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A Canadian character actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as "The Dirty Dozen" in 1967, and "MASH" and "Kelly's Heroes" in 1970, as well as in such popular films as "Klute", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", and "Ordinary People". His more recent credits include "Reign Over Me" with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler; "Ask the Dust," written and directed by Robert Towne; "Land of the Blind," with Ralph Fiennes; "An American Haunting," opposite Sissy Spacek; "American Gun," with Marcia Gay Harden and Forest Whitaker; and "Fierce People," directed by Griffin Dunne. He is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland.
Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Also Known As: Don Sutherland, Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC, Дональд Сазерленд
Movies List of Donald Sutherland
An American Haunting (2005)
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Five Moons Plaza (2003)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
A Dry White Season (1989)
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Natural Enemy (1996)
Alex in Wonderland (1970)
Heaven Help Us (1985)
Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Lost Angels (1989)
Bear Island (1979)
Ordinary People (1980)
Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Blood Relatives (1978)
The Big Heist (2001)
Man on the Train (2011)
A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979)
Steelyard Blues (1973)
Hollow Point (1996)
Crackers (1984)
Scream of Stone (1991)
Apprentice to Murder (1988)
Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Dawn Rider (2012)
The Rosary Murders (1987)
The Trouble with Spies (1987)
The Disappearance (1977)
Quicksand: No Escape (1992)
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
Buster's Bedroom (1991)
Threshold (1981)
Lady Ice (1973)
Younger and Younger (1993)
Eminent Domain (1991)
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
Behind the Mask (1999)
The Eastmans (2009)
American Hangman (2019)
Klute (1971)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Free Money (1998)
The Art of War (2000)
Without Limits (1998)
Path to War (2003)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Citizen X (1996)
Revolution (1985)
Lock Up (1989)
Aurora Borealis (2005)
S*P*Y*S (1974)
The Con Artist (2010)
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
The Hunley (1999)
The Assignment (1997)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Joanna (1968)
Assassin's Bullet (2012)
Act of the Heart (1970)
Fellini nel cestino (1983)
Nothing Personal (1980)
Land of the Blind (2006)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993)
Pirate's Passage (2015)
Alien Thunder (1974)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
Sleepwalkers (2007)
Measure of a Man (2018)
Point and Shoot (2016)
A War Story (1981)
North China Factory (1980)
Bethune (1977)
The Leisure Seeker (2018)
The Setting Sun (1992)
The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas (1992)
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988)
Stonehenge: Decoded (2008)
The Mighty River (1994)
The Physics of Sorrow (2019)
A Reindeer's Journey (2018)
Cloudbusting (2022)
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Ask the Dust (2006)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Instinct (1999)
Disclosure (1994)
Fallen (1998)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
The Mechanic (2011)
American Gun (2005)
Fierce People (2005)
Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
Basmati Blues (2017)
FTA (1972)
The Railway Station Man (1992)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2001)
Klute in New York (1971)
The Spiral (1976)
Backdraft (1991)
Fanatic (1965)
The Eagle (2011)
The Best Offer (2013)
Baltic Storm (2003)
Red Hot (1993)
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... (2015)
Milton's Secret (2016)
Gas (1981)
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1992)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Murder by Decree (1979)
The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Uprising (2001)
Bertolucci secondo il cinema (1976)
Backdraft 2 (2019)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Reign Over Me (2007)
Puffball (2007)
The Calling (2014)
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000)
Oedipus the King (1968)
Panic (2000)
The Italian Job (2003)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Jock the Hero Dog (2011)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Cold Mountain (2003)
The Split (1968)
Little Murders (1971)
Abicinema (1975)
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
Trumbo (2007)
Jappeloup (2013)
Sebastian (1968)
Operation Dirty Dozen (2006)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' (2006)
End of the Game (1975)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
JFK (1991)
Days of Darkness (2007)
Beerfest (2006)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
Promise Her Anything (1966)
The Magic of Fellini (2002)
Lord of War (2005)
La Classe américaine (1993)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Night of 100 Stars (1982)


In Shakespeare's mind, apparently, the worst thing that could happen to four such youngsters was to become temporary victims of mischievous fairies who cast silly love spells. In Mr. Freeman's, they are set upon by a pack of thirsty vampires. It's a good bet that this "Dream" will not end with a happy wedding.
Oberon (Patrick Toon), king of the fairies, is now a Dracula type with a dramatic cape and evil intent. His wife and queen, Titania (Akyiaa Wilson), wears blood-red, snarls frequently and is attended by two crouching females with fangs. Kyle Metzger is highly interesting as Renfield, the bug eater. And Minna Taylor (yes, Minna) is entertaining as Helena. Mr. Freeman directs, not subtly but with a lightweight sense of fun.
A version of this article appears in print on 08/17/2013, on page C2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: 'THE NIGHTMARE "DREAM" '.
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Bahrain, Saudi eye Gulf Cup title
Saudi Arabia to play Bahrain in Gulf Cup final
Saudi's campaign back on track with a 2-0 win over Bahrain
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Bahrain will be hoping to end 49 years of anguish as they aim for their first Arabian Gulf Cup title Sunday. Standing between them and a historic triumph is Saudi Arabia, the traditional powerhouse, who will be gunning for their fourth title at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium.
Undoubtedly Saudi, the three-time Gulf Cup champions, will start as favourites, but Bahrain are more than capable of pulling off an upset. The two teams clashed in the group stage, with Saudi walking away with a 2-0 victory. However, that would matter for little when the two teams kick off the final at 7pm.
For, Bahrain have bounced back spectacularly since losing to Saudi – their only loss in the tournament. They defeated Kuwait 4-2 in the final group game to seal their place in the semi-finals, where they knocked out Iraq on penalties.
Saudi, on the other hand, knows how to play in big matches. Herve Renard's side edged past tournament favourites and Asian champions Qatar 1-0 in the semi-finals, despite a sustained pressure from the hosts for long period. In Frenchman Renard they have a serial winner, who in the past has led Zambia and Ivory Coast to Africa Cup of Nations glory.
After a 1-3 thrashing by Kuwait in their opening match, Renard has set-up his defence and it will be a tough test for Bahrain's attack to penetrate into the box. Saudi will once again look for Abdullah al-Hamdan for goals. The 20-year-old striker has put on man of the match performances against Bahrain and Qatar so far, and will be the one to watch out for in the final.
Renard said Saudi, who will be looking for their first Gulf Cup title since 2003, will have to stay focused in the final.
"We have a strong team. And in the final, we need to play with humility. Since 2003 Saudi hasn't won this competition, so the players want to make history. We just want to be ourselves. It will be completely different from the game we played against Bahrain in the group stage and we are ready," he said.
"We are very pleased to have qualified for the final. I think we deserve it. So we need to concentrate very hard. This is the most important match. The players are very motivated and their level is getting better in each match. We want to be the champions," he added.
Renard indicated his team would not sit back and would play aggressively against Bahrain.
"I think against Bahrain and Oman we played good offensive football. The game against Qatar was completely different. When we are in a tournament we need to have a strategy. We love to play offensive football but it's not possible all the time. Our captain was out. So it was difficult. We played with our heart. We played for the flag of our nation," he said.
Meanwhile, Bahrain coach Helio Sousa has quietly rallied his side into the final, after at one point they looked to be out of contention. The Portuguese manager had earlier this year led them to West Asian Football Federation Championship title, and if he can mastermind Bahrain to their maiden Gulf Cup triumph Sunday, then he would attain legendary status in the country.
"We are focusing on ourselves," said Sousa Saturday. "By entering the final, we have bettered ourselves. But this is not enough. We play every match to win it. We can't be happier than being in the final of Gulf Cup. It's our best performance. But we want to win it," he added
Sousa admitted his players would be under pressure to create history. "This is the biggest chapter for us. There is pressure, but this is the best pressure that can happen to us. We only have semi-professional championships in Bahrain. But we are winning against the best teams of Asia. The players are doing an amazing job. This is the pressure we want. To be here playing the fifth game. Against a top team," he said.

