Angled walls, slender windows, and a Le Corbusier-influenced roof deck break up the chunky white volumes of this residence, which architecture studio Urban Operations has built into a hill in Los Angeles.
Locally based Urban Operations excavated a chunk from a hill at 4752 East Baltimore Street in the city's Highland Park neighbourhood – where Knowhow Shop has also built itself a faceted mini studio – to make way for the 2,400-square-foot (223-square-metre) property.
Three white-stuccoed volumes stagger down the site, with each detailed with various openings, recesses and protrusions to make the most of light and surrounding views.
"The design marries strategic hillside engineering with a series of stepped programmatic volumes, which are then sliced and folded at various code-generated orientations in order to produce a unified holistic design," said a project description from Urban Operations.
A series of outdoor areas across included in the residence provide each of the spaces inside with external access.
Among these is a roof deck that the studio based on Le Corbusier's early modernist villas, which typically included gardens on top. It offers residents vistas of the city's Griffith Park and the San Gabriel Mountains.
Another terrace is located on the second level down, underneath an opening cut into the sloped roof above. This is followed by a third courtyard on the first level, which acts as the forecourt to the home's main entrance. An outdoor staircase connects the middle storeys, while the garage for the residents' cars occupies the lowest volume.
The exterior of the residence is predominantly white, but Urban Operations chose grey stucco for the inner walls of the outdoor spaces to add dimension to the volumes.
"We used the graphite-coloured stucco, which has a similar smooth finish, in order to give the building mass more elegant volumetric properties – so that the white appears as a skin that is lifting off the underlying mass in some areas," studio founder John Southern told Dezeen.
Indented grey walls also run along the side of the house beneath a small balcony, and wrap a corner courtyard set at the top.
The studio describes the property as "a contemporary homage to LA's stylistically heterogeneous collection of hillside residences". It is among a host that optimise the city's notoriously hilly terrain, along with a lodged a stacked residence by FreelandBuck and a residence that Anonymous Architects completed for an actor.
Nicknamed Twin01, Urban Operations's property is the first of a pair for the site, with the second property intended as a variation of the first. Because of the impending neighbours, slender and smaller openings are placed along the longer walls to maintain privacy.
Most of the natural light is instead provided by the large square-shaped windows puncturing the street-facing side, along with light wells.
"The light wells, some of which are two-stories in height, are a signature of the project, since the lower living spaces are dug into the hillside and do not have as much fenestration as the upper stories of the house," said Southern.
Two of these wells are positioned above the kitchen, which forms part of the open-plan first floor together with a living and dining area. Three bedrooms and two bathrooms occupy the top level.
A number of features inside draw from the exterior of the property, such as the folded white kitchen counter and the white-painted walls. Dark details – including kitchen cabinets, porcelain tiles in the bathroom, and textiles – pick up the tone of the dark grey stucco on the outside.
These neutral finishes, which also include wire-brushed oak planks on the floor, are offset by a series of bright blue walls in the lounge and hallway.
"Accent colours were used to enhance the light wells that penetrate the volume of the house and add visual gravity to certain programmatic spaces," said the architect.
The post Urban Operations slots "sliced and folded" white house into LA hillside appeared first on Dezeen.


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const tslib_1 = require("tslib");
const chalk = require("chalk");
const command_1 = require("@ionic/cli-utils/lib/command");
let ConfigSetCommand = class ConfigSetCommand extends command_1.Command {
    run(inputs, options) {
        return tslib_1.__awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
            const { set } = yield Promise.resolve().then(function () { return require('@ionic/cli-utils/commands/config/set'); });
            yield set(this.env, inputs, options);
        });
    }
};
ConfigSetCommand = tslib_1.__decorate([
    command_1.CommandMetadata({
        name: 'set',
        type: 'global',
        description: 'Set config values',
        longDescription: `
By default, this command sets JSON properties in your project's ${chalk.bold('ionic.config.json')} file.

For ${chalk.green('--global')} config, the CLI sets properties in the global CLI config file (${chalk.bold('~/.ionic/config.json')}).

For nested properties, separate nest levels with dots. For example, the property name ${chalk.green('user.email')} will look in the ${chalk.bold('user')} object (a root-level field in the global CLI config file) for the ${chalk.bold('email')} field.

${chalk.green('ionic config set')} will attempt to coerce ${chalk.green('value')} into a suitable JSON type. If it is JSON-parsable, such as ${chalk.green('true')} or ${chalk.green('[]')}, it takes the parsed result. Otherwise, the value is interpreted as a string. For stricter input, use ${chalk.green('--json')}, which will error with non-JSON values.

