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package NewStyleOffice;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class InsSupplier extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    public InsSupplier() {
        initComponents();
    }
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">//GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
    private void initComponents() {

        jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel3 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel4 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        SupplierPhone1 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jLabel5 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        SupplierPhone2 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jLabel6 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        SupplierAddress = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jLabel7 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        SupplierEmail = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jLabel8 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        SupplierCity = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        SupplierName = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        RecSupplier = new javax.swing.JButton();

        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLocation(new java.awt.Point(0, 0));
        getContentPane().setLayout(new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteLayout());

        jLabel1.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel1.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel1.setText("الموردون");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel1, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(180, 10, 170, -1));

        jLabel3.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel3.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel3.setText("اسم المورد");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel3, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(430, 50, 140, 40));

        jLabel4.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel4.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel4.setText("رقم الموبيل");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel4, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(430, 110, 140, 40));

        SupplierPhone1.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        SupplierPhone1.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.JTextField.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(SupplierPhone1, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(20, 110, 400, 40));

        jLabel5.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel5.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel5.setText("رقم الموبيل 2");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel5, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(430, 170, 140, 40));

        SupplierPhone2.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        SupplierPhone2.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.JTextField.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(SupplierPhone2, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(20, 170, 400, 40));

        jLabel6.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel6.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel6.setText("العنوان");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel6, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(430, 230, 140, 40));

        SupplierAddress.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        SupplierAddress.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.JTextField.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(SupplierAddress, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(20, 230, 400, 40));

        jLabel7.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel7.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel7.setText("Email");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel7, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(430, 290, 140, 40));

        SupplierEmail.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        SupplierEmail.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.JTextField.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(SupplierEmail, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(20, 290, 400, 40));

        jLabel8.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 24)); // NOI18N
        jLabel8.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        jLabel8.setText("المحافظة");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel8, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(430, 350, 140, 40));

        SupplierCity.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        SupplierCity.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.JTextField.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(SupplierCity, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(20, 350, 400, 40));

        SupplierName.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        SupplierName.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.JTextField.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(SupplierName, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(20, 50, 400, 40));

        RecSupplier.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        RecSupplier.setText("تسجيل");
        RecSupplier.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                RecSupplierActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });
        getContentPane().add(RecSupplier, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(210, 400, 110, 40));

        pack();
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    }// </editor-fold>//GEN-END:initComponents

    Connection con = null;
    PreparedStatement pst = null;
    String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/NewStyleOffice?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8";
    String user = "root";
    String password = "";
    String sql = "INSERT INTO Supplier "
            + "(SupplierName , SupplierPhone_1 , SupplierPhone_2 , "
            + "SupplierAddress , SupplierEmail , SupplierCity) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)";

    private void RecSupplierActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_RecSupplierActionPerformed
        try
        {
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
            pst = con.prepareStatement(sql);

            if (SupplierPhone1.getText().length() > 11 || SupplierPhone2.getText().length() > 11)
            {
             JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "رقم الهاتف غير صحيح");
            }
            else
            {
            pst.setString(1, SupplierName.getText());
            pst.setString(2, SupplierPhone1.getText());
            pst.setString(3, SupplierPhone2.getText());
            pst.setString(4, SupplierAddress.getText());
            pst.setString(5, SupplierEmail.getText());
            pst.setString(6, SupplierCity.getText());
            pst.executeUpdate();
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "تم إدخال البيانات بنجاح");
            SupplierName.setText(null);
            SupplierPhone1.setText(null);
            SupplierPhone2.setText(null);
            SupplierAddress.setText(null);
            SupplierEmail.setText(null);
            SupplierCity.setText(null);
            }
        }
        catch (SQLException ex)
        {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, ex);
        }
    }//GEN-LAST:event_RecSupplierActionPerformed
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        try {
            for (javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info : javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
                if ("Nimbus".equals(info.getName())) {
                    javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
                    break;
                }
            }
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(InsSupplier.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
        //</editor-fold>
       java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(() -> {
           new InsSupplier().setVisible(true);
        });
    }

    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private javax.swing.JButton RecSupplier;
    private javax.swing.JTextField SupplierAddress;
    private javax.swing.JTextField SupplierCity;
    private javax.swing.JTextField SupplierEmail;
    private javax.swing.JTextField SupplierName;
    private javax.swing.JTextField SupplierPhone1;
    private javax.swing.JTextField SupplierPhone2;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel3;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel4;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel5;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel6;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel7;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel8;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
}

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One of the cornerstones of Party 2018 is "stutter-step the concept" by longtime ensemble friend (and fan) Chris Fisher-Lochhead. Originally premiered by Dal Niente at the Ear Taxi Festival, we'll be playing an updated and expanded version on June 2nd. Dal Niente violist Ammie Brod chatted with CFL about his revision process, creative sources, and baroque object rotation.
Ammie: So we played this piece before, in 2016, but I know you've made some substantial revisions since then. Wanna talk about that?
CFL: I wrote stutter-step during a really chaotic period in my life - I was finishing grad school, working on my dissertation, and moving to a totally different part of the country - so my original creative process felt a little rushed and hectic. Basically, I liked the piece but I also knew I wanted to do more with it. In addition, I like it when creative processes are allowed to have multiple stages, and my revisions had more of an additive quality than anything like a total reworking. I wanted to layer more material on top of the structural skeleton I'd already built, to embellish and flesh it out, not to totally reconceive the piece.
Ammie: When we initially played this piece, I know we were all really struck by a sentence in the performance notes where you describe the piece as "a baroquely detailed physical object which is slowly rotating, exposing its many aspects," and then you go on to talk about how the piece is a series of sonic "slices" of musical material. Those two ideas really form an interesting picture of the piece before it even gets going, and I'd like to talk about how you got there.
CFL: My basic approach to this particular piece came from a desire to consciously channel my love of hip-hop into a notated work. I intentionally drew on the tradition of building beats out of samples, discrete units of material, which are the "slices" I'm talking about. I love how hip-hop uses unexpected juxtapositions to create something new that can't really be achieved through other means, and I wanted to use that idea to build a sonic surface like a mosaic of heterogeneous musical atoms. I mean, I don't think anybody could reverse-engineer their way from my piece to hip-hop without knowing the connection, but there it is. The initial work was very pointilistic and intentionally didn't smudge boundaries or create larger washes; it wasn't really trying to go anywhere, but was instead an exploration of ways to look at the components that it's built from. In this updated version, I did allow some amount of more intuitive creativity. Basically, I wanted to take the sampling technique and allow the ways in which those samples are combined to give rise to a fuller musical language. In my mind, I was thinking of this as an analog of the linguistic process of creolization, in which severed and decontextualized pieces of different languages integrate throughout generations to form a new systematic whole.
The way I intuitively crafted these embellishments on the slice structure feels reminiscent of improvisatory group dynamics. As an improviser myself, I've thought a great deal about how to create some sense of coherence and individuation within an ensemble where everyone is improvising. Of course, in this case, the level of detail and complexity that is prescribed in the score is totally unlike the ethos of freedom in improvised music; but, for me, both approaches serve a similar purpose. Reflecting on this kinship between improvisation and notational complexity reminds me of a personal epiphany I had in my early twenties. At the time I was really anti-complexity, but one morning as my music library was playing on shuffle, I ended up hearing John Coltrane's Sun Ship and Brian Ferneyhough's Second Quartet back-to-back. Right then, it clicked for me that both musicians were trying to do similar things in entirely different ways. Coltrane was using these unruly rhythmic gestures and pairing them with an intimate and extensive knowledge of how his instrument worked to articulate a revelatory catharsis of musical energy; Ferneyhough was applying a deeply considered critical awareness of how musical notation works and what instrumentalists are capable of within that framework and doing the same thing by stretching notation and technique to the breaking point. Realizing that these two different approaches could provoke similar outcomes broke the spell of some pretty naive aesthetic prejudices that I was holding on to at that time.
Ammie: Yeah, I definitely wasn't like, ah yes, hip-hop, when I got my part, but that makes sense. What else went into this piece that the listeners (and musicians) might not know?
CFL: When I was looking back on this, I realized that it was written in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign. I remember thinking a lot about the overt use of images and words to coerce, cajole, or persuade people, and I was so disgusted by that constant manipulation that I think I subconsciously tried to avoid narrative musical devices. I came to think of the music as something formally concretized, not as a temporal succession of sounds organized tendentiously to elicit an emotional reaction. In other words, I imagine that the experience of listening to the piece would be more like viewing a sculpture than hearing a story, thus the object rotating metaphor.
"stutter-step the concept" comes to Constellation Chicago on June 2nd as part of Party 2018. You can find more information about the other pieces on the program (shadow puppets! escalators!) and ticket information here.
Older PostTeaser: Chris Fisher-Lochhead's "stutter-step the concept"


