.
2006 was a bad year for young Marcus Burghardt. Knee problems caused him to miss much of the season and his two-year contract with T-Mobile team was coming to an end. A new wind was blowing through the team, bringing a new management, and Burghardt didn't know if he was going to be a part of the "new" team or not.
Fast forward to March 31, 2007 and Burghardt stood on the podium of the E3 Prijs in Harelbeke, Belgium, having finished third in the race, which he went in to as T-Mobile's captain. And he is heading to the Ronde van Vlaanderen on Sunday not only as the team's co-captain, but also with a three-star recommendation from the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblatt.
He is only 23 years-old but self-confident and calm about his new responsibilities. "After our captain Andreas Klier had to withdraw a day before Dwars door Vlaanderen one of us had to take over the responsibility. I was pretty satisfied with my form in Paris-Nice and came out of that race well," he said.
"I made a short training camp with my trainer Thomas Schediwe on Mallorca and I saw there that my form was good. So it was no problem for me to take over the captain's role."
Burghardt showed his good Classics form in Dwars door Vlaanderen, where he was one of the most aggressive riders and was part of the final leading group. He tried to get away in the final kilometre, but the Quick-Step train was too much for him, and he finished nine seconds down in 26th place.
"I attacked too much in that race, which cost me a lot of strength, but I wanted to clear things up in the climbs. The finale in Waregem wasn't hard enough, and so everyone came back together," he summarized. "But on the other hand, it could have gone well. If I hadn't attacked and ended up being 10th, that wouldn't have brought me much, either."
Things went better a few days later in Harelbeke. He was constantly visible at the front of the race, and when World Champion Tom Boonen attacked on a final cobblestone climb, the young German was one of the few to go with him.
Unfortunately, Burghardt found himself in a group with two outstanding sprinters, Boonen and Fabian Cancellara, and not only that, found himself leading out the sprint. But he was happy enough with his third-place finish behind the two stars.
Looking back at the race, he said, "At E3 I attacked on the Knokteberg climb, and that caused the group to sort of fall apart. It was clear to me that I would not be able to get rid of Boonen and Cancellara but at least I tried. And I went into the sprint with a gear much too large."
"I think that I have shown twice that I can handle the captain's role well, even if I am only 23 years-old."
-Burghardt on leading the German team.
Boonen was impressed with how Burghardt rode, and he said, "I have to admit that the young German was unbelievably strong on the hills." The compliment pleased the T-Mobile rider, who responded, "I am happy to hear that and it gives me a lot of morale and self-confidence."
Does he think that now the other top riders know him and take him seriously? "I don't know if you can say that, but I think the riders respect each other, I have a good relationship with a lot of other riders and some knew me before. When you ride with your colleagues five hours a day, wheel on wheel, you get to know each other."
He doesn't know whether he will be the team's captain for the remaining spring classics, or whether he will share that role with Kim Kirchen. "We haven't spoken about that, it is up to the team management." But he is confident. "I think that I have shown twice that I can handle the captain's role well, even if I am only 23 years-old." However, he puts the emphasis on the team rather than on any individual rider. "The important thing is that the team rides well together as in the last few races, so that one of us is as far forward as possible."
The team's original plan for Burghardt this year was for him to move to the Apache, Germany, area for the spring season, near to the races. He previously lived in Chemnitz, Germany, where the problem was transportation. "Last year it was difficult for me to get to the races in Belgium. I had to spend too much time travelling."
So, along with everything else that was changing over the summer, he moved to the small town of Auenstein, Switzerland, conveniently located near Z�rich and Basel, and the airports. He has good flight connections to Brussels now, and during the busiest part of the season, stays in Belgium between races, which also allows him to train with his teammates.
All in all, 2006 was "a very difficult time for me. It's especially hard when you have to make a break but don't want to, and your future is uncertain. In this time the support of my family and my trainer were very important. It was very important that some people still stood behind me at this time." Not everyone was so helpful. "On the other hand, I was rather disappointed that a lot of people wrote me off rather quickly and didn't have any trust in me."
Constant pain in his left knee kept him out of races and off the bike much of last summer. He finally underwent surgery in August, which cleared up the problem. At the team's training camp on Mallorca in January he said that he was still building up the muscles in the affected leg . He continued with strength training and "worked a lot with the doctors and therapists," with obviously good results.
It's sometimes hard to remember that the tall youngster is only in his third pro year. How does he feel in his role as a pro rider? "Well, it's a very, very hard life that we have as a pro cyclists," he joked.
He notes that he has changed in those three years, preparing himself now more professionally and concentrating more on his training. "I think that my training is quieter but more effective," he reflected. "Plus, I have tried to optimise my environment. That included my move to Switzerland. I had better opportunities to get to races and live closer to my trainer, Thomas Schediwe."
It wasn't a light decision for the young man, but it helped that girlfriend Svenja went with him. "It was not an easy thing to do, because the support I had at home from my family, friends, trainer in Chemnitz, sponsors and my old cycling club, the RSV 54 Venusberg, was very important to me."
There are other changes, too. "The team also gives us lots of possibilities to improve ourselves outside of training. I have built myself up a little team with a physiotherapist, nutritional advisor, and of course my trainer Thomas Schediwe and my manager Tony Rominger."
He doesn't yet know what will come after the Spring Classics. "I haven't yet thought about that. I am concentrating on the Ronde van Vlaanderen as the next race and then we'll look to Gent-Wevelgem and Roubaix."
Looking further into the future, he also doesn't yet know where he will be riding next year. He has only a one-year contract with the magenta team. "I don't believe that this is the right time to think about that," he noted. "Right now I just want to concentrate 100 percent on my next race. And later we will look at which jersey I will be wearing next year."
Burghardt is supportive of T-Mobile's antidoping program, and noted that he has already been tested 13 times this season. "Five times out of competition and eight times at races."
"The way that our team and we as riders are going is surely the only way," he said. "Otherwise cycling would lose more sponsors and the media interest would decline. And our fans have a right to a fair sport.
"Fortunately, a number of teams have taken the same direction as T-Mobile," Burghardt continued. "As a rider, you have to keep in mind what this sport gives you. I find training is a lot of fun, and I enjoyed measuring myself against others in competition."
"It was no problem for me to accept his program," he said, and defended his beloved sport. "Our fans, the U-13 riders, the students, the young riders, they shouldn't have the feeling that is being spread by the media, that all pros can only bring results through the use of banned products. Through the stronger and improved controls we are surely on the right path to restore cycling's believability."
Read Cyclingnews' 2005 interview with Burghardt.


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The efficacy of radiotherapy treatments has already been very well known but the improvement in quality that may come from this project will be of enormous benefit to the quality of life of patients in the north of Portugal, said Helena Pereira, M.D., IPO's radio oncology assistance medical director. This new equipment will allow us to introduce new radiation delivery techniques offering better and more precise ways of treating tumor while reducing unwanted effects. Related StoriesNew antenna-like device makes breast cancer medical procedures easier for surgeonsNew results reveal association between colorectal tumor and melanoma medication treatmentFDA grants accelerated authorization for Tagrisso to treat individuals with advanced NSCLCLaranja Pontes, M.D., the Institute's CEO, added, We've been working with Varian for two decades and we are very pleased with the partnership.Dump whichever item you are employing as it could possibly be area of the problem now. Regular soap won't do either. Any physical body wash or soap bar that you buy should contain benzoyl peroxide. You should apply the clean to your skin layer directly, without aid from an applicator. Be sure you rinse it away once finished. Cleansing your back again with acne-fighting ingredients isn't enough. You will need to then add topical medications in to the mix. A good choice because of this is normally benzoyl peroxide. You shall have to be careful as this may bleach your clothes.


