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Govt launches deworming campaign
By Sunday Express On Sep 19, 2017
Limpho Sello
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training will tomorrow begin the deworming campaign to eradicate Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) in school children aged from five years to 15 years.
The deworming exercise will run until 29 September 2017 in seven districts namely, Butha-Buthe, Leribe, Berea, Thaba-Tseka, Qacha's Nek, Quthing and Mohale's Hoek. The campaign will be conducted every six months until 2019 as the target is to have eliminated STH by 2020.
The Health Ministry's International Health Regulations Manager, Khotso Mahomo, on Friday told the Sunday Express that children needed to be protected from STH because it impaired the immune system.
Mr Mahomo said children in the five to 15 age group were highly susceptible to STH because they were in contact with the soil and sometimes ate soil which could contaminated.
"So we decided to carry out the campaigns at schools where we will give out the deworming pill," Mr Mahomo said, adding, "Those below the age of five are given the pill during their routine clinic checkups and we had to ensure that we close that gap that is not reached".
"We want to reach the global target by 2020 so we will work very had in the campaigns that we will be starting on Monday (tomorrow). After the completion of the campaigns we will go back to schools to do tests on the children's stool."
He said a 2015 study revealed that there was a 48 percent prevalence of STH in the country.
"Lesotho mapped the prevalence of Schistosomiasis and STH in 2015 to find out the epidemiology and distribution of these diseases in Lesotho as the first step towards identifying, developing and implementing appropriate interventions to control and eliminate these diseases.
"The main objectives of the mapping were to estimate the prevalence of schistosomiasis and STH amongst school children aged 10 to 14 years and 11 months in each district and describe the distribution of schistosomiasis and STH in Lesotho."
He said they decided to leave out Mafeteng, Maseru and Mokhotlong because they had less than 20 percent prevalence and therefore they had to focus on those districts "which are more in danger".
Mr Mahomo further said 2516 primary school children participated in the national mapping survey, adding that the overall national prevalence of STH is 47.6 percent.
He said preventive measures against STH included preventive chemotherapy as well as health education on hygiene in schools and at community level.
"We advise for the provision of access to clean water for hygienic practices in communities and schools, improved sanitation in schools and communities, environmental control to minimise contamination of the environment with human and animal excreta.
"Systems and guidelines on the management of worms should be developed and implemented as well as deworming of animals by relevant ministry," he said.
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As the diagram shows, there are a string of Phosphates coming off the ribose unit. This is where ATP gets its energy from. The last bond contains alot of energy which is released when it is broken down to ADP (adenosine DiPhosphate) which is exactly the same as ATP but with one P removed.
To rebuild energy reserves the body uses energy from respiration to put a P back onto ADP to reform ATP; and thus the molecule is recycled.
Now we are looking at this in more detail you must know that there are two types of respiration: aerobic and anaerobic, but rather than being two seperate types, they are part of the same pathway.
Anaerobic is the first stage of the reaction, and produces ATP without the need of oxygen and if the reaction continues it will use oxygen to produce even more ATP. However, if there is insufficient oxygen then only anaerobic respiration will take place with lactate as a by-product, which is acidic. The below table summarizes the two systems.
When not enough oxygen gets to the muscles, the respiration will become more anaerobic. Continuing this will lead to a build up of lactate which is acidic and causes a pH drop in the blood plasma. This causes muscle fatigue where muscles ache and do not contract correctly, because the pH levels interfere with the functioning of the proteins and enzymes.
All of this built up lactate doesn't stay in the blood indefinitely. It is taken to the liver where it is broken down to glycogen by oxidation. This process in the liver however, requires oxygen. So after exercise we breath heavily to get enough oxygen to break down the excess lactate, this is known as an oxygen debt.


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Q: VS402375: Can't find the process associated with team project I'm getting this error while trying to access Administration Page of my collection:
Administratio Page ERROR
I tried upload TFS.Configuration database, but no success so far.
This is the results of my sql selects:
SQL SELECT

A: According the error info VS402375: Can't find the process associated with team project 'xxx'. Contact support to resolve this error.
It looks like the process template (which you used for the project) is missing in the team project collection database.
A solution is restoring your back-up database, which may do the trick for this issue. Daniel is right, it's highly not recommend to modify TFS databases yourself.
Another solution is manually changing the templateID  to match what your collection. More detail steps please take a look at bmonwai's answer in this similar question.

A: I know this is a really old post, but this also occurs if you have Extensions installed and then move from one database to another (backup/restore)
When you are attaching the collection, this would have given you a notification that is has dependant extensions. If you ignore this and continue, when you try to get to the admin page for that collection you can get this error as well.
I would recommend either installing the dependant extensions OR prior to detaching the collections at source, ensure you remove/uninstall the extensions.
Usually, installing the required extensions can solve this.

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Schistosoma Haematobium in Upper Egypt: Analysis of Dispersion Patterns
Uriel D. Kitron*, Gene I. Higashi
Affiliations: 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 34, Issue 2, 1 Mar 1985, p. 331 - 340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1985.34.331
Statistical methods analyzing changes in dispersion patterns of parasites among hosts were applied to Schistosoma haematobium egg excretion data from a five-year study of a cohort of 1,400 boys in 3 villages in Upper Egypt. Despite significant changes in mean density of the parasites in the first 4 years, the degree of aggregation of S. haematobium among the cohort did not change markedly in analysis of egg count data obtained semiannually. Two other related measures of dispersion, mean crowding and patchiness, were also obtained and compared to prevalence and mean intensity, the components determining mean density of schistosomes among hosts. Anti-schistosomal chemotherapy with metrifonate in the cohort did not succeed in appreciably reducing the mean density of S. haematobium over a one-year follow-up. The dispersion pattern of S. haematobium among the study group was not markedly altered. Prevalence and mean intensity were useful indicators of changes in the degree of aggregation of S. haematobium among hosts. The inability of chemotherapy to provide a persistent decline in the mean density parameter is reflected in the rise of mean intensity and prevalence of S. haematobium 1 year post-therapy. It is suggested that analysis of quantifiable changes in dispersion patterns of S. haematobium among their hosts can be a useful aid in planning and assessment of control strategies.
Copyright © 1985 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Obama's Export Goals Face Tough Obstacles
A fading economic recovery, the European debt crisis, and manufacturing's shift to low-cost nations are all hurdles that hinder Obama's goal of doubling exports in the next five years.
Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving trade to a front burner, President Barack Obama claimed Wednesday that the U.S. was on track to meet his goal of doubling exports in the next five years.
While many economists and business leaders see that target as overly ambitious, the president has been increasingly linking his trade push with job creation -- and trying to blunt a brewing business revolt against his policies ahead of midterm elections.
"Export growth leads to job growth and economic growth," Obama said as he named 18 business, labor and government leaders to a new export advisory council. "At a time when jobs are in short supply, building exports is an imperative," Obama said.
Obama said the nation's sales abroad grew by 17 percent in the first four months of this year, declaring: "Our efforts are off to a solid start."
Yet while the Commerce Department said exports of goods and services from January through April were up 16.9 percent, imports rose even more -- up by 19.6 percent over the period.
The early 2010 surges in both exports and imports reflected a rebound in global trade from its deep swoon in 2008 and early 2009 at the depth of the global economic downturn.
But the manufacturing gains and inventory restocking that drove the early stages of the recovery have begun to fade.
Weighing on the global economic recovery are the European debt crisis and lower growth and labor strife in China. Also, recent weak reports on consumer spending, service sector activity and the still-rocky housing market have added to recovery doubts.
With shell-shocked consumers unlikely to power the economic recovery by returning to their free-spending ways, White House officials are counting on trade and business investment to contribute a larger role.
But Obama's goal of doubling exports by 2015 "is challenging. It's going to require a very broad set of initiatives," said Pat Mears, director of international commercial affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers. The group strongly supports Obama's export goals.
The president's showcasing of his newly energized trade agenda appeared aimed, in part, at quieting increasing vocal criticism from the business community of his decisions on taxes, trade and financial regulation.
In one of the sharpest rebukes yet from corporate America, Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications Inc. and head of the influential Business Roundtable, late last month blasted the administration for decisions he said "create an increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation."
Seidenberg was among those named by Obama on Wednesday to the new advisory panel, which also includes executives of Walt Disney Co., Ford Motor Co. and the Boeing Co.
Obama has drawn criticism from business groups and free-traders on Capitol Hill for not doing more to promote trade, allowing to languish free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea signed during the George W. Bush administration.
But in a surprise move, the president suddenly revived the South Korean pact at a global summit in Toronto, saying he hoped to have most outstanding issues resolved before he visits Seoul in November.
On Wednesday, Obama also said, "we want to deepen and broaden our relations with Panama and Columbia" although without specifically mentioning the pending free-trade agreements.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs later said that, unlike with South Korea, "I don't have any timeline" for Columbia and Panama.
Nearly all free-trade proposals are unpopular with Democrats, with protectionist sentiments running high at a time of lingering economic weakness and unemployment hovering at 9.5 percent.
If Obama is to push his revamped trade agenda, he'll need to reach across the aisle to pick up Republican support, as then-President Bill Clinton did in 1993 when he pushed through Congress the still-controversial U.S. free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
Another obstacle to meeting Obama's goal, which he made in his State of the Union speech: the shift by many U.S. companies toward producing their goods overseas. Also, it faces a mathematical hurdle.
The United States isn't the only major power hoping to grow its way out of recession through increased sales abroad.
"Every country in the world would like to achieve export-led growth. But it's not possible. If somebody's exports are growing faster than world trade, then somebody else's imports have to be growing faster," said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm.
Still, Gault said, "his objective is right" because the housing sector and domestic consumer spending are not going to fuel the recovery. "You need some demand strength from somewhere else."
Associated Press writers Martin Crutsinger and Jennifer Loven contributed to this report.


