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Catholic Charities Omaha Turns 'Irish Fest' Into Virtual Event
Celebration and Safety are Critical to Continuing Mission of Helping 80,000 People Annually
OMAHA, Nebraska – With the coronavirus cancelling hundreds of events, Catholic Charities of Omaha is moving its biggest fundraising event of the year – Irish Fest – to a virtual event to help support the services it provides to more than 80,000 people in need every year.
"Cancellation isn't in our vocabulary," said Fr. Mike Eckley, Executive Director of Catholic Charities Omaha. "Caring for those in need is."
The virtual event will include presentation of the first Fr. Mel Merwald Spirit of Courage Award to a Catholic Charities' client who has overcome adversity, as well as live and silent auctions, said Irish Fest Chairs Janie and Harry Hoch Jr.
"We think this virtual event is an exciting way to expand our "ballroom" to include the larger community," said Harry Hoch Jr. "We hope everyone will want to join us to support people in our community who are suffering from abuse, mental health issues, hunger and more."
The event, originally scheduled for Saturday, March 14 at Marriott Hotel Capitol District, will now be held via Facebook Live, @catholiccharitiesomaha.Those attending virtual Irish Fest will be able to bid on live packages, as well as more than 200 silent auction items. To view all auction items and to register for online bidding visit one.bidpal.net/irishfest2020/welcome. All proceeds will benefit the programs of Catholic Charities. Participants will also be able to "Raise the Paddle" to make donations to support a dedicated mobile pantry vehicle and additional mental health staff.
"Going virtual will allow us to continue to raise the funds we need to provide the life-changing, and often life-saving, services we provide to our brothers and sisters in need," said Fr. Eckley. "And the need becomes even greater in times of crisis like now. This is also a great way for families, friends and individuals to safely enjoy Irish Fest in their own homes."
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Double delight for Matt
By Wally Bridson on April 9, 2018 in News
There was double delight for Matt Ingram at the first Mid-Lancs track & field meeting held at Blackburn's Witton Park. His leap of 13.89 metres in the triple jump not only broke the club's junior record, but put him 3rd on the all time club rankings. Just for good measure he comfortably won the long jump event as well with a jump of 6.61m. Also in the senior rankings, Luke Edwards put in an excellent performance to win the 800 metres in 1:58.3 and Kai Finch won the high jump, in what was a modest performance for him of 1.70m. Ross Harrison ran well to finish 3rd in the 1500m (4:14.7) It was good to see Debbie Dasse back in action, after a long time out with injury, as she won the high jump event (1.48m)
Under 17 Callum Garvey produced a sprint double, winning the 100 metres in 12 sec and setting a new pb of 24.1 to win the 200 metres. He was well supported in the 100m by Ciaran Scroggie (12.2) who finished third and in the 200m by Owen Southern 24.3 (3rd), Harry Steele 24.6 (4th) and Marcus Bathie 25.4 (7th). Earlier Owen had won the high jump (1.80m), with Tom Kwissa (1.70m) making it a one-two. There were no individual winners amongst the girls, but a number picked up valuable points on the day. Alice Prescott (46.8) was 2nd in the 300m, as was Imogen Ayres in the high jump (1.35m), Jessica Groves (9.13m) in the shot and Bethany Swift in the 300m (59.2). Bethany also finished 3rd in the discus (10.68m), with Jenny Williamson 3rd in the 1500m (5:39.9)
Bill Steel dominated the throws in the U15 age group, winning both the javelin (38.12m) and shot (11.63m). In addition he was part of 1,2,3 in the 800m event. Mark Roberts, who has been out injured for a long time, returned to winning ways with an excellent time of 2:14.6 to win the event, with Bill (2:20.4) just beating newcomer, Se Loughlin, (2:20.6) to the line. Sandy Clarkson (1.60m) continued the club's success in the high jump event. Ethan Edwards, despite being at the lower end of this age group, manged a very creditable 4th place finish in the 200m (27.5). There were a number of winning performances from the girls. Martha Simms set a new pb of 4.77 metres in winning the long jump, Hope Kennedy continued her fine run of form in the javelin (26.01m) and Niamh Doyle returned to winning ways in the high jump (1.40m). There was a good all round performance from Abigael Bamber who set 3 pb's in finishing 2nd in the 75m hurdles (12.6), 3rd in the 100m (13.3) & 4th in the shot (7.97m).
There were fewer U13 athletes on the day but there was a fine performance from Katelyn Swift who set a new pb in winning the discus (16.58m), while Chloe Bousfield was 2nd in the 1500m (5:46.0) and Alex Steele won the boy's high jump (1.30m)
Overall the boys finished in 3rd place (149), behind Preston (216) and Blackburn (181). The girls also finished 3rd (129.5) behind winners Blackburn (178) and second place Preston (148)
Outstanding Performance from Elliot
There was an outstanding run from Elliot Jones at Sunday's Open meeting held at Wigan's Robin Park. His victory in the 100 metre race was in a time of 10.72 sec and puts him 6th in the UK senior rankings. There were some other notable performances from under 20 LPS athletes at the same venue. James Metcalfe ran 1:59.06 and Jack Crook 2.00.32 in the 800 metres. At senior level, Danny Higham won the 400 metres in 49.9 sec.
West Lancs Triathlon
Edge Hill played host once again to the popular West Lancashire short course triathlon and LPS had two members participating. Dan Gilbody finished in 30th position in 62.35 while Robbie Wood was 113th (second over 60) in 73.22.
A total of 438 athletes complete the event.
Wally Bridson
Martha Simms.
Emily Williamson leads Chloe Bousfield
Bill Steel
Matt Ingram
Pheobe Lucas
Ross Harrison
Ayres, Bamber, Bathie, Bousfield, Clarkson, Crook, Dasse, Doyle, Edwards, Finch, Garvey, Gilbody, Groves, Harrison, Higham, Ingram, Jones, Kennedy, Kwissa, Loughlin, Metcalf, Owen, Prescott, Roberts, Scroggie, Simms, Steele, Swift, Williamson, Wood
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Adams Corner
Irish Heritage festival a great neighborhood showcase
By Ed Forry
The forecast looks very promising for Sunday's second Irish Heritage festival in Adams Corner— which promises to be a great event for people of all backgrounds to enjoy. Last year's festival drew an estimated 8,000 people to the village and organizers expect an even bigger crowd this weekend.
Adams Corner is well-known far beyond Dorchester as an important crossroads of Irish-American culture. It is home to Greenhills Irish Bakery, Gerard's Adams Corner Shoppe and Restaurant and the iconic Eire Pub among other Irish-themed shops. Last year's festival sought to cement that reputation and bring in crowds from well outside our borders to experience the neighborhood through a lens not always broadcast on the evening news or the daily paper.
Organizer Sean Weir told us last week that the volunteer work to pull the festival started almost as soon as last October's inaugural event ended.
"We were getting calls the day after last year's event from people who wanted to be involved," said Weir, who also serves as president of the Cedar Grove Civic Association. "It was such a success. And that's what we're doing it for: to bring people back to the Adams Corner area and promote the area and have some family-oriented events here."
Weir and his fellow organizers have the right idea. The free street festival will start at 10 a.m. on Sunday and will end with a performance by the U2 cover band Joshua Tree that starts at 7 p.m. The full details of the festival can be viewed online at irishheritagefestival.com.
There is still a need for volunteers who might spare a minimum of two hours during the event — or before and after— to help out with logistics. Volunteers can sign up at the website. The group is also staging a clean-up the day before— Saturday, Oct. 9 starting at 9 a.m.— to prepare for the festival.
Whatever your ethnic roots, come out and experience this all-day street party right in our own backyard.
– Ed Forry
Loscocco the turncoat
Gov. Patrick found one word to describe state Rep. Paul Loscocco's dismount from the Cahill ticket last week: "tacky." We'd go a step further: dishonorable.
Cahill may not be our top choice for the corner office, but surely he deserves better treatment from the lawmaker he teamed up with more than a year ago. Cahill handled Friday's defection with poise and dignity.
"The Loscocco defection means we're going to fight harder," Cahill said, calling his ex-teammate's move reflective of "backroom deals."
GOP candidate Charlie Baker made a misstep by associating himself with a turncoat who didn't even have the courtesy to tell Cahill face-to-face that he was jumping ship. What kind of people are these? One thing seems certain: Cahill is well rid of this running mate.
– Bill Forry


