In this chapter we go through the design of an interactive online telephone book application. First of all, we need to decide which features we want to include in the online telephone book. Of course, we want it to display names and telephone numbers. It would be a nice feature to have a telephone book applet that dials selected numbers. Also, we will want to keep all telephone information on the Internet so that it will be easier to keep this information up-to-date and enable users to access this information from different computer platforms.
How can we dial a phone number? Our first idea would be to simply send the AT command sequence to a modem and have it dial the number over the interface with a telephone line. But what if you do not have a modem attached to your computer or it is busy because you are connected to a BBS or an Internet service provider? A better way would be to dial the number by playing telephone dialing tones on the computer speaker. We always can create or record dialing tones (also called DTMF tones, for Dual Tone Multi-Frequency) and use them when we need to dial a number.
Now let's think about the user interface. Definitely, we will need to display telephone numbers and a searchable list where the user can select a name or address. We will need a dial button. Also, it would be nice to have something like a telephone button pad so that users could enter a phone number that is not found in the telephone book.
We can start designing application components and creating a skeleton for our program. First of all, to have a valid Java application accessible from the Internet browser, we need to include an Applet class. Then, we need a class that incorporates user controls: buttons, edit boxes, and list boxes. Let's call it PhoneControls. To include the functionality of the telephone button pad, we will create a third class called ButtonPad.
The PhoneDial class, derived from the Java Applet class, implements the functionality of Java interactive application capable of communicating with Java-enabled Internet browsers. We will need to customize the default behavior of the Applet class in order to bring telephone book functionality to our users. At this time, the PhoneDial applet does almost nothing. It creates a PhoneControls class that will have telephone book controls, adding this to the center of its own window. Then it passes start and stop notification events to the PhoneControl class in order to enable controls when Applet is started and disable them when it is about to finish.
The function main( ) does a very important job for the applet: It creates a frame for our application and starts a thread where the application actually is running. At first it might seem a little strange. Why should we care about creating a thread for an application if it already is running? The key to understanding this is in the fact that we should return control from the main function, and must do it as fast as possible in order to free up the Internet browser for other useful tasks. At the same time, we will need to keep our application running to process user input, update the screen when necessary, and so on. Luckily, we do not need to write any code to start a thread. This is the default behavior of the Applet class.
We want to add a frame and possibly resize the applet to the dimensions we think would be optimal for our application. We do not expect that we will always get these dimensions. Actually, the browser will negotiate the real size to allocate for the applet during initialization. The application-desired size might be overridden when the actual space available is not large enough or when dimensions are specified in the HTML document that includes calls to the applet.
The last function call we want to add to the main function is show( ). It will send a request to the Internet browser notifying it that our application is ready to be displayed and will cause it to update the part of the screen allocated for our applet.
Two other classes, PhoneControls and ButtonPad, are derived from the Panel class and inherit the functionality of that group of controls. ButtonPad will include telephone buttons and PhoneControls class will include all other elements of user interface: text box for telephone number, list box for selection telephone number from the list of persons and organizations, and the "dial" button that initiate process of dialing selected number.
At this time, we included only empty constructors for PhoneControls and ButtonPad classes and placed the ButtonPad variable declaration into the PhoneControls. Note that we have not actually created a new ButtonPad class. We do not need that unless we actually have some buttons in it.
It is no surprise that our application does nothing at this point except display a gray square.
Now we need to forget that we are computer programmers and become an artist for a moment. We need to place our controls so that they will be easy to find. We do not have too many of them—just a button pad, a window where we want to edit the phone number, and a box where we can select a person or organization we want to call. The more people involved in interface design, the more solutions you will have. One of the possible solutions for the user interface is shown on Figure 26.1.
User interface for the Phone Book and Telephone Dialer application.
Now we can go back to coding and start from the button pad control. First, we need to select the layout. Because all buttons have the same size, GridLayout is the natural choice. We create a GridLayout class and declare the dimensions (four rows and three columns as on your telephone pad) and a gap between buttons.
At this time we can add buttons. To do this, we will create a button, set a label for it, and then add this button into our control panel. We use a small case statement to handle labels for the buttons on the bottom row differently—instead of sequential numbers we need to add * , 0, and # to these buttons.
We will use the variable textPhone for the text control with the phone number, buttonDial for the large Dial button on the bottom of our form, and listPhone for the list box control where the user can look up the person or organization to call.
The whole program at this point is shown in Listing 26.1.
Listing 26.1. The Phone Book application.
Now, when we have all of our controls in place, we can start adding some real functionality to our applet. First, we need to handle user input. We can do this by handling events that take place when the user pushes buttons or selects an item from the list box.
To do this we will create an Action()method in the PhoneControl applet. It will replace the default Action() method in the Control class that does nothing but pass event notification to the parent class. This function has two arguments. The first argument is the instance of the Event class that includes information about the type of the event, coordinates of the pointer, and event time stamp as well as a bunch of other useful data. The second argument is an event-dependent argument. For the push button events, this argument is a string with a button label that tell us which button causes the event to be fired.
The action method should return a true value when it processes an event, and no other action needs to be done based on this event. It should return a false value when the parent class needs to be notified in order to process the event again. For example, if we wanted to see which button was pressed in the ButtonPad class and at the same time wanted to handle the same push-the-button events in the PhoneControls class, we would implement the action method in the ButtonPad class so that it returned a false value on button notification events.
First we determine what kind of event we are working with and whether this event is caused by pushing a dial button. We will call the function DialPhone( ) that will dial a phone number shown by textPhone control. Because the user can enter some spaces around the phone number, we want to trim them out before passing the argument to the DialPhone function. Don't worry about the implementation for the DialPhone function at this time—we will code it later.
If the user selects a button from the button pad, we will append the label from this button to the phone number in textControl. This simply enters the data from the button pad into the phone number field.
Before writing the code that will handle the selection of the list box, we need to think how the phone numbers are stored in our application. Probably, we do not want to show both phone numbers and names at the same time in the listPhone control. It makes more sense to show just the name of the person or organization and leave the phone number information off-screen unless a particular item in the list is selected.
To store the association between names and phone numbers, we will use a hash table. We can populate it from the phone book file and then do a lookup in this table to find the phone number associated with the selected name. To use a hash table we need to import the java.util.Hashtable class into our project and include a variable of Hashtable type called htPhones into the PhoneControl class.
After detecting that the event was created by the list box control we look up the item that is selected on the listPhone. We then use the selected name to get the phone number associated with it from the hash table and pass this phone number to the textPhone control.
This is all we need to do to handle user input.
Our goal is to write a function that will get a document with phone information over the Net.
To create a network connection, we will need to create an instance of the URL class. There are several constructors for the URL class, and we will choose one with two arguments: base network address and relative address. For the base address we will use the address of our applet, which we can obtain through the call to the getDocumentBase() method of applet class. The relative address will be the actual name for the file we want to get and it will be an argument passed to our applet.
After creating a URL connection, we can open a stream to get access to the data.
Note that we have to catch and handle MalformedURLException in our application because the applet does not have a default handler for most network exceptions. We will not perform any detailed processing of the exception, but will just report it to the user.
To parse the file with phone records, we will use the StreamTokenizer class. StreamTokenizer incorporates a simple parser that will help us to split an input stream into the sequence of tokens. The tokenizer requires a buffered stream on the input so we need to construct a BufferedInputStream based on our InputStream class.
The following code creates a buffered input stream with 4KB of memory allocated for the buffer and an instance of the StreamTokenizer class called st.
switch (st.nextToken( )) //what is our next token?
The only major piece of code we need to write at this point is the DialPhone() function. This function is called when a user presses the Dial button. The only argument for this function is the phone number the user wants to dial. This function should play the DTMF tones corresponding to this number.
The DTMF signal is a direct algebraic summation of the amplitudes of two waves of different frequencies. For instance, 1 is coded as the sum of the 1209 Hz and 697 Hz signals. A full list of DTMF tones is shown in Table 26.1. We do not want to generate and mix tones on the sound card, so we will use prerecorded audio files with DTMF signals. It is possible to use WaveGen or a similar sound file generating program to generate these files. Assume that you already have audio files and have placed those files in the /audio/ subdirectory.
To play a DTMF sequence corresponding to a telephone number, we want to separate the string with the telephone number into the array of characters and then play the sequence of audio clips with tones based on the appropriate characters.
To play an audio clip from the Java applet you need to call the play( ) function, which takes two arguments: the URL that specifies the directory on the Web server with the audio file and the string with the name of the audio file. To get the URL we can call getCodeBase( ), which returns the URL of our applet. The filename we use is based on the telephone key we want to play.
Of course, we do not want to play anything other than the keys from the telephone panel, so we ignore all of the characters from the sepPhone array other than numbers or * and # characters.
Like in an auto body shop when the work is almost done, a little more effort needs to be done to make the results look nice. For our application, we will add getAppletInfo( ) and getParameterInfo( ) functions, and add functions to show the current application status—it always pays to be nice to users.
To show applet messages we will use the ShowStatus( ) function that takes a string and puts it into the Applet context. Depending on the Internet browser this information could be shown as a browser information panel or in a separate window with the Java applet log.
Add some more comments and we are done. Listing 26.2 contains the final revision of PhoneDial applet source code.
Listing 26.2. Source code for the final revision of the PhoneDial applet.
In this chapter we get through the process of designing and implementing a real-world Java application — telephone book and phone number dialer. We have used Java AWT library to create a user interface, and Java applet methods to get information from the Internet and play sound files. Other topics we have discussed include interface layout management, input stream parsing, and event handling.


