The Egyptian revolution that led to the ouster of its ruler Hosni Mubarak had a ripple effect in China, as crowds of people gathered in Beijing and Shanghai, apparently to stage anti-government demonstrations but were dispersed after the police detained some of them.
Several thousand people rallied in Moroccan cities today demanding political reform and limits on the powers of the king, the latest protests demanding change to have rocked the region.
Security forces in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed dozens of people as they fought to crush an uprising against leader Muammar Gaddafi's rule, the bloodiest of multiple revolts now rocking the Arab world.Witnesses said Benghazi was in a state of chaos, with government buildings ransacked and troops and police forced to retreat to a fortified compound, from where snipers picked off demonstrators.
The leader of Yemen's secessionist Southern Movement was arrested in Aden and shots were fired at a demonstration in Sanaa today as unrest hit the impoverished Arab country for a ninth consecutive day.
Several hundred gathered in front of a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing's Wangfujing Street today afternoon apparently after a message circulated by a US-based website calling on people to launch Egyptian style protests against the one party rule in China.
People started to gather at around 2 pm on the busy shopping street in downtown Beijing, and together with onlookers and foreign journalists, the gathering people were numbered in hundreds at their peak, according to a witness.
Today's protests were the first visual action by dissident groups, which appeared to have been galvanised after the jailed prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo was awarded Nobel Peace Prize, which was strongly resented by China.
Interestingly the protests were reported by the English services of the state run Xinhua news agency.
When the police on patrol tried to take away two men from the crowd at around 2.10 pm but they were surrounded by foreign journalists with their cameras, it said. In Shanghai a similar crowd gathered at the People's Square. Three persons from the crowds were taken away by police the news agency report said.
A man aged around 30 started to deliver a speech at around 3 pm at the intersection of Yunnan Zhong Road and Hankou Road but left when the police came. Later, the crowds gradually dispersed, the report said.
These protests were unprecedented by China's standards as no anti-government protests were allowed. China is abuzz with rumours of 'Jasmine Revolution' for the past few days as the protest Egyptian protests spread to several Gulf countries. Some reports even spoke of arrests.
Both Liu and his wife who was kept under house arrests were not allowed to go to Oslo to receive the prize.
Later reports said several academicians who openly expressed support to Liu have been removed from service or detained but there was no official confirmation about it.
China effectively blocked most of the social websites like Face Book and Twitter but several managed to log to them through US based Virtual Private Networks, (VPNs).
Over 2,000 persons took to the streets of the capital Rabat, 4,000 according to the organisers, shouting: "The people want change." In Casablanca, the North African nation's biggest city, over 1,000 people came out demanding: "Freedom, dignity, justice," an AFP correspondent reported.
The demonstrations were peaceful as of midday. "I want a Morocco that's more fair and with less corruption," said a student demonstrator in Casablanca who asked not to be named. "We've got nothing against the king, but we want more justice and work," said another student who gave his name as Brahim.
Thousands of young Moroccans have joined the "February 20" movement on the social networking site Facebook, calling for peaceful demonstrations demanding a new constitution limiting the king's powers and more social justice.
Ahead of the protest, Morocco promised to inject 1.4 billion euros in subsidies to soften price hikes for staples, a key factor among others including rampant unemployment behind the spreading unrest in the Arab world.
Security forces in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed dozens of people as they fought to crush an uprising against leader Muammar Gaddafi's rule, the bloodiest of multiple revolts now rocking the Arab world.
Witnesses said Benghazi was in a state of chaos, with government buildings ransacked and troops and police forced to retreat to a fortified compound, from where snipers picked off demonstrators. In the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, thousands of anti-government protesters camped over Saturday night in a Manama square. But after days of violence in the Sunni-ruled island state, the mood appeared to be more conciliatory with talks due to take place on Sunday between the opposition and the crown prince.
In Libya, Gaddafi responded to the biggest challenge of his four decades in power with ruthless force. New York-based Human Rights Watch said security forces had shot dead at least 104 persons, based on interviews with witnesses and hospital officials. "We are in the midst of a massacre here," a witness told Reuters in Benghazi.
The situation was confused as the Libyan government has restricted media access and blocked some communications, including the Internet.
However, protesters appeared to have taken over much of Benghazi and security forces had retreated a fortified compound in the town centre, from where snipers were shooting at people.
In Bahrain, Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, who is emerging as a leading player among the ruling elite, made conciliatory noises after days of unrest that left six dead. "All political parties in the country deserve a voice at the table," Crown Prince Salman told CNN before talks with the opposition.
"I think there is a lot of anger, a lot of sadness ... We are terribly sorry and this is a terrible tragedy for our nation," said the prince, who is seen as a reformist. Speculation was growing that Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa will be replaced by the crown prince, who has pushed aside for now the hawks in the royal court.
Thousands of people also staged sit-ins in the cities of Ibb and Taiz, demanding the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who renewed his call for opposition parties to pursue a dialogue with the government.
Saleh, a US ally battling a resurgent al Qaeda wing based in Yemen, has held power for 32 years in an Arabian Peninsula state that faces soaring unemployment, dwindling oil and water reserves, and chronic unrest in northern and southern provinces.
Hasan Baoum was arrested in the southern port city by an "armed military group" in a hospital where he was receiving treatment and was taken to an unknown location, his youngest son Fadi Hasan Baoum told Reuters.
Baoum was also arrested in November last year, accused of planning illegal demonstrations.
Security in Aden was stepped up on Sunday with tanks and armoured vehicles out on the city's main streets. In the capital, as many as 50 government supporters tried to break up a demonstration outside Sanaa University by more than 1,000 protesters.
Both sides fired weapons on Saturday outside the university-the first reported use of firearms by demonstrators. Several protesters were hurt in those clashes and five people including young girls were wounded in the southern town of Sheikh Othman, apparently by stray bullets.


So let me tell you what kangaroo care is. It's basically extended periods of skin to skin contact between new born baby and Mommy or Daddy. It's a great way for dads to bond, by the way. But when it comes to bonding with Mommy, one thing that's important to know is if you put your baby skin to skin, baby's just wearing a diaper and a hat because you remember newborns can't really regulate their temperature on their own. So it's important for them to wear little hats. Put them skin to skin on your chest, so baby's not wearing clothes, you're not wearing clothes. Skin to skin, not clothes to clothes.
How does kangaroo care help baby?
Put them on your chest. What this does is it provides them ready access to food if they're doing kangaroo care with Mommy. And it also provides touch which is a way that baby gets stimulated. Mommy's actually going to get a hold onto baby like this when the baby is being held. It regulates their temperature better than an incubator does. And it also provides stimulation in the form of baby being able to hear Mommy or Daddy very well and also hearing the heartbeat.
So it's just an all around really good thing and it's a very easy thing to do and studies have been shown that it is helpful to baby's growth and development for the first 3 months of life. So that's something that Layah and I take a little bit of time everyday to do.
We did it more when she was a newborn. And we do it for less time now, but we still do it everyday. I can tell you even from her very first day, that was something that really calmed her down a lot and it still does. So I highly recommend it but don't just take my word for it. As I've said, studies have shown it's a great thing for your baby.


This is a great machine for modifying sound. It has four independent efx processors that can be configured in a multitude of ways to make new combinations of efx. The flexibility and modular architecture of this machine actually makes it cross over into the synthesis category, which is why I am posting about it here. The sound is warm and deep, and has a bit of hiss to remind you that you aren't using a plugin.
The exact unit used in these tracks has recently undergone a memory chip swap on one of the processors by John R. Southern (www.hardwerke.ca). He was gracious enough to invite me over to his facility as he did it, and he documented the procedure on the web for others. In the process, I learned a lot about DSP, RAM and how these efx processors work. You can find his project-log link below.