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Dear friends, dear colleagues, dear all,
Many people are putting in hard work to organise the upcoming CIPA International Symposium in a successful way. This 27th edition of the symposium will take place in Ávila, Spain from 1-5 September 2019. This newsletter features one item completely devoted to this important event for CIPA. Pleas note that the call for papers is still open:
22 Feb 2019: deadline for Full Papers to be submitted in the ISPRS Annals;
4 March 2019: deadline for Abstracts to be submitted in the ISPRS Archives.
For the first time, the CIPA expert members will elect the new executive bodies during this International Symposium. Soon, you will be informed for this process.
This summer, already the 6th CIPA summer school is about to happen. After traveling around in Europe, the summer school will touch down in Korea this year and take place in the city of Gyeongju from 14 to 20 July 2019. To that end, CIPA is collaborating with local stakeholders such as KAIST and ICOMOS-Korea.
We also want to draw your attention on the fact that we have managed to put all the past workshops proceedings online. Most of those were accessible on the previous version of our website, but the website update from two years ago meant that all those links had to be reestablished. At this moment, all proceedings from 2017 back until 1999 can be downloaded. We even managed to put the complete 1991 proceedings online. If anyone would have a digitised version of the missing proceedings, we would be very happy to receive it since our goal is it to make all CIPA proceedings freely available.
As always, we remain open to any possible newsletter contribution and welcome every proposal to make our cherished organisation even more visible.
Enjoy reading our new e-newsletter,
Stratos Stylianidis, Geert Verhoeven
Efstratios Stylianidis, Geert Verhoeven
Geert Verhoeven
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Glimpses from the northern lights of cultural heritage
In the summer of 2018 ICOMOS-Finland arranged a seminar Interpreting Shared Heritage through Time as well as an ICOMOS Europe Group Meeting in Helsinki associated with the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The committee of Shared Built Heritage, a scientific committee of ICOMOS, participated in the seminar. Finland belonged to a Baltic tour of the international committee.
Figure 1. The Monrepos manor and park under restoration near Vyborg in Russia. The building follows the Palladian ideals applied into wooden architecture. Photo: Minna Silver.
The central arena of the meetings in Finland was the World Heritage Site of Suomenlinna (Viapori, Sveaborg), an 18th century fortress built during the Swedish occupation of Finland. It consists of fortified islands in front Helsinki that for centuries have formed a guarding post between the East and West. Now the area is a recreation site with museums, a living place of people and an active garrison.
Presentations and workshops of the seminar dealt with the participation and sharing the heritage according to the Faro Convention. The Governing Body of Suomenlinna co-operated in the seminar, and its results will be compiled for a scientific report and a model of participation to protect and preserve a world heritage site. Over 70 participants of the seminar and meetings from all over the world had also an opportunity to privately visit architect Alvar Aalto's ateljé in a social gathering. Aalto was a modernist who followed ideas from Bauhaus developing them further and applying to Northern milieu and the use of wood.
The committee of Shared Built Heritage included in its tours Vyborg, a Medieval town near the Russian Finnish border and continued further to St Petersburg. In Vyborg the central interests were the restoration works of the old town and the nearby situating Monrepos park (Fig. 1.). Vyborg and Monrepos used to belong to Finland before the II World War, but they have also been part of Russia during various episodes of history. The Monrepos park from the 18th century and the present manor house in its core dating from the beginning of the 19th century represent Neoclassical ideals and are currently under a restoration facilitated by the aid of the World Bank.
Figure 2. A laser scanned town plan of Hamina in Finland. Courtesy: Jorge Fernandez.
An international summer school in digital documentation Unveiling the Hidden Hamina took place in the late summer in the town of Hamina near the Finnish Russian border. The inhabitants of the town are actively engaging in the preservation of their surroundings and supported the documentation work of the summer school. The area of Hamina now belongs to Finland but has been part of Russia in various occasions. The town has connections to Vyborg and its architectural traditions. Hamina has a unique circular town plan (Fig. 2.) that finds parallels in Renaissance Italy and Germany.
Both Hamina and Vyborg follow in their fortification systems Marshal Vauban's French ideals. The towns still have military areas with garrisons from the 18th and 19th centuries. The fortifications have greeting gates: Hamina has a Vyborg gate whereas Vyborg has a Hamina gate. The similar planning of star-like bastions in Hamina and Annencrown in Vyborg applies to Suomenlinna, the World Heritage Site. All the fortified sites need vigilance in their protection, preservation and restoration work.
The site of Monrepos is a place of unique beauty following the nature-style English garden planning and the Italian influenced Neo-Palladian building style that is applied to wooden architecture in Northern conditions. Sergey Gorbatenko, President of ICOMOS St Petersburg and Vladimir Tsoi, Director of Vyborg medieval castle, were guiding the international visitors in the summer. The case of the Monrepos park and the undertakings in its renovation have alarmed the attention of the international heritage community.
Vyborg also was further the site of an international conference in preservation and restoration of small historical towns that took place in Russia in October at the Vyborg Library originally planned by Alvar Aalto and restored in co-operation between Russians and Finns (Fig. 3.). Experts from different parts of Russia, including the one associated to the World Heritage Site of the Kizhi island with unique wooden architecture, presented their work during the conference. Reviving various historical sites and towns have been the focus both in Russia and Finland; the wooden architecture and its preservation have become the interest of locals, and inhabitants participate also in invigorating traditional carpentry and painting works.
Figure 3. The lecture hall of the Vyborg Library planned by Alvar Aalto and restored in co-operation between Russians and Finns. Photo: Minna Silver.
Minna Silver
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Blue Shield Georgia – CIPA Winter School. Keeping it Modern
January 16-19, 2019, Tbilisi (Georgia)
The Blue Shield Georgia – CIPA Winter School for Heritage Documentation
A very important aspect of architectural conservation is documentation – understanding the structure, recording its dimensions, conditions, and creating graphic representations for communication. But most importantly, capturing the spirit of the place in order to communicate its significance and values. Therefore, there must be a focus on education, especially with the next generation of architects, engineers, historians, and conservators. In addition, many young professionals at the beginning of their careers need practical exposure and work experience with the challenges of using advanced tools and techniques.
Participants at the Blue Shield Georgia CIPA Winter School (Eppich)
During the third week of January, 2019, CIPA, in partnership with Blue Shield Georgia, held a Winter School workshop. During the course, fifteen participants explored a variety of technologies and techniques including a discussion on the appropriate selection and use of these tools and their cost-benefits. These tools included photogrammetry, laser scanning, advanced photography, use of endoscopes, microscopes, and crack monitoring. Participants came from a number of institutions including Ilia State University, Georgian Technical University, and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and included a few young professionals employed in state and private institutions. This workshop was held under the larger project grant to Blue Shield Georgia by the Getty Foundation's Keeping it Modern Initiative. This very first Winter School follows on the success of the previous CIPA Summer Schools.
The training took place en situ at the Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club. This structure is one of the unique examples of late Soviet Modernist Architecture. Commonly referred to as the Tbilisi Chess Palace, the building was conceived to serve two, at that time, very popular sports in Georgia – chess and mountaineering and continues to house both sports federations from its opening until today.
Tbilisi building was designed by two architects: Vladimir (Lado) Aleksi-Meskhishvili (1915-1978) and Germane Gudushauri (born 1939) and opened in 1973 in Kirov (today's Vere) Park in the center of Georgia's capital city – Tbilisi. The architects worked closely with "Sameuli" (group of three) collective – Alexander Slovinsky (1935), Oleg Kochakidze (1935-2017) and Yuri Chikvaidze (1934-2004) who worked on the interior decoration of the building.
Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club (Eppich)
The building stands out as significant because it was designed and constructed to celebrate Georgia´s achievements and not reinforce the collective or Soviet authority. It has been the home and training grounds for many of Georgia´s chess champions, particularly women, who in the 1970s held the world chess champion title for over 30 years. The building is said to be dedicated to five-time world champion, Grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili, who in 1962, at the age of 21, became the world chess champion for the first time. It is still popular with the residents of Tbilisi today and is a place of frequent gathering. It is unlike other Soviet period buildings in Tbilisi in that it is not stylistically Brutalism, but adorned with natural wood and is light and open, nestled within the surrounding park.
