Although fashion design is not my element, it is one of my wife's great passions. Yet a recent visit to the Museum at FIT – the Fashion Institute of Technology – in New York City's historic Chelsea neighborhood unexpectedly connected with my interest in history.
The Fashion Institute of Technology is America's premiere college for the business and art of fashion design. Its museum's current exhibit, Uniformity, is an entertaining exploration that will change the way you perceive the entire notion of uniforms. The 200 year retrospective from military to sports uniforms goes beyond the obvious, detailing their influence on everyday fashion from beach to formal wear.
In John Galliano's camouflage evening gown for Dior in 2001 (above, left) the influence is obvious. Yet I never gave it much thought that this trend is at least two centuries old. What was more surprising to me is that uniforms, clothing meant to make the wearer impersonal, for so long influenced fashion designed to be individualistic.
Designer Chitose Abe in her 2015 collection for her Sacai label combines British and French naval elements in her cotton and silk ensemble.
Yet by the 1940s military uniforms themselves combined functionality and fashion.
WW II W.A.C. uniform designed by a committee.
The World War II uniform designed for the Navy's new W.A.V.E.S. division was hailed as a fashion success – functional yet feminine. It was also the first military uniform designed by a major American couturier, the House of Mainbocher founded by Main Rousseau Bocher in 1929. But the Army's new W.A.C. division uniform was the work of a committee. It was not only dubbed "olive drab," but blamed for poor W.A.C. recruitment numbers compared to the Navy's W.A.V.E.S. Even in war fashion made a statement!
Perhaps no genre of uniforms has had a greater fashion influence than sports. From the baseball cap to brand logos, America's national sport has convinced well dressed people that being a walking advertisement for your favorite team and brands is desirable to one's identity.
Of course football followed suit. According to FIT, Geoffrey Beene "shocked the fashion elite" in 1967 with his sequined even gown that's simply an elongated 1930s football jersey.
FIT's fine Uniformity exhibit doesn't ignore the influence on fashion of maid, butler, waiter and waitress clothing. In 2015 Karl Lagerfeld designed this evening dress for the House of Chanel using the typical uniform of waiters in Parisian brasseries.
Karl Lagerfeld, 2015, French brasserie evening gown.
The museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State University of New York, is open Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. What was even more surprising was the knowledge and enthusiasm of the staff, especially the guards. They were eager to engage in conversation and added to the pleasure of the exhibit.
"Sleepwalker" (Tony Matalli 2014) is one of numerous art installations on the innovative New York High Line park. My love affair with the High Line goes back to its opening in 2009.
Now at its full one and a half mile length, the multi dimensional brainchild of designer Diane Von Furstenberg has set a new standard for urban reuse. Anchored by the famed Whitney Museum on the north end and the vibrant Chelsea Market to the south, the thin strip of re-purposed elevated train trestle that is the High Line teems with gardens, art and people relaxing.
Although its success has drawn condo and commercial developers, at least many of the new buildings show hints of imagination. As a destination in its own right, the High Line deserves its success.
What am I saying? I had a pleasant, imaginative, moderately priced lunch in a major urban museum's cafe? An oxymoran….0r lack of oxygen….?
Just off the multi-storey glass atrium of the striking American Wing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the airy, glass walled dining space occupied by the Petrie Court Cafe & Wine Bar. My experience in most museum cafes is to forgo the over priced, microwaved offerings in favor of a coffee, but the menu at Petrie is neither overpriced nor nuked.
Perhaps the Pennsylvania Dutch were Italian, because Petrie's pappardelle noodles (top left) are as rich as anything eaten in a Lancaster farmhouse. Tossed with a light buttery cream sauce, earthy sautéed wild mushrooms and spinach with a garnish of spinach puree, it was an inspired pasta dish ($17.95.) The Cream of Pumpkin soup (bottom left)was velvety and light – not the thick vegetable puree served in so many restaurants. A flavorful stock underpinned the soup, but the aroma of the roasted pumpkin seed oil garnish raised this common dish to a new level of flavor ($8.95). Salads should delight the eye and the taste buds. (bottom right) Spicy arugula and mixed greens tossed in a light citrus vinaigrette with slightly salty manchego cheese, pears, bright fresh pomegranate seeds and deep red pomegranate puree garnish accomplished the task nicely ($9.95). Fresh sourdough rolls accompanied the meal. Most wines were in the $8 – $9.00/glass range. Despite a busy lunch time, service was smooth and professional. Interestingly, there are few restaurants of any type within walking distance of the MET in its wealthy Upper East Side location, making the Petrie Cafe & Wine Bar a welcome, and much-needed, addition to the neighborhood.
Little Giant cafe, on the corner of Broome and Orchard Streets, certainly would not have existed in 1870's Lower East Side New York – or even 1970's. Not that eating establishments didn't exist back then. Taverns and street vendors have flourished from the city's founding nearly 400 years ago. In the picture above, left side, you can see the sign for famous Katzs Deli serving the (then immigrant) Jewish community since 1888. Now an institution, but still terrific, its 21st century clientele is an ever-increasing affluent population of "post-immigrant" residents. Just a block down from the Tenement Museum, Little Giant is a laid back cafe in a renovated, exposed brick store front in an early 20th century Lower East Side building. In earlier days maybe it was a cloth store? It's small space – seats 20/25 – is filled even at 3:00 pm on a weekday and keeps the small staff busy. The menu is brief but items are freshly made so be patient. The Angus Beef burger was fresh ground and grilled medium rare as requested ($9.95). A "little giant" portion of their own Mac and Cheese was excellent. Like Petrie's Pumpkin Soup, Little Giant's Baked Macaroni and Cheese eschewed thickeners and relied on a well seasoned, but medium, cheese sauce to bind the macaroni and garnished with a nice crust of browned bread crumbs for texture ($7.00/$14.00). A well seasoned "salad" of sautéed kale with oyster mushrooms was tasty and nutritious for anyone wondering about all that red meat ($9.95). The bar served a nice selection of micro beers on tap and bottle, wines by the glass and a great Bloody Mary with horseradish-infused vodka ($10.00). With its large store front windows, it was pleasant leisurely having lunch while watching the bustle which is always New York.
Finding imaginative Southwest American cuisine in New York is as difficult as in Albuquerque. Face it, real Southwest/Tex-Mex/Mexican-American is comfort food – like pasta with red sauce for Italians. To find chefs that create new dishes using old techniques is always nice and not common in the commercial world of the food industry.
New York can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. It's easy to find great food in this "world capital" at prices most people tolerate at their local shopping mall's food court!
Commerce has been the purpose of New York since its founding a mere 400 years ago. Because of its vast wealth, the world has settled within the city. In some cases pieces of the world have been purchased to reside in New York – from Egyptian temples to Chicago staircases. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tenement Museum bookcase the spectrum of forces that shape this world metropolis.
The MET was co-founded in 1870 by four men whose backgrounds were as varied as the city. John Taylor Johnston, from a prominent New York family, made a fortune in railroads, was an avid art collector and fulfilled a life-long dream in creating the MET. Eastman Johnston was an acclaimed artist from well-connected New England stock. George Palmer Putnam, founder of G. P. Putnam's Sons, was a leading publisher of art books. All three men were intellectually curious and well-traveled.
Yet I personally find it fascinating that an Italian military officer, immigrant, American Civil War hero and diplomat, General Luigi Palma di Cesnola, served as the Museum's first director (1879-1904). Not only had General di Cesnola a noted military career both in Europe and America, but as a "gentleman archeologist" – the only type in the 19th century – he had amassed a stunning collection of ancient Mediterranean art and artifacts. His collection became the genesis of the Met, and during his 25 year tenure the MET achieved international patronage and stature. Like all great art institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is meant to be absorbed in stages through many visits as its collection span the ages.
A shorter, but no less significant, spectrum of life is represented in the unique New York City Tenement Museum on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. Without the influx of hundreds of thousands of immigrants between 1870 and the 1930's, the American economic engine would have been severely hampered. Yet these seekers of a better life lived, worked and loved in small, dark rooms in row upon row of brick walk-ups built on narrow streets and created the 20th century.
Well-trained, professional tour guides immerse the visitor in the everyday life of actual tenants who lived in the buildings on Orchard Street that comprise the museum. You're in their cramped quarters. You see, or rather don't see, how these families from Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, could accomplish their piece-work in the dim light of a gray winter afternoon, no less work 18 hours a day. From the memories of family members, we understand that many of the dreams of these immigrants were realized by future generations.
Perhaps some in the current post-immigrant generation are now exercising in that health club off Orchard Street above the Duane Reade drug store and living in renovated $1,400/month 3 room "tenement" apartments now renting on the Lower East Side!
The ancestors certainly didn't have lunch at Giant (stay tuned).


