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A mysterious woman wanders the streets of Manhattan in a confused state. Finding herself inexplicably drawn to a group of teenagers she embarks on an adventure with them through the cityscape and into the unknown. As the night progresses, she approaches something intangible on the journey back to herself.
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A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win. VexMovies Review: Really fantastic movie, my favorite in romance category. The 'best' term is as you know from a relative…
A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. Josh is amazed when…
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Q: Get first firebase child without key I am trying to get the first child of a firebase object. My ref looks like this:
var sitesToVisitRef = firebase.database().ref('sitesToVisit')

I know the ref works because I can write to it. My data structure can look like this:
sitesToVisit:
  arstechnica-com:
    url: "https://arstechnica.com"

However, I don't know the key (arstechnica-com), but I need to get the url.
I am trying to with this code:
var nextUrl;
sitesToVisitRef.limitToFirst(1).once('value', function(snapshot) {
    console.log("snapshot key" + snapshot.key);
    console.log("snapshot.val.url = " + snapshot.val().url);
    console.log("snapshot.val" + snapshot.val());
      nextUrl = snapshot.val().url;
    }
  });

But snapshot.key logs as "sitesToVisit", not "arstechnica-com".
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

A: Try this:
var nextUrl;
sitesToVisitRef.limitToFirst(1).once('value', function(snapshot) {
    for(var key in snapshot.val()){
        console.log("snapshot key" + key);
        console.log("snapshot.val.url = " + snapshot.val()[key].url);
        console.log("snapshot.val" + snapshot.val()[key]);
        nextUrl = snapshot.val()[key].url;
    }
  });

What you have in snapshot is an array with all the childs in sitesToVisit, since you used limitToFirst(1) it's only the forst one, but it still is an array so you need to iterate over that array to get the key of each child.

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Matt Seamons has been promoted to general manager of the Hilton Garden Inn, San Diego/Del Mar. Seamons, who formerly was the assistant general manager, joined the hotel a year ago. Previously, he was restaurant manager and then senior assistant controller at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina downtown.
Also at the Hilton, Amy Buitenhek has been named assistant general manager and Viera Kovalejva director of sales. Buitenhek most recently was the hotel's operations manager and human resources manager. Previously, she was human resources coordinator for Homewood Suites by Hilton. Kovalejva previously held positions with the Four Seasons, Encinitas Inn & Suites, The Hilton San Diego Resort, and Win Time Hotels.
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Manchester City now have a 16-day break from Premier League action and Bernardo Silva is hoping neighbors Manchester United can do them a favor during that time. Pep Guardiola's side have an FA Cup trip to League Two side Newport County, a Champions League first leg with Schalke and a Carabao Cup final before their next Premier League game.
But hours before that Wembley final against Chelsea on Feb. 24, closest rivals Liverpool face a daunting trip to bitter rivals United, who have won 10 of their last 11 matches under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. "Of course it is better if Liverpool lose some points," Silva said, when asked if he was hoping for a helping hand from United.
"But I think all of us, not only the manager but all of the players, have been saying to focus on our job. If we don't win our games, it doesn't matter what they do so that is the most important thing now." But the Portuguese forward has no doubt about the task waiting for United with Jurgen Klopp's side losing only once in the Premier League to City.
City fullback Oleksandr Zinchenko came back into the side for the victory at Chelsea and can expect to play some part in their next two domestic cup games. And the Ukrainian is not ruling out an unlikely quadruple with the club still chasing silverware on four fronts. "Hopefully we can win every title," he told reporters. "We are going to fight for every one of them. Hopefully we can win all four.


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Match Preview: Bristol Rovers v Ipswich Town
We take a look at all there is to know ahead of this weekend's league fixture against Ipswich Town...
The Gas return to the Mem this weekend for the first home league game of the campaign following a successful trip to Sunderland, returning with a point from the Stadium of Light.
An early Luke Leahy penalty calmed the side's nerves as they began their new season, and the Gas will be hoping for a similar start down at BS7 this weekend.
However, Garner's side won't be buoyed by the roar of the Memorial Stadium this weekend, as the game remains without supporters. Garner commented on how he'll approach this, saying "It's a loss to us, the loss of the support, because it's such a great crowd at the Mem. We'll be missing the passion of the supporters and the lift they give the team.
"We've got to be professional and make sure we're doing our jobs and make sure we set up as a team to do what we want to do. We still feel playing at home can be an advantage for us."
To catch the full press conference, click below to hear Garner's thoughts via zoom.
Manager's Preview - Ben Garner on Ipswich Town
View from the Opposition
Despite the Tractor Boys' positive result from the last time they came up against the Gas, only two weeks ago, Paul Lambert remains wary of the treat Rovers pose, saying "You can't take too much notice of the game back at Portman Road a couple of weeks ago. That was one game and this is another. They showed last week they're a good side and we're expecting a tough game."
It's been a mixed run for Town since they began the season with a win over Rovers, losing to Arsenal U21's in the EFL Trophy before picking up an opening day league win over Wigan Athletic.
However, the Tractor Boys did face a midweek game this week, losing against Premier League Fulham 1-0 at Portman Road.
The Gas come into this one following a week of training and preparation, since that 1-1 draw with Sunderland in the season opener.
The obvious past meeting came just two weeks ago, as the Gas went down 3-0 on their travels to a dangerous Ipswich Town side. However, beyond that, Rovers picked up all three points in their last league meeting, winning in a dramatic December tie at Portman Road.
While games are being played behind closed doors, or with limited spectators allowed through the turnstiles, an arrangement exists whereby all matches that are NOT LIVE on Sky Sports will be available to stream by Clubs on iFollow (or Club equivalent service), for a match pass price of £10.
In applicable cases, viewers from overseas will also be able to watch the game live on iFollow.
🏟 League football returns to the Mem on Saturday!
📺 Make sure you've got your iFollow Match Pass to catch the game live...
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Season-Ticket holders are entitled to free iFollow match passes for all home league games and have been sent a unique code to the email address linked to their ticket account that will be redeemable to watch Saturday's game on iFollow for free.
A guide on how the process works can be found HERE.
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If you are yet to receive your code - please email seasonticketenquiries@bristolrovers.co.uk.
Cup fixtures (Carabao and EFL Trophy), both home and away aren't covered by the same arrangement, with individual match passes on offer for all supporters.
Saturday's fixture is available to stream with a match pass fee of £10. To purchase a match pass, please click HERE.
This weekend sees another round of League One fixtures get underway, with Oxford United's home tie against Sunderland looking to be the pick of the weekend, with both sides making League One play-off's in recent seasons.
In the only tie taking place on Sunday, Rochdale host Portsmouth.
Bristol Rovers vs Ipswich Town on 19 Sep 20


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Q: Faster way of finding intersection of lists in a dataframe rather than going row by row? I have two pandas dataframes, both with the same two columns, where each element is a list.  Something like:
df1:
|---------------------|------------------|
|        col_a        |        col_b     |
|---------------------|------------------|
|   [A1, A2, A3, A4]  |        [B1]      |
|---------------------|------------------|
|   [A1, A2, A3, A4]  |      [B2, B3]    |
|---------------------|------------------|
|         [A5]        |      [B2, B3]    |
|---------------------|------------------|

df2:
|---------------------|------------------|
|        col_a        |        col_b     |
|---------------------|------------------|
|       [A2, A4]      |      [B1, B2]    |
|---------------------|------------------|
|         [A5]        |      [B2, B4]    |
|---------------------|------------------|