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Bills I'm Hearing About – Voting Rights, Erin's Law, Solar and Front License Plates
I'm getting a lot of mail about a handful of policy bills that did not pass during the regular session. While most of them seem like reasonable policy to me, it's difficult to imagine that the Legislature will come to agreement on them at this point since we were unable to in the regular session or the first special session. From today we have 10 days until the end of the fiscal year to agree on a budget, and every iota of work is going into coming to agreement on that.
The Legislature has ruthless deadlines to ensure that we can get our work done on time. ALL of these bills have passed all the deadlines and regardless of their importance it would be extraordinary if they came up for a vote by the end of the session.
HB 1745 Voting Rights Act
This bill implements key elements of the federal voting rights act for state and local elections. Some election systems are set up in ways that seem to have pernicious effects on the ability of people of color to get elected locally, even though they have a significant fraction of the electorate. I support this bill and have voted for it several times. It passed the House and died in the Senate.
I expect to continue voting for it until it passes.
HB 2183 – Erin's Law
This creates a task force to write a curriculum on preventing sexual abuse for our K-12 system and requires school districts to teach "a" (but not necessarily this one) curriculum on the topic. The bill didn't get a hearing in the Education committee, on which I do not serve, so I didn't have a chance to vote for or against it. In general it's a good idea to teach kids about ways to prevent sexual abuse and I'm not opposed to providing a model curriculum to school districts, though I do worry about the legislature's predilection to add little bits of required instruction on topics that we are interested in. I think there is some relevancy about ensuring that every child has access to a core curriculum covering the major topics, but we are not the school board in the sky to control every aspect of instruction at each level.
I'd probably vote for the bill if it came up, but the chair chose to take up other issues. It is unlikely to move forward this year given the lateness.
1912 – Concerning distributed generation (Solar)
I've received a lot of mail about HB 1912, which re-ups a program originally designed in 2005 to incentivize solar installations on homes and larger commercial buildings. It's working, and the precipitous drop in solar panel costs is driving a large expansion of the program. Some parts of it expire, and the bill extends some provisions while setting up a more reasonable cost framework to allow the systems to pay off in an appropriate amount of time.
As I understand it there is a fight between an out-of-state company and a bunch of local installers that have competing bills. I haven't quite figured out who prefers which version of the bill, though almost all of my mail is in support of the current version of HB 1912. I'm working my way through the details of a very complex bill. If you have more substantive feedback I'd love to understand what you're thinking.
1664 – Front License Plates
This was introduced January 26th this year and referred to the Transportation committee, of which I am not a member. The chair of that committee didn't schedule it for a hearing, and it did not come up for a vote. I think the State Patrol has big concerns about not having a plate on the front of vehicles and this generates enough opposition to kill the bill, but I'm not quite sure why it doesn't pass. As I said above, I don't serve on Transportation so I don't have the opportunity to vote one way or the other. If it came to the floor I'd be happy to vote for it.
You can track the history of bills like this on our public website, which is how I figured out what happened to it. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1664&year=2015
I am the Director of the Department of Early Learning for Washington State. I formerly represented the 48th Legislative District in the State House of Representatives, chairing the Appropriations committee and spent many a year at Microsoft.
Morning Rundown for June 23rd, 2015

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The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, on Friday attributed the high crime rate in the country to the penchant of Nigerian youths for home videos.
Okiro, who was speaking at the inauguration of the Crime Prevention Campaign of Nigeria in Abuja, regretted that many of the story lines in home videos encouraged crime. Okiro, who was represented at the event by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Haz Iwendi (CP), attributed the involvement of students in the act of kidnapping as an example, saying such should be discouraged. He also called on parents to always guide their wards and insist on knowing what they were doing even when they (parents) are not at home.
Meanwhile, detectives from the Zone 7 police headquarters, Abuja have arrested an employee of the Federal Road Safety Commission for allegedly issuing 103 fake employment letters to unsuspecting applicants. The suspect, Mrs. Linda Usen, was also said to have collected the sum of N3,130,000 million from her victims.
She was alleged to have told the victims that the commission was recruiting and that she was in a position to help them gain employment into the commission. Initially, she was said to have been paid N985,000 during the first transaction to facilitate the recruitment of 59 applicants.
She later got N2,145,00 during the second transaction. The money was meant to facilitate the employment of another 44 applicants. The suspect, who spoke with newsmen at the polcie zonal headquarters, confessed to the crime, but accused the police of covering two other suspects, whom she was allegedly fronting for.
She said the two suspects, who were said to also be in detention, were part of the gang and that she had been doing the business with them for over three years. But the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of the zone, Mrs. Ivy Okoronkwo, denied the charge, saying there were no convincing reasons yet to allude to Usen's accusation.


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Q: Why does my PHP code return Error 400 "Your browser sent an invalid request."? vv Request to API vv
    $data = $_POST['csrf'];
    $headers = [
        "x-csrf-token: $data\r\n".
        "Content-Type: application/json\r\n".
        "Accept: application/json\r\n"
    ];
    $data = <<<DATA
    {
        "username": "string",
        "password": "string",
        "gender": "Unknown",
        "birthday": "2021-11-22T23:29:51.656Z",
        "isTosAgreementBoxChecked": true,
        "email": "string",
        "locale": "string",
        "assetIds": [
            0
        ],
        "bodyColorId": 0,
        "bodyTypeScale": 0,
        "headScale": 0,
        "heightScale": 0,
        "widthScale": 0,
        "proportionScale": 0,
        "referralData": {
            "acquisitionTime": "2021-11-22T23:29:51.656Z",
            "acquisitionReferrer": "string",
            "medium": "string",
            "source": "string",
            "campaign": "string",
            "adGroup": "string",
            "keyword": "string",
            "matchType": "string",
            "sendInfo": true,
            "requestSessionId": "string",
            "offerId": "string"
        },
        "agreementIds": [
            "string"
        ],
        "identityVerificationResultToken": "string",
        "captchaId": "string",
        "captchaToken": "string",
        "captchaProvider": "string"
    }
    DATA;
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://auth.roblox.com/v1/signup');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
}

http://api.aero-dev.xyz/bin/Captcha/CaptchaId.php?i=2
The server tells me "Error 400, Your browser sent an invalid request." The issue is with the x-csrf-token, when I put it as a string "x-csrf-token: j8acha7hffh" it works. When I put it as "x-csrf-token: $data" it returns an error. I have tried different ways of approaching this error. I have changed the headers. Tried different ways of requesting it. Still nothing fixes my error. I am new with PHP, please help!