There are currently over 200 mortgage products on the market, securing the right one can be daunting particularly for first time buyers, it is very important to take the time and get the right advice to make sure you get it right otherwise it could end up costing you hundreds of euros per month which will add up over the years.
Do you want a fixed or variable rate mortgage? A fixed rate mortgage means your repayments will be the same each month for the duration of the fixed term. This is great for peace of mind as your repayments will not go up. Alternatively Variable rates can go up or down which means your payments can go up and down.
While this may be easier said than done it pays in the long run to put as much down as possible as a deposit. A larger deposit means less risk for the lender which usually means lower monthly repayments.
You need to be realistic about what you can afford to pay back. This will depend largely on the price of the property and size of your deposit. However all lenders are different so what you will be offered from lender to lender will vary. As part of our initial consultation we will be able to advise you what each lender will offer you.
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U.S.-Niger Joint Country Action Plan
Nigerian special forces. (File)
The Governments of the United States and Niger officially signed the Security Governance Initiative Joint Country Action Plan on October 9.
In a ceremony attended by U.S. Ambassador Eunice Reddick and Deputy Minister Kaffa Rékiatou Christelle Jackou, the Governments of the United States and Niger officially signed the Security Governance Initiative Joint Country Action Plan on October 9.
The Security Governance Initiative, or SGI, represents a comprehensive approach to improving security sector governance and was launched last year with six partner countries: Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Tunisia.
SGI will focus on civilian and military security institutions and the ministerial functions that provide state oversight of the security sector. SGI programs will differ in each country, reflecting specific partner country challenges, goals, and objectives.
The SGI approach is based on partnership and joint analysis of the opportunities and challenges governments face and entails whole-of-government strategies to achieve catalytic and systemic reform in specific areas of focus related to the functioning of civilian and military institutions.
Through the SGI, Nigerien and U.S. experts have worked together to develop a Joint Country Action Plan or JCAP. The JCAP is a shared document that outlines a roadmap for a successful partnership under the SGI and identifies three focus areas: developing a national security review and strategic framework; aligning existing human and material resources more efficiently to address short and long-term security needs, and; external communications.
SGI is a distinctive approach. Its key goals and objectives are to increase partner nation capacity to meet citizen security needs; prevent or mitigate instability and conflict and counter terrorist activities and their enabling environments; promote democratic governance, rule of law, respect for human rights, and long-term economic development; and deepen the impact of U.S. investments in countries that show leadership and political will to make reforms and policy decisions necessary to improve security sector governance.
Following the signing of this important document the Governments of the United States and Niger begin developing activities to support efforts in the three focus areas. SGI teams will be visiting Niger later in October and in late November to begin this engagement.
Niger and other African nations in the region face new security challenges. United States is proud to work with its partner Niger to help meet these challenges and meet the security needs of the people of Niger.
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10/08/2011 | Anti-tech group sent bomb, Mexico says
An anti-technology group calling itself Individuals Tending to Savagery was responsible for a package bomb that injured two university professors just outside Mexico City, a prosecutor said yesterday.
The explosion at the Monterrey Technological Institute's campus on the outskirts of the capital Monday injured two professors, one of whom was involved in robotics research. Neither suffered life-threatening injuries.
State Attorney General Alfredo Castillo said that the group's involvement was identified from a partially destroyed note found at the scene.
Castillo said the group opposes experiments with nanotechnology and has staged attacks on academics before.
A manifesto signed by the group and posted on a radical website said: "We have no remorse, our aim was precisely for the guards to deliver the package to the intended professor,'' whom it identified as Oscar Camacho.
A Web page operated by Mexico's National Polytechnical Institute listed Camacho's research as including "micro-electro-mechanical systems.''
The group's statement said Camacho's inspecting the package triggered the detonator.
The statement said nanotechnology damages nature and native species and contributes to natural disasters.
The group said it had struck before, claiming it left another bomb at another university, and suggested the bombing would not be the last.
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Los Angeles punk rock band X, the GRAMMY Museum® at L.A. LIVE will open a new exhibit titled X: 40 Years of Punk in Los Angeles on Friday, October 13. On display on the Museum's fourth floor, the exhibit will give visitors a glimpse into how X's four original members – Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake – quickly established the band as one of the best in the first wave of L.A.'s flourishing punk scene.
"An X exhibit in a museum? Unbelievable! We are honored, dumbstruck and so grateful that all four original members are here to celebrate and share our history and 40th anniversary. It's a very long way from a basement on Hollywood Blvd (The Masque) to the GRAMMY Museum, but we feel that we bring with us all the punks from then and now. We are just the representatives for what has gone before and what is still to come in the City of Angels." — Exene, Billy, DJ, and John.
· X: The Unheard Music film, and more!
"We are thrilled to be hosting the official 40th anniversary exhibit for one of Los Angeles' most influential punk rock acts," says GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Scott Goldman. "While most will think of New York when they think of the punk movement, the genre was also developing an impact on the West Coast, of which X played an integral role in developing, and we are so excited to tell that story."
"This exhibit will place a much-deserved spotlight on the history of punk music in Los Angeles and one of the bands who played a vital role on the genre's impact on Southern California," says GRAMMY Museum Curator Nwaka Onwusa. "Visitors will get a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the development of X's career and how, after 40 years, they remain one of the few bands to continue to tour with all four original members."
X: 40 Years of Punk in Los Angeles will be on display through Feb. 25, 2018.