Jamison made her name with research and books on mood disorders, particularly manic depression and how it intersects with the creative impulse (see Touched by fire). This book focuses on one positive emotion, using it as a touchpoint to explore many stories of the exuberant in the sciences and arts as well as bemoaning the current lack of research into the area of positive human emotion. Some of it is a rehash of her previous work on manic-depression, but overall I found a lot to take away from it, including about half a dozen more books to read.
The easy way to describe Griffiths is Cormac McCarthy with some Irvine Welsh thrown in, which is to say: lyrically violent, faithful rendering of Welsh dialect, unapologetic depiction of drug use, etc. This is a ferocious book, focusing as it does on Ianto, a mostly-feral rural Welsh ("sheepshagger") character who is driven into madness and murder by the loss of his familial home (hovel, really). The writing is what keeps this being entirely off-putting and horrific, Griffiths has an amazing ability to draw you into events; I found a chapter that portrayed a rave and its violent aftermath particularly engrossing.
I don't know that I can add anything to the endless list of reviews of Murakami's latest (see metacritic or complete review if you need them); I'll just say that as a Murakami fan I wasn't disappointed, even if it didn't reach the heights of my two favorite Murakami novels, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World or The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, both of which I'd recommend to the first-time Murakami reader.
Inteviews with Tokyo gas attack victims as well as some current and ex-members of Aum, the cult that perpetrated the attacks. Fascinating for the divergent perspectives on being a victim of such a random event.
A painfully well-realized graphic novel on loneliness and sadness. Ware's drawing style is amazingly clever and inventive.
Autobiographical graphic novel about being a child during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Honest and compelling.
Six distinct-but-tenuously-connected narratives, each with their own time, place and narrative voice. I enjoyed the separate narratives (mostly - the middle section started to feel as interminable as the opening section of Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire), but I'm not sure I got the overall point(s) they were meant to cohere into. It probably didn't help that my hopes were pretty high for this book based on the ecstatic nature of some of the reviews; it was clever and well-written, but not earth-shatteringly good.
I'm really looking forward to reading Persepolis 2, I hope it's of similar quality.


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The Belgian Mariners is the rugby club of the Antwerp Maritime Academy and our team colours are blue and white.
Rugby is played on a large field with an oval shaped ball with 2 teams consisting each of 15 players. The objective of the game is to score points by pushing the ball behind the try line (=goal line) or by kicking the ball between the 2 goal posts. In case of a foul there will be a typical rugby formation named a "scrum" and if the ball leaves the field a "line-out" is set up. If a player runs with the ball he can be stopped with a "tackle". In short these are the main principles.
Rugby is a varied and spectacular game where team spirit prevails over individualism on and of the field. It is a contact sport in which fair-play, respect for each other, the opponent and the referee is predominant. These are one of the many reasons why we play the game of rugby union.
Trainings are held weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17.45 until 20.00 on our own field at the Antwerp Maritime Academy (Noordkasteel Oost 6 – 2030 Antwerpen).
We depend of course on the academic year, so do not hesitate to contact us before you come to a training to make sure that we are playing.


Biodiesel is a desirable alternative fuel for the diesel engine due to its low engine-out soot emission tendency. When blended with petroleum-based diesel fuels, soot emissions generally decrease in proportion to the volume fraction of biodiesel in the mixture. While comparisons of engine-out soot measurements between biodiesel blends and petroleum-based diesel have been widely reported, in-cylinder soot evolution has not been experimentally explored to the same extent. To elucidate the soot emission reduction mechanism of biodiesel, a single-cylinder optically-accessible diesel engine was used to compare the in-cylinder soot evolution when fueled with ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) to that using a B20 biodiesel blend (20% vol/vol biodiesel ASTM D6751-03A). Soot temperature and KL factors are simultaneously determined using a novel two-color optical thermometry technique implemented with a high-speed CMOS color camera having wide-band Bayer filters. The crank-angle resolved data allows quantitative comparison of the rate of in-cylinder soot formation. High-speed spray images show that B20 has more splashing during spray wall impingement than ULSD, distributing rebounding fuel droplets over a thicker annular ring interior to the piston bowl periphery. The subsequent soot luminescence is observed by high-speed combustion imaging and soot temperature and KL factor measurements. B20 forms soot both at low KL magnitudes over large areas between fuel jets, and at high values among remnants of the fuel spray, along its axis and away from the bowl edge. In contrast, ULSD soot luminescence is observed exclusively as pool burning on the piston bowl surfaces resulting from fuel wall impingement. The soot KL factor evolution during B20 combustion indicates earlier and significantly greater soot formation than with ULSD. B20 combustion is also observed to have a greater soot oxidation rate which results in lower engine-out soot emissions. Measured soot temperatures near 1875K were similar for the two fuels for the duration of combustion. For both fuels, higher fuel injection pressure led to lower late-cycle soot KL levels. The trends of soot natural luminosity correlated well with the trends of soot KL factor, suggesting that relatively simple measurements of combustion luminosity may provide somewhat quantitative information about in-cylinder soot formation and oxidation. The apparent rate of heat release (ARHR) analysis under steady skip-fire conditions indicates that B20 combustion is less sensitive to wall temperature than that observed with ULSD due to a lesser degree of pool burning. B20 was found to have both a shorter ignition delay and shorter combustion duration than ULSD.
Zha K, Florea R, Jansons M. Comparison of Soot Evolution Using High-Speed CMOS Color Camera and Two-Color Thermometry in an Optical Diesel Engine Fueled With B20 Biodiesel Blend and Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel. ASME. Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, ASME 2011 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference ():273-294. doi:10.1115/ICEF2011-60146.


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PM Encourages Disabled Soldiers Not to Lose Hope
Source: AKP
Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen and his spouse Samdech Kittiprittbandit Bun Rany Hun Sen paid this morning a visit to disabled soldiers and their families at Samdech Techo Hun Sen Kulen 317 Disabled Soldier Development Centre in Siem Reap province, on the occasion of the Khmer Traditional New Year.
Speaking at the event, the premier encouraged the soldiers with disabilities not to lose hope, stressing that they are physically, but not psychologically disabled. "Therefore, we need to continue living in this developing society, especially for the future of our children," he said.
Besides, Samdech Techo Hun Sen appealed to wives and children of the disabled soldiers not feel ashamed as no one wants to become disabled by pointing out that he himself is also a disabled person for the cause of national liberation from civil wars.
He further highlighted the Royal Government of Cambodia's high attention to the soldiers with disabilities.
On the occasion, Samdech Techo Hun Sen gave donations to the disabled soldiers and their families, and the centre's teachers and students, and announced to provide a new school building of two stories and 12 rooms, along with sports facilities to the centre.
Inaugurated in 2011, Samdech Techo Hun Sen Kulen 317 Disabled Soldier Development Centre is located in Balaing commune, Banteay Srey district. It is home to 230 families of disabled soldiers, 18 families of voluntary teachers, and 2 families of voluntary midwives. The centre is also composed of a school, a health centre and a pagoda.


