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European Studies Shed Light On Improving Tumor Radiation Therapy With Metal Ion DNA Fragmentation
by Charles Moore
A new study by a team of scientists at the University of Iceland enhances understanding of how short DNA strands decompose in microseconds — knowledge relevant to cancer radiation therapy.
A Springer release reports that the researchers have discovered that DNA building blocks are susceptible to fragmentation on contact with the full range of ions from alkaline element species, finding new fragmentation pathways that occur universally when DNA strands are exposed to metal ions from a family of alkaline and alkaline earth elements. These ions tend to replace protons in the DNA backbone and at the same time induce a reactive conformation leading more readily to fragmentation.
These new research findings published in European Physical Journal D, entitled "Influence of metal ion complexation on the metastable fragmentation of DNA hexamers" (European Physical Journal D DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2014-40838-7) are coauthored by Andreas Piekarczyk, Ilko Bald, Helga D. Flosadttir, Benedikt marsson, Anne Lafosse, and Oddur Inglfsson, all of the University of Iceland, and colleagues. They could contribute to optimizing cancerous tumor therapy through a greater understanding of how radiation and its by-products, reactive intermediate particles, interact with complex DNA structures.
In cancer radiation therapy, it is not the radiation itself that directly damages the DNA strands, or oligonucleotides. But rather, it is the secondary reactive particles, leading to creation of charged intermediates. The paper authors have studied one of these charged intermediates in the form of so-called protonated metastable DNA hexamers.
To do so, the authors created selected oligonucleotide-metal-ion complexes that they selected to have between zero and six metal ions. They then followed these complexes' fragmentation reactions using a technique called time-of-flight mass spectrometry. By comparing the different species, they could deduce how the underlying metal-ion-induced oligonucleotide fragmentation works.
They discovered that metal ion-induced fragmentation of oligonucleotides is universal with all alkaline and alkaline earth metal ions, for example, lithium, Li+; potassium, K+; rubidium, Rb+; magnesium, Mg2+ and calcium, Ca2+. They had previously reached the same conclusion for sodium ions which are ubiquitous in nature, in the form of sodium chloride, or salt. Once the number of sodium ions per nucleotide is high enough, the study shows, it triggers an unexpected oligonucleotide fragmentation reaction.
The coauthors determine that quenching of the 3-CO backbone cleavage is not ion specific, since it is due to the removal of the phosphate protons upon replacement with the respective metal ions. The central nucleotide deletion competes with the 3-CO backbone cleavage channels and is thus promoted through the replacement of the exchangeable protons against metal ions. However, with increasing positive charge density of the metal ions the yield of the central nucleotide deletion further increases. The coauthors attribute this effect to the necessity of sufficient proximity of the terminal d(TT) group to allow for their recombination on this reaction path. Hence, the formation of a reactive conformer is mediated by the metal ions.
An article published July 15 by Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany's national metrology institute providing scientific and technical services, titled "How strongly does tissue decelerate the therapeutic heavy ion beam?" reports that PTB has developed a method for the more exact dosing of heavy ion irradiation in the case of cancer
The article notes that irradiation with heavy ions is suitable in particular for patients suffering from cancer with tumors which are difficult to access, for example in the brain, and that these particles hardly damage the penetrated tissue, but can be used in such a way that they deliver their maximum energy only directly at the target: the tumor.
The report observes that research in this relatively new therapy method is focussed again and again on the exact dosing: how must the radiation parameters be set in order to destroy the cancerous cells "on the spot" with as low a damage as possible to the surrounding tissue? The answer, say the authors, depends decisively on the extent to which the ions can be decelerated by body tissue on their way to the tumor.
They report that PTB scientists have established an experiment for the more exact determination of the stopping power of tissue for carbon ions in the therapeutically relevant area which is so far unique worldwide. Although the measurement data so far available must still become more exact, the following can already be said: The method works and can, in future, contribute to clearly improving the dosing for cancer therapy with carbon ions. The first results have recently been published in the magazine "Physics in Medicine and Biology" entitled "Stopping power of liquid water for carbon ions in the energy range between 1 MeV and 6 MeV" (Phys Med Biol. 2014 Jul 21;59(14):3683-95. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/14/3683. Epub 2014 Jun 13 ) coauthored by J. M. Rahm, W. Y. Baek, H. Rabus and H. Hofsäss — all of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Department 6.6 at Braunschweig, Germany.
The coauthors note that stopping power of liquid water was measured for the first time for carbon ions in the energy range between 1 and 6 MeV using the inverted Doppler shift attenuation method, observing that the feasibility study carried out within the scope of the present work shows that this method is well suited for the quantification of the controversial condensed phased effect in the stopping power for heavy ions in the intermediate energy range.
They report that preliminary results of this work indicate that the stopping power of water for carbon ions with energies prevailing in the Bragg-peak region is significantly lower than that of water vapor. In view of the relatively high uncertainty of the present results, a new experiment with uncertainties less than the predicted difference between the stopping powers of both water phases is planned.
The PTB article notes that since human tissue mainly consists of water, it can therefore, be simulated well in liquid water in which form accelerated ions can be stopped on their way and at which target they deliver their maximum energy quantity — at least theoretically, because up to now experimental data has existed only for water vapor. Scientists however assume that if the aggregate state is neglected, the data determined for the determination of the radiation dose become too imprecise.
Within the scope of the doctoral thesis of paper coauthor J. M. Rahm, PTB scientists have now succeeded for the first time in determining the stopping power of liquid water for carbon ions with kinetic energies in the range of the maximum energy dissipation by experiment. The first results actually indicate that carbon ions are less strongly stopped in liquid water, related per molecule, than in water vapor.
As soon as more exact data are available, the findings will be included in the calibration of ionization chambers which are used to determine the dose in therapy planning. At present, the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT) is the only institution in Europe which irradiates patients with heavy ions. The procedure applied by the researchers is based on a method which originates from nuclear physics: the Inverted Doppler Shift Attenuation Method. While the carbon ions excited by a nuclear reaction move through the water volume, they are stopped and fall back into their ground state. The energy distribution of the gamma quanta emitted thereby is recorded with the aid of an ultra-pure germanium detector. The Doppler effect, which leads to the displacement of the gamma energy, and the exponential-decay law allow the development of the velocity of the carbon ions with time to be pursued and, thus, conclusions on the stopping process to be drawn.
European Physical Journal D
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
University of Iceland
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What is 1/9 of 14?
What is 1 / 9 of 14 and how to calculate it yourself
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1 / 9 of 14 = 1.56
1 / 9 of 14 is 1.56. In this article, we will go through how to calculate 1 / 9 of 14 and how to calculate any fraction of any whole number (integer). This article will show a general formula for solving this equation for positive numbers, but the same rules can be applied for numbers less than zero too!
Let's dive into how to solve!
Please see our introduction to fractions if you need a refresher on these concepts!
Here's how we will calculate 1 / 9 of 14:
1: First step in solving 1 / 9 of 14 is understanding your fraction
1 / 9 has two important parts: the numerator (1) and the denominator (9). The numerator is the number above the division line (called the vinculum) which represent the number of parts being taken from the whole. For example: If there were 14 cars total and 1 painted red, 1 would be the numerator or parts of the total. In this case of 1 / 9, 1 is our numerator. The denominator (9) is located below the vinculum and represents the total number. In the example above 14 would be the denominator of cars. For our fraction: 1 is the numerator and 9 is the denoimator.
2: Write out your equation of 1 / 9 times 14
When solving for 1 / 9 of a number, students should write the equation as the whole number (14) times 1 / 9. The solution to our problem will always be smaller than 14 because we are going to end up with a fraction of 14.
$$ \frac{ 1 }{ 9 } \times 14 $$
3. Convert your whole number (14) into a fraction (14/1)
To convert any whole number into a fraction, add a 1 into the denominator. Now place 1 / 9 next to the new fraction. This gives us the equation below.
Tip: Always write out your fractions 14 / 1 and 1 / 9. It might seem boring or taxing, but dividing fractions can be confusing. Writing out the conversion simplifies our work.
$$ \frac{ 1 }{ 9 } \times \frac{ 14 }{1} $$
4. Multiply your fractions together
Once we set our equations 1 / 9 and 14 / 1, we now need to multiple your values starting with the numerators. In this case, we will be multiplying 1 (the numerator of 1 / 9) and 14 (the numerator of our new fraction 14/1). If you need a refresher on multiplying fractions, please see our guide here!
$$ \frac{ 1 }{ 9 } \times \frac{ 14 }{1} = \frac{ 14 }{ 9 } $$
Our new numerator is 14.
Then we need to do the same for our denominators. In this equation, we multiply 9 (denominator of 1 / 9) and 1 (the denominator of our new fraction 14 / 1).
Our new denominator is 9.
5. Divide our new fraction (14 / 9)
After solving for our new equation off 14 / 9, our last job is to simplify this problem using long division. For longer fractions, we recommend to all of our students to write this last part down and use left to right long division.
$$ \frac{ 14 }{ 9 } = 1.56 $$
And so there you have it! Our solution is 1.56.
Turn 14 into a fraction: 14 / 1
Multiply 14 / 1 by our fraction, 1 / 9
Multiply the numerators and the denominators together
We get 14 / 9 from that
Perform a standard division: 14 divided by 9 = 1.56
Additional way of calculating 1 / 9 of 14
You can also write our fraction, 1 / 9, as a decimal by simply dividing 1 by 9 which is 0.11. If you multiply 0.11 with 14 you will see that you will end up with the same answer as above. You may also find it useful to know that if you multiply 0.11 with 100 you get 11.0. Which means that our answer of 1.56 is 11.0 percent of 14.
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Over the weekend I cooked a five course dinner for 13 of our dearest friends as a belated 40th birthday celebration for my husband. One of the courses I made was a venison roast with an apricot and cherry sauce. I didn't need many apricots for the sauce, so of course I had leftovers. I decided to roast them for a day after dessert. Simple, easy and all about summer. Here is what I did.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut apricots in half, remove pit and place them in a cast iron pan or other roasting pan with the flesh side up. Put a dollop of butter in on each half where the pit was. Drizzle them all with a small amount of Grand Marnier and put them in the oven. Roast for about 45 minutes, or until apricots start to caramelize but are not browned. Remove and drizzle with honey. Place apricots in the broiler for 3 minutes or until lightly browned on top. Watch carefully as this will happen quick! Remove and let cool to room temperature. Serve over vanilla ice cream or just pop them in your mouth. So good. So easy.


