A special design approach provides identical and synchronized but independent input channels. They can be used as detector inputs for coincidence correlation experiments or as a pair of start and stop inputs for TCSPC. It allows a forward start-stop operation even at full repetition rate of mode locked lasers with stable repetition rate up to 84 MHz. Experiments with low repetition rate benefit from the PicoHarp's multi-stop capability. The design allows high measurement rates up to 10 million counts/sec and provides a highly stable, crystal calibrated time resolution of 4 ps. The instrument's timing resolution is well matched to even the fastest detectors currently available: the SPAD detectors of the PDM series or micro-channel plate Photomultiplier Tubes (MCP). Both input channels are equipped with Constant Fraction Discriminators (CFD), sensitive on the falling edge.
The PicoHarp 300 software for Windows provides functions such as the setting of measurement parameters, display of results, loading and saving of measurement parameters and measurement curves. Important measurement characteristics such as count rate, count maximum, position and peak width are displayed continuously. A comprehensive online help function shortens the users' learning curve. A library for custom programming, e.g., with LabVIEW is also available as an option. Software upgrades for extended functionality will be available with further product development.
Measurement data from the PicoHarp 300 can be analyzed by different software packages. For multi-exponential reconvolution the EasyTau 2 software is an ideal tool. For the analysis of TTTR data (e.g., FLIM, FCS, FLCS, FRET, BIFL, etc.) the SymPhoTime 64 software suite is the tool of choice. Analysis of photon correlations is best performed with the QuCoa software package.
The latest software version 3.0.0.3 is a bug fix release. Highlights of the last major release (version 3.0.0.0) include an internal adjustable delay in the sync channel to replace adjustable cable delays (4 ps resolution, ±100 ns range) and an adjustable delay in all PHR 800 router channels to tune for relative delays (4 ps resolution, ±8 ns range). That software release also include ASCII export and a new future proof file format, unified with that of SymPhoTime 64.
Measurement of the accumulated events as a function of time, manually started, stopped manually or upon overflow or expiration of a chosen collection time or upon reaching of a defined number of counts. 512 curves with up to 65536 time channels.
An optional hardware and software add-on allows to control a monochromator from within the PicoHarp software, allowing automated measurement of Time-Resolved Emission Spectra. This mode drives a monochromator via a stepper motor for collection of spectrally resolved lifetime histograms. Data is collected as in standard Integration Mode and saved in different blocks of memory for each wavelength. Four different monochromator types are currently supported: Sciencetech 9030, Sciencetech 9055, Acton Research SP-2155 and Acton Research SP-275.
The optional TTTR mode allows a continuous recording of events without onboard histogramming straight to disk. Together with the channel number the arrival time of each event pair with respect to the beginning of the experiment is recorded for ultimate flexibility in offline data analysis, e.g., in single molecule detection and Burst Integrated Fluorescence Lifetime (BIFL) measurement as well as time-resolved FCS or coincidence correlation spectroscopy ("antibunching"). Fast transfer and a large FIFO buffer allow huge count rates without any loss of data. Up to four different external synchronization signals ("markers") can be fed into the data stream and allow to synchronize the data acquisition with external hardware such as scanners for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM).
A real-time correlator is included in the TTTR mode which can be extremely useful in setting up and monitoring of FCS experiments.
The PicoHarp 300 software allows the control of all measurement parameters provided by the PicoHarp 300 module. Both input triggers are programmable for a variety of signal types. All functions of the system are controlled by a software interface for WindowsXP/Vista/7 or 8. The software provides functions such as the setting of measurement parameters, display of measurement results, loading and saving of measurement parameters and measurement curves. Important measurement characteristics such as count rate, count maximum and position, and histogram width (FWHM) are displayed continuously. An indicator for critical measurement conditions such as pile-up or incorrect divider settings helps to avoid measurement errors.A comprehensive online help function shortens the user's learning curve. Software upgrades for extended functionality will be available with further product development.
A library (DLL) for custom Windows program development is available as an option and allows to build your own applications, e.g., in LabVIEW, Matlab, C++, Python or Delphi. Demo code is provided for an easy start. A Linux version is also available for Linux versions 3.0 and higher. The libraries are API compatible, so that applications can easily be ported between the platforms.
The PicoHarp 300 permits the recording of sub-nanosecond fluorescence lifetimes, extendable to < 10 ps with reconvolution. For multi-exponential reconvolution the EasyTau 2software is an ideal tool. PicoHarp data can be directly exported via the clipboard.
The optional Time-Tagged Time-Resolved (TTTR) mode allows the recording of individual count events directly to hard disk or computer memory. The timing of each photon is captured as an event record without any early data reduction (such as on-board forming of histograms). This mode is particularly interesting where the dynamics in a fluorescence process are to be investigated in depth. The availability of the full timing information permits photon burst identification, which is of great value e.g. for Single Molecule Spectroscopy (SMS) in a liquid flow. Other typical applications are Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and Burst Integrated Fluorescence Lifetime (BIFL) measurements. Together with an appropriate scan controller, TTTR mode is also suitable for ultra fast Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) with unlimited image size. Applications beyond fluorescence spectroscopy are e.g. in quantum optics and related basic rearch.The PicoHarp 300 actually supports two different Time-Tagging modes, T2 and T3 mode. They differ slightly in their use of the input channels and by using the suitable mode, a very wide range of applications can be covered.
In T2 mode both signal inputs of the PicoHarp 300 are functionally identical. There is no dedication of one channel to a sync signal. Usually both inputs are used to connect photon detectors. The events from both channels are recorded independently and treated equally. In each case an event record is generated that contains information about the channel it came from and the arrival time of the event with respect to the overall measurement start. If the time tag overflows, a special overflow marker record is inserted in the data stream, so that upon processing of the data stream a theoretically infinite time span can be recovered at full resolution. Dead times exist only within each channel (90 ns typ.) but not across the channels. Therefore, cross correlations can be calculated down to zero lag time. This allows powerful new applications such as FCS with lag times from picoseconds to hours to be implemented with one instrument. Autocorrelations can also be calculated at the full resolution but of course only starting from lag times larger than the deadtime.
The T3 mode is specifically designed to use periodic sync signals from mode locked lasers with high repetition rate up to 84 MHz. In this mode one channel is dedicated to the sync signal. As far as the experimental setup is concerned, this is similar to classic TCSPC in histogramming mode. In addition to the picosecond start-stop timing, the events are time tagged with respect to the beginning of the experiment. The time tag is obtained by simply counting sync pulses. From the T3 mode event records it is therefore possible to precisely determine which sync period a photon event belongs to. Since the sync period is also known precisely, this furthermore allows to reconstruct the arrival time of the photon with respect to the overall experiment time. T3 mode measurements always implicitly provide routing information if a router such as the PHR 800 is used. If the counter overflows, a special overflow marker record is inserted in the data stream, so that upon processing of the data stream a theoretically infinite time span can be recovered. Since there is only one photon channel, only autocorrelations can be calculated (unless a router is used).
Both TTTR modes support capturing external marker events that can be fed to the instrument as TTL signals, e.g., via the front panel of the PHR 800. These events are recorded as part of the TTTR data stream. This allows to precisely synchronize the TTTR measurement with almost any experiment. The most important applications of this feature are FLIM and FRET imaging. This concept is used in the cutting-edge time-resolved mircroscope MicroTime 200.


This chapter explores the social reality and function of remembering traumatic events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack (9/11). It argues that the news coverage and mass media's appropriation and repetition of 9/11 images, along with the public's will to consume these, constitutes a repressive and authoritarian social organisation, one which comes from converting the libidinal effects and energies of memory labour into a habitual, albeit paranoid memory. The chapter discusses Gilles Deleuze's concept of reterritorialisation and explains that metaphysically engaging memory is what constitutes a reterritorialising memory.
This chapter highlights the importance of the concepts of desire, deterritorialisation, and reterritorialisation in how people rethink and reconfigure the sociocultural boundaries of the Zionist project in Israel. It suggests a doubled becoming-Israeli and an Israeli-becoming, which can be understood in terms of changing the dominant structures of both the Israeli state and how Zionism is produced and circulated through the Israeli sociocultural sphere. The chapter describes how Arab Israeli novelist Anton Shammas deterritorialised the Hebrew language only to reterritorialise it as the language of Israeli national identity. It also discusses Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concepts of power relations, regimes of truth, and power/knowledge.


