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Home	News	Minister Lamola welcomes 1 068 new Correctional services recruits
Minister Lamola welcomes 1 068 new Correctional services recruits
by centra August 2, 2021
written by centra August 2, 2021
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, says government's foremost priority of creating opportunities for young people and supporting them to access work opportunities has been demonstrated through the recruitment of the 1 068 new correctional officials.
Addressing the welcoming ceremony for the new recruits who were part of the 2019/20 learnership programme at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), the Minister said government remains committed to investing and empowering young people economically.
The 1 068 new recruits will commence their duties on Monday and they are a second group of learners to be absorbed following the absorption of the first group of 923 learners in June this year.
Since the inception of the Correctional Services Learnership Programme in 2010, a total of just over 10 000 young people comprising of 4 542 females and 5 488 males were trained.
"A total of 10 015 of these learners were permanently appointed into security positions, only 15 learners were not appointed due to criminal records and natural attrition. We have set ourselves an annual target of 20% for youth employment, we will ensure that the department achieves this target. We will spare no effort to tackle inequalities and systemic barriers which are still prevalent in the country," Lamola said.
The Minister said government has committed itself to effective and humane incarceration where inmates are rehabilitated so that they can return to make a full contribution in their communities.
"This is a complicated mandate as we all know that reforming the character of a person is extraordinary difficult. This says that your job will very difficult, but it must still be done, day in and day out, in a humane and respectful way.
"It demands compassion and skill in discerning the character of others, and firmness – in short, it requires men and women willing to combine public service with the highest standards of care for those in custody," Lamola said.
He said only a correctional system with humanity and respect at its core will deliver rehabilitation.
"Being a correctional official is a tough job. It requires dedication, professionalism, resilience, courage and a belief that people can change. However, this work plays a vital role in protecting the public and protecting victims from prolonged harm.
"What is expected of you is adherence to the highest standard of professionalism in your line of duty and ensuring that sentences determined by our courts are served by inmates," the Minister said.
With challenges of smuggling of contrabands and gangsterism at correctional facilities, the Minister warned the new recruits against committing corruption.
"I need you to understand that there are no short-cuts in life. You will not get rich through corruption. When you serve in your new roles, you will certainly face your fair share of challenges. You will not build your community through corruption. You will not inspire future generations. On the contrary, you will be amongst those in orange overalls in our facilities," the Minister said. – SAnews
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An inmate at the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville is facing additional charges in an order of protection violation case, according to the county sheriff's office.
The sheriff's office and Aurora police took Raul Perez, 19, of the 200 block of North Fourth Street, Aurora, into custody April 30 at his residence on a charge of a violation of an order of protection. Police, however, said Perez was additionally charged June 13 with stalking and cyberstalking as a result of their investigation into an inmate using the phone system at the county jail.
Bond for Perez was set at $100,000 with 10 percent to apply, meaning he would have to post $10,000 to be released from jail pending court proceedings.


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Lady Moura was, at the time of her 1990 launch, one of—if not the most—expensive yachts ever built. She also has the distinct honor of keeping the same owner, Saudi billionaire Nasser Al-Rashid, since her launch. Her build required four years of collaboration between Italian designer and architect Luigi Sturchio and German shipyard Blohm + Voss.


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CAYLEE HAMMACK RISES FROM THE ASHES WITH HER NEW SONG "FORGED IN THE FIRE" AVAILABLE TODAY
Capitol Nashville Recording Artist's Debut Album IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU Set For Release On August 14
Nashville, TN – August 7, 2020 – Capitol Nashville's Caylee Hammack is sharing more of her unique journey with the gripping new song "Forged In The Fire," available here. Taken from her forthcoming debut album IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU available on August 14, the autobiographical track details how Hammack's house burned down while she was away on a songwriting retreat losing just about everything – except for a few song-inspiring pieces such as her grandmother's quilt. Written by Hammack, with Thomas Finchum and Andy Skib, the song's lyrics are thought-provoking asking "When does a phoenix learn how to fly, Do I get my wings when I stop asking why." Hammack revealed more behind the song in a special interview and video premiere exclusively with PEOPLE, who declares her anticipated debut album as a "lavish feast of autobiographical storytelling, served up with catchy hooks and the singer's power-packed voice" available here.
"My father used to tell me that all of the strongest and most beautiful things are forged in fire. Iron is weak until you work it in fire. Glass can't be blown without immense heat," elaborated Hammack. "I grew up with this saying as a motto handed down when I needed reminding and it was rarely thought of; until I had an electrical fire at my home in 2017. I lost so much, but gained so much more. I learned that material things don't matter. The people who surrounded me and helped me find the salvageable pieces loved me and I wasn't alone through the hardship. Life was dark at the time, but the love I felt around me was deep. God's seen me through, and also given me some stories to tell. What more could I ask for?"
Hammack's upcoming debut record IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU takes listeners on an intimate journey, from growing up in Ellaville, GA, braving a medical scare and coming out the other side of a bad love that was the catalyst for her turning down a scholarship to Belmont University and ultimately arriving in Nashville, TN. With Hammack co-writing and co-producing every track on the 13-song collection, the album exudes that Hammack is all about the truth, the complete, whole unvarnished truth. Some of country music's most potent women have also thrown in on Hammack's debut. With appearances by Reba, Ashley McBryde and Tenille Townes, Hammack is setting a bar for women across the genre. Hammack also continues to show her reverence for classic country music, just releasing a collaboration with Country music icon Alan Jackson: a special rendition of Don Williams' "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good."
Currently nominated for ACM "New Female Artist Of The Year" and "Music Event Of The Year," Caylee Hammack has been noted as an "Artist To Watch" by outlets including The Bobby Bones Show, Rolling Stone and HITS Magazine for her "voice to move mountains" (Rolling Stone). With her breakout Top 30 single "Family Tree" marking the most-added single at Country radio by a female artist in over three years, Hammack has "created a kind of country music that's larger—and brighter—than real life" (HITS Magazine). The Capitol Nashville recording artist has previously brought her unforgettable live set to opening slots for Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Trisha Yearwood, Brothers Osborne and some of country music's biggest festivals. For more information visit www.cayleehammack.com.
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When we feel disenchanted with being in love, it's easy to think that we're the only ones struggling with such troubles. We tend to compare how we feel about our relationship with how other couples appear.
The root of emotional intelligence is self-awareness, sometimes called mindfulness, which takes us deep beneath the surface of our identities as "doers" and the roles we play.
What can you say? While it's not an easy question to answer, one thing is certain: It's worse to say nothing than to say the wrong thing. Here are five ways to respond helpfully.
