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Q: Odd int-to-string issue? I have this code:
NSString *hString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", (h * 100)];
    HField.text = hString;

H is 0.721.
HField.text now reads:
1073741824
Any ideas why this isn't giving me 72?

A: Ah. The problem is that h seems to be a double or float. Try this:
HField.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%f", (h * 100.0)];

This should work. You have to use %f for floating-point numbers and %d for integers.
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HField.text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%d", (NSInteger) round(h * 100.0)];

Round will round the float to an integer. You can alternately use ceil() or floor() to round up or down, respectively. The (NSInteger) cast is there to make sure it is converted to an integer.

A: Probably because if h is 0.721 it is a float or a double, which means that the product is a float or a double, which means that you should cast it to int first or use %f.

A: with %d you are refering to an integer
try %f instead:
NSString *hString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", (h * 100)];

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Is CJ Stroud still married to his wife? While his professional life is well-documented, little is known about his personal history. Here are a few key facts regarding his family.
CJ Stroud is a quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes in college football.
Stroud played high school football at Rancho Cucamonga High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California. He went to OSU and set the record for most passing yards by an Ohio State quarterback with 573 in a single game.
In 2022, he was also a Heisman Trophy finalist.
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CJ Stroud's parents' marriage is unknown. According to various sources, his parents had a bad relationship because CJ's father was imprisoned when CJ was in middle school.
In Southern California, the young quarterback grew up in a difficult environment.
In an interview with Eleven Warriors, CJ spoke about hardships and trials as a young black guy in Rancho Cucamonga. However, he stayed coy.
His father's name has yet to be revealed, but his mother's name is Kimberly. His dad is incarcerated and the reason for his detention has not been disclosed.
Despite his highs and lows, the young player was born into a very loving family that encouraged him to pursue his ambitions.
His mother, Kimberle, is said to have had such a strong impact on him that when he becomes an adult, he wants to start a charity for single moms. Similarly, CJ credits his father with instilling in him a passion for sports.
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'Don't dare call them protesters': Joe Biden brands Capitol Hill rioters 'domestic terrorists'
President-elect Joe Biden excoriated President Donald Trump's supporters who stormed Capitol Hill as "domestic terrorists" on Thursday.
(Article by Charlie Spiering republished from Breitbart.com)
"They weren't protesters — don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists," Biden said sternly in a speech Thursday.
The president-elect angrily excoriated Trump and his supporters for enabling the violence in the Capitol, during an event in Wilmington, Delaware, to introduce his nominations for the Justice Department.
"I wish we could say we couldn't see it coming, but that isn't true … the past four years we've had a president who's made his contempt for our democracy our constitution the rule of law clear in everything he has done," he said.
Biden defined Wednesday's riots on Capitol Hill as one of the "darkest days" in American history describing it as "an assault literally on the citadel of liberty."
The president-elect added that the Capitol Police failed to carry out "equal justice" by allowing the protesters into the building.
He said that his granddaughter Finnigan Biden sent him a photo of military soldiers from the Summer protests set up to guard the Lincoln Memorial from Black Lives Matter protesters, and pointed to the disparity of law enforcement response.
"No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very, differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," he said disapprovingly.
Biden said that the incident was the result of Trump's long record of disdain for American institutions, democracy, and the rule of law.
"Yesterday was but the culmination of that unrelenting attack," he said.
Biden revisited four years of frustration with President Trump for challenging the government's intelligence services, media organizations, and gassing "peaceful" protesters in Lafayette Square and again falsely claimed that the president "held the Bible upside down" for a "photo op."
The president-elect also accused Trump of trying to "stack" the Supreme Court for the purpose of winning any electoral challenges in the 2020 election and attacking the Department of Justice.
Biden said that Trump was "trying to use a mob" to overturn the votes of 160 million Americans who voted for him.
"Our Democratic institutions are not relics of another age, they're what sets this nation apart, they're the guardrails of our democracy, and that's why we have no president that's a king," he said.
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A History of Vocal Pedagogy: Intuition and Science
In this work, noted tenor, teacher, researcher, and operatic director, Joseph Talia, takes us on an inspiring journey through 450 years of history tracing such important topics as the development of voice production and vocal science, the transition from the sostegno system of breath management to the appoggio system, the debate on vocal registers as a purely a glottal phenomenon, and the importance of vocal elements such as posture, messa di voce, portamento, trills, and many other coloratura techniques and ornaments. All of these are analyzed through the overarching framework of human emotions and impeccable aesthetic appeal, remembering always Tosi's dictum that 'the heart is the greatest of teachers'.
Within these pages you will find a wealth of knowledge accumulated by the great singing masters of the past such as Bernacchi, Porpora, Tosi, Mancini, the Garcías, the Lampertis, and the Marchesis, as well as the tremendous and assiduous work performed by vocal scientists throughout history by such scientists as Janwillem van den Berg, Vennard, Hirano, Fant, Ingo Titze, and Sundberg to name just a few.
Name of Publisher: Australian Academic Press
Place of Publication: Samford Valley, QLD
Resource Type: Monograph
EISBN: 9781922117816
Subject Covered: Music; Education (Theory & practice)
Copyright: @ Australian Academic Press Group 2017


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I am not really a big fan of eggnog. I don't dislike it, it's just not something that I like well enough to ever really buy when I'm in the supermarket, much less attempt to make from scratch.
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The red rooibos is a perfect base for this blend, because the natural nutty flavor of the rooibos tastes very good with the eggnog flavor. I am also tasting nutmeg.
Overall, this is a very enjoyable cup. It's naturally caffeine free, so it would be a good one to serve around the hearth when your family and friends are celebrating the holidays with you. I found it to be tasty as a hot beverage – I imagine it would be even better with a splash of rum in there!
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The department is involved in different projects in the fields of smart use of energy and its storage, cogeneration micro-turbines and fuel cells. The department performs both numerical (with commercial software) and experimental projects to study innovative concepts allowing for the economisation of fossil energy.
With the growing use of intermittent energy sources in power grids, there is a growing temporal mismatch between energy production and consumption. Energy storage or demand-response could be used to surpass this mismatch and use energy more efficiently. The Micro Energy Storage in Buildings (MESB) project, funded by Innoviris, intends to parameterize small-scale energy storage systems implemented in buildings, apply this parameterization to several case studies and test several installations.
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The second research interest is focuses on the use and the design of suitable hydraulic machines such as the diagonal reversible pump-turbine and the solutions offered by pumps used as turbines (PAT), which are very attractive to small scale hydroelectric power system. The project aims to draw the state of the art of a not well-known pump-turbine type Deriaz, showing cases and analysis of its designed model. The Deriaz pump turbine promises high efficiencies in a wide range of partial load, thanks to its efficient regulation by means of adjustable runner blades and guide vanes.
In hydroelectric plants using PAT, it is required to regulate the system by using variable speed: based on of the affinity law and empirical tests, it is possible investigate the matching between head-discharge characteristics of the hydraulic machine in pump and turbine mode. The research work includes therefore criteria for selection of pump running as turbine and moreover cavitation analysis, loss distribution, various methods of performance enhancement and costs analysis.


