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Twin Mirror: The psychological thriller is now available on Steam
December 7, 2021 0 Written By: Other News
DONTNOD Entertainment, the French independent video games publisher and developer, is excited to announce the Steam release of its psychological thriller, Twin Mirror™. The game is now available on Steam with a two-week 50% launch discount and will introduce a brand-new set of players to the gripping story of Sam...
DONTNOD Entertainment, the French independent video games publisher and developer, is excited to announce the Steam release of its psychological thriller, Twin Mirror™. The game is now available on Steam with a two-week 50% launch discount and will introduce a brand-new set of players to the gripping story of Sam Higgs and his quest for the truth.
Find Twin Mirror on Steam
DONTNOD invites players to start their adventure in Basswood by playing the free demo of the game, which is ready to download now from the Steam store page. Game progress and any achievements unlocked will be saved and carried over to the game if players choose to purchase it afterward. Interested players should be mindful that the demo is available for a short time. However, the demo can still be played even after it has been removed from the store if it has been downloaded.
Sam Higgs left his hometown, and everyone he knows, behind two years ago. The death of his best friend Nick calls him back to confront the town's troubled past—and his own. He soon becomes drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue as all is not as it seems in the small town of Basswood, West Virginia.
Forced to face himself and the townsfolk, ex-investigative journalist Sam struggles to balance the scales of reconciliation and his life-changing investigation. He must decide how much he's willing to risk to uncover the mysteries of his hometown.
Sam has a Mind Palace, an expansive and unique part of his mind where he can revisit his past, relive old memories, and reconstruct events to gather clues and predict the story's key turning points. His analytical and logical mind can often lead to awkward interactions and unintentional hurt.
This is where Sam's Double comes in: it is the more social and empathetic side of himself that only he can see. This ally guides Sam through social interactions and helps him navigate a society that sometimes rejects singularity. Through these human qualities, the Double can offer Sam an alternative when he needs to make important decisions.
Every decision, every interaction, and every discovery will influence the direction of Sam's investigation and will ultimately determine how much of himself he's willing to sacrifice. There are no right or wrong answers – each player will live a truly unique experience tailored by their very own decisions.
The evocative soundtrack of Twin Mirror™ is also available for digital purchase on various online music streaming services.
Along with Steam, Twin Mirror™, co-produced with Shibuya Productions, is also available on the Epic Games Store, PlayStation®4 (PlayStation®Store), and Xbox One™ (Microsoft®Store). The game is also compatible with PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S.
About DONTNOD Entertainment
DONTNOD is an independent French publisher and developer, based in Paris and Montreal, creating original narrative games in the adventure (LIFE is STRANGETM, TELL ME WHYTM, TWIN MIRRORTM), RPG (VAMPYRTM), and action (REMEMBER METM) genres. The studio is internationally renowned for unique narrative experiences with engaging stories and characters and has worked with industry-leading publishers Square Enix, Microsoft, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Focus Entertainment, and Capcom. DONTNOD now aims to create and publish its own IPs developed in-house, starting with Twin Mirror, as well as using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with third-party developers whose editorial visions parallel the company's own.
About Shibuya Productions
Founded in 2014, Shibuya Productions is a Monaco-based company, with a subsidiary in Japan, specialized in animation and video games with strong content such as Astroboy Reboot, Shenmue III, and Cobra Return of Joe Gillian. Shibuya Productions also produces mangas, documentaries, and fiction films while playing an international role in Pop Culture recognition by organizing the unique yearly event MAGIC both in Monaco and Kyoto.
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With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, we are in a position unique in history. We have an internally consistent theory of fundamental physics which has just scored a huge success. Yet it is not  a "theory of everything", leaves many key questions unanswered, and  seems so far to provide little clue as to where those answers might lie. I will discuss options for continuing the exploration, along with some  thoughts and experiences on engaging the wider community in the discussion.


I was talking with Duke over at Surftech to see what was new, who was getting into SUP, etc and found out that NFL star Junior Seau is now pretty stoked on stand up paddle surfing. From the pictures it looks like he's all by himself but then again, who would drop in on Junior Seau?
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REVIEW: TENACIOUS D RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE
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Jack Black of Tenacious D.
Review: Tenacious D Red Rocks Amphitheatre 7/26/2012
Limited edition event poster.
July 26th marked a special event. On this day, from the ashes, rose The D at Red Rocks Amphitheatre! Tenacious D and The Sights graced the red rock walls with their rock, and it was amazing. I've never seen a bad show at Red Rocks. The view and the acoustics create a great atmosphere for music. This event had general admission in rows 3 – 25 and 60 to the back. Reserved seating was 25 – 60. This offered a great opportunity for people to get as close as they wanted for a very reasonable price. The patrons were very respectful of each other and didn't crowd the front as you would expect. This made the overall concert very enjoyable. An added bonus is that a local artist made up 150 Tenacious D Red Rocks Amphitheatre posters!
Eddie Baranek of The Sights.
So some of you might be saying, "The Sights?" I make this assumption because I'm right there with you. Tenacious D was so gracious as to introduce them to their fan base by having them as the opener. Here's the skinny. They are a rock band from Detroit that formed in 1998. They have great energy, and I'd personally classify them as feel good rock. The band is made up of a guitar/lead singer, drums, keyboard, bass, and saxophone. Their set was good, created a lot of energy, and got people ready for The D. Here's an old video; give them a listen.
Red Rocks crowd.
On to The D and the Rize Of The Fenix! I'm a big Tenacious D fan, but this is the first time I've seen them perform live. They played great, but honestly, I was a little disappointed in the production. Since there was so much hype over the Rize Of The Fenix CD, I expected a lot out of the stage. You were given a stage with instruments, lights, and a giant inflatable phoenix. Even though the stage was disappointing, they made up for it with a wonderful performance: so much so that you often didn't even think about the lack of props. Jack Black and Kyle Gass were joined with John Spiker on bass (formerly of Filter), Brooks Wackerman on drums (Bad Religion), and John Konesky on electric guitar. The acoustic duo stole the stage with all the antics you would expect from the comedy troupe – including a mid set band break up followed by the imminent band reformation and a visit from Satan. Though altitude was getting to Jack, he still managed to flail around and belt out lyrics. Red Rocks was packed with D-ciples, and a good chunk of their set featured songs off their new CD. The crowd very much embarrassed the new material and sang along as though it were a familiar melody. Most bands I've seen with new CDs could not pull off this move with their new material. Tenacious D definitely stepped up and delivered a great 3rd album. They finally ended with an explosion, as you would expect. There was also a three song encore featuring some classic D songs in classic D form: two acoustic guitars and a stage.
Kyle Gass of Tenacious D.
Overall, it was a great event – one I'd love to see again and again. I highly recommend catching these guys live. The memories and songs are still echoing in my head and will until the next event.
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Wine: A white Christmas
We usually think of Christmas and New Year as winter feasts most suited to hearty reds. But are we right to do so?
By Barry Smith
January 2015 issue of Prospect
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Feasts need wine, and seasonal feasts need seasonal wines. We usually think of Christmas and New Year as winter feasts most suited to hearty reds. But are we right to do so?
The mistake that some people make is serving a cherished, trophy red at Christmas. After all, it is a special occasion. But the range of flavours in a festive meal may overpower, or at least subdue, some of the subtle flavours of an aged Bordeaux or Barolo. As a rule of…
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The recombinant nucleocapsid protein of Newcastle disease virus produced in yeast.
Fatemeh Jahanshiri (2010) The recombinant nucleocapsid protein of Newcastle disease virus produced in yeast. PI2010003934.
This invention provides the recombinant nucleocapsid protein of the Malaysian velogenic Newcastle disease virus strain AF2240. The invention relates to methods for producing recombinant nucleocapsid protein in a eukaryotic expression system, in particular in a yeast expression systems. Also disclosed by the present invention are eukaryotic expression plasmids and eukaryotic cells transformed therewith. Further embodiments of the invention relate to the recombinant nucleocapsid protein produced with the inventive method and itss respective uses in the development of agents for the diagnosis of Newcastle disease.
Nucleocapsid protein; Newcastle disease; AF2240.