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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Stephen Hawking Book
Telling the stories of the most inspiring and innovative minds in history, explore the life of Stephen Hawking with the Little People Big Dreams series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara.
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Featuring original illustrations and a timeline with photos, the book tells the story of Stephen Hawking, from his early life to his later career, making one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20th century.
The Little People, BIG DREAMS series is a bestselling collection of books exploring the lives of outstanding people, right from their early childhood dreams. Created by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vergara, the books are written in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. Each tale is sure to inspire your child and excite their imagination.
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Thank you to all who hosted, contributed to, or attended the events in support of Judge Laura Liu.
Special thanks to Steve and Gail Taggart for hosting a lovely reception with friends.
Special thanks to Brian Farley, Patti Marshall, Pam Farley, Andreas Antoniou and Lisa and Mike Shydlowshi.
Special thanks to Sheila O'Grady, Mary Pat Burns, Sharyl Mackey and John Colletti.
Special thanks to Sheila & Chris Kennedy, Jodi & Chris Wilson, Mimi & Ben Rodman and Robert & Sheila Berner.
Special thanks to Joe and Cecilia Hylak-Reinholtz.
Special thanks to Edward Hogan and members of the law firm Hogan Marren, ltd.
Special Guest Mayor Emanuel joined us at Phoenix Restaurant. Thanks to Tony Shu, Raymond Chin, and all members of the host committee.
Special thanks to Jon Erickson, Jay Rowell, Geno Zaharakis and the Host Committee.
Judge Liu participated in the holiday festivities for senior citizens at the Chinatown Seniors Holiday Party.
Judge Liu called Bingo and awarded prizes at Alderman Michele Smith's annual Senior Bingo.
Judge Liu was unaminously endorsed by the 8th Subcircuit Democratic Committeemen.
Judge Liu participated on a panel to select the 2012 Miss Friendship Ambassador who will represent Chicago in the Hong Kong international program.
Judge Liu marched in the annual Von Steuben Parade in Lincoln Square as part of the 2011 German American Fest celebration.
Judge Liu administered the Oath to the new Officers and Directors of AABA.
Judge Liu participated in a Q&A session at the Daley Center with law students from Mexico City about the American judicial system.
Judge Liu, along with her family and friends, walked in the city's 42nd Annual Pride Parade, which drew over 400,000 spectators this year. Their group of walkers was one of the 250 registered entries in the event, which has become the second largest parade in Chicago.
Judge Liu spoke at the Daley Center with young students from the inaugural class of the Illinois Law and Leadership Institute, a summer enrichment pilot program created by the Illinois State Bar Association to encourage minority and socially disadvantaged students who have an interest in pursuing a legal career.
Judge Liu served as the moderator for the state judge panel in "Pathways to the Judiciary," a CLE program hosted by AABA.
Judge Liu hosted a luncheon at the Daley Center courtroom for members of a Beijing, China delegation comprised of approximately 20 judges, prosecutors, law professors and social workers, who spent three months in Chicago to observe the Cook County judicial and administrative legal processes.
Judge Liu became a member of the Board of the Illinois Judges Foundation, a charitable organization involving several initiatives to further diversity and inclusion in the legal community, including a summer judicial internship program comprised of minority or financially disadvantaged law students.
Judge Liu rated contestants as a panel judge during a karaoke fundraiser held by the Asian American Law Foundation at Brandon's Speakeasy. The proceeds are used to fund scholarships for minority law students in the Chicago community.
Judge Liu was welcomed by approximately 120 7th and 8th graders at John C. Haines Elementary School located in Chicago's Chinatown community, where she spoke to the students about her Chinese heritage and its influence in her education and career paths.
Judge Liu spoke on the theme of "Breaking Barriers" at the DePaul University College of Law Asian Pacific American Law Students Association annual scholarship awards dinner, which honors law students who have given significant service to the Asian Pacific community.
Judge Liu, the first female Chinese American judge to serve in Illinois, was honored during the Annual Lunar New Year Reception held at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The event was co-hosted by AABA, CABA, and KABA, and recognized three new Asian American judges.
Judge Liu served as a panelist for a law student forum on private and public sector careers in law, hosted by Asian American Bar Association at the John Marshall Law School.


TORONTO – The Reds and Eriq Zavaleta have agreed to terms on a new contract to extend the 25-year-old's stay at BMO Field.
The deal could be revealed in the coming days, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Zavaleta started 27 regular season games last season en route to helping TFC to an MLS Cup win. He appeared in four playoff games in 2017.
Coach Greg Vanney's unremarkable decision to trade for Zavaleta — his nephew — before the 2015 season paid off big time midway through 2016 when Zavaleta became an everyday starter across TFC's improved back line.
Since then, the former Indiana University striker has appeared in 10 playoff fixtures for the Reds, becoming a key cog in Toronto's vastly improved defence.
Inking Zavaleta to a new deal became paramount this offseason following Steven Beitashour's departure to Los Angeles FC.
Furthermore, Jason Hernandez remains out of contract. The Toronto Sun understands the Reds are still in talks to bring Hernandez into the fold as preseason gets set to open next week.
Additionally, out-of-contract Japanese midfielder Tsubasa Endoh is expected to be in preseason with the Reds.
Oyvind Alseth is said to be weighing an invite to compete for a roster spot after having his option declined at the end of last season, though he's considering club options in Norway.
The Sun confirmed Wednesday night that Armando Cooper is exploring options outside Major League Soccer.


For my arscultpure I made a snake altar that comes out of a toilet to embody childhood fears. My project stemmed from an irrational fear I had as a child where I was afraid that a snake would come up the toilet as I sat on it. Through this the sense of threat of the toilet snakes only become apparent when the body is present, so I made the snake head appear out of nowhere when the viewer gets closer to highlight the unexpected nature of this hypothetical event. I had a fair amount of trouble with the scaling and placing of my sculpture so I placed an ideal scenario image underneath which is what I had initially envisioned for this piece.
Using the Gutenberg Poetry corpus as my starting point, I wanted to explore ways to generate or find Iambic pentameters. The primary basis for this was that I wanted my final poems to make some semblance of rhyming sense, using the stress structure of the Iambic pentameter to act as a platform in assisting this.
Taking the some 3 millions lines of poetry in the corpus, I created two programs: One to filter out all the Iambic Pentameters that had the word 'Hand' in it (taking primary inspiration for this from a dataset of handprint images that I wanted to use), and another to filter out all the Iambic Pentameters. I discovered that there were only 18 lines that possessed the word hand, nowhere near enough to use to generate all my poems as I initially intended. Instead, I decided to use these lines as the starting lines for 18 poems, creating a structure of starting point that could connect all 25 iterations of the chapter (a notion I was a big fan of).
From this I started to find rhymes for these lines in the larger Iambic line corpus I had found, and again was woefully short of lines. From this I decided to create the structure of randomly finding a line with the body of Iambics and swapping out the last word (which I filtered out with matching structure (noun, adjective etc) with the line before to make the replacement more sensible) with a word that rhymed with the line before and had the Iambic stress structure. From this I had to use RiTa to find rhymes for the lines, from which I ran into a snag of rhyming with plurals (which made rhyming but not grammatical sense) which I sorted by removing the final 's' on each one (it also didn't like old english use of apostrophes, for example walk'd, which I largely also swapped out for e) . With this all completed, I had 18 pairs of lines which I felt could be extended, hence the continuation to 14 lines in the structure of a sonnet using another 6 random line pairings found from the corpus. With these generated, I then had to create a program to filter these collections into JSON files to be used for the generative layouts.
With this completed, I started to sort through all the and images, and divided them into left and right facing hands, and using this divide randomly generated hand pairings for the pages of the book such that the thumbs faced toward the spine and the space left above them could be used to place the text within.
Overall, I had initially intended to use an image set as a starting point but found that for the sake of poetic sense I should use the text. Having generated the Iambics, I sorted through image sets at hand to determine what pairings between image and text could be made, and thus the connection between the hands came about.
I am particularly happy with the outcome, especially the extent to which the poetic license of the sonnets is pushed. However, I feel that this could definitely be taken further, where instead of randomly finding new lines to fill in the sonnets, I would filter the Iambics for their content and generate poems whose lines connected more with the content they possessed. Through this, my swapping of final words to rhymes could also be greater filtered in connection to the line it is being swapped into to ensure more sense as well.
// Export a multi-page PDF alphabet book.
// The book format is 6" x 9".
// Each inch is 72 pixels (or points).
// and calling createFont("fontname.ttf") will also work.
// Using the filenames from the JSON array.
I feel that the concept that stuck with me the most in watching the lecture was Parrish's conception of Nonsense. This element of challenging the human brain to dissect that which is has never been spoken before, or indeed is at all inhospitable to human reading/taking in, was a striking new way to look at poetry. In some respects, poetry for me is making that which is more subconscious more accessible to the reader, so to subvert this function for the sake of unique iterations and indeed images within the content I found was a powerful lesson in the power of the fragile nature of language.
Taking heavy inspiration from Banksy's pet shop, we wanted to explore connections between machines and human bodies and particularly the ways both could be exploited. Through that we landed on the idea of torture, which fundamentally seeks to expose weakness in whatever it is inflicted upon. With this in mine we started to brainstorm individual units that we wanted to put together into one larger body to convey different aspects of torture (psychological, physical etc). This gave way to the three separate parts that we have in our final product, each influenced in its execution by objects we found at the centre for creative re-use that we felt could be exploited through the use of machinery and as a stand-ins for machinery itself.
The aesthetics of the end result was much more dependant on the tools/construction and frameworks of torture rather than the items from the centre for creative re-use, which lends itself to the unity of the separate parts. The clarity of the cassette tape component definitely needs work in terms of making apparent the action there, with the integration of the IR sensor also proving difficult for this specific component.
A large part of the computation as well as the preparation for construction was done by Harsh, given his knowledge in both Arduino and Physical Computing, with the eye and dunking unit primarily handled by him. More of the construction was done by Breep, as well as the most part of the Casette unit.
Rain Room is an installation by the artist group Random International in which rain falls from the ceiling and the presence of the human body stops the rain from falling. The simplicity of the concept and flawless execution really attracted me to this piece. Not only does it explore the materiality of the natural world, it explores our relationship through it in this absurd subversion of the roles. I feel this kind of work is especially curious in the context of present day environmental concerns, being that the work employs the natural subjugation of a natural process (rain) while also seemingly appearing unnatural in its minimalistic setting of the indoor gallery. The work employs all our senses, the smell of the water just as much a body of the work as the lack of water on the body is. It explores man's relationship with machine and nature simultaneously, extracting the essence of natural processes out of its machinations.
For this piece the motion definitely came first. I most experimented with ways of conveying the body through lines while getting to know Mocap in Processing, the video underneath is one of the more refined outcomes of my experimentation. With my series of experimentations in place, I thought through each and wanted to build a form of narrative in which this digital body wills itself into existence from an initial form as a plane. From this I came to the final piece, which moves toward the viewer just as the walking motion does, urging itself onwards into existence as the viewer scrolls through.
I am mildly pleased with the outcome, but not happy. I feel that greater blending between the states with more steps would make this a more cohesive transition.
// Note: mouseX controls the camera.
// Load a BVH file recorded with a Kinect v2, made in Brekel Pro Body v2.
setMyCamera();        // Position the camera. See code below.
//drawMyGround();       // Draw the ground. See code below.
updateAndDrawBody();  // Update and render the BVH file. See code below.
All messages received are spoken out to the user with p5.js Speech, and the only hallmark of them within the chat is 'Received Message'. However all text sent to the chat is posted on twitter with the username associated as well as the text and a hashtag. There is no evidence on the group chat of this occurring though, so the allure of privacy is maintained.
I would like to view this project as a public private chat. I learnt a-lot about TwitterBots in the process of making this piece, as well as html and the connection between servers and clients. I struggled a-lot with implementing libraries initially, with my understanding of where the code should fit into the glitch page. I am happy with the text part of the project, but I feel that more work on the speech element of it would aid in making it seem more polished. I would also dedicate more time to make the chatroom itself more conducive to the audio formatting.
I feel the piece is many to many, given that the population of the chatroom speaks to the population of twitter. It is asynchronous given the disjunction inherent within communication. Everyone has equal roles, there is no special communicator within the chat room. I feel the piece is both anonymous and intimate, given the lack of awareness of the public aspect of it. It is remote collaboration, given that those in chat room would communicate across distance as well as the content on the twitterpage reaching a wider audience. I feel the work is self-reflexive and critical of networked environments, highlighting the faith in privacy on the internet despite the public connections that those stem on.
I decided to highlight Mark Leckey's GreenScreenRefridgeratorAction as to me it is pure spectulation. The work explores the systems inherent in a refrigerator through all the types of style that Alan Warbuton. I highlight also because it was introduced to me in Critical Theory, and I found the disjunction between what I had learnt about the work there in context of Duchamp against the modern technology context of Warburton's video a raw example of the Speculation he talks about.
In my eyes it is very much digital drag, given its simplified commercial like animations and rudimentary use of green-screen. It is much more about visibility, considering both its context as a performance and as a highlighting of the inner mechanisms of this everyday technology system. It weighs more on the surplus side as well, given its over-dissection as a highlighting of what is taken for granted proving worthwhile conceptually rather than wasteful of the technology (which it arguably counteracts). It is most certainly more on the art side, given its strong aesthetic and form inspiration from the artistic technologic context that Warburton describes. I feel that it lies between function and dysfunction, its content highlighting the functionality of things while also dysfunctionally using simplified and overused technology.


