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The River Wild
Reviewed on February 26, 1998 by Guido Henkel in DVD, Reviews // 0 Comments
The River Wild (1995)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Joseph Mazzello, David Strathairn, Kevin Bacon
Curtis Hanson, the director of "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle", brings us the highly acclaimed"The River Wild", a stylish thriller that could theoretically happen to any one of us. The movie's magnificent scenery and its gorgeous landscape photography, combined with expert footage of rafting, make it stand out among other thrillers visually, while still supplying tons of heart-pounding visceral action in the rafting scenes.
As a birthday present, Gail (Meryl Streep) organizes a rafting trip for her ten year old son (Joseph Mazzello) and her husband (David Strathairn). The trip is also supposed to breathe new life into her shaky marriage, while bringing her son closer to the beautiful landscape she grew up in. Being a former white-water rafting guide, Gail enjoys being back in the peaceful and slow environment of her river. It so happens that all her courage and skills are required when two criminals on the run take the family hostage and hold them at gunpoint during the trip, forcing Gail to raft them through breakneck white-water rapids, out of the reach of the authorities on their heels. During the lengthy ordeal, scripted with lots of twists, Gail eventually gathers the strength to fight and keep her family alive.
Meryl Streep, as usual, gives a strong performance as both mother and courageous rafting expert, underscoring them with exceptional physical abilities. When finally she has to measure up with Kevin Bacon's character emotionally, mentally, and physically, it becomes obvious that her Gail is always in charge, with the criminals' fate ultimately in her hands. It is a role perfectly suited for Streep, who has always been exceedingly critical of the dumb and weak portrayal of female characters in major motion pictures. It is also a pleasure to see Kevin Bacon as the bad guy of the movie, and it is impressive how easily Kevin manages to switch from sonny-boy to ruthless criminal in a matter of seconds. Better known for his nice guy roles, Bacon demonstrates exceptional skills and talent in his portrayal, an unexpected yet effective character who makes you love and hate him at the same time.
Although the thriller elements for "The River Wild" are not inventive and familiar, the craftsmanship that went into this movie is absolutely exciting. The story is fresh, suspenseful, and steadily builds tension until finally the story hurls itself to its finale at the same frantic speed as the river's rapids, leaving the viewer breathless and stunned. It's notable that this movie shows a mature woman without striking beauty or silicon implants as the story's hero. It's a testament that perfectly displays Meryl Streep's gift to play the ordinary as well as the exceptional.
"The River Wild" is a movie with top-of-the line production values that features some breath-taking photography. Coming as an <$16x9,anamorphic>ally enhanced 2.35:1 <$PS,widescreen> transfer, this movie has a razor sharp image, with lots of detail and absolutely natural colors and fleshtones. All the delicate and subtle textures of the water, the rocks and the landscape have been captured and perfectly transferred to DVD for this Universal release. There is not the slightest <$chroma,chroma noise> or color bleeding to be found on this disc. Compression is just as flawless with no hint of digital artifacts or <$pixelation,pixelation> anywhere in the image.
Jerry Goldsmith's score to "The River Wild" is lively, yet sinister at times. It perfectly underscores the events on screen, not distracting from the events while making the beauty of the area seem even bigger and more epic. I would have expected nothing less from Goldsmith, a man who has written more memorable, acclaimed, and classic filmscores than probably anyone else in Hollywood throughout his almost forty-year long career. The <$DD,Dolby Digital> <$5.1,5.1 channel> soundtrack has experienced a careful transfer to the DVD and is very dynamic, rich, and wide. The ambient sounds are nicely and actively spread in the surrounds, helping immerse you in the canyon's environment. In the death-defying white-water rapids scenes, it becomes especially obvious how well mixed and powerfully rich the soundstage is. The movie comes fully dubbed in English, French and Spanish with selectable subtitles in English and Spanish.
Not unlike his previous "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle", Hanson has created another very real thriller with "The River Wild", that is gripping and visually stunning. It's a great release that nicely shows DVDs strengths with its extremely natural colors and the high picture quality.
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Title: 1975 Pulitzer Prize
Subject: Comic strip, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1975, the 59th annual prizes, were ratified by the Pulitzer Prize advisory board on April 11, 1975 and by the trustees of Columbia University on May 5.[1] For the first time, the role of accepting or rejecting recommendations of the advisory board was delegated by the trustees to the university's president, William J. McGill; the change was prompted by the desire of the trustees to distance themselves from the appearance of approval of controversial awards based on work involving what some considered to be illegal leaks, such as the 1972 Pulitzer Prize awarded for the publication of the Pentagon Papers.[1]
It was also the first year that the prize for editorial cartooning went to a comic strip artist (Garry Trudeau, writer/artist of Doonesbury),[1] and the first year that a film critic won a Pulitzer (Roger Ebert).[2] Dumas Malone, 83, become the prize's oldest recipient.[1]
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2 Letters, Drama and Music awards
Journalism awards
The list of winners and the citations accompanying the award, are taken from the Pulitzer Prize website.[3]
Public Service:
The Boston Globe, for its massive and balanced coverage of the Boston school desegregation crisis.
Local General or Spot News Reporting:
Staff of Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio), for its coverage, under enormous difficulties, of the tornado that wrecked the city on April 3, 1974.
Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
The Indianapolis Star, for its disclosures of local police corruption and dilatory law enforcement, resulting in a cleanup of both the Police Department and the office of the County Prosecutor.
National Reporting:
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for their series Auditing the Internal Revenue Service, which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws.
International Reporting:
William Mullen, reporter, and Ovie Carter, photographer of the Chicago Tribune. For their coverage of famine in Africa and India.
Mary McGrory of the Washington Star, for her commentary on public affairs during 1974.
Criticism:
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, for his film criticism during 1974.
Editorial Writing:
John Daniell Maurice of the Charleston Daily Mail, for his editorials about the Kanawha County schoolbook controversy.
Editorial Cartooning:
Garry Trudeau, distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, for his cartoon strip Doonesbury.
Spot News Photography:
Gerald H. Gay of The Seattle Times, for his photograph of four exhausted firemen, Lull in the Battle.
Feature Photography:
Matthew Lewis of The Washington Post, for his photographs in color and black and white.
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Seascape by Edward Albee (Atheneum)
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone (Little)
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General Non-Fiction:
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From the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Dominick Argento (Boosey & Hawkes)
For medium voice and piano, commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, and premiered January 5, 1975, in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis.
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I am in the region of ap-south-1 Mumbai my time was set correctly but the error still occurred.
I tried launching an instance and timedatectl gave this,
      Local time: Sat 2018-09-08 08:25:06 UTC
  Universal time: Sat 2018-09-08 08:25:06 UTC
        RTC time: Sat 2018-09-08 08:25:05
       Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
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NTP synchronized: yes
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The server is also in ap-south-1 so I dont get why the local time is (UTC, +0000)
Trying to set my system clock to a similar time (UTC, +0000) results in this,
                      Local time: Sat 2018-09-08 20:09:46 +00
              Universal time: Sat 2018-09-08 20:09:46 UTC
                    RTC time: Sat 2018-09-08 20:09:46
                   Time zone: Atlantic/Azores (+00, +0000)
   System clock synchronized: yes systemd-timesyncd.service active: no
             RTC in local TZ: no

I've tried adjusting my machine's time to everything I can think of but still am unable to fix this error. I also chose to add servers from my region to ntpd.conf
server 3.in.pool.ntp.org
server 3.asia.pool.ntp.org
server 0.asia.pool.ntp.org

But this didn't help either.
Local Machine is running Ubuntu 18.04LTS, Instance is Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
Is there something I'm missing about this? Thanks in advance.

