A few years ago my need for personal video conferencing became serious. I have family scattered around the world, and I wanted them to see my newborn son. It was around this same time that Apple announced iSight/iChat (their video conferencing solution for personal computers). Further coincidence around that time was AOL and Apple agreed to allow AIM and iChat accounts to interact, and not only that, the video capabilities (codec interop) of each would integrate. So, I bought an iSight camera, and my brother in California bought a webcam for his windows laptop. After some configuration, on his end, we were able to get things up and running; he was able to see me and my family on a more regular basis; hurray!
Not long after that I sent my cousin in Kauai an iSight (he has an eMac). After zero configuration, we were able to see eachother's families on a more regular basis; hurray!
Apple's peripheral, end-to-end "plug and play" model has always been more useful than wintel solutions, and that reality played out yet again over the weekend. My brother just changed employers, and subsequently his laptop configuration changed. We tried setting up his webcam on his new wintel laptop, and we struggled each step of the way. He didn't have an AIM client installed yet, we couldn't find the right one that works with video conferencing, and once we though we had, still no dice. A few months ago he'd bought an iBook, so I sent him an iSight so we could just see each-other, and stop messing around with devices. Once it arrived at his house, I called him and asked if we could video conference, at which point he sighed and reluctantly agreed to try to set it up. I said you just had to plug it in, give it your account name, and you're done; he laughed out loud at the prospect of it being so simple. Sure enough, a few minutes later, with zero assistance from me, we were live on video.
This blog is starting to feel like an Apple advertisement; I'll back off of these kinds of posts; sorry.
Walt Mossberg gets it: "In Our Post-PC Era, Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way."


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SUFB 1212: Faroe Islands government to renew whale culling policies after 1400 white-sided dolphins killed
The Faroe Islands government has announced that they will review their regulations of the dolphin cull after some whalers and critics thought that the last cull of 1400 white-sided dolphins was too numerous to use all of the meat. The...
The Faroe Islands government has announced that they will review their regulations of the dolphin cull after some whalers and critics thought that the last cull of 1400 white-sided dolphins was too numerous to use all of the meat.
The current regulations that I mentioned during the last episode raised a number of questions about how quantitative are regulations? How many animals can they take at once? What is the ratio of hunters to animals to ensure a quick hunt of each individual? How much meat is given to each family?
Hopefully, questions such as the ones above will be answered during this review.
Last episode: https://www.speakupforblue.com/show/speak-up-for-the-ocean-blue/sufb-1211-questions-around-the-legality-of-killing-1400-white-sided-dolphins-in-the-faroe-islands-circulate/
Link to article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/faroe-islands-dolphin-follow-1.6179472
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Q: Wine nor winetricks show up on applications menu I have installed and uninstalled wine and reinstalled it several times but it never shows up in the Applications menu. I was able to install with wine using terminal, but the program does not show up in the menu. I have tried about everything I can find searching the above title, but haven't found a fix.

A: Wine is used to launch EXEs, so it has no point being in the menu.  When running EXEs, Wine will open them.  As far as Winetricks, just run 'winetricks' in the terminal.

A: This does not work if wxmaxima is installed.  Ubuntu sends .exe files to wxmaxima instead of wine, wine does not show up on the "open with other" list, and there is no browse option. bummer.

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Currently watching The League and Iron Fist and enjoying them both.
Iron Fist which I have really enjoyed and Hinterland also good.
Just watching Jessica Jones. It isn't as good as Daredevil but worth a watch.
Actually, I thought Jessica Jones was the best of the Marvel series. I got bored of Daredevil in season 2, couldn't get into Luke Cage and haven't see Iron Fist yet.
Suits was meant to be coming off Netflix UK on the 31 March but Season 5 has just been dropped so i dont think it is now.
The People v OJ. -only on the 1st ep.
Currently watching Luke Cage, will probably watch The Expanse next.
Greenleaf season 1- absolutely gripping- family saga, religion, corruption and secrets. Highly recommend it.
Backstrom- only one season as it was cancelled. Procedural, knew what I was getting with each episode but really enjoyed it.
Riverdale- kitschy teen drama- I'm embarrassingly addicted to it.
Schitt's Creek season 2- I LOVE this series.
OA. Possibly the best drama on Netflix, well that I've ever seen.
IZombie which is great fun, a bit like like Veronica Mars meets TWD, The Break which is a bit slow but very intriguing and Black Mirror which I thought was the best drama ever on Netflix until I saw OA.
Finally, The Most Hated Woman In America. I was drawn in by the title and it's really not bad at all. I'd never heard of her (Madalyn Murray O'Hair) before but love her a bit now.
I think I'm going to have to watch the end of Season 2 again as a refresher as it's so long since I watched it.
Just finished Sense 8 didn't really want to persevere with this after the second episode but gradually got hooked, crazy at times but at other times very good and great sountrack especially liked the Daniel Martin Moore version of Hallelujah at the end of the Christmas special. Really enjoyed The OA but then I am a big fan of Brit Marling and Jason Isaacs and the build up to the final climax in the last episode of season one was perfect. Can't wait to see what they do in season two. One of the highlights of 2016 was Stranger Things and I have been enjoying it all over again. Really enjoyed Dare Devil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage but really hope Iron Fist gets better semi enjoyed the first episode didn't enjoy the second but will give it a chance.
Black comedy and 9/10. Highly recommended.
I'm looking forward to Bosch season 3 starting on Amazon next month.
The Making of a Murderer.
Would you recommend the first 2 seasons?
Dirk Gently's was surprisingly good considering it was set in the US and had virtually nothing to do with the original books but it was better than the BBC version.
Another excellent series which I don't see mentioned very often on these pages was Spotless - a kind of French Dexter set in gansterland London.
Yeah, I really enjoyed them, I think I binge watched season 2 in a weekend. I've read all the books so not sure if that enhanced my enjoyment of them, but I do think they're worth a watch.
Just finished Power which was fantastic.
I might try The Most Hated Woman In America next. The title is interesting. No idea what it's about though.


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The father of Kwid, Logan and Duster is no more
Murali Gopalan Mumbai | Updated on December 08, 2019 Published on December 08, 2019
Gerard Detourbet (1946-2019) was the epicentre of Renault's low-cost car projects
Gerard Detourbet was Renault's go-to man for emerging markets
Two products from Renault changed the way people perceived it in India. The first was the Duster compact SUV and then the Kwid.
The person who created both was Gerard Detourbet who died in France on Friday. He was 73. Detourbet was also the father of the Logan entry-level sedan, which was part of the then Mahindra-Renault joint venture. It did not do too well in this part of the world even while it notched up big numbers elsewhere.
Close to his heart
Come to think of it, Detourbet was the epicentre of his company's low-cost car projects which were the need of the hour for emerging markets like India. Yet, if there was one initiative close to his heart, it was doubtless the Kwid.
This was a triumph of frugal engineering which hit the bull's-eye in an intensely price-sensitive market such as India. When it was first unveiled in Chennai four years ago, Carlos Ghosn who was then the CEO of Renault-Nissan spoke of Detourbet's role in the project.
"If you are bored with Logan I have a bigger task for you. But you have to do it in India and not in Japan or Paris," he recalled telling him at that point in time. Detourbet, according to Ghosn, was the "link between the knowledge coming from global markets and the creativity you can develop in India".
For a company that had not attempted anything as ambitious in terms of the steep cost targets, it was only natural that the project would have its share of sceptics. They were convinced that it was impossible to make a car at that price and dismissed it as a pipe-dream.
Detourbet was only too aware that the Kwid could not become a reality had it been attempted solely in France or Japan (the base of Renault and Nissan) or, for that matter, in India with just Indian engineers. What was required was a fusion between knowledge and experience of different markets, plus the creativity of Indian engineers. Consequently, what Renault strove to do successfully was marrying Indian skills with French and Japanese skills. This was the best way to make people work together while leveraging the experience of global markets "married with local creativity".
All the hard work paid off and Detourbet was clearly delighted with the response to Kwid. Both he and Ghosn were spot-on in inferring that if there was one good reason for it to do well in India, it was because it had its genes here.
Push for frugal engineering
With 97 per cent localisation, there was no other car from Renault or Nissan with this level of in-house content. It truly pushed the envelope in frugal engineering and ended up being a serious rival, at least in its initial phase of its launch, to Maruti Suzuki in the compact space.
Marc Nassif, who headed Renault's India operations till 2014, has fond memories of Detourbet who he was familiar with for over three decades. "Even while he may have come across as being slightly rough on the outside to strangers, he was in reality a very sensitive human being," says Nassif, who is now MD & CEO of Renault's Morocco operations.
According to him, Detourbet was easily accessible to everyone within the ecosystem. He was also quite at home in Chennai while working on his pet car project, which would eventually catch the fancy of the market. Detourbet may have passed on but his DNA is still intact in the Kwid, Duster and Logan.