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Q: A divisor of a unit is a unit? Is it true that if $ab=u$ where $u\in U(R)$ is a unit of the noncommutative ring $R$, then $a,b\in U(R)$? If $R$ is commutative, then this can be seen by
$$a(bu^{-1})=uu^{-1}=1=(bu^{-1})a,$$
but when $R$ is not commutative I am not seeing an easy identity like the above. Is there a counterexample?

A: No. There exists a ring with $a,b$ such that $ab=1$ and $ba\neq 1$. Even though $1$ is a unit, neither $a$ nor $b$ are units.
Looks like I had trouble finding this before when I was writing this solution:

Examples of such rings with $a$ and $b$ like that are scattered throughout the site, but a little hard to search for. I found one here at this related question, although you don't really need to say "bounded linear operators on $\ell^2$," you can just say "linear transformations from $V\to V$ where $V$ is a vector space with countably infinite dimension." For a fixed basis, the "right shift" $a$ and the "left shift" $b$ on the basis elements create linear transformations such that $ba=1$ and $ab\neq 0,1$.

That is, given a basis $\{v_i\mid i\in \Bbb N\}$, $a$ maps $v_i\mapsto v_{i+1}$, and the other map $b$ maps $v_i\mapsto v_{i-1}$ when $i\geq 1$, and it just maps $v_0$ to zero.
A possible fix
But if both $ab$ and $ba$ are units, then $a$ and $b$ are units. Suppose $abx=1$ and $yba=1$. Then $a^{-1}=bx=yb$. Finally, $a^{-1}ab=b$ is a unit because it is a product of two units.

A: Following up on @rschwieb's answer:
$R = L(\ell^2)$ (ring of linear transformations), $a$ = left shift $(x_1,x_2, \dots) \mapsto (x_2,x_3, \dots)$, $b$ = right shift  $(x_1,x_2, \dots) \mapsto (0, x_1,x_2, \dots)$.

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I know you've heard this many times – "Drink more water!". Yet, 99% of the people don't heed this advice. Maybe if water was more expensive, people would pay more attention to consume enough of it on a daily basis. We are living in a dehydrated world of carbonated beverages, caffeine and alcohol. Recent research shows how important water is for your health, figure and well-being.
According to the research, a long list of modern diseases can be practically eliminated by just drinking more water. The list includes and is not limited to: asthma, hypertension, back and joint pain, arthritis, constipation, allergies, ulcers and the list goes on and on.
This is common sense. When you drink water, your stomach gets full and your appetite decreases. You end up eating fewer calories. If you drink water before each meal, you'll prevent yourself from eating thousands of calories in the long run. This means you are going to be leaner.
When you drink water, your body burns extra calories. Drinking 18 ounces of water increases your metabolic rate by about 30% for about 40 minutes. This phenomenon is called Water Induced Thermogenesis. The total amount of extra calories burned by drinking 18 ounces of water is about 25 calories. Drinking 72 ounces of water amounts to 100 extra calories. That is a lot of calories in the long run.
It has been shown that dehydration decreases protein synthesis. Protein synthesis is what builds muscle. It is an energy costly process. When you suppress protein synthesis, fewer calories end up building proteins and more calories end up in your fat stores. It's elementary: calories have two possible fates – they either get burned, or they get stored. When more of the calories you eat get burned, less will get stored.
Dehydration has been shown to decrease maximal strength. When you are stronger, you can lift more weight and that means you'll build more muscle.
Nothing will improve the appearance of your skin better than consuming enough water. It's a pity women spend so much money on skin products, while neglecting the cheapest and most effective one – water.
The expert's advice is simple: drink one ounce of water for every two pounds of bodyweight plus one and one half additional ounces of water for every ounce of beverage you consume containing caffeine, carbonation or alcohol. Do this every day.
As you increase your water intake you should also increase your salt intake. Don't buy the "Sodium causes hypertension nonsense". Restricting Sodium does not help the vast majority of people with hypertension. Clearly, Sodium is not the CAUSE of hypertension. Your body needs Sodium to hold its water stores. Even if you consume more than you need to, your body will get rid of the extra amount that you overconsumed.
Drink your water. Stay well hydrated. Stay healthy.


I know you saw the flurry of emails about me receiving a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce and thought whaaaa? Well, I got my lovely bottle in the mail* and then proceeded to get busy thinking of recipes.
We didn't really grow up using any sort of Worcestershire sauce did we? I really believe the main deterrent was the name had too many syllables (and certainly a Cajun mom and a Chinese dad had no clue how to say it properly). "War-chester-shire-sauce" or "wooorr-stershire sauce." I think the last one was dad's — just deleting those pesky syllables willy nilly. Which apparently was the right idea.
So, no longer deterred by pesky pronunciation, I got to experimenting. As Matt and I still don't eat much meat and I figured most people use worchestorshire sauce for such things, wouldn't it be nice to find something vegetarian and a wee bit healthier to use the sauce for?
I love a bloody marry and baked egg dish as much as the next person (see the video below), but what about our veggie-eating friends or for anyone watching their svelte-selves or doing a meatless Monday plan?
Roasted and sautéed veg with Lea & Perrins!
And just a note to you (Cath and readers), Lea & Perrins Worchestershire sauce is not vegan (it's got anchovies in) nor gluten-free (it's a bit like soy sauce that way), so even though this above recipe does not include wheat or dairy or meat, it's neither gluten-free nor strictly vegan. It's still healthy, tasty and quick. Let me know if you give it a go.
Also, I did a little bit of reading and it turns out the recipe for the Lea & Perrins sauce in the States is a wee bit different. Instead of malted vinegar, they use white vinegar and it comes wrapped in paper, whereas the British/Canadian version doesn't. Also the US version had high fructose corn syrup in it until 2011, so if you have an old bottle in storage, you might want to chuck it out for a new version that just has sugar rather than the scary HFCS.
* Disclaimer: Lea & Perrins sent me a free bottle of Lea & Perrins to try out, but this post isn't sponsored by them, so all my thoughts, recipes, ramblings are my own. I thought it would be nice to start doing a few more recipe posts on the blog as eating healthy has been a big part of my life these past few years and I'm always struggling to come up fuss-free healthy options.
Cath, do you and Troy ever use Worchestorshire sauce? I know it's probably not at all paleo. Why are the tasty things in life never on any diet. Curses.
Love you like onions love Worchestershire sauce!


