Former couple Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama reunited for a lunch date over the weekend.
The 25-year-old singer and 38-year-old actor appeared "super friendly" as they enjoyed a meal together Saturday, according to TMZ.
Lovato and Valderrama were spotted at Sol Y Luna restaurant in Tarzana, Calif. Sources said the pair were all smiles as they snacked on fresh guacamole at their table.
Lovato and Valderrama split in June 2016 after nearly six years of dating. The pair have documented friendly reunions on social media since, including at a barbecue at Lovato's house in June.
"Best of friends no matter what @wilmervalderrama," the singer said at the time.
In addition, Lovato discussed her lingering feelings for Valderrama in her YouTube documentary, Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, which debuted in October.
"I've never loved anybody like I loved Wilmer, and like, I still love Wilmer," the star said. "We connected on a level that I've never connected with anybody before. He was just my rock, my everything."
"I think my heart's always with Wilmer," she added. "I think it was with Wilmer, it is with Wilmer and I think it will be with Wilmer, because you don't share six years with somebody and not give them a piece of their heart.


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Where Does Plant Respiration Take Place?
••• roots of lettuce image by MAXFX from Fotolia.com
Importance of Respiration
By Jason Thompson
Respiration, or breathing, is a function that plants and animals have in common. Though plants do not have specialized organs to help them breathe, as animals do, respiration is nonetheless critical for maintaining life and fueling growth in plants. Plant respiration is a rather diffuse process. It occurs all over the plant. Some of these functions are carried out in specific places and some are carried out by all portions of the plant.
Plants are covered by pores, or "stomata," that open and close. One of the functions of these stomata is to absorb oxygen from the air. Oxygen is necessary for the chemical process of oxidation, or "burning." This is a chemical reaction that attaches oxygen atoms to other molecules, changing them and releasing energy as a side effect. Oxidation is how the bodies of plants and animals literally burn their fuel. It is the same process that makes brown spots on fruit, rusts metal and burns wood.
Plants do not get all of the oxygen they need for respiration from their stomata. They also absorb oxygen from their roots. This is why plants need well-aerated soil to grow properly. Waterlogged or compacted soil can kill plants by drowning or suffocating them.
The process of oxidizing sugars takes place in most of the cells of the plant's body. Specifically, it takes place in the cytosol, which is the fluid-filled space between the organelles of each cell. Here the sugar molecules are broken down by a series of chemical reactions into pyruvic acid and other chemicals.
The rest of the respiration process occurs within the cells' mitochondria. Mitochondria are small bodies, or organelles, that are about the same size as bacteria. They are somewhat like the cells' furnaces, creating energy out of the fuel that was produced in the cytosol. These mitochondria absorb the pyruvic acids that were formed there and subject them to further chemical reactions. These reactions produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules, which are what the plants use for energy. They also produce water and carbon dioxide as a side effect.
Some plants, such a certain fungi, often grow in low-oxygen conditions. This can seriously interfere with the plants' ability to breathe. When this happens, plants will replace respiration with another set of chemical reactions, called fermentation. Fermentation is not as efficient at making energy as respiration is, but it does not require oxygen.
Colorado State University; Photosynthesis, Respiration and Transpiration; Whiting et al; 2003
Kimball's Biology Pages; Gas Exchange in Plants; John Kimball; June 3, 2001
Indiana University-Purdue-Indianapolis; Cellular Respiration; January 31, 2000
Oregon State University; Respiration
Jason Thompson has been self-employed as a freelance writer since 2007. He has written advertisements, book and video game reviews, technical articles and thesis papers. He started working with Mechanical Turk and then started contracting with individuals and companies directly via the Web.
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10 Facts on Photosynthesis
What Kind of Energy Makes Muscle Cells Contract?
Where Does Respiration Occur?
Where Is Starch Stored in Plant Cells?
What Is the Unit for Enthalpy?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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Q: How does the High Impact Reserves perk interact with the Extended Mag mod? I have a weapon which has High Impact Reserves, and I've placed an Extended Mag mod into it, boosting it's rounds from 36 to 42.
Will this give me more high impact rounds in the magazine?

A: The Hight Impact Reserves always works like this:

The bottom half of the magazine deals extra damage, increasing as you
  go deeper. The final round in the magazine deals 30% extra damage.