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UW-Green Bay Professor: Cyberattacks Becoming Worse, More Sophisticated | 101 WIXX |
by Sue Bodilly · June 21, 2021
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Hackers managed to disrupt operations at the JBS Meat Packing plant in Green Bay earlier this month as part of an international cyberattack on the company's infrastructure in Australia and the United States.It's the latest in a string of such attacks targeting businesses all over the country and around the world. Guarav Bansal is a professor of Information Systems at UW-Green Bay, and he says the attacks are only getting more sophisticated. Some criminal firms are even selling their technology to other individuals to launch their own attacks."Ransomware has become very very sophisticated," Bansal told WTAQ. "It has become 'Ransomware as a service'. more and more people can use these ransomware services to carry out these attacks."Ransomware is one of the most common and damaging types of cyberattack. A malicious program, downloaded through a phishing email attack, will encrypt files on an infected computer network, rendering them unusable. The hackers then demand money–almost always in a digital, untraceable cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Monero–in order to allow the victim to access their files again.
A ransomware attack is what hit the JBS servers in Australia and the United States. A similar attack was also responsible for the shutdown of the Colonial Gas Pipeline on the east coast, which caused massive jumps in gas prices. In both cases, the victims wound up paying the hackers. JBS reported paid around $11 million. Colonial Pipeline Company paid $4.4 million.
Bansal says the success of those recent attacks have made hackers even bolder–and that the situation will get worse before it gets better.
"Because they were willing to pay money, it actually emboldened these hackers," said Bansal. "They will get more aggressive in demanding money and carrying out attacks…and this will only grow."
Any company, large or small, can become a target. Especially at risk, however, are companies that are part of critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, electrical companies, and gas pipelines. Hackers, knowing how essential those services are, will target them in hopes they are paid quickly.
To make matters worse, Bansal says, it doesn't matter how sophisticated your IT security infrastructure is: you can still become a victim.
"You can have the best security infrastructure, but if your employees click on the links [in a phishing email], your security infrastructure will be compromised," said Bansal.
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Twenty one-year-old Masvingo beauty Hajirah Belinda Potts, shrugged off competition from 13 other stunning models to be crowned Miss World Zimbabwe 2018 at a glittering ceremony held at Orchid Gardens, Domboshava, on Saturday night.
Potts automatically won the ticket to represent the country at Miss World pageant to be held in China this December. The Veterinary Sciences student at Mazowe College could not believe her "luck" at being crowned the most beautiful woman in Zimbabwe.
"I am so excited and firstly I would I like to acknowledge God, my family and friends for supporting me. I have just won $20 000, a car and a trip to China among other prizes. I am the queen," said Potts in an interview with The Herald Insight soon after the event.
Barring any hiccups like having a brain freeze or falling on stage - it was clear from the onset that she would be among the winners as she possesses all the requisite features that make successful beauty queens; height, waist size, confidence and a killer smile.
Potts will be deputised by Patricia Muchenje, the First Princess, who walked away with $15 000 and Canada-based model Kuzivakwashe Mujakachi, who scooped the Second Princess crown as well as the People's Choice Award (Miss Personality) with 16 000 votes.
The three were selected by a panel of judges that comprised South Africa-based businessman Frank Buyanga, Hagga Mubaiwa, Ali Asidi, Danny Marandure and Judith Gamuchirai Gwasira The panel of judges for Miss World Zimbabwe 2018 Prizes were sponsored by Big-Time Strategic Group and ZOL, a leading internet company among others.
For being the People's Choice, Mujakachi walked away with $5 000 and she also received $10 000 for being the third most beautiful model on the night, making her one of the biggest winners.
"I have just finished my International Business degree in Canada. My priority now is this crown. I am so happy and shocked at the same time, landing two posts. I will be in the country until Potts leaves for Miss World in China," said Mujakachi.
Potts' case to land the crown was boosted when she sailed through flawlessly during the question and answer segment. Her question; "What would you be in five years?" was one of the easiest on a night which saw some aspiring queens freeze and fail to answer some kindergarten demands like naming any three features found at the National Heroes Acre. The ever-smiling Potts said her mother was her role model.
"I owe everything to my mother, she has been very supportive. I started modelling at the age of 16 hence was so privileged," she said. Though she won a brand new vehicle, a KIA Rio, Potts has no driver's licence and thus will wait a bit longer to take delivery of the automobile as she undergoes the necessary steps to get the all-important document.
During the event, Miss World Zimbabwe licence holder Marry Chiwenga introduced the Miss Zimbabwe Trust executive that has been an the forefront of organising the pageant. Elegance As has become the norm, Miss World Zimbabwe beauty pageant lived up to its billing - there was glitz and glamour. Guests, who parted ways with $300 each for a seat in the venue, got value for their money, as they enjoyed a three-course meal, expensive whiskey, imported wines and other beverages.
As usual, this was a black-tie event, which saw attendees arrive dressed to the nines. The event was attended by high-profile figures including the country's two Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi Zimbabweans have really embraced global trends on the fashion scene.
One would be forgiven for mistaking Miss World Zimbabwe for the famous Oscar awards. It was a mixture of designer wear and tuxedos. Even ushers and security personnel donned suits. Karen Paida and Godfrey Koti hosted the show as well as manning the red carpet. Paida, a relatively new face on the showbiz scene, is already being compared to the likes of Bonang Matheba for her flawless presentation on the night. In 2016, Paida, a television and radio personality, made headlines after coming second in the TLC Next Great Presenter competition, which had 11 other contestants from across Africa.
Tendai Dembo stole the limelight as he performed his father's greatest hits. Dembo had the crowd eating from his palm as they danced the night away. Just his mere presence at the event was both symbolic and historic as it invoked memories of Miss World 1996. One of his late father's greatest hits, "Chitekete", was played at that pageant, which was held in Namibia.
Although live performances are not his forte, Zimdancehall star Killer T performed his hits with a live band. He had to be called back on stage for an encore. Most importantly, the whole soundtrack to the glitzy event was local music, which marks a departure from other events' obsession with all things foreign.


Hironaka's career includes a successful defense of Atsuko Muraki, a former senior bureaucrat, against corruption charges.
Ghosn, 64, was arrested in Japan and ousted as Nissan chairman last November and has since been indicted along with Nissan and a fellow director for failing to disclose more than $80 million in additional 2010-2018 compensation that he had arranged to be paid later.
The payout to Ghosn, who remains in a Japanese detention center awaiting trial, was "subject to his presence within Renault", the company said in a statement. He has denied the charges.
He replaced former prosecutor Motonari Otsuru with hot-shot lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, who has a history of taking on high-profile cases and enjoys an enviable acquittal rate in a country where nearly every trial results in a guilty verdict.
Unlike Otsuru, he hasn't worked as a prosecutor, entering private practice after obtaining his law license in 1970, according to his law firm's website.
"Hironaka is an experienced defense lawyer who has won a number of cases".
Otsuru's office and a statement submitted to the court confirmed that Otsuru had quit on Wednesday. Go Kondo, Ghosn's third defense lawyer, was unavailable for comment.
Ghosn thanked Otsuru and his team for their "tireless and diligent work and courage during the interrogation phase of my incarceration" and hailed his former counsel as a "very capable and intelligent man and lawyer".
The sudden change in attorneys comes ahead of the expected start of informal meetings with prosecutors and judges to discuss pretrial preparations, an indication that there will be no new charges against Ghosn. "I look forward to defending myself vigorously, and this represents the beginning of the process of not only establishing my innocence but also shedding light on the circumstances that led to my unjust detention".
Speaking from a cell in Tokyo, Ghosn claimed he's been brought down by a plot to end a potential Renault Nissan Mitsubishi merger.
Renault appointed new Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard on January 24 and last week passed evidence to prosecutors that the company had paid part of Ghosn's 2016 wedding costs - in a first case of his suspected misconduct at the French carmaker.


While Brutal Legend designer Tim Schafer has been doing a lot of interviews on video and such around E3, the vast majority have pretty much echoed each other and not really revealed anything new — thus simply ended up in the Community Tracker.
Go right ahead and read the three-page interview.
I cant wait to see the sequences with the backstory/ history of the Brutal Legend world, thats gotta be so epic!
@Coggs: what's that gotta do with Lemmy Kilmister?
Anyway… I think it's poetic justice that the Killmaster collects heavy metal sharp things!!
Did you read the whole interview dude? Its three pages! Tim mentiones how there is some sequences dealing with the backstory and history of the Brutal Legend world.


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New insights into the evolution of galaxies
5th May, 2022
Recently a new study has shown that even a relatively weak jet from a supermassive black hole can clear the nuclear region of the galaxy of its gas, indicating that they may be playing an essential role in the evolution of their host galaxies.
About the study:
Why? Supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies are known to give rise to fast-moving jets of relativistic particles that can traverse large distances through the galaxy and beyond. The jets have long been suspected of driving the evolution of galaxies. However, it has so far remained just a suspicion.
A new study by an international team of astronomers, including Dipanjan Mukherjee from the Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) has shown that even a relatively weak jet from a supermassive black hole can clear the nuclear region of the galaxy of its gas, indicating that they may be playing an essential role in the evolution of their host galaxies.
The astronomers found the gas being steadily blown away from the galaxy's central regions, pushed by the relativistic jet.
Although the power of the jet observed in radio wavelengths was moderate, it was found to be still capable of clearing out nearly 75% of the central gas reservoir.
It was the first unambiguous detection of a relativistic jet from a supermassive black hole removing the gas in a galaxy; the release said competing mechanisms that can also cause such outflows have been ruled out.
The new results from this study provide definitive proof that relativistic jets can indeed substantially affect the host galaxy's gas.
This may have a significant impact on how and over what timescales stars are formed in such galaxies, which are topics of active current research
This research showcases strong synergy between observational results and the simulations of relativistic jets interacting with a dense interstellar medium of a galaxy, carried out by Prof. Mukherjee in 2018.
About IUCAA:
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune was set up in 1988 as an autonomous centre of excellence to help initiate and nurture, research and developmental activities in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the University sector.
IUCAA was set up with the basic purpose of providing advanced centralized facilities for subjects not adequately covered in the university departments and colleges.
The IUCAA is set up to promote the nucleation and growth of active groups in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Indian universities.
IUCAA aims to be a centre of excellence within the university sector for teaching, research and development in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
About Black Hole:
Dark holes occur when a giant star is attacked by a supernova towards the end of its lifetime. A black hole builds from the remains of the explosion.
A point is made in the space where the matter is pressed to create a field of gravity where light does not escape.
The concept was taught by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the term 'black hole' was coined by John Archibald Wheeler.
In April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope Project released the first image of the Black Hole.
Types: There are two types of black holes which become three with the discovery:
Stellar-mass black holes: These are the black holes with a mass of fewer than 100 times that of the Sun.
Supermassive black holes (SMBH): These are the ones with a mass greater than 100,000 times that of the Sun.
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs): These are a class of black holes with a mass approximately 100 to 100,000 times that of the Sun.
Both stellar black holes and SMBHs are commonly found.
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Yo the creative Canadian Beaver at work.
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You even made the pallets look new. Well done.
I need some of what that beaver had.
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Is it just coincidence that the beaver looks spiteful? And again, Do you have to win EVERY DAY? Very Good as usual.
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Cool Idea and great execution REY!
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Winner, it just looks so beautiful, your creativity surpasses everyone else's in this contest (I don't mean to pick favourites but lets be realistic) and your PS skills are lovely. I look forward to your work.
I agree with scion. Contact the company!