Blue Shield Georgia
Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield (GNCBS) was founded in 2013 and is recognized by Blue Shield International, as one of its national committees worldwide. Like Blue Shield International, the Georgian National Committee aims at protecting cultural heritage from natural disasters and from the damages incurred in the event of armed conflicts, raising awareness on and facilitating implementation of both protocols of The UNESCO Hague Convention in Georgia, facilitate creation of risk preparedness and management plans for cultural heritage protection, raising awareness on threats to cultural heritage. In addition, the goal of the Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield is a cooperation with the network of international Blue Shield, establishing partnerships with local and international organizations working on protection of cultural heritage. Blue Shield Georgia will be administering the Keeping it Modern initiative at the Tbilisi Chess Palace and Alpine Club in cooperation with the Getty Foundation. More info can be found here.
Conservator Lela Ninoshvili and Architect Lasha Shartava lead the participants on a tour of the building (Eppich)
The Winter School was also supported by:
The Tbilisi City Municipality;
NSERC Create Heritage Engineering Program and Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) at Carleton University;
National Technical University Athens, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering- Photogrammetric Lab;
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Engineering, School of Spatial Planning & Development, Thessaloniki, Greece;
Heritage Development.
A video of this winter school can be found here.
Rand Eppich and Manana Tevzadze
randeppich@gmail.com
ICOMOS ISC's Joint Meeting / ICOMOS2020GA Sydney
In 2017, CIPA hosted the CII joint meeting in New Delhi, during the ICOMOS 2017 General Assembly and International Symposium, which is the major ICOMOS event taking place every three years. This joint meeting received more than 40 papers and was attended by approx. 100 ICOMOS members. The three ISC Presidents actively participated in the lively discussions of this successful event www.cii2017.org.
After several discussions and considerations, CIPA decided to take advantage of the experience in ICOMOS 2017 General Assembly in India and organize a parallel ISC joint meeting during the 2020 General Assembly and International Symposium, which will take place in Sydney, Australia.
Opening remarks, CII joint meeting 2017
CIPA plans to invite 3 ISCs ICOPR (International committee on Risk Preparedness), ISCARSAH (International committee on Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage) and ISCEAH (International committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage) to have a half day's joint meeting. Alex Yen on behalf of CIPA will organize and coordinate this event with Mario Santana being the co-organizer.
The proposal will be announced soon and looking forward for the support from all the CIPA members.
Keynote speech, CII joint meeting 2017
Alex Yen
alexyen@cute.edu.tw
Digital Heritage 2018
26-30 October 2018, San Francisco (USA)
Digital Heritage Conferences are a series of global events organized by the informal confederation of all organizations concerned in one way or another with Cultural Heritage. CIPA is one of them. The idea was conceived in Milan in 2012 and since then two such events took place in Marseille (2013) and in Granada (2015). This was the third in the series organized in San Francisco by Prof. Lon Addison. The decision was taken in summer 2017 after a vote by the participating organizations. Note that in the meantime (Oct. 2017) Eurographics have decided not to participate in this global event any more.
Digital Heritage 2018 in San Francisco, 26-30 October 2018, was designed to be a leading global event on digital technology for documenting, conserving and sharing heritage, from monuments & sites, to museums & collections, libraries & archives, and intangible traditions & languages. Featuring keynotes from cultural leaders & digital pioneers, a tech expo, research demos, scientific papers, policy panels, best practice case studies, hands-on workshops, plus tours of technology and heritage labs. It was scheduled for 5 days, combining 18 federating events, with many talks, in 4 amazing venues, 50,000 sqft of expo space and 3 technical tours.
The focus of the conference was on Culture and technology domains from computer science to cultural preservation, archaeology to art, architecture to archiving, museums to musicology, history to humanities, computer games to computer graphics, digital surveying to social science, libraries to language, and many more.
Digital Heritage 2018 was staged at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts as well as in nearby museums and monuments. Fort Mason, a historic former naval facility, sits on the San Francisco Bay with stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
At the same time 2 conferences and 15 special events were held in conjunction with DH2018. The International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia VSMM 2018 – 24th International Conference and the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium PNC 2018 – 25th Conference & Joint Meetings.
The special events included:
Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – CAA Special Symposium;
The Int'l Council on Monuments & Sites/Int'l Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing – ICOMOS/ISPRS CIPA Special Session;
Int'l Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, Space2Place 2018 Special Session on Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage in Conflict Zones;
ICOMOS Int'l Scientific Committee for Interpretation & Presentation of Cultural Heritage (ICIP); ICOMOS ICIP Session on Technology for Interpretation: Challenges & Potential; ICOMOS ICIP Workshop on Evolving Technologies for Interpretation; ICOMOS ICIP Session on Digital for Archaeological Collections;
Association of Canadian Archivists, ACA Special Session on Archives;
California State Parks, CalParks Special Session on 3D Digital Preservation & Best Practices;
Rijksmuseum, 2+3D Photography Special Session;
Centre for Architecture, Urbanism & Global Heritage, Nottingham Trent Univ. & Middle East Virtual Heritage Network, 5D Virtual Heritage of Medieval Culture Special Session;
EU E-RIHS Project and Dr. Luca Pezzati & Dr. Sofia Pescarin, Italian National Research Council, E-RIHS Project: Panel on Infrastructure for Heritage Sciences;
EU ARIADNE Project & Community, ARIADNE Session: Is Your Archaeological Data FAIR Enough?
EU PARTHENOS Project, with the Research Data Alliance, Science Europe, and more, PARTHENOS Roundtable: "FAIR" Research Data Openness: Policies & Strategies;
EU REVEAL Project and Italian National Research Council ITABC & ITD, REVEAL Videogames & Multimedia: New Challenges for Museums, Schools & Tourism;
Sheffield Hallam Univ. & EU MeSch Project, Tangible & Embodied Experiences Special Session;
EMOTIVE EU Project & Univ. of Glasgow & Univ. of Athens & ATHENA RC, Emotions in Digital Cultural Heritage Special Session.
The Exhibition of DH2018 featured an expo of cutting-edge technology and applications for heritage, but unfortunately it only lasted for a day and a half (open Saturday from 12:30pm and all day Sunday). So, participants did not have the opportunity to visit all impressive booths.
At the side of the Conference there were certain social events, like the gala dinner on board the SS Jeremiah O'Brien. A piece of WWII living history, offering also tours on this National Liberty Ship Memorial on Sunday evening. Although initially planned to take the ship out on the Bay, due to unforeseen mechanical problems, the ship remained docked at Pier 45. During dinner a special guest keynote on the underwater 3D digitization effort to document the famed USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor was organized.
The Conference was very expensive, as is San Francisco, (620 USD General registration, 560 USD for Academics and 400USD for students). These fees included the badge, the lunches (from canteens on-wheels on 3 days), the gala dinner but not the technical tours "offered".
As is common in such events, there were a lot of things going on at the same time. Day schedule was updated on-line and sessions were moved from venue to venue depending on electronically declared attendance. Some of the keynotes were very interesting. Most impressive was the introductory keynote by Dr. Brewster Kahle Internet Archive Founder and Digital Librarian and the "interview" of Vint Cerf, Vice President of Google, by Chance Coughenour from Google Arts & Culture.
The CIPA Special Session was very well attended and 8 papers were presented followed by discussion. The CIPA Special Session was entitled 3D Documentation of Heritage (ICOMOS/ISPRS CIPA Special Session), and it was moderated by Prof Andreas Georgopoulos. The titles of the papers were:
Image Processing Scheme for Archiving Epigraphs (Hideyuki Uesugi, Masayuki Uesugi and Teruhiro Tani);
The digitisation of museum collections for research, management and enhancement of tangible and intangible heritage (Massimiliano Lo Turco, Fulvio Rinaudo, Paolo Piumatti, Michele Calvano, Alessandra Spreafico and Giacomo Patrucco);
Roc-cut architecture: modeling Mahabalipuram (Alfonso Ippolito and Martina Attenni);
Digital Documentation Workflow and Challenges for Tropical Vernacular Architecture in the Case of the Kasepuhan Palace in Cirebon, Indonesia (Arnadi Murtiyoso, Pierre Grussenmeyer, Deni Suwardhi, Dirga Sumantri, Shafarina Wahyu, Iwan Purnama, Sutrisno Murtiyoso, Gina Andryana and Rabby Awalludin);
Rome under Rome: survey and analysis of the east excavation area beneath the Basilica Iulia (Marco Galli, Carlo Inglese, Tommaso Ismaelli and Marika Griffo);
Image Base Modelling, 3D Laser scan & Gigapixel survey for the documentation of Carlo Lucangeli's Flavian Amphitheater wood model (Graziano Mario Valenti and Jessica Romor);
The critical reconstruction of the Temple – Theatre complex in the Italic Sanctuary of Pietrabbondante (Giorgia Potestà and Carlo Bianchini);
Combining an Indoor positioning system (IPS) with Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques in cultural heritage (Panagiotis Parthenios)
