Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, made several significant contributions to modern scientific thought. As the first man to use the telescope to study the skies, he amassed evidence that proved the Earth revolves around the Sun and is not the centre of the universe, as had been believed. His position represented such a radical departure from accepted thought that he was tried by the Inquisition in Rome, ordered to recant, and forced to spend the last eight years of his life under house arrest. He informally stated the principles later embodied in Newton's first two laws of motion. Because of his pioneer work in gravitation and motion and in combining mathematical analysis with experimentation, Galileo often is referred to as the founder of modern mechanics and experimental physics. Perhaps the most far-reaching of his achievements was his reestablishment of mathematical rationalism against Aristotle's logico-verbal approach and his insistence that the "Book of Nature is . . . written in mathematical characters." From this base, he was able to found the modern experimental method.
Galileo was born at Pisa on February 15, 1564, the son of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician. He received his early education at the monastery of Vallombrosa near Florence, where his family had moved in 1574. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa to study medicine. While in the Pisa cathedral during his first year at the university, Galileo supposedly observed a lamp swinging and found that the lamp always required the same amount of time to complete an oscillation, no matter how large the range of the swing. Later in life Galileo verified this observation experimentally and suggested that the principle of the pendulum might be applied to the regulation of clocks.
Until he supposedly observed the swinging lamp in the cathedral, Galileo had received no instruction in mathematics. Then a geometry lesson he overheard by chance awakened his interest, and he began to study mathematics and science with Ostilio Ricci, a teacher in the Tuscan court. But in 1585, before he had received a degree, he was withdrawn from the university because of lack of funds. Returning to Florence, he lectured at the Florentine academy and in 1586 published an essay describing the hydrostatic balance, the invention of which made his name known throughout Italy. In 1589 a treatise on the centre of gravity in solids won for Galileo the honourable, but not lucrative, post of mathematics lecturer at the University of Pisa.
Galileo then began his research into the theory of motion, first disproving the Aristotelian contention that bodies of different weights fall at different speeds. Because of financial difficulties, Galileo, in 1592, applied for and was awarded the chair of mathematics at Padua, where he was to remain for 18 years and perform the bulk of his most outstanding work. At Padua he continued his research on motion and proved theoretically (about 1604) that falling bodies obey what came to be known as the law of uniformly accelerated motion (in such motion a body speeds up or slows down uniformly with time). Galileo also gave the law of parabolic fall (e.g., a ball thrown into the air follows a parabolic path). The legend that he dropped weights from the leaning tower of Pisa apparently has no basis in fact.
Galileo became convinced early in life of the truth of the Copernican theory (i.e., that the planets revolve about the Sun) but was deterred from avowing his opinions--as shown in his letter of April 4, 1597, to Kepler--because of fear of ridicule. While in Venice in the spring of 1609, Galileo learned of the recent invention of the telescope. After returning to Padua he built a telescope of threefold magnifying power and quickly improved it to a power of 32. Because of the method Galileo devised for checking the curvature of the lenses, his telescopes were the first that could be used for astronomical observation and soon were in demand in all parts of Europe.
As the first person to apply the telescope to a study of the skies, Galileo in late 1609 and early 1610 announced a series of astronomical discoveries. He found that the surface of the Moon was irregular and not smooth, as had been supposed; he observed that the Milky Way system was composed of a collection of stars; he discovered the satellites of Jupiter and named them Sidera Medicea (Medicean Stars) in honour of his former pupil and future employer, Cosimo II, grand duke of Tuscany. He also observed Saturn, spots on the Sun, and the phases of Venus . His first decisive astronomical observations were published in 1610 in Sidereus Nuncius ("The Starry Messenger").
Although the Venetian senate had granted Galileo a lifetime appointment as professor at Padua because of his findings with the telescope, he left in the summer of 1610 to become "first philosopher and mathematician" to the grand duke of Tuscany, an appointment that enabled him to devote more time to research.
In 1611 Galileo visited Rome and demonstrated his telescope to the most eminent personages at the pontifical court. Encouraged by the flattering reception accorded to him, he ventured, in three letters on the sunspots printed at Rome in 1613 under the title Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti . . . , to take up a more definite position on the Copernican theory. Movement of the spots across the face of the Sun, Galileo maintained, proved Copernicus was right and Ptolemy wrong.
His great expository gifts and his choice of Italian, in which he was an acknowledged master of style, made his thoughts popular beyond the confines of the universities and created a powerful movement of opinion. The Aristotelian professors, seeing their vested interests threatened, united against him. They strove to cast suspicion upon him in the eyes of ecclesiastical authorities because of contradictions between the Copernican theory and the Scriptures. They obtained the cooperation of the Dominican preachers, who fulminated from the pulpit against the new impiety of "mathematicians" and secretly denounced Galileo to the Inquisition for blasphemous utterances, which, they said, he had freely invented. Gravely alarmed, Galileo agreed with one of his pupils, B. Castelli, a Benedictine monk, that something should be done to forestall a crisis. He accordingly wrote letters meant for the Grand Duke and for the Roman authorities (letters to Castelli, to the Grand Duchess Dowager, to Monsignor Dini) in which he pointed out the danger, reminding the church of its standing practice of interpreting Scripture allegorically whenever it came into conflict with scientific truth, quoting patristic authorities and warning that it would be "a terrible detriment for the souls if people found themselves convinced by proof of something that it was made then a sin to believe." He even went to Rome in person to beg the authorities to leave the way open for a change. A number of ecclesiastical experts were on his side. Unfortunately, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, the chief theologian of the church, was unable to appreciate the importance of the new theories and clung to the time-honoured belief that mathematical hypotheses have nothing to do with physical reality. He only saw the danger of a scandal, which might undermine Catholicity in its fight with Protestantism. He accordingly decided that the best thing would be to check the whole issue by having Copernicanism declared "false and erroneous" and the book of Copernicus suspended by the congregation of the Index. The decree came out on March 5, 1616. On the previous February 26, however, as an act of personal consideration, Cardinal Bellarmine had granted an audience to Galileo and informed him of the forthcoming decree, warning him that he must henceforth neither "hold nor defend" the doctrine, although it could still be discussed as a mere "mathematical supposition."
For the next seven years Galileo led a life of studious retirement in his house in Bellosguardo near Florence. At the end of that time (1623), he replied to a pamphlet by Orazio Grassi about the nature of comets; the pamphlet clearly had been aimed at Galileo. His reply, titled Saggiatore . . . ("Assayer . . . "), was a brilliant polemic on physical reality and an exposition of the new scientific method. In it he distinguished between the primary (i.e., measurable) properties of matter and the others (e.g., odour) and wrote his famous pronouncement that the "Book of Nature is . . . written in mathematical characters." The book was dedicated to the new pope, Urban VIII, who as Maffeo Barberini had been a longtime friend and protector of Galileo. Pope Urban received the dedication enthusiastically.