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DJ Jelly – Do It (Feat. 2 Chainz & Jaytez)
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DJ Jelly gets a collab featuring 2 Chainz and Oomp Camp artist Jaytez called "Do It". This song will appear on the We Declare Independence mixtape dropping on July 4th.
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High Museum of Art Commissions New Piazza Installation
Site-specific work will be the sixth in a series to activate the High's outdoor piazza; delayed April opening now slated for mid-July
In July, the High Museum of Art will unveil "Murmuration," a soaring, stunning installation by the internationally renowned architecture and design firm SO – IL and partners Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg. Presented on The Woodruff Arts Center's Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza, the installation continues a multiyear initiative to activate the High's outdoor space with site-specific commissions that engage visitors of all ages.
On view from July 17 through Nov. 29, 2020, "Murmuration" speaks directly to the architecture of the Piazza and more broadly to the city of Atlanta and its relationships with the natural world as viewed through the lens of bird migrations. Featuring a foliage-filled mesh canopy suspended over the Piazza by a steel framework, the installation will envelop guests, evoking tree canopies throughout the city and region. SO – IL was inspired by Atlanta's reputation as the "city in a forest" and by the High's proximity to the city's largest greenspace, Piedmont Park, to guide the design of this installation.
Along with its many trees, the metro area is home to hundreds of bird species. The canopy's perches will aim to draw birds to the site. Beneath the canopy, guests can use the space as a shaded respite and participate in their own "nesting and perching" by using benches and "pods" suspended from the upper structure. "Murmuration" will serve as a welcoming atmosphere for rest and recreation, as well as a place for families to connect and create memories at the Museum.
"Our guests will enjoy the opportunity to relax and reflect as they lounge underneath the beautiful canopy of 'Murmuration','" said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High. "As with all of our previous Piazza installations, this latest project welcomes visitors of all ages to enjoy some fun, or take a quick break, in our outdoor space before heading into the Museum."
The installation's design is Atlanta focused but also explores broader themes related to nature, the environment and human-animal interactions.
"SO – IL's belief that connecting communities with their physical environment coupled with a thoughtful approach to engaging with the Museum's architecture, makes 'Murmuration' relevant for our visitors and the community at large," said Monica Obniski, the High's curator of decorative arts and design. "It is incumbent on the art museum to create spaces that challenge traditional ideals of where art should be. SO – IL's socially-driven installation can help generate public discourse about the intersection of architecture and nature, but let's not stop there."
The project was originally slated to open in April but was delayed due to COVID-19. To ensure the safety of guests gathering outside under the canopy, the Museum will provide a hand-sanitizing station.
This project builds on the success of the five previous Piazza commissions: Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki's "Sonic Playground" (2018), Spanish designer Jaime Hayon's "Merry Go Zoo" (2017) and "Tiovivo" (2016) and 2014–2015's "Mi Casa, Your Casa" and "Los Trompos" ("The Spinning Tops") by Mexican designers Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena.
About the High's Piazza Activation Initiative
The High's Piazza activation initiative launched in 2014 to explore how engaging with art and design can extend beyond the Museum's walls. Varied programs, art-making activities and other interactive features enliven these dynamic outdoor installations.
The High commissioned Esrawe and Cadena to design the first two installations for the project, "Mi Casa, Your Casa" and "Los Trompos" ("The Spinning Tops"), followed by Hayon's "Tiovivo" and "Merry Go Zoo" and Suzuki's "Sonic Playground." For each of these installations, the High worked with local arts organizations and Woodruff Arts Center partners to present live performances and art-making activities themed around the structures. The Piazza projects have so far been enjoyed by a total of nearly 700,000 visitors.
The High's Piazza activation initiative is sponsored by a grant from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, which is part of the family of foundations that includes the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. The Lettie Pate Evans Foundation is an independent private foundation that invests primarily in education, arts and culture.
About SO – IL
SO – IL is the New York-based joint practice of architects Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, which they founded in 2008. Their studio is recognized for its imaginative and thoughtful ideas that range in scale from furniture to urban masterplans.
SO – IL believes that through genuine collaboration, architects can reconnect communities to their physical environments. It has developed an architectural approach that incorporates the fluidities of a hyper-digitized world not as a formal trope but as an approach toward process and experience. SO – IL produces innovative material solutions that follow the particular scale and conceptual grounding of each project. As such, it creates urban space, homes and public buildings and also writes, participates in, and designs exhibitions and events and collaborates with a wide range of artists and creatives on projects.
Liu, a Chinese native, brings an intellectually open, globally aware and locally sensitive perspective to architecture. Through building practice and interdisciplinary research projects, Liu has led SO – IL in engaging with the sociopolitical issues of contemporary cities — in projects such as the Artists Lofts in North Omaha and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Cleveland. In the past couple of years, Liu has been working on projects ranging from artistic collaborations with contemporary choreographers and visual artists to master planning in cities such as Melbourne and Indianapolis.
Idenburg, who was born and raised in the Netherlands, combines a conceptual drive with a hands-on approach. He has a strong intuition for the orchestration of form, material and light and employs his talent in the design of cultural venues and housing. Idenburg led the office on projects such as Kukje Gallery, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and Amant, an arts campus in Brooklyn.
Exhibition Organization and Support
"Murmuration" is organized by the High Museum of Art. Generous support has been provided by the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation. This exhibition is made possible by Premier Exhibition Series Sponsor Delta Air Lines, Inc. and Invesco; Exhibition Series Sponsors Northside Hospital and WarnerMedia; Premier Exhibition Series Supporters the Antinori Foundation, Sarah and Jim Kennedy, and Louise Sams and Jerome Grilhot; Benefactor Exhibition Series Supporter Anne Cox Chambers Foundation; Ambassador Exhibition Series Supporters Tom and Susan Wardell and Rod and Kelly Westmoreland; and Contributing Exhibition Series Supporters Lucinda W. Bunnen, Marcia and John Donnell, W. Daniel Ebersole and Sarah Eby-Ebersole, Peggy Foreman, Robin and Hilton Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Jones, Margot and Danny McCaul, Joel Knox and Joan Marmo, and The Ron and Lisa Brill Family Charitable Trust. Generous support is also provided by the Alfred and Adele Davis Exhibition Endowment Fund, Anne Cox Chambers Exhibition Fund, Barbara Stewart Exhibition Fund, Dorothy Smith Hopkins Exhibition Endowment Fund, Eleanor McDonald Storza Exhibition Endowment Fund, The Fay and Barrett Howell Exhibition Fund, Forward Arts Foundation Exhibition Endowment Fund, Helen S. Lanier Endowment Fund, Isobel Anne Fraser–Nancy Fraser Parker Exhibition Endowment Fund, John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Exhibition Endowment Fund, Katherine Murphy Riley Special Exhibition Endowment Fund, Margaretta Taylor Exhibition Fund, and the RJR Nabisco Exhibition Endowment Fund.
Rendering for "Murmuration," designed by SO-IL. Image courtesy of SO-IL.
Image of "Murmuration," designed by SO-IL. Image courtesy of Fredrik Bauer.
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What Is Alzheimer'S Disease? Alzheimer'S
What is Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer's disease is known to be the main reasons for an individual to experience dementia, which is the loss of memory and judgment. According to the Alzheimer's Association, most of the individuals that are diagnose with Alzheimer's are 65 years old and older. However, younger individuals could be at risk of being diagnose with the disease as well. There has been multiple causes of Alzheimer's disease and one has been due to stress exposure to the individuals, since it can cause an individual to start receiving the beginning states of the disease (Torres-Berrio and Nava Mesa, 2019).