Our brain chemicals reward us by zapping us with excitement and bubbly happiness. Then, just as quickly, the magic disappears. So, we try again. It's natural to want what feels good.


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Analysts say RIM is a "bad software company"
RIM's stock has been sinking as the company seems to be way behind the curve compared to Apple and Google. The company recently announced a new lineup of BlackBerry 7 phones but it wasn't enough to change analyst's sentiments. We've even heard rumors of QNX phones being released in Q1, but it's going to take more than that to satisfy the street.
Check out the following clip from an International Business Times article. These analysts have some very harsh views on RIM.
Analysts have seemingly lost all faith in the company. Even after RIM announced a set of new "superphones" that will run on the company's BlackBerry 7 operating system, the company's stock still slid. Eric Jackson, manager of Ironfire Capital, put it best when describing the tech industry's overall thoughts on RIM.
"It's a bad software company. They're not going to change their stripes over night," Jackson said to Business Insider. He added, the company has "Bad cofounders, and they're going to drive this company straight into the ground."
Jackson even said he thought the company will be put out of its misery in 2013 and get bought out. In a note, Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek expressed a similar sentiment.
"RIM management has referred to their QNX phones as "superphones," but we find these specs uncompelling," Misek wrote. "We see this as nothing more than ditching features, functionality and performance in an attempt to adhere to a Q1 launch commitment to carriers and partners."
RIM has a lot of work to do if they want to stay relevant, and let's hope they get it done. RIM seems to be headed down the same path that Palm recently went down. Once a dominant player in the PDA space, Palm withered down to almost nothing (in terms of big business) and was scooped up by HP. Let's hope RIM can pull a rabbit out of a hat and create an incredible device!


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Coventry City deducted 10 points by the Football League
Coventry City have been deducted 10 points by the Football League.
A High Court hearing in London on Tuesday ruled that the League One club was "in administration".
The move follows a long-running a row with their Ricoh Arena landlords, Arena Coventry Ltd, over a year's unpaid rent of £1.3m.
The deduction means the Sky Blues, who have seven days to appeal against the decision, slip from 10th to 14th in the table.
In a statement, Coventry said they were "disappointed by the decision" but added that they "understand the Football League's course of action in accordance with its rules and regulations.
It continued: "We welcome the offer for further dialogue which we hope to commence at the earliest available opportunity.
"Coventry City Football Club has the right to appeal the decision within seven days and discussions have already started with regards to the club's next official course of action."
Discussions have already started with regards to the club's next official course of action
Coventry City statement
The news is the culmination of a series of events which began a week ago, when it was announced that Coventry City Football Club Ltd, the non-operating subsidiary company that held the lease and licence for the Ricoh Arena, was to go into administration.
Sisu, the consortium which owns the Sky Blues, argued that the company did not hold any assets or staff of its own.
However, the Football League have responded to news from the High Court hearing by taking the 10 points away from the Sky Blues.
The move all but ends Coventry's hopes of making the play-offs - they are now 15 points behind sixth-placed Sheffield United with only six games remaining.
But they appear to be safe from any danger of relegation - 21st placed Scunthorpe are 12 points behind Steven Pressley's side.
Coventry, however, will be boosted by the agreement with ACL which sees them playing their final three homes games of the season at the Ricoh Arena.
The location of Friday's home fixture against Doncaster had previously been in doubt, after last week the Sky Blues moved all staff and club shop stock from the Ricoh Arena to their training ground.
Despite their financial state, the Sky Blues have been attracting interest from American property tycoon Preston Haskell IV, who has visited Coventry to analyse the club first hand.
Coventry reach Ricoh agreement
Read more on Coventry City: Short-term agreement reached over Ricoh
Coventry face 10-point deduction
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everybody, please stop looking at my website
I mean it
you're going to get me in trouble
I have a lot of affinity for Newsweek. I first started reading it when I was around 12. Slowly I grew from reading one substanceless entertainment article per issue to reading the meatier, real news articles to reading entire issues cover to cover. I started to remember the names of the people who worked there: Fareed Zakaria, Michael Isikoff, Jonathan Alter, George Will, Sally Quinn, Steven Levy. I don't remember ever really reading the news on the internet, or watching cable news during that time; Newsweek was pretty much my primary news source. In the days and weeks after September 11th, the lead-up to the war in Iraq, the 2004 presidential election… Newsweek was the place I turned to for answers. If not for Newsweek I doubt I would've become a news junkie, an armchair politico, someone with Opinions on Things.
Eventually I got smarter and came to recognize the magazine's many faults, and as I went off to college I stopped being a regular reader. And yet, like Mad Magazine, I still wish it well. I'll check it out every once in a while at the library, or in bookstores, or in airport newsstands. I even liked the widely-panned 2009 redesign. Over the past two years, it's been distressing to see this humble print magazine flailing around, just trying to survive in a dying medium during an economic recession, hemorrhaging millions of dollars each year, trying desperately to figure out this "web" thing as it's sold off by its parent corporation, seeing its staffers flee the sinking ship, being ridiculed by its many critics, before finally grabbing ahold on Tina Brown in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. How did Newsweek get into this mess? Can it ever get out of it? I just want Newsweek to get to a point of fiscal stability, to become profitable, and, if it's not too much trouble, to become worth reading again.
And then I see garbage like this, and I realize it deserves all the flak it gets, if not more.
the saddest identity provider
Yahoo! Kids (née Yahooligans!) is terrible
Here are the search results for "phineas and ferb," the name of a popular Disney cartoon:
Are you freakin kidding me
p>So, Google+ looks interesting. They've clearly put a lot of thought into these things. The "Circles" thing sounds boss for people like me who like putting people into lists. Facebook has "lists" like that except they've been sorta phasing it out and hiding it in drop down lists because no one used it, which annoys me. I don't get the "Sparks" thing, isn't that just Google Reader? And what is Google Buzz's place in this whole thing?
Over on Regular Google, they appear to be getting rid of the colorful icons that I love so much in favor of some unGooglely red & gray jazz:
current redesign
Is there no end to their tyranny?
Did you hear Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser put a fellow justice in a chokehold?
(a beat)
Now, that's what I call "judicial activism!"
remind me what we're doing again?
jesus chloe get a freakin pen
for the last time: im gonna dive into the ocean, save bin ladens brain, and implant it into a robot body so america has a constant threat, and i can go back to torturin people & stuff
i don't know about this jack i rather like fighting greenhouse gases
it's really calming and i feel like i'm actually doing something you know? back when we were bombing terrorists all we did was create new generations of terrorists… it was really bummin me out
dammit chloe stfu and open another socket, im about to put on the wetsuit
heh heh… id like to see jeff try to shoot an undestructable robot… thatll show him… maybe then hell stop bragging about shooting osama… then mom will see who the true hero is… and ill finally get the love and affection i never got as a kid…
uh i'm still on the line jack
ENEMIES LIST
Big Govt.
