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Launch NY a catalyst for entrepreneurial growth throughout Upstate New York
By Lou Sorendo
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. This is a mantra for many entrepreneurs, investors and community supporters associated with Launch NY, a nonprofit venture development organization that provides free mentoring and access to risk capital for high-growth startup companies across a 27-county region in Upstate New York.
Marnie LaVigne is leading an organization that is the first and only venture development organization to act as a catalyst for business development in the state. She said Launch NY makes a significant economic development impact, which is the basis for its existence.
As of early January, Launch NY has worked with 1,071 companies. In 2019 alone, Launch NY served more than 300 seed and early stage companies.
Fledgling companies seeking Launch NY assistance normally have about one to three people involved in their operation. In many cases, those people are not full-time, but are working other jobs to pay the bills.
"They can only apply for our funding when they have been mentored for at least three months," she said. "We are very much here for those who don't have sources of capital otherwise."
Additionally, more than 45% of client companies have minority or women-owned leadership. "They are typically the groups that do not have access to venture capital," she said.
Over the period of time that Launch NY has been mentoring, client companies have created more than 3,700 jobs, according to LaVigne.
Another economic impact is the amount of additional capital companies raise. The companies that Launch NY has helped with pro bono mentorship since 2012 have since attracted nearly $700 million in investment and other funding and generated more than $97 million in revenues.
Since starting its first fund in 2016, Launch NY funds have attracted over 17 times in additional capital from other sources to its portfolio of nearly 50 companies accounting for over 240 jobs, LaVigne noted.
Launch NY introduced its new invest local financing platform in 2019 to scale up its ability to bring startups and investors together to build businesses in the region. "Now when we invest in our client companies, providing what I call 'small but mighty' dollars, typically it is up to $50,000 for our first investment," she said.
Another $50,000 comes from the new for-profit limited partner fund. This gives companies an important start toward their typical goal of $200,000 to $500,000 when first engaged in the fundraising mode, she added.
"Launch NY also augments this process through its new investor network, affording accredited investors a way to fund companies they choose with as little as $10,000 to help fill the whole round a company is seeking," LaVigne said.
"Helping companies find this initial risk capital locally is critical to preventing companies from leaving the area for more fertile communities or simply letting their good ideas die on the vine," she added.
One success story involves SparkCharge, a startup company from Syracuse that developed a portable and efficient way to charge electric vehicles.
Launch NY mentored the minority-owned company for nearly three years, and the company went on to win the 2018 grand prize of $1 million in the 43North startup competition.
Launch NY is sector agnostic, meaning it doesn't focus on any one area of the economy.
Its top areas include software and technology companies, biomedical and health, and business and consumer products. Those combined make up about 50% of the companies in its portfolio.
"We also have a little bit of everything, including food and beverage, clean tech, advanced manufacturing and material science," she added.
It also has a clean tech incubator that is supported by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority.
LaVigne was one of three co-founders of the organization. The founders were involved in helping startup companies at a time when technology-based economic development was rapidly building momentum in 2005-07.
At that time, New York state — buoyed by both private and federal investment — was heavily engaged in doing infrastructure projects, and with it was borne renewed business growth and an array of research and development facilities.
However, as soon as innovators began to actually create products and services, "then you had to figure out the business side," she said.
That's where Launch NY comes in.
LaVigne said there are "three legs to the stool" that make up high-growth business ventures — the technology or opportunity they are taking advantage of, the talent to grow these companies, and availability of risk capital.
It all starts with the original idea or innovation, and an entrepreneur who is willing to seize a market opportunity.
The other two legs — the talent to grow these companies, and availability of risk capital — however, are the ones that were seen as weak in Upstate New York and need to be focused on, she said. She noted there is an absence of venture capital to back potentially high-growth businesses in the state.
Central New York was no different from the rest of Upstate suffering these types of dynamics, she said.
One of the co-founders, Alfred Culliton, was a longtime leader of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency. The third co-founder is attorney David Colligan, who has been active in the community supporting various causes. He was instrumental in establishing the Buffalo Angels, an investment group that would take a risk and put money into starter-type businesses.
The founders started to organize events where their client companies could pitch their products or services and present their stories while seeking financial support.
In 2009, the group invited Rebecca Braun of Cleveland, Ohio, former co-founder and chief operating officer of JumpStart and president of JumpStart Ventures, to be the keynote speaker at its annual venture forum — Bright Buffalo Niagara. JumpStart is a Cleveland-based venture development organization.
Working with LaVigne and her team, Braun helped conduct an 18-month study to evaluate regional needs stretching from Buffalo to Syracuse and design the business plan that yielded Launch NY in 2011.
"We started to rally people who cared about what we were doing and wanted to get involved one way or another," said LaVigne, who is also on the board of the National Association of Development Organizations.
Federal and private monies funded the endeavor.
"New York state has been minimally involved. Despite our name, we really have been scrappy in finding many other sources because New York state was heading in a different direction" in terms of economic development initiatives, she said.
Also chairwoman of the New York State Economic Development Council, LaVigne has spent more than 25 years in both the private and public sectors creating new products and start-up businesses.
Launch NY essentially started out with a three-year, $10 million budget.
"We had to get going just like our companies in terms of scrapping and cobbling together money," she said. "Most of our client companies do not have any revenues when they first work with us. It is a labor of love."
In 2012, Launch NY began to provide free mentorship to a 27-county area that included Western New York, the Finger Lakes, the Southern Tier and Central New York. LaVigne launched the venture development organization at the University of Buffalo, where she worked as head of economic development.
In 2014, she changed the mentorship model from a handful of people covering various geographic areas to having nearly 30 mentors matched up on an individualized basis. Launch NY also had access to a national network of more than 2,000 mentors that it could dip into at no cost to clients.
In 2015, LaVigne started a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds, being that New York state was not providing the dollars that other venture development organizations had enjoyed.
Its nonprofit fund was launched in 2016, and within two years, became the most active seed fund in the state and one of the most active in the country.
"We did what is called boot strapping, meaning we kept raising the money as we lent," she said.
LaVigne said the group also tapped into people wanting to invest their money locally.
One of its largest sponsors, the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation in Buffalo, has donated $7 million to the organization. U.S. Treasury funds also help support Launch NY's work.
"At that time, Launch NY conducted surveys which revealed that people loved what we were doing. Half of them wanted to donate and the other half wanted to actually invest," she said.
LaVigne also took a unique approach in bringing in a female fund manager — Lindsey Stenzel — and noted that less than 10% of firms around the country have a female fund manager. The award-winning Stenzel, an Ohio State University graduate, has done more than 1,200 seed and early-stage investments.
The second leg of the stool, getting people actively working at startup firms, "is a bit of a tough sell, because most of them can't pay fair market value," she said. "The idea of applying for a job at a startup is a little bit different than people applying for a job with National Grid or with a company in the area."
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In a large skillet on medium-high, heat oil. Season lamb with salt and pepper. Working in batches if necessary, add to skillet and sear, turning once, until browned on both sides, about 5 to 7 minutes for medium-rare or 7 to 9 minutes for medium. (If using lamb strips, cook for 5 minutes, turning frequently, until browned.) Transfer lamb to a plate and cover to keep warm. Reduce heat to medium, add mushrooms and cook, stirring frequently, until browned, about 7 to 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30 seconds. Add broth and wine, scraping up browned bits from bottom of skillet. Bring to a simmer and cook until liquid is reduced by one-third, about 3 minutes.
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iPhone Data Recovery Software Review
As the technology evolves and advances as time goes on, our daily life improves a lot, and people's living standards get improved quite a lot too. By the time when NOKIA, Motorola and HTC ruled the entire cell phones market, a feature phone can be very expensive, which means not everyone can afford one. But now, as the king of yesterday is still struggling on its feet, it seems that everybody gets an iPhone in the pocket. Alas! Time changes everything.
Now let's return to the subject! What could an iPhone possibly mean to a commoner? Well, first of all, it is a phone which people can call others and send text messages to others; apart from this very rudimental element, a person can use the iPhone to do a lot of other things, like surfing the internet, social networking on Facebook, updating a status on Twitter, recording a family event, taking a lot of pictures, playing video games, listening to songs, and so on and so on. So if the owner of an iPhone is a heavy user, who spend maybe around 3 hours a day playing with the device, it is likely that the device sometimes gets malfunctioned, or gets attacked, hacked, broken, or even stolen, which all generate some kind of data loss.
At this time, an iPhone data recovery software is necessary. What does an iPhone data recovery software do and how to find one? Well, like its name already tells, an iPhone data recovery software helps iPhone users to recover the lost data. As to where and how to find such a software, it is super easy. Just open Google and search it. If you want more results from your search attempt, you probably can enlarge the searching scale by typing the keywords iOS data recovery software, because if an application is able to recover the lost iOS data, it definitely is capable of recovering iPhone data.
According to my own experience, all the iPhone data recovery applications usually have one thing in common. They all have three different ways for users under various situations to recover the lost data. These methods include scanning the iPhone directly, recovering from iTunes backup file and recovering from iCloud backup file. And no matter which way to take, users have to connect the problematic iPhone to the computer.
As to what kind of data these applications are able to recover from an affected iPhone, it also depends on the recovery method applied. But still, the capabilities of the iOS data recovery tool are more or less similar to each other. Taking the one I am currently evaluating for example, DVDFab iFoneRestore can help users recover Contacts, Messages, Call History, Notes, Calendar Items, Reminders, WhatsApp and Safari Bookmarks by directly scanning and analyzing the iPhone; and if you have a previous iTunes or iCloud backup file, then you are lucky to get more types of data back, which expand to Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Message Attachments, Reminders, and Voice Memos.
Knowing that the application is capable of what you are looking for, the next thing you need to check out is that whether or not this application can run smoothly on your system. Note that not all the apps are optimized for all the OS X versions, especially when you are still running a century old version like 10.6. But usually, most of the iOS data recovery apps I have met run on 10.8 and later. Also, if you are not a Mac owner but a Windows user, you should double confirm if the application has a Windows edition. The one I am using right now does have a Windows counterpart runs on Microsoft's OSs starting with XP. In case you want to check it out, find it here at http://www.dvdfab.cn/ifonerestore-for-mac.htm. It sells at quite a reasonable and affordable price of $50 for a lifelong subscription on the Mac version and $46 only for the Windows edition.
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In the early days of Fjällräven, all of our products were numbered. The Numbers Series reawakens this tradition and each product in the series is named based on how many predecessors it has.
For example, Jacket No.68 is the latest in a long line of functional and hardwearing outdoor jackets from Fjällräven, while Gaiter Trousers No.1 are the first trousers of their kind with an innovative gaiter function.
Designed to be used as a system, each of the garments in the Numbers Series can be combined with others and adapted to suit an array of different uses, seasons and climates.
The collection builds on Fjällräven's 50 years of experience in designing functional and durable outdoor clothing and equipment. Sustainability remains one of our guiding stars and all of our garments are designed to have exceptionally long lifespans and low environ- mental impact. For this reason we use G-1000® Eco, a hardwearing fabric made from recycled polyester and organic cotton.
Our commitment to sustainability means that products throughout the Numbersseries feature details made from reclaimed leather taken from Fjällräven Swedish belt factory. Each piece of vegetable-tanned leather can vary in colour and appearance, something which makes each garment in the Numbers series unique.
The production of the Numbers series is mostly carried out by several carefully selected suppliers in Europe. Not only does this reduce the level of transportation required and therefore the environmental impact, but it also means that we can ensure every process is completed to a high standard.
The result of all this is a series of durable and timeless garments that will accompany their owners on countless adventures for many years to come.