By default, if ${chalk.green('property')} exists and is an object or an array, the value is not overwritten. To disable this check and always overwrite the property, use ${chalk.green('--force')}.
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                name: 'property',
                description: 'The property name you wish to set',
                required: true,
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            {
                name: 'value',
                description: 'The new value of the given property',
                required: true,
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        options: [
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                name: 'global',
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                aliases: ['g'],
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            {
                name: 'json',
                description: `Always interpret ${chalk.green('value')} as JSON`,
                type: Boolean,
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            {
                name: 'force',
                description: 'Always overwrite existing values',
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        exampleCommands: ['name newAppName', 'name "\\"newAppName\\"" --json', 'watchPatterns "[]" --force', '-g yarn true'],
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], ConfigSetCommand);
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Journey to the Center of the Earth at 150
Posted on Friday, Feb 28, 2014 11:00AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Morgan Meis
Jules Verne's stories are not about endings. They aren't about the past and they aren't about projections into the future either. The stories are about journeys. Jules Verne wanted to get his characters lost — Lost! LOST! LOST! — lost in the ocean, on uncharted islands, at the very center of Creation. He wanted to pluck his characters out of the light and plunge them into the darkness. Jules Verne sent his characters into mazes that cycled them through future and past — lost in time and place — knowing that they would always return to the present. In the one novel Jules Verne wrote that was explicitly about the future, Paris in the Twentieth Century, the main character heads straight into the darkness and never returns. He is 16-year-old Michel Dufrénoy, a student of classics and literature, born into a century that has no interest in either. Paris 1960 is a time and place without war but also without poetry, where only technology and business are valued. Michel cannot work, he cannot love, and he eats synthetic food. Michel spends the novel journeying through the city of Paris like a refugee, aimless and unloved, until he becomes delirious. He moves in circles around the city, hunted by the Demon of Electricity. The novel ends abruptly with the poet circling Père-Lachaise cemetery weeping, where he at last collapses unconscious in the snow.
If Verne's protagonists often seem to stop short of revelation, it's because the revelation is not meant to be known.
Twilight in the Box
Posted on Friday, Feb 28, 2014 10:49AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Robin Varghese
Shruti Ravindran in Aeon:
In the fall of 1982, the forensic psychiatrist Stuart Grassian visited Walpole State Penitentiary, Massachusetts's only maximum-security prison at the time. He went there at the behest of a legal aid attorney, who wanted him to evaluate the mental health of the inmates in the prison's segregation unit. He spoke to 14 young men who'd been in isolation for several months, each in a 6ft x 9ft cell with a barred inside gate, and a steel door with a voice box and a dirt-stippled glass panel the width of his face. Grassian expected to hear fantastically exaggerated claims from prisoners looking to dupe their way out of the unit, but each vociferously denied that anything was the matter. 'Solitary doesn't bother me,' one told him. 'Some of the guys can't take it, I can,' said another. With close questioning, Grassian wrote later in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the second prisoner 'came to describe panic, fears of suffocation, and paranoid distortions while he had been in isolation', while the first had recently slashed his wrists because he 'figured it was the only way to get out of here'.
They suffered a range of symptoms: stupor, delirium, hallucination, and a loss of 'perceptual constancy' – the ability to recognise the sameness of things when viewed from different distances and angles. Many had painfully sharpened senses. One lived in dread of prisoners on the tier above turning on the faucet, sending water clinking and whooshing down the pipes. 'It's too loud, gets on your nerves. I can't stand it – I start to holler,' he told Gassian. 'Are they doing it on purpose?'
Half of them hallucinated constantly. They heard whispers and muttered sounds, which took on menacing meanings: prison guards conferring about amputating a prisoner's leg, someone getting beaten up with sticks. One prisoner – the disconsolate historian of Sartre'sNausea brought to life – was haunted by the inconstancy of objects. 'Melting, everything in the cell starts moving,' he told Grassian. 'Everything gets darker, you feel you are losing your vision.' Another had Alice in Wonderland-like visions, featuring pancakes of diminishing sizes delivered to his gate. Four had extended bouts of amnesia. They said they felt narcotised, and couldn't concentrate on anything.
'These people were very sick,' recalls Grassian. He thought it resembled anoxic brain injury – the result of an oxygen-starved brain – or delirium tremens, suffered by dipsomaniacs in the throes of alcohol withdrawal. But the symptoms also recalled a curious set of Cold War-era experiments that Grassian had read about years before.
The Syria Test: Christopher Lydon moderates debate on US intervention in Syria between Stephen M. Walt and Idrees Ahmad
Posted on Friday, Feb 28, 2014 8:46AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by S. Abbas Raza
The Secret Auden
Posted on Friday, Feb 28, 2014 8:27AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Robin Varghese
Edward Mendelson in the NYRB [h/t: Maeve Adams]:
At literary gatherings he made a practice of slipping away from "the gaunt and great, the famed for conversation" (as he called them in a poem) to find the least important person in the room. A letter-writer in the Times of London last year recalled one such incident:
Sixty years ago my English teacher brought me to London from my provincial grammar school for a literary conference. Understandably, she abandoned me for her friends when we arrived, and I was left to flounder. I was gauche and inept and had no idea what to do with myself. Auden must have sensed this because he approached me and said, "Everyone here is just as nervous as you are, but they are bluffing, and you must learn to bluff too."
Late in life Auden wrote self- revealing poems and essays that portrayed him as insular and nostalgic, still living imaginatively in the Edwardian world of his childhood. His "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen" began, "Our earth in 1969/Is not the planet I call mine," and continued with disgruntled complaints against the modern age: "I cannot settle which is worse,/The Anti-Novel or Free Verse." A year after he wrote this, I chanced on a first book by a young poet, N.J. Loftis, Exiles and Voyages. Some of the book was in free verse; much of it alluded to Harlem and Africa; the author's ethnic loyalties were signaled by the name of the publisher, the Black Market Press. The book was dedicated "To my first friend, W.H. Auden."
A few years later I got a phone call from a Canadian burglar who told me he had come across Auden's poems in a prison library and had begun a long correspondence in which Auden gave him an informal course in literature. Auden was especially pleased to get him started on Kafka. He was equally helpful to unknown young poets who sent him their poems, offering detailed help on such technical matters as adjectives and enjambment.
When he felt obliged to stand on principle on some literary or moral issue, he did so without calling attention to himself, and he was impatient with writers like Robert Lowell whose political protests seemed to him more egocentric than effective. When he won the National Medal for Literature in 1967, he was unwilling either to accept it in Lyndon Johnson's White House during the Vietnam War or "to make a Cal Lowell gesture by a public refusal," so he arranged for the ceremony to be held at the Smithsonian, where he gave an acceptance speech about the corruption of language by politics and propaganda.
What if We've Completely Misunderstood Our Place in the Universe?
Annalee Newitz in Slate:
These days when astronomers discover a planet, the news is usually accompanied by the disappointing report that it's not in a "habitable zone," which is to say the exact orbit required to keep water in a liquid state. If the planet is too close to its star, all the water has boiled away; if the planet is too distant, the water is frozen solid. Given that life as we know it requires water, most astronomers assume that life could only develop on a planet in its solar system's habitable zone.
But in the early universe, as Loeb speculates in a paper published in Astrobiologylate last year, everything would have been a habitable zone. 10 to 20 million years after the Big Bang, the universe was still bathed in that warm gas we saw in the CMB, but it had cooled down to a temperature that would keep water liquid no matter where it was relative to its star. The ambient temperature of the universe would provide enough heat to turn an ice giant like Neptune into a water giant. That's why Loeb has dubbed this era the "habitable epoch."
It would have been a weird time for life to evolve, though. Many of the building blocks of life on Earth, like carbon and metals, exist only because of the massive stellar explosions called supernovas which signal the deaths of stars. In a universe where so few stars had been born, even fewer would have died. This was a period when solid matter was an anomaly, before most of the elements on the periodic table existed.
Stars would have been few and far between. "Life might have been more isolated than it is today," Loeb said. "Now we are members of a galaxy, with tens of billions of stars not far away." Still, Loeb said, the rare stars and planets would form hotter, more energetic regions in the sea of warm gas. There would be energy to kick-start life forms and liquid water would slosh across the surface of planets with atmosphere.
Obama, Poet
Posted on Friday, Feb 28, 2014 8:03AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Azra Raza
Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker:
In his first book, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama described the marijuana that he smoked as a young man as "something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory." This confession of youthful indiscretion was at once more sober and more lyrical than those proffered by Presidents Forty-two ("I didn't inhale") and Forty-three ("When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible"), and it comes as little surprise to discover that another, less publicized intoxication to which the young Obama succumbed was the composition of lyric poetry. In 1981, Feast, a literary magazine produced at Occidental College, published two poems by Obama, who was then a student there. The first, "Pop," appears to be a loving if slightly jaded portrait of Obama's maternal grandfather, with whom he spent a large part of his childhood. Free in structure and with a bold use of enjambment, it begins, "Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken / In, sprinkled with ashes, / Pop switches channels, takes another / Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks / What to do with me, a green young man / Who fails to consider the / Flim and flam of the world, since / Things have been easy for me." The second, "Underground," offers a vivid if obscurely symbolic description of a tribe of submarine primates. An exemplary few lines go, "Under water grottos, caverns / Filled with apes / That eat figs. / Stepping on the figs / That the apes / Eat, they crunch."
Harold Bloom, who in fifty-three years of teaching literature at Yale University has had many undergraduate poems pressed hopefully upon him said, when reached by telephone in New Haven last week, that he was not familiar with Obama's oeuvre. But after studying the poems he said that he was not unimpressed with the young man's efforts—at least, by the standards established by other would-be bards within the political sphere. "At eighteen, as an undergraduate, he was already a much better poet than our former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who keeps publishing terrible poetry," Bloom said.
More here. (Note: I cannot think of a better ending to our Black History Month tribute than a reminder of where this amazing race has arrived. Leader of the Free World.)
RNA activity mapped across cells
Brendan Borrell in Nature:
Scientists can now take snapshots of where and how thousands of genes are expressed in intact tissue samples, ranging from a slice of a human brain to the embryo of a fly. The technique, reported today in Science1, can turn a microscope slide into a tool for creating data-rich, three-dimensional maps of how cells interact with one another — a key to understanding the origins of diseases such as cancer. The methodology also has broader applications, enabling researchers to create, for instance, unique molecular 'barcodes' to trace connections between cells in the brain, a stated goal of the US National Institutes of Health's Human Connectome Project. Previously, molecular biologists had a limited spatial view of gene expression, the process by which a stretch of double-stranded DNA is turned into single-stranded RNAs, which can in turn be translated into protein products. Researchers could either grind up a hunk of tissue and catalogue all the RNAs they found there, or use fluorescent markers to track the expression of up to 30 RNAs inside each cell of a tissue sample. The latest technique maps up to thousands of RNAs.
In a proof-of-principle study, molecular biologist George Church of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues scratched a layer of cultured connective-tissue cells and sequenced the RNA of cells that migrated to the wound during the healing process. Out of 6,880 genes sequenced, the researchers identified 12 that showed changes in gene expression, including eight that were known to be involved in cell migration but had not been studied in wound healing, the researchers say. "This verifies that the technique could be used to do rapidly what has taken scientists years of looking at gene products one by one," says Robert Singer, a molecular cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who was not involved in the study.
A Bird-Like Flock of Autonomous Drones
Ed Yong in Not Exactly Rocket Science:
In a field outside Budapest, Hungary, ten quadcopter drones are flying as a coordinated flock. They zip through the great outdoors, fly in formation, or even follow a leader.
The little machines are the work of Hungarian scientists led by physicist Tamas Vicsek from Eotvos University in Budapest. They're autonomous, meaning that they compute their flight plans on their own, without any central control. They can follow instructions, but they work out their own paths using GPS signals to navigate and radio signals to talk to one another. They're the closest thing we have to an artificial flock of birds.
The copter flock is a real-life version of an influential computer programme called Boids, created by Craig Reynolds in 1986. He programmed virtual flying objects—the eponymous Boids—to move according to three simple rules. They aligned with the average heading of their neighbours; they were attracted to each other; and they also repulsedeach other to keep some personal space. These three simple rules were enough to simulate a realistic bird-like flock.
Habib Wali Mohammad sings a ghazal by Bahadur Shah Zafar: Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon
A Pakistani Jew steps cautiously out of the shadows
Marc Goldberg in The Times of Israel:
His real name is Faisal Benkhald, though he has recently adopted the Yiddish first name "Fishel." He was born in Karachi in 1987, the fourth of five children born to a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. Though registered at birth as Muslim, he considers himself Jewish and is now fighting for state recognition of his chosen religion — an apostasy.
As far as the Pakistani authorities are concerned, Fishel is still Faisal, a Muslim. That's what's written on his documentation. But he wouldn't be the only Jewish Pakistani to have a Muslim identity card: The Jews of Pakistan learned to disappear long ago. Some, like Fishel's parents, registered their children as Muslims to blend in, and all tried to hide.
Except Fishel.
In a series of Twitter exchanges and emails in recent weeks, The Times of Israel explored Fishel's unique story.
His earliest childhood memories include the aroma of his mother's challah, baking in the oven every Friday afternoon. Before dusk he would watch her recite blessings over the Shabbat candles.
"When she used to put her hands over her eyes it felt so serene as if she has no worries of worldly life, reciting the blessing welcoming the holy day. Her lovely eyes and smile looking at me are engraved in my memory, I always prayed with her."
Mark Blyth to Judge 4th Annual 3QD Politics & Social Science Prize
UPDATE 3/24/14: Winners announced here.
UPDATE 3/14/14: Finalists announced here.
UPDATE 3/14/14: Semifinalists announced here.
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Dear Readers, Writers, Bloggers,
We are very honored and pleased to announce that Mark Blyth has agreed to be the final judge for our 4th annual prize for the best blog and online writing in the category of politics and social science. Details of the previous three politics (and other) prizes can be seen on our prize page.
Mark Blyth is professor of international political economy at Brown University. He is based in the Department of Political Science, but his research begs and borrows from multiple fields. He is particularly interested in how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems. He was a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform that made a case for macro-prudential regulation. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002), and most recently, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press 2013). His academic writings have appeared in such places as the American Political Science Review, the Review of International Political Economy, and the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, while his more popular writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy magazine. He has also written for 3 Quarks Daily.
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where's the dance talk?
Posted on Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 10:14AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Morgan Meis
Judith Flanders at the Times Literary Supplement:
In 1930s literary London, ballet was everywhere. Virginia Woolf, several Stracheys, the Bells, E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield, Aldous Huxley, the Sitwells and T. S. Eliot all attended the Ballets Russes. Louis MacNeice's Les Sylphides appeared in 1939, and in the same year Henry Green's Party Goingused the same ballet as a structural underpinning. It wasn't just the intelligentsia, either. Compton Mackenzie wrote two novels with a dance protagonist, and even Eric Ambler'sCause for Alarm (1938) contained a reference to Diaghilev.
All the more peculiar, then, that those who have since studied modernism, both in the visual arts and in literature, have barely acknowledged the movement's links to dance. Where is the equivalent to Adorno on Stravinsky and Schoenberg? Where the monographs to match those on Cubism, or the modern novel? If the link between the "Demoiselles d'Avignon" and temporality in fiction is worth examining, why not between that same painting and Nijinsky's Sacre du Printemps?
A few dance writers have attempted to bridge the gap, but almost no literary specialists. Now Susan Jones, a Conrad scholar as well as, before that, a dancer, is ideally placed to take the subject forward, as one who can see how, "At the still point of the turning world . . . there the dance is".
Is Absolute Secularity Conceivable?
Posted on Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 9:34AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Robin Varghese
Simon During over at The Immanent Frame:
Is absolute secularity conceivable? The question arises from the paradoxical intuition that the secularization thesis is simultaneously both right and muddled. Perhaps the most fundamental problem with the broader secularization thesis (which I take to claim that, over the past half-millennium or so, Western society has undergone a systemic diminution of religious practice) is that it isn't clear what the non-secular is. After all, it can be extended from those beliefs and practices that avowedly depend on religious revelation to those that affirm some form of transcendentalism, though they may make no room for God as such. But for a long time both radical atheists and Christian apologists have argued that what looks as if it is secular through and through may not, in fact, be secular at all. From this point of view, important elements of enlightened secularity in particular can be understood, not as Christianity's overcoming, but as its displacement. Thus, for instance, in his Scholasticism and Politics (1938), Jacques Maritain, following Nietzsche, speaks of the "Christian leaven fermenting in the bosom of human history" as the source of democratic modernity. Here the secular, political concept of human equality is seen to have a Christian origin and to bear a continuing Christian charge, even though its purposes and contexts have changed.
Numerous applications of the displacement model of secularization are current, but here I will point to just one. It concerns philosophical anthropology. The argument is that certain post-Enlightenment concepts of the human (or of "man") remain Christian in their deep structures. Of these, the most important is the philosophical anthropology of negation (to use Marcel Gauchet's term), according to which human nature is not just appetitive but necessarily incomplete, that is to say, inadequate to its various ecologies and conditions, and for that reason beset by fear, uneasiness, anxiety, and so on. For those who accept the displacement model, this anthropology, even in its modern forms, remains dependent on the revealed doctrine that human nature as such is fallen.
The Mammoth Cometh
Nathaniel Rich in the NYT Magazine:
[Ben] Novak is tall, solemn, polite and stiff in conversation, until the conversation turns to passenger pigeons, which it always does. One of the few times I saw him laugh was when I asked whether de-extinction might turn out to be impossible. He reminded me that it has already happened. More than 10 years ago, a team that included Alberto Fernández-Arias (now a Revive & Restore adviser) resurrected a bucardo, a subspecies of mountain goat also known as the Pyrenean ibex, that went extinct in 2000. The last surviving bucardo was a 13-year-old female named Celia. Before she died — her skull was crushed by a falling tree — Fernández-Arias extracted skin scrapings from one of her ears and froze them in liquid nitrogen. Using the same cloning technology that created Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, the team used Celia's DNA to create embryos that were implanted in the wombs of 57 goats. One of the does successfully brought her egg to term on July 30, 2003. "To our knowledge," wrote the scientists, "this is the first animal born from an extinct subspecies." But it didn't live long. After struggling to breathe for several minutes, the kid choked to death.
This cloning method, called somatic cell nuclear transfer, can be used only on species for which we have cellular material. For species like the passenger pigeon that had the misfortune of going extinct before the advent of cryopreservation, a more complicated process is required. The first step is to reconstruct the species' genome. This is difficult, because DNA begins to decay as soon as an organism dies. The DNA also mixes with the DNA of other organisms with which it comes into contact, like fungus, bacteria and other animals. If you imagine a strand of DNA as a book, then the DNA of a long-dead animal is a shuffled pile of torn pages, some of the scraps as long as a paragraph, others a single sentence or just a few words. The scraps are not in the right order, and many of them belong to other books. And the book is an epic: The passenger pigeon's genome is about 1.2 billion base pairs long. If you imagine each base pair as a word, then the book of the passenger pigeon would be four million pages long.
There is a shortcut. The genome of a closely related species will have a high proportion of identical DNA, so it can serve as a blueprint, or "scaffold." The passenger pigeon's closest genetic relative is the band-tailed pigeon, which Shapiro is now sequencing. By comparing the fragments of passenger-pigeon DNA with the genomes of similar species, researchers can assemble an approximation of an actual passenger-pigeon genome. How close an approximation, it will be impossible to know. As with any translation, there may be errors of grammar, clumsy phrases and perhaps a few missing passages, but the book will be legible. It should, at least, tell a good story.
On "We Real Cool"
Posted on Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 6:23AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Azra Raza
An interview with Gwendolyn Brooks by George Stavros in English.Illinois:
Q. How about the seven pool players in the poem "We Real Cool"?
A. They have no pretensions to any glamor. They are supposedly dropouts, or at least they're in the poolroom when they should possibly be in school, since they're probably young enough, or at least those I saw were when I looked in a poolroom, and they. . . . First of all, let me tell you how that's supposed to be said, because there's a reason why I set it out as I did. These are people who are essentially saying, "Kilroy is here. We are." But they're a little uncertain of the strength of their identity. [Reads:]
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
The "We"—you're supposed to stop after the "We" and think about their validity, and of course there's no way for you to tell whether it should be said softly or not, I suppose, but I say it rather softly because I want to represent their basic uncertainty, which they don't bother to question every day, of course.
Q. Are you saying that the form of this poem, then, was determined by the colloquial rhythm you were trying to catch?
A. No, determined by my feeling about these boys, these young men.
More here. (Note: One post throughout February will be dedicated to Black History Month.)
LIT UP BY THE LUMINARIES
I first read "The Luminaries" as a judge of the Man Booker prize for fiction last year. Without that compulsion I might never have picked it up, put off by its cubical bulk and astrological armature. What a loss that would have been! I have now read it three times—2,496 pages in sum—and each reading has yielded new dividends. And its consequences enact its concerns, for Catton takes such pains not only for the joy of evocation, but also to carry out a huge thought-experiment into the nature of value. Almost everyone in Hokitika is dedicated to the acquisition of wealth and the maximisation of profit. It is a community driven by capital, in which relationships are ruled by cost-benefit analysis. One of the few transactions to defeat this fierce logic is the unconditional love that develops between two characters: a young prospector and a "whore". Their love eventually emerges as a gold standard: a touchstone with which to test the value of all things.
And so this phenomenal book, apparently about digging into the Earth's innards in search of wealth, ends up delving into the heart's interior to find true worth. All the while the landscape goes about its business: rain clatters fatly onto the roofs of Hokitika's 100 pubs, storms pummel the sand-bars, the snowmelt of the high peaks swells the rivers, and the rivers crash down towards the sea, carrying gold which shines in their eddy-pools, as one early prospector put it, "like the stars of Orion on a dark, frosty night".
Joshua Knobe: Experimental Philosophy and the Notion of the Self
Posted on Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 5:59AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by S. Abbas Raza
From Edge.org. More here.
Who's Afraid of Walter Mitty?
Liam Heneghan in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
In those days, over 30 years past, when it was not unusual in Dublin bookshops for patrons to discuss books with each other, a youth not very much older than I was at the time told me that James Thurber's writing was "total shite." I glowered, bought My World and Welcome to It (1942), and shuffled out onto Nassau Street with the book stuffed into a paper bag. I was mainly interested in the pictures anyway.
By that time I was already fairly progressed in my reading of Thurber, who was a favorite of my father's and consequently whose books, some of them at least, were strewn about the house. My mother claimed that Thurber was the only writer that made had her laugh out loud on a Dublin bus. Thurber's best known story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which had first appeared in The New Yorker in 1939, was assigned reading for Ireland's intermediate certificate English course (the "intercourse" as we called it), the national curriculum for students aged 12 to 15 years old. The story was therefore known to most Irish youth.
I have been rereading Thurber in recent months, more than 35 years after I first encountered him, partly in anticipation of the release of Ben Stiller's film version of the Walter Mitty story, and partly because I had picked up a copy of the excellent compilation of Thurber's Writings and Drawings (1996) in the Library of America series. In the intervening years since my early reading of Thurber I lived for a long time in the United States, first in New York, then a brief stint in Georgia, and now in Chicago where it snows a lot. Having more familiarity with locations and situations that once seemed exotic and urbane to me, at least when viewed from Dublin in the 1970s, I can now assess Thurber's work with more culturally attuned eyes and significantly older ones.
Thursday Poem
Posted on Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 5:25AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Jim Culleny
Miller Moth
Promises were made
that dress of yours
yellow as a Miller moth
batting about the bulb
of a painted porch light
yearning on hanger
to caress a slope of shoulder
ride a swell of hip
bell the well-turned ankle
pleat and dart pooled about
first one foot
then the other
rose to lip
a halting smile of neckline
assumed an aspect
of sail gathered wind
sung vows in the rigging
where I madly batted
drawn, ensnared.
by Dave Hardin
from The Lost Country, Fall 2013
A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
Erica Klarreich in Quanta:
In Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back," the Cat makes a stain he can't clean up, so he calls upon the help of Little Cat A, a smaller, perfect replica of the Cat who has been hiding under the Cat's hat. Little Cat A then calls forth Little Cat B, an even smaller replica hidden under Little Cat A's hat. Each cat in turn lifts his hat to reveal a smaller cat who possesses all the energy and good cheer of the original Cat, just crammed into a tinier package. Finally, Little Cat Z, who is too small to see, unleashes a VOOM like a giant explosion of energy, and the stain disappears.
A similar process lies at the heart of a speculative new approach to a problem that has bedeviled mathematicians for more than 150 years: understanding the solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid flow, which physicists use to model ocean currents, weather patterns and other phenomena. These equations are so complex that in most cases, no one knows whether the solution will be smooth and well-behaved, without any sudden shifts of direction or explosions of energy, for instance. And computer models of the solutions run aground, unable to accurately capture the behavior of small eddies.
Now, in a paper posted online on February 3, Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, a winner of the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honor, offers a possible way to break the impasse. He has shown that in an alternative abstract universe closely related to the one described by the Navier-Stokes equations, it is possible for a body of fluid to form a sort of computer, which can build a self-replicating fluid robot that, like the Cat in the Hat, keeps transferring its energy to smaller and smaller copies of itself until the fluid "blows up." As strange as it sounds, it may be possible, Tao proposes, to construct the same kind of self-replicator in the case of the true Navier-Stokes equations. If so, this fluid computer would settle a question that the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 dubbed one of the seven most important problems in modern mathematics, and for which it offered a million-dollar prize. Is a fluid governed by the Navier-Stokes equations guaranteed to flow smoothly for all time, the problem asks, or could it eventually hit a "blowup" in which something physically impossible happens, such as a non-zero amount of energy concentrated into a single point in space?
"3 Quarks Daily is terrific - many congratulations, and many thanks!"
—Alain de Botton, best-selling Swiss-British writer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Do you find your developers have one follow-up question after another about how the system is really supposed to work, even though you documented the functionality in a use case? Worse yet, did your development team implement something completely different than you and your business stakeholders expected? Or, do your testers (bless their souls) come back to you with question upon question about what to test?
Use cases are a valuable requirements tool for capturing functional requirements in the context of user actions. Along with their super-powerful side-kick, wireframes, they can be a tool to finally get everyone on the same page about software requirements.
But some very common use case mistakes make use cases difficult to understand, and can actually create more ambiguity about the requirements.
You can avoid a lot of pain and suffering for everyone on your team by being sure you don't make some of the most common use case mistakes that lead to ambiguity.
But, we've gone on for awhile about this mistake. Let's get to the others, because there are plenty!
The next most common mistake we see, especially from individuals without a lot of exposure to information technology projects, is that the use cases are very process-oriented. The use case is crystal clear about all the steps the user needs to take, but it is missing the corresponding system action that needs to happen in response to each user step.
In a use case, just about every user step should have a corresponding user response or action. If it doesn't, your development team isn't clear on what the system is supposed to do to hold up its part of the bargain. This leads to assumptions being made or questions being asked during implementation.
Another common mistake, and this one tends to come from more technically-focused professionals, is that the use case includes technical details that are not required to understand how the user interacts with the system.
Specific data elements or data tables.
Names of system components that wouldn't be visible to an ordinary end user of the system.
System-triggered processes or procedures that need to run.
Including too many technical details can clarify things for the technical team, but breaks the flow of the use case and makes it difficult for your business stakeholders to understand and your testers to test. These details are best saved for a technical design document.
While use cases can stand alone as a requirements document, often they are created along with wireframes that show either the flow or one possible flow through a set of screens to realize the use case.
It's very common for the use cases and the wireframes to get out of sync. For example, there could be a sequence of steps that's not represented in the wireframe or the wireframe could lack the buttons and triggers necessary to fully realize the functionality in the use case.
One of the useful elements of use cases is that they enable you to focus on the basic flow or "happy path" independent of all the variations that can occur along that path. These variations are called alternate and exception flows.
When detailing an alternate or exception flow, it's preferable to identify a specific step in the basic flow where the alternate or exception begins or is triggered. Similarly, when the description of the flow is complete, you should indicate the step in the basic flow where the flow picks back up.
This habit makes less likely that you'll miss steps in your basic flow. (Often when I notice these mistakes, there is no appropriate step in the basic flow to branch off from, which often means a system check is missing.) It also clarifies for your reader exactly when and how the alternates and exceptions get triggered.
A use case should be fairly discrete. It should describe the sequence of steps (and all necessary variations) for accomplishing one specific user goal, such as creating an account or sending an email or generating a report.
A common mistake is to include steps that happen before the pre-conditions, after the post-conditions, or are otherwise unrelated to the user's goal in the use case. This mistake is an indicator that the use case needs to be split into more than one use case.
This mistake leads to missing requirements because the more you try to cover in a single use case, the more likely you are to overlook steps and alternate paths through it.
A final mistake that can cause significant confusion is when BAs use terms inconsistently. For example, it's common for a use case to describe a flow of steps to process a specific type of information.
Let's just say in this scenario, we're talking about creating a new article to publish on this website. If step 1 refers to an article as a "blog post," step 3 as an "article," and in step 5 there's a reference to a "published content item," it's unclear as to whether these are all the same concepts or different concepts.
Not knowing the business jargon, your technical stakeholders will most likely assume that there are three different concepts that need to be implemented with different data elements and then have questions about how one ties to another.
If you are making any of these use case writing mistakes, you could be losing the opportunity to create clear and concise functional requirements that are easy for your stakeholders to understand, provide feedback on, and implement.
Review your latest use case for each of the mistakes mentioned and work to correct it. Better yet, trade use cases with a peer and review each other's work for evidence of these 7 mistakes. Often an outside observer can see what we don't.
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The Afghan Whigs' guitarist Dave Rosser has died, the band announced on Facebook. "It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our friend, brother and inspiration," they wrote. "Thank you to all who kept him in their hearts. He is forever in ours." Rosser was 50 years old. In 2016, the band announced that he had been diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer. The band recruited other groups (Moby, Eagles of Death Metal) for a series of benefit shows. Rosser played on their most recent record In Spades as well as 2014's Do to the Beast. In addition to the Afghan Whigs, Rosser played with Dulli in the Gutter Twins and the Twilight Singers. Last year, he also contributed to Tim Heidecker's album In Glendale.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Rosser replaced Jon Skibic in The Afghan Whigs. Skibic is still in the band.