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TOBYHANNA — Area residents and visitors from Scranton joined together on Sunday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the train station, which has been a connection between the Poconos and Scranton since June 1908.
"I remember as a boy coming to this station during storms," said Dominic Keating, vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority. "Even when the phones went down you knew the train station telegraph lines would work so my dad would send me here for telegrams."
To celebrate 100 years since the dedication of the station, a historic steam-powered locomotive brought 188 passengers from Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton for a local tour and to join Coolbaugh Township residents for a parade and cook out at the nearby VFW post.
The trip was the first of eight scheduled "Tobyhanna Excursions" this summer that take travelers from the Steamtown historic site on a round-trip to Tobyhanna.
The historic train station nearly did not survive to the centennial celebration. After construction in 1908 to replace the older station built in 1857, it was abandoned in 1975 after the Tobyhanna Army Depot stopped using it for freight shipments.
It fell into disrepair until it was purchased by the Pocono Mountain chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1995.
More than $200,000 dollars in repairs and upgrades later, the station was preserved and reopened to visitors — and the annual summer trips from Steamtown.
This summer will mark another return to history as the station will host its first passenger service to Scranton since the 1960s.
"There will be a train leaving from Cresco on Saturday, August 30, that will stop here to pick up passengers on the way to Railfest in Scranton," Keating said. "A train will make a passenger pickup here for the first time in 43 years."
Railfest 2008 is an annual celebration of railroad technology and history held at Steamtown.
After the historic start of the train season on Sunday, visitors will now have the chance to see the station and its important role in local history as passengers or visitors.
"This is really local history here," Keating said. "There's 151 years of Tobyhanna at this train station."


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Q: Ruby print out only the class methods (and not inherited methods) I wish to only print out the methods that are declared in the class. This does the trick:
p (
  Float.instance_methods -
  Object.instance_methods -
  Numeric.instance_methods
  ).count

p (
  Float.instance_methods -
  Object.instance_methods -
  Numeric.instance_methods
  )

STDOUT:
12
[:+, :-, :*, :/, :**, :to_f, :to_i, :nan?, :infinite?, :finite?, :to_r, :rationalize]

But isn't there an easier way to get these methods?

bonus info
p Float.methods.count # 117

p Float.instance_methods.count # 126

p Float.class.methods.count # 120

A:
methods(regular=true) → array
Returns a list of the names of public
and protected methods of obj. This will include all the methods
accessible in obj's ancestors. If the optional parameter is false, it
returns an array of obj's public and protected singleton methods, the
array will not include methods in modules included in obj.
- https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.1/Object.html#method-i-methods

Module#instance_methods has the exact same signature.
module Bannable
  def ban!
    @banned = true
  end
end

class Parent
  include Bannable

  def a_parent_instance_method
  end

  def self.a_parent_class_method
  end
end

class Child < Parent
  def a_child_instance_method
  end

  def self.a_child_class_method
  end
end

irb(main):024:0> Child.methods(false)
=> [:a_child_class_method]
irb(main):025:0> Child.instance_methods(false)
=> [:a_child_instance_method]

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But before we start talking about threads, you need to know what is (and a bit about how it works) Ruby method cache.
What is a Ruby global method cache?
Depending on the number of superclasses in the chain, method lookup can be time consuming. To alleviate this, Ruby caches the result of a lookup for later use. It records which class or module implemented the method that your code called in two caches: a global method cache and an inline method cache.
Ruby uses the global method cache to save a mapping between the receiver and implementer classes.
The global method cache allows Ruby to skip the method lookup process the next time your code calls a method listed in the first column of the global cache. After your code has called Fixnum#times once, Ruby knows that it can execute the Integer#times method, regardless of from where in your program you call times .
Now the update: 2.1+ there's still a method cache and it is still global but based on the class hierarchy, invalidating the cache for only the class in question and any subclasses. So my case is valid in Ruby 2.1+.
What invalidates a Ruby global method cache?
How can I check if what I do invalidates global method cache?
You can use RubyVM.stat method. Note that this will show only chanages that add/remove something. Changing visibility will invalidate method cache, but won't be visible using this ,ethod.
General methodology that I've decided to took is similar for single and multi threaded apps. I just create many instances of an element and execute a given message. This way MRI will have do a method lookup after each invalidation.
It's worth noting that in a single threaded environment, a huge number of new OpenStruct objects initializations can have an impact on a final result. That's why initializations were benchmarked as well. This allowed me to get the final performance difference.
Here you can see the performance difference. Except some spikes, the difference is between 8 and 16% and the average is 12.97%.
Still, we need to remember, that this included 1 invalidation and few commands, so it doesn't exactly simulate the real app flow, where you would not have a ratio near to o 1:1 between commands and invalidations. But even then, with a pretty heavy loaded, single thread app, that uses a lot of OpenStructs or any other cache invalidating things, it might have a huge impact on its performance.
Even with 2 threads and when 1 of them is heavily invalidating method cache, performance drop can be really high (around 30% or even more).
The overall performance drop for multiple threads that work and multiple that invalidate is around 23,8%. Which means that if you have many threads (lets say you use Puma), and you work heavily with OpenStruct (or invalidate method cache in a different way) in all of them, you could get up to almost 24% more switching to something else. Of course probably you will gain less, because every library has some impact on the performance, but in general, the less you invalidate method cache, the faster you go.
The quite interesting was the combination 10:1. There's almost no performance impact there (around 4.3%). Why? Because after the first invocation of a given method, it's already cached so there won't be a cache miss when using method cache.
TL;DR: For multithreaded software written in Ruby, it's worth paying attention to what and when invalidates your method cache. You can get up to 24% better performance (but probably you'll get around 10% ;) ).
Dragonfly is a great on-the-fly processing gem, especially for apps that rapidly change and need files processed by multiple processors (for example, when you need to generate many thumbnails for the same attached image).
Since it is a on-the-fly processor, it has some downsides, and the biggest one, in my opinion, is keeping track of which thumbnails we have already created. There's a nice example of how to do it using only ActiveRecord in the dragonfly docs, but unfortunately this solution won't be enough for a heavy imaged website. Since each request for a thumb will require a single SQL query, you might end up having 50-60 and even more thumb related queries per page.
Of course, they would probably get cached, so they would not take much time, but still, there's a better way to do it.
Memcached uses LRU algorithm to remove old and unused data, so no need to worry about it exceeding memory limits. Instead, we can focus on putting there our thumbnails details, and the more often we request them, the higher change there will be, that we will get a cache hit. We need to remember, then Memcached is an in memory data storage, so our data might dissapear at any point. That's why it is still worth adding second ActiveRecord layer.
Before we go any further, we need to tell our app, that we want to store cached data in Memcached. To do so, please follow Dalli docs instructions. Dalli is the best Memcached ruby client there is and it can be easily integrated with Ruby on Rails framework.
You might notice a method called key. When working with Memcached, I like to prefix keys, so there won't be any cache collisions (scenario when different data is there).
Now, we can incorporate the code above into DragonflyCache model.
That's all. Now your Dragonfly cache should hit DB less often.


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Q: How do I turn on the laser?
A: There is no way to turn the laser on and off, it is just on by default. There could be many factors as to why your laser is not showing. The most common one is that you do not have ep2 or you do not have ep2 mounted on your game. The other one is that you have an effect pack. Sometimes effect pack override default hl2 textures and particles and break most of the ones they do not replace.
Q: Why is my scope pink and black?
A: You need Counter Strike Source. The reason for this is because the method used in the code to black out the screen uses resources from css.
Credit to Jaanus and Teta_Bonita for model, laser entity, and scope texture.
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Kill that hud with fire, please, do it for everyone's sanity.
Can I make NPCs equip this?
@Ritalio If 5 ammo is such a big problem that you want to change,You can use Weapon editor.It can also change the amount of damage.
1. In thirdperson, the laser is wierdly placed right behind my character. I don't know if it does this on multiplayer.
2. There are 5 bullets instead of one. Decent enough for combat, but not too great for Half Life 2 accuracy.
3. The scope has slight "holes" that show the map through them. Doesn't look too pleasing.
4. The tiny suit battery doesn't fit. It's just... too high quality.
5. Has suit arms instead of custom arms. Again, doesn't look too plesaing.
Other than these problems, it's a great weapon, and I'd rate it a 7/10.