A: You are using the $header as an array however it contains long string as I suspect the line delimiter /r/n in the long string makes trouble here.
So change the one value array full of new line delimiters
$headers = [
    "x-csrf-token: $data\r\n".
    "Content-Type: application/json\r\n".
    "Accept: application/json\r\n"
];

to this array with multiple values
$headers = [
    "x-csrf-token: $data",
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "Accept: application/json",
];

CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER An array of HTTP header fields to set, in the format array('Content-type: text/plain', 'Content-length: 100')
More details in https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

A: Try doing this:
"x-csrf-token: ".$data."\r\n".

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[Trailer] ARTIK Is About A Father, A Son, And Their Unholy Obsession with Murder
Posted by Mary Beth McAndrews | Aug 7, 2019 | Horror News, Trailers |
Fathers often try to pass down their wisdom to their sons, whether that's how to change a tire, how to mow the lawn, how to talk to girls, or how to shave. But, in Tom Botchii's feature film debut, Artik, a father passes down his love of killing to his young son.
A comic book obsessed serial killer teaches his son how to get away with a series of brutal murders until the boy befriends a mysterious man who threatens to expose everything.
The trailer shows two sides of the story, opening with the mysterious man speaking about his addiction to alcohol and his attraction to chaos. So, of course, we then move to the murderous father-son duo, Artik (Jerry G. Angelo) and Boy Adam (Gavin White). Artik resembles a buff Charles Manson, but instead of music, he is obsessed with creating a comic book. Panels of his work flash onscreen, showing scenes of extreme violence and murder.
Artik's trailer promises a demented tale full of torture that could perhaps be on the level of Saw. Our killer even asks, "do you want to play a game?" after all. What will make this film even more deranged, is the inclusion of a child in all of this violence. In one particularly disturbing moment from the trailer, Boy Adam starts aggressively head-butting a beetle walking up a tree.
Chase Williamson (John Dies at the End, Beyond The Gates), Lauren Ashely Carter (Jug Face, Imitation Girl), and Matt Mercer (Contracted) will also star in Artik. The film was written and directed by Botchii. Its gorgeous poster was designed by Christopher Shy, who also created the poster for Panos Cosmatos' Mandy.
Artik's world premiere will be at Popcorn Frights Film Fest. It's coming to digital and VOD on September 10th. What do you think of Artik so far? Will you be putting this one on your watchlist? Let us know on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and in the Horror Fiends of Nightmare on Film Street Facebook group!
Mary Beth McAndrews
Mary Beth is a film writer who loves all things macabre. She is based in Washington, DC, a land full of its own horrors. She will defend 30 Days of Night until the day that she dies.


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require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/perfect_money/notification.rb'

module ActiveMerchant #:nodoc:
  module Billing #:nodoc:
    module Integrations #:nodoc:
      module PerfectMoney
        mattr_accessor :service_url
        self.service_url = 'https://perfectmoney.com/api/step1.asp'

        def self.notification(*args)
          Notification.new(*args)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Q: NodeJS - How to stream request body without buffering In the below code I can't figure out why req.pipe(res) doesn't work, and yet doesn't throw an error either.  A hunch tells me it's due to nodejs' asynch behavior, but this is a very simple case without a callback.
What am I missing?
http.createServer(function (req, res) {

  res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });

  res.write('Echo service: \nUrl:  ' + req.url);
  res.write('\nHeaders:\n' + JSON.stringify(req.headers, true, 2));

  res.write('\nBody:\n');

  req.pipe(res); // does not work

  res.end();

}).listen(8000);

Here's the curl:
➜  ldap-auth-gateway git:(master) ✗ curl -v -X POST --data "test.payload" --header "Cookie:  token=12345678" --header "Content-Type:text/plain" localhost:9002

Here's the debug output (see that body was uploaded):
  About to connect() to localhost port 9002 (#0)
  Trying 127.0.0.1...
    connected
    Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9002 (#0)
  POST / HTTP/1.1
  User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5
  Host: localhost:9002
  Accept: */*
  Cookie:  token=12345678
  Content-Type:text/plain
  Content-Length: 243360
  Expect: 100-continue

  HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Type: text/plain
  Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:12:39 GMT
  Connection: keep-alive
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked

And the service responds without echoing the request body:
Echo service:
Url:  /
Headers:
{
  "user-agent": "curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5",
  "host": "localhost:9002",
  "accept": "*/*",
  "cookie": "token=12345678",
  "content-type": "text/plain",
  "content-length": "243360",
  "expect": "100-continue"
}

... and final curl debug is
Body:
 Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
 Closing connection #0

Additionally, when I stress test with large request body, I get an EPIPE error.  How can I avoid this?
-- EDIT:  Through trial and error I did get this to work, and it still points to being a timing issue.  Though it is still strange, as the timeout causes the payload to be returned, but the timeout duration is not minded.  In other words whether I set the timeout to 5 seconds or 500 seconds, the payload is properly piped back to the request and the connection is terminated.
Here's the edit:
http.createServer(function (req, res) {

    try {
      res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
      res.write('Echo service: ' + req.url + '\n' + JSON.stringify(req.headers, true, 2));
      res.write('\nBody:"\n');
      req.pipe(res);
    } catch(ex) {
      console.log(ex);
      // how to change response code to error here?  since headers have already been written?
    } finally {
      setTimeout((function() {
        res.end();
      }), 500000);
    }

}).listen(TARGET_SERVER.port);

?

A: Pipe req to res. Req is readable stream and response is a writable stream.It should work
   http.createServer(function (req, res) {

       res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
       res.write('Echo service: ' + req.url + '\n' + JSON.stringify(req.headers, true, 2));

       // pipe request body directly into the response body
       req.pipe(res);

   }).listen(9002);

A: So first, it looks like your curl is off, the filename of the posted data should be preceded by an @ as shown here. You'd just be posting the filename otherwise.
Aside from that, Chandu is correct in saying that the call to res.end() is the problem here.
Since IO is asynchronous in node, when you issue the .pipe command, control is immediately returned to the current context, while the pipe works in the background. When you next call res.end(), you close the stream, preventing any more data to be written.
The solution here is to let .pipe end the stream itself, which is the default.
I'd imagine that timing came into play because on different machines and different data sizes, the asynchronous IO could theoretically finish (fast IO of small dataset) before the end event on the writable stream is fully processed.
I'd recommend this blog post for some more context.


Underoath make a creepy story to warn against dependency in their new music video.
Underoath dropped a new music video for "ihateit," off their latest album Erase Me. The new music video features a fallen angel, a cryptic prophecy and blood-cutting ritual.
In the song, the band sing about using something or someone up until it's too much. They hate how they're so dependent on this person, but it's "the only thing" that gets them high.
The lyrics and meaning are translated to the music video, with the fallen angel being what they can't get enough of. The music video starts off with the angel abandoned in trash only to be found by Gillespie.
What happens after has to be seen with your own eyes. Check out the video below.
"ihateit" is off Underoath's new album, Erase Me, which dropped earlier this year via Fearless Records. You can stream and purchase it now. The band are also going on a headlining tour in November with tickets available here.