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Ways of seeing plastics
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Raw plastics come in the form of liquids or granules. They can be worked in many different ways. Some processes have high set-up costs and are therefore economically viable only if large numbers of the product are made. Others are less expensive at the tooling stage but require more hand finishing. This group of artefacts presents products manufactured by some of the more common processes of both types.
OPEN MOULD CASTING - A polyethylene mould was made from a carved aluminium original. The mould was filled with polyester resin and other materials such as metallic powders to colour the heads, or opaque resins to simulate ivory and gold leaf were added at the appropriate moment to allow them to settle at the right level within the resin. The mould was open at the top and thus the colouring agents could be manipulated with pins. The making of the mould does not require much investment and many moulds can be made from one original. However, once the 'bugs' were removed from their moulds considerable hand finishing was required.
COMPRESSION MOULDING - The radio casing and the cups and saucers are made by compression moulding. A measured amount of the raw material is put into a two-part mould. The mould is closed under pressure and heated. This causes the raw material to melt and take up the form of the mould before setting. In the case of the cups and saucers two moulds were required one for each colour. The tooling costs are not high however on removal from the mould considerable hand finishing is required to achieve such smooth and glossy surfaces.
VACUUM MOULDING - This cake mould was made from a pre-formed plastic sheet, itself made by a process known as calendering, in which plastic granules are fed between a series of heated rollers to form a thin sheet. The pre-formed sheet was attached to a mould and heated until it softened. A vacuum was then introduced between the mould and the sheet so that the sheet was drawn into the shape of the mould. Once cooled, the plastic sheet retained the shape of the mould, and the process could be repeated thousands of times. The mould can be made of any material including wood and plaster and so the tooling costs are low.
EXTRUSION - The polyamide threads in these nylons and socks and also the pencil casing were made by the extrusion process. It involves forcing molten raw plastic through a die. The extruded plastic is then cooled. The die creates the shape of the extrusion, thus it can be quite thick and have a hole in its middle, as does the pencil casing, or very fine, as is the case with thread. It can also have ridges but it is crucial that the profile of the shape extruded is the same all along its length. The pencil casing, once extruded and cooled was cut into pencil lengths and one end sharpened.
CUTTING & WELDING - Ready-made sheets and standard extrusions are often used to make products. This necklace was made from standard extruded plastics welded and strung together. The dark red units of the necklace were made from clear acrylic tubing, bent by the application of heat, and the colour applied by the dripping of pigment down the hole in the middle.The photograph frame was made by a simple process of cutting and welding, the latter achieved by applying heat along the line to be joined.
INJECTION MOULDING - Injection moulding allows the creation of any imaginable form provided, if hollow, its opening is wider than its body diameter. Thus it can produce a hollow simple form as in the case of these beakers or more intricate sold forms, as in the case of the butterfly brooches.Raw molten plastic is injected into a mould. The mould is usually made of metal thus tooling costs are high but the products are produced rapidly allowing low unit costs if produced in sufficient numbers.
BLOW MOULDING - These fruit shapes were made by blowing hot air into a tube of plastic encased in a two part mould made from a model of the fruit and fish. The plastic takes up the form of the mould and cools and sets on contact with the cool mould. Seams from the two part mould are visible. Often the process is combined with injection moulding, the tube and a thread for a lid being thus formed.
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Divar, an island in the Mandovi River, had no proper system in place for collection, segregation, and disposal of waste. Waste was dumped and burned in open areas affecting the environment, cattle, and people around. In 2011, the Foundation initiated a survey to gauge the waste that was being generated by the different village wards on Divar Island.
Based on the data gathered and processed, a Recycling Station for dry waste was designed for Divar Island to enable easy segregation of dry waste into plastic, glass & metal, and miscellaneous waste including footwear, clothes and e-waste. Further measures were proposed for safe and healthy disposal of dry waste to ensure complete self-sustenance of the village in the area of waste and preserving its environmental character.