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Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star, released in Japan as , is a boxing game based on the manga series Fist of the North Star released by Konami in 2000 as a coin-operated arcade game.

Cabinet
The arcade cabinet stands about 6'2" tall, 34" wide (when facing the machine), and about 4' deep. The monitor is recessed into the cabinet a fair distance, and in the front of the cabinet are six orange, sturdy punching pads with red LED lights embedded near their hinges. The pads are at rest along the inside walls of the recession of the cabinet, lining the monitor. There are also two black plastic "special gloves" that rest in pockets on the front of the machine, which are normally tied with rope or chain to the arcade cabinet to prevent theft. The player is to wear these gloves while playing (although it is also common practice to play without the gloves, though this can scrape the knuckles).

Gameplay
When an on-screen enemy makes an attack on the player, a punch pad will swing out on its hinge at a smooth pace, and upon reaching full extension at 90 degrees, the LEDs light up red. The pad stays lit for a short time, and then the pad returns inside the cabinet to rest. The player must punch this pad while the LEDs are lit. The strength of the player's punch is irrelevant to the game, and the game warns the player not to punch hard, to prevent the risk of breaking the machine. Only the timing of the punch is important, punches should be delivered at half strength, with exact timing.

Punching a pad when it is fully extended and the LEDs lit results in the attack being blocked, and the opponent receiving damage in the form of a counter-attack. Punching too early or too late results in either blocking the move with no counter-attack, or receiving lessened damage from the attack, also with no counter-attack damage to the opponent. Missing a pad completely (the pad retracting without ever being hit) results in full damage taken by the player. As opponents get more difficult - and particularly when they use their special moves - punches will be thrown and pads will pop out in faster succession and in more chaotic patterns, or special precautions may need to be taken, such as only striking one pad that is lit while other dummy pads pop up, or striking pads in the exact order they deploy.

Like conventional fighting games, the player has a life gauge at the top, and the enemy has a life gauge that must be brought to zero as well. Also both characters have a tech meter, in the form of seven stars remotely resembling the Big Dipper'. As attacks are landed or damage is taken, the stars light up along the super gauge and when full, the game will automatically execute the special move for the player. The game will also instruct the player how to use the particular special move it chose, based on the enemy the player is fighting. The game follows the Fist of the North Star series, as each enemy is not only a character from the series, but the finishing moves the player must use to defeat them are taken from the series as well. The game grades the player's performance based on their remaining life, agility, wisdom (wiz), skills and the use of finishing moves (arts).

At the start of the game, the player must choose their course. Each course consist of a set of opponents within a certain story arc. This serves as a difficulty setting. The first course is a tutorial where Kenshiro's master, Ryuken, will teach the player how to play the game and explain the finer points of timing punches. The subsequent courses involve progressively harder opponents moving toward the right, and are based on specific story arcs in the manga.

Playable characters
 Kenshiro - The main character from Fist of the North Star. He is the player's character for all paths, except Course 5 and 7.
 Rei - Kenshiro's ally in the series, and the hero for the fifth course. In Rei's quest, the first opponent is Raoh, who ends the battle with a fatal blow. At this point, "the Death Omen Star has fallen over Rei." Whatever life is left in the gauge after this battle will be what he will start with against the next opponent, and so on through the path without regaining life after each battle.
 Raoh - In the seventh and final course, the player plays as Raoh, Kenshiro's main adversary in the game. The path follows Raoh's rise to power to become the "King of Fists."

Courses and opponents

Regional differences
A few differences exist between Fighting Mania and Punch Mania.
 All the voice acting was dubbed into English. In the Japanese version, some of the voice actors from the original anime series (namely Akira Kamiya, Kaneto Shiozawa, Toshio Furukawa and Kenji Utsumi) returned to reprise their characters, while other characters were voiced by new actors.
 When a character performs a special technique, it will display the name of the technique in Japanese characters. In the overseas version, it will display the name of the technique in romanized Japanese, accompanied by an English translation. The translated name for the  style switches between the literal meaning of "South Dipper" and the more stylized choice of "South Star" depending on the technique.
 In the Japanese version, the original theme song from the anime series, Ai o Torimodose will be played in the background during key battles. In the overseas version, it was replaced with new music composed for the game.

Sequel
 is a sequel to the original Fighting Mania that was released on December 2000. In addition to containing all seven courses from the original game, the sequel adds five additional paths based on the later portion of the manga (the Hokuto no Ken 2 anime series), including one where the player controls the bounty hunter Ein, as well as a few new game modes. The sequel was distributed in a deluxe two monitor cabinet that allowed two-players to play simultaneously in competitive matches against each other or cooperative against the computer.

New courses and opponents

New game modes
 Clash! Death Star - A single-player mode where the player gets the chance to play any of the 24 possible battles from the previous game and play them in any order.
 Versus Mode - A competitive two-player mode where both players face each other as one of eight possible fighters (Kenshiro, Rei, Raoh, Mr. Heart, Jagi, Ein, han, Falco and Kaioh)
 Tag Team Mode - A cooperative two-player mode where both players fight against a series of computer-controlled adversaries. The available teams consists of Kenshiro and Rei, Bat and Ein, or Kenshiro and Raoh.

See also
Fist of the North Star
Arcade game
System 573
Sonic Blast Man

Citations

External links
 Official Japanese site
 Fighting Mania - KLOV entry

Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Konami games
2000 video games
Boxing video games
Fist of the North Star video games
Konami arcade games
Video games developed in Japan