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October 27, 1858 - Born at 28 East 20th Street, New York City, child of Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.
1876 - 1880 Attended Harvard College.
1880-1882 Enters Columbia Law School in October 1880; discontinued study of law in 1882 without taking a degree or becoming a lawyer.
October 27, 1880 Marries Alice Hathaway Lee of Chestnut Hill, MA on his 22nd birthday.
(Alice born July 29, 1861)
1880 Joins the Republican Party
November 8, 1881 Elected to New York State Assembly from New York City (the youngest man ever elected to the Assembly) by a margin of 3,490 votes to 1,989. Serves three one-year terms, 1882, 1883 and 1884. Minority Leader 1883.
August 1,1882 Joins the National Guard. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in Company B of New York's Eighth Regiment.
February 12, 1884 Birth of 1st child, daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt.
February 14, 1884 TR's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt dies of typhoid fever; hours later, TR's wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also dies from Bright's disease.
1885 Sagamore Hill, TR's Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York home, completed.
December 2, 1886 Marries to Edith Kermit Carow in London. They eventually have five children: Theodore (1887), Kermit (1889), Ethel Carow (1891), Archibald Bulloch (1894), Quentin (1897).
May 7, 1889- May 5, 1895 U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Washington.
May 5, 1895 Resigns US Civil Service Commission to become Police Commissioner of NYC.
May 6, 1895- April 19, 1897 President of the Board of Police Commissioners, New York City.
April 19, 1897 Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President WilliamMcKinley.
May 6, 1898 A little more than one year later TR resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to become Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (the "Rough Riders").
May 15- Sept. 16, 1898 Serves with First US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, the "Rough Riders," during Spanish-American War. TR commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, but later promoted to Colonel of the regiment before the Battle of San Juan Heights.
July 1, 1898 Battle of San Juan Heights. Is later nominated for, but denied, the Congressional Medal of Honor. One hundred years later TR is awarded the Medal of Honor.
September 27, 1898 Nominated by the Republican Party for Governor of New York State.
November 8, 1898 Elected Governor of New York State (661,715 votes) with a plurality of 17,786 votes.
December 31, 1898 Takes oath of office as Governor of New York.
Dec. 31, 1898 - Dec. 31, 1900 Governor of New York.
November 6, 1900 Elected Vice President. The McKinley-Roosevelt ticket received 7,219,530 votes to 6,358,071 for Democrats William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson.
March 4- Sept. 14, 1901 Vice President of the United States.
Sept. 6, 1901 President William McKinley shot while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. TR, on a hiking trip with his family, is summoned from Mount Tahawus in the Adirondacks to Buffalo.
September 14, 1901 At age 42, Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States and is sworn into office at about 3:15 p.m. at the Ansley Wilcox Mansion, Buffalo, NY. Roosevelt is the youngest man ever to become President.
Sept. 14 1901- Mar. 4, 1909 Twenty-sixth President of the United States.
May 22, 1902 Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, established. Other National Parks established by TR are: Wind Cave National Park, SD (1903);Sullys Hill, ND (1904); Platt National Park, OK (1906); Mesa Verde National Park, CO (1906)
June 17, 1902 Newlands Reclamation Act signed, leading to first 21 federal irrigation projects including Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Arizona.
June 28, 1902 Isthmian Canal Act.
February 14, 1903 Department of Commerce and Labor established.
November 18, 1903 Treaty signed with Panama for building of Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914.
November 8, 1904 Reelected President over Democrat Alton B. Parker.
December 6, 1904 Issued "Roosevelt Corollary" to Monroe Doctrine in annual message to Congress.
February 1, 1905 National Forest Service established.
March 4, 1905 Inaugurated for second term as President.
September 5, 1905 Portsmouth Treaty signed ending Russo-Japanese Warafter mediation by TR.
June 30, 1906 Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and federal meat inspection law.
Nov. 8-26, 1906 President and Mrs. Roosevelt go to Panama to inspect building of the canal, the first time a president leaves US while in office.
December 10, 1906 Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for ending Russo-Japanese War in 1905; first American to win Nobel Prize in any of the six categories. (TR received award while in Europe in 1910.)
Dec. 16. 1907- Voyage of the Great White Fleet around the world. It will be the first circumnavigation of the globe by a national naval force.
May 13-15, 1908 First conference of Governors met at the White House to consider problemsof conservation.
June 8, 1908 Appointed a National Conservation Commission to prepare first inventory of natural resources.
February 22, 1909 Return of the American Great White Fleet
March 4, 1909 TR's administration ends with inauguration of successor William Howard Taft.
February 21, 1912 Announces candidacy for Republican nomination against President Taft, declaring "my hat is in the ring."
June 18-22, 1912 Republican National Convention meets in Chicago and renominates incumbent Taft even though TR has won all but one primary and caucus. Roosevelt supporters bolt, charging "theft" of nomination.
August 5-7, 1912 Convention of new National Progressive party (nicknamed "Bull Moose" party) held in Chicago, adopts reform platform, and nominates TR for President and Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California for Vice President.
October 14, 1912 Shot in the chest while entering an automobile outside the Hotel Gilpatrick inMilwaukee, WI by would-be assassin John Nepomuk Schrank at about 8:00p.m. Campaigning on the "Bull Moose" ticket, TR delivers a 90-minute speech at the Auditorium in Milwaukee beforeseeking medical attention. The bullet would never be removed. [Schrank was declared insane on November 13, 1912 and committed to the Northern State Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, WI, and died at the Central State Hospital in Waupun, WI on September 15,1943.]
November 5, 1912 Democrat Woodrow Wilson elected president over TR, who came in second, and Republican Taft. Roosevelt received the largest percentage of votes of any third party candidate.
June 7-10, 1916 Republican and Progressive national conventions meet in Chicago, at same time in different halls, in an effort at a joint nomination. Progressives nominate Theodore Roosevelt; Republicans nominate Charles Evans Hughes; TR declines Progressive nomination and eventually backs Hughes.
July, 1918 Roosevelt refuses Republican nomination for Governor of New York.
January 6, 1919 Died in his sleep at Sagamore Hill of coronary embolism at age 60.
January 9, 1919 Funeral Procession for the burial of Theodore Roosevelt at Young's Memorial Cemetery in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
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Q: parsing XML tag with no data. getting NullPointerException I have an xml with no data (for example the data for remark tag), so I try to update the contents of the remark tag, but I get a NullPointerException.
Here is teh sample code that I use.
NodeList itemCheckedNodeList = positionElement.getElementsByTagName("remark");
Element itemCheckedElement = (Element) itemCheckedNodeList.item(0);
NodeList itemCheckedLN = itemCheckedElement.getChildNodes();
Text itemCheckedText = (Text)itemCheckedLN.item(0);
itemCheckedText.setTextContent("Here is a new comment");

but I get a exception at "itemCheckedText.setTextContent(comments);"
<events>
      <event>
         <date>Some date here</date>
         <time>Some time here</time>
         <remark>Something about the event</remark>
      </event>
      <event>
         <date>Some date here</date>
         <time>Some time here</time>
         <remark></remark>
      </event>
</events>

Does anyone have the solution for this?

A: You'll need to add a null check for empty text nodes and create them as necessary:
NodeList itemCheckedNodeList = positionElement.getElementsByTagName("remark");
Element itemCheckedElement = (Element) itemCheckedNodeList.item(0);
NodeList itemCheckedLN = itemCheckedElement.getChildNodes();
Text itemCheckedText = (Text) itemCheckedLN.item(0);
if (itemCheckedText == null) {
    Document doc = itemCheckedElement.getOwnerDocument();
    itemCheckedText = doc.createTextNode("remark");
    itemCheckedElement.appendChild(itemCheckedText);
}
itemCheckedText.setTextContent("Here is a new comment");

A: Text between elements are represented as node children. An empty element probably do not have a text node child, so you have to