In 1624 Galileo again went to Rome, hoping to obtain a revocation of the decree of 1616. This he did not get, but he obtained permission from the Pope to write about "the systems of the world," both Ptolemaic and Copernican, as long as he discussed them noncommittally and came to the conclusion dictated to him in advance by the pontiff--that is, that man cannot presume to know how the world is really made because God could have brought about the same effects in ways unimagined by him, and he must not restrict God's omnipotence. These instructions were confirmed in writing by the head censor, Monsignor Niccol Riccardi.
Galileo returned to Florence and spent the next several years working on his great book Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican). As soon as it came out, in the year 1632, with the full and complete imprimatur of the censors, it was greeted with a tumult of applause and cries of praise from every part of the European continent as a literary and philosophical masterpiece.
On the crisis that followed there remain now only inferences. It was pointed out to the Pope that despite its noncommittal title, the work was a compelling and unabashed plea for the Copernican system. The strength of the argument made the prescribed conclusion at the end look anticlimactic and pointless. The Jesuits insisted that it could have worse consequences on the established system of teaching "than Luther and Calvin put together." The Pope, in anger, ordered a prosecution. The author being covered by license, the only legal measures would be to disavow the licensers and prohibit the book. But at that point a document was "discovered" in the file, to the effect that during his audience with Bellarmine on February 26, 1616, Galileo had been specifically enjoined from "teaching or discussing Copernicanism in any way," under the penalties of the Holy Office. His license, it was concluded, had therefore been "extorted" under false pretenses. (The consensus of historians, based on evidence made available when the file was published in 1877, has been that the document had been planted and that Galileo was never so enjoined.) The church authorities, on the strength of the "new" document, were able to prosecute him for "vehement suspicion of heresy." Notwithstanding his pleas of illness and old age, Galileo was compelled to journey to Rome in February 1633 and stand trial. He was treated with special indulgence and not jailed. In a rigorous interrogation on April 12, he steadfastly denied any memory of the 1616 injunction. The commissary general of the Inquisition, obviously sympathizing with him, discreetly outlined for the authorities a way in which he might be let off with a reprimand, but on June 16 the congregation decreed that he must be sentenced. The sentence was read to him on June 21: he was guilty of having "held and taught" the Copernican doctrine and was ordered to recant. Galileo recited a formula in which he "abjured, cursed and detested" his past errors. The sentence carried imprisonment, but this portion of the penalty was immediately commuted by the Pope into house arrest and seclusion on his little estate at Arcetri near Florence, where he returned in December 1633. The sentence of house arrest remained in effect throughout the last eight years of his life.
Although confined to his estate, Galileo's prodigious mental activity continued undiminished to the last. In 1634 he completed Discorsi e dimostrazioni mathematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla meccanica (Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences), in which he recapitulated the results of his early experiments and his mature meditations on the principles of mechanics. This, in many respects his most valuable work, was printed by Louis Elzevirs at Leiden in 1638. His last telescopic discovery--that of the Moon's diurnal and monthly librations (wobbling from side to side)--was made in 1637, only a few months before he became blind. But the fire of his genius was not even yet extinct. He continued his scientific correspondence with unbroken interest and undiminished acumen; he thought out the application of the pendulum to the regulation of clockwork, which the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens put into practice in 1656; he was engaged in dictating to his disciples, Vincenzo Viviani and Evangelista Torricelli, his latest ideas on the theory of impact when he was seized with the slow fever that resulted in his death at Arcetri on January 8, 1642.
The direct services of permanent value that Galileo rendered to astronomy are virtually summed up in his telescopic discoveries. His name is justly associated with a vast extension of the bounds of the visible universe, and his telescopic observations are a standing monument of his ability. Within two years after their discovery, he had constructed approximately accurate tables of the revolutions of Jupiter's satellites and proposed their frequent eclipses as a means of determining longitudes on land and at sea. The idea, though ingenious, has been found of little use at sea. His observations on sunspots are noteworthy for their accuracy and for the deductions he drew from them with regard to the rotation of the Sun and the revolution of the Earth.
A puzzling circumstance is Galileo's neglect of Kepler's laws, which were discovered during his lifetime. But then he believed strongly that orbits should be circular (not elliptical, as Kepler discovered) in order to keep the fabric of the cosmos in its perfect order. This preconception prevented him from giving a full formulation of the inertial law, which he himself discovered, although it usually is attributed to the French mathematician Ren Descartes. Galileo believed that the inertial path of a body around the Earth must be circular. Lacking the idea of Newtonian gravitation, he hoped this would allow him to explain the path of the planets as circular inertial orbits around the Sun.
The idea of a universal force of gravitation seems to have hovered on the borders of this great man's mind, but he refused to entertain it because, like Descartes, he considered it an "occult" quality. More valid instances of the anticipation of modern discoveries may be found in his prevision that a small annual parallax would eventually be found for some of the fixed stars and that extra-Saturnian planets would at some future time be ascertained to exist and in his conviction that light travels with a measurable although extremely great velocity. Although Galileo discovered, in 1610, a means of adapting his telescope to the examination of minute objects, he did not become acquainted with the compound microscope until 1624, when he saw one in Rome and, with characteristic ingenuity, immediately introduced several improvements into its construction.
A most substantial part of his work consisted undoubtedly of his contributions toward the establishment of mechanics as a science. Some valuable but isolated facts and theorems had previously been discovered and proved, but it was Galileo who first clearly grasped the idea of force as a mechanical agent. Although he did not formulate the interdependence of motion and force into laws, his writings on dynamics are everywhere suggestive of those laws, and his solutions of dynamical problems involve their recognition. In this branch of science he paved the way for the English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton later in the century. The extraordinary advances made by him were due to his application of mathematical analysis to physical problems.
Galileo was the first man who perceived that mathematics and physics, previously kept in separate compartments, were going to join forces. He was thus able to unify celestial and terrestrial phenomena into one theory, destroying the traditional division between the world above and the world below the Moon. The method that was peculiarly his consisted in the combination of experiment with calculation--in the transformation of the concrete into the abstract and the assiduous comparison of results. He created the modern idea of experiment, which he called cimento ("ordeal"). This method was applied to check theoretical deductions in the investigation of the laws of falling bodies, of equilibrium and motion on an inclined plane, and of the motion of a projectile. The latter, together with his definition of momentum and other parts of his work, implied a knowledge of the laws of motion as later stated by Newton. In his Discorso intorno alle cose che stanno in su l'acqua ("Discourse on Things That Float"), published in 1612, he used the principle of virtual velocities to demonstrate the more elementary theorems of hydrostatics, deducing the equilibrium of fluid in a siphon, and worked out the conditions for the flotation of solid bodies in a liquid. He also constructed, in 1607, an elementary form of air thermometer.