In 2008 Diablo started on the architecture of MCS, in essence a software stack & protocol stack plus physical layer, that allows you to essentially create the heterogeneous environment of DRAM plus NAND flash within the memory pool of the processor. The CPUs can only talk to what it thinks is DRAM, Diablo allowed other media (like flash) into that memory subsystem. While the processor has only one interface, it can logically communicate with several types of media.
MCS is not specifically tied to flash, however the first product Diablo is introducing to the market with SanDisk UltraDimm, is essentially a flash product.
The value of this technology is leveraged by Diablo's software development that built driver interfaces that allows Linux, Windows and VMware hosts to create i/o streams. Data can move seamlessly from the non-persistent to the persistent storage. This leads to lots of latency being trimmed out of the system, and creating high bandwidth and throughput.
As covered in my earlier article, Diablo MCS are 200GB / 400GB / soon 1TB NAND flash modules that are designed to connect directly to the memory bus. The product looks like a regular DDR3 RAM module, while featuring persistent NAND flash. MCS modules are plugged right in the memory slots and can be configured to be recognised as Storage or Memory. Diablo requires one DIMM slot to be occupied by a regular DDR3 module. Additionally, to overcome the higher latency of NAND vs DRAM, the MCS modules themselves have a DRAM buffer.
MCS is able to deliver very high performance, making use of low-cost, standard 19 nm MLC NAND flash. The write latency for 4k single thread, low queue-depth writes is in the order of 4μs to 5μs, compared to typical 20-25μs latency for a PCIE device. Riccardo explains that the biggest advantage of MCS is that it has a very flat latency across a large variety of blocksizes at a queue depth of one. By splitting larger blocks and writing in parallel across 8 channels, the latency for 16k or 64k persistent writes are the same latency of around 5μs.
Riccardo stresses that they have not optimized for single writes, and that their technology really shines in the high throughput that can be sustained with low latency. He insists that in most test results that competitors are showing, throughput and latencies are disconnected. According to him, MCS is able to supply 2.5 GB/s sustained write throughput at 20μs latency and 1.5 GB/s sustained write throughput at 10μs latency.
Similarly, read latency is not optimized for single reads. Latency for a 4k read is in the order of 110 μs, however scaled up to 512 or 1024 reads the latency will only go up to 180μs. This gives a read throughput of 4 GB/s per second with a latency of 180μs.
Diablo has plans for subsequent products, but is now focused on MCS which is currently being deployed. Presence in the US and Europe is building, with a current staff of 75 employees. Aside from dedicating resources on software development and R&D, Diablo has much focus on solution engineering; attracting solution architects that architect the specific ways in which customers can leverage the technology for various applications and use cases.


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Q: Checking if localstorage item exist directly on div in AngularJS how can I check if the localstorage item is not null or it exist directly in div using Angularjs?
I tried to use the code below but it's not working.

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A: Write an own property:
$scope.checkStorage = function ()
{
   return localStorage.getItem('itemChecker') !== null;
}

     //show something here...

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Fogarty, AC, Duboué-Dijon E, Laage D, Thompson WH. 2014. Origins of the non-exponential reorientation dynamics of nanoconfined water. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 141(18):18C523.
Fogarty, AC, Laage D. 2014. Water Dynamics in Protein Hydration Shells: The Molecular Origins of the Dynamical Perturbation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 118(28):7715-7729.
Duboué-Dijon, E, Fogarty AC, Laage D. 2014. Temperature Dependence of Hydrophobic Hydration Dynamics: From Retardation to Acceleration. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 118(6):1574-1583.


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MBA, Columbia University & HAAS Berkeley, Joint Executive Program
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Sabina is a founding member of Peninsula Doctor, where she oversees all aspects of practice operations, customer happiness, and business management. Sabina holds a graduate degree in business from a joint executive program at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley. She has made it her mission to build a company that provides the best care for the patients and is driven by her dedication to the wellbeing of the patients in the Peninsula Doctor practice. Born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Sabina moved to the US when she was a teenager. She built her early career in technology, working with companies like Palm, Maxim Semiconductor, and Ericsson before transitioning to the medical field to pursue a lifelong dream of building a business that is fully devoted to creating happier, healthier lives.


While you may have an Android device with top end hardware such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 or HTC One X, you have to remember that one of the things that make Android phones so popular is its robust customisation capabilities. Here are 5 ways to get more from your Android smartphone.
Custom keyboards: You don't have to use the default keyboard that comes with your smartphone. You can head to the Play Store and download an alternative which will then be used whenever a keyboard needs to pop up on your screen. My favorite is Swype which can be downloaded from Swype's official website.
Quick Contacts: If you want to keep the contacts you use frequently close to hand then you can pin them to the home screen. Head to All apps, Widgets and then choose the contact widget. You can then choose a person's name and pin them onto the home screen.
Auto-update Apps: Keeping apps up to date helps to get the most out of the handset. However the nagging pop up that appears in notifications can drive you mad. You can set your device to update apps automatically when available. You can choose to update via W-Fi only if you open Google Play and head into settings, auto update apps and check the option for Wi-Fi.
Easy backup: If you want to upgrade to another Android device you can back up and restore the settings on your handset. To do so head into settings, privacy settings, then back up and reset. Check where it says "Back up my data" and wait for the handset to back up. You can then restore your settings, along with your apps from the back up you made.
Face Unlock: Rather than typing in a pin number to unlock your device, you might want to open it with your face. Face Unlock allows you to do this, however be aware that it is not as secure as using a pin. If you want to unlock with your face then heard into settings, security, screen lock and choose this option. If face detection doesn't work you may wish to already have a pin set up so that you can get into the handset.