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On September 9th,1971, when the inmates of the Attica Prison took control of the facility, a committee of prisoners drew up a list of demands that were included in their Declaration to the People of America read aloud by L.D. Barkley. Item five included the presence of certain witnesses and observers, including this book's author, Clarence B. Jones (below). Word of this request reached Jones by way of what was effectively an APB on the radio, and, after a brief call from a phone booth with the then Governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller, was flown to Attica to meet with Commissioner Oswald and his fellow drafted committee members.
Jones is well-aware that Attica is often remembered more as a result of its reference in Dog Day Afternoon than anything else. I actually watched good old Charlie Day, of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, shouting 'Attica man!' outside of Paddy's Pub before I ever saw Pacino's performance as Sonny Wortzik. However, just knowing that Clarence Jones was on the prisoners' list of demands says a lot, since Attica would not be Jones' first time emerging from a jail to act as a mouthpiece for an inmate.
In addition to having Jones as a speechwriter, Martin Luther King Jr. entrusted Jones with his "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." Whatever Attica became, or how the list of demands morphed and grew over the four days that the inmates held control over the facility, Jones' presence tethered the riots to something larger.
This book is a strong 3.5 stars, maybe even tilting toward 4. If you're interested in it—read it. It's fun, short, and fascinating. My star-docking is more of a content critique, but (attention spans being what they are these days) I wanted to get that out of the way.
Kim Jong-Il was not always "Dear Leader." As a child, he was called "Yura." Though he was the son of Kim Sung-Il, "The Great Leader" and founder of North Korea (aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK), it wasn't always a given that he would one day take his father's place. It's hard to parse the varying stories of his birth/ancestry (check out Time's Kim Family Tree if you're curious). Jong-Il was passionate about cinema from an early age and when (taking a page from the Soviet playbook) Sung-Il formed the Propaganda and Agitation Department, Jong-Il soon made a natural and eager Cultural Arts Director.
As with almost all aspects of society after the Korean War, there was a race for supremacy in the film industries between the North and the South. Together, director Shin Sang-Ok and actress "Madam Choi" Eun-Hee were seemingly unstoppable.
Shin Films became a juggernaut—with the combination of Choi on screen, and Shin behind the camera, their films were met with acclaim in South Korea and abroad.
Shin and Choi (above as happy, young newlyweds) embodied the success of South Korean films. Few people (if any) would have been as acutely aware of this as Kim Jong-Il. His obsession with movies was so great that he set up Resource Operation No. 100 (a fancied-up term for what was essentially film piracy and dubbing at DPRK embassies across the world) so he could study the work of all the greats.
By the late 1970s, however, Choi, Shin, and Kim Jong-Il were confronting challenges in their respective lives. Though Choi had tried to ignore Shin's infidelities, the two divorced after Shin had a baby with a younger actress. Shin had a penchant for pushing the limits of what was considered acceptable in South Korea at the time. After ignoring the censorship board one time too many, the Office of Public Ethics revoked Shin's license to make films.
Though the first films made in North Korea (e.g. Sea of Blood and The Flower Girl) were successful, with a quite literally captive audience of people who were exposed to no other media, Kim Jong-Il was not satisfied. Furthermore, given that the DPRK was a "closed country," Jong-Il was effectively isolated from foreign talent.
Both Shin and Choi were essentially foiled by their desires to succeed and pursue their passions. Abductions/kidnappings across the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) were by no means uncommon. Fishing boats were regular targets (which will come as no surprise to those who have read The Orphan Master's Son), and many were skeptical as to whether or not South Korean "defectors" were truly acting under their own will.
Choi became a "guest of the Dear Leader" by way of Hong Kong in 1978, enticed by an opportunity to direct a film (which would help her to achieve her dreams for an acting school in South Korea). Though the two had divorced, Shin was concerned when his ex-wife went missing. He spoke out to the press about his suspicions of political conspiracy, and was also questioned as a suspect in Choi's disappearance.
Meanwhile, Shin was still trying to resurrect his company, and was having passport/visa problems. With nibbles, but no bites on various foreign deals for film distribution or directing opportunities, Shin was growing desperate and was running out of cash. When told that he would be able to get a South American passport in Hong Kong, he went for it, only to find himself traveling on the same freighter that had taken Choi to the People's Republic.
Though Shin and Choi were "special guests," this did not save them from all of the horrors of North Korea's detention and reeducation camps, nor were they immediately reunited. The conditions of Shin's detainment were particularly bad—similar to those described both in The Orphan Master's Son and Escape From Camp 14.
It's difficult to describe my impression of Kim Jong-Il based on this book. To say that he was well-intentioned seems naive, and it's impossible to imagine what the world looked like through his eyes given his bizarre upbringing. However one sees him, though, Kim Jong-Il was undeniably eager to earn the approval of Shin and Choi, and, in his own way, tried to make them happy (even re-marrying the couple in 1983, below).
The title of the book reflects Paul Fischer's ongoing depiction of Kim Jong-Il as the producer of his country and its narrative.
Accordingly, there were ways in which "working" for Kim Jong-Il was familiar to Shin and Choi.
Likewise, for Shin especially, Jong-Il's unilateral power made his life easier. Need to blow up a train? Sure thing—sorry, you'll have to do it in one take, because it's a real, running train. However, lacking the incentives inherent in capitalism, the same could not be said of the cast and crew.
So, did it work? Were Shin and Choi everything Kim Jong-Il ever dreamed of? In some ways, yes. Movies in North Korea did get better. The people of the DPRK began to share Jong-Il's enthusiasm for film (in part because the films became something more than pure glorifications of life North Korea).
Shin Sang-Ok and Choi Eun-Hee, however, were not truly happy. Though they had many of the comforts of "the good life," they were prisoners. Also, they were pawns in the propaganda game that got this whole thing started. Luckily for them, their roles as spokespeople for the DPRK required some of the trappings of freedom which proved crucial for their escape.
I became acutely aware of this while reading Fischer's descriptions of the death and funeral rites of Kim Il-Sung.
I'm no mortician, but that doesn't sound all that different from what goes on at open-casket funerals here in the U-S-of-A (I think it involves formaldehyde and methanol).


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Stone Carpenter Gossard (Seattle, Washington, 1966. július 20. –) a Pearl Jam amerikai rockegyüttes ritmusgitárosa, és Jeff Amenttel, valamint Mike McCreadyvel az együttes alapító tagja. Stone elsősorban a '80-as években a seattle-i grunge együttesekkel való munkája miatt vált ismertté és elismertté, még mielőtt a Pearl Jambe került volna, és azóta is sok más előadó albumain, koncertjein működött közre.

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Stone a seattle-i Northwest Schoolban végezte el a középiskolát 1984-ben. Az első együttes, amiben játszott, a March of Crimes volt, nem sok időt töltött itt, de ez tette ismertté az akkoriban kibontakozó seattle-i zenevilágban. Közeli barátságba került Steve Turnerrel, a későbbi Mudhoney gitárosával, akivel egy iskolába jártak, és csatlakozott együtteséhez, a The Ducky Boyshoz. Turner ezután  a basszusgitáros Jeff Ament, a dobos Alex Vincenttel, és a gitáros/énekes Mark Armmal a Green Riverben folytatta, és felkérte Stone-t, hogy csatlakozzon, hogy Arm az éneklésre koncentrálhasson inkább.