The CIPA President was given the floor to welcome the participants during the opening ceremony and was again given the floor during the closing ceremony to advertise our next Symposium in Avila in 2019.
president@www.cipaheritagedocumentation.org
The CIPA International Symposium 2019 is Open for Paper Submission
I would like to update you on our preparations for the CIPA International Symposium 2019 to be held in Ávila, Spain, 1-5 September. Please find below the most important information for your participation.
The registration for the CIPA International Symposium is now available here.
Papers in all areas of 3D recording, modelling, conserving, documenting, valorization and preservation of cultural heritage are invited. Please check the most important dates for submission here.
On Sunday 1st September and from 10 am to 2 pm, several tutorials will be offered at the Higher Polytechnic School of Ávila. Currently, confirmed topics include underwater photogrammetry, structural analysis by means of finithe elements, open-source web-based platforms, virtual and augmented reality as well as other new tools and technologies applied for Cultural Heritage inventory, management, restoration and conservation. To register for a tutorial, please do not forget to mark your Tutorial preference in the registration form. For further information please see click here.
We have reserved a large number of hotel rooms for participants of the CIPA International Symposium 2019. Details on all hotels are provided here. We strongly recommend to book your hotel room as soon as possible since on September 6 the XXIII edition of the Medieval Market opens and Ávila will host many visitors during these days.
The most emblematic places of Ávila: the Walls, the Cathedral, the Convent of St. Teresa and St. Vicent will be visited. In addition, congress attendes will be able to enjoy the Medieval Market and the International Circus Festival, two cultural events of recognized international prestige that will take place the weekend before and after the congress.
We're looking forward to your participation in the CIPA International Symposium 2019!
On behalf of the local organising committee and all workshop convenors,
Fabio Remondino and Diego González-Aguilera, the congress Directors.
Fabio Remondino
remondino@fbk.eu
3dom.fbk.eu
CIPA summer school 2019
CIPA is happy to announce its 6th Heritage Documentation Summer School on "Cultural Heritage 3D Surveying and Modelling" which will take place from 14-20 July 2019 in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. As with the past five editions, this summer school will consist of theoretical lectures (on photogrammetry/computer vision, laser scanning, photography and total station survey) and practical work, in the field and in the lab.
CIPA summer school in Zadar (2018). Photograph by Geert Verhoeven
The school is an opportunity for master and PhD students, researchers and practitioners, archaeologists, architects, restorers, conservationists and geomatic experts to get a thorough, well-structured theoretical introduction into 3D surveying and modelling for cultural heritage along with lots of practical hands-on experience with small artefacts and bigger archaeological structures.
More information about this summer school can be found in the following document.
Since this is will be the sixth summer school in a row, you can also find some impressions of past summer schools on our website as well as our YouTube channel.
ICOMOS Emerging Professionals Working Group (EPWG)
New CIPA representative
With the start of 2019, CIPA has appointed Rebecca Napolitano of Princeton University representative to the ICOMOS Emerging Professionals Working Group. A very promising and active scholar in the field of heritage recording.
The EPWG was established in 2017 in response to a call for expansion to the Emerging Professional membership base of ICOMOS. One of the main aims of this group is to become a platform where emerging professionals in the culture, conservation, and heritage industries can network with ICOMOS members and partner organizations. Since its inception, this group has been regularly involved with international projects such as the International Day for Monuments and Sites where they focused on fostering inter-generational dialogue through conferences, training sessions, round tables, and interactive tours among other methods. If you are not yet a member of ICOMOS and would like to join, please go here.
In future newsletters, there will be a dedicated section to updates from the working group and opportunities relevant to emerging professionals within CIPA. Opportunities will include but are not limited to academic openings, fellowships and grants, workshops, and professional development. Look out for this section in future newsletters! If you have relevant news or opportunities that you would like to contribute to this section, please reach out to Rebecca Napolitano.
For more information about the EPWG please see here and here.
Rebecca Napolitano
rkn2@princeton.edu
rebeccanapolitano.wordpress.com
A scholar opportunity in GCI
Mario Santana Quintero, Vice President of CIPA has been granted a Getty Conservation Institute's (GCI) scholar opportunity to research about ethical principles for the application of Digital Workflows in Heritage Conservation (see also here). This work is based on utilizing the magnificent bibliographical sources of the Getty, as well as, interacting with the excellent scientific expertise of the GCI and reviewing projects. The outcome of this research is aimed at assisting heritage recording specialists in meeting ethical principles that will improve the role of digital information in the decision-making process for the conservation of heritage places.
Also, the ICOMOS Ethical principles will be used basis for the development of a framework for the preservation of digital records produced by these workflows that will transcend to future generations. Mario will be staying at the premises of the institute from January to March 2019. The preliminary results of the work will be revealed at CIPA Avila 2019 with the organization of an expert panel to discuss the issues of ethics in CIPA's work.
Photo by Giancralo Buzzanca with GCI Scholars 2019 (left to right): Giancarlo Buzzanca, Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Cameron Trowbridge (Manager, GCI Information Centre) and Mario Santana Quintero
Mario Santana
mario.santana@carleton.ca
New robotic arm for autonomous 3D scanning
The research lab CultLab3D has developed the new 3D scanning technology CultArm3D-P. The colour-calibrated robotic arm automatically scans the geometry and texture of previously unknown objects up to 50 cm in size, based on photogrammetry. The 3D results are of high-resolution (down to 30 µm) and generally do not require any post-processing.
Intelligent algorithms use a first scan to determine which others are needed subsequently. This allows the scan arm to independently plan the views required and capture any object with the optimum number of scans without the scanner having the CAD models. The result is a significantly reduced scan time of a maximum of 15 minutes. This unique feature makes CultArm3D-P the optimal and flexible solution to digitize any object in 3D.
CultArm3D-P was exhibited for the first time at photokina, the leading international trade fair for the photo, video and imaging sector, taking place from 26-29 September 2018 in Cologne. The unique arm was presented with the new Phase One camera.
During the project »Digital World Views Online: 3D Models of Historical Globes,« the robotic arm scanner will be applied for the 3D acquisition of historical earth and celestial globes from the archives of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Anna Amalia Library. The colorfast and detailed digitization allow the 800-years-old globes to be virtually accessible to enthusiasts.
For further specifications see here and here.
EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2018 for CultLab3D!
In June 2018, CultLab3D was recognized with the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2018 in the category "research". The ceremony of Europe's most prestigious prize was taking place in the context of the European Heritage Year 2018 "Sharing Heritage" in Berlin, Germany – in the presence of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and patron of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, European Commissioner Tibor Navracsics and Maestro Plácido Domingo.
The accolade honoured the department for its innovative approach for 3D mass digitization and its outstanding achievements in preserving historic assets for Europa and its future generations to come.
The Europa Nostra Award recognizes notable achievements in the field of cultural heritage conservation. It highlights research, education and services by individuals or organizations to raise awareness for heritage protection. The award is supported by Europa Nostra, which awards the prize once in a year since 1978 and since 2002 together with the European Commission.
Press Release Europa Nostra
Photos of ceremony
Constanze Fuhrmann
constanze.fuhrmann@igd.fraunhofer.de
www.cultlab3d.de
Arches Mobile Data Collection App
Available for Testing in Late February
The Getty Conservation Institute is pleased to announce that a new Arches Mobile Data-Collection Application is due to be released for testing in late February 2019 and will include the following features:
Compatibility with Android and iOS devices;
Support of data collection and temporary storage on devices when a network connection is not available;
Synchronization of data (after offline activity) with your Arches instance;
Ability to support user permissions. This will allow an Arches administrator to define access and update controls for volunteer/crowdsourcing data collection efforts;
The Arches Mobile App will work in conjunction with a comprehensive Arches Survey Manager tool within your Arches instance where you can control most aspects of data-collection/survey activities, which may also be used for crowd sourcing.
To receive announcements about this and other Arches news, sign up for the Arches announcement list here.
Also, read a review of the highlights of the Arches project in 2018, including new and planned implementations of the Arches platform.
Learn more about Arches here.
dmyers@getty.edu
archesproject.org
2018 – Zadar (Croatia)