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Q: Is there a common pattern for initializing object on a background thread? I have an object that takes a long time to be initialized.  Therefore I the capability to Start Initializing on application startup.  Any subsequent calls to methods on the class we need to have a delay mechanism that waits for the class to finish initialization.
I have a couple of potential solutions however I am not entirely satisfied with either of them.  The first uses Task.Delay in a while loop and the second uses SemaphoreSlim but involves some unnecessary blocking.  I feel this must be a fairly common requirement, can anybody provide some advice on how to best manage this?
Oh btw, this is a Metro application so we have limited API's
Here is the pseudocode:
public class ExposeSomeInterestingItems
{
    private InitialisationState _initialised;
    private readonly SemaphoreSlim _waiter =
        new SemaphoreSlim(0);

    public async Task StartInitialize()
    {
        if (_initialised == InitialisationState.Initialised)
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException(
                "Attempted to initialise ActiveTrackDown" +
                "loads when it is already initialized");
        }

        _initialised =
            InitialisationState.StartedInitialisation;

        new TaskFactory().StartNew(async () =>
        {
            // This takes some time to load
            this._interestingItems =
                InterestingItemsLoader.LoadItems();
            _waiter.Release();
            _initialised = InitialisationState.Initialised;
        });
    }

    public InterestingItem GetItem(string id)
    {
        DelayUntilLoaded();
        DelayUntilLoadedAlternative();
    }

    private async Task DelayUntilLoaded()
    {
        if (_initialised == InitialisationState.NotInitialised)
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("Error " +
                "occurred attempting to access details on " +
                "ActiveTrackDownloads before calling initialise");
        }

        while (true)
        {
            if (_initialised == InitialisationState.Initialised)
            {
                return;
            }

            await Task.Delay(300);
        }
    }

    private async Task DelayUntilLoadedAlternative()
    {
        if (_initialised == InitialisationState.NotInitialised)
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException(
                "Error occurred attempting to access details " +
                "on ActiveTrackDownloads before calling initialise");
        }

        try
        {
            await _waiter.WaitAsync();
        }
        finally
        {
            _waiter.Release();
        }
    }
}

A: You can use the Task<T> for this. This will take care of all the synchronisation for you and allows you to block untill the value is available:
private static Task<HeavyObject> heavyObjectInitializer;

// Call this method during application initialization
public static void Bootstrap()
{
    heavyObjectInitializer = new Task<HeavyObject>(() =>
    {
        // creation of heavy object here
        return new HeavyObject();
    });

    // Start running the initialization right now on a
    // background thread. We don't have to wait on this.
    heavyObjectInitializer.Start();
}

// Call this method whenever you need to use the object.
public static HeavyObject GetHeavyObject()
{
    // Get the initialized object, or block untill this
    // instance gets available.
    return heavyObjectInitializer.Result;
}

Optionally, you can also query to see if the object is available or not:
public static bool IsHeavyObjectAvailable
{
    get { return heavyObjectInitializer.IsCompleted; }
}

A: I think that a better design would be an asynchronous factory, where the calling code awaits the object creation and then receives a regular object instance.
Stealing liberally from Stephen Toub:
public class AsyncLazy<T> : Lazy<Task<T>>
{
  public AsyncLazy(Func<T> valueFactory) :
      base(() => Task.Run(valueFactory)) { }

  public AsyncLazy(Func<Task<T>> taskFactory) :
      base(() => Task.Run(taskFactory)) { }

  public TaskAwaiter<T> GetAwaiter() { return Value.GetAwaiter(); }
}

public static class ExposeSomeInterestingItemsFactory
{
  public static AsyncLazy<ExposeSomeInterestingItems> Instance
  {
    get { return _instance; }
  }

  private static readonly AsyncLazy<ExposeSomeInterestingItems> _instance =
      new AsyncLazy<ExposeSomeInterestingItems>(() => new ExposeSomeInterestingItems());

  public static void StartInitialization()
  {
    var unused = Instance.Value;
  }
}

public class ExposeSomeInterestingItems
{
  public ExposeSomeInterestingItems()
  {
    // This takes some time to load
    this._interestingItems = InterestingItemsLoader.LoadItems();
  }

  public InterestingItem GetItem(string id)
  {
    // Regular logic. No "delays".
  }
}

...

var exposeSomeInterestingItems = await ExposeSomeInterestingItemsFactory.Instance;
var item = exposeSomeInterestingItems.GetItem("id");

That way, you keep the Single Responsibility Principle nicely:

*

*AsyncLazy<T> combines Task<T> with Lazy<T> (so the instance is created asynchronously only when needed).

*ExposeSomeInterestingItemsFactory contains construction logic.

*ExposeSomeInterestingItems is only concerned with exposing interesting items, rather than having to pollute all its members with asynchronous delays.

Also, this solution is asynchronous throughout (no blocking), which is good (particularly for Metro apps).
Update, 2012-09-14: I've taken this code and cleaned it up and commented it on my blog.

A: Put the method calls into a queue which you process when you finish initialising.  Only put methods into the queue when you have not yet initialised.

A: You could move to a an event driven architecture where you application is in different states.
Initially the application moves into the Starting state. In this state HeavyObject is created using a background task. When the initialization is complete an event is fired. (You don't have to use an actual .NET event. You can use callbacks or something similar and frameworks like Reactive Extensions allows you to compose sequences of events.)
When all initialization events have fired you move into the Started state of your application. For an UI application this could modify the UI to enable some previously disabled operations.

A: Check this Prototype Pattern. Maybe it can help you
You only need to create your object once and clone it when you need another one.


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Wetherby is an ideal centre, situated on the main A1 south to north road, for exploring the many varied delights of Yorkshire. The town is an attractive Market Town with a Charter going back to 1240. It is situated on the river Wharfe and is well worth exploring.
An Historical Trail conducts visitors around the town centre and gives a fascinating insight into Wetherby's past. Leaflets on the Trail are available in shops, including Castlegate Stationers, and the Library. Historic buildings are marked by blue plaques along the Trail.
Wetherby is 12 miles from Leeds, 12 miles from York and 8 from Harrogate Rewarding days out to the Yorkshire Dales, the North Yorkshire Moors and the East Coast are easily arranged from Wetherby.
A Tourist Information service is provided at Wetherby Library at 17, Westgate.


