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13.12.2018 This is the Museum that Russia has lost
The closing day of the festival "The Roerichs' Himalayan Estate – Karma-Bhumi of the Great Russian Family" in the IRMT was dedicated to the celebrations of the 114th birth anniversary of Svetoslav Roerich, the younger son of Nicholas and Helena Roerich.
26.11.2018 The "Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Culture Messenger" exhibition in the "Zvyezdny" College, St.Petersburg, RF
From November 14, 2016 the "Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Culture Messenger" exhibition - a joint project of Consulate General of India in St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg Branch of the International Center of the Roerichs has been exhibited at the professional Lyceum of technology and design "Zvezdny" in St.Petersburg, RF.
18.11.2018 The "R. Tagore – Indian Сulture Messenger" exhibition was opened in the Prokofiev library, St. Petersburg, Russia
Presentation of "Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Culture Messenger" exhibition - a joint project of Consulate General of India in St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg Branch of the International Center of the Roerichs – took place in the gymnasium No.284, Kirovsky district, St.Petersburg, Russia, on 18,November, 2018.
02.11.2018 Svetoslav Roerich's Anniversary Marked in International Roerich Memorial Trust, Naggar, Distt. Kullu
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29.10.2018 Lectures on the Roerichs Delivered in Shimla University and College
On October 12–13, 2018, the students, research scholars and teaching staff of the Department of Visual Arts and other departments of Himachal Pradesh University and the Rajkiya Kanya Mahavidyalaya (RKMV), Shimla got a wonderful opportunity to learn about the life and art of Nicholas and Svetoslav Roerich.
21.10.2018 Nicholas Roerich Anniversary Celebrations in International Roerich Memorial Trust
In front of the memorial Roerich House were solemnly hoisted the national flags of India and Russia, and the Banner of Peace. The distinguished guests of the programme, Dr. Rita Singh, Advisor (Hindi), Ministry of Finance, Government of India; Member, Art, Language and Culture Academy, State Government of Himachal Pradesh; Smt. Sushma Sharma, President, Naggar Panchayat; Olga Slepova, poetess (Russia), Tamara Merges, head of the volunteer group from the International Centre of the Roerichs (ICR), Moscow, and other guests from India and Russia, took part in the flag hoisting ceremony.
15.10.2018 Children and Youth Festival "Russia-India: From Heart to Heart" Comes to International Roerich Memorial Trust, Naggar
On October 6, the Himalayan Roerich Estate resounded with the joyful voices of children participating in the Children and Youth Festival "Russia-India: From Heart to Heart" that visited the International Roerich Memorial Trust already for the fourth time during the traditional Indo-Russian culture festival on the occasion of the Roerichs' anniversaries.
14.10.2018 International Scientific Public Conference "The Living Ethics and Its Relevance in the Modern World"
Conference programme (PDF)
06.10.2018 Helena Roerich Memory Day (October 5) Marked in the International Roerich Memorial Trust
The memory day of Helena Roerich – the outstanding philosopher of the 20th century, thinker, scholar, author and explorer – opened in the Himalayan Roerich Estate in Naggar with planting of flowers.
03.10.2018 Conference "India-Russia in the 21st Century" in New Delhi
On the eve of the 19th Indo-Russian Summit, on September 13–14, 2018, a conference "India-Russia in the 21st Century: Enhancing the Special Privileged Strategic Partnership" was held in New Delhi.
01.09.2018 George Roerich's Anniversary Marked in IRMT
On August 16, 2018, the International Roerich Memorial Trust held a programme on the occasion of the 116th anniversary of George Roerich, the elder son of Nicholas and Helena Roerich, and the renowned orientalist, linguist, Tibetan Buddhist scholar, archeologist and explorer of Central Asia.
26.07.2018 Riga meets friends
The conference was organized by the Latvian Branch of the International Centre of the Roerichs, Baltic International Academy, the International Centre of the Roerichs and the European Association "EURASSIM". Culture figures and the representatives of the Roerich societies and communities of Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Estonia participated in the conference.
18.07.2018 The international public and scientific conference "The Living Ethics and its Actuality in the Contemporary World". Information Letter
On 9–10, October, 2018 an international public and scientific conference of the International Centre of the Roerichs "The Living Ethics and its Actuality in the Contemporary World" will take place in Moscow.
25.05.2018 Academic Seminar on the Roerichs' Creative Work During Their Stay in Kullu
On April 29, 2018, within the framework of the Spring Roerich Culture Festival «The Roerichs' Himalayan Estate – Karma-Bhumi of the Great Russian Family» the International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT), Naggar held an international academic seminar «The Roerichs in Kullu: Aspects of Creativity».
22.05.2018 Indo-Russian Festival "The Roerichs' Himalayan Estate - Karma-Bhumi of the Great Russian Family"
Traditional Indo-Russian Spring Culture Festival Celebrated on April 29-May 1, 2018 in the International Roerich Memorial Trust. This year, the festival was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Roerichs' arriving and settling in Kullu and was called «The Roerichs' Himalayan Estate – Karma-Bhumi of the Great Russian Family».
24.04.2018 Roerich Pact Day Celebrated in IRMT
April 15, 2018 the International Roerich Memorial Trust celebrated the 83rd anniversary of the Roerich Pact – the first international Treaty for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments initiated by the great Russian artist Nicholas Roerich who worked on its draft in early 1930s right here in the Himalayan Roerich Estate.
03.04.2018 Devika Rani Anniversary Celebrations in IRMT
On March 30, 2018, the International Roerich Memorial Trust (IRMT) celebrated the 110th anniversary of Devika Rani, the cinema star of yesteryear, and the beloved wife of Dr. Svetoslav Roerich.
30.03.2018 Masters Day Celebrated in the Himalayan Roerich Estate
The programme organized in the Himalayan Roerich Estate on the occasion of the Masters Day (March 24) started with the solemn ceremony of planting of flowers on the Samadhi of Nicholas Roerich.
31.01.2018 "My Discovery of India" Quiz in R.Tagore School, St. Petersburg, Russia
On January, 30, 2018 "My discovery of India" Quiz took place in Rabindranath Tagore School in St.Petersburg, Russia.
30.01.2018 "R. Tagore – Indian Сulture Messenger" Exhibition was donated to Rabindranath Tagore School in St.Petersburg, Russia
"R. Tagore – Indian Сulture Messenger" Exhibition of the St. Petersburg Branch of the International Centre of the Roerichs was donated to Rabindranath Tagore School in Saint-Petersburg to commemorate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and India and the 60th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore School, St.Petersburg, January, 31, 2018.
26.01.2018 Press conference of the International Centre of the Roerichs
On 30th January at 11:30 the press-conference of the International Centre of the Roerichs will take place at the press-center IA Rosbalt (building 1, 4/2 Skatertniy per., Moscow). It is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the death of Svetoslav Roerich (1904–1993), the younger son of a great Russian painter Nicholas Roerich, the founder of the Non-Governmental Museum named after Nicholas Roerich in Moscow. The press-conference is also held to mark 9 months since the illegal seizure of the Museum by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the State Museum of Oriental Art subordinated to the ministry. The conference is open for Russian and foreign journalists.
15.01.2018 R.Tagore's Creative Work Lecture in St.Petersburg School named after R.Tagore
A lecture about R.Tagore's life and work was held in St.Petersburg secondary school named after R.Tagore on January 15, 2018; the lecture as well as the "Rabindranath Tagore – Messenger of Indian Culture" exhibition, which is shown in the school, have been made by the St. Petersburg branch of the International Centre of the Roerichs.
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This article is the first of two in a series on students pursuing charity work.
Casualty: one inner tube, one tailbone.
That is how senior Zhuangchen "JJ" Zhou wrote about his 28-day bicycle ride of 1,650 miles down from Boston, Mass. to Orlando, Fla. in his blog. Initially started as an exercise in physical humility for crew, Zhou made this ride mean more for others — raising awareness for charity causes.
With the prospect of returning to China after graduation and having seen little of the East Coast during his time at Tufts, Zhou knew he wanted to dedicate his final winter break to seeing as much of this part of the United States as he could. He decided to pair his travels with his training for Tufts's crew team.
Zhou added that he wanted a bigger cause to inspire his journey.
"I started riding, but on top of that I was trying to find a reason to do it," Zhou said.
This reason, Zhou explained, was the New York-based nonprofit organization Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC). In an open letter on the organization's website, RISC's founder Sebastian Junger describes how photojournalist Tim Hetherington, a close friend of his, received a shrapnel wound while covering the conflict in Libya in 2011. Although Hetherington's wound was not initially fatal, lack of proper medical attention on the ground led to his death. Inspired by Hetherington's death, the organization trains and equips freelance journalists to treat life-threatening injuries in combat zones.
Hetherington was the same man who inspired Junger to found RISC who also inspired Zhou to ride for RISC's cause.
Zhou's personal interests and career goals also impacted his decision to ride and raise money for RISC.
"I'm trying to make a career in photography after I graduate, so I care a lot about freelance journalism, where a lot of journalists who are working in dangerous situations are not even trained," he said.
Zhou set up a crowdfunding page and set an initial goal of $1,600, the amount enough to train one freelance journalist.
So Zhou decided to make a small adjustment — a $7,400 adjustment to be exact.
The cyclist is well on his way to achieving his goal. According to his crowdfunding page, he has raised over $1,400 in the two months since began fundraising, Zhou said.
Although Zhou's photography illustrates a journey filled with the beauty of riding dirt paths and traversing city streets, his blog posts titled "Day 1: On Suffering" and "Day 9: A Slippery Slope" describe the dangers and struggles of his adventure. After just two days on the road, he ran into difficulties that would have turned many back.
"The road to greatness is hard for anyone who attempts it. Setbacks are requirements for it," Zhou wrote in his blog.
Zhou said a friend was able to pick him up before staying with him a few days while he healed. As soon as he was able to, Zhou said he hopped right back on the bike. Zhou admitted he hadn't planned for this, but he said that preparation for an obstacle such as this is essential, especially on a long trip like the one he took.
In terms of what is next for the rower and aspiring photojournalist, Zhou describes in his blog post "Day 28: The Finish" that he wants to keep an open mind.


