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Tensions Rise in the Mediterranean: Turkey Threatens Greece and Slams EU Policies
Greece has called for NATO and the UN to condemn Erdogan's recent provocations of war while Turkey also opposes EU call for price-capping Russian gas, warning the EU not to underestimate Russia
byLauren Richards
in Politics & Foreign Affairs, Society
As the summer sun sets on the Mediterranean, September so far has been a month of provocative rhetoric, decades-old bilateral tension, and political contradiction for the region.
The friction between Turkey and Greece over Aegean Island occupancy has once again escalated, in an eclectic mix of threatening comments, accusations, and written outcries to the UN, EU and NATO, Greece has now warned Turkey's "inflammatory" words could soon turn into war.
Earlier this year in July, Turkish President Erdogan claimed Turkey had no interest in conflict with their Greek NATO ally and neighbor, expressing only concerns over Greece's airspace violations.
Since then, things have heated up.
Over the past few weeks President Erdogan has embarked on an antagonistic narrative of accusation, war provocation, and insult against neighboring state and age-old rival Greece.
His intentions are now being called into question as a pattern of aggression emerges.
After beginning September by publicly addressing his nation to ask "Are we ready for the attack of 2023?" Erdogan began his paper trail of invasion-justifying evidence by sending a trio of letters to the UN, EU and NATO accusing Greece of "unlawful actions" in the Aegean.
Turkey claims claims Greece has violated international agreements by upping their military occupancy on the demilitarized Aegean islands close to Turkey's coastline, as well as harassing Turkish fighter jets over the Mediterranean.
In the Photo: Satellite image of Aegean Islands between Greek and Turkish mainlands. Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory.
Erdogan's accusations evolved further last weekend, as he issued the translucent threat that "when the time, the hour, comes" Turkey is poised to "do what's necessary" and "may come down suddenly one night."
This exact phrase has been used before by Erdogan, to hint at imminent invasion (Cyprus, Syria, Iraq) and his willingness to use aggressive military force on perceived existential threats to Turkey, therefore is a preluding rhetoric that has historically led to action.
Naturally, Greece is concerned.
Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias has stated his nation will not rise to Turkey's provocation, and instead responded by issuing letters to the UN, EU and NATO, outlining his severe concern about the "openly threatening nature and tone" of Erdogan's recent "unprovoked" and "inflammatory statements," adding that he felt they were an "insult against Greece and Greek people."
Turkey is attempting to turn back the clock of history, to revive the Ottoman Empire. The 🇹🇷 side's actions & statements are not acceptable. We are neither intimidated nor afraid. We completely reject neo-οttoman "daylikia" (bullying) (statements with 🇫🇷 FM @MinColonna). pic.twitter.com/mHB2RkF5uv
— Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) September 7, 2022
The acuteness of Greece's concerns stems not only from the recent thinly-veiled threat of war, but also the President's hostile warnings on Turkish "Victory Day" — the 100th anniversary of the Greek-Turkish war.
Erdogan warned if Greece "go too far, the price will be heavy" and that Turkey has "one thing to say to Greece: Remember Izmir," drawing on a historical conflict between the neighbors in which Greece was overpowered.
Dendias' statement to the intergovernmental organizations zero's in on the severity and symbolism of Erdogan's recent polarizing speeches, serving both as a call for help and a call to action to prevent destabilization of the wider region.
He urges the international community to condemn Turkey's behavior, as "by not doing so in time or by underestimating the seriousness of the matter, we risk witnessing again a situation similar to that currently unfolding in some other part of our continent," drawing a parallel to the Ukrainian war.
On Wednesday, during a Serbian press conference as part of Erdogan's recent Balkan tour, the Turkish President also reflected on the Russian invasion and ensuing war in Ukraine.
He ambivalently and somewhat ironically remarked that "there are no winners in this war," and ended by saying "he hopes that the world will reach peace once again;" a statement of which the gravity is certainly tarnished by his recent openly provocative threats of Greek invasion.
The press conference marked Erdogan's "tete-a-tete" with his "dear friend" Serbian President Aleksandar Vuvic, to strengthen ties and exchange views on the preservation of peace, energy crisis, and EU sanctions on Russia.
When questioned about the gas supply crisis, Erdogan openly opposed the EU's proposed policies to implement a price-cap on imported Russian gas in saying "there's no need to list the names, but I can clearly say that I do not find the stance that the West is adopting is correct."
He proceeded to justify his criticism by accusing the West of "leading a policy based on provocation," warning that with this strategy it would "not be possible to achieve a result there."
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The grand finale of revealing his shocking contempt on EU policy was a stern warning to "those countries who are underestimating Russia, you are making a mistake – Russia is no country to be underestimated."
Vuvic mirrored this perspective by saying "if one really thinks to defeat Russia militarily, then we will have to prepare not only for a cold winter but a polar winter."
The timing of Erdogan's Greek antagonism and vocal dissent of Russian-opposed European actions alludes to an unclear but polarizing larger picture of Turkey's plans for the future.
How to interpret Turkey's rising antagonism to both Greece and the EU
Angelos Syrigos, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, has also remarked how the pattern of Erdogan's recent attitude, words and actions mirrors that of previous Turkish invasions, and suggests that this mimicry is deliberate.
"No other leader moves at such a pace of threats for so many weeks" Syrigos states, in alignment with Foriegn Minister Dendias' pledge for Erdogan's approach to be "seen in it's true dimensions, for what it really is."
Syrigos has warned that "Erdogan's message was 'pay attention because we are ready'."
In his own words, Erdogan reflected on his recent threats by reminding Greece "what I'm talking about is not a dream."
Greece and Turkey are no strangers to conflict and jeopardizing the stability of their NATO alliance — this is the fourth time the neighbors have come close to war in the last 50 years.
Their bad blood surrounding boundaries, airspace, and territorial waters, not to mention their long-term contention over Cyprus, tracks back decades and has fueled the bilateral tension that continues both in the sea and in the air.
The Turkish and Greek claims on airspace bleed into one another significantly, and regularly result in accusations of airspace violation coming from both powers.
In the Photo: Greek Hellenic Air Force fighter jet, the subject of Turkey's accusations. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
A particularly sore point has consistently been Greek sovereignty over the Aegean islands, the alleged pinnacle of Erdogan's recent complaints to NATO over Greek militarisation of the island.
Ankara purports that the post-second world war transfer of the Aegean islands to Greece ownership was only agreed under the conditions that they remain demilitarized. Athens says this is "absurd."
Disputes over marine territory and island sovereignty also continue to build up tension between the pair, in particular with respect to the migrant crisis that is intensifying in the Mediterranean.
Illegal pushbacks in Greece, as well as disputes over land ownership and responsibility are costing refugees their lives.
A recent investigation by activist organization "Forensic Architecture" has shown satellite evidence of migrant boats that have been intercepted by Greek authorities, only to later be found drifting alone and unassisted in Turkish waters.
Visit Forensic Architecture's "Drift Backs in the Aegean Sea" full investigation and interactive report.
Both the EU and US State Department have shown support for Greece in condemning Erdogan's threats that they say are "unhelpful," "raise serious concerns," and have requested that Turkey should imminently "work on de-escalating tensions in a sustainable way in the interest of regional stability."
With both Greek and Turkish elections looming next year, the fallout of this recent bilateral tension will have great implications for the future leadership of the two nations.
It is expected that Erdogan's 20-year rule over Turkey will be challenged significantly by the upcoming 2023 election, which may well be part of the reason for the recent escalation in his public antagonism against Greece and other European states. Only time will tell what the future holds for Turkey and Erdogan's intentions in Europe going forward.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed here by the authors are their own, not those of Impakter.com — In the Featured Photo: Turkish flag and monument. Featured Photo Credit: pxhere.com.
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The U.S. District Court for New Mexico announced Thursday that Trump will be making his nomination for the federal judiciary.
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Her mind is logged with boredom. She doesn't admit to seeing the difference in intelligence or appearances. Everything is color bound.
She is prejudiced about color. She sees no other variegations in talent, intelligence, mania or depression.
Jada is one of the privileged, loved, coddled millionaires in Hollywood. There are decapitations in Syria and veterans walking around without legs. But all she cares about is the spoiled under-representation of African Americans at awards shows.
She is so superficial that her depth is on her surface. A young girl is dying of cancer in the hospital? Does she care? All she cares about is the Oscars. She is a whiny, self-loving, bitter, illogical complaint in a caucus of complainers.
Jada is a nouveau riche crybaby. She has become a rich white woman in black skin.
Did she actually see her husband in this? He was a monolithic, boring, clichéd imitation of an African. He exaggerated his lack of nuance and was a Grade B actor.
In her land of bigotry Jada doesn't say that her husband contributed a lot of money to anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan. It seems the whole family is prejudiced while she points her finger at other's imagined bigotry.
Perhaps there are no blacks nominated this year because no one was exceptional. Blacks and liberal whites are always making excuses for themselves. They cite that there are too many blacks in jail. They don't mourn that too many blacks are committing crimes and that something should be done to educate them against bad behavior.
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import argparse
import ConfigParser
import logging
import json
import os