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Sports CS Amina fires up Kipchoge ahead of historic run
Saturday September 21 2019
Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed (right) and World Marathon record holder, Eliud Kipchoge during her visit at Global Sports Communication in Kaptagat, Elgeyo-Marakwet County on September 21, 2019. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Kipchoge on his part said that he has a great team and he believes they are going to achieve their target next month
He later handed the CS a 43-page booklet containing details of his journey towards setting the new marathon record of 2:01:39 in Berlin Marathon last year
Amina also urged athletes going to the World Championships slated for September 27 to October 6 in Doha, Qatar to improve on the medal haul from the past edition held in London
By BERNARD ROTICH
Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed Saturday visited world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge at his training camp in Kaptagat.
This comes barely a week after the Kipchoge received blessings from Athletics Kenya President Jackson Tuwei ahead of his sub two-hour run in Vienna, Austria next month.
Kipchoge, who has been training under the Global Sorts Communication stable at Kaptagat in Elgeyo Marakwet, is on a mission next month where he will be attempting to break the 1:59 mark in a project dubbed "INEOS 1:59 Challenge".
Amina arrived at the camp with few officials from her office and was ushered in by Kipchoge's head coach Patrick Sang and his assistant Richard Metto.
She was taken round the small camp where tens of athletes reside and visited the library where there is a portrait of Sandy Bodecker with his writings "I'm a dreamer…and I work with dreamers in an environment that encourages innovation and challenges norms daily,."
"When I was told Kipchoge wakes up at 4 am to start training, I also decided to take an early flight to be in the camp on time to offer my support to Kipchoge as he finalizes his training towards the 'INEOS 1:59 Challenge' next month. I am his fan and I like how he has been winning races. I was in London in April and I saw him win after a tough battle with the Ethiopians which showed how he is focused on making Kenya proud," said Amina who also hinted President Uhuru Kenyatta will flag off Kipchoge when he leaves for the daring attempt.
"President Uhuru Kenyatta is aware I am in Kaptagat and I want to convey his message that he is wishing him well ahead of the tough challenge," she added.
Amina also promised to work on the track at the camp which athletes have been using for training but is in poor condition.
Kipchoge on his part said that he has a great team and he believes they are going to achieve their target next month.
"I'm focused and I'm almost done with preparations and for the race. I know we are going to achieve what we are going there to do. I have a great team that is behind me and I know we shall come back home smiling after raising the bar. I want to thank the CS who has taken time to visit the camp and see where we train," said Kipchoge.
Kipchoge later handed the CS a 43-page booklet containing details of his journey towards setting the new marathon record of 2:01:39 in Berlin Marathon last year.
Concerning the stalled sports facilities, the CS said that she did a series of meetings last week with various contractors and they will be resuming work soon.
"We have held talks with various contractors and they have agreed to get back to work and finish the stalled projects. We need to make sure the champions have better facilities to use during their preparations ahead of global events and that is why we want to complete stalled projects," said Amina.
Amina also urged athletes going to the World Championships slated for September 27 to October 6 in Doha, Qatar to improve on the medal haul from the past edition held in London.
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VC Najeeb Jung inaugurating the new Fazlur Rahman Khan Hostel in Jamia; Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 (Photo: Faiz Ahmad Ansari)
A New Hostel Inaugurated at Jamia
Khalid Jaleel September 23, 2011 Campus News 3 Comments 654 Views
Vice-Chancellor Najeeb Jung inaugurate a new hostel in the University on Thursday, September 22, 2011.
The hostel has been named after Fazlur Rahman Khan, a renowned architect and a structural engineer.
The hostel is said to have a capacity for 375 students. And unlike existing hostels, it is also said to have a large gymnasium.
The new building is situated in the Hall of Boys Residence compound on campus.
About Fazlur Rahman Khan
VC Najeeb Jung inaugurating the new Fazlur Rahman Hostel in Jamia; Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 (Photo: Faiz Ahmad Ansari)
According to a Jamia press release, Fazlur Rahman Khan was born in Dhaka on April 3, 1929. He worked in the United States of America as an architect and was a key figure behind the Second Chicago School of Architecture.
He is regarded as the Father of Tubular Design for high-rise buildings. His most famous buildings are the Haj Terminal, King Abdul Aziz International Airport, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, John Hancock Centre and the Willis Tower, Chicago, formerly known as the Sears Tower, which was the world's tallest building at the time it was constructed.
Khalid Jaleel
About Khalid Jaleel
Khalid Jaleel is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science. He can be reached via email at: khalidj [at] jamiajournal.com
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Tanzil
Will this hostel be alloted in this session (2011-12)
Will this hostel be alloted in this session (2011-12)????
Hi Tanzil,
If the question is directed toward me then the answer is: I don't know for sure. I've heard that it will be alloted this year, but my source is not official.
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Tag: Burgers
The Best Burger in Town
America's obsession with juvenile food is subsiding.
Press your ear (or stomach) to the ground (as we do) and you'll find the food media paying scant attention to tacos, pizzas and burgers these days.
People aren't going apeshit over ramen like they were five years ago, cupcakes have been consigned to the corner (where they belong), small plates are sooo 2014, and Brobdingnagian milk shakes have been marginalized.
With any luck, perhaps one of these days the New York Times will end its decade-long love affair with David Chang.
In the meantime, Chang and his bao buns notwithstanding, grown up dining has returned. Classics are back.
If you require evidence, just look at what's opened here in the past few months. Cipriani, Vetri and NoMad are nothing if not throwback dining experiences. Look past the modern industrial look of Factory Kitchen and what you'll find is a classic Italian meal. The only thing modern about Mott 32 is the decor and the cocktail program.
Heck, some of these places even offer cheese at the end of your meal. How fin de siecle is that?
But some things never go out of style, and a great burger is one of them.
Amidst all the Eataly anticipation at the end of the year, a sizeable (300 seat) meat emporium quietly opened in the Palace Station hotel. Called BBD's (Beers, Burgers, Desserts) it brought forth a gargantuan menu of everything from burgers and steaks to amazing bowls of duck ramen ($18) to never-seen-before dishes like Buffalo burnt chicken wings ($13):
On top of those, it also features probably the best beer selection in town (notice I said "best" not "biggest"), fried pickles and hot chicken. There's a Philly cheese steak served with smoked onions ($15 and excellent) , a one-pound Bavarian pretzel, and even lamb gyros for those so inclined.
But the real stars of the show are the burgers. Three are offered: the dry-aged prime steakhouse burger ($19), a griddle burger ($10 single, $14 double) that seeks (and succeeds) at elevating the In-N-Out burger template, and a steamed burger ($8 single, $12 double) mimicking the chopped onion, grey meat magnificence of a White Castle slider.
They offer 20(!) different sauces (all made in-house), potatoes a number of ways (the classic french fries above, are potato perfection), three salads (who gives a fuck?), and the usual frivolous fat-filled fried stuff (onion rings, poppers, cheese sticks and such).
But your attention is drawn to the meat from the moment you walk past the butcher shop at the entrance, and that's where your gaze should stay.
Those burgers are each superb. Made with in-house ground beef, juicy and packed with the kind of dense, mineral-rich beefiness that is but a wisp of memory in the hamburgers most people consume. I've said for years: the best burgers are always found in good steakhouses, because good steakhouses use the best beef and treat it right.
The beef here tastes like it could've come straight from Delmonico or CUT. The grind is coarse and the packing is just firm enough to hold together and sear properly, the better to retain the juiciness essential for proper burger apotheosis. I can't remember when I've tasted better.
Seasonings are on-point, too, telling you that someone in the kitchen is paying close attention to the details.
As much as well love all of the cheeseburgers here, I have to admit the steamed mini-burgers (above) are my favorite. They taste like what White Castles would be if they were 3xs thicker, used great meat sandwiched in a superior bun and satisfied your cravings without laying in your stomach like a cheap, greasy brick. (The latter is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if you've been parking booze in your gut all night.)
Those minis are not to be missed, but neither are any of these meat patty sandwiches. The beef in the dry-aged prime burger (above) is aged for 40-50 days and achieves that tinge of umami-laden gaminess true beef aficionados look for. The grilled beauties (not pictured) are next-level delicious as well — one bite and you might forswear In-N-Out forever.
Put them all together and you have a hamburger hamlet of unbridled greatness, the likes of which Vegas has never seen under one roof.
All of this is the handiwork of one Ralph Perrazzo — a Long Island chef (and Bradley Ogden alum) who won some burger battle on some food network show, paving the way for his expansion to Vegas. Sorry Ralph, but I don't take those shows very seriously anymore, but your food is the real deal, and whether it's juvenile or fashionable or not, I intend to eat many more of your burgers, and take them very very seriously while doing so.
(A burger lunch or dinner for two, without booze, should run between $25-$50, depending on how many sides or appetizers you tackle. The beer selection is for serious suds lovers.)
BBD's
Palace Station Hotel and Casino
https://eatbbds.com/experience/
What's Wrong With This Burger?
Bar Code Burger Bar has been getting a lot of buzz recently.
So we decided to try one (actually, two).
The one pictured above is called the "Bar Code Burger" — which signifies to us that it's the standard bearer for the operation.
The other one was called the "Green Chile Cheese Burger", and it signaled that the owner might know a thing or two about green chile cheeseburgers.
That flagship burger claims to made with a "proprietary blend" of short rib, brisket and chuck — the former contributing fatty, richness (it was hoped), with the latter two ingredients supposedly bringing exquisite beefiness to the party. Don't take my word for it, let's read the menu description:
BAR CODE BURGER $11.95 — Proprietary short rib, brisket and chuck, Newcastle onion jam, smoked bacon aioli, blue cheese, arugula, pickled red onions & peppers.
Sounds delicious, doesn't it?
And it is…right up until your teeth pierce (and your palate wraps around) the juicy-but-too-tightly-packed meat.
That's when you discover there's too much and not enough going on at the same time. Shall we outline our bill of particulars? Oh yes we shall.
> The patty is too thick. 2+ inches by our estimation — which makes it at least 1/2 inch too much to get your mouth around.
> That patty is barely seasoned. If there was but a wisp of salt and pepper present, I'd be surprised. All of which makes for a very thick, very bland burger.
> All that promised beefiness was also AWOL.
> It was also overcooked and none-too tender, which is something you can get away with a thinner burger, but a sin with a big boy like this.
> The onion jam (sweet) and the pickled onions (sour) didn't exactly fight each other, but they hardly did a one-two taste tango on the meat. Together they stood for the unpardonable (and all-too-common) offense of burger overload.
> As for the blue cheese, well, it was present in name only. There appeared to be a thin schmear of a white, sticky substance on my hamburger that bore a passing resemblance to some sort of cheese product, but the sharp, strong tang of actual blue cheese was harder to find than a high school diploma at a Trump rally. (A cheap, tasteless Sysco product masquerading as the real thing? YOU BET!)
> The arugula was unnecessary (it always is), and the primary flavor was provided by the smoky mayonnaise. (Somewhere, David Chang is beaming with pride.)
Too thick, unseasoned, overloaded, and none-too-beefy….and this is the burger everyone is raving about these days?
And don't get me started about the highly-confused green chile cheeseburger — another example of how addition by subtraction could help a recipe. (No, I don't need fried onion rings – even good ones – falling out of my burger bun.)
The owner also needs to use some Anaheim-New Mexican chiles with real kick, not these gringo-friendly poblanos. (Any New Mexican worth his salt knows you don't put jalopy peppers on top of good New Mexican greens.)
They also commit another felony by placing the roasted peppers underneath the burger. THESE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT, PEOPLE!
To be fair, there is a lot to like about what they're doing here. The buns are super fresh, as is the meat, everything is cooked to order, and the fries and sauces are fantastic. And having a home-grown burger bar as dedicated to quality as this is a real feather in our culinary cap.
But these burgers need work, and someone had to say it.
Zeus hath spoken.
BAR CODE BURGER BAR
1590 E. Flamingo Road
http://www.barcodeburgerbar.com/
BLUE RIBBON Re-booted
When Bruce and Eric Bromberg (pictured above) shuttered Blue Ribbon last year (after six years at The Cosmopolitan), few shed a tear for its demise. It was an attractive, if disjointed restaurant that always seemed in the throes of an identity crisis. Was it a lounge? A sushi bar? Two different sushi bars? Who knew and who cared? By trying to combine their two iconic New York City restaurants (their gutsy American bistro, and the separate Blue Ribbon Fish), the Brombergs achieved the confusing result of making the whole lesser than the sum of its parts. Not that it wasn't good (the Brom-boys don't know how to do "not good"), it just wasn't focused.
Now they've re-opened, ditched the fish, and gotten back to what they do best – which is cooking the most ethereal, eclectic, American comfort food on the planet.
Blue Ribbon started twenty-five years ago in lower Manhattan. It practically invented the whole upscale American food thing (popularizing everything from bone marrow to fried catfish) and was known for the best burger in the business until Daniel Boulud came along with his foie gras-stuffed version, and got everyone on the burger bandwagon. Elevating simple food has always been the mission statement here, and artistic cooking for unfussy gourmands is what has made BR a critic's (and chef's) darling since Bill Clinton was President. Now, with its re-boot, BR has gotten back to basics, and we couldn't be happier about it. Gone is the sushi, the dark lounge-y bar has been replaced with a bright, front-and-center friendly one, and the menu is back where it's supposed to be: chock full of the specialties that made the Bromberg's famous.
No one disdains something-for-everyone menus more than yours truly, but in these hands you can just close your eyes and point. Mazoh ball soup? They've got you covered? Fried oysters? Leeks vinaigrette? You won't find better versions anywhere on Las Vegas Boulevard. Duroc pork ribs come sweetly glazed with their own mini-hibachi, the clam soup would make a Mainer proud, and the country pâté deserves to be in the charcuterie hall of fame.
The red (sea) trout with spätzle is also a thing of beauty, and the burger (pictured at top) is every bit as good as I remembered it….from 1993. We only tried one dessert, but they had us at "chocolate chip bread pudding."
American bistro cooking is everywhere these days, but the Brombergs did it first and they still do it better than anyone. There are certain restaurants that just belong in Las Vegas, and the new Blue Ribbon – which is really the old Blue Ribbon I've known and loved – is one of them.
The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino
https://www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com/restaurants/blue-ribbon


