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Black Sabbath at the O2 31/1/17
February 1, 2017 live reviews, rock musicBlack Sabbath, final tour, Geezer Butler, heavy metal, live review, London, o2, Ozzy Osbourne, setlist, The End, Tony IommiDarren Johnson
How do you end the most iconic heavy metal band of all time?
At one point, a couple of decades after their 70s heyday, it looked liked it might be with a constantly changing cast of replacement musicians, declining album sales, less than enthusiastic ticket sales and something of a whimper rather than a bang. But, following an initial reunion in the late 90s, a mega-successful album with '13' and a hugely successful world tour which reunited three of the original four members in 2013/4, fans hoped that there would at least be one more opportunity to say a final farewell, even in spite of a hugely worrying lymphoma diagnosis for Tony Iommi.
So here we have it: The End – Black Sabbath's final farewell tour which reaches it's ultimate conclusion with a couple of dates at London's O2 and two final concerts in the band's home city of Birmingham. And it's every bit as magnificent, spellbinding and heavy as Black Sabbath should be. From the familiar doom-laden chords of the opening 'Black Sabbath' to the unforgettable riff of 'Paranoid' for the encore, every single minute of this concert was special. Geezer Butler delivers those unmistakable bass-lines, Tony Iommi delivers that unmistakable crunching guitar and Ozzy Osbourne delivers those unmistakable wailing vocals – the essential and unchangeable ingredients that make Black Sabbath what it is. Yes, it's a shame that Bill Ward is not here to participate in this final tour but drummer, Tony Clufetos, does an absolutely outstanding job with immense energy. I doubt, really, whether anyone could have done it better.
Ozzy, as always, is a fascinating character. Between songs he shuffles around the stage like the mumbling, slightly bewildered figure TV viewers came to love so much. But the second a song starts he is instantly transformed into the wailing, demonic rock god that fans of the ultimate heavy metal band have always known.
My first ever live experience of Black Sabbath was with Bev Bevan out of ELO on drums and Ian Gillan out of Deep Purple on vocals, encoring with Smoke On The Water (?!) How fitting that what is likely to be my last has Tony, Geezer and Ozzy performing Sabbath exactly the way it should be performed. It was an absolutely magnificent performance, stunning setlist and suitably evocative special effects. The atmosphere at the O2, which can be a bit lacking at times however good a band is, was absolutely electric from start to finish.
Whatever happens now this band has made it's mark on rock music a billion times over and their contribution will not be forgotten. Thank you Black Sabbath.
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Nik Cunningham, Sports Editor
Every week The Shield will interview an athlete or coach about their life and the sport(s) they participate in. This week The Shield interviewed Jennifer Leonhardt, a senior pitcher, about softball and what it's like to be a student and an athlete. Jennifer Leonhardt has broken several school re...
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A different side of sports
There are all sports at USI and only two people manage all of them, Ray Simmons and Dan McDonnell. Together, they make graphics, write press releases, attend travel games, manage the USI athletics website and much more. "There's a lot of 15 hour days," Simmons said. "The average workweek right no...
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Looking at the recent History of USI sports
The University of Southern Indiana has not been around very long. It started in the 60s and USI is still going strong today. With everything constantly moving forward, it is always good to look back at our accomplishments. Nov. 29, 2007: Women's Basketball have an undefeated season Apr. 10, 2...
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Softball senior day wins double header
The USI softball team had their senior night Saturday along with a doubleheader against Missouri University of Science & Technology. In the bottom of the first inning, sophomore infielder and outfielder Alicia Webb got an RBI scoring the first run in the game. "It's a good feeling," Webb said...
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'It doesn't matter how we started, just how we end'
Caitlyn Bradley and Haylee Smith agree: having multiple softball games, one after the other, over spring break, is tiring, but it is too much fun to complain. The USI Softball team played twelve games over spring break. They started in Clermont, Florida, March 2 and ended in Leesburg, Florida, March 9. ...
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Softball sweeps Indy as Leonhardt earns 20th win
Taylor O'Neil Hall, Sports Editor
After going 5-1 last week, including a doubleheader sweep of No. 14 University of Indianapolis, the No. 10 Southern Indiana softball team is one game away from matching last season's win total. Four of the Eagles' five wins came when freshman pitcher, Jennifer Leonhardt (20-1), stepped into the pitchi...
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Softball continues to surge
No. 10 Southern Indiana (31-7) didn't allow a run in its doubleheader sweep against Bellarmine (15-23) at the USI Softball Field Tuesday. Both starting pitchers, Courtney Atkisson (10-4) and Jennifer Leonhardt (17-1) pitched complete game shutouts. By winning the first game, Atkisson joined Leonhar...
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'A very short memory': Junior softballer discusses success, need to stay confident
Sarah Loesch, Sports Editor
Junior computer science major Haley Hodges now holds the single-season home run record for the university. The pitcher/infielder sat down with The Shield to talk about when she discovered softball and this year's season. The Shield: What got you started playing softball? Hodges: It was a little town...
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'Pay it forward': Softball team plays for special causes
Caitlin Golden, Sports Writer
The softball team decided to honor senior infielder Toni Braun's grandmother, Vicki Tuggle, this year. Tuggle became paralyzed three years ago. Braun said she's excited for Tuggle to see her play again. "It's cool to have a lot of family and friends and have a lot of people to come out for it," Bra...
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Scholastic success for softballers
Sarah Loesch
Six USI softball players were recognized as NFCA All-America Scholar-Athletes by the National Fastpitch Coaches' Association for their academic success in 2014-15. To be recognized the players had to earn a 3.5 GPA or higher. Shelby Tate said in her experience academics are always stressed b...
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Softball continues to play "like a brand new team"
Caitlin Golden
USI's softball team has been having a fairytale season and has recently had a win streak of 12 games. The team is ranked at 15 in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Poll and fourth in the second installment of the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Poll, on their way...
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Dorsam and Clark-Kittleson recognized as softball continues strong season
USI's women's softball has been having a strong season. They have won their last ten games and this past week two players were recognized for their outstanding performances. Senior, MacKenzi Dorsam was named to the inaugural Schutt Sports/National Fastpitch Coaches' Association Division II National...
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One Indonesian submarine found in three pieces, all 53 of them died right Now
The wreck of a missing Indonesian submarine has been found off Bali. The ship appears to have been shattered into three pieces. Indonesian authorities said on Sunday that all 53 crew members had died.
The chance to escape appeared to be lost on Saturday after the submarine search found the shipwreck. The submarine itself was located about 850 meters in the water, when it was actually built to dive down to just 500 meters. This indicates that the boat has sunk.
44-year-old KRI Nanggala-402 disappeared from radar on Wednesday, about 95 kilometers off the coast of Bali. This happened during a torpedo exercise. In the search for the crew, Indonesia received assistance from other countries, including Australia and the United States.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo expressed his condolences to the crew's relatives. He said, "All Indonesians express their deep sorrow for this tragedy, especially towards the crew's families."
The military showed some debris and objects from the submarine during a press conference on Saturday.
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Writer's Chat: FC Seoul vs Suwon Bluewings
Scott Whitelock August 12, 2016 read ( words)
(Managers Hwang Sun-hong and Seo Jung-won speak to the press ahead of Saturday's game. Photo courtesy of www.footballist.co.kr)
With the games coming thick and fast FC Seoul and Suwon meet for the 3rd, and likely, final time this season. Seoul correspondent, John Emanuelson, and Suwon correspondent, Scott Whitelock, discuss Seoul's terrible summer form and Suwon's relegation scrap.
First, Scott asks and John answers:
Scott: At this stage of the season, lagging 12 points behind Jeonbuk, can FC Seoul still have realistic expectations that they can challenge for the title?
John: Anything is possible as Newcastle demonstrated in 1996 against Man Utd., yet I think Seoul would be better served focusing on securing second or third at this point. However, should Jeonbuk stumble, fingers crossed, then I believe Seoul have the ability to make-up ground on the league fat cats. Hopefully, July's form was just a blip and Seoul can return to their early season dominance, but I wouldn't recommend that any gamblers out there to bet big on that happening. Instead, save your money and take your loved ones to Outback Steakhouse or some other midscale restaurant. Splurge on some booze and appetizers. Afterwards, go see Suicide Squad and sneak in a couple cans of Cass.
Scott: After a disastrous July in which Seoul only collected 8 points from a total 21 on offer, Seoul appear to have turned the corner. What were the reasons behind this summer blip and have Seoul fully put their issues to one side?
John: This blip is probably a culmination of many factors and as I have said previously, was most likely would have occurred regardless of whoever was the manager. Still, switching managers mid season is usually a recipe for a shit sandwich. Add in key members such as Go Yo-han, Ju Se-jong, and Kim Won-sik being injured along with an unjust 7 game suspension for the team's leading scorer Adriano, it is easy to see why Seoul were so poor in July. Oh, and our CBs are always good for cocking up at the most inopportune time, yet the team persisted with three in the back rather than inserting another midfielder (an area we need to improve in) or forward (the team's only strength) into the lineup.
That being said, I expect Seoul to do better in August. In their game against Pohang, Seoul looked fantastic, especially in the second half. Whatever P.E.D.s Kim Chi-woo is taking (allegedly- haha, I kid) seem to be working since he has been great going at forward and secure at the back lately. Against Seongnam, Seoul dominated possession, but didn't do much. However, thanks to the hosts generosity and a terrible offside line, Seoul came away with three more big points. A big thanks to the Magpies and I look forward to visiting Tancheon next year.