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her face too is fine, and well calculated, as we think, for the stage. Her education has been excellent, and her voice is, as we have been assured, sufficiently powerful to insure her success, if she can but summon up courage enough to give it fair play. We wait--with impatience, we own—for another attempt in which we not only sincerely, hope, but do believe, she will be successful.When excessive modesty is the only impediment to success, beshrew the hearts of those, we say, who will not do all that can with truth and reason be done to sustain her in the trial.-Dreadful trial.-what agony can surpass it? To our imagination it appears more formidable than any other to which sensibility and delicacy can be exposed—Who, that has a manly heart beating in his body, but must feel deeply interested?-What female, worthy of the name of woman, but must painfully sympathize on such an occasion?—When the time comes, we hope it will be found so.—Hope! nay, we are sure it will-God forbid we should so far libel our city even in thought, as to doubt it.
What we have said of Mr. Dwyer in Charles, applies equally to his Sir Robert Ramble.
Mrs. Mason was in Lady Teazle fully equal to our expectations of her, though they were great. The character of Miss Wooburn does not afford an equal scope for the exercise of her powers. She did, however, all that was requisite for it.
Of Mr. Cooke's performances this season we have only to speak with reference to our observations on him, in the same characters, in the last season.
Richard he performed pretty much as usual:-the second night only excepted, on which he surpassed himself almost as much as in general he surpasses others.
His Lear, too, was better than ever, and his Falstaff much superior to that of last season. Nor have we seen him but in London play Shylock so well. On the whole, the public admiration of this actor seems rather to be increased than diminished; and, notwithstanding the hardness of the times, the general desire to see him appears to have been little, if at all abated. His Shylock and Sir Archy, on the two nights they were performed, netted twenty-four hundred dollars.-His benefit (Richard) was a bumper. The reception of this great actor here does honour to the taste of the city.
07 We have received the animadversions of " Hint" on the Band interrupting the performance by coming preinaturely, at the end of each act, into the orchestra. It shall be attended to.
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[Continued from page 318.] We now come to him, who of all the French dramatic poets, is most excellent in moving the passions, and in purity of language, Racine, who, though by some thought equal in all things to Corneille, was inferior to him in heroic sentiment, and in the grandeur of his personages. As he ran the principal part of his glorious career during the lifetime of CORNEILLE and Moliere, it would be totally out of regularity to omit an account of him and his works in this place, especially as the new turn he gave to dramatic productions, inclined, in some measure, his fluctuating countrymen to neglect his great competitor, whose superior abilities had created what remained for Racine to perfect. JEAN RACINE was born at Ferte-Milon, December, 1639. At what age he went to school historians are not agreed upon; but one should suppose he was not very young, for it is said that he made a progress in Greek and Latin too rapid, one would think, for any but an adult, since in less than a year he read Sophocles, and Euripides, in their own language. It is also said, that at a very early age he manifested an extraordinary genius for poetry, and that his memory surpassed any thing that ever was heard of. VOL. IV.
Having met with the romance of Theagenes and Clariclea, written by Heliodorus, his instructor CLAUDE LAUNCELOT threw it into the fire. Racine found means to get a second copy, which shared the same fate. He then bought a third, and having taken a short time to examine it, took it to his master, and told him he might also burn that, for he had got it by heart.
The poetic merit of Racine appeared evidently in a variety of minor productions, though his Latin poetry injured his reputation, thanks, probably, to those pedants who are the only judges of the beauty of a language no longer spoken. At length, in 1660, the king's marriage set all the poets at work, and upon this occasion Racine repaired to Paris, where he celebrated that event in fine verses, and produced a poem called La Nymphe de la Seine, which bore away the palm from all its competitors. From this time he devoted himself entirely to poetry, except when, out of complaisance to his uncle, with whom he lived, he dipped into theology. Neither that study, however, nor logic, to which he had deeply attended, could prevent him from giving way to his poetic propensity; and becoming acquainted with Moliere, and afterwards with BOILEAU, he determined to make an attempt at the drama. Having with this view made choice of a subject, he applied himself diligently to the working of it up, and in 1664 produced Thebaide, his first piece, for which Moliere was said to have furnished him with the ma. terials. This, however, cannot be true, for when it appeared it was little more than a revision of L'Antigone of ROTROU, which Racine had adjusted to the theatre, thinking he could not do better than rescue a good performance from obscurity. Afterwards, however, he altered it considerably, and with the assistance of his verse, which was at all times correct and harmonious, it became celebrated.
His Alexandre appeared in 1666. Racine read this tragedy to CORNEILLE, who told him very honestly, (for Corneille was incapable of jealousy) that he saw in it wonderful talents for poetry, but not for tragedy, Racine brought out this at MOLIERE's theatre. It was damned. He was afterwards prevailed on to offer it to the Hotel de Bourgogne; where, with the assistance of Mademoiselle Pare, one of MOLIERE's best actresses, who was inticed away from him upon this occasion, it had good success. This treachery begat a coldness between MOLIERE and RACINE, which lasted as long as they lived, though it has always been allowed that upon all occasions they did each other justice as authors.
Andromache came out in 1667. This tragedy is remarkable for having occasioned two extraordinary circumstances: Mademoiselle CHAMPÈMELE, of whom RACINE had a very indifferent opinion, so won him that he fell violently in love with her; and MONTFLEURY, in endeavouring to personate ORESTES in his madness, which required the most strenuous exertions, was taken so ill that he soon after died.
Les Plaideurs, a comedy in three acts, and in verse, made its appearance in 1668. This is Racine's only attempt at comedy. A domestic circumstance is said to have given rise to the story; and the characters, as we are told, are all from real life. This comedy had little success at first. MOLIERE, however, did it justice, and said, that those who railed at that comedy ought to be railed at themselves. At length the king saw it, and spoke favourably of it, after which it did tolerably well.
Racine may be called the Otway of France, not only from the greater similarity that appears between their genius and writing, than between any other French and English dramatic poets, but from the singular circumstance of each having produced one comedy only, and that a very inferior production.
Britanicus was performed in 1669. This piece in spite of its merit failed on its eighth representation. RACINE ushered it into the world with a preface, in which he very imprudently as well as ungratefully treated CORNEILLE with severity; he, however, became sensible of his error, and afterwards suppressed it.
Bérénice came out in 1671. The sister-in-law of LEWIS the fourteenth prevailed on Racine to write a piece on the parting of Titus and BERENICE; that circumstance having a resemblance to the separation of her and her brother. RACINE engaged too hastily to comply with this request, and BOILEAU told him, that if he had been on the spot he should not have passed his word to do it. The subject certainly was not a favourable one; and though perhaps out of deference to those whom it was intended to compliment, it was pretty well followed, yet it was parodied and quoted so ludicrously that RACINE, who was always very irritable, became truly sorry he had written it.
Bajazet was brought forward in 1672. This tragedy had good success; but there is scarcely an instance in all Racine where
character is not sacrificed to the beauty of versification; and Bajazet is a glaring proof of it.
Mithridate made its appearance in 1763. The Pulcheric of CORNEILLE, performed the year before, which fell in spite of its author's great name, lifted RACINE into considerable fame; he brought out Mithridate when this great man, who had perfected every species of dramatic entertainment in FRANCE, was ungratefully shunned and neglected. He might have said with POMPEY, " Dost thou not see that all eyes are turned towards the rising sun!"
Iphigene was performed in 1764. Racine, and the new taste he had introduced here, gained ground, and so completely conquered CORNEILLE and nature, that on the following year that great writer retired from the theatre.
In 1667 he brought out his Phadra, which was also well received: but a cabal was raised against the poet, and Pradou, a writer of little capacity, produced a Phædra in opposition to the noble composition of Racine: This hurt the feelings of the latter so much that he formed a design of becoming a Carthusian friar. He had formerly worn the ecclesiastical habit at the Port Royal; but his confessor expostulated with him, and prevailed upon him to marry; and thus instead of bidding adieu to the world, to become one of its useful members. By this marriage he became the father of seven children; but superstitiously credulous, he determined never to write for the theatre, and he was reconciled to the Port Royal, and all those whom satire or jocularity had made his enemies. In spite, however, of his resolutions, he was prevailed upon by madame Maintenon to write a sacred tragedy for her young ladies at Cyr, and this produced Esther, and afterwards Albalic. He was in 1673 admitted a member of the French academy, and in 1677 he was employed with Boileau to write the history of Lewis the XIV; but the work was never completed. Racine afterwards drew up the history of the Port Royal, in two volumes duodecimo.
The excessive sensibility of this charming poet at last proved the cause of his death. He wrote a memorial on the miseries of the poor, which he sent to madame Maintenon, but it fell accidentally into the hands of the king, who expressed his dissatisfaction at it; and Racine hearing of the royal displeasure, was so terrified that he fell into a fever, which carried him off in 1699. The king settled a pension on his family.