The new Mandeville Centre is an essential investment into the vitality of Loreto Mandeville Hall in Toorak. It is a focal point for the school community, in function and location, acting as a link to all school operations. The building houses school administration, staff centre, lecture theatre, learning resource centre, year 12 centre and basement car park.
With a primary concern in the tectonics of material expression, this education building is described by two fundamentals of architecture: the formal determination of building by its site and the creation of a spatial framework for learning.
The design began as a direct response to key site constraints and developed into a pinwheel concept; a direct response to the physical brief, animating and ordering the building program around a central atrium space, radiating to all physical and spiritual elements on and off site. The atrium continues the existing courtyard language of the campus, further promoting a pedagogy in which learning environments are blended inside and out. Informal learning spaces are interwoven throughout the lightfilled indoor environment, encouraging interaction between students and teaching staff. The year 12 centre has its place at the upper level, aspirational in terms of the hierarchy of a school and yet connected visually and physically.
The external steel fins orientate views from within the building while screening solar radiation from the east and west - in turn animating the facade without competing with the architecture of the mansion. The north facade provides a transparent and seamless connection with the landscape and mansion setting.
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On the molecular mass of Lumbricus erythrocruorin
Ezra Daniel*, Ariel Lustig, Melvyn M. David, Yossi Tsfadia
A critical examination of the published molecular mass of erythrocruorin (Ec) from Lumbricus and related earthworm species reveals that the results do cluster, not at one, but at two values of the molecular mass. One cluster corresponds to ∼3.6 MDa as predicted from the Vinogradov model for the hexagonal bilayer (HBL) assembly of Lumbricus terrestris EC and as estimated from the crystal structure of HBL at 5.5 A resolution. The other cluster corresponds to ∼4.4 MDa. However, in contrast to the controversy over the molecular mass, there is a consensus that the sedimentation coefficient of intact L. terrestris Ec is ∼60S. Drawing on the occurrence of central subunits in Ec of Oenone fulgida and few other annelid species, we propose for the 4.4 MDa molecule a model of HBL supplemented by a central mass. The proposed model abides by D6 symmetry and is a suitable candidate to represent 60S Lumbricus terrestris Ec.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2003.10.042
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Daniel, E., Lustig, A., David, M. M., & Tsfadia, Y. (2004). On the molecular mass of Lumbricus erythrocruorin. Micron, 35(1-2), 131-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2003.10.042
Daniel, Ezra ; Lustig, Ariel ; David, Melvyn M. et al. / On the molecular mass of Lumbricus erythrocruorin. In: Micron. 2004 ; Vol. 35, No. 1-2. pp. 131-132.
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Q: How can I get the Array field of a class with reflection? My class A has
   AClaz[] rofl;

The documentation for getDeclaredFields says "This method returns an array of length 0 if the class or interface declares no fields, or if this Class object represents a primitive type, an array class, or void. "
I want to access the rofl array of type AClaz using reflection. Even if the AClaz is an inner class of class A.
So I would do getDeclaredClass ?

A: You're misreading the documentation - it's talking about calling getDeclaredFields on an array class, like this:
Class<?> arrayClass = String[].getClass();
Field[] fields = arrayClass.getDeclaredFields();

You should be able to get the field from A without any problem using
Field[] fields = A.class.getDeclaredFields();

and then iterate over the array, or
Field roflField = A.class.getDeclaredField("rofl");

The fact that the field type is an array is not a problem at all.

A: getDeclaredFields() returns all fields, i.e. instances of class Field. You want to access one of the fields named rofl, so you can either iterate over array returned by getDeclaredFields() or use getDeclaredField("rofl"). Then, once you have instance of Field you can access the field value itself using set() and get(). If you want to set the value you have to provide value of correct type, i.e. array of AClaz.
If you want to change one element of existing array stored in field rofl in your class you should say something like this: Array.set(field.get(instance), index, element)

A: you can get fields like this...
Class<?> arrayClass = String[].getClass();
Field[] fields =  arrayClass.getDeclaredFields();
for(int i =0; i<fields.length; i++){

  if(fields[i].isArray()){
//array type fields can be checked like this
    fields[i] is array
  }
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Latest Arts and Culture Grants Program outcomes revealed
View the 2020 Ruby Awards video and photo gallery
Recognition of extraordinary Aboriginal leadership in response to COVID-19
Congratulations to South Australia's arts and culture stars
Outcomes of the October 2020 round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program have been announced.
Artist: Lisa Furno, Bunnies, 2020, Installation, Preloved plastic cubby house, Grow'N Up Slide and Fountain clam shell pool; Photo: Grant Hancock.
Arts South Australia's Arts and Culture Grants Program invests in artists and organisations to support a vibrant arts ecology.
Congratulations to fifty one successful applicants of the October 2020 round, with grants totalling over $1.4 million awarded.
Grant opportunities on offer in the October 2020 round included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants, Projects, Development and Major Projects categories.
Lisa Furno (work pictured above) received a grant of $10 200 in the Projects - Independent Artists and Groups category to support the making of a new collection of contemporary jewellery under the title Cause and Effect. The work will explore concepts of consumerism and the impact on young children of consumer culture and its legacy of waste.
Brink Productions received a grant of $100 000 through the Major Projects - Collaboration category. The grant will support Brink's partnership with a range of South Australian independent artists to create new theatre works based on their individual stories. Collaborators include Zaachariaha Fielding, Emma Beech, Rory Walker, Jo Stone and Hew Parham.
Adrianne Semmens (pictured below), received a grant of $15 250 through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grants – Projects category for First Nations Choreographic Lab. Funding will support five South Australian First Nations dance practitioners to develop their choreographic practice and collaborative work.
Artist: Adrianne Semmens and Rikki Milera-Wilson performing in Dance Rites 2019, Director: Gina Rings, Choreography: Kaine Sultan-Babij; Photo: Wayne Quilliam.
Details of the October 2020 recipients can be found on the relevant grant program category page.
The next round of the Arts and Culture Grants Program will open on 11 January and close at 5.00pm on 8 February 2021, for activity commencing from 30 April 2021. Email ASAGrants@sa.gov.au for assistance.
https://www.dpc.sa.gov.au/news/latest-arts-and-culture-grants-program-outcomes-revealed


