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By Leif Bearikson
Vancouver's Auroch are my favorite kind of metal band. They play an experimental sort of death metal, they keep their albums relatively brief (but aren't afraid of an extended track or two), they have stunning and cohesive art, and they show a monumental growth from album to album. Included in that monumental growth is, of course, the band's new album Mute Books. It not only ticks each item on this silly list, but it may well be Auroch's defining statement as a band thus far.
Ever since I saw them live at Migration Fest, a wonderful way to kick off a Sunday afternoon by the way, I've been eagerly anticipating their latest material. The band played 3 new tracks during their set and even amidst the chaos and somewhat audibly difficult to discern acoustics of a live performance those songs were a promising look into what Mute Books would have to offer us. As it turns out it's an offer we can't refuse.
The album itself is divided into 3 chapters, the first of which, titled "Trefoil is the Grail of perdition," is the most musically experimental of the group. Album and chapter opener "Billowing Vervain" starts out reminiscent of the score of a horror film, distant and muffled keys shimmering in an unsettling manner. The atmosphere is not long for this world though as the song quickly turns into the kind of controlled chaos heard throughout the band's previous effort Taman Shud. The storm eventually passes and gives way to an eerily hypnotic tapped guitar. This is by far the longest song Auroch has ever written (at least for their 3 LPs) but you'd never guess that while listening to it. It slithers and writhes in an elegant manner, or at least as elegantly as something so monstrous possibly can.
Similar in nature is the final track of the opening chapter, "Say Nothing," the second longest track on the album and one that sees itself introduced with chanting. It does a wonderful job of really merging the more primitive pieces of music on the album with their more mystical and mind warping counterparts. These longer tracks really find the band hitting their experimental stride, so it's almost a shame that there aren't more of them.
I say "almost a shame" because the shorter songs aren't exactly slouches, and certainly aren't just by-the-numbers retreads either. Brief numbers like "The Keeping," itself part of the final chapter "Passages to Tophet," manage to be diverse and jump from a mid-paced steamroller to malfunctioning airlock nightmare and back again in just over two minutes. Middle track "Tipharethigirion" is the closest thing to Taman Shud you'll get here, but even it feels upgraded, taken to the next level of songwriting with more memorable passages and riffs. One area that I'm eager to dive into that I can't just yet are the lyrics. I don't have them and the vocals aren't always the easiest to understand, but the song and chapter titles reference all manner of alchemic and biblical things, so I'm very curious to see what it all means.
On Mute Books Auroch really sound like a band that have found their footing and are starting to get weird with it. Everything here is just flat out better. The production, the instrumentation (Zack Chandler sounds like a man possessed on drums), the experimentation… it all just comes together so smoothly to create what is, to date, Auroch's best album. If you fancy yourself a fan of death metal that's challenging, chaotic, discordant, dissonant and willing to mess with your expectations then Mute Books won't disappoint. Hell, it may even surprise you.
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Pete Karns (1945 - )
Pete Karns carved an impressive legacy of accomplishment at every level of skiing competition – juniors, collegiate, Olympic, Masters and coaching. A native of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Karns was a dominant competitor in slalom, downhill, cross-country and jumping in the region's junior ranks starting in 1955. His triumphs in cross-country and Skimeister (4-way combined) events as a member of the University of Utah Ski Team between 1964 and 1967 earned him NCAA All-American honors in 1966. In 1967 he won the cross-country title in the 1967 Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Championships.
Pete placed first in the U.S. Biathlon National Championships in 1970 and 1972. In 1972 he was a member of the U.S. Olympic Biathlon Team that placed 6th in the Sapporo, Japan, Olympic Games, the highest ever by a U.S. team in that event up to that time. He was second in the 1980 U.S. Biathlon National Championships and second in the team relay in the 1985 World Masters Cross-country Championships.
Karns served as a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1973 to 1976, the same years he coached the U.S. Biathlon Team. He coached the U.S. Olympic Biathlon Team in 1976 and was Chief of Timing for Biathlon during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. During the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Karns served as chief of forerunners for biathlon events.
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Marvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics that Built a Universe
Melanie Scott, Stephen Wiacek, Joe Quesada
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100 Marvel comics that built a universe.
Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today? Find out in Marvel Greatest Comics, a compelling showcase of some of the most trailblazing and inspiring comic books ever created. From the groundbreaking original Human Torch and his aquatic adversary Namor, the Sub-Mariner in 1939 to the game-changing 1960s Super Hero icons such as Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four, to smart modern makeovers in the 21st century like Guardians of the Galaxy and Squirrel Girl, Marvel have set the pace.
This book's specially curated and expertly appraised selection is a stunningly illustrated and insightful assessment of Marvel Comics and its legacy through the comics that made the company great. These are the comics that changed the face of an industry. These are Marvel's greatest comics.
Stephen "Win" Wiacek has worked in all areas of the comics industry for over 30 years, as a writer, artist, editor, and designer. While running his own art and design consultancy, he taught and lectured on comics creation and production, and worked as a journalist and consultant for television and film. From 1997-2007, he was chairman of the UK professional industry body, the Comics Creators Guild.
Currently freelancing as a copywriter and reviewer, Win writes about comics for the Marvel Fact Files partworks, and for books such as Marvel Year By Year; The Ultimate Marvel Guide, Marvel Greatest Comics, The Black Panther Ultimate Guide and The DC Encyclopedia.
He lives in Kent with his extremely patient wife Miki, and tells people what they should read on his Now Read This graphic novel review blog (www.comicsreview.co.uk/nowreadthis).


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California Supreme Court Strikes Down Marijuana Limits
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The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterday to strike down a law that sought to impose limits on the amount of marijuana that medical patients may legally possess, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The court said that because Proposition 215, the medical marijuana ballot measure that passed in 1996, allows patients to possess an unspecified amount of marijuana, it was wrong for the state Legislature to mandate an eight-ounce limit in 2003. Only voters, the court said, can make changes to amendments that have been added to the state constitution through the initiative process.
This victory for medical marijuana proponents comes in the wake of a defeat on Tuesday, when the Los Angeles City Council voted to close around 800 dispensaries operating in the city. A California assembly committee approved a recreational marijuana legalization bill for the first time ever on Jan. 12, but it was killed later that week. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who introduced the bill, is waiting to give it a second shot until after November, when a marijuana legalization measure may very well appear on the ballot.
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Last week, Democratic Senate President John Cullerton called for $1-a-pack increase in the state cigarette tax to avoid missing a road construction season. The cigarette tax could replace video poker as a source of construction money.
Republicans on the Senate Executive Committee, though, said it is unfair to pull the plug on a program that has been two years in the making.
"People have relied on our representations that we did a deal, the governor signed it and they invested money in this state," said Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont. The Senate Minority Leader continued by saying, voting on the cigarette tax was "premature." She said Illinois has other sources of construction money already in place.
VGT is well aware of this new development and is keeping a close watch on the situation at hand. We are working closely with the ICMOA and its membership to remedy the situation. VGT will continue to monitor the proposal, and inform you of any new developments.
In the meantime, we encourage you to share positive on-line news stories and or send this information to illinoisgaming@vgt.net. VGT notes the importance of rallying the industry around one-voice in an effort to educate the positive impact video gaming will have on the state of Illinois.


Apparent Software was founded in 2006 by Jacob Gorban.
Our mission is creating useful, inspiring and friendly software for Apple devices, complemented by first-class customer care.
Jacob has been programming from childhood on various platforms and languages and has developed a wide range of skills. Since 2009, he's been living the indie life. Jacob also loves the business side of things, plays guitars and listens to progressive rock.
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Before he decided to start to code in Swift, he has been one of the popular Polish tech bloggers. He tested and reviewed thousands of apps. As a junior Swift developer, he helps the team in developing iOS apps. Krystian also teaches kids how to code in Swift in an elementary school in Poland. He also shares the same passion as Jacob: guitars and progressive rock.
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In war-torn Deva a desperate lord struggles against the tide of invasion. His friend casts a spell to summon aid, and Julia Morton disappears from her gym in England. Will she be their savior or their destroyer?