A: I don't know how or why this was caused, but changing the time manually-in the bios and going into system settings and entering the hours and minutes fixed it. Should've tried that first.
Thanks for the help.

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September 15, 2018 at 5:00 am | By RALPH BARTHOLDT Staff Writer
Brighter crosswalks to increase safety, trees and planters as well as diagonal parking were added to one block of Sherman Avenue this week as part of a city pilot project that seeks to improve an area once recognized as the gateway to downtown Coeur d'Alene. (RALPH BARTHOLDT/Press)
COEUR d'ALENE — The parking on one block of East Sherman Avenue increased by five spots this week as the real estate around Moon Time Cafe and Jimmy's Down the Street got a splotch of color and some trees.
A pilot project that's part of Coeur d'Alene's East Sherman urban invigoration plan turned the 1600 block into a hub of activity Friday as builders crafted a deck in front of the Moon Time restaurant into an expanded streetscape that included diagonal parking, potted maple trees, flower planters and colorful crosswalks.
City planner Hilary Anderson said the work is temporary. It will allow residents to experience on one block what could be stretched to the remaining 12 blocks if people like what they see.
"We are testing out some of the concepts that came out of the public involvement," Anderson said. "What people would like to see on East Sherman ... One of the big things is more parking, so we're testing out diagonal parking on the south side of the street."
Temporary curbing — a cement curb in a semi-circle directs traffic into the narrower street — shortens the crossing distance at two crosswalks, slowing and funneling traffic through the block.
Chris Schultz, Moon Time general manager, said patrons so far seem to like the new design. He's looking forward to using what city designers call a parklet, an elevated balcony — or deck — that extends into the street and is used as an open-air dining area.
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April 19, 2019 April 30, 2021 Hann4MLB Standingsjanuary, monday
With a recent slate on the horizon, we look in direction of the potential darkish horses making a run in late fall, and the big market teams making an attempt to live up to expectations. On November 7, 2018, Zaidi left the Dodgers to develop into the President of Baseball Operations for the San Francisco Giants. 15 Since taking on in 2014, he oversaw the Dodgers win the NL West all 5 times, and the NL pennant twice from 2017-2018. Just like 2018, the division may require a playoff game to find out the winner. Though the loser can be assured a place in the wild-card sport towards the Washington Nationals, the preferred spot is a five-recreation series with the Atlanta Braves.
Olney:The Dodgers, which could appear counterintuitive, as a result of they're fully dominating their division and will coast to a different NL West title. However the usual for that seething clubhouse is World Sequence or bust. The players doubled down on their individual efforts this season, and presumably the entrance office will as properly and get not less than one and maybe two high-end relievers before July 31.
Doolittle: Four. The Dodgers are a lock and the Braves are pretty close to it. Though the Cubs haven't gotten any separation and have some rotation injuries, there's no apparent motive to think they will not win the Central. And I still just like the Brewers as a wild card together with the Phillies. For the final spot, it's a potential quagmire. This might be a season wherein a real upstart, just like the Padres or Reds, squeezes into October.
The 2018 Main League Baseball season began on March 29. The common season ended on October 1, prolonged a day for tiebreaker video games to decide the winners of the Nationwide League Central and Nationwide League West divisions. The postseason began on October 2. The World Series started on October 23, and ended on October 28 with the Boston Pink Sox defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in 5 games to win their ninth World Series championship.
The Miami Marlins, who attract the smallest average crowd in baseball, are trying to woo fans with a number of recent ticketing choices. They embrace a ticket bank" by which fans buy credit at a discount before the season that they'll use to purchase tickets during it. But with dozens of ticket sorts, the Marlins danger angering fans who later discover they could have bought their tickets for cheaper.
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Infant Positioning
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IntelliSpace Perinatal
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A Fortune 200 company sought to understand if their planned advertising campaign would draw out the emotions and elicit purchase intent from two separate segments. The partnering agency developed two creative executions in animatic format for testing. These ads centered around the theme of "Simplicity": "Simple Talent" and "Simple Tech." MDRG's task was to measure emotional responses to the creative executions and identify the most effective one.
The final campaign ran in both traditional and new service areas and needed to be effective in both markets.
Considering the overwhelmingly more positive response for "Simple Talent" in the new service area, MDRG recommended "Simple Talent" be put into full production.
However, there was some concern that "Simple Talent" was not as engaging as "Simple Tech" in the more urban legacy service area. The results of the facial coding exercise uncovered that use of rural scenery in "Simple Talent" was less engaging to those in the urban legacy service area and did not create a strong emotional response until the last ten seconds when it transitioned from rural scenery to the ad's main character. Considering the final ad had to run both in the new and legacy service areas, MDRG recommended that the full production of "Simple Talent" keep the rural scenery to appeal to the new service area, but that it should make a quicker transition to the main character at the end to appeal to both service areas.


The Department of Computer and Information Sciences invites applications for the following faculty positions.
Applications are invited for tenure-track assistant professor positions in the areas of Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and Human-Computer Interaction. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. or its equivalent. We encourage all ambitious, innovative individuals, who have demonstrated excellence in research and drive to become leaders in their fields while engaging in high-quality teaching and mentoring of diverse students, to apply. Exceptional candidates may be considered at a higher rank.
Details and application information coming soon.
The University of Delaware invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in Data Science at the Assistant or Associate Professor levels beginning September 1, 2019. We are seeking exceptional candidates with interests in a wide range of topics within the foundations of data science including the development of the underlying theory, tools, and techniques necessary to extract meaning from large, complex or unstructured data sets. This search is part of a university-wide cluster recruitment effort to expand research in data science and related areas. It will support a new Data Science Institute and degree programs that are currently being planned, complementing ongoing departmental hiring efforts. This cluster hire seeks interdisciplinary researchers attentive to the forefront of data science methodology. To foster collaborations across academic units, we are open to making interdepartmental joint appointments, or more traditional departmental appointments, in any college of the university.