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Deported students could return to UK after immigration Tribunal rules against Theresa May.
Nearly 50,000 international students – many of them from South Asia – may have been wrongfully deported from the UK after an immigration tribunal found that an English test cheating scam at one school was used to incriminate all the students who had sat the test.
According to The Hindu newspaper, the Home Office deported some 48,000 students after a BBC investigation from February 2014 revealed fraudulent activity at an East London college offering exams for the Test of English for International Communications test (TOEIC).
However, an Immigration Tribunal ruled last week ruled that Home Secretary Theresa May had used flawed evidence in her decision.
One of the Tribunal's key findings was the fact that there was no evidence proffered by the English Testing Service, a US company contracted by the Home Office to conduct the tests.
The verdict could mean that the deported students are allowed to return to the UK and claim compensation from the Home Office.
The Home Office says it is "disappointed" by the Tribunal's ruling and intends to appeal.
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A Lifetime of Entertainment in Just Jim Dale
by Mike Hammer | Jul 10, 2014 | Culture, Entertainment | 0 comments
Jim Dale is a one-of-a-kind performer in his one-man show.
Performing on stage isn't just a profession, it's a way of life. The roar of a crowd's laughter can be intoxicating to the person delivering the jokes, and many who experience the limelight adopt the stage as a second home without looking back. Broadway is arguably the epitome of live performance, so a life dedicated to The Great White Way produces stories worthy of the stage all on its own.
Just Jim Dale, as the name suggests, is one of those life stories. Jim Dale has performed professionally since the age of 18, and 60 years later he still relishes standing in the spotlight. Dale's newest production recounts the "nearly true story" of his experiences as one of the foremost actors/singer-songwriters in recent memory.
The director of Just Jim Dale, Richard Maltby Jr., called Dale one of the great stage entertainers of all time, and said it's a thrilling experience to see him perform something so personal.
"Every now and then we know we're in the presence of someone who just knows how to do this," Maltby said. "You sit there awe-struck because you really don't know how they know how to do it. The great entertainers just know, and they can control the house."
Throughout the show Dale highlights some of the many career avenues he's explored in his illustrious life. From his Tony-winning performance in Barnum to his acclaimed work narrating the Harry Potter audiobooks, and everything in between, the aged, but jovial man delivers every prose and every lyric with impeccable inflection. Maltby said Dale's miraculous talent can bewilder audience members.
"What most people are absolutely astonished by is that Jim is 78 years old, and I swear 40 of [those years] disappear the moment he walks on stage," Maltby said. "You can't believe the amount he puts into the show. It's simply astonishing, and kind of rejuvenating."
Just Jim Dale is a showcase for the veteran entertainer, but he enlists the help of his personal pianist, Mark York, to bring new life to the songs Dale has written and/or performed during his career. "Georgy Girl" is a song many people know, but few know it was written by Dale, along with Tom Springfield, and Dale performs the Academy Award-nominated classic to the delight of the audience. Singing, dancing, and slapstick comedy are just a few of the tools used by the classically trained, Shakespearean actor.
Maltby said Dale looks to use his entire bag of tricks to make audience laugh at least every 15 seconds, so fans of Dale's work and newcomers alike are kept on the edge of their seats, guessing what they'll see next.
"A lot of people come in not knowing what they're going to see," Maltby said. "Some people know one of his careers and don't know the rest, and by the end of the show they have fallen in love and they're standing on their feet cheering for this man."
Just Jim Dale is a hilarious and touching look into the life of someone who has literally seen and done it all in the entertainment world. Dale is a rare breed of performer who is more at home on stage than anywhere else; as Maltby said, these kinds of performers are not entirely themselves until they're entertaining a crowd. Just Jim Dale illuminates a lifetime of one man's passion to bring happiness to an audience through many mediums channeled into one uproarious show.
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The 14th Amendment received a new interpretation as Ohio Wesleyan University hosted a guest speaker for the annual Richard W. Smith Lecture series.
The speaker was Michael Les Benedict, who has a doctorate in history. Benedict is a specialist in constitutional and political issues regarding the Civil War era. Benedict works at Ohio State University as an emeritus professor.
The Smith lecture series is hosted by the Ohio Wesleyan department of history. The lecture is sponsored by the Richard W. Smith Endowed Fund in Civil War History, a fund that has been established in honor of former professor Richard W. Smith.
Smith taught at Ohio Wesleyan in the mid-20th century. He was popular among students, with several alumni returning to campus in support of the lecture and Smith.
Over 160 people attended the event, which was held in the Benes rooms in the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center.
University president Rock Jones and professor of history Barbara Terzian gave introductions prior to Benedicts presentation. Both Jones and Terzian expressed their enjoyment of the series and Benedict, with Terzian being more emotional.
Benedict began his presentation with a discussion of how important the 14th Amendment is to history, and how it still impacts the United States today.
The amendment gives citizenship to all people born in the United States and allows the United States Congress to enforce this law. Through the passage of the amendment, African Americans and other minority groups became citizens and gained legal rights in society.
Benedict argued that the amendment established that it was the government's job to defend rights.
"That is why we have government, to protect our rights," Benedict said.
Benedict also discussed the role slavery had in the United States and the early days of the nation. Stating that the Constitution accommodated slavery and treated them like property, America was doomed to crack.
"The union could no longer endure," Benedict said, quoting Abraham Lincoln.
Abolitionists were discriminated against, Benedict stated, with hundreds of protests and threats were made against them. The southern United States even went so far as to ban abolitionist literature and enforce the slave codes.
Benedict then discussed the beginnings of writing the amendment. He talked about early drafts of the document being proposed by different congressmen, including John Bingham, a representative from Ohio.
The presentation ended with a discussion of today's implications the amendment holds. Benedict argued that the document made the United States Supreme Court more powerful than ever, an issue that continues today.
"Only now have we come to realize that the 14th amendment perhaps gives the court too much responsibility and gives us too little responsibility," Benedict said.
The presentation closed with questions presented by the audience. Most questions were regarding the state of the Supreme Court in modern times and how citizens can have a voice in government. Benedict answered their question with a simple statement.


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The Hymenoptera
August 8, 2011 in Hymenoptera | Tags: alien, ants, bees, Colony, communication, eocene, evolution, History, hive, honeybees, Hymenoptera, insects, nest, sawfly, social, sting, successful, termites, Triassic, wasp, wasps | by Wayne | 3 comments
An Iridescent Wasp on a Linen Tablecloth
Today I would like to start a brand new animal category concerning the most gifted of the social insects, the superorder Hymenoptera, which consists of wasps, bees, ants and sawflies (along with some other oddballs which are less frequently mentioned). Hymenoptera are arguably among the most successful creatures on the planet. Their behavior can be almost embarrassingly humanlike and they are famous for building elaborate constructions, going to war, taking slaves, farming fungi, and crafting rigid city-like social hierarchies. However, of all life forms on earth, the hymenoptera are some of the most vividly alien: cuttlefish do seem downright cuddly when compared to the horrifying digger wasps. A sociologist could happily draw parallels between a bee hive and a city until he looked at the details of bee reproduction, at which point he would probably break down and weep.
The Hymenoptera are not as ancient as either the mollusks or the mammals (if it is fair to compare an order with a phylum or a class). They originated in the Triassic and did not develop the successful social organization which is now such a defining feature until the late Cretaceous. The first hymenopterans were the xylidae, a family of sawflies with a minimal presence on earth today but with a long pedigree. These first sawflies fed on the pollen and buds of the conifer stands beneath which the first dinosaurs developed (and under the roots of which the first mammals cowered). The rise of the flowering plants in the Cretaceous led to a leap-forward for these pollen-eaters: complex flowers then evolved in tandem with the hymenopterans. It was also during the Cretaceous that the ants and termites split from the vespoid wasps. The earliest honey bees of the familiar genus Apis evolved at the end of the Eocene bt they were preceded by all sorts of hymenopteran pollinators.
A Sawfly Fossil (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)
I mentioned above that, for all of their familiarity to us, the Hymenoptera are disturbingly alien. In fact as I have been writing this comparatively tame post, a dreadful sense of formication has stolen over me and I find myself brushing phantom ants from my limbs and feeling the terrible pang of yellowjacket stings from childhood. The hymenoptera are frequently the basis of the extraterrestrial enemies in science fiction. Although people are occasionally stung to death by wasps or ripped apart from within by driver ants, it is something larger and less tangible which makes the hymenoptera such reliable villains. I have watched the soldier bees snip the wings off of wasps trying to invade my grandfather's bee hive and then toss the invaders' writhing bodies from the painted ledge—all while a river of worker bees went out and came back laden with pollen. There is an alarming touch of civilization to these social insects: a hint that they are utilizing the same kinds of organization and communication which have made humans such a success. And, in fact, the social insects are a huge success—ants alone are estimated to constitute a substantial portion of the animal biomass of earth (to say nothing of termites, bees, wasps and the rest).
Yellow Jackets on a Coke Can (photo by the fearless Alan Cressler)
Of course this success has broad ramifications. The hymenoptera are everywhere in nature and they also play a huge part of human culture. Indeed the very name of this blog is a play on words between my surname and the noble art of aviculture. Without the bees, we would not have much in the way of fruit or vegetables. Not only would this be a disaster for human farming—just contemplate how many other creatures rely on those fruit! Similarly the ants bulwark an entire portion of the ecosystem by scavenging the tidbits out of fields and forests. Writing about the hymenoptera may be an itchy, antsy business but it is a well-merited study. This group of insects is pivotal to life on dry-land as we know it. The biblical promised land was one of milk and honey. There would be no milk without mammals, but there would be no honey (and precious few mammals) without the hymenoptera.
A beekeeper completely covered with swarming honey bees in a "bee man" cantest in China