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Reason, knowledge, and property
Mathematics, abstract reasoning, and experimentation all provided tools for studying the natural world in the seventeenth century, and they also provided tools for thinkers contemplating the place of humans and God in that world, and the limits of human knowledge. Descartes based all knowledge on our intuition about God's existence and understanding of ourselves as thinking beings, but other philosophers had different ideas. Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) was born to Jewish parents in Amsterdam, but his freethinking and unorthodox views led him to be thrown out of the Jewish community. He traveled from town to town, making a living as a lens-grinder, an occupation that cut his life short because he steadily breathed in glass dust. Hostility to his earliest published works and political instability in the Netherlands led him to withhold his writings from publication, and his main work, Ethics , was only published after he died. In Ethics (1677), Spinoza argues that there is really only one substance in the universe. That substance is God. God and Nature, Creator and creation, mind and matter are all the same, a position called pantheism, which Spinoza demonstrated through logical geometrical proofs and theorems. Our sense of remoteness from one another or separation from God is an illusion, he asserted, and our immortality is certain, as the One Substance is eternal. Whatever happens is destined to happen – a position called determinism, akin to Calvin's idea of predestination – but because God and the universe are one, we can be confi dent that things happen for a reason. We do not have free will, but if we understand our place in nature, we can achieve freedom of mind and an intellectual love of God, a state Spinoza calls bliss. This bliss, this sense of oneness with God and other people, is vastly superior to any other emotion, which Spinoza urges us to control. The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz met Spinoza, and built his own philosophical system on Spinoza's ideas, though their lives were dramatically different. In his long life, Leibniz corresponded and visited with thinkers, rulers, and statesmen all over Europe, serving as a diplomat in Paris and the offi cial historian and librarian for the dukes of Brunswick. He invented the calculus independently of Newton, and sought to apply Cartesian rational principles to law, theology, and politics as well as scientifi c issues. He was fascinated by Chinese learning, corresponding with Jesuits who had been in China and writing a knowledgeable book praising Chinese culture. Leibniz accepted Spinoza's notion that everything happens for a reason, and because all reasons are God's and God is good, everything must happen for a good reason. The world as it exists is only one of many possible worlds, but because it is what God has chosen, it is the best of all possible worlds. Suffering and evil are the result of our not understanding God's reasons. Leibniz was ruthlessly satirized in the French author Voltaire's anonymous novel Candide or Optimism (1759) in which the young hero Candide, accompanied by his Leibniz-quoting tutor Pangloss, experiences a series of dreadful events, including shipwrecks, trials by the Inquisition, starvation, fl ogging, and the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, which was followed by a tsunami and fi re. No matter what happened, Pangloss responds with "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," until fi nally by the end Candide decides that simple work is the only real escape. "All that is very well," he says in the last words of the book, "but let us cultivate our garden." While Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz viewed abstract reason as the best tool for understanding the world, the English philosopher and political theorist John Locke (1632–1704) picked up on Francis Bacon's emphasis on experience, observation, and sense perceptions as the true basis of knowledge. In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) Locke argued that the mind at birth is a blank tablet ( tabula rasa ) with no innate ideas. All knowledge is derived from actual experiences, a position called empiricism or experientialism; education was thus extremely important, for only through education could the mind reach its fullest potential. Locke's empiricism was not absolute, however, for he did make room for both reason and faith in the acquisition of knowledge. Reason, experience, and divine will were not only the sources of human understanding for Locke, but also the proper bases for government. In Two Treatises on Government (1690), Locke challenged both Robert Filmer (1588–1653), whose Patriarcha based the divine right of kings on the patriarchal power given to Adam by God, and Hobbes, who viewed the original "contract" by which monarchs had been given authority in return for order as immutable. Locke did not see the family and political society as analogous; property, not fatherhood, was the proper basis of political authority. God had given the world to humans in common, and individual property derived from applying labor and talents to that common inheritance; the state of nature was not, as it was for Hobbes, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," but rather pleasant. Individuals had not formed a contract with governments to avoid chaos, but simply to better assure protection for their property. Monarchs who did not do this, or who applied their powers in capricious or arbitrary ways, could justifi ably be overthrown. Locke uses the word "property" in several senses. Narrowly, he takes it to mean land, goods, and money. Only those who owned property, he argued, could be free enough to make political decisions without being infl uenced by others, an idea that fi tted well with the political realities of England in the late seventeenth century, and provided justifi cation for limiting voting rights in national elections to property-owning males until the nineteenth century. (In a few local elections in some areas of Britain and eventually in some British colonies in North America, unmarried and widowed female property owners were allowed to vote. Laws that eliminated property ownership as a requirement for voting in the nineteenth century used the word "male," thus explicitly excluding women on the basis of their gender.) More broadly, Locke uses property to mean "life, liberty, and estate," which he describes, somewhat vaguely, as "natural rights" given to humans by God. Tyrannical monarchs could thus be legitimately opposed when they failed to protect individuals' property, but also when they failed to uphold these broader natural rights.