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Quantum Gravity Seminar
Week 7, Track 1
John Baez and Toby Bartels
Noveber 13, 2000
The Wizard strode into class and noticed someone missing. "Where's that rascal Toby?" he exclaimed.
"I haven't seen him since Saturday." said Miguel.
"Humph!" said the Wizard "Where could he have gotten to? He often forgets our top-secret category theory seminar, but this -- this is really pushing it! Maybe a fireball or two will help him shape up.".
Oz smiled at the thought of that know-it-all Toby getting a taste of the Wizard's pyrotechnics.
"Okay," said the Wizard "today we're going to build spacetime from spin! More precisely, we'll start with the vector space for a spin-1/2 particle, V = C2, and the cup and cap operators we talked about before:
|           |
V v           v V
\         /
\_______/
/       \
/         \
These are the cup and cap that my friend the wizard JB talked about. You do remember that cup and cap, don't you?
The class shifted nervously in its seats.
"We'll use these to build a lot of vector spaces and linear operators." the Wizard continued "First we'll build a vector space for each number j = 0, 1/2, 1, 3/2, ... . Physicists call these numbers "spins", and our original vector space V will correspond to j = 1/2. Then we'll build a bunch of operators like this:
\       /
j1 \     / j2
\   /
j3 |
where j1, j2 and j3 are spins. Using these, --".
"Excuse me," said Oz "my brain must be flummoxed, because I can't see the arrows on that diagram there. Did you forget to draw them in, or do I need new glasses?".
"There's another possiblity that you forgot:" said the Wizard "You might need a fireball upside the head.". Oz began quivering with fear. "But I won't give you one, because that's actually a good and profound question.". Oz relaxed noticeably. "Remember," said the Wizard "because of this symplectic form on V, there are isomorphisms # and b that go between V and V*. Because of that, we can just ignore the arrows on V. Of course, V is just the vector space for j = 1/2. But we'll see, soon, that we can ignore the arrows for every j.
Anyway, using these symbols and some other stuff I'll explain, we can start drawing all sorts of pictures, like this:
/|\
/ | \
j1 /  |  \ j3
/ j2|   \
/    |    \
-----|-----
\    | j4 /
\   |   /
j5 \  |  / j6
\ | /
\|/
This is a tetrahedron with all its edges labelled by spins. But in our diagrammatic calculus, what does this represent?".
The class sat staring at the picture, jaws slack in amazement.
"Come on!" said the Wizard impatiently "We have a bunch of rules for interpreting diagrams like this. What is this thing?".
Richard the Acolyte cautiously ventured a reply: "A number?".
"Right!" said the Wizard "A complex number! Remember, a picture with nothing coming in on top and nothing going out on the bottom denotes a linear operator from C to C -- which is just multiplication by some complex number. So, we have a recipe to get a number from a tetrahedron with edges labelled by spins.
Now, topologists like to take a 3-dimensional manifold and chop it into tetrahedra. If we do this, and label all the edges by spins, we'll get a number for each tetrahedron, and we can multiply all these together to get a number for the whole thing. Eventually, this will give us some cool ways to assign numbers to manifolds. There's a lot more to say about this; right now I'm just sketching the idea.
Now in physics, we can think of a 3-dimensional manifold as spacetime -- at least if we're doing 3D quantum gravity, which is a kind of warmup for the 4D theory. So what we really have here is a recipe for assigning a complex number -- or amplitude -- to a spacetime that's been chopped up into tetrahedra, with all the edges labelled by spins. And what do you think these spins correspond to?".
"They correspond to representations of SU(2)!" said Miguel the Acolyte.
"Yeah, yeah," growled the Wizard "but that's too fancy -- we haven't talked about that stuff yet. Come on: If someone walked up to you and showed you a tetrahedron with nonnegative numbers labelling its edges, what would you *guess* the numbers stood for?".
Oz got his courage up and said "Lengths?".
"Yes!" cried the Wizard "The spins stand for the edges' *lengths*! So we are seeing some new theory of geometry emerge naturally from our diagrammatic approach to vector spaces and linear operators. But what's funny about these lengths?".
"They're quantized!" said Jay the Acolyte. He had already seen this sort of thing before. "They can't be any old number: they can only be numbers like 0, 1/2, 1, 3/2 and so on.".
"*Right*!" exulted the Wizard, hurling a fireball in his joy. Foom! It whizzed past Oz, singing his right ear, and exploded into fragments against the back wall of the classroom.
After catching his breath, the Wizard continued:
"Yes, we'll see that our mathematics leads naturally to theories where things like lengths take on a discrete set of values. In quantum mechanics, it's common for observables like energy to be quantized this way. But when we build spacetime from spin, *geometry* will be quantized!
Now, before we start, I have one final question. All our vector spaces and linear operators will be built starting only from the symplectic vector space V = C2. Remember, we draw a symplectic structure on V as a cup:
It doesn't really matter which symplectic structure we use. Since the symplectic structure is antisymmetric, we have
|           |           |     |
|           |            \   /
|           |             \ /
|           |     = -      /
|           |             / \
|           |            /   \
\         /            |     |
\       /              \   /
\_____/                \_/
Since it's nondegenerate, we've seen there's a cap:
for which these marvelous identities hold:
/     \
|         |     =     -2
\_____/
\   /       |   |      \   /
\ /        |   |       \_/
/     =   |   |   +    _
/ \        |   |       / \
/   \       |   |      /   \
This is all we'll need to build spacetime from spin! But my question is: What's so great about the symplectic vector space C2? Why is it a worthy foundation for all the constructions to come?".
The Acolytes, who'd been busy taking notes, looked up and started pondering this question.
"Well," said the Wizard "one answer is that C2 is the simplest symplectic vector space. At least, the simplest one that's not completely silly. Symplectic vector spaces have to be even-dimensional, so, barring the 0-dimensional one, the 2-dimensional is the smallest. But that's not the answer I want.".
The class continued to ponder.
"Well then," said the Wizard a bit irritably "here's a homework problem! First, suppose V is any vector space with a symplectic structure w. We say a linear operator T: V -> V "preserves" the symplectic structure if w(Tu, Tv) = w(u, v) for all u,v in V, or, in pictures, if:
|           |          |           |
/ \         / \         |           |
| T |       | T |        |           |
\_/         \_/   =     |           |
|           |           \         /
\         /             \       /
\_______/               \_____/
Now, suppose V = C2. Show that, no matter what symplectic structure we take, T: V -> V will preserve it if and only if det T = 1.