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Pelwatte Dairy Industries welcomes the festive season of Christmas and December with an exclusive partnership with Keells offering their signature Salted Butter at a concessionary discount of 15% off from the 01st to the 31st December 2021.
Commenting on the offer, Chaminda Pathirana – Channel Manager, Modern Trade said, "Its that season when Kitchens will be full of laughter and excitement and a time where families, friends and communities get together and divulge the food; and Pelwatte is humbled to give them the opportunity to indulge into their product of choice."
Pelwatte butter is produced using the fat from locally sourced milk, is high in nutrients and healthy as well; the butter is made from the fat in fresh milk with no added preservatives. Fresh milk contains about 84 % fat and the process of butter production tends to increase the fat percentage so in order to control the fat percentage a standardization process is used which is also another reason as to why Pelwatte Butter is considered all-natural. They are manufactured to the highest quality standards and have no artificial preservatives added to extend shelf life.
Pelwatte Dairy has always aimed to supply the country's domestic milk demand while also improving the socioeconomic position of local dairy farmers. While maintaining the country's milk self-sufficiency remains the major goal, Pelwatte Dairy helps farmers, their livelihoods, and their families in a variety of ways, empowering them and driving their own, as well as the country's prosperity.
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Following is the text of a letter addressed by JKH Deputy Chairman/Group Finance Director Gihan Cooray to the CSE's Chief Regulatory Officer Renuke Wijayawardhana.
Further to the announcements to the Colombo Stock Exchange on 22 November 2021 and 22 December 2021 regarding the Private Placement of up to a maximum cumulative amount of the Sri Lankan Rupee ("LKR") equivalent of USD 80 million to Asian Development Bank ("ADB"), through the issuance of up to a maximum of 122,500,000 new ordinary shares of the Company in two phases (Phase 1 & Phase 2), we wish to inform that Phase 1 of the Private Placement of ordinary shares of the Company to ADB was concluded on 19 January 2022.
Accordingly, 65,042,006 ordinary shares ("Initial Placement Shares") of the Company were allotted to ADB at a price of LKR 154.50 per share on 19 January 2022 for a consideration of the LKR equivalent of USD 50 million. The Initial Placement Shares results in a post-issue dilution of 4.70 per cent in Phase 1 of the transaction.
Additionally, in terms of Phase 2, the Company has issued 39,025,204 non-tradable/non-transferable options ("Options"), which will entitle ADB to subscribe for additional new ordinary shares of the Company ("Option Shares"), for an investment amount of up to a maximum of the LKR equivalent of USD 30 million.
Therefore, the maximum number of ordinary shares that would potentially be issued under the entire transaction, assuming all Option Shares are subscribed for, will be 104,067,210, thereby capping the post-issue dilution on the conclusion of both phases to a maximum of 7.31 per cent.
The salient details of the Options are as morefully detailed in the Shareholder Circular dated 29 November 2021. Based on the subscription date of the Initial Placement Shares, the Option Exercise Period will be from 19 October 2022 to 18 January 2023.
By Asanka Wijesinghe and Chathurrdhika Yogarajah
0espite enhanced trade partnerships in South Asia, intra-regional trade is far from reaching its theoretical potential. Similar production patterns and competitive sectors can be the causes. However, bilateral discussions to further lower trade costs continue. The ongoing Bangladesh-Sri Lanka discussions on a preferential trade agreement (PTA) will benefit from knowing the potential gains from reducing bilateral trade costs. In addition, knowledge of products with higher potential for export gains will help optimise the economic benefits from a trade deal.
Bangladesh – Sri Lanka Trade:
The Current Status
In 2018, when discussions on a PTA began to firm up, Sri Lanka's exports to Bangladesh were USD 133 million, while imports from Bangladesh were USD 37 million. Despite the low trade volume, Sri Lanka's exports to Bangladesh have grown (Figure 1). In addition, Sri Lanka records a bilateral trade surplus with Bangladesh, which is encouraging given the country's trade deficit concerns. However, weak growth of exports from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka can be seen from 2001 to 2016 (Figure 1).
The current trade deals between the two countries are still partially restrictive. Both countries keep a sensitive list of products that are not eligible for tariff cuts. Sri Lanka maintains a list of 925 products sanctioned by SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Area) while Bangladesh keeps 993 products. Sri Lanka's sensitive list covers USD 6.2 million or 23.8% of imports from Bangladesh. The sensitive list of Bangladesh covers USD 77.6 million or 62% of imports from Sri Lanka. Thus, the elimination of sensitive lists may benefit Sri Lanka more.
Figure 1: Trade Intensity between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Source: Authors' Illustration using Trademap Data.
Theoretically, bilateral alliances deepen trade by removing weaknesses in existing multilateral trade arrangements. A trade deal between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka can simplify trade regulations further. In addition, Bangladesh needs alternative preferential access as graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status will take away preferential access to its key markets. For Sri Lanka, increasing bilateral participation in production value chains, especially in the textiles sector, might be an economic motivation. Financial support extended by Bangladesh to manage Sri Lanka's foreign currency pressures might be a political motivation for a trade deal.
Eliminating sensitive lists can lead to trade creation, although it may not happen due to political and economic reasons. When it comes to tariff cuts, both countries will act defensively as certain products in the sensitive lists are vital for employment and revenue generation. Thus, the success of a trade deal depends on how many products with high export potential are under its purview. In this direction, a group of products with specific characteristics can be identified as an offensive list. For example, Sri Lanka's offensive list includes products that Bangladesh imports from anywhere in the world, produced by Sri Lanka with a capacity for expansion. Sri Lanka has a comparative advantage in exporting that good, and Bangladesh already has a tariff on the product.
Export Gains from Tariff Elimination
If tariffs on the sensitive lists are eliminated, there will be modest export gains for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in absolute terms. Sri Lanka will gain USD 24.7 to 49.7 million of exports to Bangladesh, while Bangladesh will gain USD 2.1 to 4.5 million of exports to Sri Lanka. Potential export gains are given in a range due to assumptions on elasticity values used in the partial equilibrium model. Elimination of sensitive lists will generate a higher tariff revenue loss to Bangladesh, ranging between USD 13.5 million to USD 19.1 million. By contrast, Sri Lanka's revenue loss will be slight at USD 1.4 million to USD 1.9 million.
Whatever the arrangement, it is crucial to include the products with high export potential in the offensive lists (See Table 1 for the major products). Out of 39 products in Bangladesh's offensive list, 21 are intermediate goods, while 18 are consumption goods. Similarly, 75 out of 115 products in Sri Lanka's offensive list are intermediate goods. Tariff cuts on intermediate products may induce fragmented production between two countries, which would harness country-specific comparative advantages. Major intermediate goods in the offensive lists are dyed cotton fabrics, cartons, boxes, and cases, plain woven fabrics of cotton, denim, natural rubber, and smoked sheets of natural rubber (Table 1).
The ex-ante estimates predict modest gains for Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in absolute terms, even after completely removing the sensitive list. But complete removal is politically challenging for both countries. Moreover, Bangladesh as an LDC may expect special and differential (S&D) treatment. Thus, the outcome can be a limited PTA in line with weaknesses in existing trade agreements governing South Asian trade. The impact on trade of regional trade agreements in force is negative primarily due to stringent general regulatory measures, including rules of origin (ROO), sensitive lists, and prolonged phasing-in. Given that the estimated modest economic gains of a Bangladesh-Sri Lanka PTA do not justify a trade deal that requires substantial resources for negotiations,the PTA should have fewer regulatory measures and tariff concessions for the products on the offensive lists to maximise the economic benefits of a PTA between the two countries.
Link to the full Talking Economics blog: https://www.ips.lk/talkingeconomics/2022/01/20/bangladesh-sri-lanka-preferential-trade-agreement-gains-and-policy-challenges/
Asanka Wijesinghe is a Research Economist at IPS with research interests in macroeconomic policy, international trade, labour and health economics. He holds a BSc in Agricultural Technology and Management from the University of Peradeniya, an MS in Agribusiness and Applied Economics from North Dakota State University, and an MS and PhD in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from The Ohio State University. (Talk with Asanka – asanka@ips.lk)
Chathurrdhika Yogarajah is a Research Assistant at IPS with research interests in macroeconomics and trade policy. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Technology and Management, specialised in Applied Economics and Business Management from the University of Peradeniya with First Class Honours. She is currently reading for her Master's in Agricultural Economics at the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, Peradeniya. (Talk with Chathurrdhika: chathurrdhika@ips.lk)
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CSE trading started in negative territory yesterday due to heavy profit- takings but after 1 pm the market began to recover, triggered by index heavy counter Expolanka, which gained by adding 21.7 points to the All-Share Price Index. The stock market yesterday produced a creditable recovery to finish on a positive note after early losses amid a relatively low but healthy turnover level. The Expolanka share price appreciated by 2.5 per cent or Rs 9.50. Its shares started trading at Rs 386 and at the end of the day they shot up by Rs 9.50.
Amid those developments both indices moved upwards. The All -Share Price Index went up by 42.8 points and S and P SL20 rose by 7 points. Turnover stood at Rs 4.9 billion with a single crossing. The crossing was reported in Expolanka, which crossed 100,000 shares to the tune of Rs 39.5 million and its shares traded at Rs 395.
In the retail market, top seven companies that mainly contributed to the turnover were, Expolanka Rs 715 million (1.8 million shares traded), Browns Investments Rs 336 million (19.9 million shares traded), ACL Cables Rs 261 million (2.1 million shares traded), LOLC Finance Rs 231 million (8.1 million shares traded), JKH Rs 193 million (1.2 million shares traded), Expack Corrugated Cartons Rs 162 million (seven million shares traded) and Softlogic Capital Rs 161 million (11.3 million shares traded). During the day 154 million share volumes changed hands in 37000 transactions.
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Not even the green light come on.
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By removing the Battery on the motherboard and the power cord a couple of seconds it is normaly possible to "Jump start" it.