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Grandma's phone, DSL and the copper they share
By James M. Brown on	 February 5, 2016 Uncategorized
My DSL line downloads at 6 megabits per second. I just took the test. This is a pair of twisted copper wires, the same POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) twisted pair that connected your grandma's phone to the rest of the world. In fact, if you had this phone, you could go online and use it today.
I remember the old 110 bps acoustic coupler modems. Maybe some of you can too. Do you remember the upgrade to 300 bps? Wow! Triple the speed. Gradually, the speed increased from 1200 to 2400, then finally, 56.6k. All about the same son. Now we feel like we're out of change if we don't get multiple megabits of DSL on that same POTS line. How do we get such speeds on a system that still connects and dials your grandma's phone? How did the engineers know these increased speeds were possible?
Claude Shannon with his labyrinthine mechanical mouse
The answer can be found in 1948 with Dr Claude Shannon who wrote a seminal article, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". In this article, he laid the foundations for information theory. Shannon is also recognized for having applied Boolean algebra, developped by George boole, to electrical circuits. Shannon recognized that switches then and logic circuits today followed the rules of Boolean algebra. This was his master's thesis written in 1937.
Shannon's Communications Theory explains how much information you can send through a communications channel at a specified error rate. In summary, the theory says:
There is a maximum channel capacity, C,
If the transmission rate, R, is less than C, the information can be transferred with a selected low probability of error using intelligent coding techniques,
Coding techniques require intelligent coding techniques with longer signal data blocks.
What the theory doesn't provide is information on smart coding techniques. Theory says you can do it, but not how.
In this article, I will describe this work without going into the mathematics of derivations. In another article, I'll discuss some of the smart coding techniques used to approach channel capacity. If you can understand the math, here is the first part of the article as posted in the Bell System Technical Journal July 1948 and the remains published later that year. To walk through the system used to hold so much information about a twisted copper pair, keep reading.
Information theory in brief
Let's start with a diagram to understand the basic problem. We have information sent from a source by a transmitter through a channel. The channel is disturbed by a source of noise. A receiver accepts the signal plus the noise and converts it back into information. Shannon has determined the maximum amount of information you can reliably move through the channel. The maximum bit rate is determined by the channel bandwidth and the amount of noise, and only these two values. We intuitively see that bandwidth and noise are limiting factors. What is amazing is that they are the only two factors.
Obviously, a channel with more bandwidth will pass more data than a smaller one. The bigger a pipe, the more it can be pushed into it. This statement is true for all communication channels, be it radio frequency (RF), fiber optic, or twisted pair of POTS copper wires.
The bandwidth of a channel is the difference between the highest and lowest frequencies that will pass through the channel. For example, a POTS voice channel has a low frequency of 400 Hz and a high frequency of 3400 Hz. This provides a bandwidth of 3000 Hz. (Some references indicate that the low frequency is 300 Hz, which provides a bandwidth 3,100 Hz.) In reality, channel limits are not sharp cuts. Shannon used a 3 decibel drop in signal strength to determine the limits.
A twisted pair has a bandwidth greater than 3000 Hz, so this is not the reason for the narrow bandwidth of POTS. Telephone companies impose this limited bandwidth in order to be able to multiplex the frequency of long distance calls on a single line. The bandwidth limit is acceptable because human speech is intelligible using this frequency band.
Nyquist rate
Shannon's theory based on the work of Harry nyquist and Ralph hartley. Nyquist, analyzing telegraph systems, took the first steps towards determining the capacity of the channels. He determined that the maximum pulse frequency of a channel (PDF) is double the bandwidth. It's the Nyquist rate (if you disagree, please see my note at the end of the 'Nyquist' terminology article). In our 3000Hz POTS channel, we can transmit 6000 pulses per second, which is totally counterintuitive.
Let's send a 3000Hz sine wave through the channel. We kind of cut off all the negative lobes of the sine wave. If we designate the remaining lobes as 0 and the missing lobes as 1, we are sending 6000 bits through the channel. Nyquist discussed impulses, but we would now call them symbols in communication work. The number of symbols per second is a baud, named after Emile Baudot who created one of the first digital codes. It is incorrect to say "baud rate" because by definition it is a rate.
The Nyquist rate formula is:
VS is the capacity of the channel in symbols per second, or baud
B is the bandwidth of the channel in hertz
Hartley's law
Hartley's contribution extended this to use more than two signal levels, or multi-level coding. He recognized that the receptor determines the number of levels that can be detected, independent of all other factors. In our example of the POTS channel, you can use the amplitude of the sine wave to determine multiple levels. With 4 different levels, we can send two bits for each symbol. With multilevel encoding, the bit rate for a noise-free channel is given by:
VS is the capacity of the channel in bits per second
M is the number of levels.
Obviously, noise will limit the amount of data that can be transmitted. This is analogous to the rough interior surface of a pipe causing friction and slowing the passage of material. The more noise, the slower the error-free data rate. Here is Shannon's formula:
VS is the capacity of the channel in bits per second (bps)
S is the average power of the signal received over the bandwidth
NOT is the average noise or interference power over the bandwidth
S / N is the signal to noise ratio (SNR)
Shannon's output is in bits because he defined "information" using bits. Consider a deck of 52 playing cards with 4 suits and 13 cards in each suit. It takes 2 bits (00b to 11b) to represent the four colors and 4 bits (0000b to 1101b) to represent the cards. In total, it takes 6 bits to represent a deck of cards.
A game has more data that could be transmitted: color like 1 bit, face card or number card like 1 bit, kind of face card like 1 bit, etc. These are redundant since the complete information is already available in 6 bits. Based on Shannon's work, this is no more information than telling someone that there were new articles on Hackaday. There are always new articles so this is not information. One day report without articles? It's information.
The probability that a bit is received correctly or incorrectly is determined by the signal to noise ratio. Higher noise level means less error-free bit transfers. This is directly related to Hartley's recognition that the bit rate is determined by the ability of the receiver to correctly detect multiple signal levels. Errors begin to occur when the noise level exceeds the receiver's ability to differentiate between good and bad symbols. The impact of noise on a symbol can actually depend on the specific symbol. Low level amplitude modulated signals can be overwhelmed by noise while higher amplitude symbols are acceptable. Other modulation methods are affected by noise in other ways.
The phone company cheats
Earlier I asked how DSL worked through the same line that handled your grandma's phone. The basic answer is cheating by phone companies. Seriously, the line between your home and the phone company's first location isn't filtered, allowing DSL to use all of the twisted pair's bandwidth. On the telephone company side, they separate voice and DSL signals. Voice is limited to 3000 Hz and DSL left at full bandwidth. That little filter you have at home is a bandpass filter to block DSL signals from your handset.
I mentioned that Shannon's theory does not answer the question of how to achieve high throughput. In the next article, we'll look at some of these techniques, which include detecting and correcting errors on a noisy channel.
A commentary on Nyquist's terms
There is a conflict between the references on the meaning of the Nyquist rate in relation to the limit or the sampling theorem. The confusion highlights Nyquist's contribution, because if the amount was less, there would be no confusion. A Wikipedia article may not be definitive but the one intended for Nyquist rate explains the two opposite meanings of the term.
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The Ray ebony top is carefully configured to form geometric patterns, the grain changed directionaly to create a pleasing mosaic. The rich inky-black top is not stained, but is naturally dense in its color, letting through traces of rich brown here and there. This grain will naturally vary from cabinet to cabinet. It is polished to a sleek, natural hardness and sheen, gently coated with a clear lacquer finish to protect the surface from fingerprints and tarnishing.
Ray is built with the finest woods available, utilizing small studio craft techniques of hand sawn and prepared veneers inlaid with sparkling metals or lacquer in a stunning random pattern. Random? Really? Our wood bases use traditional joinery in an innovative way and are built from solid wood chosen to match each individual top. Bases are also available in bronze or forged iron.
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It is well known that the implementation of flexible organic electronic devices (FEDs) in our everyday life improve and revolutionize several aspects of our behavior. Although there has been considerable progress in the area of flexible inorganic devices (based on Si), there are numerous advances in the organic (semiconducting, conducting and insulating), inorganic and hybrid (organic-inorganic) materials that exhibit customized properties and stability, and in the synthesis and preparation methods, which are characterized by a significant amount of multidisciplinary efforts. The understanding of the organic material properties can lead to the fast progress of the functionality and performance of flexible organic electronic devices. An crucial ingredient for this is the strong interdisciplinary nature of the area of organic electronics, which brings together experts in chemistry, physics, and engineering, removing the traditional boundaries between the individual disciplines. Therefore, the understanding of the properties of organic insulators, semiconductors, and conductors as well as the effect of their synthesis process, microstructure and morphology is the goal of the current research efforts. In this work, we summarize on the latest advances in the fields of organic (semi-) conducting materials and hybrid barrier layers to be used as active layers and for the encapsulation of the materials components for the production of FEDs (such as flexible organic light-emitting diodes, and organic solar cells).


