This new disc from NMC brings together two works by Jonathan Dove which depict the Earth and its creation, using quite a scientific point of view yet creating richly vivid works. A Brief History of Creation, with words by Alasdair Middleton, is a sequence of thirteen movements describing creation from the Big Bang onwards, performed in this live recording by the Halle Children's Choir, the Halle, conductor Sir Mark Elder. Gaia Theory is a three movement orchestral work which is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Josep Pons, again in a live recording.
A Brief History of Creation arose from a commission for the Halle Children's Choir, choir director Shirley Court, and Dove drew his initial inspiration from a James Turrell art installation. Alasdair Middleton's texts take us from the creation of the stars, through the elements and selected animals to man. Dove admits that the narrative has gaps, and that they chose things which would be fun to sing about such as dinosaurs, whales, elephants and a shark.
The children generally sing a unison line (which towards the end of the work divides) and the writing is certainly not simplistic. Whilst Dove might describe these as songs, they are definitely not children's songs, the vocal lines are extended and Dove surrounds them by extensive orchestral contributions, colourful accompaniments and atmospheric commentaries so that this is as much an orchestral piece as a choral one.
It is a substantial work, lasting well over 45 minutes and frankly, at times I found the slightly jokey, characterful style of Middleton's words a bit too much. Also, the essential texture of the piece remains relatively constant, a strong vocal line accompanied by richly imaginative orchestral textures. It is the sheer vividness of Dove's invention, depicting the various things described, which keeps the attention, that and the superb performance from the Halle Children's Choir who sing as if this was the most natural piece in the world, despite the complex concepts, tricky textures and large scale.
Overall there is an engaging vividness to this piece, along with a lovely directness from the children which ultimately make it rather striking.
The other work is a 20 minute three movement suite, Gaia Theory based on ideas from the work of James Lovelock, of Earth as a self-regulating mechanism. Again it is Dove's sheer invention, and the brilliant way he brings together the ideas and Lovelock's image of everything dancing together into something rather engaging. The opening movement is full of exhuberance, whilst the second is more magical in its textures and the final movement is one of Dove's rhythmic dances which starts from a simple figure and simple grows, and grows and grows.
Both works are recorded live, yet neither feels like a live recording as the performances are so confident and so full of character. The vitality and energy which the children give off, in particular, is one which cannot be counterfeited and comes from the sheer joy of performing live.
There is something vital and optimistic about these pieces. Not everyone will enjoy them, they are full of Jonathan Dove's familiar style and orchestral textures, his way of writing which combines rhythmic drive and melodic facility. But I felt that they couldn't help but put a smile on your face.