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Home News Edgewood Night Out kicks off another year of fun and fundraising
Edgewood Night Out kicks off another year of fun and fundraising
by RACHAEL HEADLEY
Photo by Rachael Headley.
0714 Edgewood Night Out
Edgewood Night Out welcomes area families to dine at area businesses to support Edgewood Elementary.
Edgewood Night Out
Benefits Edgewood Elementary
Tuesday, Aug. 12
Edgewood Business District
With the beginning of the school year approaching, the Edgewood community tradition, Edgewood Night Out, is returning to the business district.
Edgewood Night Out occurs on the second Tuesday of each month during the school year from 3 p.m. to the close of business. From August to May, businesses along the Edgewood Business District give 10 percent of their revenues from the evening to the Edgewood PTO. These financial gifts go to various needs of Edgewood Elementary School, including teacher grant requests for school supplies.
Although the charitable spirit of Edgewood businesses has been a tradition for a number of years, in the past there were different philanthropic nights for the individual restaurants. More recently, the PTO adopted the name "Edgewood Night Out" and began promoting the monthly event on a common evening.
Edgewood Night Out participants include Saw's BBQ, Edgewood Creamery, Sam's, La Bamba and Escape Day Spa. The PTO also sells Edgewood gear such as Edgewood T-shirts and tumblers at the events.
Last year's PTO president, Catherine Owen, not only spent time organizing volunteer committees to put on their events and functions, but also kept the community aware about what was happening in the PTO. Owen did this with assistance from Amber Kelley, the social media chair for the PTO's Facebook community connection page and Twitter account.
Both Owen and Kelley credit the growth of Edgewood Night Out to the help and enthusiasm of La Bamba owners Misti Burnham and Peter Cooper. Burnham and her husband, Cooper, have taken on the roles of Edgewood Night Out "co-chairs," Owen said. They are the ones who decorate and rally the community for the event. Burham said that La Bamba's sales increase 50 percent on Edgewood Night Out dates.
"It's a lot of fun," Kelley said. "You meet so many people when you go out. The children love it, and it's really a community-wide thing."
The monthly events serve as a bonding agent within the community, Owen and Kelley said. The children see their classmates, and parents often meet each other for the first time or have the opportunity to reconnect. As everyone gets busy throughout the school year, it gives families and friends a chance to spend time together while supporting their school.
"Every time you eat a meal with someone, you get to know them a little bit better," Kelley said.
The first Edgewood Night Out of the school year will be Tuesday, Aug. 12.
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Kansas State Post Game
The Horns and Willie Earl were caffeine free on Saturday. More on those debacles a little later in the week.
If I had told you before the game that, Tyrone Swoopes would have more rushing yards than Jake Waters, Kansas State would have only 143 yards rushing, and 367 total yards you might have thought that Texas had a pretty good chance of winning. Shows to go you.
A rivalry is born
Andy Garrod, my two-year college roommate, dedicated gamer, and the subject of one of my short stories, in his first Over/Under outing, wins this week by answering nine questions correctly. In doing so, he edged his long-time gaming and gambling rival Mike Frank, who finished in a three-way tie for second with David Frink and D.R. Flower with eight correct.
The Friday night before this year's OU game, when last I was with with Andy and Mike in the same room, they argued about who could throw a football further and who would live the longest.
Let the games begin.
Pre Game Kansas State
Hurry Up No Huddle
aka HUNH
I'm concerned that the fat man at Iowa State has given Kansas State and the rest Texas' remaining opponents the blueprint for shredding the conference leading Longhorns defense. On a related note, the three man front isn't working for the Horns. Hey, Vance and Charlie, "can the three-man front."
At Charlie Strong's press conference on Monday, he was asked about Tyrone Swoopes' foot speed relative to his recent success running the ball. Strong smiled and chuckled, and the press chuckled. When the same subject was broached later in the press conference with the affable, mild-mannered Swoopes, he didn't smile or chuckle. Interesting.
Strong hasn't suspended or dismissed anyone from the team in six weeks or so. Knock on wood.
I have a question for those of you who have played defense on the high school level or higher. When a quarterback fakes a handoff with his hand that doesn't have the ball, does that fake anybody out?
I have another question. Did Jackson Browne really want to play a little bit longer?
I like 11 a.m. kick offs for away games. It gives you time to get other stuff done in the late afternoon. I've found a late afternoon run after a game particularly satisfying after a win or a loss, obviously for different reasons. Speaking of morning football viewing, I remember during football season in 1983 when Helen and I were newlyweds, how getting up at 10 a.m. Sunday morning to watch the Fred Akers Show was getting up early. 1983 was a good year and a good year for Longhorn Football.
While we're on the subject, I remember in 1977 during Fred Akers' first year as the Texas head hoach, how bad he was on his Sunday morning show. When the Horns got to 6-0, 7-0, 8-0…..we kind of forgot about how bad he was on Sunday morning.
The Longhorns sure could use a running back with some speed and explosiveness.
Hey, did you hear about Joe Bergeron being suspended at Texas A&M Commerce for team rules violations? For God's sake Joe.
Remember when I said I wasn't worried about the Longhorns being passed up by A&M or Baylor? How do you like me now?
Back to the defense, the weak link is at linebacker. Aside from Jordan Hicks, who is having a very good season, the linebackers are hesitant and lack football instincts. Steve Edmonds has played well in spurts but still seems indecisive most of the time. Strong has inserted several freshmen on offense and defense that have been making significant positive contributions. I wish he could find some for the linebacker position.
At the beginning of this week, I was feeling sanguine about the Longhorns prospects for winning the Kansas State game. But as the week has worn on, I can't get the vision out of my head of Kansas State quarterback Jake Waters having a big day running by taking advantage of the Horns' defensive ends, who often lose containment, and the aforementioned hesitant and indecisive Longhorn linebackers.
Hopefully I'm wrong, and as the character Red said in the Shawshank Redemption, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
Iowa State Over/Under Analytics
Over the years I have always looked for questions, while reviewing the results, that most players got right or wrong. Analyzing results this way gives me a barometer of sorts of how my readers perceive the Longhorns week to week.
Last week every single player got right the answer to 49.5 yards for Iowa State's longest kickoff return. Every Nick Rose kickoff was a touchback hence everybody got it right. I may have to can that question for a couple of years.
Only three of the 15 contestants were right that Texas would fall behind at some point during the game. Too much Burnt Orange Kool-Aid drinking I guess.
Over/Under Contest
Post Game Iowa State
Swoopes!
I think I'm in love. Yes, I think I'm in love but I'm afraid to fall. We haven't had a quarterback go out and win a game that was hanging in the balance around here since Colt McCoy was covering up a lot of Longhorn faults with his magnificent accuracy. Tyrone Swoopes not only went out and won the game, he won it twice, after more poor clock management by Strong and company, and a stunningly bad performance by the defense, forced him to come in with 22 seconds left and in a—"I guess I have to do everything moment"—threw two perfect passes to set up the game winning field goal. So here I am, swooning over Swoopes but fearing that he could turn back into the scared quarterback we saw a couple weeks ago against Baylor. Oh well, better to have love and lost, than never to have loved at all.
After Texas scored to go ahead 45-38 I got a text from a friend, "Good drive, glad we scored a TD but terrible clock management. This game should be over." He was right. Let me explain.
With 3:52 left to play in the game, Texas faced a third and two at the 50 yard line. Swoopes completed a nine yard pass giving Texas a first down at the Iowa State 41, with 3:45 left to play. At that point, Strong, Watson, and Wickline have to be thinking beyond just getting the go ahead points, but they weren't. On the Texas's next four plays they snapped the ball with 16, 18, 16, and 11 seconds left on the play clock. If Swoopes had waited until two seconds on the play clock before snapping the ball on those four plays, Texas would have burned an additional 53 seconds off the clock, before Iowa State called timeout with Texas facing third and eight at the Iowa State 26 yard line. Iowa State called the timeout with 1:52 left. If Texas had managed the clock more effectively, there would have been less than a minute left at that point. Or, Iowa State would have been forced to use two or all three of their timeouts on the Texas drive. Either way, Iowa State would have been in a much more difficult predicament, behind by seven points, with one or no timeouts left with about a minute left to score the tying touchdown, or with two timeouts and only about :30 left to play. Strong, Watson, and Wickline should never have allowed Iowa State the ball back with 1:22 left and two timeouts. I hope they know that now.
Give Credit
Having criticized Strong and his staff, now I'll praise them. What they have done with the offensive line and Tyrone Swoopes is first rate player development. That and Charlie Strong's decision to try and win the game with :22 left in regulation bode well for the future of the program. Although I was hoping the Horns would have a much easier time with Iowa State, my hats off to the coaching staff for getting a win when things weren't going according to plan.
The Westchester Wildcats are on a roll. Mark Adams edged out Greg Swan, Zach Frank, and first time player D.R. Flower in the tiebreaker to take home is first win of the season. They were tied in regulation with eight correct answers. Young Zach's performance this week comes on the heels of his victory in his rookie outing two weeks ago, and a tie for fourth last week.
Clayton Frink, David Frink, and Reed Ramlow tied for fourth with seven correct.
Pre Game Iowa State
Last Saturday afternoon and evening, the Longhorn fans I was around were pleased with the team's performance against Oklahoma and were generally optimistic about the rest of the season. Although it was pleasant to be around positive people, I was struck by the irony of the contrast between the attitude and mood of the fans after this loss compared to all the other losses to Oklahoma over the years.
I viewed the loss as another opportunity squandered by Charlie Strong and his coaching staff. The continued breakdowns in special teams play and the Keystone Cops clock management routine are becoming, well, all too routine. I'm told by one of Willie Earl's knowledgeable readers that Charlie Strong's Louisville teams had good special teams play. Maybe Strong isn't ready for prime time. Maybe the big stage in Austin adds a complication that is taking the edge off his job performance. For me, it's a real and a troubling thought.
I'm not yet optimistic about the rest of the season because if Strong and his staff don't get the special teams fixed and if they don't improve their game management Texas could lose to Iowa State and anybody else left on the schedule.
Walking it Back
I saw the same things in the Oklahoma game that so many of the Texas fans were excited about. Tyrone Swoopes played a very good game. Even with the pick six, he played more than well enough for Texas to win. Again, Charlie Strong squandered a wonderful effort by Swoopes and an evidently great coach-up by Sean Watson in not getting the W against Oklahoma. So as they say in politics, I'm walking back the harsh statements I made about Swoopes last week.
In all my years of watching football, I can't remember another assistant coach who has done as good a job as Joe Wickline has done with the offensive line. Wickline's performance is "as advertised." Maybe Strong should put him in charge of fixing special teams. Give your biggest challenges to your best people, right? Oh well, maybe it's not a good idea to distract Wickline from his offensive line coaching, but a big change in the approach to special teams is needed.