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from loguru import logger

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from flexget.event import event
from flexget.utils.requests import RequestException

logger = logger.bind(name='kodi_library')

JSON_URI = '/jsonrpc'

class KodiLibrary:
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        'type': 'object',
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


At any given time, JM Homick and his team at Total Electric have a steady stream of jobs going on, ranging from schools to grocery stores to super stores. However what's unique about Electrical Alliance member, Total Electric, is that most of its jobs take place overnight.
Homick credits the company's success to his team. Total Electric, a union electrical contracting firm, provides an array of different services including routine repairs and maintenance, tenant remodeling, computer cabling, security and fire alarm installation. Employees in the field range from 50 to 100 electricians, 24 hours a day.
Doing the work at night draws many customers to Total Electric. It's not only more productive for the customers, who can keep their doors open during the day, but it increases productivity levels for the electricians, who can more easily complete work uninterrupted. A perfect example of this is Total Electric's ongoing work at a series of local Giant Food stores where all work occurs overnight. Total Electric has been installing cold beverage containers at multiple Giant Foods and other chains such as Food Lion, in the area.
In addition, we have Total Electric to thank for the new recliners popping up at AMC theaters in the D.C. metro area. They recently completed five AMC Theatre projects which required a detailed schedule over multiple weeks, and most impressively, the theaters remained open throughout the installation process.
Other projects dominating Total Electric's job list are school renovations.
"Schools that were built in the 50s and 60s are getting to the end of their life cycle," said Homick.
And lucky for Homick and his team, the school renovations are projects that they very much enjoy. They have the expertise to know how older buildings were constructed, and are able to be more proactive in the building process instead of just following designs.
Total Electric has worked on two KIPP schools in Washington, D.C., completed housing for SEED schools in Baltimore, MD, and renovated four DGS public schools. It is currently working on another KIPP high school to be completed this May.
Learn more about Electrical Alliance contractors by catching up on some project showcases.