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Talietumu Fort, Wallis and Futuna: The Fortress for a King Whose Feet Could Never Touch the Ground
The islands of the South Pacific are best known as tropical paradises and many of them also have long histories and fascinating cultures. Talietumu is an archaeological site in the Polynesian islands of Wallis and Futuna. It is the site of a ruined medieval Tongan fort that has been restored and offers a fascinating insight into the unique history of Polynesia.
Ruins of Talietumu
Talietumu, also known as Kolo Nui, is considered both a fortress and a ceremonial center. The archaeological site is surrounded by strong walls of volcanic black basalt rocks.
The volcanic basalt rocks found on Wallis and Futuna. (Fotolia)
There are several entrances in the walls which now are about 5-6 feet (1.5-2 meters) high. The basalt stones are fitted together without mortar and yet are remarkably sturdy. There are several basalt paved paths in and around the fortress. Inside the defensive walls, there are structures and some buildings which have been restored, as well as several lawns. The fort contains structural foundations which are comparable in size and shape to traditional Tongan houses. At the heart of the fortress is a ceremonial platform also made from basalt stone, where a monarch or chieftain performed rites and rituals. Around the site are several raised walkways that were reserved for the monarch alone - as the semi-divine nature of kingship in Polynesia meant that his feet could not touch the ground like his subjects.
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Tonga College students performing a Kailao dance in 1988. ( Public Domain )
The site had been neglected for many years and it was restored in the 1990s by a team of French archaeologists. The fortress is located six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of the islands capital of Mata-Utu on Wallis Island.
The History of Wallis and Futuna Stretches Back 2000 Years or More
Wallis and Futuna is located between Fiji to the south, Samoa to the east, and Tonga to the south-east, and in the north lies Tuvalu. It is three volcanic islands surrounded by mainly uninhabited smaller islets. Talietumu and the volcanic crater lake of Lalolalo is the most famous attraction in the islands.
The first people to inhabit the islands were Polynesians who settled around 100 AD, but there are claims that they arrived there even earlier and some of their forts can still be seen. Centuries later, the island was occupied by the Tongans who had built a maritime Empire in the South West Pacific.
Dutch mariners mapped the island in the early 17th century. Wallis, which is known in the local language as ʻUvea, is the largest island in the group and is named after an English explorer Samuel Wallis, who also discovered the island of Tahiti. However, it was the French who colonized the island.
Captain Samuel Wallis. ( Public Domain )
Today, the islands are an overseas dependency of France, but it is separate from French Polynesia. Wallis and Futuna are very traditional societies, local villages all have their own Catholic saints and there are still three chiefdoms on the archipelago.
History of Talietumu Fort - The Last Strongholds of the First Tongan Dynasty
The fortress is believed to have been founded by Tongans in the 1400s AD. They had built up a powerful navy of large canoes that made them the chief power in the south-west Pacific. Wallis was part of the Tongan Empire and the fort was part of an international trade network. Futuna, however, was able to repulse Tongan invasion forces launched from Talietumu fort.
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The king who controlled the fort was probably a tributary of the Tongan monarchy. The fortress played a very important part in the history of the Tongan Empire. In 1535, King Takalaua, the last powerful monarch, was assassinated in Mu'a, the ancient capital of Tonga, and this led to the fragmentation of the maritime Empire. It is believed that Talietumu was one of the last strongholds of the first Tongan dynasty. At some point either in the 17th or the 18th century, the fort was abandoned and fell into ruin.
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The islands are very remote. There is only one airline serving the island and it flies from New Caledonia to Wallis and Futuna. However, the islands are becoming very popular with tourists and there is plenty of accommodation near the historic fort.
The colorful culture of Wallis and Futuna. ( Fotolia)
Top image: Ruins of Talietumu fort on ʻUvea. Source: Tauólunga / CC BY 2.5
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Kirch, P.V., 2017. On the road of the winds: an archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact. Univ of California Press. Available at: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520292819/on-the-road-of-the-winds
Pollock, N.J., 1996. Rethinking western Polynesia: ʻUvea in the early Tongan empire. Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green. New Zealand Archaeological Association, Dunedin, pp.433-444.
Sand, C., 2006. A View from the West: Samoa in the Culture History of Uvea (Wallis) and Futuna (Western Polynesia). Available at: http://journal.samoanstudies.ws/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/A-view-from-the-West-Samoa-in-the-Culture-History-of-Uvea-_Wallis_-and-Futuna-_West-Polynesia_.pdf
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Samsung continues its in-house startup incubator program, called "C-Lab," which encourages employees to build their own business and spin them out as startups on occasion. Previous C-Lab standouts include the Welt, a smart belt with health tracking features, and a new crop of six C-Lab projects includes similarly out-there concepts.
This batch includes Hum On!, a music app for the musically challenged, letting you simply hum into your phone to compose music. The app detects your humming, and converts it into actual musical notation, which can then be used to write music for basically any real instrument out there. It's useful for actual musical people, too, of course, as an easy musician's notebook for tracking ideas that strike you no matter where you are. Even if the real-world use cases of this seem quite limited, the tech behind it is impressive if effective.
Another project aims to unbundle and revive the "wall" concept from the likes of Facebook. Waffle is an app that lets users share and post to their own virtual "wall," resulting in what Samsung calls "social artwork."
ItsyWatch is a C-Lab project that looks like it hopes to train the next generation of wearable customers early. The smartwatch for kids centers around letting kids care for a Tamagotchi-like virtual pet, which Samsung says will help kids "build good habits." It's an intriguing idea, and it looks from the image like Samsung might be supplying old Gear S2 hardware for the wearable's physical parts.
After Skully's messy demise, it's surprising to see one of the companies tackle a smart helmet, but Ahead looks like a more achievable kind of wearable, since it's basically just a helmet with built in audio for calls, voice notifications and listening to music.
Samsung has a smart home play with SmartThings, but one of the startup ideas here is LiCON, an app that aims to make things much easier to set up by letting users simply take a photo of the smart device they want to control, which then launches into the app directly with controls on-screen.
Finally, FITT360 rounds out this camp of Samsung startups, with a Geordi La Forge-like headset that can capture 360 degree video, all in a hands-free package. It's a clever twist on the current crop of 360-action cameras, while also borrowing some lessons from Snap's Spectacles.
Samsung's C-Lab projects are kind of like Google's 20 percent time, but also much more like a traditional incubator. It's still far from certain any of these will become going concerns, but it is interesting to see what comes out of Samsung when employees are left to chart their own path.


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Kiwi Class read the story 'The Three Cattle Dogs Gruff' by Chris Gurney. It is a New Zealand version of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. Just like the cattle dogs in the story, we all thought about ways that we could trick the taniwha so that we could cross the bridge without being eaten. Here are some of our wonderful ideas.
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Q: refresh table after ajax success I want to refresh my table after ajax success

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        url: 'insert.php',
        type: 'POST',
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        success: function (result) {
            alert(result)
        }
    });

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after click on delete the user with posted id value to insert.php delete successfuly from admins table of data base. how is it possible refresh table after success of ajax?

A: You have to do
call function as deleteUser($user[id],this)
function deleteUser(id,thisObj){
           $.ajax({
            url: 'insert.php',
            type: 'POST',
            data: {'submit':id}, // An object with the key 'submit' and value 'true;
            success: function (result) {
            alert(result);
            //if success
            $(thisObj).parents("tr:first").remove();
            }
        });

}

A: There is two ways to achieve this:

1)
You pass the element you've clicked on, and use it in jQuery to find the row to remove from your table:
HTML / PHP
// ...

