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Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennadiy Golovkin 3 fight predictions, odds, undercard, expert pick, preview, date
Many boxing fans may be wondering why it's taken the Canelo Alvarez vs. GGG trilogy four years to come to fruition. Well, don't feel alone because Gennadiy Golovkin is right there with you. Matter of fact, if it were up to him, this would have taken place much sooner than later.
"This is not a question for me," Golovkin told "Morning Kombat" last week. "I insisted on a trilogy the next day after the judges gave the victory to Canelo [in the rematch]."
To defend Alvarez (57-2-2, 39 KOs), the undisputed super middleweight champion only fought at middleweight once more after his 2018 rematch with Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs), who still holds a pair of world titles at 160 pounds. Alvarez, 32, will look to defend his four-pack of titles this weekend inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (DAZN PPV, 8 p.m. ET — subscribe now) in the first fight of their rivalry to take place at 168 pounds.
Alvarez, who is fresh off a decision loss to WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in May, hasn't seemed as if he wanted the trilogy despite how much money DAZN paid both shortly after launching in the U.S. in 2018 in hopes of landing a third fight. A big part of that was the bad blood between them, fueled not only by a pair of disputed decisions in which GGG felt robbed but also by the steroid allegations aimed at Alvarez after failing a drug test ahead of their rematch.
Asked by CBS Sports on Wednesday, however, whether he was motivated this time to accept the challenge, Alvarez changed his tune.
"Yes, I want [the trilogy]," Alvarez said. "And if people want it, I really want it. I wanted to come back strong so I'm really excited to be here. I'm ready for Saturday."
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Although it's clear from Golovkin that he still harbors ill will toward Alvarez, who was lucky to salvage a controversial draw in 2017 before edging GGG in their rematch via disputed majority decision, he refused to go as far as saying the third fight was personal. According to trainer Johnathon Banks, who replaced Abel Sanchez after the second Alvarez fight, that's exactly where his fighter needs to be.
"The best way for G to perform is emotionless," Banks told CBS Sports. "Now, that might not work for every fighter but for this fighter, the best way to go into this fight is to keep it business and keep his emotions at home. If he wants to pick up his emotions in the locker room, fine. But he don't need them in the ring. It's going to be a hell of a fight, regardless. As the fight goes on, we definitely want the victory and want to close the third chapter of this situation. But the emotions play no part in it."
You can also follow along with live coverage of the trilogy that includes play-by-play and round-by-round scoring here.
The first two fights were PPV blockbusters and ultimately exceeded expectations as classic action fights with a high level of skill and intensity. The main difference, however, between the four-year gap between fights entering this weekend is that Alvarez has ascended the throne as pound-for-pound king across multiple divisions in the interim while Golovkin, at 40, has begun to show his age.
Golovkin, who enters as a 4-1 underdog, was the betting favorite ahead of each of the first two fights. He admitted that age has made it more difficult to recover, which is something Banks, a disciple of the late Emanuel Steward's Kronk Gym, has worked hard on offsetting.
"It's all about training smarter and just being more efficient in the things you do well," Banks said. "When you are young, the goal is to train hard no matter what. When you get older, you have to train smarter. That 40-year-old guy is totally different than your average 40-year-old guy. Right now, he's just fine tuning as much as possible so to not overwork himself."
Still, Golovkin has looked much slower despite going 4-0 since the second Alvarez fight. He has also taken a great deal more punishment in return than fans have ever seen, including a disputed decision win over Sergiy Derevyanchenko that contended for fight-of-the-year honors in 2019.
What doesn't help Golovkin is that Alvarez has steadily evolved in recent years from a counter boxer to a stalking knockout threat, which has come as a huge shock to those who watched him carry his power up in weight with him to 168 and 175 pounds.
Both fighters have tremendous chins and neither has been down or stopped as a professional. Golovkin, in fact, still maintains that he has yet to have been even buzzed once despite closing in on 400 combined amateur and professional fights. Still, most believe he will need to lean hard into his superpower in order to have a shot at upsetting his more fresher foe.
"I use this motto all the time: I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it," Banks said. "I agree that it's going to be a hell of a fight. My wish and desire is for G to close the show in dramatic fashion but, believe me, Canelo can take a punch, too. He's no pushover from taking shots from much bigger guys. He took right hand after right hand from G that 90% of people fell from and never recovered. He took it like it was a piece of meat and he ate it and kept coming."
Alvarez, who has openly said he's preparing to deliver the knockout this weekend and remove any lingering talk of controversy, believes the third (and presumably final) meeting between the two living legends will also be the most exciting.
"I think this is going to be the good one of the three, I think it's going to be the best," Alvarez said. "He, obviously, is going to bring all the best he can because, you know, everybody is talking about his age. I'm going to bring everything to come back stronger than ever.
"This fight is very important for my legacy because it will remain in the history of boxing after this fight. That's why we fought the three times, right? I think this is one of the best rivalries in boxing history."
Let's take a closer look at the rest of the undercard before making a prediction and pick on the main event.
Fight card, odds
Odds via Caesars Sportsbook
Canelo Alvarez (c) -500 vs. Gennadiy Golovkin +380, undisputed super middleweight championship
Jesse Rodriguez (c) -1200 vs. Israel Gonzalez +750, WBC super flyweight championship
Austin Williams -575 vs. Kieron Conway +425, WBA 'international' middleweight championship
Diego Pacheco -2500 vs. Enrique Collazo +1200, super middleweights
Ali Akhmedov -700 vs. Gabriel Rosado +500, super middleweights
It was Albert Einstein who once described the definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. For Golovkin, Saturday's trilogy will take place in the same ring, against the same opponent and in front of the same state commission as the first two fights, which he believes he was robbed from winning.
Golovkin will also be boxing in front of two judges who have played a major role in the proceedings up to this point: Steve Weisfeld scored the rematch 115-113 for Alvarez, as did Dave Moretti, who also had it 115-113 for Golovkin in the first fight. Judge David Sutherland, a newcomer to this rivalry, rounds out the trio alongside referee Russell Mora.
Six different scorecards have been submitted during the two fights and only one of those have had Golovkin winning. Aside from any potential corruption that GGG has often implied, there appears to be a big reason why those tasked with declaring a winner have ultimately favored Alvarez.
Although Golovkin has outlanded Alvarez by an average of 40 total punches over both fights, Alvarez has held the edge in power punches landed, power punching percentage and body shots. Should GGG apply the same exact strategy to try and solve Alvarez without amping up the risk he's willing to take to offset his loss of speed and stamina, not only is a repeat decision loss likely in order, so could be the first stoppage of his great career.
Golovkin connected on just six and eight body punches landed, respectively, in the first two fights. He also had trouble landing his right hand in any form against the much quicker Alvarez, who utilized precise upper trunk movement to avoid said shots while opening up countering opportunities.