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Ahead of the CES 2016 tradeshow this week, Alcatel OneTouch on Monday unveiled the Pixi 3 tablet. The entry-level Pixi 3 tablet houses an 8-inch display, and runs Windows 10 Mobile out of the box. The company says that Windows 10 Mobile is optimised for tablets.
The company also unveiled its CareTime children`s GPS tracker smartwatch and the new Pixi 4 series smartphones, but did not provide any real details about them. More details about the products can be expected at CES 2016. To recall, Alcatel OneTouch is a mobile phone manufacturing brand of China`s TCL Corporation.
The company hasn`t revealed much of the specifications of the Pixi 3 Windows 10 Mobile tablet, though it adds that the tablet can be used as a TV remote control, and also for voice calling and GPS features. Users will be able to customise the Colour Skins and Flip Stand covers.
Alcatel OneTouch`s Android-powered Pixi 3 (8) tablet was launched earlier this year with an 8-inch HD (1280×800 pixels) display, a 2-megapixel rear camera, a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera, MediaTek`s MT8312 dual-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz, 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of inbuilt storage that can be expanded via microSD card (up to 32GB). We can expect its Windows counterpart to largely have a similar set of features – however, with bumped up inbuilt storage, as we know Windows 10 Mobile requires at least 8GB of storage.
At this point, there is no word on how much the Windows-powered Pixi 3 will cost and when it will go on sale.
Alcatel OneTouch might be planning to launch two smartphones at the MWC 2016 trade show as they were briefly listed on the company`s support website. The webpage listed details about the upcoming Idol 4 and Idol 4S smartphones, giving us a fair idea about their innards. The images of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow-based handsets were also posted by the company.
The dual-SIM supporting Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S (seen above), as per the webpage spotted first by Android Police, features a 5.5-inch QHD (1440×2560 pixels) resolution Super Amoled display with 180-degree wide viewing angle and will be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 processor (four cores at 1.8GHz + four cores at 1.4GHz), clubbed with 3GB RAM and Adreno 510 GPU.
Other specifications mentioned for the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S are 32GB of inbuilt storage, which can be expanded via microSD card (up to 512GB), 16-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, EIS video stabalisation, along with an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with an 84-degree wide-viewing angle and a front-facing flash. A 3000mAh battery has also been mentioned. Connectivity features include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct, 4G LTE, Micro-USB (with OTG), Bluetooth v4.2, GPS, and A-GPS. It measures 153.9×75.4×6.99mm and will weigh 149 grams.
The dual-SIM Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4 (seen above) is seen sporting a smaller 5.2-inch display with a full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) resolution IPS LTPS display with OGS lamination. It will pack an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 CPU (four cores at 1.7GHz + four cores at 1.2GHz), clubbed with 2GB/ 3GB RAM options and Adreno 405 GPU.
The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4 will house 16GB of inbuilt storage, which can be expanded via microSD card (up to 512GB). The support page also suggests an inclusion of a 13-megapixel camera with EIS and dual-tone LED flash, along with an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with 84-degree wide viewing angle, and a font-facing flash. Besides a smaller 2610mAH battery, rest of the specifications stay the same as the OneTouch Idol 4.


A swerve is an accident in history; a situation where the historical event is not based on obvious social, political or economic factors. Sometimes, such a swerve begins with an eye injury. We can use our understanding of eye disease to analyze the mechanisms of an eye injury that initiated a swerve with enormous effects, remote in time and distance.
1066: The Battle of Hastings. Most English historians, Churchill included, consider the Battle of Hastings as the watershed moment that defined England and, by extension, the English-speaking peoples. William the Conqueror won the battle and established the Norman conquest of England.
This victory would have far-reaching implications for England, including language, culture, politics, economics, and most particularly, our current system of jurisprudence. Insofar as history is written by the winners, every Oct. 14 the English celebrate this great victory by William the Conqueror, acknowledging this watershed event.
On the other side, Harold Godwinson, King of England, lost it all. But the battle almost went very differently.
Harold was a powerful earl, a member of a prominent Anglo-Saxon family, and elected to the English crown upon the death of Edward the Confessor. Two years earlier, Harold was shipwrecked off the coast of France and eventually found himself as the guest/prisoner of William, then Duke of Normandy and subordinate to the King of France. William released Harold, but only after exacting a promise from Harold that he would give William the rights of King of England.
It was a hollow promise, unlikely to have any meaning years later, especially as Harold was not in the direct line of succession for the crown. But William proved prescient. The assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, convening after King Edward's death, chose Harold as the successor. Harold resolved to keep his kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon version of events depicts Harold as heroic.
On becoming King, Harold was challenged in two directions. William, in France, had spent over seven months in preparing to invade England by assembling over 700 ships (most of them Viking longships) along the coast of Normandy. William used Harold's promise to gain the support of French nobles along with that of the church, though it was probably the promises of spoil and land that increased his army of mercenaries.
Harold assembled his Anglo-Saxon troops and awaited the invasion off the coast of Southern England for over six months. Taking advantage of Harold being pinned down on the southern coast of England, another Harald (Hardrada) of Norway, invaded with over 300 larger Viking longships from the north. After initial successes, Norwegian Harald was finally met, on Sept. 25, by Harold of England, who had raced with a small army over 200 miles in a little more than four days to confront and defeat the Vikings.
By coincidence, this is when William finally launched his invasion from France, striking the south of England. Harold immediately force-marched his exhausted troops back south and tried to surprise William before the latter could prepare for the attack. There are no reliable records of how many soldiers participated.
William attacked Harold on Saturday morning, Oct. 14, and the battle continued all day. William had more cavalry and the English had more infantry. The battle flowed, to and fro, but it was mostly a stalemate: large numbers of infantry can use a shield wall to hold off cavalry, although they are also at a loss of mobility for any complicated maneuvers.
Such a stalemate, at the end of the day, would have favored Harold, for he could expect reinforcements in the morning and thereafter. William's forces were fighting for spoils, and they would have likely returned to France if the fighting became harder. Harold's forces were fighting for survival.
The battle raged for about nine hours. Although there is controversy as to how exactly Harold died, it occurred at about sunset, and his death led to the sudden disarray and defeat of the English forces.
Well-armored knights on horseback were almost invulnerable. Their heavy armor absorbed arrows, missiles and even spear thrusts from the infantry. But there were a few "chinks in the armor". One such chink was the area of the eyes that sat below the helmet or behind eye slits.
Astride a horse, with his sons and other knights by his side, Harold would have struck down those who dared approach. Harold, like most of the Anglo-Saxons, favored the battle axe.
But sitting tall in the saddle, Harold attracted the attention of many archers. Most arrows would have bounced off his armor, a few sticking to his shield.
And then one penetrated into his right eye. Of course, there is no definitive description of Harold's death. Guy, Bishop of Amiens, describes Harold as killed by dismemberment by four knights. Twenty years later, Amatus of Montecassino wrote that Harold was first shot in the eye with an arrow.
The Bayeux Tapestry might be regarded as Norman propaganda. The Bayeux Tapestry emphasizes Harold's ingratitude towards William who had befriended him. This is obviously meant to provide a moral justification for William's invasion of England. The tapestry starts with depictions of how Harold was saved by William who personally paid his ransom to obtain Harold's freedom. There are delightful scenes that show Harold and William going off to fight, shoulder to shoulder at Mont Saint Michel, where Harold heroically saves Williams men from quicksand. It also highlights Harold taking an oath to William. The tapestry documents how Harold left France obliged to William.
But most importantly, the tapestry details illustrate the Battle of Hastings in many panels concluding after Harold pulled an arrow out of his right eye.
Taken all together, we can use the Bayeux Tapestry in conjunction with various texts to make a reasonable medical conclusion. It seems likely that Harold took an arrow to his right eye and then shortly after removing the arrow, he collapsed and fell off his horse. The arrow struck near the eye but probably did not pierce the globe itself.
Often, the cornea and sclera give enough resistance for the eye to deform and slide out of the way. But if a sharp projectile passes into the orbit on the medial or inferior sides, the walls of the orbit channel it to the orbital apex. In the case of Harold, the arrow probably traveled to the orbital apex, and continued to be funneled back through the superior orbital fissure, and into the cavernous sinus where it encountered the carotid artery.
The tip of the arrow may have even lodged into the temporal lobe of the brain, but this further injury would have been of little consequence. If the initial penetration wasn't enough, pulling out the arrow would have exacerbated the extensive bleeding from the carotid artery. Harold would have hemorrhaged extensively of much of his blood supply.
A minute or two later, Harold would have fallen off his horse. Then, all the armor that had protected him throughout the day would have become the instrument of his demise. Weighing over 100 lbs, the armor would have prevented Harold from standing up, much less permitting him to parry off the blows from his foes.
As the Bayeux Tapestry shows, and consistent with both the texts of Guy and Amatus, four knights then attacked Harold from different directions and hacked at his torso and limbs. This gruesome dismemberment probably did not produce more pain, as Harold was by now unconscious from all the blood loss.
With Harold dead, his sons tried to flee, and the army, already exhausted by forced marches up and down the length of England and a nine-hour battle, finally broke. The sun set on Norman knights on horseback chasing and striking down remnants of the Anglo-Saxon army.
The implications are far reaching. England went from Anglo-Saxon to Norman with a new language and customs. Together with influences from the church, England was now bound to the continent, to the crusades, and to many parts of medieval culture. But the tension between the line of Norman kings that followed and the barons of the land would create a unique governance, one that limited the king's power.
The Magna Carta, written over a century later, would manifest more than create the concept that in England there were limitations to the king's power. This document evolved through a complex set of precedents, to laws that tried to balance the conflicting interests of different parties, leading to an entirely different legal system from the continent.
Not Roman law, not Napoleonic law, but English common law would become the basis of our complex set of laws in the United States. From trial by a jury of your peers, to case law taking precedence over philosophical principles, our culture and system of jurisprudence largely dates itself to when King Harold was mortally wounded by an arrow to his right eye.