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The Ford Sierra XR4i: A Child of the '80s
Author: Paulius Gaurilčikas
It's probably hard to imagine a Ford model that reflects the '80s more than the Sierra. In a decade when personal computers and video game consoles became reality and flying cars were supposed to be the very next thing, Ford could no longer make due in Europe with old-timers like the Cortina and the Taunus. The '80s demanded something completely new, and Ford managed to surprise even the biggest futurists.
The streamlined design of the Sierra that came out in 1982 seemed to embody the word 'aerodynamics'. Ford really accentuated the sleekness of the body in its communication, claiming that the Sierra had 20 per cent less drag than its average competitor. Given, that same year Audi released the even more streamlined Audi 100 with a drag coefficient of 0.30 (compared to 0.32 for the Sierra), but visually the Sierra looked more futuristic than the Audi 100. However, that futuristic design was a disadvantage at first. More conservative buyers who were fine with the Cortina and the Taunus viewed the new Ford suspiciously.
So Ford had to use all of its marketing prowess to prove that this particular design was beneficial to the user, since at high speeds, the lower drag yields direct benefits in the form of reduced fuel consumption and noise. And in order to spike public interest in the new Sierra even more, Ford introduced the sporty XR4i model in 1983. The XR4i was a logical extension of the range of hot Ford models, consisting of the Fiesta XR2 and the Escort XR3. The XR4i was only offered with three doors, but it was different from the standard three-door versions, since the XR4i body had an additional window pillar. It also had a huge biplane rear spoiler that clearly testified to the fact that this sporty Sierra was a child of the '80s.
1983 Ford Sierra XR4i
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Ford Sierra XR4i
The Sierra XR4i not only looked good – it drove well too. The 2.8-litre Cologne V6 engine with Bosch K-Jetronic mechanical injection could produce 150 horsepower. That was nothing crazy, but let's not forget that those were different times, and the Sierra weighed about the same as a new Fiesta does today (≈1,200 kg), so those 150 horsepower allowed it to go from 0 to 100 km/h in 8 seconds and hit a top speed of over 200 km/h.
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1984 Ford Sierra XR4i interior
The XR4i was only produced for a few years – until 1985. And during that time, Ford sold 25,662 of these sporty cars. And the most interesting thing is that from 1985 to 1989, it was continued in the United States as the Merkur XR4Ti. European brands like Audi, BMW and Mercedes were becoming more and more popular in the United States at that time, so Ford decided to experiment and try to sell European models in America as if they were better, German-quality, Fords. The idea was not successful – the European Fords were pricey, and the history of the Merkur marque ('Merkur' means `Mercury' in German) ended that same year of 1989. The Merkur was different from the European XR4i – it had a smaller, 2.3-litre, 4-cylinder engine, but it was turbocharged, so it had a higher power output of 170 horsepower. In five years, 42,464 Merkur XR4Tis were sold in the US, which was much less than Ford had planned.
Ford Sierra XR4
Merkur XR4Ti
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Meanwhile, Sierra sales in Europe had already taken off in 1985, so Ford decided to replace the XR4i with the newer XR4x4. As the name implies, it had four-wheel drive, and differently than the XR4i, a five-door hatchback came as standard (and an estate was even introduced later). This was a good move, since the five-door body style expanded the range of potential customers. There was also a three-door version of the XR4x4, but very few were produced. Incidentally, that additional pillar was abandoned in the three-door version in 1985, and from then on, all of the three-door models had the same design, with 'normal' side windows. The biplane spoiler was sacrificed after it was decided that five-door hatchback buyers wouldn't understand it.
Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth
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1988 Ford Sierra RS500
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And that was not the end for sporty Sierras. The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth went into production in 1986 – with rear-wheel drive and a 2-litre turbo engine producing over 200 horsepower, this was the most powerful version yet. Cosworth also made the most expensive Sierra version of all time – the RS500. This model was only sold in the UK and only 500 were produced. In 1988, the Cosworth sedan came out (which was later available as a 4x4 as well). So there's definitely something to choose from in any price range for people who love sporty Sierras: the XR4i, the XR4x4, the Cosworth versions, or the Merkur XR4Ti, which is pure exotica in Europe. And South Africa even had the Sierra XR8, with a 5-litre V8 under the bonnet!
All in all, more than 2,7 million Sierras and various of its versions were built worldwide 1982-1992. Most of the cars were built in England, Germany and Belgium, though they were produced also in Argentina, Venezuela, South Africa and New Zealand. In 1993 Ford launched Mondeo that became a successor for Sierra and Ford Scorpio.
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Aerodynamic contrails residues development is a small series of contrail photos from my never-ending sky archive. It shows how much aviation contrails can expand in the sky. Generally, they dissipate after some time. But sometimes they also stay and expand to a thin cloud cover blocking the Sun all day long. In this particular situation, you don´t get the important vitamin D3.
The photos above were taken in Denmark on January 29, 2011, above Odense city around 9.30 am local time.
While we are talking about the chemtrails we forget that the aerodynamic contrails, which is chemtrails technically, contains large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). According to this thread, we release 1,24 tons of water and 3,15 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere plus other chemical additives for each tonne of kerosene that is burned. Yeah, you read that right. One ton of kerosene produces over 4 tons of byproducts. Think about that next time you take the plane on vacation.


Flagfox is a Firefox add-on that displays a flag icon indicating the current webserver's physical location.
Knowing exactly where you happen to be connected to adds an extra layer of awareness and security while browsing. This information can be useful in indicating what native language is being used as well as which legal jurisdiction may apply. You obtain additional information via a multitude of external lookups and you can add your own custom actions directly to the flag icon's context menu or use keyboard shortcuts for quick access.
By simply clicking the flag icon, which will load the default action, Geotool, this will provide a detailed map that shows what city the server is located in. Flagfox for Firefox also provides other useful information such as local time and ISP information.


A great way to enjoy the natural beauty of New Zealand. Taking this leisurely locomotive ride through tunnels and over the gorgeous gorges is a must do while visiting Dunedin.
We visited Otago Peninsula for the penguins and albatross, but stayed for the beautiful landscapes and walks.


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Paolo Troubetzkoy – Gabriele D'Annunzio
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Paolo Troubetzkoy
Intra 1866 – Suna 1937
Bronze, lost wax, with dark patina, 43 x 31 x 32 cm
Signed and dated at base: "Paul Troub[…] 1911"; foundry stamp: "C. Valsuani Cire Perdue"
Provenance: Italy, private collection
The long-lasting friendship between D'Annunzio and Troubetzkoy, witnessed by their meetings, correspondence and a poetical dedication from D'Annunzio to the sculptor, was punctuated by two portraits.
The already established writer was depicted in the youthful bust in Naples in 1892, when Troubetzkoy was entering the competition for the monument to Garibaldi. D'Annunzio praised his sketch in the "Mattino" as "the best of all" those put forward, due to the converging of "purposes" and the mastery of "features," with nothing ornamental, in the sublime hero's head, through the simplicity of the pyramidal shape. (D'Annunzio 2003). The portrait was carried out in the open air "on a terrace in Mergellina" for the Contessa Marine de Béarn (Gardone Riviera, Fondazione "Il Vittoriale degli Italiani", cfr. Paola Pizzamano, in Gli scultori di D'Annunzio 2015, pp. 200-203). In its rapid and rugged modelling, the work fully interpreted the capture of light and spatial ephemera demonstrated by the Lombard Scapigliatura, based on the formal reflection not only of Troubetzkoy, but also Medardo Rosso.
The depiction of the poet seated in full figure was carried out later in Paris, where both writer and sculptor had moved and where, in 1911, D'Annunzio put on his play Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, set to the music of Claude Debussy, with stage design by Léon Bakst and Ida Rubistein as protagonist, at which we know Troubetzkoy made an appearance from one of his letters conserved in the poet's archive.
It was in that year that D'Annunzio posed for his friend in the famous studio at Neuilly-sur-Seine, where Troubetzkoy, by now prince and sculptor of great fame, from Russia to the Americas, received cosmopolitan high society. This time the sculptor underlined the poet's elegance and meditative attitude. And in the reduced format of the portrait, the sketch-like style of the Scapigliatura, he referenced the results of international impressionism and dialogued with the essential paradigm of Rodin, as the figure emerges from the phenomenal shapelessness of the setting.
D'Annunzio modelled then, as a "caricature sitting in an armchair" – according to the term in the artistic tradition used by the sculptor's son Luigi (Troubetzkoy s.d., p. 27) – was comparable to the virtuosic and worldly force of Boldini's portraits. A visitor of the Secessione romana of 1913 could read this attitude of elegance with subtlety: "the full body statuette in bronze, today exhibited in Rome, is an elegant work in which the man of the world is portrayed with grace rather than as the indefatigable 'worker of words' ("L'Illustrazione Italiana", n. 16, aprile 1913, p. 386).
The original plaster model of this portrait is conserved at the Gipsoteca Troubetzkoy at the Museo del Paesaggio di Verbania Pallanza (cfr. Piergiovanni Castagnoli, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1988, pp. 102-105; Stefania Frezzotti, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1990, cat. 154, p. 199; Anne Pingeot, in Italie 1880-1910 2000, cat. 39, p. 154). In 1952 a bronze version of the work, belonging to the surveyor Gagliardi, was exhibited at Pallanza. Since that date, the version shown here is the first to be revealed to experts, fused in lost wax by the famous Parisian foundry of Claude Valsuani. We do not know if the artist originally made more bronze copies or just this one. In any case, the work found immediate and substantial success, being exhibited in the bronze version in Buffalo in 1911, in Toledo, Ohio and at the Salon de Paris the following year, at the Permanente in Milan and the Secessione romana in 1813, and again, among numerous other occasions, at the Venice Biennale of 1922.
Stefano Grandesso
Bibliography da inserire in quella generale
Paolo Troubetzkoy 1988
Paolo Troubetzkoy scultore. Verbania, 1866-1938, Intra 1988
Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exhibition catalogue, Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, ed. by Gianna Piantoni and Paolo Venturoli, Turin 1990.
Italie 1880-1910 2000
Italie 1880-1910. Arte alla prova della modernità, catalogo della mostra, Roma, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; Parigi, Musée d'Orsay, ed. by Gianna Piantoni and Anne Pingeot, Turin 2000.
Troubetzkoy s.d.
Luigi Troubetzkoy, P. Troubetzkoy nel Museo di Pallanza, Milano s.d.
D'Annunzio 2003
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Per il monumento al Generale Garibaldi, in "Il Mattino", 12-13 luglio 1892, now in Gabriele D'Annunzio, Scritti giornalistici 1889-1938, vol. II, ed. by and with an introduction by Annamaria Andreoli, texts collected by Giorgio Zanetti, Milan 2003, pp. 40-41
Gli scultori di D'Annunzio 2015
Gli scultori di D'Annunzio. Anima e materia, exhibition catalogue, Gardone Riviera, Fondazione "Il Vittoriale degli Italiani", ed. by Vittorio Sgarbi and Alfonso Panzetta, Cinisello Balsamo 2015.
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Giuseppe Siccardi – Self-portrait