On paper, Golovkin's jab-heavy style is the perfect blueprint to give Alvarez fits. He cuts off the ring as well as anyone historically and can use his jab as both rangefinder and weapon. It's a blueprint, one can argue, that Bivol used to solve Alvarez in May.
But in this case, Bivol was a natural light heavyweight. Golovkin will be moving up to super middleweight for the first time, meaning the size advantage he once held over the former junior middleweight in Alvarez has since been deleted by the Mexican star's dramatic rise in weight.
Does GGG need to go for broke and seek the knockout as his only hope of winning? Not necessarily, especially given Alvarez's equally stubborn chin. But he will need to fight as physical as he ever has in the clinch to slow down his opponent and he will need to show a level of urgency that simply hasn't been there late in his biggest (and closest) fights before.
Expect Alvarez to start slow and efficient while trying to navigate just how much juice GGG has left. But once he makes the adjustment to come forward, similar to what Alvarez did in the rematch, weakening Golovkin to the body late while walking him down seems likely.
Given Golovkin's pride and his incredible punch resistance, it wouldn't be a major surprise that this rivalry reached a 36th and final round. But make no mistake about Golovkin's real chances. Unless he's willing to significantly alter his style to offset his physical decline and take gambles in ways we haven't seen before, a second straight decision loss feels inevitable.
Pick: Alvarez via UD12
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Halal, veggie, vegan… suit anyone's requirement! 27 years since opening. Providing Malaysian ethnic food the restaurant "Malaychan" [Ikebukuro]
As far as we know, it's the first Malaysian ethnic food restaurant in Japan!
The "Malaychan", was established 27 years ago in Ikebukuro,
it is the only restaurant in Japan which has officially received a Halal certificate by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM).
Malaychan, not only provides halal food options, but also caters for requests for vegetarian and vegan requirement.
Upon request, it can flexibly cater for your requirements for vegetarian or vegan dishes, even when dishes normally use animal ingredients.
Many customers are really happy with this service.
We had an opportunity to interview Mr. Hiromichi Fukusawa and Mr. Toru Shimakura from J.F.C.Ltd. This company manages the Malaychan restaurant.
Click here for location and detailed information on Malaychan.
1 The taste of Malaysia prepared by a "Japanese Mum" hasn't changed for 27 years.
2 Regular Tempeh dishes have been on the menu long before the Tempeh boom in Japan!
3 The restaurant started up in support of foreign students who live in the local neighborhoods. But now also caters for people from all over the world with various dietary restrictions!
The taste of Malaysia prepared by a "Japanese Mum" hasn't changed for 27 years.
Mr. Fukusawa said, "The restaurant was established in 1989 and since then it has remained at the same premises.
At present we have three restaurants, the first 'Malaychan 1' is situated by West Exit of the Ikebukuro station,
the 2nd 'Malaychan 2' which is situated in East Ikebukuro, and the 3rd 'Kitchen Malaychan' which specializes in delivery and catering".
We visited their first restaurant the "Malaychan 1", which is officially Halal certified by JAKIM as well as by the Japan Islamic Trust (in Otsuka).
The restaurant is officially a Malaysian Muslim food restaurant.
One of the main talking points for the Malaychan is the presence of the manager of the restaurant who is affectionately known as "mum".
Mr. Fukusawa said, "She is Shoko Fukusawa, my mum, and she's been working at the restaurant since it was established.
It's my mum who decided that we open a Malaysian restaurant. For many Malaysians and regular customers, she is like their 'Japanese mum'. "
During our interview, she was working vigorously. She was making conversation with customers along with serving dishes and drinks, as well as caring for us.
Regular Tempeh dishes have been on the menu long before the Tempeh boom in Japan!
Malaychan is well-known as Halal restaurant, but it also caters for the vegetarian and vegan requirements.
The above dish is vegetarian "Tempeh Salad (800 yen inc. tax)". It uses an original sauce made by the Malaychan.
It's not the culture to eat fresh salad in Malaysia, so this is Malaychan's original menu for Japanese customers.
This salad includes soybeans which are very familiar to Japanese people, and as you taste it, it reminds you of homemade Japanese dishes. It is moist and easy to eat as well!
The above is "Tempeh Spring rolls (750 yen inc. tax)." This is also a Malaychan's original veggie menu. Wow! I was so impressed that the Tempeh really tasted like meat!
Many customers believe this is a meat dish. It's one of the most popular dishes and it easily can be sold out.
The above is "Stir-fried fried tofu, tempeh and five vegetables (980 yen inc. tax)".
This is flavored with the "Malaychan sauce" which is an essential sauce for Malaysian food, obviously the name of the restaurant has originated from this sauce.
Malaychan sauce contains a fish sauce, so if you are vegetarian and don't like any fish in your diet, upon your request the food will be prepared with a different sauce.
The dishes taste Asian in origin, but most of the ingredients are familiar to Japanese people.
Tempeh adds extra volume to their vegetarian dishes and is very filling without using meat.
Lastly, the above is "Tempeh dried curry (1,400 yen inc. tax)".
It's not the culture to eat dried curry in Malaysia, so this is also a Malaychan's original.
This dish contains chicken, but if you prefer they can prepare it as a vegetarian meal without chicken.
You can enjoy this with rice or wrap this within the accompanying lettuce. These are delicious combinations.
There was a tempeh boom in Japan and it was highlighted in the media for a while. But it had already been introduced into Malaychan's menu long before this.
Malaychan's "mum" went to Indonesia to purchase the tempeh fungus and through trial and error she managed to mature her own original tempeh back in Japan.
Her curiosity and ability to take action is the drive to create her original dishes which are ahead of time.
At Malaychan, chefs are flexible and are able to cater for customers' requests for their preferred flavor or for the ingredients of dishes.
Mr. Shimakura said, "It's not often that we receive orders exactly as written on the menu (laugh). Most of the time, orders are customized.
One by one, our chefs meticulously prepare the right food. It takes lots of hard work but we feel it's worthwhile as our customers are coming back as a result".
The restaurant started up in support of foreign students who live in the local neighborhoods. But now also caters for people from all over the world with various dietary restrictions!
In the first place, why did she decide to open a "Malaysian food" restaurant? Mr. Fukusawa told us as follows.
"Before opening the restaurant, my mum was looking after foreign students.
As my father was teaching at the University, there are many students visiting our house including many foreign students.
We were also renting a property next door to our house and set it up as a share-house for foreign students. It was quite usual for us to feed them and support them in many ways. "
For some reason there were a lot of Malaysian students. And the "Malaychan" was established so that the Malaysian students could access their home grown dishes.
"At that time, many of us hadn't heard the word 'Halal'. Of course there were hardly any restaurants providing Halal dishes in Japan.
So my mum decided that 'I will open a Halal restaurant for you to eat food that you can trust' and then opened a restaurant."
To help the Malaysians in the neighborhoods gain access to food from a secured source. The idea still hasn't changed up until now.
"From helping people in the local neighborhoods, we are now helping customers from all over the world.
The restaurant wishes to provide dishes to cater for many different people with dietary restrictions including Halal, vegetarian and vegan.
We are continually studying and being innovative at the running of the restaurant so that many more people will enjoy the Malaychan experience!".
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Q: Relational algebra to count rows I wasn't sure quite what to call this problem but it's not exactly counting rows. Let's say we have the relation:
Competition(compId, sport, playerName, medal)