Abrams mentions that Alzheimer's disease is known to be caused by genetic and environmental factors. The researchers identified ApoE to be the most important genetic reasoning as to why humans can be affected by the disease. ApoE is identified to be in the brain and have three different types of isoforms. These forms are called ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE4. These isoforms are different in the amino acids located in the 112 and 158 of the protein, which differ from a having a cysteine or arginine substitution. Cysteine could play a major factor for those individuals that have Alzheimer's since they are involve in the isomers that could be related to the disease. ApoE4 contains arginine in both 112 and 158 position. However, ApoE2 contains cysteine in 122 and 158 position, while ApoE3 contains arginine in the 158 position and cysteine in the 112 position. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
The purpose of this study is to look into the way in which the mechanism of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) can affect and influence an individual risk of having Alzheimer's disease and the way in which isomers ApoE2 and ApoE3 could be involved. As mentioned, ApoE2 and ApoE3 both have cysteine. For these reasons, the researcher's hypothesis, that S-Nitrosylation, which is related to the cysteine amino acid, contributes to an individual's risk of having Alzheimer's disease. The researchers tested the hypothesis by doing a series of methods such as looking at the interaction of ApoE and NOS1. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
In the cell base model, the researchers found that there was an interaction between ApoE and NOS1. The transiently transfection found that there was no different between the binding of all isoform types and the NOS1. This means that ApoE2,3, and 4 have similar bonding with the NOS1. When visualizing the ApoE3 and NOS1 in human hippocampus using immunofluorescences, the researchers found that there was a high overlap between ApoE3 and NOS1. Finally, the Co-IP found that on the ApoE4 allele, there is a low amount of NO production in central nervous system related cells. The researchers explained that this could be due to the fact that ApoE4 has the arginine production. Compared to ApoE2 and ApoE3, which have a high amount of NO production and contained the cysteine amino acid, instead of arginine. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
For the Biotin-Switch Assay, when it came to the NO donor, the test showed that the bands contained ApoE2 and ApoE3, however, it was not shown for ApoE4. The test also showed that the band was stronger in ApoE2 then ApoE3.This means that ApoE2 and ApoE3 both have a connection to the NO. In the homozygous ApoE3 and ApoE4, the same results were observed, since the ApoE4 did not appear in the Biotin-Switch Assay band. Meaning that homozygous human ApoE3 from human hippocampus, is connected to the NO. This can be the reasons as to why the ApoE3 is related to Alzheimer's disease.
The researchers found that the atomic model suggest that the position 112, where the cysteine is located, is close to R61 and E109 sidechains. R61 and E109 are not involved in the stabilization of receptor binding. This could be an issue since it can mean that the receptors are not being stabilize correctly. For these reasons, the researchers mentioned, that if R61 and E109 affects receptor binding, this could also take a risk of binding in LDL receptor. The LDL receptor has been identified as one of the reasons for Alzheimer's disease (Waldron et al., 2006). However, the researchers should give an explanation as to why the LDL receptor is involved in Alzheimer since it was not mentioned.
This paper had useful information that can help with the research of Alzheimer's disease. ApoE2 and ApoE4 could lead to finding a cure and preventions of the disease. The paper, however, should have included more detailed explanation of the LDL receptor since It was not mentioned in the introduction. This caused confusion since I did not know how to incorporate the LDL receptor to the results that were found in the 3D model. The LDL receptor is usually mentioned in cholesterol related issues, that's why I believe is important for the reader to know why it could affect patients with Alzheimer's.
I do not believe that the paper was well written, since the information was not provided in the usual format of a primary source. The methods and results were all included in the same section of the paper, this created confusion since I was not able to quickly identify the methods in the paper. For the next step, I believe that the researchers should look into ApoE2 in humans. The paper mentioned that it was rare in homozygous human brain. For those reasons, I believe that knowing more information about it can be important. Conclusion
This research was able to identify factors that could help with findings about Alzheimer's disease. The researchers found a connection between ApoE2 and ApoE3, and Alzheimer's disease. This was due to the fact that ApoE2 and ApoE3 contained the amino acid cysteine. Furthermore, it was found that only ApoE2 and ApoE3 were able to interact with NSO1. Compared to ApoE4, which did not have any interactions. For these reasons, the researchers finalize that S-Nitrosylation can play a big part on Alzheimer's disease. More researcher should focus on the role of LDL and the way in which it can affect patients that have Alzheimer's. This paper was helpful to learn about possible reasons for Alzheimer's. Hopefully, future researchers can allow the creation of a new drug by using ApoE2 and ApoE3.
The researchers looked at the interactions between ApoE and NOS1, which is the nitric oxide, using a cell base model. To accomplish this, the researchers did transfection, which is used to look at the protein function. There are two types of transfection, which are, transiently and stable. The stable is done when the gene is delivered into the nucleus, incorporating the gene into the genome of the individual. (Kim and Eberwine 2010). In this researcher, they did a transiently transfection. Transiently transfection is done by a delivery of the gene into the nucleus without incorporating it into the genome of the individual, this is for a temporary research (Kim and Eberwine 2010). The researchers did this by incorporating the NOS1 into a cell culture called HEK-293, which are human embryonic kidney cells, with all of the ApoE isoforms. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
Co-IP also known as Co-Immunoprecipitation was used to test if all of the isoforms were able to bind to the NOS1. Similarly, using Immunofluorescence, the researchers looked at the overlaps between the ApoE3 and NOS1, when it came to an increase of the arginine transport. Immunofluorescence is used to tag the cells that are being studied. This makes it easier for researchers to look at the interaction between NOS1 and the ApoE3 since the color allows the visualization of the different cells. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
To test for ApoE protein and S-Nitrosylation, the researchers did a purification of a recombination of different human ApoE proteins, which then lead them to do a biotin-switch assay. A biotin-switch assay is used to test if the S-Nitrosylation is detected in the samples used for the experiment since it can allow the detection of proteins. The biotin switch will block all of the S-H groups and S-NO bonds are removed. The SH left will cause a fluorescence that will detect the S-Nitrosylation present in the sample. (Cayman Chemical). Following this method, the researchers did the same process, using human hippocampus lysates that were homozygous ApoE3 and ApoE4 alleles. This can be helpful to look at the effect of ApoE3 and ApoE4 in human brains. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
To look at the psychological aspects of S-Nitrosylation of the ApoE proteins, the researchers made three dimensional atomic models of the receptors using crystal structure template. The three-dimensional atomic models can allow the researchers to look at the characteristics of the molecule which can be helpful for researchers to visualize what's impacting the molecule. (Abrams Et. al., 2011).
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Verve Coffee Roasters Planning at Least Four More Los Angeles Shops
Nick Brown | February 11, 2015
The Verve/Juice Served Here concept shop in DTLA. Photo courtesy of Verve Coffee Roasters.
Following the recent opening of its first Los Angeles bar, and fourth total, Santa Cruz-based Verve Coffee Roasters has plans to open at least four more L.A. neighborhood shops.
"Los Angeles has always been at the forefront of our minds when we thought about expansion beyond Santa Cruz because of its diverse and neighborhood-centric culture," Verve Co-founder Colby Barr said in an announcement today.
At least two shops, one in West Hollywood and one in Highland Park, are being planned for 2015, in addition to a long-rumored L.A. roasting headquarters. The downtown Los Angeles shop opened approximately 10 days ago in a 1,600-square-food space shared with the L.A.-based cold-pressed juice brand Juice Served Here. For more on that shop, check out extensive profiles from Sprudge and the L.A. Times.
When we first reached out to Barr about Verve's LA ambitions in 2013, he shared with us the following:
"The move to LA is an opportunity to share our brand firsthand with a community that has been really supportive of us," says Barr. "We have some great relationships there and look forward to growing with them. Also, the street art scene is out of control, which may or may not really be why I want to go there."
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Rising temperatures increase the likelihood of dehydration, heatstroke and overheating, putting older people and infants most at risk. To help residents cope, our commissioners have issued some tips on how to recognise symptoms and how to stay healthy and safe during the forecasted heatwave.