A Green River 1987-es feloszlását követően Jeff Ament-tel megalapította a Mother Love Bone-t. A banda történetének vége az énekes Andrew Wood halálával érkezett el, nem sokkal az első albumuk, az Apple megjelenése előtt. Stone és Jeff útjai ekkor majdnem elváltak, de végül a Chris Cornell által kezdeményezett Andy Wood-tribute projekt Temple of the Dog által együtt folytatták karrierjüket. Ebben a projektben szerepelt Eddie Vedder is, a Pearl Jam későbbi énekese. Stone demói és új dalai voltak, amik a Temple of the Dog, és az 1990-ben létrejövő Pearl Jam zenéjének alapját adták.

Pearl Jam

A Pearl Jam alapítását követően Stone zenéje volt a meghatározó a banda korai számainak többségében. Debütáló albumuk, a Ten 11 dalából 8-nak ő írta a zenéjét, úgy mint az Alive-ét, a Black-ét vagy az Even Flow-ét. Azóta már ennél kisebb szerepe van az együttes zenéjének megírásában, inkább a többiekkel együttműködve teszi ezt. Az újabb dalok közül a Do the Evolution és a Life Wasted című szerzeményeket jegyzi ő.

Gossard híres a ritmuscentrikus gitárjátékáról, valamint kiváló dallam- és ritmusérzékéről. Zenéjére legnagyobb hatással a Led Zeppelin, a KISS és Jimi Hendrix voltak, ugyanúgy, mint a rap és a funk. Egyszer ezt mondta magáról:

"Szeretem az olyan ritmussal kapcsolatos dolgokat, amik egymással ellentétesen hatnak."

A Pearl Jam egy-két újabb dalában is őt hallhatjuk szólózni. Eddie Vedder mondta egyszer, hogy hihetetlenül nehéz Stone-nal együttműködni, mert sosem akar olyan ötleteken dolgozni, amikkel már korábban foglalkozott, tehát mire a banda utolérné, addigra őt már újabb tervek érdeklik. A gitáron kívül Gossard basszusgitáron és billentyűs hangszereken játszik, valamint vokálozik is, sőt: a Don't Gimme No Lip és a Mankind című dalokat ő énekelte fel a Pearl Jam lemezeire.

A 2006-os Pearl Jam című album megjelenése után a Rolling Stone magazin szerkesztője, David Fricke azt írta a lemez kritikájában, hogy "rendesen eltolta", mikor a 2003-as "Minden idők 100 legjobb gitárosa" listáról kihagyta Stone-t, és a szólógitáros Mike McCready-t is.

Egyéb munkássága
Gossard szerepelt az 1992-es Facérok című filmben, ahol önmagát alakította a főszereplő Matt Dillon rockbandájában.

A Pearl Jamtől függetlenül Stone alapító tagja a seattle-i Brad nevű bandának is, ez amolyan "side-project" a számára. 3 albumuk jelent meg ezidáig.

1994-ben a Pearl Jam által a Ticketmaster ellen, a túl magas koncertjegy-árak miatt indított per tárgyalásán Jeff Ament-tel együtt jelent meg, és tanúskodott a rajongók jogainak védelme érdekében.

Brades zenésztársával, Regan Hagar-ral Loosegroove Records néven 1994-ben lemezkiadót alapított, amely több zenei irányzat képviselőinek lemezét is kiadta, például rock és hiphopelőadókét is. Stone szerződtette a Queens of the Stone Age bandát, és ő adta ki a debütáló albumukat is 1998-ban. A Loosegroove 2000-ben bezárt.

Stone ezen kívül a seattle-i Studio Litho tulajdonosa is, ahol olyan előadók rögzítették már lemezeiket, mint a Soundgarden, Deftones, Staind, a Brad vagy épp a Pearl Jam.

Gossard tehetséges festőművész is, több műve szerepel a Pearl Jam lemezeinek borítóján, csakúgy, mint a 2001-ben kiadott Bayleaf'' című első szólóalbumáén is.

A Satchel, a Green Apple Quick Step, a Weapon of Choice és a Critters Buggin bandák lemezein is közreműködött.

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Amerikai gitárosok
1966-ban született személyek
Élő személyek
American Music Awards-győztesek
Grammy-díjasok
Seattle-iek

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Run for your lives, it's a slow and chittering Chumbley! These slow little cuties were the robot minions of some baddies and they would slowly bump into things and you until you went where they wanted you to go. They also had a ray gun which helped the Doctor and companions take them a little more seriously.
They were seen in the Galaxy 4.


He is bright, green and enigmatic. He is round and aglow. He is a perfect needlefelted dragon by asherjasper.
Her needlefelted creatures and rattles seem to radiate their own playful energy from deep within their wooly (and sometimes cashmere) cores.
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Q: Tcl script to do Indentation I want to write a tcl script to align my tcl script with proper indentation. For Example if i have a code  like :
proc calc { } {
set a 5
set b 10
if {a < b} {
puts "b Greater"
}
}

I need to change like:
proc calc { } {
    set a 5
    set b 10
    if {a < b} {
        puts "b Greater"
    }
}

Could u guys help on this.

A: Writing an indenter that handles your example is trivial. A full indenter that can handle most Tcl scripts is going to be very big and quite complicated. An indenter that can handle any Tcl script will have to incorporate a full Tcl interpreter.
This is because Tcl source code is very dynamic: for one thing you can't always just look at the code and know which parts are executing code and which parts are data. Another thing is user-defined control structures, which might change how the code is to be viewed. The example below works by counting braces, but it makes no attempt to distinguish between quoting braces that should increase indentation and quoted braces that should not.
This example is a very simple indenter. It is severely limited and should not be used for serious implementations.
proc indent code {
    set res {}
    set ind 0
    foreach line [split [string trim $code] \n] {
        set line [string trim $line]
        # find out if the line starts with a closing brace
        set clb [string match \}* $line]
        # indent the line, with one less level if it starts with a closing brace
        append res [string repeat {    } [expr {$ind - $clb}]]$line\n
        # look through the line to find out the indentation level of the next line
        foreach c [split $line {}] {
            if {$c eq "\{"} {incr ind}
            if {$c eq "\}"} {incr ind -1}
        }
    }
    return $res
}

This will convert your first code example to your second one. Add even a single brace as data somewhere in the code to be indented, though, and the indentation will be off.
Documentation: append, expr, foreach, if, incr, proc, return, set, split, string

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Q: Count total list elements in a string I found a syntax issue I couldn't solve or find a solution to online and was hoping someone on here might have the answer. I'm trying to count the number of list elements in a string. I've tried the usual ways like count, isinstance, and set(probably all wrong)
I would like to count how many list elements I have in str1:
arr = [1, 'apple', 'banana', 2, 3]
str1 = ("this " + arr[0] + " then " + arr[3] + " next " + arr[2])

The output would look something like this: arr[] was used "3" times in str1

A: Use the count() method to count how many times a substring occurs in a string. And use sum() to add up the counts of each list element.
total = sum(str1.count(str(i)) for i in arr)
print(f'Str1 contains a total of {total} arr[]')

This counts all the duplicate matches separately. If you don't need those separate counts, use in to test if the element is in the string.
total = sum(str(i) in str1 for i in arr)

A: We must add the "str" variable type to the array for them to be counted
str1 = ("this " + str(arr[0]) + " then " + str(arr[2]) + " next " + str(arr[3]))