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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jekyll-store/csv_to_products.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jekyll-store/csv_to_products)

A command line tool for parsing a csv of product data into markdown files with front matter suitable for use with [Jekyll-Store Front](https://github.com/jekyll-store/front).

## Usage

To install:

```
$ gem install csv_to_products
```

To parse:

```
$ csv_to_products my-products.csv my-products-folder
```

If the arguments are missing, it will try to parse `products.csv` into the `_products` folder.

Each product must have a unique name and a numeric price.

## Array

Any field name of the form `array[Member]` with be treated as a array. For example a csv with fields like this,

| available_sizes[Small] | available_sizes[Medium] | available_sizes[Large] |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------- | ---------------------- |
| y                      | n                       | y                      |

Will be collected into the front matter as:

```yaml
available_sizes: [Small, Large]
```

All values will be treated as false, except for: `y`, `Y`, `1`, `true`, `yes`, and `Yes`.

## Contributing

1. [Fork it](https://github.com/jekyll-store/csv_to_products/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create a new Pull Request

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People from Danville love to come to Dan River. The high level of precipitation makes Dan River a rather wet place. The wettest month of the year is generally July, that's the one that rains the most while January is frequently the driest month. For the period of the summer months at Dan River highs are typically in the 80's; throughout summer nights temperatures are in the 60's. Through the wintertime this place gets highs in the 40's with temperatures at Dan River dipping down into the 20's through winter nights.


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The Great Buster: A Celebration – Review
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Certificate: E
by Sarah Morgan
While many of the silent era's cinematic giants are largely forgotten, others continue to impress new generations of filmgoers.
Greta Garbo's ethereal beauty still bewitches, while Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd make as many people laugh now as they did in their heydays. Buster Keaton also raises a smile, although I'd argue that it's his technical innovations and incredible stunts that live long in the memory.
During the past few months I've watched a variety of his feature and short films, and it isn't the gags I've come away remembering, but his gymnastic ability and approach to storytelling that still stands the test of time – remember, he was working at a time when film was still in its infancy and directors were creating their own cinematic language.
"Chance meeting"
But there are people out there who believe he's one of the greatest comics that ever lived. Film-maker Peter Bogdanovich, of The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon fame, is one of them.
Before turning to directing himself, Bogdanovich spent time cultivating friendships with a number of great auteurs, including Howard Hawks, Orson Welles and John Ford. He claims during an interview in the special features on this release that he was in the process of tracking Buster Keaton down when he passed away, aged 70, in 1966.
This documentary contains, perhaps, the things Bogdanovich would have liked to have discussed with him and said, had they been able to meet.
The first half of the project deals with Keaton himself, charting his life from his early years as part of a successful vaudeville act with his parents, his chance meeting with Fatty Arbuckle that led to Keaton's cinema career, his rise to fame, fall from grace and rediscovery by a new generation of fans.
The second half turns its attention to the films themselves, with appraisals of all his most notable works and clips showcasing their key moments.
Bogdanovich, who also narrates the production, offers his views, as do a host of famous faces, including Dick Van Dyke – who delivered the eulogy at both Stan Laurel and Keaton's funerals, which were exactly a year apart – Quentin Tarantino, Johnny Knoxville and Richard Lewis.
It's a sterling piece of work that probably won't tell any seasoned Keaton fans anything they don't already know about their hero but will act as a wonderful introduction for those unfamiliar with his work.
Direction8
Screenplay7
Originality7
Soundtrack5
Extras6
Picturehouse Central Q&A with comedian and Buster Keaton aficionado Paul Merton and Buster Keaton historian David Macleod (27mins approx.)
The Great Buster: A Celebration is released on Blu-ray by Screenbound Pictures, £19.99
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Hangman Reloaded
Publisher : JPM International / Maygay
Platform : Nexus
Nexus is a multi-game Skill With Prizes (SWP) pub quiz platform. It features an operator-friendly GUI system menu, and a smart 'Game Manager'.
The Nexus game menu is the first screen that the player sees after they have inserted credit into the machine. There are two game category tabs, SKILL and QUIZ. Pressing either of these tab buttons displays a selection of games from the chosen category.
Each game menu screen can display up to 12 different games. Each game is represented on the menu by an animated icon. When fewer games are present on the menu, larger game icons are used. Touching a game icon, triggers the launching of the game. The player can also control the machine's sound volume from the game menu.
When the service door is opened by the machine's operator, the Nexus system menus can be accessed. Each system menu page is accessed by pressing one of the labelled tab buttons at the left of the screen. The menu pages are:
GAME MANAGER
MANAGER SETUP
The GAME MANAGER screen is where the operator controls the installation and availability of the games on the system. Games for each category are handled separately. The operator selects the menu for SKILL games or QUIZ games by pressing the corresponding tab button at the top of the screen.
All the games that are installed on the system are shown in the form of icons in the central INSTALLED window. Every game requires an iButton, programmed with a corresponding game code, to be present in the Nexus iButton holder. If a game's iButton authorisation code cannot be found by the Nexus system, then the game will not allow the game to be played. The game's icon will be shown shaded out.
The MENU window can accomodate up to 12 authorised installed games. In manual game manager mode, the operator selects the games available to play, by dragging each chosen game icon from the INSTALLED window to one of the 12 slots in the MENU window. Any game can be removed from the available-to-play MENU, by first pressing the chosen game's icon, and then pressing the REMOVE GAME button.
To install new games onto the system, a game CD or DVD is inserted into the DVD-ROM drive. Each game on the disc shows as an icon in the GAME INSTALLATION window. The operator selects one or more of the games by pressing their icons. Then:
if the operator presses INSTALL NOW, the process of copying the game files to the system's hard drive commences immediately.
if the operator presses INSTALL LATER, the process of copying the game files to the system's hard drive commences when the operator exits the menu, by closing the main door.
Any game can be completely removed from the system by selecting its icon in the INSTALLED window, and then pressing REMOVE GAME.
If any of the automatic Game Manager modes have been selected in the MANAGER SETUP screen, the Nexus system automatically selects the best-performing games for the available-to-play MENU. After each pre-selected UPDATE period, each game's performance is re-assessed by the system, and the poorest-performing game is replaced on the MENU by another INSTALLED game. If an operator has one particular game that they want to remain on the menu at all times, even if it performs poorly, then this can be done by pressing the chosen game's icon on the INSTALLED window, and then pressing the SET AS FAVOURITE button.
On the CONFIGURATION screen, the operator can set the machine's payout percentage, volume level, date and time. Common system settings can also be set, including whether certain parameters should be shown in the system's collector refill mode. Zero attract sound can also be switched on or off.
The MANAGER SETUP screen displays the performance STATS of the installed game. Both LONG TERM and SHORT TERM stats are recorded. Short term stats can be cleared by pressing the CLEAR SHORT TERM button.
The Nexus Game Manager is also controlled from this screen. In the GAME MANAGER SETUP window, the AUTO, LO, MED, and HI buttons set the parameters for automatic operation of the Nexus Game Manager. In automatic mode, the Game Manager assesses the performance of each game on the menu over a set period, and updates the games on the menu according to their performance over this period. The operator can set the UPDATE period to 1 or 2 weeks. If the operator selects the OFF button, then the Game Manager operates in manual mode, and the operator has full control of which games are on the menu.
The MONEY screen, allows the operator to test the machine's £1 coin hopper, and to test the coin divert mechanism. The hopper can also be emptied, and its contents automatically counted.
The SWITCHES screen allows the operator to test all of the machine's hardware inputs, including the service and cash door switches, and the refill key. The status of all installed iButtons, or "game dongles", is also displayed.
The SCREEN test menu allows the operator to test and calibrate the machine's LCD touch screen monitor. The monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024 pixels. The majority of installed games run at screen resolutions of 800x600, or 640x480 pixels. For optimal performance the touch screen can be fine adjusted by pressing each of the two CALIBRATE buttons and by following the on screen instructions. Pressing the TEST button, allows the operator to test the accuracy of the touch screen by displaying a cross hair mouse while a finger is dragged around the screen.
Various test images can be displayed. These images are designed to aid the operator to fine tune the display's horizontal and vertical positioning, and to adjust colour, brightness and gamma settings. Various logo screens can also be displayed, for show and presentation purposes.
The METERS screen displays the values of all hardware meters, such as cash in, cash out, etc. All hardware meters on the Nexus system use the latest S.E.C. techonology. All logged errors can also be viewed on this screen. Pressing the CLEAR ERRORS button clears the error log.
The first time the Nexus system is powered up, an INITIALISATION screen is shown. At this point the machine can be setup for standard operation, or for one of two special operation modes:
In SHOW MODE, the machine will be configured for demonstration, and will not require cash to be inserted in order for games to be played
In PROTOCOL MODE, the machine will be configured for industry standard activity logging using an RS-232 protocol
These modes can be set permanently or temporarily.
During game installation, the Nexus system displays the progress of all file copying, and game verification.
Nexus has two refill modes. Both modes require the insertion of a refill key, and for it to be turned. Putting the machine into refill mode allows the operator to top up the £1 coin payout hopper.
The LANDLORD REFILL screen is shown when the refill key is turned with the service door closed.
The COLLECTOR REFILL screen is shown when the refill key is turned with the service door open.
In LANDLORD REFILL mode, the operator can also set the sound level and, depending on the machine's configuration settings,
basic accounting and game high scores can be viewed.
In COLLECTOR REFILL mode, the operator has all the functionality of landlord refill, plus access to the payout hopper. The hopper can be emptied, or topped up to the nominal float amount.
Nexus - Software development - 2004
Software development of the Nexus system commenced in late December 2003. The schedule was very tight, as a launch date of the third week of January 2004 had been promised.
The Nexus shell needed to communicate with lower level systems, such as coin handling and meters, in addition to handling messaging to and from Nexus games. Development work on the Nexus shell was split between two JPM software engineers. Martin was tasked with the development of the operator system menus, and the smart Nexus 'Game Manager' functionality, whilst the front end game menu was developed by a colleague. Martin also liased with ECM Systems, the third party supplier of the Nexus 'Powerhub' coin handling hardware.
In August 2004, Martin produced a dedicated AWP version of the Nexus shell. This later formed the basis of the video shell used in JPM's dual screen Prestige and Tornado cabinets.
Nexus - January 2004
By the third week of January 2004, development had progressed so well that, not only was the Nexus SWP games system able to be announced at the London ATEi trade show, but it was also possible for visitors to play live games on any one of the ranks of machines that were exhibited on both JPM's and Maygay's stands. Potential customers were also able to view the system's user friendly system menus, and see how easily games would be installed and managed on the machine.
By Spring 2004, Nexus had a lot going for it. It was out in the field; a state-of-the art game system, compatible with all pre-existing ItBox games, housed in an attractive modern chrome and brushed-aluminium cabinet, with the latest LCD flat screen monitor, and blue LED illumination technologies. It had been made ready to ship in record time.
Nexus launch - JPM stand ATEi show - January 2004
Nexus was launched jointly by JPM and Maygay at the London ATEi trade show in January 2004. Game updates were released on CD and DVD game packs thoughout 2004 and 2005, including, in April 2005, a bumper DVD of JPM and Maygay games, which included the following games:
Cryptic Clues
Frog In A Liquidizer
Hangman 2
Kong Quiz
Pharaohs Treasure
Weakest Link
Winning Lines
Phil Taylor's Darts
Fruitix
Golf For It
Strike Bowling
Top Trumps Football
Top Trumps Simpsons
Nexus launch - Maygay stand ATEi show - January 2004
A further disc, released in December 2005, included the following games:
Goal For It
Fruitix Jackpot
Cash Cade


