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Ajla Tomljanovic speaks extremely highly of Paula Badosa ahead of Sydney clash
World No. 45 Ajla Tomljanovic insisted she was expecting a tough battle against 90th-ranked Anna-Karolina Schiedlova but she was glad she escaped with a routine win.
Tomljanovic, a former world No. 39, saw off Schmiedlova 6-2 6-3 to reach the Sydney round-of-16.
Tomljanovic made a fast start to the match as she broke Schmiedlova three times to comfortably win the opener.
Schmiedlova led 3-0 at the start of the second set but Tomljanovic responded with three consecutive breaks to overturn the deficit and book a straight-set win.
"I did see her playing in qualies, and I thought she was striking the ball really well," Tomljanovic said after the win, per Tennis Australia.
"I was ready for a tough battle and I got it. Even though the score, you know, may seem easy, it definitely wasn't."
Tomljanovic ready for the Paula Badosa challenge
Tomljanovic will be battling 2021 Indian Wells Masters champion Badosa for a place in the Sydney quarterfinal.
"She's playing really great tennis," Tomljanovic said of the fifth-seeded Spaniard, who made a meteoric rise into the world's top 10 in a career-best 2021 season.
"I saw her progress last year and thought what she did in the end was incredible."
Tomljanovic is glad she put herself in a position to play against one of the world's best players.
"I'm just glad that I'm putting myself in a position every week, you know, against the top players and giving myself chances to come out on top," Tomljanovic said.
"The more you play, the better you're going to get. I'm looking forward to it."
Recently, Tomljanovic explained why she doesn't like to set big goals.
"I don't like big goals because if I don't reach them it is seen as a failure," Tomljanovic said. "I always target the Slams but it's difficult being unseeded. We all want to play well in those big events so that would be the aim again is to play strong in the big events."
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7 December 2022 — Culture Desk
Vacant for Years, Time to Bring Council-Owned Restaurant Space in Temple Bar Back into Use, Councillor Says
by Michael Lanigan
The building where the Eden Restaurant used to be on Meeting House Square. Photo by Michael Lanigan.
On Saturdays, Meeting House Square in Temple Bar hosts a busy food market, with live music and stalls selling pastries, stuffed parathas, and oysters.
But that burst of energy vanishes once the weekend is over. From Monday to Friday, it falls rather lifeless.
Because the square is enclosed, it attracts anti-social activity, says Social Democrats Councillor Patricia Roe. "That is drug dealing and drug taking in the main, all in the daytime."
It doesn't help that in the west side of the square, a council-owned ground-floor space is empty, says Roe.
Roe has more than once asked council officials why this shuttered space that once housed the Eden Restaurant hasn't been refurbished and brought again into use, she says.
Its abandonment means that, save for the Gallery of Photography building with its large lens window on the opposite end of the square, there is a lack of retail or daytime activities around the plaza, she says.
"The market is the only thing that happens there," Roe says.
With the old Eden Restaurant space now in its fifth year of lying empty, the councillor is calling for a report on what funding is needed, and a timeline, to open it up again.
A spokesperson for Dublin City Council did not respond to queries about the vacant property or plans for its refurbishment.
Wasted Potential
On Wednesday afternoon last week, the Meeting House Square was quiet.
By the passageway linking the square to Eustace Street, a staff member of the Al Vesuvio Italian restaurant tended to their outdoor seating area ahead of opening.
Next-door, a single man hurriedly exited the Irish Film Institute through its back exit, striding towards a more vivacious Essex Street and past the former Eden Restaurant.
The black metal covering outside the old restaurant was decorated in graffiti tags. Its windows were blocked out by a reflective sheeting advertising the Dublin Fringe Festival.
The restaurant used to be a beautiful spot, said Roe later over the phone. "I was just looking at it on Google Maps."
The building is a wasted space, says Willie White, artistic director of the Dublin Theatre Festival, which has its offices around the corner on Essex Street.
"It is just being left idle in Temple Bar, which ought to be a jewel in the crown of the city infrastructure," he said.
Ruth McGowan, artistic director and CEO of the Dublin Fringe Festival, says that seeing the restaurant space left without purpose despite its prime location is frustrating.
"Especially when you know that lots of artists or small businesses or cultural organisations could make fantastic use of it," she says.
The Dublin Fringe Festival has its offices on the top two floors of the building and its entrance beside the old Eden space.
"We are having ongoing environmental hygiene issues," she says. "It is a wider Temple Bar issue, but in particular at the Meeting House Square, it is a problem for any of us who work here and see it on a daily basis."
The square is in the middle of what is the city's cultural quarter, McGowan says.
She and the neighbouring cultural institutions, such as the Irish Film Institute and The Ark keep in touch with each other about incidents which have interrupted their programming. "It's noise, the guards have been called. We have these ongoing issues."
Roe calls it an example of the broken-window theory. "If somewhere is left empty, the whole square then becomes unused and a magnet for everything else."
Falling by the Wayside
In May, a Dublin City Council spokesperson said the building was being considered for temporary use, with the hope being that it could be ready by the end of the year.
In July, a report to members on the council's arts committee said that remedial work was required to allow meanwhile use, while significant capital works would be necessary to make it available for a long-term arts use.
At an October meeting, City Arts Officer Ray Yeates pointed out to committee members that the space was managed by a particular wing of the council, the Temple Bar Cultural Trust. And, it would take funding to make the building safe, he said.
On 21 November, at the final arts committee of the year, Roe asked that the council to draw up a report on how much would be needed. Anti-social behaviour and intimidation was endangering the cultural and commercial tenants in the area, she said.
The council had intended to use the building as a fan base during the European Football Championships in 2021, she told the committee. But those plans were abandoned when Dublin was dropped as a host city.
Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne, a member of the board of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust, told Roe she had asked for a report during the trust's last meeting. "That will be due, as far as I know, on it and all the other buildings within the Trust."
The report would look into the costs and timeline for its refurbishment, said Byrne, and is expected in January.
Feet on the Ground
There is no shortage of potential in the former restaurant, Roe says. "There is talk of running a cafe there. It could be used for rehearsal space or studio space."
Sunil Sharpe, a DJ and campaigner with Give Us The Night, says the space could be used to celebrate Temple Bar's LGBT history, pointing out that the Hirschfeld Centre and its nightclub Flikkers on Fownes Street were never directly replaced.
The Arts Office had discussed the possibility of commissioning an LGBT sculpture in April, says Sharpe. "It could become perhaps an LGBTQ community space with a built-in venue. With access to the square, it could be a really interesting place that Temple Bar needs."
What is vital is that it is reopened with haste, Roe says. "If it is open, it will create the footfall. Could we not make it available for meanwhile use? And then, what is the long-term?"