It's easy enough to believe that drought, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes are signs of a coming catastrophe from global warming, but these are normal variations of any climate that we — and other forms of life — have survived. Earth has undergone many serious changes in climate, from the Ice Ages to periods of heavily increased plant growth from their high levels of CO2, yet the biosphere has survived. We're adaptable, stubborn, and persistent — and we what other life forms don't have: we can manipulate our environment. Show me an Inuit who can survive in his habitat without warm clothing… Humans will continue to infest Earth because we're smart.
…reigning supreme, is the "zombie argument": arguments which survive to be raised again, for eternity, no matter how many times they are shot down[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11462]. "Homeopathy worked for me", and the rest.
Zombie arguments survive, they get up and live again, immortal and resistant to all refutation, because they do not live or die by the normal standards of mortal arguments. There's a huge list of them at realclimate.org, with refutations. There are huge lists[http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php] of them everywhere[http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/anti-global-heating-claims-a-reasonably-thorough-debunking/]. It makes no difference.
1. Climate change will be worse for the poor.
Everything is worse for the poor. The issue is poverty and inequality, then, not climate. Small differences in climate that produce negative human effects do so because of a lack of wealth or otherwise a lack of civil infrastructure. The outcome of policies and international agreements to limit productive activity and development can therefore only increase inequality and decrease wealth, putting poorer people closer to their environment, for a marginal – if any – positive change in the weather. Environmentalism will be worse for the poor.
2. An organised and well-funded network of climate change deniers has distorted the public debate.
The environmental message has been faithfully and sympathetically reproduced by the UK's media. The BBC's output is predominantly green, and its news rarely covers the climate debate critically. The few hours of programming that have been broadcast on UK television networks that have given an airing to scepticism have become the object of anger. But you can probably count the number of such programs broadcast in the last decade on one finger. Meanwhile, there are many hours of programming each week, reflecting the orthodox, consensus position, within lifestyle, current affairs, science, and ethics programming.
Print media is more divided, with all papers occasionally featuring sceptical perspectives. In the case of UK newspapers, the Guardian, Independent have clearly climate-orthodox editorial agendas – climate change is anthropogenic and a looming catastrophe, and we must all reduce emissions now. The Times and Telegraph are more sceptical, but not (Christopher Booker aside) of the idea that the planet is warming and much of that is anthropogenic. The Daily Mail does take a more sceptical view of the basic science, to the fury of environmental activists. The Sun, Mirror and Express are widely assumed to push a sceptical line, but they clearly do not – see here, here, and here.
The three main political parties embraced the green agenda comprehensively, each promising to take it more seriously than the last. Yet the principles these parties have taken up have not once been tested democratically. No party has dared to step out of line on the climate issue.
The public debate has been entirely dominated by the orthodox position. If there has been an attempt to distort the public debate it has been entirely ineffectual. It does not get airtime. It has not bought politicians. It has failed to establish an organised, institutional response. The media is dominated by the environmental message, companies go out of their way to demonstrate their environmental ethical credentials, politicians rarely ever dare to challenge environmental issues. The image of the climate sceptic remains one who speaks for himself rather than one who speaks from within the academy, party, corporation, and against the majority of his peers. Yet the public have not been convinced. This can't be explained as the consequence of a new trust in mavericks, and the influence of a conspiracy to distort the debate.
As for the ubiquitous claim that the debate has been skewed by corporate funding – especially oil money – what tends to be forgotten are the much larger sums available to the likes of Greenpeace and WWF to push their own exaggerated alarmist line.
Or in the words of Susan Watts, science editor of the BBC's prestigious Newsnight, 'In fact scientists calculate that Obama has four years in which to save the world.' The argument for action to mitigate climate change has always depended on generating a sense of urgency to get itself heard above the background noise of apathy, disinterest and disengagement from contemporary politics. The comprehensive change in our political, economic, and industrial mode of existence that greens want to create will take some persuasion. Accordingly, those riding the climate change bandwagon have had to illustrate their narratives with claims about when climate change will reach its 'tipping point', when we can expect disaster to arrive, and at what point we will pass the deadline for creating the comprehensive legal and institutional response to climate change. As there is a perception that the public conceive of climate change as some far away distant prospect, this strategy is perhaps intended to bring the realities of climate change closer to our imaginations. Yet it depends on myth-making, and overstating the predictive abilities of climate science.
The 'scientific consensus' that late 20th century warming can be attributed to human activity is routinely confused with the putative consequences of climate change – particularly social effects – and the political arguments for climate change mitigation. But even if there exists a consensus about the temperature record and its cause, there remains less of a consensus about what the first, second, third, and Nth-order effects of climate change will be. There is, for instance, much less agreement about how global warming will turn into sea level rise, species extinction, and human effects. The consensus on attribution cannot reasonably extend to represent an agreement about what the effects of climate change are, and what is the best policy response is. The failure to delineate the principle cause and its effects, and the effect of its effects, is a mistake that leads to the unhelpful polarisation of the climate debate, opening up proponents of climate change mitigation policies to the criticism that they have hidden prejudice and bad faith behind 'science'.
It is frequently argued by scientist activists, politicians, and campaigners that the IPCC represents thousands of the worlds top climate scientists. This is a misconception of the IPCC, of its contributors, function, purpose, and process.
The IPCC does little science itself, and does not measure the opinions of the contributing authors. It is divided into three working groups, focusing respectively on the physical science basis (WGI), impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (WGII), and mitigation of climate change (WGIII), each reviewing the existing literature in their fields. Each of these working groups is further divided into chapters, and again into sections. A contributing author to chapter 3 of WGI may never enter a working relationship with a contributing author to chapter 4. They may have very little to say about each other's work, and are not asked to agree or disagree with it.
WGII and WGIII cannot be characterised as populated entirely by scientists, as the zombie argument claims. Instead, these working groups consist of social scientists, economists, and other non-climate and social-scientific disciplines. Moreover, as their task is to understand the impact of climate change on human society, we have argued that this process requires political and subjective precepts which assume a relationship between society and the climate/environment. These precepts and assumptions are not necessarily well-grounded in science, and take as their premises the conclusion to their own study: environmental determinism, and the inevitability of catastrophe. Worst still, these prejudices are the tenets of political environmentalism. That is to say that the IPCC's work is 'institutionally environmentalist', and has been established to fulfill a political need: not simply to provide the political process with evidence with which to make decisions, but to give moral authority to governments embracing the same environmental agenda.
The implication of the argument that 'the science' attributing global warming to human activity is settled is that this creates imperatives to cease such activity, and to reorganise life around the principles of environmental sustainability. Frequently, politicians making arguments for mitigation express their adherence to 'the science', and that 'the science is clear'. Creeping lines on charts representing the loss of Arctic sea ice return each summer, and are held each summer to speak for themselves as 'canaries in the coal mine' signaling our imminent demise.
But the environmental argument in fact posits a political claim prior to science. It holds that human society can only exist within unchanging environmental circumstances, and that the normal process of politics must therefore be suspended in order to balance the concentrations of gases in the atmosphere. 'The science' merely serves to confirm that the world is changing, rather than to substantiate the basis of environmental determinism. As we argue often here on CR, 'the politics is prior to the science' in the climate debate, and the emphasis both 'sides' in the debate place on science impedes any progress on understanding the political claims either side are making. As we also often say, in order to understand what 'science says', it is necessary to understand what it has been asked.
As Goldacre observes, the same arguments return to the climate debate. But his perspective is too narrow, and he neglects to scan his critical eye over the substance of the claims made by the camp he seemingly attaches himself to. In the process, he has summoned up an inconvenient metaphor.
Environmentalism is zombie politics. It is oblivious to human ambitions, desires and development, other than it seeks to devour them as it turns humans into copies of itself: lifeless, purposeless, walking corpses that would be better off dead. Human life is reduced to meeting necessity and politics becomes the process of managing subsistence rather than contesting ideas about possible futures. It turns humans against humanity.
On the BBC's Horizon tonight, Sir David Attenborough, patron of the Optimum Population Trust, tackles the question How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?
Except he doesn't. He comes up with an answer alright – 15 billion if we all live like the average Indian, 2.5 billion if we all live like we do in the UK, and 1.5 billion if we all live like fat, horrible Americans. It's all derived entirely from standard ecological footprint stuff.
Malthus's principle remains true. The productive capacity of the Earth has physical limits. And those limits will ultimately determine how many human beings it can support.
But the picture may be even worse than this. These figures are based on rates of consumption that many think are already unsustainable.
In Friday's Independent, Johann Hari has achieved a quite remarkable feat.
Are you prepared to take a 50-50 gamble on the habitability of the planet?
In just 1400 words he manages to cram in just about every fallacy from the environmentalist's handbook: he appeals to the dodgiest of authorities, sells politics, catastrophism and factoids as scientific truth, misrepresents his opponents' arguments, cherrypicks data, explains human behaviour in biologically deterministic terms and politics in environmentally deterministic ones, and resorts to the green equivalent of Pascal's wager while accusing 'deniers' of religious zeal.
Every day, I pine for the global warming deniers to be proved right. I loved the old world – of flying to beaches wherever we want, growing to the skies, and burning whatever source of energy came our way. I hate the world to come that I've seen in my reporting from continent after continent – of falling Arctic ice shelves, of countries being swallowed by the sea, of vicious wars for the water and land that remains. When I read the works of global warming deniers like Nigel Lawson or Ian Plimer, I feel a sense of calm washing over me. The nightmare is gone; nothing has to change; the world can stay as it was.
We should believe Hari and Brigstocke, their argument goes, because they have access to information that we do not. It's the very stuff of dodgy dossiers. (Talking of which, Hari initially supported the invasion of Iraq, so we look forward to another article at some point where he confesses how 'terribly wrong' he has been on climate change, too.) What's more, merely witnessing melting polar ice for yourself is merely evidence that polar ice melts when it's warming enough. There is a gaping crevasse between what Hari and Brigstocke have seen and what they think it is evidence for – which is that catastrophe beckons. Hari and Brigstocke's personal investments in the plight of the Arctic means we should be less, not more willing to believe them.
But then I go back to the facts. However much I want them to be different, they sit there, hard and immovable. Nobody disputes that greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, like a blanket holding in the Sun's rays. Nobody disputes that we are increasing the amount of those greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And nobody disputes that the world has become considerably hotter over the past century. (If you disagree with any of these statements, you'd fail a geography GCSE).
Yet half our fellow citizens are choosing to believe the deniers who say there must be gaps between these statements big enough to fit an excuse for carrying on as we are. Shrieking at them is not going to succeed.
Our first response has to be to accept that this denial is an entirely natural phenomenon. The facts of global warming are inherently weird, and they run contrary to our evolved instincts. If you burn an odourless, colourless gas in Europe, it will cause the Arctic to melt and Bangladesh to drown and the American Mid-West to dry up? By living our normal lives, doing all the things we have been brought up doing, we can make great swathes of the planet uninhabitable? If your first response is incredulity, then you're a normal human being.
Meanwhile, normal human beings are apparently impervious to the onslaught of PR from green pressure groups. As we've shown elsewhere, the funds available to the likes of Greenpeace and WWF are orders of magnitude greater than that spent by the 'well-funded denial machine'.
…Every single year since 1917 has been hotter than 1917. Every single year since 1956 has been hotter than 1956. Every single year since 1992 has been hotter than 1992. And on, and on. If we dramatically increase the carbon dioxide even more – as we are – we will dramatically increase the warming. Many parts of the world will dry up or flood or burn.
According to the Met Office's annual global data series 1850-1998, 1917 and 1992 were exceptionally cold years: there were only 5 years cooler than 1917 in the preceding 66 years; after 1992, the next coldest year was 1878. And we can all play Hari's game: every year since 1998 has been cooler than 1998, for example.
Moreover, all Hari has achieved here is to restate his initial uncontested premise that the world has been warming over the last century. Just saying it a bit louder this time doesn't make it any more important or dangerous, or informative as to how to respond. Which is why he has also had to escalate the alarmism.
This is such an uncomfortable claim that I too I have tried to grasp at any straw that suggests it is wrong. One of the most tempting has come in the past few weeks, when the emails of the Hadley Centre at the University of East Anglia were hacked into, and seem on an initial reading to show that a few of their scientists were misrepresenting their research to suggest the problem is slightly worse than it is. Some people have seized on it as a fatal blow – a Pentagon Papers for global warming.
By now, Hari has drifted far from his reference point of the physics of the greenhouse and is bobbing around helplessly in a sea of catastrophism. The gap can be bridged only by a blatant untruth. Having started the paragraph with the statement that what followed were the true facts, he just makes it up. 'Hundreds of thousands of scientists'? And there we were thinking that the '2500 scientists of the IPCC' claim was overstating things. All the scientists, in all the world, across all the scientific sub-disciplines, probably only amount to hundreds of thousands. And it gets worse with almost every additional word: 'Hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently' reached the same conclusion? Is that even humanly possible? Does he think that each scientist has their own personal ivory tower or something? 'Hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently reached the conclusion that it will have terrible consequences'?
…It would be very surprising if, somewhere among them, there wasn't a charlatan or two who over-hyped their work. Such people exist in every single field of science (and they are deplorable).
So let's knock out the Hadley Centre's evidence. Here are just a fraction of the major scientific organisations that have independently verified the evidence that man-made global warming is real, and dangerous: Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, L'Academie des Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, the UK's Royal Society, the Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Environmental Protection Agency… I could fill this entire article with these names.
Well, at least he's not citing citing himself this time. But he is wrong to say that these institutions have independently verified the evidence. Research bodies such as NASA and NOAA do, like Hadley, collect and analyse data, and test hypotheses, but Hari is lumping these together with scientific academies and professional bodies that represent their membership politically, which have simply issued position statements to the effect that the world has been warming, that anthropogenic greenhouse gases probably have much to with it, and that this presents problems. To 'knock out the Hadley Centre's evidence' is to write off, among many other lines of research, its global surface temperature record (HADCRUT), which, along with NASA's GISTEMP, is perhaps the most scientifically important and politically influential climate datsets in existence.
A further sign of Hari's ignorance on the matter is that it was the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Centre (CRU) that was hacked, not Hadley. And Hadley is part of the UK Met Office, not, as Hari says, UEA. But Hadley produces HADCRUT in conjunction with CRU, so by Hari's reckoning Hadley and CRU should both be 'knocked out'. Which leaves him with a single temperature record, and a bunch of position statements from organisations that exist to represent their members' interests. Last year, we took a look at the gestation of the statement issued by one of those professional bodies – the American Geophysical Union – and argued that these statements should be seen as political attempts to put science centre-stage of climate debates rather than objective appraisals of the state of knowledge.
And they haven't only used one method to study the evidence. They've used satellite data, sea level measurements, borehole analysis, sea ice melt, permafrost melt, glacial melt, drought analysis, and on and on. All of this evidence from all of these scientists using all these methods has pointed in one direction. As the conservative journalist Hugo Rifkind put it, the Hadley Centre no more discredits climate science than Harold Shipman discredits GPs.
Climategate may not discredit climate science, but neither does climate science uphold Hari's apocalyptic vision.
A study for the journal Science randomly sampled 928 published peer-reviewed scientific papers that used the words "climate change". It found that 100 per cent – every single one – agreed it is being fuelled by human activity. There is no debate among climate scientists. There are a few scientists who don't conduct research into the climate who disagree, but going to them to find out how global warming works is a bit like going to a chiropodist and asking her to look at your ears.
For Hari, the fact of climate change is equivalent to the moral imperative he thinks it produces. To say that 'climate change is real', is to say 'what is to be done'. As with so many other activists, there is no argument about how to interpret climate change statistics to work out a sensible response. So any degree of scepticism, or any argument about how to respond to degrees of climate change with degrees of responses naturally returns Hari to the core, binary, fact: 'climate change is real'.
Part of the confusion in the public mind seems to stem from the failure to understand that two things are happening at once. There has always been – and always will be – natural variation in the climate. The ebb from hot to cold is part of Planet Earth. But on top of that, we are adding a large human blast of warming – and it is disrupting the natural rhythm. So when, in opinion polls, people say warming is "natural", they are right, but it's only one part of the story.
What worries Hari is that the 'public mind' has coped with the nuances of the debate. The idea that the extent of climate change and its effects might have been exaggerated is dangerous.
Once you have grasped this, it's easy to see through the claim that global warming stopped in 1998 and the world has been cooling ever since. In 1998, two things came together: the natural warming process of El Nino was at its peak, and our human emissions of warming gases were also rising – so we got the hottest year ever recorded. Then El Nino abated, but the carbon emissions kept up. That's why the world has remained far warmer than before – eight of the 10 hottest years on record have happened in the past decade – without quite reaching the same peak. Again: if we carry on pumping out warming gases, we will carry on getting warmer.
That's why I won't use the word "sceptic" to describe the people who deny the link between releasing warming gases and the planet getting warmer. I am a sceptic. I have looked at the evidence highly critically, desperate for flaws. The overwhelming majority of scientists are sceptics: the whole nature of scientific endeavour is to check and check and check again for a flaw in your theory or your evidence. Any properly sceptical analysis leads to the conclusion that man-made global warming is real. Denial is something different: it is when no evidence, no matter how overwhelming, could convince you. It is a faith-based position.
We have no idea where he plucked these figures from. Hari was born in 1979, which, as luck would have it, is when the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) satellite records begin. According to those records, Arctic summer ice has declined by about 30% since then. We wouldn't want to be too hard on him for what might well have been an honest slip of the tongue. His prophecy (note the certainty of his statement) about an ice free Arctic summer, is far more malignant. The IPCC's AR4 estimates it will take 50 to 100 years for that to happen. But there was a record melt after AR4 was written, so NSIDC has come up with a ball-park date of 2030 based on extrapolation from recent melting trends. Other estimates range over many decades and well into the next century. We assume Hari must be referring to Jay Zwally's study, which is mentioned here. If so, he is missing a trick; if he wants a single scientist's estimate to speak for science, he could have quoted David Barber of the University of Manitoba who predicted an ice free Arctic summer by last year.
At issue is not really 'what science says' about the world's temperature, nor even speculation about the date at which we can expect the Arctic to be free of ice in summer. The majority of climate scientists could easily take issue with Hari's silly claim, but it wouldn't be a very interesting read. What is at issue is the way in which Hari carries on not only making up stats such as this, but wielding them as some kind of talisman, which gives him moral authority. His wild speculation about the future of Arctic ice speaks more about the way in which 'the science' exists as a means by which Hari can express his shrill internal dialog. He makes stuff up to give himself a voice, and defends it by claiming to be the vessel through which science speaks. He, like the vast majority of scientists, is the sceptic, he announces. Pity that he's not such a sceptic that he ever checks his own argument. As we've said previously, this inability to self-reflect is the symptom of the angry, shrill, non-scientist, moralising, and disoriented journalist-activists such as Monbiot, Lynas, and now Hari. What they write is science fiction. They incautiously assemble scientific factoids, removed from their scientific context, to construct terrifying narratives about the future. This elevates them to the status of planet-saving super-journos, and from this platform their bizarre stories become the device through which they interpret the world. But they are merely peering into their own arseholes, not, as they claim, through the prism of scientific objectivity. What they see is chaos and catastrophe, but what they do not recognise in what they see is that it is entirely their own confusion staring back at them.
So let's – for the sake of argument – make an extraordinary and unjustified concession to the deniers. Let's imagine there was only a 50 per cent chance that virtually all the world's climate scientists are wrong. Would that be a risk worth taking? Are you prepared to take a 50-50 gamble on the habitability of the planet? Is the prospect of getting our energy from the wind and the waves and the sun so terrible that's not worth it on even these wildly optimistic odds?
We'll leave aside Hari's claim that 'virtually all the world's climate scientists' agree that climate change is set to render the planet uninhabitable, other than to say that he seems to be confusing 'virtually all the world's climate scientists' with the singular James Lovelock.
Imagine you are about to get on a plane with your family. A huge group of qualified airline mechanics approach you on the tarmac and explain they've studied the engine for many years and they're sure it will crash if you get on board. They show you their previous predictions of plane crashes, which have overwhelmingly been proven right. Then a group of vets, journalists, and plumbers tell they have looked at the diagrams and it's perfectly obvious to them the plane is safe and that airplane mechanics – all of them, everywhere – are scamming you. Would you get on the plane? That is our choice at Copenhagen.
So Freeman Dyson makes lists. While I'm certain he's a smart guy, I would not take a sick child to him, and I won't take a sick planet to him either. In both cases, he simply does not have the relevant specialist knowledge. That also applies the large number of social scientists, computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem. The bottom line is that the opinions of most of the skeptics on the list are simply not credible.
Unfortunately for Dessler, we tested his claim that the IPCC were the specialist doctors in his analogy by counting the specialisms of the latest IPCC report's contributors. It turns out that many of them were precisely the 'social scientists, computer programmers, engineers, etc., without any specialist knowledge on this problem' that he had complained about. (You can read about WGI here, WGII here and WGIII here). Our detractors argued that we had been disingenuous, and that only IPCC WGI counts, the other two groups – which comprised a much larger proportion of 'non-expert' opinions – being less concerned with the 'Physical Science Basis', and focusing instead on 'Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability', and the 'Mitigation of Climate Change'. This misses the point that the arguments about what kind of problem climate change is and what to do about it emerge almost exclusively from WGII and WGIII, not from WGI, yet the putative scientific authority of the IPCC emerges exclusively from WGI.
What Hari, like Dessler, forgets is the difference between the sensitivity of climate to CO2, and the sensitivity of society to climate. Or to put it more broadly, there is a difference between the natural world's sensitivity to CO2, and human society's sensitivity to changes in the natural world. Hari and his ilk like to stress the equivalence between the environment's and society's sensitivity. They seem to feel that once the scientific case has been made, the political and moral argument has been had and won. This environmental determinism, we have argued, reflects the hollowness of their own outlooks, hence the interminable screeching, hectoring and ranty tone of commentators like Hari, and our favourite, George 'air travel is like child abuse' Monbiot.
We can all tell stories. You're about to get on a plane with your family. A group of shrill and sanctimonious journalists from the Guardian and Independent newspapers tell you that, if you take the journey, poor people all over the world will die wretched, horrible deaths. They show you statistics showing how many people have died already, and how many more will die in the future. 'You will be culpable for their deaths', they say. 'Do you want their blood on your hands?' they ask. Then another group of non-experts arrive. They say that there are many ways to understand the poverty that kills people, and that not taking the journey won't make such lives any better. The journalists return, they say that the other group are funded by huge corporate interests, and cannot be trusted because they are either mad or bad. They tell you that they have science on their side, that climate change is real and is happening, and that they have witnessed its ravages for themselves. Who are you going to trust,' they demand, 'us, or the other group?' Shouldn't you take the cautious route, just in case? After all, they might be right. You step down from the plane. But as you walk across the tarmac, you notice that the journalists are now getting on the plane. Some of them are going to Copenhagen. One is heading across the Atlantic to lecture Canadians about their climate responsibilities. Another is off to the Arctic, to see some climate change.