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Local Journalism Initiative
Care of all kinds: West Lincoln Community Care offers mental health counselling
In an effort to expand care efforts, West Lincoln Community Care (WLCC) is going beyond just providing care in physical form.
Mental health counselling is now available as part of WLCC's roster of services.
With the help of psychotherapist, Angela Kingma, WLCC clients can now apply to qualify to receive counselling for their mental health needs.
Kingma, who has years of experience in community living and mental health support, said that the mental health of people at large is in a bad place, especially due the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She said that developing a good support network of friends and support services and taking care of yourself is very important, especially as newer restrictions take away many activities that people do for recreation.
"Access is very important," said Kingma about her decision to collaborate with WLCC. Many clients may not be able to afford counselling, she noted, adding some might not have a vehicle to get to in-person sessions or internet access to attend online sessions.
"I've spoken to quite a few people who didn't know where to ask for help, so making sure that people know where to go for help is crucial, too," she said.
Sharlene Volpatti, manager of client services and the food bank at WLCC said the need for mental health services became an identifiable issue when clients began to regularly ask for ways they could find support in their community, as it was otherwise too expensive, too far away, or wait times were too long.
"It's a very new program, so we're really excited about it," Volpatti said.
She said that sometimes after its launch, the program will be assessed and if results are positive, then there is hope to expand.
Clients who qualify to receive appointments with Kingma will have all costs of their appointments subsidized by the WLCC.
In the meantime, Volpatti said that financial support from the community, or just spreading word of the program to those in need is strongly appreciated.
Those interested in donating to West Lincoln Community Care or who are in need of their services can call 905-957-5882 or email West Lincoln Community Care at wlcc@bellnet.ca.
Moosa Imran, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Grimsby Lincoln News
OTTAWA — The latest evidence does not show the Omicron variant is contagious for less time than previous versions of the virus that causes COVID-19, chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said Tuesday. But Tam told the House of Commons health committee that the sheer number infections from Omicron is stressing workforces and is a reason to adjust our risk tolerance for ending isolation periods early. "This is a difficult decision that the provinces have to make," Tam said. Three weeks ago,
New 11-storey building in downtown Victoria could harm birds, biologist says
A sleek, modern building in downtown Victoria has been given the green light to move forward on development, but an avian biologist is worried the design, which features a lot of reflective glass, could be harmful to birds. The structure, called the Telus Ocean building, is 11 storeys tall and will go up at Douglas Street and Humboldt Street. Development company Aryze says the project is intended to be the new business and innovation centre for B.C.'s capital. Development lead Chris Quigley says
Recently approved antiviral pill 'paxlovid' has been dubbed a game-changer. Despite this, concerns persist about the accessibility of the pill and who should be getting it first. Bioethicist Kerry Bowman shares insight on the issue
Ontario's winter storm cleanup expected to take all week
Ontarians have no choice but to dig out from a severe winter storm. But it's not just the snow making news. Jeff Semple explains why an Ottawa boy named Clayton McGuire is being hailed a hero, and how Ontario Premier Doug Ford's storm response is prompting mixing reviews.
Baby dolphin trapped in fishing net rescued by a Police Officer
Officer Nelson Silva of our Marine Patrol Unit received a call of a dolphin in distress in the Shorecrest area. Officer Silva located a juvenile dolphin that was trapped in a fishing net. Watch the video to see how Officer Silva helped free the dolphin! Video credit Miami-Dade Police Department
Halifax rehabilitation centre flood damages treatment rooms, destroys charity café
Nova Scotia's health authority says it could take months to repair damage to its rehabilitation and arthritis centre in Halifax after a sprinkler pipe burst Monday morning, destroying treatment rooms and a café run by Easter Seals. Water flooded the first floor and the basement, destroying walls and flooring. The health authority said the most extensive damage is to the cafeteria and the University Avenue entrance. "We'll be using a secondary entrance on that side and the cafeteria will be close
COVID-19 antiviral pill on its way across Canada, as some hospitalizations dip
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first shipment of an oral COVID-19 pill is making its way across Canada but is no substitute for vaccination against the rapidly spreading virus. The antiviral drug Paxlovid is meant to protect against hospitalization and death. Canada has purchased one million courses for delivery this year. "It's important to remember that this will be a powerful tool to continue to keep people from people getting extremely sick but it needs to be used right," Trudeau sai