import daemon
import gerritlib.gerrit
import paho.mqtt.publish as publish

try:
    import daemon.pidlockfile
    pid_file_module = daemon.pidlockfile
except Exception:
    # as of python-daemon 1.6 it doesn't bundle pidlockfile anymore
    # instead it depends on lockfile-0.9.1
    import daemon.pidfile
    pid_file_module = daemon.pidfile

log = logging.getLogger('germqtt')

class GerritStream(object):

    def __init__(self, user, host, key, thread=True, port=29418):
        self.gerrit = gerritlib.gerrit.Gerrit(host, user, port, key)
        if thread:
            self.gerrit.startWatching()

    def get_event(self):
        return self.gerrit.getEvent()

class PushMQTT(object):
    def __init__(self, hostname, port=1883, client_id=None,
                 keepalive=60, will=None, auth=None, tls=None):
        self.hostname = hostname
        self.port = port
        self.client_id = client_id
        self.keepalive = 60
        self.will = will
        self.auth = auth
        self.tls = tls

    def publish_single(self, topic, msg):
        publish.single(topic, msg, hostname=self.hostname,
                       port=self.port, client_id=self.client_id,
                       keepalive=self.keepalive, will=self.will,
                       auth=self.auth, tls=self.tls)

    def publish_multiple(self, topic, msg):
        publish.multiple(topic, msg, hostname=self.hostname,
                         port=self.port, client_id=self.client_id,
                         keepalive=self.keepalive, will=self.will,
                         auth=self.auth, tls=self.tls)

def get_options():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Daemon to publish a gerrit event stream on MQTT")
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--foreground',
                        default=False,
                        action='store_true',
                        help="Run in foreground")
    parser.add_argument('conffile', nargs=1, help="Configuration file")
    return parser.parse_args()

def get_topic(base_topic, event):
    project = event.get('project', '')
    event_type = event.get('type', '')
    if not project:
        if 'change' in event:
            project = event['change'].get('project', '')
        elif 'refUpdate' in event:
            project = event['refUpdate'].get('project', '')
    pieces = [base_topic, project, event_type]
    topic = "/".join(pieces)
    return topic

def _main(args, config):
    if config.has_option('gerrit', 'port'):
        port = config.get('gerrit', 'port')
    else:
        port = 29418
    gerrit = GerritStream(
        config.get('gerrit', 'username'),
        config.get('gerrit', 'hostname'),
        config.get('gerrit', 'key'),
        port=port)

    if config.has_option('mqtt', 'port'):
        mqtt_port = config.get('mqtt', 'port')
    else:
        mqtt_port = 1883
    if config.has_option('mqtt', 'keepalive'):
        keepalive = config.get('mqtt', 'keepalive')
    else:
        keepalive = 60

    mqttqueue = PushMQTT(
        config.get('mqtt', 'hostname'),
        port=mqtt_port,
        keepalive=keepalive)

    base_topic = config.get('mqtt', 'topic')
    while True:
        event = gerrit.get_event()
        topic = get_topic(base_topic, event)
        if event:
            mqttqueue.publish_single(topic, json.dumps(event))

def main():
    args = get_options()
    config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    config.read(args.conffile)

    if config.has_option('default', 'pidfile'):
        pid_fn = os.path.expanduser(config.get('default', 'pidfile'))
    else:
        pid_fn = '/var/run/germqtt.pid'