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Faiza Lamari, mother of Mbappé, the other star of the 2022 World Cup
During the 2022 World Cup, held in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December, the mothers of players such as Kylian Mbappé and Achraf Hakimi shone in the stands and on social media.
We've seen the Moroccan right-back run into his mother's arms after every Moroccan match, but it was Faiza Lamara, Kylian Mbappé's mother, who stole the show.
| Read also: World Cup 2022, final: Argentina rejoices, France cries
France striker Kylian Mbappé glossed over the 2022 World Cup by scoring eight goals during the competition, including three in the final against Argentina on Sunday 18 December in Doha.
Despite failing to lift the World Cup for the second time in his career after winning it in Russia in 2018, Mbappé left his mark in the 2022 edition held in Qatar.
At just 23, the Paris Saint-Germain star has established himself as one of the best players in the world. Behind this new phenomenon of world football, there is his mother who is of Algerian origin.
Faiza Lamari, Mbappé's mother and image consultant
If Kylian Mbappe made a splash on the pitch, outside the green rectangle, his mother Faiza Lamari stole the show on the internet.
والدة اللاعب النجم مبابي هي من الجزائر تسمى فايزة العماري pic.twitter.com/vP5gDadAoW
— ابن الهيثم (@bnlhytm6) December 18, 2022
بعروبتى حها #مونديال_قطر_2022 #الارجنتين_فرنسا #نهائي_كأس_العالم pic.twitter.com/NUW0P9JPLv
— عصمت سليم (@rk3yavzVyXnBb40) December 18, 2022
امبابى ابن فايزة العمارى الجزائرية …هى الام ومديرة اعماله pic.twitter.com/tVURn8AWiG
On Twitter, the name of Kylian Mbappé's mother is one of the trends, especially in Algeria. Her account on this social network is followed by 32,000 users. Kylian Mbappé is affectionately nicknamed "Oulid Faiza (son of Faiza)" by Algerian internet users.
علاش ماكرون يصفق على وليد فايزة😂🇩🇿
ياك هكذا ملاح برك كي سجلوا, شوية برك يدرورو عليك كيما قلبوها على بمزي
Local culture was created by جديد
— 🇩🇿Lydia🌸 (@ladylydia213) December 18, 2022
هيا وليد فايزة زيدلهم الثالث pic.twitter.com/XvfFJQ7HQw
— Aya 🌻 (@dramaqqqq) December 14, 2022
ونا كنت رح شجعهم لان فرنسا عنصريين هيا هكدا نسيبورتي وليد فايزة خي3XAO
— ّ (@melisseofficiel) December 16, 2022
Faiza Lamari is of Algerian origin. In the entourage of the star of France, she is more than her mother. Faiza Lamari occupies an important place in the management of Kylian Mbappé.
To protect her son, Faiza Lamari does not hesitate to come forward publicly. He has already done so in May 2022 when the soap opera of his son's transfer to Real Madrid was in full swing. Kylian Mbappé has finally stayed at Paris Saint-Germain.
A former handball player, Faiza Lamari evolved in the French division within club AS Bondy in the 90s. She later switched to communication and image consultancy.
Faiza Lamari actively participates in the management of Kylian Mbappé's career, especially in terms of image and communication, while her father Wilfrid Mbappé manages the football part, as indicated by Gala magazine.
Kylian Mbappé, a world star to manage
Faiza Lamari's name often appears in the French sports press as one of the pillars of Kylian Mbappé's entourage. She is described there as a woman who has "great character"
Born in Bondy in 1974 to Algerian parents, she said she gave her son a rigorous education. "He was the son of a black and a rebeu, I knew that she would have suffered the triple penalty," explains Faiza Lamari for the Parisian.
Currently the son is sitting at the table of the big names on the planet. At Paris Saint-Germain he is one of the highest paid stars together with Messi and Neymar.
In the French team, his performance at the 2022 World Cup consecrated him as the absolute protagonist of the group in the absence of 2022 Ballon d'Or winner Karim Benzema, package due to injury and who announced the end of his international career with the Blues the day after the final lost by France against Argentina.
For his part, Faiza Lamari is just behind managing the contracts of his son in the smallest details who will not fail to be requested in the coming years if he remains at these levels.
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Of course, I would not be posting this if that hadn't recently changed. Hermann Voßeler (aka Ichthyostega) has been working on this problem for a while now. With the release of Blender 2.78 today, his hard work can now be utilized by everyone, and I thought I'd share a first look at the new functionality.
If you've used the stabilizing tools before, you'll notice not much has changed, there's just a few things added or moved around in the UI.
The first two tutorials posted below will cover the new stabilizer features, and in the following ones we take one of the shots a bit further. The actor is dying in the scene, but manages to get off a few last shots before heading off to the great unknown. We'll add those muzzle flashes, using Krita to paint the muzzle flash element and a Blender smoke sim to create some lingering smoke. We'll also do some color correction so it looks a bit more like a movie, although DI (digital intermediate) color correction like this is not visual effects.
Using some other footage, we'll also take a look at how to use weighted stabilizing for long panning or zooming shots, where nothing stays in the shot long enough to get a single track point to stabilize around.
You can read the details of it's development here, and in the official Blender 2.78 release notes here. And of course, you can download Blender 2.78 right here.
Grab some footage below and let's get started! I'm posting four different takes of the scene, so feel free to experiment and change things around however you like. Maybe add in some other things to the shot. I'm also including my finished blend file, two different blend files for gun smoke, and two painted muzzle flashes. If you work through the tutorials, post your results in the comments! I'd love to see what you all come up with!
UPDATE (Oct 14, 2016): Sergey recently added functionality to see the keyframes for new stabilizer functions! Thanks, Sergey!
Tutorial 1 – Stabilizing scale in a handheld dollying shot.
Click HERE to download Tutorial 1.
Tutorial 2 – Using the weight features of the new stabilizer for long panning shots.
Click HERE to download Tutorial 2.
Tutorial 3 – Adding muzzle flash, using Krita to paint the element.
Click HERE to download Tutorial 3.
Tutorial 4 – Creating lingering smoke from the gun.
Click HERE to download Tutorial 4.
Tutorial 5 – Finishing up the compositing and color correction.
Click HERE to download Tutorial 5.
Simple thanks feels inadequate for that about of content but has to be said.
this was absolutely incredible awesome. I've learned a ton of new techniques.
Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge.
Thank you, Sean, for great tutorials! Could i ask you to provide links to download videos if it is possible as it was in the first tuts? Thank you so much!
Oh yes, right! Sure, I can get those up this week.