And let's say the attribute medal can be either gold, silver, bronze, or null. So we have the following data:
(193, Tennis, John Doe, Gold)
(931, Skiing, Mary White, Bronze)
(193, Tennis, Arnold Black, null)
(182, Bobsledding, John Doe, Gold)
(901, Ping-Pong, Adam Brown, Silver)
(248, Bobsledding, Mary White, Silver)

I am having a very hard time figuring out how to answer this question: Get the names of all players who have won more than one medal. In this data the answers would be John Doe and Mary White. How could I get that answer on arbitrary data for this relation using relational algebra?
(This is a simplified version of the actual homework problem, and this simplification represents (I hope) the part of that problem I'm struggling with. There are an arbitrary and unknown number of competitions, sports, and players, but only 4 possibilities for medal)

A:
Get the names of all players who have won more than one medal.

(It's not clear what this means. Have won than one kind of medal? Or have received more than one medal? Your example answer suggests the latter. Also, it treats "null" as just another kind of medal, not specially as in SQL.)
-- rows where
    THERE EXISTS compId,sport,medal,compId1,compId2,medal2 SUCH THAT
        in competition [compId] of sport [sport] player [playerName] won [medal]
    AND in competition [compId2] of sport [sport2] player [playerName] won [medal2]
    AND (compId <> compId2 OR sport <> sport2 OR medal <> medal2)

Using statement shorthand:
-- rows where
    THERE EXISTS compId,sport,medal,compId1,compId2,medal2 SUCH THAT
        Competition(compId, sport, playerName, medal)
    AND Competition(compId2, sport2, playerName, medal2)
    AND (compId <> compId2 OR sport <> sport2 OR medal <> medal2)

Rearranging (anticipating the limitations of one comparison per σ and one attribute set per ∪):
-- rows where
    THERE EXISTS compId,sport,medal,compId1,compId2,medal2 SUCH THAT
        (   Competition(compId, sport, playerName, medal)
        AND Competition(compId2, sport2, playerName, medal2)
        AND compId <> compId2)
    OR (   Competition(compId, sport, playerName, medal)
        AND Competition(compId2, sport2, playerName, medal2)
        AND sport <> sport2)
    OR (   Competition(compId, sport, playerName, medal)
        AND Competition(compId2, sport2, playerName, medal2)
        AND medal <> medal2)

Now to get the algebra replace:

*

*every statement by its table/relation

*every AND of table/relation by ⋈ (natural join)

*every OR of table/relation (which must have the same columns/attributes) by ∪ (union)

*every AND NOT (which must have the same columns/attributes) by \ (difference)

*every AND comparison by σ comparison (select/restrict)

*every EXISTS names to drop by π names to keep (projection)

*every column/attribute renaming by ρ (rename).
π playerName (
    σ compId <> compId2 (Competition
        ⋈ ρ compID2/compID ρ sport2/sport ρ medal2/medal Competition)
∪   σ sport <> sport2 (Competition
        ⋈ ρ compID2/compID ρ sport2/sport ρ medal2/medal Competition)
∪   σ medal <> medal2 (Competition
        ⋈ ρ compID2/compID ρ sport2/sport ρ medal2/medal Competition)
)

(For more see this answer.)

A: There is a much simpler way to solve this problem, in my opinion:

Essentially, you find the relation of records where medal isn't null, and then join this record with itself, joining on name. The resulting records will be the ones where there are duplicate names.

A: I know this is a very old post, but I'm learning this subject, and I did find another way to represent what the exercise asks. Maybe it can be usefull for someone searching for this.
The answer:
π Lc.playerName (
    ρ Lc σ medal ≠ 'null' Competition
            ⨝ Lc.playerName = Rc.playerName AND Lc.sport ≠ Rc.sport
    ρ Rc σ medal ≠ 'null' Competition)

I'm assuming that nobody can have two medals in the same sport, if somone have more than one medal, it has to be in different sports. I'm also assuming that each tuple in the relation represents an awarding, so ...
The expression above manages to get the playerName that appears more than once for different sports.

Edited: I treated null...
you can see it in action with this tool https://dbis-uibk.github.io/relax/calc.htm
to set the data, use this this code in the Group Editor tab
group:Competition

Competition = {
    compId:number, sport:string , playerName:string, medal:string
    193          , 'Tennis'     , 'John Doe'       , 'Gold'
    931          , 'Skiing'     , 'Mary White'     , 'Bronze'
    193          , 'Tennis'     , 'Arnold Black'   , 'null'
    182          , 'Bobsledding', 'John Doe'       , 'Gold'
    901          , 'Ping-Pong'  , 'Adam Brown'     , 'Silver'
    248          , 'Bobsledding', 'Mary White'     , 'Silver'
}

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This little volume has been long in preparation. It is more than twenty years since the Author's attention was directed to the inquiry, What were the personal qualifications for their work possessed by King James' Translators of the Bible? He expected to satisfy himself without difficulty, but found himself sorely disappointed. There was abundance of general testimony to their learning and piety; but nowhere any particular account of the men themselves. Copious histories of the origin, character, and results of their work have been drawn up with elaborate research; but of the Translators personally, little more was told than a meagre catalogue of their names, with brief notices of such offices as a few of them held.
The only resource was to take these names in detail, and search for any information relative to each individual. For a long time, but little came to hand illustrative of their characters and acquirements, except in relation to some of the more prominent men included in the royal commission. The Author quite despaired of ever being able to identify the greater part of them, by any thing more than their bare surnames. But devoting much of his time to searching in public libraries, he by degrees recovered from oblivion one by one of these worthies, till only two of them, Fairclough and Sanderson, remain without some certain testimonial of their fitness for the most responsible undertaking the in the religious literature of the English world. In regard to some of them, who for a long time eluded his search, the revived information at last seemed almost like a resurrection. As the result of his researches, which he has carried, as he believes, to the utmost extent to which it can be done with the means accessible on this side of the Atlantic, he offers to all who are interested to know in regard to the general sufficiency and reliable-ness of the Common Version, these biographical sketches of its authors. He feels assured that they will afford historical demonstration of a fact which much astonished him when it began to dawn upon his convictions, --that the first half of the seventeenth century, when the Translation was completed, was the GOLDEN AGE of biblical and oriental learning in England. Never before, nor since, have these studies been pursued by scholars whose vernacular tongue is the English, with such zeal, and industry, and success. This remarkable fact is such a token of God's providential care of his word, as deserves most devout acknowledgment.
That the true character of their employment, at the precise stage where those good men took it up, may be properly understood by such as have not given particular attention to the subject, a condensed "Introductory Narrative" is given. In its outlines, this follows the crowded octavos of the late Christopher Anderson. He has gleaned out the very corners of the field so carefully, as to leave little for any who may follow him. To his work, or rather to the skillful abridgement of it, in a single octavo volume, by Rev. Dr. Prime, all who desire more minute information on that part of the subject are respectfully referred.
The writers to whom the author of this book is most indebted for his biographical materials are Thomas Fuller and Anthony A. Wood. The former, the wittiest and one of the most delightful of the old English writers,--and the latter one of the most crabbed and cynical. What has been obtained from them was gathered wherever it was sprinkled, in scattered morsels, over their numerous and bulky volumes. Beside what was furnished from these sources, numerous fragments have been collected from a wide range of reading, including every thing that seemed to promise any additional matter of information.
The work is, doubtless, quite imperfect, because after the lapse of more than two centuries, during which no person appears to have thought of the thing, the means of information have been growing more scanty, and the difficulty of recovering it has been constantly increased. Critical inquisitors may be able to detect some inaccuracies in pages prepared under such disadvantages; but it will require no great stretch of generosity to make due allowance for them.
The general result, to which the Author particularly solicits the attention of any who may honor these pages with their perusal, is the ample proof afforded of the surpassing qualifications of those venerable Translators, taken as a body, for their high and holy work. We have here presumptive evidence of the strongest kind, that their work is deserving of entire confidence. It ought to be received as a "final settlement" of the translation of the Scriptures for popular use,--at least, till the time when a body of men equally qualified can be brought together to re-adjust the work, --a time which most certainly has not yet arrived! If that time shall ever come, may there be found among their successors the vast learning, wisdom, and piety of the old Translators happily revived!
Great resource! Thank you so much for adding this. I've also been using http://kingjamesbibletranslators.org/ and it has pictures that help a guy like me when reading biography info, to connect a little bit too.
Thank you again! :) I like the TOC link on each page as well as the link to the next translator.


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Q: php creating a css stylesheet list from directory Im trying to read css files from a directory and create the respective html markup, like
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/bootstrap.css">

PHP
 $css_dir = 'application/resources/css';

$fp = opendir($css_dir);
while ($file = readdir($fp))
{
if (strpos($file, '.css',1))
$results[] = $this->base.'/'.$file;
}
closedir($fp);

print_r($results);

this works correctly creating an array with results like [1] => Directory/name.css which is fine but if I change the results line to something like
$results[] = '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="'.$this->base.'/'.$file.'">';

I get am empty array, the problem is with the '<' '>' symbols is there no way to do this in one go without having to then do a foreach through the results array?