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ICOs delivered at least 3.5x more capital to blockchain startups than VC since 2017
Jason Rowley	2 years
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Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News.
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Where are all the biotech startups raising?
Ride-hailing, bike and scooter companies probably raised less money than you thought
Recently, we found that, for 2018, the amount of money being raised by blockchain and blockchain-adjacent companies via traditional VC rounds is on pace to surpass 2017's highs.
But despite more than $900 million in recorded venture funding in 2017, and more than $375 million in known venture funding for the first two months of 2018 so far, traditional VC rounds — convertible notes seed, angel, Series A, Series B, etc. — now pale in comparison to ICOs in terms of dollar volume.
Chances are that if you're reading this, you've at least heard about initial coin offerings (better known by their initialism as "ICOs"). Even if you're not a traditional VC, you may have invested in one.
The original aim of bitcoin and most of its many descendants was to up-end a monetary system reliant on central banks and trusted third parties. It's no small wonder that crypto-enthusiasts have devised a way to circumvent the old process of raising capital to fund new projects, which traditionally is deeply embedded in old-school banking culture and trust.
Today, we'll take a look at just how quickly ICOs came to dominate blockchain startup funding and get an idea of the scale of capital inflows into this new funding instrument.
ICOs: Fewer deals, but bigger deals than VC
For all of 2017 and the first two months of 2018 at the time of writing, Crunchbase data has captured a total of 527 venture capital rounds and ICOs raised by companies in its bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain, cryptocurrency and virtual currency categories.
The chart below shows how that population of rounds breaks down between traditional VC and initial coin offerings.
At least according to Crunchbase data, the number of ICOs raised in the past 14 months is smaller — by a factor of almost half — than the number of venture capital rounds announced by blockchain and blockchain-related companies.
But despite the smaller number of ICOs, these funding events — on average — attract much more capital than the average venture funding round. The chart below shows the breakdown of capital raised between VC rounds and ICOs with known amounts of capital.
Over the past 14 months, blockchain and related startups have raised nearly $1.3 billion in traditional venture capital rounds worldwide. But for the ICOs Crunchbase has captured, nearly $4.5 billion was raised via ICOs.
For more on the ICO data presented above, see the note at the end of this article.
For first rounds, ICOs look more like late-stage funding events
It's often the case that blockchain startups raise their first outside rounds as ICOs, but size-wise these funding events look less like seed rounds and more like super late-stage technology growth rounds. According to Crunchbase data, here are a few of the largest ICOs closed in 2017:
Filecoin's ICO raised $257 million.
Tezos raised $232 million.
Bancor raised $152.3 million.
Polkadot raised $140 million.
Quoine raised $105 million.
And in 2018, there will no doubt be even larger ICOs raised. For now, all eyes turn to Telegram's ICO, the target size of which may be as large as $2 billion according to two sources who wish to remain unnamed.
Fanaticism, unbelievability and delusion?
Although the USD-denominated price of Bitcoin (BTC) and many other cryptocurrencies have pulled back significantly from 2017 highs, the ICO market continues to chug along like the little financial engine that could.
But there are some uncomfortable facts the market has to reckon with. Bitcoin news site Bitcoin.com ran a survey that found that out of 902 companies that sought to raise an ICO, 142 failed before closing funding, and 276 failed after fundraising. It also found an additional 113 projects it classified as "semi-failed" after "their team has stopped communicating on social media, or because their community is so small as to mean the project has no chance of success." The ultimate conclusion of that survey is stark: "59% of last year's crowdsales are either confirmed failures or failures-in-the-making."
The cryptocurrency community can treat any skepticism as mere "fear, uncertainty and doubt," or FUD. But although it's likely that years down the road there will probably be successful, sustainable ventures funded by this new way of raising cash, entrepreneurs and investors alike should be wary of fanaticism, unbelievability and delusion — a different kind of FUD — clouding their judgment.
A small note on data
At the time of writing, Crunchbase's data set of traditional venture capital deals (angel, seed, convertible notes, Series A, Series B, etc.) is far more robust than its data set of initial coin offerings. There are a number of competing lists of ICOs out there, and each reports significantly different statistics from one to the next.
Due to reporting delays and a certain inherent opacity to the market, Crunchbase likely undercounts the actual number of ICOs, but reported numbers will likely rise over time as new data is continuously added to its platform.