There are some very slick ways to show this, but, if you're not feeling smart, you can just grind it out with a grungy calculation.".
Various students gulped and looked nervous.
"Now, the linear transformations of C2 with determinant 1 form a group called SL(2,C). If we build a bunch of vector spaces and operators using only C2 and a symplectic structure on this space, then SL(2,C) will act as symmetries of everything we build! So my question really is: What's so great about SL(2,C)?".
Cyrill the Part-Time Acolyte said "It plays a basic role in the classification of semisimple Lie groups ... blah, blah, blah ... Dynkin diagrams ... blah, blah --".
The Wizard cut him off. "Too fancy! And we're doing physics now! What's so great about SL(2,C) in physics?".
Miguel the Acolyte took a guess. "It's the double cover of SU(2)?".
Foom!
"No!" roared the Wizard "It's the double cover of the Lorentz group -- the group generated by rotations and Lorentz transformations! Einstein showed that this is the symmetry group of spacetime in special relativity. It also plays a big role in general relativity. But when we throw quantum mechanics into the mix, the Lorentz group isn't good enough. Remember, when you rotate an electron by a full turn, its state gets multiplied by -1. Only when you give it two full turns does it get back to where it was. To distinguish between a full turn and no turn at all, we need to replace the Lorentz group by its double cover -- SL(2,C).
That is why we start with the symplectic vector space C2: its symmetry group is the right group for combining relativity and quantum mechanics.".
At this point the Wizard noticed two of the Track 1 students exchanging nervous glances.
"But don't worry about this physics stuff -- we won't really need it! I just wanted to explain why we're starting with these particular ingredients. I hate it when mathematicians do stuff without saying why. Okay, so now we'll start ... .".
At this point, he looked at the clock and saw how late it was.
"Ack! The class is almost over and I haven't even started yet!
Okay, let's hurry. First, say we have any vector space V. We can make a new vector space by tensoring V with itself n times -- we call this the "nth tensor power" of V. There's a group Sn called the "symmetric group", which consists of all permutations of n things. This group acts as linear operators on the nth tensor power of V in an obvious way. How? Well, we can draw any permutation as a diagram like this:
\   \   /   /   /
\   \ /   /   /
\   /   /   /
\ / \ /   /
/   /   /
/ \ / \ /
/   / \ / \
/   /   /   \
/   /   / \   \
Then label all the strands with the vector space V, and intrepret the diagram as a linear operator using our rules. Get it?".
"Erm, no." said Oz.
The Wizard sighed. "Well, suppose we have a guy in the 5th tensor power of V that's a tensor product of 5 vectors in V:
v = v1 (X) v2 (x) v3 (x) v4 (x) v5.
To apply the above permutation to this guy, we feed v1 through v5 into the diagram and see what pops out at the bottom:
v1  v2   v3  v4  v5
v3  v4  v5  v1  v2
Voila! The answer is v3 (x) v4 (x) v5 (x) v1 (x) v2. Get it now?".
"Got it." said Oz.
"Good. Next, we define an operator called the "symmetrizer" on the nth tensor power of V by taking all of these operators corresponding to permutations, adding them up, and dividing by n factorial. We denote this operator by a horizontal line. For example, when n = 2 we have:
|  |            |  |           \   /
|  |            |  |            \ /
----   =  (1/2) |  |  +  (1/2)   /
|  |            |  |            / \
|  |            |  |           /   \
For n = 3 we have:
|  |  |           \   /  |           |   \   /
|  |  |            \ /   |           |    \ /
(1/6) |  |  |  +  (1/6)   /    |   + (1/6) |     /
|  |  |              |  |  |            / \   |           |    / \
|  |  |              |  |  |           /   \  |           |   /   \
-------    =
|  |  |              \ \   /           \   / /            \  |  /
|  |  |               \ \ /             \ / /              \ | /
\ /               / /                \|/
+ (1/6)  / \   +  (1/6)  / /       + (1/6)   /|\
/ \ \           / / \               / | \
/   \ \         / /   \             /  |  \
If we apply this symmetrizer to any vector in the nth tensor power of V, we get a vector on which further permutations have no effect. For example, we have
|   |   |           |   |   |
---------     =     ---------
\   /   |           |   |   |
\ /    |           |   |   |
/     |           |   |   |
/ \    |           |   |   |
/   \   |           |   |   |
Since the symmetrizer is just a linear combination of permutations, it follows that after we apply the symmetrizer once, applying it again has no further effect. For example:
|  |  |           |  |  |
-------           |  |  |
|  |  |     =     -------
In other words, the symmetrizer is a projection operator: it maps the nth tensor power of V onto the subspace of vectors that are invariant under permutations. We call this subspace the "nth symmetric power" of V, or Sn(V) for short.
Now let V be C2. In this case, all the symmetric powers of V are representations of SL_2(C), and for any spin j = 0, 1/2, 1, 3/2 ... , physicists call S2j(V) the "spin-j representation". The dimension of this vector space is 2j + 1. For example:
j = 0  :  S0(V) = C
j = 1/2:  S1(V) = C2
j = 1  :  S2(V) = C3
and so on. We'll often just use the number j to stand for the vector space S2j(V).
Okay, we've got our list of vector spaces! Now for our operators. First, let's set up some handy notation. From now on, when a strand is unlabelled, that means it's labelled by the vector space V = C2 -- or in other words, spin 1/2. If we think of the symmetrizer as a "projection operator" from the (2j)th tensor power of V to the space j, then we can write it like this:
| |   | |
| |...| |
| j
with 2j unlabelled strands coming in and one strand labelled by "j" coming out. Also, we know how to turn operators upside-down, and when we do this here:
we get the "inclusion operator" from j to the (2j)th tensor power of V.
Now, for any vector space j on our list we have a cup operator:
|       |
j |       | j
\     /
\___/
For j = 1/2 this is the cup we already know and love: the symplectic structure on C2. For other values of j, here's how we define it:
j |          | j
-------    -------
||...||    ||...||
\\...\\  //...//
|       |            \\...\\//...//
j |       | j           \\...\/...//
|       |     =        \\......//
\     /                \\....//
\___/                  \\..//
Second, for any j we have a cap operator:
/   \
defined in a similar way:
//\\
___                //..\\
/   \              //....\\
/     \            //......\\
|       |     =    //.../\...\\
j |       | j       //...//\\...\\
|       |        //...//  \\...\\
Third and finally, we want some operators that look like this:
j1 \   / j2
| j3
These go as follows....". But before writing down the formula, the Wiz glanced at the clock. It was very late! "Hmm. Given the hour, I'll leave this as a puzzle for you. How can you cook up an operator like this, using only cups and symmetrizers?".
The Acolytes began to guess, but I will not tell you what they guessed. Figure it out for yourself!
baez@math.ucr.edu
© 2001 John Baez