A: Instead of using < and > use < and > accordingly, or htmlspecialchars()
Improvement in your functional code
 /* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */
    while ($entry = readdir($handle)) {
        echo "$entry\n";
    }

 /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
        echo "$entry\n";
    }

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Ex-UFC competitor Chael Sonnen has revealed what he calls, 'insider information' regarding a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
Doubts still surround boxing legend Mayweather taking on the current UFC title holder in the second half of 2017, although Sonnen believes there's no reason whatsoever for disbelief regarding the massive Pay-Per-View encounter.
Sonnen, 39, says he has witnessed proof Mayweather v McGregor has already been submitted for the production of tickets as 'The People's Champ' confirmed the cross-codes bout with happen on his 'You're Welcome' podcast.
"For some reason, both of these fighters have said they're fighting, but no reporter has announced it,' Sonnen pointed out.
"Now I have information from someone higher than that, which is a guy at a ticketing company where the 'build' was sent in.
"To tell you what that means, it's called a 'build'. In that industry, that's when you submit to the ticketing company, what you want, what your card is, what your date is, essentially, your schematics, this is what the arena layout is going to look like. That's called the build, that's the first step to lining up your tickets.
Mayweather has already rubberstamped the fight during his recent UK Tour, although McGregor has been considerably quiet since flying to Las Vegas on Valentine's Day for a meeting with the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
'The Notorious' is said to be in the final stages of receiving his license to box in the State but still has some ironing out to do with the UFC bosses before either camp can make the Mayweather event official.


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Jeffrey Lord (born July 25, 1951) is an American author, and political strategist in Pennsylvania, who served as an associate political director in the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. He subsequently became a highly visible political commentator for CNN and other media outlets. He was fired from CNN in 2017 after posting a Nazi salute on Twitter to mock Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America.

Early life
Lord was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on July 25, 1951. He earned a degree from Franklin and Marshall College.

Career
Lord first worked as a press aide in the Pennsylvania State Senate. He worked for Pennsylvania congressman Bud Shuster as legislative director and press secretary and for U.S. senator H. John Heinz III as executive assistant. Later, Lord worked as chief of staff to Drew Lewis, for part of the time that Lewis was a co-chairman of Pennsylvania for the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign. He also served in the Reagan White House as an associate political director 1987–1988. In that position, he assisted in the judicial nomination process for several nominees, including Robert Bork for the Supreme Court. He also worked for Jack Kemp during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.

Lord has worked as a political commentator, contributing material to CNN, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, National Review Online, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Harrisburg Patriot-News. He has appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs. He also works as a political consultant for Quantum Communications, a Harrisburg-based political strategy firm.

He is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of D. Brooks Smith to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. It received a generally positive review in The Wall Street Journal. His more recent book, published in January 2016 (from which he gained the name, "The Trump Defender"), is What America Needs: The Case for Trump.

Political commentator
In July 2010, after Shirley Sherrod stated that one of her relatives had been lynched in the 1940s, Lord wrote an article in The American Spectator pointing out the man in question had actually been beaten to death by police officers. Lord questioned Sherrod's "veracity and credibility". He faced substantial criticism as a result, including criticism from other contributors to American Spectator.

In August 2011, Lord wrote an article in The American Spectator criticizing Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul and the views of some of his supporters. The article sparked considerable debate within the conservative movement.

In March 2016, during a Super Tuesday election night on CNN, an argument ensued for several minutes between Lord and a CNN contributor, Van Jones, about Lord's defense of Donald Trump. The argument came about when a fellow contributor, conservative commentator S. E. Cupp, accused Trump of "crazy, dog whistle policy proposals", that she believed he had made to attract prejudiced voters, and because Trump had hesitated to disavow KKK leader David Duke in a CNN interview the previous weekend. Lord responded that the KKK many decades earlier had supported Democrats, so the KKK was therefore left wing. He accused those who raised these worries of dividing Americans by race. Van Jones questioned the relevance of the first point and declared the second point "absurd," as Democrats at the time were conservative and Republicans liberal.  Lord responded that "history matters" and claimed that Democrats continue to divide citizens by race today and that doing so is "morally wrong".

In April 2017, on a CNN discussion program hosted by Don Lemon and featuring three other panelists including CNN commentator Symone Sanders, Lord maintained, as he had on an earlier CNN program, that President Donald Trump was the "Martin Luther King" of health care, explicitly comparing and equating Trump tactics to King tactics. This infuriated both Lemon and Sanders. Lemon ended the program after a few more minutes of discussion.

CNN fired Lord on August 10, 2017, after he tweeted "Sieg Heil!" to Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, suggesting Carusone was a fascist. CNN subsequently filled Lord's role as a pro-Trump contributor with Missouri politician Ed Martin.

Bibliography

References

External links
 Jeffrey Lord-Bio at The American Spectator

Living people
Franklin & Marshall College alumni
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Attacked Uber driver reacts to Richmond man's arrest: 'It's solid progress'
Posted 11:25 pm, November 2, 2018, by Brendan King
RICHMOND, Va., -- Richmond Police announced the arrest of a man in connection to an assault of an Uber driver in the Fan District on October 28.
Ronald S. Young, 26, of Ridgecliff Road, was charged with robbery in connection to the attack that left a father on disability with even more injuries, police announced on Friday.
"This morning I happily got the news that they made an arrest. That's good and they're making progress," 59-year-old Bradley Johnson said.
Uber driver Johnson was attempting to drive down the 2000 block of West Grace Street at about 2:17 a.m. when he encountered a group of people playing loud music, dancing and blocking the street.
"[Johnson] was attempting to drive through an intersection when he was robbed and assaulted," a Richmond Police spokesperson said. "[He] was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries."
The video showed the men approach Johnson's van, where they appeared to punch him. When he got out of the van, the assault continued.
"I remember hitting the ground and hitting my head on the pavement. I remember getting up a couple more times with the same result of getting hit and knocked to the ground," Johnson recalled.
The attackers took Johnson's phone. It was recovered by a jogger a few blocks away.
Young's grandmother said she was "heartbroken" after his arrest. She added she thought her grandson was turning his life around by getting his CDL license and caring for an autistic son.
A friend of Young gave CBS 6 video of the attack from a previously unseen angle of West Grace Street.
That friend, who wanted to remain anonymous, stated she believed Johnson escalated the event by not finding an alternate route around the crowd.
"If they want to claim that I initiated something or I did something wrong in all of this then lets show up in court," Johnson said. "If they're not to blame for anything then how come the police are having to find them?"
Johnson said detectives are searching for several other individuals believed to be involved in his attack.
Detectives asked anyone with any information about this incident to call Third Precinct Detective A. Davila at (804) 646-1069 or Crime Stoppers at 780-1000. The P3 Tips Crime Stoppers app for smartphones may also be used. All Crime Stoppers methods are anonymous.
Topics: Crime and Justice, Richmond, The Fan
Mother of 3 run over in Shockoe Bottom: 'Nobody was helping, they were just filming'
Wife of Richmond animal cruelty suspect remains in critical condition
Driver kills woman, injures others in Shockoe Bottom hit and run
Florida man arrested for beating up Uber driver with antenna and bystander's cane
Woman arrested in connection to deadly Shockoe Bottom hit-and-run
She was sexually assaulted after getting into fake Uber: 'Don't end up the way I did'
2 injured after suspected drunk driver slams into Richmond home
Witnesses describe chaos during fatal Shockoe Bottom hit and run
Richmond driver faces slew of charges after actions on I-95
Family defends man arrested for setting Tommie on fire: 'Y'all don't know what's up. Chill out.'
Police identify 22-year-old woman killed in Shockoe Bottom hit-and-run
Police arrest man in connection to Museum District sexual battery
Van stolen with $80,000 worth of art, equipment: 'All of our livelihood is in there'