Scott: With 2 huge games in the ACL coming up, along with an FA Cup semi final, is there any chance that FC Seoul could be distracted by their upcoming schedule?
John: I left my 8-ball in Korea, so I have no idea what will happen, but the likelihood of that happening is quite high. The ACL was originally going to be a piece of piss, but after Shandong Luneng went out and spent the G.D.P. of Estonia, Seoul have their work cut out for them. I expect Graziano Pelle and Cisse will give Seoul's CBs a torrid time and that Seoul will concede at least two, maybe three times. That being said, Shandong's league form continues to be inconsistent and they are coached by the anachronism Felix Magath, so maybe Seoul can knock-off the Richie Rich bastards.
With regards to the FA Cup semifinal, unless manager Hwang Sun-hong perpetually resides in opium den, he must be aware that winning this trophy remains Seoul's easiest route to qualify for the ACL. Thanks to Bucheon upsetting Jeonbuk, Seoul are the favorites to repeat and it will be an abomination if they fail to win the trophy. Of course having said that, I could see Suwon winning it all and qualifying even though they will finish in 9th or 10th place.
So to answer your question, I do expect Seoul to focus more on the cups and less on the league. It is inevitable and considering how awful June and July have been, I would be quite happy with an FA Cup win. Getting to the semis or even further in the ACL would be gravy at this point.
John's score prediction: It will be another scrappy match, but Adriano continues his fine track record of scoring in the Super Match and Seoul come away 3-2 winners.
Now, John asks and Scott answers:
John: What are your reactions about Suwon's 5-3 victory over Jeju and can this victory be the catalyst to propel the team up the table?
Scott: The result against Jeju was certainly pleasing, but only for the fact that Suwon got the 3 points and it finally heralded a return to form for Yeom Ki-hun. However, the manner in which the 3 points were won was much less than pleasing. After taking a deserved 3-0 lead Suwon somehow conspired to ship two goals, and if it wasn't for some wasteful finishing from Jeju could have found themselves 3-4 down, before their late rally saw them over the line. A weakened and static central midfield was exposed and a team in better form than Jeju may have exposed that a little more.
What was much more pleasing was Suwon's resilience against Ulsan on Wednesday night. Playing without a recognised centre forward (both Jonathan and Jo Dong-geon were injured, whilst Kim Gun-hee was suspended) Suwon were able to trouble Ulsan's defence whilst not really allowing Ulsan a shot on goal. Lee Jung-soo looked as composed as ever at centre back, whilst his partner, the much maligned, Koo Ja-ryoung even had a steady game and did little wrong. Whilst Suwon never really threatened much themselves going forward, it was pleasing to see them keep a very dangerous Ulsan team at bay. The defensive cohesion displayed in midweek certainly bodes well for this upcoming super match.
John: How would you rate your new striker Jonathan so far and any thoughts on Romeo Castelen?
Scott: Jonathan was signed to score goals, and so far, a goalscorer is all he appears to be. He doesn't do much in a game other than get himself on the end of deliveries, and unfortunately he hasn't had the best of supply from the Suwon midfield. The one time he did get on the end of a decent cross he tucked it away superbly, and Suwon fans will be hoping that he can reproduce more of that over the next year. To be fair to the striker, he joined at a terrible time when the team was not playing well and there was not much he could do to arrest the slump. Jonathan isn't the type of player who is going to drop deep, pick up the ball, dance around 4 defenders and score a wonder goal (although it is the natural assumption that every Brazilian should be able to do that). He is a player that will lurk around the box and pick up the pieces, and most likely score. But if the service isn't there then he doesn't contribute much to the game.
As I mentioned above, Jonathan is currently out injured with a mystery leg injury and is unlikely to return before the weekend, which leaves Suwon with only one recognised striker.
As for Romeo Castelen, he looks like a player who has had not played football in a while and is not match fit. He is a player who is bright and tricky on the ball and isn't shy to try and take on his markers. But he currently lacks the pace required at this level and he will find the K League very difficult until he is up and running on all cylinders. But, I have seen enough from him in his few cameo appearances to suggest that he will be a nuisance playing from the right-wing and not many full backs will enjoy defending against the combined threat of Castelen and Yeom Ki-hun.
John: Both Super Matches have been quite scrappy, resulting in lots of fouls but not many chances. With so much riding on the line do you expect history to repeat itself or will this be a more open game?
Scott: There is zero chance of us getting a classic end-to-end game simply because every game is too important to Suwon at the moment. Make no mistake about it, Suwon are heavily involved in a relegation battle and every point is precious. It would be nice if Suwon were sitting comfortably mid-table, with nothing to play for and Seo Jung-won could just throw caution to the wind and tell his players to go all out for the win. But, sometimes, circumstances dictate your game plan and I think the manager would take one point if it was offered to him now.
Suwon are heading to Seoul with a depleted squad, are on a rare 2 game unbeaten run and with the team actually defending as a unit in their previous game. As such, I think they will adopt a very conservative approach to the game. I expect the majority of play to be in Suwon's half with 10 men sitting behind the ball trying to limit the space of the Seoul forwards. Also, Suwon just don't have the pace to be able to exploit Seoul on the counter attack, so when Suwon do have the ball I imagine it will be played around midfield with not much pace or desire to play through Seoul.
Suwon's game plan will be one of containment. And I just don't think Seoul are currently good enough to beat Suwon. Seoul's goals have dried up of late and Adriano doesn't look half as threatening as he did in the first half of the season.
For a football purist it will be an interesting tactical battle. However, for the casual observer it's going to be a very boring 90 minutes of football.
Scott's score prediction: FC Seoul 1 - 1 Suwon Bluewings
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Math builds on itself, so trying to learn a math topic without first mastering its prerequisites is just asking for trouble. A good place to learn prerequisites is Khan Academy. Although it's missing many advanced math topics, it covers the basics well. And the way it organizes practice problems ensures that you regularly get tested on the concepts you need the most practice with.
Back in the day, Khan Academy was just a collection of YouTube videos. It still has plenty of those, and they're useful for learning new concepts or refreshing your memory on old ones. It's convenient that they're integrated into the Khan Academy user interface, so it just takes a click to find a video related to the topic you're studying. But Khan Academy is far from the only place to find free math videos.
Where Khan Academy distinguishes itself is in its practice problems. The way to learn math is to solve math problems, and Khan Academy provides unlimited problems on each topic it covers. If you're having trouble with a topic, you can keep drilling practice problems until you have the concept down.
Khan Academy uses the term mission to describe the user interface they created to guide students through math exercises and videos. The top-level mission, called The World of Math, contains all the other missions.
Missions contain skills, math topics you can practice and master. Skills are part of units, which are part of courses. For example, Limits of composite functions is a skill in the Limits and continuity unit, which is part of the AP® Calculus AB course.
When you're practicing a mission, you don't have to worry about units and courses. You can just navigate your way through the skills. Last year, Khan Academy launched a new course and unit mastery system that may eventually replace the mission-based mastery system. For my purposes, I'm focusing on the mission approach. It's simpler to navigate and I think it's more appropriate for experienced students doing targeted learning: dipping into specific skills as needed, rather than progressing through courses in order.
The World of Math mission currently has 1498 skills. Khan Academy periodically adds more. For each skill, you get one of five ratings based on your performance on problems related to that skill: Not Started, Practiced, Level One, Level Two, and Mastered.
Using the World of Math mission, you can solve problems for these skills in two ways: 1) Practice, and 2) Mastery Challenge. Your can start a practice or challenge session from your World of Math dashboard.
Your dashboard will usually have a set of practice suggestions in the skills up next for you section. If you don't like the suggestions, you can add to that section by clicking a square in the skill breakdown grid. You can then click the Practice button to practice a set of problems (five or so) for that skill. If you get enough problems correct, you'll increase your skill level to Practiced.
In a browser console, you can also run JQuery code like $('.progress-cell').click(), which lets you "click" a skill by number. Skill 658 is limits of composite functions, so running that code will add that skill to your practice list.
Also from your dashboard, you can click the Start button in the Mastery Challenge section. This is how you start a mastery challenge to access the higher skill levels. In a mastery challenge, as in a practice session, you get a few problems to solve. But in a mastery challenge, each problem is from a different skill. If you get a problem right, you increase your skill level in that skill. So with one mastery challenge, you can increase your level in several skills.
When I use Khan Academy, I usually use mastery challenges. Since a mastery challenge uses problems chosen by the system with no input from me, I can't just pick familiar topics. It forces me to prove I still know the skills I previously practiced or mastered.
If you answer fast enough, you can advance more than one level — e.g., you can go from Practiced to Level Two, or even Practiced to Mastered.
If you get a challenge question wrong, your level goes down by one.
A mastery challenge can give you a problem from a skill you never practiced (a skill at Needs Practice level). This allows you to master skills without using the Practice process, which saves you a few problems if you already know a skill.
It can also give you a problem from a skill you already mastered, to make sure you haven't forgotten it.
The mastery challenge summary page doesn't always accurately show the level changes that occurred during the challenge. For example, it may show that no level change happened, when you know it has (the new level is visible in the dashboard view). I assume this is a bug that no one has gotten around to fixing because the dev team is busy working on the new mastery system.
With some discipline, you can master all the World of Math skills, as some people have. (It's a lot easier than finishing the Project Euler problems). Next week, I'll discuss ideas for continuing to use the World of Math mission after reaching 100% mastery.