The only county in West Virginia that has really gained population is Monongalia County, now surpassing 100,000.
Were it not for growth in Mon, Berkley and Jefferson County, the state as a whole would have lost population since 2010.
After 9-11, there was some delusional thinking that urbanites would flee their metropolitan digs and relocate to rural America.
That hasn't happened, nor is there any statistical evidence that it will.
Census researchers are predicting the Calhoun County census will continue to drop for the next 35 years.
The median and capitated income for Calhoun and most rural WV counties is among the lowest in the USA, all the more reason for those remaining to work toward self-sufficiency, being less dependent on the grid, and growing ones food.
Population decline means less resources for local community services.
Calhoun has plenty of company with projected population decline. Most counties in rural America have a fading population.
Rural America now accounts for just 14 percent of the nation's population, the lowest ever.
The latest 2010 census numbers show an emerging America where rural areas grow ever less relevant.
Many communities could shrink to virtual ghost towns as they shutter businesses and close down schools, demographers say.
We're already seeing that in many WV counties and towns.
Large swaths of the Great Plains and Appalachia are facing significant population declines with young adults leaving and the people who stayed getting older, moving past childbearing years.
The minimum wage and low paying jobs that once stabilized rural areas have been globalized.
Rural towns and counties are scrambling to attract new residents, maintain a tax base and stave off heavy funding cuts from financially strapped federal and state governments.
In 1910, the population share of rural America was 72 percent, with rural areas holding a majority of Americans until 1950.
Now, 14% of Americans live in rural areas.
Since 2000, metros grew overall by 11 percent with the biggest gains in suburbs or small or medium-sized cities.
The share of Americans living in suburbs has climbed to an all-time high of 51 percent.
The Census Bureau will soon begin to define new "combined statistical areas" � often referred to by demographers as megapolitan areas or megalopolises � based on growth and overlapping commuter traffic.
Demographers believe that rural areas will be swallowed up by consolidation, becoming part of metropolitan areas.
Local government will be gone and low real-estate taxes will be a thing of the past, the bigger will tax the smaller.
While all this seems depressing, mountain people have an opportunity to develop a life-style of sustainability, returning to the basic tenants practiced by their ancestors.
Meanwhile, an advantage is low real estate taxes.


