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Word Of The Week! "Esports"
The world of Esports can be a confusing one. Luckily I am here to bring you up to speed!
Hello everyone! And welcome to the Esports Savvity. As someone new to this community it may become overwhelming with the amount of jargon within the scene. Therefore, Word of the Week will aim to help describe what many of these terms are, so that no one is left behind in the complex (but immensely enjoyable) world of Esports!
So, what better way to start Word of the Day than to define Esports?
Put simply, Esports (short for Electronic Sports, think email) is any competition which involves playing a video game for a cash prize. The types of games that can be played in an Esport setting include individual competition, where one player will directly face another, or a team setting, where small teams battle for supremacy. The type of game can vary, from first person shooters, to MOBAs (spoiler for next weeks Word of the Week!), to racing games.
The scale of Esports is growing, and fast. What was once a niche activity for pocket change has since evolved into a huge international industry, with the winner of a worldwide competition in DOTA 2 recently awarded in excess of $10,000,000 for their efforts. And the audience? While mostly online, Esports has the power to pull in over 25 million unique viewers (Source via ESL), with that number only expected to grow in the future.
Photo by Lignel Victor on Unsplash
http://www.dota2.com/international/overview/
https://www.eslgaming.com/news/esl-one-cologne-2015-worlds-biggest-and-most-watched-counter-strike-global-offensive-event-date-2256
Really informative! What are the most popular games?
#1 Among the most popular games are League of Legends and Dota (which are one genre of games), as well as Counter Strike and Overwatch, which are another!
DOTA could be a dictionary entry here since its an acronym for "Dawn of the ancients". Before I knew, when my kids talked about DOTA, I didn't understand a word they were saying. :-)
That's a good idea. I think there should be several dictionary entries for this community so that I can understand what is going on! haha otherwise, it feels too much like another language.