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Altars Altars
'Fragments'
Date: 09/03/19 Format: CD + Digital Total Duration: 30:06 Genre: A Blanket of Fuzzy Guitar Loops
'Most of the tracks are in mono because i recorded directly onto tape and did no post-processsing. Most of this is guitar and a loop pedal, some songs have synthesizers, others are sampled from worn out children's cassettes.' - Words by Moritz Leppers (Altars Altars)
Much like the man himself, the music of Altars Altars is understated and humble to say the least. After randomly coming across his music a few years ago, we released his magical four track long player 'Small Hours' in 2016. Truth be told, not many people seemed to really notice. He doesn't share his music much, and seems to prefer to just quietly produce very small edition cassettes for anyone who may care. But those that did latch on to his work so easily, clearly cottoned on to my personal feelings about his music. I received a handful of messages thanking the label for releasing his work finally into a slightly more public realm. Overwhelmingly, the emails connected to the magical emotion of memory and innocence the work was created and immersed in, and how they hadn't felt this way about music for 'years'.
I've since had conversations with artists and label owners alike about the music of Mortiz Leppers, and the divide is always people who have just not heard of his work at all, and those that have are shocked that people haven't and just love his work. It is an oddity in such a small community, but those that do finally open the doors to his musical micro-universes are always stunned by the warmth and feeling of something that is effortlessly beautiful, belonging to another long-passed time.
'Fragments' was originally released on a tiny cassette run, with no track titles beyond the number of each piece and the side of the cassette it was on. It is quite simply one of my favourite albums of all time, by any artist in any genre. Altars Altars doesn't seem to be making any new material anymore with his trusty reel-to-reel, and has (for now) left the ambient genre behind. Yet the music he has left us with is absolutely breathtaking, and really is made with such purity of spirit, the only words I can associate with it are 'magical' and 'memories'. It really is as if this is beyond music, as if these sound parcels always existed somewhere in the plains of memories lost but never forgotten.
It is very rare to come across music of such purity, and something that really is the soundtrack to days gone by. I'm so glad we get to present yet another work by Altars Altars, even if this is music that is so quiet and restrained it may just pass you by. Give it the briefest of moments, and the magic will envelope you, I promise. - Words by Ian Hawgood
Recorded in Essen in Autumn/Winter of 2015
Photography by Tina Sosna
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
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Making a business presentation is not always easy – in fact, it can be nerve-wracking at times. Speaking in public is not a natural thing, after all, and it takes a lot of practice and experience in order to get everything right (even for the most seasoned speakers). Facing the public means facing a crowd, an amount of people that are more in number and may very well decide to chew you off stage when they don't like what they hear. That's the basic fear. That's ingrained, and normal.
However, good speakers prepare, and are able to get over that fear with a few simple tricks. Do you need to speak to the public soon, or do you have a presentation scheduled? Then this one might help you along: here are the top four ways you can be a better speaker and presenter.
It's normal to be nervous, and it's normal to have the jitters just before a performance. In fact, you'd be abnormal if you didn't feel those familiar butterflies in the stomach. You're going to deliver a speech or presentation with your peers looking at your every move, after all.
The key is to turn that negative nervousness into positive energy. It's a mind trick. Here's one thing you should remember – and it's with this you should lead: an enthusiastic speech is always more effective than an eloquent one. Are you nervous? Share it! Put that energy into your speech. Show them you are excited, and that you mean what you say.
Practice, practice, practice. In the shower, in the mirror, in front of your loved ones. The more you do, the more comfortable you will be when the time comes.
Also, prepare what you have to say – in detail. If you want, you can even have your speech or presentation transcribed for you by transcription services. UK transcription services can have your pre-recorded speech transcribed, and this can greatly help you with the technicalities – as well as your confidence.
Watch videos of your favourite speakers – they are great sources of inspiration.
Here's one other thing that might help you a lot: make time to meet people in the audience before they take their seats, and greet people who are coming to watch you talk. This will have two main advantages. Firstly, you'll get a sense of who the audience is, and what they might expect. Secondly – and perhaps more importantly – the audience becomes real, and you will not be facing a faceless crowd that may or not eat you up. Remember, it's the unknown that scares us the most. Do your research, and have confidence in yourself. Others can do it – why couldn't you?