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One strength of Digital Paxton is that it provides access to various materials that eighteenth-century audiences would have encountered reading while the texts. While a digital facsimile is not the same as the physical object it stands in for, the digital object can be easily searched and broadly disseminated without overlooking the fact that the text was a material object. More than words on a page, this materiality provides key insights into the text itself, its production, circulation, and reception.
This article will analyse how materiality enables readers to discern between the 'main' body of a text and the texts that surround it, called paratexts. Few texts started from the first line of the argument; instead there was usually a heading, date or a title page that would provide context for what the audience read. Longer and more complex texts typically had more paratexts to surround them such as dedications, prefaces, contents page, indices, footnotes, and epilogues. The common purpose of each paratext is to explain in some way how the words on the page relate to the social world of the reader.
The relationship between reader and text was both commercial and intellectual. In many cases, readers bought texts in order to engage in debates. Consequently, debates were not just intellectual, they took place in a commercial medium, in which business concerns affected the trajectory of the dispute. Paratexts also had significant intellectual implications. Paratexts could highlight aspects of the 'main' argument to help readers better understand the author's interpretation of the world.
In this article, I want to demonstrate the value of paratexts for analysing a debate like the Paxton Boys, and by extension, to underscore the value of resources like Digital Paxton, which provide access to digital facsimiles that attend to the materiality of printed objects. I will concentrate on back matter, the material that comes at the end of a piece. Typical backmatter include appendices, indices, errata, advertisements, coda, epilogues, and postscripts.
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What can IMIA expect from its members and delegates?
What can members and delegates expect from IMIA?
The International Engineering Insurers Association (IMIA) is a forum for promoting, understanding and best practice in the field of engineering insurance.
IMIA's mission is to build a world-wide and international network for engineering insurers to share experiences, discuss and develop new ideas and – through its annual conferences, working groups and communications – to investigate and share knowledge on emerging and critical issues.
Furthermore IMIA is a technical forum for analysing advances in technology, causes of loss, changes in the maintenance and operation of machinery and other technological innovations.
The IMIA environment as shown in figure 1 below consists of the IMIA members, the national associations, the Executive Committee (EC) and the engineering community.
The EC is composed of the chairman, the secretary and various members.
The IMIA members are the local Associations of Insurers, insurance and reinsurance companies. Individual persons can also become members of IMIA. It is being debated to open the circle of members to brokers, loss adjusters and risk managers in the future. The IMIA members delegate representatives to the annual conference (delegates).
The international engineering insurance community is composed of interested underwriters, claims experts, brokers, loss adjusters and reinsurers.
Identified interesting and relevant topics are discussed and investigated within the working groups.
IMIA is a mutual organisation highly depending on an interacting behaviour between its members as well as between these members and the IMIA institutions to achieve the optimal performance of the organisation. As in every other organisation, roles and responsibilities have to be agreed in order to facilitate the cooperation and to improve its results. Therefore this paper is intended to give an overview of the expectations, roles and responsibilities within IMIA.
IMIA expects from its delegates and members to assume responsibility to be active contributors and ambassadors between the organisation and the engineering insurance community.
On the other hand delegates and members can expect from IMIA to enable and co-ordinate a platform which allows the members and delegates to exchange their experiences to obtain best practices and knowledge for the benefit of their companies and / or associations. In addition the EC is expected to ensure transparency and acceptance of the managerial duties performed.
3.2 What can IMIA expect from its members and delegates?
IMIA and the EC as the executive body of IMIA have the following expectations of its members and delegates.
In order to contribute to the IMIA objectives associations and companies should ideally identify experienced professionals as delegates.
Members and delegates are expected to collect relevant local knowledge and interesting information to be debated, edited and published within IMIA.
The knowledge collected within IMIA should be returned to their own market, local association or company and shared with their peers.
In order to ensure and enforce the popularity of IMIA, the marketing of the organisation and its objectives and aims should be carried out.
To keep IMIA and its know-how up to date and to guarantee the availability of the latest information, all members should actively contribute to working groups, discussion forums, to the contents of the IMIA web site and to the risk, underwriting and claims library.
The network of engineering insurance professionals should be promoted and marketed.
3.3 What can members and delegates expect from IMIA?
The fulfilment of the above mentioned expectations allows members and delegates to expect a variety of services from IMIA to support them in performing their business activities successfully and profitably.
IMIA provides a forum to discuss, evaluate and promote state of the art principles of engineering insurance.
IMIA identifies, collects, coordinates and discusses topics relevant to the international engineering insurers community and/or of general interest to the public.
IMIA operates the web site displaying appropriate information on engineering insurance and in particular relevant to underwriting and claims handling.
In order to satisfy all members' requirements, IMIA collects members needs and enables a productive and efficient exchange of opinions and experiences among delegates. In addition the organisation reports relevant information and opinions discussed within IMIA to the public.
The previously mentioned expectations towards the IMIA members and delegates can be transformed into activities which should be carried out either between, before or during the annually held conferences.
proactively contribute to the information exchange and networking between IMIA members and with the IMIA institutions.
The delegates should contribute to the working groups and facilitate the contribution of their staff members.
Furthermore they should forward interesting claims examples to the IMIA secretariat for publication on the web site in order to share them with the engineering community.
In order to keep the IMIA topics up to date, topics relevant to the insurance community, should be suggested for debate, investigated and finally published by IMIA (e.g. web site or conference).
Every delegate is seen as an ambassador of the engineering insurance community and as a representative of the IMIA.
The delegates should serve as spokesmen of the engineering insurance community and communicate key messages from and about IMIA to their association, local insurance market, own company and to the public.
Such communications can consist of the presentation of relevant IMIA papers in respective national committees or company seminars or national and local events (risk management, insurance conferences, company seminars, etc.), especially as a follow up of the annual conference.
In order to ensure a productive and relevant outcome for the insurance market from the annual conferences, the delegates should suggest working group topics to the EC by the first quarter in order to enable prioritisation. This gives the delegates the chance to feed in their ideas and the ideas of their represented members in order to obtain a qualitative investigation on the relevant topics.
In order to support and develop IMIA's recognized market overview of the engineering markets, the delegates should contribute to the collection of data (statistics) and to the timely submission of the national report.
The delegates should furthermore collect topics of interest to be analysed, discussed or presented during the annual conference.
To make the IMIA web site as attractive and valuable as possible, useful and relevant information should be chosen in order to show it on the web site.
During the conference the delegates should actively participate at the discussion sessions and contribute to the conference with views and experiences gathered by the engineering insurance community within their local association or their market / company.
In order to make the discussions at the conference as fruitful as possible the delegates should act as contributors and moderators for workshops on selected topics.
Interesting and relevant claims to the engineering community should be presented and discussed.
Furthermore the delegates should contribute to the process of electing and confirming the members of the EC by helping to identify suitable candidates.
The EC has the full authority to act for IMIA.
The multiple tasks and responsibilities on behalf of the delegates are faced by corresponding roles and responsibilities on behalf of the EC. These lead to specific tasks which have to be carried out by the members of the EC between, before and during the annually held conferences.
The EC has the responsibility for the planning and preparation of the annual conference which is one of the main activities of IMIA.
To begin with the specific details of the conference are to be organised in close contact with the hosting organisation.
In order to enable a valuable and fruitful conference the details of the presentations, of relevant topics (presentations at the conference, ad hoc working groups during or between the conference(s), annual working groups, permanent working groups …..) are to be organised and coordinated.
In addition the details and format of national market reports (optimising the format of statistics, country profiles and claims information) have to be defined.
Furthermore and in order to develop the organisation further the EC should identify potential new members, delegates and EC members between the annual conferences.
The EC has to ensure transparency and acceptance of the managerial duties performed.
During the year the IMIA brand is marketed by the EC throughout the engineering community and potential new members are to be identified.
Besides the finding of new members, contacts to "passive members" of the engineering community and to the public are to be enforced.
In order to inform the general public and specific organisations (authorities, associations, insurance press, etc.) about the IMIA activities and to spread the relevant information throughout the markets, the EC reports findings, opinions and relevant knowledge to the appropriate sources.
To develop the knowledge further and to share interesting information with the IMIA members the EC publishes interesting claim reports and other important information on the web site.
In addition the work of annual and/or permanent working groups is coordinated and facilitated. Once the annual conference is finished relevant results and important conclusions from the conference are communicated and published to the general public (press releases, interviews and articles).
IMIA is a mutual organisation with the aim to generate, develop and share relevant engineering insurance knowledge with its members and the international engineering insurance community. The mutual set-up requires a distribution of roles and responsibilities in order to ensure optimal results and added value to the daily work of all IMIA members and participants while carrying out their business operations.
Therefore the IMIA as an organisation expects from its members to build bridges between the organisation and the engineering insurance community and to be active contributors and ambassadors with the aim of fulfilling IMIA's objectives.
A task of the EC is to listen to the needs and requirements of the IMIA members, to promote the exchange of experiences in order to maintain best practices within the engineering insurance community. In addition the EC is to ensure transparency and acceptance of the managerial duties performed.