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What's on my mind?
Welcome to my humble online abode! My name is Levon Demirdjian and I'm a freshly minted PhD from the Department of Statistics at UCLA. My guiding philosophy in work, as in life, is simple:
Improve human health and well-being by harnessing the powers of big data.
As a professional statistician/data scientist, my research has focused on developing models for extracting knowledge from the vast amounts of biological and genetic data being generated by next-generation sequencing methods like RNA-Seq. I am convinced that such models will not only generate important scientific breakthroughs but will ultimately contribute to a more thorough understanding of human health and provide potential avenues for combating illness and disease.
I completed my PhD under the guidance of two extraordinary advisors; Dr. Ying Nian Wu in the Department of Statistics, and Dr. Yi Xing in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics.
Update: 07/12/2018
I am incredibly excited to be joining Dr. Yi Xing in August at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as a postdoctoral fellow in the newly founded Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine! Read the press release for our new center here.
Decoding the human genome
We live in an age of unprecedented scientific and technological breakthroughs which are largely attributable to so-called "big data." However, the generation of data, i.e. information, is not the same thing as the generation of knowledge. Nowhere is this disparity between information and knowledge more apparent than in the realm of human genomics.
Our genome is composed of nearly 3 billion base pairs, and keep in mind that this information is located in nearly every cell of our bodies. To put that staggering number into perspective, the Wellcome Trust in London created a physical library of books containing the entire DNA sequence of a human reference genome. According to the Wellcome Collection, "The 3.4 billion units of DNA code translate into over a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small that it is barely legible."
Printout of a human reference genome displayed in the Wellcome Collection in London. Image Credit: Russ London at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
One of the 1000 pages from one of the nearly 100 books in the Wellcome Collection.
Now, if information and knowledge really were the same thing, we should be able to look at the raw genetic data pictured above and learn something meaningful about this particular stretch of DNA. Cleary this is not the case (unless you have some superhuman capabilities).
How do we begin to make sense of this deluge of data?
Enter bioinformatics, a discipline which leverages computer science, biology, mathematics, statistics, and machine learning in order to extract meaning from biological data. Modern advances in deep learning algorithms and computing power have allowed bioinformatics researchers to yield insights into the genome and transcriptome which would have been unattainable even 10 years ago.
Deep learning framework for analyzing alternative splicing using genomic sequences and RNA-seq data (Park et al 2018).
Not only have these modern technological advances shed light on the complex biological processes contributing to diseases like cancer, but they have also helped pave the way for novel approaches like immunotherapy for combating these diseases.
Levon (in Armenian Լեւոն, pronounced "Lev" as in "level" and "on" as in "bone") is a typical Armenian name given to boys. The name is mostly attributable to a line of Armenian kings that ruled Cilicia starting in the late 12th century A.D. with the reign of Levon I; under Levon I's rule, Cilician Armenia was established as a powerful and unified Christian state. The line ended in the late 14th century upon the surrender of Levon V to invading Ottoman forces. At the height of its power, the kingdom of Armenia was nearly 10 times as large as the current Republic of Armenia.
Demirdjian (in Armenian Տէմիրճեան, pronounced deh-MEERJ-yawn) roughly translates into "son of blacksmith", so my ancestors must have been metalworkers at some point in time. Armenian last names almost always end in either "ian" or "yan".
And in case you were wondering, Kardashian (not to be confused with Cardassian) literally translates into "stone sharpener", so our beloved celebrity family descends from a long line of stonemasons. Consider this my public service announcement for the year.
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The contempo elections to Bhutan's civic accumulation produced a achievement for the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT), a left-of-the-centre affair led by Dr Lotay Tshering. This was the third civic poll in the tiny Himalayan country back it switched to the autonomous arrangement of babyminding afterwards Bhutan's King gave up ability in 2007. And anniversary of the elections back the aboriginal in 2008 brought a new affair to ability starting with Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) spearheaded by above Prime Minister Jigme Thinley and followed by People's Autonomous Affair (PDP) led by approachable Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay and now the DNT.
The PDP accomplished third in the aboriginal annular of elections captivated in September with the DNT and the DPT advancing aboriginal and additional respectively. This set the date for the final run-off in October amid the top two contenders for power.