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The platform-fueled insurance future - Parry Sound Insurance Brokers Ltd.
For B2C, platforms will expand market access and customer experience for insurance companies. Suddenly, insurance companies can be easy to do business with.
For B2B, platforms will be about freeing insurance companies from the mundane business of administrating insurance policies. This allows them to focus on the central role of insurance – managing, mitigating and pricing risk.
In our view, insurance platforms will enhance the trend towards an "insurance market of two speeds," with adopters on one and non-adopters on the other side.
In fact, more than 50% of outperforming insurers in our survey say they expect more than 10% of their revenue to be from platforms in the next three years.
With platforms taking over most of the "easy" tasks of insurance, the question of how to differentiate suddenly becomes more pressing, and the study offers some insights into an insurers' thought process. But, rather going into more detail, I invite you to read the study itself. It is freely available from the IBM Institute for Business Value, along with many other interesting studies (of course, I am biased), of which I will highlight and recap a few over the next few weeks on this blog.
¹The respondents have been asked to self-rank themselves compared to their peers. While that introduces a certain amount of bias, this bias seems to be uniform in the same direction; to test this in previous studies, we compared our survey answers with objective measures of growth and efficiency such as CAGR of GPW and cost ratios. The correlation we found to the self-reported data points was very high.
Read more insurance studies from the IBM Institute for Business Value here.
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Man Arrested In Monday's Deadly Teen Shooting
Updated: 11:29 PM PST Jan 31, 2012
A 20-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a deadly shooting earlier this week. Police: 3 Detained In Search For Homicide Suspects Sacramento police said they have Jazz Curry in custody in connection with the shooting and death of Tralane Thomas on Monday night.Officers responded to a call after reports were made that a man had been shot on the 100 block of Bicentennial Circle in Sacramento.When they arrived, officers found a 19-year-old victim suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper body.He died at the scene.Sacramento detectives said the men were likely engaging in a drug deal just before the shooting.
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A 20-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a deadly shooting earlier this week.
Police: 3 Detained In Search For Homicide Suspects
Sacramento police said they have Jazz Curry in custody in connection with the shooting and death of Tralane Thomas on Monday night.
Officers responded to a call after reports were made that a man had been shot on the 100 block of Bicentennial Circle in Sacramento.
When they arrived, officers found a 19-year-old victim suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper body.
He died at the scene.
Sacramento detectives said the men were likely engaging in a drug deal just before the shooting.


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News Roundup: Panic Attacks
Recently a very popular television show, "This Is Us" aired an episode showing a character on the show having a panic attack. The internet was quick to respond, with many people stating that they appreciated the realistic depiction of what it is like to have a panic attack.
This week's news roundup brings a collection of articles related to panic attacks, how to tell if you are having a panic attack, and how to help someone having a panic attack.
'This Is Us' touches on the issue of panic attacks in recent episode. TODAY. "About 6 million adults in the U.S. experience panic disorder in a given year, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. On the show — don't worry, we won't spoil anything major — Randall, played by actor Sterling K. Brown, experiences a panic attack, also sometimes called an anxiety attack."
How to tell if you are having a panic attack. US NEWS. "Anyone can experience a panic attack, anxiety specialists say, although people who suffer from these sometimes don't recognize the source of their discomfort. Panic attacks are easily explainable – and with the guidance of a physician or therapist, they're also treatable."
How to help someone who is having a panic attack. NEW HEALTH ADVISOR. "Anyone who has experienced a family member or friend with a panic disorder knows first-hand how disrupting and frightening the episode can be. Knowing how anxiety impacts their life, you want to be supportive, so here are some suggestions on how to help someone having a panic attack."
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Ein Abbassi (auch: Abazi) ist eine Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts eingeführte, ursprünglich persische Silbermünze. Die Bezeichnung der Münze ist von Abbas I. abgeleitet, der damals Schah von Persien war.

Die ersten Abbassi wurden um 1620 geprägt und hatten eine Masse von 7,7 g. Vier Sahis ergaben einen Abbassi und 50 Abbassi einem goldenen Toman. Bei sich verringerndem Feingehalt an Silber erfolgte die Prägung bis zur Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts.

Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts befand sich die heutige georgische Hauptstadt Tiflis zeitweise unter persischer Kontrolle. Es setzten in Tiflis ab 1762 weitere Prägungen einer Abbassi/Abazi genannten Münze ein, die etwa 3 g Silber enthielt. Nach Übernahme Georgiens durch das russische Kaiserreich wurde die Prägung von 1803 bis 1833 weitergeführt. 1 Abazi war 20 Kopeken wert.

Literatur
Abbassi. In: Tyll Kroha: Lexikon der Numismatik. Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1977, ISBN 3-570-01588-2, S. 10.

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the TC against voting for it.
* First, if it is voted, nothing will happen.
2014 (741573#450), but got no answer.  Who do you expect to do the work ?
had a discussion which outcome was very similar to what is proposed in option D.
and b) its maintainer is obviously hostile to change.
* Second, it does not solve the problem that I sumbitted to the TC.
files to port them to the desktop format."
register a menu entry for those applications.
interactive mode to be included seems like a good fix here.
Option D exactly brings use back to the original problem, without solving it !
is the modification of §9.6 above.  Option D does not contain such a change.
Policy to fit the reality.  This is what I asked the TC for.