The Canadian Bar Association, which represents 37,000 lawyers, law professors, and students from across the country, has released an important submission on Bill C-32. The submission, which was approved as a public statement by both the National Intellectual Property and the Privacy and Access Law Sections of the CBA, does a nice job setting out the debate over Bill C-32 (I was once a member of the CBA's Copyright Policy section but was not involved in the drafting of the Bill C-32 document).
The Intellectual Property and the Privacy and Access Law Sections of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA Sections) are pleased to comment on Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act. Copyright is a controversial subject and engages the interests of a wide cross-section of Canadians. This includes copyright owners, who run the gamut from large entertainment conglomerates to self-employed artists, and copyright users, who include everyone from broadcasting corporations to teenagers downloading music in their parents' basements. The copyright bar, similarly, holds a multiplicity of perspectives on copyright.
The Canadian Booksellers Association is seeking changes to the parallel import laws for books, currently governed by the Copyright Act. The booksellers argue the limits are "no longer commercially reasonable and should be repealed."
The Vancouver Sun features a letter to the editor today from Canadian Bankers Association President Nancy Hughes Anthony on the do-not-call list and iOptOut.ca. The CBA professes support for the DNC, noting that "it's easy for Canadians to opt out of telemarketing calls. Simply sign up for the national Do Not Call list." Hughes Anthony neglects to mention that CBA members are exempt under the DNC where there is a prior or current business relationship. Under the rules, that means your current bank gets to call for a wide array of additional services even if your number is on the DNC list. Moreover, if you simply inquired with another bank about a mortgage rate or credit card offering, they can continue to call you for another six months. The CBA has a history of defending its right to make these telemarketing calls. In 2004, it made submissions to the CRTC asking that its members be excluded from new telemarketing rules, arguing that its practices "do not constitute 'undue inconvenience or nuisance'."
With respect to iOptOut.ca, the CBA raises three objections, of all of which were dismissed by CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein.