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Henry Templer Alexander
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8 in. x 6 in. (204 mm x 153 mm) image size
Transferred from Imperial War Museum: London: UK, 1993
Henry Templer Alexander (1911-1977), Major-General. Sitter in 6 portraits.
Hay Wrightson Ltd, Photographers. Artist of 1128 portraits.
Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographers' studio, 100 George Street, London)
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Prince Andrew is born, the third child of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.
The Contraceptive Pill is introduced in England, dramatically changing the nation's approach to sex and relationships, and significantly contributing to the 1960s culture of liberation.
Penguin books defend D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover against charges of obscenity by demonstrating that the novel was of literary merit. The 'not guilty' verdict was seen as a victory for free speech and marked the beginning if a new era of liberalism.
The satirical revue Beyond the Fringe launches the careers of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller.
Harold Macmillan delivers his 'wind of change' speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town, announcing Britain's decision to grant independence to many of her colonies. The speech recognised the emergence of African nationalism, and criticised the policy of Apartheid in South Africa.
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Q: Dereferencing a pointer to a struct to access its first member For specific reasons i want to access only the first member of a struct by dereferencing the pointer to the struct.
I would like to know if is this legal or can it cause UB under some conditions; and what would be a correct solution, if this one has any problems.
Thank you.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef struct test_s
{
    void * data ;
    struct test_s * next ;

} test_t ;

int main( void )
{
    test_t * t = calloc( 1 , sizeof( test_t ) ) ;

    int n = 123;

    t->data = &n ; //int is used only for an address, this could be anything, an object for example
    void ** v = ( void* )t ;
    printf("Address of  n: %p\nAddress of *t: %p\n\n" , &n , *v ) ; //dereference the pointer to struct to access its first member

return 0;
}

A: Yes, this is legal. From C99, 6.7.2.1.13:

A pointer to a structure object, suitably converted, points to its initial member (or if that member is a bit-field, then to the unit in which it resides), and vice versa. There may be unnamed padding within a structure object, but not at its beginning.

A: Yes, this is 100% legal: C standard specifies that the pointer to a struct must always equal to the pointer to the initial member of that struct.


What is the 1 question to ask yourself before breaking up is: What do you need to be happy and what can you do to bring that into your relationship?
Should I get a divorce or just separate?
Ask yourself, "When did you start becoming unhappy in this relationship? What changed?" Is it a particular scenario or event that occurred or a situation that you can gain awareness about?
Relationships have ups and downs, and things are not always going to be one way. It's important to know that your happiness is not dependent on others, otherwise it's not "real" happiness.
What do you need to be happy and what can you do to bring that into your relationship?
Why is that question the one that you need to ask yourself before breaking up?
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Jonathan Gili (19 April 1943 – 1 October 2004) was a film-maker, editor and director, who produced numerous and wide-ranging television documentary and features programmes, mostly for the BBC.

Education
The son of Catalan publisher and translator Joan Gili and brother of the sculptor Katherine Gili, Gili was educated at Dragon School in Oxford, and Bryanston School  in north Dorset. He read Greats at New College Oxford.

Career
Gili began as a freelance film editor. He first directed for the Religious Department of London Weekend Television, but most of his work was made at the BBC in the 1980s and 1990s. Among his most prominent early observational documentaries was the  BBC1 film Public School, which featured Westminster School in London, broadcast in late 1979, with huge audience figures and a BAFTA Craft award. There followed a number of highly successful one-off documentaries, including "She Married a Yank" (GI Brides), "To The World's End" (in which the narration consisted entirely of Carl Davis's music), and "The Second Oldest Profession", about salesmen. He contributed three films to the series "Year of the French", including an unforgettable study of a peasant farmer. Then came his many films for "40 Minutes", some of which, such as 'Animal Crackers' and 'The Great North Road' featured Lucinda Lambton.  The most memorable of all was "Mixed Blessings", a study of two babies accidentally swapped shortly after birth, and the aftermath for the families.

There followed many documentaries for the "Timewatch" series - histories of the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, The Alaskan Gold Rush, The Oklahoma Outlaw. He worked for nearly two years on a two-part obituary film of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, narrated by Simon Russell Beale, music by Jonathan Dove, recognised to be the finest of its genre. He was appointed OBE, and received the Grierson Trustees' Award, the top documentary award of the Grierson Trust. (He knew about it, but it was presented posthumously.) "Tales From The Oklahoma Land Runs" won him an award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Gili died from leukemia in 2004, at the age of 61. Leukemia had been diagnosed in 1984, when he was given three years to live. He received experimental treatment from the Hammersmith Hospital and survived 20 years.

Gili did many other things, including publishing books and pictures through his own printing press, Warren Editions. One noted work is a book of Lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, based on "Metro-land", the television film by Sir John Betjeman and Edward Mirzoeff.

References

Further reading
 Ian Beck, 'Jonathan Gili, 1943-2004  Glynn Boyd Harte, 1948-2003 And Warren Editions', in Parenthesis; 12 (2006 November), p. 47-50

External links
Jonathan Gili Working Film Archive
Obituary of Jonathan Gili in The Independent

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2004 deaths
People educated at Bryanston School