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Congrats July Advisor of the Month — Polly Compston!
July 31, 2014 Shruti Desai
Congratulations and thank you to Polly Compston!
We first met Polly in January when she was working to get her organization started on Mendeley. We loved her enthusiasm and encouraged her to apply to be a Mendeley Advisor.
Since then, Polly has embraced literally every aspect of the Advisor Program — writing guest blog posts, participating in beta testing, presenting Mendeley to her colleagues, and meeting with us for User Testing.
Polly is a research advisor for the Brooke, which is an NGO that aims to improve the lives of working donkeys, horses, and mules in developing countries. Suitable for a researcher who did her studies in veterinary school and spent a period of time volunteering overseas while doing a three-year residency in clinical research, earning her MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health.
Polly says working at the Brooke is a "dream job – my interest in international animal health began during my period of veterinary work abroad and this is the perfect fit of this interest and my skills as a researcher. I work alongside the vets in our country programmes to increase their research capacity and provide support throughout any research activities that they are working on."
How long have you been on Mendeley?
About 6 months – just a newbie!
What were you using prior to Mendeley?
How does Mendeley influence your research?
It makes it much easier to share information with our overseas colleagues – we can discuss research papers over time zones and if internet connections are unreliable. It allows us to be much more collaborative as an organisation
Why did you decide to become an Advisor?
It seemed the logical decision – a central part of my role is to coordinate research resources throughout the organisation, and as Mendeley is relatively new within the Brooke we needed to develop a strategy to train everyone up.
How have you been spreading the word about Mendeley?
I am just off to Ethiopia to start the role out to our international colleagues – we are holding a workshop for the senior veterinary staff. 22 vets from 8 countries will be in attendance and I will be running an introductory session to Mendeley and we'll discuss the best ways to use it.
What book are you reading at the moment and why?
"In Ethiopia with a Mule" by Dervla Murphy – because of my upcoming work trip to Ethiopia and the fact that it will be followed by some personal R&R that includes trekking in the mountains with a mule!
Any fun fact people might be surprised to learn about you?
– I have a three-legged cat
– I wore a builder's hard hat as a teenager
– There are no high heels too high for me
What is the best part about being a researcher?
It's exciting generating new information and seeing it being put into practice. One of the favourite things about my job is see other people develop their research skills – one of my favourite metaphors is that each piece of research is a brick in the wall and the researchers are the mortar that hold it together – the more people the bigger the wall can be and the better the researchers the stronger that mortar is.
Sometimes things take a long time. The difference in timescales between being a vet in practice, where the daily to do list is completed every day and research, which occurs over much longer periods makes it hard sometimes to feel as though you are being productive
What is the one thing you want people to know about Mendeley?
Honestly – how nice the people who work there are! I think lots of people know what a useful tool it is for researchers but I have been so impressed by the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff in the London office. (Editor's note: we're blushing, Polly!)
Meet the Product Team!
We often have users writing to us describing Mendeley as a sort of religious experience — we see a lot of exclamation points here at Mendeley. So it may sound a bit clinical to describe Mendeley as a "product," but everything the Product Team does here at Mendeley leads to creating the tool you know and love (exclamation points!!).
Product deals with all aspects of how you, as users, interact with Mendeley from your computer or tablet or phone. They work collaboratively with each other and with the other teams at Mendeley to create the features you love (or, perhaps, need), and ensure that they are usable.
Our Product Team is always interested to learn more about how you use Mendeley and other websites and tools. If you are in the London area at any time, email us and arrange a User Testing session — there is a pack of goodies and a gift certificate in it for you!
Matt Coulson
Follow me on Twitter @mattcoulson72
I've worked in Product Management for around 12 years, including working for Messagelabs (now Symantec), Virgin Media and, for the last 6 years, at the BBC. At the BBC I led a team of 5 product managers and worked on a number of their products and services including News, Sport, Radio and Music and BBC Red Button!
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? My role is to bring a portfolio level view and agile product ownership expertise to the product team. In other words, help the product machine run that bit better and slicker. Here at Mendeley we're entering a 'hyper growth' phase which means we have the amazing opportunity to build lots of cool new features that will delight our users and support our strategy. To do this we'll need to do a number of things, but perhaps most importantly we need to invest wisely, make the right choices and trade-offs and ultimately deliver products that knock the socks off our users. My aim is to make this process better, clearer and more transparent.
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? I think I'd have to say the people. They are one smart and savvy bunch. Good to see so much passion for delivering top quality experiences to users as well.
What do you like to do in your free time? I like to travel, cook, walk, exercise (lightly!), game, films, gigs and reading. Sadly I can't profess to be a part-time acrobat or other exotic pass-times but I'm open to ideas!
See Wah Cheng
Follow me on Twitter @seewahcheng
I joined Mendeley as a web developer four years ago. Over my career in Mendeley, I have seen the release of many products. Gradually I picked up more insights into user experience and user needs, so I decided to take on the challenge of product management! I feel passionate about improving people's lives through technology.
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? To transform visions into tangible features. I have mostly worked with web products. I love my role in Mendeley because it is so multi-faceted. I am involved in literally every stage of a project, from defining goals, interviewing users, through to organising and prioritizing sprint tasks. I work with data, design, technology and people! The sense of achievement when you see ideas and wireframes turning into actual products that people actually use is incredible.
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? Everyone here is so passionate about what we do. And more importantly, we are making the world a better place by giving researchers a helping hand!
What do you like to do in your free time? I do quite a bit of cycling and rock climbing. I am also very much into architecture and architectural history. Check it out.
Steve Dennis
Follow me on Twitter @subcide
Steve grew up in New Zealand, and moved to London in 2010 'for a bit of a change'. He's been designing for the web for over 12 years, and has involved himself in many areas including interaction and visual design, user experience, front-end web development, and product management.
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? I am currently a Product Designer for the iOS and upcoming Android apps, though I dabble in many areas across the company.
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? Interacting with our users, and delivering things that solve real-world problems or pain points for them. The free food is also pretty great.
What do you like to do in your free time? Design, rock climbing, and disruptive technologies (specifically Virtual Reality and Bitcoin).
Matthew Green
International Politics degree at the University of Birmingham, which led me into a career in online gaming (obviously) with Betfair. I was with Betfair for 5 years until I decided I needed a change…went off to Central & South America for a few months, came back and worked on a startup with a friend before doing some work with onefinestay.com and then finally finding my calling at mendeley.com for the last (almost) 2 years. The product was awesome, the industry was interesting and the people are great, so it's been a good few years. In other, less interesting news, i've been in London since 2006 – resident solely in Northeast London until recently when i've taken the drastic decision to move to the up & coming Southeast.
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? I look after the institutional product offering at Mendeley (MIE) – which involves speaking to librarians, research managers & the odd researcher to find what what they want & need to support an institutional implementation of Mendeley. User adoption is key for us, and the more Institutions that adopt Mendeley the better as all their researchers get to use a premium version of our great product!
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? Doing something useful – it makes a big difference compared to my previous roles. I also don't think I could ever not work next to a food market anymore…
What do you like to do in your free time? I play football for Priory Park Rangers (named after the first road I lived on when I moved to London), and cycle & run a lot…I also like to go on holiday…as much as I can…to as many places as possible 🙂
Greg Homola
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? My favourite part is I do not have to choose between visual and UX design. That means my role is pretty varied and I really enjoy it.
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? I work with amazing people both personally and professionally, and I mean it.
What do you like to do in your free time? I love spending my time with my family, travelling. Also I am a keen amateur photographer, so I can combine all these things on some lucky days. I like reading and learning and also like sports like basketball, snowboarding and others.
Andrew Officer
UX/Product Designer
Follow me on Twitter @andrewofficer
Digital product designer with a background in interaction design. Previous to Mendeley, I co-founded a web-design startup in the West Midlands, where I worked as design lead, producing the creative and front-end code for public, private and e-commerce websites. My specialities live in end-to-end product development, user-centered research, interaction design and user interface design for online digital products.
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? UX/Product hybrid. I work closely with business stakeholders, product managers, designers, developers and end-users to understand needs and influence product strategy, ensuring that the best products and features make it to the marketplace and with an optimal user experience. I'm involved in all user facing aspects of product delivery, from speaking with researchers, requirements gathering, scoping out interaction design, designing interfaces with abit of marketing thrown in.
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? The diversity of the role and being involved in all aspects of the business. Having the scope to work with various skillsets in areas that wouldn't typically be under my remit. Solving difficult problems from a hugely smart and diverse audience group with differing careers levels, from a range of disciplines that have complex use cases and needs to work with. Being part of something than can ultimately change the world for the better makes the job hugely satisfying compared to other industries.
What do you like to do in your free time? In my spare time I can be found collecting and mixing records, snowboarding, DIY and enjoying the unhealthy culinary delights the world has to offer such as hamburgers, hipster beer, curried goat and ramen.
Joe Shell
Senior Product Manager — Data
Follow me on Twitter @JosephShell
I like persistent, discoverable, reusable, sciency, webby things. Formerly of Nature.
How would you describe your role at Mendeley? I own the Mendeley Data program of projects.
What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley? It's growing.
What do you like to do in your free time? Tarot card reading.
"Back to the Future of Money" David Birch Talks@Mendeley
July 29, 2014 Alice Bonasio
Where does the money in a £20 note actually exist? It's the sort of thing you don't often think about. Unless, of course you're an expert like David Birch, whose day job is heading a consultancy specializing in secure electronic transactions, and who's also just published a book called "Identity is the New Money."
He used that question during his Talk@Mendeley to get the audience thinking about what we understand money to be, and put forward the idea that:
"Technologically, money is a primitive form of memory"
As the title of the talk suggests, David actually goes back to the past in order to understand the future of money, and what it holds in store for all of us as transactions technology advances.