Each row represents a set of combinations, meaning that Row 1 of of df1 represents the combinations A1-B1, A2-B1, A3-B1, and A4-B1.  What I want to do is go row by row to get a unique set of combinations that exist in both df1 and df2, but still kept in this list representation.  I do not want each row representing a unique combination.
The output for the example would look like:
output:
|---------------------|------------------|
|        col_a        |        col_b     |
|---------------------|------------------|
|        [A2, A4]     |        [B1]      |
|---------------------|------------------|
|        [A2, A4]     |        [B2]      |
|---------------------|------------------|
|         [A5]        |        [B2]      |
|---------------------|------------------|

The way I'm doing this right now involves a nested for loop that loops over each row in df1, each row in df2, and finds the intersection between the two lists, which is then appended to an empty list.
Here's the code:
# initialize two empty lists, one for each column
col_a_intersect = []
col_b_intersect = []

# loop over both dataframes to find intersection of lists row by row
for index_1, row_1 in df1.iterrows():
  for index_2, row_2 in df2.iterrows():
    col_a_intersect.append(list(set(row_1['col_a'])& set(row_2['col_a'])))
    col_b_intersect.append(list(set(row_1['col_b'])& set(row_2['col_b'])))

# create a dataframe of the two lists that are now populated
output = pd.DataFrame(
  {col_a: col_a_intersect,
   col_b: col_b_intersect})

The code works as expected, however, it takes a very, very long time to run.  I'm working on a dataset of ~20K by ~100K, and this has been running for about 18 hours now.  CPU and RAM usage have been negligible, so the task itself isn't very resource intensive.  I suspect the long duration is due to the use of a for loop, which are generally frowned upon.  Is there a faster way to do the task that I have described?

A: With this type of data, you wouldn't get much vectorization. That said, you can explode both columns and do a merge, followed by a groupby:
(df1.reset_index()
    .explode('col_a').explode('col_b')
    .merge(df2.explode('col_a').explode('col_b'), on=['col_a','col_b'])
    .groupby(['index'])
    .agg(lambda x: list(x.unique()))
)

Output:
          col_a col_b
index
0      [A2, A4]  [B1]
1      [A2, A4]  [B2]
2          [A5]  [B2]