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Propiedad en caso MOOCs
Acreditación, Admisión, Aprendizaje, Comunicación, Digital, Docencia, Educación, Estados Unidos, Globalización, IES, Reforma, TIC
Who Owns a MOOC?
Inside Higher ED., March 19, 2013
Ry Rivard
Faculty union officials in California worry professors who agree to teach free online classes could undermine faculty intellectual property rights and collective bargaining agreements.
The union for faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz said earlier this month it could seek a new round of collective bargaining after several professors agreed to teach classes on Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based provider of popular massive open online classes, or MOOCs.
The Santa Cruz Faculty Association's concern highlights an emerging tension as professors begin to teach MOOCs and, in turn, become academic stars to tens of thousands of students who sign up for the free classes. Santa Cruz is the only UC campus to have a unionized tenure-track faculty, so the exchange there is perhaps unique, but the issues there are not.
The union said the professors lobbied for a 12-year-old California law to guarantee that faculty — not universities — own the intellectual property rights to class lectures and course materials. But before professors can have their courses put on Coursera, they are expected to sign away those rights to the university so the university can give the professors' work to Coursera, the union said in a March 5 letter to a top labor relations official at Santa Cruz. In these waivers, professors "irrevocably grant the university the absolute right and permission to use" their course content, name, image and likeness.
The university's own contract with Coursera remains neutral and said only that rights will "remain with the applicable instructor and university."
But the union said the Coursera-related side deals between the university and the professors could be considered a change in the terms of faculty employment and arguably could prompt a new round of collective bargaining.
"These issues were not discussed with the [union], the exclusive bargaining unit for the UCSC faculty, prior to the signing of the contract between Coursera and [Santa Cruz]," Professor Shelly Errington, a union representative, wrote in the letter to Santa Cruz's senior labor relations administrator Renée Mayne.
On March 14, Mayne replied with a letter that said Errington's concerns were "understandable." But Mayne said the professors' agreements to turn over their intellectual property were "strictly voluntarily" and should not force collective bargaining.
This is exactly the view of a Santa Cruz Professor emeritus, Peter Kenez, one of the four Santa Cruz professors slated to teach a Coursera class this year. He said he wants his class on the Holocaust to be seen by as many people as can watch it (Coursera has nearly three million registered users).
"I willingly give this value to anybody who wants [it]," he said. "I like to be listened to."
Kenez said he thinks the faculty union is fighting the future of higher education, though he said the classes would not be as valuable to students as those they take in a normal classroom.
"As they say in Hungarian, it's pissing against the wind," Kenez said, referring to the union's concerns about MOOCs.
But the issue of intellectual property and MOOCs concerns officials beyond Santa Cruz, including Bob Samuels, president of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, which represents 4,000 University of California instructors and librarians.
He said professors who are signing up to teach free classes could be poking holes in a shield all faculty use.
"It might be good for individual professors, but people have to look at the larger implications on a systematic or structural level," Samuels said. "The larger implications are questions about intellectual property rights, about shared governance, about public funding."
California has become a sort of ground zero for the colliding orbits of traditional campuses and outside companies. Last week, California lawmakers detailed a plan to require the state's 145 public colleges and universities to grant credit for low-cost online courses offered by outside groups, including classes offered by for-profit companies, including Coursera.
Coursera, for its part, believes the issue is between faculty and administrators.
"Contract components are often discussed between Coursera and universities, and there are different versions of contracts," company co-founder Daphne Koller said in a statement. "Coursera is always happy to revise elements of the contract, if such changes better reflect university policies and are to the benefit of universities and professors."
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It was earlier reported that Pacquiao will face Jeff Horn in Australia. But it seemed that Pacquiao was not happy with the guaranteed purse and shifted his attention to Amir Khan. Of course, Khan is far more bankable compared to Horn. Reports also floating around that the potential fight could be held in Dubai.
In the past, every time Pacquiao planned for next fight, a lucrative Dubai offer keeps floating but nothing materializes so far.
In my earlier post, I've written about this possible Dubai fight with Amir Khan that can be found here.
Being an OFW in the Middle East, I really support this fight to happen in Dubai. I think Manny should fight in Dubai before retiring in boxing. He has lots of OFW supporters in the Middle East and besides, Khan also has a strong fan base there.
Earlier, Pacquiao was reported talking about another rematch with another rival Juan Manual Marquez for a fight in the Philippines before retiring. He's hoping for a Philippine government backing for a Marquez fight to materialize. Pacquiao's plans to fight again in front of his countrymen. Pacquiao last fought in the Philippines in 2006, beating Oscar Larios.
But Marquez is not interested to share a boxing ring with Pacquiao anymore. Well, a Dubai fight, which is home also of many Filipinos is a good alternative venue.
Meanwhile, Amir Khan has long been pushing for big time fight. He was challenging both Mayweather and Pacquiao in the past but was ditch twice and ended up fighting Saul Canelo Alvarez to the surprise of the boxing world. Khan lost to Canelo in a brutal one-punch knockout.
Pacquiao won his last two fights after losing to his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2015.