WP 10-2 by Geoffrey Wallace, Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, and Barbara Wolfe follows a sample of social security beneficiaries drawn from the Health and Retirement Study from their first year of retirement (or social security receipt) for up to 15 years into retirement. The rates at which retirees are subject to family structure change, cognitive decline, health decline, and other events are estimated, as well as the effects of each event on a wealth. The findings highlight the importance of cognitive and health declines as events with the potential to shape the evolution of wealth post-retirement, as well as populations that are particularly vulnerable to these events.


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Q: Почему меняется значение sentense.words[0]? #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
struct word{
    char* syms;
};

struct sentense{
    struct word** words;
};

int main(){

    struct word word;
    struct sentense sentense;
    word.syms = malloc(100*sizeof(char));
    sentense.words = (char*)malloc(100*sizeof(char*));

    word.syms[0] = '1';
    word.syms[1] = '2';
    sentense.words[0] = word.syms;

    word.syms[0] = '4';
    word.syms[1] = '5';
    sentense.words[1] = word.syms;

    printf("%s",sentense.words[0]);
    printf("%s",sentense.words[1]);

    return 0;
}

Почему выводится 4545, а не 1245?

A: Как сказал @avp, можно использовать strdup.
Не забывайте, что важно освобождать всю выделенную через malloc() память в конце программы используя free(), я для простоты и демонстрации не делал этого, т.к. не делали это и вы, но освобождать всегда очень важная практика!
Полный доработанный вариант вашего кода:
Попробовать онлайн!
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

struct word{
    char * syms;
};

struct sentense{
    struct word ** words;
};

int main(){
    struct word word;
    struct sentense sentense;

    word.syms = (char *)malloc(100 * sizeof(char));
    sentense.words = (struct word **)malloc(100 * sizeof(struct word*));

    word.syms[0] = '1';
    word.syms[1] = '2';
    word.syms[2] = 0;
    sentense.words[0] = (struct word *)malloc(sizeof(word));
    sentense.words[0]->syms = strdup(word.syms);

    word.syms[0] = '4';
    word.syms[1] = '5';
    word.syms[2] = 0;
    sentense.words[1] = (struct word *)malloc(sizeof(word));
    sentense.words[1]->syms = strdup(word.syms);

    printf("%s", sentense.words[0]->syms);
    printf("%s", sentense.words[1]->syms);

    return 0;
}

Выход:
1245

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Tag Archives: beijing
by K | August 11, 2008 · 8:45 pm
just six words and a picture.
Here is the Olympic beach volleyball edition:
Hopefully he's got the midas touch.
Filed under pop culture, random, six word memoirs, sports
Tagged as beach volleyball, beijing, beijing 2008, beijing olympics, bush, bush at the olympics, george w. bush, gold medals, kerri walsh, misty may-treanor, olympic beach volleyball, olympics, six word memoirs, summer olympics, the olympics, us olympic team, women's beach volleyball
by Mallory | August 5, 2008 · 6:16 pm
my complicated relationship with the olympics.
As I've said before, I really do love the Olympics. (Kathleen does too.) It's one of those things that you can't help but anticipate, even if you're not a die-hard Olympic fan (which I surely am not). It's like the Superbowl, or Christmas: whether or not you really care about the event, and even if the event is sort of a letdown because you don't follow football or your relatives are crazy, it's still great to look forward to it and then eat lots of appropriately themed foods.
In honor of my excitement for the Opening Ceremonies this Friday, I have proposed a Beer Olympics with my nearest and dearest New Jersey friends. We'll see if it actually works out. I've always wanted to participate in some sort of drinking Olympics, and until now, I'd never gotten the chance. Then again, things like that always sound good in theory, and then are kind of miserable in practice (read: case races). But I digress.
What I wanted to tell you is that things like this MSN slideshow make me even more excited for the Olympics. I mean, who doesn't get all jazzed about pictures like this:
But then I read articles like Sally Jenkins' "Partners in Grime" (WashPo), and I get all depressed. In the article, she first talks about the terrible pollution in Beijing, which is so bad that some athletes have even had to drop out of the Games:
Athletes are threatening to skip the Opening Ceremonies because they're afraid the environment of the host city will sicken them or compromise their medal chances, and distance runner Haile Gebrselassie dropped out of the marathon because the fumes are too heavy for him to run that distance.
How awful is that? Can you imagine waiting FOUR YEARS for your Olympic shot and then not getting to compete because of the polluted air? I would not be happy.
On top of the International Olympic Committee's disregard for the health of its athletes, it appears the Olympics are just one big money-making scheme, just like everything else in this world. And I guess if I thought about it, I knew that, but it's so much more fun to pretend that it's still all about the love of the game (which, hopefully it still is for most of the athletes). Here's Jenkins' take:
So what is this Olympics really about? It's about 12 major corporations and their panting ambitions to tap into China's 1.3 billion consumers, the world's third-largest economy. Understand this: The International Olympic Committee is nothing more than a puppet for its corporate "partners," without whom there would be no Games. These major sponsors pay the IOC's bills for staging the Olympics to the tune of $7 billion per cycle. Without them, and their designs on the China market, Beijing probably would not have won the right to host the Summer Games.
Plus, there are all sorts of human rights violations going on, with people being jailed unnecessarily and generally treated like crap so that Beijing can "look good" for the Olympics. (And this NY Times article unearths a pretty sad truth: that literal walls are being put up to block homes and shops that aren't deemed appropriate for Olympic visitors to see.) Depressing, right? It's upsetting that an event which was supposed to be about a pretty pure thing has become more about politics and business, and has often led to a good amount of protests and violence.
Sigh. Enough Debbie Downer-ing for one day, eh?
Filed under drinks, sports
Tagged as air pollution in beijing, beer olympics, beijing, beijing olympics 2008, christmas, international olympic committe, IOC, olympics, olympics and corruption, sports, the superbowl


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Der Satz von Straszewicz () ist ein Lehrsatz des mathematischen Gebiets der Konvexgeometrie und als solcher angesiedelt zwischen den Gebieten der Geometrie und der Analysis. Er geht zurück auf eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit des Mathematikers Stefan Straszewicz aus dem Jahre 1935. Der Straszewicz'sche Satz ist verwandt mit dem Satz von Krein-Milman und behandelt die Frage, in welcher Beziehung im euklidischen Raum die exponierten Punkte und die Extremalpunkte gewisser Punktmengen zueinander stehen. Wie der Satz zeigt, bilden für eine große Klasse von Punktmengen die exponierten Punkte eine dichte Teilmenge innerhalb der Extremalpunkte.

Formulierung des Satzes
Der Satz lässt sich zusammengefasst wie folgt darstellen:
 Für eine abgeschlossene und konvexe Teilmenge  gilt stets:
 (i) Jeder Extremalpunkt von  ist Berührpunkt der Menge der exponierten Punkte von :
 .
 (ii) Ist  dabei ein konvexes Kompaktum, so gilt sogar:
 .

Analogon für normierte Räume
Der US-amerikanische Mathematiker Victor Klee hat im Jahre 1958 ein dem Satz von Straszewicz analoges Resultat vorgelegt für den allgemeineren Fall, dass ein normierter -Vektorraum vorliegt. Dieses Resultat wird als Satz von Klee–Straszewicz bezeichnet und lässt sich angeben wie folgt:
 In einem normierten -Vektorraum  gilt für jede darin enthaltene kompakte und konvexe Teilmenge

 und
 .