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Generation Z, the young Americans born after 1996, accounted for one-tenth of eligible voters in the 2020 election. This percentage will grow significantly in 2024.
Engaging this generation of citizens in the democratic process will define the direction of our democracy for decades to come. We know Gen Z is more racially and ethnically diverse than any previous generation, and it is on track to be the most well-educated generation in American history. They are also more digitally savvy, having virtually no memory of the world as it existed before smartphones.
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The network's podcast fellowship will pair students with mentors from The Democracy Group to develop a concept for a podcast and record a trailer and at least one full episode. In addition to one-on-one coaching, students will have access to a library of on-demand content about how to produce and promote podcasts that build community and provide educational value to listeners.
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Many wet tropical forests, which contain a quarter of global terrestrial biomass carbon stocks, will experience changes in precipitation regime over the next century. Soil microbial responses to altered rainfall are likely to be an important feedback on ecosystem carbon cycling, but the ecological mechanisms underpinning these responses are poorly understood. We examined how reduced rainfall affected soil microbial abundance, activity, and community composition using a 6-month precipitation exclusion experiment at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Thereafter, we addressed the persistent effects of field moisture treatments by exposing soils to a controlled soil moisture gradient in the lab for 4 weeks. In the field, compositional and functional responses to reduced rainfall were dependent on initial conditions, consistent with a large degree of spatial heterogeneity in tropical forests. However, the precipitation manipulation significantly altered microbial functional responses to soil moisture. Communities with prior drought exposure exhibited higher respiration rates per unit microbial biomass under all conditions and respired significantly more CO2 than control soils at low soil moisture. These functional patterns suggest that changes in microbial physiology may drive positive feedbacks to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations if wet tropical forests experience longer or more intense dry seasons in the future.


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Rochelongue Beach in Cape d'Agde is found to the west of the seaside resort, bordering Grau d'Agde, next to Richelieu Beach. We find many sandy bays that are protected by small dams for about 800 meters. This beach is bordered by a pedestrian promenade and the Rochelongue neighborhood where we can find all necessary amenities.
To get here by car, follow directions for Mail de Rochelongue. There is a parking log near the roundabout du Mail and a parking lot near the street "rue Raffanel".
We are at the edge of Rochelongue Beach. It continues to become Richelieu Beach.
Looking toward Grau d'Agde. Here is the last sand bay before the beach Baie de l'Amitié.
We find only one private beach at Rochelongue. Others are available at Richelieu.


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Alternative University's Camp – gamification case study
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The Alternative University is a personalised learning program, created with professionals in various fields, to help grow young students, capable of generating a change in society.
University's Camp is one of the most impactful experiences of its program, it's a seven day intensive camp, full of learning, that kick starts the new academic year, it is known as one of the most powerful and beautiful experiences.
Playful Solutions has worked with the Alternative University to gamify 2016's Camp. We offered a solution that increases the involvement of students in the daytime activities and made this camp more fun. This is how we did it.
What was the challenge?
The Alternative University has a culture based on freedom. No activity is mandatory. This faced the organisers with a possible difficulty, lack of involvement from some students regarding the agenda. Also, the students get involved in co-creative activities like waking others up, serving breakfast and so on, that tend to be less fun. Finally, the team wished participants to be proactive and organise random fun activities on their own, on top of the agenda they created.
Build a fun atmosphere during the camp and encourage players to get to know each other better;
Have players engage in extra self-organised activities;
Create a common environment/platform where players can share fun photos and videos, where they all interact;
Build up responsibility among players, so they co-create activities and have fun while doing so.
Who are the players?
Young professionals between 18 and 39, both students from the Alternative University and invited persons from outside who resonate. Diverse with the common drive to grow individually; opened to initiatives and passionate about self-discovery; active and involved in diverse projects with social and business impact.
What are the target behaviours:
We pick some behaviours that, if applied, the goals will be achieved.
Build authentic relationships between players, open up and speak from the hearth instead of only chit-chatting;
Connect to the present moment, in this case with the CAMP, and be involved in different activities;
Have a fun mindset regarding less-fun activities;
Reflect after each experience and share insights with others;
Check the common online environment and actively participate in discussions.
How was the gamification strategy design?
We started building the strategy from the CAMP agenda. We focused on empowering the dynamics and intentions of the organisers.
Players were split in six teams, each group having 10 to 12 players. This encouraged the participants to get closer to their team members and to be motivated to win as a team. It created a social pressure to participate in the game and, indirectly, a fear of missing out.
Each player gathered points individually that were added to the team score. At the beginning of each day we displayed two things. One consists in the challenges of the day, and second is the leaderboard of the teams with top 5 most active players included. During the day we gave surprise challenges, depending on the needs or situations, for example we had a birthday in one of the days and we had the participants take selfies with the birthday boy.
Their purpose in the game was racing each other to the top of the leaderboard, or to put it more simply, to win.
The challenges were mainly intended to follow the red wire of Camp's activities and, as already mentioned, to keep the players active and present.
We did most of the communication via Facebook, but also used SMS and Facebook Chat to individually connect with them. The person they were communication with was called the Game Master, and nobody knew who this person really was. He was the one who talked about the quests, about their points and so on. He was both the handler of the game and a friend.
These are the game elements used to build the mechanics for this CAMP:
Points – Each action that was game related was rewarded with points that helped the team to advance;
Leaderboard – Based on the points, there was a team leaderboard. It's purpose was to motivate others to be more active. During the game they got the chance to help, support one another and work in teams;
Quest List – This is the list of challenges they got on a daily basis; the quests were intended to build habits;
The Story – it was used as a main element in this process. It was meant to put together all the elements of the game, to interconnect. Everything from actions, missions, levels, player profile was given a name and a role in the story, this way nothing seemed out of place; another role of the story is to transport participants into a world of magic and fairytale where they feel free to dream, where the difficulties of everyday life are forgotten. This change of perspective, in which everything is viewed as a game, made the players more honest with themselves and with others, more opened to express and be vulnerable, it created a safe zone.
Win prize – Because each race has a winner and each winner has a prize, we gave away a basket of goodies (including Vodka) to be used by the winners to organize the after-Camp Party;
Aura effect – During the 5th day all players that came across the birthday boy and sent a selfie, got extra points;
Watercooler – The Facebook group served as an environment where the entire community got engaged. They sent self-made memes, clips from workshops, or just had general conversations about Camp's topics;
Countdown – The Camp was 6 day long. This ment that they had a limited time to gather points and win the game. This results in an increase in activity during the last couple of days.
Boosters – During the second day we doubled the points for the reflection activities, because players were not focusing on them and it was a key habit we wanted to develop;
FOMO – Because most of the game activity was happening online, this gave people the fear they might miss out if they are not connected with the group.
How to optimize & improve?
During this Camp we made changes that helped us reach desired outcome. One example is the Booster mechanism we used to increase the number of people who would do the reflection challenge. We just doubled the points for that challenge.
In the fourth day it rained, so all the activities, that were outdoors, were canceled. We adapted our points mechanism and used backup challenges to fill in the space. Another challenge was for them to play a childhood game and send a video while doing so.
The purpose of the game was reached and the objectives met. Not all the plans were perfect, and not everything fit, but we adapted just in time so that everything worked out even better than planned. Truth is, of the most important aspects is flexibility and the power to adapt to any unexpected situation. You can find below some photos from this Camp, to emphasise with the energy that was created. 'Till next time, I wish you a fun day.
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Vzdušné síly republiky Singapur (, , , , často známé pod zkratkou RSAF) jsou letectvo ozbrojených sil Singapuru. Původně vznikly v roce 1968 pod názvem Singapurské velitelství protivzdušné obrany (Singapore Air Defence Command, SADC) a svůj současný název získaly v roce 1975. RSAF v současné době působí ze čtyř hlavních základen - Tengah, Paya Lebar, Changi a Sembawang.