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Ryan Garcia survives a hard fall, goes downstairs to beat Luke Campbell
Garcia bounces up from a second-round knockdown to notch his 16th knockout in 21 victories.
Whicker: 2021 sports year in review (yes, 2021)
Whicker: Canelo Alvarez is too good for whoever's next, but for Gennady Golovkin's sake it shouldn't be him
The 6-foot-6 Sebastian Fundora remains a tower of power in the ring
By Mark Whicker
December 5, 2020 at 10:20 p.m.
Whicker: Errol Spence accepts danger vs. Danny Garcia
December 4, 2020 at 1:44 p.m.
Hector Camacho's wild flight through boxing revisited in 'Macho' documentary
December 3, 2020 at 10:02 a.m.
Mike Tyson fights Roy Jones Jr. to a draw in return to ring
November 29, 2020 at 10:16 a.m.
UFC 255: Alan Jouban in the 'biggest fight of my life'
By Brian Martin
November 20, 2020 at 2:02 p.m.
Bellator 253: AJ McKee, Darrion Caldwell square off with a title and $1 million in sight
November 17, 2020 at 12:40 p.m.
Boxing: Terence Crawford stops Kell Brook in 4th round in welterweight title fight
Aaron Pico delivers blistering TKO at Bellator 252
Aaron Pico says 'everything's flowing' ahead of Bellator 252
Bellator 251: Georgi Karakhanyan will let his fists free his mind
November 4, 2020 at 11:06 a.m.


The strength of this author lies in the choice of his characters, a large ensemble cast around the title character Sebastian. Each of them seems to represent a different class, a social or an ethnic group of the melting pot that is the Habsburg Vienna of 1913. The family shop with its wide selection of goods and changing staff serves almost as the perfect symbol for the forced Austro-Hungarian state that has run its cause. With much research gone into the setting Fischer however focuses more on the human side of his characters and their conflicts. As before, he never points the finger or favours one group in particular but manages to give a great and authentic feel of the times. Self-doubt and a fear of the future oozes out of most his characters, particularly the physically fragile Sebastian and his family. It seems the old generation is holding on to what they know and what is slipping through their fingers; the young ones are unsure how to be themselves in a modern world where old values are becoming meaningless and their own initiative and expertise will be needed. With a hint of irony and a love for sentiment and nostalgia Fischer portrays the stubborn heroes, the errant and self-defeating and often silly ways in which the characters trod along in their search for happiness, be that seances, amateur psycho-analysis or risking all for a piece of the past. This second part of his trilogy is less intense in terms of historic background and has an easier flow of writing. Greatly evolved Fischer gently shows the falling apart of the old order, showing some of the innocence of the time. After having first written a book about the brutal times that follow this is a daring concept that fortunately paid off. Just like the leg amputated Sebastian has to learn to walk through life with what he has left, so will the new shrunken state of Austria need to find a new stance in a changing Europe. Having read in an interview that the story is based on his own grandfather makes the story all the more touching and a small piece of history come alive.