White, however, said there still needs to be a definition and process in place for "meanwhile use", whereby the council rents buildings short-term to organisations or individuals.
"Meanwhile use does not exist. It has no legal or planning basis. It's a parlance. It doesn't define anything," said White.
His fundamental concern is why the money has not yet been spent to make it available for use, he says.
"It is hard for us to think about any cultural operator, or to think about whether it can be used for something when we're not at the point where it is fit to be occupied," he said.
Michael Lanigan: Michael Lanigan is a Dublin-based freelance journalist. His work appears in Vice, Totally Dublin, TheJournal.ie and the Business Post.
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It could also be a sight for summer outdoor film/ theatre showings? Criminal waste of a resource in a city that needs plenty more of them.
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The Allman Brothers Band: Fillmore West 1971 premieres on JamOn tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26th at 2:00 pm ET, hosted by former ABB guitarist Warren Haynes and his wife, JamOn's own Stef Scamardo. The segment will air again at various times throughout the week.
The counterpart to 1971's live album At Fillmore East, the forthcoming record is expected to include the top performances from the January 29th performance–which happened just a month before the legendary NYC run that would go on to become a platinum-certified live album. It was only eight months later that bandleader and guitar virtuoso Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident. Original bassist Berry Oakley Jr. died one year later in almost the exact same place. In honor of the original lineup–which also featured Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, and Dickey Betts–the Allman Brothers Band continued to tour with a rotating lineup for 45 years and officially had their final show in 2014.
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The Culture of Cursilería
Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
Book Pages: 424 Illustrations: 19 b&w photos Published: January 2003
Author: Noël Valis
Cultural Studies, Literature and Literary Studies > Literary Criticism
Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture.
Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs to
argue that cursilería has its roots in a sense of cultural inadequacy felt by the lower middle classes in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Spain. The Spain of this era, popularly viewed as the European power most resistant to economic and social modernization, is characterized by Valis as suffering from nostalgia for a bygone, romanticized society that structured itself on strict class delineations. With the development of an economic middle class during the latter half of the nineteenth century, these designations began to break down, and individuals across all levels of the middle class exaggerated their own social status in an attempt to protect their cultural capital. While the resulting manifestations of cursilería were often provincial, indeed backward, the concept was—and still is—closely associated with a sense of home. Ultimately, Valis shows how cursilería embodied the disparity between old ways and new, and how in its awkward manners, airs of pretension, and graceless anxieties it represents Spain's uneasy surrender to the forces of modernity.
The Culture of Cursilería will interest students and scholars of Latin America, cultural studies, Spanish literature, and modernity.
"The Culture of Cursilería will be hailed within the budding field of Spanish cultural studies as a pioneering exploration of the relations between feelings and socio-historical transformations." — José A. Valero , European Journal of Cultural Studies
"The Culture of Cursilera must be considered a work of seminal contribution to the field." — Brian J. Dendle, Romance Quarterly
"[A]mbitious and thought-provoking. . . . This is a stimulating study that opens up a wide avenue of further work and speculation." — Alison Sinclair , Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
"[E]xhaustive. . . . Cursi and cursilería are not the book's subject but a pinhole through which to look at the whole of Spanish life and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. No small task, and Valis's volume tackles it superbly. A dense and difficult book but immensely rewarding. . . . For sheer intellectual stimulus, this powerful . . . book is the best value-for-effort I can imagine." — Isabel Quigly , TLS
"I found the book a fascinating foray into literary theory and cultural studies, especially admiring Valis' effort to anchor cursilería with timely historical references and her convincing argument on its historical and contemporary importance." — David Ortiz Jr. , Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Bulletin
"This brilliant contribution-and challenge-to Spanish cultural criticism builds on Noël Valis's extensive previous critical studies. . . . Valis's book offers a treasure trove of obscure and little-known sources. . . . [O]ne of the most important books of Hispanic criticism to appear in the last decade. . . . The scholarly apparatus complementing Valis's text is a testimony to the intellectual rigor of both the author and Duke University Press: Forty-seven pages of notes and thirty-eight pages of bibliography." — Maryellen Bieder, Symposium
"We have been waiting for The Culture of Cursilería for a long time and it was well worth the wait. There is no substitute for vast and meticulous research, breadth and depth of knowledge, a mature vision, and nuanced arguments. Noël Valis has combined all these to give us an account of Spain's transition to modernity that truly captures an inner sense of social shift." — Roberta Johnson , Hispania
"Noël Valis offers brilliant, innovative insights into a cultural phenomenon that illuminates many aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain. As perhaps one of the most distinguished cultural critics of Hispanic studies today, Valis takes an interdisciplinary approach to expose the links between text, economics, politics, and historical events." — Harriet S. Turner, University of Nebraska
"Noël Valis's writing is powerful and insightful. Her arguments are brilliant, subtle, and carefully textured; they cleverly elucidate the duality of cursi. This is an important, imaginative, fully accomplished book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding more fully the cultural and literary realities of Spain a century ago." — David T. Gies, University of Virginia
Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Her previous books include The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas and The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón.
List of Illustrations
1. On Origins
2. Adorning the Feminine, or the Language of Fans
3. Salon Poets, the Becquer Craze, and Romanticism
4. Textual Economies: The Embellishment of Credit
5. Fabricating History
6. The Dream of Negation
7. The Margins of Home: Modernist Cursileria
8. The Culture of Nostalgia, or the Language of Flowers
9. Coda: The Metaphor of Culture in Post-Franco Spain
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Marie Claire Korea, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) Park Min Young's fans and the netizen cannot believe she is already 36, as she posted photos on her social media.
The ever-gorgeous Park Min Young, from the drama that made her more famous Sungkyunkwan Scandal, caused a buzz online.
That said, netizens have a hard time believing that the South Korean actress is already 36 years old! Many share the same sentiment, as Park Min Young is the perfect example of forever young.
Netizens cannot believe Park Min Young's age
The actress is tagged as the Queen of Romantic Comedy Dramas with her roles that made all viewers laugh, and at the same time, in love.
Recently, Park Min Young created a buzz online when she posted a series of photos on her Instagram account. The actress uploaded the images on January 19 (Tuesday), alongside the hashtag #Bustedseason3 and a strawberry emoticon.
The photos showcased the What's Wrong With Secretary Kim in her ever glowing youthful looks and aura while eating a strawberry. In response, Park Min Young's post earned numerous likes in just hours, gaining her 7.9 million followers' attention.
Among the comments are, "I can't believe she's already 36," "It seems like just yesterday that she was on Highkick," "She's so gorgeous," and more.
To date, Park Min Young's Instagram post is nearing 1 million likes, with thousands of comments alongside. Click here to see Park Min Young's photos.