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Travellers in relativity & the Anthropocene
15 December 2018 | Anthropocene, Einstein, Guardian, Hermann Hesse, Nabokov, Science, TLS | Post a comment
I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to review two books about people whose lives and work have fascinated me for a long time. Strangely, both were born within a few years of each other and in the same region of Germany – Swabia.
Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in the city of Ulm, which that other son of Swabia, Herman Hesse, described as an "extremely beautiful and unusual city". Hesse was born just two years before Einstein, in the Black Forest town of Calw. It's a beautiful part of Germany. The 15th-century astrologer and alchemist Johannes Faust also came from this region, as well as GWF Hegel and Friedrich Hölderlin.
In the autumn of 1922, Einstein travelled with his second wife, Elsa, to Japan to give a series of lectures at the invitation of the head of the Kaizo-Sha publishing house in Tokyo, Sanehiko Yamamoto. Apparently, Yamamoto had asked Betrand Russell to name the three greatest people in the world at the time. The philosopher replied: "First Einstein, then Lenin. There is nobody else."
Einstein spent five and a half months travelling, also briefly visiting Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo and Shanghai (he cancelled a planned lecture series in Beijing at the last moment). On the return leg of his journey he spent twelve days in Palestine and three weeks in Spain.
During his travels, he kept a personal diary. Although it was private, it has now been published as The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain 1922-1923, edited by Einstein scholar Ze'ev Rosenkranz.
The diary begins on 6 October 1922 with a typically laconic remark: "Lost wife at border." Fortunately Einstein was soon reunited with Elsa and they departed for Japan two days later on board the SS Kitano Maru. At Port Said the ship was greeted by "a swarm of rowing boats" filled with "bandit-like filthy Levantines, handsome and graceful to look at".
At the other end of the Suez Canal he speaks rather more kindly of the Arab merchants, describing them as "handsome sons of the desert". He enjoys views of the night sky from the ship: "Have never seen the Milky Way so beautiful". He is somewhat less pleased by his newfound celebrity status: "On the ship I am frequently photographed, with and without people, mainly by Japanese".
Einstein referred to himself as a "traveller in relativity" and in Japan he delivered a series of lectures on the theory many still regarded as incomprehensible. Einstein's typically forthright and sometimes rather offensive language in the diary has caused some controversy. For instance, he describes the Chinese as "a peculiar herd-like nation…often resembling automatons more than humans". By contrast, he enthused about the Japanese: "pure souls as nowhere else among people. One has to love and admire this country."
Rosenkranz concludes that Einstein's journey to the Far East "forced him to confront his own multiple identities: "ethnically as a Jew, nationally as a German and a Swiss, continentally as a European and hemispherically as a Westerner". In this travel journal, clearly written for his eyes only, we see Einstein at his most human, capable of making boorish, unthinking and even racist remarks.
Indeed, it shows that Einstein was first and foremost a brilliant scientist and that though he undoubtedly had an unequalled insight into the laws of physics, his understanding of human nature and of other cultures was very far from profound. It seems that even a genius is, in the end, only human.
It was my love of Hermann Hesse's novels that prompted me to study German literature at university. I was blown away by works like Demian, Narzissus and Goldmund and his classic novel The Glass Bead Game. His use of Chinese and Indian religious and philosophical ideas seemed to offer insights into individuation and an alternative to the crass materialism of modernity, a theme I explored in an undergraduate dissertation. So I was delighted to be asked to review Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow, by Gunnar Decker.
Decker notes that Hesse was "a notoriously irritable loner, who could tolerate other people – even his own wives – only at a suitable distance". From adolescence he was a figure "on the verge of psychopathology" and the inner harmony that he sought throughout his life proved elusive. Indeed, it was something he only achieved in the pages of his writing: "he was and remains an author of crisis".
Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. After his death in 1962, he became "the most successful German author bar none worldwide". His collected works now extend to twenty volumes, some 15,000 pages. His writings were translated into 34 languages during his lifetime. Hesse noted wrly: "the Japanese understand me best and the Americans the least."
Ironically, it was in the United States that he enjoyed a Renaissance in the 1960s among young, liberated readers. Timothy Leary described Steppenwolf as a "master guide to the psychedelic experience" and the rock group Steppenwolf had a single called "Born to Be Wild". As Der Spiegel observed in 1968, "it was the hippies who dragged Hesse out of the doldrums".
Hesse has always had a mixed reputation among English-speaking critics, with some detecting a "faint whiff of metaphysical Lederhosen" about his work. His star has certainly waned in recent years.
Nevertheless, Decker's wonderfully rich and insightful biography reveals the true depth of vision in this "meticulous fabricator of dreams". I believe it is destined to become the standard work on this difficult, reclusive and often self-destructive writer who "concealed himself within his contradictions".
Lolita is a complex and often misunderstood novel, one in which Vladimir Nabokov "gave fictional authority to a pedophile and charmed and revolted millions of readers in the process". Sarah Weinman's The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World brilliantly reminds readers of the true crime behind the fiction and "the darkness of real life".
An authority on crime fiction, Weinman has painstakingly researched the tragic case of Sally Horner, abducted aged eleven in 1948 by Frank La Salle. On the notecards which Nabokov used to record details of American life for his fiction, he wrote that Sally had spent "21 months as the cross-country slave" of "a middle-aged morals offender". These were phrases that would appear in his 1955 novel, Lolita, proof, as Weinman says, that Sally's story "captured his attention and that her real-life ordeal was inspiration for Dolores Haze's fictional plight".
Indeed, Weinman makes a compelling case (despite the absence of hard evidence) that Nabokov was aware of the case from an early stage in the novel's composition, and that it is "seeded" throughout the narrative which he began writing at about the time Sally had been abducted, even referring to her by name at one point.
Though he later denied that the book was inspired by the case, Weinman argues it did indeed provide a vital impetus "to transform a partial manuscript primed for failure into the eventual, unlikely, staggering success of Lolita." Weinman offers a timely corrective to Nabokov's attempt to deny the roots of his fiction in reality, showing that he "pilfered from a true story": "what Humbert Humbert did to Dolores Haze is, in fact, what Frank La Salle did to Sally Horner in 1948."
Like one of Nabokov's butterflies, Weinman's compassionate and gripping book allows Sally to "emerge from the cage of both fiction and fact, ready to fly free".
Although I have to admit I'm no ornithologist, I've been enthralled by two recent books on birds I reviewed for the Guardian.
Christopher Skaife has what he himself describes as "the oddest job in Britain". His official title is Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London. He is one of the former soldiers who are the ceremonial guardians of the Tower and custodians of its ancient rituals.
As if that isn't Gormenghastian enough, Skaife is also the Tower's Ravenmaster, responsible for the safety and welfare of the seven black-as-night corvids on whose continued residence at the Tower the fate of the nation depends, at least according to legend.
His book – The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London – is not a natural history, although along the way you do pick up some fascinating facts about ravens, as well as their place in myth. Rather he describes his unique job and how he has come to love and respect the ravens he cares for: "In learning about the ravens, I have discovered a lot about what it means to be a human: I've learned to listen, to observe, and to be still. The ravens have been my teachers and I have been their pupil."
These are truly fearsome birds. Apparently ravens are particularly fond of dog biscuits soaked in blood. They are also partial to a juicy, fat rat which they tackle thus: "foot on, claws in, beak engaged, guts first, then the rest stripped bare, leaving just the skin". Skaife collects the remains to feed to the local foxes.
They also attack pigeons, often working in pairs using a "simple pincer movement" to trap them. Once Skaife was summoned by sounds of screaming from tourists standing in a queue at the Tower: a raven had caught a pigeon and was eating it "from the inside out while it was still alive".
Ravens are also remarkably intelligent and pair for life, living for some twenty years. When their partner dies, Skaife has observed how the remaining raven is distraught: "it was heartbreaking to watch". Skaife's book is a wonderfully personal and authentic account of life with the Tower of London's ravens.
Britain's large gulls are divided into two separate populations of rural and urban birds. There are thought to be more than 100,000 urban pairs of gulls. Bristol's rooftops have been colonised by these "canny opportunists" since at least the 1980s: "the city that brought the Atlantic to Britain – slaves, sugar and tobacco – has drawn seabirds into its heart."
In Landfill, Tim Dee goes "gulling" with gull enthusiasts, or "larophiles", a word derived from the Latin name for the gull family: Laridae.
Dee is less interested in writing a conventional natural history of Britain's gulls than in "watching the watchers and the watched". These sea birds – "tokens of the far-from-home and the storm-tossed" – are increasingly infiltrating our urban worlds and, as they do so, our view of them is evolving.
Picking up scraps of discarded fast food from gutters, snatching chips from the fingers of tourists, picking over rubbish dumps for food waste – gulls are scorned as "bin chickens" and "the subnatural inhabitants of drosscapes". But they are becoming part of our everyday lives.
Dee's task is subtle and almost philosophical. His beautifully written book is as much about us as it is about the gulls. In the Anthropocene, as we increasingly dominate and alter the natural world, animals are changing their behaviour in order to survive.
From conversations at rubbish dumps to Chekhov's seagull (probably a black-headed gull) and gulls in Beckett's plays ("there is no green; there aren't even any gulls"), Dee's book is a memorable meditation on gulls and our evolving relationship with nature in the Anthropocene.
Another book that focuses on life in the Anthropocene is Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us, by Vybarr Cregan-Reid. According to Cregan-Reid our urban, technological world is slowly killing us.
British children now spend less time outdoors than prison inmates. A fifth of 5- to 12-year-olds don't go outside at all on an average day and more than one in nine do not go to a park, beach, forest or any natural environment in a year.
Bad backs (from which the author himself suffers – as does this reviewer) rarely appear in fiction before the nineteenth century. One of the first examples is that of Jenny Wren in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend. Today 80% of adults in the US will suffer from it at some point.
Today most of us work sitting down, an extremely unnatural posture – chairs were not a common feature of homes until the Early Modern period. Sitting for long periods weakens the musculature in the back and eventually throughout the body: "sitting is a major cause of a sackful of diseases". We spend 70-100 hours a week sitting, or four to six years of every decade, which is longer than we spend sleeping: "the human body was never meant to physically experience modern life in this way".
The result is that in the Anthropocene, our current geological epoch, most people now die of a "mismatch disease" caused by the friction between our bodies and an unfamiliar environment: "the Anthropocene human is one whose body has changed – not as a result of evolution but in response to the environment we have created." Examples of these diseases include myopia, allergies, tooth decay, type 2 diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The way we live today is killing us. Although he adds: "still, modern life does have its benefits; in a busy metropolitan centre you are significantly less likely to be eaten by a dinosaur."
In a work of remarkable synthesis and scope, Cregan-Reid ranges across ancient history, science and literature to explore the long history of human evolution and adaptation to our environment. He offers helpful advice, informed by current research, on how to avoid the mismatch between our bodies – designed for walking in the grassland – and the urban, sedentary lives we now lead.
His main point in this witty, informative and potentially life-changing book is that we should all get out of our chairs and start moving: "in order for our feet and our bodies to stay healthy, they need movement in the way that stomachs need food and skin needs sunlight".
It's a shocking fact that if you're aged 45-64 and do sedentary work, you are 40% more likely to end up in a nursing home. Today, "if movement were a diet in modern life, we would all be starving".
And with that in mind, I've been sitting down for long enough writing this, so I'm off for a walk.
Links to the books & the reviews:
Ze'ev Rosenkranz, ed, The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain 1922-1923 (Princeton University Press, £29.95) – Times Literary Supplement (£)
Gunnar Decker, Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow, translated by Peter Lewis (Harvard UP, £30) – Guardian
Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99) – Guardian
Christopher Skaife, The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London (4th Estate, £14.99) – Guardian
Tim Dee, Landfill (Little Toller Books, £16) – Guardian
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us (Octopus, £16.99) – Guardian