The aftereffect of the elections in Bhutan mattered to India conceivably added than any added of its neighbouring countries in South Asia—not aloof because the Himalayan nation has abysmal cultural and religious links with India but is additionally acute to New Delhi's civic aegis interests vis-à-vis China. That aegis aspect was best axiomatic during the 73-day eyeball-to-eyeball battle amid the armies of India and China in 2017 at Doklam plateau in Bhutan. India's best important affair was the Chinese army's bid to extend a alley appear the south which would accord Beijing accessible and beneath admission to a band of acreage alleged the "Chicken's Neck" accouterment basic acreage connectivity amid acreage India and its northeastern region. This cardinal area additionally has implications for any accessible resolution of the China-Bhutan border.
No wonder, anon afterwards the after-effects of the elections in Bhutan came out, Prime Minister Narendra Modi fabricated an important beat to Lotay Tshering, who is set to be the country's new premier, by speaking to him on the buzz and articulating the ample pillars of India's action appear its arctic neighbour. The acceptation of Bhutan is additionally axiomatic in the actuality that it was Modi's aboriginal anchorage of alarm abroad afterwards d ability in May 2014.
India has its assignment cut out in agreeable with the new administration in Bhutan for the simple acumen that the DNT is a analogously new amateur in that country's political amphitheatre as the affair was formed aloof bristles years ago. India has a two-pronged objective: (1) accidental to Bhutan's bread-and-er development which has consistently been the ascendant affair in the country's elections and (2) cementing Bhutan's cooperation in accepting India's civic security.
The relations amid India and Bhutan accept acquired a lot anytime back the Himalayan commonwealth emerged from the caliginosity of the cachet of actuality a antecedents beneath British India till 1947. Aloof two years later, India and Bhutan active a accord accord to anatomy mutual ties from a avant-garde angle and in a arrangement in accompany with their continuing as two absolute countries. However, one accouterment of the 1949 treaty, that was broadly apparent as a bequest affair not accordant with the post-1947 situation, fabricated it binding for Bhutan to be guided by India's admonition on the conduct of its adopted action and access New Delhi's nod for accoutrements imports.
That India did not baffle in Bhutan's adopted action was axiomatic alike afore the 1949 accord was revised. Savour these instances: Bhutan sided with China and others on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge affair at the Non-Aligned Movement's acme in Havana in 1979, did not chase India's attitude on the cachet of landlocked countries at the United Nations, active the Non-Proliferation Accord in 1985 (India is still not a attestant to it because it considers the accord discriminatory) and accurate Pakistan's Nuclear-Free Zone South Asia proposal.
Fast advanced to the 21st century, Bhutan withdrew from the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicle Agreement for the adjustment of commuter and burden cartage active in June 2015 citation ecology concerns.
However, Bhutan has consistently stood by India and taken affliction of the latter's aegis interests. One of its finest examples came back King Jigme Singye Wangchuck himself led his troops to action the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) insurgents in Assam. Prior to that, Thimphu sided with New Delhi during the Sino-India war of 1962 and Bhutan was amid the aboriginal countries to abutment Bangladesh's alarm for independence.
But strains in ties amid Thimphu and New Delhi alike in 2012 afterwards a affair amid DPT baton and the again Bhutan Prime Minister Jigme Thinley and Chinese Arch Wen Jiabao in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. The affair did not go bottomward able-bodied with New Delhi. In the countdown to the Bhutanese accepted acclamation in July 2013, India bargain subsidies on affable gas and kerosene supplied by India. The DPT's defeat in the acclamation tended to reinforce a acumen about India's ascendant addiction in ambidextrous with its abate neighbours and brought into catechism the acumen of castigating measures adjoin Bhutan, abundant like criticism in India of the bread-and-er barricade of Nepal in 2015. The 2013 adventure had additionally triggered murmurs of dejection and apprehension as reflected in the amusing media in Bhutan about India's subsidy cuts.
India should never booty for accepted its relations with any of its South Asian neighbours. Prime Minister Modi's blast chat with Dr Lotay Tshering laid out the two key ambit of the approaching of India's beat to Bhutan: (1) India attaches the accomplished antecedence to added deepening "unique ties" of accord and cooperation with Bhutan, based on aggregate interests and absolute trust, and (2) abundance of India's charge to assignment with the new government in Bhutan in its civic efforts for bread-and-er abundance based on priorities and interests of Bhutan. Clearly, aggregate aegis interests and assurance are the keywords in India-Bhutan relations.
Pallab Bhattacharya is a appropriate contributor to The Daily Star.