    if args.foreground:
        _main(args, config)
    else:
        pid = pid_file_module.TimeoutPIDLockFile(pid_fn, 10)
        with daemon.DaemonContext(pidfile=pid):
            _main(args, config)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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Theme: Parenting Fears: Before we became parents, we likely all had worries about what parenting would be like or who our future kids would turn out to be. What fears have come true, and what was not worth worrying about? What concerns do you have for the future about your own capacity to parent, your kids' outcomes, or the sometimes scary world we live in?
Now, I actually have a little insight to offer into Jacquelyn's decision to do away with soap and haircare products — unlike Hoda and Kathie Lee — because I did my own experiments with baking soda and vinegar and then two months with water only, no soap, shampoo, conditioner, anything (except on my hands, which I continued to wash with soap).
I can therefore refute most of Hoda and Kathie Lee's objections to the idea and offer a more balanced view of the practice.
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We've now been cosleeping for six and a half years. And by cosleeping, I'm referring specifically to bed sharing. Just before Mikko was born, we bought a king-size mattress and put it on the floor of the single bedroom in our apartment. Even in the hospital, he slept in my arms, and once he came home, he slept beside us — and still is.
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BARTOW -- Miranda Jones and Michael Lewis agree with police on two points.
First, Jones and Lewis say they want to find their missing daughter.
Second, they accuse each other of not telling the truth about the disappearance of their child, Ta'niyah Leonard.
"Neither one of them is telling everything they know about Ta'niyah's disappearance," said Bartow police Detective David Reynolds. "We've haven't been able to corroborate either of their stories."
Ta'niyah was 11 months old in October 2002 when she disappeared from the Azalea Gardens apartments in Bartow. Jones, then 17, had left her daughter with Lewis, her boyfriend at the time and possibly Ta'niyah's father, while she went to visit friends. She returned the next morning, and that's where the stories diverge.
"My baby wasn't there," Jones said, "and Michael wouldn't tell me where she was."
Lewis, then 19, told authorities he gave the little girl back to Miranda that Sunday morning, and that's the last time he saw Ta'niyah.
Police officers dug through open fields and searched the homes of relatives in Bartow and around the state. They found nothing.
Though Ta'niyah's body hasn't been found, detectives are investigating her disappearance as they would a murder case.
Detectives took the case to the countywide Cold Case Assessment Team, a group of investigators, prosecutors, crime scene analysts and other experts that reviews unsolved cases to uncover new leads. The team suggested some interviewing techniques that might be used, but found few other stones that had been unturned.
Tommy Ray, a special agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement who organized the Cold Case Assessment Team, said the group came up with a few broad recommendations that detectives might consider.
"We also suggested that they go back to ground zero and start over, and that's what they're doing," Ray said. "Sometimes, a key piece of evidence may turn up early in the investigation, but it didn't seem to matter at the time. Later, though, it might turn out to be crucial."
Reynolds said detectives are poring through the case again, looking for hidden details.
They also commissioned an artist's rendering of what Ta'niyah might look like today, hoping someone might see the flier and recognize the child who would have turned 4 on Nov. 16.
"It's been more than three years since she disappeared," Reynolds said, "but in people's minds, she's still a baby. We needed to let them know that she's older now."
When Jones saw the rendering, she said she was stunned.
"It's hard to believe she's that old now," she said. "I know in my heart that she's alive. I believe she's safe with Michael's family. I've gone down the road of trying to get answers from him, but he's not telling me anything."
He hasn't told investigators much either, according to Reynolds.
"We talked briefly on the phone the day Ta'niyah disappeared," the detective said, "then he came to the station a few days later with his lawyer, and the lawyer did all the talking. All we know is he said he gave the baby back to Miranda that Sunday morning, and he doesn't know what happened after that."
Reynolds said Lewis didn't change his story when he was offered immunity from prosecution for any involvement he may have had.
Lewis could not be located for comment in this report, although messages were left with family and friends. Lakeland lawyer Rafael Echemendia, who represented Lewis when Ta'niyah disappeared, said his client maintains that he doesn't know where the child is.
Though three years have gone by, Jones said she remembers with clarity the day her daughter disappeared.
She said she'd gone back to see Lewis at the Azalea Gardens apartment that morning, but Ta'niyah wasn't there.
"I didn't see her or her stuff," she recalled. "Michael said she was at his friend's house over on Tee Circle."
Jones said she checked out the friend's house but came away empty. So she returned to confront Lewis.
Reynolds said Jones gave police a detailed account of her actions that day -- the people she'd talked to, the places she went -but her story didn't add up when detectives checked with those people.
"Miranda has been very cooperative when it comes to making herself available to us and calling us to see if there's anything new on the case," Reynolds said, "but parts of her story just don't come together with what other witnesses are telling us. That's a problem."
Jones also showed deception in two polygraph examinations, which creates another problem for detectives.
"We just feel that she's holding something back," Reynolds said. "She says she wants to find her daughter, but she's holding back."
Police did find evidence that she and Lewis physically fought when Jones returned to the apartment that Sunday morning, and they know Jones lost a tooth during the scuffle. But they're not sure who was attacking whom at the time.
"She had been in a fight and she had been battered," Reynolds said. "She had obvious injuries. She said Michael was coming at her, and he said he was defending himself because she was coming at him with a knife."
That struggle mirrored the couple's stormy, three-year relationship, fraught with arguments and frequent breakups.
Shortly after Jones learned she was pregnant with Ta'niyah, they broke up and Lewis moved to Gainesville to live with family, Jones said. He was gone when Ta'niyah was born in November 2002, and Jones was involved in another relationship that had started about the time Ta'niyah was conceived.
"That's why Ta'niyah's name is Leonard," she said. "We didn't really know who the father was."
Reynolds said detectives searched the homes of Lewis's relatives in Gainesville, but did not find Ta'nyiah or any indication that she had been there.
Lewis returned when Ta'niyah was 6 months old, Jones said. They were preparing for paternity testing when Ta'niyah disappeared.
"I think he took her because he didn't want to lose her," she said.
Jones, now 20, said she'll do whatever it takes to find her daughter.
"Wherever she is, I feel that she's alive and well," she said. "Every dream I've had is Michael bringing her back to me, or a stranger bringing her back to me. I really wish that somebody who is friends with (Michael's) people would tell us where she is. It's been too long.
"I don't think Michael would hurt her because I don't think he could live with that," she said.
Packages wrapped in bright Christmas paper remain stacked on a bench in Donna Manning's living room in Bartow, awaiting her granddaughter's return. They stand as a symbol of the family's faith that Ta'niyah will someday tear into them.
"We can't let ourselves believe that anything has happened to her," said Manning, the maternal grandmother.
Ripples from Ta'niyah's disappearance continue to haunt Jones more than three years after the little girl went missing. In October 2003, a year after she last saw Ta'niyah, Jones gave birth to another daughter, Ta'najah. She says Lewis is the baby's father.
"I went back to him because I thought he might tell me where Ta'niyah is," Jones said. "We weren't together very long, just long enough."
She saw her second daughter briefly before state welfare agents took the baby into foster care, alleging that Jones was an unfit parent. Jones said she had to terminate her parental rights and the child was adopted into another family.
Now she faces the same ordeal again, only this time her 16month-old son, Ta'narius Jones, is staying with Manning until a final hearing next month. Jones is permitted supervised visitation. Lewis is not the father.
"It's like losing Ta'niyah and Ta'najah all over again," Jones said. "It's so hard to know I have these babies out there, and I don't know where they are. The hardest part is the not knowing."
Anyone with information about Ta'nyiah Leonard should call Detective Dave Reynolds at 534-5034.
Suzie Schottelkotte can be reached at suzbiz@yahoo.com or 863-533-9070.


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Textured surfaces are known to play an important role in water-repellency and uptake for a number of creatures. While the influence of chemistry and surface roughness on the wettability of surfaces has been studied extensively, little is known about the role of larger objects such as hairs. Our work is directed towards rationalizing the benefits gained from hairy textures through a combined experimental and theoretical approach.
First, we are motivated by semi-aquatic mammals, who rely on fur for insulation underwater. We investigate the mechanism of dynamic air entrainment for hairy surfaces plunged in liquid. Hairy surfaces that are fabricated using laser cut molds and casting samples with PDMS are plunged into a fluid bath. Modeling the hairy texture as a network of capillary tubes, the imbibition speed of water into the hairs is obtained through a balance of hydrostatic pressure and viscous stress. The maximum diving depth that can be achieved before the hairs are wetted to the roots is predicted from a comparison of the diving speed and imbibition speed.
Second, motivated by nectar-drinking animals with hairy tongues, we investigate the reverse scenario, where a hairy surface is withdrawn from a bath of fluid, emerging with viscous liquid entrained in the hairy texture. The drainage of the liquid trapped between the texture is modeled using a Darcy-Brinkmann like approach. The amount of fluid that is entrained depends on the viscosity of the fluid, the density of the hairs, and the withdrawal speed. Both theory and experiments show that there is an optimal hair density to maximize fluid uptake.
Finally, we investigate drop impact on hairy surfaces. By varying the speed of the drop at impact and the spacing of the hairs, we observe a variety of behaviors. For dense hairs and low impact velocity, the liquid drop sits on top of the hair, similar to a Cassie-Baxter state. For higher impact velocity, and intermediate to high density of hairs, the drops penetrate through the surface, but the hairs resist their spreading. For low hair density and high impact velocity, the drops penetrate and eject droplets upon impact.
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Пауна () — город и муниципалитет в центральной части Колумбии, на территории департамента Бояка. Входит в состав  провинции.

История
Поселение, из которого позднее вырос город, было основано в 1776 году. Муниципалитет Пауна был выделен в отдельную административную единицу в 1842 году.

Географическое положение

Город расположен в западной части департамента, в гористой местности Восточной Кордильеры, на расстоянии приблизительно 68 километров к западу-северо-западу (WNW) от города Тунха, административного центра департамента. Абсолютная высота — 1532 метра над уровнем моря.
Муниципалитет Пауна граничит на востоке с территориями муниципалитетов Брисеньо и Тунунгуа, на юго-востоке — с муниципалитетом Кальдас, на юге — с муниципалитетом Марипи, на юго-западе — с муниципалитетом Сан-Пабло-де-Борбур, на северо-западе — с муниципалитетом Отанче, на севере и северо-востоке — с территорией департамента Сантандер. Площадь муниципалитета составляет 259 км².

Население
По данным Национального административного департамента статистики Колумбии, совокупная численность населения города и муниципалитета в 2015 году составляла 10 778 человек.
Динамика численности населения муниципалитета по годам:

Согласно данным переписи 2005 года мужчины составляли 53,6 % от населения Пауны, женщины — соответственно 46,4 %. В расовом отношении белые и метисы составляли 92,2 % от населения города; негры, мулаты и райсальцы — 7,8 %.
Уровень грамотности среди всего населения составлял 77,2 %.