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Die katholische Pfarrkirche St. Mauritius in Oberhausen (bei Peißenberg), einer Gemeinde im bayerischen Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau, ist im Kern ein gotischer Bau aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, der im 17. Jahrhundert im Stil des Barock erneuert und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts verlängert wurde.

Geschichte
Einen ersten Kirchenbau gab es in Oberhausen bereits im 11. Jahrhundert. Im Jahr 1420 wurde der gotische Neubau geweiht. Die heutige Kirche wurde im Jahr 1684 unter dem Huglfinger Maurermeister Michael Mägele begonnen und 1686 geweiht. Der Turmunterbau und wahrscheinlich auch die Chormauern wurden in die neue Kirche integriert. 1712 erfolgte die Erhöhung des Turmes um den Aufsatz mit seinen abgeschrägten Ecken und gelängter welscher Haube. 1902 wurde die Kirche nach Westen erweitert, an der Südseite wurde ein großes Vorzeichen im Stil des Neubarock angebaut.

In den 1980er-Jahren erhielt die Kirche eine elektrische Heizung und Außenbeleuchtung. Von 2009 bis 2015 wurde das Gotteshaus, insbesondere der Dachstuhl und das Dach, saniert und auch Teile der Ausstattung restauriert.

Architektur
Im südlichen Chorwinkel erhebt sich der Glockenturm mit seinem quadratischen Unterbau aus gotischer Zeit. Der obere Aufsatz ist reich durch Gesimse und Blendfelder gegliedert und wird von zahlreichen Öffnungen und von gekuppelten Klangarkaden durchbrochen. Das Langhaus, ein Saalbau mit einfacher Westempore, wird von oben und unten abgerundeten Fenstern beleuchtet. Der eingezogene Chor schließt mit einem Fünfachtelschluss. Chor und Langhaus werden von Stichkappentonnen gedeckt.

Deckenfresken
Die Stichkappentonnen sind mit Fresken von Johann Sebastian Troger verziert. Sie sind mit der Jahreszahl 1784 bezeichnet und stellen Szenen aus der Legende des heiligen Mauritius, des Schutzpatrons der Kirche, dar. Im Chor ist die Glorie des Heiligen dargestellt, im Langhaus sein Verhör und sein Martyrium.

Ausstattung

 Der Hochaltar wurde 1731 von Balthasar Zwinck dem Jüngeren geschaffen. Die Seitenfiguren stellen die heilige Katharina und die heilige Ursula dar. Das Altarblatt mit der Darstellung des heiligen Mauritius ist mit 1902 bezeichnet.
 Die Kanzel wird um 1678 datiert.
 Die Reliefs der Apostel an der Emporenbrüstung stammen aus dem späten 18. Jahrhundert.

Literatur
 Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler – Bayern IV – München und Oberbayern. 2. Auflage, Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7, S. 904.