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Screwing the pooch Are campaigns to "protect animals" all about negatively profiling people? Seems the Humane Society of the United States, income $125 million in 2005, outgrew the "animal welfare" biz. HSUS tweaked its homepage tag line and language to appeal to donors on a whole 'nother level.
Its all about "protecting animals" now.
Question is: protect them from what? Whole lotta love The Wall Street Journal confirms that through its associated political action committees the Humane Society of the United States spent more money on the 2006 midterm elections that Exxon Mobil did. HSUS spent nearly $3.4 million on the recent elections and ballot initiatives. HSUS donated more than $150,000 directly to Congressional candidates. In other words, HSUS outspent Halliburton. Whoa. That's a whole lotta money for protection. Personally, I'd like to know what Wayne Pacelle's HSUS is getting in exchange for all that cash. Cause I got a suspicion or two. Negative profiling for dog owners in Louisville, Kentucky Last year Democratic Louisville City Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton proposed a nasty revision to Louisville's animal control ordinances including breed specific requirements which unavoidably will discriminate against law-abiding and caring dog owners based on what their dogs look like.
In other words, Councilwoman Hamilton set up certain Louisville residents for discrimination.
The you-know-what hit the fan pretty quickly in Louisville following Coucilwoman Hamilton's proposal. A year and eight drafts of the animal control proposal later, the Louisville City Council is still arguing.
The current draft proposal is more than 100 pages long, and its a disaster.
Enter stage left: Humane Society of the United States
Some "dog advocacy" organizations have celebrated the HSUS's stance on breed profiling (BSL). For example, Animal Farm Foundation quotes HSUS as opposing BSL.
Sadly, Animal Farm Foundation is dead wrong. HSUS doesn't oppose negative stereotyping and breed specific legislation. Not any more, at least. HSUS suggested it and actively encouraged it in Louisville.
In a letter dated July 5, 2006 and addressed to the members of the Louisville City Council, Pam Rogers, the HSUS's Kentucky Legislative Coordinator, made a series of recommendations. Through her letter. . . the HSUS endorsed BSL for Louisville: ". . .legislation requiring their [that is, "pit bulls"] mandatory sterilization could be a benefit to the breed and to all dogs in the community." and then the HSUS negatively profiled pit bull owners for the Louisville City Councilmembers:
["pit bulls"] are likely the most popular dog in the country, but unfortunately, they are also the dogs of choice for drug dealers, gang members, and anyone else who is looking for a dog to be a status symbol."
HSUS advocates discrimination Yup. HSUS tweaked more than just their homepage tagline. They're now apparently okay with negative profiling--for dogs and people. Here's a clue for the Humane Society of the United States. (Write this one down, Pam.) Discriminatory laws that encourage negative stereotypes are never a benefit. Never. Fear-mongering language calculated to deepen apprehension among politicians and the public cannot be rationalized. You do not "protect animals" by profiling them, or their owners. Temporary, limited, or "just a little" discrimination of any sort is. . .discrimination. Negative stereotypes promote deeper levels of misunderstanding. Fear. Bigotry. Hatred. Latest news from Louisville You would have thought that "you can't judge a book by its cover" would have resonated with someone like Cheri Bryant Hamilton. After all, she's a member of the NAACP. And the NAACP has quite a problem with negative stereotyping. Councilwoman Bryant Hamilton identified "reducing crime, criminal opportunities and the fear of crime" as a crucial issue during the recent campaign season. Does she really think that discriminating against certain portions of her constituency and attempting to force them to castrate their dogs is a step towards her goal? Is a 100-page-long dangerous dog law supposed to be a substitute for impartial enforcement of good laws? Is she hoping that dog owners, particularly those that own certain breeds, will just give up and leave? Or did Cheri Bryant Hamilton just swallow what the Humane Society of the United States has on offer--hook, line and sinker? Cheri toes the (HSUS) line The Louisville City Council was ready to vote against the breed specific language on November 13th--in fact, they did vote against it--but Councilwoman Bryant-Hamilton and another Democratic City Councilmember stomped out of the meeting. Without them, there was no quorum and the vote didn't count. Other Louisville councilmembers were quoted in the press expressing their amazement at the disrespect she showed them. Sounds to me like Councilwoman Bryant Hamilton is pretty heavily invested in the Humane Society of the United States' program for negative profiling. I'm just wondering who's been investing in her.
Posted by BlueDogState at 4:47 PM 4 comments:
Its the data, stupid. Crap, political corruption, privacy and microchips The Bush administration and its cronies took a jackhammer to privacy rights with legislation like the Patriot Act. That's the good news. What the hell's it got to do with your dog? Does the Patriot Act extend to our pets? Are the Dems gonna save us? (Not freaking likely. ) Quick! What unites the USDA, the Humane Society of the U. S. and ex Bush cabinet Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson ? Answer: a plan to force you to microchip your dog and database your household information
Shamelessly peddling compulsory plans as a way to return lost pets to their owners, but not hesitating to shaft the millions of ordinary, law-abiding citizens whose private information would be captured and distributed through comprehensive microchip-based databases, diverse organizations are lining up on compulsory RFID microchipping for dogs and other pets. Through its support of Rick Santorum's PAWS bill many felt that even the American Kennel Club aligned itself with animal rights organizations, and the USDA's NAIS plan, and against the privacy interests of animal owners.
The push is definitely on to get pesky dog owners on board with requirements for mandatory use of radio-frequency identification microchips for dogs and other domestic animals. Privacy concerns?
Funny. No one seems to be hearing them.
Are they in it for the money, honey?
Let's get down to it. Microchips are a BIG potential market. HUGE. Just for dogs in this country--
Sales of microchips at $35/insertion on the estimated 65 million dogs in America? $2,275,000,000
"Aftermarket" sales (which would be the mandatory database registration fees) at $13.75 each? $893,750,000
Database of the household information on the 45% or so of U. S. homes that include a dog? Now, that's priceless.
But its not the windfall profits that's got me crazy. Nope. Its the people who keep saying. . .
"I've got nothing to hide."
Wake up! That's a fox in the hen house! With mandatory microchipping of dogs and cats in place, the household information of about 63% of the U. S. population would be funneled into a huge database of people who have committed no crimes. People not accused of any crimes. We're talking about people who simply own pets. The database would hold the details on an estimated at 69.1 million U. S. homes. My home would be there. Probably your's would, too. Individuals and organizations with access to that database could run reports on who owns a big dog. Which households have "too many" cats. Where dogs and cats with their reproductive parts intact are located. Addresses. Phone numbers. Names. Shit, the NAIS regulations would require that your home's global positioning coordinates go into the database.
Still think databases are no big deal?
Imagine your insurance company with its hands on that database. In fact, take a moment to download and view this video. Go ahead. Do it. And as you listen to the guy struggling to get his pizza delivered, imagine that he owns a (duly microchipped, as required by law) "pit bull". Or Rottweiler. Or husky. Or mastiff. Or Great Dane. Or Chow. Or German Shepherd. Doberman. Akita. St. Bernard. Bull Terrier. Miniature Bull Terrier. Cane Corso. Malamute. Catahoula. . . .
Here come the Democrats!
Meet New York State Assemblyman and Democrat Jose Peralta, of Queens.
One dark and stormy night earlier this year, Assemblyman Peralta submitted a bill proposing mandatory microchipping and the creation of a database of all dogs over the age of four months in the State of New York. Four other Democrats promptly signed on to it.
What information would go into Assemblyman Peralta's database? Who would have access?
"An amendment that requires dog owners to implant a microchip that includes owner`s contact information and dog`s medical history. A registry of dogs shall be created at the time of dog licensing. This registry will be made available to veterinarians, shelters and kennels for the purposes of identification."
In other words, just about anyone with a little ambition could gain access to your household information, your dog licensing data, and your dog's veterinary records.
Think it could never happen in the U. S. of A.? Think again. Mandatory microchipping is already a reality in El Paso, Texas--where, by the way, both the city and the county vote overwhelmingly Democratic.
New Zealand's regulations just kicked in. Hong Kong already requires microchipping. So does Portugal. The list goes on.
Roe v Wade, Griswold, privacy and your ever-loving dog
Where does our right to privacy come from? Roe v Wade.
A woman's right to choose, protected by Roe v Wade, is the keystone. The decision is all about privacy. In fact, the Roe decision relied heavily on the earlier Supreme Court Griswold decision asserting the "right to marital privacy". Chip, chip, chip away at privacy--no matter what the rhetoric put out by the Tommy Thompsons, American Kennel Clubs, and HSUS's of the world--and guess what?
The tail you swallow will be your own. So-called progressive thinkers who mistakenly believe that they "have nothing to hide" and choose to support agendas sponsored by outfits like the Humane Society of the United States are going to find themselves in bed with some distinctly un-liberal people. Do ya still think threats to privacy, like mandatory microchipping for your dog, are no big deal? I sure hope not.
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HomeNewsPeopleFarrah Fawcett's Friends Reveal Her Last Words 10 Years after Her Death
Farrah Fawcett's Friends Reveal Her Last Words 10 Years after Her Death
June 23, 2019 | by Comfort Omovre
Beautiful stage and screen actress, Farrah Fawcett had last words with her friends hours before her death, here's what she said.
She was an American actress, model, and artist and a good one as she was a four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
Farrah Fawcett's Friends Recall Her Final Days and Her Last Words: 'Redmond' https://t.co/R1Swh1nVNt
— People (@people) June 19, 2019
Fawcett first rose to international fame when she played the role of a private investigator in the first season of the critically acclaimed television series "Charlie's Angels."
Fawcett died at 62 years old, on June 25, 2009, and according to a close friend who was with her in her final moments, she had a few things to say. Her good friend Mela Murphy, who remained by her side at St. John's Health Center in Los Angeles, stated:
"She was saying his name, 'Redmond,'" that was the last thing she said."
Redmond is her 34-year-old son who she had with her longtime love Ryan O'Neal, according to People, he had struggled with drug addiction and had been in and out of prison on drug charges which had his ailing mother so worried he was all she could think of as she burned through her last moments.
Happy birthday baby. I love you forever and always pic.twitter.com/Bwo30Sgm24
— Ryan O'Neal (@Ryan_O_Neal) February 3, 2017
As reported by People, Fawcett died of anal cancer, and those closest to her remember her as the mom who never stopped trying to save her "emotionally troubled son," a good friend and a fighter who fought bravely to overcome her illness. Her "Charlie's Angels" co-star, Jaclyn Smith stated,
"She never gave up; she was relentless in her fight."
Following her diagnosis in 2006, Fawcett went public which led to the birth of the documentary "Farrah's Story," which she co-produced with Alana Stewart and later in 2007; she launched the Farrah Fawcett Foundation.
The foundation not only provides funds for HPV-related cancer research, prevention, and education but also offers patient assistance for those in need of it.
Forever 💚 pic.twitter.com/1z5oIP4crD
— Ryan O'Neal (@Ryan_O_Neal) June 25, 2015
According to Murphy, her close friend, the days preceding her death were some of the most painful as Fawcett never gave up that she would survive her ordeal. She said:
"Even after the chemotherapy was causing her hair to come out in clumps, and she shaved her head, Farrah wanted to do a photo shoot completely bald."
Mela Murphy was not the only one who kept vigil by Fawcett's side in her final moments. However, her longtime lover Ryan O'Neal was also at her side in the hospital, sleeping in a cot right by her side.
Aside from expressing worry over her son's uncertain future, Fawcett also requested another favor. Murphy said:
"The one thing she told me was she wanted her mother's ashes in the coffin."
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#tbt with my girl pic.twitter.com/8zujWcaBug
Her requests were met as Pop Culture reports that O'Neal made sure the ashes were brought over from Texas and ten years after her death, O'Neal remembers his lover. He said:
"There was never a day I didn't love her."
Fawcett and O'Neal, met and fell in love in 1979 and had a son, Redmond O'Neal, in 1985, but never married.
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Maxi ransomware attack in the United States. Hundreds of businesses would have been affected, according to the Washington Post. But perhaps a much larger number would have been affected. On Friday night, hackers targeted the American information technology company Cassie. The company confirmed that it had suffered a "sophisticated cyber attack" on VSA, a suite of tools used by IT departments to remotely manage and monitor computers. The company said only 40 customers were affected.
But since Kaseya software is used by large IT companies that provide contract services to hundreds of small businesses, hacking may have spread to thousands of victims. Kaseya has warned all of its approximately 40,000 customers to immediately disconnect from the Kaseya software. Cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs said it has tracked down 20 IT companies, known as managed service providers, that were affected. Huntress Labs said on Reddit that more than 1,000 of these companies' customers, mostly small businesses, were affected by the hack.
"I wouldn't be surprised if there are thousands of companies out there," said Fabian Wassar, chief technology officer of Emsisoft, a company that provides software and consulting to help organizations defend against ransomware attacks. "We don't know yet because of the long weekend in the US" for the Fourth of July National Day celebrations. Given the large number of companies potentially affected, the attack could be one of the largest in history. The researchers argued that REvil, the same hacker group that attacked Jbs Meats earlier this year, was responsible for the attack. The cyber attack could increase tensions between the United States and Russia, as it comes just weeks after US President Joe Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, warning him that the United States would hold Moscow responsible for cyber attacks from Russia.
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Unlike most ransomware attacks (a type of malware that restricts access to the device it infects, and requires a ransom payment to remove the restriction), REvil does not appear to have attempted to steal sensitive data before banning its victims, Wasser said.
"We believe we have identified the source of the vulnerability and are preparing a patch to mitigate it," said Kiyesa CEO Fred Fukulla. The researchers said cybercriminals sent out two separate ransom requests on Friday, demanding $50,000 from smaller companies and $5 million from larger companies. Meanwhile, the US Federal Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency is taking steps to deal with the attack.
Ransomware attacks increased dramatically in frequency and severity during the year 2020. A report by a task force of more than 60 experts stated that nearly 2,400 of the country's governments, health systems and schools were affected by ransomware in 2020. Organizations paid attackers the most of 412 million dollars. in ransom payments last year, according to analyst firm Chainalysis. After an attack on the colonial pipeline in May, the US government urged US companies to strengthen their cyber security.
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Whether you are looking to lose that "Freshman Fifteen" or are in the 100+ Pounds-to-Go Club you should be writing a weight loss blog as a critical component of your weight loss plan.
A weight loss blog is not a food journal or a food diary. Keeping a food journal can also be important and in fact will most likely be suggested to you by your doctor or dietitian. A food journal is where you log your daily meals and snacks. It is where you account for all the calories you ingest. It can be important, especially at the start of a diet, because most people underestimate the amount of food they actually eat in a day. A well kept food journal will help the dieter properly plan their intake so as to lose weight.
A weight loss blog is much more than a food journal. A good weight loss blog deals much more with the emotional aspects of eating, exercising and getting fit. It is the human interest side of the story.
Building a Support Network . There are a lot of great weight loss blogs out there. Some of the authors have been blogging for a long time and have great inspirational stories of success to share. Others are just starting out and are struggling with the same issues you may be struggling with. When you write a weight loss blog you are joining a community of like souls who support each other through comments, emails, and links. A good weight loss blog tells a story that interests people; a story they want to see through to completion. The story of your success. Most dieters have a support network that rarely extends beyond the four walls of their abode. The size of a weight loss blogger's support network is only limited by the effort that they are willing to put in to build it.
Gaining Accountability . Let's be honest, the hardest part about writing a weight loss blog is, well, being honest. It's also the most important part. Force yourself to write about your weight gain, even though nobody would know if you fibbed and wrote that you lost weight this week. Tell the world how you felt when someone snickered at you for your size. Get out there and write about how you climbed up and ate the entire bag of cookies. Take account for your decisions and their impact on your weight loss plans. And then take action to make better decisions. Going through this thought process is very difficult if you are not documenting it. Writing a weight loss blog gives you the vehicle for documenting and improving upon the daily decisions that are the difference between success and failure.
Recording History . As you lose weight and become healthyier you will take certain things for granted such as climbing stairs without being winded, being able to easily say "no" to seconds, or to being satisfied with just that one small piece of pizza. You will forget that only a year ago you could not do 100 crunches at a time. You will forget that you used to need two Big Macs to get through lunch. And then one day you'll have a bad day, or a bad week, or maybe even a bad month. And it may be bad enough to cause you to get discouraged and quit. As the story of your weight loss journey unfolds in your weight loss blog, however, you'll have continual reminders of how far you have come. How by looking at the long term view you can still see your success, even through all of the ups and downs along the way. It's easy to forget if you have not recorded it. A weight loss blog gives you the means to record and review that history when you need it the most.
Ensuring Success . All other things being equal, the dieter who blogs openly and honestly about her weight loss journey will be more successful than the dieter who goes it alone. The support network you will build will motivate you to be successful as you will not want to let others down. The accounting you will gain from being open and honest will keep you on track. The story you are recording will be the reminder of how good you really have it now. All of this will add up to the success you are looking to achieve.