Экономика
Основу экономики Пауны составляют сельское хозяйство, лесозаготовка, рыболовство и добыча полезных ископаемых.
71,2 % от общего числа городских и муниципальных предприятий составляют предприятия торговой сферы, 20,5 % — предприятия сферы обслуживания, 7,9 % — промышленные предприятия, 0,4 % — предприятия иных отраслей экономики.

Транспорт
Через город проходит национальное шоссе № 60 ().

Примечания

Города Колумбии
Муниципалитеты департамента Бояка


Crossrail archeologists are unearthing the identities of some of the 5,000 Londoners buried in the Bedlam burial ground at Liverpool Street.
Volunteers have been scouring parish records to create a database of those interred in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Among those whose remains will be excavated in the spring are astrologer Dr John Lamb, an advisor to the First Duke of Buckingham and Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Lord Mayor of London in 1575.
While Dr Lamb was stoned to death by a mob following allegations of black magic, the commonest cause of death was the plague. Infant mortality and consumption also registered highly.
The burial ground was established in 1569 to help parishes cope with overcrowding during outbreaks of plague and other epidemics. Crossrail workers recently discovered the gravestone of Mary Godfree who died in September 1665, as a result of the Great Plague which peaked that year.
After excavation the skeletons will be reburied on consecrated ground. To date Crossrail has found more than 10,000 artefacts spanning 55million years of London's history across over 40 construction sites.
Her determination cleared a path for other women, and in 1876 a law was passed allowing women to enter the medical professions.


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Gaurav: Guru ji, pranam, as i was the student of science till high school i got 75% in sanskrit. Suddenly my life changed. I moved to sprituality and realized that i have to read veda shastras to increase my possition. When ever i m on net i search the gurukul where i can read properly . But still i couldn't find any way i dont want to lose my innerurge voice plz help me .
Swami Ramswarup: My blessings to you. It is your good luck that you tried to move to spiritualism because it is the ultimate target of human-life. You should try to make contact with learned acharya of Vedas and Ashtang yoga philosophy to gain spiritual knowledge because I am away and cannot teach you from here. You may also make contact with local Arya samaj for the same.
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Afghan president Ashraf Ghani condemned Sunday the reported massacre of dozens of civilians in a remote area of the war-torn country where the Taliban claimed a victory against military forces.
"Criminal terrorists have once again killed civilians, women and children in Sayad district of Sar-e Pul province, adding to their crimes.
"This barbaric act of them is deemed a direct violation of human rights and a war crime," Ghani said in a statement.
The comments came after the governor of Sar-e Pul said that "as many as 30 to 40 innocent people… were brutally shot and killed" in the province's predominately Shiite village of Mirzawalang after insurgents captured it on Saturday.
Mohammad Zaher Wahdat, the provincial governor, added that several mosques were set ablaze while an unknown number of villagers had also been taken hostage following a 48-hour battle between insurgents and Afghan security forces.
The village is situated in an extremely remote part of the country, where both the Taliban and Islamic State group fighters have a presence, and AFP was unable to confirm the reports with independent sources.
The Taliban said in a statement that it had captured Mirzawalang village but rejected reports of civilians casualties, calling it "hollow propaganda by the enemy".
Officials later backtracked though, underscoring the difficulty of verifying information from poor, mountainous areas of Afghanistan made inaccessible by fighting and with patchy communications.
The Taliban is at the peak of its summer fighting season and has carried out a number of deadly attacks in recent days, including the killing of two US soldiers in a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar on Wednesday.


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HomeColumnsSteve Maslow on 'The Last Waltz'
Steve Maslow on 'The Last Waltz'
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by Peter Tonguette
For six months in the late 1970s, Steve Maslow took a trip with the Band.
No, the re-recording mixer did not go on tour with the iconic roots rock outfit, but from October 1977 to April 1978, he worked on a concert film about the Canadian group, which was then made up of its original members: bass guitarist and vocalist Rick Danko, drummer and vocalist Levon Helm, keyboardist Garth Hudson, keyboardist and vocalist Richard Manuel, and guitarist Robbie Robertson.
In The Last Waltz, released by United Artists 40 years ago in April 1978, director Martin Scorsese trained his cameras on what was intended to be the last concert of the Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. The event, which featured appearances by such guest artists as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and Joni Mitchell, may have been memorable all on its own, but, for Maslow, the making of the film was equally unforgettable.
Steve Maslow today.
The Last Waltz was originally booked for a two- or three-week mix at Room D at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio in LA, but once work began by Maslow and his colleagues, including fellow re-recording mixer Bill Varney, those plans were scuttled. "They realized they couldn't get it done in that time," Maslow says. "No film in my career took the length of time that this film took. The other film that came close to that length was The Great Gatsby [2013], which was a three-month mix."
Although the time taken to complete the mix was almost unprecedented in Maslow's career, the documentary film's subject matter felt like home turf.
A native of Los Angeles, Maslow was attending California State University-Northridge when he received an offer from his friend Mark Weitz, who was the keyboardist of the band Strawberry Alarm Clock. "I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do," Maslow recalls. "Everybody else had a goal but me. I was in college because I thought it was the thing to do, and it kept me out of the draft. I went to a birthday party at the house of Mark Weitz, who asked me if I wanted to go on the road with them as their equipment roadie. I said, 'Sure, why not?'"
Joni Mitchell, left, Neil Young, Rick Danko, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson in The Last Waltz. Courtesy of United Artists.
The experience was a game-changer for Maslow, who left school and entered the music business. "It opened a whole new world for me because I didn't know about recording and recording studios," Maslow concedes. "That's how I transitioned from the roadie to records."
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He became a recording engineer, working on hits including "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" by the Four Seasons. But, in 1977, as the "garage punk sound" was gaining in popularity, Maslow found himself at a crossroads. "The groups I was working with were doing home-based stuff, so they didn't come into the recording studio, where you paid $165 an hour and booked it for a month," Maslow comments. "That started to dry up for me." So he decided to make the move to the movies. "After I got the IATSE card, I called them up and said, 'I'd like to be put on the roster for available work,'" he says. "Samuel Goldwyn Studio called me shortly thereafter. I was there for almost 15 years."
Re-recording mixer Steve Maslow, right, with recordist Bruce Bell on the Goldwyn mix stage D working on The Last Waltz in 1978. Courtesy of Steve Maslow
Maslow — who focused exclusively on mixing music until the early 1990s, when he added dialogue to his repertoire — faced the task of having to consider picture as well as sound. "Recording records, I mixed the way I thought the tune should sound," Maslow explains. "With film, it's a matter of making the music work with an image as emotional content: When they kiss, push the music up. When they stop kissing, pull it down. When I was working on Raiders of the Lost Ark [1981], I didn't know who 'Indy' was because I wasn't following the story. All I knew was that when Indy stopped talking at 365 feet, I made a push on the music."
Because he was associated with the Goldwyn mix stage, he didn't have to angle for assignments; instead, projects — including his second, The Last Waltz — came his way. "It wasn't like it is today, where you book a stage and then pick your own people," Maslow reflects. "When you booked Room D, you got that crew. [Goldwyn post-production head] Don Rogers knew my background and thought that The Last Waltz would be a perfect vehicle for me to get into."
The Band — Richard Manuel, left, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson — in The Last Waltz. Courtesy of United Artists.
Studded with stellar songs like "Up on Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "The Weight," the project was a good fit for Maslow, but the re-recording mixer quickly learned that the job was not going to be finished on the original [three-week] schedule. "They couldn't stay longer than that, however, because there were other shows booked," Maslow says. "They decided, 'Well, let's mix at night.' That way, they didn't have to get kicked out."
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For starters, the film's technical innovations presented challenges. "During that era, most films were on mag," Maslow explains. "The Last Waltz came in on 24-track, so it was a job hooking up two 24-tracks to the film chain so I could pre-mix all the music from one 24-track to another 24-track." Two months alone were dedicated to pre-mixing. "Once we got that done, we had to take the pre-mixed second 24-track and transfer that to a 16-track," Maslow continues. "That 16-track was then transferred to the mag so that we could hang the mag units against dialogue and effects, which were minimal. That way, it would run on the film channel like it normally would." The film was mixed using a Quad-8 console. "It had three faders, and below the three faders was a rotary pot, three more faders and another rotary pot," Maslow offers. "It was very primitive, but it worked."
The Band's Robbie Robertson at the mixing console on the Goldwyn mix stage D during the re-recording of The Last Waltz in 1978. Photo by Steve Maslow
Along the way, members of the Band weighed in on the film (and their work in it). Robertson, who also served as a producer on the film, visited the stage, as did Hudson. "Rick Danko decided after the concert that he didn't like some of his bass performances, so he overdubbed all his bass parts without regard to picture sync," Maslow remembers. "I was told, 'When Rick Danko is onstage, use the production bass, but when he moves offstage, switch to the overdub bass.' It was maybe two weeks of doing that."
Also the subject of negotiation was Helm's drumming. "I Keypex'd all of the drums to try to tighten up the sound so there wasn't so much leakage," Maslow recalls. "One of the sound supervisors said, 'Are you Keypexing the drums?' I said, 'Yes, I'm just trying to… 'He said, 'Oh, no, I like the old,' so I had to undo two weeks' worth of work."
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Levon Helm in The Last Waltz. Courtesy of United Artists.
Meanwhile, Scorsese, fresh off of making his classic films Taxi Driver (1976) and New York, New York (1977), was certain about how the film should look and sound — namely, that the audio should dim or increase depending on the angle of the shot. "There was a request that when Levon was singing and the camera was panning stage right, his vocal would drift to the left and the other singers would come in from the right," Maslow explains. "When I mixed records, you mixed the vocal, but lead vocal was always a lead vocal. Here, things had to move if the camera moved."
The technique was noted in Janet Maslin's otherwise-mixed (no pun intended) review in The New York Times. "One exquisitely edited sequence of the Band performing 'The Weight,' filmed on a soundstage by cameras that sway and rotate with the music, infuses the interaction of a rock band with more joy and lyricism than any other rock film has ever approached," Maslin wrote, praising the work of picture editors Jan Roblee and Yeu-Bun Yee.
Joni Mitchell and Neil Young in The Last Waltz. Courtesy of United Artists.
To make the anticipated release date in April 1978, Maslow maintained the schedule of a night owl. Work usually began at 7:00 in the evening and continued until early the following morning. "Every day was a different song or a song we pre-mixed before," Maslow recollects. "On the first couple of nights, I got a little sleepy, but it didn't seem that grueling. I got home around 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning and slept until about 1:00 in the afternoon." During his stint on the film, he only took off Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
The hustle proved worth it. Writing about The Last Waltz nearly 25 years after its debut, Chicago Tribune critic Michael Wilmington judged it, without equivocation or hesitation, "the greatest rock concert movie ever made." For his part, Maslow is slightly more measured. "I haven't seen it in the last couple of years, but it still holds up," he says. "Sometimes they play it on New Year's Eve, and I'll watch it then."
Eric Clapton in The Last Waltz. Courtesy of United Artists.
And the success of the film helped sway the re-recording mixer to leave records behind for good. "The record industry was getting a little lean, so I stopped doing records and went right into films," says Maslow, who would go on to receive Academy Awards for his work on The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark and Speed (1994). "I thought, 'You know, this film business looks pretty good.'"
Yet he agrees that The Last Waltz was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. "Not because I worked on it," he comments, "but because it was a different kind of concert film."
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Q: Selenium Web-driver Passing in parameters from Excel Sheet I am passing in parameters from excel sheet using TestNg dataprovider and Apache POI api.
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The error I get from console is: Cannot get a text value from a numeric cell
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               ExcelWBook = new XSSFWorkbook(ExcelFile);