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This blue house at 102 S. Allen Drive has served many uses.
The house currently serves as an office for the Allen Arts Alliance. Previously it served as the Allen Senior Center and Allen Public Library.
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The previous restaurant was a popular stop following local high school football games.
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Kiwi Property announced today that international fashion retailer, H&M, will open at Auckland's largest shopping centre, Sylvia Park in late 2016.
Chief Executive, Chris Gudgeon, said: 'We are thrilled to be opening New Zealand's first H&M store at Sylvia Park.
'Consumers the world over have come to know H&M as a leading fashion giant, and to have secured their first New Zealand store at Sylvia Park is great news for shoppers.
'We really believe in investing in Auckland's growth, and bringing H&M to Sylvia Park is part of our plan to create a truly world-class retail offer in an increasingly world-class city.
'Almost a decade ago when Sylvia Park opened, few could imagine that Kiwi Property would turn a brown-field site next to a motorway into New Zealand's best shopping centre. Sylvia Park is today Auckland's premier retail destination, with more than 12 million shoppers coming through our flagship shopping centre every year,' Mr Gudgeon said.
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Meet Your New Portable MIDI Keyboard: iRig KEYS Review
By Nate Adcock Tue, 12/29/2015
Within one minute of fooling around with the iRig Keys MINI ($79.99) and IK's Sample Tank app ($9.99), I was impressed. The MINI is a small portable 25-key MIDI instrument that you can plug into an iPad or iPhone and then start mixing hooks like a pro in minutes. Pair it up with the IK apps or Garage Band and you will be blown away at how quickly even a novice can start making quality music with this mini compact keyboard.
The iRig Keys is somewhat bulky for stuffing in a small suitcase or travel bag (it's a bit thicker than the lid on a shoebox), but it's quite light, so if you can make the room, it won't add much weight. It works right out of the box as long as you have an app made for translating signals from MIDI (and a compatible mobile device to power it). IK provides all the apps you need to get started (Android, PC, iOS, Mac), and many of the keys-related ones you can get free.
To get underway, first find your cable of choice—included in the kit are microUSB, USB, and Lightning cables—plug in, and open up your app of choice. Start noodling on your favorite tunes. It's that simple. In the case of Sample Tank on iOS, it's even easier as the app gives you a bunch of cool beats, instruments, and more when you register the iRig.
The keys themselves do not have the smooth and light tension of a full-sized keyboard, but the keyboard does include MIDI-controlled and tweakable velocity settings to mimic the action of using a real keyed instrument. Sample Tank on iOS is the shining star app to use with the iRig Keys MINI, but Garage Band will work as well. Not only do you get a ton of free instrument sounds, loops, and more in Sample Tank to play around with, but the app makes jamming to various background riffs a cinch, and of course, you can record your work in the app.
To experiment on the PC side I tested a freebie app I grabbed on Source Forge called Virtual Midi Piano Keyboard. Make sure to edit settings to Windows MM on the MIDI IN driver and select the iRig KEYS MINI for the input. Google search it if you are looking for a simple MIDI piano app for PC (I couldn't find anything decent on the Source Forge store). The MIDI capabilities (programming/switching patches and settings, etc.) are robust but somewhat difficult, particularly for noobs, because you must use the keys on the keyboard for most control changes. Only two buttons are provided at the top of the keyboard and they are for switching octaves and entering edit modes (when pressed together).
Great companion app in Sample Tank
Controls not intuitive or easily accessible
I have a full-sized Yamaha Keyboard; it's not a high-end model, but it has some of the features available with the iRig Keys MINI. However, it's the size of a full-sized keyboard, and can't really integrate with my iOS devices. I can't stuff it in a bag and jump on a bus. The iRig Keys probably wouldn't replace your full-sized keyboard, but if you want something light and portable with powerful features, it deserves major kudos. The Sample Tank app is pretty awesome in its own right. If you head over to IK before December 31, you can save 50 percent or more on full versions of IK's great apps.
Nate Adcock
Nate Adcock is a system and integration engineer with experience managing and administering a variety of computing environments. He has worked extensively with mobile gadgets of all shapes and sizes for many years. He is also a former military weather forecaster. Nate is a regular contributor for the iphonelife.com and smartphonemag.com blogs and helps manage both websites. Read more from Nate at natestera.tumblr.com or e-mail him at nate@iphonelife.com.
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The 9th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 12 to May 5, 1786, during the ninth year of George Clinton's governorship, at the Old Royal Exchange in New York City.

Background
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, the State Senators were elected on general tickets in the senatorial districts, and were then divided into four classes. Six senators each drew lots for a term of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years and, beginning at the election in April 1778, every year six Senate seats came up for election to a four-year term. Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year term, the whole assembly being renewed annually.

The 8th New York State Legislature adjourned on April 27, 1785. At this time, the Senate voted that the next Legislature meet at Kingston, New York on a day set by the governor. The Assembly voted to meet at a time and place to be determined by the governor, to which the Senate then agreed. On November 16, 1785, Governor Clinton called the Legislature to meet on January 6, 1786, at the Exchange in New York City.

Elections
The State election was held from April 26 to 28, 1785. Senator John Haring (Middle D.) was re-elected; and Thomas Tredwell (Southern D.), Volkert P. Douw, Philip Schuyler (both Western D.), and Assemblymen David Hopkins (Eastern D.) and Cornelius Humfrey (Middle D.), were elected to the Senate.

Sessions
The State Legislature met at the Old Royal Exchange in New York City, the Assembly on January 12, the Senate on January 16, 1786; and both Houses adjourned on May 5.

When the Legislature eventually had assembled a quorum, Governor Clinton told them that, following the principle of Separation of Powers, the Governor could call the Legislature only for special sessions, but the Legislature should henceforth decide for themselves where and when to meet for the next ordinary session, and suggested to pass a law for this purpose. On March 13, 1786, the Legislature enacted that future Legislatures meet on the first Tuesday of January of each year unless called earlier by the governor. However, no general meeting place was determined, leaving it for the time being to each Legislature to name the place where to reconvene, and if no place could be agreed upon, the Legislature should meet again where it adjourned.

State Senate

Districts
The Southern District (9 seats) consisted of Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester counties.
The Middle District (6 seats) consisted of Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties.
The Eastern District (3 seats) consisted of Washington, Cumberland and Gloucester counties.
The Western District (6 seats) consisted of Albany and Montgomery counties.

Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.

Members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Cornelius Humfrey and David Hopkins changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

Employees
Clerk: Abraham B. Bancker

State Assembly

Districts
The City and County of Albany (10 seats)
Cumberland County (3 seats)
Dutchess County (7 seats)
Gloucester County (2 seats)
Kings County (2 seats)
Montgomery County) (6 seats)
The City and County of New York (9 seats)
Orange County (4 seats)
Queens County (4 seats)
Richmond County (2 seats)
Suffolk County (5 seats)
Ulster County (6 seats)
Washington County (4 seats)
Westchester County (6 seats)

Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.

Assemblymen
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.

Employees
Clerk: John McKesson

Notes

Sources
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [see pg. 108 for Senate districts; pg. 113 for senators; pg. 148f for Assembly districts; pg. 162f for assemblymen]

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Algorithms, Machine Learning, Computational Biology.
Parisa Kordjamshidi, Ph.D. KU Leuven, Belgium, 2013
Nicholas Mattei, Ph.D.University of Kentucky, 2012
Brian Summa, Ph.D. University of Utah, 2013
Large data processing, Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, Scalable Algorithms, Digital Photography
Zizhan Zheng, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2010
Anastasia Kurdia, Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 2010
School of Science and Engineering, 201 Lindy Boggs Center, New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5764 sse@tulane.edu