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Q: MatLab - retype double to Neural Network I need to retype the array of double to the net.
I have a code from: https://github.com/jwyang/face-alignment, but I can't make it work.
The error is in the function train from the file globalregression.m which requires as a first argument a data type net.

My attempts
At first I was trying to retype it with the tonndata function, but it didn't help because tonndata retyped deltashapes to cell:
parfor o = 1:size(deltashapes, 2)
    model = train(tonndata(deltashapes(:, o),true,false), sparse(binaryfeatures), param);
    W_liblinear(:, o) = model.w';
end

Then I ran into a function feedforwardnet, but I don't know how to pass my data from the variable deltashapes.

Report of the error
Error using globalregression>(parfor body) (line 48)
An UndefinedFunction error was thrown on the workers for 'train'.  This might be because the file containing 'train' is not
accessible on the workers.  Use addAttachedFiles(pool, files) to specify the required files to be attached.  See the
documentation for 'parallel.Pool/addAttachedFiles' for more details.

Error in globalregression (line 47)
parfor o = 1:size(deltashapes, 2)

Error in train_model (line 227)
    [W, Data] = globalregression(binfeatures, Data, Param, s);

Caused by:
    Undefined function 'train' for input arguments of type 'double'.

My question
I need an advice about retyping double array to the neural net datatype in a simple way. I'm a total beginner with MatLab, so I'd appreciate a little more thorough explanation, if possible.

Links

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*tonndata function - www.mathworks.com/help/nnet/ref/tonndata.html

*feedforwardnet function - www.mathworks.com/help/nnet/ref/feedforwardnet.html

*train function - www.mathworks.com/help/nnet/ref/train.html

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Drummer Moe Carlson Leaves Protest The Hero; Lamb of God's Chris Adler Handling Session Drums For New Album
Jimmy Rowe
Ever since Protest the Hero obliterated their $125,000 crowd-sourcing goal, things have been fairly quiet on the band's front. Updates were few at first, but then they dropped off the face of the Earth since April. Personally, I didn't think much of it because I assumed the dudes were busy with the new album moving forward, but now the reason for silence is clear. Protest the Hero have undergone their first ever lineup change, with drummer Moe Carlson leaving the band to focus on his education. In his stead, Lamb of God's Chris Adler has stepped in to record drums for the band's upcoming album.
Via Facebook:
We know we have been silent for the past couple months while we record this beast, but we assure you it's almost done and is turning out extremely well. We plan on releasing our beloved "pupdates" throughout the summer while we set up to release this new album so stay tuned for that.
With all this incredible progress, however, we have some sad news. Our brother and friend Moe has decided to leave the band to go back to school in pursuit of some of his other passions. When our grueling studio schedule just wouldn't work with his grueling school schedule, we realized we would need to find a session player for the new album. With Moe's guidance and approval, we found us a nice match in Chris Adler! Having known Chris for a few years, and with he and Moe being drum-buddies, it seemed like a perfect fit. We are happy to say that Chris has already come and gone from Canada and has left us with some beautiful drum tracks.
Can't wait for you all to hear it!
AUX.TV has the exclusive announcement, so you can read the entire scoop there. This should prove an interesting dynamic; as said in the AUX.TV interview, Chris Adler is coming from a metal perspective while Protest the Hero are rooted in punk and hardcore. It may seam odd at first imagining the pairing, but it'll surely be awesome.
As always, we'll pass along new album information when it's made available.
– JR
Lamb of GodProtest the Hero
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Canada's Documentary Essentials: 'The Corporation'
by Jason Anderson
In 1886, a U.S. Supreme Court decision held that corporations were entitled to the same rights and protections enjoyed by flesh-and-blood individuals. Thanks to this kind of legal fancy footwork, which shielded
Documenting Noam and Recalling Peter
by Mark Achbar
"It took nothing more than a kitchen table chat over a bottle of scotch for us to decide to proceed together on the film that would become Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and
Surviving Progress
by Adam Nayman
September 1, 2011 February 27, 2022
Features/TIFF
Surviving Progress opens with an arresting series of images: a pair of chimpanzees puzzling over the correct placement of two wooden blocks in a white-walled laboratory.
State of the Art: US, UK and Canada
by Pepita Ferrari
November 1, 2009 April 22, 2022
How far has documentary film production come in the last 20 years since the landmark box office success of Michael Moore's Roger & Me?
The $4,149,561 Envelope—Please!
The Corporation paid Telefilm back in full and, unlike most Canadian dramas, is actually making a profit for the good citizens of Canada.
The Corporation: Bad apple or bad seed?
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Many of us belong to that category of citizens poetically described as the "walking worried." (Adelphia Communications: $2.5 billion bankruptcy.) We are those who realize that things have gone awry, but are