EDINBURGH, UK--A jury of five games-industry staff have voted on their favourite title of the past 12 months in the annual Edge awards--and Okami picked up the winning gong.
The award ceremony, which was the final event of the first day of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, was presented by deputy editor Alex Wiltshire.
There were eight titles nominated for this year's award, the first being the Generations GBA series, which Wiltshire readily admitted was "just because we loved it." The title consisted of seven individual games, and was only released in Japan. The others were Canis Canem Edit (known as Bully in the US), Dead Rising, DEFCON, Final Fantasy XII, Okami, Test Drive Unlimited, and Wii Sports.
The eight games were nominated by Edge and sent out to the five judges, who were to vote and make the final decision. On the jury this year were Charles Cecil from Revolution Software, Martin Kenwright of Evolution Studios and Bigbig Studios, games journo Steven Poole, vice president of digital content at BBC Worldwide America Alice Taylor, and Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor.
Charles Cecil said that Okami "takes your breath away," whereas Taylor stated it was "visually wonderful," and Kenwright that "it proves the PlayStation 2 is still capable of giving us fun, innovative games."
Although Capcom could not be present in Edinburgh to accept the award, it sent a video in thanks.


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Influence of Education Level on Mental Health and Medical Coping Modes: A Correlation Analysis in the Elderlies
Volume 8, Issue 6, December 2019, Pages: 324-328
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Saisai Cui, Health Management Center of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China
Rui Wang, Vcanbio Cell & Gene Engineering CORP., LTD, Tianjin, China
Leping Lu, Health Management Center of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China
He Wang, Health Management Center of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China
Yan Zhang, Health Management Center of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China
Objective: To investigate the influence of education level on mental condition and medical coping modes in the elderlies, which may provide some evidence for mental care in health management. Methods: Clinical Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) and Medical Coping Modes Questionnaire (MCMQ) were applied to evaluate mental condition of 160 elderlies who were randomly chosen from the outpatients of a hospital in Shenyang. The patients were divided into 2 groups by education levels, highly educated group (n=71) and non-highly educated group (n=89). Scores of the two questionnaires were compared between the 2 groups, and correlation analysis was conducted between symptoms and medical coping modes within either group. Results: Compared with the non-highly educated group, the highly educated group has lower scores on all factors of SCL-90 and higher scores on all factors of MCMQ (P < 0.05). It was showed by the correlation analysis that "confrontation" was positively related to "psychoticism" in non-highly educated group (P < 0.05) but negatively related to "phobic anxiety" in highly educated group (P < 0.05), and "avoidance" was related to no factors of SCL-90 (P > 0.05), and "acceptance/resignation" was positively related to all the 9 factors of SCL-90 (P < 0.05) in non-highly educated group while positively related to 6 factors of SCL-90 (P < 0.05) except for "hostility", "phobic anxiety" and "psychoticism" (P > 0.05) in highly educated group. Conclusion: Highly education provides elderly people with more positive medical coping modes as well as better mental conditions.
Education, Mental Health, Medical Coping Modes, Correlation Analysis, Health Management
Saisai Cui, Rui Wang, Leping Lu, He Wang, Yan Zhang, Influence of Education Level on Mental Health and Medical Coping Modes: A Correlation Analysis in the Elderlies, American Journal of Nursing Science. Vol. 8, No. 6, 2019, pp. 324-328. doi: 10.11648/j.ajns.20190806.16
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Q: Locking Frames Per Second to 60fps I saw this episode from Extra Credits on FPS and they mention that you should normally lock the fps to multiples of 30 because it matches up with the monitor's refresh rates and reduces artifacts. My code is running at 60fps but I'm still getting a very subtle artifacts in the movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL5kOyHWI_E
It's in Windows Forms so perhaps there's really nothing to be done about it.
My render loop looks like this:
private void Render() {
    Update();
    if (RenderDelegate != null)
        RenderDelegate(_renderFunctions);
    var msPause = 1000 / (double)FpsLimit - _gameTime.DeltaTime;
    if (msPause > 0)
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep((int)msPause);
    _attachedSystem.NextFrame(); // Will call Invalidate();
}