When finaly running it run great and SystemDiagnostics dosn´t find any errors.
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World Cup City Guide: Yekaterinburg
Joe Barnes
Yekaterinburg (sometimes spelled Ekaterinburg but ALWAYS pronounced Yeh-katerinburg) is the tournament's most easterly host city, lying 1,667km and 28 hours by train away from Moscow. Many cities claim to be a place "where East meets West" but Yekaterinburg, physically straddling the geographic boundary of Europe and Asia, has a better claim to this than most.
It's insulation from Russia's western frontier means that Yekaterinburg's past is less torrid than that of other host cities. Indeed, the Second World War saw growth rather than destruction, as hundreds of factories in Southern Russia and Ukraine were disassembled, transported piece by piece to the Urals, and reassembled in Yekaterinburg. This added to the city's already rich industrial capability, turning it into a powerhouse.
The end of the Romanovs
Tragedy has not quite escaped the city however, for this was the site of the murder of the Imperial Family on July 17, 1918. With the Bolsheviks triumphant in the October Revolution of the previous year, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were sent into internal exile in Yekaterinburg.
The Bolshevik leadership panicked as the Czechoslovak legion (part of the White Army in the Russian Civil War) closed in on the city, believing that they had been sent to the rescue. As a result the order was given to Yakov Yurovsky to murder the entire Romanov family.
The Tsar, along with his wife, son and daughters were executed in Ipatiev House, where they had been imprisoned. The bodies were stripped, mutilated and buried in secret near the city. It took most of the century to find and identify the bodies. The Bolshevik campaign of misinformation in the years following the murderous episode has succeeded to this day in obfuscating who gave the regicidal order.
The Russian Imperial Family in 1913. Photo credit: Boasson and Eggler
Those interested in the savage end to the Tsarist era can visit the nearby pit of Ganina Yama, where their bodies were unceremoniously dumped. Unfortunately they can no longer visit Ipatiev House, where the Imperial Family spent their last days and where the execution took place; that was destroyed in 1977 under the supervision of a certain Boris Yeltsin, then a Soviet apparatchik in the city.
The Church on Blood stands on the site of Ipatiev House, where the Imperial Family were murdered. Photo credit: Wikipedia Commons
Yekaterinburg Today
Modern-day Yekaterinburg has diversified away from the reliance on industry that defined it during the Soviet era, when the city was known as Sverdlovsk. It is now the fourth largest city in Russia and has become an important strategic node in Vladimir Putin's vision of the country as a Eurasian superpower.
It's position at the nexus of Europe and Asia saw it host the first two meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2008 and 2009. Yekaterinburg's ambition is further highlighted by its determination to hold the World EXPO: having failed in its 2020 bid, it has persevered and now seeks to host the event in 2025.
Preparations for the both the EXPO bid and World Cup have seen the demolition of one of the city's most famous landmarks – over 200m tall, the construction of the Yekaterinburg TV Tower had been put on hold after funds ran out in 1990. Since then it had been used as an illegal BASE jumping site but was destroyed in a spectacular controlled explosion this March.
Yekaterinburg has invested heavily in transport infrastructure in recent years to take advantage of its geographic position. On May 14, Dmitry Medvedev signed a government order to build a new high-speed railway connecting the city to nearby Chelyabinsk. In the long term it is hoped that this will be a key plank in the Moscow – Astana – Beijing railway.
Ural Airlines, the city's local airline, has also seen huge growth over the last five years, now becoming the 4th largest Russian airline as both domestic and international demand soars. It is one of the few major Russian companies not centred in Moscow and has contributed to a rising self confidence in the city.
An independent streak
This self-confidence was manifested during the Soviet period by the distinctive "Ural Rock" music that emanated from here. Bands such as Nautilus Pampilius and Agatha Christie became famous for their lyrics attacking the Soviet regime.
Yekaterinburg was also the city in which the aforementioned Boris Yeltsin made his name before moving on to Moscow to shake the Soviet Union to its foundations. The Boris Yeltsin centre, recently the target of an arson attack, is testament to the mark he made on the city, and Russian politics at large.
Yeltsin may have found an emulator in outgoing Yekaterinburg mayor Yevgeny Roizman, a vocal Putin-critic. Roizman, a prominent member of the Russian opposition, was essentially forced out of his post by a law abolishing mayoral elections – in other words, the Kremlin picks the mayor. He was one of the few directly elected officials in Russia and a symbol of the city's unwillingness to strictly follow the Moscow's line.
Brushed under the carpet
The departure of the mayor is unlikely to sour the party at the World Cup however, Yekaterinburg is determined to show that it is a venue capable of welcoming the world. Teams from across five different continents will play in the 45,000 capacity Yekaterinburg Arena, which will become home to FC Ural after the tournament. Fans from such diverse parts of the world as Mexico, Senegal and Japan can also congregate in the fan zone, located in Mayakovsky Central Park.
Fan tip: Slightly to the West of the city is the physical frontier between Europe and Asia. There are daily tours to the Europe-Asia border monument from the train station. According to legend Tsar Alexander II uncorked a bottle of wine here in 1837. This means that, yes, Yekaterinburg is technically an Asian city – though few locals will admit that.
Read Before Coming:
Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport
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Joe is a journalist and the co-founder and editor of Jericho. His work has appeared in The Financial Times, The Sunday Times and Left Foot Forward. He focusses on Eurasian politics, stretching from Kiev to Tokyo, but has a particular expertise on Russia. He holds a BA in English Literature and Spanish from Newcastle University and an MSc in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Oxford. Based in Beijing, he has previously lived in Moscow, London, Barcelona and Buenos Aires.
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#WSBV Jakiyev: "If we lose, then what are we doing in the Finals? We have to win"
#WSBV Arlans
Marat Jakiyev has been working as a boxing coach for almost 20 years, and the world class trainer was named the Head Coach of Astana Arlans Kazakhstan in 2014.
A winner of a number of international tournaments as a boxer, Jakiyev trained 2005 AIBA World Champion Erdos Dzhanabergenov and 2012 Olympic Games silver medalist Adilbek Niyazymbetov prior to his appointment with Astana Arlans.
His tenure as Head Coach has been very successful thus far, and he has masterminded the Franchise to win 15 of their 16 fixtures in Season V.
With Kazakhstan scheduled to meet Cuba Domadores this weekend in the WSB Finals, we caught up with Jakiyev to find out more about himself, his team, and the upcoming clash with Cuba.
First of all, congratulations on reaching the WSB Finals. What does such a magnificent success mean for the Kazakhstan Franchise?
Thank you. I think it is a result of a lot of hard work and a result of joined efforts from the national team coaches, our club coaches and our boxers.
Throughout the season there has been a lot of rotation in the Astana Arlans line-ups. What was the reason for this?
Because everybody has their unique know how and different tactics.
During the second leg of the semi-finals we saw the long awaited WSB debut of London 2012 Olympic Games bronze medalist and AIBA World Boxing Championships silver medalist Ivan Dychko. How impressed were you with his performance, and is he ready to compete in the Finals?
After the semi-final debut match for Dychko, I think he has the chance to show himself once more. As for his participation in the Final, he is the number one in the national team. Who else if not him?
Cuba Domadores won a pre-season clash against Astana Arlans in Kazakhstan. How has that result affected your preparation for the rematch in the Finals? Will the match be different this time?
It's going to be a close match with exciting bouts. Cuba's squad consists of many World Champions and Olympic gold medalists, but I think we can find an appropriate response.
How has the training of the team gone ahead of the Finals? Will we see any surprises in the line-ups?
We train according to our plans, and of course we want to win, that's why we're working hard. If we lose, then what are we doing in the Finals? We have to win.
Kazakhstan are hosting the Finals at home. How crucial will be the support of your fans be in terms of the overall result?
On one hand, it's good to fight at home as the support of our spectators is important. On the other hand, we would not want to disappoint our fans. Either way, there will be excellent boxing on show.
One of the most highly anticipated matches in the Finals will be a clash between two of the best Heavyweight boxers in the world when Erislandy Savon and Vasilii Levit take to the ring. What we can expect from this contest?
You are right, it's going to be one of the most interesting and exciting fights of the Finals. Savon is a good and experienced boxer, while Levit is in good physical condition. I can say nothing, let's wait until the weekend to know the precise result!
Which Cuban boxers will be the most dangerous fighters to compete against in the Finals?
Well, we already know the Cuban lineup and it's strong squad. I'd like to mention Robeisy Ramirez, Lazaro Alvarez, Yasnier Toledo, Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo, Julio Cesar De La Cruz and Erislandy Savon in particular. I mentioned these guys, because together they represent four World Champions and two Olympic Champions. It's a real challenge, but we have to overcome it.
When did you start your career in boxing?
When I was 11-years-old.
What does boxing mean for you and your life?
Well, boxing is not only a job to make money, it's my life. Most of the time we are in training camps, forgetting families. Boxing means a sense of existence for me, as I live and stay in the sport.
Which boxers from the past have inspired you the most? And which boxer that you have trained has given you the most pride?
There are many good boxers, and as a coach I think that the best boxers are the ones which respect their coaches, and keep relations with them. You should not forget your coach.
My boxer Yerdos Zhanabergenov became an AIBA World Champion in 2005, while other boxers like Adilbek Niyazymbetov, Berik Abdrakhmanov are well known, but they still have a long career ahead of them, and I believe that they will enjoy new achievements.
World Series of Boxing – An interesting project where boxer can improve himself.
Astana Arlans Kazakhstan – An interesting team to work with
Cuba Domadores – A strong team consisting of the best Cuban boxers.
WSB Finals – Exciting matches, and interesting fights between the best boxers
Boxing is – A lifestyle
My hero is – People who are deprived somehow, for example, disabled people who manage to keep a positive attitude to life and want to continue living despite any circumstances.
My favourite food is – any delicious cuisine
My favourite drink is – Shubat, camel milk.
How I see my future – Actually I have not enough time to think about the future. There are too many things to think, to solve, and to do here and now.