Park Min Young revealed an impact 'Busted' had in her
As the premiere of Busted season 3 is nearing, Park Min Young graced a press conference, sharing the effects she endured with her presence in the show.
She revealed that after being in the show, she started getting the roles of brilliant women. The actress further shared that the program shaped her model into a smarter one, leading her to play smarter roles.
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Deep Purple's 'Now What?!' Is a History That Is Both Contemporary and Nostalgic!
John Kays
Tue May 7, 2013
Deep Purple's just released their 19th studio album, 'Now What?!,' produced by Bob Ezrin in Nashville, which proves this '70s progressive rock band are not HASBEENs! Or if they are of this sort, Purple's done a good job of bringing their sound back to life; that is, they and it (their sound) are not dead.
Is 'Hell To Pay' the next 'Smoke On the Water'? I believe it is! What we have, is Deep Purple reflecting back on a fruitful, yet troubled career, redefining it, yea, staying current, and really just surviving. Survival is the key to refinement, which is what we're getting from DP (in 2013).
'Weirdistan,' the best constructed song here, defines what I just stated in lyrics and music; they pay homage to the past, while making it something new, using familiar building blocks of guitar and keyboards.
Don Airey's playing (or his technique) reminds me more of Rick Wakeman's than is does Jon Lord's. This is not a negative; how many keyboard players can get a guttural bottom end (which influenced the metal aficionados across the board) sound, such as Jon Lord? Right, no one!
'Weirdistan's opening guitar riff by Steve Morse reminds me more of Yes' Steve Howe than it does the incredible delivery of Ritchie Blackmore. Overall, the song sounds more like vintage Yes then it does vintage Purple, which is something to contemplate.
Well, the Mark VIII lineup (don't ask me to diagram the undulating lineage) is very different too, you might notice, but still? One line of of Ian in a codified way, summarizes the current philosophical state of the 'Purple Legacy': "No questions of guilt it seems like we're just out of sync."
We appreciate Ian's honesty; '70s dinosaurs are contemporary by just admitting who they are. I'm a bit up there myself and used the occasion of the release of 'Now What?!' to study the band's long and winding path from their origins ('Shades of Deep Purple', 1968), as well as an attempt to recall my own interaction with Purple, which dates back to 'In Rock,' as best I can recall.
We'd gather at a friend's house ('round about 1972), who had a Primo Stereo set up; you know the drill, aluminum foil sealed windows, black lights with Day-Glo Rock Star posters, incense aroma burning, water beds, bongs the size of the Trojan Horse passing prodigiously, with the wondrous, Metal Baroque riffs of DP tickling our anxious ear-cones!
This is real, not a synthetic memory; this friend (who I won't identify here) was a Deep Purple fanatic (a Bleedin' DP Freak!), and a lot of it rubbed off on me. After studying their history last weekend a good deal of it was coming back to me. I must confess, I stopped following The Purple Machine about 1976; this is not to say they weren't still making some great music, I just never heard it.
On Sunday, I dropped by Waterloo Records in order to get a gander at DP's robust catalogue. Had 'Machine Head' on vinyl! Been wearing it out since then, accompanied with my listening of the new one. Playing them in tangent will help you tremendously!
I believe I've nailed it; what defines the origins of 'metallurgy' is the miraculous interplay between Jon Lord's thunderous organ and the handy-dandy, jet-engine speed riffs of Ritchie Blackmore, who burned to a tragic crisp by 1993 (don't worry, his legacy is completely in tact)! 'Highway Star' and 'Smoke' both showcase this revolutionary development, that carries over to so many metal bands, who need worship at the cantankerous altar of an ever scrappy DP. I don't digress, 'Hell To Pay' carries the rattling baton onward from the lofty zenith of 'Machine Head.'
Oddly enough, my favorite song is 'Vincent Price,' which some music critics have described as filler; anything but! Phantom of the opera organ, Black Sabbath minor guitar bends, cinematic lyrics, great interlude solos, guitar acrobatics with organ fused lightly in the background. The last tune may end up being the keeper; perfect fit for Bacchanalian Halloween parties all across the world.
Now What?! deserves to chart; young people ought to do what I did (as they analyze the record), research DP's rich history on the Wikipedia page, study their copious discography, then try to come to terms with their deserved place in Rock's tumultuous (and still undefined) timeline. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame must be just around the corner!
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Feed costs represent one of the largest expenses on a dairy farm. As dairy farmers look for ways to improve their profitability, they often look for ways to reduce their feed costs. One area that sometimes gets overlooked in the quest to reduce feed costs is feed shrink.
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There's no denying it. It's summertime and with warmer temperatures come TMR heating and spoiling.
Walls or no walls? This question inevitably comes up when considering storage options for ensiled forages and grains. The answer, of course, is always "it depends." For any specific situation, the ultimate solution could be different than the next. For the purpose of this article, however, I'll make some generic comparisons.
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JAPAN'S ruling coalition leaders yesterday appeared to have agreed to finalize a long-delayed economic stimulus package by today.
Leaders of the eight-party alliance are reported to have pledged to reach a compromise that would enable Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa to go to Washington for crucial trade talks with a reflationary, tax-cutting package under his belt. The coalition has been shaken by three days of political turmoil since Mr. Hosokawa's announcement on Feb. 3 of a new 7 percent value-added tax to finance income tax cuts. Hosokawa later agreed to set the proposal aside.
Party chiefs have been closeted ever since trying to hammer out a compromise that would rescue the stimulus measures and ensure that Hosokawa is not humiliated during his meeting with President Clinton on Friday. Hosokawa needs to be able to show Clinton the package and a draft budget for the fiscal year beginning in April to prove Japan's willingness to meet US demands for it to boost spending, encourage more imports, and help slash its huge trade surplus.
The coalition leaders said they would urge Hosokawa to include planned income and other direct tax cuts in the antirecession package he must announce by mid-week.
With the idea of a value-added tax seemingly discarded for now, however, it was unclear how the government would finance the tax cuts, expected to total $55 billion.


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Picture Shop acquires The Farm Group
BURBANK, CA — Picture Shop (www.pictureshop.com) has acquired The Farm Group, its second international acquisition. The Farm Post Production is one of the UK's largest post production groups. Founded in 1998, it has locations in London, Manchester, Bristol and Los Angeles. The Farm also operates the in-house post production teams for BBC Sport in Salford, UKTV, and Fremantle Media. Picture Shop acquired Vancouver's Finale Post earlier this year.
Both Picture Shop and The Farm Group work on a range of high profile programming, supplying content to Netflix, Apple, Amazon, BBC, Warner Bros, CBS, NBC, HBO, Sony, ITV, Channel 4, UKTV and many more. Combined, the expanded group can supply the full range of picture and sound post production, VFX, content production and other media services in Los Angeles, the UK, and Canada.