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What career opportunities are available for students in the humanities and social sciences? You can get an overview of typical careers from our careers list.
Enhance your profile: Learn all about the career opportunities available to you at an early stage, get some practical experience and plan your studies around the requirements of your preferred career.
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Humanities and Social Sciences: the foundation of a wide range of careers
Study programs in the humanities and social sciences don't qualify a student for a specific career, but lay the foundations for a wide range of career paths. To make sure that you can evaluate all the different options available to you, we recommend that you learn all about the career opportunities available to you at an early stage, get some practical experience, and – where possible – take the relevant courses as part of your university studies (e.g. in terms of key competencies).
You can get an overview of the typical jobs done by graduates in the humanities and social sciences from our careers list. The information includes links to the relevant (professional) associations.
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Possible career paths
Adult education and other pedagogical fields of employment
This sector includes a wide range of different occupations and potential employers. Alongside the traditional career path of school teaching, careers are also possible in adult education (e.g. at adult education centers), as well as in educational counseling and on-the-job training. Another option is working in the education administration (education authorities, Department of Education). Furthermore, education-related employment opportunities also exist in the cultural sector, such as e.g. in theaters or museums.
Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) [de]
Deutscher Bildungsserver [de]
Humanities and social science graduates are more frequently finding employment in the private sector. They are particularly in demand in HR (e.g. in personnel development), but also work in marketing, advertising and sales. Employment opportunities also exist in corporate consulting and corporate communication. Having a basic understanding of economics is helpful in getting your foot onto the career ladder.
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Civil service and administration
Graduates in the humanities and social sciences often go on to work in a variety of jobs in the federal and state governments as well as in municipalities. Students who have completed a bachelor's degree often compete against junior employees from colleges of public administration, those with a master's degree often compete against lawyers. However, there are also occasional job opportunities in the sector which are explicitly aimed at graduates in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to the public authorities mentioned above, potential employers also include universities and job agencies as well as international organizations (e.g. the EU or UN) and churches.
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Consulting and coaching
Graduates with a degree in the humanities and social sciences work in a number of careers related to consulting and coaching. These include for example student counseling, career advice, organizational consulting, corporate consulting, personal consulting, social consulting and policy advice. For those who wish to work in some of these careers, it can be wise to carry out further training after completing your studies to learn the relevant methodical tools.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Beratung (DGfB) [de]
There are a variety of opportunities for graduates in the humanities and social sciences in the cultural sector. Employers in this field include museums, theaters, galleries and foundations. Jobs may for example focus on culture management, education, organizing exhibitions or event management.
Fachverband Kulturmanagement [de]
Due to globalization and increased interconnectedness between countries, the employment market is taking on an increasingly international dimension. As well as the obvious career opportunities in translation and interpreting, which are mostly of relevance to language students, options also exist with international organizations, the diplomatic corps, as well as in development cooperation or multinational corporations. Jobs also exist in the tourism sector (e.g. travel guide) or in the context of flight and migration (e.g. language teaching).
Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer [de]
Verband Entwicklungspolitik und humanitäre Hilfe [de]
Historians in particular can potentially find employment in university, city or company archives, since they are proficient in working with historical sources. Both academic and public libraries as well as special libraries belonging to companies or public authorities are potential sources of employment for graduates in the humanities and social sciences. It is generally necessary to complete a post-study internship and in some cases an additional study program to be employed as a librarian or archivist. A doctoral degree is desirable in most cases.
Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare (vda) [de]
Verein deutscher Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (vdb) [de]
The media industry is a very popular choice for students inf the humanities and social sciences. Jobs in journalism and publishing are particularly sought after. One characteristic of the media industry is that it is often necessary to complete a traineeship after finishing your university studies. Unpaid positions are also more common in the media than in other industries. Employers or contracting authorities can include e.g. publishers, radio stations, film and television as well as print media.
Deutscher Journalisten-Verband (DJV) [de]
Verband der freien Lektorinnen und Lektoren [de]
The political sphere, in the broadest sense of the word, is of interest to many students in the humanities and social sciences. This includes working for governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, parties, politicians, foundations, associations, clubs and international institutions. There are also employment opportunities available for graduates in the humanities and social sciences in political education.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikberatung [de]
Working in the press and public relations sector is a logical choice for former students in the humanities and social sciences, since here the focus is on dealing with language and text. Public relations departments exist in almost every big company and in almost every public authority. Meanwhile, social media such as Facebook and Instagram plays an ever larger role in how a company or a public authority presents itself to the public.
Bundesverband der Kommunikatoren [de]
An academic career is open to students of all disciplines. In addition to working at a university, opportunities also exist in public and private research institutes. Market research and opinion polling is an interesting potential field of employment for social science graduates in particular. Working in science management is another option.
Deutscher Hochschulverband [de]
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Sleeping dog in sun. Feet and body in shadows. Warm daylight.
I'm amazed the grainy texture is slowly disappearing as new colors are scraped over the top. The image becomes more resolved as it moves along, an interesting process to witness. My cousin recently commented "for someone who claims not to paint, it's awfully painterly!" Ok, not her exact words but pretty darn close. I guess I have to agree with her. Reduction screen printing is my form of painting.
The relationships are changing between colors as the work grows darker. Areas that once were so prominent start to fade, losing their dominance. I think it's time to start work on resolving the chair. The dog has gone to the color limit.
Amazing, I think I like it.
It is such fun watching the print develop. Thank you for sharing all your process. Want me to scoot your work down to Roseburg for ArtworksNW?
These prints are amazing! I keep imagining all the pictures of my Golden Retriever that would look awesome like this! I also keep envisioning all of these made out of paper, too 😛 Keep up the beautiful artwork, you need more action shots of your painting process because this work is so intriguing!
Katie, thank you! I bet your golden would look lovely as a papercut dog! You should do it!
Action shots are not my forte mainly because it's just me during the day in the studio. Plus, I have a hard enough time remembering to take photos at the end of a color run. Now, if I could teach Moby to take my photo, then problem solved! I could probably earn more money if my dog took photos… something to ponder. LOL!
I don't think I have any pictures of myself cutting paper either, so I shouldn't even by saying anything :P!