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MEMORIAL TO P/O C.H. ROBINSON AND CREW
KAATHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
On the evening of June 21, 1943, Halifax II, Serial No. HR735, Squadron code "NP-N" of 158 Squadron was detailed to attack the German city of Krefeld located in the North Rhine (Wesphalia) region of Germany. The aircraft was piloted by P/O C.H. Robinson, DFC, RNZAF, and departed Lissett at 23:18 hours with a crew of eight including a Second Pilot. The aircraft was shot down in the early hours of June 22nd, by a German night fighter piloted by Hptm. Hans-Dieter Frank (I/NJG1) and crashed at Kaathoven near Berlicum at 01:58hrs. All on board were killed.
1. Pilot: P/O Colin Harbern Robinson, DFC, RNZAF, was from Christchurch New Zealand and enlisted on October 19, 1941. He was the son of Walter and Emily Robinson. His initial training was in New Zealand and he arrived in the UK in June 1942. He underwent operational training in the UK and was posted to No. 10 Squadron on March 9, 1943, where he flew two operations as a second pilot. He was later posted to 1663 HCU unit at Rufforth for conversion training to fly the Halifax and was later posted to 158 Squadron at Lissett on April 9, 1943. In early June 1943, P/O Robinson was awarded the DFC for his skill in bringing his aircraft home from an operation to Bochum although injured by cannon fire from an attacking aircraft. He was on his 12th operation with the Squadron when HR735 was shot down on June 22nd, 1943. He was 25 years old at the time of his death. He was initially buried at Princehagen, Breda. His remains were later moved to Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
P/O Robinson's Headstone Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
(copyright Chuck Tolley)
2. Navigator: Sgt. George Alexander Hill, RAFVR was from St. Pancras, London, and was the son of Robert and Mary Hill. He enlisted in August 1941 and was trained in Canada under the BCATP. On his return he was posted to No. 15 OTU and later to No. 1663 HCU at Rufforth. He was then posted to 158 Squadron on April 9, 1943, as part of P/O Robinson's crew. He was on his 10th operation and was 20 years old at the time of his death. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
3. Bomb Aimer: Sgt. Walter Thomas Dunning, RAFVR was from Loughborough, Leicestershire and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Dunning. He enlisted at Cardington and was posted to No. 1663 HCU at Rufforth. He was then posted to 158 Squadron at Lissett on April 9, 1943. He was on his 12th operation with P/O Robinson when they were shot down. He was 33 years old at the time of his death and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
4. Wireless Operator: Sgt. Harry Frederick Barham, RAFVR was from West Hill Hastings, Sussex, and the son of Harry and Florence Barham. He was posted to No. 1663 HCU at Rufforth and then to 158 Squadron at Lissett on April 9, 1943, as part of P/O Robinson's crew. He was on his 12th operation with P/O Robinson when they were shot down. He was 22 years old at the time of his death and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
5. Mid Upper Gunner: Sgt. David Duncan Cuthbert, RAFVR was the son of David and Isabella Cuthbert and was born in Edinburgh. He was posted to No. 1663 HCU at Rufforth on March 15, 1943, and then to 158 Squadron at Lissett on April 9, 1943. He was on his 11th operation with P/O Robinson when they were shot down. He was 28 years old at the time of his death and was initially buried at Princehagen, Breda, the Netherlands. His remains were later moved to Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Sgt. Cuthbert's Headstone Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
6. Rear Gunner: Sgt. George Beardmore Mycock, RAFVR was from Buxton, Derbyshire, and the son of Frederick and Olive Mycock. He enlisted at Padgate and was later posted to No. 1663 HCU at Rufforth and then to 158 Squadron at Lissett on April 9, 1943, as part of P/O Robinson's crew. He was on his 12th operation with P/O Robinson when they were shot down. He was initially buried at the Uden War Cemetery, but his remains were later moved to Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery in the Netherlands. He was 20 years old at the time of his death.
Sgt. Mycock's Headstone Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
(copyright Andy Mycock)
7. Flight Engineer: Sgt. Stanley George Benjamin Hayes, RAFVR was from Finsbury, London, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hayes. His initial training was at No. 4 School of Technical Training, St. Athan, and he was posted to No. 1663 HCU at Rufforth. Following his conversion training he was posted to 158 Squadron at Lissett on April 9, 1943, as part of P/O Robinson's crew. He was on his 12th operation with P/O Robinson when they were shot down. He is buried at the Uden War Cemetery, Uden, the Netherlands. He was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Sgt. Hayes' Headstone Uden War Cemetery
8. Second Pilot: Sgt. Ernest Herbert Fisher, RAFVR was from Newington, Butts, London, and was the son of Herbert and Rosa Fisher. He was posted to 1658 HCU at Riccall for conversion training to the Halifax and then to 158 Squadron on June 14, 1943. He was assigned to fly with P/O Robinson as Second Pilot to gain experience with a seasoned crew and this was his first operation with 158 Squadron. He was initially buried at Princehagen, Breda. His remains were later moved to Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery in the Netherlands. He was 21 years old at the time of his death.
Sgt. Fisher's Headstone Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
Through the untiring efforts of Dutch researcher and historian, Adrian van Zantvoort, a memorial was unveiled at Kaathoven (Vinkel) the Netherlands, on June 22nd, 2013, to commemorate two bombers that crashed at almost the same location on June 22, and June 23, 1943. The bomber that crashed on June 22nd was Halifax HR735 "NP-N" from 158 Squadron with a loss of 8 young airmen and the bomber that crashed on June 23rd was Halifax DK141 from RCAF 427 Squadron with a loss of 6 young airmen. The central element of the memorial is a metal silhouette sculpture of a bomber crew based on the design of the Lissett memorial by Peter Naylor. In the rear are wooden posts cut at an angle with pictures of each of the airmen killed in the two crashes.
The Memorial Kaathoven
(copyright Adrian van Zantvoort)
Relatives at the Ceremony Unveiling the Memorial to the crews of HR735 (158 Squadron) & DK141 (RCAF 427 Squadron) Kaathoven, the Netherlands June 22, 2013
(copyright Adrian van Zantvoort).

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GroundUP Music (ou GroundUPmusic)  est un label américain connu pour ses enregistrements dans divers genres, notamment le jazz, la musique du monde, le folk, le rock et le gospel. Le label a été fondé en 2012 par Michael League pour accueillir son groupe Snarky Puppy. Depuis, la liste des artistes du label s'est élargie de plusieurs artistes et groupes étant liés à Snarky Puppy et/ou à des membres de ce groupe.

Le label parraine également le GroundUP Music Festival à Miami Beach, en Floride. Cet événement musical de février présente principalement des artistes qui enregistrent avec GroundUP music et des actes associés aux artistes GroundUPmusic.

Organisation de Groundup Music Group LLC
Groundup Music Group LLC est un groupe de forme juridique "Limited Liability Company" indépendant et structuré qui chapeaute 4 filiales et 1 fondation :
 Groundup Music LLC : compagnie qui gère le label et la marque Groundup Music .
 Groundup Music Merchandising LLC : compagnie qui s'occupe de gestion et de la production du Merchandising.
 Groundup Music Foundation Inc : managée par Lena Koorse et Paul Lehr, elle est notamment chargée de l'organisation du festival de Miami. Elle vient d'ouvrir un bureau à Miami.
 Groundup Music Productions LLC : compagnie qui assure la production des artistes.
 Groundup Music Publishing LLC : compagnie de Michael League qui gère les publications et les droits des œuvres musicales.

Philosophie et choix des artistes
Selon Michael League, leader du groupe Snarky Puppy et président de GroundUP, le label est en train de devenir une oasis pour les artistes dans le monde en constante évolution de la musique indépendante : .

GroundUP Music Festival
Dirigé par Michael League, fondateur de Snarky Puppy, et le PDG de GroundUP, Paul Lehr, qui a organisé le festival annuel Miami Beach et avec son partenaire de production The Rhythm Foundation qui gère l'espace "North Beach Bandshell, les deux premières années du festival de musique GroundUP (2017 et 2018) ont attiré annuellement près de 8 000 + participants :
 60 % du public du festival venaient de 40 États américains
 40 % du public du festival venaient de pays du monde entier.