The founders of The Farm, Nicky Sargent and Vikki Dunn, will re-invest in the expanded Picture Head Group. They will stay involved in The Farm Group.
David Klafkowski, founder and CEO of The Farm, says, "I am excited to have the opportunity to work with some of the top post professionals in the world. We are like-minded in that we want to produce the very best content and offer the best value to our clients. Honestly, combined, we have the best post teams in the world."
"Our strategy is to build a company that focuses on culture and philosophy," adds Bill Romeo, Picture Shop president. "The Farm does both and I am excited that they will be part of Picture Shop. This marks a very exciting step for Picture Shop and we now can offer our clients, wherever they may be based, top creative talent on a global scale."
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Los atálamos (Athalamea) son es una clase de protistas estrechamente relacionados con los foraminíferos, pero cuya posición taxonómica y relaciones filogenéticas no están todavía esclarecidas. En la actualidad se tiende a considerar que es una clase
del filo Foraminifera. Comprende las formas ameboides sin concha, probablemente el grupo ancestral de los foraminíferos.

Discusión

Este grupo ha sido tradicionalmente considerado un orden (orden Athalamida) de la clase Granuloreticulosea junto con los antiguos órdenes Monothalamida y Foraminiferida. Posteriormente fueron elevados a la categoría de clase, siendo considerado un grupo separado de los foraminíferos. Se ha llegado a elevar a Athalamea a la categoría de subfilo. Si los foraminíferos son finalmente considerados una clase (clase Foraminifera), Athalamea debiera ser rebajado a la categoría de subclase (subclase Athalamia).

Athalamea se ha utilizado como cajón de sastre para referirse al plan corporal atalámido (formas ameboides sin concha), incluyendo familias como: Biomyxidae (Biomyxa), Penardiidae (Penardia), Rhizoplasmidae = Chlamydomyxidae (Dictiomyxa, Myxodictyium, Rhizoplasma, Pontomyxa, Protogenes) y Reticulomyxidae (Reticulomyxa). Las familias Biomyxidae y Rhizoplasmidae son actualmente consideradas pertenecientes a la clase Proteomyxidea, del subfilo Endomyxa, del filo Cercozoa, el primero de ellos al orden Aconchulinida y el segundo al orden Reticulosida. No obstante, aún quedan dudas sobre la posición real de Rhizoplasmidae, ya que aun podrían tratarse de foraminíferos al igual que lo es Reticulomyxidae.

Estudios de filogenia molecular sugieren que Reticulomyxa, tradicionalmente considerado un atalámido, está estrechamente relacionado con los foraminíferos alogrómidos (orden Allogromiida).

Clasificación
Athalamea  incluye, como mínimo, al siguiente orden:

 Orden Reticulomyxida

Otros órdenes considerados en este grupo han sido:

 Orden Biomyxida, cuyos taxones son incluidos ahora en los órdenes Aconchulinida y Reticulosida del filo Cercozoa
 Orden Promycetozoida

Bibliografía

Foraminifera

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In today's film news roundup, Neon is re-releasing "Apollo 11"; "Sesame Street" gets moved; "Supersize Me 2" is set for Sept. 13; Will Ropp gets a "Silk Road" deal; and Apple makes a movie deal.
RE-LAUNCH
Neon will re-release Todd Douglas Miller's documentary "Apollo 11" in theaters on July 20, the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
The run will also include weeklong engagements and special one-off showings in more than 100 theaters across top markets including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Miami.
"Apollo 11," which was crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival where it won the editing prize. The film, which opened in theaters on March 1, will cross $9 million after the weekend's anniversary re-launch and remains the top grossing documentary of the year. It's also the top grossing 2019 documentary in the UK with more than $1 million to date.
Warner Bros. has moved its live-action adaptation of "Sesame Street" from Jan. 15, 2021, to June 4, 2021.
"Portlandia" director and co-creator Jonathan Krisel is helming the musical, co-financed by Warner Bros. and MGM. Also attached to the film is star Anne Hathaway and producers Shawn Levy and Michael Aguilar. Sesame Workshop, which holds the rights to the show, will also be involved in the development of the movie.
The story follows the Sesame Street characters after they are mysteriously expelled from their own neighborhood, forcing them to collaborate with Hathaway's show-host character Sally Hawthorne to prove that Sesame Street actually exists.
The educational series first premiered in 1969 with a combination of live-action puppetry and animation and is the home of the Jim Henson creations Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Elmo.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has set a Sept. 13 release date for Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me 2: Holy Chicken!"
The film is opening 13 years after Spurlock's "Supersize Me," in which he ate only McDonalds fast-food items for 30 days. "Supersize Me" grossed an impressive $22 million on a $650,000 budget.
With chain restaurants touting food that's "healthy," "organic," and "natural," Spurlock explores this new reality in the sequel by setting out to open his own chicken franchise, raising poultry, conjuring recipes, designing the brand and scouting locations along the way.
Will Ropp has joined the true crime feature "Silk Road" opposite Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp and Darrell Britt-Gibson, Variety has learned exclusively.
Robinson is portraying a criminal mastermind alongside Clarke who plays an agent intent on bringing down the young kingpin's billion-dollar empire. Ropp will play a DEA agent who thinks Clarke's character is a relic of a previous era.
Tiller Russell is writing and directing the project, based on the Rolling Stone article "Dead End On Silk Road" by David Kushner. Producing are Duncan Montgomery and Jack Selby via the High Frequency Entertainment banner, Alex Orlovsky and Elika Portnoy for Mutressa Movies, and David Hyman and Stephen Gans on behalf of Perfect Season Productions.
Sierra/Affinity is selling international and Endeavor Content reps domestic. Ropp's credits include "Crazy for the Boys" and the upcoming Ben Affleck basketball-coach drama "Torrance." Ropp is represented by CESD, Corner Booth Entertainment and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.
APPLE DEAL
Apple has bought worldwide rights to "The Banker," the drama starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nia Long and Nicholas Hoult.
"The Banker" will join Apple's upcoming slate of films, documentaries and series on Apple TV+. The film follows Mackie and Jackson's charracters as they try to circumvent the racial limitations of the 1950s by recruiting a working class white man, played by Hoult, to pose as the head of their business empire while they take on fake janitor and chauffeur roles to monitor their businesses.
"The Banker" is directed by George Nolfi and produced by Joel Viertel. Brad Feinstein produces through his Romulus Entertainment, alongside fellow producers Nolfi, Mackie, Nnamdi Asomugha, Jonathan Baker and David Smith. The film is written by Niceole Levy, Nolfi, David Smith and Stan Younger. Endeavor Content represented the sale of the film.