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Q: Different value for same element in ByteArray? Why am I getting byte 0x00 at index 0 instead of 0xD0 when calling the SetData() method from outside the class?
Here's a shortened down of the class:
using System;

namespace StackOverflow
{
    class Section
    {
        uint _sectionId;
        byte[] _sectionData;

        public Section(byte[] sectionData) {
            _sectionData = sectionData;
            _sectionId = GetUShort(0x0FF4);
            Console.WriteLine(_sectionId + ": " + _sectionData[0].ToString("X")); // Gives D0
        }

        public void SetData() {
            switch (_sectionId) {
                case 0: SetTrainerInfo(); break;
                default: break;
            }
        }

        void SetTrainerInfo() {
            Console.WriteLine(_sectionId + ": " + _sectionData[0].ToString("X")); // Can Give 0

            byte[] deByte = GetBytes(0x00, 7);

            TrainerInfo.playerName = PkmString.GetString(deByte);
            Console.WriteLine(TrainerInfo.playerName + "name here");
        }
    }
}

Works fine if called in the Section constructor, but not from an external source like this:
using System;

namespace StackOverflow
{
    class SaveBlock
    {
        const short SECTIONS = 14, SECTION_SIZE = 4096;

        public Section[] sections = new Section[SECTIONS];

        public SaveBlock(byte[] blockData) {
            byte[] sectionData = new byte[SECTION_SIZE];
            for (int i = 0; i < SECTIONS; i++) {
                Array.Copy(blockData, SECTION_SIZE * i, sectionData, 0, SECTION_SIZE);
                sections[i] = new Section(sectionData);
            }
        }

        public void SetForAll() {
            foreach (Section sect in sections)
                sect.SetData();
        }
    }
}

And I get different bytes for the same element:

A: Look at this code from the SaveBlock constructor:
byte[] sectionData = new byte[SECTION_SIZE];
for (int i = 0; i < SECTIONS; i++) {
    Array.Copy(blockData, SECTION_SIZE * i, sectionData, 0, SECTION_SIZE);
    sections[i] = new Section(sectionData);
}

The loop copies the blockData bytes to the sectionData array, and then uses sectionData to create a new Section object instance. Here's where things get tricky... arrays are reference types. That means the following line in your Section constructor is only copying the reference to the array:
_sectionData = sectionData;

As you move through the loop, you're copying data into the same array instance over and over, and then assigning that same array instance to the internal data of several Section objects. All of those objects are sharing the same array instance! It's very likely you want a new array for each of those objects:
byte[] sectionData;
for (int i = 0; i < SECTIONS; i++) {
    sectionData = new byte[SECTION_SIZE];
    Array.Copy(blockData, SECTION_SIZE * i, sectionData, 0, SECTION_SIZE);
    sections[i] = new Section(sectionData);
}

That may not be the only problem, as _sectionId is shown defined private an initialized to non-0. The SetData() method looks like this:
public void SetData() {
    switch (_sectionId) {
        case 0: SetTrainerInfo(); break;
        default: break;
    }
}

From the code we can see, there is no way that _sectionId will ever be 0, and thus no way that SetTrainerInfo() is ever called.

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1MDB scandal allegedly involves Ponzi scheme
A construction worker talks on the phone in front of a 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) billboard at the Tun Razak Exchange development in Kuala Lumpur.PHOTO: REUTERS
http://str.sg/4xi7
GENEVA • Switzerland said yesterday that it had widened its probe into Malaysia's scandal-tainted state investment fund, 1MDB, with transactions worth US$800 million (S$1.1 billion) under scrutiny and evidence pointing to fraud through "a Ponzi scheme".
The Swiss Attorney-General opened a probe into 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) in August last year, following allegations that some of the money allegedly stolen from the fund had passed through Swiss banks.
Citing new evidence, the Attorney-General's Office said it had "identified further suspect transactions involving the Swiss financial sector". "The sum of US$800 million appears to have been misappropriated," it added.
It said probes showed 1MDB assets had passed through SRC International, a Malaysian firm linked to 1MDB now controlled by the Malaysian Finance Ministry, in fraudulent transactions "based on a form of 'Ponzi' scheme".
Swiss Attorney-General Mich- ael Lauber, who was in Singapore for yesterday's inaugural Attorney- General's lecture, reiterated the allegations in his speech at Marina Bay Sands.
He said Swiss banks were also suspected of being implicated. "These investigations have huge political implications," he admitted. " Nevertheless, we as prosecutors are obliged by law to investigate and combat abuse of the integrity of our financial place."
1MDB, once a pet project of Prime Minister Najib Razak who chaired its advisory board, is the subject of money-laundering probes in at least six countries. He has denied any wrongdoing and said Malaysia will cooperate with the international investigations.
Swiss, Singaporean and United States prosecutors are digging into how more than US$3.5 billion was diverted from 1MDB, which was intended to finance development projects across Malaysia.
The Swiss Attorney-General's Office said yesterday it is satisfied with the evidence it received from the Singaporean authorities.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG
•Additional reporting by K. C. Vijayan
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 06, 2016, with the headline '1MDB scandal allegedly involves Ponzi scheme'. Print Edition | Subscribe