Implemtation in the WinForms control
protected void FormOnPaint(object sender, PaintEventArgs paintEventArgs) {
    _graphic = paintEventArgs.Graphics;
    _render();
}
void IGameMessages.DrawImage(Image image, Rectangle rect) {
    _graphic.DrawImage(image, rect);
}
void IGameMessages.NextFrame() {
    Control.Invalidate();
}

I'm guessing that sleeping by a dynamic value is not the preferred way because it might be like 1% out of sync with the monitor refresh rate or something? The fps output swings between 58 to 63 fps (There probably something wrong with the DeltaTime calculations too)

A: WinForm is not ideal. The reason is that screen updates are not depending your app. There is no screen interupt in WinForms.
I kept a timer and moved an object from left to right, 800 pixels, the "sprite" alike object had a start counter integer. Depending on how much time had past a new position was taken.
if(!x.AtEnd) {
    X.DeltaTime = X.Startime-currentTime;
    int x = myStartTime - currentTime;
    x.position = X.DeltaTime % 430; //time was in ms and 430 just a number

    if (x.postion > x.end) {
        x.position=x.end;
        x.AtEnd=true;
    }
}

It depended a bit on the number how fast it moved and how well it looked (which depends on computer speed as well, as slower computers take more time to execute on other threads as well). Using something like above I got a reasonable smooth moving object, not as smooth as in games, but it worked well and there was no blocking (Delaying) code in it (as I tried with thread delays so each movement took equal time, but that didn't got smooth either, the screen update is too random for that)

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Footscray had never managed better against Melbourne than the draw they achieved in 1929 and their bad run continued with another loss, this time by nearly ten goals to the unbeaten Redlegs.
While the scoring remained relatively even until half time and Footscray weren't disgraced they never looked like winning. The brilliant Redlegs had far too much for them, and when the game was over in the second half the visiting players relaxed and let Melbourne run away with the match.
The standard of play had been poor in the first half but deteriorated even further in the second, with the game over after Melbourne added 21 points without reply in the first half minutes of the third term. Near darkness during the last quarter made it even harder for the players to put on a spectacle.
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A few thoughts on the GB team for the Belgrade World Cup
The 1st Rowing World Cup preview – The men's events
The 1st Rowing World Cup preview part 2 – The Women's events
The Windermere Cup
The British Rowing Championships -British rowing's problem child
This week British Rowing confirmed that they were moving the Senior British Rowing Championships from October to the 15th– 16thJune. I think it's safe to say this decision has received mixed reviews. One the one hand, the move from October was a bit of a no-brainer, I've always felt that to hold a National Championships in late October was asking for trouble. Who wants to race a multi-lane 2K regatta in the 3rdweek of October?? Not only is the weather likely to be unhelpful, there's also the question of racing 2K in big boats when most clubs are beginning to ramp up their winter training and getting ready for the Head Season. As a member of the Head of The River Fours committee I'm well aware of the impact that the Champs has had on that event. Several times I received feedback from some high-performance clubs that they wouldn't be racing at the Fours Head as they were racing at Champs a couple of weeks earlier and didn't have the time to put together the crews, nor (more importantly) could they justify the expense of entering multiple boats at the Champs and then the Fours Head a few weeks later and then the GB Long Distance trials the week after. As the British Champs and the Long-Distance trials were both mandatory events for anyone wanting to be considered for National selection, the Fours Head has often missed out.
The National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham. Photo Flatwater racing UK
So, in my opinion, the move to a summer date was an obvious decision. But, where to move it? The racing calendar is notoriously busy and it was never going to be easy to find a suitable slot. But, British Rowing made the decision to go with the weekend of the 15th-16thJune at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. What has annoyed a number of people in the rowing world about this decision, is that it appears to ride roughshod over the existing events in the calendar. In particular, the fact that it is a week before Henley Women's Regatta is causing a lot of concern and dismay, Miriam Luke, Chairman of the regatta issued this statement:
Henley Women's Regatta Chairman, Miriam Luke. photo: sportskeeda
"Henley Women's Regatta was consulted about the new proposed date for the British Senior Championships (15th 16th June) and we expressed our concern. We believe by scheduling the British Senior National Championships to the weekend before Henley Women's Regatta is not in the interest of women's rowing in this country and we advised against this.
Henley Women's Regatta is 10 days before the start of Henley Royal Regatta and one week before the qualifying races. Most crews look to peak for a major competition once every two weeks. Therefore, crews wishing to compete at the highest-level regattas in the calendar will need to peak and race at every weekend over 4 weeks. We do not believe it is sensible to crowd these 4 weeks with so many high-level events.
We work hard all year to attract high level crews from abroad to come and race British crews at HWR. For many this is a unique opportunity to test the best in the UK versus the best from overseas We have some exciting crews planning to make the journey for this year and we want them to have the best GB Universities and Clubs to race. The Championship level events last year offered exciting and close racing with a good entry of between 7 – 16 crews in open weight.
Having the three pinnacle regattas in the UK crowded into this time does not make sense for the rowing calendar. We appreciate that crews may choose not to compete at all three events, i.e. the British Senior Championships, Henley Women's Regatta and Henley Royal Regatta, but we are disappointed that crews and coaches may have to make this choice.
We are also aware of rumours suggesting that crews performing well at the British Championships (should it be confirmed that they will take place on the weekend prior to HWR) would be exempt from the time trials at HWR. The committee wish to stress that no pre- qualification for HWR will be allowed and that all crews will be required to take part in time trials if they are required for an event.
Miriam Luke
Chairman, Henley Women's Regatta"
The weekend of the 15th-16thJune also sees no fewer than four other regattas, including the British Masters Championships in Strathclyde and Reading Amateur Regatta, one of the major Thames river regattas and pre-Henley Royal and Henley Women's regatta's events. This will be a major issue for clubs as the vast majority do not have the resources to send crews to Strathclyde, Nottingham and Reading. The Chairman of Reading Amateur Regatta, Andrew Wilbey, wrote to British Rowing expressing his dismay at the proposed change of date. Perhaps, more fundamentally, this "crowding" of events on this one weekend will have a massive impact on the many volunteers who help run the regattas, especially the Umpires. British Rowing Umpires are a finite resource and many of them officiate at events every weekend throughout the summer. With four events already taking place that weekend (Masters Championships, Reading Amateur, Marlow Town and Barnes and Mortlake Regatta), the addition of the British Championships puts a massive strain on this resource (especially as the number of Multi-Lane qualified umpires is an even more finite resource). It's entirely possible that there simply won't be enough suitably qualified officials to run all of the planned regattas. It would be a massive shame if British Rowing's heavy handedness causes one of these other events to be cancelled.
Mark Davies, Chair of British Rowing, seems well aware of the difficulties this decision has caused. In his press release he said:
"This was not an easy decision. It was widely recognised that the British Rowing Senior Championships needed to move from October, but there was no perfect date to put it. The very limited availability of suitable multi-lane courses in the UK meant that we were limited to one weekend in what appeared, for a number of reasons, to be the most appropriate month. The recommendation by the senior volunteers in the sport who make up the Events Committee was to trial that weekend for one year.
Mark Davies, Chairman British Rowing. Photo: Hear The Boat Sing
"We were acutely aware of the concerns raised in a number of quarters in relation to that weekend, and we listened to and carefully considered the large number of points that were made from across the rowing community.
"After a lengthy discussion, the Board was satisfied that the Committee had considered every other option open to it under the current format of the Championships. Faced with the option of having no Senior Championships in 2019 (and guided by the Chair of the Sport Committee that this could have a knock-on effect into 2020), we agreed that the proposal before us was in the best interests of the sport.
"The Board fully recognises that hosting the British Rowing Senior Championships on this weekend in June 2019 will require a huge effort from the outstanding volunteer network that delivers our sport, and that this decision will dismay some members at the same time as it is welcomed by others. We plan to undertake a wider review of the entire competition calendar, as well as assess whether we have the right format for the Senior Championships, as part of a wide consultation ahead of 2020."
"On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to share their views on the proposed change of date and would emphasise that we will seek to address the points that they have made either directly or as part of the future consultation."
So, it would appear that the decision was driven mainly by the availability of a suitable venue, with only three possible venues in the UK (Dorney Lake, Strathclyde and NWSC) it was always going to be a challenge to find any weekend in the summer when one of these venues would be available. Having said that, it does feel like this is the wrong decision for this year. More time needed to be spent to ensure they were able to get the date and venue they wanted, rather than the only one available. Perhaps the Brit Champs should've been left where they were for 2019 and plans put in place well in advance to find a suitable date and venue for 2020 (although that being Olympic year will be an added consideration). 6 months doesn't feel long enough to. Plan for such a major event.
So, with British Rowing saying this year's event is a trial when should the championships be held? It all boils down to what are the British Championships for? Are they the pinnacle of the season? Many would say no, as the main focus for British club rowing is Henley Royal and Henley Women's regattas. When the Championships used to be held in late July there was always a bit of a feeling of post-Henley hangover – many athletes took a break after Henley and weren't perhaps in top form for the Nat Champs. When I raised the question on Twitter about when should the Champs be held, I received a number of different responses ranging from "what's wrong with October, no one's prepared for them so it's all equal" to "combine them with final trials in April".
What needs to be decided is just what are the Brit Champs for? Do we, the British rowing public, what an event at which the national squad athletes can compete (and compete in their club colours)? The drawback of this suggestion is that it will mostly end up with the national team athletes winning all the events. Personally, I would like to see an event that all clubs can compete at. I'm a great fan of the way the National Championships are run in New Zealand. There they have different classes, the Premier events – for those athletes who are members of the national squad and high-performance clubs, Senior – for those below international standard, Intermediate and novice. What's attractive about this system is that it enables the various levels of experience to compete at the same regatta and can become National Champions. Another suggestion is that the championships are combined with the final GB trials in late April. With GB aspirants racing in the single and pairs with "everyone else" in the bigger boats. There is merit to this idea as it will allow the public to watch the top-level GB athletes smashing it out for selection and then the cream of club rowing racing in the bigger boats. My only concern with this idea is effectively the same as when the event was held in October – will the weather be suitable to hold a 2-3 day multi-lane championships and will clubs and crews be "race ready" so early in the season?
Perhaps a better date would be late May – this is far enough into the season that clubs and crews are "race ready" but also gives sufficient time to recover and prepare for the likes of Henley Women's and Henley Royal Regattas. The downside to this date would be that the GB squad wouldn't be available to compete as it would clash with the racing or preparing for the Rowing World Cup.
So, at the end of the day, there is no "perfect" answer for when the British Championships should be held, or even what format should they take. What is clear though, for this year at least, the compromise solution decided upon by the Board of British Rowing has pleased no-one. I hope the event is a success and has great racing, but the potential price being paid by other events, and the manner in which this event has been muscled into the calendar has disappointed many in the British rowing community.
Let's see what decision British Rowing takes for 2020, but whatever it is it needs to be done far enough in advance that both athletes and officials have enough time to prepare and that it complements the existing race calendar as far as possible.
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Daniel Lajud Martínez (; born 22 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Liga de Expansión MX club Atlante and the Lebanon national team.