// ...

jQuery:
function deleteUser(id, element) {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'insert.php',
        type: 'POST',
        data: {'submit':id}, // An object with the key 'submit' and value 'true;
        success: function (result) {
            $(element).parents("tr").remove();
        }
    });
}

This solution is quite simple, and doesn't need too much refactoring from your current code

2) Your insert.php returns the table once you've already updated the database, and you replace the old table in your HTML
generate_table.php

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        <?php
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        $c=1;
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}

include('generate_table.php);
?>

HTML / PHP

    <?php
    include('generate_table.php');
    ?>

jQuery:
function deleteUser(id) {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'insert.php',
        type: 'POST',
        data: {'submit':id}, // An object with the key 'submit' and value 'true;
        success: function (result) {
            $("#tableContainer").html(result);
        }
    });
}

This solution requires a bit of refactoring, but you'll be sure that your table will always reflects the currently registered datas

A: check out DataTables plugin, he's got some good tools for auto-refresh and other things http://www.datatables.net/
I'd suggest reloading the table after the ajax call to make sure everything stays in synch, which is really easy to do with this plugin

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Leeds Rhinos captain Kallum Watkins cannot prevent Wigan's Joe Greenwood from touching down.
GIVEN THEIR respective Super League histories it is not exactly a shock that Leeds Rhinos' visit to Salford Red Devils this weekend is a top versus bottom clash.
However, in the past it has generally been Rhinos who are flying high and Salford struggling at the wrong end of the table.
Leeds Rhinos head caoch Dave Furner.
Both teams have a 100 per cent record after two rounds of Betfred Super League, but Salford boast two wins and Rhinos have suffered back-to-back defeats.
That makes this Sunday's game particularly interesting. Despite their poor start to the year Rhinos have an outstanding record against Salford in Super League with 42 victories from 45 meetings, though one of Reds' wins was the last time they sides faced off at AJ Bell Stadium.
Reds will feel they really are a force to be reckoned with if they can repeat that in three days' time and a third straight defeat would add to the gloom at Emerald Headingley, but are things really as bad for Rhinos as they might seem?
Clearly their form isn't good, but so far they have played both last year's Grand Finalists away from home and realistically Warrington Wolves and Wigan Warriors would expect to win those games, as Leeds would at Headingley.
Patience is the key. Leeds are adjusting to a new coach and have fresh players in key positions so it will take time.
Rhinos were very poor in round one and disappointing last Friday, but there were some pointers towards better times ahead.
Leeds started well and led twice before – as at Warrington – falling apart for 20 minutes before the interval.
At the start of the second half they were under considerable pressure, but were visibly battling for each other in their goal line defence.
They need to be much better under kicks and sharper on attack, but Wigan's defence was split a couple of times and if they had been sharper and more in tune as a unit Rhinos could have added a greater number of points.
Leeds Rhinos' Ryan Bailey, Kevin Sinfield and Jamie Jones-Buchanan celebrate beating St Helens in the 2009 Grand Final.
Patience is the key. Leeds are adjusting to a new coach and have fresh players in key positions so it will take time. Last year Warrington lost four of their opening six games and went on to finish fourth and reach both major finals. Rhinos, who were perilously close to relegation, won three of their first four.
That doesn't mean things will inevitable improve this season, but the odds always were they would start slowly and get better and that is still the case.
Criticism has been aimed at Rhinos' half-backs, Tui Lolohea and Richie Myler, but they are a work in progress. Myler was Rhinos' player of the year last season, in very difficult circumstances and Lolohea has a good pedigree in the NRL and at Test level for Tonga.
They have shown flashes of what they are capable of, particularly early on against Wigan.
The duo have also made mistakes, with Myler hoofing two kicks out on the full in the same game. That doesn't mean he is not up to it, the idea was good, but the execution poor and that can be fixed.
Callum McLelland, brought back to league from Scotland rugby union last year, is waiting in the wings, but he is 19 and has no Super League experience so it would be a big ask to throw him in at the deep end when the team is struggling.
The counter argument is – that is how he will gain experience and if he keeps impressing in the academy he will deserve a chance, but the best option at the moment is to give Lolohea and Myler – who both played Test rugby last autumn – time to gel and show what they can do.
With Josh Walters and Jack Ormondroyd having both signed for Featherstone Rovers last week, 11 players who had a Rhinos squad number in 2018 are no longer at the club.
This is a period of major transition and more changes are likely as the club rebuild. Rhinos would like to add a couple more forwards to strengthen the squad, but that will depend on others moving on. Ryan Bailey's retirement this week means, of the 2004 Grand Final winning team, only Jamie Jones-Buchanan and Danny McGuire – now at Hull KR – are still playing and both have said they will quit at the end of this season.
Bailey's career was not exactly all plain-sailing, but he was one of the best at what he did, played a big role in the most successful period in Leeds' history and all Rhinos fans should wish him well for the future.


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Q: Can Eclipse Neon determinate the projects I don't need for developement? I'm working on a rather big RCP application, where only 2 / 100 projects are written and maintained by me. I do have dependencies on other projects and these projects might depend on another project as well.
Since Eclipse takes a lot of time to start up and loading (might even crashing sometimes if not ready) I was wondering if Eclipse Neon could determinate the projects I don't need so I could wipe them out of the workspace to fasten up the loading.
If it is helpful: We use gradle to build the project.

A: It's hard to know exactly how your projects relate to one another but I'm guessing you could use gradle's new composite build support (added in v3.1) to have some projects as source dependencies and others as binary dependencies.
You could then wipe out everything that's not part of the composite build from your eclipse workspace. You might even make use of this snippet to see what source folders are in your eclipse workspace... perhaps you could write a gradle task to do the wiping?
I'm assuming you are using buildship?