Comic Fury Webcomic Hosting - Critique or Review?
Forum > General discussion > Critique or Review?
Soooo ppl have been asking me to do reviews over critiques for a while bow, and I wanted to know what you guys think? The problem I'm having with this is that artists have been letting me review half created stories (and you can't give the story justice with it only half way written).
I think it's important to be precise about which you are doing, a critique or a review.
A review is something for readers to let them know if they should read something.
if you want I can send you 7 chapters (and online you got only 4 now) so I don't see any problem, but to review something which have just few pages is hard... I wouldn't do that till they won't have at least 3 chapters.


National HUD Funding Call-In Week!
Congress is back today and that means that federal funding issues are back on the docket!
Their return to DC offers us an opportunity this week to educate our Members of Congress on the importance of providing sufficient funding for HUD and its many low-income housing and homelessness programs before final agreements on FY 2014 funding are reached. This week is National Call-In Week!
Before Congress finalizes federal funding levels for another fiscal year, we must take this opportunity to impart to our Members the importance of housing and homelessness programs in our communities before a final deal is made.
We need YOU to call your Members' offices THIS WEEK to discuss the importance of these programs in your community and the need to provide MORE HUD FUNDING!
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Use these talking points to discuss the need for increased funding for HUD programs, particularly the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants.
Let me know which office(s) you contacted! Encourage others to make calls as well!
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Please make as many calls as you can and encourage your colleagues, Board members, clients, and anyone else who cares about HUD funding to make calls this week! You can use this sample action alert to help mobilize your own networks. It is important that we keep track of how many calls everyone has made so we can be sure to meet our goal, so please let us know how many calls you make!
Due to other pressing issues, it remains unclear when Congress will address FY 2014 funding; however, we do know that negotiations will begin in the next few weeks or even days. Therefore, it is extremely important that we get the message about the importance of robust HUD funding across to as many Members as possible.
Fiscal year 2014 begins in just a few short weeks on October 1 and Congress must pass some sort of legislation prior to this date to ensure the government is funded and does not shut down. That makes this week an ideal week to remind Members of the importance of HUD programs and the need to fully fund them!
Last week the Alliance and CSH hosted a webinar providing a funding update and recap for federal programs, with a particular focus on HUD funding.
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Boris Johnson might not be the next Tory leader – but his faction is in the ascendant
Ruth Davidson is popular among the grassroots, but as she is not an MP she can't stand.
Nineteenth-century diplomats described the détente between the two victors of the Napoleonic Wars, Prussia and Britain, as "the equilibrium of the elephant and the whale". The Prussian elephant was unbeatable on land but adrift at sea. The British whale was hegemonic in the oceans but impotent on the ground. So the two sides circled one other, each hoping that some innovation, or event, would tilt the balance decisively in their favour.
A similarly uneasy truce currently prevails between the Prime Minister and her Foreign Secretary. As Conservatives gathered for their party conference in Manchester, much of the commentary focused on Boris Johnson's complaints about Brexit and his quibbles over the structure of Whitehall. But that is missing the point. It is more telling that the Foreign Secretary tipped off broadcasters about the time of his arrival in the city, and rearranged his schedule to make the news bulletins. His objective is to become Conservative leader; the policy is merely the instrument.
However, one of his warbles is worth discussing because of what it reveals about his political style: his attempts to bring the Department for International Development back under the auspices of the Foreign Office. Johnson succeeded as London mayor because of his eye for a talented underling. Several of them are now MPs and one of them, James Cleverly, is regularly spoken of as a future Tory leader in his own right. Increasing the number of ministers in his own orbit may allow him to repeat the trick as a cabinet minister. Asserting the Foreign Office's dominance is also a signal to the Tory faithful that a Johnson government might prune the aid budget without provoking a fight with development organisations or pro-aid Conservative MPs.
These antics have put Johnson back at the top of YouGov's popularity ratings among Tory members. That makes him unsackable. After flirting with disloyalty for weeks, he gave a conference speech that was spotlessly on-message, combining the usual mixture of arcane words, bad jokes and uplifting platitudes, designed to make his activist audience feel good about themselves.
Yet Johnson's difficulty is that most Conservative MPs regard him in much the same way as the average African farmer regards an actual elephant: gallumphingly destructive but protected by a fearsomely good PR strategy. He doesn't have the parliamentary base to dislodge the Prime Minister, but she doesn't have the strength in the country to fire him either. So they circle one another, each hoping that something will beach the whale or tip the elephant into the sea.
Not everyone at the top of the party is as restrained as the Prime Minister. Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, spent much of the conference needling the Foreign Secretary. Without the 12 new seats that the Conservatives won in Scotland, they would have headed to Manchester as an opposition party, and she knows it. The Scottish campaign was the work of Davidson, from its backroom staff – she preferred to enlist James Kanagasooriam of Populus rather than rely on Mark Textor and Lynton Crosby, who crunched the numbers in England and Wales – to its central themes. She is determined to get the credit.