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Evangelist Thomas Cook at age 53.
Thomas Cook 1 was born in the iron-foundry city of Middlesbrough, England on August 20, 1859. His father seems to have been indifferent to spiritual things for much of his life, but his mother was a godly, praying Methodist woman. Thomas made a commitment to follow Jesus in 1875 at age sixteen. His conversion was quiet and unremarkable from outward appearances; but the reality of Christ's saving work made such an impression on the teenager that he and a friend were soon of their own volition preaching on street corners to all who would hear about their life-giving Saviour.
Many books were written on the subject of the holiness experience, especially from 1870 onwards, but I can think of none that even approaches the power and clarity of New Testament Holiness. And Thomas Cook's blessed little book (which has been through various editions and reprintings by Epworth Press, Christian Literature Crusade, and Schmul Publishing in the intervening years, and most recently by Revival Classics/OTC Publishing 2 is still used by God today, over one hundred years after it first rolled off the presses, to convict, convince, teach, woo, and guide sincere believers into this wonderful "second blessing" their Lord has in store for them. We commend New Testament Holiness to a new generation of readers and pray, along with the Apostle, that "the very God of peace would sanctify you wholly" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). May it be said again of Cook's modern readership, as Peter testified of the Gentiles from Cornelius's home, "God purified their hearts by faith" (Acts 15:9).


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A lot of smartphones come with the Time of flight technique. You must be curious about what it really does and how is that helpful to take better pictures. We are going to discuss the terminology and its purpose. The advantages of the photos clicked on Time of flight cameras over other cameras.
Time of flight camera uses the technology of sending infrared light to measure the in-depth information in a photo. It has been seen as the best addition to smartphones. As the number of cameras in a phone keeps increasing with dual cameras for the front as well as rear. The different focal length is providing users with an option to click photos more effectively.
Time of flight sensors is the new hype for the smartphone. You can find it on Huawei P30 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S10, Oppo Rx17 Pro, Honor view 20. And many forthcoming devices are claiming to have this technique implemented with them.
It is similar to what a sonar system does except that the light works as a sound wave to capture the object's image. The infrared light emitted from the camera reaches the object and returns back. It will determine the time it takes to reach the sensor and thus the depth is calculated. Compared to other technologies, this is cheaper, and it is more accurate and only a single pulse of the laser beam is giving the information.
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Time of flight camera is not a new concept as Microsoft had this used on Kinect. Tof sensor is very easily seen in cameras, drones, phones and industrial robots. Time of flight camera can be of great use with a camera on vehicles and drone to avoid obstacles en-route. As it will create a 3D representation of the object that's in front of them. It can be used to identify the users on security cameras, which is a very important point.
This technology reached the phones after a while because the processing speed was not as fast as needed to recreate clicked pictures.
Photos Exif Editor is one such tool you need for your system, to edit the metadata of your photos. Metadata includes the information for your images captured on your phones and cameras. It ranges from date, time, location where the image was clicked along with various aspects like focal length, ISO, Sensing method, Subject distance range and exposure. The editing helps you conceal metadata with your image.
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Francisco Feuillassier Abalo (born 12 May 1998), commonly known as Franchu, is an Argentinian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Spanish club FC Cartagena, on loan from SD Eibar.

Club career
Born in Mar del Plata, Franchu joined Real Madrid's La Fábrica in March 2009 at the age of ten, from Cadetes de San Martín. Released by the club in 2011, he spent five years at Rayo Vallecano before rejoining Los Blancos in July 2016.

Franchu made his senior debut with the reserves on 3 September 2016, coming on as a late substitute for goalscorer Sergio Díaz in a 3–2 Segunda División B home win against SD Amorebieta. Definitely promoted to Castilla ahead of the 2017–18 season, he became a regular starter in Santiago Solari's side.

Franchu made his first team debut for Real Madrid on 26 October 2017, replacing fellow youth graduate Achraf Hakimi in a 2–0 away success over CF Fuenlabrada, for the season's Copa del Rey; he also featured in the second leg, starting and playing 60 minutes in a 2–2 draw at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. The following 7 April he scored his first senior goals, netting a brace for Castilla in a 4–2 home win against CCD Cerceda.

On 8 September 2020, Franchu joined Segunda División side CF Fuenlabrada on loan for the 2020–21 season. He made his professional debut on 13 September, replacing Mikel Iribas late into a 2–0 Segunda División home win against CD Lugo. Franchu scored his first goal for the club on 17 October in a 1-1 draw away against FC Cartagena.