After announcing our first Keynote Speaker last week (Chris Dixon, Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz), I am excited today to announce our second Keynote Speaker: Keith Rabois, Investor at Khosla Ventures.
An accomplished executive, entrepreneur and angel investor, Keith has held leadership roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and began his career practicing law at Sullivan & Cromwell. Keith was an early investor in several high-profile Internet companies including YouTube and currently serves on the board of directors of Yelp (NYSE: YELP) and Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM). He also holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree in political science from Stanford University. You can follow Keith on Twitter @rabois, or learn more about him at http://krabois.com.
I look forward to hearing Keith's thoughts about the "Future of Funding" at the event, and I hope you will join us.
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Each year in Hawaii, 50,000 women between the ages of 18 and 64 are victims of domestic violence. In an effort to raise awareness of this alarming crisis, the community is invited to participate in the 24th Annual Men's March Against Violence on Thursday, October 4, 2018.
Fun, food, entertainment and educational activities for the entire family! Come and celebrate Hawaii's keiki and their talents. Supporting and encouraging youth can help them grow up to be happy, healthy adults.
Out of the Darkness Walk is the largest event held during National Suicide Prevention Month in Hawai'i. It is organized by volunteers to build awareness of suicide prevention resources, and support at-risk individuals, loved ones of suicide survivors, and the public.


The Mostar Summer Youth Program started today! About 70 participants aged 14 to 18 have signed up. Most are from Mostar and nearby towns, although we also have one participant all the way from Northern Ireland. We have a dozen volunteer teachers from Turkey, Netherlands, Australia, Nicaragua, Japan, UK, US and of course several cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Over the next 3 weeks we'll give you regular updates from the classes and events. The subjects are many and varied.
The program was co-founded by Our Kids trustee Freya along with friends Sho and Dilia, and is supported by Our Kids. MSYP aims to be a hub for youth leadership, volunteerism and entrepreneurship.