En raison de cet attrait international, GroundUP Festival a souvent été appelé Art Basel de la musique. Les fans viennent assister aux représentations et échanger de près avec les artistes dans les ateliers intimistes et les accompagnent tout au long du week-end dans le vaste complexe du festival en front de mer. Snarky Puppy, qui a remporté de nombreux Grammy Awards, joue des sets quotidiens (3 soirées), et sert de tremplin live à d'autres musiciens à découvrir.

Le Festival se tient début février annuellement à la "North Beach Bandshell" de Miami Beach, Floride.

Salué comme étant  de l'année à Miami, le festival de musique GroundUP veut se distinguer des autres festivals : centré sur l'artiste et axé sur le public, avec une jauge quotidienne intimiste d'environ 2 000 personnes, pas de superposition de décors, excellente acoustique dans un petit théâtre en plein air Beach / ocean où le public a toujours beaucoup d'espace avec la "vue sur le large". Chaque festivalier peut interagir à titre personnel avec les artistes du festival présentés qui donnent des masters classes et passent du temps avec leurs fans tout le week-end.

 3 édition en février 2019.  4 édition en février 2019. ''

Artistes publiés par GroundUP Music

 Banda Magda
 Breastfist
 Bokanté
 Roosevelt Collier
 David Crosby
 Alina Engibaryan
 Forq
 Magda Giannikou & Banda Magda
 The Funky Knuckles
 Cory Henry
 House of Waters
 Charlie Hunter
 Bill Laurance
 Mark Lettieri
 Maz
 PRD Mais
 Snarky Puppy
 Sirintip
 Justin Stanton
 Becca Stevens
 Michelle Willis
 Lucy Woodward

Notes et références

Voir aussi

liens externes
  groundupmusic.net, site officiel.

Artiste de GroundUP Music
Label discographique indépendant ayant son siège aux États-Unis
Label de jazz ayant son siège aux États-Unis
Entreprise fondée en 2012
Festival de jazz

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The Victorian Government has committed $2.9 billion to funding Victorian schools over the next four years, in what Labor is describing as the biggest education budget in the state's history. EducationHQ broke down the numbers.
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Clare Helen Torry (* 23. November 1947 in London) ist eine britische Sängerin, die durch ihre Vokalimprovisation in The Great Gig in the Sky aus dem Album The Dark Side of the Moon von Pink Floyd aus dem Jahre 1973 bekannt wurde. Dieses Album ist mit über 50 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern eines der meistverkauften Alben aller Zeiten weltweit.

Die ersten Jahre
Clare Torry stammt aus einem bürgerlichen Elternhaus und besuchte als Schülerin ein Internat in Battle (East Sussex). Da sie mit den konservativen Normen dieser Schule nur schwer zurechtkam, konnte ihre Begabung als Sängerin und Songschreiberin kaum gefördert werden.

Ab Ende der 1960er Jahre war Torry als professionelle Musikerin tätig. Zunächst sang sie viele Coverversionen populärer Titel aus den Hitparaden. Sie schrieb auch selbst Popsongs, die teilweise auch von anderen Musikern übernommen wurden. Ein großer finanzieller Erfolg war damit jedoch nicht verbunden. Daher nahm sie ab Mitte 1972 auch Aufträge als Studio-Backgroundsängerin an, eine Arbeit, die ihr zwar künstlerisch wenig reizvoll erschien, auf deren Einnahmen sie jedoch angewiesen war.

Dadurch lernte sie auch Alan Parsons kennen, den späteren Begründer von Alan Parsons Project, der damals noch ein unbekannter Toningenieur war. Während Parsons sich später an ein Album Torrys mit Coverversionen bekannter Lieder, darunter Light My Fire, zu erinnern glaubte, kann sich die Sängerin nicht erinnern, dieses Lied jemals interpretiert zu haben. Sicher ist jedoch, dass Parsons von ihrer Stimme tief beeindruckt war.

Aufnahme von The Great Gig in the Sky
Als Pink Floyd kurzfristig eine Studiomusikerin als Sängerin für The Great Gig in the Sky suchten, empfahl Parsons Torry. Das Engagement wäre beinahe nicht zustande gekommen, schließlich wurde ein Termin noch am selben Tag, einem Sonntagabend, ausgemacht. Der Instrumentalteil war schon fertig eingespielt, und Torry sollte ihren Gesangsteil dazu improvisieren. Sie erhielt nur grobe Vorgaben, wie etwa, keinen Text zu singen, die Töne länger zu halten oder ihre Stimme wie ein Instrument zu verwenden. Schließlich war die Gruppe mit dem Ergebnis zufrieden, und Torry erhielt die übliche Gage für eintägige Studioaufnahmen an einem Sonntag.

Sie vermutete, die Aufnahme würde nicht verwendet werden, da ihre Stimme dabei zu krächzend gewesen sei, und dachte nicht weiter daran. Erst als sie später an einem Plattenladen ein großes Pink-Floyd-Poster entdeckte und dann noch ihren Namen auf dem Plattencover las, kaufte sie die Platte. Und sie gefiel ihr.

Weitere Tätigkeit
Clare Torry arbeitete weiter als Studiomusikerin und Backgroundsängerin für zahlreiche Produktionen, z. B. für Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, Matthew Fisher, Meat Loaf und für mehrere BBC-Fernsehproduktionen. Auf dem Album Eve von The Alan Parsons Project sang sie 1979 im Lied Don't Hold Back die Hauptstimme. In ähnlicher Weise wie auf The Great Gig in the Sky sang sie 1984 im Lied The War Song auf dem Album Waking Up with the House on Fire von Culture Club und 1985 im Lied Yellowstone Park auf dem Album Le Parc von Tangerine Dream. 1987 arbeitete sie nochmals mit Roger Waters auf dessen Soloalbum Radio K.A.O.S. zusammen und erzählte in einem Interview von den Aufnahmesitzungen zu The Great Gig in the Sky.

Im Jahr 1990 gab es einen öffentlichen Auftritt mit Pink Floyd, und in den Jahren zuvor eine Zusammenarbeit und einige Live-Auftritte mit der neuen Band von Roger Waters, der 1985 Pink Floyd verlassen hatte.

Anerkennung als Komponistin von The Great Gig in the Sky
Für das von ihr 1973 improvisierte Stück The Great Gig in the Sky erhob sie erst 30 Jahre später gerichtlichen Anspruch auf Tantiemen, da sie im Rahmen der Studiotätigkeit nur für den Gesang, nicht jedoch für die Komposition bezahlt worden war. Dieser Anspruch wurde in einem außergerichtlichen Vergleich 2005 bestätigt, über dessen Details Stillschweigen vereinbart wurde. Seitdem gelten Richard Wright und Clare Torry gemeinsam als Komponisten dieses Stückes.

Veröffentlichung
2006 veröffentlichte Clare Torry ihre CD Heaven in the Sky, eine Sammlung von Liedern aus den 1960er und 1970er Jahren.