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German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought
The Influence of Ancient Indian Philosophy on the German Romantics
Alexei Pimenov
Published February 3, 2020 by Routledge
Published January 22, 2020 by Routledge
German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought: The Influence of Ancient Indian Philosophy on the German Romantics
This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German nationalism, the essential intellectual underpinnings of the nationalist discourse came to the West, not from the West.
The book demonstrates how the German Romantic fascination with India resulted in the adoption of Indian models of identity and otherness and ultimately shaped German Romantic nationalism. The author illustrates how Indian influence renovated the scholarly design of German nationalism and, at the same time, became central to pre-modern and pre-nationalist models of identity, which later shaped the Aryan myth. Focusing on the scholarship of Friedrich Schlegel, Otmar Frank, Joseph Goerres, and Arthur Schopenhauer, the book shows how, in explaining the fact of the diversity of languages, peoples, and cultures, the German Romantics reproduced the Indian narrative of the degradation of some Indo-Aryan clans, which led to their separation from the Aryan civilization.
An important resource for the nexus between Indology and Orientalism, German Indian Studies and studies of nationalism, this book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of history, European and South Asian area studies, philosophy, political science, and IR theory.
1. The Romantic Germanization (Verdeutschung) of the Indian Heritage 2. Britain's Discovery of India: The Colonial Rulers and Their Fact-Finding Team 3. The German Indian Renaissance and its Historical Roots 4. Friedrich Schlegel: Indology as the Key to the National and Religious History of the World 5. Otmar Frank: A Breakthrough to the Alleged Iranian-Indian Roots of the Germans 6. Joseph Goerres: The Orient as the Source of the Urreligion and of the Staende-based German Weltstaat 7. Schopenhauer: The India-Rooted "Wisdom of All Ages" vs. the Bible-Based Monotheism
Alexei Pimenov is a historian, writer, and journalist. His academic research examines the perceptions of India in Europe, specifically within the contexts of European nationalisms.
South Asian Politics
Asian Studies (General)
Asian Politics
India (studies of)
Indian Philosophy