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Q: Which AWS service is best for Static files Which AWS service is best for static content - HTML, JavaScript, Images, JSON, PDF, Excel, Text files and Application Logs.

S3 or EFS or EBS

Price is not an issue, but looking for most reliable, secure and high throughput (Mine is US only webapp).

A: [Trying not to be opinionated here]
Generally speaking, S3 is the default choice for these criteria.
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*way cheaper than EFS

*more durable than EBS (using standard class)

*(somewhat) maintenance-free, doesn't require deploying instances etc.

*has built-in security features that would be enough for most applications

*works well with CloudFront for distribution and acceleration

A: S3 is the right and the most obvious choice here. Mainly because of its price (up to 10 times cheaper compared with EFS and up to 4 times cheaper compared with EBS) but secondly because it's designed to serve static website (or static content).
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Zoo Attacks: 17 Idiots Who Climbed the Fence at the Zoo
Animals, People, Viral Stories
Nothing good is going to come of a situation that involves being in a cage with a wild animal at the zoo. Nothing. And yet, people keep putting themselves in situations where – despite warnings from the zoo and others around them – they come face to face with lions, tigers, and bears (oh, my). Some of these people died with a caged animal, others were injured or maimed by a captive wild beast. Obviously, these people weren't rocket scientists or else they wouldn't have ended up in such a precarious predicament.
These are 13 of the dumbest, most idiotic, and sometimes drunkest people to ever jump the fence at a zoo. Some of them have lived to tell the tale, others not so much.
A Man Climbed Over A Barrier To Slap A Hippopotamus
Could you ever be this bold to slap a #hippo butt? #STLA#whodidthat #ikyfl #couldyou #daredevil#zoomchallenge pic.twitter.com/AC934unLax
— SomethingToLaughAt (@SomeToLaughAt) August 7, 2018In August 2018, a video taken at the Los Angeles zoo began circulating online. In the video, a man climbs a barrier to get into a hippopotamus's enclosure. After successfully climbing in, the man slaps the hippo on the rear before climbing back out. The incident sparked a criminal investigation and zoo owners condemned the action as dangerous and inappropriate. After the video surfaced, the zoo put up a "No Trespassing" sign near the exhibit.
Zoo Officials Kill Lions To Save Man
Chilean zoo officials had to shoot and kill two lions after a suicidal man got naked and climbed into their enclosure. According to onlookers, he was taunting the cats and chanting "very apocalyptic, very religious" proverbs.
Officials later found what they thought was a suicide note with his clothes, but the paper mostly had very Christian messaging and drawings of lions. Officials they were forced to kill the lions in order to save him. Crowds watched as the two cats were put down.
Tiger Mauls Lady's Hand In Halloween Prank
A drunk woman at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, NE, got her hand bitten by a tiger when she disobeyed zoo rules and reached into its cage to give it a pet on Halloween night, 2015. The 18-year-old Malayan tiger thought the 33-year-old would make a great midnight snack, and the woman was rushed to the hospital after the tiger's bite caused "severe trauma to her hand."
Barefoot Man Wants A Bear Hug
A 32-year-old barefoot man wandered into the bear enclosure at the Warsaw zoo in May 2015, and got into a fight with a female bear named Sabina. Witnesses found blood around the enclosure and alerted police, who had to rescue the shoeless, shorts-wearing man from the cage. He managed to survive the fight with only a bite to the arm and a fine for "provoking the animal into aggression."
Man Loses Fight With Lion
In 1989, 32-year-old Australian man Ellie Quo decided to seek out a martial arts matchup that would test his skills in kung fu. Told by his instructor that he had reached a level in his training where "you can kill wild animals with your bare hands," the student decided to follow his instructor's words to the letter and sought a fight with a lion at the Melbourne Zoo.
In the middle of the night, he snuck into the zoo and scaled the lion enclosure. The next morning, zookeepers found Quo's fists of fury – and nothing more – in the lions' enclosure.
Two Men Mauled While Trying to Honor Tiger
Prakesh Tiwari and Suresh Rai decided to visit Shiva, a 13-year-old Bengal Tiger at the Calcutta Zoo, in the course of their New Year's festivities in 1996. They crossed the moat surrounding his enclosure to present him with a marigold garland.
Not surprisingly, Shiva attacked Rai as he threw the garland around the tiger's neck. Tiwari intervened by kicking the tiger in the face. Tiwari was killed in the attack; Rai survived.
Man Savaged By Monkeys Trying To Retrieve Cell Phone
In 2007, Zheng Dong was taking pictures of macaque monkeys at the Fuzhou Zoo in China when one of the monkeys snatched his phone. Zheng jumped the fence to retrieve the phone. Three of the monkeys surrounded him and scratched at him until several zookeepers came to his rescue and removed him from the cage.
While Dong made it out alive, his phone was chewed up beyond repair. Instead of thanking the zookeepers profusely for saving him from being eaten by a bunch of monkeys, he sought compensation from the zoo for a new phone.
Drunk Woman Loses Fingers To Bears
In March 2010, Tracy Weiler, her boyfriend, and her three-year-old visited the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL. Once there, Weiler approached the Asiatic black bear enclosure and reached out towards the bear – who promptly bit off her fingers. Tests taken after the incident showed she was drunk.
Woman Jumps Into Polar Bear Moat
In April 2009, a woman jumped into the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin Zoo. The bears immediately began attacking her. She was eventually hoisted to safety and underwent surgery.
Man Loses Arm Trying To Get Better Pictures of Tigers
Jai Prakash Bezbaruah snuck down to the inner enclosure of the Guwahati Zoo to snap some artsy photos in December 2007. Several zookeepers tried to stop Bezbaruah, but before they could intervene, a female tiger grabbed his left arm. She and a male tiger ripped it off.
Bezbaruah was transported immediately to the hospital, but was lost to his injuries before he arrived.
Man-Bites-Panda-Bites-Man
In 2007, a 15-year-old jumped into the panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo in an attempt to hug a bear named GuGu. The kid extended his arms for a hug, got bit instead, and then bit GuGu back.
Then, in 2009, 28-year-old Zhang Zhio fell into the bear enclosure, trying to catch a toy his son had thrown. something his son was throwing at him. The bear bit his leg, causing serious damage.
Nude Man Fatally Mauled By Bears
The day after a beer festival in 2007, the remains of a naked Serbian man were found in the bear enclosure at the Belgrade Zoo. According to zoo director Vuk Bojovic, "There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage."
Man Jumps From Monorail Into Cage To Hang with Lions
David M. Villalobos, a 25-year-old real estate agent, jumped from a moving monorail at the Bronx Zoo in New York into the cage of a 400-pound tiger to be "with the tigers." Villalobos broke ribs, his pelvis, and his wrist in the fall, and suffered deep scratches and bruises from the tiger.
Two Men Mauled By Tigers In Quest To Surprise Friend At Work
Trevor James Wearmouth and Thomas Anthony Bryce-Hart, both 27, went to visit their friend at who worked at the Calgary Zoo in 2009 – at night, and without warning or permission. The duo scaled an eight-foot-tall barbed wire fence to gain entry to the zoo, and then decided to stop and pet the tigers. One climbed an additional fence (meant to keep people away from the tigers' razor-sharp claws) and tried to offer his hand to Vitali, a Serbian tiger.
Vitali attacked the man and dragged him around the cage until the other friend intervened and pulled him to safety. Both men survived and were fined for trespassing.
Man Jumps into Lion Cage Because He's Sick of Listening To His Wife Talk
Surya Narayan Das was so tired of constantly being yelled at by his wife that he willingly jumped into the lion cage at the Nandankanan Zoo in India in 2012. The execution of his suicide plot backfired, however, when bite wounds to his head, neck, face, legs, and hands failed to end his life.
A Dude Thinks He Hears The Voice Of God, But He Succumbs To The Bites Of Lions
A 22-year-old at a zoo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, thought he was hearing the voice of God tell him to go into the lions' cage and bull fight them. But as he waved his jacket around like a cape, one of the lions jumped the guy and started trying to munch him. Eventually, zoo employees subdued the lion and the foolish man was taken to the hospital, where he survived.
A Woman Thinks She's The Crocodile Whisperer… But She's Not
A woman visiting the zoo in Monterrey, Mexico, hopped the wall into a crocodile enclosure. Approaching the animal, onlookers called out to her in alarm but she laughed them off… until the animal lunged at her. She slipped and fell, which could have been fatal. Luckily for her, however, the crocodile wasn't feeling up for a full attack, and let her scramble up and back to safety.
A Man Claims He's Not After Attention Even Though He Snuck Into A Cougar's Cage To Film Himself Singing To Them
A man spent two days in jail and paid a $350 trespassing fine for jumping over the fence of a cougar cage at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio. He used his GoPro camera and filmed himself singing a song to the cats while giving himself the title of "Cougar Petter." Despite the fine and jail time, this guy got off easily.
This Man Who Wanted Pet The Polar Bears Caused A Rubber Bullet Shootout
A Denmark man decided to spend some up-close-and-personal time with the polar bears at the zoo in Copenhagen. He jumped into the enclosure where one of the bears promptly stepped on him. Even this didn't deter the man, though: he reportedly went up to the bear, sniffing and pushing the creature. Thankfully, zoo employees with rubber bullets showed up and the man was rescued before anyone could do more damage to the other.
Two Super Frugal Tourists Risked A Tiger Attack To Avoid An Entrance Fee
On June 10, 2017, two tourists scaled a fence at a zoo in Changsha, China. Their reasoning? They wanted to avoid paying an entrance fee. A safari-themed zoo, wild animals often roam the grounds freely and visitors observe through the safety of a bus. While no animals were roaming when the pair scaled the fence, they were dangerously close to an enclosure containing seven tigers. If a tour bus had ridden by, this would have caused the gate to open – leaving the men susceptible to a mauling.
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This site's Flash Subscribers were notified of the latest in what has become a steady stream of circuitous police pursuits to blaze through – and then be brought to an end – along the 24/680 Corridor.
Monday's exercise got underway at around 10:30 p.m. as a green Econoline van reported stolen in San Jose was located by its owner as it made its way north on I680, the van's owner dialing up the California Highway Patrol to intercept the vehicle, if possible.
CHP officers from the Dublin Area office spotted the van traveling north through Danville and fell in behind it, the van's driver fleeing north into Concord before turning around at Treat Boulevard and continuing to run in the southbound direction.
At some point one of the van's tires blew but its operator continued to drive south until an officer deployed a spike strip, disabling the vehicle near Alcosta Boulevard. The driver, described only as a 21-year-old Santa Clara woman – fled on foot before slipping and falling alongside the freeway, where she was taken into custody on suspicion of evading, stolen vehicle and stolen property charges.
I can only hope she is fairly and justly punished for putting so many at risk.
She wont be. Not here in California.
Bad girl bad girl whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they spikestrip you?
Did we make it through last night without a chase?
Almost funny if it wasn't so stupid.
It's cool to watch cops throw out the spike strip on cop shows. Takes some real skill.
Although my man Kenda would have stopped the car with his mind. Joe Kenda is awesome! Best guy on TV.
You have to keep an eye on us girls.