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Q: How to parse a line and split it to save in a dictionary in python I have a file which contains string in each line as :
Format = 1A Rnti = 65535 (SI-RNTI) Format0/Format1A Differentiation Flag = 1 Localised / Distributed VRB Assignment Flag = 0 Resource Block Assignment = 0x00000000 Resource Blocks Detail = (RBstart:0, Lcrbs:1, Ndlrb:50) Modulation and Coding Scheme = 5 Harq Process Number = 16 (Broadcast HARQ Process) New Data Indicator = 0 Redundancy Version = 0 TPC Command = 0 (-1 dB)

I want to pick the fieldnames as key and delimit with '=' to save the corresponding value. Fieldnames are
    Format,Rnti,Format0/Format1A Differentiation Flag,Localised / Distributed etc.
I am trying it as below :
with open("log.txt","r") as log:
   reader = csv.reader(log,delimiter='=')
   csv3 = open("csv3.txt","w")
   for row in reader:
      print >> csv3,row

But I am not able to properly split the fieldnames (key) and values.Is there a way where I can define all the key names and then store the corresponding values from the string in a dictionary ?

A: Your best bet at parsing this monstrosity (after you find and smack around a bit the author of it) is to identify all of the field names upfront and then capture the values between those fields.
The easiest way to do it is to just find each of your fields in the line and extract the value between the equal sign following it and the next found field. Something like:
# List all fields here (if possible in order of appearance)
# Everything not listed will end up as a part of another detected field's value
FIELD_LIST = ["Format", "Rnti", "Format0/Format1A Differentiation Flag",
              "Localised / Distributed VRB Assignment Flag", "Resource Block Assignment",
              "Resource Blocks Detail", "Modulation and Coding Scheme",
              "Harq Process Number", "New Data Indicator", "Redundancy Version",
              "TPC Command"]

# lets separate a logic to parse our ugly log in a function
def parse_ugly_log_line(log):
    field_indexes = {field: log.find(field) for field in FIELD_LIST}  # get field indexes
    field_order = sorted(field_indexes, key=field_indexes.get)  # sort indexes
    parsed_fields = {}  # store for our fields
    for i, field in enumerate(field_order):
        if field_indexes[field] == -1:  # field not found, skip
            continue
        field_start = log.find("=", field_indexes[field])  # value begins after `=`
        if field_start == -1:  # cannot find the field value, skip
            continue
        # field value ends where the next field begins:
        field_end = field_indexes[field_order[i + 1]] if i < len(field_order) - 1 else None
        if field_end and field_start > field_end:  # overlapping field value, skip
            continue
        parsed_fields[field] = log[field_start + 1:field_end].strip()  # extract the value
    return parsed_fields

# lets now open our log file and parse it line by line:
logs = []  # storage of the parsed data
with open("your_log.txt", "r") as f:
    for line in f:
        logs.append(parse_ugly_log_line(line))

# you can now access individual fields for each of the lines, e.g.:
print(logs[0]["Modulation and Coding Scheme"])  # prints: 5
print(logs[4]["Resource Block Assignment"])  # prints: 0x00000032

You can achieve a similar effect using regex (something like (field1|field2|etc)\s*=(.*)(?!field1|field2|etc) and capturing both groups to get field, value tuples) but I'm not a fan of constructed extra-long regex patterns and regex engine is not designed for such tasks anyway.

A: I think, the only way for such a messy file is regexp.
import re

def dicts_generator():
"""Generates dicts with data from YOUR_FILE"""

    # Defining search regexp.
    #
    # Note, that regexp here in VERBOSE MODE. It means spaces are ignored
    # and comments are alowed. Because of it I had to escape real spaces.
    # In ends i've use \s in order to make more visilble to you.
    #
    # In regexp each line is a parameter. I did not understand what exactly
    # is Rnti, so i could be wrong in exact definitions of it.

    r=re.compile(r"""

        # (?P<format> .... )  - group named 'format'
        # it will be a dict key

        Format\ =\ (?P<format>.+?)\s+

        Rnti\ =\ (?P<rnti>.+?)\s+

        Differentiation\ Flag\ =\ (?P<differentiation_flag>.+?)\s+

        # add other parameters here

        """, re.VERBOSE)

    # Read line after line and make search in it.
    # Actually, it is OK to search whole file at once,
    # but forme this way is more clear.
    for line in open(YOUR_FILE, mode="tr"):
        for m in r.finditer(line):
            yield m.groupdict()

for d in dicts_generator():
    print(d)   # do whatever you want with dict 'd'.

It prints:
{'format': '1A', 'differentiation_flag': '1', 'rnti': '65535 (SI-RNTI) Format0/Format1A'}

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Shock, Rage And Gallows Humor: A Brexit Backlash On Social Media
Published June 24, 2016 at 11:15 AM PDT
Supporters of the 'Stronger In' Campaign watch the results of the EU referendum being announced at a results party at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Friday.
U.K. voters have decided to leave the European Union — a result that's left many Brits reeling, especially young people.
Social media is flooded with expressions of shock and rage as the country begins to digest what the monumental decision will mean for its economy and its future.
On-the-day polls show a strong generational divide on the issue, with at least 73 percent of voters aged 18-24 wanting to remain in the EU. By contrast, only 40 percent of voters over 65 wanted to stay.
It's that divide that has provoked this backlash from young people, who accuse older generations of choosing a future that they don't want. "Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors," reads a comment on a Financial Times article that has been shared tens of thousands of times.
As the commenter writes, "The younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experience we will be denied."
The hashtag #WhatHaveWeDone, which is trending in the U.K., provides a stark snapshot of the rage, disgust and sadness many young Brits feel about the result. Here's a selection of tweets:
Of course, a sizable number of young people supported the move and are celebrating:
The referendum result has also provoked some excellent gallows humor, poking fun at British food and at the immediate economic implications of leaving the EU.
It's also prompted the classic "moving to Canada" reaction, with some social media users posting that they are researching other places to live. According to Google Trends, they have plenty of company.
In a Guardian opinion piece, writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett argues that young people are right to be angry, especially the "16-year-olds who were denied the right to participate in this referendum." Here's more from Cosslett:
"...[I]f you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so. The political is personal; the way that the future weeks, months and years play out will have powerful, definable consequences on the way you live. This is one of those momentous turning points in our personal timelines; if you're pissed off, you are right to be."
You can find our coverage of the vote result here.