Paradoxically, he says, we can best understand the Bitcoin phenomenon by studying the stone currency system in the Pacific Island of Yap, where ownership of the valuable, but extremely large and cumbersome carved stones is transferred without the need to physically move them. The entire system is based on accepting the value of the stones and remembering who they belong to at any given time, even if the stone in question happens to be at the bottom of the sea.
The way money works these days is actually quite recent, David explained.
"The birth of modern money dates back only to around August 1971, when Richard Nixon ended the convertibity of the US Dollar, so actually, money as we know it right now is only about 40 years old. It's not a law of nature."
Social Anthropologists such as Jack Weatherford agree that the electronic money world looks much more like the Neolithic economy before the invention of money than the market as we have known it for the past few hundred years.
"In a world where everybody is connected to everybody else, what do you actually need the money for? If this was a Neolithic clan, you'd have sets of obligations to each other that you would remember. Money is a marker that allows you to scale that process. But. If you can remember everything, then you might not actually need money at all."
And that is where technology comes in, making that memory-based system scalable: Old universal currency systems are broken, Birch argues, and they reduce people to having to engage in what he calls "security theatre".
He illustrated this by recounting a recent experience of trying to buy a cup of coffee using his credit card at a Las Vegas branch of Starbucks, and being asked to present some form of picture ID. In the end he produced an expired security pass which the person serving him accepted in spite of having no real way of knowing whether it was, in fact, genuine.
"There's no actual security taking place here, but as long as I know my lines and she knows her lines, then everyone is happy. That's where we are with transactions in general right now. But if I had had my Starbucks app, I could have paid for my coffee using that without any trouble."
The idea is that in an age dominated by mobile phones and apps, we don't need one universal sort of currency that works everywhere. We can instead more easily and securely use "Starbucks Money" or any other kind of situation-specific money, with the same sort of convenience, as technology mediates your transactions for you in increasingly efficient ways.
In this brave new world, crowdsourced resources and systems based on your reputation – such as a LinkedIn profile – are much more appropriate forms of verifying identity than top-down imposed mechanisms:
"I wager money that it's harder for any of you to forge a LinkedIn profile than it would be to forge a Western Australian Driving License that would get past someone"
disclaimer: Neither David Birch nor Mendeley is advising or in any way encouraging people to try either of these options at home.
Bitcoin does not, therefore, represent the actual future of transactions and money, but this cusp we've arrived at where it is not only possible, but safer and more convenient to create lots of different types of money that work within different communities. In this scenario, Bitcoin is the piece of technology that will enable this and allow that to happen. The Flux Capacitor of money if you will.
You can watch all the talks and Q&As on the Mendeley YouTube Channel Playlist, and to keep in the loop about the next Talks@Mendeley be sure to follow us on Twitter
Crowdfunding to develop healthcare matching technology
July 21, 2014 Alice Bonasio1 Comment
A technology platform is helping to match paraplegic patients and those with neurological disabilities with the best healthcare providers available. They now want to use crowdfunding to develop this service even further, and their Indiegogo campaign has already reached over half of their initial $60,000 goal. Here's their story, which began over 10 years ago…
By Jessica Harthcock, Founder and CEO of Utilize Health
I was 17 when I was paralyzed practicing gymnastics with the goal of bettering my skills for the springboard diving team. From the beginning, my prognosis was very grim; doctors said I would never regain function. This was certainly not what I thought my life would look like at age 17. My family and I wanted options – we wanted a treatment or therapy we could TRY. So for the next several years, my family and I traveled in search of highly specialized rehabilitation treatments. We went everywhere – Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt, facilities in Chicago, Miami and Louisville. I tried anything and everything I could get my hands (or legs) on. I tried Lokomat therapy, e-stem, underwater treadmill training, vestibular therapy, hippo therapy (and the list goes on). After several years of hard work, I learned to walk again. Today, I still don't have sensation below T3, but I walk by sight (and with the help of my service dog, Ozzie). It's been a journey, one that's never really over.
This experience has taught me a lot about myself, but also about the gaps in the healthcare system. It was extremely difficult to learn about all of the existing and new treatments. Googling only gets one so far. Once I found a treatment or therapy I wanted to try, no one could tell me where to go to get it. Locating a facility with a particular therapy sometimes took months. After experiencing difficulties in finding resources and therapies, I knew there had to be an easier way, so I vowed to create a tool that could help other patients find the resources they needed without wasting time, energy and financial resources. Thus, Utilize Health was born.
Utilize Health is a platform that matches patients with neurological disabilities to the therapies and facilities they need to maximize their potential for recovery. Think OpenTable or Hotels.com, but for patients and facilities/therapies.
My husband and I started the company in May 2013. We were accepted into a top-ranked business accelerator program called Jumpstart Foundry. Through the program, we developed the idea into a sustainable business.
In December of 2013, Utilize Health was very fortunate to unexpectedly receive national press from USA Today. Patients, families, facilities and equipment manufacturers all started reaching out to see if they could use our service. But there was a BIG problem… the website didn't exist yet. We were in the process of raising funds to build the web application.
I lost sleep… a lot of sleep. What do we do? People need this and they need it NOW. Patients don't want to wait. Every email, phone call, and social media request seemed more urgent than the next.
The Utilize Health team rallied. We created a plan. We started to manually match patients to therapies and facilities across the country. Manual matching is completed by essentially looking at spreadsheets and other paper databases. Manual matching is time consuming. It takes anywhere from 7-10 days, sometimes longer.
In April, the Utilize Health team had successfully matched more than 100 patients to therapies and facilities across the country. Patients and their loved ones were thrilled with the resources Utilize Health was able to provide them.
Unfortunately, there are still patients and their families on the waitlist waiting to be matched. More patients sign up daily. With a wait list a mile long, we need to automate the matching process. This is when we decided to ask the public for help through crowdfunding.
Crowdfunding has given us an opportunity to gain support within the community. In less than 48 hours, we raised more than $20,000. We were completely blown away by people's generosity.
https://www.indiegogo.com/project/utilize-health-matching-patients-to-the-care-they-need/embedded
All the funds pledged will do directly towards the development and creation of the web application to automate the matching process. Perks and prizes are offered such as Utilize Health swag and patient advocate subscriptions. Our campaign is live until August 22nd. Click on the link below to check out the campaign.
We are so thankful to everyone who has contributed thus far. We truly hope to make an impact for those individuals who have neurological conditions. As we say at Utilize Health, No One Walks Alone.
If you're interested in the subject, why not join the Mendeley Crowdfunding group, or let us know in the comments below if you have any experiences to share with the community!
Talks@Mendeley – Is Identity the New Money?
Our next Talks@Mendeley is this is fast approaching, on Friday the 18th July at 6:00pm.
The speaker this time around is David Birch, whose TED talk "A New Way to Stop Identity Theft" had been watched over 100,000 times. He expands on some of the talk's themes in his latest book "Identity is the New Money". David is an identity and transactions consultant and Director of Consult Hyperion and chairman of the annual Digital Money Forum and Digital Identity Forum in London. His Mendeley talk will also explore the ways in which technology and the proliferation of digital currencies is changing how we think about our identities, and about transactions in general. Are we marching towards a future where cash will become redundant?
The talk will be streamed live and the videos will also be added to Talks@Mendeley playlist on our YouTube channel, where you can also watch the videos from the last talk, "Nobody Knows a Damn Thing" by Luke Dormehl.
Do send in your questions via Twitter, Facebook or in the comments below!
Mendeley moves into the cloud: It's nice up here!
Photo by Tom Atkinson @R3Digital
Last week we took what might seem like a small step, but was in fact a very giant leap by moving mendeley.com into the cloud. Now you might be thinking "Mendeley is already cloud-based, what are you talking about?" It's true that our users can access their papers, annotations and all other data on any device, so we're very much a cloud platform. In the past, however, Mendeley's own servers were not cloud-based, which meant that the process of maintaining, updating and developing the product was sometimes not as optimal as it could be.
It's a problem that many start-ups face, specially as they scale up, since it's expensive and time-consuming to overhaul your systems without causing significant disruption to your users*. That, however, is one of the advantages of having the support and resources from Elsevier, who are investing on the Mendeley structure to make sure that we're sustainable, scalable, and able to integrate with and develop tools and functionalities to meet researcher's needs.
Having our data in the cloud means more reliability, speed and the ability to really make the whole development process more agile. That certainly means a happier Mendeley team, and we know it will help bring a better, faster-improving product for our community.
There was a real space-launch atmosphere as various Mendeley teams came together to work out the complex logistics of moving over 100 Terabytes of user data safely into the cloud, but it all went smoothly, thanks to the brave efforts of Robin Stephenson, James Rasell, Chris Barr, Callum Anderson, Kubilay Kara, James Gibbons and Merrick Barton (Jan was just basking in the atmosphere while feeling smug following the Germany-Brasil game).
We hope you like the improvements that this change will bring, we're certainly excited about the future up here in the cloud!
* We did have a small amount of down time on Wednesday as the move happened, and apologies go to anybody who was inconvenienced.
Mendeley Supports Entrepreneurship Studies Network
July 8, 2014 Alice Bonasio
Mendeley Advisor Dr Richard Tunstall is a Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of Leeds. He recently used Mendeley's community features to support an innovative multi-disciplinary workshop, and here's how he got on:
I organised a two-day residential workshop focussing on social and cultural aspects of entrepreneurship; a relatively novel focus for social science research, which is building momentum as a multi-disciplinary community.
This event brought together a unique mix of researchers, who wouldn't normally meet together at established academic conferences. 80 attendees took part and the event led to the creation of a new Entrepreneurship Studies Network, which was supported by Mendeley's community before the workshop even began.
I set up a new group on Mendeley where we provided advance key readings from journals which all participants were asked to read before they attended, in order to set the agenda. As keynote speakers agreed to take part, we invited them to add in a short-list of their own recommended reading on the subject. Finally, we opened the group up to contributions from everyone after the event, inviting them to continue posting papers they've written and recommended on the subject.
Using Mendeley has supported us in forming a new international community of researchers ranging from renowned professors to early-stage PhD students. People joined us from all over the world, including the USA, UK, Europe, Australia and Canada, and some have also gone on to create their own private collaboration groups to work on new projects together. The discussion area also provides an opportunity to share ideas and promote opportunities to meet at new conferences. The group remains open to everyone, so if you're interested, why not join us?