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Five Scary Takeaways from Dempsey's Final Defense Assessment
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In his farewell analysis of national military strategy, retiring chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey this week offered a sobering and somewhat scary assessment of the military and global challenges facing the United States.
Dempsey, President Obama's senior military advisor, minced few words in spelling out the challenge. "Today's global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of service," he wrote in a report released on Wednesday. "Since the last National Military Strategy was published in 2011, global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative military advantage has begun to erode."
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He warned the Defense Department it must reorganize its global footprint and improve its agility and innovation to succeed in the prolonged war against terrorist groups including ISIS in the Middle East and nations that use proxies to fight on their behalf. "We must be able to rapidly adapt to new threats while maintaining comparative advantage over traditional ones," Dempsey wrote. "Success will increasingly depend on how well our military instrument can support the other instruments of power and enable our network of allies and partners."
Dempsey also cautioned about a "low but growing" probability" of the United States fighting a war with a major power, with "immense" consequences. Russia, for example, has "repeatedly demonstrated that it does not respect the sovereignty of its neighbors, and it is willing to use force to achieve its goals" – a direct reference to President Vladimir Putin's military support of ethnic Russian rebel forces in eastern Ukraine.
"Russia's military actions are undermining regional security directly and through proxy forces," Dempsey wrote in the 2015 National Military Strategy report.
Dempsey, 63, an Army four-star general and the 18th chair of the Joint Chiefs, will step down this fall and leave behind a legacy of caution about U.S. military engagement and reliance on local partners in the Middle East and elsewhere. He will be succeeded by Marine Corps commander Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., who reportedly shares many of Dempsey's views.
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As Defense One noted, the military has been shrinking since 2012 when the Obama administration first announced plans to pivot forces to the Asia-Pacific region as troops withdrew from Afghanistan and Iraq. Since then, however, the president has slowed the Afghanistan withdrawal as fighting there continues and thousands of American military forces have returned to the Middle East and North Africa.
For now, at least, U.S. forces are not assigned in Iraq to combat roles. But Dempsey and other U.S. commanders have repeatedly warned that it could take decades to defeat ISIS, and many Republicans believe the U.S. ultimately will have no choice but to send in more ground troops to fight ISIS.
Here are five important takeaways from Dempsey's parting military strategy report:
Violent extremist groups led by al Qaida and the self-proclaimed Islamic State are working to undermine trans-regional security, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. "Such groups are dedicated to radicalizing populations, spreading violence and leveraging terror to impose their visions of societal organization." The U.S. military does not have the luxury of focusing on one challenge to the exclusion of others.
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The military will continue its pivot to the Pacific, but its presence in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa will evolve. The military must remain "globally engaged to shape the security environment."
The Russian campaign in Ukraine has military strategists questioning if traditional U.S. military force as it is deployed globally is still enough of deterrence to hybrid and non-state threats. Russia's military actions are undermining regional security directly and through proxy forces. "If deterrence fails, at any given time, our military will be capable of defeating a regional adversary in a large-scale, multi-phased campaign while denying the objectives of – or imposing unacceptable costs on – another aggressor in a different region."
Iran -- which currently is negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation agreement with the U.S. and others – also poses strategic challenges to the international community. "It is pursuing nuclear and missile delivery technologies despite repeated United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding that it cease such efforts." Moreover, Iran is a state-sponsor of terrorism that has undermined stability in many nations, including Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
Beijing is pursuing "aggressive land reclamation efforts" in the South China Sea where it is building military bases in on disputed islands. In the same region, on North Korea, "In time, they will threaten the U.S. homeland," Dempsey wrote, mentioning Pyongyang's alleged hack of Sony's computer network.
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Tottenham Hotspur has today released the SPVRS app that uses technology to bring the Club's new stadium to life before it is built.
The 61,000-seater venue, due to open next year, will host Premier League football alongside NFL and other major events, including concerts.
Now fans can take a first look around using Virtual and Augmented Reality via the free app with access to a printable tracker image which can then be brought to life via a smart phone or tablet using Augmented Reality, transporting users to the centre circle of the pitch.
From there, users are immersed in Virtual Reality and can take a 360-degree view of the inner bowl of the stadium – giving fans a unique glimpse of the new home for Tottenham Hotspur.
There is a section of the SPVRS app for users who have purchased a premium package in the new stadium. This gives special access to a Virtual Reality 360-degree view of their selected lounge or suite so they are reminded of what they can look forward to in the new stadium.
The SPVRS app also features an interactive stadium enabling users to find out key facts, such as the number of seats or the number of bricks that will be used to build the stadium.
Emma Taylor, Head of Marketing, Tottenham Hotspur, said: "The SPVRS app will give our supporters a first look at our iconic stadium bowl and the opportunity to interact with a 3D digital stadium model. The app also allows our premium guests to see their new lounge or suite in 360 Virtual Reality.
"The app will continue to build on the excitement of our fans all over the world around the Club's new stadium. It is a new addition to the ways we are pushing the boundaries by using the latest technology to showcase our new home and allow fans to track the progress on its build. "
The SPVRS app takes its name from the Stadium Project Virtual Reality Suite now open at the Club's offices in Tottenham, providing an immersive VR experience for customers interested in the range of premium offers at the venue.
Image: Reuters / Toby Melville Livepic


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é um compositor, arranjador, letrista, pianista e produtor musical japonês conhecido por suas obras em animes, séries de televisão e filmes.

Em 2014 ele iniciou um projeto vocal sob o nome "SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]".

Biografia
Ele também costuma fazer nas suas músicas parcerias com cantores e bandas de várias nacionalidades, como a cantora japonesa  Mika Kobayashi e a cantora norte-americana Aimee Blackschleger.estudar.

Atack on titan

2013.

titan.

animes.

sonora.

harpista.

Discografia

Álbuns originais

Projetos de músicas vocais

Animes

Jogos eletrônicos

Televisão

Filmes

Ligações externas

Compositores do Japão
Letristas do Japão
Músicos de animes
Produtores musicais do Japão
Naturais de Tóquio

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August Ferdinand Howaldt (23 de octubre de 1809 - 4 de agosto de 1883) fue un ingeniero y constructor de barcos alemán. El escultor alemán Georg Ferdinand Howaldt era su hermano.

Biografía
Nacido en Braunschweig, el hijo del platero David Ferdinand Howaldt, con quien adquirió las primeras prácticas del trabajo del metal, Howaldt realizó su aprendizaje en Hamburgo donde se convirtió en mecánico en prácticas.

En 1838 se trasladó a Kiel, donde contrajo matrimonio con Emma Diederichsen. En Kiel fundó conjuntamente con el emprendedor local Johann Schweffel la "Maschinenbauanstalt Schweffel & Howaldt", una compañía inicialmente de construcción de calderas para la industria y para las nuevas compañías de ferrocarril entre Hamburgo y Kiel, y para la industria agrícola de las fincas de los alrededores en Holstein.

En 1849 Schweffel & Howaldt construyó su primer motor de vapor para fines navales para el Von der Tann, un cañonero para la pequeña marina de Schleswig-Holstein, y el Brandtaucher, el primer sumergible incendiario o submarino alemán diseñado por Wilhelm Bauer. El Brandtaucher se encuentra hoy en exposición en el Museo de Historia Militar de Dresde. Schweffel & Howaldt también construyó dos remolcadores en 1860 y 1864, cuando pasó la firma a sus hijos Georg, Bernhard y Hermann Howaldt, quienes continuaron el negocio en 1879 bajo el nombre de Gebrüder Howaldt. La firma se fusionó en 1889 con los astilleros de Georg en Kiel para formar la Howaldtswerke AG en Kiel, en la actualidad conocida como HDW.

Referencias
 Christian Ostersehlte: Von Howaldt zu HDW. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0916-8
 August Ferdinand Howaldt en: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 201 ff. ISBN 3-529-02560-7

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Ingenieros de Alemania del siglo XIX
Nacidos en Brunswick