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Vanessa & Virginia by Susan Sellers
Vanessa & Virginia by Susan Sellers is a novel that imagines the relationship between Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, sisters and alleged artistic rivals as told solely through the first person perspective of Vanessa. (At first this confused me because the title implied that the story would be told through both women but by the end of the second chapter I realized that this was Vanessa's story about her life and relationship with Virginia.) I suppose it is inevitable to compare this new novel with The Hours by Michael Cunningham and this is unfortunate because while the latter is brilliant the former is clever, at best. Frankly, I'm not convinced it is even that. But it is an interesting attempt at envisioning the relationship between these two women who lived their lives in a way that more often than not flouted societal moors during a time when women were finally empowering themselves, gaining the vote, etc. Unfortunately, where this book most blatantly fails the author's assumption that the reader knows something about the sisters. Names are dropped or alluded to without much if a context. Even when there is a war in England, it is not clarified which war is being experienced. Only a reader who knows when the two were born would know that the first war mentioned is The Great War, World War I. A reader who lacks the contextual relevance of the details will not appreciate much that is given.
It also fails in the obvious complication of Woolf's suicidal depression that seems to barely touch Bell's own life or emotions. Distressed to see her sister's suffering, never does she seem to contemplate her own mental stability or how she, herself, may be dealing with depression. Given the artistic leaning of both sister's, I find it remarkable that Bell, as defined and delineated by Sellers, is so distanced from everyone and everything beyond her own narcissism. There is also the fact that Sellers has chosen to allude to the more salacious speculations about the sisters' lives and, while I appreciate her not going into details of incest, there is really no narrative reason to imply, as the back-cover also mentions, the "possible" lesbian/incest connection between the two. Because Sellers only alludes to these things, they are never fully realized and the consequences to the psyches of the characters are not explored. Bold enough to mention them, Sellers completely drops the ball by not delving deeply into the damage that incest creates within a family. Someone who is not familiar with Virginia Woolf, let alone her less iconic sister, the Bloomsbury group, or the final outcome of the story will not enjoy this novel. Sellers not only chooses to tell the story only from the point-of-view of Vanessa—a choice that ultimately is best—also has the protagonist writing not to a general reader but a specific one. Specifically her sister, Virginia.
The intrusion of "you," meaning Virginia, creates an odd disconnect. The tone of the writing is not intimate, does not sound at all like a letter or even an intimate memoir of one person's love for another. And yet the intimacy of a first-person I writing to a second-person you is felt and creates an oddly removed relationship between the real "you," the reader of the text, and the text itself. An author should never aspire to remove the reader from the text and this is the end result of this odd style choice. Only a die hard Woolf follower would want to read this novel only to be disappointed; someone who is not familiar with Woolf will not have the patience with the style or tone of the novel. In other words, I cannot imagine an audience for this novel. Perhaps had Sellers dared to go more deeply into her subjects, as she would have done had this been nonfiction, those who adore or at least are versed in Woolf's works and life would read with enthusiasm. As it is, there's really nothing new or even remarkably interesting to be experienced in the pages of this book.
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Sweden: Sanna Nielsen is Bookies Favourite for MF '14
Sanna Nielsen, runner-up at Melodifestivalen back in 2008 with the track Empty Room co-written by Bobby Ljunggren and Aleena Gibson, is considered to be the artist to beat at next years' Swedish extravaganza, according to national bookmakers who are already taking money prior to the presentation of the actual songs. For the very first time ever, Sanna is not working with Bobby Ljunggren and has turned to Fredrik Kempe, Hamed "K-One" Pirouzpanah and David Kreuger. The latter individual was responsible for Westlife's hit track If I Let You Go.
Whilst bookmakers have a habit of pointing out the obvious, it is important to denote that the next three (3) artists in line to represent Sweden, according to the general public are YOHIO, runner-up at the 2013 edition of the Melodifestivalen; Anton Ewald, another finalist at this years' Melodifestivalen and Helena Paparizou, representative of Greece and winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest. At this years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, Robin Stjerberg represented Sweden with the song You co-written by Linnea Deb, Joy Deb and Joakim Harestad Haukaas. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for all of the latest news.
Source: Oddschecker
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Sweden: SVT Unveils First Batch of MF '14 Entries
SVT, the national broadcaster in Sweden, and responsible for the nations' participation at the Eurovision Song Contest organised a press conference earlier today in order to announce the names of the entries, songwriters and artists competing in the first two semi-finals of next years' edition of the Melodifestivalen. The format, albeit unchanged, will include four (4) semi-finals, a second chance round and the final, all of which will be spread out over six (6) weeks. At the end of this period, new careers will commence whilst renowned stars will find solace in hit singles. The only other competition to produce similar results is Sanremo, as competing entries are known to make the official singles chart for several weeks after the showcase.
Sweden are organising their national selection following a triumphant organisation of the Eurovision Song Contest and they might have already set their sights on success pertaining to the first list of artists revealed by Christer Bjorkman during a Press Conference. Two former Eurovision Song Contest representatives have been included in the line-up and they are none other than; Helena Paparizou, winner of the event back in 2005 on behalf of Greece and Martin Stenmarck who was responsible for starting the nations' bout of bad results back in 2005. It is also worth pointing out that there are some former participants who have made the cut. Some surprises are also set to be announced on Thursday as the remaining sixteen (16) entries are revealed in another Press Conference.
Semi-Final 1 (Malmo)
Aleo - Mahan Moin (Mahan Moin / Andrez Wrethov)
Bedroom - Alvaro Estrella (Erixson / Bordon / Francis / Östergren)
Bröder - Linus Svennin (Fredrik Kempe)
Bygdens Son - Sylvester Schlegel (Sylvester Schlegel)
Casanova - Elisa Lindström (Forsman / Ljunggren / Jansson)
Songbird - Ellen Benediktson (Vaughn / Fransson / Larsson / Lundgren)
Survivor - Helena Paparizou (Ljunggren / Wikstrom / Kjellholm / Vaughn)
To The End - Yohio (Johnsson / Lyander / Kvint / Yohio)
Semi-Final 2 (Linkoping)
Efter Solsken - Panetoz (Hirvi / Lie Skåre / Baheru / Badjie)
Glow - Manda (Joy Deb / Linnéa Deb / Melanie Wehbe / Charlie Mason)
I Am Somebody - Pink Pistols (Tonqvist / Geli / Hed / Päivärinta / Bäckström)
Love Trigger - JEM (G:Son / Boström / Santos)
När änglarna går hem - Martin Stenmarck (Öhrn / Bard / Stenmarck / Boström)
Hallelujah - The Refreshments (Joakim Arnell)
Undo - Sanna Nielsen (Kempe / Kreuger / Pirouzpanah)
escflashmalta.com has noted that there are several interesting options, based on the reputation of such artists and songwriters who have been given the opportunity to participate in next years' edition of the Melodifestivalen. Also, we would like to congratulate regular escflashmalta.com contributor, Sharon Vaughn who has worked with the likes of Agnes, The Wanted and Delta Goodrem who will be competing with two (2) songs, including with one of the early fan-favourites. Sharon Vaughn will be joining the Critical Eye feature for the upcoming edition of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for all of the latest news.
Source: SVT
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Radio International: The Melodifestivalen Experience
National selections all over the continent are coming to an end especially when considering that the month of March started just a couple of days ago. This years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will be needing a lot of improvements in order to be elevated in quality but several broadcasters know that in order to do well, their tracks need to be slightly altered and the final versions presented to the European Broadcasting Union will surely denote this element. We would like to invite you to the weekly Ultimate Eurovision Experience. Apart from the means of FM Radio in the Netherlands on FM 106.8 and the audio stream from the studio via www.radiointernational.tv and on Digital Cable 781 & cable 88.1Mhz in the Netherlands, the show will also be web-televised via the Radio International TV Channel from the studio and linking up the many international Eurovision fans and friends and play your requests and read your messages out on air. The simulcast will be from 2000 – 2300 hours CET when fans can join in and chat amongst each other via the Chat Room and request their favourite Eurovision entry.
Sweden will be hosting this years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and during the past weekend, attention turned to the host nation for the simple reason that they were organising the final of Melodifestivalen and the Team of Radio International was on hand so chat with most of the finalists competing. We had the absolute pleasure to speak to the winner, Robin Stjernberg who came from the second chance round with the song You. The performer who was a runner-up on the show Idol a couple of years back is also working with first runner-up of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, Kevin Borg on his latest album and is represented by Lionheart Music Group. In the meantime, the runner-up of the competition was Yohio with the track Heartbreak Hotel whom despite being the favourite of the public, had to settle for second place due to the disappointing result given by the international jury. Other interviews were carried out with David Lindgren who performed Skyline, Anton Ewald who sang the song Begging, Sean Banan who choreographed Copacabanana and last but not least Louise Hoffstein, the only female who graced the stage with the song Only The Dead Fish Follow The Stream.