Charlie Strong's specialty is defense and the strength of his first Texas team is definitely defense. The unit has played very well in in every game except the third quarter of the BYU game and that can be partly blamed on the offense's ineffectual play. We haven't had to talk about tackling yet this year which is refreshing after the last four years of futility in that area. And I'm orange-blooded enough to take extra satisfaction in that Vance Bedford is the defensive coordinator. If you haven't heard Mr. Bedford talk defense and football yet you might get a kick out of his commentary if you can find it on YouTube or where ever.
Know it All Fan Ideas
1. While Strong and his staff are re-doubling their efforts to fix the special teams, why not just go ahead and turn a weakness into a strength? Is there must be some weakness in Iowa State's special teams that they can game-plan to exploit. Maybe the Iowa State punter is slow, and Texas could block a kick. Perhaps the punt and kick-off coverage teams don't stay at home, and the Horns could fake a punt or recover an onside kick. Instead of approaching the special teams from a defensive crouch, Texas should get aggressive.
2. Where are Texas' hot shot freshmen running backs, Donald Catalon and D'Onta Foreman? Foreman was last seen fielding a kick off that was about to roll out of bounds on the five yard line. Before that, in his one of his two carries against North Texas, he burst off the right side for 34 yards and looked faster than Jonathan Gray. He can't' be redshirted, so let's get him some work in the last six games.
I've read on a couple of the blogs that Donald Catalon is the best running back on the team but the coaches want to redshirt him. Don't get me started.
Mid-Season Prognosis
This team is a more talented than a most observers thought after the first two games of the season. With better coaching Texas could be 4-2 not 2-4, in my opinion. Texas will win the remaining games on the schedule in which they play a clean game on special teams and Charlie Strong runs a competent sideline operation. They could win all of them or they could lose all of them.
Note from Willie Earl
To enhance the pleasure of playing Over/Under, starting this week, we will report the results no later than Sunday night. Play well.
OU Over/Under Results
There was a three-way tie at the top in another exciting OU Over/Under Contest (see what I did there?) with Helen Frink, Steve Holstead and Helen Art Zeitz answering eight questions correctly. The guys, both proud Westchester Wildcats, picked the winners, Alabama and Oregon in the tiebreaker. In the closest finish that the staff here can recall, Steve edged Art by coming within 3 total points of predicting the actual points spreads for both games.
Clayton Frink, Zach Frank, Mark Adams, Wade Wallace, Dan Yoxall, Greg Swan, and David Frink tied for fourth with seven correct. Yes Mrs Bertoni, this contest was too easy.
Iowa State Over/Under Contest
As if we needed any more reasons to lose confidence in Tyrone Swoopes, this week, reflecting on his play in the Baylor game, said, "I had gotten hit a couple times. That kind of made me a little bit nervous". Somebody on the Texas sideline better have some handy wipes and an extra pair of football pants handy Saturday at the Cotton Bowl.
And then he said this: "Sometimes, defenses will give me the same looks over and over again, and I don't decipher it like I'm supposed to, and I do the wrong things. Simple things like that. Nothing major."
I'm glad it's nothing major.
Even with these comments by Swoopes, I know many if not most Texas fans would disagree with what I wrote on Monday, that his two fumbles on the goal line and his terrible numbers should cost him the starting quarterback role. I'm certain that Charlie Strong disagrees, and I believe I know why he does. It's fear. My observations over 50-plus years of watching football have convinced me that one of most important guiding principles for a vast majority of football coaches is fear. Fear of innovation and breaking with the past. They don't seem to fear getting fired for not innovating.
I know what the stated reasons are for not playing Jerrod Heard, at least in a relief role: the need to preserve his redshirt, and he's not ready. As I have written before, speculating on what may happen four years from now in football is akin to speculating in 2012 who the Republican nominee for President would be in 2016. It's purely academic if not folly. It's more likely that Heard would transfer, flunk out, suffer a career-ending injury, or get beat out by another quarterback than it is that he will still be playing for Texas in 2018. As far as Heard not being ready, ready compared to whom, Swoopes? At this point, that's not a credible argument, in my opinion.
Strong should consider how much goodwill he's burning through with the team, with the fan base, and with his employers for not pulling out all the stops to win football games this season. If Texas scores less than 20 points or so against Oklahoma and gets blown out on Saturday, look for a crowd of about 50,000 in Austin next week for the Iowa State game. That's something Charlie Strong should fear.
Perhaps lost in the demoralizing loss to Baylor were some solid performances by the Texas defense and offensive line. The defense limited Baylor to 21 points and Bryce Petty to only 7 pass completions for 111 yards. Petty said after the game that his head was still spinning from all the coverages Texas threw at him. Hats off to Defensive Coordinator (former Longhorn All Southwest Conference defensive back) Vance Bedford and his Texas defense. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Steve Edmond played a whale of a game. The offensive line, reconfigured with the insertion of Darius James as the starting right tackle and the move of Kent Perkins to starting right guard, played pretty darned well as Texas gained 190 rushing yards and gave Tyrone Swoopes time to throw down field. It would be nice if the next time the offensive line plays well, Texas could score more than seven points.
My Fears
My father and I had many interesting conversations. Some were pretty light like the time he told me about the pleasures of trying new things, such as when he switched from an olive to a lemon twist in his martinis. He was quite pleased with the lemon twist. Driving to the beach in the summer of 1968—just my father, mother and I—he compared and contrasted the running styles of Red Grange and Gayle Sayers. That really engaged my 12 year old sports obsessed mind. Also during that trip he told me that Babe Ruth was not a "high-type" guy and didn't wear underwear.
Other conversations were more serious. When my brother David was, ahem, struggling academically during his sophomore year at UT, my father read me the riot act about how I was going to conduct my studies in college starting with the first semester of my freshman year! At the time, I was in ninth grade and my grades were pretty good for crissakes.
The most memorable and perhaps the most valuable conversations I had with my father were intimate ones. When David and I were devastated by the assassination of Robert Kennedy, my father told us that we had to pick up where RFK left off by always doing our best in school, in work, and as citizens.
When I was in high school and my father and I were with a realtor looking at a house in Reston, Virginia my father wanted to buy, he started crying when he told me how much my mother deserved to have this house.
Though one of the biggest disappointments of my youth was getting cut from the junior varsity basketball team and never playing beyond my freshman year, my father knew I was secure enough that he could tell me about how proud he was of David. David was his letterman. When I was in my early-30s with a career and lofty ambitions of my own, my father let on to me that my brother Clayton was the highest achiever of anybody ever named Frink.
When my parents were in their mid-80s, during one of the last times they had dinner at my house with Helen and me, my father told us a remarkable story about when he met the Army lieutenant who accompanied his brother's body home after World War II at the train station in Norwich, New York, and took him out for a drink. It wasn't remarkable because anything particularly interesting or unusual happened when he met the lieutenant. It was remarkable in the casual way my father told us the story, the fact that I had never heard the story before, and for me the literally jaw-dropping contrast it drew between his life and experiences and mine.
There is a conversation with my father that I didn't have that I wished I had. I've been to 37 Texas-OU games. Since the first one I went to in 1974, until as recently as 2012, I couldn't imagine not being excited about going every year for the rest of my life. Suddenly last year, as OU Weekend approached, I felt ambivalent about going. On Monday of this week I had the same feelings. I fear that it's not just the Longhorns downturn since 2010 that's causing my ambivalence. I'm afraid it's because I'm getting old.
My father never talked to me about getting old. Oh, he made self-deprecating remarks about being old when he was in his 80s. But I'm talking about the aging I'm going through now. Though I'm quite fit—if I do say so myself—for a 59-year-old and I'm pretty sure I'll be around for at least another 20 years plus but die before I run out of money, I have fears about being old. I fear that I'm seen as old by my clients and business associates. I fear that late in the fourth quarter of my career, my ambitions outstrip the time and focus I have to fulfill them. And I'm a little sad that my running career is over, and because of a nagging hip condition, I'm afraid I won't ever be able to play golf as well as I did from 2000-2009. When my father was 59, I was 22, so of course it never crossed my mind at the time that he might be experiencing primal fears about aging. Over the past few years I've been wondering what my father would say to me if I could tell him about these fears. I bet it would be interesting. I bet it would be insightful and yet witty and there's a chance it could be jaw-dropping.
Though I can't have that conversation with my father, I'm often heartened when listening to a certain song on my iPod while I'm working out. If there was a theme song about my father's attitude about life and the way he lived it, it would be this song.
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart.
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes.
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams.
And life gets more exciting with each passing day.
And love is either in your heart, or on it's way.
Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth
To be young at heart.
For as rich as you are, it's much better by far
And if you should survive to 105,
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive!
And here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart.
–Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh
Hub Frink, age 57, Helen Frink, my date and me at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Red Garter Party in November 1975
I'm going to the OU game, leaving early, staying late.
Beat the Hell Outta OU!
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View Art By Olympians In London During This Year's Games
by Jessica Festa on Jul 19, 2012
While we all know Olympians are excellent at sports, there are many that are apparently also skilled artists. Art of the Olympians Museum and Gallery, a gallery based in Fort Myers, Florida, features art created by former Olympic superstars. Luckily for those attending this year's Games, Art of the Olympians will travel to London from July 25 to August 13 for the 2012 Summer Games to present a free public exhibition.
Art of the Olympians is a nonprofit organization that seeks to inspire visitors "through the power of art, sport and the Olympic ideals." Started by four-time consecutive Olympic gold medalist in discus, Al Oerter, the initiative is now driven by more than 70 international Olympic artistic athletes. Today, the organization is run by gold medalist track and field legend Bob Beamon.
The exhibition will feature Olympic memorabilia, artwork by Olympians and opportunities to learn about an athlete's personal journey.
To see some of these sport-inspired pieces done by Olympic athletes, check out the gallery below.
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Les forêts nationales de l'Idaho Panhandle sont un ensemble administré conjointement de trois forêts nationales situées principalement dans l'État américain de l'Idaho. En 1973, de grandes parties des forêts nationales de Kaniksu, Coeur d'Alene et St. Joe ont été regroupées pour être gérées administrativement sous le nom de forêts nationales de la Panhandle de l'Idaho (Idaho Panhandle National Forests ou IPNF). L'IPNF comprend plus de 2,5 millions d'acres (10 000 km 2) de terres publiques dans la panhandle ("queue de poële) du nord de l'Idaho, avec de petites zones s'étendant dans l'est de l'état de Washington (4,7 %) et l'ouest de celui du Montana (1,2 %). La partie la plus septentrionale de l'IPNF partage une frontière avec le Canada. Le bureau du superviseur forestier est situé à Coeur d'Alene  dans l'Idaho avec des bureaux de district à Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint, Priest River (Priest Lake Ranger District), Fernan et Smelterville (Coeur d'Alene River Ranger District) et St. Maries et Avery (District de St. Joe Ranger).