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Why I am a Womanist
Feminism has failed the Dalit-Bahujan woman.
Disha Wadekar
| @WadekarDisha | April 15,2019
AS a young educated tribal woman, what "feminism" means to me is very different from how it is perceived by most people. My mother, a Phuleite would often come home from various feminist gatherings and rant about the exclusion experienced by her around the "Deccan Feminists" (Deccan represents the upper caste, middle class locality in Pune) . I wasn't aware that I would be experiencing this same exclusion and otherness very soon.
Feminism has failed Dalit-Bahujan women
Feminism in India came to be identified as a "universalised female experience". "All women suffer patriarchy-singularly" was its mantra. This "enforced sisterhood" was essentially of the upper caste, middle class woman's making. It blatantly ignored the caste, class, ethnicity and multitude dynamics of the "female experience". Its origins, nature and agenda, not to mention its leadership, have essentially been upper caste, middle class. Indian feminism has often been class-blind, colour-blind and almost always caste-blind. Feminists have, in Sharmila Rege's words "invisibilised" and excluded the experiences, struggles and leadership of Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi women. The Dalit- Bahujan women's experiences, struggles and fights have been treated by feminists as the 'other'.
The issues taken up by the feminist movement in India have also suffered from caste and class biases. As Cynthia Stephen rightly points out " they have been very active in areas like domestic violence and property laws and have also seen a lot of success which is something great, but what about women who lack property? What kind of relevance does a property law hold for them?" Moreover the anti- dowry , anti-rape and anti-violence struggles of the feminist movement have failed to analyse the intersections between caste and gender.
When a Dalit woman does find mention in feminist circles, it is as a quintessential victim. Her fight, resistance and success stories are never viewed as feminist achievements. She is only a subject and not a comrade/counterpart to mainstream feminists.
The issues taken up by the feminist movement in India have also suffered from caste and class biases. As Cynthia Stephen rightly points out " they have been very active in areas like domestic violence and property laws and have also seen a lot of success which is something great but what about women who lack property? What kind of relevance does a property law hold for them?" Moreover the anti- dowry , anti-rape and anti-violence struggles of the feminist movement have failed to analyse the intersections between caste and gender.
The evolution of feminism in India is marred by casteism and classism. The core values and experiences of Dalit-Bahujan women are very different from mainstream feminists. To add to it, mainstream feminists have not even acknowledged them. As a result there is a need for a different language for Dalit-Bahujan women to voice their experiences and shape their struggles.
Need for the Dalit women to talk differently
Gopal Guru in his essay titled "Dalit women talk differently" has located the need for Dalit women to talk differently in a discourse of dissent against the upper caste, middle class women's movement, as also the Dalit male movement. About 250 Dalit women activists, writers, students, leaders and professionals decided to speak up in Pune in a conference called 'Dalit women speak out' in December 2017. Dalit women were there to speak, to organise and lead for themselves without any mediation. Their presence as not mere survivors, but fighters and achievers was encouraging. Such efforts by the Dalit-Bahujan women are viewed as attempts at setting up a separate hearth. In Dalit Women: Vanguard of an Alternative Politics in India, Anand Teltumbde's points out that "If mainstream feminists had taken a grassroots approach and focused on the plight of Dalit women, there may not have been need for Dalit women to organise separately."
Thus the rejection of the term feminism is an attempt by the Dalit-Bahujan woman to assert her identity, create a niche space for her voice and express her dissent against the mainstream feminist discourse.
In Dalit Women: Vanguard of an Alternative Politics in India, Anand Teltumbde's points out that "If mainstream feminists had taken a grassroots approach and focused on the plight of Dalit women, there may not have been need for Dalit women to organise separately."
Why womanism
Black women in the US have had similar experiences with the feminist movement. They came up with a new term "womanism" to highlight their struggles and experiences and used it in a way to distinguish themselves from feminism. Alice Walker in her 1983 book In Search of Our Mothers' Garden: Womanist Prose, coined the term "womanism" as a way to define and differentiate the struggle for gender equality as undertaken by women of colour. Feminism, as she argues, places priority on the woman, while womanism, defined as a consciousness, incorporates "racial, cultural, sexual, national, economic, and political considerations. Simply put "womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender". Womanism therefore is inclusive and not exclusive like feminism. The marginal status of black women is on account of multiple levels of oppression and intersections between race, class, gender, ethnicity, colour. Womanism is therefore all encompassing and powerful in that it embodies the universal concerns of black men and women, other marginalised groups, and all people. Womanist responses are informed by the social, economic, political and religious aspects of living life in an oppressive society.
Towards a marginalised Indian womanism
A solidarity network of Dalit women called the "Dalit Women's Network for Solidarity (DAWNS)" was set up for this purpose. It announced the coining of a new term, "Dalit Womanism", and explains the need for this new entity:
"We have been denied the right to articulate our own visions of emancipation. Our energies have been co-opted to working out the visions of dominant others who have shown scant respect for our world-view or philosophy of life, by not enabling us to articulate them or work towards achieving them."
Feminism, as she argues, places priority on the woman, while womanism, defined as a consciousness, incorporates "racial, cultural, sexual, national, economic, and political considerations. Simply put "womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender".
Dalit womanism/marginalised Indian womanism is broad enough to include Dalit women in general, but also sensitive enough to provide space for experiences of religious, tribal and ethnic, sexual minorities who represent an entire gamut of marginalised gender experiences.
As a womanist I envision all women's voices and rights to be equally heard, acknowledged and respected. Womanism to me is about my identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing. This debate of womanism is the book that was never written, a conversation that was muted and a journey denied. In Solange Knowles' words it is a demand for "a seat at the table!"
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Christophe Gin wins the Carmignac Photojournalism Award
Posted on September 08, 2015 - By Fondation Carmignac
As part of the 2015 Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, the Fondation Carmignac has announced that the 6th edition of the Carmignac photojournalism Award will be awarded to Christophe Gin, in recognition of his work on the theme of 'Lawless areas in France'. The award was presented by Christophe Deloire, President of the Jury and Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders.
The Fondation Carmignac aims to support and promote works of investigative photojournalism documenting areas often underrepresented in mainstream news coverage. This year's edition of the Award focuses specifically on parts of France that have become so-called 'lawless areas' (zones de non-droit): places where political, judicial and socioeconomic structures divert from those idealised by the French Republic, and where its legal system no longer holds sway.
In response to the foundation's chosen theme, French photographer Christophe Gin (born in 1965) offered a collection of images delving deep into the territory of French Guiana, an area he has been exploring since 2001. His work documents a series of highly hermetic societies, existing in unique enclaves and governed by their own systems of social codes and laws. This vast natural landscape is the largest French region (equal to 1/6th of the surface area of mainland France), and is bound by river borders linking the area to neighboring Brazil and Suriname.
Outside the administrative control of the Atlantic coastal towns of Cayenne, Kourou and Saint-Laurent du Maroni, the inland regions of French Guiana only became an official part of the region in 1969. Made up entirely of tropical forests and remote villages cut off from the outside world, this untameable area has since encountered significant difficulties in terms of its relation to mainland France and its development, as unemployment and lack of access to education have led to high levels of disaffection and alcoholism among the indigenous population.
French Guiana has been associated with gold prospecting since the mid-19th century, and in the 1990s the region became part of the new global "gold road". As market prices rose, the region began to experience serious social and economic imbalance, accompanied by a rise in illegal goldpanning. Poverty amongst the local population and the exploitation of the natural landscape have led to levels of criminality and violence that are amongst the highest in France, as well as significant sanitary risks both for the human population and the surrounding environment. Today, these Latin American regions have become something of a European "El Dorado" operating outside the legal confines of the French state.
Christophe Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana, from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts.
His photography bears witness to the reality of life in a land full of contrasts, far from the caricatures often presented through the mainstream press. Christophe Gin's photo report from Guiana will be on display as part of the Colonie (Colony) exhibition, to be held in the Chapelle des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 5 November to 5 December 2015.
A book will also be published as part of the Award.
© Christophe Gin for the Carmignac Foundation
Carmignac Foundation
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King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live is a compilation live album by the progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It features tracks from two different tours: The 1973–1974 Brain Salad Surgery Tour, and the 1977 Works Tour.

Tracks 1–10 on Disc One were recorded on November 12, 1977 at the Coliseum (now the WesBanco Arena) in Wheeling, West Virginia. This is the first (and possibly only) official release of these recordings. The band's last concert with an orchestra on the 1977 Works Tour was at Olympic Stadium in Montreal on August 26 and they performed the rest of the tour as a trio, which is the ensemble featured here.