Big Water
Big Milk
Big Corn
Big Gulp
Wow, eight years. I remember back when I was writing the fifth anniversary post, and now here we are. If this website were a child he'd (yes, my site would be a boy, deal with it) be starting third grade in the fall. Or maybe fourth grade, because he'd probably have skipped a grade, on account of being so smart #whoa #crazy
Cowboys & Aliens is paying Michael Kupperman royalties, right?
ahahaha this picture
Well, that was a scary forty-five minutes… I was trying to renew my hosting and the thing wouldn't let me use my dang card
But it's all good now, I think
Last night, there was a hockey game and a political debate happening AT THE SAME TIME, so I attempted to liveblog both
5:26 PM: what a cheap shot
5:35 PM: the man from massachusetts makes a good point
6:03 PM: too many men
6:13 PM: blatant pizza advertising
6:48 PM: nice deflection
6:49 PM: these guys are like twins
Accidentally looked at a tech blog again
There was a nice little "floater" in the Chicago Tribune a week or two ago about Ivan Brunetti, one of my favorite comics people. Always good to hear how he's doing
Apparently Matt Groening introduced Patton Oswalt to him, which is a picture I'd very much like to see on that awesome people hanging out together tumblr
All this talk about "Weinergate" made me think about Weinerville, which was probably my favorite TV show when I was in third grade. To YouTube!
Initial thoughts: 1. Wow, I'd forgotten so much about this show! 2. Wow, this has not aged well at all! But it's still sorta charming, because I always find puppets charming (even if they're freakish human/puppet hybrids), and it has a humble "gee whiz gang, let's put on a show!" vibe going for it. I can't imagine a puppet show ever making it onto today's Nickelodeon, now that every kids show is about teenagers who sing
Time to stop reading tech blogs
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I bought this expecting a nice guitar for the money. It is all of that and more. I also own an Alvarez AD60-CE, and if you're looking for a dreadnought, look no further--but I also wanted a Grand Auditorium. I've been playing for nearly 40 years, own Martin, Seagull, Yamaha, and lots of electrics. I've had the AG75CE for about a month, long enough for a thorough workout.
The tonal range of the AG75CE is outstanding. Play near the bridge and you get clear, high tones, or play over the sound hole for rich, deep tones. It's like a different guitar depending on where you hit the strings, and all good. It sounds great both plugged and unplugged, Alvarez tough yet beautiful. My only gripe is the built-in tuner, which appears to lack an auto-off. I'm already on my third battery. I don't have that problem with the older system in my AD60CE.
All in all, this is a great guitar. For the money, it's outstanding.
This is beautiful guitar, finish is great, construction is phenomenal and the sound is bold. Only reason I chose 4 stars was because I found a dead fret on the 13th fret, high E string. The seller was extremely accommodating and helpful. No hassle what so ever for assistance in anyway.
4.0 out of 5 starsIf you want better, you gotta pay more. This is a nice guitar.
Overall, this is a nice guitar. I have another AE guitar, but as many guitarists know, you can't have just one. For the past few years, I've been playing a Breedlove. I love the slightly smaller neck. But, I wanted something with a bigger sound when not plugged in. I shopped around a bit locally and online. I'm not even sure how I came to target this guitar, but I checked out some online demos, then went back out to several local music stores to try it out. None of them had this model in stock, so I tried a few other cheaper Alvarez models. Also, I've owned an Alvarez in the past and liked it.
I will say that I didn't purchase the guitar through Amazon.com. I went through another site because of their financing deals. I figured buying it online, if I ended up not liking it, I can sell it on eBay (which I've done with several other guitars).
But, so far, I really like this guitar. It does project well when not plugged in. I have a set of Bright Bronze strings on and it sounds great. I've been taking it to jam sessions and the other guitarist is in love with it. It looks great, too. I've had no problems with the neck. I'm going to get an extra saddle and lower it. I haven't played much plugged in, but it's been fine so far. If I run into any issues, I'll update my review.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because during my music store travels, I played a couple other similarly priced guitars (slightly more expensive) that just knocked me out. I didn't purchase any of those because one of them didn't have a good financing deal on it and the other was a composite material and I'm just not sure I want fake wood. So, I'm still very happy with the Alvarez, it's just not a "knock it out of the park" kind of guitar. If you can't afford $600 and up, this is a really nice guitar to have.
5.0 out of 5 starsNot your $1000 acoustic, but a great Mid-Level Guitar!
Love that it has both the standard 1/4 inch cable hook up and the XLR hookup! Also love the built in tuner and dual pick-ups and the ability to alter the level of the bridge pickup versus the general pick up inside. No issues with this instrument in the 2 years I have had it. I am by no means a high level musician. I play for my church once a month and for leisure so I knew I wanted a good acoustic/electric for an affordable price and this was it!
4.0 out of 5 starsHigh quality mid-range guitar.
The grand auditorium body is perfect for any modern finger style guitarist and wraps around my body structure very well.
The entire body has curves everywhere and feels comfortable all around.
Has a deep cutaway that allows full access to the fretboard.
The closest guitar you can get similar to a classical but still a steel guitar.
The tuning pegs are very high quality, wind easily, and stay in tune.
The electrics are nothing to spectacular but allows the guitar to be connected through XLR or standard 1/4 Inch cable.
I would recommend going through an acoustic guitar amp or some pedal to enhance.


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HEW Weekly Wrap Up 25 July 2014
25 Jul 2014 by Unis Wales
News – Potential large scale shared service across higher education in Wales
The Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) is working on the procurement of a shared Library Management System (LMS) for higher education (HE) in Wales, including the National Library of Wales and the Welsh NHS Libraries. (The 24 Welsh NHS Libraries are currently supported by the Cardiff University Library Management System). All consortium members participate at Library Director level on the LMS Steering Group, and technical experts contribute to the Project Working Group.
All universities and the National Library signed a letter of intent at the start of the process indicating high level institutional commitment to the joint European procurement stage. This phase is drawing to a close, with the top three suppliers providing demonstrations and reference sites for visits. Once these have concluded by the end of August, all participating institutions will be asked to commit formally to an individual contract with the same supplier. The implementation phase will then commence, and will conclude in 2016.
WHELF has developed a compelling vision for the implementation of collaborative and shared services to provide mutual benefit to the member institutions, and has identified a clear opportunity to benefit through the sharing of a Library Management System across Wales. Further information is available on the WHELF blog.