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Girl Beaten After Refusing To Drink Alcohol In Scarsdale International School In Pakistan
Social media Twitter users were recently shocked by a short clip that showed student Paras Shah being severely bullied and abused by his peers at Scarsdale International School.
In the video recording, the student being bullied appears helpless against three female classmates who sit face-to-face, laughing. Bullies were also seen grabbing the poor girl's hair, kicking the poor girl's body, and slamming her on the floor.
The background noise also showed that there was another student with a voice identified as a male student who sadly recorded the bullying by simply laughing without doing anything.
According to a description written by Twitter user @MaheenFaisal 20, the bullying occurred at Scarsdale American International School Defense, a prestigious private school in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.
Trigger alert!
Absolutely disgusted by this.
A scene from the Scarsdale American International School in the defense of Lahore. A student who refused to drink was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student. This is unacceptable. I hope that serious action will be taken against the girls.
pic.twitter.com/hHI1zp0IJQ
— Maheen Faisal (@MaheenFaisal20) January 20, 2023
In the same statement, the girl who was beaten explained that she was the target of bullying after refusing to drink when forced by the bully seen in the video.
#JusticeForParasShah
The hashtag #JusticeForParasShah is trending on Twitter.
Capturing Pallas Shah after being cured
Shortly after a bullying video went viral and caused concern among Twitter users, it was reported that the father of the girl who had been the victim of violence immediately reported it and registered an FIR with the police. .
The complainant, Imran, the father of the bullied girl, said his daughter was beaten by classmates Jannat Malik, Umaima Malik and Nour Rehman, according to the police station FIR.
According to FIR, Uima-san, the perpetrator of the bullying seen in the video, He had the heart to brutally beat a poor girl and cut her many times with a knife.. Meanwhile, Jannat, the perpetrator of the violence in the video, is said to be a drug addict and tries to drag the injured girl into the drug culture..
Kainat Malik and Jannat Malik, who beat Paras Shah, have been released on bail!
Many Twitter users regretted the bullying behavior captured in the viral video. I regret why such a cruel incident happened at a prestigious private school known for its high tuition fees, in a school that should be a place for moral education for students.
Unfortunately, we live in a society where girls face violence to stop other girls from taking drugs.Now is the time for government. Come to that sense and fight the drug mafia. Take strict action and save our future generations. #JusticeForParasShah pic.twitter.com/vWI6B2n1S7
— Mirza Nazim (@2nazimbaig) January 21, 2023
No matter what the situation, no matter what religion, humanity comes first, and it is a very shameful act by elite class girls who are mentally inferior.
I hope our educational system teaches us morals and how to respect others. #JusticeForParasShah pic.twitter.com/rjlfbpOfOm
— Mama Zaline (@Momna_seo) January 21, 2023
I am completely fed up with it.
A scene at the Scarsdale American International School in Defense Lahore where students allegedly tortured fellow students for refusing to drink alcohol.pic.twitter.com/ZqDT1bqE7r
— Aziz (@A_officialk1) January 20, 2023
Other Twitter users filmed videos laughing at the cruel behavior, lamenting the boys who did nothing to stop the bullying and didn't save the girl who was being bullied.
Other users hope that serious action will be taken against the girls being bullied in the videos.
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Kermit the Frog sings LCD Soundsystem: Finally!
By Simon Vozick-Levinson
December 05, 2008 at 06:00 PM EST
File this under "Had to Happen Sometime." A while back, LCD Soundsystem released the album Sound of Silver, which we here at EW liked very much. The last song on that album was a world-weary tune called "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down." Several writers remarked then that lead singer James Murphy sounded oddly like Kermit the Frog on that song — no offense, but he really did! And now, over a year and a half after the album came out, someone has gone ahead and made a video for "New York, I Love You…" starring Kermit the Frog himself, which is taking the Web by storm, of course. Voila:
If you watch to the end (which you should), you'll see that James Murphy, good sport that he is, is on board with this. Brilliant, isn't it?
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Missing link: $3.5 million pedestrian bridge proposed to connect downtown to Dos Rios
There's something standing between the city's ambitious riverfront development and its evolving downtown core.
It's a sprawling yard full of clattering freight trains and four lanes of speeding traffic on Riverside Parkway, but a new front-burner city project aims to bridge the lengthy gap.
The proposed $3.5 million Riverfront at Dos Rios to Downtown Pedestrian Bridge would be built from the south end of the Old Train Depot property, which has a planned rehabilitation of its own, up and over the Union Pacific train yard and Riverside Parkway with another endpoint near the Dos Rios mixed-use development happening on the other side.
Each endpoint of the 12-foot-wide, 900-foot-long span would have a large ADA-compliant elevator that can handle bikes with trailers, as well as people, and an accompanying stairwell. Security cameras, pedestrian lighting and emergency call boxes are planned along the overpass as well.
Attributes aside, there's one aspect of the project that anyone associated with it mentions — connectivity.
After all, what good are all the current hot spots of city development activity — the Riverfront at Dos Rios project, the Las Colonias Business Park nearby, the expansion of the Riverfront Trail system with a connection to the popular Lunch Loops trail head, the expansion of Two Rivers Convention Center and adjacent new hotel — if they're not interconnected?
Connectivity is why Trent Prall, city public works director, calls the pedestrian bridge project "a big deal."
"With the development of Dos Rios, the development of Second Street and the depot area, this bridge hopefully will provide a safe pathway for bikes and pedestrians between downtown and the riverfront," Prall said about the project.
He envisions the simplicity of directing downtown or Two Rivers visitors to the city's newly activated riverfront.
"Just head down Second Street. There's a bridge there that will take you directly across the railroad and the Riverside Parkway and will drop you down into a really cool development, got a great waterfront, and access to the Riverfront Trail," Prall imagines saying.
"This really is a continuation of Main Street, down Second Street, past the (train) depot, all the way to Dos Rios," Prall explained.
More narrowly, the bridge will directly tie what's planned for the Dos Rios area to downtown. A big plaza there is expected to have business and retail facilities as well as multifamily housing surrounding it, if developers are attracted to the plan.
"It would be just a leap of faith, really, without having that piece solved," said Brandon Stam, director of the Downtown Development Authority, about the new bridge and the possibility of new residential development at Dos Rios. The DDA's boundaries include the Dos Rios development, and the organization has pledged some of their future tax-derived funding to build infrastructure associated with the project.
"It's more about getting people to the river. That for me is the most important opportunity that we can acknowledge," said Jen Taylor, who plans to open the Baja-themed El Jet's Cantina + Sky Outpost along the river at Dos Rios.
She plans it to be "a pause point on the river," with an indoor-outdoor cantina, fire pits, hammocks and shade structures, and more than 100 spots available for camping or short- or long-term rentals. She's working collaboratively with city planners on the master site plan for the project, and hopes to open in 2022.
"Fewer people in cars and encouraging bike and pedestrian (access), it clicks a lot of boxes right now," Taylor said. "I think it speaks to the city being progressive and also intuitive with its community."
"That bridge will help to connect to a broad range of housing opportunities," including those planned for the Sky Outpost, Prall said.
The downtown side of the bridge is planned for the foot of Second Street, and the corridor north of there is one teeming with development activity, making the bridge a key cog to revitalization of the area.
Central to that is the expansion of Two Rivers and the addition of a new hotel. Moving down Second, a developer also plans a new brewpub at Ute and Second next to the stalwart Simmons Lock and Key, and just across the Interstate 70 Business Loop is the redevelopment project at the Old Train Depot.
The city plans a new pedestrian-friendly streetscape for those key few blocks along Second Street, turning it into a tree-lined promenade with new signage, art, sidewalks and street furnishings.
"That's always been another big challenge — making sure that the hotels and the convention center connect down Second Street," the DDA's Stam said. "I feel like we have some pretty good concepts that will align really well (there)."
Design and right-of-way acquisition costs are expected to be about $300,000 of the bridge's $3.5 million price tag, and will be treated separately, so city officials are working to get to $3.2 million for the project.
If the city's funding plans come to fruition, much of that will be covered by multimodal grants that are in the application process now.
One grant possibility is via the Multimodal Options Funds program, money distributed through transportation regional planning offices of the Colorado Department of Transportation. Prall said there's $1.7 million headed to the Grand Valley through that program, but numerous community projects are expected to be vying for that money. Project awards are expected this month.
Another city grant application is through CDOT's Transportation Alternatives Program, federal money that will be headed to each of CDOT's regions for projects that include the design and construction of pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
"Right there, if we were to get a million out of each one of those, we're well on our way to … having most of it funded," Prall said.
TAP awards are expected in March, and if grant money materializes and crossing permits are able to be secured from Union Pacific in 2020, bridge construction could start in 2021.
UTE AND PITKIN
Even before the pedestrian bridge idea picked up momentum, as city planners and the DDA discussed the improvements along Second Street, the difficult issue of getting people across the speedy I-70B elbow at Ute and Pitkin avenues has come up frequently.
It's a tricky situation, as city officials plan for more pedestrian-friendly development in the area, and CDOT, which ultimately controls what happens there, envisions more traffic along the key artery.
"I understand they're trying to project for future growth, but I think it would be really short-sighted not to think of this area how we envision it, and how there's actual, real money going in there," Stam said.
While CDOT hasn't seen a lot of development activity in that spot to this point, things are clearly changing, and the city's preference more and more is for some kind of light there. That likely would be the least disruptive to traffic and could get pedestrians to cross the one-way streets safely.
"I think that is an absolute must — otherwise we're just creating a bridge that's going to be really hard to get to," Stam said, about a possible traffic signal and CDOT's potential warming to the idea.
"That is absolutely still the elephant in the room," he added.
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"Engines of War" details the role railways have played in war – not just the two World Wars, but also others including the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Boer Wars and the Korean War. It discusses how railways brought about fundamental changes in the way wars were fought; they brought soldiers and supplies to the front, took away the wounded, and in some cases were used as weapons. Because of their strategic importance, railways were also the target of resistance groups and saboteurs (including, of course, Lawrence of Arabia). All of this and more is covered in Wolmar's typical easily readable style; his book is highly recommended.
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Living close to a guided busway, I shall ever be disappointed that a railway was not reinstated instead of the eco friendless concrete track to transport passengers from St Ives to Cambridge and beyond. But I digress, the book is a wonderful account of the world's railways and so fascinating. a good long read. Hard to put down.
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The nature of warfare changed radically in the 19th century. Contrast the Napoleonic Wars, with battles such as Waterloo that were decided in a day, with the prolonged and entrenched conflict that characterised the First World War a century later.
What brought about this remarkable change? The Napoleonic Wars were the last major battles fought before the crucial invention that transformed the very nature of how wars were conducted: the railways. Yet, this aspect of military history has been widely ignored. There has been much focus on how the development of weaponry increased the efficiency of armies as killing machines but little attention has been paid to how the weapons got to the front. And it was the railways which changed the logistics of war.
Napoleon was actually an innovator; he just had the bad luck to be around before the invention of the railways. Unlike many of his successors who led armies in Europe and elsewhere during the railway age, Napoleon would have known how to use them. Napoleon even called the long series of wagons which were used to supply his armies 'trains' but despite his awareness of the vital nature of transport in fighting wars, he was restricted by the technology of the day and crucially the appetite of horses which were used not only for cavalry but also transport. Carts pulled by horses could manage barely 25 miles per day and oxen were even slower. If the supplies were too far behind the lines, animal power was useless since the horses would need to eat more than they could transport.
The railways changed that equation. Herman Haupt, the railway genius of the American Civil War, reckoned that a single track line could supply an army of 200,000 men, provided it was operated in a correct way. That meant the railways had to be run by experienced managers who could not be bullied by army officers and had the ultimate say over the timetable. It took a number of wars for that to be understood. Although railways played a role in a number of earlier conflicts such as the Crimean where a specially created railway helped the British and French forces eventually take Sebastopol, the American Civil War was undoubtedly the first 'railway war'. And that is why it was both long and deadly. Not only did it last four years – between 1861 and 1865 – but the breadth of the conflict which raged over an area the size of Europe its bloodiness. More American soldiers – over 600,000 – died in the war than in all other conflicts in which the US has been involved subsequently. Moreover, during those four long years of carnage, there were no fewer 400 encounters – one every four days – which were serious enough to be recorded as 'battles' and it was the mobility afforded by the railways which made such a high level of activity possible. From the first battle to almost the last, the railways were involved. The arrival of troops by rail proved decisive in the earliest big battle, the Battle of Bull Run in Virginia, twenty miles from Washington. The Northerners had the rebel forces on the run until reinforcements arrived by train on the Manassas Gap Rail Road which allowed them to counter attack and give the Southerners victory. Throughout the war massive troop movements across huge distances were made on the railways with the biggest being the 1,200 mile journey by 20.000 men from east to west along the boundary between the rival armies in early autumn 1863. The troops were sent from the Eastern seaboard to reinforce the beleaguered Northern troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, a vital rail hub, and were vital in stopping the South from taking over the state after an earlier northern defeat.
It was not only troops that were moved by rail, but all the supplies and ammunition essential to maintain the armies. Indeed, in what became known as the Western Theater, west of the Mississippi, battles would not have been possible without the railways since the area was largely uncultivated and troops would not have been able to live off the land. From then until the Korean War, virtually every war involved the heavy use of railways. Battles were fought over railway junctions, the launch of attacks was determined by how quickly men could be mobilised by train and ammunition became ever heavier thanks to the ability of the railways to deliver ever greater quantities.
Railways reached their height of indispensability in the First World War when road transport was still in its infancy. The First World War was, in essence, a railway war and the terrible stalemate of three and a half years on the Western Front was the result of the railways' ability to deliver vast quantities of supplies to a static front, something that would have been unthinkable in Napoleon's day.
If there is any doubt that the use of railways war is a neglected subject, I leave the last word to Lloyd George. He noted that the histories of the First World War tended to ignore this aspect of warfare and in 1932, commented on the coverage in John Buchan's History of the War: 'The Battle of the Somme has about 60 pages, and yet it did not make that much difference in the war; but the shells and the guns that enabled the army to fight it, all the organisation of transport behind the lines, do you know how much is given to this? 17 lines'.
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Unlike your larger majority of Disney parks enthusiasts, I don't have a ton of family memories from Walt Disney World. My parents took me twice, once when I was so young I hardly remember it (beyond my love of Figment and fear of Snow White's witch), and the other when I was twelve. I do remember some stuff from the latter trip, but it all felt kind of perfunctory. I think my parents like Disney parks just fine but were largely checking a box on the Traditional Family Activities list.
No slight intended on their part - I mean, as Eeyore so wisely tells us, we can't all and some of us don't. I found my own way to WDW love, and they support that even if they find it a touch confusing. I even dragged my mom down to Orlando that one time, and may manage to do it again this November.
Okay, so it's April of 1998. It's my parents and brother plus my aunt and two cousins. They're from Florida, admittedly not central Florida, but this isn't their first time at the proverbial rodeo. Their signature pro-move in this pre-ubiquitous-cell-phones era: a set of walkie-talkies.
My cousins are trying to convince me to ride the Tower of Terror. This being twelve-year-old Jenn, I am not having it - I didn't really get down with thrill rides until high school, and even now I'm not huge into drop tower. I mean, I'll ride ToT when someone coerces me because the effects are cool, but I don't do it alone.
They give up on me, leaving my half of the family at a showing of that live action Beauty and the Beast performance that I don't think I've ever even seen since then... They also leave us one of the walkie-talkies.
It's crackly, grainy audio from the walkie-talkie, luckily too weak to bother the others around us, but quite distinct: it's my cousins on ToT, screaming their way down the drop.
What do you remember from your childhood WDW trips?
That's hilarious! I'm similar to you in that I had the one typical family trip when I was 9. I didn't go back until I was 16 and a very generous friend's family took a group of us for her 16th birthday, rather than having a big Sweet 16. On that trip my friends wanted to go on ToT but 16 year old me was still much too chicken. One of our male friends physically picked me up, put me over his shoulder, and tried to carry me on the ride basically kicking and screaming. You know, because I was a 16 year old acting like a 2 year old. He eventually put me down and I ran away. Far, far away.
I know a lot of people who STILL run far far away! And when I'm with them, I DON'T GO EITHER. But I'll make ToT FPs for people I love enough. A benchmark of my affection, you could say.