Apple's slate of feature films includes "The Elephant Queen," animated movie "Wolfwalkers" and "On the Rocks," an Apple and A24 film directed by Sofia Coppola. New was first reported by Deadline.
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Simon Cowell Breaks Silence After Horrific Bike Crash
By Hannah Barnes - August 10, 2020 11:53 pm EDT
Simon Cowell has spoken out after he broke his back in multiple spots while testing out a new bike at his home in Malibu, California, on Saturday, which required him to be rushed to the hospital and undergo emergency surgery overnight. Cowell used Twitter to share a message with his fans on Sunday, managing to joke about his accident and thanking them for their supportive words.
"Some good advice...," the America's Got Talent judge wrote. "If you buy an electric trail bike, read the manual before you ride it for the first time. I have broken part of my back. Thank you to everyone for your kind messages." In a second tweet, he added, "And a massive thank you to all the nurses and doctors. Some of the nicest people I have ever met. Stay safe everyone. Simon."
And a massive thank you to all the nurses and doctors. Some of the nicest people I have ever met.
Stay safe everyone
— Simon Cowell (@SimonCowell) August 10, 2020
According to Cowell's rep, the 60-year-old was testing his new bike with his son, Eric, and brother, Adam, in the courtyard of his home when he fell. "Simon has broken his back in a number of places in a fall from his bike whilst testing a new electric bike in the courtyard of his home in Malibu with his family," his rep told Entertainment Tonight. He was taken to hospital where they operated overnight. He's under observation and is doing fine."
Cowell spent six hours in surgery and underwent several procedures and fusions, including having a metal rod inserted in his back, and is now recovering at the hospital. America's Got Talent recently began socially distanced filming for its upcoming season and Cowell will not participate in Tuesday and Wednesday's live telecasts of the show.
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Dispute over stolen vehicle led to deadly Southeast Austin shooting, police say
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8:25 a.m. Thursday update: A man who was killed Monday afternoon appears to have been involved in a dispute about his vehicle, which had been stolen three days before he died, Austin police said.
Officers responded to an apartment complex in the 2400 block of Wickersham Lane, east of Interstate 35 near Oltorf Street, at around 3 p.m. after receiving calls about shots being fired in the area. Callers said a man was down inside the complex.
The man was still breathing when police arrived, but he had "obvious trauma to his body," police said.
He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 3:51 p.m.
Police have not yet publicly identified the man. Detectives have identified multiple people in connection with the incident, which is being investigated as a homicide.
The Travis County medical examiner's office is conducting an autopsy on the man to determine the official cause and manner of death.
Anyone with information on the incident can contact police by calling 512-974-8477 or emailing homicide.apd@austintexas.gov. Tipsters can also use the Crime Stoppers app or the Austin PD app.
Monday: Austin police say a man whom officers found with injuries at a Southeast Austin apartment complex on Monday has died, and authorities are now investigating the case as a suspicious death.
Police responded about 3 p.m. to a call at the 2400 block of Wickersham Lane and found the victim, officer Michael Bullock said. Bullock did not describe the man's injuries but said he was taken to a hospital, where he died some time later.
Bullock said no suspects are in custody and did not have a description for the attacker.
The incident appears to be isolated and police do not believe it represents a threat to the general public, Bullock said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Austin police at 512-974-TIPS or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477.
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Many adults think that learning a new language in adulthood is impossible. A new foreign language can be difficult to learn, and linguists agree. Here are some ways to stay motivated.
Steven Pinker, for one, thinks the language instinct is lost somewhere around puberty. Children are linguistic geniuses, adults linguistic dolts. For children, learning a new language and the accent that comes with it is generally a simple journey, but the time at which that learning starts can be crucial. Pinker points out that Walter Kissinger (Henry's younger brother) has no German accent, though over eighty years after his emigration, Henry famously does. They came to the United States at the same time in the crucial years around puberty. Walter's advantage, Pinker surmises, was being a few years younger than his brother when they moved. This made learning a new language easier for him, so he could kick his accent. According to Pinker, the accent is as much a part of the language instinct as is grammar.
Learning a new language in adulthood is difficult; nothing can replace the childhood environment, much less the childhood brain. But with patience and persistence, it can be done. Speaking a new language requires more than lips, teeth, and tongue; it requires ears, eyes, and mental agility. You must listen carefully and then imitate.
Language is like jazz: both are spontaneous compositions derived from a finite set of elements. But the jazz analogy may compel people to think that they simply don't have the talent. What they don't realize is how obsessively John Coltrane practiced, repeating scales and arpeggios over and over again to build up the skills he would need to make that freeform composition on the stage seem so effortless.
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Regular practice is by far the most important element of learning a new language. Students often try to cram as much into their heads as fast as they possibly can. While an admirable approach in terms of effort, it often only leads to frustration and fatigue. If you're taking a class, students are exposed to the language only one to three times a week, plus the time they spend on homework.
Learning a new language takes everyday practice, even if it's as simple as ordering food (Photo: Jelleke Vanooteghem / Unsplash)
It's far more helpful to spend five minutes twice a day, every day, thinking, reading, and speaking in the language. Where and when, though? As you learn, practice out loud whenever you are alone. While you walk to the train station, review your vocabulary with yourself. Start simple: "I go to work. I am in the car. I live in Vilnius." Repeat these basics over and over, and then vary the subject. "Steve goes to work. He is in his car. Steve lives in Bangkok."
Repeat, repeat, repeat. You'll eventually feel the thrill as you graduate to compound sentences, tenses, and modal verbs (should, would, must, may). "I am going to work, because I have to. I live in Montevideo, and I love it here." Those steps beyond baby talk are exciting.
If you live in any medium-sized city, language classes shouldn't be too hard to find. If you're in a big city, you'll be spoiled for choice. Plenty of universities offer language classes, even for those who aren't actually attending the school. Look into resources provided by your local or national government; they often have language classes or broadcast television or radio programs with simple, clearly-spoken dialogue intended for children or language learners. Cultural promotion organizations also offer classes to anyone wanting to learn more about their country.
Attending a class is the single best way to motivate yourself. The desire to impress a teacher and classmates will help keep you on task. If you have the means to get a private tutor, even better. But be sure to get a recommendation from a knowledgeable friend; not every native speaker is a good teacher.
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Learning a new language all by yourself is extremely difficult, and probably not a good idea if it's your first one. However, if you decide to go the autodidact route, make sure to use top-notch resources.