Neurons as Time Encoding Machines (TEMs) have been proposed to capture the information present in sensory stimuli and to encode it into spike trains . These neurons, however, produce spikes at firing rates above Nyquist, which is usually much higher than the amount of information actually present in stimuli. We propose a low-rate neuron which exploits the sparsity or compressibility present in natural signals to produce spikes at a firing rate proportional to the amount of information present in the signal rather than its duration. We consider the IAF (Integrate-and-Fire) neuron circuit as presented in , provide appropriate modifications to convert it into a low-rate encoder and develop an algorithm for reconstructing the input stimulus using Compressive Sampling (CS) techniques. The class of input signals is assumed to be a mixture of periodic waveforms, consistent with the brain mechanism of generating and entraining oscillations at multiple frequencies (S in number) simultaneously. The LowRate IAF neuron circuit uses fixed thresholds (δ) as opposed to random thresholds used in . The randomness in inter-spike-interval exhibited in spike trains is produced by an additional component that switches off the IAF circuit (mimicking the "absolute refractory" period) for a random amount of time (with mean μ) after each spike (see figure 1A). We compare the performance of our LowRate neuron firing at spike-rate K (which is determined by the parameters δ and μ) with IAF neurons in  operating at and above Nyquist rate N (>K). Because we inject additive white Gaussian noise into the input signal, we use the traditional measure of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as our performance metric. The recovery method developed is a greedy pursuit algorithm similar to the one described in . Figure 1B plots the mean output SNR vs. input SNR for a signal with S = 10 frequencies and sparse-encoding ratio K/N = 0.3052. The LowRate IAF neuron (even when operating at about one third the Nyquist rate in this example) outperforms the IAF neurons operating at and above Nyquist rates. Figure 1C (for signals with S = 60) demonstrates that an increase in sparse-encoding ratio K/N improves the performance of LowRate IAF neuron. We are currently extending this methodology to signals sparse in other domains as well.
CS IAF neuron A) circuit; output SNR vs. input SNR for B) signals with S = 10 C) signals with S = 60.
By exploiting sparsity, the LowRate IAF neuron encodes the information present in the input stimulus into spike trains with average firing rate well below Nyquist rate while using the spiking information in a smart manner to improve stimulus recovery.


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A standing mirror by BLAKEBROUGH + KING.
Inspired by the tragedy of ancient Greek and Roman mythology.
Narcissus fell in love with his own selfie - in the form of his reflection on the surface of a lake. He subsequently drowned trying to reach himself.
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Manchester City, FFP and the danger posed to Pep Guardiola's reputation – Duncan Castles
The Etihad hierarchy are facing serious allegations regarding their finances.
(Image: UEFA via Getty Images)
Manchester City Football Club has yet to formally deny a single word. There has been just one statement partway through the tidal wave of finely-detailed, document-led allegations that the Abu Dhabi-owned club systematically and repeatedly broke the rules of the competition the Gulf monarchy has spent a decade trying to buy.
"We will not be providing any comment on out of context materials purportedly hacked or stolen from City Football Group and Manchester City personnel and associated people," read the 38-word response. "The attempt to damage the club's reputation is organised and clear."
The allegations, which came to light in German newspaper Der Spiegel are as follows...
Bypassing UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations by structuring sponsorship deals with Abu Dhabi-owned companies such as Etihad Airways in which just 12 per cent of the money flooding on to City's books came from the airline itself, the remainder paid by the club's owners. Keeping more than half of Roberto Mancini's salary off club accounts by signing the coach to a second contract with Al Jazira Club; also owned by Abu Dhabi's royal family.
Selling players' image rights to a tax-haven company owned by a senior Tory politician whose "ongoing operating costs" were funded to the tune of "approximately £11 million" every year from Abu Dhabi. Creating "a central model" that "allows for many of the operational costs to be shifted either fully or partially away from the club".
Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and Pep Guardiola (Image: PA Wire)
Club chairman, and senior Abu Dhabi politician, Khaldoon Al Mubarak telling a UEFA official attempting to negotiate a soft settlement of City's FFP transgressions "that he would rather spend £30million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue them for the next 10 years". City lawyer Simon Cliff responding to the death of UEFA investigator Jean-Luc Dehaene with the words "1 down, 6 to go".
The allegations go on and on, depicting an attitude within the club captured by City director Simon Pearce's conviction that "we can do what we want".
"It was clear in the past that they were making dirty tricks," said La Liga president Javier Tebas last week. "Everything is crystal clear now."
If the allegations are now clear as to what Abu Dhabi has done to one of England's historic football clubs as part of its quest for geopolitical soft power and international branding, the repercussions are not. Their potential scope is so broad it's worth considering just how far this case could go.
Infantino is nicknamed "The Egg" but is he a good one? (Image: REUTERS)
UEFA, whose leadership now is very different from the Michel Platini-Gianni Infantino president-general secretary tandem who let City off with little more than a slap of the wrist in 2014, is exploring options to punish the club. There is a growing call for City to be banned from competing for the trophy the Al Nayhan family so badly wants.
Were City to be excluded from the Champions League one of the club's legitimate income streams would be blocked, and their ability to continue recruiting the game's most talented players compromised. Before Kylian Mbappe agreed to sign for Paris Saint-Germain last year, he asked for a compensation clause should the Qatar-owned club suffer a similar Champions League ban. Would the likes of Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling be content representing owners UEFA forcibly exiled from football's premier club competition?
How would Sterling take to any City exclusion from the Champions League? (Image: Getty Images)
Every season City spent in the Champions League after agreeing the club's FFP punishment with an apparently supine Infantino cost Premier League rivals revenues from the competition. If UEFA confirms the wrongdoing would those clubs have grounds to sue for damages? The dual contracts Abu Dhabi gave Mancini in 2009 before he went on to become the club's first English Premier League-winning manager bring to mind the side contracts used by Rangers before liquidation and forced descent to Scotland's fourth tier. There are obvious grounds for HMRC investigation into tax avoidance at City. And questions as to whether they breach Premier League rules.
Infantino is running for re-election as FIFA president, his candidacy publicly supported by Saudi Arabia, which along with regional ally Abu Dhabi is reported to be part of a $25billion proposal to overhaul the Club World Cup. Infantino needs funds to meet the financial promises that helped him ascend to the top of the world game, but his Club World Cup proposal has angered UEFA with its obvious threat to the Champions League. A UEFA investigation that queried Infantino's role in City and PSG's light FFP punishments has obvious political utility.
Abu Dhabi's multi-billion pound investments in Manchester were facilitated by the Westminster-led 'Project Falcon', "a secret Whitehall unit that gave the United Arab Emirates privileged access to Britain's political elite, prime land deals, world-famous institutions in academia and the NHS".
Among them was a £1billion property deal with Manchester City Council, which kept a report on "the detailed commercial arrangements" of the joint venture secret because it "involved consideration of exempt information relating to the financial or business affairs of particular persons". Last year, Abu Dhabi handed a job to Sir Howard Bernstein, the council's chief executive when the property deal was concluded.
Mourinho and Guardiola go head-to-head on Sunday but the latter says he trusts his club (Image: PA)
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola's hilarious response to Dani Alves' claim his coaching is better than sex
Reputations are at stake, including that of Pep Guardiola. City's manager, the best paid on the planet, expressed his "trust" in the club when queried about Der Spiegel's reporting this week, yet moved to distance himself from any wrongdoing. "Believe me, I'm completely honest," said Guardiola. "So I don't know what happened because I am a manager. I am focused on what happened on the pitch, in the locker room. But about the business, about how they handle this kind of situation, I'm completely out of that."
There has long been an asterisk beside City's trophies under Abu Dhabi, secured with the aid of an unprecedented commitment of €1.47bn on transfer fees alone since 2010. What legacy is there to be had in winning silverware by outspending every opponent while simultaneously breaking competition rules that others diligently adhered to?
"Incredible," said one coach who has spent years trying to outwit City on the field of play upon reading Der Spiegel's reports. "And...will something happen to them? Nothing – for sure."
Nothing? That one's now on the game's governing bodies.