The 2017 campaign has cemented her position as de facto leader of the Conservatives' liberal wing, although in truth that is a role she has occupied since David Cameron left the political stage. Several aid charities believe her personal intervention ensured that May decided to maintain Cameron's commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on international development. Davidson's success in the 2016 Holyrood elections meant that even when May's stock was high, the Scottish Tory leader had the stature to sound a more sceptical note on Brexit and a warmer one on immigration.
Now that the Prime Minister is becalmed, Davidson and other centrists are empowered to entertain heresies. Among them is the MP George Freeman, one of the party's biggest brains, who has spent the week plainly laying out the extent of the Tories' unpopularity among voters under 50. The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, who offended her oldest allies with a virulently anti-immigration speech at last year's conference, neglected this time even to mention the Prime Minister's pet project, the net migration target.
Only MPs can run for Tory leader, so Davidson is barred. Liberal Tories are therefore rallying around Rudd. In an earlier incarnation, "champion of the centre ground" is a role Johnson might have filled himself, but his participation in the EU referendum campaign makes that impossible. He now hopes to emerge as the candidate of the party's pro-Leave ultras, hence his loud trumpeting about Brexit. But there are equally talented and more reliable options available to that wing of the party, such as David Davis.
Because both Davidson and Johnson are such lively speakers (and because of their personal animosity), it's tempting to see the next Tory leadership race as a battle between them. When asked to pick from a long list of names, 23 per cent of party members chose Johnson, followed by 19 per cent for Davidson. Yet as things stand, they will not be able to pick the Scottish politician, and Johnson's fellow MPs might well conspire to keep him out of the final two (and thus off the ballot that goes to members).
Instead, the most significant finding from YouGov's polling is this: on any calculation, the combined support for all the pro-migration, centrist Conservatives struggles to exceed a third of the party membership.
Boris Johnson might not be the future of the Conservative Party. But when the equilibrium between the elephant and the whale breaks down, the composition of the membership strongly suggests that someone like him will be.
Now listen to Stephen discussing the Conservative Party's future on the NS podcast:
› NS#237: The Tory Conference Special
This article appears in the 05 October 2017 issue of the New Statesman, How the rich got richer
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Is Zac Efron Dating Olympic Swimmer Sarah Bro?
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Is Zac Efron going for the gold?
Some fans are beginning to speculate that The Greatest Showman star may be dating Olympic swimmer Sarah Bro. Efron and the Danish athlete have not made any public posts about each other just yet, but there have been a few sightings and instances that feel like more than mere coincidences.
Bro swam for Denmark in the 4×100 meter relay during the 2016 Olympics.
On March 1, both the actor and Bro shared photos on Instagram of a night out at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game. Bro even wore a custom jersey. "Thank you @lakings for making my first hockey game something very special," she captioned a photo of herself in the locker room repping her customized gear. She noted that after just one game, she's "already a fan!"
That same day, Efron posted a selfie from the game where he's covering his eyes with his team hat.
The Kings played the Dallas Stars on Thursday, Feb. 28 (and lost).
Although the near-matching pictures from the Kings game could just be a fateful circumstance, they were actually seen together that same weekend.
The 31-year-old attended the UFC 235 fight in Las Vegas on March 2 and was photographed laughing and sitting next to Bro. TV cameras panned to him during the fight and he saluted the camera while she sat next to him and looked on.
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An eyewitness at the fight told E! News that they arrived together and "looked like they were having a great time." Efron and Bro apparently were "smiling and laughing in their seats" before the show.
"Zac was approached by multiple fans and Sarah was very patient as Zac spoke to everyone who approached him," the insider continued.
The two of them were reportedly "not overly publicly affectionate" and they "weren't doing anything to attract any additional attention." The two of them left the arena together after the fight.
Efron, of course, couldn't make the rounds at T-Mobile Arena because the 17 Again actor is recovering from a torn ACL and surgery. He showed off his massive knee brace in some of his Instagram Stories.
"I tore my ACL shredding the gnar. But all is good," he wrote on Instagram on Feb. 8 as the caption of him sitting in a hospital bed with a bandage and brace. Efron said he "opted for surgery so I can come back stronger than ever."
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On Tuesday, Bro posted a photo of a beautiful bouquet of flowers on her Instagram Story but didn't specify who gave her the floral arrangement. She did, however, add an emoji of pink hearts to the photo.
Although she hails from Copenhagen, the 23-year-old now resides in Los Angeles and seems to enjoy every minute of it. She frequently posts photos of herself swimming, spending a day at the beach, hiking and taking in the sunset. Efron is a California boy, too, and it feels all too appropriate that one of his upcoming movies is titled The Beach Bum. He's also a known surfing enthusiast, although that hobby has probably moved to the backburner since his ACL injury.
Efron previously dated his High School Musical co-star Vanessa Hudgens and was also linked to Baywatch actress Alexandra Daddario. He also started following fellow Disney celebSelena Gomez on Instagram last month. Granted, they both appeared in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and she is the second-most followed woman on Instagram. So does that make him a fan, a friend or just one of us 146 million other followers?
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The governing body is essential to the history of its people; it makes the history, sets the precedent and provides the stage.
This chapter lists those who have ruled over China and the region from the earliest record to present day.
The Republican Presidents section lists leaders following the Republican Revolution of 1912 until the Communist Revolution of 1949, then continues from 1949 to present day with leaders of the Republic of China on Taiwan.