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Center for Cognitive Science
Seminar on Media Analysis, 16-21 December 2019
Seminar on Media Analysis: Mark Turner
16-21 December 2019
Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University
16 /12/2019 Monday, 2:30-6:10 pm
Assignment: bring a piece of media and do a frame analysis
18 /12/2019 Wednesday, 8:00-11:40 am
Assignment for Wednesday: bring a piece of media and do a frame analysis
Note that you can see a list of some frames and some lexical forms that evoke frames at https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/
19 /12/2019 Thursday, 8:00-11:40 am. Room 515.
Assignment for Thursday: bring an example of frame blending
20 /12/2019 Friday, 2:30-6:10 pm
21 /12/2019 Saturday, 2:30-6:10 pm
Mark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hunan Normal University.
Description and syllabus
An introduction to the study of mind and media.
Students will attend all class meetings, make in-class presentations, and submit a final paper.
Final paper: 2500 words. Due date to be determined
For the final paper, the student will select a particular cognitive process from the list below, specify it more sharply, and explore its use in a range of media examples. Class discussion will guide students in crafting these papers.
Readings, to be completed before the beginning of class
The sections on classic and blended joint attention in Thomas_Turner_ClassicAndBlendedJointAttention.pdf. Read pages 189-193, 213-4 ("Blended Scenes"), 226-227 ("Tethered Excursions"). Lightly skim the rest.
Sweetser, Eve. Introduction: Viewpoint and perspective in language and gesture, from the Ground down.
Movie Editing and Viewpoint Shifts: https://b23.tv/av31275519. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abCnSy_xiRM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJcQgQHR78Q&t=257s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex4XGiyJugY.
Turner, chapters 1-5 of The Literary Mind.
Turner, "Double Scope Stories"
Hedblom on Image Schemas. Hedblom_ThesisReduced.pdf. Browse pages 43-80.
Turner, "Frame Blending".
Turner, Mark. 2006. "Compression and Representation". Language and Literature. 15:1, 17-27.
List of Cognitive Operations
We will approach media through the study of cognitive operations and conditions:
Embodiment. Cognition occurs in a body and is evolved to understand the operations of the body. The human body is the fundamental media platform.
Image Schemas: skeletal concepts based in recurrent sensory and motor experience, such as container, link, balance, source-path-goal, verticality. These concepts are used widely in cognition across many domains, such as marriage, often conceived as a joining that produces a link or bond.
Force Dynamics: skeletal experiential concepts of interactions involving force, often with an agonist, antagonist, and relative measures of strength. These concepts are used widely in cognition across many domains, such as social relationship: "My parents would not let me go to the party."
Attention. This is a scarce human mental resource, and a powerful influence on conception.
Viewpoint. One of the things we know from embodied experience is that we have a viewpoint, and that we can change it. We have at any moment a perceptual viewpoint, but also, potentially, an intellectual, religious, or aesthetic viewpoint. Viewpoint arises inevitably from embodiment: participants in any scene of communicative joint attention are embodied.
Small Spatial Stories. Interacting objects conform to force-dynamics ("The water carried the leaf under the bridge") and have intentions and goals ("The waiter carried coffee through the dining room to my table").
Mental frame, or just "frame": We have a mental bundle for grave-digging, a mental bundle for marriage, and so on. The word "sexton" is a prompt for calling up the frame for grave-digging, and additional frames for Christian churches, and bell-ringing; nearly none of what that frame contains needs to be mentioned in an actual expression. We have a mental frame for buying and selling, and a more limited mental package for the special case of buying and selling securities, particularly stocks and bonds. In that mental package, that little frame for buying and selling securities, there are roles for the buyer, the seller, what is sold, and the broker who arranges the transaction. When someone says, "I have to call my stockbroker," everyone can activate the appropriate package, the appropriate bundle of related elements. When someone says that sentence, we imagine, unless we are told or have reason to believe otherwise, that the telephone call is about buying and selling securities. Nobody needs to explain that the call is about buying and selling, because the word "stockbroker" calls up that little mental package. To understand "I have to call my stockbroker," we activate information from that frame to build a small mental array containing the speaker, the phone call, and the broker.
Reframing. The mental act of switching to a different frame for construing. For example, we are prompted to reframe when someone says, without correcting the facts, "He's not stingy; he's thrifty."
Blending. A blend is a mental space. It results from the mental act of blending other mental spaces in a mental web. The blend is not an abstraction, or an analogy, or anything else already named and recognized in common sense. A blend is a new mental space that contains some elements from different mental spaces in a mental web but that develops new meaning of its own that is not drawn from those spaces. This new meaning emerges in the blend. For example, suppose I say, "My brother-in-law, the stockbroker, lives in San Francisco. The stock market opens on the East Coast at 9:30 a.m., when it is only 6:30 a.m. on the West Coast. So my brother-in-law must awaken every weekday at about 5 in the morning if he is going to be sufficiently alert to start serious and risky work at 6:30 a.m. If I were my brother-in-law, I would be miserable." That last sentence asks us to blend me and my brother-in-law. To understand the passage, we need a mental space that has me and a mental space that has my brother-in-law, and we need to blend those spaces. The result, in the blend, is a man imbued with some of what we think about me and some of what we think about my brother-in-law, but only some in each case. In the blend, I am my brother-in-law, in a way: There is an element in the blend that has my personal identity, but no longer my job. It has my emotions, but my brother-in-law's competence and business activity. This new idea of the blended man is not available from any other space in the mental web. It is unique to the blend. There is a new idea here, one that emerges only in the blend. I-am-my-brother-in-law is a new idea, and a very complicated one.
Compression. Blending typically produces compression, especially over causation, agency, time, and space (CATS)
The Idea of Another Mind and Another Personal Identity. To conceive of another mind, we blend some of what we construe of the appearance of another entity and some of what we know about only ourselves. For example, we believe that we have thoughts, a viewpoint, a conception of force-dynamics, experience of pain, and so on. We have no direct access to other minds, but we imbue other entities with rich minds by blending, and develop emergent structure for those minds.
Frame Blending. For example, the frame of kinship and the frame of cosmic force can be blended to create theogonies.
The Idea of Self and Personal Identity. Much of our own conception of a stable identity comes from blending into our self-conception from entities that are not our self. We create selves under influence from characters in stories, scripture, films, and from other people we have encountered. "Impersonation" is too strong a word for the intentional modeling of our actions on patterns we have learned from others, but such blends are part of our conception of our own lives and identity.
Empathy, identifying, blending of selves. The mental blending of self and other is at the root of empathy and similar other-regarding human impulses.
Viewpoint Blending. We can blend our viewpoint and our conception of the viewpoint of someone else. "I will come to your party" asks us to construct such a blend: the normal verb for ego's movement to some place is go, not come. Come is the normal verb for someone else's movement to ego's location. "I" is from the speaker's viewpoint, but "come" is from the hearer's viewpoint; this blend acknowledges that the active center of the party belongs to the hearer, not the speaker. In this case, blending projects selectively from viewpoint in the input mental spaces to the blend (Sweetser 2012). Recanati (1995) analyzes the way in which what he calls "the epistolary present" expresses a blended temporal viewpoint belonging to the blended joint attention that arises for personal correspondence. In the blend, writer and reader are present in the moment and jointly attending, although they know that outside the blend in the mental web organized by the blend they are in different times and conditions. Turner (1996) analyzes other temporal viewpoint blends, as when the wife, headed to the shower, says to her husband (who has asked how a certain task will be accomplished), "My husband took care of that while I was in the shower." Nikiforidou (2010 & 2012) analyzes the role of blending in a construction she calls "Past tense + proximal deictic," with emphasis on the cases where the proximal deictic is "now." The preferred patterns are "was/were + now," as in "It was now possible . . ." and, for a non-copula verb, "now + past tense," as in "He now saw that . . ." Nikiforidou provides "a detailed blueprint of the blending mappings cued by the [past + proximal deictic] pattern" (2012).
The Ground. The ground is a general conceptual frame for organizing specific communicative situations. It includes "the speech event, its setting, and its participants" (Langacker 1985:113). Roles in this frame—such as the time of the communicative event and the location or site of the speech event—take on values in specific communicative situations. Traditions of rhetoric, philology, semiotics, linguistics, and information theory have in one way or another considered the idea of the ground, and it has been treated by a range of cognitive linguists (Fillmore 1971, Rubba 1996, Talmy 1986).
Blended Classic Joint Attention
Joint Attention. Once we have the concept of another mind, which has attention and a viewpoint, we can construct the concept that two minds are attending to the same thing. Joint attention is a human-scale scene in which some people are attending to something and know they are all attending to something and know also that they are engaged with each other in attending to it (Tomasello et al. 1995, Tobin 2008). In a scene of joint attention, there are some people who know that they are jointly attending to something and that they are engaging with each other by jointly attending to it, even if they are not communicating about it, and they know, too, that they all know all of this, recursively, including that she knows that I know that she knows that I know ... . Very many scholars over millennia have contributed to the analysis of this important human situation, e. g., very recently, Tomasello (1999), Clark (1996), Clark and Henetz (2014). What the participants in a scene of joint attention know is highly culture- and sub-culture and micro-culture dependent and requires constant and impressive cognitive work to construct, and is fallible, which is one of the reasons that communication comes with so many procedures for repair, negotiation, and accommodation.
Classic Joint Attention. In "communicative joint attention," these people are not only jointly attending but also communicating with each other about the focus of their attention, even if the communication is very sparse, consisting perhaps of only pointing. In classic joint attention (Thomas and Turner (2011)), two (or a few) people together are jointly attending to something they can perceive in the same human environment, and they are communicating about it. They know that they are attending to it, know that they are engaging with each other by attending to it, and know that they all know all of this, recursively. In classic joint attention, people seek to gain each other's attention in order to direct it to objects or events, and they communicate, even if minimally, about the focus of their joint attention. Human beings are superbly equipped for classic joint attention. Classic joint attention is widely recognized as a foundation of our ability to teach, learn, and cooperate. Human communicative abilities, including language and gesture, are largely dedicated to this basic scene of classic joint attention, and substantial grammatical resources are dedicated to managing it: think of one person saying to another, "I can help you with that now by looking here." As stand-alone text, the meaning to be constructed in response to such an utterance is profoundly under-determined, but in a scene of classic joint attention, it is likely to be crystal-clear to the participants: they know how deictics are used to prompt for the construction of meaning in a scene of classic joint attention.