Erläuterungen und Anmerkungen
 Ein exponierter Punkt von  ist ein Punkt , zu dem eine -Stützhyperebene  existiert, so dass  gilt. Die Menge der exponierten Punkte von  wird mit  bezeichnet.
 Für eine konvexe Teilmenge von  ist stets jeder ihrer exponierten Punkte auch ein Extremalpunkt und jeder ihrer Extremalpunkte stets auch einer ihrer Randpunkte. Es gilt also in diesem Falle .
 Der Satz von Straszewicz wird in der Monographie von Kurt Leichtweiß auch als Darstellungssatz von Straszewicz bezeichnet, wobei sich Leichtweiß lediglich auf die obige Mengengleichung bezieht.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

Analysis
Straszewicz

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namespace Github\HttpClient\Cache;

use Guzzle\Http\Message\Response;
use Gaufrette\Filesystem;

/**
 * Gaufrette Cache.
 *
 * @author Massimiliano Arione <massimiliano.arione@bee-lab.net>
 */
class GaufretteCache implements CacheInterface
{
    /**
     * @var Filesystem
     */
    protected $filesystem;

    /**
     * @param Filesystem $filesystem
     */
    public function __construct(Filesystem $filesystem)
    {
        $this->filesystem = $filesystem;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function get($id)
    {
        $content = $this->filesystem->read($id);

        return unserialize($content);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function set($id, Response $response)
    {
        $this->filesystem->write($id, serialize($response), true);
        $this->filesystem->write($id.'.etag', $response->getHeader('ETag'), true);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function has($id)
    {
        $this->filesystem->has($id);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function getModifiedSince($id)
    {
        if ($this->filesystem->has($id)) {
            return $this->filesystem->mtime($id);
        }
    }

    public function getETag($id)
    {
        if ($this->filesystem->has($id)) {
            return $this->filesystem->read($id.'.etag');
        }
    }
}

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Fan Zhendong (en chinois : 樊振東), né le  à Guangzhou en Chine, est un pongiste chinois de renommée internationale. Classé n°1 en , il fait partie des meilleurs mondiaux. En 2012, il finit premier aux championnats du monde juniors en simple, double mixte et par équipes et décroche une médaille d'argent en double messieurs. En 2013, il devient le plus jeune joueur à avoir remporté deux opens d'affilée, celui de Pologne avant d'enchaîner sur celui d'Allemagne. La même année, il termine  à l'open de Suède, frôlant de peu un troisième open d'affilée. En 2014, il finit  aux championnats du monde par équipe à Tokyo, et remporte le titre de Champion de Chine en battant Ma Long en finale. Aux championnats du monde de 2017 à Düsseldorf, il finit deuxième en perdant 4 sets à trois face à son coéquipier Ma Long.

Fan Zhendong est le recordman de victoire de Coupe du Monde en simple. Il a remporté cinq éditions, respectivement en 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 et 2021.

En 2021, il obtient sa première médaille olympique en devenant vice-champion lors des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo. La même année il remporte les championnats du monde de tennis de table  pour la première fois face au suédois Truls Möregårdh.

Palmarès

2012 :

Championnats du monde junior:

 Simple hommes, par équipes et Double mixte &  Double hommes aux championnats du monde junior

Championnats de Chine:

 par équipes aux Championnats de Chine 2012

2013 :

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes (Moins de 21) à l'Open de Chine

 Simple hommes à l'Open de Pologne

 Simple hommes à l'Open d'Allemagne

 Simple hommes à l'Open de Suède

 Simple hommes à la Grande Finale du Pro Tour à Dubaï

Championnats d'Asie:

 par équipes &  Double mixtes (associé à CHEN Meng) aux Championnats d'Asie

Jeux nationaux de la république populaire de Chine:

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes (associé à ZHOU Yu) et par équipes aux 12èmes Jeux nationaux de la république populaire de Chine

2014 :
Championnats du monde:

 Par équipes aux championnats du monde 2014

Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse:

 Simple hommes et par équipes mixtes aux Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse 2014

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes à l'Open de Kuwait

 Double hommes à l'Open de Qatar

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Chine

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Suède

Jeux d'Asie:

 par équipes &  Simple hommes et Double hommes (associé à XU Xin) aux Jeux asiatiques 2014

Coupe d'Asie:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe d'Asie de tennis de table

Championnats de Chine:

 Simple hommes et Double hommes (associé à XU Xin) &  par équipes aux Championnats de Chine 2014

2015 :
Championnats du monde:

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes (associé à ZHOU Yu) aux Championnats du monde 2015

Coupe du monde:

 par équipes &  Simple hommes à la Coupe du monde

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes et Double hommes à l'Open de Kuwait

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Japon

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Chine

 Simple hommes à l'Open de Pologne

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Suède

 Simple hommes à la Grande Finale du Pro Tour à Lisbonne

Championnats d'Asie:

 Simple hommes, Double hommes (associé à XU Xin), Double mixtes (associé à CHEN Meng) et par équipes aux Championnats d'Asie

Coupe d'Asie:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe d'Asie de tennis de table

Championnats de Chine:

 Simple hommes et par équipes &  Double mixtes (associé à MU Zi) aux Championnats de Chine 2015

 2016 :
Championnats du monde:

 Par équipes aux championnats du monde 2016

Coupe du monde:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe du monde

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes et Double hommes à l'Open de Kuwait

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Qatar

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Japon

 Simple hommes et Double hommes à l'Open de Corée du Sud

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Chine

 Simple hommes à la Grande Finale du Pro Tour à Doha

Championnats de Chine:

 Simple hommes et Double hommes (associé à ZHOU Yu) &  par équipes aux Championnats de Chine 2016

 2017 :
Championnats du monde:

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes (associé à XU Xin)aux Championnats du monde 2017

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes à l'Open de Qatar

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Japon

 Double hommes à l'Open de Chine

 Simple hommes à l'Open d'Allemagne

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Suède

 Simple hommes à la Grande Finale du Pro Tour à Astana

Championnats d'Asie:

 Simple hommes, Double hommes (associé à Lin Gaoyuan) et par équipes aux Championnats d'Asie

Coupe d'Asie:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe d'Asie de tennis de table

Jeux nationaux de la république populaire de Chine:

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes (associé à ZHOU Yu) &  Double mixtes (associé à ZHU Yuling) et par équipes aux 13èmes Jeux nationaux de la république populaire de Chine

 2018 :
Championnats du monde:

 Par équipes aux championnats du monde 2018

Coupe du monde:

 par équipes à la Coupe du monde

 Simple hommes à la Coupe du monde

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes et Double hommes à l'Open de Hongrie

 Simple hommes et Double hommes à l'Open de Qatar

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes à l'Open de Chine

 Simple hommes à l'Open de Suède

 Simple hommes à l'Open d'Autriche

Quart de finale Simple hommes à la Grande Finale du Pro Tour à Incheon

Jeux d'Asie:

 Simple hommes et par équipes aux Jeux asiatiques 2018

Coupe d'Asie:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe d'Asie de tennis de table

 2020 :

Coupe du Monde 2020:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe du monde

Pro Tour:

 Simple hommes à la Grande Finale du Pro Tour

Jeux Olympiques:

 Simple hommes aux Jeux olympique à Tokyo au Japon.

 Par équipes hommes aux Jeux olympique à Tokyo au Japon.

 2021:
Championnats du monde:

 Simple hommes &  Double hommes (associé à WANG Chuqin)
aux Championnats du monde
2021

Coupe du Monde:

 Simple hommes à la Coupe du monde

 la médaille de bronze représente la 3ème place ou l'échec des demi-finales.

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Naissance en janvier 1997
Naissance à Canton (Chine)
Pongiste chinois
Médaillé d'argent olympique chinois
Pongiste (homme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2020
Champion olympique chinois
Champion olympique de tennis de table
Champion du monde de tennis de table
Champion d'Asie de tennis de table