Thanks to the research people did on Reddit (thread in question), we know that it combines with Extended Mag, but the damage cap is still at 30%:

High-Impact Reserves tops out at 30% extra damage, regardless of how many you have in the magazine. Did some testing with a Tigerspite.
Starting at 33 rounds, High-Impact Reserves will kick in when there are 16 rounds in the magazine. It hits for 108 crit damage
  against a Trostland level enemy on the final round.
With a Backup Mag mod, we start at 39 rounds. High-Impact Reserves kicks in when there are 19 rounds in the magazine. It also hits for
  108 crit damage against a Trostland level enemy on the final round.
The benefit is that you'll see increased damage longer. Have 50 rounds? 25 will deal increased damage. Up that to 100? 50 will deal
  increased damage. The final round will always be the same, but you'll
  do more damage per magazine the bigger it is.

A: While I cannot find a concrete number, these patch notes indicate that the perk provides a damage buff over a percentage of your magazine. Thus, logically, it would seem that a larger magazine size would give you more bullets with a damage boost as well.
Some players are theorizing about the perk, stating that there's a larger increase towards the end of the magazine (e.g. the first bullet with a damage boost provides a lower damage bonus than the final bullet in the magazine). There is some information about it in this reddit thread. In this thread, they also assume that the bottom half of the magazine starts giving a damage boost to each bullet.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


"It doesn't get any simpler than that," says Laurie Lowes, Manager of Health and Safety at the company that operates 77 stores across Western Canada.
As a champion for the PFL program, Laurie encourages members of his organization to donate blood. Since 2008, London Drugs has been a strong supporter in British Columbia of the PFL program, with partnerships in the Lower Mainland, Prince George and Kelowna. Its members have donated nearly 1,000 times.
Laurie passionately spreads the word on the importance of blood donation every chance he gets. An instructor with St. John Ambulance, he teaches students how to save lives and reminds them they can save even more lives through blood donation. As a member of the BC Retail Safety Society, Laurie tells fellow retailers about the ongoing need for blood and encourages them to sign their organizations up for PFL.
In 2010, when Canadian Blood Services launched its Bloodmobile – a roving four-bed clinic on wheels that serves the Lower Mainland – London Drugs was one of the first organizations to get on board. They were excited to be able to host clinics at their retail sites and head office and have welcomed the Bloodmobile 57 times since the launch. The result: more than 2,000 donations, including almost 650 new donors. In fact, last year, London Drugs' donations accounted for about 10 per cent of all donations made at the Bloodmobile.
Being this successful isn't just about pulling the Bloodmobile up to the curb and opening the door. Getting people inspired to donate and helping them understand the reasons they should participate takes the work of a great team, like the one at London Drugs. Helping out Laurie is president and CEO Wynne Powell, the marketing department and the store managers – all involved since day one. Always looking for new ways to promote the clinics, the team has posted information to their blog and store employees recently wore pins to advertise upcoming Bloodmobiles to customers.
Dedicated to being involved in their communities, London Drugs has encouraged their partners, vendors, suppliers and competitors to also become involved with blood donation… and join them in doing the right thing.


Our Silver Manzanita Tree stands 4 Feet Tall. It's so bright you'll need shades to be in the same room with it. Stands in a killer silver glittered base with white rocks GLUED inside of it instead of moss (how cool, no chasing rocks down the sidewalk). You must get one or two or ten for your next event. Can you imagine how beautiful this would be draped in some strands of beads or mirrors?
The branches on this fabulous tree are bendable. So you can easily bend each branch to your desired position, and for storage or transport, you can bend them into a "thinner" position. 3 Foot Diameter with branches spread. Weighted pot is 7" tall, 6" wide at the top and 5" wide on the floor. Also known as a centerpiece tree, wishing tree, or wedding tree.
Pot Included- 6″ square top x 5″ square bottom.
Weighted with rocks to prevent tipping.


When I have a down-whoa-is-me, I need a man in my life moment, I always remind myself of the tee shirt I saw on Think Geek that simple read: "Self Rescuing Princess".
I replied back and told her this was perfect and going into my nieces' keepsake boxes. Both have words of wisdom and music they'll get when they turn 18. They need to know the knowledge that I've learned. They need to be women who make a difference. Not women who are indifferent. They will be self rescuing princesses.
This weekend, I was reminded that I AM A SELF RESCUING PRINCESS. NO PRINCE CHARMING NEEDED.