400 years. That is how long the descendants of Abraham had been waiting for God to act. In that time they became slaves under the rule of a genocidal maniac. Life was hard, it was broken, it was dark. God seemed to be nothing more than a distant memory only found in stories from long ago. But, the book of Exodus is the story of a God who acts and shows Himself. God will redeem his people, and Exodus tells us that story. As we start our series on this incredible book we will see the character of God and that He acts on behalf of His people. And we will see that the God who redeemed His people from slavery in Egypt still redeems people from slavery today.


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5G: It's the use cases, dummy
Article By : Brian Santo
Category : Communications
Is 5G real? No. Will it be soon? There are a few trillion reasons why a lot of people want it to be.
Network operators' revenue opportunity for wireless connectivity is likely to exceed $3 trillion by 2026, with the vast majority of revenue growth coming from new industrial applications powered by 5G, according to a new report published by Ericsson. Meanwhile, the 5G-enabled health services segment alone will be worth $1.1 trillion by 2035, according to Qualcomm. If anyone is wondering why there's so much hype about 5G, consider all that potential money (mostly) dependent on 5G that is tantalizingly almost in reach.
The 3GPP is getting closer to ratifying the first 5G specifications, but has yet to do so. Manufacturers who want to supply 5G products hope that semiformal guidelines from organizations like the 5G Open Trial Specification Alliance (initiated by SK Telecom and Verizon) will be very close to the imminent standards, but keep in mind a saying popular in your grandparents' day: close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
And there will be more 5G standards still to come after those initial specs are ratified. It all leaves suppliers having to interpret signs and portents as best they can. Hence the scrutiny of the activities of network operators and the appetite for surveys of carriers about their 5G plans.
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The first use of 5G will almost certainly be for wireless telephony and broadband services, which is to say providing more of the same, only faster. Media and entertainment is moving to 4G; the increase in consumption of 4K video and virtual reality video applications being shifted to 5G is a natural evolution, Ericsson said.
But operators' in-house needs to improve existing services are only half the story – actually much less than half, by one measure. To get the full story, recall that 5G is as much a means for new applications as it is an end unto itself.
Ericsson calculates that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for revenue through 2026 associated with current services will be 1.5 percent. Meanwhile, the revenue CAGR associated with industry digitalization – largely but not exclusively the IoT – will be 13.6 percent. Talking dollars, that would be service revenue going from $1.4 trillion in 2016 to $1.7 trillion in 2026, and industry digitalization revenue going from $968 billion in 2016 to $3.4 trillion in 2026.
If the revenue opportunity with fixed broadband is incremental, why are companies like AT&T and Verizon pursuing it so aggressively? Part of the answer is that the evolution to 5G has to be monetized. Two of the ways to do that are to seize market share from rivals with superior performance or with superior price (or both).
Even with that, it remains apparent why the IoT aspect of 5G is intriguing to network operators of all kinds. While many of these applications appear to be economical only with wireless connectivity, for some applications, a wireline connection will do just fine. Do not forget that wireless carriers are not only racing each other, they are also racing their wireline rivals.
Ericsson has taken to characterizing business of providing communications services to industry verticals as B2B2X, or business to business to (business or consumer). The company surveyed 50 companies around the world, and considered over 400 use cases, 5G enabled or not.
In a webcast to introduce the report, Peter Linder, Ericsson's director of business development, business area digital systems, North America, compared the state of the 5G market today to its state last year. "Operators are past planning stage. Development activity is down," he said, "activity is shifted to trials and building up readiness. Commercial deployment is the next big wave. That's the big shift."
The other big shift is that while last year the majority of survey respondents were pursuing 5G for consumer services, this year there's a more even distribution of interest in both consumer and industrial applications.
"It's not that consumer is going down so much," said Ericsson 5G marketing director Monkia Bylehn, who co-hosted the webinar with Linder. "Mobile broadband will continue to be important, but to capture growth, operators want to target the business cases."
The business cases – the digitizing industries – that Ericsson identified, in order of projected size in 2026 (largest to smallest), include energy & utilities, manufacturing, public safety, healthcare, public transport, media & entertainment, automotive, financial services, retail, and agriculture. The last two categories are new additions to Ericsson's 2017 report on the subject, its second annual.
The main finding in the report, Bylehn said, is that in 2026, the company sees a $619 billion revenue opportunity in the industrial market. "Compared to traditional service revenue, it's a 36 percent opportunity in revenue growth in these 10 industries," she said.
Separately, Qualcomm published a report quoting IHS Market's projection that 5G will enable more than $1.1 trillion in sales for the health market by 2035.
The opportunities will include continuous monitoring of sensors tracking health conditions; predictive analytics that take advantage of monitoring data to improve care; and remote diagnostics and imaging. The report refers to this as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).
IoMT could improve health care in general, and it could be used to develop new business models that could help in controlling health care costs.
Part of that problem, for both carriers evolving to 5G and their suppliers, is a surfeit of choices. The top two business cases listed above (energy and manufacturing) together represent close to 40 percent of the opportunity just by themselves, by Ericsson's calculations. That makes them compelling, but each of the next five represent roughly 10 percent of the opportunity, making them attractive as well.
When 4G came out, the driver was the smartphone, Linder observed. "The network was there, and then there were apps developed to fuel growth. As we look to what 5G will look like, there will be significantly more devices, and more ways to slice the network, and a variety of applications. There will be more to capitalize on, but more choices because you can't do them all at once."
The task of planning is complicated further. Take the retail segment, for example. There might be a large opportunity using VR and augmented reality (AR) for showing people how a sofa might look in their living room or how a garment would look on the customer when worn. That will likely require 5G connectivity. 5G isn't necessary connecting point-of-sale (POS) equipment, however. The total opportunity for wireless connectivity in retail might be large, but the opportunity for 5G might be significantly smaller, Bylehn cautioned.
"You have a choice," Linden concluded in the webinar. "Will you go for mobile use cases first, or fixed wireless? Will you target consumers, enterprise, or industry verticals, or two of those? Operators can vary from region to region. There will be differences from operator to operator."
Brian Santo has been writing about science and technology for over 30 years, covering cable networks, broadband, wireless, the Internet of things, T&M, semiconductors, consumer electronics, and more.
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Slack shares open at $38.50 on NYSE after unusual direct listing
Slack Technologies Inc. opened at $38.50 on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, valuing the office chat software maker at about $19.5 billion.
Shares started trading at 12:08 p.m., almost three hours after Slack Chief Executive Officer Stewart Butterfield rang the opening bell at the exchange.
Unlike a traditional initial public offering, Slack's decision to pursue a direct listing means there was no offer price for the shares. Instead, advisers spent the morning gathering buy and sell orders to assess what the first-trade price should be. The stock exchange set a reference price Wednesday of $26 a share.
The market valuation of the company is based on the outstanding Class A and Class B shares, and doesn't include restricted stock units.
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Are they going to do well in the next tournament? Time will tell!
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Security researcher crafts product that associates data from multiple sources and could provide enough information for ID fraudsters.
At least four exploits for vulnerability in the Windows domain name system service were published over the weekend.
Looking for an ATM? Soon-to-be Microsoft company launches a service that uses voice or text messages to give directory listings.
When tragedies like the school massacre occur, the news media are increasingly turning to bloggers for first-hand information.
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The home foreclosure crisis generated by subprime lending continues to get worse by the day. The trouble started a few years ago when mortgage interest rates dropped to staggering lows and low-income buyers could purchase a home with the help of a subprime loan – despite their lower credit scores. Today, those rates have skyrocketed up to 12-13 percent, leaving those buyers, and often, first-time home owners, few options. As a result, foreclosure numbers continue to climb.
And because the housing market is in a downturn and the high loan to values allowed on these loans, selling the house isn't an option either since they aren't going to get what the house is worth and closing costs alone can be in the thousands of dollars. Hardest hit are borrowers in states like Texas and Michigan, which led the country in the number of new foreclosures in 2006. National and state lawmakers are currently drafting bills in an attempt to stop the bleeding, but Sandra Braustein, director of the Federal Reserve's division of consumer and community affairs said problems with subprime mortgages could last for another two years.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be opening palace doors for us all: Teitel