Géographie
Les altitudes sur l'IPNF vont de 2 100 à 7 600 pieds avec jusqu'à 80 pouces de précipitations à haute altitude. L'IPNF est caractérisée par plusieurs chaînes de montagnes, dont les montagnes Selkirk, les montagnes Cabinet, les montagnes Purcell, la chaîne Coeur d'Alene et la chaîne Bitterroot, entrecoupées de grands lacs tels que les lacs Coeur d'Alene, Pend Oreille et les lacs Priest supérieur et inférieur. Les principales vallées fluviales sont St. Joe, Coeur d'Alene, Priest, Pend Oreille, Clark Fork et Kootenai.

Faune
Les forêts nationales de l'Idaho Panhandle abritent une grande variété d'animaux sauvages. Des cerfs de Virginie, des cerfs mulets, des ratons laveurs, des wapitis, des grizzlis, des orignaux, des ours noirs, des coyotes, des loups des bois, des mouffettes, des couguars, des martres, des castors, des loutres de rivière, des lynx roux, des visons et des carcajous sont souvent vus par les visiteurs.

Les espèces d'oiseaux comprennent les corbeaux, le dindon sauvage, les geais bleus, les cailles de Californie, de nombreuses espèces de tétras, le balbuzard pêcheur, l'aigle royal, le pygargue à tête blanche et de nombreux variétés de hiboux. Les rivières et les lacs du Panhandle abritent certains des meilleurs lieux de pêche au monde.

Zones sauvages
Il existe une zone de nature sauvage officiellement désignée au sein de l'IPNF qui fait partie du National Wilderness Preservation System. Le Salmo-Priest Wilderness se trouve en partie dans le district de Priest Lake Ranger de l'IPNF et s'étend dans la forêt nationale voisine de Colville. Quatre zones sans route sont actuellement proposées pour la nature sauvage totalisant 146 700 acres (590 km 2 ) :

 Zone sans route de Salmo-Priest (portion de l'Idaho)
 Crête de Selkirk
 Pics Scotchman
 Colvert-Larkins

Zones des loisirs
L'IPNF gère une diversité d'opportunités récréatives, et il existe de vastes réseaux de sentiers pour le bétail, les VHR, la randonnée, la motoneige d'hiver et le ski de fond. Plus de 2 250 km de sentiers sont entretenus pour la randonnée et 1 290 km pour le VTT. Les sentiers notables incluent le sentier du tunnel de Pulaski,  qui explore l'histoire des incendies de 1910 et les pompiers qui les ont combattus, et la route du Hiawatha, un itinéraire rails-sentiers de 24 km qui comprend les 2,7 km du tunnel de Taft. La zone Emerald Creek Garnet offre la possibilité de collecter des grenats étoilés et est l'un des deux seuls endroits au monde où ces gemmes peuvent être trouvées. Les forêts contiennent deux bosquets d'anciens cèdres rouges géants anciens, Settler's Grove of Ancient Cedars près de Murray, Idaho et Roosevelt Grove of Ancient Cedars près de Nordman, Idaho, qui sont tous deux des sentiers de randonnée populaires .

Photos

Références

Lectures complémentaires

 Ferguson, DE et AC Zack. (2006). Record d'établissement pour la zone naturelle de recherche de Wellner Cliffs : Priest River Experimental Forest, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Bonner County, Idaho [RMRS General Technical Report GTR-170WWW]. Fort Collins, CO : Département de l'agriculture des États-Unis, Service des forêts des États-Unis, Station de recherche des Rocheuses.

Liens externes

Aire protégée créée en 1912
Forêt nationale dans l'État de Washington
Forêt nationale au Montana
Forêt nationale dans l'Idaho