Coming through the youth system, Lajud began his senior career with Monterrey, scoring on his Liga MX debut in 2018. He was sent on loan to fellow Liga MX clubs Querétaro and Puebla in 2019, before moving to Liga de Expansión MX side Querétaro in 2020, with whom he won the Guardianes 2020. After a one-season spell at Raya2, Monterrey's reserve team, Lajud left Monterrey for Atlante in 2022, winning the Apertura 2022 in his first season at the club.

Born in Mexico, Lajud is of Lebanese descent through his father; he was called up to the Lebanon national team in 2022.

Club career

Monterrey and loans
Lajud joined Monterrey's youth academy in 2014, progressing through their under-15, under-17 and under-20 teams. He registered to Monterrey's senior team in the Clausura 2018 Copa MX, making his competitive debut on 20 February 2018, in a 2–1 win against Dorados. Lajud made his league debut in the Liga MX on 20 October 2018 in a 2–1 win against Toluca; he was substituted in during the 72nd minute and scored the winning goal in the 84th minute.

In January 2019, Lajud was sent on loan to Querétaro in the Liga de Expansión MX, and then to Puebla six months later. In January 2020, Lajud moved to Tampico Madero on loan, with whom he won the Guardianes 2020. During the 2021–22 season, Lajud played for Raya2, Monterrey's reserve team in the Liga de Expansión MX. He was released by Monterrey in summer 2022.

Atlante
On 28 June 2022, Lajud joined Atlante. He made his debut two days later as a starter in a 3–0 home win against Atlético La Paz; after the end of the match, Lajud proposed to his girlfriend. On 13 July, Lajud scored his first goal for Atlante in a 3–1 win against Cancún. He scored consecutive braces in a 5–0 win against Tlaxcala and a 2–2 draw against Cimarrones de Sonora, on 5 and 8 September, respectively. After defeating Celaya in the final, Layun helped Atlante win the Apertura 2022.

In the first matchday of the Clausura 2023, Lajud scored a brace against Alebrijes de Oaxaca in a 4–0 win on 5 January 2023. He scored another brace on 31 January, helping his side win 3–0 against Mineros de Zacatecas.

International career
On 19 September 2022, he obtained a Lebanese passport in order to play for the Lebanon national team. Lajud was first called up by coach Aleksandar Ilić ahead of Lebanon's friendly fixture against Kuwait in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 19 November 2022. He made his debut as a starter, with the match ending in a 2–0 defeat.

Style of play
Lajud is an attacking midfielder known for his speed and powerful mid-range shooting.

Personal life
Lajud is of Lebanese descent through his father.