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Extremities that are sensitive to touch.
A feeling like you are wearing a glove or sock.
Sharp, stabbing or shooting pains.
There are multiple causes e.g.
Nutritional deficiencies (especially – B, B5, B6, B12).
However, the main cause of peripheral neuropathy is diabetes; about a third of all diabetics will develop the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. Also, many people who use statin drugs can develop these symptoms. One should always investigate the side effect of all drugs the patient may be taking. And, don't forget to rule out small blood vessel disorders like Raymond's syndrome and Buerger's disease and other peripheral vascular diseases.
It is important to perform a thorough physical exam, certain highly indicated and specialized neurological and neuro-orthopedic exams, do a complete blood chemistry exam; and when the spine or joints are involved, a radiological study may also be appropriate and necessary.
How widespread is peripheral neuropathy?
It is important to get an accurate diagnosis and start appropriate treatment as soon as possible after the symptoms start to avoid permanent nerve damage and long term disability.
If you have diabetes and peripheral neuropathy, the highest priority is to normalize your blood sugar levels and keep them stable. This can definitely be done with appropriate diet, exercise, weight loss and selected nutraceuticals. The next step is to reduce swelling and inflammation in and around the affected peripheral nerves.
Alpha lipoic acid supplementation from a knowledgeable holistic doctor who is aware of dosages and side affects.
Certain herbs, such as: St Johns Wort and Evening Primrose oil, can reduce neuropathic pain in people with diabetes and other neurological syndromes.
Amino acids, such as: Acetyl-L-Carnatine have been shown to be helpful at selected dosages; however, side affects may include nausea and vomiting.
The use of powerful antioxidants such as, Acetyl-Glutathione or N-Acetyl Cystine can be extremely helpful.
Fish oils that contain Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce inflammation and improve blood flow at therapeutic dosages.
CoQ10 and Gingo Biloba can also be effective in managing the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.
The herb "Nettles" which is rich in minerals and is particularly good in handling the stinging sensations in peripheral neuropathy.
B-vitamins, like: B1 B6 B12 can be crucial in healing peripheral nerves.
Oatseed can be useful in some people in helping with numbness and weakness in their limbs.
Eating gluten free, if you have any autoimmune disease associated with peripheral neuropathy, is vital to your recovery.


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Leaked Scenes From Censored Documentary 'Show Israel Lobbyist Astroturfing Anti-BDS Protest'
Leaked scenes from the censored Al Jazeera undercover documentary, "The Lobby - USA," purportedly show an Israel lobbyist astroturfing an anti-BDS "student" protest at the 2016 Students for Justice in Palestine national conference.
Max Blumenthal writes at The Grayzone Project:
The Grayzone Project has released scenes from an investigative Al Jazeera undercover documentary, "The Lobby – USA," whose publication was blocked by the government of Qatar under Israel lobby pressure.
The footage reveals how Emergency Committee on Israel Executive Director Noah Pollak and the right-wing Hoover Institution organized an astroturfed a protest aimed at disrupting the 2016 Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) national conference.
According to one Hoover Institution campus fellow, "This is the first foot soldier activity that I think we've been forced to do."
A Hoover fellow who identified himself as "Marshall," explained the background of the protest: "It was basically like Noah Pollak coming in and being like, 'Look, there are these jihadis who basically support suicide bombing, and they're on a campus and you have to stop them.'"
"It's a chance to shout at Arabs," another fellow interjected.
At @GrayzoneProject, we reveal how Israel lobbyists and the @HooverInst paid fake protesters to give their anti-BDS crusade a grassroots image. This footage is from a documentary that was censored by Qatar under Israel lobby pressure. #LobbyExposed https://t.co/FdQwtAwFeV pic.twitter.com/LqZIQgkdHM
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) August 29, 2018
Marshall, who is African American, divulged his fear that some media outlet might publish "a photo of Deon [another Hoover Institute fellow] and me together, and we're just like clearly identifiable. They're like, "Oh, who are these traitors who sold out to the Jewish conspiracy for money?'"
He then joked: "I'm like, 'We did! We cost $50,000 plus benefits."
[...]Pollak's Emergency Committee for Israel is part of a coalition of right-wing and Israel lobbying organizations that have devoted increasing resources to undermining the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS. Al Jazeera's censored "The Lobby" documentary exposes intensive collaboration between these US-based cut-outs, the Israeli military-intelligence apparatus, and pro-Israel oligarchs like Sheldon Adelson and Adam Milstein.
For that reason, Israel lobby forces enacted a pressure campaign that appears to have succeeded in suppressing Al Jazeera's release of "The Lobby." The campaign consisted of visits by high profile Israel lobbyists Alan Dershowitz and Morton Klein to Doha, as well as threats from Congress to force Al Jazeera to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if it aired the documentary. Qatar has since donated $250,000 to Klein's Zionist Organization of America and other hardline Israel lobby outfits.
Electronic Intifada reported in June that Qatar decided to nix "The Lobby" over "national security concerns." According to reporters Asa Winstanley and Ali Abunimah, there were concerns in Qatari governing circles that release of the documentary could even prompt the US to pull its Al Udeid Airbase from the Gulf country at a time when it was under embargo from Saudi Arabia and UAE, both close allies of Israel and the US.
Despite the ban, pieces of the documentary have begun to trickle out. This August 27, Electronic Intifada released footage identifying Adam Milstein as a moving force behind the malicious anti-Palestinian blacklisting operation known as Canary Mission. The report came on the heels of a Grayzone exclusive naming pro-Israel lawyer Howard David Sterling as the owner of Canary Mission's web domain.
The footage revealed here by the Grayzone shows in vivid detail how the Israel lobby has compensated for its lack of grassroots influence by essentially paying for protesters.
No doubt congress will investigate this foreign meddling ASAP!