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President- Elect Biden
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Presiden-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris
By Grace Cavannaugh, Jessica Head & Dr. Ghislaine Lewis
After a contentious election season, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared the winner of the 2020 contest on Nov. 7.
The winner was first announced by CNN as they projected that Biden had won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes to put him over the 270 threshold with 273 votes.
According to the Associated Press, Biden currently has 290 electoral votes after winning Nevada and Arizona. Biden is also projected to win Georgia. President Donald J. Trump has secured 214 electoral votes including wins in Texas and Florida and is projected to win North Carolina.
The Associated Press has also reported that Biden won the popular vote with 75,405,598 votes to Trump's 70,905,496.
The Biden team also included the historic election of the first female, person of color as vice president in Kamala Harris.
After four days of waiting on the projections, students at the University of Lynchburg are relieved that there has finally been an outcome.
Junior Michael Affo-Ashong said, "The election has been so consuming and distracting this past week, that was definitely a great thing to wake up to on Saturday,
While, senior Julia Melone said, "I'm thankful we didn't and still aren't folding to peer pressure and we're staying true to democracy to have their vote heard. We ought to expect that bare minimum from our government."
At publication time, President Donald Trump had not yet conceded.
Senior Amanda Linehan said, "I feel a sense of relief but a bi of reservation. I am unsure how Trump will react and how his supporters will respond. He has already tried to make this an illegitimate election and that can be dangerous. It's also our duty to keep the Biden administration accountable and continue to fight for social justice and individual rights."
President-Elect Biden will official become president on Jan. 20, 2021
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News and brief for the week of Nov. 2nd
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FBI investigates robocalls warning voters to 'stay home'
Voters across the U.S. received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to "stay safe and stay home" — an ominous warning that election experts said could be an effort to scare voters into sitting out the election.
The FBI is investigating calls that seek to discourage people from voting, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security told reporters Tuesday. Authorities wouldn't offer details.
Virus hospitalizations surge as pandemic shadows US election
Americans went to the polls Tuesday under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with an alarming increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states.
While daily infections were rising in all but three states, the surge was most pronounced in the Midwest and Southwest.
Basketball Boost
Link for the photo: https://www.lynchburgsports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/lockamy_israel_srzb.
William Masselli ~ Sports Columnist
The University of Lynchburg Men's Basketball Team is kicked off preparation for their 2021 season with the Hornet Cup.
Israel Lockamy, a senior guard on the University of Lynchburg Men's Basketball Team, saw the Hornet Cup as a confidence boost for the 2021 season. Lockamy said, "My favorite moment was when our team won the Hornet Cup, and I hit the last half-court shot to win it! It will give me more confidence when shooting in actual games."
He also said, "Just working out, I have seen many improvements from my teammates, which shows that they have worked on their game throughout the offseason."
Spring Sorority and Fraternity Recruitment
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Grace Curl ~ Guest Writer
University of Lynchburg's National Pan-Hellenic Council, Panhellenic Council, and Interfraternity Council community are holding their recruitment in the spring of 2021.
To be a part of the recruitment process there is a fee of $25, which includes a t-shirt. There are multiple events to get to know the chapters, leading up to the main recruitment event. This is a great way for people to meet each other and learn about what being a part of Greek Life at the University of Lynchburg is like.
Photo provided by HEADstrong foundation.
Chip Quinn ~ Guest Writer
The Lynchburg men's lacrosse team is growing their mustaches and fundraising in an effort to fight cancer with HEADstrong Foundations Mustache Madness.
With fall ball coming to a close for the men's lacrosse team, they have joined an initiative started by the HEADstrong foundation where college lacrosse players around the country are raising money to support families who are battling cancer. A member of the Lynchburg men's lacrosse team recently had a close friend diagnosed with testicular cancer and this sparked the interest to get a fund-raising page started.
Image by Nat LeDonne, taken from @university.of.lynchburg on Instagram.
Cassandra Matthews ~ Assistant Editor
The University of Lynchburg is implementing "Wellness Days" as opposed to a traditional spring break next semester.
Faculty and staff alike have voiced how they are finding the fall 2020 semester to be difficult without any breaks. Usually, there is a fall break and Thanksgiving break, but this semester the University of Lynchburg is working through the entire semester without any breaks. This is so that traveling to and from campus is limited, therefore mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Next semester will look similar; however, days off from normal operations are being added to the calendar for spring 2021.
COVID Testing for Spring Semester
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Kamryn Schnieder ~ Copy Editor
With only two weeks left of class, students are beginning to wonder about COVID's effect on the spring 2021 semester.
After this compressed semester, students are seeing the positives and negatives of a compressed, hybrid semester, additionally, they saw how COVID still persisted despite the precautions. With students preparing to go home for the winter break, there is a rising concern for taking the virus home or bringing it back in the spring.
Nothing had been confirmed about testing for students and staff returning in the spring, but the University of Lynchburg Health Services sent out an email with information about free COVID testing before Winter break. The email started with, "The Health Center has partnered with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) to offer free COVID testing prior to students returning home for winter break. Students wishing to take advantage of this service must pre-register using the link below." The message included the link for registration and also states the location, "Hall Campus Center, Memorial Ballroom," and time "Nov. 11, 2020 … 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m." There is also a bulleted point explaining that the test is only for those who do not have symptoms.
Mystic Magic: Reality Shifting
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Grace Cavanaugh ~ Editor in Chief
Recently I have been asked about reality shifting. About three months ago, there was a rash of attacks against popular Witchtokers for denouncing so-called "reality shifting," where people would go to their favorite anime, or Hogwarts, or some other fictional place.
Initially I, and the popular Witchtokers, took it to be some sort of imaginative exercise. These people were disassociating from reality and going into someplace else, for whatever reason, and I thought it was more like lucid dreaming than astral projection.
Watch with Me: A Comedy Anime to Destress at Finals
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With the spooky season having made its pass this semester, I wanted to turn to a more comical show for this week. "Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!" or "God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!" (typically, just called KonoSuba) is a parody show that takes a number of anime cliches, such as reviving in a fantasy world, and twisted them into a comical situation.
At the start of the show the main character, Kazuma Satou, dies after having a heart attack thinking he is going to be hit by a truck, which turned out to be a scooter. From there, he is offered a chance to reincarnate as the hero of a fantasy world and was allowed to bring one thing with him. He asks to bring the goddess (Aqua) speaking with him, assuming her to be all-powerful and a cheat to the end, but once they arrive, he learns how horribly weak she is. From there, Kazuma collects more people into his party and tries to save towns and the world from threats in his new life.
Culture Factor: La Día De Los Muertos
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Hunter Epperson ~ Staff Writer
La Día de Los Muertos is often forgotten or confused with Halloween. This year, the holiday was celebrated from Sunday, Nov. 1st, 2020 through Nov. 2nd, 2020.
What is La Día de Los Muertos?
The Day of the Dead is celebrated in many Latinx cultures, but predominantly in Mexican culture. The purpose of the holiday is to celebrate and demonstrate love and respect for deceased family members and ancestors and is considered Mexico's most colorful annual event.
The holiday is celebrated through cultural activities including the painting of faces to represent skeletons and making of offerings to their descendants.
Nerd Factor: Connery, Sean Connery
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Dr. Mike Robinson ~ UL Communication Studies Professor
To understand the power of the late Sean Connery's star persona, consider two roles. One made Connery a household name. The other was a role Connery never played.
The first role is, of course, James Bond. Basically, Sean Connery made James Bond into Sean Connery. The character of James Bond had existed before the movies. Ian Fleming's spy novels were best sellers for about a decade before anyone saw Bond on film.
The story goes that before the movies came out, Fleming had imagined Bond as a very different person, more like actor David Niven. If you are unfamiliar with David Niven, look him up online. I will wait here while you do.
David Niven does not look like James Bond, does he? That is no slight. Niven was an outstanding actor, but we all have trouble picturing him as Bond. In fact, Niven did later play James Bond, in a somewhat strained parodic movie called Casino Royale that was released in 1967. The idea of Niven in that role was meant to be funny.
Horoscopes for the week of Nov. 2nd
Mar 21 – Apr 20
Do not be too concerned if everything is stuck, slow and at a stalemate this week.
Apr 21 – May 21
You may prefer to let this play out without complicating it anymore.
Critograph Volume 105 – Issue 13
By Grace Cavanaugh, Cassandra Mathews and Dr. Ghislaine Lewis
As the United States grapples with a global pandemic and rising social tensions Tuesday, Nov. 2 marks the end of what has been a contentious electoral season.
At the University of Lynchburg , the Center for Community Engagement along with faculty, staff and students across the campus have been engaged in encouraging the community to participate in the electoral process.
Director of Community Engagement and Bonner Leaders Cindy Ferguson said she hoped students will be able to see that they have a voice and be able to learn to listen to all sides of the issues as they have constructive, civil, respectful conversations with others.
Ferguson noted, "My motto is that 'it takes all kinds of people to reach all kinds of people,' and we are always better when we work together to meet the needs of our communities, states and nation."
Vice President for Inclusive Excellence, Dr. Robert Canida said, "Students who exercise their right to vote, should feel a sense of fulfilling a civic duty. My hope is that they realize that their vote counts, but equally important, that they have participated in such an important process whereby they can hold leaders accountable."
Many students at Lynchburg at Lynchburg are ambivalent about this year's elections but are still committed to exercising their right to vote.
Junior Niraly Patel said, "I'm sad and empowered at the same time. I wish our political system allowed for more competent candidates to have a chance, but money and connections are inextricably tied to success in the presidential race. I am empowered because it will be my first time exercising my right to voet and although the choices aren't ideal, I will be able to vouch for myself and minority groups around the nation."
While Amanda Linehan said she was not particularly excited but understood it was part of her civic duty.
Other students like senior Julia Melone said, "I'm glad I get to vote because so many Americans are being denied that right but I'm definitely dreading the election itself.
Ferguson cautioned students, she said, "Don't listen to anyone that says that you are too young or know the issues well enough to vote. You have a voice, be empowered to use it.It is important not only to vote but to be an informed voter. Know the issues that are important to you and the candidates' stands on those issues.There are many people who have fought for your right to vote and your responsibility as an American citizen should not be taken lightly."
Despite the national concerns around free, fair and safe elections, Dr. Canida noted, "What a wonderful feeling it is to have your voice heard, especially by casting your vote. College age students will be this Nation's future leaders! Their action to vote will drive the future of the United States."
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Q: raster2pgsql error while loading I have done that many times and it usually works but I'm facing a problem now that I do not understand. I'm trying to load a raster (.tif) with a EPSG4326 and it is a one band file in my database from the windows command prompt. I use the following function:
raster2pgsql -s 4326 -I -C -M -R climat.tif -F -t 25x25 clim.climat | psql -h localhost -U postgres -d biotic_interactions

it seems at first glance that it is working as I get 0 and 1 inserted and that my new table appears in pgAdmin. However, when I open it in QGIS and I confront the table that I just imported to the initial raster I see the value of the pixels are not the same than in the original file. Also, I noticed that while importing the raster, I get a few NOTICE:

return error message: numeric field overflow
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I'm using PostgreSQL 9.4.