What deciding factors make protection and self-defense for leftists the most important?
If a lone leftist or small club of leftist live in either a dominantly conservative region, or in a place where conservative and liberal influence is equal, the subject of protection is at the highest importance.
If a lone leftist or small club of leftists live in a small town of a few hundred people, this could be a call to needing protection, depending on the political demographics.
If there is two or more leftist organizations in your general region, protection isn't as much of an importance as long as leftist comrades stick to a squad of trusted leftist comrades.
• Use a fake surname in case of hostile enemies finding your home or family's home.
• Keep personal and political life separate.
• When outside of your home, always keep watch over your surroundings.
Leftist organizations need to put a heavy focus in to protection and self-defense. Leftist organizations when out at rallies, must pull an old tactic from history, when the communist party use to have "Marshall's" watching over their rally. Marshall's being comrades dressed as regular civilians, who are either carrying or have quick access to a weapon, who would sit outside a rally. They would watch over the rally from the sidewalk in order to keep eyes out for right-wing extremists, or violent anti-communists. Being hidden among the crowd would make them unknown to the hostile opponent who would seek to harm those in the rally. This would ensure the safety of the comrades.
For the leftist organizations, the formation of a protection unit for comrades at a protest, strike, or rally, is the most important thing for the safety of our comrades in a reactionary society.
Those who are in such a protection unit must be well trained with a gun, legally carrying, and know basic hand to hand combat. They must also know how to use mace in times of less extreme confrontation.
Small leftist clubs, be it a club of 3 or 15 people, the subject of a protection unit isn't assigned to a few specific comrades, but must be the majority of the club, if not the entire club.
Small clubs are very vulnerable and easy to be outnumbered by violent anti-communist and/or white supremacists. Thus, all within the small club must work together to learn how to protect themselves and their comrades. Subject like hand to hand combat must be learned. A workout plan for the club to put itself in shape. Possible gun training (If the club is of people over 18.) How to keep watchful eye over each others surroundings. It is also important to notice the body language of a hostile individual, watch his/her body language to make sure they aren't going to reach for a weapon, or if they aren't going to start punching, or otherwise. Doing this you can also mentally process if the individual has a bulged out section under the shirt, indicating the presence of a gun or knife.
Many young people in the United States think that the main problem today is the fight between the growing ultraright and racist movements versus people with leftist politics. There are many questionable groups that create counterproductive situations. We urge leftists to study the events they are attending and all groups that are participating. Our goal is to bring socialism, to build a strong labor movement, a strong youth movement, and we must champion peace, respect and self-defense in these troubling times.


In a tank at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics a little green alga is executing a powerful breaststroke. It has a single cell for a body and two hair-like filaments for arms. In another tank algae with four filaments mimic a horse's trot, canter and gallop. Yet others have hundreds of filaments performing a Hawaiian dance to propel their parent cell forward.
"From the point of view of physics and mathematics, Volvocales are interesting because they have a beautiful high degree of symmetry [they are spherical] and they have a fascinating means of locomotion," says Ray Goldstein FRS, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. "So they are models to study many problems in biological physics and fluid mechanics. Altogether they are model organisms that make everyone happy."
"When I first learned about this I thought, this is an important problem to work on. Nobody really understood how the synchronicity occurs, but it's essential for the functioning [of the cilia]. If they were just randomly beating, there would be a much less efficient [fluid] flow."
What these scientists were lacking, however, was the technology to properly observe the micro-swimmers, which has only been around since relatively recently. Goldstein and his colleagues used high-speed video microscopy to observe the tiny organisms, together with a clever trick. If you imagine yourself doing a breaststroke while being held in place by giant pipette, you'll notice that your elbow will trace an elliptical shape (like a squashed circle). The same goes for a point on a flagellum: it also traces out an elliptical shape. If something is moving around on an ellipse, then you can describe its location at any given moment in time by an angle (see the figure). Measuring this phase angle over time for each flagellum told the researchers exactly when, and for how long, the flagella were in sync.
The cleverly extracted data could then be compared to a simplified mathematical model of how the flagella interact with the surrounding water. "[Using the model] we established that the interaction between the two flagella was of a magnitude that is consistent with the idea that it was fluid mechanical coupling," says Goldstein. This was the first experimental support for the idea that fluid flow alone can cause the flagella to synchronise.
But only because the dynamics of the water can cause the flagella to sync, doesn't mean it is the only factor play. After studying the theory in great detail Goldstein and his team returned to experiment, this time looking at mutants: organisms that are just like Chlamydomonas in many ways, but have some deficiency or another. "If you look [at Volvocales] very carefully, using electron microscopy, you discover that there is a whole set of filamentary connections [between the flagella] hidden from view beneath the cell membrane," explains Goldstein. One type of mutant he and his team looked at was missing exactly those connections.
The image above shows a Volvocale called Volvox. Photo: Raymond E. Goldstein.


Bihar is covered by the forest in only 7.23% of the total area. Natural forests contribute for just 6.87% while, according to the 'Green India Mission', the forest cover should be 33% at least.
In a rush of urbanization, the basics of survivals are forgotten. Forests are essential for climate regulation and make life of people easier. The grim reality is that people talk of such high talk only when they face the burn as someone has said- "The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood." This summer is making people to face the heat literally and there is joke going around of roasting chickens in sunlight.
Patna is once again in the grip of intense heat wave. Temperature is soaring daily and beating all-time records as if it is competing with new tall upcoming buildings here. The heat is on, literally. It's sticky, uncomfortable and downright dangerous.
Heat waves are nothing new in Patna, but they're becoming longer, hotter and more common. There are already a number of cases of sunstroke reported in the city. However, you can be cool as I am going to tell you what it takes to beat the heat.
Heat illness happen when the body's natural methods for coping with heat are overwhelmed and it can affect all ages and levels of fitness. Active physical exertion and/or hot weather conditions like present can trigger these dangerous physical responses. Heat illnesses can be relatively mild such as heat rash or heat cramps or serious such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The onset and sequence of the symptoms can be subtle; one may not realize that s/he becoming ill. These serious conditions can easily be avoided by simple avoidance measures, and knowing how to spot the earliest symptoms.
What to do when it's too hot outside.
Wear light-colored, lightweight and loose fitting clothing.
Use umbrella, sunblock, sun hats and other measures to prevent sunburn.
Drink water gradually throughout the day, even when you are not thirsty.
Schedule heavy activity in the cooler morning and evening hours.
Scale back or slow down your workout regimen during very hot weather.
He is a freelancer; writing especially on societal issues, science, and education in both Hindi & English for various online media houses. In addition, he loves to write poetry and short story for the expression of personal emotions and thoughts.


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@interface VCHReGeocodeManager()

@end

@implementation VCHReGeocodeManager

+ (void)reGeocodeWithLatitude:(float)latitude
                    longitude:(float)longitude
                 successBlock:(reGeocodeSuccessCallBack)successBlock
                   errorBlock:(reGeocodeErrorCallBack)errorBlock {
    [self reGeocodeWithLatitude:latitude
                      longitude:longitude
                 coordinateType:WGS84
                   successBlock:successBlock
                     errorBlock:errorBlock];
}

+ (void)reGeocodeWithLatitude:(float)latitude
                    longitude:(float)longitude
               coordinateType:(VCHCoordinateType)type
                 successBlock:(reGeocodeSuccessCallBack)successBlock
                   errorBlock:(reGeocodeErrorCallBack)errorBlock {
    CLLocationCoordinate2D coor = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(latitude, longitude);
    [self reGeocodeWithCoordinate:coor
                   coordinateType:type
                     successBlock:successBlock
                       errorBlock:errorBlock];
}

+ (void)reGeocodeWithCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coordinate
                   successBlock:(reGeocodeSuccessCallBack)successBlock
                     errorBlock:(reGeocodeErrorCallBack)errorBlock {
    [self reGeocodeWithCoordinate:coordinate
                   coordinateType:WGS84
                     successBlock:successBlock
                       errorBlock:errorBlock];
}

+ (void)reGeocodeWithCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coordinate
                 coordinateType:(VCHCoordinateType)type
                   successBlock:(reGeocodeSuccessCallBack)successBlock
                     errorBlock:(reGeocodeErrorCallBack)errorBlock {
    CLLocationCoordinate2D coorWGS84;
    CLLocationCoordinate2D coorGCJ02;
    if (type == WGS84) {
        coorWGS84 = coordinate;
        coorGCJ02 = [JZLocationConverter wgs84ToGcj02:coorWGS84];
    } else if(type == GCJ02){
        coorGCJ02 = coordinate;
        coorWGS84 = [JZLocationConverter gcj02ToWgs84:coorGCJ02];
    } else {
        NSLog(@"could not recognize this type");
        return;
    }
    CLLocationCoordinate2D coor = isIOS(9) ? coorWGS84 : coorGCJ02;
    CLLocation *location = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:coor.latitude longitude:coor.longitude];
    [self searchReGeocodeWithLocation:location successBlock:successBlock errorBlock:errorBlock];
}