Consultation – National Assembly – Enterprise and Business Committee – budget scrutiny
On 16 October 2014, the Enterprise and Business Committee will be scrutinising the Minister for Education and Skills, the Minister for Economy, Science and Transport, and the Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology on their draft budget proposals for 2015-16. The Finance Committee's consultation on the draft budget closes on 10 September 2014. HEW intends to respond in due course.
Consultation – National Assembly – Environment and Sustainability Committee – consultation on principles of Future Generations (Wales) Bill
The Environment and Sustainability Committee is undertaking a consultation on general principles on the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Bill. The inquiry is considering:
How the Welsh Government should legislate to put sustainability and sustainable development at the heart of government and the wider public sector;
The general principles of the Bill, and the need for legislation in a range of areas;
How effectively the Bill addresses Welsh international obligations in relation to sustainable development;
Any potential barriers to the implementation of the provisions, and whether the Bill takes account of them;
Whether there are any unintended consequences arising from the Bill;
The financial implications of the Bill; and
The appropriateness of the Bill.
The Committee is inviting submissions by 5 September 2014.
Publication – HEFCW circular – Welsh Studies
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) has published circular W14/29HE which provides an update on actions taken to date on Welsh Studies. The circular focuses on two key areas: the results of HEFCW's survey on Welsh Studies provision; and a report on the event it ran in November 2013. The survey found there are 2,183 modules that are recognised as having a Welsh Studies component, which is 7.5% of the overall number of modules provided. During the event which was held, the possibility of data collection on Welsh Studies was discussed, but following further discussion with the sector, HEFCW has decided not to collect any further data, nor to introduce a target.
Publication – UK review of the provision of information about HE: NSS results and trends analysis 2005-2013
The Higher Education Funding Council for England, on behalf of the four funding councils, has published this report on the National Student Survey (NSS) results and trends. The document presents the results and trends from an analysis of the first nine years of the NSS. The two main areas of investigation are the robustness of the NSS results, which is considered by investigating response patterns, and the difference between the NSS results split by a variety of student and course characteristics.
Publication – Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education data
On 24 July 2014, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) released the data, and associated press release, relating to the destination of leavers in 2012/13. A HEW spokesperson said, "A recent report by Universities UK estimated that over 80% of new jobs created by 2020 will be in occupations with larger concentrations of higher skilled graduates, therefore it is heartening to see the HESA data showing that almost 20% of graduates from Welsh universities chose to go on to further study, along with also recording the highest proportion of full-time first degree graduates entering taught postgraduate study of any UK country. Furthermore, while the sector is continually striving for improvement, the statistics also show that graduates from Welsh universities recorded the second lowest unemployment rate of any UK nation, which is another encouraging result".
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This conference is the second in a series whose aim is to bring together people working in astrophysics of compacts stars, physics of dense matter, gravitation and cosmology, observations of pulsars and binary neutron stars and related fields. As the first conference in 2008, it will take place in Yerevan, Armenia from 18-21 September 2013. Among the social events, there will be a co-memoration of 100th birthday of the founder of the Theoretical Physics Chair at the Department of Physics of Yerevan State University and prominent armenian scientist Academician Gurgen Serobi Sahakyan.
M. Alford (St. Louis), E.R. Bezerra de Mello (Paraiba), G. S. Bisnovaty-Kogan (Moscow), F. Burgio (Catania), K. Kokkotas (Tübingen), D. Lai (Cornell), B. Link (Montana), J. Margueron (Orsay), C. Pethick (Copenhagen), M. Oertel (Meudon), L. Rezzolla (Potsdam), D. Rischke (Frankfurt Main), M. Sargsian (Miami), F. Weber (San Diego), D. N. Yakovlev (St. Petersburg).
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4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.


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And Welles would prove not only self-destructive, but also his own worst enemy — why let anyone else fill that vital job? Is this tragedy or comedy? Against such beauty the humans inevitably seem like small figures dwarfed by malign fate. Nothing's nice and sunny any more. And so a new orthodoxy set in, whereby Kane became the best film ever made, a position it has held for 60 years. And even as he's tying our brains in knots, Lynch is showing us behind the curtain in Mulholland Drive — showing us this is all really just his dream. When all around you have a heart of coal, kindness can be the more upsetting. It breathed the unAmerican gospel: In fact, by the time this film pitches towards that astonishing climax bedsheets burning; magic working one might even make a case for Fanny and Alexander as Bergman's most mature, clear-sighted and fully realised work. Significantly, the God who crops up in these final moments is represented by a cheap dummy, jiggled into life by an untrustworthy puppet-master. Jean meets a girl, Juliette Dita Parlo , and they are married, while hardly knowing each other. Ronald Grant Archive Ingmar Bergman's self-styled farewell to cinema is an opulent family saga, by turns bawdy, stark and strange. Perhaps that is owed to the exuberant and indelible production design, its characters' peculiar teenage argot "nadsat" or its electrified, classical score by transsexual composer Walter later Wendy Carlos — or perhaps simply because the early 70s were crazier — in hyper-stylised design and fashion — than any period since. Still, if you have never seen it, prepare for one of the great experiences in your life and notice this — Kane has lasted not for innovation alone, but because it is so emotional and tragic. In Kane and Welles alike, there was the same rueful mixture of genius and lack of self-belief. What does it all mean? It is not an easy transition for the married couple. Our site was first launched in , with the goal of creating a site that celebrates the beauty of the female form, and the sensual nature that radiates from within. Bergman diehards usually cite this as the director's most user-friendly film, as though that's somehow a bad thing. But light does not necessarily mean lite, and certain sections are as harrowing and profound as anything you find in Cries and Whispers or Through a Glass Darkly. The relationships have all changed. In Paris they go ashore and the wife flirts with another man. Everything is simplicity itself: A disciplinarian doctor tries and fails to instil a sense of responsibility and culpability into his children. Not the least legacy left by Vigo — to Truffaut and Godard, for instance — was the essential artistic value of black-and-white photography and its curious but easily forgotten establishment of a new way of seeing. The glamour has all evaporated. But the illusions remain intact even after they've been dismantled. So the barge moves on. This may not sound "entertaining" or active or even interesting, which only means the viewer needs to undergo the gentle process of being helped to see through Ozu's withdrawn but compassionate style.