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The Melodifestivalen has always been one of the most prestigious events in Europe and therefore, the interval acts and people who give out the scores tend to be somewhat renowned either in the country or in the community of the Eurovision Song Contest. During the course of the evening, the interval was none other than Carola, who represented Sweden in the 1983, 1991 and 2006 edition of the international competition winning in 1991 with her performance of Captured by a Lovestorm. She performed her signature tune and first national hit, the 1983 entry entitled Framling which has been reworked for 2013. On the other hand other interviews will be transmitted, one with the hosts who were Gina Dirawi and Danny Saucedo, the latter being the first runner-up of the Melodifestivalen in 2011 and 2012 and last but not least an interview with Christer Bjorkman, the executive producer of Melodifestivalen and one of the organisers of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. The final interview which will be played this week is from the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as Marilena who performed the track Overrated composed by Philip Vella to the lyrics of Gerard James Borg speaks about her participation.
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Radio International is always keen to present songs during the show apart from the weekly features and therefore, collaborating the two ideas together will see the emergence of Eurovision UnverCover whereas tracks performed at the Eurovision Song Contest will be covered by other singers. The actual tracks will be played first followed by the cover and this will make things interesting. Apart from this feature, there will be new material played on the show by a number of former representatives including Patricia Kaas. All of the latest news is also covered during the weekly broadcast noting resources from escflashmalta.com and escXtra where Luke Fisher, the Editor makes a weekly round-up. A round up of the national finals thus far is set to be conducted by Alasdair Rendall. Follow the show through the official website and also send your requests through the contact link which is found on the aforementioned website.
Source: Team of Radio International
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Sweden: MF 2013 Running Order Unveiled
SVT, host broadcaster of this years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest has to pick an entry for the upcoming international showcase but many believe that the standard in the 2013 Melodifestivalen did not really live up to the expectations. Ten entries will be vying to represent Sweden at the upcoming edition of the competition having qualified through semi-finals and a second chance stage. It is important to denote that whilst there are a number of expected tracks in the selection process, it seems that variety was the initial idea behind the whole general concept and that is why, people might sceptic about the ones competing this coming Saturday evening.
There seems to have been a general consensus amongst fans that most of the best songs were left either in the second chance or the semi-final stages of the competition and that does not really bode well for a country which will need to show that following a victory, they could achieve another really strong result. Nevertheless, the varied line-up is definitely going to prove difficult to both the public and the international jury who will be casting their vote in a weeks' time. For the past two years, Malta has been a part of the foreign jury although the nations involved this time round have yet to be revealed by SVT, the broadcaster. Below you could see all of the ten finalists within their respective running order.
Tell The World I'm Here - Ulrik Munther (G:Son / Bostrom / Munther)
Skyline - David Lindgren (Fuentes / Nordenback / Fast)
Falling - State of Drama (Werner / Hallifax / Gullhamn / Hallifax)
Begging - Anton Ewald (Kempe / Malmberg Hard af Segerstad)
Only the Dead Fish Follow the Stream - Louise Hoffsten (Hoffsten / Bjurman / Orn)
Bed on Fire - Ralf Gyllenhammar (Gyllenhammar / Wilhelmsson)
En riktig jävla schlager - Ravaillacz (Jennstig / Goldkuhl / Dorsin)
Copacabanana - Sean Banan (Lindholm / Samadi / Blomberg / Larsson)
You - Robin Stjernberg (Stjernberg / Deb / Deb / Haukaas)
Heartbreak Hotel - Yohio (Fransson / Lundgren / Larsson / Goranson)
The editorial team had the opportunity thanks to Lionheart Music Group to speak to one of the finalists in this years' edition of the Melodifestivalen, Robin Stjernberg who is currently working on his first original album alongside a number of songwriters, amongst them the Maltese singer/songwriter Kevin Borg, runner-up of the 2013 Malta Eurovision Song Contest. He is currently fifth in the Betting Odds which makes him an outside bet, and a dark horse on Saturday. We would like to wish him the very best of luck amongst the other contestants. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for all of the latest news and tune in next week as we cover the event as it happens through our editorial team member, Javier Leal.
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MF 2013: First Sixteen Acts Revealed
Melodifestivalen has earned quite a positive reputation over the years for providing a number of intriguing moments in music noting that there have been a number of tracks which have earned some of the top accolades during the respective year in which they had been presented within the competition. There is a lot of hype about next years' selection process due to the fact that Sweden will be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest following the victory of Loreen with the track Euphoria. Earlier this morning, SVT which is the broadcaster in charge of the competition in the Scandinavian country revealed the first sixteen acts that will be competing in the 2013 edition of Melodifestivalen, those which make up the first two semi-finals with the last set of contestants set to be revealed today week.
Aftonbladet and Expressen have been pretty much into the selection process for quite some time and this is because the showcase has been dubbed to be the biggest music event that Sweden is known to produce hence forth, it does get the people talking. Amongst the list of names that have been announced today, some have been accurately predicted but others were more of a surprise. In fact, songwriters have become more common so to speak but then again, collaborations this time round are thought to be very different according to a number of sources who are close to the competition. Below we are publishing the first names that have been presented to the public, local and foreign media earlier this morning in a special press conference.
Burning Flags - Cookies 'n' Beans (Fredrik Kempe)
Gosa - Marie N'Diaye (Johan Åsgärde, Mattias Frändå & Mary N'Diaye)
Heartbreak Hotel - Yohio (Johan Fransson, Tobias Lundgren, Tim Larsson, Henrik Göranson, Yohio)
Paris - Jay-Jay Johanson (Jay-Jay Johanson)
Porslin - Anna Järvinen (Björn Olsson, Martin Elisson)
Skyline - David Lindgren (Fernando Fuentes, Henrik Nordenback, Christian Fast)
Vi Kommer Aldrig Att Förlora - Eric Gadd (Eric Gadd, Thomas Stenström, Jacob Olofsson)
We're Still Kids - Michael Feiner & Caisa (Michael Feiner, Caisa Ahlroth)
Annelie - Joacim Cans (Joacim Cans)
Begging - Anton Ewald (Fredrik Kempe, Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad)
Copacabanana - Sean Banan (Sean Banan, Ola Lindholm, Hans Blomberg, Joakim Larsson)
Hello Goodbye - Erik Segerstedt & Tone Damli (Robin Fredriksson, Mattias Larsson, Måns Zelmerlöw)
Make Me No.1 - Felicia Olsson (Amir Aly, Henrik Wikström, Ingela Pling Forsman, Maria Haukaas Mittet)
On Top of the World - Pernilla Wahlgren, Hanna Hedlund & Jenny Silver (Peter Boström, Thomas G:son)
Only the Dead Fish Follow the Stream - Louise Hoffsten (Louise Hoffsten, Sandra Bjurman, Stefan Örn)
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When type 2 diabetic patients were compared with type 1 diabetic patients, type 1 diabetics were more likely to have severe hypertension, but both groups were equally as likely to have QT prolongation and hypokalemia.
The researchers conducted their research on 414 cases of diabetes and severe hypoglycemia in patients who visited emergency rooms between 2006 and 2012. Patients with type 2 diabetes generally were older, and type 1 diabetics were more likely to have a history of cardiovascular disease. Patients' vital signs and ECG tests were reviewed by the researchers.
A fair amount of type 2 diabetes patients had hypothermia, which can contribute to arrhythmia, and few of them were diagnosed with a new cardiovascular disease. None of the type 1 diabetes patients were diagnosed with a new cardiovascular disease.
In diabetes, low blood sugar is commonly found, even though diabetes is known to raise blood sugar to dangerous levels. Low blood sugar can result from the very same medication that is intended to help prevent high blood sugar. In order to combat low blood sugar, the body requires insulin.
"Your body needs fuel to survive and run properly. During hypoglycemia, the body is low on energy. When hypoglycemia is more severe, the brain [which runs on sugar] can get confused and stop functioning. If the blood sugar gets low enough, hypoglycemia can be fatal," added Dr. Simon Fisher, associate professor and coauthor of an accompanying editorial to the study.
In the small-scale study, 25 patients with type 2 diabetes were included, with an average age of 64. They were all treated with insulin for at least four years.
The participants wore a glucose monitor for five days, along with a 12-lead Holter monitor for the heart.
When blood sugar was low at night, it increased the risk of low heart rate up to eight times in comparison to when it was normal. Slow heart rate wasn't seen during the day as it was seen at night. In fact, majority of heart problems were seen at night as opposed to during the day.
Other research has shown that hypoglycemia risk in critical illness can increase the risk of cardiovascular problems, which in turn can increase the risk of mortality. In research exploring hospitalization of patients with various serious illnesses, hypoglycemia was found to worsen outcomes, when compared to patients with hypoglycemia. For example, one study of diabetics found that patients with hypoglycemia were more likely to experience acute coronary syndrome, compared to those who did not have hypoglycemia.
All the combined research reveals that hypoglycemia can complicate illness and contribute to worsened health outcomes. The moment you begin to experience symptoms of hypoglycemia you should seek medical attention immediately. Furthermore, if you're diabetic, ensure you are checking your blood sugar often and that it does not dip to low.