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(20461) Диоретса () — астероид из группы дамоклоидов, который был обнаружен 8 июня 1999 года в обсерватории близ Сокорро в рамках проекта LINEAR.

Орбита
Этот астероид движется по необычной орбите, которая характеризуется большим эксцентриситетом и ретроградным движением. Чтобы отразить этот факт, ему дали название Диоретса — и это не что иное как слово «астероид», написанное в обратном порядке. Это один из двадцати астероидов Солнечной системы, которые движутся по ретроградной орбите.

Орбита Диоретсы похожа на орбиту кометы, что привело к предположению, что Диоретса имеет кометное происхождение и изначально был объектом облака Оорта.

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 Пояс Эджворта-Койпера
 Кентавры (астероиды)
 2008 KV42

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Астероиды, пересекающие орбиту Сатурна
Астероиды, пересекающие орбиту Урана
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Q: Use a triple integral to compute the volume of a solid bounded by yhe surface $(x^2+y^2+z^2)^3=3xyz$ Use a triple integral to compute the volume of a solid bounded by yhe surface $$(x^2+y^2+z^2)^3=3xyz$$
I use spherical coordinates
\begin{cases}
x=r \cos \varphi \cos \theta \\
y=r \sin \varphi \cos \theta \\
z=r\sin \theta
\end{cases}
but what I get is $(x^2+y^2+z^2)^3=3xyz \Rightarrow$
$r^6=3r^3\cos \varphi \cos \theta \sin \varphi \cos \theta\sin \theta \Rightarrow$
$r^3=3 \cos \varphi \sin \varphi \cos^2 \theta \sin \theta$
and it doesn't look helpful to me. Can anyone explain?

A: You can graph the parametric surface on a function grapher. I did the correction because there are some mistakes in the answers.
If you had graphed the surface, you will see that the volumen is divided in four
polygons in diferents quadrants. I will find the volumen when $x,y,z\geq0$.
$$(x^2+y^2+z^2)^3=3xyz$$
Use de Jacobian for change to spherical coordinates
\begin{cases}
x=r \cos \varphi \cos \theta \\
y=r \sin \varphi \sin \theta \\
z=r\cos \varphi
\end{cases}
Then, $(x^2+y^2+z^2)^3=3xyz \Rightarrow$
$r^3=3 \sin^2 \varphi \cos \theta \sin \theta \cos\varphi$
We will obtain the following when calculating the Jacobian.
$$r^2\sin\varphi$$
We define the volume to be integrated.
$$D:={(x,y,z)/0\leq\theta\leq\pi/2;0\leq\varphi\leq\pi/2;0\leq r\leq\sqrt[3]{3\sin^2 \varphi \cos \theta \sin \theta \cos\varphi}}$$
Because I will take one of four polygons in the firts cuadrant.
$$ 4\int_{0}^{\pi/2}d\theta\int_{0}^{\pi/2}d\varphi\int_{0}^{\sqrt[3]{3\sin^2 \varphi \cos \theta \sin \theta \cos\varphi}}r^2\sin\varphi dr =4\int_{0}^{\pi/2}d\theta\int_{0}^{\pi/2}\sin^3 \varphi \cos \theta \sin \theta \cos\varphi=\int_{0}^{\pi/2}cos \theta \sin \theta=\color{red}{\frac{1}{2}}$$