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"Interpolis" шаховски турнир у Тилбургу, Холандија (1977-1994)

Супер турнир у Тилбургу је претходио супер турнирима у Бугојну и Линаресу. Одржавао се под покровитељством осигуравајуће компаније Interpolis.

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"Fontys" шаховски турнир у Тилбургу, Холандија (1996-1998)

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The Politics of Space
photography by Stephanie Teng
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Hannah Robathan and Isabella Pearce in conversation with Stephanie Teng
Stephanie Teng is a Hong Kong based photographer and artist, whose work we first came across through the wonderful womxn at Anti Diet Riot Club.
This mini-series challenges the norm by filling the frame with powerful female figures of diverse shapes and sexual identities. By shooting from a fixed wide angle lens, the compositions attempt to subvert the standards society imposes on us and amplifies our radical attempt to redefine today's notion of beauty and strength – for womxn, by womxn. We sat down with Stephanie to find out more about the project; how she navigates her self-worth; and the role photography plays in self-expression.
What led you to start your "Politics of Space"' project?
I've always been made to feel hyper aware of the space I took up ever since I was a child. From intrusive stares on the subway to family and friends who always seemed to care more about how I looked doing something rather than what I did – it seemed as though none of my achievements were enough to reflect my worth. Having spent some time in the US during my university years, it helped me untangle some of those negative associations by bridging the personal with the political. I realised that how I chose to carry my body through the world was a direct reflection of the values I uphold and by extension, the rights I advocate for. But this notion was challenged once again after I moved back to Hong Kong and started working in the commercial photography world where I felt pressured to conform to the industry's insatiable demand for thinness and narrow ideals of beauty.
A year ago I suffered a serious injury that left me immobile for a few months and more unfit than I had ever been before. I felt physically and emotionally imprisoned by my own body so I left home again in search for a way out of the lowest point in my life. During a summer course with Magnum Photos and LCC in London, I started exploring photography as a form of therapy. It began as a desperate desire to better understand the tumultuous relationship I had with my own body, especially post injury. By seeking out other womxn who have had similar experiences, I was able to empower others and myself in a process of collective healing.
On a trip this past July, I came across a mural of the Lady of Justice painted from an extreme low angle on the ceiling of the Stock Exchange building (Palacia da Bolsa) in Porto. I was struck by how powerful she looked as she sat on her throne, with the crowds gazing up at her in admiration. In that moment of revelation, it felt as though all the roads I've gone down in my own journey with my body seemed to converge into the conception of "The Politics of Space". At the time I also happened to be traveling with a camera that only had a fixed wide angle lens – which inspired the aesthetic of "extending the body beyond the frame".
Growing up in Hong Kong, a place where you admit there isn't much body diversity, how did this affect your perception of beauty and womanhood?
It really made me overly critical of myself and created this deep seated inadequacy that spilled over into almost every other area of my life. It made me obsessed with appealing to other people's ideal perception of me. This constant need for external validation left me powerless and voiceless.
Can you explain a bit more about the Taking Up Space title, and its double meaning when it comes to metaphorically and then physically, within the camera frame? (Loved this quote from our convo: "I empower the women to take up as much space in the frame as possible – both as women, but also as women whose bodies are marginalised; made to feel ashamed."
Photography has always been more than just a medium of expression for me. It is a metaphor for life both in the language around it and the integrity of the medium. So much of our deepest fears and anxieties are rooted in the way we choose to speak to ourselves. Creating images that redefine that internal narrative became the This project really allowed me to reframe the way I saw and presented myself and my work. It was a way to create a world that I wanted to be a part of as opposed to what society has dictated.
How did you come across Anti-Diet Riot Club? Why is this collaboration important?
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I first came across their Instagram page last summer when I was doing the course at LCC. But because our schedules didn't align at the time, I decided to return to London a year later to see the collaboration through. Their ethos really spoke to me and it was refreshing to find an incredibly strong community of womxn who were all forging their own paths in line with their own truths.
As someone who studied Psychology and Art, how do you believe that these two topics intersect? How did you transform your photography into therapy, and how do you continue to do this with the women you take photos of?
We tend to forget, after we enter the real world, that it's human nature to be relentlessly curious. The pressures of society has a tendency to socialise us out of our child-like obsessions: we learn to value practicality over creativity; competition over collaboration; money over time; fear over courage. Psychology allows me to continue feeding my fascination with the human psyche; and art helps me to empathise with all kinds of unique life stories while constantly re-shaping my relationship with the Self. Both practices offer a window into the collective human experience and propels me to continue telling stories that transform vulnerability into strength.
See more of Stephanie's work on her website.
Stephanie Teng
Stephanie Teng (b.1989) is a Hong Kong based photographer and artist. Since 2015, she has worked with commercial and editorial clients such as Monocle, Condé Nast Traveler, Vice Asia, GQ Japan, Madame Figaro Japan and Hong Kong, Lane Crawford, Swire, Cathay Pacific, Design Anthology and more. In her fine art work, her creative vision is shaped by her passion for creating compelling visual narratives that explore the human condition. She often uses photography as a form of therapy and empowerment.
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Q: autoconf looking for a folder that doesn't exist I've been setting up a PHP development environment on my Sierra Mac. I now have it mostly working, but need to install the intl extension on PHP.
I've tried
sudo pecl install intl