Tracks 11–14 on Disc One and Track 1 on Disc Two were recorded on 7 March 1974 at the Civic Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Track listing
Disc one

"Peter Gunn Theme" (Henry Mancini) – 3:43
"Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Greg Lake, Palmer, Peter Sinfield) – 4:22
"C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:21
"Piano Improvisation" (Emerson) – 5:39
Piano Concerto No. 1, 1st Movement: Allegro Giojoso
"Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) – 1:17
"Drum Solo" (Palmer) – 1:25
"The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Sergei Prokofiev, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 2:45
"Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:13
"Pirates" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 13:27
"Fanfare for the Common Man" (Aaron Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 8:20
"Hoedown" (Copland) – 4:23
"Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) – 3:01
"Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:09
"Piano Improvisation" (Emerson, Friedrich Gulda) – 7:09

Disc two

"Karn Evil 9" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 34:31
"Fully Interactive" – 36:01

Track 2 is a multimedia track containing the songs 'From the Beginning', 'Lucky Man' and 'Paper Blood'.

References

Emerson, Lake & Palmer live albums
1997 live albums


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Biografia
Nata a Venezia dalla famiglia patrizia e dogale dei Tiepolo, si laureò in Lettere presso l'Università di Padova e ottenne  il diploma di archivistica, paleografia e diplomatica presso l'Archivio di Stato di Venezia. Presso lo stesso archivio iniziò un tirocinio volontario nel 1952, entrandovi in ruolo come funzionaria due anni dopo per concorso.

Superato il concorso per dirigente, nel 1974-1978 fu soprintendente archivistico per il Veneto, ma già dal 1977 rientrò come direttore all'Archivio di Stato di Venezia. Ricoprì tale incarico fino al pensionamento, nel 1990.

Fin dall'inizio del suo servizio come direttore avviò una serie di mostre sui materiali conservati, manifestando una sensibilità per il dialogo con un pubblico vasto che sarebbe divenuto usuale in tali ambiti solo decenni dopo. Le mostre inclusero temi come Antonio Vivaldi (1978), la Health Care (1979), la diplomatica (1982), la cartografia storica (1984). Già in congedo, nel 1994 pubblicò una guida generale dell'istituto veneziano che aveva diretto, simbolico coronamento di una intera carriera professionale.

Fin dai primi anni dopo il diploma affiancò l'attività archivistica con una serie di pubblicazioni scientifiche sull'argomento, che assommano a varie decine.

Molteplici furono le aggregazioni accademiche. Nel 1972 divenne socio corrispondente e dal 1979 socio effettivo della Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie. Dal 1978 fece parte della Società Europea di Cultura e di altre associazioni. Dal 1990 divenne socio corrispondente e dal 1999 socio effettivo dell'Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti. Fu socio onorario dell'Ateneo Veneto. Fu la prima donna aggregata alla Scuola Grande di San Rocco, della quale anche inventariò l'archivio.

Vari anche i riconoscimenti: commendatore e poi grande ufficiale e infine cavaliere di gran croce dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana (1979, 1987, 1989), Veneziana dell'anno (1983), Paul Harris Fellow del Rotary International (1987), medaglia d'oro di benemerita della cultura e dell'arte (1990), Premio Fedeltà alla professione della Confederazione Artigiani di Venezia (1994).

Morì a Venezia il 13 marzo 2020, all'età di 94 anni.

Il suo apporto professionale, scientifico e personale è stato ricordato nei giorni successivi e commemorato a distanza di un anno

Un suo legato testamentario ha destinato al Museo Correr una serie di preziose testimonianze artistiche della sua famiglia.

Opere
 Cronologia veneziana del Quattrocento, del Cinquecento, del Seicento, del Settecento, in La Civiltà di Venezia, a cura di Guido Piovene, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sansoni, Firenze 1957, pp. 186–240; edizione ampliata 1966 in Storia della Civiltà veneziana, Firenze 1979; con Raimondo Morozzo della Rocca.
 Una lettera inedita di Galileo, G. Barbera, Firenze 1967.
 (a cura di): Domenico prete di San Maurizio, notaio in Venezia (1309–1316), Venezia 1970.
 I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini, Roma 1973; con Raimondo Morozzo della Rocca e Laurence Lokhart.
 Note sul riordino degli archivi del duca e dei notai di Candia nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, in «Thesaurismata», 10 (1973), pp. 89–100.
 Documenti veneziani su Giovanni Caboto, in «Studi Veneziani», 15 (1973), pp. 585–597.
 Fonti archivistiche meno note sui rapporti tra Venezia e le regioni del Mar Nero, in «Byzantinobulgarica», 7 (1981), pp. 99–102.
 L'Archivio proprio dell'ambasciata veneta in Roma nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, in Studi in onore di Leopoldo Sandri, Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Roma 1983, pp. 929–939.
 Laguna, lidi, fiumi. Cinque secoli di gestione delle acque, Catalogo mostra 10 giugno – 2 ottobre 1983, Venezia 1983.
 Fonti documentarie sui giardini nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia fino al 1797, in Il giardino veneto. Storia e conservazione, a cura di Margherita Azzi Visentini, Italo Zannier, Rosario Assunto, Venezia 1988, pp. 331–338.
 La conterminazione nei documenti dell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia fino al 1797, in Conterminazione lagunare. Storia, ingegneria, politica e diritto nella laguna di Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia 1992, pp. 79–129.
 Archivi ecclesiastici e di interesse ecclesiastico nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, in Archivi e Chiesa locale. Studi e contributi, a cura di Francesca Cavazzana Romanelli, Venezia 1993, pp 235–253.
 Il linguaggio dei simboli: le arme dei Barbaro, in Una famiglia veneziana nella storia: i Barbaro, a cura di Michela Marangoni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Venezia 1996, pp. 133–191.
 Presenze e testimonianze dell'archivio primiceriale nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, in San Marco: aspetti storici e agiografici, a cura di Antonio Niero, Venezia 1996, pp. 123–151.
 Le fonti documentarie di Candia nell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, in Venezia e Creta, a cura di Gherardo Ortalli, Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Venezia 1998, pp. 43–71.

Onorificenze

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Tiepolo (famiglia)
 Archivio di Stato di Venezia

Collegamenti esterni

Tiepolo
Maria Francesca
Cavalieri di gran croce OMRI


As the pace of DNA exonerations has grown across the U.S. in recent years, over 250 convicted people have thus far been found innocent after DNA testing. We now have insight into some disturbing fissures in our criminal justice system regarding the causes of wrongful convictions.
Learning from cases in which the criminal justice system has made mistakes, innocence projects around the country have identified some of the contributing causes common in wrongful convictions. These include eyewitness misidentification, government misconduct, bad lawyering, the use of junk science, the testimonies of convicted informants/snitches, and false confessions.
In addition to these seven causes of wrongful conviction, there are many additional hurdles to justice the wrongly imprisoned face, such as access to records, access to DNA evidence and testing, and issues around evidence retention. When the wrongfully convicted are released from prison, ironically, they have less access to services than parolees, who are actually guilty of a crime, and must prove their innocence all over again to receive compensation.
Focusing on these areas through the use of case profiles, the Veritas Initiative aims to shed light on how these common causes of wrongful convictions have affected the outcomes of actual cases and how these injustices could have been prevented.