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Russian GP | Calendar-releated headaches in the eye of the storm
More than 22 races in the future? How would drivers feel about this calendar expansion? Hint: they would not take it very pleasantly.
Fuente imagen: Haas F1 Team
One of the main talking points of the day in the paddock of Sochi was the expansion of the F1 calendar from 2020 onwards. Most of the drivers turned out to have some strong opinions on the matter, sharing that there has to be a limit at some point. Not only are drivers amongst the biggest concerns, but also mechanics and F1 teams' personnel are obviously going to be affected by such tight schedules and days spent criss-crossing the world.
Sergio Perez was very vocal on the calendar subject, stating that his limit would be 20 races rather than 22: "I think for us, drivers, it's a lot of work, but we come here, in some European races, we arrive on Thursdays, early Thursdays. I'm more concerned for the mechanics, engineers. I doubt they will be able to have any social life on this level, so it's very high. Maybe there will be a point to have two crews"
Kevin Magnussen dealt with the same topic during today's FIA press conference, expressing a very similar opinion to Perez's. "Obviously the biggest problem is probably the team, the mechanics; all those guys are working very hard already, so it would be pretty tough for a lot of people in the team and I don't if it's going to make it, each race, less valuable in terms of viewers and all that sort of stuff."
The chances for the F1 calendar to expand even further than 22 races after 2021 are real, and it is still clouded in uncertainty which tracks will be potential new entries. Raikkonen would welcome a race in Finland, perhaps at the KymiRing, which will make its debut in the MotoGP calendar.
But let's just look at how inconvenient from a logistics-related point of view the China-Vietnam races will be. There is actually a two-week hiatus between the two Asian legs, which implies having the teams travelling back to Europe once the Vietnamese race is done and then going back again to Asia for the Chinese GP.
It would make more sense if those were back-to-back races, but instead the sole logistics to get through both races are going to be a challenge in their own right.
"Usually it is a habit to keep chaning races and some come and some go" Raikkonen said. It has become a trend over the last decade, although some fixed historical races are set to remain on the calendar despite some financial struggles.
For sure, a thicker and busier calendar will add some spice to the season, although it will bring more fatigue to the table.
https://www.motorlat.com/notas/f1/13058/russian-gp-sergio-perez-my-limit-is-20-races
Beatrice Zamuner
Russian-GP F1


It's no secret that chastity is HARD. Especially if you have been in love… or are currently letting your heart take flight into the unknown of falling in love, which is terrifying but also pretty exhilarating at the same time. When your heart is being drawn to that person it may "feel" almost impossible to pull on the reigns of your heart and restrain yourself in the pursuit of chastity. And for us single ladies, waiting and longing for our knight in shining armor to raise his sword to find us can be so exhausting. The impatience can lead us to mistakes, settling for artificial glimpses of what it would feel like to be loved instead of holding out for the real deal.
I am striving day-by-day to live the virtue of chastity and yet, I still find myself falling into sin. Chastity is a virtue which is the habit of choosing the good. My habits are a work in progress. I've studied all the ins-and-outs of what the Church teaches about dignity, sexuality, purity, you name it, but why isn't this enough? I was starting to think chastity was unattainable and without Christ, it is.
Recently, something just clicked that has helped me immensely in this wait for my future partner in crime: I started to live for the man of my dreams now…. whoever that may be, and I decided to commit to him now. To be loyal and faithful to him now. To pray for him now. To sacrifice for him now.
Here is something that I do know… hook-ups and one-night stands don't feel awesome the next morning. Scrambling for a cup of coffee, hungover, feeling pretty awkward; trying to figure out what on earth happened last night; wanting to sit in the shower for hours not only to wash off the make-up you slept in but to get rid of the tangible, dirty feeling the guy from the night before left on your skin. For the last ten years the desire to not feel that way was my only motivation for chastity. I knew that I didn't like feeling regret, trapped, lonely, used, bruised, and thrown away.
Although I was still journeying and growing in the virtue of chastity, I was aware of what to avoid but I didn't really know what I was striving for. I thought that chastity would leave me lonely in my bed at night, wishing someone was lying beside me. I thought looking at all my friends in happy and lively relationships was going to leave me longing and aching for love and affection. I thought I would be full of sexual frustration, like a boiling pot of water about to overflow onto the stove. What I wish I would've known is that chastity is not forcing down your desires until you explode, rather, it is the key to pure and unadulterated freedom! I never associated freedom with chastity until I was living in the light of Christ for an extended period of time. Truly anything is possible with Him who strengthens us, even chastity.
I never thought I would be the girl who turned down cute guys, joyfully and willingly. I never thought I would crown myself with chastity proudly. I never thought I would be free from the ball-and-chain the culture we live in ties to our ankles. Chastity to me is no longer a burden, rather a catalyst to release my true self in Christ. It is no longer a long-sequence of 'no's' but rather a greater YES or I DO on my wedding day to the love of my life.
If God is calling you to marriage, then your future 'someone' does exist! He is out there! He has a heartbeat. He has struggles, wants, and desires too. It feels like I am already living out my vocation as we speak. I have found a sense of purpose and satisfaction in living out what I was made for and who I was made for even before I know his name.
My name is Bry Bergeman and I am a senior, Theology major at Franciscan University. I hope to go into some sort of ministry one day but we will see what God has in store! My blog site is: brybergeman.wordpress.com. On here you can find more about my testimony and struggles with relationships and chastity.
Pray for your feature spouse before you fall in love you could still pray for him if you have met him and felled in loved with him.