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This report offers insight, analysis, and industry news on the convergence of agribotics, smart farming, Farming 4.0, and the Internet of Things in agriculture.
From 7 billion people to 9 billion by 2050!
Three grand challenges face a rapidly-growing world population: decreasing resource availability, increasing demand for nutritionally-sound, globally relevant diets, and the increasing fragility of the global distribution system.
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DECC Athletic Hall of Fame to enshrine six in May
The 26th DECC Athletic Hall of Fame will induct a record number of entrants when the biennial ceremony is held May 24. Former Minnesota Duluth men's hockey coach Mike Sertich, ex-UMD football great Ted McKnight, Cloquet standout girls basketball ...
By News Tribune
The 26th DECC Athletic Hall of Fame will induct a record number of entrants when the biennial ceremony is held May 24.
Former Minnesota Duluth men's hockey coach Mike Sertich, ex-UMD football great Ted McKnight, Cloquet standout girls basketball player Debbie Hunter, one-time University of Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi and the pioneering Duluth brother-and-sister figure skating team of Bob and Ruby Maxson will join the ranks of inductees at the DECC's Harbor Side Convention Ballroom.
Sertich gained legendary status in the Northland for guiding the Bulldogs to three WCHA regular-season titles, two league playoff titles, the school's first four NCAA Division I tournaments and Frozen Fours in 1984 and 1985. He was named winner of the 1984 Spencer Penrose Award as national coach of the year.
The Virginia native eschewed a football scholarship at the University of North Dakota to play hockey at UMD, where the defenseman was voted Most Improved Player his senior year.
After coaching hockey and baseball at Grand Rapids High School, Sertich returned to UMD as an assistant coach in the mid-1970s. He became head coach in 1982 and stayed for 18 seasons before departing and coaching three more years at Michigan Tech.
The other inductees:
• McKnight, a Duluth Central alumnus, left UMD in 1976 with a then-school-record 2,957 yards rushing, earning Little All-American recognition. He led NCAA Division II in rushing as a senior (1,482 yards) and set the school's single-game mark of 235 yards, as well as records for touchdowns in a single season (22) and a single game (6). He was drafted by the NFL's Oakland Raiders in the second round in 1977 and played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills from 1978-82, leading all NFL rushers with a 6-yards-per-carry average in 1978.
• Hunter led Cloquet to its first girls basketball state tournament in 1978 and was a two-time honorable mention All-American guard at the University of Minnesota from 1980-83, where she held 11 team records, including career marks for assists and steals. The university retired her number and inducted her into its hall of fame. Hunter later coached at Bethel University for 10 years, Colorado College for two years and Austin (Texas) College for 11 years before retiring.
• Maturi, who played basketball on Bob McDonald's first Chisholm team in 1961-62, graduated from Notre Dame and coached high school sports in Wisconsin, where he eventually was inducted into the state's basketball hall of fame. He later served as associate athletic director at Wisconsin and athletic director at Denver University and Miami, Ohio, before holding the same position at Minnesota for 10 years until 2012.
• The Maxsons were featured performers in the Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies in 1937 and, starting in 1946, the Ice Capades. Bob Maxson later was a choreographer for the Ice Capades with his wife, Helen. He died in 1999 at age 79. After performing, Ruby taught skating in California and Colorado before dying at age 81 in 2003.
What: 26th DECC Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony
When: Wednesday, May 24
Where: DECC Harbor Side Convention Ballroom
Schedule: Social hour, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m.; awards presentations, 7:30 p.m.
Guest speaker: Pat Francisco
Tickets: Available at DECC ticket office, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday; tickets are $35 (cash or credit card only)
Information: Scott Keenan at (218) 343-0792 for general info regarding Hall of Fame
Auto racing: NASCAR Cup Series cars take to the ice of Superior's Allouez Bay
NASCAR on Ice, an ice racing event featuring NASCAR drivers and retired cars, is a go for this weekend after being postponed in January due to thin ice.
By Jon Nowacki
Junior hockey: Jr. Blues top Wilderness in OT
Peterson's unassisted goal lifts Springfield to the NAHL home win.
Photos and video: Skating the slopes at Mont du Lac
Ice cross racers are competing in three divisions during multiple days of competition at Mont du Lac Resort in Superior as part of the U.S. Ice Cross Association's annual ATSX 250 event.
By Dan Williamson