Lajud's brother, Rodrigo, is also a footballer. On 30 June 2022, he proposed to his girlfriend at Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, Atlante's home stadium, following his club debut.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours
Tampico Madero
 Liga de Expansión MX: Guardianes 2020

Atlante
 Liga de Expansión MX: Apertura 2022

See also
 List of Lebanon international footballers born outside Lebanon

References

External links

1999 births
Living people
Footballers from Veracruz
Mexican people of Lebanese descent
Sportspeople of Lebanese descent
Citizens of Lebanon through descent
Lebanese people of Mexican descent
Mexican footballers
Lebanese footballers
Association football midfielders
C.F. Monterrey players
Querétaro F.C. footballers
Club Puebla players
Tampico Madero F.C. footballers
Raya2 Expansión players
Atlante F.C. footballers
Liga MX players
Liga de Expansión MX players
Lebanon international footballers

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Do you spend your days watching CoinMarketCap? Or, do you have no idea what that is? Either way, I think you'll be interested in this week's episode.
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OPINION: Saying goodbye to a high school
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The school that was St. Pat's and Central Collegiate has a date with the wrecking ball, but its athletic track will live to see another day. George Mathewson
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Work crews will arrive any day now and begin knocking down the vacant high school building on East Street, if they haven't already.
The St. Clair Catholic District School Board awarded a contract last week to demolish the former St. Patrick's and clear the debris as soon as possible. By May it will be gone.
The school is much more than bricks and terrazzo floors, of course, especially to the thousands of students who spent formative years at St. Pat's, and the former Central Collegiate before it.
As residents drive on East Street in coming weeks the bulldozers are bound to spark personal memories, good and bad, of those crisp fall football games and sweaty June exams, of hormones and smoky cars, or maybe report cards and prom parties – when they still had such things.
Central Collegiate Institute opened in 1955 when Sarnia was drunk on growth. Five hundred new homes were built that year, another 600 lots approved and Indian Road was paved.
Numerous restaurants, gas stations and two new churches opened as 1,447 more people arrived, swelling the population to 41,493.
As the first cohort of students settled in at Central that September educators were already planning another secondary school to alleviate overcrowding.
Central cost $700,00 to build including all the equipment, desks and framed portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.
Knocking it down will cost $450,000.
The future of its outdoor athletic track has been in limbo since the board decided to close St. Pat's in 2014 and put the property on the market.
Bluewater Health, which wants the land for hospital parking, asked Sarnia to help it acquire the site and City Hall got involved because it wants to protect the track.
In October, Sarnia withdrew its expression of interest on the understanding the hospital, once it acquires the land, would permit two local track clubs to continue operating the athletic facility.
A memorandum from that time stated the agreement would give the two clubs exclusive license to use and operate the facility for the next 20 years.
Last week, the board and hospital said they are close to finalizing a land sale agreement and are "optimistic" an announcement isn't far off.
In the release, hospital vice president Mike Lapaine said the sale will be a "win-win" for the community but provided few details.
"Our ownership of this property is vital to the future of Bluewater Health and will also secure the agreements we currently have in place with community organizations to preserve track for the next several years," he said.
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What is the carpal tunnel?
The carpal tunnel is a canal that runs from the wrist to the hand. It is formed by the small bones of the wrist and the transverse carpal ligament across the top of the wrist. The median nerve, which provides sensory and motor functions to the thumb and the middle fingers, also runs through the carpal tunnel.
This condition occurs when the median nerve is compressed as it passes through the carpal tunnel. This compression decreases blood flow to the nerve, which will start to degenerate, and may cause patients to experience many symptoms, including numbness, tingling and loss of hand function.
What causes carpal tunnel syndrome?
Although many cases of carpal tunnel syndrome have no known cause, it can be the result of a number of issues:
Repetitive, small movements of the hands, such as typing.
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What are the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome?
Patients with carpal tunnel syndrome may experience some or all of the following symptoms:
The feeling of "pins and needles" in the fingers, especially at night.
Numbness of the hand, usually the thumb and three middle fingers, especially at night.
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Relief from the above symptoms by shaking out the hand.
What is the treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome?
Conservative lifestyle changes will effectively treat carpal tunnel syndrome sometimes, but patients may also need surgery. The UK Hand Surgery Team is well-versed in therapeutic, medicinal and surgical treatment options for patients with this condition. Treatment plans include the following:
Wrist splints to prevent excess motion and decrease nerve compression.
Methods to alter the wrist position and wrist usage, such as switching to an ergonomic keyboard when typing.
Oral or injected anti-inflammatory medication.
Surgery to remove the source of nerve compression.
How complicated is surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome?
Carpal tunnel surgery is an outpatient procedure, which means that patients can return home the day of surgery.
Our expert hand surgeons use local anesthetic to numb an egg-sized area in the front of the wrist. The surgeon will make a 1- to 2-cm incision on the front of the wrist to release the nerve from compression. Then, the surgeon will close the skin with one stitch and wrap the wrist in soft dressings. There is also an option for endoscopic surgery for decompression.
After surgery, it's important to keep the wrist and fingers moving and elevated to help prevent swelling and stiffness. Patients usually need pain medications and ice therapy for the first two or three days following surgery.
The length of recovery varies depending on both the individual and how long the nerve had been compressed. Stitches are removed after two weeks, at which point patients can resume most normal activities. However, some patients may take up to six months to fully recover.