Being in the UK for three years now got me to discover some nice places around here but I feel sometimes that I am missing some must-sees! 2 weeks ago, I made a quick decision to go to Liverpool for a week-end. The plan was simple, travel by train to Manchester, spend the morning there then take a train to Liverpool and enjoy it for 24 hours.
Stopping back in Manchester for a morning was great. The weather was awesome which is apparently a rare thing there! I walked around the city centre passing by those places I know and seen 2 years ago. Doing a treasure hunt and a pub crawl really helped knowing the city!
Then for £3 only, I got a one-way ticket to Liverpool. But I only wished I brought the nice weather from Manchester. I was welcomed by rain when arriving at Lime Street Station. My hotel was near so I went there quickly. The Adelphi Britannia really looks like the hotel featuring on the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel.
One of the main reasons I chose Liverpool is to see the Central Perk, a replica of the café featuring on Friends, the TV show. I'm such a huge fan! I found out that it was on Bold Street so it was the first attraction I visit. I went there all excited with my friend, we order our drinks and wait patiently for the mythical orange couch to be freed but it never happened. But anyway, on the screen we could see Season 10 episodes on repeat. Such a joy to be in Central Perk, watch friends and sip a hot drink.
Following my hysterical-fan visit of Central Perk, I finally can visit the city. I walked around Liverpool Cathedral, Chinatown and then follow my instinct to finally start seeing the Big Wheel of Liverpool. That's it. It was Albert Dock.
Albert Dock is one of the most visited attraction in town. The riverside is popular with locals who enjoy a run or sit by to watch sunset and by tourists who find some popular attractions like The Beatles Experience. Indeed, Liverpool is proud for being the birth place of one of the biggest bands in history.
I walked around town until I realised I was freezing as the sun started to disappear, temperatures went as low as 12 degrees. And this is summer! I felt like it was time to go to Central Perk. Only then I realised there were two locations. The second one was on Hatton Garden which was actually my favourite from both as it was more authentic and more real. However I must say that I was so excited it felt surreal as well!
The night is starting early around 7pm. People are getting drunk quickly in the streets of Liverpool and the clubs and bars are getting very busy. By 9pm, it was already getting hard to move in the streets as they were so busy and it felt like it was the peak of the night. I was tired so I had to cut short my nightlife discovery. I got back to the hotel at 12am.


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Paedophile who looked at child rape images when drunk spared jail
A dad who was found with almost 200 indecent images of children has been spared jail.
Gigi Cimppoeru, 36, was arrested in December 2021 after Merseyside Police received information that a Facebook and Instagram account had accessed indecent images of children.
Using an IP address, those accounts were traced to a home on Whestone Lane, Wirral, where Cimppoeru was living with other men.
On December 16, police seized two mobile phones containing the images, the majority of which were on one of the phones.
The phones contained 194 images and videos relating to children, of these 114 of which were in Category A, which involves the most severe forms of abuse including child rape, including 111 videos. There were 44 at Category B including 37 videos and also admitted making 36 Category C images, of which 21 were videos.
Cimppoeru also admitted having "extreme pornography" images, involving people engaged in sexual activity with animals and five prohibited animated images.
In court, Judge Griffiths described the environment of the household he shared with other men as having "drinking and laddish behaviour", with their evenings spent "drinking, chatting, going online and misbehaving in that regard."
The court was told Cimppoeru has two children of his own and, as social services have implement an order that he could not be alone with his children, his wife has been forced to quit her job. Cimppoeru now has full-time employment in Birkenhead as a factory worker, which should continue.
The court heard that although creation dates of the content could not be established, police did confirm that the files had been modified, either by being saved, edited or moved, between October 2021, and December 2021. However, it was determined that there was no evidence that Cimppoeru deliberately saved any images himself.
Cimppoeru pleaded guilty to all six offences previously and his defence claimed he was "deeply ashamed" about his involvement and that his "naivety" had been shown in this incident.
Helen Dugdale, defending, said: "The defendant is deeply ashamed and is distressed about his involvement in these matters.
"He apologised profusely to the court and also the subject of the video and photographs. He is very much aware of how much damage that this can cause."
When interviewed by Merseyside Police, Cimppoeru admitted to having joined chat groups and receiving images whilst drunk with the men he lived with, but that when he woke up the next day, he deleted them, and decided not to be involved again.
However, he received images on multiple occasions, via a secure messaging app.
On Thursday, December, 8 in Liverpool Crown Court, Cimppoeru was sentenced to 30 weeks imprisonment, which was suspended for 18 months. He was also given 150 hours of unpaid work in the community, and ordered to complete up to twenty rehabilitation days.
A sexual harm prevention order was also put in place for 10 years, and he will remain of the sex offenders register for 10 years. A deprivation order depriving him of his mobile phone was also enforced.
Judge Griffiths said: "I believe it is better to make a constructive sentence to treat your behaviour and avoid it happening in the future, simply so that will protect children in our society. If I'm wrong about that and you carry this on, you will certainly go to prison in the future."


Cadillac showed off images of its first full-electric vehicle mid-January, confirming reports the brand would be the one to launch GM's new BEV3 battery-driven vehicle platform, which will underpin a variety of body styles.
General Motors said Cadillac "will be at the vanguard of the company's move towards an all-electric future," beginning with this crossover model with a yet-unrevealed name.
Details about the vehicle were also being kept under wraps until closer to its launch date, which GM did not announce.
The new platform will be flexible, and adaptable to front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive configurations. It can also be transformed rapidly, for a "short design and development lead time," allowing the automaker to more quickly respond to changing consumer tastes.
"The most advanced components within this platform are the drive units and battery cells, both of which are being designed for maximum usability throughout GM vehicle lineups in different countries," Cadillac said in a release. The BEV3 platform will underpin multiple future Cadillac body styles.
Cadillac plans on releasing roughly one new vehicle every six months, including a forthcoming new performance sedan; and a refresh of its popular Escalade SUV.
Don't expect to see a new Chevrolet Volt out of GM any time soon, though; incoming GM president Mark Reuss confirmed the automaker would no longer build any sort of hybrid vehicle, focusing its efforts instead on fully battery-powered vehicles.