but it's throwing the following error:
/usr/local/autoconf/bin/autoconf: /usr/local/mac-dev-env/autoconf-2.69/bin/autom4te: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
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ERROR: `phpize' failed

It looks like it's looking for the Perl executable in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/perl, which no longer exists, as I've since uninstalled XAMPP. Perl is now located at /usr/bin/perl.
How do I change the location in autoconf?

A: Ok, thanks to Ikegami, here's what worked:
Opened autom4te (at /usr/local/mac-dev-env/autoconf-2.69/bin/autom4te, as specified in the error message).
The comment at the top said that this file should not be edited as it's auto-generated, but I edited the line that referred to XAMPP, and changed the path to /usr/bin/perl
Ran "sudo pecl install intl" again, and ran into the same error with a few different programs (all within the autoconf-2.69 directory). Changed each of them to remove the reference to XAMPP, and replaced with the correct path.
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Q: Whitespace in fractions in XITS I am using XITS to typeset math, but I have noticed that whitespace in fractions gets larger due to subscripts. The minimal example (typesetted with XeLaTex):
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{XITS}
\setsansfont{XITS}
\setmathfont{XITS Math}

\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
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\end{equation}
\end{document}

gives me this:

but I would like the symbols to stay on the same level such as with default math:

How can this be fixed in XITS?

Update: Instead of XITS, I have tried using STIX with pdflatex, xelatex and lualatex. I have also tried XITS with lualatex and the result is always the same. As suggested by @Ruben, I have also tried using
\fontdimen16\textfont2=0pt
\fontdimen17\textfont2=0pt
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which ameliorates the situation

but the difference is still rather noticeable. Going to negative values gives the same result as 0pt and I cannot seem to be able to bring \fontdimen19 to yield any effect.
Is there a better fix?

A: The main problem is that with this font the subscript sits rather deep. You can try to hide this depth with \smash, with lualatex you can also move the subscript a bit up -- but you should test how this looks with other characters. (It is certainly also possible with xelatex, but it is too late to look up the fontdimen numbers):
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
%\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{XITS}
%\setsansfont{XITS}
\setmathfont{XITS Math}
\begin{document}

\begin{equation}
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\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
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\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
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\end{equation}

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Q: Is there any postgreSQL function to calculate mathematical metrics under certain conditions

Call_ID
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Intent_Product

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Loan_BankAccount

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234
StopCheque

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123
request_agent

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900
Loan_BankAccount

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123
request_agent

I have the above table with me:
where "Call_ID" means a call that has been made, "UUID" means a particular query that has been asked in the call, and "Intent_Product" means what is the query about.
The expected output is: Expected_Output
Conditions:

*

*Resolved Count :- Count of the total number of queries that has been resolved (here for example "Loan_BankAccount"= 2, "StopCheque" = 1) (here request_agent has to be ignored as those are not resolved)

*Containment Count :- ((Resolved_Count)x(Total_distinct_calls/total_number_of_turns)) (here for example "Containment_Count" for "Loan_BankAccount" = 2*(2/5) = 0.8

A: with t2 as
(select round(1.0*count(distinct call_id)/count(*), 2) dis_by_calls from t)

select  intent_product
        ,count(*)                   as Resolved_Count
        ,count(*)*max(dis_by_calls) as Containment_Count
from     t, t2
group by intent_product
having   intent_product <> 'request_agent'