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A stage sequel to West Side Story has been commissioned in the US.
Planned by Long Wharf Theatre, the piece will pick up where the original West Side Story ends (with, spoilers, half of tragic couple Tony dying). It will be titled, simply, Maria, according to the news release in Forbes.
Steven Sapp is writing the musical alongside his wife, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, with the plan to ground the show in Maria's Puerto Rican origins and hometown. As Ruiz-Sapp remarks: "the dream of every Puerto Rican is to go back to the island".
The new piece aims to remedy the fact that, even though West Side has popularity all over the world, it is a tale about Puerto Rico not told by Puerto Ricans.
Further plans for Maria are to be revealed – we're sure it'll reach the UK at some point!
The film version of West Side Story is in cinemas now, with a cast led by Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort and Ariana DeBose. You can read our review here.
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A rotary-screw compressor is a type of gas compressor, such as an air compressor, that uses a rotary-type positive-displacement mechanism. These compressors are common in industrial applications and replace more traditional piston compressors where larger volumes of compressed gas are needed, e.g. for large refrigeration cycles such as chillers, or for compressed air systems to operate air-driven tools such as jackhammers and impact wrenches. For smaller rotor sizes the inherent leakage in the rotors becomes much more significant, leading to this type of mechanism being less suitable for smaller compressors than piston compressors.