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Guy Gets Brutal Revenge On School Bully By Sleeping With His Mum
This revenge plan couldn't have gone better.
They say that revenge is a dish best served cold, but a lot of the time we just end up getting bored and forgetting about it. Not this guy though, who has literally concocted the greatest revenge plot in history and it couldn't have played out any better in the video below.
The video is a guy listening to the radio in his car when he tunes in to the craziest revenge story of all time. The radio hosts have a call from a woman named Arielle, who went on a date with a guy called Rob. They ended up doing the bad stuff, but after that he ghosted her and she really, really liked him, so what better way to try and find out what the deal is than to phone up a radio station and get them to try and salvage the situation?
You won't believe where this one ends up going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2clc5QkuYA
Wow, that's absolutely savage. Rob is a bit of an asshole for taking out his pent up aggression on this poor older woman who really liked him but man, if that isn't the best way to get back at someone ever then I'm yet to hear anything better.
Totally brutal, there is no way that Sam kid is ever going to live that one down, especially as it's now gone viral on the internet thanks to his mum phoning in to the radio station. Mad props to Rob, even if his actions do make him seem a bit of a psychopath, I can't deny how good this has probably made him feel. Major family beef over at Sam and Arielle's though.
For more awesome revenge stories, check out this creepy story about how a woman got revenge on her cheating boyfriend. Weird.
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Purnaprajna
Bangere
Purna Loka Ensemble
Guru: H.K.N.
Guru's Gurus
Guru's Guru: M.S. Gopalakrishnan
H.N. Bhaskar
H. N. Bhaskar
H.N. Bhaskar (HNB) is the son of HKN Murthy. He was only 3 years old when I became disciple of my teacher HKN. He was present at the time when my vocal teacher T. R. Srinivasan introduced me to my guru in the April of 1980. He already had a very well developed sense of shruti. I remember vividly, his presence during my practice in the morning hours of those early years. Holding a small violin fit for his size, he used to sit with me and valiantly attempt advance scales (or sathakas) and quite frequently pull it off. As he grew past 7 years, he was a regular practice mate, and this continued for the next 15 years whenever I was in town. I distinctly remember one morning when he was 9 years old, we played Mandari Varnam 25 times without let up, to Bhaskar's mother's (Rajalakshmi madam) tala. HKN, one of the gentlest among people I know, had a slightly different side to him, with those students who he thought had genuine musical talent and will go somewhere. He was very strict about standards without wearing it on his lapels. I was one of those chosen ones who got it from my teacher often, but the toughest treatment was reserved for his son HNB. I never once remember HNB, a model child in many ways, responding back.
After many years of advance training under his father, he left Mysore to study with MSG. HNB made rapid strides and has gone on to become one of the top violinists of his generation in all aspects of violin playing; accompaniment, solo and experimentation in new genre. I have heard MSG tell me on more than one occasion "what a brilliant violinist HNB is".
He has won top prizes several times at the Madras Music Academy, once fittingly, Parur Sundaram Iyer Prize for best violin accompaniment. He was recently awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar by the Sangeet Natak Academy.
A much sought after violinist, he has accompanied many of the major figures in Carnatic music. Just last year he has accompanied some of them at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House.
-Purnaprajna Bangere
Kansas City, March 2015
Mysore, India 1984. HNB (bottom left) with Purna (seated, right).
HNB with Director Ang Lee, after concert at Carnegie Hall, NYC.
2020 © Copyright Purnaprajna Bangere. All rights reserved.


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Roots of the new Arab film /
Armes, Roy, author.
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
xix, 292 pages ; 23 cm
Motion picture producers and directors -- Arab countries.
Motion pictures -- Arab countries.
Motion pictures, Arab -- France.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures, Arab.
Arab countries.
Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained a deep attachment to their homeland. Although these aspiring filmmakers had to seek their training abroad, they witnessed a time of filmic revival in Europe - Fellini and Antonioni in Italy, the French New Wave, and British Free Cinema. Returning home, these filmmakers brought a unique insider/outsider perspective to bear on local developments in society since independence, including the divide between urban and rural communities, the continuing power of traditional values and the status of women in a changing society. As they made their first films back home, the feelings of participation in a worldwide movement of new, independent filmmaking was palpable. Roots of the New Arab Film is a necessary and comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the foundations of Arab cinema.
PN1993.5.A65 A77 2018
by: Armes, Roy
Arab filmmakers of the Middle East : a dictionary /
Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East : A Dictionary.
Ten Arab filmmakers : political dissent and social critique /