intent_product
resolved_count
containment_count

Loan_BankAccount
2
0.80

StopCheque
1
0.40

Fiddle


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True fractional calcium absorption in Chinese children measured with stable isotopes (42Ca and 44Ca)
Warren T. Lee, Sophie S. F. Leung , Susan J. Fairweather-Tait, Dora M. Y. Leung, Heidi S. Y. Tsang, John Eagles, Tom Fox, S. H. Wang, Y. C. Xu, W. P. Zeng, Joseph Lau, J. R. L. Maseri
True fractional Ca absorption (TFCA) was compared in children with different habitual Ca intakes using a double-label stable-isotope technique. Chinese children aged 7 years from Hongkong (n22) and Jiangmen (n12) participated in the study. An oral administration of 8 mg 44Ca in 100 g chocolate milk was given shortly after an intravenous injection of 0.75 mg 42Ca. Ca isotopic ratios were determined in urine samples collected 24 h later using thermal-ionization mass spectrometry. There was no significant difference in TFCA between Jiangmen and Hongkong children (P = 0.16). TFCA of a lower-Ca-intake group (Ca 500 mg/d, n15) with mean Ca intake 862 mg/d was 54.8 (SD 7.3)%; the difference in TFCA was significant (P = 0.016). Serum levels of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol of the children were adequate (33.7 (SD 7.7) ng/ml). The present study indicates that growing children accustomed to a low-Ca diet appear to be able to enhance their absorptive capacity. If it is assumed that dietary Ca absorption by Chinese children resembles their TFCA from a single meal of chocolate milk, then the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for Ca for Chinese children would be lower than the US RDA (800 mg/d), which is based on an estimated 40% Ca absorption as reported for Caucasian children. A comparative absorption study is necessary to determine whether there is any difference in TFCA between Caucasian and Chinese children.
Calcifediol
Calcium Isotopes
Intestinal Absorption
Lee, W. T., Leung , S. S. F., Fairweather-Tait, S. J., Leung, D. M. Y., Tsang, H. S. Y., Eagles, J., Fox, T., Wang, S. H., Xu, Y. C., Zeng, W. P., Lau, J., & Maseri, J. R. L. (1994). True fractional calcium absorption in Chinese children measured with stable isotopes (42Ca and 44Ca). British Journal of Nutrition, 72(6), 883-897. https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19940093
Lee, Warren T. ; Leung , Sophie S. F. ; Fairweather-Tait, Susan J. ; Leung, Dora M. Y. ; Tsang, Heidi S. Y. ; Eagles, John ; Fox, Tom ; Wang, S. H. ; Xu, Y. C. ; Zeng, W. P. ; Lau, Joseph ; Maseri, J. R. L. / True fractional calcium absorption in Chinese children measured with stable isotopes (42Ca and 44Ca). In: British Journal of Nutrition. 1994 ; Vol. 72, No. 6. pp. 883-897.
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Israel Planning Major New Solar Power Station
The proposed photovoltaic farm would provide almost five times more electricity than Israel's current largest solar array
Lior Gutman | 14:05 04.12.2017
A new solar power plant with nearly five times more capacity than Israel's current largest solar array will be built in the north of the country with construction expected to begin as early as the first half of next year, according to draft proposal documents from the Ministry of Energy that were obtained by Calcalist.
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The ministry has shared the draft documents, which proposes the construction of a 250-megawatt solar farm and for two other power plants, with other Israeli government ministers, completing one of the last procedural requirements before the plan's approval is finalized.
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With a capacity of 250 megawatts, the new photovoltaic plant would provide 2% of Israel's current electricity output. The plan also includes a 70-megawatt solar plant that will be located in a different part of northern Israel and a 450-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in the center of the country.
Menora Mivtachim Holdings Ltd., one of Israel's largest insurers, is the developer of the larger solar plant. The company expects the project to cost between $230-290 million, according to an employee of the company who spoke to Calcalist on condition of anonymity.
In October, Menorah announced a partnership with Canadian Solar Inc. to establish a $60 million investment fund focused on solar energy.
The smaller solar power station will be developed by Israel-based Doral Group Ltd. and Kesem Energy Ltd. will build the conventional power generation facility.
Solar farm (Illustration). Photo: AP
The draft proposal indicates that the Ministry of Energy will submit the plans to Israel's National Infrastructure Committee, a governmental body with the authority to fast track critical projects.
Despite abundant year-round sunshine, Israel lags behind much of the world in solar power, relying mostly on natural gas and coal for electricity. With 766 megawatts of installed solar capacity, according to the World Resource Council, Israel is comparable to Denmark, which ranks 14th among European countries. Germany's solar capacity stands at 39.6 gigawatts, Italy's at 18.9 gigawatts, and Belgium's at 3.2 gigawatts.
Solar powerClean EnergyGreen EnergyMenora MivtachimPhotovoltaic
What about all the "dude shemesh"
When calculating Israel's total solar capacity, you should include the total electric equivalent output of all the dude shemesh solar water boilers on the roofs of every house and apartment in Israel....does anyone out there have an estimate of how many megawatts it would take to heat all the water that is currently heated by all the rooftop boilers in Israel?
Yoel Jeff Kreps, Israel Energy Technologies | 24.01.19
Israel lagging in solar power?
So frustrating since the 1950s-1970s Israel was a true leader in solar R&D, but perhaps due to their relative expensiveness compared even to imported fossil fuels, Israel has actually lagged behind Europe and many countries in installing solar plants inside the country while some Israeli companies put in many in places like California and elsewhere. Hope Israel now catches up.
jgarbuz | 04.12.17