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Segway miniPRO Self Balancing Personal Transporter latest 2021 Updated review
Walking on their own two feet isn't enough anymore for some people, they now feel the need of some style behind this. They feel the necessity of their very own transportation tool for them. Are you feeling so? Then, Segway minipro smart scooter can be your pick. This self-balancing electric scooter is excellent as personal transportation for a short distance. You can ride 14 miles with the board at a stretch.
The Segway miniPro is one such agile vehicle, acting as a genuine form of transportation for urban commuters due to its high maneuverability, comfort, and competitive price.
Self Balancing Personal Transporter Powered by Ninebot technology, the miniPRO is a hands-free, two-wheel electric scooter with safer features, higher speeds, and longer battery life.
The miniPRO is built to easily traverse a variety of indoor and outdoor terrains
Assembling the Segway miniPRO
It appears pretty straightforward after reviewing the owner's manual, but you won't get to ride off right away. It takes four hours to get a fully charged battery.
It's recommended that consumers re-charge the battery after every use of the Segway miniPRO. Information about how long a battery will last before it needs to be replaced isn't readily available.
It's important to be aware that this is not a battery you can change out yourself, so that's a cost-of-ownership factor that needs to be considered.
Speed and power & Distance
How fast does it go? What is the range/distance?
The miniPRO Segway is built like a tank featuring two 800 watt powered motors,
It can go up to 10 miles an hour which is actually wicked fast and 14 miles of driving range before needing a charge.
Key Perceptions of the miniPRO Segway
It's rated for a minimum of 80lbs to 220lbs. Because the control shaft can only be adjusted to a certain extent
Riders as small as 3' 11" and up to 6' 6" can hop on the Segway miniPRO.
Heads up! It stands 5 or 6" off the ground already so if you are quite tall it may be a tad bit difficult to enter through doorways, elevators, or other low clearance entries.
Can it be Used Offroad?
Off-roading is surely attainable as the heavily built tires and sturdy deck allow you to get off the pavement and cruise over grass, uneven dirt, gravel, or whatever (small) obstacles.
As long as it's not over an inch of a drop the small suspension will allow you to smoothly cruise over without notice.
Does it Connect to Your Smartphone via App or Bluetooth?
This Segway miniPRO comes with its own iOS and Android apps which come in handy for a multitude of functions. Once you pair via Bluetooth the app will display the metrics such as; current range, speed, battery temperature and distance since last charged, etc.
The miniPRO casing is made of a tough magnesium fusion and is covered with a consumption safe material to refrain from rusting.
The range is somewhat impressive; miniPRO is anticipated to achieve 14 miles per charge, which is factual if you're running it on horizontal surfaces
though it is capable of climbing steep hills (up to a 15 degree angle) however it will exhaust the battery a lot quicker.
The Segway miniPRO is a more compact personal transporter option than the company's Ninebot PTR carries a full-size handlebar column,
This model can't accommodate the incline some the other kinds of hoverboards can though – only 15 degrees, compared with 30-40 degrees that some others can tackle.
Segway Mini Pro Specs
The Segway miniPRO has two white LED lights on the front of the unit as well as two-colored LED lights on the back for safety. The backlight color can be changed through the app, and the lights can be seen from around 15 feet away.
Top Speed 10-12 mph
Motors 2x 800 watt
Length and Width 3 x 21.5″
Battery Charge Time 4 hours from 0%
Height 3′ 11″ to 6′ 6″
Water Resistant green-check-mark
Tire Size and Type 5″ Pneumatic
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The Segway miniPRO can accommodate riders up to 220 pounds. The lower recommended age/weight range is 16 years old or 85 pounds.
This kind of limits the ridership a bit; some hoverboard makers advertise an upper weight limit of 250-300 pounds. It also makes one hesitate about carrying a backpack or other items while using it.
Some adults are close to 220 pounds to begin with – who wants to wonder if filling a backpack with say, groceries or library books, will make them too heavy to ride home?
The Segway miniPRO can cover about 14 miles on a single charge, which is on par with similar products. It's plenty of distance for tooling around town.
It's also possible to imagine a Segway miniPRO as an adaptive tool for folks with limited mobility who don't necessarily need a wheelchair
Is It Worth it?
The Segway miniPro is an undeniably fun and enjoyable way to get around. With its intuitive controls, it is one of the most responsive and easy-to-use hoverboards even today. It also has a solid design and construction that is befitting of the Segway brand. The visuals might not have focused on making the miniPro look cool, but its minimalist design is also appealing in its own way.
Why are Segways being discontinued?
Segway To End The Production Of Its Iconic Personal Transportation. While the vehicle became a fixture in law enforcement and tourism, it did not gain widespread traction among the wider public. The Segway accounted for less than 1.5% of the company's revenue last year, the Associated Press reported
How does a Segway balance?
The Segway PT does pretty much the same, except that it has wheels instead of feet, a motor instead of muscles, a microprocessor instead of a brain, and sophisticated balancing sensors instead of an inner-ear balancing sense. … To maintain balance, the vehicle moves the wheels at exactly the right speed.
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Stephen Gold, CIO of CVS Health Corp., resigned last week to "pursue professional opportunities outside of CVS Health," company spokesman Mike DeAngelis said to the Rhode Island Public Radio. The resignation was unrelated to the company's $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, said DeAngelis.
Gold began his tenure at CVS in 2012 and oversaw the creation of an innovation lab, a data analytics-driven clinical advice engine and various digital tools, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Until a new CIO is appointed, the company's IT will report to COO Jon Roberts, according to the WSJ.
Gold was known for his ACT — accountability, collaboration and tenacity — framework, which he used to create a collaborative and fully accountable IT organization in the retail and healthcare company.
Scaling CVS' technology was an imminent concern for Gold, who didn't want to get bogged down trying new technologies that wouldn't work across the company's entire operations.
By integrating Big Data and digital tools into the customer experience and feedback loop, CVS pushed its own competitors in the digital game. Walgreens announced a partnership with IBM to integrate IBM Cloud and data analytics capabilities into the company's supply chain and store operations.