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We were looking for a better way to represent the experience of our clients and the reliability of our site. We found that the traditional uptime metrics did not work well for us, since they did not account for the satisfaction of our client base. Traditional uptime was also vaguely defined, with no consensus over which component should be broken in which way for which duration of time, in order to qualify as downtime. We did some research and decided to adopt the error budgeting model. This talk will be about our journey to implement it for our engineering team here at GroupBy.
The pitfalls of relying on strictly on traditional uptime calculations.
The basic principals of error budgeting that had been agreed upon at GroupBy.
The simpler technical means to calculate error budgeting reliably.
How using error budgeting changed GroupBy engineering.
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Trendy Butler is a subscription-based clothing service that is geared towards men who want to wear new stylish items, and switch things up every month. There are many services like that now, but the company has carved a lane for itself and become successful. In this day and age, men have to stand out for several reasons, whether it's in the workplace or for the dating pool, and Trendy Butler certainly helps men find their own particular lane when it comes to style, and elevate their life to the next level.
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The Netherlands: A Cautionary Tale
Posted on January 25, 2017 by Joel
Vol: 19 Issue: 25 Wednesday, January 25, 2017
In 58 BC, Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, a region comprising modern-day northern Italy, all of France and Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
In 1648, under the Treaty of Westphalia, the Netherlands was granted independence from Spain following history's Eighty Years' War.
One of Rome's earliest military outposts was in Maastricht in the Netherlands, where the treaty that formally created the European Union was signed in 1992.
During the 15th century's "Eighty Years' War" the Dutch provinces became the most important trading centre of Northern Europe.
The Dutch nation flourished culturally and economically, creating what historian Simon Schama has called an "embarrassment of riches". The first stock market crash in history was the Dutch stock market in 1637.
In 1688, William III of the Netherlands invaded England, leading to the English revolution that swept King James II from the throne, installing William the Dutchman as King of England.
It was the Dutch who settled New York City. Many of the place names around eastern New York are Dutch — (Amsterdam, NY comes to mind).
It was the Dutch unit of financial measure – the thaler — that loaned its name to the almighty American 'dollar'.
When America was little more than a collection of coastal villages dotting the Eastern Seaboard, the Netherlands was among the world's wealthiest and most powerful nations.
While the Americans were struggling to break away from their own colonial masters in 1776, the Dutch already ruled the vast colonial empires from Indonesia to Africa. There were no doubt Dutchmen serving in the Roman Army in the time of Christ.
The British invaded and tried to conquer the Netherlands in the 15th century. The Belgians invaded and tried in the 19th century.
The Nazis invaded conquered, occupied and even tried to erase the Netherlands from the map in the mid-20th century — but the Netherlands remained Dutch, tulips, dikes, wooden shoes and all.
Until the youth movements of the 60s and 70s abandoned Dutch traditional values, rejected Dutch nationalism, and embraced multiculturalism, sexual 'freedoms', abortion, women's rights, legalized drug abuse, euthanasia, the environment,and especially, unrestricted immigration.
The once-great Dutch empire was reduced, said Princess Maxima, wife of Holland's Crown Prince Willem, to what she described in a speech last month as a place where;
"A typical Dutch person doesn't exist."
Her comments have tapped into a growing feeling among many Dutch who fear the rise in Muslim extremism in their midst and the loss of their own national identity.
"Unfortunately, the debate about Dutch identity is too often held at a very trite and trivial level, as if the discussion is between Brussels sprouts and wooden shoes on the one hand, and couscous and caftans on the other," according to Bart Jan Spruyt, founder of The Edmund Burke Foundation, a conservative think tank.
"What is really at stake, due to a frivolous immigration policies and decades of multicultural indifference, is the identity of the Dutch nation, Dutch history and culture as a part of the history of Western civilization."
The Dutch model for immigration allowed new immigrants to separate into ethnic groupings known as 'pillars', meaning people of different ethnic backgrounds, faiths or political persuasions had their own churches, schools, newspapers, television and radio broadcasters and labor unions.
The result was a hodge-podge of unassimilated ethnic groups loyal only to their communities, their home countries — or Islam.
On December 23, 2004, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior published a 60-page report entitled; "From Dawa to Jihad."
The report concluded that there are close to one million Muslim immigrants, out of a population of just sixteen million, and that of that number, it estimated roughly fifty thousand of those are radical jihadists.
It also concluded that recruitment in The Netherlands for the armed radical Muslim struggle – mainly among descendants of immigrants – is not incidental but rather a trend.
Holland — with its disproportionately high Muslim population — is the canary in the mine. All across Europe, debate on Islam is being stopped.
Italy's greatest living writer, Oriana Fallaci, was facing trial in her home country on charges of defaming at her death in September 2006, and in Britain the government seems intent on pushing through laws that would make truths about Islam and the conduct of its followers impossible to voice.
The governments of Europe have been tricked into believing that criticism of a belief is the same thing as criticism of a race. As a consequence, it becomes increasingly difficult to discuss the threats posed by the malignant ideology in their midst.
It is not racist to want to preserve one's national culture, anymore than it is racist to want to preserve one's family culture. Culture isn't rooted in race, but in common beliefs. values and goals.
My family racial line is Irish. I have members of my family who married in from different ethnic backgrounds than Irish, but they are still part of my unique family culture.
We all tell stories to our kids about where we came from, and why family ties and family values are important. A national culture is merely the expression of a larger version of the family unit.
Holland is a country whose culture was invaded with the enthusiastic support of its citizens who blindly and blissfully embraced the liberal Marxism that led to its cultural occupation.
They never saw the iron fist inside the velvet glove of multicultural madness until it hit them squarely between the eyes. But by then, they were already on the way down.
Holland is now a nation without national definition. It is too late for debate. It is too late to try and stuff the genie back into the bottle.
Those few Dutchmen who have tried have died. The rest are in hiding.
When Theo Van Gough attempted to produce a film critical of Islam written by Somali-born ex-Muslim and Dutch citizen Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Van Gough was murdered in broad daylight on an Amsterdam street.
The Muslim jihadist who killed him pinned a warning to others about insulting Islam on Van Gough's chest. It was pinned there by a knife.
The Van Gough murder sparked a number of reprisal attacks by the Muslim community in The Netherlands, and Ali joined the growing group of intellectuals forced into hiding by the terror they invited into their midst.
It's been said that 'a liberal is a conservative who has never been mugged.' Holland's new rising political star is Geert Wilders, head of the Dutch Freedom Party. He rose to power on the strength of statements such as the one he gave in a British interview in February:
"Islam itself is the problem. Islam is a violent religion," he told The Daily Telegraph. "The Prophet Mohammed was a violent man. The Koran is mostly a violent book. We should invest in Muslim people but they have to first get rid of half the Koran and half of their beliefs," he said.
(That statement earned him the sobriquet of 'anti-immigrant politician' in the liberal Telegraph's lead sentence.)
Here in America, those who oppose the kind of unrestricted immigration that killed Holland face the same blind knee-jerk liberal reaction as their Dutch counterparts.
To liberals, restricting immigration is racist and selfish and xenophobic and any other insult they can think of. If one opposes unrestricted immigration, then such a person is selfishly depriving of the benefits they themselves enjoy.
I listened to liberal queen Susan Estrich last night on Hannity and Colmes defending a California law that would extend free education benefits to illegal aliens that it specifically denies members of the California National Guard, for example.
Dr. Estrich is no intellectual lightweight — she is a professor of law at Loyola University. I even met her once. But it is mindless babble nonetheless.
Susan Estrich lives in a gated community. So do most California liberals. They see no conflict in the fact that they themselves lock the doors to their own homes at night. They put up fences around their own yards. They lock their cars when they park them. Don't they want others to enjoy the same benefits that they have?
Of course they don't. They want to give away yours. That is what makes liberal ideology so insidious. Liberalism is like a Tootsie-Roll Pop with an arsenic center.
Holland is a typical liberal success story. Other countries where liberals rule find themselves more or less following Holland down the tubes, some more than others, but all in the same direction.
For America in 2008, Holland serves as a cautionary tale. The root of liberal thinking is that man is his own supreme being, and therefore, it is up to man to provide what a 'mythical God' cannot.
Take your own mental poll: Those who trust God tend not to trust government. True or False? Those who put their trust in big government tend not to trust God. True or False?
If you picked 'true' for both questions, then you are in line with the Gallup poll that found conservatives are twice as likely to self-identify as born-again Christians as liberals are.
The Scriptures warn us (twice): "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 14:12, 16:25)
Just ask a Dutchman — if you can still find one.
This Letter was written by Jack Kinsella on November 21, 2007
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Rural air pollution may be as hazardous as urban, study finds
Jan 26, 2022 2:00 pm by Lois Yoksoulian | Physical Sciences Editor | 217-244-2788Physical SciencesEngineering
Illinois researchers, from left, Sudheer Salana, Joseph Puthussery, Haoran Yu and professor Vishal Verma recently conducted a comprehensive assessment of the oxidative potential of air pollution in the Midwestern U.S.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research shows that chemical reactivity, seasonality and distribution of airborne particulate matter are critical metrics when considering air pollution's impact on human health. Current environmental regulations focus on the mass of pollutant particles, and researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are pushing to refocus regulatory efforts on more regional and health-relevant factors.
A new study of air quality in the Midwestern U.S. found that measuring the mass concentration of PM2.5 – particles that are 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller – does not correspond well with current methods for classifying particle toxicity. Additionally, the researchers found that PM2.5 exposure may be just as hazardous in rural areas as in urban areas – evidence that challenges a common misconception that air pollution is more toxic in urban areas than in rural areas, the researchers said.
The findings of the study, led by civil and environmental engineering professor Vishal Verma, are published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.
"The EPA classification of PM2.5 accounts for particle diameter and mass, which are characteristics that are easy to measure," Verma said. "However, not all particles that make up PM2.5 contribute to health equally."
PM2.5 poses a health risk because it can become embedded in lung tissue when inhaled, the researchers said. Although chemically reactive fractions of these particles are known to be toxic, a previous study by Verma's group shows that the exact relationship between PM2.5 mass and toxicity is unclear.
"Most air pollution studies have shifted focus from particle mass to a property called cellular oxidative potential," Verma said. "Cellular oxidative potential describes the capability of the particles to generate reactive, oxygen-based chemicals that can lead to a variety of health problems in the cells of lung tissue."
To examine the influence of oxidative potential more closely, the researchers collected PM2.5 samples weekly in the summer and fall of 2018 and in the winter and spring of 2019. They chose three urban localities: Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis; a rural location in Bondville, Illinois; and a roadside location adjacent to an interstate highway in Champaign, Illinois.
Graduate student Yixiang Wang is the lead author of the paper
Photo courtesy Yixiang Wang
Using an automated analytical technique developed in a previous study, Verma's team analyzed the sample composition, oxidative potential and mass. The team found that all locations shared similar levels of oxidative potential – but saw a poor correlation between oxidative potential and mass. That suggests that some of the lighter particles that make up PM2.5 contribute more to tissue damage than others, the study reports.
"Our rural samples did have less mass than those in the urban settings, but the oxidative potential was equal to samples from urban settings," Verma said. "Additionally, the oxidative potential of the rural samples was higher in the summer than in the winter, suggesting that summertime agricultural activity can produce PM2.5 particles that are just as toxic as those from urban settings."
The team hopes this study brings attention to these newly uncovered risks associated with PM2.5 in rural areas.
"The current methods used to measure PM2.5 oxidative potential are time-consuming and laborious, and we hope that our new methodology, combined with these study findings, makes testing for oxidative potential more appealing to environmental regulators and policymakers," Verma said.
The National Science Foundation supported this research.
To reach Vishal Verma, call 217-265-6703; email vverma@illinois.edu.
The paper "Sources of cellular oxidative potential of water-soluble fine ambient particulate matter in the Midwestern United States" is available online and from the U. of I. News Bureau. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127777.