As usual, I'm picking out what I subjectively decide are the 5 most interesting games of the week, and I see what NEPA says to expect from those games.
Normally, an undefeated playing a 4-5 conference opponent wouldn't strike me as an important game. However, the unbeaten Cardinals are favored by a skinny 2 point margin, so there's clearly some thought that Syracuse could win this game. This could have BCS implications, as the Big East is still pretty wide open, with four teams still realistically in contention for the conference (these two, Rutgers, and Cincy).
The obvious star here is Teddy Bridgewater, who is still getting some Heisman attention. Also, he matches up well with Syracuse' relative weakness against the pass. He should have a very good game. The running back tandem of Perry & Wright might be the most underrated, or at least under-heralded, RB duo in any BCS conference. It'll be fun to watch them go against a Syracuse front that hasn't yielded much success on the ground this year.
I think Louisville survives mostly because unlike their tandem of Perry & Wright, Syracuse's Gulley & Smith won't pose a serious threat to the defense. Louisville might have the inferior run defense, but they're going up against what is definitely the inferior running threat. Odds are strong that Syracuse has to put the entire offense on Ryan Nassib's back midway through the game. He's capable of carrying them to victory, but a punchless running game is a big reason why he's been unable to do that in 5 of 9 games this year.
Between the Orange's lack of a running game and Teddy Bridgewater's great matchup against the Syracuse secondary, I think this could turn into an easier win for Louisville than Vegas is expecting. If I were a betting man (I'm not - at all), I'd bet on the Cardinals to cover.
The annual questions have begun. The questions, of course, pertain to the topic of how Alabama's defense will stand up to an elite offense like Oregon or Kansas State, were they to face one in the BCS Championship Game. This Saturday should provide a solid answer to such questions. A&M is one of the 5 best offenses in college football this season, per our team NEPA rankings. Saturday's fight in Tuscaloosa might not wind up a close game, but it will provide the SEC's most exciting offense vs. defense matchup of the year.
When A&M has the ball, you'll want to be watching. Johnny Football is a legit Heisman candidate that gets the headlines, but it's not all Manziel. The Aggie RB trio of Christine Michael, Trey Williams, and Ben Malena has combined for 56.1 NEPA this year, a total which would put them among the nation's elite. In fact, on a play-for-play basis, A&M is the best rushing attack in college football this year, averaging .257 NEPA per play rushing. That's better than Oregon (.240), Kansas State (.222), and all others. The reason to watch? They're pitting that juggernaut offense against a juggernaut defense. A&M probably isn't going to be able to run very well unless Manziel can find success in the passing game. LSU showed last week that it is possible to do just that.
This just illustrates how different defenses shut down the pass in different way. The teams with low receiving NEPA rely on incomplete passes. The teams with higher receiving NEPA rely on sacks and turnovers, and are more susceptible to big plays. Fresno State, for example, ranks 11th in sacks and 1st in interceptions nationally this year (returning 5 for TD).
Now, this isn't to suggest Bama's pass defense is a weakness. It's not. But it's going to be the closest thing to a weakness the Aggies can find on Saturday. Avoid sacks and avoid turnovers, and complete a few passes and Manziel's receivers might have room to run. If there is a defensive weakness for Bama, LSU exposed the secondary as it last weekend.
However, if Alabama wins this game, they'll win it with the mismatch their offense presents for the Aggie D. Yeldon & Lacy complement each other nearly perfectly, and AJ McCarron - while not worthy of the Heisman attention he's getting - makes good decisions play after play. A&M is good against the run, but they haven't faced backs as good as these. Also, A&M hardly shuts down opposing passing attacks, so McCarron should have his normal good-not-great game.
That's where I see Bama winning the game, and I do think they'll win. While all eyes will be on the Aggie offense vs. the Crimson D, the game will ultimately be decided by the seeming mismatch when Johnny Football is on the sideline.
That is the kind of lead we would call significant. Storm Woods is probably in for a long and inefficient day. That might be survivable, as Stanford's D, while leading the nation in sacks, hasn't been great at stopping receivers once they've caught the football. That should allow Vaz some success on Saturday, as long as he gets rid of the ball quickly.
For Stanford, it will depend on the QB situation. Taylor is unlikely to do much against this Beaver defense. Hogan isn't battle-tested yet, and this will be a stark difference from his only action of importance so far - Colorado. I'm thinking the culture shock of not facing Colorado combined with having to face Oregon State will be too much for Hogan (or Nunes or anyone else). Despite facing a brick wall against the rush, I think Oregon State wins with defense and QB play in a low-scoring affair. It seems Scott's projection agrees (I make it a point not to look at his pick until I've finished writing my own preview).
Notre Dame isn't listed here because they should have a cakewalk against Boston College. Likewise for Oregon with California. Kansas State, however, might be in trouble this week if Collin Klein's injury limits his time or effectiveness on the field this weekend.
This write-up will be short and sweet. If Klein is 100%, Kansas State will win. The defenses are comparable. They're virtual equals against the run. TCU is better against the pass, but not drastically so, and neither D is particularly great against the pass. Kansas State's John Hubert is an effective and productive runner. Texas A&M uses three backs because the trio complements each other and is effective. TCU uses three because they're hoping one can become effective. As of yet, no such luck. Trevone Boykin isn't bad, but if Klein is 100%, there's just no way he can keep up with a running game that's also unlikely to have an advantage. TCU's best ace-in-the-hole is the brilliant Gary Patterson, but I'm not sure Patterson can scheme his way to victory against this offense if it's clicking.
K-State wins by a comfortable but not obscene margin, I think.
Now, if Klein doesn't play or is limited by his 'mild' concussion? We might just have ourselves an upset in the works.
This game was chosen only because we should see over 1200 yards of offense, and games like that are fun. I wish I could claim a more intellectual angle to this choice, but frankly the other options weren't very appealing. It's not the nation's best week for matchups.
There's no point in breaking down the different matchups within this game. Oklahoma State could probably run some on the couch burners if they want to, but why in the world would you even try? West Virginia runs a 6-5 defense - 6 defensive linemen, 5 linebackers, and 0 human beings assigned to stopping other teams from throwing the football. West Virginia could play with 13 players on defense, and I'm still pretty sure they'd give up a ton of yards through the air. Whether it's Wes Lunt or Clint Chelf or Pistol Pete at QB, odds are strong that they'll score in bunches. And West Virginia has Geno Smith. He's pretty good too.
I'll say the Cowboys win a shootout, but nothing would surprise me short of seeing less than 70 points scored in this one.


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Q: Can't resolve service names on namespace kube-system I've deployed my cluster on debian based on https://github.com/CiscoCloud/kubernetes-ansible.
Everything work fine except some addons and i suspect name resolution.
I've a rc defined like this
apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
  name: monitoring-influx-grafana-v1
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    k8s-app: influxGrafana
    version: v1
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    k8s-app: influxGrafana
    version: v1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: influxGrafana
        version: v1
        kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: gcr.io/google_containers/heapster_influxdb:v0.3
          name: influxdb
          resources:
            limits:
              cpu: 100m
              memory: 200Mi
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8083
              hostPort: 8083
            - containerPort: 8086
              hostPort: 8086
          volumeMounts:
          - name: influxdb-persistent-storage
            mountPath: /data
        - image: gcr.io/google_containers/heapster_grafana:v0.7
          name: grafana
          resources:
            limits:
              cpu: 100m
              memory: 100Mi
          env:
            - name: INFLUXDB_EXTERNAL_URL
              value: /api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/monitoring-influxdb:api/db/
            - name: INFLUXDB_HOST
              value: monitoring-influxdb
            - name: INFLUXDB_PORT
              value: "8086"
      volumes:
      - name: influxdb-persistent-storage
        emptyDir: {}

So the container connects to a host named "monitoring-influxdb".
Actually this name is well resolved by the dns when i use a "busy-box" pod:
kubectl exec busybox --namespace=kube-system -- nslookup monitoring-influxdb
Server:    10.233.0.10
Address 1: 10.233.0.10

Name:      monitoring-influxdb
Address 1: 10.233.83.114
But inside the monitoring-influx-grafana-v1 pod, the name is not resolved :
kubectl exec monitoring-influx-grafana-v1-obu8h --namespace=kube-system -- ping -c 1 monitoring-influxdb
PING monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.osm.local (10.233.83.114) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.osm.local ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

Note the "kubernetes" service is resolved
kubectl exec monitoring-influx-grafana-v1-obu8h --namespace=kube-system -- ping -c 1 kubernetes
PING kubernetes.default.svc.osm.local (10.233.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.233.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.441 ms