In a dystopian future (a more than common theme in YA lit these days), humans are divided into factions based on dominant personality traits: Abnegation (selfless), Candor (honest), Dauntless (brave), Amity (peaceful) and Erudite (intelligent). If you are not able to make it in a faction, you become factionless (a sort of poor class). If, for some reason, you have multiple dominant traits, you are considered to be Divergent, and likely to be hunted. At the point when you turn 16, you take a test to help you determine which trait you likely have, then you get to choose the faction you will join.
Our heroine, Beatrice, has to make a choice. Choosing a life in Abnegation means staying with her family, but living a life that doesn't ring true. Choosing a different faction means turning her back on her family with the likelihood of never seeing them again. The factions are fiercely loyal to themselves and stay apart from each other. Beatrice makes a choice that will test her to the breaking point. She will make friends and enemies and uncover a deadly plot along the way.
As far as YA dystopian goes, this was better than most. The factions is a good idea that works for the most part. There is the inevitable teenage angsty romance, and it gets tiring, but it's not as bad as others I could name (Twilight, I'm looking at you). Also, Beatrice is the master of her own destiny. She bravely makes her own decisions and stands up to her fears. She is not dependent on others for her strength, so that makes her a better female character than in some YA fiction (aka Twilight).
This is part of a series (trilogy?) and the second book is out. The book doesn't exactly end on a cliffhanger, but there are plot points left open for further books. I liked it. Emma Galvin's narration wss good on the audiobook version I listened to.
An interesting, albeit dark and gothic, take on the Alice In Wonderland story. Filled with strange and sometimes gruesome images, it is definitely not for children.
This is volume 2, and there are references back to the first volume as well as other volumes. Not having read prior volumes, I admit to being a bit lost, but I was still able to follow what was going on. The story takes place in 2 realities. Our present day finds Alice's daughter and granddaughter trying to recover from a family tragedy. Meanwhile, in Wonderland, the Red Queen is on the run and trying to find the Temple of Purity with her son, the Red King. Plenty of peril and treachery abound in both storylines. In the modern day storyline, a drug called Dream and a strange nightclub threaten Violet, Alice's granddaughter. In Wonderland, the Black Queen's army stands poised to destroy the Red Queen and her son. In both stories, the sacrificial love of a mother stands out.
There are 5 chapters, or issues, included. Also included is a cover gallery with a lot of the cover variants done for many of the comic conventions. Also included is the first issue of Madness of Wonderland, a 4 part mini-series.
The art falls into the pin-up good girl style. It is on the risque side, and may be offensive to some readers. All of the characters are overly beautiful and a little unreal looking. But the art is good, with lots of panel details. Thicker outlines are used to give the art a storybook illustration appeal. The story, as stated, is dark, but that fits with the madness of Wonderland, so it works especially well.
Hesketh Lock is employed as a sort of corporate troubleshooter. His Asperger's makes him good at recognizing patterns that others can't seem to see. He is sent to Taiwan to investigate sabotage at ta lumber company by a corporate whistle blower. The man he interrogates makes reference to child gods. Shortly after Hesketh leaves Taiwan, the man dies horrifically. At the same time, there are growing reports of children attacking adults in vicious ways all around the world.
Hesketh is an engaging and memorable character, with his Venn diagrams, obsession with numbers and physical and mental origami. His emotional distance from the people around him can be grating and uncomfortable to those people. At the same time, he has an almost childlike attachment to some of the people in his life. This alien detachment and childlike attachment, along with the surreal events happening around him, make for a fascinating read.
The story has horrific elements, but feels like something from television shows like Fringe or X-Files. By the end of the book, all answers are not arrived at, and you will be left with questions. This might bother some, but I preferred the open-ended nature of the book and I look forward to reading more by Liz Jensen.
In the trade paperback Comeback, time travel is possible through a company called Reconnect. They offer the wealthy a second chance by travelling into the near past to rescue people from certain death. The near past and present seem to be a limitation, or maybe Reconnect is concerned with creating time paradoxes.
Matt and Seth are two agents of Reconnect who travel back, rescue victims, and place cadavers in place of the victims. When the FBI starts investigating, the 2 agents find themselves trapped in the past and hunted by the FBI and employees of Reconnect who may have some dirty secrets to hide. It seems that Reconnect has blood on their hands and will do anything to keep their secrets hidden.
The art style is a rougher look, and I liked it, but I did keep confusing 2 key characters because of the style. They look somewhat similar and the book introduces past and future versions of some of the characters. The graphic novel includes lots of extras like alternate covers, and much of the steps in the process of creating a graphic novel. Also included are the elevator pitch for the book, which I found interesting as a summary. It's a well-written, gritty noir story with plenty of the usual head-scratching that time travel stories put me through.
An inspirational and encouraging book that will inspire you to examine your story and see how God can work in your life. Filled with examples from the Bible and other sources, it also includes Dwight Mason's inspiring story and how he became pastor of his church in Ohio.
Every chapter is filled with anecdotes and ends with distinct and easy action steps. The book's progression is from finding faith in God to embracing change, sharing your story, helping your children and ending well. Dwight tells of starting life with a leg brace and a stutter and overcoming it to become an athlete and a public speaker.
Editor Paula Guran has put together a really great anthology of sf stories involving a variety sports and games in Future Games. From a sport involving planets colliding to a story about the children of enemies playing football, the stories span the familiar to the unfamiliar.
There are a wide variety of authors included in the collection with stories going back as far as 1965. Included is the original novella for 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card as well as stories by Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin and Scott Westerfield, among others. There are encounters with alien beings, reality television events and sports played on strange terrain.
An editor of an anthology has the job of deciding what to include and exclude in a collection like this, and usually I walk away liking most of the stories. In this case, I can't think of one I didn't enjoy in this collection. There are a couple standout favorites, but the collection stands quite nicely in it's complete form. All the stories seemed to focus on what it means to be human and compete, whether your opponent is an alien lifeform, or your own mind. I'm glad I picked this one up.
A rich young oil-heir, a mutant octopus and a new country founded on a man-made floating garbage heap are all featured in Great Pacific Volume 1: Trashed, which collects the first 6 comics in the series.
Chas Worthington has it all and is known as a frivolous young man. After his father dies, he is in line to inherit the oil company his family owns, but Chas has other plans. It seems he feels responsible for the mess we've created and decides to found a new country on a floating heap of garbage out in the Pacific. Taking along his best friend, he is quickly pursued by those he left behind. He also runs into mutant animals, pirates and soviet nukes.
All in all a fun ride. An interesting sci-fi premise with a feeling of the great punk comics of the 1980s. Gorgeous art by Martin Morazzo has a real Moebius feel to it, and Joe Harris has written a story with humor, adventure and a great 'stick-it-to-the-man' feel to it. There is so much happening in these 6 issues, and I can't wait to see what they do next.
A graphic novel with 2 separate stories that both left me a little flat. The art is rendered fine, and I know this is part of a larger "Season 9" series, but these 2 episodes felt a little too much like filler. Having guest writers Jane Espenson and Drew Greenberg writing one didn't do much for me.
In the first story, Buffy is hired by Kennedy to act as a bodyguard in her post-slayer career. Buffy can't help seeing demons around every corner and this proves problematic, at first. Then a case comes up regarding a high-profile client who invented a sort of Facebook for demons. The second story deals with Billy, who is the first boy slayer chosen. This story was written by the guest writers (both veteran writers of the Buffy TV show), but it falls flat as well. Buffy makes an appearance towards the end of this story. Billy might be an interesting character eventually, but here he is a bullied young man living with his aging hippie grandmother. He fights against the new zompire epidemic.
I suppose completists will need to purchase this, and I realize that they are just collecting individual issues in a larger volume, but I kind of like my graphic novels to have a larger cohesive story arc. While the two stories are somewhat linked by the growing zompire epidemic, there is little reference back and forth. Buffy shows up at the end of Billy's story, but it almost seems random.
While I am familiar with the Mike Hammer character through books and television, I was unaware of his life as a comic strip character. As explained in an excellent forward by Max Allan Collins, we learn of Mickey Spillane's foray into comics before World War II, and how the Mike Hammer dailies came about.
The strips are great. A bit crowded with words, they crackle with a noir life filled with vicious cracks to the back of the head, double dealers and the women that Mike can't resist, even if they mean trouble. Included are Mike's loyal confidante Velda, and his cop friend Pat Chambers, there to dole out common sense and help Mike out when he needs it. The stories are dated, but still a lot of fun to read. The restoration process includes some before and after shots and shows the amazing work to restore these comics (especially the Sunday strips) to life.
Included in the book are lobby cards from films with Mike Hammer, book covers and a nice overview of how this strip came to be, then suddenly came to be cancelled. A nice volume for fans of Mike Hammer and crime comics. Now I feel like roughing up some thugs and cracking wise.
A young girl in a dystopian future America must pass life or death tests to prove herself worthy of attending University in this new young adult novel. There are obvious comparisons to other works out there in this large and ever-growing subcategory of YA fiction, but this one is still a page-turner with compelling characters.
Cia Vale is about to graduate high school and wonders if she'll be chosen for the Testing, where a group of bright students are given the opportunity to attend University and given jobs restoring the broken remains of the United States. There are 18 colonies left and no one from Cia's colony has been chosen for quite a while, but her father attended years ago and has vague, uneasy memories of what he went through.
The Testing is a series of tests determined to find out who is the best in variety of subjects such as math, science and survival. One test has subjects determining which plants are poisonous and which are safe, then having the students eat the ones they deem safe. The final test is a grueling trip through a war-scarred land where resources are scarce, water is potentially deadly, and fellow test subjects who may be out to eliminate the competition.
Filled with tension, a definite feeling of paranoia, and a likeable heroine in Cia. I've read a lot of dystopian YA fiction, and while this brings nothing new to the genre, I think it will be the breakout hit in YA fiction this Summer.
Steve Rizzo is a successful stand up comedian who decided to try something else in life. He is now a successful corporate speaker, using his humor skills to teach people how to get through tough times. His new book does the same. Filled with lots of humor (much of it groan inducing), Steve shows that just having the ability to laugh at ourselves and our situations can make a huge difference.
The book's premise is to shift our mindset. Whether we find ourselves in a life-altering situation or a long line at the grocery store, how we react to it can make a huge difference to us and to those around us. There are plenty of stories in the book to back up the points being made. Some involve famous people Steve has met, like Rodney Dangerfield and Eddie Murphy. Perhaps the most inspirational person is Steve's brother Michael, who suffered a combat injury in Vietnam.
It's a very positive read and many of the chapters have action steps. It's all very encouraging and if you find yourself stuck in a rut with negative thoughts, you might want to pick up a copy of this book.
'Creativeship' is a business book disguised as a novel. It's a quick enough read, but the principles laid out in it don't strike me as particularly earth-shattering.
The book starts with Joe retiring and travelling with his daughter to his retirement party. Along the way, he reflects on his life and career. Over time, he coalesces his experience with newer ideas and the book ends with Joe giving a "TED" style talk to an audience. The important principles that should be combined include Purpose, Engagement, Performance, Innovation, Tri-Branding and Global Growth. These are combined into something called 'Creativeship.' Emphasis on using viral videos and social media is given, as well as tying engagement of employees with performance. But are these especially new ideas? Especially when a lot of the companies have been around for at least a decade?
Each big idea is given an appendix which redefines the idea, gives key learning points, discussion points, example companies, reading lists videos and blogs.
The ideas are good and probably still relevant. They just feel a bit dated here in 2013 to come across as the kind of bold revelations that the story wants to make them. Perhaps there is a market for this in well established old companies run by leaders who are resistant to change. Perhaps I've just read some better examples of ways to drive innovation and creativity.
A fun, sometimes loopy comics crossover idea that works for the most part, IDW has taken the iconic characters from the Mars Attacks Topps trading card series (and the later Tim Burton movie) and mashed them up with four of their other properties. In this comic series, the martian invaders with the oversized brains meet characters from Popeye, Zombies vs Robots, Kiss, The Real Ghostbusters, and The Transformers.
I loved these kind of crossover comics as a kid, and I still think their fun. An imaginative "what if" story. In all five the martians invade and have strange encounters. I think the Popeye story was my favorite and worked the best. I was less familiar with the Zombies vs Robots comic, but loved the zombies going crazy over the martians with their huge brains. The Kiss story is the only one that didn't work as well, and maybe that's because they tried to play it straight instead of going for a more campy feel. Your mileage may vary, of course.
Art styles vary throughout. Again, my favorite was the Popeye story with it's washed out color panels, but all the art was quite good. Some of it might be hard to follow without reading some of the other properties, but a fun, light read nonetheless that took me back to the summers of my youth.
A book that succeeds in addressing the social issue of bullying in a rational, coherent way. Emily Bazelon combines journalism with compassion in a way that remains unbiased, rational and sympathetic.
Three case studies are presented in the course of the book that show different aspects of bullying. Two are somewhat typical cases and one was a higher profile case. Two are victims, while one was accused of bullying. All aspects are fairly presented. Bullying has been around a long time, but now with social media, the victims seemingly have no escape. Schools are also required to intercede more and provide training in social norms. Emily also visits schools with successful anti-bullying programs and visits the headquarters of Facebook to see what they are doing (or not doing) about bullying complaints. The role of parents is also addressed. After all, we shouldn't have to leave it all up to the schools to teach conduct to our children, right?
Can a school intercede and punish based on an internet post made from a location outside of the school? What should parents, educators and students be doing? What is bullying and what is not? These are a few of the many questions asked in the course of the book.
The book concludes with FAQs and resource lists with sections aimed at students, parents and educators. This can only be of great help to anyone in one of these situations, and makes the book a valued resource. It's so refreshing to read something that addresses a social issue in such a clearheaded way.
A novella that acts as a prequel to the most recent Doctor Who Christmas special 'The Snowmen.' This novel features Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax, but is notably missing the Doctor. Set in Victorian England, Madame Vastra is referred to as the Great Detective. Her lizard-like appearance means she wears a veil most of the time.
A couple of young boys build a snowman and discover a dead woman in it. They are chased and one of the boys, Harry, is rescued by Strax, a stocky alien with a mind set on mayhem. Harry is taken to Madame Vastra for help. The mystery is solved, but leads right into where the Christmas special picks up.
I would love a series with these three characters, known as The Paternoster Gang. I'd like more depth, and having them solve crimes in Victorian London would be a lot of fun. This book is a novella, so it gives no more depth to the characters, which is a shame, but it's still a quick, fun read.
'Three Graves Full' reads like a Coen brothers movie. There are dark twists and turns, characters that seem caricatured at first, and a kind of loopy humor at the ludicrous nature of it all.
When milquetoast Jason Getty killed a man who pushed him too far and buried him in his backyard, he lived in fear that the body would one day be discovered. What he didn't expect were the two bodies the cops find buried in his front yard. Bodies that he knew nothing about. When Jason decides to move the body he buried before the police find it, that's when the craziness really begins.
A darkly fun debut novel from someone I hope to read more from. The characters are interesting and resist stereotyping. Sure, there are the small town cops, but they are smarter than they let on. Jason's nervousness and bumbling give him an interesting growth arc, even if it takes until almost the end of the book to see it, and the jilted fiancee even shows an interesting side when it counts. If you like your thrillers quirky and strange, and you have a strong stomach, you can't go wrong with this book.
'Creative Strategy: A Guide For Innovation' seeks to show groundbreaking ways in which creativity and strategy should be part of the same idea process, not individual components. Newer research refutes the separation between right and left brain, and yet, that's how we continue to approach finding new ideas. Duggan proposes a method that uses our strategic experience with our creative ability to make connections to come up with better solutions.
There are three phases to the process and a grid is given to show the process. Examples are in the book of how the grid is used in some real life examples. There is a large section of the book that looks at existing thought on creativity and another section on strategy. Lots of competing methods and thoughts are discussed and dismissed or partially credited for their contributions to innovation. Initially, this came across as a little self-serving since they were all held up to the Creative Strategy method and found lacking. Upon further thought, I had to admire the depth of research the author went to in the field. Having researched a few of the sources, they do seem to lack exactly what creativity actually looks like to derive a workable business innovation.
A short read, but one that attempts to be more specific than many of the other sources I've read to date. If you are looking for a process to guide you to innovation, this gives a much clearer path.
Ningen is a young monk who is just leaving the temple for the first time. Or is he? There is more to Ningen's story than even he realizes, and witch Hannya has her own designs on him.
It turns out that Kitsune is responsible for killing a lot of samurai, as well as fathering a child with one of the seasons, so there are a whole host of people out trying to find him. Some want to help, but most want him dead or to use him to bring about chaos on the land.
In a surreal story, J. P. Kalonji weaves some mythological creatures into a strange story that includes the embodiment of the seasons and a Kitsune. The artwork is great, but I found the lettering to be a little hard to read at times. If Japanese fantasy sounds interesting, check out this graphic novel.
As a comics fan, I've always liked John Byrne's art. This graphic novel collect seven issues of his run on Star Trek at IDW, and although my review copy only included the first issue, I can confidently review this book based on past experience with Mr. Byrne's work. He is that consistent.
The lines are clean, the characters familiar and iconic, and the skies are filled with a bewildering array of stars (how did he draw all those stars?). The crafty Romulans are deploying a new ship with a warp drive and they have an unusual ally in their quest to dominate the galaxy.
Even after all these years, and thanks to J. J. Abrams reboot of the series, the franchise continues to be strong with fans, and they will not be disappointed with this collection.
In a post-oil world, Nailer works light crew salvaging copper and other metals from derelict and abandoned oil tankers. He's good at what he does because he's small and he can fit in the ducts of the ships, but it's a hard life and a poor one. Everyone dreams of making that "lucky strike." Finding something that will make them rich enough to not worry about other scavengers. Nailer also has a violent abusive father, so that gives him even more desperation to get away.
One day, after a big storm, Nailer and his friend Pima discover something with the potential to change everything. This leads Nailer into danger and new adventures.
This book is set in the same universe as 'The Windup Girl' and 'The Drowned Cities.' The latter is for adults and is quite different in tone. I'm quite impressed with Paolo's writing, and his ability to scale his writing for adults and younger readers. The books are quite different in tone, and I enjoyed both of the ones I've read (and the few short stories I've read). I look forward to other books by this author.
'Ship Breaker' won or was nominated for quite a few book prizes when it came out, and rightfully so. Check it out.