Productive, law-abiding citizens work for a living. We encourage schoolchildren to work and study hard to grow into responsible adults. We expect able-bodied welfare recipients to work for their bread. Why, then, do we house convicted criminals in state-sponsored idleness at enormous taxpayer expense?
The problem seems obvious. The vast majority of prison inmates spend their days at leisure — endless television-watching, perhaps weightlifting or socializing with fellow convicts, but little labor. They bear no practical responsibility to make whole the victims they have harmed, or to support the families they have left behind. Instead, we force them to remain inert. Leisure is usually a reward and a break from hard work, not a form of punishment. Citizens across the political spectrum dislike letting prisoners remain idle: An overwhelming number of Americans (87 percent, according to the National Opinion Survey of Crime and Justice) support work requirements, and even more favor the idea if inmates must use their wages to compensate victims and the state. And enforced idleness reduces the likelihood that inmates will be prepared to do anything other than resume a life of crime once they reenter society.
Prison was not always a life of enforced idleness. After penitentiaries were introduced as a substitute for corporal punishment two centuries ago, religious figures hoped to reclaim inmates' souls through penitence, and penal reformers hoped to rehabituate inmates through structure, discipline, and work. Criminals often gratify their desires impulsively and at the expense of others. Confining them in silence, with only a Bible for companionship, was supposed to shape their consciences and spur repentance. And work, reformers hoped, would teach them to delay gratification and become responsible citizens.
It didn't quite work out as planned. Quaker and Enlightenment reformers proved far too optimistic about human nature, failing to realize that released inmates would relapse and return to prison. Repentance is a proper goal, but the hope of inducing it on a broad scale was too grandiose.
The hope of structured reform through work lasted longer. For many decades, inmates continued to work in and around prisons, learning discipline and reducing the costs of incarceration. Some forms of work drew understandable objections: Chain gangs evoked slavery; farm labor on former slave plantations in the South did the same; leasing convicts as laborers proved too lucrative to prisons and politically connected employers, encouraging overuse and brutality. But those problems were not inherent in prison labor. Especially in the North, there were plenty of prison industries that gainfully employed inmates in private labor, teaching them trades as they produced valuable goods.
The fatal objection to prison labor was not practical or humanitarian but protectionist. Labor unions grew steadily more powerful after the Civil War, and manufacturers joined them in efforts to suppress cheaper competition. In response, state legislatures gradually restricted the kinds of work that prisoners could do. The protectionism that accompanied the Great Depression accelerated this trend. By 1940, Congress had outlawed interstate commerce in prison-made goods. A later exception, the 1979 inception of the Prison Industry Certification Program, allowed private firms to hire inmates, but only at prevailing local wages (which often translated to union scale). Thus, there was little reason to hire inmates, given their low skills and the security costs incurred.
As a result, inmates today do little to pay restitution or prepare for employment on the outside. Perhaps 8 percent of inmates work in prison industries, and another 3 or 4 percent work on prison farms. (The fraction is higher in the federal prison system and Texas and Louisiana, whose governments are large enough to consume many prison-made goods.) Employed inmates may work on prison farms or make license plates, because these are not goods traded in interstate commerce. Other inmates, not included in these totals, work in prison cafeterias, laundries, and the like. But inmates working for a prison are unlikely to acquire skills and habits that could help them prove themselves to private employers on the outside.
#page#Prison reform has until recently been a liberal cause. In the mid 20th century, the anti-punishment Left embraced rehabilitation, not retribution, as the main justification for incarceration. Reformers pushed education, vocational training, and treatment as silver bullets, as if all that criminals needed were therapy and social work. Liberal victimology blamed poverty and ignorance, not criminals' own choices, for crime.
Conservatives naturally disagreed, refusing to excuse criminals. Crime was a mark of social decay, and law-and-order conservatives such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan campaigned on getting tough. The last thing prisoners needed, they argued, was more social services or special treatment, such as job training or educational privileges.
But then some conservatives got religion. After Nixon's special counsel Chuck Colson was imprisoned for his role in Watergate, he became a born-again Evangelical Christian and founded the Prison Fellowship project, intended to reform prisoners and restore them to the community and their churches as contributing members. Unlike liberal advocates, religious conservatives don't seek to excuse prisoners, blame their poverty and circumstances, or offer them therapy. Rather, they seek to promote reform through religious instruction and discipleship, teaching inmates to accept their sinfulness and work on moral and religious renewal, as well as make amends. And the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, often in cooperation with local congregations, provides structured reentry assistance to help inmates move back to conventional housing and find law-abiding work on the outside.
These private reform programs, while valuable, are incomplete. To complement them, prisons themselves should hold inmates accountable. Rather than offering inmates special rehabilitative privileges, they should impose requirements that are demanding but also likely to encourage responsible, cooperative behavior.
The political obstacles are formidable: It would not be easy to repeal the Depression-era ban on prison-made goods over the objections of protectionist labor and business lobbies. But given the popularity of making prisoners work, the weakening of organized labor, and the massive cost, in a time of deficits, of funding prison idleness, there may be hope for reform.
Prisoners, unless they are seriously disabled, should be required to work. Some inmates would have to work inside the prison; minimum-security inmates and those in halfway houses could work outside, tracked with electronic ankle bracelets. Apart from its economic and educational value, such work would inculcate discipline, collaboration, obedience, and a willingness to delay gratification — virtues that many inmates lack, and whose absence tends to encourage crime.
Further, the fruits of productive labor can help prisoners to pay their debts to society. Some of the money could go to victims, to help make partial restitution. Some of it could go to the government, to defray the cost to taxpayers of investigation, conviction, and incarceration. Some of it could go to inmates' families. Any money left over could go to the inmates themselves, encouraging them to work.
Making restitution is connected to accepting responsibility. Too often, defendants slide through the criminal system by barely admitting guilt. But as Alcoholics Anonymous and similar twelve-step programs teach, one cannot overcome a problem without first acknowledging it. Accepting responsibility and, better yet, offering an apology also help vindicate and heal victims. Restorative-justice conferences, in which inmates meet with victims (if the latter are willing) to express remorse and apologize, are proven ways to help victims find closure.
Accepting responsibility should go beyond making restitution and apologizing, however. It should also mean putting oneself on a path toward a law-abiding life. Inmates need to prepare to support themselves after release through lawful work. Compulsory drug treatment, job training, and education thus should be considered not privileged treatment, but steps toward becoming a law-abiding citizen.
Even more important, prisons can encourage responsibility by forcing inmates to support their families, instead of making those families rely on government handouts. Responsibilities as husbands and fathers are important factors in taming young men's wildness and encouraging them to settle down. Empirical studies provide strong evidence that marriage and fatherhood inhibit crime after release; one longitudinal study found that marriage may reduce recidivism by 35 percent. To strengthen family ties, prisons should strive to incarcerate inmates near their families. They should also moderate the cumbersome visiting policies and extortionate telephone rates that cut children off from their fathers and wives from their husbands. For convicts unmoved by the carrot of familial love, tough work requirements and child-support enforcement can serve as sticks.
#page#We could even consider drafting felony convicts into the military. Throughout history, many societies have sentenced convicts to military service, offering them a concrete way to work off their debts and earn freedom. Indeed, that was common in America through World War II, as viewers of The Dirty Dozen will recall. Today, however, the American military services forbid enlistment as an alternative to criminal prosecution or as a form of punishment.
We should again consider requiring or at least allowing suitable convicts to offer military service as an alternative to incarceration. The rigors of military service inculcate work habits, discipline, and social skills.
The military may worry about potential disciplinary problems caused by criminal enlistees. But military service in lieu of criminal punishment has a long history. If one at least screens out the most violent, antisocial candidates and is willing to send miscreants to prison, the disciplinary problems are, history suggests, manageable. During World War II, Illinois paroled nearly 3,000 inmates to serve in the U.S. Army. Of these, only 3.4 percent violated parole, and their recidivism rate eight years later was only 10.5 percent, less than a quarter the rate of those who received traditional parole.
We cannot know whether the same would hold true today, particularly in peacetime and without a draft, but the idea is at least worth trying. The structure, rigor, and sense of purpose in military life might serve the ends of prison labor even better than ordinary work. They have helped many a non-criminal slacker stop playing video games and get his act together.
Citizens and military leaders might also worry that using military service as punishment would demean the voluntary service of law-abiding men and women. But prisoners could come in at lower ranks and receive lower wages than ordinary enlistees. Garnishment and restitution would further reduce their take-home pay, and GI Bill benefits would not vest for some time. They could wear different uniforms and enjoy fewer privileges than ordinary soldiers and sailors — not being allowed leave, for example. They could also be assigned to the lowliest of jobs, such as cleaning latrines, and be punished for the smallest infractions. In other words, they would not start out on equal terms with law-abiding service members, and would have to prove themselves to earn promotion.
Military leaders may resist taking on a social purpose in addition to fighting wars and defending against attacks. But the Israeli military has shown that it is possible: It combines top-notch fighting ability with a mission to integrate immigrants into Israeli society.
Whether in prison industries or in the military, inmates and ex-cons need to be held accountable. Punishment should be tough, but it should also be productive and socializing. Forcing inmates to work and to take responsibility for their crimes and their families is an excellent way to start making sure that it is.
– Mr. Bibas, a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of The Machinery of Criminal Justice.


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