--- kubernetes.default.svc.osm.local ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
```

The service is defined as follows in etcd
{'apiVersion': 'v1',
 'kind': 'Endpoints',
 'metadata': {'creationTimestamp': '2015-08-31T16:11:47Z',
              'labels': {'kubernetes.io/cluster-service': 'true',
                         'kubernetes.io/name': 'InfluxDB'},
              'name': 'monitoring-influxdb',
              'namespace': 'kube-system',
              'resourceVersion': '219',
              'selfLink': '/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/endpoints/monitoring-influxdb',
              'uid': 'fab1bd0d-4ffa-11e5-bad3-52540011ed64'},
 'subsets': [{'addresses': [{'ip': '10.233.3.5',
                             'targetRef': {'kind': 'Pod',
                                           'name': 'monitoring-influx-grafana-v1-obu8h',
                                           'namespace': 'kube-system',
                                           'resourceVersion': '391',
                                           'uid': 'fa6fb734-4ffa-11e5-bad3-52540011ed64'}}],
              'ports': [{'name': 'http', 'port': 8083, 'protocol': 'TCP'},
                        {'name': 'api', 'port': 8086, 'protocol': 'TCP'}]}]}

i think this problem causes errors for other pods too
kubectl logs kibana-logging-v1-ifztn --namespace=kube-system
...
{"@timestamp":"2015-08-31T16:13:29.082Z","level":"info","message":"Unable to connect to elasticsearch at http://elasticsearch-logging:9200. Retrying in 2.5 seconds.","node_env":"production"}
...

kubectl logs monitoring-heapster-v8-9cy06 --namespace=kube-system
...
E0831 16:12:27.367871       1 driver.go:326] Database creation failed: Post http://monitoring-influxdb:8086/db?u=root&p=root: dial tcp: lookup monitoring-influxdb: no such host. Retrying after 30 seconds
...

Regards,
Smana

A: Smana,
1) Like you guessed again, it is not a DNS resolution problem
PING monitoring-influxdb.kube-system.svc.osm.local (10.233.83.114) 56(84) bytes of data.
the ping command indicates that is pinging IP 10.233.83.144
2) ICMP is not supported for cluster ips. Currently, only tcp and udp are supported. Hence ping fails.

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SEC: Sports Team Offering Is A Penny Stock Fraud
Published on Dec 11th, 2015 | Posted in Articles
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges and a court-ordered asset freeze obtained against a Florida-based penny stock company falsely touting itself as "the largest publicly traded diversified portfolio of professional sports teams in the world."
The SEC alleges that Thomas Anthony Guerriero as CEO of Oxford City Football Club Inc. used pressure tactics and a boiler room of salespeople to raise more than $6.5 million from primarily inexperienced investors who were misled to believe that the company was a thriving conglomerate of sports teams, academic institutions, and real estate holdings. But in reality the company was losing millions of dollars each year and turning zero profit from its two lower-division soccer teams in the U.K.
"As alleged in our complaint, Guerriero portrayed himself as one of the most powerful and influential CEOs in the history of Wall Street when he's really a penny stock fraudster mixing lies and verbal threats to line his own pocket with money from unsuspecting investors," said Scott Friestad, Associate Director of the SEC Enforcement Division.
According to the SEC's complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida:
Since at least August 2013, Guerriero has operated a classic boiler room scheme under the guise of nominal legitimate businesses through which millions of unregistered shares of stock were sold to investors who were deceived about the stock value and potential profits.
Guerriero's salespeople sold Oxford City stock to the public based on leads lists he purchased from third parties. Guerriero crafted scripts for the salespeople, who used aliases to mask their true identities.
Prospective investors were told they were being offered a limited-time deal to purchase Oxford City shares at a deep discount from the publicly quoted price. Unbeknownst to the victims, the stock price was controlled by Guerriero.
Guerriero claimed to record phone conversations with potential investors using a "verbal verification system" that supposedly tied the stock "transaction" to their social security number and birthday. In reality, Guerriero and his associates simply pressed any button on their phone to make a sound signaling the fake start of a recording. If investors later refused to pay, Guerriero would threaten them with lawsuits based on their "recorded" verbal commitment.
Investors were falsely told that Oxford City would pay a 50-cents-per-share dividend within a year. In reality, the company was losing millions of dollars a year and was legally prohibited from paying a dividend.
Oxford City purportedly had real estate holdings worth approximately $100 million and owned a radio broadcast network that projected profits of almost $20 million. Oxford City actually had assets of approximately $1 million and never owned a radio station – it simply purchased one hour of air time per week.
Oxford City claimed to own an online university with students already enrolled and projected profits of $495 million for the upcoming five-year period. In reality, there was no such university that ever enrolled a student or had revenue.
Oxford City purported it would earn more than $238 million over five years from existing and new sports-related facilities. The truth was that Oxford City owned a minority interest in a lower division English soccer club, which generated a small amount of revenue but never turned a profit.
The SEC's complaint charges Guerriero and Oxford City with violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(b) of Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 as well as Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.
The SEC's ongoing investigation is being conducted by Darren E. Long, Brian D. Vann, and David F. Miller, and supervised by Brian O. Quinn. The litigation will be led by Matthew F. Scarlato, John J. Bowers, and Mr. Long. The SEC appreciates the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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Vinicius: "It will be harder for me to play now that Hazard is in Real Madrid"
The Brazilian wonder kid talks to O Globo.
By Lucas Navarrete@LucasNavarreteM Jul 3, 2019, 2:18pm CEST
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Real Madrid wonder kid Vinicius Junior talked to O Globo and discussed his first season in the club and also his expectations for next year.
"When I got here I was a different player from the one I am today. I learned so much from the coaching staff and from every single manager. Tactically I improved a lot as well and now I am turning the ball over less often and I am more poised when i have the ball," explains Vinicius —quite accurately—.
"I'm still working to improve my finishing as well. At the end of every training session, Zidane works with me on my finishing a bit and the rest of the teammates do too," he added.
"Benzema helped me a lot. He gave me advise from the very beginning and he did everything he could to help me. I remember when we played against Atletico I missed a good chance and then we conceded. He then talked to me because he saw I was nervous and he told me to lead the offensive line and stay forward for five minutes so that I could get a breather and be composed again," reveals Vinicius.
The Brazilian wonder kid knows that it will be tougher for him to get relevant minutes now that Hazard has signed for Madrid.
"With his arrival it's true that it will be harder for me to play but it's not a problem for me. It will be up to Zidane," concluded Vinicius.


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School of Fashion
College of the Arts
Close About Overview
Work at Kent State Fashion
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William Hauck
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After 16 years in the retail industry, William Hauck joined the School of Fashion as Assistant Professor of Design and Merchandising in the year 2000. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communications from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. His corporate industry experience covered a wide range of topics, including resources, store operations and merchandising, and he worked within the distribution/logistics departments of various national and regional retailers.
Now, William, known as Bill to staff and students, teaches courses in the retail and buying areas of the curriculum and serves as a Coordinator of the Merchandising Internship program. He has also served as the School's Assistant to the Director for the past three years. William's aim is to help students develop a core set of relevant, yet transferrable skills and competencies, to boost graduate employment prospects. These include technical and knowledge-based, research and discovery, problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making, communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills.