We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated product and a random technology for producing it. Technologies differ in complexity and productivity, and technological sophistication is complementary to worker ability. We study the co-determination of growth and income inequality in both the closed and open economy, as well as the spillover effects of policy and conditions in one country to outcomes in others.
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The walls of wounded: The hospital under siege
With the outbreak of the Second World War, an increase in the cost to manage the hospital was compounded by the departure of the majority of the medical staff to serve in the military. Finally, the hospital was badly damaged on August 13, 1943 during one of the bombings of Milan. A nun present at that tragic moment recalled: "As soon as the alarm went off, we brought the children to safety. There were seventy of them: newborns, seriously ill infants on the verge of trauma: one died during the bombardment (…) Looking at those suffering faces, we offered their innocent suffering as penance for our sins (…) the smell of the bombs parched our throats and we thought of our tiny ill children already burning with fever and sickness. We sought to quench their thirst, and they, with their tiny eyes, looked at us as if to beg forgiveness for us."
The years of rebirth
With the end of World War II, the hospital began its refoundation. It underwent administrative, structural, and healthcare changes. The ever-closer relationship between medicine and economics led to the creation of a bursar office and treasury to deal with bureaucratic and economic issues. In 1949, the hospital counted 220 beds, but then-director Girolamo Taccone knew that quantitative growth had to go hand in hand with qualitative growth. Therefore, he proposed a center to study congenital heart defects from a medical, radiological, and surgical point of view. This would be a cutting-edge center where pediatric heart malformations were treated with innovative techniques pioneered by the new US cardiac surgeons.
The economic boom of the 60s
The laborious reconstruction after the war was followed by a slow start to the 50s, but by the 1960s, Italy was experiencing a real boom: the "economic miracle". And the Children's Hospital was at the forefront of this epochal transformation. Additions during these years included a department for premature babies, a mother-child wing, and a preventive human medicine center for pure, theoretical, and experimental research.
Vittore Buzzi, a philantropist
At the start of 1967, Vittore Buzzi, a well-known Milanese confectionary executive and philanthropist, expressed his desire – formalized in a notarial deed on July 7 – to make a donation of 500 million lire to the Milan Children's Hospital. On December 14 of that year, the assembly of benefactors accepted the donation, earmarking it for the construction of a long-awaited new wing for pediatrics and obstetrics. Concurrently, it was decided to change the hospital's name, rewriting the first article of the hospital's charter to read: "A specialized hospital for treating illness in children and pregnant mothers, named Vittore Buzzi Children's Hospital, is established." Thus was officially born, on July 28, 1968, the Vittore Buzzi Children's Hospital.
The new hospital institution law
In 1968, a law to reform health care and hospital institutions, better known as the "Mariotti Law", was passed. Even the Children's Hospital, created thanks to the generosity of 19th century philanthropy, was now faced with the need to increasingly justify its public vocation to improve the health of children.
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Pretty much every student comes in that disturbing juncture in her or his academic existence just where there is not adequate time and energy to extensive each of their designated essays.
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Z for Zachariah
Hands up who loves a bit of alone time! That's right, everyone on this busy, congested celestial body comprised of land, water and incessant "HAVE YOU BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT?!" phone calls has to get away from it all every now and then. However, if humans had always been purely solitary souls then we wouldn't even have the option to now pick up a call from Accidents4UDirect. Our ability to socialise and build bonds with one another has allowed us to pool resources like no other organism on Earth and deliver remarkable achievements.
And one of these 'achievements' is the development of nuclear weapons. Much more harrowing than any cold call from an industrial estate in Grimsby - where they seem genuinely thrilled if you've so much as received a papercut at work - nuclear weapons have the power to, amongst all manner of horrors, break down every single social bond ever developed by man. It's not implausible that, were a nuclear attack to unfold, many of the 'lucky' survivors would find themselves relegated to the position of social refugees.
Alone time, for those solitary survivors, would soon become an inescapable hell set in a futile landscape. Jean-Paul Sartre, however, in his play 'No Exit' wrote that "Hell is other people" and, when you take a look at Z for Zachariah, you'll be left thinking that maybe the French polymath had a point.
16 year old Ann Burden (Pippa Hinchley) lives in a remote, idyllic Welsh valley which, due to a meteorological quirk, has a weather system all of its own. And, by a stroke of luck, it's this geological oddity which has protected the valley from the after-effects - namely fallout - of a nuclear attack on the UK. Ann's father (David Daker), finding nothing but dead residents and wildlife in neighbouring villages, mounts an expedition further afield with their surviving neighbours and advises Ann to stay put and keep an eye on their farm.
However, Ann's father (and the rest of her family) never return, leaving Ann as the sole survivor (aside from her dog, Faro) in the valley. Tending to the farm as best she can, Ann carves out a solitary existence against the rolling hillsides and makes sure she avoids the one stream which has been irradiated, a conclusion she comes to due to the presence of dead fish (and a sheep) littering its flow. After some time, Ann spies a mysterious tent set up at the edge of the valley. Fearing the stranger within, Ann beats a hasty retreat up to a cave on the hillside to keep a distant watch.
Emerging from the tent is a figure clad in a radiation suit and pulling a trolley of scientific instruments behind him. After heading to the farm and carrying out a number of atmospheric checks, the figure decides that all is safe and removes the helmet of his radiation suit to reveal that he is John Loomis (Anthony Andrews). Overjoyed that he has found safe, inhabitable surroundings, Loomis fails to complete his environmental checks thoroughly and dives into the radioactive stream for a quick scrub.
Ann remains holed up in the cave in amongst her charcoal drawings and supplies, but Loomis soon becomes aware that he's not alone when Faro runs back to the farm for a quick spot of chicken before retreating back towards Ann's cave. Before Loomis has time to thoroughly explore the landscape, the radioactive effects of bathing in the stream begin to kick in and he's soon vomiting violently. Heading back to his tent in order to seek some form of protection from this mysterious source of radiation, Loomis is soon a shivering wreck; it's at this point that Ann finally decides to approach and offer help.
Upon learning that the stream he bathed in is radioactive, Loomis is distraught at his mistake but estimates that there's a small chance he may pull through due to a relatively short exposure time. During moments of relative clarity, Loomis reveals more of his background to Ann and the events following the war.
Nerve gas was deployed after the nuclear bombs to finish off any survivors, but Loomis' inexplicable survival is down to the radiation suit he possesses. A plastics researcher in Cambridge, Loomis was working on a special government financed project to develop polymers which could repel radiation. With the addition of sophisticated filters, the team was able to develop this into a radiation suit. Before the suit could go into production, however, war broke out with only a single prototype available. And it's this prototype which helped protect Loomis and keep him protected from contamination.