The komposter™ is a small scale on-site in-vessel constant throughput, thermal, food waste composter.
As food waste and wood pellets are loaded at one end it heats up and as the handle is turned, it travels through the komposter™, composting in stages, automatically emerging from the outlet at the other end.
It reaches temperatures of between 60ºC – 70ºC naturally.
Our komposter™ 5.2t units can recycle as little as 5 tonnes of food waste per annum per site and, when a couple of units are run in conjunction, our komposter™ 10.4t units are able to recycle up to 50 tonnes of food waste per annum per site.
This revolutionary idea means food waste can be recycled ON-SITE, rather than having a fleet of trucks on the road to collect the segregated food waste to be treated elsewhere. Our systems assist in improving your sustainability credentials whilst increasing overall recycling rates. They help in reducing your waste costs whilst saving you money in the process. And ultimately they bring the added benefit of the resultant high-quality and much sought-after peat-free compost; a feel-good factor for everyone involved.
1 tonne of food waste recycled on-site and turned into compost saves ≈ 1 tonne of CO₂ equivalent emissions from entering the atmosphere.
Further turning that compost into salad or vegetable beds completes the cycle and saves even more carbon.


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package ariba.ui.aribaweb.core;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWEncodedString;
import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.AWUtil;
import ariba.ui.aribaweb.util.Log;
import ariba.util.core.Assert;
import ariba.util.core.Fmt;
import ariba.util.core.ListUtil;

abstract public class AWBindableElement extends AWBaseElement implements AWBindable
{
    protected static final String _list = "_list";
    protected static final String _item = "_item";
    protected static final String _ifTrue = "_ifTrue";
    protected static final String _ifFalse = "_ifFalse";
    protected static final String _equalNull = "_equalNull";
    protected static final String _notEqualNull = "_notEqualNull";
    private static final String ConflictingBindingsMessage = "BindableElement may not have both _list and _if bindings";
    private AWEncodedString _tagName;

    public AWElement determineInstance (String elementName, Map bindingsHashtable, String templateName, int lineNumber)
    {
        AWBindableElement bindableElement = null;
        if (!AWBindingNames.UseNamePrefixBinding) {
            bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindingNames.namePrefix);
        }
        boolean hasIfBindings = hasIfBindings(bindingsHashtable);
        if (hasListBindings(bindingsHashtable)) {
            Assert.that(!hasIfBindings, ConflictingBindingsMessage);
            AWWrapperFor wrapperFor = new AWWrapperFor();
            // Note: this removes some bindings.
            wrapperFor.init(elementName, bindingsHashtable);
            wrapperFor.setContentElement(this);
            bindableElement = wrapperFor;
        }
        else if (hasIfBindings) {
            AWWrapperIf wrapperIf = new AWWrapperIf();
            // Note: this removes some bindings.
            wrapperIf.init(elementName, bindingsHashtable);
            wrapperIf.conditionBlock().setContentElement(this);
            bindableElement = wrapperIf;
        }
        else {
            bindableElement = this;
        }
        this.init(elementName, bindingsHashtable);
        setTemplateName(templateName);
        setLineNumber(lineNumber);
        return bindableElement;
    }

    private boolean hasListBindings(Map bindingsHashtable)
    {
        return bindingsHashtable.get(AWBindableElement._list) != null;
    }

    private boolean hasIfBindings (Map bindingsHashtable)
    {
        return bindingsHashtable.get(AWBindableElement._ifTrue) != null
            || bindingsHashtable.get(AWBindableElement._ifFalse) != null
            || bindingsHashtable.get(AWBindableElement._equalNull) != null
            || bindingsHashtable.get(AWBindableElement._notEqualNull) != null;
    }

    public void init (String tagName, Map bindingsHashtable)
    {
        this.init();
        _tagName = AWEncodedString.sharedEncodedString(tagName.intern());
        if (bindingsHashtable != null && bindingsHashtable.size() > 0) {
            Log.aribawebvalidation_bindableElement.debug("%s: Some bindings were not removed: %s", tagName, bindingsHashtable);
        }
    }