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Juan Luis Guerra y Orishas llenan Golf Costa Adeje de ritmos latinos, con la colaboración de Hotel Suite Villa María
Por Hotel Suite Villa Maria - 27 July, 2017
Last July 15th, Juan Luis Guerra and Orishas amused Costa Adeje with a unique concert with which we had the privilege of collaborating as sponsors, as we had the honour of hosting the Cuban band which was in charge of the kick-off of a memorable night.
Over 10,000 people had the privilege of attending the show, which means the only concert that the Dominican artist is offering on this tour in the Canary Islands, as well as the rhythms of Orishas, one of the Latin bands with the highest international recognition.
The show began at the edge of 8pm, with the sounds of the Cuban band that has revolutionized the way of understanding the Caribbean music, being the forerunners of what is already known as Cuban Hip-Hop, an inimitable mix between the Cuban traditional music and the typical rhythms of hip-hop.
After them and with the Green of Golf Costa Adeje already defeated under the dance, Juan Luis Guerra, winner of 21 Grammys and with more than 30 million albums sold to his credit, made La Caleta tremble since passed 9pm to almost midnight.
For us it has been a real pleasure and a real luxury to collaborate in such a relevant and special event performed in our little corner of paradise. Pay attention to our blog and our social networks and do not miss the all the events that are yet to come and that will not disappoint you.
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Lady Dogs answer the bell
Thursday March 5, 2009
The Lady Dogs wouldn't guarantee themselves an NCAA Tournament bid with a win over Kentucky in the first round of the SEC Tournament, but a loss would certainly deny them any chance of a bid.
So when a prolonged scoring drought extended from the end of the first half into the start of the second half and saw a 9-point lead turn to a 9-point deficit with 16 minutes remaining, the season was quickly circling the drain. To their credit, the Lady Dogs turned it up on both ends almost immediately and rode a 14-2 run to recapture the lead. That spurt would turn into a prolonged 38-12 run that put Georgia ahead 71-54 with just over three minutes left and put the game well in hand.
The difference in the 82-64 win was bench production. I wrote in my preview that "when Houts, Phillips, and Robinson play well, Georgia is usually successful," but that's not news. All three did end up with good stat sheets. But when you get 17 points on 8-for-12 shooting from Christy Marshall and a big 7 points on perfect 3-for-3 shooting from freshman Meredith Mitchell to go along with the production of Houts, Phillips, and Robinson, Georgia is tough for anyone to stop.
Andy Landers explained,
We made the stops and forced turnovers and we got the ball and were able to make some offensive plays and then we just kept going, built on it. I think that one of the things we're starting to learn is that we can play much better tired or when they think they're tired, but they believed more than they believed that they could during the regular season. We finished some games very well.
Finishing strong has been key in the three straight wins since Georgia snapped a five-game losing streak. The Lady Dogs faded down the stretch during losses to Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Auburn, and LSU, and their ability to step up at the end of games has helped them turn it around.
With the win Georgia advances to face #2-seed Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals. The two teams split during the regular season with each team winning on its own court. Georgia has the advantage inside, but Vandy can shoot well from outside. Foul trouble played a key role in both games. In Athens, Commodore star Christina Wirth spent much of the game on the bench due to fouls. In Nashville, Georgia's frontcourt advantage was wiped out when Porsha Phillips fouled out early in the second half. Early foul trouble should be a key stat to watch in tomorrow's third meeting (3:30 ET, Fox SS).
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Donald C. Davis
Donald Cooke Davis
(1921-01-24)January 24, 1921
New Boston, Missouri, U.S.
July 30, 1998(1998-07-30) (aged 77)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
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Elaine Margaret Davis (wife)
Donald Cooke Davis (January 24, 1921 – July 30, 1998) was a Naval Aviator and later an admiral in the United States Navy. He was Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1978 to 1981.
Donald Cooke Davis was born on January 24, 1921, in New Boston, Missouri, the son of Randal N. and Alice Isabelle Cooke Davis. He graduated in 1938 from Brookfield High School. Following his high school graduation, he attended the University of Missouri-Columbia while awaiting his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He was admitted to the Academy to graduate in the Class of 1944 but, due to World War II, he graduated on 9 June 1943 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering and was commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. In 1960, Davis entered the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. While at Newport, he completed the Senior Course in Naval Warfare.[1]
Career highlights[edit]
During World War II, Davis served aboard the USS Mobile in the Pacific Theater, which participated in nine major campaigns. He qualified as a Naval Aviator in May 1946 and then served in several carrier-based fighter squadrons, including VF-51, the Navy's first operational jet squadron.[1]
At the start of the Korean War, Davis' squadron, aboard the USS Leyte, was sent from the Mediterranean to Korea. Here he flew 51 combat missions and was awarded two Air Medals. In 1952, Davis was ordered to Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada. Here, he helped train Air Force F-86 pilots on lessons learned while flying missions in Korea. Following his assignment with the Air Force, Davis became Commanding Officer of Fighter Squadron Two Hundred Eleven (VF-211) in 1957 and made Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployments aboard the USS Midway and the USS Bon Homme Richard.[1]
After his WESTPAC tours, Davis reported for duty in Washington, D.C., where he served as Aide and Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of the Navy.
In February 1962, he became Commander of Carrier Air Group Five. While serving as Air Group Commander, he made a South American transit cruise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation.
During the years 1964–66, Davis served as the Senior Navy Project Officer for the F-111 (TFX) aircraft in the Air Force Systems Command. Davis was the first Naval Aviator to fly an F-111. He also received the Legion of Merit in the development of the aircraft.[1]
On 3 June 1966, Davis assumed command of the USS Montrose (APA-212) which recently participated in numerous amphibious operations off the coast of Vietnam. He then commanded the USS Kitty Hawk from 28 August 1967 to 30 September 1968.
In 1969–70, Rear Admiral Davis was Commander, Task Force 130, the Pacific Recovery Forces for the Manned Spacecraft Missions Apollo 11 and Apollo 13.[1]
In 1974 Rear Admiral "Red Dog" Davis was Commander of Task Force 77 in the US Pacific Fleet.