A good book can get you far in a language with straightforward rules for spelling or sentence composition. Consider Routledge's Colloquial Series as a book series to start. But for languages with irregular spelling (French or Danish, say) or unfamiliar sounds (e.g., Chinese or Hindi), it's better to invest in a book that comes with audio examples. Random House's Ultimate Series has a straightforward, building-block structure, with practical vocabulary and lucid explanations.
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There are plenty of language-learning apps that have something to offer, as well, but don't expect miraculous results. Rosetta Stone, for instance, teaches grammar and vocabulary quite well, but it seriously lacks when it comes to practical speech; that can be disappointing considering the enormous price tag. On the other hand, apps such as Duolingo or Clozemaster are great at instilling new vocabulary to learners. Languages have unique, difficult parts to them; as a result, not every app will teach the Arabic dual number or the Russian verbal aspect system in the same way, so it's best to diversify your sources of learning.
Whenever possible, bring the language into your immediate world. Use small stickers to attach to items all around your home with their name in the language you're learning. This is an excellent vocabulary-building technique. If every time you reach for your coffee mug you see чашка and you say the word to yourself, it will stick in your head.
Make sure you can also hear the language everywhere. Try learning a language through music by listening to radio stations or popular artists in that language. If you're using a streaming service like Netflix, enable subtitles in your target language if they're available. You don't need to understand absolutely everything, but this helps acclimatize you to the way native speakers use the language in everyday use. You'll get a crucial psychological boost when you can make out a few words. Do this every few days and you'll be surprised by your progress.
Reading also helps. Tucking into an article about unfamiliar material can be a struggle, but it's also one of the more rewarding methods. If you're familiar with the topic, you're more likely to pick up vocabulary. You'll start out with a dictionary, but once you learn frequently-used words, you can go without it and guess the things you don't know. After you feel comfortable tackling reading a newspaper article on your own, try a short novel.
Last, befriend a native speaker. Practicing the basics at the grocery store is fine, but mastery of a language depends on the amount of conversations that you have. If you're lucky enough to have a friend, housemate, or partner who is a native speaker, take advantage of them. Don't wait until you feel totally comfortable, or you'll never start. Make it fun, make it a routine, and do so early.
The biggest hurdle to learning a new language is psychological. If you're nervous about blundering through a new language in front of strangers, the best way to relax is to start slowly. At your local coffee shop in Łódź, taking your coffee away while saying dziękuję instead of thank you is a baby step that shows you're trying. Your pronunciation won't be perfect; it might never be and that's perfectly okay. Eventually, you'll feel confident enough in speaking Polish that you greet the staff, ask them how their weekend was, or talk about the weather.
When you're ready and have the chance, smile and try speaking with your teacher in the corridor, your co-worker, the man who sells you cigarettes, or the waiter at your favorite restaurant. See that grin? Most people love to see you make the effort, and they'll be delighted to see you break out new vocabulary and longer sentences.
If you kick yourself for every little slip-up (and you will make plenty), you'll never progress. If you relax, simply communicate, and most of all enjoy, you can, with patience and effort, learn any language you want.
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The history of early modern intelligence remains understudied. This is especially true of Germany whose twentieth-century experiences with dictatorships have associated intelligence organizations with oppression and injustice. Although generally more positive towards its intelligence services, even the English-speaking world often regards intelligence history as not entirely respectable. As a result, our understanding of how political, diplomatic, and military decision makers obtained the kind of knowledge which they are assumed to have had at their disposal is rudimentary.
Pohlig's monograph seeks to fill this gap by investigating how the English government obtained intelligence during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). While historians often credit the Duke of Marlborough with having run a particularly effective 'intelligence service', his activities in this respect have not received detailed attention. Since the duke simultaneously held high military, diplomatic, and political offices between 1702 and 1711 (11, 16, 64-6, 84-6), his person provides a convenient window which allows Pohlig to address larger questions about early modern intelligence.
The book explicitly aims to be more than a mere study of spies: 'Reducing intelligence to espionage [...] fails to do justice to contemporary classifications of information which distinguish much less clearly between diplomacy and espionage than has been the case in the modern period' (15). Although Pohlig does not explicitly refer to the literature on twentieth and twenty-first-century intelligence, his holistic conception echoes debates in this field.  In this context, it is worth pointing out that the author's choice of the term Informationsgewinnung presents the best approximation in the German language of intelligence in the sense of a process and the breadth of activities it involves.  Consequently, Pohlig is interested in systematically studying 'the structures of intelligence' (16) as well as the 'functional history of information' (18), i.e. its uses.
The detailed introduction places the study into the contexts of diplomatic history, the history of communication, the public sphere and secrecy, and the specific historiography of the War of the Spanish Succession. The overview of relevant scholarship is extensive and the theoretical discussions, for instance concerning the definition of information versus knowledge and their relationship with communication (ch. 1.1.3), so thorough that the sections lend themselves for use in teaching. Relevant discussions are not confined to the introduction, but appear in relevant places throughout the book. In all of this, Pohlig's approach remains firmly rooted in a praxeological perspective which emphasizes the relevance of human actions and interactions. This view is perhaps best exemplified by his understanding of structures as 'repeatable and repeated practices' (87).
Chapter 2 of the book sets the scene for the following investigation with summary accounts of the War and Marlborough's biography (ch. 2.1), before detailing England's political landscape at the time (ch. 2.2). In addition to his offices, Marlborough wielded considerable informal power as a favourite of Queen Anne (in no small part supported by his wife Sarah) and through his personal relationships with prominent ministers such as Lord High Treasurer Sidney Godolphin and Secretary of State for the Northern Department Robert Harley (86).
Chapter 3 meticulously reconstructs the organizations and networks built by Marlborough and other relevant actors for the collection of intelligence and its communication. Pohlig shows, for instance, that the duke as well as cabinet members were obsessed with the issue of postal connections between London and Flanders and attempts to improve both speed and security (ch. 3.2.3 and page 299). In gathering information, formal and informal channels often became blurred as official hierarchies were complemented by relationships based on exchange such as patronage (299-300). In the final analysis, Pohlig concludes, Marlborough's strength stemmed from his ability 'to make use of and cooperate with widely different political, diplomatic, military, and commercial connections and networks' (301). Contrary to assertions in existing historiography, 'There was no such thing as Marlborough's secret service or a general secret service of the English government, but merely a complex interplay of infrastructures, organizations, and networks' (301).