The screw compressor is identical to the screw pump except that the pockets of trapped material get progressively smaller along the screw, thus compressing the material held within the pockets. Thus the screw of a screw compressor is asymmetrical along its length, while a screw pump is symmetrical all the way.

The gas compression process of a rotary screw is a continuous sweeping motion, so there is very little pulsation or surging of flow, as occurs with piston compressors. This also allows screw compressors to be significantly quieter and produce much less vibration than piston compressors, even at large sizes, and produces some benefits in efficiency.

Working

Rotary-screw compressors use two very closely meshing spiral rotors to compress the gas. In a dry-running rotary-screw compressor, timing gears ensure that the male and female rotors maintain precise alignment without contact which would produce rapid wear.  In an oil-flooded rotary-screw compressor, lubricating oil bridges the space between the rotors, both providing a hydraulic seal and transferring mechanical energy between the rotors, allowing one rotor to be entirely driven by the other.

Gas enters at the suction side and moves through the threads as the screws rotate.  The meshing rotors force the gas through the compressor, and the gas exits at the end of the screws. The working area is the inter-lobe volume between the male and female rotors. It is larger at the intake end, and decreases along the length of the rotors until the exhaust port. This change in volume is the compression.

The intake charge is drawn in at the end of the rotors in the large clearance between the male and female lobes. At the intake end the male lobe is much smaller than its female counterpart, but the relative sizes reverse proportions along the lengths of both rotors (the male becomes larger and the female smaller) until (tangential to the discharge port) the clearance space between each pair of lobes is much smaller. This reduction in volume causes compression of the charge before being presented to the output manifold.

The effectiveness of this mechanism is dependent on precisely fitting clearances between the spiral rotors and between the rotors and the chamber for sealing of the compression cavities. However, some leakage is inevitable, and high rotational speeds must be used to minimize the ratio of leakage flow rate over effective flow rate.

In contrast to Roots blowers, modern screw compressors are made with different profiles on the two rotors: the male rotor has convex lobes which mesh with the concave cavities of the female rotor. Usually the male rotor has fewer lobes than the female rotor, so that it rotates faster. Originally, screw compressors were made with symmetrical rotor cavity profiles, but modern versions use asymmetrical rotors, with the exact rotor designs being the subject of patents.

Size

The capacities of rotary-screw compressors are typically rated in horsepower (HP), Standard Cubic Feet per Minute (SCFM)* and pounds per square inch gauge (PSIG.)  For units in the 5 through 30 HP range the physical size of these units are comparable to a typical two-stage compressor.  As horsepower increases, there is a substantial economy of scale in favor of the rotary-screw compressors.  As an example, a 250 HP compound compressor is a large piece of equipment that generally requires a special foundation, building accommodations and highly trained riggers to place the equipment.  On the other hand, a 250 HP rotary-screw compressor can be placed on an ordinary shop floor using a standard forklift.  Within industry, a 250 HP rotary-screw compressor is generally considered to be a compact piece of equipment.

Rotary-screw compressors are commonly available in the 5 through 500 HP range and can produce air flows in excess of 2500 SCFM. While the pressure produced by a single-stage screw compressor is limited to 250 PSIG, a two-stage screw compressor can deliver pressures of up to 600 PSIG.

Rotary-screw compressors tend to be smooth running with limited vibration, thus not requiring a specialized foundation or mounting system. Normally, rotary-screw compressors are mounted using standard rubber isolation mounts designed to absorb high-frequency vibrations.  This is especially true in rotary-screw compressors that operate at high rotational speeds.

*To a lesser extent, some compressors are rated in Actual Cubic Feet per Minute (ACFM).  Still others are rated in Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM). Using CFM to rate a compressor is incorrect because it represents a flow rate that is independent of a pressure reference.  i.e. 20 CFM at 60 PSI.

History
The screw compressor was first patented in 1878 by Heinrich Krigar in Germany, however the patent expired without a working machine being built.

The modern helical lobe screw compressor was developed in Sweden by Alf Lysholm who was the chief engineer at Ljungstroms Angturbin. Lysholm developed the screw compressor while looking for a way to overcome compressor surge in gas turbines. Lysholm first considered a roots type blower but found this was unable to generate a high enough pressure ratio. In 1935, Ljungstroms patented a helical lobe screw compressor which was then widely licensed to other manufacturers. Ljungstroms Angturbin AB was renamed Svenska Rotor Maskiner (SRM) in 1951.

In 1952, the first Holroyd cutting machine was used, by the Scottish engineering company Howden, to produce helical lobe compressor rotors greatly reducing both cost and manufacturing time.

In 1954, Howden and SRM jointly developed the first oil flooded screw compressor.  Flooding provided both cooling, which allowed higher pressure ratios, and the elimination of timing gears.  The first commercially available flooded screw air compressor was introduced in 1957 by Atlas Copco.

Slot valves were developed by SRM in the 1950s, allowing for improvements in capacity control which had been a limiting factor for screw compressor application.

Asymmetric rotors were first patented by SRM and subsequently introduced commercially by Sullair in 1969.  The introduction of asymmetric rotors improved sealing, further increasing the types efficiency.

Applications
Rotary-screw compressors are generally used to supply compressed air for larger industrial applications.  They are best applied in applications that have a continuous air demand such as food packaging plants and automated manufacturing systems although a large enough number of intermittent demands, along with some storage, will also present a suitably continuous load. In addition to fixed units, rotary-screw compressors are commonly mounted on tow-behind trailers and powered with small diesel engines.  These portable compression systems are typically referred to as construction compressors.  Construction compressors are used to provide compressed air to jack hammers, riveting tools, pneumatic pumps, sand blasting operations and industrial paint systems. They are commonly seen at construction sites and on duty with road repair crews throughout the world.

Screw air compressors are also commonly used on Rotary, DTH and RC drill rigs used in mining production and exploration drilling applications and in oil and gas pipeline services such as pneumatic testing or air pigging.

Oil-free
In an oil-free compressor, the air is compressed entirely through the action of the screws, without the assistance of an oil seal.  They usually have lower maximal discharge pressure capability as a result. However, multi-stage oil-free compressors, where the air is compressed by several sets of screws, can achieve pressures of over  and output volume of over .

Oil-free compressors are used in applications where entrained oil carry-over is not acceptable, such as medical research and semiconductor manufacturing.  However, this does not preclude the need for filtration, as hydrocarbons and other contaminants ingested from the ambient air must also be removed prior to the point of use.  Consequently, air treatment identical to that used for an oil-flooded screw compressor is frequently required to ensure quality compressed air.

In small piston compressors carpenters homeowners sometimes use "oil free" compressors in which oil free is a reference to not using oil but Teflon type of coatings permanently adhered to wear surfaces.

Oil-injected

In an oil-injected rotary-screw compressor, oil is injected into the compression cavities to aid sealing and provide cooling for the gas charge. The oil is separated from the discharge stream, cooled, filtered and recycled. The oil captures non-polar particulates from the incoming air, effectively reducing the particle loading of compressed-air particulate filtration. It is usual for some entrained compressor oil to carry into the compressed-gas stream downstream of the compressor. In many applications, this is rectified by coalescer/filter vessels. Refrigerated compressed air dryers with internal cold coalescing filters are rated to remove more oil and water than coalescing filters that are downstream of air dryers, because after the air is cooled and the moisture is removed, the cold air is used to pre-cool the hot entering air, which warms the exiting air. In other applications, this is rectified by the use of receiver tanks that reduce the local velocity of compressed air, allowing oil to condense, drop out of the air stream, and to be removed from the compressed-air system by condensate-management equipment.

Oil flooded screw compressors are used in a wide variety of applications including air compression, gas refrigeration, hydrocarbon processing and power utilization from low-grade heat sources. Sizes range from small workshop air compressors to  heavy industrial compressors with output pressures as high as . New oil flooded screw air compressors release <5 mg/m3 of oil carryover.