*This post has been updated to clarify the author's intent.
From the spring of 1820 onward, wicked men consistently called the character of Joseph Smith into question. Vast lies were told and written about him to discredit him and to stop The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) from going forward. Many have accused the Church of hiding the "true history" of Joseph Smith, because someone wrote that Joseph Smith committed all kinds of evil. Some questionable "historical evidence" has been taken from the enemies of Joseph Smith and the enemies of the truth.
This entry was posted in Joseph Smith, LDS History and tagged Joseph Smith, Neil A Andersen on November 18, 2014 by Diane Robertson.


DiskSavvy Server and DiskSavvy Enterprise provide the ability to show the amount of the used disk space and the number of files per host allowing one to gain an in-depth visibility into the disk space usage statistics across the entire enterprise. In order to perform the hosts analysis, analyze disk space usage in a number of servers or NAS storage devices, press the 'Reports' button located on the main toolbar, press the 'Analyze' button and select the 'Disk Space Usage Per Host' menu item.
In order to be able perform the hosts analysis, the user needs to configure disk space analysis commands to analyze one or more servers and/or NAS storage devices through the network using UNC network names. In the simplest case, configure a single disk space analysis command, press the 'Network' button located on the main toolbar to search all servers and NAS devices on the network, select one or more servers to analyze, press the 'Batch' button and select the previously configured disk space analysis command to be executed on all selected servers and NAS storage devices.
The hosts analysis dialog shows disk space usage per server according to disk space analysis reports saved in the reports database. The right-side hosts view provides the ability to select/unselect specific servers to be included in the chart. The bottom disks and directories selector allows one to select which network shares should be included in the chart. In order to copy the chart image to the clipboard, press the 'Copy To Clipboard' button located on the right side of the hosts analysis dialog.


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RateTiger Launches Guest Review Management Tool for Hotels
Channel management specialist introduces reputation management to RTSuite.
London, United Kingdom, October 28, 2010 --(PR.com)-- eRevMax, creator of RateTiger, has announced the launch of its latest product RTSuite Review, an online guest review consolidator for hotels, during WTM London next month. The new platform enables hotels to manage their brand reputation and interact directly with guests across multiple hotel review sites.
RTSuite Review will gather customer reviews from guest review websites and categorize them based on different parameters (e.g. hotel facilities, F&B, customer service and cleanliness). The hotelier can choose any review period from the last seven days up to 24 months, assess people's comments, respond where possible and gather critical marketing information through statistics – for example top sites, total reviews, monthly reviews, customer satisfaction levels, average ratings by product, website, age analysis and many more.
An additional bonus is the ability to review competitor guest reviews on the same channels. This enables hotels to fully understand competitor strengths and weaknesses while improving their own Sales and Marketing strategy.
With this new addition to RateTiger's RTSuite portfolio, hoteliers can gain even greater control of their online distribution presence and marketing management to enhance the value of their products.
"Online social media reviews have become an incredibly influential channel for revenue generation. We have put greater importance on managing guest feedback and become very successful at doing so. The higher our ranking, the greater the revenue and bookings therefore it is essential we continue to manage opinion wisely. RTSuite - Review instantly saved us significant time and allows us to monitor and respond directly to all our comments. Since using it we have managed to develop much better relationships with online review websites," said Ranya Kalus de Bragança, Deputy Director, Hotel OTTO Berlin after beta-testing the tool.
"There is an ever increasing importance to look after guests during pre-sales, the actual stay and post-sale. With the rising popularity of review websites and consumer generated content it is imperative to monitor and respond pro-actively," said Sascha Hausmann, CEO, eRevMax. "Hoteliers can now manage customer reviews easily without increasing the administration burden. This will help to better understand their customer demands and improve their products and services. "
For first-hand experience of this magic tool visit RateTiger's stand GV545 at WTM, London from 8 – 11 November 2010.
About eRevMax International:
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A Modest Proposal Lite
Another now-and-then article.
In Western civilization, logic and ethics are usually mutually exclusive, while ideology and ethics are invariably bedfellows. Take Michael Ignatieff for instance, a great Canadian intellectual and current Liberal Party leadership hopeful. He salutes the United States as Empire-Lite (title of one of his books), and applauds its Nation-Building Lite program that encircles the globe. Mr. Ignatieff is doubtless a logical thinker. His views on violence however, typical of centuries-long dominant Western ethical tradition religious and secular, are profoundly illogical.
Prove it you say? Like taking candy from a baby! Article 3 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is said to be succinct distillation of an essential self-evident right accorded by Western civilized society to all humanity. It reads: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." Mr. Ignatieff would argue that Canadian law upholds that universal right for every Canadian without fail. Hence, no violent act by police that deliberately takes innocent civilian life on Canadian soil is to be countenanced. Ever! Not even just this once. One might say: no universal right lite!
You see? I've just proved it – or did you miss it? Mr. Ignatieff is not ethically logical, rather imperially ideological. He is in fact, contrary to the Declaration's Article 3, committed to the most damnable mythology/ideology the West has known: the myth of redemptive violence, which is anti-Western-civilization (in theory) to the core (and originated in the pre-Christian Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.) One could call Mr. Ignatieff's mythical view redemptive violence lite.
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Holleran: Edwards must learn to rise above the provocation
Leamington manager Paul Holleran believes Jack Edwards has become a target for opposition players after the midfielder received his second red card of the season at Poole Town on Saturday.
Friday, 11th December 2015, 5:03 am
Jack Edwards was dismissed as Leamington went down to a 1-0 defeat at leaders Poole Town.
A rash challenge from Edwards had already brought him to the attention of referee Ben Knight before the midfielder's angry reaction to a tackle from Steve Devlin saw Knight dish out a second yellow midway through the first half.
"Teams see Jack Edwards as a threat," said Holleran. "Word gets around and clubs like to rough him up a little.
"He's got to manage that and I'm pretty sure he will learn.
"It's not the first time he's reacted and experienced players will suss him out.
"Jack will feel he was caught after the ball had gone and it probably should have been a free-kick but he left his foot there and gave the referee no option.
"It's an element of his game that we've got to get on top of and it has been dealt with internally."
Holleran had much more sympathy for Jamie Hood, however.
The defender received a straight red card for hand ball after throwing himself in the way of a close-range shot, with Holleran deeming it a harsh call from Knight.
"It's hit Jamie and he's no more than two or three yards away.
"The ref's given a penalty but to send the player off...
"His interpretation is that it is a clear goalscoring chance but there are about 15 players in the box and about ten, 12 behind the ball.
"I felt sorry for Jamie because to be 30 games in and only have got four cautions playing centre-half, he hasn't done too bad."
The two sending-offs meant Leamington were reduced to nine men for the third time this season, but the Brakes boss was quick to defend his side's disciplinary record.
"It is a little bit out of character for us.
"Our disciplinary record has always seen us in the top half of the fair play table.
"It's not like we are out of control. We just have these moments.
"That's three games - St Neots, Biggleswade and Poole - where we have missed out on points because we didn't have 11 players on the pitch.
"We've got to learn from it."
Leamington, who sit fourth in the Southern Premier Division after the 1-0 defeat at Poole, switch their attentions to the FA Trophy tomorrow when they make the trip to Conference Premier side Altrincham.
The Robins were unlucky to lose out in the second round of the FA Cup to Colchester United last weekend, twice taking the lead before bowing out to a goal in the fourth and final minute of injury time.
But despite Altrincham's cup pedigree and the two-division gulf between the sides, Holleran said Brakes will travel to Moss Rose full of belief.
"We've got through some difficult games to get here and we know that when it gets to 5pm there will be one or two shocks.
"We've got to cling on to the thought that it might be us and we'll have a real good go and see where that takes us."
Ross Oulton will return to the squad tomorrow after suspension while Lee Chilton should be available after missing the trip to Poole due to his partner going into labour.
James Mace is back in full training, but Joe Halsall is cup-tied.
Leamington will have little to recover from their cup exploits, with a league trip to Hungerford Town following on Monday evening.
n The New Windmill is hosting an FA Youth Cup clash between Coventry City and Stoke City this evening (Friday, 7pm).