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Coucy és un municipi francès situat al departament de les Ardenes i a la regió del Gran Est. L'any 2007 tenia 511 habitants.

Poblacions properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Coucy era de 511 persones. Hi havia 184 famílies de les quals 40 eren unipersonals (12 homes vivint sols i 28 dones vivint soles), 64 parelles sense fills i 80 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 199 habitatges, 185 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 9 eren segones residències i 5 estaven desocupats. 191 eren cases i 4 eren apartaments. Dels 185 habitatges principals, 165 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 19 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 1 estava cedit a títol gratuït; 1 tenia dues cambres, 17 en tenien tres, 54 en tenien quatre i 113 en tenien cinc o més. 84 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 80 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 84 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 322 persones, 227 eren actives i 95 eren inactives. De les 227 persones actives 210 estaven ocupades (120 homes i 90 dones) i 17 estaven aturades (7 homes i 10 dones). De les 95 persones inactives 25 estaven jubilades, 25 estaven estudiant i 45 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Coucy hi havia 189 unitats fiscals que integraven 535 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 14.120 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 13 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa alimentària, 4 d'empreses de construcció, 3 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 2 d'empreses de serveis i 2 d'empreses classificades com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 6 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un guixaire pintor, 1 fusteria, 1 electricista, 1 perruqueria, 1 restaurant i 1 saló de bellesa.

L'únic establiment comercial que hi havia el 2009 era una fleca.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia 1 escola maternal integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa i 1 escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

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Enllaços externs

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Coucy a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Coucy a l'INSEE
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Bryant Hornets win 7A State Championship, 21-7
BRYANT, Ark. — The Bryant Hornets have taken the 7A State Championship title again.
Going up against the North Little Rock Charging Wildcats winning 21 – 7.
Last year the Hornets also played against the Charging Wildcats winning their first State Championship with an ending score of 27-7.
by Re'Chelle Turner / Jan 17, 2020
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-"A year ago this month I heard that they were going to have it fixed in 2019, well here we are in January of 2020 and it still hasn't been fixed yet," Jeffrey Berry said.
Potholes creating more problems for drivers in North Little Rock.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Bond has been denied for a former Malvern High School counselor accused of trying to make child porn.
A hearing for Jonathan Williams was held on Friday, following his arrest on Wednesday. Williams is facing one count of attempting to produce child pornography.
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Chris Blair enters his first football season as the "Voice of the Tigers" after joining the LSU Sports Network and calling his first season of baseball games at LSU in the spring.
Blair, Georgia Southern's radio voice for the past 10 seasons, was named in June 2015 as the next "Voice of the Tigers" and he officially joined the LSU Athletics Department on Dec. 7, 2015.
Blair's resume covers virtually all aspects of broadcasting, with broadcast management and marketing positions in Greenville and Columbia, South Carolina. Blair basically grew up inside a radio station, working at age 14 for his father, also a long-time broadcaster. His college broadcast experience includes working for the Clemson Tiger Sports Network and at Lander University.
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I want to identify differential genes (DEG) in TCGA dataset (cancer samples vs normal samples) by combination of edgeR and sva (get rid of batch effect by sva). The following is my code and I am not sure if it is ok or not. Could you please help me to check the code and give me some suggestions?
I mainly referred to the following three posts and the manual of these two packages.
the first step is constructing file and filtering out lowly expressed genes. expres.filter is the matrix of reads counts for each gene in each sample. In this matrix, each row is a gene and each column is a sample.
the second step is batch effect detection by sva, there are 120 cancer samples and 20 normal samples in my dataset.
Finally, I get my DEG list.