+ (void)searchReGeocodeWithLocation:(CLLocation *)location
                       successBlock:(reGeocodeSuccessCallBack)successBlock
                         errorBlock:(reGeocodeErrorCallBack)errorBlock {
    [[[CLGeocoder alloc] init] reverseGeocodeLocation:location completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {
        if (error) {
            errorBlock(error);
        } else if(placemarks.count) {
            CLPlacemark *placemark = [placemarks firstObject];
            NSString *address = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@",
                                 placemark.addressDictionary[@"City"],
                                 placemark.addressDictionary[@"SubLocality"],
                                 placemark.addressDictionary[@"Street"]];

            address = [address stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"(null)" withString:@""];
            successBlock(address);
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text:
Mario Tirino
Panel 3D Post-Cinema
The term postcinema is used to describe the digital processes through which cinema, as a medium, dissolves and fragments into a constellation of objects, events, formats, transmedia and cross-media narratives (Hagener, Hediger, Strohmaier 2016). In the postcinema age audiences are confronted with other spaces, environments, phenomena in which the relocation of cinema takes place (Casetti 2009). The notion of spectator itself enters into crisis. Audiences become more and more protagonists of the processes of production, distribution and dissemination of global filmic cultures, in a new dimension that we can define postspectatorship (Tirino 2020). This paper aims to investigate fansubbing, as one of the most significant practices of post-cinematic mediascape (Dwyer & Lobato 2016). Fansubbing includes the production and dissemination of downloadable files containing subtitles, through specific platforms, by fan communities. It is an example of the crucial role played by audiences in the informal distribution of films and TV series (Crisp 2015). We intend to answer some research questions: 1) Can fansubbing be conceived as a resistant practice compared to mainstream distribution policies? Can it overcome the constraints imposed by geoblocking (Lobato & Meese 2016), blockages, censorship and various restrictions on the international circulation of films? 2) What kind of media object are the files associated with fanmade subtitles? How can the transcodification of audio dialogues in a different language into written subtitles, created by a collaborative translation process (Massidda 2015, Addeo & Esposito 2015), generate a new kind of filmic experience – different and separate from the one related to watching the film in the original language? 3) How does fansubbing foster transcultural and transnational processes based on multilingualism and the dissemination of daring content? Is fansubbing one of the most intense cultural exchange sites in contemporary mediascape? 4) How does formal distribution (producers, media conglomerates, etc.) interact with the work of the fansubbers communities? Is conflict the only category with which to frame this relationship? Or can we hypothesize the existence of a distribution ecology, in which formal and informal apparatuses coexist?
Mario Tirino is a Post-Doc researcher at University of Salerno. His main research interests include sociology of digital cultures, mediology of literature and comics, Media Theory. He's the author of Postspettatorialità. L'esperienza del cinema nell'era digitale


In April 2017, I traveled to Japan to do some backpacking and general exploring of the country. I spent 9 days walking on a section of the Tokai Nature Trail, beginning in Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on the northern side of Mount Fuji and ending in the Kurata region of Shizuoka Prefecture, about 125 trail miles away. During that trip, I came across a section of the Shinkansen where the train was leaving one tunnel, traveling a short section of track at full speed, and entering another tunnel. The fence surrounding the tracks was fairly close to them, and given the frequency with which the Shinkansen runs, I knew I wouldn't have to wait long for a train (or many, as was the case) to go speeding past.
I have a friend who is super into trains. Like has spent good money on rare mileage excursion trains into trains. So I knew he would love seeing the Shinkansen up close. I checked the time and it was a reasonable time for him being on the west coast of the US, so I texted him and asked if he could do a video call. Sure! Then I stuck my phone in the fence and waited for a train to go by. It was awesome. What was even more awesome is not only was I in a relatively remote part of Japan, but he was on the BART in the Transbay Tube (i.e. 100+ feet below the San Francisco Bay). And he was able to see everything just fine! It was awesome. He was happy. I was happy. It was a fantastic day.
So, given that that's a thing I can do, and do pretty trivially, what's the point of using a radiogram to send a maximum 25 word message from one person to another? Why does the NTS exist? What purpose does it serve? Why would someone want to bother? We have email, texting, international intercontinental real time high definition video calls. Why a radiogram?
One of the functions amateur radio can serve is to provide communications when all other communications are lost. Natural disasters can take out power to huge areas, which can impact phone and internet services. They can destroy towers or break overhead communications cables. I'm a member of Portland NET, which is Portland's version of CERT. As a ham radio operator, my primary responsibility is providing communications support between folks on the ground and folks at the command center.
In NET, we use a "form 8" which is similar to an ICS form 213 general message form. It's designed to be able to be filled out and passed on by anyone, even without any formal training. When relaying it over the air, you read the field names as well as the contents, so the order in which you read things isn't important, and there aren't technical things like checksums or callsigns or anything, it's just a simple from/to/message sort of deal. Easy.
NTS radiograms are a bit more complex than that. There are callsigns. Checksums. Limits on the number of words. Precedence. But they still have a lot in common with ICS213 and NET form 8. They have a sender and a recipient. And they have a message. And most importantly, it's important that they are relayed without error from one person to the next until they end up in the hands of the designated recipient.
In a disaster scenario where NET gets deployed, even if there are other means of communication active, our role will still be in large part communications. Even if cell service is active, we may still be handling a lot of written traffic. And we need to be able to effectively and accurately convey those messages.
However, we don't often get an opportunity to practice these things or put them to work. Sure, we can come up with exercises and practice and such, but contrived examples are hard, and unless it's interesting or useful, attendance is likely going to be fairly poor. But NTS provides a way in which practice can be had! Practice writing down what someone is saying over the air. Dealing with things like less-than-perfect signals. The sending person talking too fast and you need fills. The receiving person not writing fast enough and they need fills. General radio issues that might crop up. All of this is valuable practice, and the more comfortable you are doing all of these things, the better you'll be able to fulfill your role in the event of an actual emergency, which could ultimately mean lives saved.
Originating traffic, even if it's just "DID YOU SEE THAT LUDICROUS DISPLAY LAST NIGHT X 73", gives everyone who handles that piece of traffic an opportunity to practice and hone their skills. Also, active nets are nets people come back to. If a traffic net opens and there's no traffic but 25 people checked in, what's the point? But if there's a bunch of traffic, then at least it gives people a reason to keep checking in! And if there's "actual, important traffic" being passed, it'll probably be pretty obvious, and if not, well, that's where message precedence comes in.
The NTS as a whole is also a good muscle overall to exercise. The idea with it is that using only radio waves and some pen and paper, a message can be efficiently and accurately communicated from anywhere in the country to anywhere in the country. Working the system means weaknesses can be exposed, flaws fixed, improvements made, etc. Working the system gives it purpose, and gives the people who are part of it a reason to be there.
I would love to send you a radiogram, or receive one from you! You know where to find my info!
I've been listening in on and checking into the NTTN (Northwest Oregon Traffic and Training Net) net for quite some time. Just recently, I sent my first radiogram! I'm a net control operator for the NET net here in Portland, and decided that I'd talk about NTS and traffic handling during one of my sessions. NET doesn't use NTS radiograms, but I still think there's a lot of valuable experience to be gained from participating in NTS that will directly apply to NET deployments.
I'd been listening for a long time, but was nervous about volunteering to handle traffic, and nervous about trying to originate my own traffic. What do I do with traffic I've handled? How does it get from me to the person who it's destined for, assuming it's traffic bound for a local person and I'd be taking it the "last mile" to the person. As far as originating traffic, what sort of traffic is appropriate? NTS is "formal" traffic handling, but does that mean it can only be used for formal messages or can I say hi to a friend across the country for grins?
I asked Michael AE7XP what his thoughts on the matter were, and he suggested I ask the net control of the NTTN some night, that it could be an interesting discussion and they'd have better answers for me anyways. So, this Friday, I did just that.
If I handle a piece of traffic, what do I do with it? How do I get it that last mile to the recipient?
What sort of traffic is appropriate to bring to the net? Can I say hi to a friend or is that too informal?
And I got answers! It wasn't the lively discussion Michael was suggesting it might be, but I at least became much more comfortable with the idea of participating in the net in a larger capacity than just checking in every now and then.
For last mile handling, generally it's a phone call. I found a good script for this here. If you have the email address of the recipient, an email works. Or sometimes they are sent as postcards. I remember getting my "Greetings from amateur radio" postcard back in the day when I first got my license.
Now, the irony of using email or a postcard for last mile delivery of a radiogram is not at all lost on me. If you send someone an email, chances are good there will be a fairly significant amount of internet traffic generated to originate, process, deliver, and store the email, much of which will cross the country if not the world, involving many round trips of TCP packets and whatnot. I mean, in a world where I can stand next to some train tracks in Japan out in the countryside and make a video call to a friend who is currently on a train in a tunnel at the bottom of the San Francisco Bay so he can watch a train go blowing past me at 300kph, in real time, what's the point of NTS anyways? But I digress (and I'll address some of that during the net, and probably a post here in the future).
As far as originating traffic is concerned, it seemed like pretty much anything was fair game. Obviously it has to be compliant with FCC part 97 etc etc, and don't use it for passing information about the death of a person or other very private sort of thing, but say hi to a friend across the country? Sure! That's why there's a precedence in the radiogram anyways! Plus, it's all practice, and practice is good (and is one of the reasons NTS is still valuable).
So after I asked my questions and got my answers, I said "in that case, KT7CAT with traffic" (my call sign changed to K1CHN the following day). Net control called out for volunteers, KC7ZZB took on the challenge, and I relayed to him my number one, a short greeting and well wishes to WR0U, the first ham I ever met, who lived 2 houses away from me during my high school years. Given the call sign change, it's a crapshoot whether or not his reply (if he replies) will come back to me, but we'll see! I also got some compliments on "that was a good number one" etc. I think because I read things out slowly enough, had the protocol down, etc. Or maybe just general words of encouragement, who knows! Felt good, anyways!
As part of this process of exploring this aspect of amateur radio, I came across a site where one can manage their radiograms, ones they've originated, handled, or been the recipient of, and not only has the prospect of putting it to use gotten me more interested in traffic handling as a whole, it has inspired me to work on a web application of my own for some ham radio things. The site, I just call it "radiograms" by N2SHO, is pretty cool. I've been using it to practice copying traffic that other people are handling, including book traffic (though it could use a slightly different flow for book traffic than it has, methinks), and I used it to compose and now track my #1 radiogram, and hopefully more in the future!
All in all it was a good time, and I'm glad I finally spoke up and asked my questions that had been burning in the back of my mind for so long. This was my first radiogram, but I hope it won't be my last. Tomorrow before the NET net, I hope to handle some traffic myself, if for no other reason than so I can talk more about it during the net afterward! Should be interesting, if nothing else!