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Microsoft believes Internet access is a fundamental right
New Delhi. Starlink, a company owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, provides internet coverage through satellite to 40 countries. Companies like Meta (Connectivity/ Aquila) and Google (Loon) have also tried their hands on this technology and later pulled out of this project. Amazon had already announced its entry in this space. It has now been informed by Microsoft that the company is now working on a project to provide internet access to 10 million people worldwide.
Microsoft and global communications company Viasat have announced that they will bring Internet access to 10 million people worldwide, including 5 million across Africa. The partnership is part of Microsoft's Airband Initiative, which will deliver internet to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Guatemala, Mexico and the US. It is also planning to expand this project to Egypt, Senegal and Angola.
Microsoft said in the blog that under this project, companies will enable telehealth, distance learning, education, precision agriculture, clean power and other services to reach new areas. Also, apart from new satellite and fixed wireless, will also work on new technology.
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According to the International Telecommunication Union at the United Nations, almost a third of the world's population (or 2.7 billion people) does not have internet access. We believe that access to the Internet is a fundamental right and that digital skills create and enable economic prosperity for people, businesses and governments, said Teresa Hutson, Vice President of Technology and Corporate Responsibility at Microsoft. Through our AirBand Initiative, we will extend high-speed internet access to 100 million people on the continent of Africa and a quarter billion people living in unserved and under-served areas around the world by 2025.
Microsoft Airband Initiative
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BY ARTHUR HALL
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halla@jamaicaobserver.com
Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has downplayed the significance of a declaration by some Jamaicans overseas that the Government will not be "touching one red cent" of a US$10-million fund they are trying to set up to help fight crime in Jamaica.
First proposed in late March, the fund will target an estimated one million Jamaicans in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for donations of US$10 each to assist the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) in crafting a comprehensive crime plan, with emphasis on procuring urgently needed equipment and technology.
"No funds collected under the proposal will be turned over to the Government or its agencies. Our help will be project-based and in collaboration with the JCF [Jamaica Constabulary Force]," said former Jamaica Defence Force Lance Corporal Mark Parkinson, whose brainchild it is.
But, responding on Monday, Chang told the Jamaica Observer that under the present rules there is no way the money could have gone into the consolidated fund.
"Any contribution of that sort that comes into the country does not go into the consolidated fund. It never goes there," declared Chang.
"They are free to raise the money, but they would have to give it to the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, and through that to the police commissioner's office. I told them that in my recent town hall meeting with them," added Chang.
The security minister, who is also Jamaica's deputy prime minister, underscored that the group would not be able to make donations to individual police stations or formations.
"Everything must come through the appropriate channels, which is the embassy and then to the commissioner's office," said Chang as he argued that direct contributions to police stations is also not allowed as this could open the door for influence peddling.
"If 'John Brown' gives police station 'A' $500,000 and he is a nice guy, fine, but if 'Mr Jones' comes, who is a big time wheeler dealer around the road and says he is giving $500,000 and we refuse it, it will look like we are partisan. All funds must come through the commissioner's office and therefore the police stations don't owe anybody.
"The Government has put $54 billion in the police over the past four years because we are avoiding that kind of pettifogging thing with the police. We are going to equip them as we have done," said Chang.
Jamaicans in the Disapora have also taken issue with Chang for what they say was his rejection of their offer of expertise and technology to help with fighting crime in Jamaica during that town hall meeting staged by Jamaica's Ambassador to the US Audrey Marks, but Chang told the Observer that was not the case.
"The Government's position is that proposals to assist the police force from the Diaspora must come through the appropriate channel, which is the embassy, and then it is directed to the appropriate channel which is the commissioner's office," Chang said.
"Manpower help cannot be done ad hoc. If a man wants to come and give a motivational lecture we don't have a problem. In fact, one member of the Diaspora came down with some technical knowledge which we thought was very useful and he was directed to go to the commissioner and they are working out something.
"I don't know anybody who has made any sensible offer that we have rejected… and we welcome any help from the Diaspora, as we did in the case I spoke about earlier," added Chang.


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The choice of La Nuit (Night) as the title of Elie Wiesel's documentary-style novel is fitting because it captures both physical darkness and the darkness of the soul. Because young Elie and his father observe the sacrifice of a truckload of children in a fiery ditch and watch the flaming corpses light up the night sky at Birkenau, the darkness evokes multiple responses. The crisply methodical work of the Nazi death camps spreads over night and day and brings to life the fanatical intent of Hitler to wipe out all traces of European Jewry. The night that envelops their humanity erases mercy and human feeling.
Even more significant is the darkening of young Elie's idealism. Once moved to identify with past martyrs of the Babylonian Captivity and the Spanish Inquisition, he finds himself standing in a dismal scene that his eyes absorb in disbelief. He refrains from wondering if the smoky wreath over Auschwitz's crematories contains the ashes of his mother and sisters. By depersonalizing the fears that lurk in his subconscious and that overwhelm the badly shaken Chlomo, Elie concentrates on food, warmth, and rest. The instinctive need to pray falters on his mind's surface, yet, deep within, he continues to fight the onset of spiritual night that threatens to obliterate God from his being.