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Venus Extravaganza : On being a Transsexual in NYC in the 1980s
Transsexual Life in NYC 1980s
In 1990 I was 21 and at the point in my life where I had begun the long road of self discovery of what it means to be trans. It was also the year that Jennie Livingston released her cult documentary movie 'Paris is Burning.' I remember it being aired on BBC2 as part of their Arena documentary series. The Arena team made an introduction to the film stating that Madonna's hit single Vogue had taken it's roots from the culture existing within the underground gay night clubs of New York City.
The film chronicled the 'Ball Circuit', and the African-America, transgender, Latino and gay communities involved in it. An underworld where you could live out the fantasy of being what you were denied in real life due to poverty, race or your sexuality. Organised into gangs called 'Houses', taking their names and influence from the major fashion companies, and battling it out on the catwalk for prestige and the ultimate realness of their fantasy. For one night each member of a House could walk the walk and compete for trophies, being what ever you wanted for the night. This in itself formed part of the love and acceptance the contestants dreamed of.
This film had quite an impact upon me and I often thought about the many transgender characters involved within the film and where they are now. Sadly most of those who appeared have now passed on. One trans girl who I really took a shine to and would love to have met in real life was Venus Xtravaganza, from the House of Xtravaganza.
Venus stated in the movie, "I want to be a spoiled, rich, white girl living in the suburbs. They get what they want".
Born 22nd May 1965, as Thomas Pellagatti to an Italian-American and Pureto Rican family, Thomas adopted the name venus in her teens. Venus said that as she did not want to be an embarrassment to her family she decided to find another life and joined the House of Xtravaganza in 1983, when she also adopted the surname of her House.
Venus was trapped in poverty having moved away from home at such a young age and I would imagine the Ball Circuit provided her a way of escaping her trappings. She worked as an escort but was warned by her friends that she took too many risks and was far too trusting of people. As you follow her within the movie you're shocked to learn that before the filming had finished the young Venus met a very grizzly death. She was found strangled under a hotel bed in a New York hotel room. Her killer was never found. She was only 23 years old.
RIP Venus, I would have loved to have known you.
Having recently revisited the film I wonder how, if at all, things have changed for trans people since the 1980s. I would like to think things have changed for the better. However today, there does seem to be a new dark uprising on the horizon pushing transphobia through the media. We must do all we can to ensure that Transphobia is not used to push or be part of any political agenda.
The video below shows many of the sequences of Paris is Burning which feature Venus. The full film is easily available and is even on Netflix. Enjoy.
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'The film depicts people with different gender identities or communities and their different forms of expression.[5] It also explores how its subjects dealt with the adversity of racism, homophobia, AIDS and poverty. For example, some, like Venus Xtravaganza became sex workers, some shoplift clothing, and some were thrown out of their homes by homophobic parents. One participant was saving money for sex reassignment surgery. According to Livingston, the documentary is a multi-leveled exploration of a subculture in African American and Latino cultures that proves to be a microcosm of society, which was an underappreciated and arguably underground world that many Americans were unfamiliar with.[6] Through candid one-on-one interviews the film offers insight into the lives and struggles of its subjects and the strength, pride, and humor they maintain to survive in a "rich, white world." ' Read More
Here is the trailer for the full Paris is Burning documentary.
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7 April 2015 Peasants' Rights
La Via Campesina Release, April 7th, 2015
La Via Campesina is extremely concerned about the situation in the Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp in southern Damascus
La Via Campesina has been watching recent reports of the invasion of the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk by extremist armed forces with great concern. It comes at a time when the camp is suffering from a two-year siege on it. We are extremely worried about the well being of our friends and partners in the food sovereignty projects on the ground, who have been targeted by armed forces. The recent targeted execution of civil society activist Firas Al Naji—a founder of food sovereignty projects in Yarmouk (which aim to ease the suffering of a community living with severe malnutrition due to the siege), among other initiatives—is a dark example of the grave situation that civil society faces. We are also deeply concerned for the safety of Abdullah Al Khateeb and other human rights rights defenders targeted by militant groups. The threat against all of these active members of civil society is massive, and we do not want to stand quietly aside while they and their community are targeted.
As Palestinian refugees—thus declared stateless persons by many nations—they are not granted the protection they should rightfully have in their host countries. As Palestinian refugees in Syria, being displaced yet again, their rights as stateless persons have deteriorated even further.
In the case of Yarmouk, which is a southern suburb of the Syrian capital, the UN body that is meant to maintain and provide relief services to the Palestinian community, UNWRA, has not been able to fulfill its basic obligations to the camp's Palestinian residents. This has been the case for almost two years, ever since the enforced siege was imposed on the camp. Meanwhile the entire population of the area—not only Palestinians—is left isolated and without any relief from the international community.
This two-year siege prevents people from entering or leaving the camp, and prevents access to food and medical care. Since September 2014 a drought situation was created inside the camp by turning off the water supply. Thus the humanitarian situation has grown extremely dire for the camp's remaining 18,000 inhabitants. This siege is completely illegal according to international humanitarian law and has to be considered a war crime.
As a peasants' movement and a movement for food sovereignty rights, we are deeply concerned about this continued violation of the rights of Syrians, all of them, facing the criminal strategy of "starve or surrender" in many areas around Syria. With almost 200 deaths caused by starvation, Yarmouk is one of the most strikingly outrageous examples of this method to try to break entire communities. We reject the use of hunger and food as a weapon against people, by any armed forces.
In light of the new developments inside Yarmouk, with the invasion of the "Islamic State" and its attacks against Yarmouk's residents making the humanitarian situation even more dire, we call on the international community and especially the UNWRA to do everything they can to protect the people in Yarmouk.
We urgently call for:
Safe passage for all of Yarmouk's residents in and out of the camp without facing the danger of arrest by forces on the ground,
Full protection for all those leaving the country, a protection which includes the right to leave and open-border-policies by other states,
That the UNWRA will bring immediate supplies of food, water and medical aid for besieged southern Damascus residents,
That all Palestinian parties make a collective effort to defend the rights of those trapped in and around Syria,
That the International Committee of the Red Cross support entry of medical supplies and food to all residents of the area, restore functioning hospitals that due to the siege have almost collapsed, and to ensure safe passage!
Organize protests in your cities for solidarity with the people in Yarmouk and to demand that the international community, UNWRA and the International Committee of the Red Cross use their mandate and do anything they can to protect the people in the Yarmouk camp.
Please write to:
– UNWRA, go to http://www.unrwa.org/contact
– The International Committee of the Red Cross: Fax: +41 22 733 20 57, or go to https://www.icrc.org/eng/who-we-are/contacts/index.jsp
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Eladio Mozas Santamera (18. února 1837, Miedes de Atienza – 18. března 1897, Plasencia) byl španělský katolický kněz a zakladatel kongregace.

Život
Narodil se 18. února 1837 v Miedes de Atienza. V prosinci 1862 dostal doktorát z teologie na Centrální univerzitě v Madridu. Na kněze byl vysvěcen v dubnu 1865 pro diecézi Plasencia. Po vysvěcení působil např. jako farní kněz, profesor v semináři.

V degradovaném Španělsku královny Isabely II. Španělské, byla velká negramotnost, chudoba lidí a útoky na církev. Otec Eladio chtěl regenerovat společnost. Z vnuknutí Boha založil Kongregaci Sester Josefitek Nejsvětější Trojice. Tato kongregace má za úkol obnovit morální, sociální a náboženskou společnost, prostřednictví rodin, škol, přednášek atd.

Dne 12. listopadu 1990 byl zahájen proces svatořečení v diecézi Plasencia. Dne 27. března 2013 byl papežem Františkem prohlášen za Ctihodného.

Externí odkazy
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  The Hagiography Circle

Muži
Ctihodní
Španělští římskokatoličtí duchovní
Narození 18. února
Narození v roce 1837
Úmrtí 18. března
Úmrtí v roce 1897