Bill's research focuses on the area of corporate social responsibility and ethical behavior in merchandising, particularly in relation to various human resources issues in the retail sector. His first-hand experience of how common sexual harassment can be in the fashion and retail sectors is something he's exploring, with a particular focus on how to recognize and manage sexual harassment behavior. William has co-authored several articles on the subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, which have been published in a number of academic journals.
Alongside this, Bill is also researching the area of consumer behavior, with a focus on social responsibility, pricing, and elasticity of fashion and luxury products and services. He has also co-authored articles on ethics and consumer price perceptions, which have been published in an international journal.
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Mdhandler
=========

Rails plugin to parse README markdown files.

Requirements
------------

* [kramdown](https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown)
* [coderay](https://github.com/rubychan/coderay) **OPTIONAL** - for syntax highlighting

Installation
------------

Clone the plugin to the dashboard's plugin directory:

`cd /opt/puppet/share/puppet-dashboard/vendor/plugins`
`git clone https://github.com/ptierno/puppet-dashboard-mdhandler ./mdhandler`
`cd /opt/puppet/share/puppet-dashboard; RAILS_ENV=production /opt/puppet/bin/rake puppet:plugin:install`
`service pe-httpd restart`

Edit app/controllers/documentation_controller.rb and change the `modules_dir` variable to point to whereever your puppet modules are located.
Edit app/views/documentation/index.erb and add a Logo or some text to the header div. Keep in mind that the header div is only 75px in height.
Add whatever links you would like to the navigation div.

Icons
-----

MdHandler uses Mark James' fine [Silk icons](http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/).

Contributors
------------

* Peter Tierno <peter.a.tierno@gmail.com>

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You will soon be able to do 'online transactions' through WhatsApp
April 4, 2017 by Younus
New Delhi: Due to demonetization in the country mobile wallet apps like Paytm and MobiKwik played an eminent role and had a big success claims astronomical growth. But still there are many more challenges to come in the competition.
According to Yahoo. News, India's famous and handy immediate messaging app is launching the person-to-person payment system in the country, according to a report on The Ken.
The company is seeking the support from the government for UPI, which is a new payment system by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). UPI helps people to make the payments as quick as sending a text message.
"India is an important country for WhatsApp, and we're understanding how we can contribute more to the vision of Digital India," WhatsApp spokesperson said to Mashable.
"We're exploring how we might work with companies that share this vision and continuing to listen closely to feedback from our users."
Founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, visited India and met Indian officials of government to know more about the ideas and to contribute in "India's vision for digital commerce." There are more than 200 million WhatsApp users in India claims Acton.
According to industry sources, NPCI is functioning forcefully to find out their own payment solutions to squeeze the mobile wallet systems like Paytm.
In December last year, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi launched BHIM app, he said that this App is heading to change the payment modes.
Categories News, Technology, Top Stories Tags done, online, Payments, Through, WhatsApp
India to identify, arrest and deport Rohingya Muslims
Mosques, Dargahs remain covered during Shobha Yatra


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package io.jcoder.tutorials.ch05.generics;

/**
 * Example class used to introduce generics.
 *
 * <p>
 * https://jcoder.io/content/course/java/beginners/ch05/genericclasses
 * </p>
 *
 * @author Camilo Gonzalez
 */
public class Toy {
    private String name;

    public Toy(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public void printDescription() {
        System.out.println("Toy: " + name);
    }
}


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Book Two of P.J. Berman's 'Silrith' series - Medieval Epic Fantasy Fiction
ARIGBASA, HERTASALA, BENNVIKA, 1520 YEARS AFTER UNIFICATION – SUMMER
Heathens. Rebels. Savages. All words that had applied in the past, yet there was now but one word to describe the three people who lay at Jostan's feet. Corpses. Corpses whose souls would be imprisoned by Estarron upon their attempt to enter the heavens, and who would be the slaves of Luskaret, King of the Underworld, for all eternity.
Such would be the fate of all who stood against him. The lean, athletic young Jostan, clad in the holy white robes of a son of Estarron and born across the sea in the Verusantian Empire, had been King of Bennvika for less than two seasons, and already many had been sent to their graves. With the putting down of a huge rebellion at Rildayorda in the far south, led by the traitor, Silrith Alfwyn, he was the undisputed master of this wretched land. Now these non-believers would repent their sins, forsaking their false gods and converting to the worship of almighty Estarron, else face widespread slaughter.
Jostan had been filled with a sense of deep satisfaction as he led his army into the panicked village. En route back to Kriganheim, Bennvika's capital, Jostan had received reports of a heretical preacher denouncing Estarron and his divinity, and so Jostan had ordered his army to take a diversion and make an example of these people. The village was too small to have a defensive wall, and the preacher, it seemed, had fled long ago. What faith he must have had in his false idols' ability to protect him from harm.
An old woman had attempted to plead with him as his soldiers ripped people from their homes to force their conversions. He had been affronted by this withered, primitive creature's yowling, so amid the chaos, he had ordered her daughter and teenage granddaughter to be snatched from her.
'People of Arigbasa!' he had declared in the street, causing each of his soldiers to pay attention as they wrestled the heavily outnumbered village populace from their homes and into the streets.
'See what befalls all who refuse to follow the divine lord, almighty Estarron,' he said.
He made the old woman watch. The crowds of soldiers looked on as they held down their prisoners. In the middle of the street, the pair of terrified younger women were forced to their knees while a soldier took out his sword. He sliced off each of their ears amid piercing screams, the better to prevent them from ever hearing such heretical notions again. Then, the soldier took the four ears and forced them into the old woman's mouth as his comrades gripped her arms. She choked and spluttered as she tried to breathe, but the soldier forced the ears further down the woman's throat amid the groans of the two earless women as their blood soaked the ground. All around looked on in stunned silence.
As the fourth lobe was forced into the wrinkled old crone's mouth, the soldier forced his victim's jaws shut. With the woman's mouth full of her own womenfolk's ears, the soldier looked to Jostan for his order. Jostan gave a nonchalant nod, and the hag's throat had been slit. On a whim, he ordered the daughter and granddaughter to be slaughtered too. It seemed like the right thing to do.
Now he stood before the shocked villagers and their captors.
'Repent,' he said. 'Or share in your deranged, misguided kin's fate.'
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Johann Fischer (* 15. Jänner 1876 in St. Veit an der Gölsen; † 26. November 1954 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Politiker (CSP) und Landwirt. Fischer  war von 1927 bis 1934 Abgeordneter zum Landtag von Niederösterreich sowie von 1922 bis 1927 Mitglied des Bundesrates.

Fischer übernahm 1904 den elterlichen Betrieb, das Mosergut, in Obergegend und war Gründer der  Wassergenossenschaft von St. Veit an der Gölsen sowie der "Gölsen-Elektrizitätswerke". Fischer gehörte zwischen 1909 und 1914 dem Gemeinderat von St. Veit an und wirkte zwischen 1922 und 1927 als Bezirksbauernratsobmann. Zudem war Fischer als Kammerrat und Obmann der Niederösterreichischen Landwirtschaftskrankenkasse tätig. Er vertrat das Land Niederösterreich zwischen dem 23. Dezember 1922 und dem 20. Mai 1927 im Bundesrat und gehörte vom 20. Mai 1927 und dem 30. Oktober 1934 dem Niederösterreichischen Landtag an.

Literatur
 NÖ Landtagsdirektion (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch des NÖ Landtages und der NÖ Landesregierung 1921–2000 (= NÖ-Schriften. Band 128). NÖ Landtagsdirektion, St. Pölten 2000, ISBN 3-85006-127-2.

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Constructing Ethnicity in Xishuangbanna
By Jeremiah Jenne February 12, 2018
Home > Culture > Constructing Ethnicity in Xishuangbanna
Along the banks of the Lancang (Mekong) River in Yunnan Province, ethnicity is being constructed brick by brick.