               ExcelWSheet = ExcelWBook.getSheet(SheetName);

               int startRow = 1; // Starts from row 1 in Excel not row 0

               int startCol = 1; // Starts from Columns 1 in Excel not row 0

               int ci,cj;

               int totalRows = ExcelWSheet.getLastRowNum();

               // you can write a function as well to get Column count

               int totalCols = 3; //Total Sheet columns

               tabArray=new String[totalRows][totalCols];

               ci=0;

               for (int i=startRow;i<=totalRows;i++, ci++) {

                  cj=0;

                   for (int j=startCol;j<=totalCols;j++, cj++){

                       tabArray[ci][cj]=getCellData(i,j);

                       System.out.println(tabArray[ci][cj]);

                        }

                    }

                }

            catch (FileNotFoundException e){

                System.out.println("Could not read the Excel sheet");

                e.printStackTrace();

                }

            catch (IOException e){

                System.out.println("Could not read the Excel sheet");

                e.printStackTrace();

                }

            return(tabArray);

            }

        public static String getCellData(int RowNum, int ColNum) throws Exception {

            try{

                Cell = ExcelWSheet.getRow(RowNum).getCell(ColNum);

                int dataType = Cell.getCellType();

                if  (dataType == 3) {

                    return "";

                }else{

                    String CellData = Cell.getStringCellValue();

                    return CellData;

                }}catch (Exception e){

                System.out.println(e.getMessage());

                throw (e);

                }

            }

    }

A: The problem is that you try to pass a String as an int. If you have a method, which expects an integer, but you pass a String, then you will receive this error. You either change the type of the parameter, overload the method or pass Integer.parseInt(foo) instead of foo.
EDIT:
Finally got more information about the problem. The problem is that the parameter dateOfBirth is int and a String is passed. The simple solution would be to change the type of dateOfBirth to String, so there will be no type conflict at the end. Depending on the needs, it might be better to use a class designed specifically for this purpose, like Date, both in the method and at the place where the method is called.

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Exaggeration. It is a literal fact that the world would simply stop spinning without it, flinging us all off the planet and into space.
Hence, Business Insider overuse of it is simply part of the natural order of things.
A new video message in which Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts acknowledges that retail employees are being "bombarded with questions" about the Apple Watch's availability is yet another sign of acknowledgement from the tech giant that the launch did not go as planned.
Because questions are being asked, that must mean something's wrong. Because otherwise there would be no questions. Questions are bad, you see. They mean that people are interested and... wait, let me start over.
Though Apple has sold a crapton of Watches, they screwed up the launch. This is a thing you can write and not be eaten by angry badgers of logic. For we do not live in a just and righteous universe. It's sad, but there it is.
...there has been widespread confusion over availability.
Oh, there's "widespread confusion" over availability? Here, let the Macalope clear that up: It's not available until June. There. Glad we settled that. Please feel free to call any time.
...Apple tried an entirely new model for the Apple Watch.
Ah, so a system that it has employed many times before. What's a sound one could make that's somewhere between a dismissive "OK" and "no"?
Yeah, sure, that'll do. It's Business Insider. It's not like the Macalope's gonna knock himself out for this.
But it hasn't been smooth sailing.
If it's anything but smooth sailing you know they screwed up and are all but admitting it.
As expected, the device sold out almost immediately online on April 10.
Oh my God, could this get any worse for Apple?
In the new video from Ahrendts, the former Burberry CEO conceded that retail employees were "being bombarded with questions." This is a clear acknowledgement that many customers still have no idea what is going on.
Well, uh, no because life is not binary. You could have a pretty good idea what's going on and still need clarification on finer points aaaand the Macalope is trying to argue logic with Business Insider again. Which reminds him, did you know that the adjectival form of the word used to describe a never-ending task is Sisyphean, not Sisyphusean even though the character from mythology's full name is Edward J. Sisyphupalus? It's true. Except for that last part. All true.
...for Angela Ahrendts, who was brought on to "revitalise" Apple's retail experience, it's an embarrassing misstep.
The Macalope has seen a bunch of finger-pointing at Ahrendts but the basic problem here that's driving these issues seems to be supply not keeping up with demand. That's hardly Ahrendts's fault. It's also not exactly the worst problem to have.


THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF AUTOMATING MATHEMATICS: DEDICATED TO 35 YEARS OF DE BRUIJN'S AUTOMATH N. G. de Bruijn was a well established mathematician before deciding in 1967 at the age of 49 to work on a new direction related to Automating Mathematics. By then, his contributions in mathematics were numerous and extremely influential. His book on advanced asymptotic methods, North Holland 1958, was a classic and was subsequently turned into a book in the well known Dover book series. His work on combinatorics yielded influential notions and theorems of which we mention the de Bruijn-sequences of 1946 and the de Bruijn-Erdos theorem of 1948. De Bruijn's contributions to mathematics also included his work on generalized function theory, analytic number theory, optimal control, quasicrystals, the mathematical analysis of games and much more. In the 1960s de Bruijn became fascinated by the new computer technology and as a result, decided to start the new AUTOMATH project where he could check, with the help of the computer, the correctness of books of mathematics. In each area that de Bruijn approached, he shed a new light and was known for his originality and for making deep intellectual contributions. And when it came to automating mathematics, he again did it his way and introduced the highly influential AUTOMATH. In the past decade he has also been working on theories of the human brain.


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Captain America Roger Staubach.
Happy 79th birthday to one of the iconic figures in NFL history, the true "Captain America", Roger Staubach.
Throughout his nine seasons as the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, Staubach was known for leading his team to late-game comebacks and improbable victories and thus was also often referred to as "Captain Comeback".
He seemed to always have the uncanny knack of making the big play needed to lift his team to victory. He led the Cowboys to 23 fourth quarter game-winning drives during his career, including 15 times with his team trailing.
The Cowboys reached the playoffs in eight of his nine seasons as the starting quarterback and he led the Cowboys to the Super Bowl four times (they also reached the Super Bowl in 1970 when he was the backup).
He was named MVP of Super Bowl VI and also led Dallas to the title in Super Bowl XXII.
Staubach was a winner even before joining the Cowboys.
He spent three seasons at the Naval Academy and as a junior in 1963 won the Heisman Trophy while leading the Midshipmen to a 9-1 record and a number two national ranking.
After graduating, he spent five years in the U.S. Navy, including a tour in Vietnam. Each year he would use his furlough to join the Cowboys in training camp, even though he was unable to be part of the team during the season.
He finally joined the Cowboys as a 27-year-old rookie in 1969 and played in 14 games as a reserve during his first two seasons.
With the Cowboys struggling in 1971, head coach Tom Landry inserted Staubach as the full-time starter and he responded by leading the team to 10 straight victories and their first-ever Super Bowl title.
The following season, Staubach missed most of the year due to injuries, but was healthy enough at the end of the year to pull out one of his most memorable comebacks.
In the opening round of the NFL playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas trailed 28-13 in the fourth quarter when Staubach was inserted into the lineup replacing starter Craig Morton.
He led the Cowboys to 17 unanswered points, including two late touchdown passes, and a shocking 30-28 victory.
Staubach led the NFL in passer rating four times during his career and had the best passer rating in NFL history at the time of his retirement.
Known for his athleticism, "Roger the Dodger" was one of the first quarterbacks capable of winning games both with his arm and with his legs. He gained 2,264 yards rushing during his career. That didn't always sit well with Coach Landry, who preferred the more traditional drop-back passer, but his improvisation often helped the Cowboys pull victory from the jaws of defeat.
As the stature of the Cowboys grew in the 1970s, they were dubbed "America's Team" and Staubach was the real-life "Captain America" as their quarterback and captain. Though the Cowboys were equally loved and hated depending on the fan-base, Staubach was always respected as one of the great men of character in sports.
Because he didn't enter the NFL until the age of 27, Staubach was 37-years-old when he led Dallas to an 11-5 record in 1979 while tossing a career-high 27 touchdown passes.
Having withstood a decade of NFL pounding, Staubach chose to retire at the top of his game. His career numbers of 22,700 yards passing, 153 touchdowns and 57% completion percentage may seem pedestrian by 2020 standards, but tell only a portion of the story for a quarterback who posted an 85-29 record as a starter.
He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility (1985) and he and O.J. Simpson, also elected that year, were the first former Heisman Trophy winners to be inducted in Canton.
Even today, more than 40 years after his retirement, football historians regularly rank Staubach among the top 10 quarterbacks and top 100 players in NFL history.
Since retirement, Staubach has continued to be respected around the NFL and in the business world. He has become a successful businessman and also is a frequent visitor to Cowboys games. In 2018 he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
During his career, the Cowboys played on almost every Thanksgiving Day and Staubach has continued that tradition with a flag-football game that often includes many of his former Dallas teammates.
As he celebrates his 79th birthday today, I am sure Roger is hoping he will receive a late present tomorrow as his long-time wide receiver Drew Pearson will hopefully finally be able to join his quarterback in Canton when the 2021 Hall of Fame inductees are announced.
Happy Birthday to a true American sports legend and hero.
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How to Help Victims of California's Camp, Hill and Woolsey Wildfires
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(KGTV) – With fires devastating the entire town of Paradise and threatening more communities in Southern California, many are asking how to help the fire victims.
VENTURA COUNTY: HILL AND WOOLSEY FIRES
The Ventura County Community Foundation has established the Hill Fire/Woolsey Fire Sudden and Urgent Needs Effort Fund. This will support nonprofit groups that are serving those affected by the wildfires.
The Humane Society of Ventura County needs horse water troughs and horse electrolytes. Supplies should be taken to the shelter at 402 Bryant St. in Ojai. The shelter is also welcoming cash donations on its website.
The United Way of Greater Los Angeles started a disaster relief fund for fire victims.
The County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control has opened multiple shelter sites to take in animals displaced by the fires. Cash donations to the Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation's Noah's Legacy Fund will support the department's disaster relief efforts.
The Red Cross Los Angeles Region would like cash donations on its website or over the phone at 1-800-RED-CROSS. The group also accepts applications for volunteers on its website.
The Salvation Army Ventura Corps needs cash donations to provide food, shelter and other needs for survivors and first responders.
If you have a rental home you can donate to a fire evacuee, Airbnb will list it.
BUTTE COUNTY: CAMP FIRE
The North Valley Community Foundation is raising money to help those who escaped in the Northern California city of Paradise.
You can donate to The United Way of Northern California's relief fund onlineor by texting BUTTEFIRE to 91999. The fund will provide emergency cash for victims and the United Way's response.
The Salvation Army welcomes donations online or over the phone at 1-800-SAL-ARMY.
If you have a home you're willing to list for evacuees free through Airbnb, go to the group's website.
AT&T customers can text "CAWILDFIRES" to 90999 to give $10 that enables the Red Cross to respond to and help people recover from this disaster. You can also click here to donate online.


We don't talk often about "J Horror" (Japanese horror), you know, the Grudges, the Rings, that sort of thing. Something about a jerky little girl in a white dress can get a bit eerie and cold, like the jagged spears of ice dipping into your eyeballs as you wriggle in agony. Yeah, that feeling.
So let's celebrate: because there's now a new film coming out, the third entry to the iconic The Ring, based on the Japanese flick Ringu: and it's called Rings.
This sprung out on me out of nowhere, and now I'm psyched. The director himself, tweeting: just seven days until we get to see a trailer. And then I found out that the film will be released on October 28, 2016.
Time to get the VHS player out.