So he watches from the corner of a room at a low level for Japanese domestic life is often conducted from a sitting position and he declines to rush in with forgiving, approving, loving close-ups — because he believes people are beyond forgiveness or individual glamour. What makes The White Ribbon the finer — and the more sinister — film are the flickers of warmth and humour. First-time viewers unfamiliar with Lynch's ways will be taken in by the initial set-up: An hour-long documentary, Location Hunting in Palestine, showed him looking for places to shoot his film; intriguingly, he rejected modern Israel and neighbouring Arab areas for having lost the ancient biblical spirit. That greatness now hangs over the history and the future of the medium. And Welles would prove not only self-destructive, but also his own worst enemy — why let anyone else fill that vital job? Lynch even issued a set of clues shortly after the release to guide people through the mystery — "notice appearances of the red lampshade" — which only made the story more cryptic. A disciplinarian doctor tries and fails to instil a sense of responsibility and culpability into his children. Evidently the copycat aspect of the audience response — certain violent crimes were rumoured to have been inspired by the film — was real enough for Kubrick, who made the movie unavailable in his adopted homeland for the rest of his life. Malick was determined to emulate the silent movies of the film's own historic setting, and therefore used many of the same methods, ordering his crew to turn off the lighting set-ups and allowing Almendros and his replacement, Haskell Wexler to use film stock that greedily drank up the meagre light available in the most gorgeously grainy ways. The secret might get out that film could be art! This is not depicted as bad behaviour, or a sign of cultural breakdown; it is the way of the world. When all around you have a heart of coal, kindness can be the more upsetting.
If ever a film told a beautiful, brutal truth, this is it. It's clearly — and this is, by and large, a strikingly foggy film — a fascist parable, an attempt at explaining the psychology of the people who came to power some 30 years later. Arthouse cinema is dismissed as the connoisseur's elite fetish; others find it, in the dumbed-down cinema jungle, to be an endangered species. So the barge moves on. But while the weather will go on, and your children will become parents, so your life will close, and you will not be there to see the way your own children look back as if to say they understand you, too late. In Tokyo Story, Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama visit their grown children, full of hope and the wish to be recognised, but they find the children too busy, too preoccupied. And we love it. In Kane and Welles alike, there was the same rueful mixture of genius and lack of self-belief. Lynch can still create charged scenes out of nothing but a few skilled actors and our own subconscious. It's a great man asking himself whether anything matters. This may not sound "entertaining" or active or even interesting, which only means the viewer needs to undergo the gentle process of being helped to see through Ozu's withdrawn but compassionate style. Does it sound dull, or too simple? If you have any suggestions or feedback about our site, please feel free to send a message via our contact form. Few films boast as many indelible supporting characters as Fanny and Alexander. The Hearst media did all they could to block the film. An hour-long documentary, Location Hunting in Palestine, showed him looking for places to shoot his film; intriguingly, he rejected modern Israel and neighbouring Arab areas for having lost the ancient biblical spirit. It's not just the plot: Andrei Tarkovsky and Michelangelo Antonioni achieved a meditative beauty, while David Lynch and John Cassavetes demonstrated an American reflex to the genre. We take pride in hand-selecting images of the world's most beautiful naked women, and showcasing the amazing work produced by a variety of talented photographers. And even as he's tying our brains in knots, Lynch is showing us behind the curtain in Mulholland Drive — showing us this is all really just his dream. The acting is intimate, humane and reserved yet there are no stars, let alone heroes or heroines. Jean meets a girl, Juliette Dita Parlo , and they are married, while hardly knowing each other. Pasolini had already roused the wrath of the religious establishment with La Ricotta, a minute comedy on the making of a biblical film; he actually received a four-month jail sentence as a result. The doctor's young son, traumatised by the death of his pet caged bird, and, most of all, the unimpeachably sweet romance between our schoolmaster narrator and a fresh-faced servant girl. Still, if you have never seen it, prepare for one of the great experiences in your life and notice this — Kane has lasted not for innovation alone, but because it is so emotional and tragic. By the late 50s, Citizen Kane was proverbial: First-time viewers unfamiliar with Lynch's ways will be taken in by the initial set-up: That sense of being taken in, only to realise we understood nothing, gives us some emotional connection to Watts's character. Is there a romance more mysterious than Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari? The French critics seized upon it.
The film is enhanced by one of the cinema's first great musical scores by Maurice Jaubert , and Vigo's inspired compositions and images in which the spirit of romanticism seems threatened by the very light that reveals it. But it may also count as the ideal final destination: Few films boast as many indelible supporting characters as Fanny and Alexander. Ozu is never quite sure. While our focus is mostly on softcore erotica and nude art, we do occasionally post masturbation or hardcore series that are passionate and sexy in our opinion. Lynch can still create charged scenes out of nothing but a few skilled actors and our own subconscious. Lovers of what are called arthouse movies resent the label for being derisive and philistine. Ronald Grant Archive Not many films have managed to have their cake and eat it quite like Mulholland Drive technically it's "Dr. Those bare facts are a landmark not just in French cinema, but in the larger history of artistic film-making, and of the absolute commitment of film-makers. Pasolini had already roused the wrath of the religious establishment with La Ricotta, a minute comedy on the making of a biblical film; he actually received a four-month jail sentence as a result. In Kane and Welles alike, there was the same rueful mixture of genius and lack of self-belief. The doctor's young son, traumatised by the death of his pet caged bird, and, most of all, the unimpeachably sweet romance between our schoolmaster narrator and a fresh-faced servant girl. By the late 50s, Citizen Kane was proverbial:
Citizen Kane So many things about Citizen Kane were outrageous at the time: There are no "happy endings" in the terms western culture requires. It breathed the unAmerican gospel: Does it sound dull, or too simple? Not the least legacy left by Vigo — to Truffaut and Godard, for instance — was the essential artistic value of black-and-white photography and its curious but easily forgotten establishment of a new way of seeing. Those bare facts are a landmark not just in French cinema, but in the larger history of artistic film-making, and of the absolute commitment of film-makers. The French critics seized upon it. But even after we think we've deciphered it, the film somehow loses none of its power. Pasolini's Gospel is a long way away from the stolid interpretations we've become accustomed to from the Cecil B DeMille school. So he watches from the corner of a room at a low level for Japanese domestic life is often conducted from a sitting position and he declines to rush in with forgiving, approving, loving close-ups — because he believes people are beyond forgiveness or individual glamour. And even as he's tying our brains in knots, Lynch is showing us behind the curtain in Mulholland Drive — showing us this is all really just his dream. It's also a mystery without resolution, a whodunnit with a hole at the centre — which is why it's one of those films more satisfying on second view, when you're primed for the withheld resolution. It's not just the plot: Lynch can still create charged scenes out of nothing but a few skilled actors and our own subconscious. Lovers of what are called arthouse movies resent the label for being derisive and philistine. Pasolini's aim was to extract the ancient essence from the Jesus story; he does this not by exact recreation, but by inspecting faces, evoking Renaissance and medieval iconography, and mixing Bach, Mozart, spirituals and African masses on the soundtrack. John Patterson 6.