Davis was a recipient of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for service as the Director, Navy Program Planning, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from May 1975 to February 1978.[2]
Subsequently, promoted to Vice Admiral, and later Admiral, Davis was Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1978 to 1981,[1] retiring on 1 August 1981.
Role in Apollo 11 success[edit]
In November 2016,[3] a report re-emerged that credited Davis with being a significant part of the success of Apollo 11. (The story had first emerged in 2004.[4]) Just days before the mission was to launch, Captain Willard S. "Sam" Houston Jr. took command of the Pacific Fleet Weather Centre, Hawaii. He took immediate interest in the mission's splashdown position, and took the initiative to seek out data from the top secret Corona satellite station. Houston was warned by the Corona station commander, Major Hank Branli, that the intended splashdown area would be subject to a gathering storm. Without revealing the Corona source, Houston took this information to the commander of the recovery fleet, Davis, and convinced him of the need to change the recovery site. Davis ordered the fleet to change position, and together they then convinced NASA of the need to change the landing area. The U.S. Navy flew an aircraft over the original site during the landing, and found a major storm which would have been disastrous for Apollo 11.
After the Navy[edit]
Davis and his wife, the former Elaine Mcauvic, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, moved to Coronado, California, with their daughter, Aditha. Davis died of a heart attack on July 30, 1998, in La Jolla, California. He was buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California.[5][6]
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^ Hall of Valor - Donald C. Davis, accessed 15 November 2016
^ That time my grandad saved Neil Armstrong's life, Katie Mack, ABC News Online, 15 November 2016
^ Saving Apollo 11, Barbara Honegger, Navy Postgraduate School, "Domain" Fall 2004, accessed 15 November 2016
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Employment status changes of workers after referral to an occupational disease clinic.
Ayse Coskun Beyan Yucel Demiral Arif Cimrin
J Occup Health 2018 Nov 10;60(6):494-501. Epub 2018 Oct 10.
Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty, Department of Occupational Medicine.
Objective: Occupational diseases (OD) are among the most significant issues of work life, with economic, medical, social, and ethical aspects. The majority of studies concerning OD focus on the causes or medical outcomes of OD. There are a limited number of studies investigating the social and economic impacts of being diagnosed with an OD. One of the important social aspects of OD is the employability of workers after an OD diagnosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the changes in employment status after the OD diagnosis process.
Methods: This is a cross sectional study. There were 204 eligible cases, and 198 (97%) completed the study. The study data were obtained from patient files, including OD Committee reports and questionnaires applied via telephone interview.
Results: Among the 198 applicants, 170 (85.9%) were male and 146 (73.7%) were diagnosed with an OD. Of these workers, 106 (53.5%) had quit their current jobs. Of those workers, 89 out of 106 were in the OD group, and 17 were in the non-OD group. Diagnosis with OD (OR: 3.1 CI: 1.4-6.8) and non-union membership (OR: 11.1 CI: 5.2-23.5) increased the likelihood of quitting the job after an OD diagnosis.
Conclusion: The short-term prognosis of OD was relatively poor. OD diagnosis or even referral to an outpatient clinic may cause quitting the job. Policies should account for the risk of unemployment after an OD diagnosis, and OD surveillance systems should obtain data on the employment status of workers following diagnosis.
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Bracket of the Week: Voting continues to pick best the one-on-one scorer in the post-Michael Jordan era
Up until his retirement with the Bulls in 1998, Michael Jordan was unquestionably the best one-on-one scorer in the NBA. But what about since then? We picked out the top scorers in the post-MJ era and seeded them 1-16. Each day, your votes will determine who moves on to the next round with the simple goal of crowning the one-on-one king. We're down to the final eight!
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Every week on NBA.com, we'll unveil a new bracket with daily matchups to vote on. By the end of the week, we'll crown a champion and determine a winner based on fan voting. Up next for this week? The best one-on-one scorer in the post-Michael Jordan era.
Who is the best one-on-one scorer since Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls in 1998?
We picked out 16 of the best one-on-one scorers of the post-MJ era and seeded them 1-16. Each day your votes will help us narrow the field until only one remains.
Here are the quarterfinal matchups (click each one to skip down to vote):
KD vs Steph | LeBron vs T-Mac | Harden vs Kyrie | Kobe vs Iverson
A reminder: this isn't just about who has the highest scoring average or the most 50-point games or even the best scorer in actual NBA games. We're talking strictly one-on-one scoring ability and nothing more.
The first round - as determined by fans voting on NBA.com - featured some blowouts, a few close calls and one major upset:
1 Kevin Durant def. 16 Dirk Nowitzki: 86% of vote
2 Kobe Bryant def. 15 DeMar DeRozan: 94% of vote
3 James Harden def. 14 Gilbert Arenas: 87% of vote
4 LeBron James def. 13 Paul Pierce: 84% of vote
12 Tracy McGrady def. 5 Carmelo Anthony: 64% of vote
6 Kyrie Irving def. 11 Derrick Rose: 65% of vote
7 Allen Iverson def. 10 Joe Johnson: 92% of vote
8 Stephen Curry def. 9 Kawhi Leonard: 59% of vote
To see the entire field listed in order along with eight of our biggest snubs, you can click here to skip down.
1 vs 8 - The Warriors
1 Kevin Durant vs 8 Stephen Curry
It's only fitting that the two former MVP teammates face off. This is about their overall ability in a vacuum, not about what happened during the three years in Golden State. But for what it's worth, Curry ranked higher than Durant in terms of isolation efficiency during the three years they played together. Here are their overall percentiles by season.
NBA Percentile in Isolation
Season Curry Durant
2016-17 93rd 89th
2017-18 86th 87th
Durant was a scoring champ by the age of 21 and can literally do it all. Drives in either direction, unblockable pull-ups and a sweet stroke from downtown, Durant's size and fluid mechanics make for a complete scorer that's almost an impossible cover one-on-one.
Curry's a wizard with the ball on a yo-yo and even if the handle might not be as airtight as a few others, he needs almost zero space to get off any shot and is a creative inside finisher as well who knows how to play angles.
4 vs 12 - The do-everything bucket getters
4 LeBron James vs 12 Tracy McGrady
Perhaps the two most complete do-everything forwards of the last 20 years (in the case of James, all-time).