Nevertheless, even contemporaries were convinced that information was useful (314-16), prompting Pohlig to diagnose a 'discursive omnipresence of a phantasm of usefulness' (Nützlichkeitsphantasma, 378): 'The actors assumed and did everything in their power to ensure the belief that (secret) intelligence was vital to the effectiveness and success of their activities' (378). The value which these actors attached to Informationsgewinnung, as Pohlig points out, is what made the Spanish War of Succession an 'information war' (373). Whether this conflict is unique in this respect remains to be seen. In the sixteenth century, the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs certainly attached a similarly high value to information about their enemies in the Netherlands and the Ottoman Empire.  Still, confirmation of parallel beliefs and structures in other chronological and geographic context would serve to support Pohlig's sense, which is shared by this reviewer, that his case study has wider relevance for the study of intelligence in the early modern period (16).
Marlboroughs Geheimnis is an important contribution to early modern political history, not least because it adds a valuable and hitherto neglected dimension to the cultural history of politics in this period. Its methodological and theoretical reflections make it valuable reading for historians working on a broad range of topics from political and diplomatic history, military history, the history of knowledge and communication, to the history of administration. The fact that this work has been written in German will doubtlessly be a boon for research and teaching on intelligence in this particular academic context, which is otherwise characterized by scarcity. Nevertheless, given the wider relevance of Pohlig's findings for early modern history and his contribution to the field of intelligence studies as well as his choice of a case study, one can only hope that the book will see an English edition to reach the international audience it deserves.
 For example, Jennifer Sims: Intelligence to Counter Terror. The Importance of All-Source Fusion, in: Intelligence and National Security 22 (2007), 38-56; Stephen C. Mercado: Sailing the Sea of OSINT in the Information Age. A Venerable Source in a New Era, in: Studies in Intelligence 48 (2004), no. 3, 45-55, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no3/article05.html, last accessed 14/12/2017.
 For the classical definition of intelligence, see Sherman Kent: Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy, Princeton 1949.
 Michael Warner: Intelligence as Risk Shifting, in: Peter Gill / Stephen Marrin / Mark Phythian (eds.): Intelligence Theory. Key Questions and Debates (= Studies in Intelligence), Abingdon / New York 2009, 16-32, at 29.
 Carlos Garnicer / Javier Marcos: Espías de Felipe II. Los servicios secretos del Imperio español, Madrid 2005; Emrah Safa Gürkan: Espionage in the 16th Century Mediterranean. Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-Betweens and the Ottoman Habsburg Rivalry, unpub. PhD diss., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2012, https://www.academia.edu/1838003/Espionage_in_the_16th_century_Mediterranean_Secret_Diplomacy_Mediterranean_go-betweens_and_the_Ottoman-Habsburg_Rivalry_-_Ph.D._Diss._Georgetown_University_2012, last accessed 14/12/2017. For the Austrian Habsburgs, see, for example, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Vienna, Kriegsarchiv, Innerösterreichischer Hofkriegsrat, Croatica, Akten, box 8, file 1601/5/36, fols. 12r-14v.


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The boys have been begging me to clean out the couches. They love to pull off the cushions and dig for treasure.
Aside from all the trash and Cheerios, the boys find toys they've been missing and loose change they can claim for themselves. It's literally like a treasure hunt for them.
This is one of those weird kinda things that make us who we are.
I sometimes feel like I must be depriving them somehow if they find amusement in cleaning out the couches. You know, like how boring their life must be, if the highlight of their day is digging through the couch cushions. Having said that, I suppose as long as they're happy, that all that matters.
One the other hand, I think that I can understand why they seem to like this type of treasure hunt.
I laughed so hard when I read the title. The common joke among our family is to NEVER reach into our couch cushions, you may not come out alive. So after 8 yrs we bought new couches (they were my valentines day present) We had standards. They had to sit on the floor so nothing would roll under them. Our Jack Russell's favorite thing to do was roll her ball under there and tear up the couch trying to get it back. The cushions had to be attached because as much as I love cushion forts, I could not take it anymore. Also the top or back cushions had to be attached for the same reason as before. I cannot tell you the things we found in those cushions over the years. With 4 kids it was an interesting chore to say the least.


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Validation Features. How It Works In Different Blockchains
Clear and timely information, real decentralization, and responsible communication — validators believe that Free TON has a lot to learn from other projects. But there is also something to teach others.
Validators in the blockchain industry are one of the key professions when it comes to Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithms and its variants. Free TON has attracted about 430 validators to secure the network, and that's a high number. With that many, the multi-threaded architecture allows achieving record speeds.
In Free TON, validators appeared mostly during the first and massive contests — Magister Ludi, Depool Game. Where do they come from, what is the difference in the work of the validator in different blockchains — we have collected information about this and much more.
How Do Validators Join
The lux8.net project unites a team that has experience with dozens of different blockchains.
In fifteen of them, including Free TON, they validate on the mainnet. In most projects, they usually joined and are still joining via a testnet or contests (in the case of Free TON). Most projects are interested in testing their network before launching it and invite the relevant professionals to do so — this is the way validators often go.
This partly limits most existing projects — since validators mostly join blockchains at the beginning, later on, it is difficult for new potential participants to find entry points to the project. While as the industry grows, new blood would be useful.
Therefore, one of the wishes for Free TON from our interlocutors is to continue attracting validators to the project via contests. Which is happening, as you can see in the example of the Rust Cup.
Cooperation with Polkadot is organized on a different principle. Initially, the lux8.net team joined Kusama directly, the canary network of this blockchain, which acts as a kind of testing ground for newly arrived validators. After a certain period of work, Kusama provides the opportunity to validate the mainnet.
Another way is to become an investor in a new project, become part of it, and, as an equal participant, begin validation. It is clear that it is not available to everyone, so in need of specialists, very often the project teams provide them with resources from the relevant funds to attract validators to the project.
Validator Requirements
The working conditions, equipment requirements, and organization of cooperation in all networks are different — representatives of the lux8.net project shared with us. Some blockchains, for example, have quite low hardware requirements. But not Solana.
Today, Solana is the most demanding project in terms of servers and computers. This is a consequence of the features of this blockchain network: the claim of high speed and lack of sharding. They also load the work of validators, who must both process transactions and maintain the entire network directly. The demanding nature of Free TON is also high, but due to the multithreading of the blockchain, it is much lower, because the load can be distributed between validators.
Organizationally, the work of various blockchains with validators is mostly the same. That is communication using the chat of validators, where the development team informs about the main changes and updates in the network as early as possible. The chat, in the case of Free TON, could be more private — our interlocutors complained.
To improve the information of validators is perhaps the main advice to the Free TON project, which the lux8.net members shared.
Project Near, one of the best in terms of working with validators, is an example in this regard. Timely and preliminary information via well-organized channels helps them prepare their infrastructure for updates, which impacts the successful update of the mainnet as well.
Free TON Advantages — Voting and a Contest System
Everstake project, which also shared its experience with us, is an active participant in more than 40 networks — both in testnet and in mainnet. Its representatives note that validator requirements vary from network to network, but the recommended minimum (+4 CPU, +8GB RAM, +200GB SSD) is often met.