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Serme in action at the British Open in Hull
'Winning the European Title Was Huge' For Camille Serme
As we reach the end of another season, the PSA's Matt Coles has been talking to the stars of the PSA World Tour about their 2018/19 campaigns. Here he catches up with French No.1 Camille Serme.
For the first time in their history, France's women won the European Team Championships, with Camille Serme at the heart of the victory.
The team beat England in the final, who for only the second time in 42 attempts failed to win the title. Serme calls that win "huge".
"My best performance? I don't really know because each tournament has a story, a background…," she explained.
"If I had to chose one, it would be with the French team, winning the European title was huge for us! It was the first time I shared a big title with the girls and it was great!"
Serme (bottom, second left) and the rest of the French team (left), along with all the winners at the European Teams
On an individual note, Serme moved back into the top three in the World Rankings for the first time since January 2018, and she puts it down to her consistency throughout the campaign.
"I think I've been pretty consistent this season. I started well in September, then I had been a bit busy with my wedding (it was amazing but maybe I got a bit distracted)," the French No.1 admitted.
"I finished quite well those last few months, playing my best squash. Really happy to be back in the top 3! It shows my accuracy in the tournaments, it's positive!"
After finishing the season at World No.3, and once again as the French No.1, Serme spent part of her off-season helping with the WSF Ambassador program.
"I went to Kenya for the WSF Ambassador's program and then back to training with my staff and team mates!" she said.
"We will go to Mauritius in July as well for an exhibition tournament, so still a lot of traveling during the off season."
Serme has two dreams that she still wants to achieve in her squash career, both of which she has come close to in the past.
"My dream is still to become World Champion and World No.1, so why not next year?"
Could 2019-2020 be the season she achieves them?
Keep a look out for the next player's review of the 2018-19 season in the coming days, as England's Daryl Selby reviews his campaign.


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ByadminJuly 4, 2021
The papermaker papermaker of victorians wasps, whose owners are from the USA, said the papermaking industry was in trouble because of competition from the internet.
"The competition for the markets for papermaking is just too great," said the owner of papermakers of the state of Massachusetts, Paul J. Dyer, who owns a papermaking plant in Springfield, Massachusetts.
"If there's no competition then it's a losing business."
In a recent report, the US papermaking companies P&G and Allied Papermakers, which are both based in St Louis, Missouri, estimated that papermaking lost more than $1 billion in revenue in 2016.
A similar loss was recorded by Allied Papermaker in 2017, but it was reported as a loss by P&T last year.
"We're in a situation where we can't compete with the online market because of the competition from all over the world," Dyer said.
"I don't think that the market is going to grow any more."
Dyer also said papermakers were struggling to keep up with the growing demands for paper.
"People are buying a lot of paper, and they're spending a lot more than they're getting," he said.
Dyers business, which is based in Springfield and employs 50 people, is not the only papermaking operation in the United States suffering from a slump in the online business.
"There are also papermakers in the Netherlands, and there are some papermakers that are out of business," he added.
But Dyer and other papermakers said the US market for paper was not as strong as in Europe and South America.
"When you go to South America, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, they're doing very well," Dyers told ESPN FC.
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Holiday break from school is just around the corner! While the kids get excited about spending their days at home, a lot of parents are stressing out about who will watch them, because there is no winter break from work.
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'Avatar 2' updates: Sequel lands Christmas 2017; James Cameron to work on three sequels at same time
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It may be eight years before Avatar finally gets its follow up but the long wait is bound to be worth it after director and creator James Cameron is reportedly simultaneously working on the second, third and fourth installments to the franchise.
According to a report form Cinema Blend, director James Cameron's plan for the bestselling franchise is no small deal. With the first movie still on top of the box office as the highest grossing film of all time, the bar is set really high, and production is challenged to outdo itself.
Here's the latest info regarding the upcoming Avatar movies.
Filming and release date
The sequels will be worked on, and filmed side-by-side, with all three films being produced and shot at the same time. With this, Cameron was forced to push back his original target release date of December 2016 to Christmas 2017, saying that simultaneous production for three big films is proving to be a real challenge.
Variety previously reported that lead star Sam Worthington revealed in an interview details about the production process of all three movies.
"We are going to start this time next year and we will do two, three and four. In one shot, we'll do them simultaneously. I'll be grateful if it finishes. I think Jim is building the ship to Pandora, to be honest."
With this, fans could expect a barrage of the three new Avatar films on 2017, 2018, and 2019.
The brains behind the film
The genius of James Cameron won't be working alone, if he intends to outdo himself. For the next three films, he will be working with the husband and wife team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) for Avatar 2, Josh Friedman (The Sarah Connor Chronicles) for Avatar 3, and Shane Salerno (Savages) for Avatar 4.
The cast: Nobody's dead
For now, it is confirmed that both Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana will reprise their lead roles. Even Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang are both confirmed to be coming back, even though both of their characters seemingly died in the first movie.
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Q: rails4 accessing params in controller from fullcalendar (3rd party API) I have a rails4 app and I'm trying to integrate it with fullcalendar. For fetching only the displayed events from db I'm trying to use params['start'] and params['end] for my between_time scope. If I check the value of start and end params, the console says the value is nil. It's weird since in the logs I can see them for the json request. Why is it nil then? What should I do to be able to use them for my scope?
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@user = current_user
@event = Event.new
@events = Event.allevents(current_user).between_time(params['start'], params['end']) if (params['start'] && params['end'])
respond_to do |format|
  format.html
  format.json { render: @events }
end

logs on server
Started GET "/users/1/events" for ::1 at 2016-01-02 15:05:31 -0800
15:05:31 puma.1       | Processing by EventsController#index as HTML
15:05:31 puma.1       |   Parameters: {"user_id"=>"1"}

Started GET "/users/1/events?start=2015-12-27&end=2016-01-03&_=1451775933354" for ::1 at 2016-01-02 15:05:34 -0800
15:05:34 puma.1       | Processing by EventsController#index as JSON
15:05:34 puma.1       |   Parameters: {"start"=>"2015-12-27", "end"=>"2016-01-03", "_"=>"1451775933354", "user_id"=>"1"}

The following code is an example app I checked. In this code the params seem to be working properly. I don't see the difference compared to my code when it comes to getting the params.
def get_events
  start_time = Time.at(params[:start].to_i).to_formatted_s(:db)
  end_time   = Time.at(params[:end].to_i).to_formatted_s(:db)

  @events = Event.where('
              (starttime >= :start_time and endtime <= :end_time) or
              (starttime >= :start_time and endtime > :end_time and starttime <= :end_time) or
              (starttime <= :start_time and endtime >= :start_time and endtime <= :end_time) or
              (starttime <= :start_time and endtime > :end_time)',
              start_time: start_time, end_time: end_time)
  events = []
  @events.each do |event|
    events << { id: event.id,
                title: event.title,
                description: event.description || '',
                start: event.starttime.iso8601,
                end: event.endtime.iso8601,
                allDay: event.all_day,
                recurring: (event.event_series_id) ? true : false }
  end
  render json: events.to_json
end

A: you are trying to access them as symbols when they are actually strings
params[:start]

Need to replaced as
params["start"]

A: Got it working. I forgot that the params only get available later on when fullcalendar sends an AJAX request after html is loaded. My problem was the date/time formatting. The Time.at(params['start'].to_i).to_formatted_s(:db) was not working for me. I don't know why, maybe the fullcalendar API has changed. The current format that gets sent over is Parameters: {"start"=>"2015-12-27"....., so I changed the code to params['start'].to_datetime.to_formatted_s(:db) and now it's working.

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