If you can't escape to the beach whenever you want, you can certainly bring the beach to you with this pink bloom boho tie-up dress with a round neck and tasseled string at the neckline. Its subtly gathered A-line skirt and its soothing yet playful colours give you a flattering silhouette. Flaunt it at work, on vacation, or on a day out with the girls.


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Tea Party Protesters Shout The N-Word At, Spit On Passing Legislators
Hortense Smith
Tea Party protesters have once again descended upon Washington, D.C., and this time, in addition to carrying their obnoxious, misspelled, and vaguely racist signs, they've decided to spout hateful epithets at passing lawmakers as well:
According to Rep. Andre Carson, the protesters "were shouting the N-word" as he and two fellow black legislators left the Cannon House Office Building earlier today. Sam Stein at the Huffington Post is also reporting that "a staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni—er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams."
It kind of makes you question what Sarah Palin had to say about the "beautiful" Tea Party movement just last month, doesn't it?:
Opponents of this message, they are seeking to marginalize this movement. They want to paint us as ideologically extreme and the counterpoint to liberal intolerance and outrageous conspiracy theorists aimed at our own government and unethical shameless tactics like considering a candidate's children fair game.
But unlike the elitists who denounce this movement, they just don't want to hear the message. I've traveled across this great country and I've talked to the patriotic men and women who make up the Tea Party movement, and they are good and kind and selfless and they are deeply concerned about our country. And today I ask only this, let's make this movement a tribute to their good example and make it worthy of their hard work and their support.
I guess it's just "elitist" to expect citizens of the United States to protest peacefully, respectfully, and without resorting to racist, homophobic, childish, embarrassing, and completely unacceptable behavior, eh?
Black Members: Tea Partiers Used N-Word [Roll Call]
Tea Party Protests: 'Ni**er,' 'Faggot' Shouted At Members Of Congress [Huffington Post]
Sarah Palin Speaks At Tea Party Convention [CNN]
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Some people know that I tend to put a lot of sell and buy orders on the market, and just as I cry a little when I make crazy buy orders and quietly cheer when I make profits, I often find myself wondering on the value of things. I say value, because I want to get a bit abstract in this one. But we'll start with the basics and work up to the theory.
Show Me Da Money, Honey!
We all know about your basic cashflow situation in-game. Try to make more ISK than you lose when your stuff inevitably gets blown up. ISK is the lifeblood of any (active) pod pilot. We rely upon ISK generation to engage in what we shall call 'funsies'. You make your ISK – in an innumerable variety of ways – and subsequently fritter it all away on shiny ships, modules, implants, boosters, or whatever else floats your boat. Its like real life except with less rent (for most of us), and more explosions (again, for most of us).
Everyone who's ever made a billion ISK remembers that crowning moment; the sense of achievement that comes from gaining an extra digit on the end of your wallet's display. Some will remember hitting ten or a hundred billion as well.
Then we have the recently-introduced Aurum. Skimming right over all the controversy surrounding this one, we can simply imply that (for the 'foreseeable future') Aurum is for your characters to get dressed up in a selection of different clothing items ranging in price from the expensive to the extortionate. It also has the potential to be used to other vanity items such as custom paint jobs on ships. I should also note that the market upon which this currency is used – the 'Noble Exchange' – is run by an Amarr corporation, and as such shouldn't be used at all.
But then again, I might be biased.
How can one measure trust? You can't. Its a soft property; a direct counterpart to the hard properties of something you can see and touch (at least in an in-game sense), like ISK and Aurum. Its not something you can grind for over a weekend. Its not something you can gain by playing the markets. Its not something you create when you run those industry jobs.
Its something far more precious.
In a game where everyone is institutionalised into a mentality of "don't trust anyone", trust has to be one of the most valuable 'assets' in New Eden.
But just as you cannot fly around in space and 'make' trust, likewise, you cannot fly around in space and 'spend' it either. Lets take a practical example.
Chribba is a very rich miner. He has eleventy thousand characters all living under his little umbrella organisation. But where his real wealth lies, is in the trust people place in him; his third-party services are known and respected throughout the game. His external services (such as EVE-Files and EVE-Search) are well-established, useful tools that everyone has come to know and love. He's made a name for himself as someone in the community, and he has more trust than anybody else.
Bypassing the commonly-believed truth that Chribba has considerably more ISK than you, the trust that hundreds (possibly even thousands by this point) of pilots have placed on him and the services he provides, and his unwavering sense of duty to abide by whatever the rules of the service are, makes him incredibly wealthy; way beyond what any number of digits in his wallet could possibly imply.
Its not all roses and champagne though. Just as it takes a long time to build up trust, its takes no time at all to lose it. You only have to look at the many cases of massive corp thefts, crazy scams that nobody saw coming (and even those where most people did), and dodgy IPOs to see that while there's the odd instance of the 'perpetrator' continuing on with that character – milking the glory and fame it brings – the majority drift into obscurity. Most likely depositing all the valuables onto a holding character and then buying a shiny uber-pilot for whatever they need. And the reason is that nobody is likely to trust them again in the future. I say 'likely' of course, because we all know about how often Tyrrax Thorrk has gotten away with stealing people's stuff only to do it again a year down the line and everyone still be shocked that it happened. This actually makes me laugh.
But anyway, I feel I'm drifting off on a tangent.
There's other currencies as well. Reputation is a good counter to trust, because while one can have a reputation of being trustworthy, the space pirate ninja, for example, has an entirely different reputation. Nobody is arguing that she hasn't got any influence though.
And that's the focal point of this discussion: influence. Everyone has some – to varying degrees – and everyone uses that influence differently.
Do you influence your fellow pilots in a positive or negative way?
Note: If you want to know more, read this and start exploring from there.
There are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. This actually makes sense. Sad eh?
A discussion on loss within the world of New Eden. We look at whether EVE Online, despite its many detractors and steep learning cliff, is actually too easy, rather than the oft-claimed 'too hard'.


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Q: Javascript - How is var making a difference? See the below snippets.
First one errors out, which is expected.
Second one passes. What is the reason, or difference between the two snippets.
var myvar = 4,7 //Error

myvar2 = 3,4 //No error

A: In the first line, you are separating declaration by comma (Variable Statement), here is missing a variable name.
The second line is using the Comma Operator, which works fine, even there is no need for it.
The question arised

If second was a comma operator, then the value in myvar2 would be 4. but it is 3!

It is because of the Operator Precedence of comma versus equal. The assignment is made and the comma is evaluated later.