Good Afternoon and I hope you are having a great Tuesday! The time is just flying by and before you know it, it will be January 1st, 2015. The title of today's post is pretty simple. Health. And Wealth. Many people, or should I dare to say, everyone wants to be wealthy. Nothing like having money without borders. LOL But without your health, the money is nothing.
I just had my last physical for the year. I go to see Dr. Wong every 6 months for check ups and general health. As I approach 40, there is nothing singularly more important than my health. And that health includes mental, spiritual, emotional and physical components. Without my health, I would not have made it through this year and been able to do some of the amazing things I did. I was blessed to wake up each day in my right mind and the ability to get out of bed. These are things I do not take for granted.
So when I went to my physical today, I made sure I was on time and ready for my examination. Men, we need to take care of ourselves. Not only for personal reasons but also for our families and friends. For my exam I was ready to listen but during and after my examination/physical, I asked questions. I value my relationship with Dr. Wong and I trust his feedback. So I wanted to make sure I asked the right questions regarding my health so if there were any adjustments I needed to make, I knew exactly what to do. Even in his questioning of me, I answered honestly and completely. Dr. Wong can't treat me correctly if he doesn't have all the necessary information.


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Industry split on whether demise of News of the World hands more power to PROs
July 14, 2011 by Nikki Wicks
One of the PR industry's top names has claimed the PR industry will benefit from a 'seismic shift in power' from the closure of the News of the World.
NOTW: the newspaper's final front cover
The final issue of the red-top hit the newsstands on Sunday, with senior agency figures predicting the fall-out from its closure will hand more media control to the PR industry.
Mark Borkowski told PRWeek that the newspaper's closure signalled a 'seismic shift of power to the PR world.'
The founder of Borkowski PR said: 'It puts a huge amount of power into the hands of PR people. It's a massive opportunity for PR to get it wrong or get it right.'
Ian Reeves, a lecturer at the Centre for Journalism at Kent University, said that the closure of the NotW, which often sought to expose celebrities, would mean a greater degree of PR-placed content in the media.
Reeves, a former editor of Press Gazette, also suggested that the prevalence of phone-hacking at the title was partly in response to the growing control of PROs.
'As PROs take a firmer hold on the way that public people are portrayed in public life, some journalists have sought ways of getting beneath the skin and phone-hacking is part of that,' he said.
Alan Edwards, CEO of top entertainment agency Outside Organisation, said that while he was not convinced the demise of the NotW would strengthen the PR industry in the long term, there may be a short-term power shift in favour of PROs.
He said: 'It's likely that the News of the World's disappearance will further reduce newspaper readership and revenues in general, meaning even less investment in quality journalism ... In the short term this could well empower the PR.'
However, other senior industry figures have insisted the newspaper's closure will not have any effect on the PR industry. Max Clifford said the closure of the NotW would have no impact on PROs because phone-hacking was no longer a part of the journalistic armoury.
'All the journalists rely on is contacts, PR-placed stories, gossip and the "best friend of" route for celeb stories - and that will continue,' said Clifford. 'Good PR professionals will get their stories across as much as they always have - the News of the World going will not change this.'
HOW I SEE IT
Alan Edwards, CEO, Outside Organisation
In the short term this could well empower the PR industry in terms of being able to provide content to over-worked and under-resourced writers. Whether or not that's good for the long-term health of PR is another matter altogether.
Max Clifford, Founder and managing director, Max Clifford Associates
The closure of the News of the World is not going to give any more power to PRs because showbiz hacks haven't been using phone hacks and underhand tactics for years. The exclusive revelations don't really happen in showbiz reporting now.
Key PR players
News International hired former England 2018 World Cup bid comms chief Simon Greenberg in January as its first comms head to help boost its public response to the deepening phone hacking allegations.
Greenberg, a former journalist and PR chief at Chelsea Football Club, took charge of articulating the News International response as the crisis unfolded early last week.
The director of corporate affairs was pitched into a series of bruising TV interviews defending News International's response to the scandal. His performance came under criticism from social and traditional media, with Alastair Campbell referencing his 'car crash interviews' on Newsnight.
Greenberg has since been appointed to a three-man committee to investigate the allegations within NI. The other members of the committee are News International general manager and former Daily Telegraph editor Will Lewis and general counsel Jeff Palker
Matthew Anderson, group director of strategy and corporate affairs in Europe and Asia for News Corp, was reportedly involved in previous internal investigations around the allegations but has maintained a lower profile throughout the affair.
Freud Communications boss Matthew Freud is married to Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth. He has no official involvement, but it is said to have been Freud's idea to close the News of the World.
Rupert Murdoch's biographer Michael Wolff wrote in The Guardian last week: 'Family insiders say it was Freud who suggested closing the paper. He is said to have described it to James as a "Wapping" approach – that is, when Rupert in the dead of night moved his British papers to Wapping to break the print unions.'
However Freud Communications insisted: 'Matthew Freud did not advise on the closure of the News of the World.'
Much of the coverage has centred on David Cameron's former comms head Andy Coulson and his subsequent arrest, but Ed Miliband's head of press Tom Baldwin has also been accused of illegal practices. The former Sunday Times journalist was alledged to have authorised the hacking of a bank account related to Conservative chairman Lord Ashcroft.
NOTW IN NUMBERS
168 Years since the NotW was first published
3.8m Official sales figures of the last ever issue of the NotW
200+ Reported number of staff who lost their jobs as the paper shut down
4,000 Number of people potentially targeted for hacking by NotW.
Max Clifford
Alan Edwards
Simon Greenberg
Mark Borkowski
News Corporation calls in Edelman as hacking crisis deepens
Ex-News of the World staff look for refuge in PR industry
Ian Monk: NotW death is not the end for scandal
John Woodcock: A free press must not be sacrificed
Latest News International revelations show containment strategy has failed
Ed Miliband warned of backlash risk over his head of comms Tom Baldwin
Charities insist News of the World ads were 'great opportunity' despite 'toxic' brand
Andy Coulson's new PR business Elbrus Consultants under pressure
News of the World admits 'we lost our way' as final edition hits newsstands
It was not 'Twitter Wot Won It' despite social media News of the World protests
David Cameron reputation 'permanently damaged' as Andy Coulson is arrested
Former News International exec warns over Sun on Sunday circulation hopes
Ed Miliband 'not leading the pack' in his line of attack on News International


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Q: Including data in iOS application bundle So, I have a new requirement to include some data in my iOS app bundle (instead of having it downloaded via API call), because the data is quite large, and won't change often.
My current setup is:

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*Upon user login, I download the data (in json format) from the
back-end DB

*Load it into my object model

*NSArchive it.

*On the next login, I unarchive and use the data (without requiring to
download the whole data set again. Well, actually I still download
data, but only the changed/new records will get downloaded).

What I'm looking for is a best approach to bundle the data in my app (which will save me from having to download the "initial" data set which will be large in size).
I know, I have an option to include the initial data set in my bundle in a json file, then have this loaded into my object model and archived, but I was wondering if I can generate an NSArchive file (which contains my initial data set) and have it included in my app bundle?
Any recommendations are welcome.
Thanks.

A: If you are using NSCoding compliant classes for your objects, then I suggest writing and reading the data using [NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject:toFile:] and [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:], respectively.
The data can be saved as an XML or a binary property list by using the setOutputFormat method.
For more info, check Apple's Archives and Serializations Programming Guide and NSHipster's article on NSCoding.