    public String tagName ()
    {
        return (_tagName == null) ? null : _tagName.string();
    }

    protected AWEncodedString encodedTagName ()
    {
        return _tagName;
    }

    public AWBinding[] allBindings ()
    {
        List bindingVector = ListUtil.list();
        allBindings(bindingVector);
        AWBinding[] bindings = new AWBinding[bindingVector.size()];
        bindingVector.toArray(bindings);
        return bindings;
    }

    private void allBindings (List bindingVector)
    {
        Class classObject = getClass();

        while (classObject != AWBindableElement.class) {
            Field[] fields = classObject.getDeclaredFields();
            for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
                Field field = fields[i];
                if ((!Modifier.isStatic(field.getModifiers())) &&
                    AWBinding.class.isAssignableFrom(field.getType())) {
                    try {
                        AWBinding binding = (AWBinding)getFieldValue(field);
                        AWUtil.addElement(bindingVector, binding);
                    }
                    catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
                        logString("Error: " + getClass().getName() + ":getFieldValue" +
                                  ex.toString());

                    }
                    catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
                        logString("Error: " + getClass().getName() + ":getFieldValue" +
                                  ex.toString());
                    }
                }
            }
            classObject = classObject.getSuperclass();
        }
    }

    protected Object getFieldValue (Field field)
      throws IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException
    {
        throw new IllegalAccessException();
    }

    public void validate (AWValidationContext validationContext, AWComponent component)
    {
        validate(validationContext, component, getClass());
    }

    private void validate (AWValidationContext validationContext, AWComponent component, Class bindableClass)
    {
        // Iterate through all fields and, for those that are AWBinding type, call validate on them.
        Field[] declaredFields = bindableClass.getDeclaredFields();
        Class awbindingClass = AWBinding.class;
        for (int index = declaredFields.length - 1; index > -1; index--) {
            Field field = declaredFields[index];
            if (awbindingClass.isAssignableFrom(field.getType())) {
                field.setAccessible(true);
                try {
                    AWBinding binding = (AWBinding)field.get(this);
                    if (binding != null) {
                        // Note: Ignores direction for now.
                        binding.validate(validationContext, component, AWBindingApi.Either);
                    }
                }
                catch (IllegalAccessException illegalAccessException) {
                    Log.logStack(Log.aribaweb,
                                 Fmt.S("Warning: Unable to validate binding: %s",
                                       field.getName()));
                }
            }
        }
        Class superclass = bindableClass.getSuperclass();
        if (AWBindable.class.isAssignableFrom(superclass)) {
            validate(validationContext, component, superclass);
        }
    }

    public void appendTo (StringBuffer buffer)
    {
        buffer.append("<").append(tagName());

        AWBinding[] bindings = allBindings();
        for (int i=0; i<bindings.length; i++) {
            AWBinding binding = bindings[i];
            buffer.append(" ").append(binding.bindingName());
            buffer.append("=\"").append(binding.bindingDescription()).append("\"");
        }
        closeString(buffer);
    }

    protected void closeString (StringBuffer buffer)
    {
        buffer.append("/>");
    }
}

final class AWWrapperFor extends AWFor
{
    public void init (String tagName, Map bindingsHashtable)
    {
        AWUtil.putNonNull(bindingsHashtable, AWBindingNames.list, bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindableElement._list));
        AWUtil.putNonNull(bindingsHashtable, AWBindingNames.item, bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindableElement._item));
        super.init(tagName, bindingsHashtable);
    }

    public void add (AWElement element)
    {
        ((AWElementContaining)contentElement()).add(element);
    }
}

final class AWWrapperIf extends AWIf
{
    public void init (String tagName, Map bindingsHashtable)
    {
        AWUtil.putNonNull(bindingsHashtable, AWBindingNames.ifTrue, bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindableElement._ifTrue));
        AWUtil.putNonNull(bindingsHashtable, AWBindingNames.ifFalse, bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindableElement._ifFalse));
        AWUtil.putNonNull(bindingsHashtable, AWBindingNames.equalNull, bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindableElement._equalNull));
        AWUtil.putNonNull(bindingsHashtable, AWBindingNames.notEqualNull, bindingsHashtable.remove(AWBindableElement._notEqualNull));
        super.init(tagName, bindingsHashtable);
    }

    protected AWContainerElement conditionBlock ()
    {
        return conditionBlocks()[0];
    }

    public void add (AWElement element)
    {
        ((AWElementContaining)conditionBlock().contentElement()).add(element);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