On 9 July 2021, Franchu joined second division side SD Eibar on a free transfer, signing a three-year deal. On 28 July of the following year, after featuring rarely, he was loaned to fellow league team FC Cartagena for one year.

Personal life
Franchu's older brother Santiago is also a footballer. A midfielder, plays for Völsungur, he also played for Real Madrid and Rayo Vallecano before.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links
Real Madrid profile

1998 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mar del Plata
Argentine footballers
Spanish footballers
Association football wingers
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
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Cadetes de San Martín players
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Booker scores 25, Suns overwhelm Jazz for 106-95 victory
By JOHN COON
Updated January 1
SALT LAKE CITY - The Phoenix Suns are becoming a dangerous team on both ends of the court.
The Suns beat Utah 106-95 on Dec. 31 for their first 4-1 start since 2009, turning up the pressure on both offense and defense.
Phoenix held Utah to 41.7% shooting from the field and forced 13 turnovers. Offensively, the Suns shot a sizzling 51.5% from 3-point range and made 17 3-pointers overall.
Phoenix never trailed over the final three quarters.
"We played balanced the whole game," guard Devin Booker said.
Booker had 25 points and seven assists. Mikal Bridges and Jae Crowder added 16 points apiece for the Suns. Phoenix had six players score in double figures.
Donovan Mitchell scored 23 points for the Jazz. Rudy Gobert had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Mike Conley chipped in 16 points. The Jazz are 0-2 at home to start the 2020-21 season.
"Teams have been coming out being aggressive and it's taking us too long to react," Gobert said. "We have all the weapons to counteract that, but tonight it took us too long to adjust again."
Cold shooting from the Jazz allowed the Suns to surge ahead in the second quarter. Utah missed 13 shots in the quarter and shot just 39.5% from the field overall before halftime.
Phoenix used a 7-0 run capped by Chris Paul's fadeaway jumper to seize a 30-24 lead. The Suns extended their lead to 48-33 late in the second quarter behind a flurry of baskets from Cameron Payne.
"We executed, especially in the first half, defensively how we wanted to guard," Booker said.
Utah whittled a 13-point deficit down to three points early in the third quarter. Conley sparked a 16-6 run with back-to-back pullup 3-pointers. Gobert punctuated it with a running dunk that cut the Suns' lead to 59-56.
Bridges kept the Jazz at arm's length with his outside shooting. He hit back-to-back 3-pointers to end Utah's run and sank another two minutes later to boost Phoenix's lead to 70-62.
Phoenix scored on three straight possessions to end the quarter and kick-start a 16-2 run. Johnson made three baskets during the run, culminating in a jumper that put the Suns up 91-70 early in the fourth quarter.
"That's where we hang our hat is on the defensive end," Suns coach Monty Williams said. "We feel like we're trending in the right direction."
Utah cut a 21-point, fourth-quarter deficit to 98-93 on Conley's 3-pointer with 2:07 left. Mitchell and Conley combined to score on five straight possessions to get the Jazz back into the game, but Utah could draw no closer.
"The biggest thing is just playing through it," Mitchell said. "Teams are going to be aggressive. We played hard but we didn't play smart."
TIP-INS
Suns: Deandre Ayton finished with a team-high nine rebounds. … Paul led the Suns with eight assists. ... Phoenix scored 34 bench points over the final three quarters after the second unit went scoreless in the first quarter.
Jazz: Jordan Clarkson got whistled for a technical foul in the second quarter after dribbling into a referee and shoving him following a turnover. … Bojan Bogdanovic went 0-of-5 from the field. … Utah scored 18 points off 15 turnovers.
LOSING STEAM
Utah has trailed over the final three quarters in both of its home losses. The Jazz have rallied from double-digit deficits in the fourth quarter on each occasion, only to fall short in the closing minutes.
It's quickly becoming a frustrating trend for Utah, which is allowing teams to take it out of its offense early.
"If we are not playing to our strengths, it is going to be difficult for us," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said.
BRIDGES BUILDING
Potent outside shooting is quickly becoming a trademark for Bridges.
The third-year forward made four 3-pointers. It is the third time in five games he has made at least four 3-pointers. Bridges is averaging 15.6 points while shooting 50% from 3-point range.
"He's a guy where we value everything he does," Williams said. "His intentions are great. It's good to see his work paying off."
Suns: At Denver on Friday.
Jazz: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.
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Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.
Since the author's overarching focus is on the collapse of the Soviet planned economy, the book contains a fair amount of economic theory. The first chapter is pretty difficult to get through, but stick with it - the novel is fantastic, and Spufford's creative narrative device is a winner. None of his writing is dry or boring - Spufford couches these theories and history lessons wonderfully through his characters' stories - however there are portions that require careful reading. (Reviewed by Poornima Apte).
A hammer-and-sickle version of Altman's Nashville, with central committees replacing country music... [Spufford] has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.
A virtuoso piece of storytelling, a series of vividly imagined episodes – by turns funny, poignant, spine-chilling and warm – that conjure up a richly detailed world... A thrilling book that all enthusiasts of the Big State should read.
Spufford has long had a somewhat eclectic interest in the interactions of science, technology and society, as evidenced by Backroom Boys, his tales of post-1945 British 'boffins', and he has certainly done his homework here. It isn't every work of historical faction that is backed up by 70 pages of footnotes, references and sources.
Style judgements are highly subjective, but the mixture of the historical and fictitious became irritating. To give Spufford his due, his 50 pages of painstaking notes clarify what is documented fact and what fiction. But the coexistence of the two, the invention of episodes and meetings, the transfer of historical events from one place and time to another, poses a fundamental question about what this book intends to be: history or fiction?
Extensively researched and both convincing and compelling in its idiosyncrasies (despite the author's admission that he speaks no Russian), this genre-bending book surprises in many ways.
Recommended for history and fiction readers with a taste for dystopian works like 1984 and for sweeping novels like those by Theodore Dreiser.
Starred Review. A highly creative, illuminating, genre-resisting history.
One of the most fascinating byproducts of the Russian planned economy is the academic town of Akademgorodok (Ah-kah-DYEM-gor-oh-dok) in Siberia. It is approximately 30 kilometers south of the larger Siberian city of Novosibirsk (No-VO-see-beersk), and is the setting for some of Red Plenty's most riviting stories, featuring a genetics and cytology researcher named Zoya Veynshteyn.