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Research ArticleMICRORNAs
Signaling by p38 MAPK Stimulates Nuclear Localization of the Microprocessor Component p68 for Processing of Selected Primary MicroRNAs
Sungguan Hong1,*,
Hyangsoon Noh1,*,
Haoming Chen2,
Ravi Padia1,
Zhixing K. Pan3,
Shi-Bing Su4,
Qing Jing5,
Han-Fei Ding6,7, and
Shuang Huang1,4,7,†
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
2State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Institute of Genetics, College of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
3Department of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, University of Toledo Health Science Center, Toledo, OH 43606, USA.
4Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Complexity System, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
5Changhai Hospital, Shanghai 200433, China.
6Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
7Cancer Center, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
↵†Corresponding author. E-mail: shuang{at}gru.edu
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
Science Signaling 12 Mar 2013:
Vol. 6, Issue 266, pp. ra16
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2003706
Sungguan Hong
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
Hyangsoon Noh
Haoming Chen
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Institute of Genetics, College of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Ravi Padia
Zhixing K. Pan
Department of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, University of Toledo Health Science Center, Toledo, OH 43606, USA.
Shi-Bing Su
Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Complexity System, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
Qing Jing
Changhai Hospital, Shanghai 200433, China.
Han-Fei Ding
Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.Cancer Center, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
Shuang Huang
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Complexity System, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.Cancer Center, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
For correspondence: shuang@gru.edu
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The importance of microRNAs (miRNAs) in biological and disease processes necessitates a better understanding of the mechanisms that regulate miRNA abundance. We showed that the activities of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) p38 and its downstream effector kinase MAPK-activated protein kinase 2 (MK2) were necessary for the efficient processing of a subset of primary miRNAs (pri-miRNAs). Through yeast two-hybrid screening, we identified p68 (also known as DDX5), a key component of the Drosha complex that processes pri-miRNAs, as an MK2-interacting protein, and we found that MK2 phosphorylated p68 at Ser197 in cells. In wild-type mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) treated with a p38 inhibitor or in MK2-deficient (MK2−/−) MEFs, expression of a phosphomimetic mutant p68 fully restored pri-miRNA processing, suggesting that MK2-mediated phosphorylation of p68 was essential for this process. We found that, whereas p68 was present in the nuclei of wild-type MEFs, it was found mostly in the cytoplasm of MK2−/− MEFs. Nuclear localization of p68 depended on MK2-mediated phosphorylation of Ser197. In addition, inhibition of p38 MAPK promoted the growth of wild-type MEFs and breast cancer MCF7 cells by enhancing the abundance of c-Myc through suppression of the biogenesis of the miRNA miR-145, which targets c-Myc. Because pri-miRNA processing occurs in the nucleus, our findings suggest that the p38 MAPK–MK2 signaling pathway promotes miRNA biogenesis by facilitating the nuclear localization of p68.
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An early step in microRNA processing depends on signaling downstream of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase.


Inspired by the thoughts that education is one of the most meritorious acts that a person can dedicate themselves to Rays of Light trained teachers are motivated to put themselves at the service of the community in their work as educators. Vital to this work is the recognition of the importance of their role when performed with expertise and in this spirit of service which is espoused in the course.
The ETT guides the trainee teachers to recognise the nobility of the human character, and how vital the teacher is in helping the children to grow physically, academically and morally. In the same way that the gardener trains the plant to grow straight, so does the teacher help the student to acquire that which is good for them in their material and spiritual dimensions.
Most important in their role is their ability to set an example that demonstrates to the children the different qualities they must work hard to perfect. To be just in their dealings with the all people, clean, courteous and punctual in their manner, to be determined and disciplined in their studies are just some of the qualities which must be shown first by the teacher if it is to be instilled in the children.