Series classics, demonic golem, Astaroth and the daughter of the bladed rod, Seong Mi-Na are confirmed to be making a return for the upcoming Soul Calibur VI when it releases on 19 October 2018 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
6th August, 2018 – Richmond UK: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe today announces the return of Astaroth and Seong Mi-Na, two famous characters in SOULCALIBUR VI, launching 19th October 2018 for PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC.
Astaroth is a golem created by the leader of an evil cult. Imbued with an amazing strength as well as the martial art experience of highly skilled warriors, he is the perfect weapon to serve the cult doctrine of destruction and rebirth. All too aware of his mission, the creature is tirelessly seeking for the cursed sword.
Seong Mi-Na is a woman, but first of all she remains a warrior. When her father decided to search for a marriage suitor for her, she decided to run away. In her flight, she took the most precious treasure of the Seong family, the Scarlet Thunder a weapon passed down through countless generations.
As one would expect of the only daughter of the Seong family master, Seong Mi-Na trained fiercely in the art of the longsword and acquired great strength and agility. Despite the weight of her weapon, she wields it with disconcerting ease and grace.
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Besides from the small cluster of flowers that will soon come alive again to be colorfull, also notice the sharp rocks! That's what we are trying to avoid the most traveling on land by as the snow is melting away. They are not big boulders like in the beginning of the trip, but they are sharp!
A 120 miles to go! We have just reached the ocean again after a little more than 3 days crossing Devon Island. In short: we are thrilled to be off the land and back on ice.
Leaving from Griffin Inlet we had another day sledding north up the west coast of Devon Island heading for the John Brown Point where we had been told to begin our 25 miles crossing of Devon Island. We would have a bit of climbing to do, but then were to head down a long valley leading us back out on the ocean. We were hoping we could make it in a day. But about 7 miles before the point we crossed a snow mobile trail going due east straight towards land. We knew a group had left a week earlier from Resolute going to Grise Fiord - as far as we knew it was two Inuit guides on snow mobile leading a Japanese and a Canadian team of raicing dogs. In Resolute we had seen their trail heading up and over land instead of out on the ocean, but we decided not to use this trail since the ice is so much easier on us with the heavy sleds; Whereas it probably did not matter much for these guys with the Inuit snow mobiles breaking trail and carrying all weight on their tow sleds. We imagined they could have had a rough time going through the pressure ice though, with the rough ice easily banging up and crushing small lightweight sleds and it probably being very difficult for the raicing dogs to run in, with their fragile legs. We stopped at the trail, looked ahead of us and decided, "heck" we might have been really lucky here and have a trail the rest of the way! Running on shore Cola and Freja who was out in front leading Paul's team thought it was great! A trail full of dog smells...Then, all of a sudden it stopped. We looked around a bit..they were turning inland! We were still about 5 miles from the traditional route but maybe they knew of a short cut? We decided to follow. A near crash cliff, an exceptionally steep down hill, a lot of circling around and then turning due south later we had had enough. Something was up. Maybe these guys did not know any other route but was just trying to be smart!?
It was hard to believe though. We have a very deep respect for Inuit and their way of reading the land. But we just could not defend continuing this way. We were on the hill top above a lake which we could get on to get back out to the sea ice and continue the way we had originally planned. Time to make camp, we debated for a while, should we stay on the trail or turn around going down on the lake. We headed for the lake. Still baffled by the trail we had seen, we were curious though, so we set up the HF radio to try and see if we could have any luck reaching somebody in Grise Fiord that could let us know if these guys made it there and which route they followed!! A very nice guy picked up our call "Polar Husky Dogsled Team calling Grise Fiord, over". He immediately said he would run and get one of the Inuit guides who had arrived a few days earlier. 15 minutes later George was on the radio. "Yes, we made new route. Very good, though right in the beginning we did a bit of weaving around. I and my partner Stanley, will be heading back by snowmobile tomorrow night. You should take our trail". Paul and George spoke back and fourth a bit, while Paul was trying to figure out more about which way they actually went, but it is not so easy on a radio, especially since lots of other people are trying to talk together at the same time. We "hung up" but we still were not sure. We could probably save 30 miles going this way, there was a trail but we did not have much to go with if we lost the trail since we did not know it on the map! The weather was very grey and it was snowing a bit. On the other hand, in worst case George and Stanley were suppose to come through within 36 hours. It is difficult to break away from a trail.
Look closely and you might just skim Paul's team in the fog less than 100 ft away!!
Next day we got up, put Aksel and Mille's team in front and headed up the trail. It was very low light and snowing so difficult to see the trail, but Aksel was doing good. A few miles further it got worse. Then it got really bad. None of us could see the trail anymore behind us or in front. The light was so low you could not even see the trail made by your own skis and pretty soon so much snow had fallen that the trail was only a whisper. Aksel did an incredible job, leading us 6 miles further. Some mysterious way he could follow it. Maybe he could smell the dogs that had been there earlier. The snow stopped and instead a heavy blanket of fog rolled in over us. We could see absolutely nothing, up or down. We were in a complete white out. There was no wind though so it was very quite. Just white. Aksel stopped. He looked back. He had lost the trail. We could not find it again, so we sat down for lunch and to debate what next.
The enormous cliffs we avoided. The little dot on the right is Paul's team.
Looking on the map it was clear it would be to dangerous to continue. We were on a high point of land and straight ahead the direction we were to go where some cliffs leading down into a river. Reading the map it looked like it could be some pretty steep stuff which we would definately need to be able to see to pass. So, we set camp. It was okay though. This way we could give the dogs half a day off and maybe try the radio again to see if George and Stanley were still coming and if we could get some more information on their route. We got George on the radio again. "Ohh. Don't go anywhere. It is not good ahead. We will be there soon. We leave in an hour". We still tried to get more info from George since we wanted to get going sooner than when they would be in the neighborhood, but George was very hesitant. He really just wanted us to stay put until they came and we could see there trail. "Please stay put if weather is not better. Much safer. Not good ahead" he said. Finally, we decided okay we would wait - it would probably save us some work it sounded like, and the dogs could do with another half a day of rest. The plan was for George and Stanley to be by our camp (they knew where we were use our map position) between 2 and 4 the next morning. If they were not there at 6 we should try for them on the radio.
Waking up the next morning it was still not great light, but better. We got up and got ready, now just waiting for our snow mobilers. At 3.45 am Timber started barking. At 4 am George and Stanley pulled up on their snow mobiles. We had water boiling, and we went in the tent for some tea and route talk!
Paul, George and Stanley sitting in the tent, going over our route ahead.
It had been very difficult travel for them, basically 14 hours of driving in the blind but following the map on their GPS. After a couple of hours of tea, stories and route showing George and Stanley climbed their machines again - and we our dogsleds and headed into the white. They had told us NOT to use their new trail but to follow what they showed us on the map. They also told us they saw a polar bear pretty close to camp!!!! (So much for us thinking we were bear safe for a couple of days while on Devon Island)! As a matter of fact they had seen several bears that morning; one in the close vicinity of camp, and several out on the bay towards which we were heading. That is not such a big surprise though since its name is "Bear Bay"!
An hour later the fog lifted a bit. The visibility was still very poor but now we could at least see what was around us, dirt, rocks, lichens and the grassy spots. It was "hot", plus temperatures with sticky snow, grabbing the sled runners making it hard to glide even our own skis. But it was much better than what we had feared most: no snow. We were just thrilled there was enough snow cover for us to travel. And the dogs did great after their rest pulling us 12 miles further over land.
George and Stanley are getting ready to take off again. The small sled on top of one of their tow sleds is a raicing sled - about 5 ft, 40-50 lbs.
Yesterday we woke up full of enthusiasm. The sky was pretty clear, much better visibility, and it looked like a good day where we could cover some ground. But - as we were hooked up and ready to go the fog rolled in!! Aksel didn't care, he just started moving forward. It was still better than earlier even though we could not see the trail ahead - only Aksel could - we could at least see that we where on it, when looking down in front of the sled. Within an hour we dropped down a large slope and all of a sudden the fog lifted. It turned out, we were not in fog but in the clouds! It was gourgeous, breathtaking and strikingly scary because now we could really see the cliffs we avoided. They were HUGE! We would not have made it. Within a few minutes later we were stunned again. Ahead on a hilltop was a large group of 12 Musk ox -9 adults and 3 little calves. We stopped to get some great video footage. Unfortunally they were still a little to far away to get any great pictures with our cameras since we don't have very big lenses. At the same time just on the other side of the sleds a jaeger landed and sat to watch us, as we were watching musk ox. Neither of us, have ever seen a jaeger before, and we both think they are quite incredible. It was strange to watch this bird knowing it just flew 20 some thousand miles from Antarctica and now was sitting here looking at us! That was all the entertainment for the day.
Out of the white circling Milles team a few times before heading off were two snow geese - That's a sure sign of Summer.
NOTE: The final report with the Polar Husky Awards, Collaboration Zone winners (COMING SOON!) and expedition stats will be posted soon after the June 11th arrival date.
Sorry we could not get a better close-up! But here is 9 adult musk ox and 3 calves all in a circle to protect each other once the dogs got noisy enough.