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Romantic Warriors III – Canterbury Tales (2015)
Posted in Canterbury Scene, Documentary, Film, Progressive Rock, Review, tagged Adele Schmidt, Aymeric Leroy, Bruce Gallanter, Daevid Allen, Dan Britton, David Sinclair, Forgas Band Phenomena, Jose Zegarra Holder, Leonardo Pavkovic, Mont Campbell, MoonJune Records, Planeta Imaginario, Richard Sinclair, Romantic Warriors, Romantic Warriors III, Soft Machine, Syd Arthur, The Wrong Object, Zeitgeist Media on April 29, 2015| 12 Comments »
A documentary film by José Zegarra Holder and Adele Schmidt
Produced by Zeitgeist Media LLC
Total time: 118 minutes
Located in Kent, the south-eastern county nicknamed "Garden of England" for its bucolic beauty, Canterbury is a city of barely over 50,000 people, dominated (not just in a physical sense) by the sprawling mass of its stunning Gothic cathedral. For all its rich history, it is easy to imagine how stifling such a place might have felt to its younger denizens in the late Sixties. Its very Englishness, in some ways, explains many of the distinctive features of the musical movement that originated there in those heady years.
Even within a quintessentially niche context such as progressive rock, the Canterbury scene has acquired a cult status that transcends its unassuming beginnings. With often mind-boggling connections and ramifications that would make the task of drawing a family tree rather daunting, this "movement" – born, in a polite, understated English way, from the early musical pursuits of a handful of middle-class teenagers – became extremely influential, though never achieving any of the commercial success that was awarded (albeit briefly) to some of the original prog bands.
Well over two years in the making, and nearly two hours long, the third chapter in Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder's Romantic Warriors saga is at the same time similar and different from its predecessors. Though by far the most technically polished of the three documentaries – its pristine photography providing a perfect foil to the grainy footage from the Seventies – it is also the one with the strongest emotional impact. Meticulously researched, yet somewhat hampered by the unwillingness of some of the key protagonists of the scene to release material, or even just show up, the film occasionally feels like a story told from a third-person point of view. This, however, proves to be a strength rather than a weakness, lending an almost mythical quality to the narration.
In spite of some glaring defections, many of the exponents of the early Canterbury scene agreed to contribute to the film, providing their unique insights on the birth and development of the movement. Their contributions are supported by those of three modern-day experts: Aymeric Leroy, who maintains the most complete and informative website on the Canterbury scene; Bruce Gallanter of Downtown Music Gallery, one of New York City's few surviving independent music stores; and Leonardo Pavkovic, head of Moonjune Records.
The story unfolds in chronological order, its very dense content sometimes hard to follow even for those who are familiar with the ins and outs of the scene – lively and colourful, yet tinged with an inescapable feeling of sadness. Because of the unavailability of a lot of the material recorded in those years, the music often takes a back seat: in fact, Canterbury Tales is the first film in the series to have a score written expressly by an outsider to the movement itself – the very talented, Maryland-based multi-instrumentalist/composer Dan Britton, who appeared in the first Romantic Warriors. On account of this and other factors, the film's focus on people rather than music comes across even more strongly than in the previous two episodes of this "progressive music saga".
If I had to sum up Canterbury Tales in few words, I would say that it is, first and foremost, about absence and loss. The story of Soft Machine – probably the best-known and most influential of the Canterbury acts – is mostly told by people who (with the sole exception of Daevid Allen) were not involved in the original incarnation of the band, though the availability of plentiful footage makes the extremely intricate tale come alive. Some of the protagonists of the scene seem to view their connection to Canterbury more like an embarrassment than a badge of honour: iconic keyboardist Dave Stewart's image is hard to discern even in photo stills, while Robert Wyatt's 1995 interview makes it quite clear that he is not interested in revisiting the past ("I am not a museum").
In most other cases, however, the absence is a direct consequence of death: in fact, over the years the Canterbury scene has lost a larger share of its protagonists than other prog subgenres. The slight, pixie-like figure of Daevid Allen – with his lined face and uncannily young eyes and smile – weaves in and out of the narration, his untimely passing (occurred while the film was in post-production) reinforcing its melancholy, elegiac mood. In the whirlwind of images, the headline of Charlie Hebdo – the French satirical magazine that gained notoriety after the tragic events of a few months ago – flashes by a couple of times, perhaps easily missed, but adding to the pervasive sense of loss.
On the other hand, Canterbury's trademark sense of humour and whimsy – a blend of quintessentially English nonsense, slightly risqué puns and highbrow suggestions – is suitably emphasized, in stark contrast with the stereotyped idea of progressive rock as an overly serious genre. Those characteristics are embodied by some of the musicians who appear in the film: Richard Sinclair's gently eccentric, almost luminous presence, Mont Campbell's charismatic allure and self-deprecating wit, Daevid Allen's endearing quirkiness stand out, while others come across as more serious, but as a whole all the original protagonists give the impression of being content with their life, and still very much involved in artistic creation.
One of the most appealing features of Canterbury Tales lies in its "travelogue" aspect, apparently at odds with the narrow geographical focus of the original scene. Alongside Canterbury Cathedral's majestic towers and pinnacles, the immaculately beautiful images of different locales – London's Tower Bridge by night, Paris' stately boulevards, the silver-grey North Sea shore, the peaceful greenery of the Apulian countryside, the bustling streets of Barcelona, the bright lights of the theatre district in Kyoto – illustrate the wide-ranging sweep of a movement that over the years managed to spread its influence well beyond the borders of its humble beginnings. Accordingly, the activity of non-English Canterbury bands such as Moving Gelatine Plates, The Muffins and Supersister is given ample recognition.
While watching Canterbury Tales, it is often hard not to feel that – unlike the first two chapters of the saga – the film's main focus is on the past rather than the present. Daevid Allen's enthusiastic endorsement of Gong's newest member, maverick guitarist/composer Kavus Torabi, contrasts with the film's final shot of David Sinclair's deeply moving interpretation of his own signature piece, "Nine Feet Underground", while the camera lingers over hands that, in spite of the evident marks of age, are as nimble as ever over the keys. Even if enough space is granted to those modern bands and artists who have picked up the baton (Forgas Band Phenomena, Planeta Imaginario, The Wrong Object and Syd Arthur), it is not enough to dispel the looming presence of the past, and the underlying poignancy so superbly conveyed by the opening and closing shots of Allen's solitary figure on the sea shore. The dedication of the film to Zegarra's mother and all the musicians who have passed away compounds the impression that Canterbury Tales is, in many ways, an epitaph.
Even if someone may find its relative lack of original music disappointing, Canterbury Tales is a beautiful, deeply touching (though not depressing) piece of filmmaking, a warm-hearted tribute to those protagonists of the scene who are no longer with us. While the film's subdued mood reflects the impermanence of things, the lasting legacy of the music created by that handful of young people from a provincial corner of England is given its due, and the unavoidable sadness implied in Daevid Allen's fateful parting words is somewhat mitigated. Highly recommended to every self-respecting progressive rock fan, Canterbury Tales is also an encouragement to delve deep into the treasure trove of this highly idiosyncratic subgenre's rich output.
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Caravan – If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970)
Posted in Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Review, tagged Caravan, David Sinclair, Jimmy Hastings, Keyboards, Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair, voice on July 24, 2010| 3 Comments »
1. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (3:07)
2. And I Wish I Were Stoned – Don't Worry (8:21)
3. As I Feel I Die (5:17)
4. With an Ear to the Ground You Can Make It / Martinian / Only Cox / Reprise (9:56)
5. Hello Hello (3:46)
6. Asforteri 25 (1:21)
7. Can't Be Long Now / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock (14:18)
8. Limits (1:34)
Pye Hastings – vocals, guitars, claves
David Sinclair – keyboards
Richard Sinclair – vocals, bass, tambourine
Richard Coughlan – drums, congas, bongos, maracas, finger cymbals
Jimmy Hastings – sax, flute
In keeping with my intention of offering a wide range of musical styles to the readers of my reviews, my next pick is one of the greatest albums to ever come out of the so-called 'Canterbury scene'. Though for most people the most obvious choice would be the band's most celebrated work, its follow-up In the Land of Grey and Pink, I have always found this one to be, in some ways, an even better effort – though, unlike … Grey and Pink, it is less immediate and more of a steady grower.
The best way to listen to this album is to put on your headphones and wallow in the beautiful vocal harmonies, intricate bass lines and splendid keyboard work. The opening title-track is an infectious, '60s-style ditty sung by both vocalists, the deeper-voiced Richard Sinclair repeating the line "Who do you think you are?", with the higher-pitched, graceful voice of guitarist Pye Hastings singing the verse. Most of the following tracks, though varying in length, are structured as mini-suites, with at least two movements (and accordingly long, hard-to-remember titles). "And I Wish I Were Stoned" starts off as a wistful melody, then becomes increasingly jazzy and dynamic. "As I Feel I Die", one of the highpoints of the album, has much the same structure, with a slow intro featuring great vocals from Hastings, then culminating in a rousing instrumental duel between the two Sinclair cousins, Dave's incendiary keyboards and Richard's complex, fluid bass. "With an Ear to the Ground", the second longest track on the album, sees more spectacular work from Dave Sinclair, backed by a very tight, yet understated rhythm section.
"Hello Hello" is a lesson in how to write a song that's both hummable and intelligent, with the added bonus of one of the strangest percussive accompaniments this side of King Crimson's Jamie Muir – a pair of hedge clippers wielded by Richard Sinclair himself, who also sings lead vocals. In fact, if I were to name one flaw of this otherwise flawless album, is that Sinclair does not sing often enough… The short, delightful "Asforteri" leads the way for the album's pièce de resistance, the 14-minute-plus "For Richard", one of the band's undisputed classic, and a constant presence in their live sets. David S. gives a stunning demonstration of his impressive skills as an organ player, while Richard S. provides a solid yet intricate rhythmic background. The track ends with a brief yet tasteful guitar solo by Pye Hastings – perhaps unlikely as a guitar hero, but also very effective.
The remastered version (featuring the unreleased gem "A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett") sounds as fresh as it had been recorded last year, and not 40 years ago. This is vintage prog at its best – impeccably performed, complex and challenging, yet at the same time witty and light-hearted, devoid of the pretentiousness that can occasionally mar the output of some of the better-known bands.
Though, to some people's ears, If I Could Do… might sound a tad lightweight, it is nevertheless a magnificent album by a band who, in their heyday, were able to effortlessly combine accessibility with progressive potential. Highly recommended indeed – unless you are one of those people who will shy away from anything that sounds too conventionally 'poppy'.