But it may also count as the ideal final destination: It's clearly — and this is, by and large, a strikingly foggy film — a fascist parable, an attempt at explaining the psychology of the people who came to power some 30 years later. Three men work a barge it is named L'Atalante on the waterways of northern France: And even as he's tying our brains in knots, Lynch is showing us behind the curtain in Mulholland Drive — showing us this is all really just his dream. It is not an easy transition for the married couple. Yasujiro Ozu conveyed a transcendental simplicity in his work. John Patterson 6. An hour-long documentary, Location Hunting in Palestine, showed him looking for places to shoot his film; intriguingly, he rejected modern Israel and neighbouring Arab areas for having lost the ancient biblical spirit. Haneke's films always feel, once the credits have rolled, untoppable. But even after we think we've deciphered it, the film somehow loses none of its power. More's the pity, because it's a crucial British film of its period, and a key to our larger understanding of Kubrick himself.
Not the least legacy left by Vigo — to Truffaut and Godard, for instance — was the essential artistic value of black-and-white photography and its curious but easily forgotten establishment of a new way of seeing. You'll notice each site and the contributing photographers for that site have their own unique style and niches they choose to shoot, we try to present a variety to give you plenty of options in finding what you might like. The simplicity of the story resembles silent cinema, but these people talk. The acting is intimate, humane and reserved yet there are no stars, let alone heroes or heroines. Piecing Mulholland Drive together is half the film's appeal — and there's still no guarantee it all makes sense. If you have any suggestions or feedback about our site, please feel free to send a message via our contact form. Time and again, Ozu has made films about family, and the shifting structure we refer to as "time and again". Malick was determined to emulate the silent movies of the film's own historic setting, and therefore used many of the same methods, ordering his crew to turn off the lighting set-ups and allowing Almendros and his replacement, Haskell Wexler to use film stock that greedily drank up the meagre light available in the most gorgeously grainy ways. Be warned — it can make other films seem unbearably crass. Matters are resolved in a devastating final section inside an old curiosity shop in which Alexander is shown "the swift way that evil thoughts can go". So the barge moves on. But the illusions remain intact even after they've been dismantled. Within the universe he created, he let loose a cast of characters closer to grotesque gargoyle status than anything in the rest of Kubrick's body of work, and it is here that Kubrick first deploys his tactic of starting close-up on a face and pulling back drastically to show its environs by the time of The Shining, most of his camera movements tracked maniacally forwards, not sombrely backwards. Evidently the copycat aspect of the audience response — certain violent crimes were rumoured to have been inspired by the film — was real enough for Kubrick, who made the movie unavailable in his adopted homeland for the rest of his life. But the performances are vividly real and Manz's narration is one of the universal benchmarks of the movie voiceover. Against such beauty the humans inevitably seem like small figures dwarfed by malign fate. In Tokyo Story, Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama visit their grown children, full of hope and the wish to be recognised, but they find the children too busy, too preoccupied. Along the way we run across an androgynous madman, a bloated, bedridden aunt and a lecherous uncle who lights his own farts. The Italian neorealists applied the severity of art to a representation of society and the French New Wave iconoclastically brought a self-deconstructing critical awareness to film-making. Mulholland Drive Mulholland Dr Photograph: Few films boast as many indelible supporting characters as Fanny and Alexander. Ronald Grant Archive Not many films have managed to have their cake and eat it quite like Mulholland Drive technically it's "Dr. But it's the way it twists the two into some unfathomable Moebius strip that makes Mulholland Drive such a work of art. It's clearly — and this is, by and large, a strikingly foggy film — a fascist parable, an attempt at explaining the psychology of the people who came to power some 30 years later. An hour-long documentary, Location Hunting in Palestine, showed him looking for places to shoot his film; intriguingly, he rejected modern Israel and neighbouring Arab areas for having lost the ancient biblical spirit. Instead, the riddle of happiness or its opposite runs through "time and again" like light on moving water. Yet it worked in the end. The same actors now appear to be completely different characters. Set between and , it follows three urban fugitives Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Malick's wonderful discovery Linda Manz as they flee smoky Chicago for the Texas panhandle and seasonal jobs as wheat harvesters.
Xan Brooks 7. Catherine Shoard 8. But it may also count as the ideal final destination: Still, if you have never seen it, prepare for one of the great experiences in your life and notice this — Kane has lasted not for innovation alone, but because it is so emotional and tragic. Time and again, Ozu has made films about family, and the shifting structure we refer to as "time and again". Along the way we run across an androgynous madman, a bloated, bedridden aunt and a lecherous uncle who lights his own farts. When all around you have a heart of coal, kindness can be the more upsetting. A woman is left by her lover, then subjected to a torrent of abuse that makes Max von Sydow's dismissal of his girlfriend in Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light a film whose warm monochrone this movie echoes look compassionate in comparison. He is also embodied by an overimaginative child, still smarting from his father's death and sending malign thoughts out into the ether. The secret might get out that film could be art! Using a story as wispy as a fable, Malick constructed one of the most mesmerisingly beautiful evocations of the past ever laid on celluloid. That greatness now hangs over the history and the future of the medium. Significantly, the God who crops up in these final moments is represented by a cheap dummy, jiggled into life by an untrustworthy puppet-master. But while the weather will go on, and your children will become parents, so your life will close, and you will not be there to see the way your own children look back as if to say they understand you, too late. The interiors are not studio-shot, but take place inside the building whose exteriors one sees in the movie. Yet it worked in the end. Marriage is the film's subject and it is most moving in its cinematic grasp of a deeper bond than that permitted by the lovers' temporary misalliance. Is there action to surpass Kurosawa's Seven Samurai? This astonishing, un-American notion took time to get established. If only a few of those ideas gained ground, Hollywood was in trouble. Red rag to a bull Our site was first launched in , with the goal of creating a site that celebrates the beauty of the female form, and the sensual nature that radiates from within. The acting is intimate, humane and reserved yet there are no stars, let alone heroes or heroines. The scene in which they go for a picnic and she tearfully requests that they don't go to a spot too remote, is unforgettable, less for the undertone of previous horrors, than the fiance's baffled acquiescence. Ordinary film-makers knew that the work with lenses, darkness, sound and structure was unique. He ended up doing what you suspect he wanted to do all along: But the performances are vividly real and Manz's narration is one of the universal benchmarks of the movie voiceover. A train loaded with harvest migrants sailing, it seems, over a high viaduct bridge; a locust storm that turns into a wheat-field inferno; the many harvest scenes shot at "the magic hour" after the sun has gone down and its last horizontal rays remain. And we love it. It breathed the unAmerican gospel:
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Dajind says:
Citizen Kane So many things about Citizen Kane were outrageous at the time: Family is a group in which everyone has his or her reason. And we love it.