Recently, we posted an article addressing the potential pitfalls to owners arising out of certain state's treatment of "unclaimed" securities account. In that article, we noted a bill pending in Arkansas legislature permitting the Administrator of unclaimed property in that state to sell escheated securities immediately upon receipt, instead of holding them for three years. That bill became recently became law.
The new law was also passed as an emergency measure meaning that the legislature made a determination that this new law was "immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety." Accordingly, the law became effective immediately upon its approval by the Governor on March 15.
Assuming that the state begins the practice of immediately selling securities reported to the state, it means that owners who later seek to recover their property from the state will not receive the securities -- nor any of the dividends, splits, or other compensation that may have accrued -- but rather just the value of the securities at the time of liquidation, less any fees incurred by the state.
GAO Issues Report on Unclaimed 401(k) Funds -- The Government Accountability Office, which is responsible for providing recommendations to Congress on the responsibilities of the federal government, recently issued a report concerning the application state unclaimed property laws to retirement assets such as 401(k)s. In preparing the report, GAO sent questionnaires to the unclaimed property offices of all 50 states, interviewed industry representatives, and surveyed fund and brokerage firms on their handling of these items. Among the GAO's recommendations are that the IRS clarify the tax treatment of plans that are escheated to the state and consider allowing taxpayers whose later claim assets that were unknowingly escheated to rollover the assets into a qualified plan.
Claim Headaches -- One of the benefits of modern escheat laws is that they are generally "custodial" in nature -- meaning that the state takes possession of unclaimed property on the owner's behalf, but the property does not actually become the state's property. That said, the claim process can be a trap for the unwary. As recounted by the Mercury News, individuals seeking to claim property from the state face (at least) paperwork and (at worst) scammers that try to take some or all of the money owed to the claimant. The article recounts these problems and has a number of tips for claimants. It is worth a review for those considering filing a claim.
2016 Uniform Act News -- States continue to work on legislation relating to the 2016 Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.The Washington state legislature is currently considering such a bill, as are lawmakers in Nevada. and South Carolina.