You can be true road warrior traveling across the globe, knowing all the travel life hacks, but never underestimate visa expiration period… Yes, I know personally a man who realized at the airport's counter desk that his visa gone out a few days ago. You can imagine what kind of trouble he got.
Always check visa expiration date before hitting the button – buy a ticket. The best is to set up the alarm in the google calendar to notify you early enough about visa expiration.
If your starting point is in Europe, you should take this rule seriously especially in two directions China and USA. You need to take into account immigration office. I can share with you my experience with connecting flight in Beijing, Shanghai, Atlanta and New York. It's no big difference in time spent in the immigration office in China or the US. The process is the same. As an example, I will share with you my experience from China, Beijing.
To not go crazy keep 2,5 up to 3 hours of distance between your arrival to your transit airport and connecting flight. Remember – your flight can be a bit late and this will decrease your time buffer.
In a plane, you will receive the immigration document to fill in advance – do it. It's a yellow paper where you enter basic data like your name, date of birth, your destination address and what is the purpose of the visit. Yes, this is one of these situations when it's good to have a pen with you 🙂 I was writing about it in my previous post about how to pack for a business trip.
Next, go through fingerprints scanning (automatic), take a printed ticket and go to the appropriate queue to meet the immigration officer. Even if the length of the queue will frighten you, don't worry – Chinese people came to perfection with the handling of massive crowds. You will spend there from 15 to 30 minutes.
Then, quickly go get your luggage – it will be not transferred to the domestic flight unless you are traveling with China carrier like for example: Air China.
You need to check it again on the appropriate counter in the departures hall.
Go through the security control.
Above described process, base on my experience should take no more than 2 hours. Take this as one of the most important tips for booking the flights.
Number 3 on my tips for booking flights list says: you should avoid booking your flight segments on separate tickets. If something will happen and the first plane will be late, in result you will not catch the connecting flight you will have fewer options to react. Of course, sometimes there is no choice to do different, but try to avoid it.
This is probably the most important advice among my 5 tips for booking flights. I did like this once and I will never do it again. I was coming back from Chongqing. The arrival to Beijing was scheduled for 23:45. The problem is that my return flight to Europe was scheduled for 8 in the morning – I thought that I will spend this night in the cosy armchair in the business lounge. Of course just after I left the plane I realized that all counters are locked (I had to check again my luggage – the same procedure like in point 1). That was a beautiful night for me 🙂 Below you can see the photo taken at 3 o'clock in the morning that day… Trust me – this is the most important from my 5 tips for booking flights.
Not all flights go as planned. If you travel often then there will be a day when you will face your first plane delay and first flight cancellation. Each day 2% of flights are canceled and 25% is delayed – and this is worldwide… As you can see, your chances are… low to avoid such things for a longer time.
But don't worry, nowadays passenger's rights are protected by the law and since 2004 it's much easier to get the flight delay compensation. It's easier but still, there are airlines which make problems with that. You can check in the AirHelp carriers ranking that for example Easyjet and Ryanair take a backseat of the giving compensation for delays ranking. Only 2% to 3% of claims without legal backing received compensation. Therefore think twice before you will pick your carrier and try to select these from top of the ranking.
And in case of problems with getting your flight claim compensation, there are companies like AirHelp and their lawyers can really make a difference in ensuring you get your compensation. If you need more information on claiming your flight you should look to my Flight delay compensation guidebook for more details.
That's all for now – I'm going to edit this post whenever I will discover something new. If you have some experience with tips for booking flights, please share it in comments.
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Q: Php handling of unresponsive curl I have a php script that fetches data from external sites using curl then, after three minutes, reloads itself, fetches new data and displays updates. It works fine but if there is a network failure, and I presume it's curl not getting responses, php just hangs without returning errors or anything. These hanging processes then needs to be killed manually.
How can I deal with this situation? Tweak curl options? Modify php script that it watches for unresponsive curl? Or handle everything from the browser through ajax, including firing off a script that kills hanging php processes?

Solution: I've added
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR = true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

to my curl and added a catch for these errors to my response checking part. Conceptually, it's all that was needed, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT doesn't seem to be necessary because I already have reloading set up in case of errors.
It works with manual disconnect but I haven't seen how the script handles real life network failures yet. Should be okay.

A: To handle network issue, use CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT option to define some seconds. It will wait for the given amount of seconds to connect to the targeted host.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);

And use CURLOPT_TIMEOUT option to define number of seconds you want to allow your curl for a particular operation. This will be helpful if the targeted server doesn't release the connection.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);


The debut of the Emma Lord murder mystery series.
After a year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. What she really needs for her paper, though, is a big story. And she gets it–when handsome Mark Doukas, grandson of rich, old Neeny Doukas is murdered. Emma discovers that trying to get straight answers out of Neeny and his thin-lipped son is like poking a nest of sleeping rattlesnakes. What begins with an innocent story about the murdered man, ends with Emma conducting the most interesting, and probably the last, interview of her career from the wrong end of a .38….


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Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian deity. The cult of Serapis was promoted during the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm.

The cultus of Serapis was spread as a matter of deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic kings. Serapis continued to increase in popularity during the Roman Empire, often replacing Osiris as the consort of Isis in temples outside Egypt.
Though Ptolemy I may have created the official cult of Serapis and endorsed him as a patron of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Alexandria, Serapis was a pre-existing syncretistic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis and also gained attributes from other deities, such as chthonic powers linked to the Greek Hades and Demeter, and with benevolence derived from associations with Dionysus.

Iconography
Serapis was depicted as Greek in appearance but with Egyptian trappings, and combined iconography from a great many cults, signifying both abundance and resurrection.

The Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so a Greek-style anthropomorphic statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaimed as the equivalent of the highly popular Apis.
It was named Userhapi (i.e. "Osiris-Apis"), which became Greek Sarapis, and was said to be Osiris in full, rather than just his ka (life force).