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The Lectrosonics SPDR is a small, lightweight, dual-channel recorder that records 24-bit at 48 or 96 kHz BWF files to a MicroSD card. There are two TA5M inputs which can be used as two discrete analog inputs or a single stereo AES input. It also has a 3.5 mm heaphone output for playback and monitoring.
The 5-pin Lemo time code input allows a simple momentary jam. The high accuracy oscillator allows precision better than 1 ppm for long recording days.
The SPDR keypad has a high definition display with tactile feedback riser on the record button for easy eyes-off recording startup. Dweedle tone commands allow easy start and stop using the PDRRemote app.
The SPDR has an external power input with internal battery switchover, allowing all day recording from your bag battery with immediate fall back to the internal batteries should there be an external power loss.
There are two recording modes available in the menu: HD Mono, which records a single audio track and Split Gain, which records two different tracks, one at the normal level and another at -18 dB as a "safety" track that can be used in place of the normal track in the event that overload distortion (clipping) has occurred on the normal track.
The rugged aluminum housing allows easy access for the microSDHC memory card (up to 32GB) and DC input for external power. Recordings are stored in industry standard BWF file format (.WAV) with iXML metadata, for compatibility with third party tools such as Wave Agent (tm). The deep buffer allows use of slower cards with high reliability.


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Senargent-Mignafans és un municipi francès situat al departament de l'Alt Saona i a la regió de Borgonya - Franc Comtat. L'any 2007 tenia 290 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Senargent-Mignafans era de 290 persones. Hi havia 116 famílies, de les quals 32 eren unipersonals (24 homes vivint sols i 8 dones vivint soles), 40 parelles sense fills, 40 parelles amb fills i 4 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 143 habitatges, 121 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 11 eren segones residències i 10 estaven desocupats. 138 eren cases i 5 eren apartaments. Dels 121 habitatges principals, 100 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 19 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 2 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 3 tenien una cambra, 1 en tenia dues, 21 en tenien tres, 36 en tenien quatre i 60 en tenien cinc o més. 108 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 45 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 62 n'hi havia dos o més.

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

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 188 persones, 129 eren actives i 59 eren inactives. De les 129 persones actives 108 estaven ocupades (63 homes i 45 dones) i 20 estaven aturades (10 homes i 10 dones). De les 59 persones inactives 30 estaven jubilades, 9 estaven estudiant i 20 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Senargent-Mignafans hi havia 117 unitats fiscals que integraven 285 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 17.088 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 5 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de fabricació de material elèctric, 1 d'una empresa de construcció i 3 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils.

L'únic servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009 era un taller de reparació d'automòbils i de material agrícola.

L'any 2000 a Senargent-Mignafans hi havia 7 explotacions agrícoles.

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

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Senargent-Mignafans a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Senargent-Mignafans a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de l'Alt Saona


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Canon's 8-inch CMOS sensor can record SPACE at 60fps
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For whatever reason, Canon seemed more concerned with showing off its engineering prowess than finding a use for the giant 8-inch CMOS sensor it created last year. Fortunately, the super-powerful snapper has found its way into the 105-centimeter Schmidt Telescope at the University of Tokyo's Kiso Observatory. The sensor's size makes it a perfect fit to record in low-light; capturing the wonders of the universe in 0.3 lux at 60 fps. The University will premiere footage from the experiment, possibly with nibbles, after September 19th -- presumably in a theater with a blanket ban on people muttering the introduction to Star Trek as it plays.
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Canon ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor makes possible wide field-of-view video recording of meteors with equivalent apparent magnitude of 10
TOKYO, September 15, 2011-Canon Inc. today announced that an ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor developed by the company has enabled the video recording across a wide 3.3° x 3.3° field of view of meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10.*1 The sensor, with a chip size measuring 202 x 205 mm, the world's largest*2 surface area for a CMOS sensor, was installed in the Schmidt telescope at the University of Tokyo's Kiso Observatory, Institute of Astronomy, School of Science (Kiso-gun, Nagano prefecture).
With a chip size of 202 x 205 mm, the ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, developed by Canon last year, is among the largest that can be produced from an approximately 300-mm (12 inch) wafer.*2 The device is approximately 40 times the size of Canon's largest commercial CMOS sensor*3 and makes possible video recording in dark conditions with as little as 0.3 lux*4 of illumination. In January this year, the CMOS sensor was installed on the focal plane of the Kiso Observatory's 105 cm Schmidt telescope and used to record video at approximately 60 frames per second, resulting in the successful video recording of faint meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 across a wide 3.3° x 3.3° field of view.
Detecting faint meteors with apparent magnitudes greater than 7 has proven difficult using conventional observation technologies, with sightings of meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 limited to only 10 per year. However, video recorded using the ultra-large-scale, ultra-high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, combined with the Schmidt telescope, which enables observation across a wide field of view, yielded a one-minute segment during which more meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10 could be detected than could previously be identified during the span of a year.
Statistical analysis of the video data could lead to an increased understanding of the influence that meteors may have exerted on the development of life on Earth.
Additionally, because the combination of the CMOS sensor and Schmidt telescope facilitates the highly efficient investigation of objects traveling at high speeds across the sky, it makes possible the detection of an increased number of celestial phenomena in addition to meteors, such as space debris*5 and heavenly bodies moving in the solar system. Accordingly, the technology is expected to contribute to improved measuring accuracy in determining the position and speed of these objects.
Through the further development of distinctive CMOS image sensors, Canon will break new ground in the world of new image expression, in the areas of still images as well as video.
The results of the abovementioned observations will be presented at the Astronomical Society of Japan's autumn 2011 meeting, which will be held from September 19 (Mon.) to 22 (Thu.) at Kagoshima University in Kyushu, Japan.
Apparent magnitude is a measure of a star's brightness as seen by an observer on Earth. The brighter the celestial body appears, the lower the value of its apparent magnitude. The darkest star visible to the naked eye has an apparent magnitude of approximately 6.
As of September 12, 2011. Based on a Canon study.
The approximately 21.1 megapixel 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor employed in the company's EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR cameras.
The level of brightness during a full moon.
Refers to a variety of human-made debris in orbit around Earth, including artificial satellites and the rockets used to launch them into orbit.
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Welcome to the Miami Hurricanes, Travis Homer.
Besides adjusting to life as a college running back at a major university in a primetime city, the freshman also has to deal with a rather odd quote by his position coach, as told to the Miami Herald's Barry Jackson.
"Little bit of a weird dude?" What a strange thing to tell a reporter. Also a strange detail for the Herald to include.
Weird in what way? Does he drink milk instead of gatorade during practice?
Anyways, the "weird dude" has some wiggle.