When two amoeba cells form from one amoeba, does spindle fibers form?
When two amoeba cells form from one amoeba, does spindle fibers form? Some sources say that spindle fibers do not form while an amoeba cell is undergoing cell division. If spindle formation does not occur, than how are the chromosomes pulled apart? Which intracellular transport mechanisms are used?
Amoebas undergo binary fission, which is a much more simplistic process than mitosis. In binary fission, the duplicated chromosomes simply separate as the cells is pulled apart. There are no spindle fibers used in this method of cell division.
Ok - so some of my references were a bit older, and I went through and looked through the literature a bit further - and found this great newer (ish) reference that actually used optical imaging to document the process of cell division: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134/S1990519X16010041.pdf Demin, S. Y., Berdieva, M. A., Podlipaeva, Y. I., Yudin, A. L., & Goodkov, A. V. (2016). Optical tomography analysis of Amoeba proteus chromatin organization at various cell cycle stages. Cell and Tissue Biology, 10(1), 84-94.
The process by which they undergo chromosomal separation is a bit different in that there is no clearly identified kinetichore, but it looks as if microtubule spindles are involved. My error! The process of DNA replication and other stages are quite different in this process that in typical mitosis.
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The wheels are a common component missing from many antique Long Case clocks. They are often removed from a poorly running clock in a vain attempt to get it running properly again as they use a small amount of power to drive the date. As their name suggests, they are a plain, uncrossed wheel which has a pin drilled at some point on its diameter to pick up the date or calendar ring when it passes once every 24 hours. There will be a stud, or a tapped hole usually close to the hour wheel, which the date wheel, mounted on its collet would have run on, with the date wheel meshing with the driver, sandwiched between the hour wheel and snail.


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Ел Грін (; повне ім'я — Елберт Грін) — американський співак, музикант, автор пісень, а також виконавець у стилі ритм-енд-блюз. Найбільше відомий за соул композиціями з початку 1970-их років: «Take Me to the River», «Tired of Being Alone», «I'm Still in Love with You», «Love and Happiness», а також піснею «Let's Stay Together». Ел Грін був включений в список найкращих співаків всіх часів за версією журналу Rolling Stone та посів 14 місце. У 1995 доданий у Залу слави рок-н-ролу.

Виконавчий стиль Гріна склався під впливом релігійної музики госпел. Свої ритм-енд-блюзові виступу він оживляв імпровізованими вигуками і стогонами в манері Джеймса Брауна. Молодого співака зауважив власник лейблу Hi Records Віллі Мітчелл, який в 1969 року підписав з ним контракт на випуск декількох альбомів.

Такі бездоганні записи початку сімдесятих, як «Let's Stay Together» (1-е місце в США, премія «Греммі»), «Tired of Being Alone», «Take Me to the River» і ультрасучасна «Love and Happiness», виділялися на загальному тлі хітів минулих років економними пульсаціями ритму і еротичним жіночим бек-вокалом.

Рання творчість Гріна лягла в основу оновленого звучання ритм-енд-блюзу і вплинула на всіх його діячів, від Марвіна Гея і Прінса до Енні Леннокс і Джастіна Тімберлейка (який опублікував про свого кумира статтю в ювілейному випуску журналу Rolling Stone). Тим часом вже в 1976 році сам співак прийняв сан і перестав випускати записи на «грішні» теми. Причиною його звернення до Бога було самогубство його дівчини, яка перед тим, як звести рахунки з життям, вилила на співака, який перебував у ванній кімнаті, каструлю з киплячою кашею.

Хоча починаючи з середини 1970-х років Грін виконує традиційний госпел, інтерес до його творчості продовжує зберігатися. У проміжку між 1981 і 1989 роками він виграв вісім статуеток «Греммі», в 2002 році йому була присуджена ця нагорода за досягнення протягом всієї кар'єри, а в 1995 році його ім'я було занесене в Зал слави рок-н-ролу.

Дискографія

 Back Up Train (1967)
 Green Is Blues (1969)
 Al Green Gets Next to You (1971)
 Let's Stay Together (1972)
 I'm Still in Love with You (1972)
 Call Me (1973)
 Livin' for You (1973)
 Al Green Explores Your Mind (1974)
 Al Green Is Love (1975)
 Greatest Hits (1975)
 Full of Fire (1976)
 Have a Good Time (1976)
 The Belle Album (1977)
 Truth n' Time (1978)
 The Lord Will Make a Way (1980)
 Higher Plane (1982)
 Precious Lord (1982)
 I'll Rise Again (1983)
 The Christmas Album (1983)
 Trust in God (1984)
 He is the Light (1985)
 Soul Survivor (1987)
 I Get Joy (1989)
 From My Soul (1990)
 Love Is Reality (1992)
 Don't Look Back (1993)
 Your Heart's in Good Hands (1995)
 I Can't Stop (2003)
 Everything's OK (2005)
 Lay It Down (2008)

Примітки

Афроамериканські співаки
Попспіваки США
Соул-співаки США
Американські тенори
Музиканти Bell Records
Музиканти Blue Note Records
Лауреати премії «Греммі»
Музиканти RCA Records
Піснярі штату Арканзас
Піснярі штату Мічиган
Піснярі штату Теннессі
Ритм-енд-блюзові музиканти США
Виконавці, включені в Зал слави рок-н-ролу
Виконавці, які очолювали Billboard Hot 100


German carmakers only have a 50 percent chance of surviving as leading players in the auto industry unless they transform their businesses to meet new regulations and adapt supply chains, Volkswagen's chief executive said on Tuesday.
Car manufacturers have complained increasingly loudly about new regulations, including bans on older diesel vehicles in German cities and broader EU measures to cut car emissions, saying they will hurt Europe's car industry and cost jobs.
"If you look at the former bastions of the auto industry like Detroit, Oxford-Cowley or Turin, you understand what happens to cities when once-powerful corporations and leading industries falter," CEO Herbert Diess told an auto suppliers conference in Wolfsburg, VW's manufacturing base.
Tougher rules could push some carmakers out of business due to the pace of reforms required to shift production to electric cars and to tackle new geopolitical threats, he said.
"From today's point of view the chances are perhaps 50-50 that the German auto industry will still belong among the global elite in 10 years' time," he said, referring to leading players Volkswagen Group, BMW and Daimler.
European Union lawmakers have agreed to seek a 35 percent cut in car emissions by 2030, a higher level than Germany had sought after a UN report called for dramatic steps to slow global warming.
Germany's BMW, Audi, Mercedes brands command around 90 percent market share in the premium auto segment. An intensifying push to cut emissions hurts high horsepower vehicles and therefore German brands in particular.
"We are all used to the fact that we have flourishing industrial metropolises around the central manufacturing plants of German carmakers and their suppliers, places where people like to live and work, but that's not guaranteed for eternity," Diess said.
To cut average fleet emissions of carbon dioxide in Europe by 30 percent by 2030, Volkswagen needed to raise its share of electric vehicles to 30 percent of new car sales, Diess said.
A reduction of 40 percent CO2 fleet emissions would require around half of the new cars sold to be fully electric.
The push to cut vehicle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, would ultimately lead to a rise in CO2 pollution in Germany, given the country's dependence on generating electricity from brown coal, he said.
The shift from combustion engines to electric cars would also cost 14,000 jobs at VW by 2020, Diess said, requiring an overhaul of the carmaker's in-house components business.
"It is clear to us all that the structural shift will lead to fewer auto industry jobs in Germany. The question is, how quickly do we need to implement this structural change," he said.
VW is overhauling its in-house components division, which eats up the lions share of the 170 billion euros ($197 billion) spent on procurement, develops and builds car parts at 56 sites across the globe, and employs about 80,000 people.
"From January 1 onward, Volkswagen components will act as an economically independent entity," Diess said.
Each of the 56 plants would be free to evaluate partnerships and even to build components for other carmakers, Diess said.