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If we find the word of God, it is a life-changing event. Jeremiah exclaimed: "When I found Your words, I devoured them; they became my joy and the happiness of my heart" (Jer 15:16). By finding God's word, we do not mean finding a copy of the Bible or parts of the Bible as Hilkiah did. We mean finding God's word from the Church and her Scriptures "not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God" (1 Thes 2:13). To find God's word means to be approved by God as "the lowly and afflicted [one] who trembles at" His word (Is 66:2).
Because the Lord wants us to find His word and abide in it (Jn 8:31), the devil tries to make us disrespect, trivialize, and disobey God's word so that we will never find it, or lose it if we have ever found it. Our secular humanistic culture of death denies and questions that there is such a thing as objective truth. Even those who believe in some objective truth sometimes say the Church and her Bible are out-of-date and need not be obeyed, declaring that we are to "think for ourselves." They say we should not rigidly maintain that God's word is objective truth which all are responsible to obey. These diseased attitudes undermine the truth and authority of God's word. Reject these attitudes. Joyfully cling to the freedom which comes from finding and living the truth of God's word (see Jn 8:32).
Prayer: Father, make Your word more precious to me than any pleasure in my life (see Ps 119:103, 127).
Praise: Robin used to think the Church's teachings on birth control were "old-fashioned" until the Spirit led her to the truth about God's plan for married love.


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Home/Politics/One Year Later, Assault Still Casts a Pall Over the Capitol and Its Occupants
One Year Later, Assault Still Casts a Pall Over the Capitol and Its Occupants
WASHINGTON — Metal detectors screen lawmakers for weapons at the doors of the House chamber. Staff members are frightened to come to work. Anxious police officers worry about a future attack, even as they relive the one that took place. The citadel of democracy is almost inaccessible to the public it is supposed to welcome and serve.
The Jan. 6, 2021, assault has shaken the foundations of the Capitol, a symbol of American strength and unity, transforming how lawmakers view their surroundings and one another. A dark mood lingers and the scars will be long in healing.
"I have colleagues, to be honest with you, I can't stand looking at, and I don't want to get into an elevator with them when we are going to roll-call votes," said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, referring to Republicans he considers complicit in the attack of a year ago and unapologetic about it today.
The Capitol has been the site of significant violence over the centuries. There was its torching by British troops in 1814, the bloody caning of Senator Charles Sumner in 1856, a spray of gunfire from the House spectator's gallery by Puerto Rican nationalists that wounded five representatives in 1954, the murder of two Capitol Police officers standing guard in 1998, and the killing of another at a traffic barricade last April.
The American flag was flown at half-staff on Wednesday.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
But the attack of a year ago was uniquely shattering in that it was a brutal effort by marauding Americans to keep President Donald J. Trump in office despite his election loss by interrupting one of the nation's essential civic functions — the tallying of the electoral votes for president. Lawmakers who were on hand are still struggling to comprehend it.
"That's the difference," said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, who had argued that Congress should shut down on Thursday to spare staff workers the trauma of reliving a horrific day. "The last time the Capitol was breached and taken over was in 1814 by British forces. Here, we had our fellow Americans storming the Capitol."
The events of last year have turned everyday spaces in the Capitol into testaments to what transpired. Here's a spot where they fought their way into the building; there's a window they broke or a wall they scaled.
A heavily trafficked marble staircase on the Senate side of the building is no longer just a way to reach the second floor. It is now etched in memory as the stairway where Officer Eugene Goodman, acting alone, diverted a mob away from a set of back stairs, allowing Vice President Mike Pence and senators to escape unharmed to a secure location before the intruders breached the Senate chamber.
The once-vibrant Capitol seems eerily empty and footsteps echo loudly off the marble floors.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
Officer Eugene Goodman, acting alone, diverted a mob away from a set of stairs, moving the group away from lawmakers.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
Senators cannot help but look at the presiding officer's desk in their inner sanctum and remember that it was roughly commandeered by supporters of Mr. Trump — one shirtless and wearing horns on his head — who rifled through the historic desks in a chamber considered sacred by its usual occupants.
Understand the Jan. 6 Investigation
Both the Justice Department and a House select committee are investigating the events of the Capitol riot. Here's where they stand:
Inside the House Inquiry: From a nondescript office building, the panel has been quietly ramping up its sprawling and elaborate investigation.
Criminal Referrals, Explained: Can the House inquiry end in criminal charges? These are some of the issues confronting the committee.
Garland's Remarks: Facing pressure from Democrats, Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed that the D.O.J. would pursue its inquiry into the riot "at any level."
A Big Question Remains: Will the Justice Department move beyond charging the rioters themselves?
"Have you ever had your house broken into or been a victim of a burglary, and when you walked back into the house it felt differently, it felt violated?" asked Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois. "I felt that way for the longest time — and I still do."
In the House, the speaker's lobby, a narrow, portrait-lined hallway off the floor where lawmakers could relax and kibitz with reporters, is now the place where the mob tried to break through glass and a hastily erected barricade before one of them, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed.
Mr. McGovern, the chairman of the House Rules Committee, who was presiding over the chamber just moments before, was standing near the entryway as the intruders approached the door, putting them within reach of lawmakers.
Riot shields in the Capitol are among the ever-present reminders of the attack for the officers who were charged with repelling it as best they could.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
Metal detectors are used to screen lawmakers for weapons before they can enter the House chamber.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
"If you want me to describe what hate looks like, I tell you it is what I saw in the eyes of those people smashing the windows to try to get to us," said Mr. McGovern. "I still have a tough time coming to grips with the fact that it happened. All of us have to walk through the speaker's lobby every day and relive that day."
For others, the ever-present reminders of the attack are the officers who were charged with repelling it as best they could, sustaining serious injuries as they did so.
"I remember them with their faces cut, and I see and talk to them every day," said Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, who as chairwoman of the Rules Committee was a central figure in the counting of electoral ballots. "It is the faces of the officers that trigger that day for me. It is a constant reminder of what they did and what they are still up against."
One of the joys of the Capitol before the assault and the ongoing pandemic was its status as a working landmark, a place where nationally recognized political figures hurried through hallways crowded with school groups and awe-struck tourists craned their necks to peer up at the dome from the Rotunda.
The Capitol has been the site of significant violence over the centuries, but nothing quite like the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
But continuing health and security concerns have kept the building mostly closed off, even after the National Guard troops summoned to secure the Capitol in the wake of the riot were sent home and the seven-foot-high, razor-wire-topped fence that ominously encircled the complex was removed.
The House investigation. A select committee is scrutinizing the causes of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which occurred as Congress met to formalize Joe Biden's election victory amid various efforts to overturn the results. Here are some people being examined by the panel:
Donald Trump. The former president's movement and communications on Jan. 6 appear to be a focus of the inquiry. But Mr. Trump has attempted to shield his records, invoking executive privilege. The dispute is making its way through the courts.
Scott Perry and Jim Jordan. The Republican representatives of Pennsylvania and Ohio are among a group of G.O.P. congressmen who were deeply involved in efforts to overturn the election. Mr. Perry has refused to meet with the panel.
Phil Waldron. The retired Army colonel has been under scrutiny since a 38-page PowerPoint document he circulated on Capitol Hill was turned over to the panel by Mr. Meadows. The document contained extreme plans to overturn the election.
Steve Bannon. The former Trump aide has been charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena, claiming protection under executive privilege even though he was an outside adviser. His trial is scheduled for next summer.
Jeffrey Clark. The little-known official repeatedly pushed his colleagues at the Justice Department to help Mr. Trump undo his loss. The panel has recommended that Mr. Clark be held in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate.
Much of the time, the once-vibrant Capitol seems eerily empty and footsteps echo loudly off the marble floors.
"It is sad," said Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the House majority leader, who has spent countless hours in the Capitol over the last 40 years and said he hoped it could host visitors again at some point. "It is a stark change."
In the ensuing 12 months, Democrats and Republicans have inhabited almost parallel universes when it comes to the assault.
Democrats, via a special House committee formed after the Senate rejected a bipartisan commission, continue to press for accountability for those who took part and those who instigated it, starting with Mr. Trump. Republicans have increasingly sought to play down or even deny the attack, characterizing it as little more than a routine protest.
It appears few Republicans will be on hand to commemorate the anniversary, with many senators scheduled to be at a funeral for a former colleague in Georgia. The only Republican lawmakers who have publicized an event are two far-right members of the House closely allied with Mr. Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, who have promised to "expose the truth" about Jan. 6 during a news conference on Capitol Hill.
"When there are people in the Senate who refuse to tell their supporters the truth about Donald Trump's big lie, I think it has made it harder to work together," said Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
In the 12 months since the attack, Democrats and Republicans have inhabited almost parallel universes when it comes to the events of that day.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
Republicans say they see partisanship at work, calling the metal detectors outrageous and accusing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats of trying to win political advantage by demonizing their party. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri and one of the chief objectors to counting the electoral ballots a year ago, said in an op-ed for Fox News that the "day's true legacy was the left's attempt to use the Capitol unrest to foster a permanent climate of fear and oppression."
Other Republicans have tried to deflect responsibility, faulting the Democratic speaker for the inadequate security preparations at the Capitol that allowed the breach to occur, or changing the subject altogether.
"I think we've gotten over it," Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, said in a recent interview. "We've gotten back to normal and are doing the people's business and having raucous debates over how we see things."
But to Democrats, there won't be any getting over it until Republicans disavow Mr. Trump's claim that the election was stolen and acknowledge that the Jan. 6 assault was a criminal attempt to overturn legitimate election results.
"When there are people in the Senate who refuse to tell their supporters the truth about Donald Trump's big lie, I think it has made it harder to work together," said Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado. "They certainly know better and it has created a real risk to democracy."
But Mr. Hoyer still holds out hope.
"Ultimately, I believe democracy really works," he said. "It doesn't work overnight and it doesn't work perfectly. But ultimately, people get what they want over time."
A dark mood lingers at the Capitol, and the scars will be long in healing.Credit…Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
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Niekończąca się opowieść (niem. Die unendliche Geschichte) – anglojęzyczny film fantasy produkcji niemieckiej z 1984 roku w reżyserii Wolfganga Petersena, na podstawie powieści fantasy Michaela Ende Niekończąca się historia z 1979 roku. W dniu premiery film był najdroższą produkcją filmową spoza USA i Związku Radzieckiego. Przewodnim motywem muzycznym filmu jest piosenka Limahla Never Ending Story. W 1990 roku powstała kolejna część filmu pt. Niekończąca się opowieść II: Następny rozdział, a w 1994 roku część trzecia pt. Niekończąca się opowieść III: Ucieczka z krainy Fantazji.