In this regard, Free TON in comparison with other networks (besides Solana) stands out by its high requirements to the hardware specifications, as it directly depends on the required number of transactions per second in the network.
Communication and organizational issues in almost all projects where Everstake is involved are implemented using Telegram and Discord. The team has a good example for borrowing — Elrond Network. They implemented a different way to notify validators — there is a separate chat for validators with announcements of updates, where there is no general news, announcements or comments from regular users, just information relevant to validators. This chat makes it easier to find the information you want and increases the speed of response to urgent updates. It makes you always feel confident that you're not missing out on important information.
Our respondents also noted those things that favorably distinguish Free TON. For example, the voting and contest system here is excellent, they said. There is a great chat for discussing Governance, which is a very good organizational solution. There you can easily discuss things that are important for the FreeTON ecosystem with no community flood.
Borrowing Best Practices
What else could Free TON borrow from the best practice of other projects? — The participants of the main validator chat are also thinking about this. One of them, who also works with Solana, gave specific examples.
A validator chat participant with the nickname Vono mis made this comparison between Solana and Free TON. The centralization and technical problems of the first blockchain were evident when that network crashed. Along with the existence of a large stake of commercial pools, it caused problems during the restart. It took a long time for the network to launch, despite the desire of ordinary participants and validators.
We have more of a decentralization and fault tolerance thing going on here, but we certainly need new validators in a multiple amount — Vono mis wrote in the validator chat.
But also Free TON, according to the discussion participants, has a lot to learn.
And the most important thing that Vono mis pointed out is the difference in mentality. While Solana shows a more direct corporate «transparent» approach, the Free TON development team confuses validators by closed communication, ignoring errors, and leaving many questions unanswered.
As a Conclusion
A comparative study of experiences in different blockchains will certainly be useful to develop the right implementation mechanisms of the Free TON platform. Things that may seem insignificant at a great distance often turn out to be important in the field, ensuring the success of many projects. Reliable, fast blockchains that implement industry best practices and, preferably, get a little ahead are probably what all users need.
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Those who take into consideration and practise sustainability are always on the lookout for holistic interpretations of the world and are attempting to grasp systemic relations, networks and connections. Biodiversity has all of these items. It reveals how each species wants different species to exist and thrive. It reveals that every one residing organisms are a part of a complicated and fascinating system made up of myriads of hyperlinks. And people are undoubtedly part of it.
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In the realm of sustainability, consultants additionally ponder about time: how can life exist and thrive over time? Indeed, the above talked about fascinating system evolves over time. And, over time, it has to adapt to surprising change. It does that properly when it's wholesome, and much less properly when it's unwell and always disturbed.
For a very long time, man-made impacts saved accumulating virtually fully unchecked by societies, till the implications for human well-being turned untenable. Nowadays, environmental crises make the headlines repeatedly. They are nothing however the results of a damaged connection between individuals and the remainder of nature.
Climate change is one main end result of the damaged human–remainder of nature connection and has huge ramifications for each individuals and the planet. We now face imminent catastrophe, unequally the world over, but addressing climate change stays an extremely thorny process. Country representatives from most nations world wide meet repeatedly on the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) — most just lately at COP27, which was held in Egypt — to proceed the talk on what actions are wanted to maneuver the climate agenda ahead, all whereas disasters proceed to hit probably the most susceptible populations. The world has seen 27 COP conferences to the UNFCC up to now; one wonders what number of extra conferences can be wanted to see actual change occur.
Interestingly, nation representatives additionally meet repeatedly to debate biodiversity safety; biodiversity decline — the opposite main consequence of the damaged human–remainder of nature connection — is simply as worrying, with extreme and ramified implications which are nonetheless largely underappreciated by decision-makers. These gatherings are the COP conferences to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Last 12 months, we wrote concerning the then forthcoming COP15 to the CBD (Nat. Sustain. 4, 189; 2021), the assembly wherein the brand new conservation targets to be met by 2030 have been to be agreed. We highlighted the extent to which consultants anxious that these new targets won't go far sufficient. The assembly was postponed greater than as soon as as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, and it's lastly taking place on 7 December 2022, in Montreal, Canada. The world has already seen 15 COP conferences to the CBD, what number of extra conferences can be wanted for the biodiversity disaster to be averted?
But let's return to fascinated about sustainability. Experts search for holistic visions of the world. Here is an attention-grabbing instance of what holism means. Biodiversity decline and climate change are each the results of the damaged connection between individuals and the remainder of nature, they finally have the identical, deep roots. They are mutually reinforcing phenomena: unhealthy biodiversity contributes to climate change, and climate change makes biodiversity unwell. All that is unhealthy information for human and planetary well-being. The climate–biodiversity conundrum, at the very least to a point, has been acknowledged at the next stage — throughout COP27, leaders devoted at some point to biodiversity.
Yet, on condition that these points are extremely interconnected and have the identical origin, why is the world insisting on discussing them as separate agendas? Why are we nonetheless holding two separate COPs? How are these conferences going to advertise any fruitful synergy? How will they lead individuals to reconnect with the remainder of nature? Country representatives must be breaking silos, embracing holism and bringing these intertwined points, and their a number of ramifications, to the identical negotiating desk.
Nature Sustainability welcomes the long-awaited COP15 to the CBD and hopes that nations will agree on possible but bold 2030 targets to guard and improve biodiversity. But most of all, we hope that all the consultants and leaders concerned in addressing the environmental crises embrace holism to advertise significant actions the world over aimed toward restoring individuals's reference to the remainder of nature. We are desperate to see progress to this finish. In the meantime, the gathering we began in March 2021 with Nature Ecology & Evolution has been up to date to resume our help to the biodiversity group.
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The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial, who claimed he had schizophrenia after being accused of being an arm-flapping fraud, has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
Thamsanqa Jantjie sparked outrage for his translations of eulogies, including those by US President Barack Obama and Mandela's grandchildren, at the late Mandela's memorial last week, with sign language experts saying his signing amounted to little more than "flapping his arms around" and "just making funny gestures".
The Star newspaper today reported that Jantjie's wife Siziwe had taken her husband for a check-up to a psychiatric hospital near Johannesburg on Tuesday, which suggested he be admitted immediately.
"The past few days have been hard. We have been supportive because he might have had a breakdown," she was quoted as saying. Jantjie had been scheduled for a check-up at the Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, on December 10.
But the appointment was moved after he was offered the job to sign at the memorial which took place the same day, the newspaper reported today.
Jantjie has claimed that he is a qualified signer, but that his performance was down to a sudden attack of schizophrenia, for which he takes medication.
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