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The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
by Martin
Review of: The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes
Reviewed by: Martin Sielaff
Last modified:September 29, 2012
The Age of Wonder is an aptly named chronicle of enlightenment era scientific discovery, when natural philosophers, rather than scientists, dominated the study of nature.
The Age of Wonder is part biography and part history with a few subtle observations by the book's author slipped in here and there. Â The Age of Wonder covers the age of scientific discovery at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century in England. Â It begins with the story of Joseph Banks. Â Fans of Patrick O'Brian will recognize the name, as he is often mentioned, but never appears in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. Â Banks was the head of the Royal Academy, an upper crust club consisting of luminaries, many of whom were selected by Banks. Â Before ascending to the leadership of that august body, Banks made a voyage to Tahiti with the famous Captain Cook, where he enjoyed a semi-scandalous libertine existence.
Upon returning to England, he settled down, got married, and eventually assumed leadership of the Royal Academy. Â O'Brian fans will be familiar with some of his endeavors, like his herd of sheep and his interests in botany. Â Banks is rightfully the core of the book, as he was the core of British natural philosophy during his 41 year tenure as president of the Royal Academy. Â During his long tenure, Banks recruited and patronized many men of science in various disciplines.
The Age of Wonder seeks to capture a sense of the excitement which attended the many scientific discoveries that happened in this time period. Â The term scientist was coined near the end of Banks' life, and was indicative of a more clinical and less romantic version of science than was the norm during most of Banks' lifetime. Â Banks and his contemporaries were known as "natural philosophers" rather than scientists. Â It's no accident that Patrick O'Brian's fictional Maturin fits this mold so well. Â In fact O'Brian wrote a biography of Banks which is referenced in The Age of Wonder.
Holmes delves into this romantic aspect, as much as does the scientific discoveries.  Holmes' chronicle consists of a handful of  biographical sketches of the natural philosophers who were recruited by Banks.  These men (and a few women) specialized in various branches of science, but Banks sought to tie their interests together.  They were men like William Herschel, who began life as a talented musician who emigrated from Germany to England and supported himself by teaching music during the day, and built and used telescopes at night.  He didn't sleep much.
Because of Banks' patronage and connections to the king, Herschel was eventually able to support himself as an astronomer. Â He built huge telescopes, and figured out how to polish immense mirrors for use in ever larger instruments. Â His devoted sister Caroline, helped with his exploration of the stars and gained renown in her own right, as a discoverer of comets. Â Herschel was eventually knighted for his accomplishments.
Sir Humphry Davy was another genius of humble origins.  Davy's passion was chemistry.  Initially, Davy spent a great deal of time exploring the effects of nitrous oxide, embarking on hallucinatory journeys, experimenting on himself.  Once satisfied there was no more to learn from laughing gas, he explored other elements, discovering some and working out practical applications for his work.  The safety lamp was perhaps his most famous invention.  During Davy's lifetime there were several major catastrophic explosions in coal mines due to the ignition of methane gas by miner-lamps.   A lot of miners were killed. The government approached Davy and asked him to find a solution to the problem.
Davy, assisted by Faraday, figured out that by enclosing an open flame within an iron mesh, the gas would not ignite, even at high density. Â Davy refused to patent the lamp in a magnanimous gesture, which was similar in vein to Franklin's refusal to patent his stove, lightening rod, or other inventions. Â Davy also discovered a means of preventing corrosion and weed growth on copper bottomed ships. Â He eventually succeeded Banks as president of the Royal Academy. Â Davy's romanticism is exemplified by his interest in poetry and literature. Â He wrote and published much and always maintained an interest in philosophy, seeking to explain and give meaning to the things he learned about. Â He concluded his life by publishing a romantic philosophical treatise, exploring the nature of life and the possibility of an afterlife based on enlightenment and energy.
Holmes examines this duality in all of his subjects and devotes a fair about of the book to the relationship between art and science.  Particularly interesting was his investigation into the writing of  the novel, Frankenstein.  He shows how the book was derived and inspired by 'galvanic' experimentation.  Some natural philosophers, like Davy, pondered on the nature of electricity and even speculated on the nature of the brain and the possibility of its being powered by electrical impulses.  Others sought to re-animate animals, and even cadavers, by applying electricity.
The Age of Wonder draws to a conclusion with the death of Banks and advent of a new class of "scientists," which included John Herschel – son of William Herschel, Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin (grandson of Banks' contemporary philosopher poet, Erasmus Darwin.) Â These men sought to distance themselves from the romantic aspects of science and were not afraid to extend the heretical surmises of their predecessors. Â Where men like Herschel and Davy were initially reluctant to raise certain questions about the nature of man and God, these men were quick to provide "answers", and eager to leave the old romanticism behind.
Holmes' book is reminiscent a little of Paul Johnson's Modern Times.  The Age of Wonder was marked by the effect that scientific discovery had on poetry and art.  At the beginning of Modern Times, Johnson shows how the theory of relativity was applied to everything from morals to  psychiatry – giving rise to disparate concepts like moral relativity and quantum physics.
The Age of Wonder was an interesting time of discovery and makes for an interesting book.
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GCA's leading scorers Izzy Reed (left), Alexis Mead and Savannah Frye raise the sectional trophy while teammates celebrate. It was the first sectional title in program history.
Alexis Mead (left) is embraced by sophomore Savannah Frye after a basket in the fourth quarter of Saturday's win.
Freshman Elizabeth Bigelow cuts down a piece of net.
Coach Alan Weems cuts down a piece of net as it is the first time in his seven seasons at GCA the Cougars are sectional champs.
Greenwood Christian Academy's players pumps it up Saturday as the Cougars open up a big lead against Tindley in the sectional title game. The players are (from left) Katie Potter, Dorothy O' Dell, Kirsten Carlson and Alayna Boyer.
The wait is over for Greenwood Christian Academy as the girl's basketball team won its first-ever sectional championship Saturday. The Cougars avenged a sectional title defeat last season to the Tigers of Tindley with a 74-43 win. "What it means is that these 12 kids have worked really hard all year and they have achieved something that has not been achieved before," GCA coach Alan Weems said.
GCA went to work early against Tindley, leading 27-7 after the first quarter. The 20-point margin held at halftime 36-16 and the Cougars controlled the game after the third quarter 59-21. Sophomore Savannah Frye led the way with a team-high 23 points. Junior Alexis Mead was right behind with 20 as was sophomore Izzy Reed with 17.
GCA is a young school compared to many other basketball programs in the state starting in 2003 and playing its first sectional game in 2007. Since then the Cougars have reached the sectional championship game three times but fell in those occasions. The most recent was last season at home to Tindley 83-53 in an emotional game at GCA.
The Cougars came into the sectional 13-10 with over half its season played against schools in larger classes. Hosting the sectional for a second straight year the Cougars demolished underdog opponents Central Christian (92-10) and Christel House Academy (101-23). In total, Greenwood Christian outscored its sectional competition 267-76.
The Cougars do not have any seniors on their roster making their future appear very bright as well. Greenwood Christian will take on North Central (Farmersburg) at 10 a.m. Saturday at Southwestern High School in Shelby County. If the Cougars win they will play for a regional title Saturday night.
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Are these unicycles, often spotted in Darwin CBD, a safe or legal mode of transport? We look into the unique issue.
BALANCING (seemingly) precariously upon an electric unicycle some city workers have been showing a real need for speed racing down Darwin footpaths and main roads alike.
But just how safe is it to be haring down city roads and paths on one wheel, not just for the rider but for pedestrians as well? And is it even legal?
In a Darwin where neuron scooters and bikes are around every street corner it comes as no surprise to many that more personal modes of transport are making their way onto the streets.
But there is growing concern over the noticeable speed difference between the commonplace orange scooters and electric unicycles.
One city worker, who didn't want to be named, said he saw a man riding an electric unicycle down the hill along Garramilla Bvd recently, coming from the city.
"There were several cars in front of him to start with, that all left together when the lights changed (at the McMinn St intersection)," the witness said. "So they (the cars) were probably all doing at least 60 or 70km/h, but by the bottom of the hill he had flown past them all and left them in his dust.
"I can't see how those things can be legal on the roads, or more especially, the footpaths." A Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics spokesperson said that electric unicycles required registration to be used on public streets.
"This type of device, along with powered skateboards and electric scooters are considered Personal Mobile Devices (PMD)," the spokesperson said. "PMDs are available in the Australian market and are finding their way on to streets and into public places across the country.
"PMDs fall within the definition of a Motor Vehicle under the current NT Traffic Act 1987 and, as such, require registration or an exemption to be able to be used on public streets or public places.
"The current offence available is driving an unregistered and uninsured motor vehicle, with a Traffic Infringement penalty of $1500."
However, while legal to use if registered, it hasn't quelled the concern of some city dwellers, worried about an accident on either the roads, or a footpath.
"If he (the Garramilla Bvd rider) hit a leaf on the road, or one of the raised white line markers, or a chip packet or something, and came off, there'd be nothing left of the rider but mincemeat in a bag of skin," the witness said.
"And, similarly, if he hit someone on the footpath at even half that speed that day, any pedestrian would end up dead or severely injured, surely."
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Has Forskolin Been Linked To Any Deaths?
Where Can I Buy Forskolin & Do I Need A Prescription?
Forskolin is made from the root of a plant in the mint family. The plant grows in Nepal, India, and Thailand. It has long been used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine. Forskolin contains some unique functional elements, including the presence of a tetrahydropyran-derived heterocyclic ring. Forskolin is a commonly used material in laboratory research to increase levels of cyclic AMP by stimulation of adenylate cyclase.
Forskolin has a long history of use in traditional medicine, including Ayurveda, where it has been used to support lung, heart, and urinary health, among numerous other uses. Forskolin, as an herb, contains many active compounds, however, it is the plants tuberous root that is said to contain the most powerful compounds on offer from this leafy herb.
The Bottom Line – Forskolin is a plant that grows in Nepal, thought to have active compounds that can aid fat burning and weight loss.
The main health benefits of Forskolin are said to be weight loss through fat burning when used as a supplement.
Although Forskolin research is fairly limited, one promising study conducted in 2005 by University of Kansas, Department of Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences, Applied Physiology Laboratory, Lawrence took 30 male subjects and prescribed half of the group with 250 mg of 10% forskolin extract twice a day for a 12-week period.
Forskolin was shown to elicit favorable changes in body composition by significantly decreasing body fat percentage (BF%) and fat mass (FM) as determined by DXA compared with the placebo group. Additionally, forskolin administration resulted in a change in bone mass for the 12-week trial compared with the placebo group.
Forskolin is only taken via supplements.
The guideline recommended dosage of Forskolin is one capsule per day of 250mg Coleus Forskohlii Extract.
No, this is only found in the herb itself and extracted into capsule form.
There is very little research or study conducted to confirm if Forskolin supplementation is safe.
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Forskolin has not been linked to any deaths.
The Bottom Line – Forskolin appears to be safe, however, more research needs to be carried out to confirm this.
Forskolin can be purchased as a supplement without the need for a prescription.
Forskolin is an herb that originates from Nepal. It has been used as an aid to weight loss in capsule form and some studies do show Forskolin can aid weight loss, however, there is very little cohort research to support this initial evidence and more research needs to be conducted to confirm the efficiency of this dietary supplement.


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New to forums. Is there a way for me to show the most recent post in any category i want to view? Or do i have to just go to the last page to see the most recent post.
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You and I seem to be on similar wavelengths - your forum posts I've seen have been right on target. Funny how some of these people get all wrapped around the axle about things sometimes.
Noticed your sig line too - I quote that often to people. I also carry - licensed concealed.
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