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India declared itself a nuclear weapon state in 1998, but as early as May 1974, the country carried out its first nuclear test, which was claimed to be a peaceful, non-military explosion. India currently has about 160 nuclear weapons in its nuclear arsenal.
India is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has not signed or ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). India is considered a de-facto nuclear weapon state as it developed its nuclear weapons after the NPT was negotiated in 1968. India is not a party to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Even though India conducted a first test explosion in 1974, it would take until 1998 before the country declared itself a nuclear weapon state. This was after a series of test explosions of nuclear weapons at the Pokhran facility in Rajasthan in northwestern India were carried out in 1998. It was also the start of a rearmament between India and Pakistan that is still ongoing today.
Nuclear arsenal
India's nuclear arsenal is mainly based on missiles placed on nuclear-capable aircraft, land-based delivery systems, and sea-based systems. New submarines are also being developed which are said to be able to carry nuclear weapons.
Agni-II, nuclear-armed missile.
Upgrading the nuclear weapons
India's nuclear ambitions and capabilities are increasing rapidly. India currently has eight different nuclear weapons systems and they are developing at least three more new systems. India also has large quantities of plutonium, enough to develop 150-200 nuclear weapons. The country is also on the way to developing a so-called nuclear triad, i.e. nuclear weapons on land, aircraft and submarines.
In 2008, although India is not a party to the NPT, India and the United States entered into an agreement that would give India additional access to nuclear technology and material not intended for its nuclear weapons program, but which India can use to further develop the program.
The role of nuclear weapons in national security strategy
The conflict between India and Pakistan is considered a risk zone for the use of nuclear weapons and India's primary target for its nuclear weapons has long been Pakistan. But all of the country's new ballistic missiles have ranges that indicate their primary target would be China. It is also speculated among researchers that India has increased its preparedness in the last decade.
India has for a long time maintained a policy which emphasizes that India's nuclear capability is intended to act as a deterrent to attack and that India should pursue a policy of using nuclear weapons only in response to an attack. That policy established that India has a no-first-use policy, i.e. that they will not use nuclear weapons first. However, this policy has been weakened when the country has stated that it may use nuclear weapons as a counterattack in response to the use of chemical and biological weapons, which can be interpreted as India then being prepared to use nuclear weapons first.
The country has a well-developed civil and military nuclear technology program, which includes at least ten nuclear reactors, uranium mining, a uranium enrichment facility, nuclear fuel production and advanced nuclear research.
Sources and more information
Nuclear Notebook: Indian Nuclear Forces 2020, Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda
Swedish Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons
India's Nuclear Weapons
India declared itself a nuclear weapon state in 1998, conducted a peaceful nuclear test in 1974 and currently has around 160 nuclear weapons. India is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, NPT, and is not recognised as a nuclear weapon state under the NPT. The country is expanding its nuclear arsenal.
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When I first started out in business, approximately 100 years ago now, the first thing I thought I should do was get a mentor. All the books told me that's what I needed and it sounded like a good idea. So I did. And it went really well, for about the first seven months.
My mentor was fab. She'd run a big business and had been around the block a number of times. She was tough and held me accountable, which is everything you want from a mentor. But we got to a point where I'd exhausted her knowledge and I'd heard most of her stories.
I credit my next move to being life-altering and business-transforming. I joined a peer-to-peer network and a whole new world opened up. I was placed in a group of entrepreneurs and instead of having just one mentor to unpack my challenges with, I had several. It was genius.
It was largely because of my own experiences with peer-to-peer mentoring that Business Chicks started PowerPlayers – a unique program designed to help female entrepreneurs come together and learn from each other. We place successful applicants into 'Packs' of up to eight members, then match each pack with a trained facilitator who leads their monthly meetings to help maximise time.
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Sick in the Head
Conversations About Life and Comedy
Intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy – including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne, Harold Ramis, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham.
Intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy – including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne, Harold Ramis, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham.Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. He took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club so he could watch endless stand-up for free. He hosted a show for his local high school radio station on Long Island – a show that consisted of Q&As with his comedy heroes, from Garry Shandling to Jerry Seinfeld.
Thirty years later, Apatow is still that same comedy nerd – and he's still interviewing funny people about why they do what they do.
Sick in the Head gathers Apatow's most memorable and revealing conversations into one hilarious, wide-ranging, and incredibly candid collection that spans not only his career, but his entire adult life. The comedy legends who inspired and shaped him, from Mel Brooks to Steve Martin, the contemporaries he grew up with, from Spike Jonze to Sarah Silverman. And the brightest stars in comedy today, from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer.
And along the way, something kind of magical happens: what started as a lifetime's worth of conversations about comedy becomes something else entirely. It becomes an exploration of creativity, ambition, neediness, generosity, spirituality, and the joy that comes from making people laugh.
Loaded with the kind of back-of-the-club stories that comics tell one another when no one else is watching, this fascinating, personal, and borderline-obsessive book is Judd Apatow's gift to comedy nerds everywhere.
Royalties will be donated by to 826LA, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center in Los Angeles.
Judd Apatow was born on December 6, 1967 in Syosset, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007) and This Is 40 (2012). He has been married to Leslie Mann since June 9, 1997. They have two children.
While in high school, he started a radio show on the campus station. The show gave him an excuse to seek out and interview comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno and Garry Shandling. Several years later, Shandling would hire him to write for The Larry Sanders Show (1992).
Praise for Sick in the Head
This book is comedy porn for nerds. Nerds who prefer to deconstruct a joke rather than a computer.
Veronica Milsom, The Sydney Morning Herald
Judd Apatow was 15 when he began doing the interviews that make up this terrific book about the art of being funny. As the book's subtitle suggests, conversations about comedy almost always turn to life matters. The breadth of Apatow's experiences serves him well in the interviews. His subjects recognise him as a peer and not just an interested outsider. He asks great questions and you get the sense that he really wants to know the answers. And he frequently gets crackerjack replies. By the time you get to the end of Sick in the Head, you'll feel as if you've been involved in a round-table discussion about comedy in all its various guises. And that is a wonderful place to be for anyone who cares about the precious commodity of laughter.
Tom Ryan, The Age
Anyone even remotely interested in comedy or humanity should own this book. It is hilarious and informative and it contains insightful interviews with the greatest comics, comedians, and comediennes of our time. My representatives assure me I will appear in a future edition.
"I just want to go deeper," Apatow writes, "and more personal every time". Sick in the Head, like his films, achieves that in spades.
James McNamara, The Australian
Open this book anywhere, and you're bound to find some interesting nugget from someone who has had you in stitches many, many times.
These are wonderful, expansive interviews—at times brutal, at times breathtaking—with artists whose wit, intelligence, gaze, and insights are all sharp enough to draw blood. Judd Apatow understands as well as any of them the pain that holds the knife, and the glee that wields it.
Sprawling and insightful . . . The candidness of the interviews also exposes the peculiar community of comedians with anecdotes and cameos unlikely to be heard elsewhere. A delightful and hilarious read for anyone interested in what makes comedians tick.
Incandescent . . . an irresistible, ultimate-insider's comedy-interview extravaganza . . . Apatow never loses his unabashed fan's enthusiasm even as he asks canny questions that yield superbly illuminating conversations rich in shop talk and musings on the lure, demands, and resonance of comedy.
If Apatow's gift for comedy is a sickness, may he never be cured.
A lively collection of interviews with comedians that is a kind of love letter to the art form and an entertaining portrait of how stand-up has changed from its first boom in the '80s to its current one. The topics range further afield, from comedy to family or religion. Ms. Dunham talked about Mr. Apatow's contributions to her TV show, "Girls," as an executive producer. "In 'Girls,' he always pushes us to make Hannah more mature, to grow and be less selfish," she said of her character in that series. "He wants to find the emotional core of a scene and doesn't care if it's funny."
JASON ZINOMAN, The New York Times
In Sick in the Head, Apatow talks with Steve Allen, Albert Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Sandra Bernhard and many others. Apatow has been conducting such interviews since he was a student at Syosset High School in the 1980s when he'd cheekily seek out the comedians he admired, most of whom showed the good grace of being interviewed by a whip-smart teenager. In a very Hollywood-style act of chutzpah, several of those 1980s interviews are included in "Sick in the Head." Fortunately, though, the majority of pieces here are the work of an adult talking shop with other adults, and the accumulative effect is fascinating.
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A Multidimensional Approach to Infertility Management
Testes are surrounded by a network of blood vessels. Normally, blood flows to the testicles through an artery, and flows out via a network of tiny veins that drain into a long vein that goes up through the abdomen. The direction of blood flow in this vein should always be up, toward the heart. A series of one-way valves in the vein prevent the reverse flow of blood back to the testicles.
Sometimes these one-way valves fail; the reverse flow of blood stretches and enlarges the tiny veins around the testicle to cause a Varicocele, a tangled network of enlarged blood vessels, or varicose veins.
Q. What is a Varicocele?
A. A varicocele is a network of tangled blood vessels in the scrotum. Varicocele usually develops slowly. They are more common in men aged 15-25 years and are most often seen on the left side of the scrotum. It is a leading cause of male infertility and may also cause pain and shrinkage of the testicles. Fortunately, most varicoceles are easy to diagnose and, if they cause symptoms, can be repaired surgically.
Q. What are the Clinical Features of Varicocele?
A. There may not be any symptoms or they may be mild and many do not require treatment. The patient may be aware of a lump in the scortum, especially when standing, but may notice that the swelling usually disappears when lying down. The lump, which may have a bluish appearance through the skin, is soft to feel, like a bunch of grapes or a bag of worms.
Treatment may be necessary if the varicocele is causing discomfort or any of the other problems listed below.
Recurrent or constant discomfort or pain
Enlarged, twisted veins in the scrotum
Painless testicle lump
Scrotal swelling, or bulge within the scrotum
Q. What are the Complications of Varicocele?
A. The complications are as follows:-
Pain: One of the signs of varicocele is an aching pain when the individual has been standing or sitting for an extended time and pressure builds up in the affected veins. Heavy weight lifting may make varicocele symptoms worse and, in some cases, can even cause varicocele to form. Usually (but not always) painful varicocele is prominent in size.
Fertility problems: There is an association between varicocele and infertility or subfertility, but it is difficult to be certain if a varicocele is the only cause of fertility problems. Varicocele can lead to decreased sperm count; decreased motility or movement of the sperms; and an increase in the number of deformed sperms. It is not known for sure how varicocele contributes to these problems, but a common theory is that increased blood flow raises the temperature of the testicles and affects sperm production.
Prolonged elevated testicular temperature has detrimental effects on sperm production.
There may be improvements in the quality and/or quantity of sperm production after surgery for varicocele repair.
Testicular shrinking (atrophy): Shrinking of the testicles is another of the signs of varicocele. The condition is often diagnosed in adolescent boys during a Sports physical exam. When the affected testicle is smaller than the other, repair of the varicocele is often recommended. The repaired testicle will return to normal size in many cases.
Q. Who can Get a Varicocele and How is it Diagnosed?
A. Any male can be affected, although it is seen more frequently in tall, thin men, especially those from hot climates.
Physical examination: Sometimes a varicocele can be diagnosed during a physical examination. A large varicocele may be seen with the naked eye and may make the scrotum look lumpy so it resembles "a bag of worms". Medium-sized varicocele may be detected during physical examination by feeling the area. A patient suspected of having a varicocele should be examined while standing up, as a varicocele is more prominent in this position than in the lying down position.
Semen analysis: Infertility caused by a varicocele typically produces a consistent pattern of incompletely developed, damaged, dead or dying sperms.
Other tests: When varicocele symptoms are not clearly present or it is a small varicocele, any of the following tests can be done:-
Doppler ultrasonography: It uses ultrasound echoes to detect the characteristic sound of the back flow of blood through the valve.
Venogram: It is an x-ray in which a special dye is injected into the veins to "highlight" blood vessel abnormalities.
Thermography: It uses infrared sensing technology to detect pockets of heat caused by pooled blood.
Q. What are the Treatment Options for Varicocele ?
A. If the patient has no symptoms or the symptoms are mild and infertility is not an issue, the condition can be managed by wearing an athletic supporter or snug-fitting underwear to provide the scrotum with support.
Surgery to correct a varicocele is usually done on an outpatient basis. After a cut is made, usually in the lower abdomen, the doctor disconnects the network of tangled blood vessels by tying off the abnormal veins so that the blood will now flow around the area into normal veins. Ice pack is kept on the area for the first 24 hours after surgery to reduce swelling.
After the surgery it is important not to have sexual intercourse for one week. It takes about 72 days for sperms to generate, so there would be a waiting period of three or four months after surgery to get a semen analysis to determine whether the varicocele repair was successful in restoring fertility.
An alternative to surgery is varicocele embolization which is more costly than surgery and hence not done often.
For more information, contact your doctor
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Sending stone soaring to the heavens: the photography of Via Lucis
"I'm trying to capture the architecture, the play of light on stone, and the beauty of the church. I try to find a way to express the spirit of the church. Sometimes I'm just moved by the shapes and the patterns."
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"I'm trying to find hints of what moved the people who built the churches. And then I'm amazed by the genius of the builders."
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Eglise Abbatiale Saint Vigor; Chevet and crossing tower, ca. 1032-1072 | Cerisy-la-Forêt, Manche, France | Photographer: Dennis Aubrey | ©Dennis Aubrey, Via Lucis Photography
To celebrate the recent release of images from Via Lucis in the Digital Library, Artstor invited photographer Dennis Aubrey to share a history of the project.
At the core of this project to document and explore the great Romanesque and Gothic churches of France and Spain lies a mystery. At the turn of the first millennium, the French monk Raoul Glaber wrote that it seemed that "the whole world were shaking itself free, shrugging off the burden of the past, and cladding itself everywhere in a white mantle of churches." Our question is "Who were the builders?" Who were the people who, uncompelled, built their thousands of shrines that have lasted a thousand years? Their archives have disappeared, so often we don't even know their names. But merely knowing their names would not tell us anything about who they were and how they came to perform such tasks. What kind of belief impelled and motivated them? This is the mystery we explore.
Basilique Sainte Madeleine; Capital – The Duel, early 11th century | Vézelay, Yonne, France Photographer: Dennis Aubrey | ©Dennis Aubrey, Via Lucis Photography
As the 11thCentury dawned in France, the world seemed under attack from all directions. The Carolingian stability had disappeared in a wave of invasions – the Norsemen raided the rivers and coasts from the North, the Saracens ranged over the South as they crossed the Pyrenees and swept up the Mediterranean, and the Magyar horsemen invaded from Hungary and the east. Cities were pillaged, churches destroyed, and society disintegrated. The invaders actually fought battles against each other over the spoils of France. But a new society began to emerge, one led by a religious movement of profound importance.
Eglise Saint Pierre; Notre-Dame-de-la-Volta, 11th century | Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France | Photographer: Dennis Aubrey | ©Dennis Aubrey, Via Lucis Photography
The Christian monastic orders emerged as the mortar of society, the bond that kept it together. Through these orders, Christian Europe began to defend itself, not just in arms but philosophically. The Church needed to restate its very identity. That restatement was powerful and profound. The Christian identity was re-imagined completely, not merely rediscovered. The Church incorporated the new learning of the day – the sciences of logic and philosophy. In doing so, Christian Europe managed two monumental feats; they united faith and intellect and created a completely new architecture.
The great Abbe Angelico Surcamp of the monastery of La Pierre Qui Vire near Vezelay, recently described to us that Romanesque architecture is fundamentally monastic – inward-looking and contemplative. Gothic, he suggested, was directed outwards as a public display of faith. Yet both combined to create an architectural vocabulary that transmuted stone into an expression of man's Belief. Our project at Via Lucis is to explore this great achievement, that of sending stone soaring to the heavens.
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Die Resolution 1709 des UN-Sicherheitsrates ist eine Resolution zum Darfur-Konflikt in Sudan, die der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen am 22. September 2006 auf seiner 5532. Sitzung einstimmig angenommen hat. Gegenstand dieser Resolution ist die Verlängerung des Mandats der United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), das sonst am 24. September 2006 ausgelaufen wäre, bis zum 8. Oktober 2006, mit der Absicht, die Mission über diesen Zeitraum hinaus erneut zu verlängern.