Mazragore says:
It is not an easy transition for the married couple. But it may also count as the ideal final destination:
Togar says:
In Kane and Welles alike, there was the same rueful mixture of genius and lack of self-belief. An hour-long documentary, Location Hunting in Palestine, showed him looking for places to shoot his film; intriguingly, he rejected modern Israel and neighbouring Arab areas for having lost the ancient biblical spirit.
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L'Atalante is 75 years old, yet its beauty and its harshness are still hauntingly alive. Red rag to a bull Who's dreaming who?


Northern or Virile Crayfish- Orconectes virilis- L= 5 inches. Arizona is the only state in the continental United States where crayfish are not native. Originally introduced to the state's waters to control weeds and to feed bass and other game fish, crayfish have spread to most of Arizona's aquatic systems. The problem with crayfish is that they are voracious consumers and breeders. They eat just about anything, both plant and animal, including each other. Crayfish have been implicated as a serious threat to Mexican garter snakes, Chiricahua leopard frogs and other threatened or endangered species in the Southwest. Crayfish can devastate trout streams. So please, help the environment by catching and eating all the crayfish you can.


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Renwick Gallery, Washington DC
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Ferens, Hull
Crescent Arts, Scarborough
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Hepworth Wakefield
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Henry Moore Institute
SMK Copenhagen
Yorkshire Sculpture International
Whitworth, Manchester
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Words about words
(1) I have received a message from Virgin Trains East Coast which says: "You may be aware that Virgin Trains East Coast is transitioning to become London North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 24 June 2018." Transitioning? This must be the most moronic use of the English language to emerge from this disaster of a rail franchise yet. Their complete and utter failure to do what they said they would do is merely leading to a transition to something called LNER - as if it were just a fresh coat of paint. Awesome! Good to go!
(2) Theresa May never looks more shifty than when she's having to answer questions, even the soft and somewhat sympathetic ones that Andrew Marr throws her. It's not her fault I suppose that she can't smile without turning her mouth into a lop-sided smirk, nor that this form of tic is getting worse as every day passes. It makes her look ever more dishonest, which doesn't help when she's trying to convince us that her announcement of £20 billion more a year for the NHS is anything more than a rather shallow ruse to grab a headline. The trouble with Marr, who is ever so polite is that he doesn't pursue his own questions when she doesn't answer them. There were a number of times when he could simply have said "Could you be more specific?" and Theresa's smirk would have swallowed her whole body. Where does this figure of £20 billion come from? Everybody is asking that question now. What did she mean when she said that since 2010 the government had put more money into the NHS, when we know it's less than the annual pre-2010 average? Following each of her waffling generalisations, Marr should simply have said "Could you be more specific?" The answer of course is that she can't, because the whole exercise was a back of the fag packet exercise which, by the time sometime in the future when the dosh is meant to flow, it will be well forgotten - just another piece of specious Tory NHS gaming. Having said that, and for the sake of fairness, the figure of £20 billion does ring a bell. I seem to recall in New Labour's early days Gordon Brown making hay with such a figure, which I believe was a rehash of a previous announcement. But despite that slip, Labour did put more money into the NHS. It is unlikely that this government will follow suit.
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A melanoma diagnosis can be overwhelming. You will be in shock initially but once the news sinks in, it is important that you learn as much about your diagnosis as you can so that you can participate with your treating clinician in the decisions made as to what happens next.
Knowing the right questions to ask your doctor, deciding whether or not to get a second opinion, and seeking out information about your diagnosis, treatment options and treatment centres are ways of helping you take back some control so that your decisions can be considered and informed.
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I wasn't sure if I should put this in General Astronomy or here since it is an idea put forward by mainstream scientists but it is somewhat against the mainstream.
I just attended a talk by Emil Mottola of Los Alamos in which he presented a new static solution to Einstein's equation. In this case black holes are not singularities, there is no event horizon and no hawking radiation is emitted. He argues that such a solution reproduces all the observed (or observable) properties of black holes without the problems associated with their current classical and semi-classical models.
This isn't my field and so I'll just quote the abstract for his talk. Other people more familiar with GR will, I'm sure, answer any questions that may pop up on this. The talk was very nice btw.
The three regions described below are characterized by their equation of state. The inner de Sitter region has a pressure=-density EOS, the transition region has a Pressure=density EOS, and the outer Schwarzschild region has a zero Pressure and density vaccuum EOS.
"The solution is characterized by an interior de Sitter region of gravitational vacuum condensate with an exterior Schwarzschild geometry of arbitrary total mass M. These are separated by a thin shell with a microscopic but finite proper thickness of ultracold matter, replacing both the Schwarzschild and de Sitter classical horizons. The new solution has no singularities, no event horizons, and a globally defined timelike Killing field. Its entropy is maximized under small fluctuations and is given by the standard hydrodynamic entropy of the thin shell, which is of order M, instead of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula (which is of order M^2). Hence unlike black holes, the new solution is thermodynamically stable and has no information paradox.
The formation of such a cold (1 mu K) gravitational condensate stellar remnant very likely would require a violent collapse process with an explosive output of energy. It is interesting to speculate that the formation and excitation of such objects may provide efficient central engines for very high energy sources in the universe."
I had not heard of this before. I be durned.
Here's a link to the request page for a paper on gravitational condensate stars by Mazur and Mottola; I wanted to post the link before I went ahead and delved into the document itself (so's I don't forget to share).
Wow that's pretty wild. Thanks for posting this. I'll have to look into this further. If this were a closer model of the actual structure of a black hole, it's still a bizarre and downright spooky object, and here somewhat different from the event horizon -- infinite collapse model. Not to mention the term "globally defined timelike Killing field." Not sure exactly what that is before reading the paper -- but its creepy sounding too.
On description of black holes using loop quantum gravity theory--apparantly a method of treating an event horizon as a manifold of 2-spheres. The physics of isolated horizons (http://www.phys.lsu.edu/mog/mog14/node7.html), Danial Sudarsky.
A Caltech page (http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll3/Carroll5.html) on the GR and Killing's equation. Strong math.
I can't find anything enlightening on "gravitational condensate" or "vacuum condensate." Help!