A: The first line basically translates to this:
var myvar = 4,
7

So the "second line" throws the error because the JavaScript intepreter expects you want to assign two variables but cannot find a name for the second one. For example you could assign your variables like this
var first = 0,
    obj = {},
    s = "my string",
    array = [1,2,3,4,5];

Without getting an error since it is valid JavaScript and every value has a variable name it can be assigned to.
In the second example you are only assigning the last number - without the  var keyword JavaScript does not throw an error and just assigns the first value. It is kind of like writing the following
myvar = 3
4

So the first value is assigned. I previously mixed this up (see history). When passing myvar = 3,4 to the console it looks like 4 would be assigned, however it is just printed into the console - in other words the part behind the , is evaluated. You can see this when you paste the following into the console
myvar = 3, _this_function_doesnt_exist()

Here the parser will throw an error: Uncaught ReferenceError: _this_function_doesnt_exist is not defined(…) - the previous expression (myvar = 3) is still executed so myvar will be 3.
I used to write all my variables with only one var keyword but found it rather confusing and ugly. In general I advice to use one assignment per line and var in front of every variable (or const, let, etc. if you write ECMAScript 2015/ES6)

A: Just to expand a bit further on Nina Schloz answer
 var myvar = 4, 7 // throws Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected number

 // Because declared variables are hoisted to the top of the scope,this translates to
 /*
    var myvar;
    var 7; // throws Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected number
    myvar = 4; // this never gets executed
 */

 var anotherVar = 4, x; // this doesn't throw an error
 // this translates to
 /*
    var anotherVar;
    var x;
    anotherVar=4;
 */

When we do myvar2=3,4 we are using comma operator which first assigns 3 to an undeclared variable myvar2 and then returns last value of expression (from left to right) which is number 4

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What should I know?
This selection of resources is designed to provide educational information about the issues behind the #BlackLivesMatters movement.
There will also be more academic content included than in many other BLM resource collections, as this is an issue in which people need to educate both themselves and others, and we feel detailed academic sources are highly useful, particularly in an academic environment like UoY. This will also ensure the content learned has been peer approved and assessed to give your knowledge backing. These sources should all be accessible using student log-ins, either through the library or other journal resource sites.
If you want anything added, please contact - Steph Hayle or YUSU.
YUSU recognises that the recent murder of George Floyd has caused great distress and anger, not only in black communities, but in communities across the world.
We share this anger and believe this is not about party politics, but human rights. We stand in solidarity with our black students, coworkers and neighbours in York and beyond.
Racial injustice is an inherent part of the social, political and legal structures of this nation and the world.
These aren't one off events, nor are they just down to a few racist individuals. It is our duty as individuals and as those with a platform, to stand up and speak out using the privilege these systems have given us, against systemic and structural racial injustice. We know racism occurs in York and at our University, and we are constantly striving to make progress on being actively anti-racist, so we can reflect the values we all hold personally within our organisation. Together, we as a community must reflect on our own practice and educate ourselves on how to be proactive rather than not tokenistic allies.
This is understandably a particularly difficult time for our black and BAME students, and we want you to know we are here to listen and support you:
If you have experienced racism and wish to take action, or just need someone to talk to, please contact:
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What caused the current action?
George Floyd's death at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis last week has sparked outrage and disgust across the world. Floyd, an unarmed black man, died as a police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes. After his death, protests began in Minneapolis, which saw peaceful protests escalate, and led to the fires at the city's police station. These protests soon spread to other cities across the US.
Thousands of people also chose to march across the UK, protesting the killing of black people by the police here in the UK as well as the US. More protests are set to take place this week and at the weekend.
The Black Lives Matter movement links back to the early 2010's - learn more about it's origins here.
(We must also use this time to reflect on wider racial inequalities in society, for example, BAME people are also more likely to die from Covid-19 according to a Public Health England review.).
What is happening in the UK?
Police Brutality is also a huge problem in the UK.
Sean Rigg, Sheku Bayoh, Mzee Mohammed, Leon Patterson, Cynthia Jarrett, Joy Gardner and many others have died following their contact with British law enforcement.
"BAME people are disproportionately represented in those deaths involving the use of force or restraint. Of the 74 people fatally shot by police since 1990, 20 of those people have been BAME, meaning those communities are proportionately twice as likely to be shot dead by an officer. The UK certainly has its own case to answer for regarding police brutality, and the inherent racism that underpins it."
There are also huge problems with BAME deaths in police custody, and Stop and Search cases in the UK.
Every single white person has White Privilege. It does not matter if you yourself have come from hardship, it does not matter if you have been discriminated against in other ways. White Privilege is a separate entity, and is present in the very structure of society.
Before the US Civil Rights Act of 1964, "white privilege" was less commonly used but generally referred to legal and systemic advantages given to white people by the United States, such as citizenship, the right to vote or the right to buy a house in the neighborhood of their choice.
It was only after discrimination persisted for years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that people like Peggy McIntosh began to view white privilege as being more psychological—a subconscious prejudice perpetuated by white people's lack of awareness that they held this power. White privilege could be found in day-to-day transactions and in white people's ability to move through the professional and personal worlds with relative ease. (To learn more, check out "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", an essay written by Peggy McIntosh and published in Peace and Freedom magazine in 1989.)
You can utilise this checklist, to explore more about how White Privilege infiltrates everyday life.
On the subject of privilege, this quote is particularly relevant.
"We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be 'outside' the system. One is always in the system. The only question is whether one is part of the system in a way that challenges or strengthens the status quo. Privilege is not something I take and which therefore have the option of not taking. It is something that society gives me, and unless I change the institutions which give it to me, they will continue to give it, and I will continue to have it, however noble and equalitarian my intentions." − Harry Brod, "Work Clothes and Leisure Suits: The Class Basis and Bias of the Men's Movement," in Men's Lives, ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner (New York: Macmillan, 1989), 280.
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    orderTpl = require('../templates/_entityOrder.tpl'),
	Order = require('../models/Order');
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	modelFilled: false,

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	events: {
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	editOrder: function(evt){
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		return false;
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	cancel: function(){
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		return false;
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This "Palangrotte" rig is often used for fishing from the shore and from a boat. The advantage is that the bait isn't resting on the bottom. It can be used with most natural baits.
The slide rig is designed for bottom fishing. It's particularly effective when used with bait occurring naturally on the bottom (crab, shellfish etc.). Its main advantage is that if offers a minimum of resistance on the line, giving time for the fish to take the bait firmly.
Now you know how to assemble these two versatile rigs, and we hope they will help you enjoy your sea fishing trips.


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Railroaded! is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Anthony Mann starring John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont and Jane Randolph.

It was loosely based on the real-life case of Majczek and Marcinkiewicz, the same case that inspired Call Northside 777.

Plot

The innocent owner of a van that is unsuspectingly used in a back-room bookie operation robbery is "railroaded" (in other words, convicted on the basis of false, weak, or uncorroborated evidence) for the killing of a cop during the getaway.

Clara Calhoun is a beautician with a shop in New York. Her shop is in fact a front for a bookmaking operation. One evening when she closes up for the night, she gives a silent signal to two masked gunmen lurking outside. These two bandits then burst into the shop and hold up both Calhoun and her unsuspecting assistant, Marie Westin. The money they steal is betting money from the illegal operation.

During the robbery, a policeman on patrol in the neighborhood hears Westin's screams. He sees the hold up and tries to interrupt the robbery. As the policeman intervenes, he shoots one of the robbers, "Cowie" Kowalski, but is then shot and killed by the other robber, Duke Martin. The two robbers then escape the scene in a laundry truck, and Martin drops off Kowalski at a doctor's house for medical care. Before leaving Martin reminds Kowalski of the plan to implicate a certain Steve Ryan in the crime.

Later on, Calhoun and Westin are interrogated by detectives Mickey Ferguson and Jim Chubb. Westin describes both robbers as black-haired, but Calhoun insists that one of them, the "shooter", had sandy hair. Calhoun's version is believed, and soon the sandy-haired Steve Ryan, who usually drives the laundry truck and whose Navy scarf was found at the shop, is found and brought in for questioning. After a round of tough questioning by Ferguson and Chubb, Steve Ryan is then taken to a hospital, where Kowalski identifies him as the killer.

Steve Ryan claims that he is being framed by Kowalski for something he didn't do. He says the reason for this is that he beat up Kowalski for making a pass at his sister Rosie Ryan. But the detectives don't believe his story. Calhoun too confirms Kowalski's identification, and the unfortunate Steve Ryan is arrested. His sister Rosie Ryan is sure of her brother's innocence.

Rosie Ryan pleads her brother's case to detective Ferguson, but he is quite convinced of Steve Ryan's guilt and intends to perform a thorough investigation. Calhoun, who has come up with the robbery scheme together with Martin, and who in fact is her boyfriend, starts drinking heavily, angering Martin in the process.

When it turns out Kowalski dies from his gunshot wound, Rosie Ryan goes over to Calhoun's apartment and confronts her about her identification. A fight ensues between the two women. Martin watches the fight while hiding, and afterwards he enters the room and tells Calhoun he will "straighten out" Westin before Rosie Ryan talks with her. Martin also tells Calhoun that she should lay low and disappear for a while, until Steve Martin's trial. Rosie Ryan goes straight to Westin's beauty shop, but is unable to find her. Also looking for Westin is Ferguson, and he finds her outside the shop and offers her a ride home. Rosie Ryan accepts the ride, and on the way, Ferguson confesses his doubts about Steve Ryan's guilt.