Loomis' health gradually deteriorates as anaemia kicks in and his mental health rapidly disintegrates with wild flashblacks to his time in Cambridge. Brought back to the farmhouse for Ann to look after him, Loomis seems wildly haunted by memories of his research colleague, Edward - at one point Loomis becomes convinced Edward is in the house and starts firing shots at the building. Keen to advise Ann on the best way to run the farm and produce crops, Loomis begins issuing orders which become increasingly aggressive.
Loomis slowly begins to recover, but his determination to take charge of the farm and Ann intensifies. Fearing for her safety after Loomis bursts into her bedroom one night and grabs wildly at her, Ann leaves the farmhouse and retreats to the cave on the hillside. Returning to the farmhouse to advise Loomis she has no choice but to form an uneasy alliance with him, Ann agrees to work alongside him, but live separately. Loomis dismisses her as immature and gradually shuts off her supplies which leads to a final, climatic showdown between the pair where Ann reveals that she knows the truth about Edward and what their future holds.
Dropping the Bomb
An adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's posthumous 1974 novel of the same name (albeit with the US swapped for Wales), Z for Zachariah aired under the Play for Today banner during the long running anthology's final year. The screenplay was adapted by Anthony Garner who was most commonly found in the director's chair and would later go on to direct episodes of Auf Wiedersehein, Pet and Soldier, Soldier. And, just for good measure, Garner directed his own script with Neil Zeiger acting as producer - Zeiger, of course, also acted as producer on several episodes of spin off anthology series Play for Tomorrow.
Z for Zachariah received just one airing in February 1984 on a Tuesday evening at 9.35pm with the play running to just under two hours. Although no repeats were forthcoming, the play received constant exposure to a generation of British schoolchildren as O'Brien's novel formed part of the curriculum at the time, so teachers were keen to plonk pupils down in front of this for two hours of additional learning - most of the pupils who watched the play at school recall feeling depressed by the narrative, but tickled pink by the sudden bursts of nudity.
On a Hillside Desolate
The early to mid 1980s experienced somewhat of a boom in post-apocalyptic nuclear fiction what with Threads terrifying a nation, When the Wind Blows breaking everyone's hearts and Testament providing an American take on such unimaginable atrocities. And nestled away in there lies the BBC's adaptation of Z for Zachariah, a play which, to be honest, I hadn't even heard of despite my love of depressingly bleak nuclear tales and Hollywood's recent attempt at translating Robert C. O'Brien's prose into a visual affair.
As with all retro television, though, Z for Zachariah eventually came into the crosshairs of my curious target. Although a rip of the original 1984 broadcast has managed to survive the years and make it online, it's a below average rip and lacks any real sharpness. It's watchable enough on a computer screen, but I hope to dear God that a better version turns up one day - BBC, please take note that a complete Play for Today box set is somewhat of an essential despite the commercial suicide of it for yourselves, ta!
Anyway, the murkyness of the picture actually complements the feel of the play, so I guess it's not entirely negative. And what a murky, uncomfortable atmosphere Z for Zachariah produces. Sure, it's not as starkly harrowing as Threads (but what is?) and the tear jerking, tragic Britishness of When the Wind Blows is a million miles away, but the displacement of humanity from any sense of social or moral structure is laid bare.
Shielded from the disturbing realities of what's been happening outside of the valley, Ann doesn't quite bear the mental scars of death and destruction, but she still has to suffer the complete loss of her family. Her eventual acceptance that they aren't returning manifests itself nicely in one scene where Ann heads to the bathroom to collect up her family's toothbrushes and bins them with, crucially, a bunch of flowers which have withered and died. Thanks to the ecosystem of the valley, life goes on as normal as it can with Ann having to help deliver calves and tend to crops.
Loomis' appearance suddenly shatters the fragile take on normality that Ann is clinging on to and the radiation suit clad figure that treks down to the farm is a terrifying sight. A sanitised, faceless harbinger of goodness knows what, Loomis is, at first, a disturbing indicator of the new world. Removing his helmet, though, adds some humanity and his naked, joyous form splashing about in the stream hints at the hardships he's endured to celebrate such a basic act. This celebration at his apparent sanctity, however, is soon soured and sends Z for Zachariah into an even more disturbing place.
Again, unlike Threads or the graphic realities of QED: A Guide to Armageddon, the effects of radiation sickness shown in Z for Zachariah aren't quite as disturbing as those seen in other on-screen depictions of nuclear war, but Loomis suffers a relatively small dose and the need for bleeding orifices isn't necessarily essential here. Nonetheless, at the time, Anthony Andrews commented in the Radio Times that it took up to four hours in makeup to become a convincing victim and he certainly doesn't look too chipper with the accompanying hairloss and sore filled face.
Loomis' mental decline also drives Z for Zachariah and marks it out as much more of a psychological thriller than its peers. On his arrival at the farm, Loomis is a softly spoken, charming chap who is grateful to receive Ann's care and seems genuinely moved by the simple pleasure of hearing Ann play the piano. However, given the hell he describes of unfolding in Cambridge as nuclear weapons and nerve gas were deployed, it's no surprise that he appears to be suffering some form of post traumatic stress. And his mental state is eroded further by the effects of radiation sickness.
As a result, Loomis is set up as being, on the surface, a megalomaniac hellbent on controlling the valley and Ann. However, it's a mindset shaped by his surroundings and, instead, I believe Loomis is meant to represent the disturbing side effects of science's advances. And this plays in nicely with the striking dichotomny of Ann's simpler, more natural outlook on life, a purity which, ultimately, helps her to prevail without the need for tinkering with the elements of her environment too much.
Ann's 'victory' however has that feeling of being very short term though. Loomis initial musings about a colony represent the best choice of survival and his determination to rotate crops effectively represents the future. Hell isn't necessarily other people in the Z for Zachariah universe and, instead, co-existence appears to be the way forwards, but it's an existence which needs to be carefully measured. Loomis, perhaps, wants to get the country back to a level where science can once more be harnessed and this could be highly reductive given the situation it has led to.
It's all hypothetical, of course, but there are so many themes writhing around in Z for Zachariah that its purely down to the viewer to interpret.
What can't be argued about, though, is the ability of the two leads. Pippa Hinchley has a precocious talent and embodies the naive purity of Ann with a talented ease whilst Anthony Andrews shows his obvious talents with a multilayered performance which visits almost every aspect of the human psyche. And, although the play is long, Z for Zachariah never really feels as though it's outstaying its welcome despite comprising just two actors who often embark on long, dialogue free solo scenes.
Although not as iconic as other post-apocalyptic slices of fiction, Z for Zachariah provides plenty of debate and represents an intriguing branch of the genre.
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