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NL MVP Ryan Braun Busted For Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Ryan Braun is faced with a 50-game ban for PEDs.
Just a few weeks ago, Ryan Braun was on top of the world. The Milwaukee Brewers slugger was the reigning National League MVP for Major League Baseball, and a sporting superstar. Not so fast, my friends. As it turns out, Braun's accomplishments may have been tainted by allegations of cheating. Reigning NL MVP Ryan Braun is facing a 50-game suspension after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
According to a spokesman for Braun, there are "highly unusual circumstances surrounding this case which will support Ryan's complete innocence." Which is, of course, what they all say when they get caught taking HGH or anabolic steroids or whatever performance enhancer du jour they may have been shooting into their neck. Just ask Roger Clemens and Alberto Contador.
Honestly, the only upstanding thing would be to return the MVP award and admit that you cheated, assuming you didn't take a tainted supplement and there wasn't a lab error. Braun says he's innocent and has appealed his suspension, but honestly; how often do you accidentally eat steroids while having one of the best season of your career, both in terms of health and performance?
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Making Music in Lockdown in 2020
Hey, it's been a while since I've written anything in this blog. Sometimes life happens and you just don't allocate time to write. 2020 is no exception for me, even in the circumstances that we are now in.
Many good things happened to me on 2020, nonetheless. One good thing that came out of lockdown was getting online together on Tuesdays with some fine folks and set one hour to make some musical piece based on a theme decided at the beggining. A jam, for those who don't need extra words. After many years wishing to learn how to make music on the computer, I got Ableton Live and started making these. There were 37 jams, and I participated in 34 of those jams.
As 2020 closes, I would like to share with you my results. All for good fun and having a hobby, in its most essential meaning. I've been also playing some stuff over my Instagram @chiguire, just to reach out to friends, acquaintances and curious folks.
I hope you enjoy this, and that your 2021 will be the best possible.
An Introduction to HaxeFlixel with HTML5: London Haxe Meetup 2017 talk slides
You can find the slides in here.
Our own icons 8
I'm a bit shocked on how many people think that today's world is incapable of producing their own icons, given the amount of recent celebrity death news.
I think this may be related to the amount and quality (specifically production values) of the media we're exposed to. It's great we have this quality around, but I believe this creates at the same time an implicit message that you may not ever be able to reach that quality, no matter how much you do. And don't even think about it if you don't make it your main trade.
However, I believe in the entertainment oriented to the people that are physically and emotionally close to you. From that point of view, we have in our society hundreds of entertainers that with their talent and charisma are able to touch us beyond what a TV celebrity might reach. If you allow it so. Big screen celebrities will keep existing, but they are not able to dictate your immediate environment, nor your future.
In short: don't justify yourself with crappy music or bad shows as an excuse to say that yesterday's things were so much better. Don't age prematurely.
Short posts: Time to go back to blogging?
After 8 years writing short messages on Twitter, I've noticed something. It's not a sudden observation, but rather an accumulation of these years. Maybe what I'm noticing is tiredness. I love Twitter to share information, and with Reddit and other websites these are my link sources; I like also to share back what I read. However, I see that it's tiring to use Twitter to discuss and create a community.
I've always compared my timeline (that comprises more than 2000 accounts) as trying to drink from a fire hose. It's not in my interest to have a carefully curated timeline, but rather a fountain of serendipity. But this goes against talking to, you know, real people.
I usually encourage anyone, with whom I don't have a previous relationship and that writes me through a DM or a Facebook chat, to write me to my email (ciro.duran@gmail.com, just so you know). Email as a way to communicate that I can read when I want, with no notifications, with the length I want, and with no restrictions beyond my available time, is still for me the best way to communicate between peers (group conversations are another subject, much more complex). I like to read your email, and I like to answer you, though I confess that sometimes I don't do it, rather because of distractions (and real life priorities) than because of malice.
On the other hand, Twitter restrictions impede expressing about things that are larger than an SMS. This already happened when we moved from SMSs to mobile instant messaging (i.e. iMessage or Whatsapp). But the perspective of Twitter increasing their limits to 10k characters is ridiculous to me; it's a huge bait and switch, and Twitter passed that no return point a long time ago. It would change its nature to something completely new, and I'm not sure I'd like it.
I like to keep my writings as mine. If I write on Twitter or in Facebook is because I value more being able to communicate to other people rather than keeping what I write. But companies rise and fall, as it has happened before (e.g. Geocities). And what you write might be in danger of going away with the company. With that in mind, I prefer to make myself responsible of taking care of my writings and have the capacity to copy them and store them where I want to, with data formats that make it easy, and not hidden inside some configuration screen.
Having said this, I'd like to store my impressions in a much more trustworthy place. And then figure out how to communicate it to other people. This is the first writing.
I met Amon in Brixton: Celebrating David Bowie 1
David Bowie died this past Monday 11th of January. It was very sudden, unexpected, as he had released a new record days before, and also he had his birthday just as recently.
I also happen to live in South London, not too far from Bowie's birthplace, Brixton. I've been there a couple of times. It's a really ethnically diverse place, next to Central London, great food, and markets where to buy plantains, one of my favourite foods I used to eat in Venezuela, for cheap.
I had the news of Bowie's death in my head all day. So, after my working day finished, I travelled to Brixton to see what was going to happen there. To be honest, I had no idea if something was going to happen. I did not check the news. No one really had a central voice that said "let's all gather here."
I personally have not listened to more than three or four songs from Bowie, but I thought it was a unique opportunity to see history in the making. To see part of something bigger than anyone. Gathering around to celebrate a man that had just become his songs. A man that now will live in the guitars and musical instruments of all those who play him. That's his level of influence.
I got down in Brixton railway station and the first thing I did was to look for something for dinner. Meanwhile, I began to think what the hell was I doing there. I had only learned of Bowie's birthplace two hours before. I had no idea where to go or what to do. So I looked on Twitter to see what was happening around. I found out about Bowie's mural next to Morleys Department Store, and the Ritzy Cinema, which had put a big sign honouring Bowie.
So I went to the mural, which was nearest, to see what people were doing, It was surreal. There was a big crowd around the mural, with lots of people raising their hands with their phones, probably attempting to capture the mural and the front row of people putting flowers. But from my point of view, it was just half of the mural, with lots of little screens around. Were they trying to capture just the lower half of the mural? The heads and phones of all the people piled up there, like I was? Some people were really happy showing off their pictures between their groups.
There was another big crowd nearby. The crowd was not gathered around anything in particular, and after they left there was nothing, just an empty seat. I could hardly listen to a guitar playing, but that was enough for people to sing Bowie's songs spontaneously. Some people went as groups, but in general, no one knew each other, except that they were there out of their love for David Bowie.
My wife and a friend joined me right after, and I showed them the place I had arrived just 10 minutes before. I considered all of this like a theme park that was in development, with attractions that come and go. You were an attraction if you brought your musical instrument, or came dressed as your favorite Bowie era. And very soon, all these places will become shrines to come and feel a connection with the artist.
Not long after we were standing there some guy comes next to us and asks us what do we think about John Lennon. He said it in a very convincing voice, as he was really attending John Lennon's memorial. After a very awkward minute, he started laughing and began to tell us his story.
He started listening to Bowie when he was fifteen, that it had touched his heart, that John Lennon, Roger Waters, and David Bowie were his favourite musicians. That England had so much good music to show up. That it was the musicians the soul and the face of the country, not the politicians.
It was these guys that really communicated the values of our society, and that that made him very, very proud of being an Englishman. In London's everyday, it's very rare that someone will come out of the blue and pour their heart on to strangers, but right there, right now, it was the correct moment.
Before he left us he jokingly invited us to his place to eat. Probably our face was a clear sign of declining his invitation. Nevertheless, I asked him his name before he left. "Amon", he said. He said he was really Irish, but that he had been living many years around London.
We continued walking to the nearby square in Brixton. The Ritzy Cinema had a huge sign honouring Bowie, and the square in front was full of people. Young and old. Everyone remembering him and his songs. Some with musical instruments, and others with speakers that were too weak for the vast public space around. But the weakness of the speakers was aided by the people around, who started chanting the songs and thus everyone that was a bit farther started singing.