Yes, a big negative pressure. It can be produced by a scalar quantum field that is essentially constant in space and time. And other particles/fields have to be essentially absent.
There is no elementary particle known to exist that is described by such a scalar field; however, such particles are predicted by various unified field theories, like the electroweak theory. But such particles would be much more massive than most familiar ones, and it is not clear that nearly pure fields of such particles would be produced by gravitational collapse.
Also, a "globally defined timelike Killing field" is actually rather simple: it means that one can define a time coordinate everywhere so that the solution looks the same no matter how much one shifts that time coordinate.
"...Also, a "globally defined timelike Killing field" is actually rather simple: it means that one can define a time coordinate everywhere so that the solution looks the same no matter how much one shifts that time coordinate."
Hence the term "globally defined."
Here's an article (I believe it's credited to "New Scientist") on Mazur & Motolla's hypothesis. Very nice non-technical piece with some opinions pro and con. www.cosmiverse.com/space01170204.html (http://www.cosmiverse.com/space01170204.html). Brought to my attention by Elledan on physicsforum.com, and well worth a look.
"According to Mazur and Mottola's calculations, [the vacuum condensate] would exert an outward pressure. Because of this, infalling matter inside the shell would do a U-turn and head back out to the shell, while matter outside the shell would still rain down on it."
Later on it's mentioned that matter falling onto the shell of the gravitational condensate star ("gravastar") would disintegrate in a "burst of pure gravitational energy." I truly don't know whether that mechanism could be expected to have the same emission signature as the observations described in the article you linked. It certainly seems like one test of the theory!
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It's my belief that nature does not allow singularities. Our mathematical models of nature may have 'em, but in nature, they do not exist. A non-black hole example: the electrostatic potential from a point source is singular at the source. We know that vanishingly small point source does not physically exist. The electron, which is probably the closest to the ideal point source, does not exhibit this singularity. For this case, the singular mathematical model is not valid.
I believe that when we have a working theory of quantum gravity, we will find that the black holes are not truly singular. Very close, but not truly singular.
This does not mean I accept their hypothesis. As others in this thread have pointed out, there are still too many "if's". Regardless, it's an interesting idea.
"But then you remember that space can be so extremely warped near the singularity that the chaotic region might be millions of kilometers in radius though only a fraction of a centimeter in circumference..."
My guess is the same as yours: when the equations become singular, it indicates you're bumping up against the limit of the theory.
Probably much of the same info as ToSeek's article.
One thought regarding this topic: if black holes don't decay, and aren't a true singularity, what will happen if we are successful at our attempts at creating this object in the lab? Could it be created by colliding heavy particles at high speeds using future generation colliders? Or would such an attempt fail, but fail in such a way that would lend support for the existance of this type of black hole?
God forbid it succeeds, creates a BH that doesn't evaporate that falls through the lab floor!
Wiley, I'm afraid you've lost me here. Singular points can be either analytic or non-analytic, depending on whether there're regular or irregular. Plus, the charge density or mass density of an electron is a Dirac delta function. Are you saying that a black hole singularity would have to be a non-analytic, non delta function, singularity?


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Thanks to new technologies and new applications of established technologies, the way people work will continue to change in 2020. In the IT department, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics will play pivotal roles along with privacy, security, and cost management strategies. Read on for the trends that will dominate the year ahead.
1. Privacy laws will result in an increased focus on employee accountability
More countries are following the European Union's lead by implementing data protection laws similar to GDPR, such as the Thailand Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) which goes into effect in May 2020. Under such scenarios, the role of Data Protection Officers (DPOs) assumes significance as they must work closely with the CIOs and tech teams to ensure that organizations comply with the law.
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In 2020, we'll see techniques such as data loss prevention (DLP), which prevents users from leaking critical information intentionally or otherwise, and endpoint detection and response (EDR), which continuously monitors events, detects threats, performs investigations, and initiates responses. Such techniques will gain prominence because the logic and intelligence underpinning them will increasingly reside on the devices themselves.
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Fight against Fall armyworm in Kenya 'mobilised' with new government text messaging campaign
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A new weapon in the fight against the Fall armyworm (FAW) caterpillar in Kenya is being launched giving thousands of smallholder farmers free expert help and advice on how to tackle the devastating pest through mobile SMS text messaging.
Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) has joined forces with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI), the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), and Safaricom to provide the service, called 'MoA-INFO', to maize farmers throughout the country.
MoA-INFO was designed and developed in collaboration with the MAI Plant Protection Services Division and various Government agencies including the Pest Control Products Board (PCPB), the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), the Agriculture Information Resource Centre (AIRC), and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO).
To date, there is no defined method of eradicating FAW. However, a number of non-chemical and chemical methods can be used to control the spread of FAW and limit losses. The new SMS information service aims to share information about these control measures as well as other important advice that all maize farmers can use to manage the pest.
MoA-INFO will give maize farmers up-to-date information on the pest, including how to identify it, determine its level of infestation, and various control methods, before offering recommendations about other crops affected by FAW, other pests and other agricultural topics. The objective of the SMS platform is to provide a comprehensive extension service to all farmers in the country free of charge.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation acknowledges the support of Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in the development and implementation of this innovative methodology of disseminating information to farmers. This service has created a platform to leverage on use of mobile phones to bridge the gap of reaching all farmers in the country with extension messages on this devastating pest.
Such information will guide farmers with sound FAW management measures, thereby contributing towards the overall Government agenda on 100% food security. Maize is the staple food for approximately 80% of the Kenyan population. Any efforts towards control of fall army worm, an insect with potential to cause up to 100% yield losses is important. In the main 2017 maize cropping season, deployment of various management measures helped to reduce FAW maize yield reduction to a national average of 20% from the 100% expected.
MoA-INFO is currently available to all Safaricom customers for free. It will soon be available to Airtel customers for free too. All a farmer needs to do is to send an SMS message with the word "SHAMBA" (for messages in Kiswahili) or "FARM" (for messages in English) to 40130. Sending and receiving SMS messages is free.
The MoA-INFO service has already been piloted in Western Kenya successfully. Derrick Ooko, a farmer from Matayos South, said, "This story of Fall Armyworm is a big challenge in Busia County, mostly to small scale farmers. The information that i have received from MoA-INFO SMS has greatly assisted me to know how to manage the pest. I agree information is power and I am very grateful."
Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) PAD is running and managing the MoA-INFO SMS information service with approval of the Government and other development partners.
"It is my hope this SMS mobile service, will reach millions of farmers in Kenya. They will access for free guidance in the fight against Fall Armyworm, which will ultimately improve livelihoods and national food security", says Emmanuel Bakirdjian, PAD's Kenya Country Director.
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