It's actually somewhat crazy that James only has one scoring title to his name when he ranks fourth in NBA history in career scoring average. Let's be honest... if LeBron wants to get to the rim, LeBron is getting to the rim. Sure, he can fall in love with jumpers, but he's also won games in big spots doing exactly that. While writing this, he just hit another step-back 3 on Festus Ezeli and five more fadeaways on the Toronto Raptors.
T-Mac gets slept on as a scorer - except here on NBA.com where he upset Carmelo Anthony handily in the first round! - in part because of how well he could do everything else. He won back-to-back scoring titles - during Kobe Bryant's and Allen Iverson's prime - and his 2002-03 season ranked fourth in NBA history at the time in usage percentage.
3 vs 6 - Lounging on an island
3 James Harden vs 6 Kyrie Irving
Two ball-dominant guards at their absolute best on an island going to work one-on-one.
If we're going off of pure numbers, Harden might be the number 1 overall seed. Nobody is better at getting to the line. Nobody is better at hitting step-back 3s. Nobody comes close to matching Harden's volume as a one-on-one bucket getter. While some of it is certainly explained by Harden's heliocentric role in Houston, right now it's Harden and then everyone else when it comes to isolation scoring in 2020.
Irving's handles might be the best we've ever seen as he keeps the ball on a rope-like few - if any - can match. Add in his ridiculous ability to finish in and around the rim over taller defenders with crazy amounts of english, and there's a decent chance that Irving is the most under-seeded player in this entire bracket.
2 vs 7 - Rehashing to the 2001 NBA Finals
2 Kobe Bryant vs 7 Allen Iverson
The most famous game of Allen Iverson's career is Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals when he erupted for 48 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to an upset over the Los Angeles Lakers, a game that Bryant scored just 15. Kobe ultimately got the last laugh, however, winning the next four games and also sweeping their only other postseason meeting in the 2008 1st Round.
Every trick that Jordan had, Kobe had. It's for that reason why Jordan himself declared that Kobe is the only player who could have beaten him one-on-one in his prime.
"I don't think I'd lose, other than to Kobe Bryant because he steals all of my moves."
-Michael Jordan on the players he'd love to play one-on-one (via @NBA2K ) pic.twitter.com/rB0zggYYpE
- SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 22, 2020
A four-time scoring champ despite standing a generously listed 6'0", Iverson never backed down from any challenge, no matter how big or small. Whether it's crossing up Michael Jordan as a rookie or taking it to Kobe and Shaq in Game 1 of the 2001 Finals, Iverson never hesitated at the slightest opportunity to go one-on-one.
Tuesday: First Round
Wednesday: Quarterfinals
Thursday: Semifinals
Friday: Championship
Saturday: Winner announced
Seed Scorer Seed Scorer
1. Kevin Durant 9. Kawhi Leonard
2. Kobe Bryant 10. Joe Johnson
3. James Harden 11. Derrick Rose
4. LeBron James 12. Tracy McGrady
5. Carmelo Anthony 13. Paul Pierce
6. Kyrie Irving 14. Gilbert Arenas
7. Allen Iverson 15. DeMar DeRozan
8. Stephen Curry 16. Dirk Nowitzki
Some of the hardest omissions:
Wizards MJ. He could still get 50 and had a bag of tricks deeper than anybody.
Chris Paul. One of the most efficient one-on-one scorers of the last decade with a killer pull-up jumper.
Damian Lillard. Will casually drain 38-footers without a care in the world.
Jamal Crawford. You can't have a conversation about best crossovers without mentioning his name.
Brandon Roy. He had the complete toolkit before injuries robbed him of reaching his prime.
Russell Westbrook. He settles for too many ill-advised shots to make the cut but his ability to overpower and explode is unmatched.
Ray Allen. He was picked to play Jesus Shuttlesworth!
Zion Williamson. Yeah, I said it. How do you stop him one-on-one? No seriously, I'll wait.
We'll admit... it's biased towards guards and perimeter players. But that's the way it goes!
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The Secrets of China's Economy: The Government Owns the Banks rather than the Reverse
by Ellen Brown on 25 Aug 2009 1 Comment
"The banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. They frankly own the place." - US Senator Dick Durbin, Democratic Party Whip, April 30, 2009
While the US spends trillions of dollars to bail out its banking system, leaving its economy to languish, China is being called a "miracle economy" that has decoupled from the rest of the world. As the rest of the world sinks into the worst recession since the 1930s, China has maintained a phenomenal 8% annual growth rate. Those are the reports, but commentators are dubious. They ask how that growth is possible, when other countries relying heavily on exports have suffered major downturns and remain in the doldrums. Economist Richard Wolff skeptically observes:
We now have a situation in the world where we have a global capitalist crisis. Everywhere, consumption is down. Everywhere, people are buying fewer goods, including goods from China. How is it possible that in that society, so dependent on the world economy, they could now have an explosive growth? Their stock market is now 100 percent higher than at its low - nothing remotely like that hardly anywhere in the world, certainly not in the United States or Europe. How is that possible? In order to believe what the Chinese are saying, you would have to agree that in a matter of months, at most a year, no more, they have been able to transform their economy from an export-based powerhouse to a domestically focused industrial engine. Nowhere in the world has that ever taken less than decades."
How can China's stimulus plan be working so well, when ours is barely working at all? The answer may be simple: China has not let its banking system run roughshod over its productive economy. Chinese banks work for the people rather than the reverse. So says Samah El-Shahat, a presenter for Al Jazeera English who has a doctorate in economics from the University of London. In an August 10 article titled "China Puts People Before Banks," she writes:
"China is the one leading economy where the divide – the disconnect between its financial sector and the world normal Chinese people and their businesses inhabit – doesn't exist. Both worlds are booming again and this is due to the way the government handled its banks. China hasn't allowed its banking sector to become so powerful, so influential, and so big that it can call the shots or highjack the bailout. In simple terms, the government preferred to answer to its people and put their interests first before that of any vested interest or group. And that is why Chinese banks are lending to the people and their businesses in record numbers."
What Wolff calls a "global capitalist crisis" is actually a credit crisis; and in China, unlike in the US, credit has been flowing freely, not just to the financial sector but to industry and local government. State-owned banks have massively increased lending, with local governments and state enterprises borrowing on a huge scale. The People's Bank of China estimates that total loans for the first half of 2009 were $1.08 trillion, 50% more than the amount of loans Chinese banks issued in all of 2008. The US Federal Reserve has also engaged in record levels of lending, but its loans have gone chiefly to bail out the financial sector itself, leaving Main Street high and dry. Writes El-Shahat:
"In the UK and US, the financial sector is booming, while the world of normal people seems to be going from bad to worse, unemployment is high, businesses are folding and house foreclosures are still taking place. Wall Street and Main Street might as well be existing on different planets. And this is in large part because banks are still not lending money to the people. In the UK and US, banks have captured all the money from the taxpayers and the cheap money from quantitative easing from central banks. They are using it to shore up, and clean up their balance sheets rather than lend it to the people. The money has been hijacked by the banks, and our governments are doing absolutely nothing about that. In fact, they have been complicit in allowing this to happen."
Cracks in the Chinese Wall?
The Chinese economy is not perfect. The push to make profits, particularly from foreign investment capital, has encouraged speculative ventures, with a great deal of money going into high-rise apartments and other real estate developments that most people cannot afford. Chinese workers are now complaining of too much capitalism, since they are having to pay for housing, health care and higher education formerly picked up by the State. And while efforts are being made to make more loans available to medium-sized and small businesses, state-owned businesses and large corporations are still getting most of the loans. This is because the banks have been told to tighten their lending standards, and these larger entities are safer credit risks.
Wolff thinks China's "miracle" is a bubble that is about to burst, with catastrophic consequences. Historically, however, when bubbles have collapsed suddenly it has been because they were punctured by speculators. When the Japanese stock market bubble burst in 1990, and when other Asian countries followed in 1998, it was because foreign speculators were able to attack their currencies with exotic derivatives.
The victims tried to defend by buying up their own national currencies with their foreign currency reserves, but the reserves were soon exhausted. Today, China has accumulated so much in the way of dollar reserves that it would be very difficult for speculators to do the same thing to the Chinese stock market. A gradual stock market decline due to natural market forces is something an economy can take in stride.
Economic Role Reversal?
For the time being, at least, China's stimulus plan is clearly working better than those of the US and the UK; and a chief reason it is working better is that the government has a grip on its banking sector. The government can operate the banks' credit mechanisms in a way that serves public enterprise and trade, because it actually owns the banks, or most of them. Ironically, that feature of China's economy may have allowed it to get closer to the original American capitalist ideal than the United States itself.
China is often referred to as communist, but it has never really been communist as defined in the textbooks, and it is far less so now than formerly. Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, who opened China to foreign investment after 1978, famously said that it doesn't matter what colour the cat is, so long as it catches mice. Whatever the Chinese economy is called, today it provides a framework that effectively encourages entrepreneurs.
Jim Rogers is an expatriate American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. He wrote in a 2004 article titled "The Rise of Red Capitalism":
"Some of the best capitalists in the world live and work in Communist China… No matter how long China's leaders persist in calling themselves Communists, they seem quite intent on creating the world's dominant capitalist economy."
Meanwhile, the US has sunk into what Rogers calls "socialism for the rich." When ordinary US businesses go bankrupt, they are left to deal with the asphalt jungle on their own; but when banks considered "too big to fail" go bankrupt, we the taxpayers pay the losses while the banks' owners keep the profits and are allowed to continue speculating with them.
The bailout of Wall Street with taxpayer money represents a radical departure from capitalist principles, one that has changed the face of the American economy. The capitalism we were taught in school involved Mom and Pop stores, single-family farms, and small entrepreneurs competing on a level playing field. The government's role was to set the rules and make sure everyone played fair. But that is not the sort of capitalism we have today.
The Mom and Pop stores have been squeezed out by giant chain stores and mega-industries; the small private farms have been bought up by multinational agribusinesses; and Wall Street banks have gotten so powerful that Congressmen are complaining that the banks now own Congress. Giant banks and corporations have rewritten the rules for their own ends. Healthy competition has been replaced by a form of predator capitalism in which small fish are systematically swallowed up by sharks. The result has been an ever-widening gap between rich and poor that represents the greatest transfer of wealth in history.
The Chinese solution to a failed banking system would be to nationalize the banks themselves, not just their bad debts. If the US were to adopt that approach, we the people would actually get something of value for our investment – a stable and accountable banking system that belongs to the people. If the word "nationalize" sounds un-American, think "publicly-owned and operated for the benefit of the public," like public libraries, public parks, and public courts. We need to get our dollars out of Wall Street and back on Main Street, and we can do that only by breaking up our out-of-control private banking monopoly and returning control over money and credit to the people themselves. If the Chinese can have the best of both worlds, so can we.
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com
© Copyright Ellen Brown, Web of Debt, 2009
Courtesy Global Research [www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14819]


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Sledgehammer May Bring Gun Game To Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
February 06, 2015 David Veselka 14
How's your Gun Game? Better sharpen aim because it sounds like Sledgehammer Games may be bringing the popular and classic first-person shooter mode to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in the near future.
Studio head Michael Condrey tweeted the hint earlier today, posting a loading image of the map Biohazard, Gun Game being the mode of choice.
Slow news day. If you were at the studio you could play some #AdvancedWarfare with us. pic.twitter.com/5yJ8bKdBkv
— Michael Condrey (@MichaelCondrey) February 6, 2015
If you missed out on it in Call of Duty: Ghosts or never played it in other shooters, Gun Game is typically a free-for-all mode where players work through a progression of weapons by scoring kills as fast as possible. The first person to get a kill with the final weapon in the sequence wins. It's usually a pretty good way to get to know certain weapons you might not normally use in your loadouts.
Happy to hear of its possible return in Advanced Warfare?
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