Back at home, Rosie Ryan receives a message from Martin, telling her to come to the Club Bombay, which he manages. Rosie Ryan goes to meet Martin at the club, and in the meantime Ferguson breaks into and inspects Calhoun's now-deserted apartment. He finds a lead in a photograph of Martin, which connects the two. Since Ferguson has had dealings with Martin before, he recognizes the photo and goes to the club to question Martin about his relation to Calhoun.

Martin suggests to Rosie Ryan that he knows who is framing Steve Ryan, and Rosie Ryan denounces Ferguson in front of Martin. Ferguson doesn't give up though, concernedly warning Rosie Ryan to stay away from Martin. However, Rosie Ryan is determined to do anything to get her brother off the hook, and puts more trust in Martin. Martin reveals to Calhoun his intent to rob Jacklin Ainsworth, Calhoun's gambling boss and the owner of Club Bombay. In an attempt to discover the relation between Calhoun and Martin, Ferguson waits outside Calhoun's hideout apartment. When Martin appears and is about to enter the building, Ferguson makes his presence known to him.

Martin tries to get out of the compromising situation by accusing Calhoun of double-crossing him. He then runs off, and Ferguson goes inside to speak with her. Ferguson tells her that Westin has been found dead in the river. Because of this, he advises Calhoun to call him later at Rosie Ryan's house for her own protection. Meanwhile Martin finds another solution to his problem, by convincing an alcoholic named Wino to confess to the robbery in exchange for a sum of money. He then talks to Rosie Ryan and assures her that Wino's statements will get Steve Ryan out of jail.

Rosie Ryan buys the whole concept and goes home to get money for Wino. Martin goes back to Calhoun's apartment, but she isn't there. He discovers the frightened Calhoun calling Ferguson from a drugstore. Calhoun arranges to meet Ferguson at her apartment, but before the detective arrives Martin shoots her down. Martin then goes to Club Bombay, where he shoots and robs Ainsworth. Aware that Calhoun had called Rosie Ryan's phone number, Martin waits for her at the club and accuses her of betraying him.

Just when Martin is about to shoot Rosie Ryan too, Ferguson arrives with the police, having ordered a raid on the club. In the ensuing commotion, Martin manages to fire at Rosie and wound her, but not fatally. Martin is then killed in a shootout with Ferguson. Steve Ryan is eventually released from jail, and Ferguson and Rosie Ryan kiss each other.

Cast
 John Ireland as Duke Martin
 Ed Kelly as Steve Ryan
 Sheila Ryan as Rosie Ryan
 Hugh Beaumont as Mickey Ferguson
 Jane Randolph as Clara Calhoun
 Charles D. Brown as Police Capt. MacTaggart
 Clancy Cooper as Detective Jim Chubb
 Peggy Converse as Marie Weston
 Hermine Sterler as Mrs. Ryan
 Keefe Brasselle as Cowie Kowalski
 Roy Gordon as Jackland Ainsworth

Reception

Critical response
Critic Roger Westcombe praised the film, writing, "It's a standard frame-up story, solidified through the strength of Mann's directing skills beyond the merits of the material. Preceding his now legendary teaming with cinematographer John Alton for the unbeatable run of Raw Deal, T-Men, Border Incident, and He Walked by Night, Railroaded! is still very dark but grim. The absence of Alton's breathtaking set-ups pedestrianises this effort into something merely heavy-handed. Mann's transitional work Desperate (1947), also pre-Alton, gained an edge of complexity through Raymond Burr's latent menace and a more nuanced study of human corruption than is found here.  Yet for all these shortcomings Railroaded's tension is remarkably well maintained, primarily due to the acting of all the principals."

Film critic Dennis Schwartz, gave the film a mixed review, writing, "A second-rate crime thriller made before Anthony Mann (Desperate) reached prime time. Railroaded is a well-crafted and fast-paced mystery tale. It's a low-budget film noir that is held together by John Ireland's nasty performance as the heartless villain without redemption ... The plot was uninteresting and predictable, while the acting was so-so."

References

External links

 Railroaded! informational site and DVD review at DVD Beaver (includes images)