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Donnelly Neary & Donnelly Solicitors (Construction Solicitor Newry) The firm through its offices in Newry, Dublin and Castlewellan provides practical and commercial advice in this expanding market. The continued focus we have placed on this area of work allows the firm to adopt a practical and commercial approach, working closely with clients to understand their commercial objectives and to provide practical and commercial advice.We're proud of the quality of the work we undertake, the expertise of our people and the relationships we develop with our clients.
The practice is broad based with clients including government bodies, public authorities, public companies, private companies, partnerships and individuals. The firm also acts for developers, main contractors, specialist contractors, suppliers, consultants, insurers and financial institutions.
advising parties on property and surplus land issues.


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The aim is to discover and to explore the total structure of the polytope, which has been generated as the convex hull of m given points. A computationally fast method for achieving that goal is of eminent importance, in particular in the control of movements or in optimization problems, which have to be treated online.
For solving that problem we have the choice between several algorithms and algorithmic philosophies. Of special importance are incremental and sequential algorithms. We try to carry out a comparison of the quality of these algorithms. In particular, we are interested in an average case analysis of their behavior and a judgment on that basis.
Part of this project is also multiobjective programming, i. e. the exploration of all points of the polytope or polyhedron, which cannot be replaced by other points that are strictly better in all objectives under consideration.


Is there any difference between the accuracy of a sliding v-block rail and a bearing block (Thompson Bearing on shafts) design? Is it just the cost of parts? We are using a rail gun built with Thompson Bearings for ammo testing at work and want to know if that is the best solution.
If you have .0001 of clearance in that bearing what does that equate to at 100 or 200yd? Id say its the best for ammo testing but not for railgun competition.
That was probably a rhetorical question, but it raised my curiosity. A couple minutes with a CAD program provides the answer.
With that .0001" of clearance, 18" from a fixed point, you get .020" at 100 yards.
Thank you jerry. I knew it was bad enough to not ever see em on the line.
All of that monstrous .0001" clearance can be eliminated with a touch of side-load if you feel it necessary. The weight of the gun platform would keep itself centered on the crown of the bearing guide and the clearance would never come into play.
The majority of the railgun pics that I've seen seem to have an error built right into them by using a pivoting adjustment for windage on a 3 "rail" platform. What I see is the two guides being adjusted laterally with no compensation for the platform traveling in an arc. The result is that the distance between the grooves increases which would cause the guides to then not seat properly. A mere .001" error here would result in an approximate .200" at 100 yards down range and this would vary from shot to shot as the guide/groove "choice" would be random.
I don't shoot bench, have never touched a rail gun and will never build one. I'm just commenting on what I've seen and on the use of Thomson bearings.
From what I've seen the front point is the elevation adjustment and does not move laterally. The rear two points are adjusted laterally for windage. That means the assembly pivots on the front point. Right?
Just my opinion but I think he is saying that the lateral move of two of the three points will change the geometry of the triangle created by the three points of the rail. When the geometry is changed, the location of one or more points will change also, but the change is so minute it goes un-noticed. Hope I got that right. I pondered this for a while and concluded it makes no difference.
Sorry for the pic but I think this is what William is trying to convey.
You understand my observation to a tee but when you consider this thread was "settled" with a .0001" variance beiing too large I can't see how this error would make no difference. I'm sure the shot-to-shot accuracy relies heavily on the two rear points to rest and track in their grooves yet the mere adjustment of, say, .001" windage would increase the groove separation distance by that same amount. Down range that may cause up to .200" MOA just from "wander" from the guide points trying to seat.
I kind of figured that the flat side was to compensate. Thank you Dusty. I learn a little more every day.
That's something that doesn't show in the photos. Thanks for the clarification and correction.


Pieces that regularly feature on the ABRSM Viola syllabus.
Invaluable source of recital repertoire.
Contrasting styles, from Schubert to Stravinsky and from Wagner to Weill.
Arrangements that practise the note ranges and keys of the grades.