Remember cord cutting? Once upon a time, observers thought the rise of online video delivery would lead to mass cable and satellite TV cancellations.
Sure, more than 1.1 million households cut the cord last year, according to a new Convergence Consulting report. But consistent data is hard to find. Nielsen April estimates suggest a 1.7% decline in pay-TV households.
To Pivotal's senior media analyst Brian Wieser, that looks more like "cord shaving".
"Many investors have long foretold concerns around cord cutting. That was always both an incomplete and an incorrect argument," he tells Beet.TV in this video interview.
"Consumers generally have expressed a need to retain their cord with the incumbent distributor.
"Most of the cable networks are seeing erosion that outpaces reduction in subscriber levels to cable services – we're seeing the rise of the skinny bundle.
We interviewed him in New York at the Simulmedia PeopleFront conference where he was a speaker. Please find more video interviews from the PeopleFront event right here.


Software is an essential tool in most of the taxation companies. Many companies are either using one or are planning to purchase one. Before you opt for one software, make sure that you test out the others. Make sure before the tax season your company tries out the different software available in the market. Discussed below are some of the things you must think critically before buying any tax resolution software like tax resolution software logics.
First of all, choose an easy to install and free software. While deciding the software to use for your tax company, it is crucial that you make sure that the process of installation is fast and at no cost. Specific software will be installed by experts and will need to be paid for the service. Setting up or installing software for the first time should be pleasing due to the simplicity of installation, not time-consuming and should not require technical assistance. Also, it should be flexible enough to allow you add other users at a later date when you decide to expand.
Get software that offers automatic updates. The taxation laws are changing every waking day, and it will be hard to keep up with every change with your tight working schedule. You must search for that system that updates itself automatically and provides you all the newly revised taxation forms.
It is crucial to have available customer service and technical support 24/7. When things do not work as expected, helpful and reliable customer service is what you require. You will rest easy with the knowledge that you will get help whenever you need it, day or night. Enquire properly about the tech support of the company prior to making the last decision since a good tech support system will turn a messy situation to a miracle.
You must look for the software that handles all the business needs of your firm. Management of varied software for varying business tasks is cumbersome for any business. The comprehensive software is ideal since it will save so much time for your firm and will also reduce confusion around the work environment.
The tax resolution software must not increase the demands for papers in the office. When there is no paperwork loads, the firm will assist in conserving the environment and so much time will be saved by using features like online tax forms, integrated emails or e-signatures. Doing research will help your business get the right software for your tax needs such as tax resolution CRM irslogics. It will make the workspace very calm during working hours.


Professor Adel Afifi, MD, MS Professor Emeritus, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, US.
Professor Rima Afifi, PhD Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Dr. Neil Arya, MD, CCFP, FCFP D Litt Assistant Clinical Professor Family Medicine, McMaster University, Adjunct Professor Family Medicine Western University, Adjunct Professor Environment and Resources Studies University of Waterloo, Canada.
Professor Robert Beaglehole DSc FRS(NZ) ONZM Professor Emeritus, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Professor Espen Bjertness, PhD Head, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
Professor Rolf Busund, MD PhD Professor of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Simon Capewell DSc MD Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Liverpool, UK.
Professor Phil Cotton MD Professor of Learning and Teaching, University of Glasgow, UK.
Professor George Davey Smith MD DSc FMedSci Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Bristol, UK.
Dr. James Deutsch, MD, PhD, FRCPC Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada.
Professor Abbas Elzein, PhD Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia.
Sir Terence English KBE FRCS FRCP. Former President of the Royal College of Surgeons, President of the British Medical Association and Master of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, UK.
Professor Gene Feder MD FRCGP Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, UK.
Professor Olav Helge Foerde, MD PhD Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Per Fugelli, MD Professor of Social Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Miriam Garfinkle, MD Retired Community Physician, Independent Jewish Voices, Canada.
Emilio Gianicolo, Researcher of the Italian National Research Council, Italy. Since September 2013, guest researcher at the University of Mainz, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics in Mainz, Germany.
Professor Gordon Guyatt, PhD Distinguished Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine, McMaster University, Canada.
Professor Rima Habib, PhD, MPH, MOHS Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Professor Dennis Hogan,PhD Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Population Studies and Sociology, Brown University, US.
Professor Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen, PhD Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
Professor Anne Husebekk MD PhD Rector of UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Tor Ingebrigtsen MD PhD Hospital Chief Executive/CEO, The University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Dr. Lars Jerden, MD, PhD Center for Clinical Research Dalarna, Sweden.
Professor Jak Jervell, PhD Professor Emeritus, Honorary President, International Diabetes Federation, Norway.
Professor Ann Louise Kinmonth CBE FMedSci Emeritus Professor of General Practice, University of Cambridge, UK.
Professor Debbie Lawlor FMedSci Professor of Epidemiology, University of Bristol, UK.
Professor Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH FXB Professor of Practice of Health and Human Rights, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, US.
Professor Emeritus Georges Midrè, PhD Department of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Alan Myers, MD, MPH, FAAP Professor of Paediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, US.
Professor Kaare Norum, MS, PhD Former president (Rector) University of Oslo, Former Dean of Medical Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway.
Professor Iman Nuwayhid, PhD Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Professor Kate O'Donnell PhD Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Glasgow, UK.
Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, MD, PhD Rector of the University of Oslo, Norway.
Professor Alison Phipps, OBE, PHD, FRSE Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Co-Convener: Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network, UK.
Professor Raija-Leena Punamaki, PhD School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland.
Reem A. Qadir MSW RSW A social worker with extensive work experience in Individual and Family Therapy, Canada.
Dr. Sara Roy, PhD Senior Research Scholar Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, US.
Professor Debbie Sharp PhD FRCGP Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, UK.
Dr. Angelo Stefanini, MD, MPH Scientific Director, Centre for International Health. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
Professor Johanne Sundby, PhD/MD Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
Dr. George Tawil, MD Clinical Associate Professor, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC. Past president of the Medical Staff, Inova Alexandria Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia. Past Chair, Medical Affairs Council, Inova Health Systems, Fairfax, Virginia, US.
Professor Paul Wallace FRCGP FFPHM Emeritus David Cohen Professor of Primary Care, University College London, UK.
Professor Steinar Westin MD PhD Department of Public Health and General Practice, The Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Professor Huda Zurayk, PhD Professor and previous Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
In response, a commentary signed by the current and two previous editors-in-chief of theEuropean Journal of Public Health, one of whom has longstanding and very extensive collaborations with Israeli colleagues (McKee et al. 2015), voiced strong support for The Lancet, arguing that medical journals cannot ignore the political determinants of health, including those arising from conflicts. They noted, "It seems strange that it was the diabetes community that feels it necessary to take this decision," noting how the global epidemic of diabetes, fuelled by forcing markets open to energy-dense food, reflects a policy identified primarily with Republicans rather than Democrats in the United States.
In 2004, there was an outcry from pro-Israel doctors when the British Medical Journalpublished a personal view entitled 'Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes' (Summerfield 2004). The editor received nearly a thousand emails, many of them personally abusive and alleging anti-Semitism (Sabbagh 2009).


Creator: Ampico Reproducing Piano, East Rochester, N.Y.
Abstract: This collection consists of 54 Ampico (American Piano Company) player piano rolls.
Copyright has not been assigned to the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian for Performing Arts Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Performing Arts Special Collectionsas the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained.
[Identification of item], Ampico Player Piano Rolls Collection, 193, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
54 Ampico (American Piano Company) player piano rolls.


A radial in-plane electronic speckle pattern interferometer (ESPI) is used to measure residual stresses in combination with an indentation method. A semi-empirical mathematical model is developed to quantify the residual stresses from the radial in-plane displacement component measurement around the indentation print. Several tests were made in a specimen with different levels of residual stresses induced by mechanical loading. Correlation functions were fitted to tests results and are used to predict the residual stresses levels. This paper briefly presents the measurement principle, testing details and results of the performance evaluation. Finally, an uncertainty budget of the testing and measurement process was carried out. The tests presented here are not complete since they are restricted to only one material, oneaxis stress state, two indentation tip geometry and only one indentation force, but they are sufficient to encourage further development.


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Monthly general meetings are held the first Thursday of each month from September to June. We invite all Catholic women 16 years or older to journey in a sisterhood of faith, fun and fulfillment. We have several levels of involvement, from fully active to Prayer Partner.
December 2nd, 2018 Seniors Christmas Dinner (with the K. of C.
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The work Addis Berary Mintaf is a performance that took place at Chefie Condominiums outside of Addis Abeba during a Workshop with students from the Alle School of Fine Art in Addis Ababa. The participants of the workshop Inside Outside, which was dedicated to working in the public domain, painted the pattern on the fabric collectively. The piece is part of the series Flying Carpets, where graphic patterns found at various airports are copied and transferred onto fabrics.