The cult statue of Serapis that Ptolemy I erected in Alexandria enriched the texture of the Serapis conception by portraying him in a combination of both Egyptian and Greek styles.
The statue suitably depicted a figure resembling Hades or Pluto, both being kings of the Greek underworld, and was shown enthroned with the modius, a basket / grain-measure, on his head, since it was a Greek symbol for the land of the dead. He also held a sceptre in his hand indicating his rulership, with Cerberus, gatekeeper of the underworld, resting at his feet. The statue also had what appeared to be a serpent at its base, fitting the Egyptian symbol of rulership, the uraeus.

Etymology
Originally Demotic wsjr-ḥp, ("Osiris-Apis"), the name of the deity is derived from the syncretic worship of Osiris and the bull Apis as a single deity under the Egyptian name wsjr-ḥp. This name was later written in Coptic as  Userhapi; Greeks sometimes used an uncommon form Sorapis (), slightly closer to the Egyptian name(s).

The earliest mention of a "Sarapis" occurs in the disputed death scene of Alexander (323 BCE), but it is something of a mixup: The unconnected Babylonian god Ea (Enki) was titled Šar Apsi, meaning "king of the Apsu" or "the watery deep",
and Ea as Šar Apsi seems to be the deity intended in the description of Alexander's death. Since this "Sarapis" had a temple at Babylon, and was of such importance that only Sarapis is named as being consulted on behalf of the dying king, Sarapis of Babylon appears to have radically altered perceptions of mythologies in the post-Alexandrian era. His significance to the Hellenic psyche, due to the mention in the story of Alexander's death, may have also contributed to the choice of the similar-sounding Osiris-Apis as the chief Ptolemaic god, even if the Ptolemies understood that they were different deities.

Sarapis (, earlier form) was the most common form in Ancient Greek until Roman times, when Serapis (, later form) became common.

A serapeum ( serapeion) was any temple or religious precinct devoted to Serapis. The most renowned serapeum was in Alexandria.

Serapis cult history

There is evidence that the cult of Serapis existed before the Ptolemies came to power in Alexandria: A temple of Serapis in Egypt is mentioned in 323 BCE by both Plutarch and Arrian.

Ptolemy I Soter made efforts to integrate his new Egyptian subject's religions with that of their Hellenic rulers. Ptolemy's project was to find a deity that would win the reverence of both groups alike, despite the curses the Egyptian priests had chanted against the gods of the previous foreign rulers (e.g. Set, who was lauded by the Hyksos).
The common assertion that Ptolemy "created" the deity is derived from sources which describe him erecting a statue of Serapis in Alexandria.

According to Plutarch, Ptolemy stole the cult statue from Sinope in Asia Minor, having been instructed in a dream by the "unknown god" to bring the statue to Alexandria, where the statue was pronounced to be Sarapis by two religious experts. One of the experts was of the Eumolpidae, the ancient family from whose members the hierophant of the Eleusinian Mysteries had been chosen since before history, and the other was the scholarly Egyptian priest Manetho, which gave weight to the judgement both for the Egyptians and the Greeks.

Plutarch may not be correct, however, as some Egyptologists allege that the "Sinope" in the tale is really the hill of Sinopeion, a name given to the site of the already existing Serapeum at Memphis. Also, according to Tacitus, Serapis (i.e., Apis explicitly identified as Osiris in full) had been the god of the village of Rhakotis before it expanded into the great capital of Alexandria.

With his (i.e. Osiris's) wife Isis, and their son Horus (in the form of Harpocrates), Serapis won an important place in the Greek world. In his 2nd-century CE Description of Greece, Pausanias notes two Serapeia on the slopes of Acrocorinth, above the rebuilt Roman city of Corinth and one at Copae in Boeotia.

Serapis figured among the international deities whose cult was received and disseminated throughout the Roman Empire, with Anubis sometimes identified with Cerberus. At Rome, Serapis was worshiped in the Iseum Campense, the sanctuary of Isis built during the Second Triumvirate in the Campus Martius. The Roman cults of Isis and Serapis gained in popularity late in the 1st century when Vespasian experienced events he attributed to their miraculous agency while he was in Alexandria, where he stayed before returning to Rome as emperor in 70 CE. From the Flavian Dynasty on, Serapis was one of the deities who might appear on imperial coinage with the reigning emperor.

The main cult at Alexandria survived until the late 4th century, when a Christian mob directed by Pope Theophilus of Alexandria destroyed the serapeum in Alexandria some time 385~389 CE, during one of the frequent religious riots in the city. Despite the mob violence, the cult of Serapis survived until 391 CE when Theodosius I banned all forms of pagan religion in the Edict of Thessalonica, when the Alexandrian serapeum was finally demolished.

In popular culture
Serapis is the main antagonist of the Rick Riordan short story The Staff of Serapis which crosses over two of his major series, The Kane Chronicles and Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. He is destroyed by Annabeth Chase and Sadie Kane after the former destroys the head representing the future on Serapis' staff. In the follow up story The Crown of Ptolemy, it's revealed that Serapis was awakened by the overall main antagonist Setne in order to test bringing Greek demigods and Egyptian magicians together.

See also
 Serapis Bey, the Ascended Master in charge of the Ascension Temple
 Greeks in Egypt

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Q: Netlogo: How to change 0 to blank in BehaviorSpace's spreadsheet.csv file? In the notation of BehaviorSpace's spreadsheet.csv file output value, if the output result is 0 notation,
I want to replace it with blank notation, but I do not know how to do it (it is not posted on netlogo website).
The mean value of the BehaviorSpace's spreadsheet.csv file output value is automatically generated.
I do not want to include in the calculation of mean if the data is 0.
Currently, I am rediscovering the mean by erasing the 0 data in the spreadsheet.csv file by hand.

A: I'm not sure that you can do this in Netlogo exactly as you want as it doesn't really deal with NULL, NA, or NAN values. One thing that might work is to build a reporter that reports a string value you can then filter out. For a simple example:
to setup
  ca
  crt 10
  reset-ticks
end

to go
  ask turtles [
    rt random 60 - 30
    fd 1
  ]
  tick
end

to-report mean-y-or-nobody
  let val mean [ycor] of turtles
  ifelse val > 0 [
    report val
  ]
  [ report "#N/A"
  ]
end

If you set up an experiment to run this program and report the mean-y-or-nobody reporter:

Your output will be a standard CSV output, but with string "#N/A" values where the zeroes would normally be. For me at least, Excel will automatically ignore those values (some rows hidden in the image):

If that doesn't work for you, or if you're using different spreadsheet software, at least now you can just find/replace those string values without worrying about replacing other zeroes. Of course, if you are using something like R this would all be unnecessary as you could just replace the zero values with real NA values.


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