By Emma TeitelNational Columnist
Who knew that Prince Harry, the seemingly daft but cute British monarch prone to donning Nazi apparel and walking around in the buff, would be the guy to finally usher his noble brood into the 21st century?
And yet it's true. News emerged recently that Prince Harry is dating American actress Meghan Markle, who unlike the relentlessly Caucasian British monarchy, hails from a mixed-race background. Markle's mother is African-American; her father is white.
No big deal, you might be thinking. Welcome to 2016, where interracial unions are more common than ever before. Besides, as far as stories about diversity and representation go, there are far more interesting ones floating around right now than "When Harry Met Meghan." Cover Girl just named its first Muslim brand ambassador, Nura Afia, who wears a hijab; the National Women's Hockey League welcomed its first openly transgender player; and DC comics recently launched Midnighter and Apollo, the first mainstream comic to star a pair of same-sex, crime-fighting, superhero lovers. What's so special about one heterosexual interracial couple compared to all of that?
Not much, until you consider the British monarchy's long and checkered history of royal bigotry. A mere half-millennium ago, in 1596, Queen Elizabeth I, free-spirited daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII and patron of Shakespeare, wrote a letter to the mayors of several English cities, complaining that too many black people had begun showing up in the country. (She subsequently also requested that they be deported, although she made no noise about building a wall.) Of course this was the 1500s, when, we're led to believe, you didn't have to be royal to be racist.
For more recent proof, let's fast forward back to 1986, and eavesdrop on Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, warning a group of British exchange students in the Chinese city of Xi'an that if they stayed in China any longer they'd become "slitty-eyed". (Prince Philip later doubled down on the comment, alleging that nobody in China seemed to mind the remark, so why should anybody else?) And who can forget Princess Michael of Kent's infamous New York restaurant tantrum of 2004, when the Princess, (wife of Prince Michael of Kent, a cousin of today's Queen Elizabeth) allegedly told a table African-American diners, who she felt were having too good a time, to "go back to the colonies."
In tolerance terms, in short, the royals have been — as the kids these days like to say — a "problematic" lot.
But their youngish progeny: William, Kate and, yes, even Harry, are conversely kind of cool. They are modern. Prince William, echoing his late mother Diana's gay-friendly bent, became the first British royal in history to appear on the cover of an LGBT publication (Attitude Magazine). And Prince Harry, while perhaps not the sharpest tool in the shed, seems to have come along way since the Nazi costume incident.
My intention here isn't primarily to give terrifically privileged white people props for being less bigoted than their ancestors, but to point out that this progressive shift in the mindset of England's royal family may one day open the doors of Buckingham Palace to all different kinds of suitors. Thanks to examples like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the role of romantic partner to a prince or princess, one previously reserved for white heterosexuals, is expanding surely, if slowly.
Personally, I've never been able to fully commit to royal fascination; I always suspected that were Prince George to grow up to have more in common with Boy George than King George, he'd probably be asked by the familial powers that be to keep quiet about his sexual proclivities.
But if Harry marries Meghan in the next decade or so, maybe not. And come three or four more decades, we may all have a shot — colour, creed and orientation be damned — at shacking up with members of one of the richest, and certainly most exclusive, clans on the face of the planet.
Sure, worshipping royalty — an archaic, regressive and criminally extravagant private club — is probably as illogical as it is embarrassing.
But as soon as the possibility arises — however tiny — that you too might one day be asked to join, it's funny how reasonable and necessary that private club can start to look.
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Made his debut in a Patriot uniform and contributed on special teams in the win at the New York Jets (11/25).
Contributed on special teams in the win vs. Minnesota (12/2).
Contributed mostly on special teams where he recovered a blocked punt by LB Albert McClellan that gave the Patriots possession in the red area during the game at Miami (12/9).
Contributed on special teams at Pittsburgh (12/16) and helped down a punt at the 1-yard line after an acrobatic effort from Jon Jones and Rex Burkhead to prevent a touchback in the end zone.
Contributed on special teams in the win vs. Buffalo (12/23) and the win vs. the New York Jets (12/30).
Contributed on special teams with two special teams tackles in the AFC Divisional Playoff win vs. L.A. Chargers (1/13).
Made one tackle on special teams in the AFC Championship victory at Kansas City (1/20).
Contributed on special teams in the Super Bowl LIII victory vs. the Los Angeles Rams (2/3).
Appeared in nine regular season games and made five tackles, while contributing mostly on special teams where he made four special teams tackles.
Appeared in 13 regular season games with nine starts at linebacker and recorded 83 tackles, one sack, one pass defensed, a forced fumble and six special teams stops.
Started at linebacker in the AFC Wild Card game at Jacksonville (1/7) and recorded six tackles.
Played in all 16 regular season games with one start, appearingly mostly on special teams, while compiling five tackles to go along with 12 special teams tackles.
Played in 14 games with four starts at middle linebacker and registered 47 tackles, one sack, one pass defensed and nine special teams tackles.
Played in 15 games with six starts and registered a career-high 50 tackles, one sack, one pass defensed and 13 special teams tackles.
Started at linebacker vs. San Francisco (11/9) and accumulated a season-high 12 tackles, one sack and one special teams tackle.
Recorded seven tackles on defense and tied a single-game career high with four special teams tackles in the season finale at Tampa Bay (12/28).
Appeared in all 16 regular-season games with three starts and compiled 29 tackles, ½ sack, one pass defensed and nine special teams tackles.
Played in both postseason contests with one start and registered seven tackles on defense and one on special teams.
Started at linebacker vs. San Francisco (11/17) and recorded five tackles.
Posted one special teams stop and recovered an onside kick at St. Louis (12/15).
Recovered an onside kick for the second consecutive week at Carolina (12/22).
Made his first career postseason start in the NFC Divisional Playoff at Seattle (1/11) and recorded a postseason career-high seven tackles.
Appeared in 13 regular-season games as a reserve, contributing mainly on special teams with nine tackles on defense and 14 on special teams.
Led special teams with a single-game career-high tying four tackles vs. San Diego (10/7).
After being waived at the conclusion of the preseason, Humber returned to the Saints in late September and played in 13 games with three starts and recorded 24 tackles, one sack, one pass defensed and eight special teams stops.
Played in both postseason contests and registered one special teams tackle.
Saw action at linebacker vs. Carolina (1/1) and posted a team-high seven tackles.
Signed with the Saints on Dec. 1 and appeared in three regular-season contests as a reserve and made three special teams tackles.
Played in one playoff game and made two special teams tackles.
Appeared in the first two games of the regular season with the Colts and posted one defensive tackle and two special teams stops.
Suffered a hand injury and was placed on Injured Reserve before being released on Nov. 9.
Played in all 16 regular-season games with two starts as a rookie and posted 32 tackles and a fumble to go along with 17 special-teams tackles.
Registered a season-high three special teams tackles and forced a fumble vs. San Francisco (11/1).
Made his first career start vs. N.Y. Jets (12/27) and made a career-high 10 tackles.
Posted two special teams tackles in the AFC Championship vs. N.Y. Jets (1/24).


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Britney Goes Gay?
By Andrew Belonsky August 15, 2007 at 11:08am
Despite the fact that she hasn't released an album in years, Britney Spears again lands an OK! magazine cover this month. And, from the looks of it, lil Brit's getting a little lesbianic. Not only do sources say the pop-star got down and funky with her female assistant, Shannon Funk:
Britney's quick tryst with Matt Encinias made headlines, but the music-video extra wasn't the real target of Brit's affection that night. OK! has learned that Britney spent the evening topless, nuzzling up to her former assistant Shannon Funk! "Instead of hooking up with him, [Shannon] ended up back in Brit's room and bed," a source tells OK!. Britney has been experimenting with girls since her teen years. She even put the moves on porn queen Jenna Jameson. "Jenna told me that Britney hit on her and that she hooks up with girls," says adult-movie actress Tera Patrick.
Britney's obviously got better taste in women than she does in men…
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Dawster
we lost Angelina Jolie but gained Britney? eeks! we're going backwards again….
Geez. I didn't realize this was what she meant when she did that interview praising Bush a couple years ago.
That child needs to grow up and take care of her children before her loser husband actually succeeds in taking them away from her.
Martini-boy
As the cover says, she's a "troubled star." She's in a lesbian relationship now because she's fucked in the head, not because she wants to be in a genuine relationship with a woman…
That's the kind of tone I'm getting from the blurb underneath the headline. Some people just aren't down with Britney being a lady-lover.
Hey, at least her kids will have a REAL mom now…