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The Mind Master
May 3, 2016 September 8, 2016 marzaat
And we're back to more James Gunn while I work on more new stuff.
Remember, with Raw Feeds, you're getting my thoughts on a work at a specific point in time. Since Raw Feeds are there for quick posts, I don't often do corrections and updates. However, I will note that the idea of RNA memory transfer turned out to be based on bad lab work.
Raw Feed (2003): The Mind Master, James Gunn, 1981.
This novel's original title was The Dreamers.
Like most of Gunn's novels, it is a fixup, here three stories. It also has, as it's scientific point of takeoff, an idea popular in 1970s sf: chemically coded memories which can be transferred between people. (To be fair, I did a quick Internet search and RNA is still thought to be involved in memory though there is mixed opinion, most of it against, the notion that RNA-coded memories can be transferred between planarians much less rats. Still, at the time Gunn was writing, his speculations, with real scientists quoted on the matter, were certainly legitimate.)
The first story has little or no changes that I detected since I read it as "Among the Beautiful Bright Children" in the Gunn collection Human Voices though this time I didn't think that its protagonist was writing under the influence of a capsule persona. The second story involves a doctor betrayed by a woman who leaves him. He bitterly enters a poppet world of dreaming vengeance against women in many historical forms. The third story involves one of those who creates the capsule entertainments much loved by the novel's poppets. He becomes ensnared when he tries to dream the Trojan War, and the plot seems inevitable no matter what he does.
This novel's theme of the corrosive powers of contentment and seeking that contentment in fantasies is closely related to Gunn's The Joy Makers. This novel also features a society (rather like that of E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" — which must have been some influence on sf critic and historian Gunn), like that story, where people have largely retreated into self-contained apartments of solitary pleasure. Indeed, it is only in the adolescent phase that people group together to build their identity. The world of large urban centers with robotically and cybernetically managed fields and manufacturing centers surrounding them, where people rarely leave their city and mostly live in dream worlds is simply not as far down the path as the end of The Joy Makers where humanity exists as "fetal gnomes" in cubicles of bliss provided by "hedonics" technology.
Both novels question the value of happiness and come down, less strongly here, on some unhappiness to be necessary for man to engage with the universe and advance. Here people are lulled into living false lives recorded in RNA and proteins injected into their bodies. Gunn makes the wise (and, from a strategic sense, obvious) decision to describe the world through those somehow outside it.
The first story centers around an historian who doesn't, through most of the story, pop capsules of memories, though his work provides the grist for the dreamers work. (Indeed, Samuel, the eponymous character in the last section, "The Dreamer", meets "The Historian".). "The Volunteer" is a surgeon who is one of those who must perform a job, one he likes, that has not been recorded into a chemical form to be transferred to others. (The ability to chemically encode knowledge and experiences has revolutionized society by revolutionizing economics, education, and entertainment.). Samuel the Dreamer rarely "pops" himself. The narrative glue that welds through these three stories together is "The Mnemonist", a figure who is cybernetically linked to the city's automated administrative and control features. While not a dreamer, he is not exactly engaged in the real world. Rather he exists in a river of information which he controls for society's benefit, but it is the constant access to information (something of a precursor to some cyberpunk characters) that he enjoys. The novel's plot involves him finding a replacement since he is dying.
The seductive power of dreams is the novel's theme. The Historian, the Volunteer, and the Dreamer prove unable to resist the power of illusion. The Historian eventually succumbs, after being abandoned by his lover, to the lure of capsules. (He choses one built around a medieval figure.) The Volunteer, after he is rescued from his dreams of vengeance, again returns to it after finding out the woman who rescued him simply wants his surgical skills to revive an old lover in stasis, both people being part of a movement to deny the use of capsules and advance people the old way. The Dreamer succumbs to the lure of the Trojan War and his beloved Helen even though he finds the progression of events guided by history and the input of a spurned lover. The Mnemonist ultimately decides that, like those three, he has succumbed to dream and illusion. His is the illusion that his indispensability though he really just likes living in the flow of information.
Needless to say, another theme running through the book is the difficulties between a man and a woman. Each of the main stories features sexual and romantic love spurned or betrayed and the, always male, protagonist retreating to a world of illusion. With the Historian, his original wife left him and a newer lover just takes up with him as a novelty. When she leaves, he starts taking capsules. The Volunteer is embittered when his lover tells him she is entering the world of capsule dreams — not because he is a bad person but because no human can compete with the fulfillment and satisfaction they offer. He takes vengeance on women in his permanent dream state. When Sara turns out to be using him to revive her old lover, he returns, with additional frigidity, to those dreams of vengeance (tainted with worship since one dream of adultery avenged is terminated by a manifestation of the Virgin Mary — it's a medieval dream). The Dreamer becomes fascinated by his own creation of Helen and, when he won't leave her for a real world lover, she taints his dream with the inevitability of Helen's "real" history.
An interesting novel with, as is often the case with Gunn, some passages of prose poetry.
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A book I read as a teen – thanks for sharing.
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Daniel Davis @ourmaninjapan@mastodon.cloud
A man. In Japan. Community manager at DuckDuckGo. With a ukulele. Geeky music here: https://soundcloud.com/daniemon
A milestone week at @duckduckgo - we hit 30 million searches a day! It's hard to put that into perspective so I thought I'd do a visualisation with doughnuts.
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Wish people would realise that when you communicate with a company, there's a human being on the other end and it'd be nice to treat them as you would a stranger in the street.
"...in my hangry state I punched the pizza, broke and burned my hand" - best comment heard at work this week. 😆
Fascinating profile of BP Dakshayani, one of the "rocket women" of India.
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Genealogical Records of Slovakia
We are tracking down Bob's ancestors who lived in Slovakia. We cut our teeth on European genealogy in 2003 when we spent five months in England. At that time we had few language problems (except when we got back before the seventeenth century), and we learned about places to look and questions to ask and what to bring with us.
But Slovakia, conquered and re-conquered over the centuries and not a truly independent country until the mid-1990s, has records in many languages: Latin, Hungarian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Czech, and Slovak, sometimes several in the same record. It's a challenge -- we have brought our Slovak-English dictionary and we have purchased a couple of sets of word lists from the Library. Our main tools in our hunt for Bob's ancestors are Roman Catholic church records from the 19th century.
These church records, originally kept by each local priest and maintained in his church, were ordered to be transferred to state archives by the communist government of Czechoslovakia. Many of these archival records were microfilmed in the 1990s by the Utah Genealogical Society, an arm of the LDS Church. The records are incomplete and sometimes quite difficult to read -- ink blots, water damage, and the personal handwriting of each parish clerk complicate things, in addition to the puzzles of translating the column headings and notes.
Bob's grandmother, Anna Jurus, immigrated to New Jersey around 1900, joining a large Slovak community in Passaic. We knew before we got to Salt Lake City that Anna and Bob's grandfather John Hopko had come to America separately. But they had grown up in two villages only a few miles apart. We learned the Hungarian names of these villages from their marriage records in Passaic. So we knew where to start. We divvied up the work, with Bob taking the Hopko family and Elsa taking the Jurus family. Here's how we went about our search, using the Jurus records as an example. Anna Jurus' marriage record.
To begin with, when we had seen Anna's marriage record in Latin script at St. Mary's Church in Passaic, the names of her parents were added later in another hand, and we had awkwardly transliterated her mother's name as Zufanna Lencsik. But it turned out that her mother's maiden name was actually Huszar, which the clerk at St. Mary's had From Anna's baptismal record spelled phonetically as Heucsir and we had misread as Lencsik. This became clear when we found Anna's baptismal record from the village of Tolcsemes. In that record her parents' names were clearly spelled: Andras Jurus and Susana Huszar.
We actually found two records of her parents' marriage; this is not unusual, as the records were often transcribed for the sake of completeness; redundancy was From Anna's parents' marriage not considered troublesome! Here is the clearer of the two marriage records, although the information on both records is the same. This script shows the handwriting of the time, with the 's' looking rather like a modern 'f' and the terminal 'r' looking more like an 's'. In addition, there are accent marks over the second 'a' in Andras and the 'a' in Huszar. In this 1878 marriage record, the names of the fathers of the couple are given, but not the names of their mothers.
Next we searched for the baptismal records of Anna's parents. We found the 1855 baptism Anna's grandparents of Anna's father, which thus gave the names of her paternal grandparents: George Jurus and Anna Filyo. In this record George is spelled Georgius in Latin; the Hungarian spelling at the time was Gyorgy. Our search of the records revealed some of Andras' siblings: Maria, Anna, Maria, and Janos. The second Maria was evidently because the first Maria had died in infancy, although we didn't find a burial record.
Another small piece of documentation is the only known national census of Hungary in 1869, which listed every house, the number of rooms, and carefully named all the members of each family group living in the house. We wonder if any of those 19th century village houses will still be standing. We found five Jurus households in the village of Tolcsemes in 1869; although we're not certain, her grandfather George was probably dead by 1869, and her grandmother and father are probably shown in House Number 36, which had one living room, one bedroom, and one kitchen on one floor, for 9 people.
As we pore over these records, we begin to accumulate a mental picture of the people -- we get to know their neighbors and occasionally we can figure out the occupation (usually farmer) of the men. We watch the same godparents bless one child after another, and then come across the baptism of their own child. A book shows that some of the villages had very long narrow strips of farmland for each farmer, while other villages had wider pieces. But always the farmers lived together in the village and went out to work their fields during the day.
The Family History Library is a comfortable place, just about ideal as a research environment -- rows of computers provide access to the library catalog, to other genealogy resources on CD-ROM and on the Intenet. The chairs are very comfortable, the light is good, and there's general agreement that noise should be kept to a minimum. There are lots of friendly staffers. No, they don't try to convert you, but if you are a member of the LDS church, you get extra help finding and blessing your ancestors!
We always enjoy our visits here. This time we stayed in a two-bedroom suite in Layton, about 20 miles from the library. We had plenty of space and a kitchen where we stored our groceries and made breakfast. Only the weather didn't cooperate -- we had rain and fog and even one pretty good snowfall, which slowed our commute. But we really can't complain about this, because we don't have a boss to report to!
Oh, one more tidbit. If you ask at the very front desk, the greeter will give you a pass to eat at the cafeteria in the LDS Church headquarters building. And on Thursday noons they carve a big slab of roast prime rib -- just like a dinner portion -- complete meal for $6.50.


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