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What it's like to land on the world's shortest commercial runway
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#1 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:56 pm
Caution: Aviation Hyperbole
Link has photos and videos.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/saba ... index.html
(CNN) — Flying into Saba isn't for the faint hearted. The vertiginous slopes and sea cliffs of this five-square-mile island in the Caribbean don't leave much space to land a plane. But Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, clinging to Saba's only bit of flat land, is proof that it can be done.
With a strip of asphalt just 1,300 feet long (about 400 meters), only 900 feet of which are "usable," the runway is not much longer than an aircraft carrier.
Sheer drops into the sea at either end add an extra layer of excitement to the arrival on what is acknowledged as being the shortest commercial runway in the world.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is something of a holy grail for avgeeks, but it is also a lifeline for Saba, bringing in tourists and taking out locals in need of medical attention.
The runway appears on one of Saba's postage stamps, and the souvenir shop in the village of Windwardside sells T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan, "I survived the Saba landing!"
You could take the ferry to get here, but the flight often appears in lists of the "world's scariest landings," and that seems reason enough to give it a try.
But is it really as hair-raising as it's made out to be?
An elite class of pilot
The 15-minute flights from Sint Maarten are on 19-seater de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters, STOL (short takeoff and landing) utility aircraft designed to serve challenging airports and stop quickly, an advantage that becomes obvious once the wheels touch down on Saba.
It takes an elite group of specially trained pilots to fly into the island, with Sint Maarten-based Winair the only airline operating scheduled flights in and out.
Veteran aviator Captain Roger Hodge is Winair's Twin Otter fleet instructor, and has trained every one of them. "Once a guy has been fully trained and we're satisfied, we radio into operations that another Top Gun is born. That's what we call them," he says.
Before boarding, I ask him what to expect on the 15-minute flight. "May the Lord be with you," he says solemnly, before laughing and telling me that I'm going to enjoy it, and to sit on the right to see the wings brush the mountainside on final approach. Already I feel my heart beating faster.
"Flying into Saba gets kind of hairy sometimes, but by knowing what to do, we make it look simple and calm," says Hodge.
Those hairy situations involve the usual aviation emergency scenarios such as engine failure on approach, but there are other considerations due to the shortness of the runway and its downward slope. There are weight and wind speed limitations, too. The same goes for rain. If the landing strip is wet, no one is flying in. On a runway this short, there's no room for error.
"As a pilot I just love going into Saba because that's when you put your experience to work," he says. "There's always adrenaline that kicks in because you're being watched by passengers and people on the ground, but you've just got to fly that machine."
An aerial adventure
In spite of the impending excitement, boarding at Sint Maarten's Princess Juliana International Airport is a fairly relaxed affair.
There's no assigned seating so aviation fans looking for a pilot's eye view should squeeze in first to nab the hot seat -- 1B -- right at the front in the middle. With no door separating the cockpit from the cabin, it's like sitting between the Captain and the First Officer.
Sint Maarten's green mountains, golden beaches and turquoise waters make for a scenic departure, but there's not much time to sit back and enjoy the views. After takeoff, flight WM441 flies in a straight line towards Saba, the island's silhouette visible on the horizon just 24 miles away. There's constant activity in the cockpit, flicking of switches and twisting of knobs and dials, with both pilots working in perfect coordination.
As the miles quickly fall away, the island looms closer and closer. And closer. It's incredibly beautiful but also lump-in-the-throat stuff, and there's a moment when it feels as if you're heading straight for the volcanic slopes.
But at the very last minute, the plane makes a sharp bank to the left in the direction of the runway which, until this point, has been invisible. Passengers on the right-hand side have close-up views of the sea cliffs. Passengers on the left look straight down into the water.
As the plane levels out for final approach the wing practically skims the hillside, but the aircraft comes in low and smooth and touches down with a squeak of rubber, a huge blast of reverse thrust, and a short taxi to the very end of the runway where those who still have their eyes open can peer down into the water below.
Scary? Yes. Worth it? Definitely.
Bringing the island out of isolation
The first pilot to land on Saba must have had an even more exciting experience.
Ambitious aviator Rémy de Haenen from the neighboring island of St Barthélemy made the island's first landing in 1959. Many nearby islands already had airstrips built during World War II, but Saba's steep sides and lack of flat ground were considered unsuitable.
But de Haenen challenged the idea, surveying the topography and eventually identifying the aptly named Flat Point as the most promising site for his attempt to pilot the first flight into Saba.
Saban historian Will Johnson's father used to farm Flat Point on ground owned by his grandfather. "My father gave permission to clear out the land, and he must have figured that if the attempt didn't succeed, at least all the rocks would be gone," he says.
A former island commissioner, senator and publisher of the Saba Herald newspaper for 25 years, Johnson's knowledge of the island is encyclopaedic. He says that when the decision had been made to give it a try, within a couple of weeks and with little equipment other than "one or two wheelbarrows," the land had been cleared and flattened, ready for the attempted landing.
Plenty of people on the island still remember de Haenen landing his Dornier Do-27 on the newly cleared stretch of land on February 9, 1959. "Everybody came out, crowds and crowds of people. It was amazing," says James Franklin Johnson, a mountain guide for the Saba Conservation Foundation who was eight years old at the time. "Saba came out of isolation when the plane landed on the island."
But de Haenen's landing didn't ignite an immediate flurry of aviation activity. He was banned from repeating his landing due to safety issues, and it wasn't until 1963 that Saba had its own fully functioning airport.
A final burst of adrenaline
Most of Saba's aviation hype revolves around the landing, but the island reserves a final burst of adrenaline for those departing by air. The imaginatively named main road, The Road, offers the perfect vantage point for views of the airport, and the brave may want to watch a flight taking off before their own departure. The plane uses the entire length of the runway, at the very last minute lifting off when there's practically no ground left.
Starting from the very end, the plane speeds down the runway, coming closer and closer to the end, and for a moment it seems to drop off towards the water, before a whoosh propels the plane -- and its very relieved passengers -- skywards.
It may be a badge of honor to say you've survived the Saba landing, but the thrill of the take-off from Juancho E. Yrausquin airport deserves its own place in the world's scariest rankings.
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Vietnamese collection milestone: retroconversion of card catalogue completed
In 2015 Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library, launched Living Knowledge, a vision for the future of the British Library, aiming to make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone for research, inspiration and enjoyment. Living Knowledge also sets out to make the British Library the most open, creative and innovative institution of its kind in the world. In order to achieve these targets, the Library announced a series of new values to guide its staff in this direction, one of the most important being 'putting users at the heart of everything we do'.
Curators for different collection areas, along with all other members of staff, have taken this new mission seriously. We are aware that the extensive and rich source materials in our collections are of no use unless our users can access them, or at least become aware of their existence. In the Asian and African Collections, curators have been encouraged to clear backlogs and to make source material in their collections searchable online.
Drawer of Vietnamese catalogue cards, filed by name of author, in the Asian and African Studies Reading Room in the British Library at St Pancras in London
The Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC), the first online library catalogue, was launched at Ohio University in August 1971. Although this seminal event occurred almost half a century ago, it was a long time before online cataloguing was adopted by institutions worldwide. Even into the 1980s and 1990s, some collections were still being catalogued manually, often due to issues relating to the transliteration of non-Roman scripts and the use of diacritics. The cataloguing of the Vietnamese collection at the British Library fits into this category perfectly, due to problems with inputting the double diacritics needed for Vietnamese. When I took up my post as curator for Vietnamese at the British Library in 2005, most of the printed materials in our collection were still catalogued using old-fashioned catalogue cards, and hardly anything was searchable online. One of my major tasks has been to retroconvert the Vietnamese card catalogue onto the British Library's online catalogue, and that task is now virtually complete.
Vietnamese book, previously only catalogued on cards (top right), which has now been recatalogued online (bottom right).
This mammoth project was conducted in two phases. Phase one started in around 2007, two years after I took up my post. I called up almost every single Vietnamese printed book to physically check that it was the correct one before I created an online record. This process was slow but was more likely to lead to fewer mistakes, such as mismatches between shelfmarks and items, or duplications of records. It took me a long while, until in October 2014, I was able report with some satisfaction that the retroconversion of the Vietnamese printed collection had been completed. However, the satisfaction of this achievement turned out to be rather short-lived as, not long afterwards, in June 2016, during office relocation moves one of my colleagues found four cardboard boxes brim-full of Vietnamese catalogue card in her area. When I randomly checked some cards to see whether they had been retro-converted in the first phase, none of them came up on an search on the British Library's online catalogue Explore, meaning that all these cards also had to be recatalogued online.
One of the boxes of Vietnamese catalogue cards discovered in 2016
Hence my second phase of retroconversion began in August 2016. Judging from the amount of cards in those four boxes, which seemed to number well over 10,000, I couldn't afford to use the same very thorough method for cataloguing as I had done in the previous phase. I therefore decided to rely on the bibliographic record appearing on each card as the major source for recataloguing, and only if there were serious doubts or queries would I call up the physical item in question to check. This method helped to speed up the cataloguing process. Fortunately, a large proportion of cards turned out to be duplicates and could be discarded; in the end, only just over 2,400 catalogue cards had to be retroconverted. During this second phase of retroconversion, I found that issues certainly arose from not having physically seen all the items before creating new online records. There were sometimes mismatches between shelfmarks and items, or different items shared the same shelfmarks. These problems had to be resolved, for otherwise they would have caused confusion and frustration for users when calling up items for consultation.
An example of a cataloguing problem: the online catalogue gives a different title with the same shelfmark
Finally, I can now at last report that all our old Vietnamese catalogue cards, except for just a few problematic ones, have been retroconverted and are searchable online through Explore. Together with new acquisitions, there are now more than 10,900 titles in the Vietnamese collection ready for our readers. I very much hope that the completion of this project will enable our readers to access more readily source material in Vietnamese in the British Library, either for research or enjoyment, as set in our Living Knowledge mission statement.
Dr Sud Chonchirdsin at work cataloguing Vietnamese printed books
Vietnam - British Library collection guide
Sud Chonchirdsin
Curator for Vietnamese
Posted by Annabel Gallop at 10:43 AM
South East Asia, Vietnamese
The largest Javanese manuscript in the world? Menak Amir Hamza
The final manuscript to go online from the Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta digitisation project is probably the largest Javanese manuscript in the world, in terms of the number of folios in a single volume. This manuscript, Add. 12309, is a copy of the Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese tale about the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad. Written in Arabic (pegon) script in black ink on Javanese paper (dluwang), the book contains 1,520 folios within its original brown leather binding. The front and end binding boards are stamped with frame bands and ornamental corner pieces and a central medallion, and the binding would originally have had an Islamic-style envelope flap. The 3-D image below gives an impression of the physical size of this book.
Menak, Add MS 12309 by British Library on Sketchfab
Menak Amir Hamza is an epic cycle of tales centred on Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad, and recounts his numerous warlike and amourous adventures. Based on an Arabic-Persian original, the Javanese version has been developed and localised, with further invented and appended tales concerning Amir Hamza's sons and grandsons. This manuscript originated from the court of Yogyakarta, and was written for Ratu Ageng (ca. 1730-1803), a wife of the first sultan of Yogaykarta, Sultan Hamengku Buwono I, and mother of Sultan Hamengku Buwono II. In the introduction she is called prabu wanodeya / kang jumeneng Ratu Agung / kang ngedhaton Tegalreja, 'the female monarch / who reigns as Ratu Agung / and has her palace in Tegalreja'. Ratu Ageng was a daughter of an Islamic scholar and was known as a devout Muslim. The manuscript was copied some time after 1792 (and before 1812, when it was taken by British forces from the palace of Yogyakarta), but it is not known how long was needed for this enormous task.
Menak Amir Hamza, British Library, Add. 12309, ff. 335v-336r
Javanese paper, dluwang, is made from the beaten bark of the paper mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera). This gives a highly polished surface, with paper of variable thickness, with the fibres of the wood still very evident on many pages. As shown above on the right-hand page, the scribe has made some corrections by applying a chalky white paint to cover up mistakes, which can then be written over if necessary. Javanese literary works are written in verse, and were composed in a sequence of cantos or sections, each to be sung according to a prescribed metre (pupuh). The coloured ornament on the left hand page is a pepadan, indicating the start of a new canto.
Another canto marker from Menak Amir Hamza. British Library, Add. 12309, f. 1494r
Versions of Menak Amir Hamza can reach great lengths, especially when the long dialogue associated with night-long shadow-puppet performances is elaborated in full. A manuscript in Leiden University Library (Cod. Or. 1797) of the version composed by the Surakarta court scribe Raden Ngabehi Yasadipura (1729-1803) fills 12 volumes and nearly 5,200 pages. However, Add. 12309 remains probably the most voluminous single-volume Javanese manuscript known. There are two other copies of Menak Amir Hamza in the British Library, MSS Jav 45 and MSS Jav 72, both of which have also been digitised.
Photographing this enormous book proved a real challenge for British Library photographer Carl Norman, who had to plan and build a suitable support for the binding. Each page had to be made to lie as flat as possible, whilst ensuring that the spine of the open book was fully supported, through the use of firm back straps and foam supports. It was only while Carl was photographing every page that he discovered that the 19th-century curator in the British Museum charged with numbering the folios made a mistake – the numbering jumps from 449 to 500 – hardly surprising in view of this enormous task. Moreover, although the final numbered folio is 1564, the numerals are written so faintly that this number was misread in the catalogue by Ricklefs and Voorhoeve (1977: 48) as 1504. Only after digitising the whole volume can we now confirm that there are 1520 folios of paper, hence 3040 pages, in this book.
British Library photographer Carl Norman photographing Add. 12309, Menak Amir Hamza.
Headband of binding of Menak Amir Hamza, sewn with red and white threads. British Library, Add. 12309, head.
In the recent British Library exhibition on Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (19 Oct. 2018-19 Feb. 2019), amongst the very many superlative items on display, for many visitors the star of the show was the giant Codex Amiatinus. The oldest complete Latin Bible in the world, written at Jarrow in Northumbria in the early 8th century and taken to Italy in 716, this exceptional manuscript travelled back to Britain for the first time in over 1,300 years for the exhibition. While the Menak Amir Hamza cannot compete with Codex Amiatinus for physical size, great age, and beautiful illumination, it does contain many more folios!
(Left) Codex Amiatinus, 1030 folios of parchment, measuring 505 x 340 mm
(Right) Menak Amir Hamza, 1520 folios of Javanese paper, measuring 287 x 217 mm
Blog post: Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese version of the Hamzanama
A.T. Gallop and B.Arps, Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia. Surat emas: budaya tulis di Indonesia. London: British Library, 1991; p. 101.
Theodore G. Th.Pigeaud, Literature of Java. Catalogue raisonné of Javanese manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other public collections in the Netherlands. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. 4 vols. Volume 1, pp. 212-215.
M.C. Ricklefs and P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
A. Sudewa, 'Menak'. Sastra Jawa: suatu tinjauan umum, ed. Edi Sedyawati … [et al]. Jakarta: Balai Pustaka, 2001; pp. 317-323.
Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator, Southeast Asia
Posted by Annabel Gallop at 11:00 PM
Indonesia, Javanese, South East Asia