Blended Classic Joint Attention. But classic joint attention is by no means the limit of our world: human thought is remarkable for its ability to stretch across much more than these basic scenes. The sweep of human thought is vast, extending over time, space, causation, and agency, creating mental ideas that go far beyond our local experience. A basic technique for constructing meaning across an extended mental network is to use as an input to that network some very compressed, congenial concept in order to provide familiar, compressed structure to the blend. The range of principles, operations, and constraints on constructing a compressed blend is studied in Turner (1996, 2001), Fauconnier and Turner (2002), Turner (2014). In brief: we construct mappings across different mental spaces, and project from them selectively to create a blend from these inputs that has additional, emergent structure not contained in any of them. The successful blend serves as a conceptually manageable tool for dealing mentally with the otherwise unwieldy mental network, which consists of all the mental spaces in the conceptual array that the blend grounds. The compact blend constructed in such a network provides an anchor, a platform, a window for mental achievement that would otherwise be possible. It is often the case that a full and difficult mental network does not involve one of our familiar, experiential ideas, but we can blend that network with one of those familiar ideas, to make a bigger network and a useful blend. We can, via this process of blending, make a compact mental blend for the network that is based in manageable ideas. For example, in the history of ideas, we often say that one scientist or writer or thinker or philosopher is "trying to answer" some previous thinker, or that the later thinker is "disputing" with the previous thinker, or that an earlier thinker "already answered" the later thinker's question. We talk about the "debate" between Lamarck and Darwin, or Plato and Aristotle. But of course, these thinkers were not actually in a scene of classic joint attention where they were actually asking and answering, disputing, and debating. Our understanding of the vast network of agents and actions stretching over time and space and causation and agency is not actually a scene of classic joint attention of conversation between two people, but we can blend this vast network with that familiar, experiential scene of classic joint attention, and so, via the blend, manage and understand it. In the blend, there is a debate between the two thinkers, who may not have even been alive at the same time. We are not fooled, but the blend is a very useful conceptual tool. It gives us a way to grasp the entire network of ideas. Such a blend is intelligible, even though it connects to conceptual elements in a network stretching over time, space, causation, and agency, because it has some familiar, human-scale structure. In the case of the debate between thinkers in the history of ideas, the blend is partially structured by the frame of classic joint attention, that is, conversation focusing on some object perceptually available to both of the people in the immediate perceptual environment, even though, outside the blend – that is, in the mental network of all the inputs – , we know it is not really a conversation: the earlier thinker, for example, cannot really reply to the questions posed by the later thinker. But we can take something the earlier thinker wrote and say, in the blend, that it "answers" the later thinker. In the blend, the participants are not actually focused on something perceptually available to them both in the same immediate environment. Because of the familiar structure of such a blend, we can get a handle on the entire mental network. We know how to work from the meaning constructed for the blend to correlated meaning that is to be constructed for the mental network. Mental networks grounded in compact blends often stretch far beyond what we would otherwise be able to conceive. There is an enormous, indefinitely extensible, central category of blending networks that can be characterized as depending upon having classic joint attention as a major input to the blend. The existence of this open category is no surprise, given the importance and congeniality of our concept of classic joint attention. I call them blended classic joint attention networks (BCJA networks). As an example of a BCJA network, consider the role of the TV news anchor. Watching a news anchor on the TV is definitely not a scene of classic joint attention. But it can feel that way to us, because we blend the vast mental network of what is going on with the frame of classic joint attention to make a compressed blend of blended classic joint attention. The news anchor is not actually in a scene of classic joint attention with the viewer; terrorism is not a local object or event in a local scene that we can perceive directly; here for the participants in the news interaction is not actually a single shared space ("It's good to have you here," says the news anchor, but where is "here"?); now for the participants in the news interaction need not be a particular moment ("Now we have a special announcement coming up for you here," says the news announcer, but perhaps it was recorded, perhaps it is meant to be viewed at many different times, perhaps the announcer did not even know what the special announcement would be; in addition, who is "we," and again, where is "here"?). But we can blend all these elements into a scene of blended classic joint attention, which is tractable and familiar because it draws on our understanding of classic joint attention. Most of the language that is available for running a scene of classic joint attention can be projected, adapted, and used for BCJA. BCJA is a generic integration template – that is, a well-known general pattern of blending that can guide the mental construction of indefinitely many specific networks. Blended classic joint attention (or rather, the generic integration template for constructing a BCJA mental network) is a major cognitive resource, ostensibly available to only cognitively modern human beings, which we might guess to be roughly all human beings during the last 50,000 years, or perhaps significantly more, depending on how one interprets the archeological record or how the archeological record is improved in the future. Blended classic joint attention is a scene we understand by blending the scene of classic joint attention with other things that do not in fact fit that scene, in order to make them fit that scene in the blend. Personal letters, telephone calls, walkie-talkie discourse, writing, and many other scenes of technological communication have led to common cultural scenes of blended classic joint attention. In these scenes, it is not necessarily the case that those who are jointly attending are together in the same spatial or temporal environment, or even that they know of each other's existence. One can keep a secret diary that one never means to show to anyone else, and yet, the concept of what we are doing in keeping that diary can be formed partly by thinking of classic joint attention – even if the other intelligence paying attention in the blend is only imaginary, or is one of our future selves, or is a disembodied non-human intelligence. A letter we write can begin, "To Whom It May Concern."
Multimodality (soundtracks, color spectrum shift, . . . ). Human face-to-face communication has always taken place across multiple modalities: through gesture, facial expression, posture, tone of voice, pacing, gaze direction, touch, and words. Elaborate multimodal communication is a central and constantly active part of human cognition, in science, technology, engineer- ing, mathematics, art, religion, crafts, social interaction, learning, innovation, memory, attention, travel, and all other activities, whether goal-based or not. Cultures invest heavily to support this aspect of human life: classical cultures emphasized the importance of rhetorical training, and today's world is crowded with novel technologies of multimodal communication, from television to social media, creating an unprecedented trove of digital records. Communication skills involve higher-order cognition, precisely timed movements, delicately modulated sounds, conceiving of the mental states of others from moment to moment, dynamically coordinating with other agents, and a high level of contextual awareness (Duranti and Goodwin 1992; Clark 1996).
Inhabiting a role (which everyone does, variably, all the time; consider also acting).
Story as a mental operation. See The Literary Mind.
Mental spaces. A mental space is a small bundle of conceptual structure assembled for the purpose of the construction of meaning. Mental spaces are sewn together in what we might think of as a mental web. A mental web has mental spaces and connections between them, and we build more mental spaces and more connections as we think about something. For example, "My brother-in-law, the stockbroker, and his family will be traveling from San Francisco to Cleveland for Thanksgiving for a massive family reunion, and we need to learn the time of their arrival so that we can drive down to pick them up" will prompt for many mental spaces. There might be one mental space in which I drive my car through complicated holiday traffic, another in which I stop at the appropriate gate at the arrival deck of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, and so on. Typically, we cannot hold all these spaces equally active simultaneously in mind. As we think, we focus on one or another mental space in the mental web at a time. The mental spaces that we have activated recently will remain latent, which is to say, easier to activate.
Our readings will emphasize basic mental operations that operate throughout all media. We will look at patterns of human cognition that are ancient to human beings and upon which media have converged for powerful, immersive effect. Background: Modern human beings today live and thrive surrounded by media, despite the fact that archeological evidence for robust mediation seems to be relatively recent, reaching back to only 50,000 or perhaps 100,000 years ago (although there are sporadic and largely uninterpretable archeological examples of human-made markings considerably before that time, as at Blombos Cave and at Bilzingsleben). How does the mind work to invent and understand media even though mediation is—unlike vision, hearing, motion, force, and so on—not a robust part of human operation before the Upper Paleolithic Age?
In this class, we will adopt at all moments the cognitive research viewpoint. It is the sole viewpoint in this class: we are never interested primarily in a particular piece of data—a painting, film, poem, TV broadcast, cartoon. Human beings are naturally pulled into individual artifacts—this sculpture, that photograph, that advertisement, that video game. But our focus in this class is always something about the human mind and how it works; we want evidence, but never any particular evidence. Always ask yourself as you are making a point in the class, "If all the data I am looking at suddenly disappeared, or never existed, would it make any difference to what I am saying?" If it does, you are on the wrong track. If you are ever talking just about this or that piece of media, you are on the wrong track (for this class). For human mental operations, there is always a great deal of data, a great deal of evidence, a great many artifacts, and, given limitations of time, you will always be looking at only the smallest fraction of it. If anything you are saying depends on that fraction, re-think your focus. The media themselves are the data for what we are exploring. We are not interested in them per se. Be especially wary of deciding to present some piece of media you just love; in such a condition, it is very difficult to keep focus where it belongs—on the mind, not on the media. So, for your first presentation, make sure you are discussing a question about higher-order human cognition for which there is No Robust Animal Model. The piece of media you present is not the object of study; it is only something that helps you see the general question and possible answers. What is that question?