1947 films
1947 crime films
American crime films
American black-and-white films
Eagle-Lion Films films
1940s English-language films
Film noir
Films directed by Anthony Mann
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For that different sound, Music a la Theremin
By Louis E. Garner, Jr.
Published November 1967, Popular Electronics
For about the price of an inexpensive guitar, plus a few hours assembly time, you can own and enjoy what is perhaps one of the most versatile of all musical instruments: the unique and amazing theremin. Named after its Russian-born inventor, Leon Theremin, its frequency range exceeds that of all other instruments, including theater pipe organs, while its dynamic range is limited only by he power capabilities of the amplifier and speaker system with which it is used. Above all, it is a true electronic instrument, not just an "electronic version" of a familiar string, reed, or percussion instrument. Its tone is unlike that of any conventional instrument.
A musician playing a theremin seems almost like a magician, for he can play a musical selection without actually touching the instrument itself! As he moves his hands back and forth near two metal plates, he seems to "conjure up" individual notes at any desired volume; he can "slide" from one musical note to another with ease, can produce tremolo and vibrato effects at will, and can even sound notes which fall outside the standard musical scale. He can play tunes or melodies, produce unusual sound effects, or can accompany a singer or another instrument-all by means of simple hand movements.*
The theremin is ideal for amateur as well as professional musicians and can be used for "fun" sound effects as well as for serious music. It makes a wonderful addition to the home recreation room, and can be used equally well by rock'n' roll groups or larger bands. Theatrical groups find it just the thing for producing eerie and spine-tingling background effects to accompany mystery or horror plays, and for the budding scientist or engineer, it is an excellent Science Fair project.
The typical theremin has two r.f. oscillators, one having a fixed, the other a variable, frequency, with their output signals combined in a mixer/amplifier stage. At "tune-up," the oscillators are preset to "zero beat" at the same frequency. The frequency of the variable oscillator is controlled by an external tuning capacity--the "antenna"-which is a "whip" or simple metallic plate.
As the musician's hand is moved near this antenna, the variable oscillator shifts frequency and a beat note is set up between the two oscillators. The pitch is proportional to the difference in frequency between the two oscillators. This beat note, amplified, is the theremin's output signal. The more advanced theremin designs-such as the version presented here-use a third oscillator to control output volume and two antennas. This theremin also uses a unique FET volume, and a FET output stage. See Fig. 1.
Except for the two control antennas, power switch S1, and battery B1, all components are assembled on a printed circuit board as shown full-size in Fig. 2(B). An insulated jumper is required between C15 and R20 as shown in Fig. 2(B) and Fig. 3. Mount the PC board in a suitable cabinet with four spacers (see Fig. 3), making sure that suitable holes are drilled in the cabinet or though a dialplate to accept the tuning-slug screws of L2 and L4. Coils L1 and L3 are mounted on small L-brackets; initially, these brackets should be adjusted so that L1 is at right angles to L2 and L3 at right angles to L4. Switch S1 is also mounted on the cabinet or dialplate, in the area of the L2 and L4 slug screws, while the battery is secured to the cabinet wall.
Ordinary copper-clad circuit board can be used to make up the pitch and volume control antennas. Although the author's units are equilateral triangles approximately 9" on a side-almost any other design will do-shape is not critical. If desired, the upper surface of the antennas may be covered with a colorful material (see cover photo).
The antennas are mechanically mounted on an electrically conducting support. The ones used by the author, (see Fig. 4) were six-inch lengths of 3/4" aluminum pipe with appropriate mounting flanges. The antennas were attached to the pipe with conduit plug buttons soldered to the bottom of each antenna. The flanges of the buttons should make a good friction fit to the pipe. A solder lug for connection to the PC board is placed under one of the pipe support mounting screws as shown in Fig. 3.
Connect the negative lead of the battery to terminal B on the PC Board; then connect the positive battery lead, via S1, to terminal A. The center lead of the audio output coaxial cable is connected to terminal C on the PC board, while the associated braid is soldered to the ground foil. Connect the volume control lead and one lead from L3 to the proper hole on the PC board (see Fig. 3), then connect the pitch control lead and one lead of L1 together and solder to the hole on the PC board. The other ends of both coils are soldered to the ground foil of the PC board.
Although the theremin is used with an external audio amplifier and speaker, no special test equipment is needed for the tuning adjustments. The procedure is as follows.
Temporarily short Q6's gate and source electrodes together, using either a short clip lead, or a short length of hookup wire, tack-soldered in place.
Preset the coil (L1, L2, L3, and L4) cores to their mid-position.
Connect the theremin's output cable to the input jack of an audio amplifier (with speaker)--a guitar amplifier is ideal. Turn the amplifier on, volume up to nearly full.
Turn the theremin on by closing S1 and adjust L2's slug (keep hands or other parts of the body away from the pitch antenna) until a low frequency growl is heard from the speaker.
Turn the theremin off and remove the short from Q6.
Turn the theremin back on and adjust L4's slug until a point is found where the growl is heard from the speaker. Then adjust L3's stud until the sound is reduced to near zero. This setting, although somewhat critical, will be stable once obtained.
Finally, adjust L2's slug until the growl becomes lower and lower in pitch, finally disappearing as "zero beat" is reached.
With the coils properly adjusted, no output signal will be obtained unless the operator's hands are moved near the pitch and volume control plates simultaneously. As the operator approaches the pitch control plate, a low-frequency note should be heard increasing in pitch as the hand moves nearer and, finally, going higher and higher and beyond audibility as the hand almost touches the plate. As the operator puts his hand near the volume control, a low level signal should be heard, increasing in amplitude until maximum volume is attained just before the plate is touched.
After the initial adjustments, L2 and L4 can be readjusted from time to time (using the front panel knobs) as needed to correct for minor frequency drift. In any case, a preliminary check of adjustment is always desirable whenever the theremin is to be used for a performance.
One further adjustment is optional. Coil L1's positioning with respect to L2 will determine, to some extent, the shape of the output waveform and, hence, its harmonic content. The mounting bracket supporting L1 can be adjusted to reduce the mutual coil orientation to less than 90 degrees if a greater harmonic content is desired. However, as the angle is reduced, low-frequency notes may tend to become pulse-like in character.
A guitar or instrument amplifier is an ideal companion unit for the theremin; either one allows bass or treble boost, as desired, and fuzz (distortion) or reverberation (if these features are incorporated in the amplifier's circuit). Simply provide a suitable cable plug and connect the theremin's output cable to the amplifier's input jack.
It is not necessary to purchase a special amplifier. The theremin's output signal level is sufficient to drive most power amplifiers to full output without additional preamp stages. The instrument can be used, for example, with a monaural version of the "Brute-70" amplifier described in the February, 1967 issue (of Popular Electronics).
If the theremin is used in conjunction with a power amplifier which does not have a built-in gain (or volume) control, a "volume level" control should be added to its basic circuit to prevent accidental overdrive. This can be accomplished quite easily by replacing source load resistor R16 (Fig. 1) with a 10,000-ohm potentiometer.
The results obtained depend more on the ability of the operator than on built-in limitations within the unit itself. A good "ear" for music is a must, of course, but, in addition, a moderate amount of skill is required, particularly in finger or hand dexterity and movement. The latter is learned only through practice. For a start, here are the basic techniques.
To sound an individual note, first move the "pitch" control hand to the proper position near the pitch antenna (as determined by practice) to sound the desired pitch. Next move the "volume" control hand quickly to the proper position near the volume antenna to sound the note at the desired level, then away after the proper interval to sound an eighth, quarter, half or full note.
To sustain a note, hold both hands in position. The note volume may be increased slowly by moving the "volume control" hand slowly nearer the volume antenna, reduced by moving it slowly away.
To "slide" from one note to another, hold the "volume hand" fixed in position and move the "pitch hand" nearer (or away from) the pitch antenna plate.
To produce a vibrato effect, hold the "volume hand" fixed in position and shake-or tremble-the "pitch hand" at the desired rate.
To create a tremolo effect, hold the "pitch hand" fixed in position and vibrate-or tremble-the "volume control" hand.
Tremolo and vibrato effects can be produced by simultaneously rapidly moving both hands back and forth.
If you've used triangularly shaped control plates in your instrument (as in the model shown), you'll find that a given hand movement has less effect on operation near the narrow (pointed) end of the triangle than near its broad base.
Practice is important!
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Transistors Q1 and Q2 are the variable and fixed "pitch" oscillators respectively, while Q4 serves as the "volume" oscillator. Essentially similar circuits are used in all three oscillators, so only one (Q1) will be described here. Base bias is established by resistor voltage divider R1 and R2, with the former bypassed for r.f. by C3. Resistor R3 serves as the emitter (output) load. The basic operating frequency is determined by the tuned circuit of L1 and the combination of C1 and C2.
In the case of Q1 and Q4, their tuned circuits are also connected to external "antennas." When these antennas are "loaded" due to body capacitance (the presence of a hand near the antenna), this "load" is reflected to the tuned circuits as a capacitive change which, in turn, alters the frequency of oscillation. Because Q2's circuit uses no "antenna," its frequency remains constant at all times.
In operation, Q1's r.f. output signal is coupled to mixer/amplifier Q3 via coupling capacitor C5-while Q2's signal is coupled to Q3 via C10. If these two oscillators (Q1 and Q2 ) are at the same frequency, then there will be no resultant "beat" present at the collector of Q3. However, since Q1's frequency is determined by how close the operator's hand is to the "pitch" antenna, the resultant beat frequency will vary as the distance between the hand and antenna varies. Because the mixing action of Q3 produces both r.f. and audio beats, capacitor C12 is used to bypass the r.f. components and prevent them from appearing at the collector of Q3. The resultant audio beat is passed, via the volume control circuit, to the FET output stage, Q7.
Oscillator Q4 (the "volume" oscillator), like "pitch" oscillator Q1, has its frequency of oscillation determined by the amount of hand capacitance near its "antenna." The r.f. signal at the collector is coupled via C20 to another tuned circuit consisting of L4 and C22. The r.f. signal across this second tuned circuit is rectified by diode D1 and applied to the base of d.c. amplifier Q5. Thus, the d.c. voltage level present at the collector of Q5 is a function of the amount of r.f. present on L4-C22. This level is at its maximum when the L4-C22 tuned circuit is at the same frequency as the Q4 collector tuned circuit.
In practice, however, the frequency of Q4's tuned circuit is made to be slightly higher than the L4-C22 frequency. As a result, very little d.c. signal is passed to the base of Q5. This means that the voltage at the collector of Q5 is at a maximum. If the frequency of Q4's tuned circuit is reduced, when a hand is placed near the "volume" antenna, the base current applied to Q5 increases, causing the collector voltage to drop.
The unique volume control consists of FET Q6, connected in shunt with the audio signal flow. The audio signal at the collector of Q3 passes through d.c. blocking capacitor C13 and is also isolated (for d.c.) from Q7 by C14. Resistor R13 and FET Q6 are arranged as a voltage divider. If the gate voltage of Q6 is highly positive, then the FET acts as a low resistance between R13 and ground, greatly reducing the signal level allowed to pass to Q7. As the gate of Q6 gods less positive, the effective resistance of Q6 increases and the level of audio signal to Q7 increases.
The voltage at the collector of d.c. amplifier Q5 is connected to the gate of Q6. As this voltage level is determined by the frequency of Q4, the operator can readily adjust the output volume by changing his hand capacitance to the "volume" antenna. The variable pitch variable-volume audio signal is coupled to an external audio amplifier via FET Q7. A FET is used for Q7 because its very high input-impedance (a couple of megohms) will not affect operation of FET Q6. If desired, the source resistor of Q7 can be changed to a similar valued potentiometer.
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Message from home: Pack a golden punch
As soon as news reached that Lovlina was assured of an Olympic medal, the village and its vicinity erupted in joy
Neighbours and friends gather at Lovlina Borgohain's Baramukhia residence on Friday.
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Umanand Jaiswal | Guwahati | Published 31.07.21, 03:53 AM
Assam is not settling for anything less than gold, at least not Baramukhia, the village of Indian boxing's emerging poster girl Lovlina Borgohain.
As soon as news reached that Lovlina was assured of an Olympic medal, the village and its vicinity erupted in joy.
Her feat has also assured Assam of her first-ever Olympic medal.
Horen Gogoi, neighbour and family friend, told The Telegraph from Lovlina's residence that her "unparalleled" achievement was greeted with beats of the dhol, bursting of firecrackers and distribution of sweets in her village and home town Barpathar.
However, they have not given up on the gold, it is their collective desire as that of the state. "We wanted her to win a medal. She has achieved. She is assured of at least a bronze but we want her to go for gold. Our slogan was 'Go for glory' but today it has changed to 'Go For Gold'. We are very happy for her ... we are praying for her," Gogoi said.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, in his first reaction, echoed Gogoi. "We are very happy but instead of celebrations I want everyone to pray that she wins the gold. Then we can all celebrate," Sarma said.
For the people of her village and in Upper Assam's Golaghat district, around 315km from Guwahati, the medal was a just reward for years of hard work and focus.
The Borgohain household has been busy since morning. Its kitchen has been functioning non-stop, serving tea to well-wishers.
Gogoi, a 51-year-old businessman, said the road to Lovlina's house, 3km from Barpathar town, was in a dilapidated state but the administration started paying attention after the athlete started doing well internationally. She has two World Championships and two Asian Championships bronze medals.
Work on a new 16-km road started this month under the initiative of Biswajit Phukan, the MLA from Sarupathar, under which her village falls. Hours after her medal feat, he announced that a new stadium will come up 3km away.
There was a time Lovlina and her elder sisters, who used to pursue Muay Thai
and are now employed with the BSF and CISF, carried their bicycles for about 1.5km during the rainy season to reach their training ground, Gogoi said.
"The new road, the new stadium are some of the benefits of Lovlina's exploits till now. Our lives have become a bit easy and the many talents in the area in games like boxing, archery and football will get a place to hone their skills," Gogoi said.
The village of around 3,000 people is planning a grand reception when Lovlina arrives from Tokyo — her first visit home in nine months.
Her parents — Tiken and Mamoni Borgohain — did not watch her bouts as always because they can't "absorb the tension and excitement".
Lovlina had called her father before the bout in the morning and once after her victory and spoke to her mother, who underwent a kidney transplant in Calcutta four months ago.
Subhash Basumatary, former Sports Authority of India official who had planned and executed a talent scouting plan that had unearthed Lovlina in 2012, said: "It is a big feat but I still feel she can win the gold if she continues to spar as she did today," he said.
Himanta Biswa Sarma Tokyo Olympics Lovlina Borgohain