It happens that the keyboard does not work on the computer. The problem is usually caused by easily removable factors, but there are more complicated situations. Understand the nature of the failure and quickly eliminate it after reading the article. Note that the problem with the desktop computer is always easier to solve than with a laptop.
What are the reasons why the keyboard stopped working?
Software. This does not always mean that the computer freezes up and the keyboard and mouse turn off. In most cases, an error occurs when loading or using the driver on the device. This is especially true for expensive keyboards with advanced functions: programmable keys, changing the color of the backlight, the presence of additional blocks of buttons. Total – the software responsible for processing signals from the device stops responding. This problem is relatively easy to fix, even if you have to look for the desired setting in the BIOS-UEFI.
Hardware Most often this happens this way. Everything is fine for the time being, but after one PC is turned on, the keyboard on the computer does not work, which is not clear what to do. Identifying the hardware nature of the failure is easier than software, but it is more difficult to eliminate, especially without the help of a computer specialist. The most common situation – the periphery filled with fluid. In this case, only a part of the keys can act, while others will not react to pressing. If you're lucky, then this problem is resolved at home.
Separately, we consider a common situation where the general braking of the system is perceived by the user as evidence of a keyboard malfunction. To understand the situation, it is enough to use the mouse – if the arrow on the screen moves intermittently, then all devices fail.
How to get out of the situation, if the computer freezes, what to press on the keyboard? Click on Caps Lock or Num Lock. If the indicator lights at the top right of the keyboard do not blink, then feel free to send your computer to a forced overload or turn it off.
Disconnect the keyboard connector from the connector for 10 seconds, and then insert it back.
Restart the computer. Often, after a restart, the problem completely disappears. For the future – rebooting helps eliminate most of the small operating system (OS) crashes.
Make sure the device connector is inserted into the connector. It happens that he was accidentally pulled out or slightly moved away with time – for example, it is often observed after cleaning.
If the problem is only with a separate unit where the numbers are located, then press the Num Lock on the keyboard. The digital unit turns on and off with this key.
For an expensive keyboard, reinstall the drivers that came with it.
If after such checks fails, then proceed to the following methods.
Before starting the OS, enter BIOS-UEFI. To do this, press a certain key, which may not always work – the problem is with the keyboard. In any case, carefully look at the screen and look for a line like "Press Del to enter Setup". It means that pressing Del will enter the BIOS. In addition to this button, F2, F10, Esc or a combination of them may be used.
Find the option you want. For this, "wander" through the BIOS, there are not so many settings. Most likely, it will be designated as "USB Keyboard Support", "Legacy USB Support", "USB Keyboard Function" or "USB Support". Opposite such a line there will be a field where the parameter value is set. If it says "Disabled", then select this field, press Enter and change the setting to "Enabled". If there was "Enabled" there, then the problem is not related to incorrect BIOS settings. Also, instead of the combination "Disabled / Enabled" there may be another – "Disabled / Partial Initial / Full Initial". In this case, set the value to "Full Initial".
Save your edits. To do this, look for on-screen hint about the key, which is signed as "Save & Exit Setup" or "Save Changes and Reset". This is usually F10, but other options are possible. It also happens that the previously mentioned "signatures" are designed in the form of buttons that need to be selected and press Enter to start. In any case, a notification will appear on the screen in the following variations: "Save to CMOS and Exit (Y / N)", "Save Configuration and Reset". You must press Y and Enter or select Yes and press Enter.
To do this, conduct a full system scan antivirus. It is recommended to use a paid program – they are much better than free utilities sharpened to detect the latest viruses. If not, then a good alternative would be to scan your computer with antivirus scanners: Dr.Web CureIt !, ESET Online Scanner, HouseCall, Microsoft Safety Scanner, Kaspersky Security Scan. It also makes sense to disconnect the hard drive from the computer and check its contents on another computer with a good antivirus.
Insert into it any other USB device: a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, a webcam. Such equipment with a good port should be determined by the system, and an alert will appear on the monitor.
Insert the connector into another connector, preferably not next to the one where the keyboard was previously connected. This is due to the fact that sometimes only part of the USB connectors can fail.
Connect the keyboard to another computer, you can also to a laptop.
How at home to "cure" flooded device?
Removing all keys, cleaning, drying and reassembling. In any keyboard, it is easy to remove the key – just apply a little effort from the bottom of the cap. After that, everything is thoroughly washed with detergent, rinsed and dried. After this, the keys return to their places.
Cleaning and long drying. First you need to rinse the keyboard with a stream of water. Then thoroughly soap the outer parts and re-rinse. In the end – drying for 3-4 days in a well-ventilated place.
The problem with the power supply. Definitely help only a specialist. It is necessary to measure the parameters of the current delivered by the unit, and at different times. Well, if you have the opportunity to borrow for testing serviceable unit.
The problem with the power grid. The only way to test a hypothesis for this reason is to connect a computer to such a network where current of the regulated parameters is exactly supplied. If there is no problem there, then you should buy a better-quality power supply or uninterruptible power supply (UPS).
Such a reason is most often manifested on desktop computers, rather than laptops, since in the latter the voltage drops are compensated by the presence of a battery. Under any circumstances, it is necessary to ensure the normal power supply of the computer so that the failure disappears.
Connect the keyboard to another computer. If it works there in the same strange way, then the problem is of a hardware nature.
Boot the OS from a liveCD or boot disk. The problem has not disappeared? 99% probability that it is due to technical reasons.
In all other cases, the failure is caused by software factors for the elimination of which you need to act on the algorithms described in the text.
Malfunction in connectors or USB settings. Therefore, you need to check the situation according to the instructions in this and this block of the article.
Failure in the game settings. To do this, go to it and go to the installation, where control is set. Make sure that the correct buttons are specified for the required actions.
Sufficient battery charge. Perhaps the battery is dead, or in the case of a built-in battery, you need to replenish its charge.
The stability of the signal device from a PC. Depending on the keyboard model, it can use a Bluetooth channel or a separate radio channel created using a USB adapter connected to the computer. Turn on and turn off Bluetooth. Pull out and insert the radio in another port.
Go to the Device Manager (hold Win + R, copy devmgmt.msc, click "OK") and make sure that when you expand the contents of the "Keyboard" and "HID Devices" lines, the values with yellow exclamation marks do not appear.
Hold Win + R, copy taskschd.msc, click on "OK". The "Task Scheduler Library" opens, where on the left follow the path: => "Microsoft" => "Windows" => "TextServicesFramework". Check that the MsCtfMonitor service is activated on the right. If not, right-click on the corresponding line and select the "Run" option.
If no method has helped to revive the keyboard, then it remains only to contact the service center. Most likely, there they diagnose a complete breakdown of the device. In most cases, the repair of equipment does not make sense – it is easier to buy a new input device.
More than half of the failures are corrected by rebooting and checking the reliability of the connector connection.
The worst thing for laptop owners is that they have less opportunity to diagnose and fix a crash.
It is not worth spending a lot of time identifying the source of the problem – most users have a simple keyboard that costs a little.
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Ever since my youngest daughter was born (2 years ago), I have had a terrible time getting to sleep. There was almost a year that she work up every few hours, and it really messed up my sleep cycle. My sleeping position often lead to headaches, poor sleep, and a sore neck.
When I slept before I would use 4 pillows . . . yes, four. I would spend all night rearranging them so they were fluffed enough, and had to flip then several times because they got too warm. I am guessing this was mostly due to my sleeping position. I enjoy sleeping on my side and on my stomach, and pillows are usually not built for this type of sleeping position.
I have been through MANY pillows over the past couple of years, and I usually end up replacing them in a few short months because they lose their fluffiness.
I love the Tehcnogel pillow because it resolves almost all of my pillow problems.
First, the pillow sits fairly low to the bed, which I thought I would not like. It actually put my spine in neck in the proper position. I think this whole time I was looking for more support and solidness in my pillow, and just never found it. The Technogel pillow is a very solid pillow that will hold up to even the heaviest head.
I also love that it does not heat up, so I do not need to worry about flipping it. It stays cool against my head, which is a huge relief, since the pillow weighs a lot and would be very hard to flip over. It is actually soothing to have a cool surface against my head while I sleep.
I have been getting more restful sleep since using the Technogel pillow, and my back and neck are thanking me. I tried out the deluxe pillow, as it is good for side and prone (stomach) sleepers, but they make designs that fit into your unique pillow style.
Last, but not least, the pillow is hypoallergenic, so you do not have to worry about dust mites or other allergens getting locked into your pillow.
They have also thought of every detail. The zipper on the case itself, is flat, so that it does not disturb your sleep.
To find out more about Technogel pillows, visit their website: http://www.technogelsleeping.com/us or www.technogelworld.com and find which pillow best fits your needs!
MamaBreak received a pillow so that we could adequately review it here on the site. We did not receive any other kind of compensation. As always, our experiences and opinions are our own.
Ohhh, I so need this pillow! I hate a warm pillow, and currently have a chillow device on my pillow but it weighs a ton and flattens my pillows meaning I need more pillows to be comfy!
I have never tried Chillow, but this is built into the features of the pillow, so it does not flatten, and is comfortable. It is REALLY heavy though!
This pillow sounds wonderful! I am so picky about my pillow but think I would really love to try one :) thanks for the great review!
I am so picky about pillows, and I think I finally found a winner!
I love a nice cool pillow!
This pillow looks really neat. Thank you for sharing!
I think my mom would really love this. She has other specialized pillows, but is still uncomfortable and they still wear out, so this would be a good thing for her to try.
I really need this! I have a lot of issues sleeping because of neck and back pain.
I like the sounds of this pillow! I have always wanted to try them.
Wow, the tehcnogel pillow looks amazing! It sounds like it would help my sleep issues as well!
Wow, this pillows sounds awesome! Maybe it would help with the stiff neck I get all the time from mine.
This looks awesome!! I would like to try that!!
Looks like a nice pillow! Would love one like this.