Lubricants, polyalkylene glycol (PAG), polyalphaolefin (PAO), mineral oils
PAG oil is polyalkylene glycol which is also called polyglycol. PAG oil burns off cleanly, leaving no residue, and have been used as a carrier oil for solid lubricants for high-temperature chain lubrication. Some versions are food grade and biodegradable. PAG lubricants are used by the two largest U.S. air compressor OEMs in rotary screw air compressors. PAG oil-injected compressors are not used to spray paint, because PAG oil dissolve paints. Reaction-hardening two-component epoxy resin paints are resistant to PAG oil.

Polyglycols are not compatible with mineral oil based greases. A mixture of polyglycols with mineral oils results is a gelatinous, gooey mess. Silicon grease does tolerate Polyglycols. One pneumatic controls manufacturer puts silicon grease on the seals and gaskets.

Mineral oil (but not polyalkylene glycol oil) lubricated compressors are recommended for mineral oil greases coated seals, such as pneumatic high speed 4-way valves and air cylinders that operate without mineral oiler lubricators. One manufacturer has rated its pneumatic high speed 4-way valves with a life of 50 million cycles, if not exposed to polyglycol oils.

Polyalphaolefin PAO oil is compatible with mineral oil greases.

Conical screw compressor

The relatively recently developed conical screw compressor is in effect a conical spiral extension of a gerotor.  It does not have the inherent "blow-hole" leakage path which, in well designed screw compressors, is responsible for significant leakage through the assembly.  This allows much smaller rotors to have practical efficiency since at smaller sizes the leakage area does not become as large a portion of the pumping area as in straight screw compressors.  In conjunction with the decreasing diameter of the cone shaped rotor this also allows much higher compression ratios in a single stage with lower output pulsation.

Control schemes

Among rotary-screw compressors, there are multiple control schemes, each with differing advantages and disadvantages.

Start/stop

In a start/stop control scheme, compressor controls actuate relays to apply and remove power to the motor according to compressed air needs. Significant storage is required in most usage cases if the load is intermittent or is poorly matched to the compressor, the storage required will often be larger than the compressor itself.

Load/unload

In a load/unload control scheme, the compressor remains continuously powered. However, when the demand for compressed air is satisfied or reduced, instead of disconnecting power to the compressor, a device known as a slide valve is activated.  This device uncovers part of the rotor and proportionately reduces capacity of the machine down to typically 25% of the compressor's capability, thereby unloading the compressor. This reduces the number of start/stop cycles for electric motors over a start/stop control scheme in electrically-driven compressors, improving equipment service life with a minimal change in operating cost. When a load/unload control scheme is combined with a timer to stop the compressor after a predetermined period of continuously unloaded operation, it is known as a dual-control or auto-dual scheme. This control scheme still requires storage since there are only two production rates available to match consumption, although significantly less than a start/stop scheme.

Modulation

Instead of starting and stopping the compressor, a slide valve as described above continuously modulates capacity to the demand rather than being controlled in steps.  While this yields a consistent discharge pressure over a wide range of demand, overall power consumption may be higher than with a load/unload scheme, resulting in approximately 70% of full-load power consumption when the compressor is at a zero-load condition.

Due to the limited adjustment in compressor power consumption relative to compressed-air output capacity, modulation is a generally inefficient method of control when compared to variable-speed drives. However, for applications where it is not readily possible to frequently cease and resume operation of the compressor (such as when a compressor is driven by an internal-combustion engine and operated without the presence of a compressed-air receiver), modulation is suitable. The continuously variable production rate also eliminates the need for significant storage if the load never exceeds the compressor capacity.

Variable displacement

Utilized by compressor companies Quincy Compressor, Kobelco, Gardner Denver, and Sullair, variable displacement alters the percentage of the screw compressor rotors working to compress air by allowing air flow to bypass portions of the screws. While this does reduce power consumption when compared to a modulation control scheme, a load/unload system can be more effective with large amounts of storage (10 gallons per CFM).  If a large amount of storage is not practical, a variable-displacement system can be very effective, especially at greater than 70% of full load.

One way that variable displacement may be accomplished is by using multiple lifting valves on the suction side of the compressor, each plumbed to a corresponding location on the discharge.  In automotive superchargers, this is analogous to the operation of a bypass valve.

Variable speed

While an air compressor powered by a variable-speed drive can offer the lowest operating-energy cost without any appreciable reduction in service life over a properly maintained load/unload compressor, the variable-frequency power inverter of a variable-speed drive typically adds significant cost to the design of such a compressor, reducing its economic benefits over a properly sized load/unload compressor if air demand is constant.  However, a variable-speed drive provides for a nearly linear relationship between compressor power consumption and free air delivery allowing the most efficient operation over a very wide range of air demand. The compressor will still have to enter start/stop mode for very low demand as efficiency still drops off rapidly at low production rates due to rotor leakage.  In harsh environments (hot, humid or dusty) the electronics of variable-speed drives may have to be protected to retain expected service life.

Superchargers

The twin-screw type supercharger is a positive displacement type device that operates by pushing air through a pair of meshing close-tolerance screws similar to a set of worm gears. Twin-screw superchargers are also known as Lysholm superchargers (or compressors) after their inventor, Alf Lysholm.
Each rotor is radially symmetrical, but laterally asymmetric. By comparison, conventional "Roots" type blowers have either identical rotors (with straight rotors) or mirror-image rotors (with helixed rotors).
The Whipple-manufactured male rotor has three lobes, the female five lobes. The Kenne-Bell male rotor has four lobes, the female six lobes. Females in some earlier designs had four. By comparison, Roots blowers always have the same number of lobes on both rotors, typically 2, 3 or 4.

Comparative advantages
The rotary screw compressor has low leakage levels and low parasitic losses vs. Roots type. The supercharger is typically driven directly from the engine's crankshaft via a belt or gear drive. Unlike the Roots type supercharger, the twin-screw exhibits internal compression which is the ability of the device to compress air within the housing as it is moved through the device instead of relying upon resistance to flow downstream of the discharge to establish an increase of pressure.

The requirement of high-precision computer-controlled manufacturing techniques makes the screw type supercharger a more expensive alternative to other forms of available forced induction. With later technology, manufacturing cost has been lowered while performance increased.

All supercharger types benefit from the use of an intercooler to reduce heat produced during pumping and compression.

A clear example of the technology applied by the twin-screw in companies like Ford, Mazda, Mercedes and Mercury Marine can also demonstrate the effectiveness of the twin screw. While some centrifugal superchargers are consistent and reliable, they typically do not produce full boost until near peak engine rpm, while positive displacement superchargers such as Roots type superchargers and twin-screw types offer more immediate boost. In addition to this, twin-screw superchargers can keep the reasonable boost to higher rpm better than other positive displacement supercharges.

Related terms
The term "blower" is commonly used to define a device placed on engines with a functional need for additional airflow, such as a 2-stroke Diesel engine, where positive intake pressure is needed to "scavenge", or clear spent exhaust gasses from the cylinder and force a fresh intake charge into the cylinder before the compression stroke. The term "blower" is applied to rotary screw, roots-type, and centrifugal compressors when utilized as part of an automotive forced induction system. The term 'cabin blower' is also used for the pressurisation of aircraft for high altitude flight, which used Roots type compressors particularly in the 1950s (see Marshall supercharger).

See also
Gas compressor
Guided-rotor compressor
Reciprocating compressor
Vapor-compression refrigeration
Variable-speed air compressor

References

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Defending national champion North Carolina put together a record-setting offensive performance Sunday while rolling into the quarterfinals of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament. The second seeded Tar Heels, playing their first tournament game following an opening round bye, got six goals from Carly Reed and five from Marie McCool to overwhelm ACC rival Virginia 23-12 at Fetzer Field. In the process, coach Jenny Levy's team set a school record for most goals in a postseason game, surpassing the old mark of 22 scored against UMBC in 2012. The 23 goals were also a season high, two more than the 21 they scored in a regular season win against UVa. UNC (17-2) also got three goals and an assist each from Sammy Jo Tracy and Molly Hendrick while Ela Hazar picked up her 37th assist, breaking the single season school record. The victory sends the Tar Heels into a quarterfinal matchup against Navy next Saturday at 1 p.m. High Point, meanwhile, saw its 16-game winning streak come to an end Sunday with a 21-6 thumping at the hands of top-seeded Maryland. The Panthers scored their first ever NCAA tournament victory Friday by beating Towson, but they were no match for the powerful Terrapins — who scored the game's first seven goals on the way to a 12-2 halftime lead. Maryland has now won 20 straight games. Emory Gaeng and Erica Perrotta scored two goals each for High Point, which finished the best season in school history at 16-4.


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