Der Sicherheitsrat berief sich auf seine früheren Resolutionen hierzu, insbesondere die Sicherheitsratsresolutionen 1590, 1627, 1653, 1663, 1679 und 1706, sowie auf die Erklärungen seines Präsidenten zu Sudan, insbesondere auf die vom 3. Februar 2006 (Dokument S/PRST/2006/5).

Die Resolution äußerte erneut die Besorgnis über die humanitäre Situation in Darfur und die Beschränkungen der Bewegungsfreiheit von Mitarbeitern der UNMIS, enthält jedoch keine weiteren Maßnahmen. Sie wurde vor dem Hintergrund verabschiedet, dass die sudanesische Regierung mit der Stationierung von UNMIS nicht einverstanden ist. Zuvor hatte der Sicherheitsrat mit der Resolution 1706 die Entsendung von 17.000 Blauhelmen beschlossen, um die African Union Mission in Sudan abzulösen.

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Confessional Thursday...because we might as well get things out in the open.
- I've recently noticed that I have somewhere around 3,000 pins. Yeah, I haven't made them all.
- I seriously miss Psychology stuff, and I am kinda sorta jealous that my husband is in school doing things I like while I am teaching.
- This whole carb cycling thing has been super hard. Today a kid brought me two chocolate chip cookies. I didn't eat them...but the thought nearly ate me alive.
- I absolutely despise the college kids that live next door. I am sorry but loud music and a fire pit at 9pm is ridiculous. Plus a fire pit is what caught our attic on fire in June. Makes me far too paranoid.
- I did get on the not eating junk thing until last night and I had pumpkin pie.
- I would give anything to feel like I have down time, like the boredom filled type. A year ago I felt like that was all I had, now I want an hour of that back. Funny how that works.
-I haven't worked out this week at all. Monday I was sick, Tuesday I had tutoring and no time, Wednesday I didn't have time. I feel like such a bad person for not working out:( I always make sure to at least get my 10,000 steps daily on my Fitbit...yeah not even close this week.
- In line with not working out at all I realized that when I am feeling overwhelmed that is what I need to let go of. I nearly work myself into exhaustion when I pack my schedule even tighter by forcing myself to workout when I have an hour in between things.
- I don't clean nearly as much as I should. Those daily cleaning charts on Pinterest just make me feel overwhelmed. I'd rather clean on Saturday when I have free time instead of packing it in all week.
- The dogs don't get bathed nearly as much as they should.


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