Theology at the end of this blog. First, some environmental talk. I have an occupational background in environmental biology (not to mention a Master's degree in International Development), so I understand the idea of carrying capacity. And I don't believe in the idea that Earth has a "carrying capacity" of humans. Drawn over from environmental studies of animals in an ecosystem, the reason this is a non-starter for me in regards to human population, is that history has shown, time and time again, that people are capable of creatively adapting and developing ways to live in an ecosystem far beyond what its "previous" carrying capacity was thought to be prior to the innovation.
A meme I saw said "God makes a world for humans – 70 % saltwater ocean." It was witty on the surface, but it really doesn't make the point it attempts. Humans figure out how to live in ecosystems as we go. Our ancestors walking out of Africa could not have survived near the Arctic Circle with the savannah lifestyle they knew – but the Inuit and Eskimo have learned how to thrive there for thousands of years – with only Neolithic technology! 70% of our world is indeed oceanic – but we have only scratched the surface on learning how to live there. We can learn to live in oceanic environments just as surely as we did in Arctic ones. Aquatic farming is just in its earliest stages. Not only is there plenty more for us to learn about farming Earth's various biomes, but we haven't even hardly started with urban farming and stackable skyscraper farms. Figures for carrying capacity are always and utterly tied to current technology and practices. Any talk of carrying capacity should start by saying "If we never, ever do a single thing different than we do today…" And that's just silly.
But there's a strong theological reason to question the idea of carrying capacity. For those Christians who believe we are past the carrying capacity of the Earth, we need to ask "Which of the people currently alive would the Creator God prefer had never been born?" It is theologically repugnant, from a Christian point of view, to imagine there are any. We don't need less people created in the imago dei. We simply need what every group of people have needed (and worked out) since the digging stick was invented and there were more babies born in the tribe: new ways to find, (or in our case) increase, harvestable output.
And by the way, there is no shortage of food in the world per capita. There are local scarcities we haven't transported to effectively. It's not a quantity issue, it's a transportation issue and a governance issue. Next time let's talk about carrying capacity and pollutants in a closed system.
When we talk about the human habitation of Earth today, we want quantitative understandings of the planet's carrying capacity. Materials and energy balances are key tools in achieving a quantitative understanding of the behavior of environmental systems. They serve as a method of accounting for the flow of energy and materials into and out of a system. Mass balances provide us with a tool for modeling the production, transport, and fate of things like pollutants or resources in an environment… examples of mass balances include prediction of rainwater runoff, oxygen balance in a stream, the temperature change in a river from the discharge of cooling water from a power plant, or the temperature rise due to global warming.
Accumulation = input – output.
There are both known and unknown inputs, outputs, and accumulations in system modeling, but the mass balance should account for and solve the amount of unknown inputs and outputs.
In plug-flow systems, a calculus equation can tell you how many km of pipe is needed to decontaminate a certain amount of polluted water as it flows through the pipe with a catalyst inserted. This kind of rate-of-flow-and-conversion is another calculation we need in order to understand our carrying capacity as a planet.
So, our situation is this. As human civilization has grown and continues to, we are increasing the inputs of some things in the system at a rate that outpaces the output. At the same time, we have a hard time calculating the availability and sustainability of some of the key resources – estimates have been wrong time and again. Likewise, we don't know the tipping point of some processes, since we've never been to this spot before. More on what this means for our future as humans on this planet, and how theology affects our calculations, next time.
* Intro to Environmental Engineering Fourth edition (Davis & Cornwell). My family includes an environmental engineer.