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There was no track record of success for professional hockey in Philadelphia when the National Hockey League owners met for three days at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City to hear final bids for the expansion of the six-team league to 12 clubs. There was no NHL-caliber arena in Philadelphia. There was no general manager officially lined up at this point. There were, of course, no players signed. There wasn't even a name for the team yet.
"It is hard to believe we are going to be celebrating our 50th anniversary," said Flyers Chairman Ed Snider. "It feels like it was just yesterday when the National Hockey League awarded us an expansion franchise. In our first season the Hockey News thought we would be the team least likely to succeed, but were they ever wrong! Now here we are, with memories of two Stanley Cups, the Russian Game in 1976, the 35-game unbeaten streak, the five-overtime win against Pittsburgh in the 2000 playoffs, coming back against Boston in 2010 down three games, two Winter Classics, and so many more. My favorite part has been sharing these moments with all of the players who define Flyers Hockey, with the hundreds of employees who work tirelessly to create a great fan experience, and with the millions of dedicated, loyal and passionate Flyers fans who have made our first fifty years so incredible. Together we truly have something special."
At the conclusion of the meetings of Feb. 7-9, 1966, what there was the heartbeat of new life. It started with a simple phone call from Bill Jennings, the head of the NHL's Expansion Committee, to Ed Snider of the franchise bidding entity calling itself Philadelphia Hockey Club, Inc.
For much of 1965 – when the NHL formally laid out its expansion plan into 1966 – the Philadelphia bidding group went to work out of the public eye and media spotlight so as not to spur potential competition.
While the Philadelphia group tried to put its best foot forward with the NHL, they dealt with the process of putting their money where their dreams were. In order to do so, Philadelphia Hockey Club, Inc. navigated a painstakingly difficult and contentious process for coming up with the $2 million franchise fee and, just as vitally, putting together a land deal with the City of Philadelphia to get an arena built for the start of the 1967-68 NHL season. Snider's primary responsibility was to work behind the scenes with the City of Philadelphia and he opened dialogue with Jennings.
In many ways, Philadelphia was one of the dark horses in the race for an expansion NHL team. Baltimore was the long-rumored middle Atlantic area front-runner during the process and Philadelphia was the lone market – despite being on the biggest cities in the United States – that had not at least been able to sustain a successful minor league team in that era.
The only previous NHL team in Philadelphia, the Quakers, were a disaster both on the ice and at the gate during its lone season of existence (1930-31). It did not help matters one bit that the Great Depression had taken hold in 1929. The woeful club went out of business after winning just four of 44 games and bleeding red ink in the ledger book.
In the meantime, Philadelphia had a succession of minor league teams – each and every one from 1929 to 1947 coached by a man named Herb Gardiner – they came and went over the years. There were clubs called the Arrows, the Falcons, the Rockets and the Ramblers. The teams had a loyal but decidedly small cult following that turned out to the ramshackle Philadelphia Arena in West Philadelphia (46th and Market St). The Jersey Devils of the Eastern Hockey League, playing out of the Cherry Hill Arena in Haddonfield, NJ, likewise had a small niche following but not nearly enough to sustain a team.
The lack of past success of pro hockey ventures in Philadelphia was a significant stumbling block in convincing the NHL owners that things would be different this team. In the meantime, Snider and his partners found little interest – sometimes downright dismissal – from bank representatives and other potential investors.
The most indispensable key to convincing the NHL to give Philadelphia a shot was to get far along enough in the process of getting an NHL-caliber arena built. The proposal to the NHL and a five-page brochure designed to highlight the main take-away points for the Expansion Committee was largely based around the point that previous pro hockey teams in Philadelphia had substandard facilities and the new one would be state-of-the-art.
In the meantime, ownership group member Bill Putnam identified a fiery but astute minor league hockey general manager and former NHL player named Norman "Bud" Poile as its top choice to serve as Philadelphia' general manger, assuming its franchise bid was approved by the NHL. Poile's top theoretical choice for head coach was Keith Allen, the coach and general manager of the Western Hockey League's Seattle Totems.
On Feb. 8, 1966, in New York, the Philadelphia group made its appeal in New York to the convened NHL owners. The next day, Philadelphia was officially awarded a conditional NHL franchise. The condition: deliver on the promise of an arena and pay the franchise fee. There was plenty of hard work and emotional anguish to come before the first puck dropped for an NHL game in Philadelphia.
All that mattered at this moment, however, was there was newborn life to a Philadelphia hockey team. Persistence and an energetic competitive drive to make the team into a reality had carried Philly into the homestretch of the marathon. These very same traits would, of time, became hallmarks of the team that soon came to be known as the Flyers.


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#TBT: Corpus Christi's first golf courses were on North Beach and near Up River Road
Allison Ehrlich
As the 20th century dawned and Corpus Christi grew, several residents decided a new form of recreation was needed in town: a golf course.
The city's first country club and golf course came, of all places, on North Beach. The first club house for the Corpus Christi Golf and Country Club went up quickly in September 1909, in order to be finished in time for the Oct. 22 visit from President William Howard Taft. Taft was the inaugural player at the new club and shot the first ball. In an Oct. 20, 1999, column by Murphy Givens, he detailed how someone took a photo of the president's rear end as he bent over the ball, and the photo, club and ball ended up on display in a glass case at the club for years.
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The club didn't last, though, and around 1914 the club and adjoining property were sold to investors who converted the club house into a bath house. The entire structure was swept away during the 1919 hurricane.
But following the hurricane, gentlemen yearned for a local link again. In 1921, several businessmen began a membership drive and quickly reached the 100 members needed to get plans off the ground. The group hired John Bredemus to design the new course, which eventually had 18 holes, located about 2 miles west of downtown off Up River Road (then called Shell Road) near Nueces Bay. The spot was originally known as the Kaler farm.
The new Corpus Christi Golf and Country Club's official opening was on Labor Day, Sept. 4, 1922, and featured exhibition matches throughout the day. Club members had been using the course for about a month prior to the formal opening.
The Caller-Times was very pleased with the new course, stating in an Aug. 11, 1922, editorial that "Golf may be the magic tonic for civilization's ills caused by lack of exercise. It may also prove to be the safety valve for the high nervous tension that is gripping so many of us. At least Corpus Christi business men think so."
The club quickly became a hub of social activities and formal events for the city's upper crust. Around 1925, developers began planning the first neighborhood around the area, Country Club Place, followed by others like Oak Park, Nueces Bay Heights and Saxet Heights — and most deed-restricted for whites only.
Then in May 1931 came the announcement of Corpus Christi's first industrial plant. Southern Alkali Corp. had purchased land near the Avery Turning Basin in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and would be building a refinery. The land abutted the country club's land.
In the mid-1930s, oil was discovered northwest of Corpus Christi. Club members debated back and forth and eventually decided to allow oil leases on the ground. Five wells were drilled on the land, and golfers even had to shoot over the wells at the third and 18th holes. The wells were considered a minor inconvenience since the money the wells brought in allowed for further expansion.
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By April 1963, the country club was ready to move. A majority of the club members voted — with only two dissenting votes — to allow the board of governors to negotiate a land and property exchange of the club's 90-acre plot for a new 156-acre site clear across town on the emerging Southside, bordered by Everhart Road, Staples Street, Saratoga Boulevard and Holly Road.
Two years later, club members celebrated the grand opening of the new course and $600,000 clubhouse, and the old golf course land near Up River Road eventually became part of the Citgo refinery complex.
Allison Ehrlich writes about things to do in South Texas and has a weekly Throwback Thursday column on local history. Support local coverage like this by checking out our subscription options and special offers at Caller.com/subscribe.