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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening,
This week we'll reach 20 million registered cases of COVID-19 and 750,000 deaths.
Behind these statistics is a great deal of pain and suffering.
Every life lost matters.
I know many of you are grieving and that this is a difficult moment for the world.
But I want to be clear, there are green shoots of hope and no matter where a country, a region, a city or a town is – it's never too late to turn the outbreak around.
There are two essential elements to addressing the pandemic effectively:
Leaders must step up to take action and citizens need to embrace new measures.
Some countries in the Mekong Region, New Zealand, Rwanda, and many island states across the Caribbean and the Pacific were able to suppress the virus early.
New Zealand is seen as a global exemplar and over the weekend Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern celebrated 100 days with no community transmission, while stressing the need to remain cautious.
Rwanda's progress is due to a similar combination of strong leadership, universal health coverage, well-supported health workers and clear public health communications.
All testing and treatment for COVID-19 is free in Rwanda, so there are no financial barriers to people getting tested.
And when people test positive for the virus, they're isolated and health workers then visit every potential contact and test them also.
Getting the basics right provides a clear picture of where the virus is and the necessary targeted actions to suppress transmission and save lives.
This means that where there are cases, the government can quickly implement targeted measures and focus control efforts where they are needed most.
Other countries like France, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Italy, and the UK had major outbreaks of the virus but when they took action, they were able to suppress it.
Many countries globally are now using all the tools at their disposal to tackle any new spikes.
Over the last few days, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson put areas of northern England under stay at home notifications, as clusters of cases were identified.
In France, President Macron introduced compulsory masking in busy outdoor spaces of Paris in response to an increase in cases.
Strong and precise measures like these, in combination with utilising every tool at our disposal are key to preventing any resurgence in disease and allowing societies to be reopened safely.
And even in countries where transmission is intense, it can be brought under control by applying an all of government, all of society response.
Chains of transmission have been broken by combination of rapid case identification, comprehensive contact tracing, adequate clinical care for patients, physical distancing, mask wearing, regular cleaning of hands and coughing away from others.
Whether countries or regions have successfully eliminated the virus, suppressed transmission to a low level, or are still in the midst of a major outbreak; now is the time to do it all, invest in the basics of public health and we can save both lives and livelihoods.
In the countries that have done this successfully, they are using a risk based approach to reopen segments of societies, including schools.
And as they do so, they must remain vigilant for potential clusters of the virus.
We all want to see schools safely reopened but we also need to ensure that students, staff and faculty are safe. The foundation for this is adequate control of transmission at the community.
My message is crystal clear: suppress, suppress, suppress the virus.
If we suppress the virus effectively, we can safely open up societies.
As countries work to suppress COVID-19, we must further accelerate our work to rapidly develop and equitably distribute the additional tools we need to stop this pandemic.
Just over three months ago we launched the ACT Accelerator as the fastest and most effective way to do this.
It is the only end-to-end, global solution that combines public and private sector expertise in research and development, manufacturing, procurement and delivery for the tools needed to address the pandemic's cause.
The ACT-Accelerator has already harnessed the international public health ecosystem in a unique way of working, with early proof of its potential.
The accelerator supported vaccines are in Phase 2/3 trials.
A Global Vaccines Facility is engaging over 160 countries.
The first therapy for severe COVID – dexamethasone - is in scale-up.
Dozens of other promising therapies are under analysis.
Over 50 diagnostics are in evaluation, including potentially game-changing rapid antigen tests.
And a comprehensive framework for allocating these scarce tools for greatest global impact, is under consultation.
The coming 3 months present a crucial window of opportunity to scale-up the work of the ACT-Accelerator for global impact.
However, to exploit this window we have to fundamentally scale up the way we are financing the ACT-Accelerator and prioritize the use of new tools.
There is a vast global gap between our ambition for the ACT-Accelerator and the amount of funds that have been committed.
While we're grateful for those that have made contributions, we're only 10% of the way to funding the billions required to realise the promise of the ACT Accelerator.
And this is only part of the global investment needed to ensure everyone everywhere can access the tools.
For the vaccines alone, over $100 billion dollars will be needed.
This sounds like lot of money and it is.
But it's small in comparison to the 10 trillion dollars that have already been invested by G20 countries in fiscal stimulus to deal with the consequences of the pandemic so far.
I would like to close by saying a few words about the explosion in Lebanon that last Tuesday killed over 150 people, injured more than 6,000 and left over 300,000 people homeless.
To the people of Beirut, the health workers and emergency workers on the ground: our thoughts are with you and we will continue to support you.
From our strategic stockpile in Dubai, WHO immediately sent surgical and major trauma supplies. We released funds from the contingency fund for emergencies.
And our staff are on the ground are supporting the assessment of the impact on the health sector with Lebanese and other UN partners.
We are shipping $1.7 million dollars worth of PPE items to support COVID-19 and humanitarian supplies that were destroyed by the blast.
We are also working closely with national health authorities to enhance trauma care, including through the deployment and coordination of qualified emergency medical teams.
We're also mitigating the COVID-19 impact, addressing psychosocial needs and facilitating the rapid restoration of damaged health facilities.
We have issued an appeal for $76 million US dollars and ask for your solidarity and support to the Lebanese people.
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The Tattoo Trends To Keep On Your Radar For 2020
According to Miley Cyrus and Sophie Turner's tattoo artist, Lauren Winzer.
By Jonah Waterhouse
Some people are more naturally prepared for the stress that comes with getting a lifelong tattoo, while others need a little more coaxing.
Sydney-based tattoo artist Lauren Winzer—who counts Miley Cyrus and Post Malone as clients, and did Sophie Turner's famous Game of Thrones tattoo—argues that the finished product makes the few moments of pain completely worthwhile.
"It seems like an intimidating concept, but to be honest, if you find someone you like, and you know their work, which is so easy to do with the Internet, then you're gonna love it," she says. "Every time I've been scared to get a tattoo, it's been fine, because it's never as bad as you think it's gonna be."
After you've decided on getting inked, however, there lies the perplexing question: what will you end up getting?
Few artists' work toes the line between trendiness and timelessness quite like Winzer's does (even culminating in a popular line of custom phone cases by tech21, featuring her signature designs), so scroll down for her tips for what's in, and what's not, in the tattoo world for 2020.
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Considering she specialises in both fine line and thicker, traditional-style ink, Winzer says that bigger tattoos are rising in popularity—even if the fine line aesthetic is still as popular as ever.
Winzer partially credits this spike in popularity to celebrities, saying: "Miley [Cyrus], who I've tattooed a bunch of times, always got small stuff, and now she's getting things that are like palm-sized or bigger, which I never thought I would see. And she's got quite a few, so I think that's definitely something that's happening."
She later added: "Now, everyone's getting so much fine work, I'm seeing people who were like, 'I only want single needle' or 'I only want fine stuff' getting bigger versions of that. I feel like that's growing and getting a little bit less scary."
Image: Instagram @laurenwinzer
Dainty tattoos are getting more intricate
Winzer is seeing more of her clients request larger fine line styles for 2020—but instead of the boldness of a large tattoo, it's intricacy (and a lasting effect) that clients are after. In her words, clients are "getting a bit more bold with their choices" of fine line tattoos, favouring more unexpected, intricate styles.
Still, classic dainty styles aren't going anywhere
If the Instagram-driven popularity of classic dainty tattoos stopped you from getting one, fret not, because according to Winzer, the trend is only set to amplify in 2020. In her words: "I feel like things are getting smaller and smaller, and my glasses are getting stronger and stronger!"
Portrait tattoos are a trend to watch
Another of Winzer's specialities is rendering lifelike celebrity portraits, including Audrey Hepburn and The Nanny's Fran Drescher. Considering its popularity, she expects portrait tattoos will spike in popularity by 2020.
"For me, I've definitely seen a trend in [face-shaped ink]," Winzer said. "And I don't know if that's my work specifically, or just in general, but I'm really loving that people are bold enough to get actual people's faces or characters' faces."
Women are tending to prefer finer tattoos
While this obviously isn't always the case, Winzer says that women are likely to get finer tattoos than men are, even if the tattoo itself is in a popular style.
In her words: "It's more the style that's different than the actual subject. Both men and women will get roses, but women will get the finer type, whereas guys will generally get a bolder version of it."
Fine line roses are an eternal favourite
Fine line rose tattoos are one of Winzer's most-requested works—a trend she predicts will fare well into the 2020s.
"[My most requested tattoo] for sure, is just a fine line rose," she explains. "[I do] them every single day, sometimes two or three in a day. If I ever do a flash sheet, everyone gets a fine line rose. Or, a crescent moon."
If you thought something was 'tacky', it's probably cool now
When asked if any tattoos were on the way out for 2020, Winzer said no such thing was happening—and if anything, tattoos once regarded as 'tacky' are on their way to being on-trend.
"I don't think anything's disappearing, because I think certain people are getting different types of tattoos that they're still gonna carry on. Nothing's really getting left behind," Winzer explained.
"And all the old s--t—like 'Ew, I got a tramp stamp'—that's back! Like, barbed wire is back, tramp stamps are back, all of the '80s stuff is back, and everyone thought that was gross, but everything is cool now, which I like."
'American traditional' tattoos are becoming more popular
Though they're too bold for some people's tastes, Winzer says the 'American traditional' style of tattoo—colourful, bold and thick-lined—have an enduring popularity.
Winzer explains that many of the popular silhouettes involve "the classics—the swallows, the roses, the spider webs, that's forever. It [involves] black, and a lot of bold colours".
Image: @jkirchen/@hunterandfoxtattoo
Like always, trust your gut instincts
If you feel a burning desire to get inked immediately after reading this, Winzer encourages you to stop and find some clarity, before deciding what you want to get. It's a lifelong decision, after all.
"My advice is always, get something if you want something, not just to have something, if that makes sense," Winzer says.
"I feel like so many people come in and they're like, 'I just want to get tattooed', and I'm like, 'What do you want?' And they don't know, and I'm like, 'Well, why are you getting it then, if you don't know? You're gonna change your mind if you don't love it already'."
Photography: Instagram @laurenwinzer
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The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete in U.S. history.
With clarity and an eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe's incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team to victories against the country's finest college teams; winning gold medals in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the burgeoning sport of professional football; and playing long, often successful—and previously unexamined—years in professional baseball.
At the same time, however, Buford recounts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native American. We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had previously played professional baseball, an event that would haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with alcoholism and personal misfortune, and how he came to distrust many of the hands extended to him. We learn the details of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982.
Here is the story of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.
Kate Buford is the author of Burt Lancaster: An American Life. She has written for the New York Times and has been a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition and American Public Media's Marketplace.
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