Although newly elected District Attorney Terence Hallinan will not be sworn in until next week, heads at the DA's office have already begun to roll: Bob Podesta, the longtime No. 2 man, has resigned to make way for Hallinan's own chief deputy.
Podesta, 59, is officially scheduled to retire today, but he told The Chronicle that Thursday was his last day on the job. He said he plans to spend the next two months traveling and will use that period to decide his next step.
"When you've been with an organization for 32 years, when you leave you get a big check," he said. "That means you don't have to worry immediately about how you are going to make a living."
Podesta, who has been with the district attorney's staff since 1964, has been outgoing District Attorney Arlo Smith's chief assistant since 1982. Before that, he was chief of the criminal division for three years and also served as a team leader in the DA's special prosecutions and felony prosecutions units.
Early in his career, he served five years as a homicide and felony crimes prosecutor.
During his years with the district attorney's office, Podesta has been involved in a number of high- profile cases.
He was the prosecutor in the 1974 "Zebra" case, in which four Black Muslims were convicted of homicide charges after a Bay Area terror spree in which 14 people were killed. In 1978, he was the head of the felony team that prosecuted 51 defendants in a Bay Area- wide stolen property "sting" organized by San Francisco police and the FBI.
Although Podesta has experience as an evidence and criminal law instructor at San Francisco Law School, he said he has not yet decided whether to return to teaching. He said he is considering going into private legal practice.
"But I'm not going to do criminal cases," he said. "If I do anything, it will be part-time civil."
Hallinan has already picked Marla Miller, a former assistant U.S. attorney and a member of the Howard, Rice, Nemerovski law firm, to be his chief deputy, so Podesta was faced with leaving or taking a demotion to some other position on the staff. Podesta is the highest-ranking assistant district attorney to announce he is leaving; veteran homicide prosecutor Eugene Sweeters has also announced plans to retire later this month.