Opis fabuły
Bohaterem filmu jest chłopiec Bastian, który pewnego dnia chowa się w księgarni, uciekając przed prześladującymi go starszymi kolegami ze szkoły. Tam znajduje tajemniczą książkę i dzięki niej przenosi się do świata fantazji, któremu właśnie grozi zagłada. Podczas czytania lektury dowiaduje się, że przeżywa ją razem z bohaterami.

Obsada
 Barret Oliver – Bastian
 Noah Hathaway – Atreyu
 Tami Stronach – cesarzowa Fantazji
 Alan Oppenheimer –
 Falkor (głos),
 Gmork (głos),
 Pożeracz Skał (głos),
 narrator (głos)
 Thomas Hill – pan Koreander
 Gerald McRaney – ojciec Bastiana
 Sydney Bromley – Engywook
 Patricia Hayes – Urgl
 Deep Roy – Malutki Pan
 Frank Lenart – Malutki Pan (głos)
 Tilo Prückner – Chochlik
 Heidi Brühl – Wyrocznia (głos)
 Moses Gunn – Cairon
 Darryl Cooksey – prześladowca Bastiana #1
 Drum Garrett – prześladowca Bastiana #2
 Nicholas Gilbert – prześladowca Bastiana #3

Wersja polska
Wersja polska: Studio Opracowań Filmów w Warszawie
Reżyser: Krzysztof Szuster
Opieka artystyczna: Zofia Dybowska-Aleksandrowicz
Dialogi: Krystyna Uniechowska
Operator dźwięku: Zdzisław Siwecki
Montaż: Dorota Bochenek-Gębala
Kierownictwo produkcji: Anna Ziółkowska
Wystąpili:
 Filip Tomann – Bastian
 Dominik Bremer – Atreyu
 Katarzyna Skarżyńska – cesarzowa Fantazji
 Edmund Fetting – Falkor
 Jan Tesarz – Gmork
 Gustaw Lutkiewicz – pan Koreander
 Krzysztof Kołbasiuk – ojciec Bastiana
 Tadeusz Włudarski – Pożeracz Skał
 Wiesław Drzewicz – Engywook
 Irena Malarczyk – Urgl
 Maciej Damięcki – Malutki Pan
 Krzysztof Krupiński –
 Chochlik,
 Molla
 Ewa Kania – Wyrocznia
 Jerzy Kamas – Cairon

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Lektor: Jerzy Rosołowski

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This is the number one tip for a healthy summer.
Fatigue - Water is the best conductor of electricity for producing energy in the body. Without enough water, the enzymes cannot do their job to remove lactic build up in the muscles, which can cause one to feel tired.
Headaches - Most headaches are caused by dehydration. The brain is 80% water.
High Blood Pressure - The blood is 80-92% water, if there is not enough water, the blood can become too thick, causing slow movement through the arteries.
There is a saying that "beauty is only skin deep." Not so! What you put inside your body reveals your health on the outside through your skin. The skin is the largest organ in the body and has many duties in keeping you healthy.
Your skin eliminates wastes by perspiring. It serves as a protection from the weather and pollutants, is the first layer of the defense system and plays an important role in your health. Even though your skin is aging, it is possible to control the health of your skin.


When your child is being disrespectful or inappropriate you don't have to threaten to take the entire phone away. I actually know a parent that took a hammer to their child's phone. I understand the frustration, but in the end, you'll be paying the hefty price for buying a new phone.
The iPhone may be an integral part of yours and your child's life. They may need access to the phone to call you. Or you use the Find My Phone app to locate your child when they are not at home.
So how can you restrict the phones abilities while still allowing the child to use the device?
One idea is to make your child's favorite iTunes App 'unavailable' for any period of time that you decide. This means going into the Parental Controls and turning the prized app off…not deleting the app. This will encourage your child to change their behavior! When your child acts more appropriate they can get access back. It's that simple. This gives your child a sense of power and us parents the ability to be consistent with consequences.
Learn how to set up this parental control in my online course!