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Not without my baby - Azarenka looks to skip US Open
The move came six days after a TMZ Sports website report that Azarenka would skip the year's final Grand Slam event at New York following a split last month with the boy's father, Billy McKeague.
Cincinnati 17 August, 2017 21:05 IST
Azarenka: '"I look forward to hopefully having positive developments soon so that this difficult situation can be resolved and I can get back to competing'. - Getty Images
Victoria Azarenka detailed her custody fight over eight-month-old son Leo in a Twitter-linked note Thursday, saying she will skip the upcoming US Open because of it unless things change.
The report said a judge in Los Angeles, where McKeague filed custody papers, will not allow the boy to leave California until the matter is settled, not expected until October.
Azarenka left open a possibility she might be able to play in the Flushing Meadows fortnight, saying in her message: "My incredible fans and friends, who have supported me throughout my career deserve to know why I may not be able to compete at the US Open this year."
The 28-year-old from Belarus, ranked 204 after a layoff while pregnant and after her son's birth, played last month at Wimbledon, reaching the round of 16 before losing to second-ranked Simona Halep.
"Shortly after Wimbledon, Leo's father and I separated and as we work to resolve some of the legal processes, the way things stand now is that the only way I can play in the US Open this year is if I leave Leo behind in California, which I'm not willing to do," Azarenka wrote.
"I look forward to hopefully having positive developments soon so that this difficult situation can be resolved and I can get back to competing.
"No parent should have to decide between their child or their career."
While not outlining exactly what changes she expected might happen before the August 28 start of the US Open, Azarenka said she was hopeful.
"I remain optimistic that in the coming days Leo's father and I can put aside any differences and take steps in the right direction to more effectively work as a team and agree on an arrangement for all three of us to travel and for me to compete but, more importantly, to ensure that Leo has a consistent presence from both of his parents," she wrote.
Ready for the challenge
Azarenka would arrange for child care while she is competing, having the baby with her in New York rather than leaving him behind in California.
"Balancing child care and a career is not easy for any parent, but it is a challenge I am willing to face and embrace," Azarenka said. "I want to support men and women everywhere who know it is OK to be a working mother - or father."
Azarenka called Leo's being born in December "by far the happiest day of my life. I now have a brand new appreciation for how new mothers - and fathers - juggle the many different responsibilities for their families.
"However, like most working mothers, despite my unconditional love for my son, I am faced with a difficult situation which may not allow me to return to work right away."
Azarenka said she began working on her comeback in Belarus in March and returned earlier than expected to play a tuneup event before Wimbledon.
She withdrew last week from the last major WTA tuneup for the US Open in Cincinnati, citing personal reasons.
"I am incredibly grateful for all of the support I have received from women and men around the world who recognize the importance of supporting working moms and our right to be with our children," she said.


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'She is elated with whom her son will become thanks to his great father. It is really such an amazing blessing and Amber's so very happy,' the source went on to dish.
As for the reason why she's so convinced she's found her other half, the source explained that the man gets the best out of her and has helped temper Amber a lot.
It is no secret that she has a really strong personality and for some, that may mean she is hard to handle.
When it comes to AE however, he totally knows what makes her tick.
He completely gets her in every way, including her intelligence and sense of humor.
Taraji P. Henson Says She Talks To Jussie Smollett Regularly And He'll Likely Return To "Empire"


As Mueller pursues his probe, he's making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.
Mueller and his team of 17 federal prosecutors are coping with a higher-then-expected volume of court challenges that has added complexity in recent months, but there's no political appetite at this time to increase the size of his staff, the officials said.
Mueller's probe has come under attack from President Donald Trump and his allies who say it's going on too long, expanding too far and costing too much. But the special counsel's charter, issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, includes investigating whether Trump or associates colluded with Russia and "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."
Investigators in New York; Alexandria, Virginia; Pittsburgh and elsewhere have been tapped to supplement the work of Mueller's team, the officials said. Mueller has already handed off one major investigation -- into Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen -- to the Southern District of New York.
"Whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart," Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina told Rosenstein during a June 28 hearing. Rosenstein said Mueller knows he must move expeditiously.
"I don't think he's getting in over his head," said Solomon Wisenberg, who served as deputy independent counsel investigating President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. "These things have a tendency to balloon. Yes, it may be taxing on them. No, it's not that unusual."
Nor is it unusual for Mueller to turn to U.S. attorneys or to Justice Department headquarters, said Wisenberg, who's now a partner at the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
The first -- and perhaps biggest -- court case for Mueller is over his indictment of Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, for an array of financial crimes. Manafort is fighting the indictment in two federal courthouses, and he expanded his case last week to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
"It's going to be all hands on deck when they go to the Manafort trial," Wisenberg said.
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday backed up conclusions from U.S. intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election with the aim of helping President Trump win, releasing an unclassified report which called the intelligence assessment solid.
None of the targets are in the U.S., but one of them, the Internet Research Agency, has forced Mueller into another legal fight in federal court. The two sides have been sparring most recently over how to protect sensitive investigative materials from disclosure. Mueller has enlisted prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington to handle the case.
Another surprise came last week when Andrew Miller, a former aide to Trump adviser Roger Stone, filed a sealed motion to fight one of Mueller's grand jury subpoenas.
Mueller also plans to move eventually to sentencing for Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, both of whom pleaded guilty to lying to investigators.
"He's a busy guy," said Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor.
"There's certainly multiple fronts going on right now," said Cramer, who's now managing director of the international investigation firm Berkeley Research Group LLC. "Some of them are more active than others."
Cramer doesn't think Mueller's in over his head but says he might be taking timing into consideration when it comes to making additional moves.
"You don't have unlimited resources in a sense that you've got an unlimited cadre of prosecutors and agents," Cramer said. "There does come a time where they can only do so much."
"While there's a lot on the plate, they're not all going on all at once," Cramer said. "His office is doing their job. He's doing what he's supposed to be doing."


Cattle futures got some spark Tuesday—especially Feeder Cattle— credited in part to oversold conditions.
Other than unchanged in the back contract, Live Cattle futures closed an average of 57¢ higher.
Except for 60¢ higher in spot Nov, Feeder Cattle futures closed an average of $2.12 higher ($1.32 to $3.15 higher).
Wholesale beef values were lower on light to moderate demand and moderate offerings, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service.
Choice boxed beef cutout value was $1.47 lower Tuesday afternoon at $214.08/cwt. Select was $1.41 lower at $198.98.


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