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Butler, Clarke, Kubrick Honored in First Official Feature Names for Pluto's Largest Moon
Posted on April 11, 2018 by Mike Glyer
Octavia Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stanley Kubrick are among the real and fictitious sff figures honored in the first dozen names for surface features on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, that were proposed by NASA'S New Horizons mission team and now have been made official by the IAU.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, recently approved some of the names the New Horizons science team had been using informally to describe the valleys, crevices and craters discovered during that first close-up look at Charon's surface.
Many of the feature names in the Pluto system pay homage to the spirit of human exploration, honoring travelers, explorers and scientists, pioneering journeys, and mysterious destinations. The approved Charon names focus on the literature and mythology of exploration. They are listed here:
Argo Chasma is named for the ship sailed by Jason and the Argonauts, in the epic Latin poem Argonautica, during their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Butler Mons honors Octavia E. Butler, the first science fiction writer to win a MacArthur fellowship, and whose Xenogenesis trilogy describes humankind's departure from Earth and subsequent return.
Caleuche Chasma is named for the mythological ghost ship that travels the seas around the small island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile; according to legend the Caleuche explores the coastline collecting the dead, who then live aboard it forever.
Clarke Montes honors Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the prolific science fiction writer and futurist whose novels and short stories (including "2001: A Space Odyssey") were imaginative depictions of space exploration.
Dorothy Crater recognizes the protagonist in the series of children's novels, by L. Frank Baum, that follows Dorothy Gale's travels to and adventures in the magical world of Oz.
Kubrick Mons honors film director Stanley Kubrick, whose iconic "2001: A Space Odyssey" tells the story of humanity's evolution from tool-using hominids to space explorers and beyond.
Mandjet Chasma is named for one of the boats in Egyptian mythology that carried the sun god Ra (Re) across the sky each day – making it one of the earliest mythological examples of a vessel of space travel.
Nasreddin Crater is named for the protagonist in thousands of humorous folktales told throughout the Middle East, southern Europe and parts of Asia.
Nemo Crater is named for the captain of the Nautilus, the submarine in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).
Pirx Crater is named for the main character in a series of short stories by Stanislaw Lem, who travels between the Earth, Moon and Mars.
Revati Crater is named for the main character in the Hindu epic narrative Mahabharata — widely regarded as the first in history (circa 400 BC) to include the concept of time travel.
Sadko Crater recognizes the adventurer who traveled to the bottom of the sea in the medieval Russian epic Bylina.
"Charon is among the 10 largest bodies in the Kuiper Belt, a world unto itself, with a fascinating geological history and many kinds of geological features beyond the craters seen on most moons," said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. "Now those features, and some of Charon's most important craters, have official names."
In moving the names through approval, Stern lauded the work of the New Horizons Nomenclature Working Group, which along with Stern included science team members Mark Showalter – the group's chairman and liaison to the IAU – Ross Beyer, Will Grundy, William McKinnon, Jeff Moore, Cathy Olkin, Paul Schenk and Amanda Zangari. The team gathered most of their ideas during the "Our Pluto" online public naming campaign in 2015.
"The names reflect the diversity of recommendations we received during the Our Pluto campaign," noted Showalter, a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. "We are delighted that so many people from all over the world have contributed to the new names on the map of Charon."
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[Thanks to Steven H Silver for the story. Post is based on the NASA press release.]
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Chip Hitchcock on April 11, 2018 at 7:48 pm said:
I love that they managed to find something that recognizes Lem without supporting the pomposity that I find in a lot of his work. I can just see future generations digging up Tales of Pirx the Pilot and wondering why somebody named a feature after him (although he's hardly alone, given Nasreddin) — but the choice of theme and globalizing it are both great. I do wonder how long it will take the Chinese government to complain of being excluded; maybe there will be another round that names something for (e.g.) Xuanzang (from Journey to the West).
Charon D. on April 11, 2018 at 8:31 pm said:
I'll probably never write anything good enough to merit having a mountain or ravine or cliff on Charon named after it, but it'll be fun trying.


Dill is a well established herb in our kitchens, though over the years it has lost some ground in the medicine chest. The ancients knew it well and used it extensively, not just to pickle cucumbers (which is a very ancient custom), but for a whole range of conditions and complaints. Dioscorides describes how to make Dill oil and Dill wine. Distilled Dill water was also commonly available at any apothecary - particularly recommended to calm wailing babies. It is thought that Dill is native to Southern Europe and the near East. A closely related species found in India may be native or may be a subspecies that developed from seeds left behind by early traders along the spice route. Both Dill seed and herb are utilized, although the seed is medicinally more active. The whole herb also played a significant role in various folk-magical customs.
Like all our culinary spices Dill is an excellent digestive herb. It is a warming, stimulating carminative that incites the appetite, soothes cramping and nausea and dispels flatulence. Old herbals also recommend it for hiccup. Chewing Dill seeds is recommended for bad breath. Dill also stimulates the menstrual flow and eases menstrual cramps. Wailing babies are quickly soothed with Dill water or tea - it calms the tummy and procures sleep. However, probably Dill's most useful action is as an excellent galactagogue, stimulating the flow of milk in nursing mothers.
Dill has long been used as a magical herb - not only by the witches themselves, but also to protect against their evil doings. Dill is hung above doorways for protection, or strewn about the stables for the same purpose. Cows are given a drink of Dill and Caraway immediately after giving birth to their calves - to protect them against the jealous witches that might steal their milk. Dill protects against the evil eye, and it is thought to work magic in court hearings. It was also used weather magic: burning the seeds was thought to dispel the thunder clouds. Dill is an herb of protection especially against the negative energies of jealousy and envy.


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Call for Canada to step up its response to repression in Belarus
In a joint letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, World Press Freedom Canada, and the Centre for Free Expression call on the Canadian government to take even more robust action against the Government of Belarus after President Alexander Lukashenko`s direct order to have a Belarusian military aircraft force a Ryanair flight traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania, to land in Belarus' capital, Minsk, to illegally arrest and imprison Roman Protasevich, a blogger and activist whose social media channels have criticized the illegitimacy and brutality of the Lukashenko government.
While welcoming statements made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Global Affairs, the letter calls on the Canadian government must do much more. "Hijacking a civilian aircraft flying between two EU member countries to arrest Mr. Protasevich is only the latest and most extreme action taken by the Lukashenko government to suppress press freedom and public expression in Belarus."
It noted the recent Human Rights Watch Report that documented the widespread assault on press freedom in Belarus, with journalists arbitrarily detained and beaten, facing fines and prison sentences on politically motivated charges, having their media credentials revoked their media credentials, and their homes and offices raided.
More than 35,000 Belarusians have been arrested, thousands have been abused and tortured in police custody, and thousands more face criminal charges and long-term prison sentences. At least seven people have died, more than 400 are acknowledged as political prisoners and tens of thousands have fled the country.
There is much the Canadian government can do, the three organizations said. These include:
demand the immediate release of Roman Protasevich and his travel companion, Sofia Sapega;
in the meantime, join the EU in providing maximum attention, legal aid, and material assistance to Protasevich;
join with its international partners in liaising with the International Civil Aviation Organization to launch an international investigation into the civilian aircraft hijacking.
in concert with the EU and the US, go beyond the sanctions already imposed on Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials to increase pressure on the regime.