Next Story 2+2 dialogue: What it is in store for India?
"If there is a cyclone in October or November then it would result in 30,000-40,000 deaths and a break out of the survivors from the confines of Cox's Bazaar's Kutopalong refugee camp" feared an official of an international humanitarian organisation working in Bangladesh. In this refugee camp, located in the Southwestern part of Bangladesh, there are almost a million Rohingyas clinging onto their lives under fragile thatched huts and plastic sheets on an undulating and unstable muddy terrain for the past one year. Displaying genocidal intent, Myanmar army killed and maimed hundreds of Rohingyas from the Rakhine state. What started as an exodus of about 200,000 turned into 900,000 within a year- starting from August 25, 2017.
Till now the Rohingyas have been lucky as the pre-monsoon cyclones, which normally lash this part of the disaster-prone country, did not rage. The relief of the refugees and the humanitarian agencies is chastened by the knowledge that the most murderous and devastating cyclones normally come post-monsoon in the months between September-November.
Living in cramped spaces with nowhere to go, a cyclone would be catastrophic. The fear is that strong winds that go up to 200 kilometres/hour along with high tidal waves, which normally destroy sturdier structures, will blow away the thatched huts built on slippery loamy soil. "There is nothing really that can be done to save them if the cyclone hits these parts", helplessly explained disaster experts.
What about the planned shift of these refugees to the Bay of Bengal Island, Bhashan Char? According to information coming from Dhaka, the island is water logged after recent rains and would experience severe devastation if cyclonic winds came swirling in. It is learnt that Chinese, Bangladesh and British construction companies have readied the infrastructure in the island to receive the refugees, but the authorities are most reluctant to allow the humanitarian agencies from inspecting it. Earlier, Bangladesh government had planned to send about 100,000 refugees to this island where they would have been housed in 1440 barrack houses and 120 central shelters. The problem with Bhashan Char is that it gets inundated during floods and it needs dykes and cyclone shelters if it has to be an abode for these refugees. The government of Sheikh Hasina was very keen to send the Rohingyas away to the island before the parliament elections to mollify the nationalist constituency in the country that wants the refugees to return to Myanmar and to stay away from local people. Ordinary Bangladeshis conveyed to this writer that they were not fond of the refugees as they believed that they were a drain on the resources of a poor country. This is despite the fact that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been trying hard to show that Bangladesh is no longer a least developed country and has a big heart to look after the refugees.
What has perhaps serious security implications is if the refugees, in the wake of the natural calamity, try to get away from the camp- either through the sea route or take the roads that take them to India and beyond. What about the army that prevents from immersing them with the local population? "Bangladesh army and authorities would be happy if the refugees go anywhere in the world. That's the ultimate objective," explains an official.
What could be a cause for worry for those mandated to look after national security is that many of these refugees will head towards India, Indonesia, Middle East and even Europe. Though the radicalisation in the camp is invisible, there have been attempts by some charitable organisations- camouflaging their radical Islamist past- to convert these refugees to their cause. However, there is no understanding of how the survivors will react when they find living impossible in these camps. Recently, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) had tried to look for fresh recruits from refugee camps, but they were chased out and told that that they had created enough problems and that they should not dare to come close to them. The precipitating factor for the refugee exodus that took place a year ago was linked to ARSA's attack on the Burmese military.
Indians have displayed little initiative in sorting out the Rohingya issue. They have provided humanitarian aid to the refugees in Cox's Bazaar, but they are seen to be on the right side of the government and the army in Yangon, which perceives Rohingyas as a problem. This is a tricky space to be in-if Delhi is not putting its good offices to work in finding a workable solution for the return to their homes, then the next tragedy will bring them back in bigger numbers through different routes.
In the north Indian city of Jammu, large hoardings have sprung up demanding the ouster of Rohingyas – the persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar, some of whom have been forced to live here as refugees – as they supposedly constitute a threat to the local culture. The timing of these hoardings is unusual. Living quietly and unobtrusively for the past six years, these Rohingya refugees, scattered in different parts of the country, never attracted much attention. Over the past few months there has been a change in the way they are being perceived. Suspicion has replaced sympathy in Delhi's foreign policy circles ever since Pakistan and other Muslim nations began to plead the Rohingyas' case and reports began to appear about their flirtation with radical Islam.
India, instead, is working towards finding ways to get them ousted from the camps that are dispersed in different parts of the country. After the rise of ARSA in Rakhine state, the intel agencies have been claiming the Rohingyas as a terror threat, though there have been no incidents reported, except some minor felonies. Some humanitarian agencies have taken the issue of Rohingya refugees to the Supreme Court seeking more hygienic conditions. The Indian government asked the Court to stay out of this issue as it concerns national security. It was the government's view that the issue of terror was closely linked with infiltration and it was the sovereign right of every country to protect its borders. Also, India was not a signatory of the UN Convention on Refugees and hence it was not obligated to accept them. This is a harsh response to lawyers of Rohingyas that wanted them to be treated like refugees from other countries that are living in India.
Coming days and weeks will show how this looming crisis plays out.