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History of the Society of the Cincinnati
The Name of the Society
Cincinnati Diplomas
History of The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia
A Brief History of the Society in the State of Georgia
"The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia" – The Georgia Historical Quarterly – By A. S. Britt, Jr.
"Morningstars of Liberty" – By Gordon Burns Smith
"Newburgh to Cincinnati" – By James Terry Honan
"Georgia in the American Revolution" – An Exhibition of the Society of the Cincinnati
"The History of the Georgia Berrien Eagle" – By Dominick M. Valencia
Portraits of Propositi of Georgia Society Members
Georgia Continental Line Units
Original Members of the Georgia Society
Presidents of the Georgia Society (1783 to Present)
Anderson House
Harper Fowlkes House
Major General Lachlan McIntosh (1783 – 1789)
Major General Anthony Wayne (1789 – 1792)
Captain James Gunn (1792 – 1793)
Major Nathaniel Pendleton (1793 – 1794)
Colonel Joseph Habersham (1794 – 1795)
Major General John McIntosh (1795 – 1826)
Senator John McPherson Berrien (1826 – ?)
The Society was inactive until 1899
William Neyle Habersham (1899 – 1899)
Judge Walter Glasco Carlton (1899 – 1917)
George Francis Tennille (1917 – 1928)
George Nobel Jones (1928 – 1953)
Olin Talley McIntosh (1953 – 1956)
Frank Anderson Chisholm (1957 – 1960)
Colonel Ambrose Gordon (1960 – 1962)
Hunter McGuire Clay (1962 – 1964)
Samuel Lamartine Varnedoe (1964 – 1967)
Reuben Grove Clark (1967 – 1969)
Colonel Albert Sidney Britt, Jr. (1969 – 1972)
Colonel William Spencer Rockwell (1972 – 1975)
George Anderson Mercer, III (1975 – 1977)
Walter Carlton Hartridge (1979 – 1981)
Reuben Grove Clark, Jr. (1981 – 1983)
Joe Marion Beutell, Jr. (1983 – 1988)
Arnold Broles Barrett (1988 – 1991)
Ford Prioleau Fuller, Jr. (1991 – 1995)
Edwin Bryan Connerat, Jr. (1995 – 1998)
Ralph Maxwell Payne (1998 – 2001)
Malcolm Lee Butler (2001 – 2004)
Peter Meldrim Wright (2004 – 2007)
Marion Tyus Butler, Jr. (2007 – 2010)
John McKay Sheftall, Sr. (2010 – 2013)
Robert Gage Davidson, Sr. (2013 – 2016)
Robert Vincent Martin, III (2016 – 2019)
James Terry Honan (2019 – 2022)
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Put all ingredients to a Bread maker Or use the traditional way of kneading dough for 20 mins.
Leave dough covered with damp cloth to rise for 45 mins and knead again. Leave again to rest for 45 mins.
Put dough in a bake pan and bake for 30 mins at 220°C.
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Add yeast, sugar, molases, oil, salt into warm water.
Stir well and mix into flour. Knead 20 mins, leave in greased tin, cover with damp cloth.
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Ready to steam for 45 mins.
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US woman jailed for smuggling cocaine in high heels
Image source, AUSTRALIAN BORDER FORCE
Cocaine was found inside Denise Marie Woodrum's shoes and other items
A US woman who said she was tricked by a fake internet suitor into smuggling drugs into Australia has been jailed.
Denise Marie Woodrum, 51, was arrested at Sydney Airport last year after border officials found cocaine stuffed inside high heels and other belongings in her luggage.
In January, she pleaded guilty to the illegal import but told the court she was a victim of an online romance scam.
A judge found she had willingly participated in the operation.
On Thursday, the New South Wales District Court sentenced Woodrum, from Missouri, to a maximum of seven-and-a-half years in jail.
"I do not accept that she is genuinely contrite for her offending as opposed to being sorry for the situation she now finds herself caught in," said Judge Penelope Wass, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Scam argument
Her lawyer, Rebecca Neil, had described her client as a deeply religious and socially isolated woman who had been groomed by a man online, the newspaper said.
That person, who went by the name Hendrik Cornelius, exploited Woodrum's trust for financial gain, Ms Neil said.
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Woodrum had visited South America sometime before embarking on the trip to Australia with 756 grams of cocaine, the court heard.
She had told authorities that she had no knowledge of the drugs and "it was supposed to be just clothes", the Australian Associated Press reported.
However Judge Wass said she was not convinced by Woodrum's story, and said the defendant had shown little remorse for her "reckless actions".
Woodrum will be eligible for parole after four-and-a-half years.
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10US comic Louie Anderson dies aged 68


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(CNN)– The NSA data collection program predominantly covering phone records and e-mail must have tighter constraints and greater transparency, according to an independent review of agency snooping ordered by President Barack Obama.
Details of the report were to be formally released later in the day, but CNN confirmed some of the details ahead of time.
Additionally, Obama will deliver a speech in January on the path forward following the report recommendations, which include presidential oversight of monitoring of foreign leaders and agreements with nations like France and Germany on what is acceptable and what is not.
The 300-page report was submitted on Friday by an outside panel and includes some 40 recommendations, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
"We need to make sure we're not gathering intelligence solely because we can, but because we must," Carney said.
Obama met on Wednesday with members of the review group to discuss their findings.
He has to decide which of the recommendations will be accepted, which could be revised and which will be rejected.
Obama vowed this month to find ways of reforming the NSA, though he also defended the agency's work.
Release of the findings come two days after a federal judge in Washington ruled preliminarily that NSA data collection of telephone metadata was probably unconstitutional on privacy grounds.
That program was revealed last summer by Snowden, a former NSA contractor, triggering outrage from civil libertarians and some members of Congress, who believe the spy agency has overreached in post-9/11 surveillance.
Most recently, tech giants have pressured Obama to make changes to the federal surveillance programs after the NSA admitted following Snowden leaks that it received secret court approval to collect vast amounts of data from telephone giant Verizon and leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and Facebook.
Company executives met with Obama on Tuesday, and sources told CNN's Jake Tapper that those present got the impression from the President that NSA metadata collection would not stop anytime soon but that more efforts at transparency would be made.
Congress broadened the government's ability to conduct anti-terrorism surveillance in the United States and abroad following 9/11, eventually including the metadata collection.
Snowden's explosive revelations portrayed the vast reach of NSA surveillance, keeping tabs not only on U.S. call data but also global Internet and e-mail traffic. Disclosures about snooping have even swept up foreign leaders.