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Elizabeth Olsen Was Terrified Of Singing In 'I Saw The Light'
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She Plays Hank Williams' Wife Audrey
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival late last year, Marc Abraham's Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light—a film that had all the makings of a major Oscar contender at the time—was met with lukewarm reviews, forcing the studio to push its release out of awards season and into the early start of a crowded summer movie season. Now, it will be Batman vs. Superman vs. Hank Williams, in a box office showdown that should render the country legend's tragic tale an afterthought among moviegoers, when I Saw the Light is released on March 25, opposite DC's superhero juggernaut. It's a shame too, since Tom Hiddleston as Williams, and Elizabeth Olsen as his first wife Audrey, deliver two of the best performances of their careers.
We sat down with Olsen after the film's premiere, to discuss what it was like watching her rumored beau transform into one of the most iconic singers in American history, how she reconciled her own trepidations of playing a historical figure, and just what to expect when a little movie called Captain America: Civil War drops this May.
How much did you know about Hank Williams before you signed on for the project?
I knew the songs that were the most famous, so I've heard Hank's name a lot. But I didn't really know much about him.
Strange, since he's considered one of the most influential songwriters ever, yet our generation just isn't that familiar with his work.
No, but my friends who are musicians were. One of my best friend's mothers, when I told her I was going to work on a Hank Williams film, she was like 'Are you joking?' It turns out her youngest daughter was named Audrey after my character. She told me that all of Audrey's boots were engraved with her name, so I asked our costume designer to make me a pair of Audrey boots, and now I have my own pair of Audrey boots.
Was Audrey an egomaniac?
When I went to the Country Music Hall of Fame [in Nashville], they had a vault of all of the Williams family's things that they were preserving, things like family photos, newspapers, collages, and in almost every photo, Audrey's dresses were embroidered with a big "A" and all of her boots did, in fact, say "Audrey."
Well, she always had a genuine expression on her face. She never seemed false. She was either truly having a joyful time, or she was just not having it. I think she's a business woman, and I'm sure she saw certain things as branding opportunities. So she took on the whole business, and Hank had none of that, so in a way she's very responsible for him having a career. They needed each other.
Talk to me about Tom's performance. What was it like watching him transform from an outsider's perspective?
I saw him singing first in the studio in Nashville. I was nervous at first because it was so intimidating. You're trying to figure out being the actor singing for the part, without having played the part, which is a very strange place to be. It felt a little crunchy for both of us. But once we got on set and into character, everything just seeped in. When we were doing our camera test, Tom was taking on the facial expressions, had the outfit on, and I just thought 'That is so gnarly.'
Does that kind of talent blow you away when you're watching it in real life?
Absolutely. He's such a detailed actor, and so highly skilled. He does all this work but it would all mean nothing if he were soulless. He took on all the emotional shit and lived with it every single day for the shoot. I had half the time off, so I'd hang out and be like, 'Cool, I guess I'm going to go explore Shreveport now! I have friends coming in!' But for him, it was unrelenting. It was pretty remarkable.
What do you think Hank would think about the current state of country music if he were still alive?
Our music supervisor said that he was happy that Hank never saw country become the new country.
Why do you think that is?
Because new country feels a little too much like pop music with a twang.
Why do you think so many of these young geniuses succumb to substance abuse?
I think a lot of it has to do with extreme pressure and attention. When you have extreme fame, that never stops going away, I can't even imagine what that's like. It's showing up on the road all the time. It's people telling you where to be, what to do. When you hear all those old Hollywood stories of actors being on contract with major studios, that's how all of them got their addictions. They were being shot up with shit just to give them energy, and that's where it comes from. They're in demand, they're tired, figure it out. They're in pain, they're sick, figure it out.
Were you able to draw parallels between Hank and recent artists who have suffered the same fate?
There's a moment in the Amy Winehouse documentary where she's under so much pressure to go to a show, and she just didn't want to go. But she goes to Serbia, and she's just fucked out of her mind. She's so high, she's so drunk, she walks on stage and she's just so sloppy, and she doesn't go near the mic. That's kind of what happens in this movie. It's a very modern thing that Hank was kind of the pioneer of.
Is that something you worry happening to you the more famous you get?
I have zero worry about that.
Your anonymity is kind of slipping away I'd imagine.
Not so much. I grew up in L.A., and I lived in New York. I'm pretty well aware of where to go and where not to go.
Do you remember what your first film festival experience was like for Martha Marcy May Marlene?
Back then I was literally like, 'What's a film festival?' I was at Sundance and thought 'What's the big deal? This is an isolated world. No one cares.' I didn't understand why everyone was putting so much pressure on me and telling me that my life was going to change. I was like 'We're in the middle of the mountains. Nobody gives a shit!' I was a theater kid and had no clue about the film industry.
Would you call yourself a seasoned vet at this point?
I think I'm just starting to understand things, and I'm just starting to know how to make the right choices. It took a while, but you figure it out.
When you agree to do films like The Avengers or Godzilla, is that a conscious choice to take your career to another level?
I definitely wanted to do them, that's for sure. When you have an opportunity like that, you think about it long and hard, and you try and make sure it's with the right people, the right, team, the right cast, and the right character, and then you just say, 'Yeah!'
Has it been hard to stay spoiler-free in the lead up to Captain America: Civil War?
I already screwed it up apparently in France.
I heard about that. You mentioned the villain's name, Baron Zemo.
I didn't say Baron Zemo! I just said that Daniel Brühl is an awesome villain, and apparently that was new information. Everyone knew he was playing Baron Zemo, so why would they assume he's a good guy?
Will he be wearing Zemo's trademark purple mask?
No. I don't know. No, he's not. I don't know. I have no idea. I've never had a scene with him, how about that? I had the whole film with him and then did nothing with him at the same time. We knew each other very well on set, and we never saw each other as well. How about that puzzle?
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Eye-opening possibilities of atomic hydrogen water
Hydrogen-rich water, especially Atomic hydrogen water, has received media attention for its health benefits. We interviewed Professor Shirahata at Kyushu University who is at the frontline of the research in this field.
Sanetaka Shirahata, professor of Bioscience and Biotechnology at Kyushu University
Shirahata has studied the beneficial effects of Atomic hydrogen water for over thirty years. He delivered a series of lectures and participated in a collaborative research on Atomic hydrogen water at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Q: What made you think of studying "Atomic hydrogen"? What is the significance of this?
A: I took over the study from the previous researcher at my institute. There are not so many researchers who study water probably because it is the most abundant substance on earth and always within our reach.
Water is quite important for cells. I believe water has healing effects like "the water of Lourdes", and my belief kept me work on the study of "Atomic hydrogen" for a long time.
Recent studies show that Atomic hydrogen water increases cell activation and has a positive impact on health. It may be introduced as one of natural remedies following the shift towards integrated care.
I am particularly interested in Atomic hydrogen, which acts as the antioxidant defenses of the cancer cell. The study is still new and requires further research. More studies have been done for molecular hydrogen, but this is not effective for preventing cancer. On the other hand, Atomic hydrogen acts as a reducing agent and thus is lethal to cancer cells. If Atomic hydrogen can be taken into the body, that will be a revolutionary change in the field of cancer treatment. Medical practitioners are concerned about side effects of chemotherapy, and the increasing shift towards integrated care is seen in the US and Europe where conventional medicine is highly developed. Introduction of Atomic hydrogen water would be well appreciated in the field of Clinical Oncology.
Q: I believe Atomic hydrogen water is quite important. How come there are not that many researchers who study this field?
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A: "The water of Lourdes" is one of the well known healing water, but there is no scientific explanation for the beneficial forces concentrated in the water. It may be hard to follow the idea that Atomic hydrogen water increases cell activation and prevents cancer, because water is an abundant substance. It's been more than 15 years since the importance of natural treatments is highlighted in the US, but I don't think the idea is not recognized by the general public in Japan. We should cooperate with medical institutions and organizations to advocate the effectiveness of Atomic hydrogen water. Once the general public deepens their understanding of water, researchers will receive more funding and have enough budget to keep their study.
Q: What did you present at the home of the Nobel Assembly, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden? We'd like to know more about Atomic hydrogen water which has positive effects not only on the human body but also on plants.
A: I was invited to Karolinska Institutet by Sten Orrenius, professor emeritus, in 2007, where I talked about the health benefits of Atomic hydrogen water. I have reported the progress of the study at the seminar in 2009. I believe the study of Atomic hydrogen water for cancer prevention was well acknowledged. In 2013, we presented a hypothesis, "Water as a source and stock of hydrogen and electron energies". If this theory is scientifically proven, it becomes clear that water stores energy and is deeply connected to life energy. This will also prove another hypothesis that water is a living substance that has memory.
Atomic hydrogen water has positive effects on plants and soil as it increases cell activation. It will help reduce pesticides use if Atomic hydrogen water is effectively used. This means we need to change our approach of our study to broaden the use in medical and agricultural fields, to make the most use out of Atomic hydrogen water. This need of the change in the current system should be understood by everybody including those who are not expert in science, medical and agricultural fields. Our mission is to introduce healthy and eco-friendly lifestyle that encourages to minimize the use of conventional medicine and pesticides.
It is challenging to keep the study of water because results of its study could possibly change the history of science and medical bioscience. Scientists need to be courageous enough to reveal a new fact that goes against our common knowledge. A number of medical practitioners and scientists feel that conventional medicine and materialism are already cliché. We need a system that supports scientists like Prof. Shirahata who challenges the new field of study.
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NY vs. Florida property taxes, swapping offices for housing, & more
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A New Yorker on why he's moving to Florida: His property taxes will be slashed by at least two-thirds, and he can forgo paying a hefty state income tax (Newsday)
Instead of office towers, a delayed project at 80 Flatbush Ave. is switching to a mix of market-rate and some affordable housing (Bklyner)
An op-ed calls for tenants in NYC market-rate apartments to get more protections from eviction (amNewYork)
What it's like to live in Saugerties, New York, a quaint village in Ulster County (The New York Times)
The disappearance of a real estate attorney, along with the funds he held for safekeeping, is raising questions about the security of escrow accounts (The Real Deal)
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Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger
Jagdish Mehra and Kimball Milton
Julian Schwinger was one of the leading theoretical physicists of the 20th century. His contributions are as important, and as pervasive, as those of Richard Feynman, with whom he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics (along with Sin-itiro Tomonaga). Yet, while Feynman is universally recognised as a cultural icon, Schwinger is little known to many even within the physics community. In his youth, Schwinger was a nuclear physicist, turning to classical electrodynamics after World War II. In the years after the war, he was the first to renormalise quantum electrodynamics. Subsequently, he prese ... More
Julian Schwinger was one of the leading theoretical physicists of the 20th century. His contributions are as important, and as pervasive, as those of Richard Feynman, with whom he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics (along with Sin-itiro Tomonaga). Yet, while Feynman is universally recognised as a cultural icon, Schwinger is little known to many even within the physics community. In his youth, Schwinger was a nuclear physicist, turning to classical electrodynamics after World War II. In the years after the war, he was the first to renormalise quantum electrodynamics. Subsequently, he presented the most complete formulation of quantum field theory and laid the foundations for the electroweak synthesis of Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and Abdus Salam, and he made fundamental contributions to the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance as well as many-body theory and quantum optics. Schwinger also developed a unique approach to quantum mechanics, measurement algebra, and a general quantum action principle. His discoveries include 'Feynman's' parameters and 'Glauber's' coherent states; in later years he also developed an alternative to operator quantum field theory which he called source theory, reflecting his profound phenomenological bent. His late work on the Thomas-Fermi model of atoms and on the Casimir effect continues to be an inspiration to a new generation of physicists. This first full-length biography describes the many strands of his research life, while tracing the personal life of this private and gentle genius.
Keywords: Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman, quantum electrodynamics, quantum field theory, nuclear magnetic resonance, source theory, Casimir effect, quantum optics, quantum mechanics, many-body theory
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198527459.001.0001
Jagdish Mehra, author
Kimball Milton, author
Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma
No Time to be Brief, Charles P. Enz (2002)
1 A New York City childhood
2 Julian Schwinger at Columbia University
3 Schwinger goes to Berkeley
4 During the Second World War
5 Winding up at the Radiation Lab, going to Harvard, and marriage
6 The development of quantum electrodynamics until 1947: the historical background of Julian Schwinger's work on QED
7 Quantum electrodynamics and Julian Schwinger's path to fame
8 Schwinger, Tomonaga, Feynman, and Dyson: the triumph of renormalization
9 Green's functions and the dynamical action principle
10 The world according to Stern and Gerlach
11 Custodian of quantum field theory
12 Electroweak unification and foreshadowing of the standard model
13 The Nobel Prize and the last years at Harvard
14 Move to UCLA and continuing concerns
15 Taking the road less traveled
16 The diversions of a gentle genius
APPENDIX A Julian Schwinger—list of publications
APPENDIX B PhD students of Julian Schwinger
Index of subjects