The center of the square was particularly packed with people. I could not what everyone was gathering around there. But I could see that a building next to the square had all their lights on, with people next to their window celebrating the musician as well. One of the windows had a projector showing mute music videos.
There was a bust that suddenly fell into the attention of everyone, as one guy hopped into the bust, embracing his legs around it, and started putting some masked tape to the face of the bust. After putting the tape, it was obvious what was going to happen next, with a fucsia spray one part of the eye and the forehead was now painted with a thunder in Ziggy Stardust's fashion.
This was it, there was no other objective in this gathering, more than to share the feeling of having enjoyed his music, celebrate it, and be happy for it. It was not a mourning, it was a reaffirmation of what he represented and the legacy that he left.
New games and reorganising the list 18
I finally uploaded here Blame Clotilde!, a game made in past August together with Héctor Vargas, ¡it was a great experience! I also seized the moment to upload several game I've done throughout several game jams, so they now have their own place.
I met Craig at the train 1
I was leaving my worktown very late as I was with some friends after work. Thus, there were no longer any direct trains to my home, so I had to take one that passed through Gatwick Airport and then connect somewhere in London.
I was ready for the long trip, so I was leisurely reading a book while hearing music. I noticed some guy barely able to stand, right next to me, speaking loudly on his mobile; I wasn't able to know what he was talking about as my music drowned his words.
He eventually sits in the opposite of the table I was sitting in. It was probably that the battery of his phone died, or hanged up, but he shut up and then started looking who to talk to. It was not difficult task as I was almost the only one in the coach.
The guy had a black cap, weared backwards, showing a very stylised figure of an Egyptian Sphinx. He also wore some huge pilot sunglasses that covered his eyes, and had a plastic bottle that used to contain water, and now contained some yellow alcoholic beverage that might as well be used for de-clogging sinks.
"What are you reading?", he asked. At first I did not pay attention, as it is usually a tacit rule that someone with earphones wishes not to be disturbed, unless it's a train guard asking for tickets. But since this guy was clearly so drunk, I guessed he was not much into etiquette.
So I started listening to this guy, who immediately switched to how happy he was. He had just left a girlfriend who worked in Gatwick Airport. He had two girlfriends, he told me. This one, and a correctional officer, who he met when he got out of jail. He had one baby with each one. He was particularly happy because he felt his future was assured by the jobs of one of these girls.
He asked me what I did for a living. I usually do not reveal immediately I make games for a living to strangers. So I answered that I worked with computers. He started a whole speech on how he has worked with computers and how he has assembled and disassembled them.
I was then a bit more specific, and revealed that I worked developing software. He then asked in what sense what I did improved his life. It's actually a good question, regardless I develop games or not. I seriously doubted this guy had a bank account, so I couldn't appeal to that, but even then, if you think about it, being shut out of modern finances is in no small part an influence from computers and what me and other programmers do. I gave a really clunky answer I couldn't remember.
The final subject we touched was the latest money-making scheme he was devising. He asked me how much money per weight a fish costed in the High Street. To be honest, I did not understand to which fish he was referring to, as my vocabulary in English for fish is quite limited. I took my earnest intention to guess, and said between 5 and 10 pounds. He said it was about 7.5 pound, and claimed that for that price he could sell as much as four times the amount of fish.
So his plan was to buy fish from the Peckham market, and he also mentioned Hoxton as an alternative. Also buy one or two refrigerated vans, and distribute fish around the south of London. The only thing he needed to do was to have a laptop at his home where he would run the company. I asked him who could he hire to drive the vans, as this person would need to be trusted to drive well, or at least not to take the van away. He disregarded that as an important issue, he said he would just hire an uncle, or a relative that could take care of that. He surely seemed really confident and happy about this plan.
As I got to the station I would change trains, I said goodbye, got my stuff, and asked him before I left the train what was his name. "Craig", he said. So I said bye to Craig, and wished him good luck in his endeavour.
And then all trains to my home in the next hour were cancelled and I had to take a bus in the end, but that's another issue.
Dancing Cubes, a voxel art tool
May I present you the first release of Dancing Cubes, a tool for making voxel art, available for Windows. With the tool the artist may build models to make tiles in 2.5D or models with voxel art, using basic constructions blocks. It's available in itch.io, where you will be able to download it.
The tool is based in the prototyping challenge proposed by Daniel Cook in his blog [Lost Garden](http://www.lostgarden.com/2013/10/prototyping-challenge-3d-modeling-tool.html).
The program still has many rough edges, but I appreciate your feedback. Especially if you have used similar programs.
Here's a quick timelapse on how to make a model inside the program:
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Amores Perros (Mexico)
Amores Perros. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4Ayg
Seemingly inconsequential events line up until a tragic car accident brings three different narratives together to create this movie. This emotional film centered on loss and regret is considered one of the best by Alejandro González Iñárritu.1
The Sacred Science (Peru)
The Sacred Science. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4Aym
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The Color of Passion (Mexico)
The Color of Passion. telenovelas.fandom.com. 29 September 2922, https://go.iu.edu/4AWn
This Mexican telenovela Rebecca who holds a grudge against her sister Arianna for obtaining everything Rebecca has ever wanted in live, including the man she loves.3
The Garifuna Journey (Belize)
The Garifuna Journey. New Day Films. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWo
Working closely with Garifuna tradition bearers, this "outsider and insider" collaboration is the first of its kind, one that captures the triumph of spirit of the Garifuna people. With vivid and engaging footage shot entirely in Belize, the documentary celebrates the continuity of Garifuna culture in the face of overwhelming odds.4
Hinterland/Y Gwyll (Wales)
Y Gwyll. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWp
In a remote corner of Wales DCI Tom Mathais solves crime sin a town full of dark secrets. This four-part drama series from the BBC is set in Aberystwyth, Wales and contained English and Welsh dialogue.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire. IMDB.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWt
This film by director Céline Sciamma follows Marianne, a woman hired to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride and in order to paint her portrait Marianne must work secretly and poses as a companion for Héloïse. As the two women grow closer, the intimacy between them grows until the portrait becomes a collaborative act and expression of their love.6
The Peasant and the Priest (Italy)
The Peasant and the Priest. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWv
This documentary by Polish artist Esther Podemski tells the story of two elderly Italian men and how their way of life reflects that of medieval Italy in many ways. Sergio is a sharecropper utilizing ancient farming methods, and Father Oreste serves in a religious capacity working toward making the world a better place as he fights against the forced prostitution of African women in Italy.7
Empress Ki/기황후/ 奇皇后 (Korea)
Empress Ki. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWx
This historical romance follows Empress Ki, a famous Korean-born woman from Goryeo. This drama follows Empress Ki as she ascends to power despite class restrictions weighting against her to become the favored wife of the Mongol emperor Togon-temür.
吸血鬼ハンターD ブラッドラスト Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (Japan)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Wikipedia.org. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWz
Based off the famous Japanese lite novel series Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi this anime follows the famous character D as he sets out to save a kidnapped woman and destroy the vampire that abducted her.9
舌尖上的中国 A Bite of China (China)
A Bite of China. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWA
This CCTV documentary explores the diverse food culture found throughout China. This documentary is a view into famous, and less known foods of China through the lens of famous chefs, regional cuisine, as well as the traditional food of ethnic minorities.10
The Wedge. Wikipedia.org. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWB
The Wedge is an Australian comedy sketch show that takes place in the same fictional town over the course of two seasons. Each episode makes a nod to previous episodes and ties all of them together in a comedic sequence. 11
The Babadook. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWC
This Australian psychological horror follows a single mother plagued by the sudden death of her husband as she struggles to cope and care for her young son. After finding an eery children's book titled "Mister Babadook" strange things begin to happen in her home.12
The Australian Dream
The Australian Dream. IMDb.com. 29 September 2022, https://go.iu.edu/4AWD
This documentary follows retired AFL star Adam Goodes who left the sport to take up advocacy after experiencing racial abuse during a match. Goodes, an activist for Indigenous causes in Australia, came face to face with the all too common fact that Australia as a whole is often unwilling to confront its problematic past and present relations with aboriginal communities throughout the continent.
Student blogger Kathryn Vandrey is a graduate student and Media Services desk staff member. Kathryn studies Chinese language and history.
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