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A forum for women to talk to women
Blacking Out Gender Bias On Screen
Although Geena Davis played the role of President of United States of America in TV show, Commander-in-Chief, she believes that women are far less likely to be a judge or doctor or in any other professional or leadership position.
What do we learn about women and girls when we turn on the television or go to the movies? Around the world, female characters in films and television take far less space than male characters. They do less interesting things. They are judged by their appearance. That is Geena Davis' opinion.
We all know that women and girls make up slightly more than half the human population. But you would not know this from watching films and television, where there are roughly three male characters for every one female.
Less than a quarter of the on-screen global workforce is female – much lower than in the real world. Women are far less likely to be a judge or doctor or in any other professional or leadership position, and women and girls are twice as likely as men and boys to appear in sexualised attire or nude.
These very enlightening and disturbingly bleak findings were part of the first-ever international study on the portrayal of women in films that my institute on Gender and Media commissioned from the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, and presented last year with the support of UN Women and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Geena Davis is a long-standing advocate for increased and diverse representation of women in film and within the entertainment industry. (Courtesy of Geena Davis)
The data are echoed by research on other types of media. The Global Media Monitoring Project found that only a quarter of the people read about in print or heard and seen on radio and television news are women. Almost half of the stories uphold gender stereotypes.
Twenty years ago, at the Fourth World Conference on Women [in Beijing], the governments of the world committed themselves to the idea that the media should make a far greater contribution to women's empowerment, recognising that films, television, newspapers and now online platforms shape the ways we think and act.
Yet despite this commitment, we still are far from a balanced representation or portrayal in the media. In fact, research shows that the ratio of male to female characters in film is exactly the same as it was in 1946.
My colleagues in film and television used to think that the problem of gender equity had been fixed. But there was no data showing them the real picture. When I brought them the research commissioned by my institute – covering a 20 year span – they were absolutely stunned to learn how bereft of female presence the fictitious worlds they were creating were.
I have stressed how important it is for future generations to have more female characters. Girls feel less empowered the more TV they watch, while boy's views become more sexist. There are important ethical questions concerning stereotypes or hypersexual images to young children. No one thinks it is a positive development that, as one recent study found, girls as young as six are seeing themselves through the male gaze.
There is also an economic argument — research shows that films with more women and girls make more money, and are less likely to fail.
Maybe instead of developing unconscious gender biases and having to fix them, the media industry should start from the beginning, as Beijing recognised, by not perpetuating them at all.
Movies like Zero Dark Thirty that saw Jessica Chastain playing the lead are rare in Hollywood where according to Geena Davis, "less than a quarter of the on-screen global workforce is female."
To achieve gender equality, one needs to work on many issues—laws, education, representation in government—the list is long. But, the media needs to be a particular priority because they have such an enormous impact on the way that women, men, boys and girls think about their roles and their value to society. We cannot wait even one more year for progress. We know the problem, and we have the evidence confirming it.
Think about this: in all of the sectors of society that still have a huge gender disparity, how long will it take to correct, to reach parity? We can't snap our fingers and suddenly half of Congress is female. But there's one category where the underrepresentation of women can be fixed TOMORROW: on-screen.
In the time it takes to create a television show or to make a movie, we can change what the future looks like. In other words, we don't have to wait for society to turn things around, we can create the future now, through what people see. Yes, there are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but lots of them can be women on screen. How long will it take to fix the problem of corporate boards being so unequal? Well, half of them can be female tomorrow, in films and on TV.
Here's a simple solution: cast more women in roles written for men. The time is now for media to make the future – where we have done away with gender bias – a reality today, on-screen.
(This article is part of U.N. Women's Empowering Women — Empowering Humanity: Picture It! campaign in the lead-up to Beijing+20.) © Women's Feature Service
Author: Geena Davis
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How a woman is affected by her Environment
Simone de Beauvoir says: "One is not born a woman, rather becomes one." Environment has a great impact on the personality of a person and if children are exposed to sex-based segregation or a sex-sensitive environment, they will probably adopt the same behavior. (From October 27, 2014)
Freedom from violence and fear
After the brutal gang rape of a young woman in December 2012 in the national capital, following which she succumbed to her injuries, there was a great upsurge of people protesting on the streets. It was the graphic, vicious nature of the crime, as opposed to the 'normalcy' of everyday violence, which brought everyone out in large numbers.(From August, 27, 2014)
More women needed
According to the latest figures released by the Indian Home Ministry, out of the 15,85,117 personnel working in state police forces, only 84,479 or just 5.33% are women. Besides there are only 499 all-women police stations out of a total of 15,000 stations in the country. The figures are absurd and call for an analysis. Is meagre representation of women in the forces, leading to a rise in crimes against women? (May 21, 2013)
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Catch them young: Indian writers tell tales of land rights for kids January 3, 2019
Deadly disputes over land and indigenous rights are not obvious themes for children's books, but Indian writers are using real-life conflicts to help the next generation understand their impact on communities across the country.
Chayn: Helping Women through Information November 21, 2018
Hera Hussain's social enterprise Chayn is helping women in abusive relationships or environment to find the right information and support they need to take control of their lives. This initiative got her on MIT Technology Review's Innovators list of Under 35, 2018, Forbes 30 under 30 – Social Entrepreneurship 2018.
The fight against breast ironing in Cameroon October 16, 2018
It's an old and painful practice. But even today, young girls in Cameroon have their breasts bound or beaten with stones. A women's rights group is fighting back against the tradition through education in schools.
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Mrs. Singh-Bodden was honored for her service of an exceptionally high quality in the field of youth and women's empowerment, community renewal projects, raising awareness, nationally and internationally, of the urgent need to address mental health issues and in the field of politics.
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Category: Yakuza
PALE FLOWER / KAWAITA HANA (Dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1964, Japan)
1960s World Cinema, Crime, Criterion, Japanese Cinema, Japanese New Wave, Noir, Yakuza
Masahiro Shinoda directed Pale Flower in 1964 for the prestigious Shochiku film studio. Shinoda's remarkable film was part of the 1960s Japanese New Wave cinema and the film's iconoclastic temperament led to it being banned. In 2003 Home Vision Entertainment released Pale Flower on DVD whilst this year Criterion issued their version on both DVD and Blu-ray. I've not come across Shinoda's work before and my encounters with Japanese cinema have tended to favour popular auteurs. I'm beginning to realise the vastness of Japanese cinema in terms of output stands alone in many ways when compared to other film industries. Shinoda's loose, elliptical approach and dynamic visual style bears close parallels with the work of Seijun Suzuki. Pale Flower would work superbly as a double bill alongside Suzuki's demented Branded to Kill. In many ways, the initial narrative set up of Pale Flower in which a hardened Yakuza gangster Muraki (Ryo Ikebe) is released from prison, having killed another member of a gang, invokes the memory of American crime and noir films. It is a familiar convention – the gangster or criminal who is released from prison but realises he cannot fit into society anymore and slowly becomes more and more withdrawn. Whilst Shinoda adopts this narrative convention, he decides to choose an entirely different path altogether for his central male protagonist. On his release, Muraki seems more bored than alienated with the world around him. It is Muraki's entanglement with a mysterious young woman Saeko that subverts such a narrative expectation because it becomes a mutually destructive relationship.
Symbolically, the woman's addiction to drugs/gambling represents both the corruption of Japanese youth and the rise of a new kind of modernity whilst Muraki's allegiance to a code is ideologically conducive of an old, fading Japanese culture. In many ways, Muraki is like the antiquated cowboy who looks out of place in the new society and for Muraki the retreat to the sanctity of the prison gives him seclusion from a world that has little meaning for him anymore. Visually, Shinoda's film is stunning to look at and the striking monochrome cinematography gives the imagery a very clean yet noir like aesthetic. The performances by Ryo Ikebe and Mariko Kaga are compelling throughout. A film like Pale Flower was a direct manifestation of the changing sensibilities in Japanese cinema during the 1960s but unlike The French New Wave which challenged dominant mainstream conventions, from the outset The Japanese New Wave seemed more ideologically engaged. It was only much later that The French New Wave became much more of a political cinematic entity. Nevertheless, compared to Nagisa Oshima, Shinoda's cinema was less political than his contemporaries and there is no denying that Pale Flower has been influential in the development of the Yakuzka gangster film in Japanese cinema. Director Masahiro Shinoda produced most of his best and most acclaimed films during the 1960s.
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London is by far and away, my least favourite place on earth. I can't say I've been everywhere, but for what I have experienced, London it is. The problem is Lords cricket ground is in London and well, I like cricket. It turns out my dad also likes cricket. Quite a lot in fact, so as you would expect, we go to Lords at least once a year and watch some good quality cricket. This leaves me with a dilemma; take the car and sit on the M3 and M25 motorways all the way to North London, or take the bike, make a road trip out of it, but have to ride up through London from the South. Yep, it was the latter.
Looking to avoid using my rucksack, I loaded up the Fireblade, managing to get everything I needed for the three day trip (one there, one for the game and one to get me back) into my two Kriega tank bags, kissed Carolina goodbye and headed East.
With everything that is going on at the moment, being able to forget it all and just ride was a great relief. All I needed to think about was positioning and the road. It was bliss. Even two unexpected sharp heavy showers around Salisbury and Winchester didn't dampen the ride, in fact the cooler air and rain were rather refreshing.
Making good progress, I cut across the countryside along the A272 until I hit the A3, which is a well surfaced, quick, two lane carriageway hooking up London with the South Coast. Pointing the bike North, I clicked off the miles heading up through the Hindhead tunnel, dropping down two gears in the process and heading up past Guildford. Stopping for a quick refresh at the Services just before the M25, I knew I was a getting low on petrol, but not looking to pay the elevated prices, my plan was to carry on and stop at one of the stations deeper in town.
Now under the dome of the capital and heading up through New Malden and Wimbledon, I spotted an Esso garage at Kingston Vale and pulled in. Now, this is where my normally cordial veneer slipped. With the pump zeroed I was all ready to go, but the team behind the desk wouldn't turn the pump on. Wearing earplugs, I half heard and message over the tannoy and when it was repeated, I finally heard clearly. They were telling me to remove my helmet and being hot and now especially bothered, I lost it. Swearing rather loudly, I clipped everything back up on the bike, put my gloves back on and rode off, making as much noise as I could as I left. As I rode away, I realised that I had been highly immature and felt a little ashamed, however I still find these rules ridiculous. Cameras had seen me pull up, recording my registration in the process and if a station is going to enforce this policy, large clear signs at the pumps need to be there.
With the exception of the Supermarket brands, UK petrol stations work as franchises so there is no governing rule issued by the brand (Shell, Esso, BP) restricting the wearing of helmets. Its all down to local choice. On this occasion I was wearing full leathers on a searing hot day, with luggage clearly strapped to the bike and I wanted fuel, so why not give it to me? Oh you thought I was going to steal it then? Don't you have insurance? Oh you do, but you want to do all you can to stop being stolen from. Okay that's not a problem, then how about providing an alternative which doesn't discriminate against a particular motoring group, you know, like Pay at Pump! You do know that with this in place, it makes your life easier right? Well, the Supermarkets do and they have a much more user friendly, successful business model. A further irony was, that if I did remove my lid, then all they would have seen would have been my eyes and the top of my head as I wearing a Buff to shield against road fumes/pollen. I wonder what they would have done then?
Living down on the South Coast, this doesn't happen (well at least it doesn't happen to me) so I guess I just boiled over, a victim to the heat and my own preconceptions of not living in fear of my fellow man on a daily basis. The irony is that after filtering through pretty horrible queues all the way along the South Circular Road in Sheen, riding over Kew Bridge and up through Chiswick, getting seriously roasted in the process, I stopped at the BP by Gunnersbury Lane and filled up without incident, leaving my lid on the whole time. I even thanked the smiling cashier for not requesting I take off the lid, which was clearly a case of my guilt dictating my actions. One thing is for sure though, chalking it down to experience, I'm never using that Esso again, in the car or on the bike.
Now a bit calmer and full of fuel I realised I would be passing by the Ace Cafe. Having not been there for many, many years and even though I was only 15mins from my folks, I stopped for an overpriced coffee and muffin. The Ace is an iconic location, but in reality its nothing special. Its a roadside cafe with a large car park and a bit of history. Having done all the hard work in the sixties and seventies, maybe that's all it needs.
After a good days cricket on the Saturday, I set on the long Sunday ride home. Cutting back through London to the South, I realised that although I'd been to the Box Hill bike meet more times than I can remember, I've never actually ridden up to the top of box hill. If you've never done it, the view is well worth carving your way past the hundreds of cyclists who own the road.
The rest of the ride home was thankfully really enjoyable and uneventful. With the World Cup and Wimbledon finals on the same day, the roads were certainly quieter and that made a big difference. Putting the bike away I looked back across the weekend with fondness. Dad and I grabbed some great quality time, something we struggled to do when I lived 'at home', I forgot about my troubles and even with 'the great petrol station incident of 2018' its a weekend I'll look back on fondly.
Bikes; they just have this way of tying everything together and making it all okay.


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Q: What is the difference between shannon fano and huffman algorithm? It look likes almost similar to me except top down and Bottom-Up parsing . Can anyone explain ?

A: That is indeed the fundamental difference.
In Huffman encoding, codes are built bottom up by repeatedly combining the two least common entries in the list of populations until only two are left.
In Shannon-Fano, the population list is sorted by pop count and then repeatedly (recursively) split in two - with half the population in each half, or as close as one can get - until only two entries are left in a sub-section.
Huffman has been proven to always produce the (an) optimal prefix encoding whereas Shannon-Fano is (can be) slightly less efficient. Shannon-Fano, on the other hand, is arguably a bit simpler to implement.