Unlimited apps and e-reader integration make iPads great e-readers.
Recently rumors started floating around that Apple will announce two updates to its iPad line: a new iPad Mini and a regular 10" iPad. If true, that means the older models will work better with the latest Apple OS and could be a great way not only to catch up on work or entertainment, but also reading goals.
According to CNET, "new iPad model numbers have popped up in the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) database, including one that may be for an iPad Mini 5." Apple likes to announce new tablets and computers in the spring, so it should only be a few months to see what it actually has planned. Though not the optimal e-reader option, iPads are still one of the most handy devices for on-the-go users. What iPads lack in pocket size and e-ink screens they gain in the sheer number of apps available. Because most apps also work in tandem with apps from e-book companies, it's totally possible to turn an iPad into a killer e-reader in its own right.
First things first: turn off notifications, mute the sound and turn on "Do Not Disturb" mode. To really get into reading, it starts with turning off the outside world. On a tablet, especially the iPad, it takes a conscious effort and a lot of tweaking the settings. The easiest way is probably turning on Airplane Mode which kills all wireless connectivity and leaves just the content pre-downloaded on the device. But if needed, the Wifi and Bluetooth can be turned back on.
Wondering where to find a good book? Start with Goodreads, the online community for book lovers and readers everywhere; it's also owned by Amazon and comes in handy for Kindle users. Its app includes all of the same features as the website, plus it can search books you find by taking a photo of its barcode on the back of the book. Another great resource is Libby, the app from OverDrive. Libby connects with local libraries to manage multiple library cards, e-book loans and browse the catalog.
Looking for where to read said good book? Of course, if your e-reader is an iPad the given place to start would be Apple's own Books app–– it came pre-installed anyway. Other than that, brand loyalty is the only deciding factor in choosing whether to use the Kindle, Nook or Kobo apps. All include popular features like built-in dictionaries, highlights for words or passages, note creation, bookmarks and more. None of them are able to make e-book purchases and all require an account to download and sync books across devices. Audio books are also a popular option, and iPads support this format better than normal e-readers. Nook has its own audiobook app, while Kobo and Kindle (via Audible, which also has its own app) supports audiobooks in-app.
An iPad is great for nearly everything and an update to the line for the everyday users will be welcome news. With a nearly endless supply of apps that connect to all the popular e-readers, it's a versatile tablet that fits the in-between for people who want a screen larger than a phone to get some reading done. Nothing beats a physical book, and glass screens always have to deal with certain setbacks, but when it comes down to sheer convenience an iPad will get the novel read.