Jinghong City is the seat of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan province. It's a short distance to the border of Myanmar, and a three-hour bus ride to Laos. The city is building a 2,000-acre park costing 6.5 billion RMB (about $1 billion USD) to "reproduce the ancient prosperous times of Jinghong City… and to build a large tourist service center for Southeast Asia."
It's an ambitious endeavor, and part of a centuries-long project to tie this area and the people who live here more firmly to the Chinese state.
A new development in Jinghong City in Yunnan Province hopes to provide a destination for tourists and to "reproduce the ancient prosperous times of Jinghong City."
This has long been the frontier: a permeable and porous zone of refuge for peoples unwilling or unwelcome to join in the development of states from what is today Thailand and Myanmar, or who found themselves pushed southward by successive Chinese empires.
In the 20th century, roads, bridges, and railways brought outside governance to the people living here, while making it easier to exploit the valuable resources in the hills and forests, especially timber and crops like rubber and tea. Now these same roads — as well as an airport opened in 1990 — have brought a steady influx of tourism into the once-isolated valleys of Xishuangbanna.
Officially, Yunnan is home to over half of China's designated shaoshu minzu (少数民族), previously translated as "ethnic nationalities," but which the Chinese government prefers to render as "ethnic minorities" to avoid any hint of a verboten nationhood for non-Han citizens of China.
The representations of these groups in popular culture and in tourism propaganda is reminiscent of the packaging of indigenous art and culture for tourist consumption around the world. The language used by the Han majority also eerily echoes how China was (and still often is) represented in Orientalist depictions of the "Other" by Westerners.
In tourist literature and posters around Jinghong, subjects are colorful and almost always female, wearing ceremonial dress. They are not meant to appear modern. They're depicted as a remnant population — a living fossil — to be studied, ogled, and photographed.
When shown in a modern context, the message is one of inexorable assimilation: The assumed and inevitable attraction to the value of modernity and civilization — as exemplified by the Han Chinese — out of the quaint backwardness of their traditional culture.
Posters like this one, for an upcoming festival in Jinghong City, often emphasize the exotic and feminine traits of local nationalities
This is of course not unique to China or Xishuangbanna. Groups which choose (or are forced) to remain outside the reach of the state and the consumer economy have for centuries, and in many cultural contexts, been assumed to be behind the civilizational curve. They are not yet "Us." They are "us" in training or they are a failed "us."
What does make China different, though, is that there is little room in the educational or information environment for critical reflection of these issues. Challenging assumptions, especially about issues of ethnic identity, cultural assimilation, and history, is not only discouraged but actively opposed by state and Party. There is no counter-narrative of resistance, or one which proposes an alternative history to the teleology of the Chinese Dream.
A local museum exhibit praises the "diligence and intelligence" of Hani women. A tourist site promises visitors a glimpse into a primitive past. A propaganda banner in a nearby village belonging to the Blang nationality reminds residents that "Being poor is not glorious and it is shameful to be lazy."
Some codes are easier than others to crack.
Village propaganda in the Xishuangbanna Region of southern Yunnan reminding residents that "alleviating poverty is the direction of the Party and the wish of the people, being poor is not glorious and it is shameful to be lazy."
Jinghong, like many cities in the border regions of China, is carrying out a grand project to alleviate rural poverty and to settle non-Han into residential and economic patterns which make sense to local CCP administrators. Their strategy is as old as colonialism, and has meant sweeping changes to the local culture. Many people welcome the change.
A local villager on the outskirts of Jinghong was effusive about the new highway, and had only good things to say about plans to extend high-speed rail through the valleys of Xishuangbanna. There are, of course, economic benefits to being part of the system.
Mao Zedong ("The Great Red Sun") smiles beatifically in a portrait hanging on the wall of a village Buddhist temple in Southern Yunnan
The government also touts its role as a protector of local culture, even as that culture is commoditized in a way that continues to portray the indigenous as being in need of civilizing.
In "Cultural Representation in the Yunnan Ethnic Folk Villages: Tensions and Contradictions," scholar Li Yang argues:
Folk villages, songs, dances, minority dresses and customs are all modified and staged to suit commercial needs. Not all aspects of minority culture are valued by managers; tourist needs and desires are their highest concerns. They generally believe that exotic cultural images, spectacular dance shows and the quaint customs of minorities are the most marketable forms of cultural tourism. In the words of managers, "minority people are expected to continue their quaint traditions by the majority society." Therefore, the park explicitly portrays, markets and promotes elements of minority culture deemed "primitive," "pre-modern," exotic and joyful.
Back along the banks of the Mekong in Jinghong City, construction workers are putting the finishing touches on a "traditional pagoda" meant to symbolize the culture of the Dai People.
This area, says a tour guide, will one day have a very traditional atmosphere, full of the feeling of history.
Yes, I suppose it will. Once they finish building it.
Rogue Historian
Ethnic minority culture
Jeremiah Jenne
Jeremiah Jenne is a writer, educator, and historian based in Beijing.


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Q: Python locking from event listener So I have a websocket that listens to messages and when it receives the desired message it calls a run() function. Because it takes a while for run() to run to completion and there could be multiple messages during this time, I want to lock this function so that at any one time it is only running once. If a message is received during this time, I just want to ignore it. However I am not getting the lock mechanism to work correctly.
def __init__(self):
   self.lock = threading.Lock()

def process_message(self, msg):
   some_obj.run(self.lock)

Some other class:
def run(self,lock):
    acquired = lock.acquire(False)
    try:
        if acquired:

            print("not locked")
        else:
            print("locked")
    finally:
        if acquired:
            lock.release()
            print("released")

I expect to get a series of locked/not locked/released but I am only getting locked and released. What am I doing wrong?

A: I have made a very rudimentary implementation aim to reproduce you problem:
from threading import Lock
lock=Lock()
contador = 0
while contador < 5:
    if contador == 4:
        a = lock.acquire(False)
    acquired = lock.acquire(False)
    try:
        if acquired:

            print("not locked", contador)

        else:
            print("locked")
    finally:
        contador += 1
        if acquired:
            lock.release()
            print("released")

with following result:
$ python tester02.py
not locked 0
released
not locked 1
released
not locked 2
released
not locked 3
released
locked

Run function seems correct. As far as I can see in you piece of code, I believe that lock should not be an instance attribute.


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We continue to debate the ups and downs of our brilliant industry and our convergence with other disciplines, notably advertising.
Rarely, however, is our core currency of creativity given enough prominence in these debates.
It's fundamental in our desire to win the great convergence race we're all engaged in.
Get it right and we race to the top. Get it wrong and we race each other to the bottom with ever-decreasing circles of creative, budgets and margins. So, do you crave creative conformity or foster creative diversity?
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We will lose our opportunity to lead. We will lose our opportunity to future proof. And we will lose our opportunity to grow in influence and budget.
Which, given our expertise in earning, not buying, attention, would be a crime.
My favourite mantra is "If you're doing something the way you've always done it, you're probably doing it wrong."
Let's do more to celebrate and foster diverse creative thinking. Diversity of channels and platforms. Diversity of partners.
In today's world of distributed influence and fragmented media, there is no excuse for lazy, me-too conformist creativity.
Diversity in creative thinking is everything.
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