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Policing and Recovery in Puerto Rico (Podcast)
How can the history of policing in Puerto Rico deepen understandings of race, class, and colonialism in Puerto Rico—and what can it tell us in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria?
Marisol LeBrón
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Helen speaks with NACLA Report contributor Marisol LeBrón, whose article for the latest issue of the NACLA Report, Prisons, Punishment, and Policing, traces the Puerto Rican state's policing and surveillance programs from the 1950s to now. They discuss the internal complexities at play in Puerto Rican politics beyond the colonial dynamic between the U.S. government and Puerto Rico, and Marisol explains how policing tactics were used to undermine the Puerto Rican Nationalist party leading up to a crucial vote over ratifying Commonwealth status for the territory. Helen and Marisol also discuss how Puerto Rico fits into a larger institutional discourse about "best practices" for policing, surveillance, and responding to crises throughout Latin America and in the mainland U.S., where urban police forces have carried out similar tactics to those the FBI and the PRPD previously "tested" in Puerto Rico.
Marisol also explains how policing tactics have had both unifying and divisive effects on Puerto Ricans throughout the diaspora, and how social media has changed the way the diaspora connects to Puerto Rico and advocates for the interests of its inhabitants. She also talks about her experience as a member of the Puerto Rican diaspora, the stress of waiting to hear from family in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and how mainland media coverage and the federal government's insufficient and scattered response have further exposed truths about the relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico. We were glad to hear that Marisol did get in touch with her family after the episode was taped, and that they are ok, given the circumstances.
To support community efforts to rebuild after Maria, please check out MariaFund.org. We'll update this page with further resources for those who want to contribute as the relief effort continues. To learn more about Taller Salud, the women's advocacy and community organizing workshop Marisol mentions near the end of the episode, visit their Facebook page.


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This report provides a description of the range of woody debris and its distribution within England. It also provides additional information on the habitat and its fauna elsewhere in Britain and mainland Europe. Details are provided of 147 species that are considered to be particularly associated with coarse woody debris, including those species that may benefit from changes in structure afforded by log jams and woody debris.


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Krakow, Poland: The Oscar Schindler Factory
The second stop on our walking tour of Krakow, Poland, after our visit to the Krakow Ghetto, was the Schindler Factory, the actual factory owned by Oscar Schindler who saved over 1,200 Jewish lives in his enamelware and ammunition factory during WWII. Since 2010, the administrative offices of the factory have been turned into a museum that documents the Nazi occupation of Krakow with photos, movies, authentic artifacts and multimedia experiences, conveying an authentic feeling for this time in history. It's an amazing museum where I could have spent many hours, studying original photos and objects.
Oscar Schindler is a fascinating and contradictory personality. He had grown up in Moravia during the early 1900s, and as a young child he was playing with children of his Jewish neighbours. He studied to become an engineer and started working in his father's farm implements factory. He got married young at the age of 20 to a wealthy farmer's daughter but was also a hedonist, gambler and womanizer. In the mid 1930s His father's company closed due to financial problems as part of the Great Depression and Schindler became an undercover agent for the German Military Intelligence Office.
To secure business contracts, he became a member of the Nazi party in 1939, and in an opportunistic move, he went to Krakow shortly after the German invasion of Poland to start a business there. In October of 1939 he took over an idle enamelware factory that had gone bankrupt and hired about 1000 Jewish forced labourers. He became very wealthy by producing kitchenware for the German Wehrmacht in his Emalia factory and maintained good contacts with high-ranking Nazi officials. In 1943, he witnessed a brutal raid in the Krakow Ghetto, a life-changing event that turned him from an opportunistic businessman into a selfless hero that became motivated to save as many Jewish lives as he could.
Schindler Factory
By using his contacts, bribing officials and guards, and by falsifying records (at great personal risk), he managed to get his company designated as essential to the war effort. This allowed Schindler to obtain exemptions when some of his workers were threatened with deportations. When children and wives of his employees were at risk of being deported, he would designate them as mechanics and metalworkers. In 1943, he succeeded in getting a subsidiary of the Plaszow Labour Camp to be set up in his factory, and ensured humane treatment for his employees. He used his own funds to purchase food in the black market and distributed it to his workers. They were even able to pray and follow Jewish traditions at work while all across Poland Jewish people were being murdered in death camps.
Towards the end of World War II, the Russian Army was moving westwards and the Nazis issued an order to evacuate Jewish prisoners towards regions farther west in the Reich. About 20,000 Jewish inmates of the Plaszow Labour Camp ended up in extermination camps. All factories not essential for the war effort in Krakow, Poland, were going to be closed down. As a result, Schindler managed to convince the Nazi authorities to allow him to move (and save the lives of) his 1,200 Jewish employees to a factory farther west in the German-speaking Sudeten Region where they were supposed to produce components for the V-2 rockets and hand grenades.
After the end of World War II, Schindler fled to Germany where he arrived penniless. The years after the war did not bring Oscar Schindler any further financial success. He lived for some time in Argentina, but moved back to West Germany where he went bankrupt again in 1961. Once some Schindler Jews found out about his hardship, they invited him to come to Jerusalem. From that point forward he lived in a small one-bedroom apartment in Frankfurt, and spent part of the year in Jerusalem with Jews he had saved. He died in 1974 and was buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem at his wish. He was honoured posthumously as a "Righteous among the People" by Yad Vashem in 1993.
In 1910, Schindler's former factory opened as the Fabryka Schindlera Museum which is part of the Historic Museum of the City of Krakow, Poland. This museum documents the wartime history of Krakow and its inhabitants. A special focus is on the life of Oscar Schindler and the many Jewish residents that he saved. Oscar Schindler's life was portrayed in the 1993 movie "Schindler's List", which was directed by Steven Spielberg and received seven Oscars and five Oscar nominations. As a result of Oscar Schindler's heroic efforts, more than 7000 descendants of the so-called "Schindler Jews" live in Europe, Israel and the United States.
The museum has about a dozen sections that deal with topics such as the Second World War, Krakow and its role as the centre of power in the Nazi General Government, day-to-day life in Krakow, the fate of the city's Jewish population, resistance to the Nazis, and the life of Oscar Schindler and his employees. Using original documents, period photographs, newspaper clippings, uniforms, flags, a tank, street signs, posters and official notices, this museum succeeds in depicting a very real and gripping image of World War II history in Krakow, Poland.
I could have spent several more hours in this amazing museum, but my guide Monica nudged me to get going since we had to move on to the next chapter of our explorations of Krakow, Poland. We were going to head to Kazimierz, the historic Jewish district of Krakow.
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