Greensboro, N.C. — Day three of deliberations and still no verdict in the John Edwards Campaign Finance Trial.
Jurors deliberated all day Tuesday, only taking a 90-minute lunch break. Just before they went home for the day, jurors asked to see two more prosecution exhibits. One was a letter from Alex Forger to Andrew Young. The other was a letter from Forger to Bunny Mellon. Forger is Mellon's attorney.
Deliberations start again at 9:30 Wednesday morning.


SI INFORMANO I SIGNORI PASSEGGERI CHE, CON ORDINANZA N. 11/2019 DA PARTE DELLA POLIZIA MUNICIPALE DI SCORDIA IN OCCASIONE DEI FESTEGGIAMENTI DI SAN GIUSEPPE, PER IL GIORNO 17 C.M. LA CORSA DELLE ORE 19,15 SCORDIA - MILITELLO EFFETTUERA' LA SOLA FERMATA IN VIA TENENTE DE CRISTOFERO ( DI FRONTE SUPERMERCATO COCCODRILLO ). MENTRE PER IL GIORNO 19 C.M. TUTTE LE CORSE IN ARRIVO E IN PARTENZA DALLE ORE 09,00 ALLE 12,30 EFFETTUERANNO LA SOLA FERMATA COSI' COME SOPRA.


CARTILAGE | Microanatomy Web Atlas | Gwen V. Childs, Ph.D.
Hyaline cartilage contains cells called chondrocytes embedded in a unique matrix that gives the tissue both strength and flexibility. Review the components of the matrix. Find hyaline cartilage in your trachea slide, and look for the chondrocytes housed in their spaces called "lacunae". The photos are from the trachea slide. Note that some spaces contain more than one chondrocyte...these are daughter cells formed after division.
Also note the outside of the cartilage tissue is connective tissue called "perichondrium".. Layers of "chondroblasts" are found in the inner layers. They give rise to new chondrocytes as they secrete matrix around themselves. Cartilage can grow from the outside (appositional growth) and from within (interstitial growth). Considering the absence of blood vessels in cartilage, why do you think the content and organization of the matrix is so important?
The cartilage in the ear contains many elastic fibers and is therefore called "elastic cartilage". Elastic cartilage can be distinguished by the stain for elastin that brings out the dense bundles.
This section shows fibrocartilage from an intervertebral disk. It is distinguished by very scattered, infrequent chondrocytes (see the tiny dark nuclei) and collagen fibers running in the matrix.


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In this issue of Russia Briefing, we address the technical aspects of investing in the country. The magazine explains the basics of business set up for foreign investors, from trademark registration and representation, to trading mechanisms and a step-by-step guide to establishing a company in Russia.
Branch Offices in Russia differ from Representative Office establishments as they can perform direct commercial activities and generate local income. For this reason, they are often the preferred vehicle of choice for foreign investors looking to commence trade and import-export functions in Russia.
Looking at the new dynamics of an increasingly eastern facing Russia is relatively simple, with the establishment of the Representative Office (RO) in the country a proven method for assessing the local market and its new dynamics. A RO also avoid any possible entrepreneurial risks, as they are cost centers only and not incorporations.
Russia acknowledges main international intellectual property conventions, but has many unique domestic procedures for registering a foreign owned trademark. Learn how to register your foreign owned trademark in this article.
According to the Russian ambassador in Minsk, Belarus, Alexander Surikov, a joint Russian-Belarusian workgroup is reviewing a recommendation for a common visa area for the two countries before 2018.


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// Copyright 2021 The Chromium Authors
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "chrome/browser/printing/print_backend_service_test_impl.h"

#include <utility>

#include "base/check.h"
#include "base/logging.h"
#include "base/memory/scoped_refptr.h"
#include "base/values.h"
#include "chrome/browser/printing/print_backend_service_manager.h"
#include "printing/backend/test_print_backend.h"

namespace printing {

PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::PrintBackendServiceTestImpl(
    mojo::PendingReceiver<mojom::PrintBackendService> receiver)
    : PrintBackendServiceImpl(std::move(receiver)) {}

PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::~PrintBackendServiceTestImpl() = default;

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::Init(const std::string& locale) {
  DCHECK(test_print_backend_);
  print_backend_ = test_print_backend_;
}

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::EnumeratePrinters(
    mojom::PrintBackendService::EnumeratePrintersCallback callback) {
  if (terminate_receiver_) {
    TerminateConnection();
    return;
  }

  PrintBackendServiceImpl::EnumeratePrinters(std::move(callback));
}

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::GetDefaultPrinterName(
    mojom::PrintBackendService::GetDefaultPrinterNameCallback callback) {
  if (terminate_receiver_) {
    TerminateConnection();
    return;
  }
  PrintBackendServiceImpl::GetDefaultPrinterName(std::move(callback));
}

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::GetPrinterSemanticCapsAndDefaults(
    const std::string& printer_name,
    mojom::PrintBackendService::GetPrinterSemanticCapsAndDefaultsCallback
        callback) {
  if (terminate_receiver_) {
    TerminateConnection();
    return;
  }

  PrintBackendServiceImpl::GetPrinterSemanticCapsAndDefaults(
      printer_name, std::move(callback));
}

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::FetchCapabilities(
    const std::string& printer_name,
    mojom::PrintBackendService::FetchCapabilitiesCallback callback) {
  if (terminate_receiver_) {
    TerminateConnection();
    return;
  }

  PrintBackendServiceImpl::FetchCapabilities(printer_name, std::move(callback));
}

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::UpdatePrintSettings(
    base::Value::Dict job_settings,
    mojom::PrintBackendService::UpdatePrintSettingsCallback callback) {
  if (terminate_receiver_) {
    TerminateConnection();
    return;
  }

  PrintBackendServiceImpl::UpdatePrintSettings(std::move(job_settings),
                                               std::move(callback));
}

// static
std::unique_ptr<PrintBackendServiceTestImpl>
PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::LaunchUninitialized(
    mojo::Remote<mojom::PrintBackendService>& remote) {
  // Launch the service running locally in-process.
  mojo::PendingReceiver<mojom::PrintBackendService> receiver =
      remote.BindNewPipeAndPassReceiver();
  return std::make_unique<PrintBackendServiceTestImpl>(std::move(receiver));
}

void PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::TerminateConnection() {
  DLOG(ERROR) << "Terminating print backend service test connection";
  receiver_.reset();
}

// static
std::unique_ptr<PrintBackendServiceTestImpl>
PrintBackendServiceTestImpl::LaunchForTesting(
    mojo::Remote<mojom::PrintBackendService>& remote,
    scoped_refptr<TestPrintBackend> backend,
    bool sandboxed) {
  std::unique_ptr<PrintBackendServiceTestImpl> service =
      LaunchUninitialized(remote);

  // Do the common initialization using the testing print backend.
  service->test_print_backend_ = backend;
  service->Init(/*locale=*/std::string());

  // Register this test version of print backend service to be used instead of
  // launching instances out-of-process on-demand.
  if (sandboxed) {
    PrintBackendServiceManager::GetInstance().SetServiceForTesting(&remote);
  } else {
    PrintBackendServiceManager::GetInstance().SetServiceForFallbackTesting(
        &remote);
  }

  return service;
}

}  // namespace printing