[YOUSAF ALI] It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah-fearing.
[ PICKTHAL ] It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets; and giveth wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the Allah-fearing.
[ SHAKIR ] It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts-- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil).
[YOUSAF ALI] To orphans restore their property (When they reach their age), nor substitute (your) worthless things for (their) good ones; and devour not their substance (by mixing it up) with your own. For this is indeed a great sin.
[ PICKTHAL ] Give unto orphans their wealth. Exchange not the good for the bad (in your management thereof) nor absorb their wealth into your own wealth. Lo! that would be a great sin.
[ SHAKIR ] And give to the orphans their property, and do not substitute worthless (things) for (their) good (ones), and do not devour their property (as an addition) to your own property; this is surely a great crime.
"اور اگر تقسیم کے وقت دیگر قرابتدار, ایتام, مساکین بھی آجائیں تو انہیں بھی اس میں سے بطور رزق دے دو اور ان سے نرم اور مناسب گفتگو کرو"
[YOUSAF ALI] But if at the time of division other relatives, or orphans or poor, are present, feed them out of the (property), and speak to them words of kindness and justice.
[ PICKTHAL ] And when kinsfolk and orphans and the needy are present at the division (of the heritage), bestow on them therefrom and speak kindly unto them.
[ SHAKIR ] And when there are present at the division the relatives and the orphans and the needy, give them (something) out of it and speak to them kind words.
[YOUSAF ALI] Those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans, eat up a Fire into their own bodies: They will soon be enduring a Blazing Fire!
[ PICKTHAL ] Lo! Those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully, they do but swallow fire into their bellies, and they will be exposed to burning flame.
[ SHAKIR ] (As for) those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly, surely they only swallow fire into their bellies and they shall enter burning fire.
"اور اللہ کی عبادت کرو اور کسی شے کو اس کا شریک نہ بناؤ اور والدین کے ساتھ نیک برتاؤ کرو اور قرابتداروں کے ساتھ اور یتیموں, مسکینوں, قریب کے ہمسایہ, دور کے ہمسایہ, پہلو نشین, مسافر غربت زدہ, غلام و کنیز سب کے ساتھ نیک برتاؤ کرو کہ اللہ مغرور اور متکبر لوگوں کو پسند نہیں کرتا"
[YOUSAF ALI] Seest thou one who denies the Judgment (to come)?
[ PICKTHAL ] Hast thou observed him who belieth religion?
[ SHAKIR ] Have you considered him who calls the judgment a lie?
[YOUSAF ALI] And encourages not the feeding of the indigent.
[ PICKTHAL ] And urgeth not the feeding of the needy.
[ SHAKIR ] And does not urge (others) to feed the poor.
[YOUSAF ALI] But refuse (to supply) (even) neighbourly needs.
[ PICKTHAL ] Yet refuse small kindnesses!
[ SHAKIR ] And withhold the necessaries of life.


Accused of leaking more than 700,000 secret documents, private in US army faces possible life imprisonment.
A private charged in the biggest leak of classified information in US history will face a general court martial, the army has said.
Major General Michael Linnington, commander of the Washington military district overseeing the prosecution of Private First Class Bradley Manning, announced the decision on Friday.
Linnington's statement follows a six-week-long Article 32 hearing, during which army lawyers argued that Manning should face the general court martial, the most serious form of military trial.
The decision means that Manning will stand trial for allegedly giving more than 700,000 secret US documents and classified combat video to WikiLeaks.
The whistleblowing website published them online and assisted numerous media organisations in disseminating and explaining the secret material.
Manning accessed the files while serving as an intelligence analyst at Forward Operating Base Hammer, near Baghdad, during a deployment that lasted from late 2009 to mid-2010.
The 24-year-old Oklahoma native faces 22 counts, including theft of public property, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, and aiding the enemy.
The latter charge carries the death penalty, but military prosecutors have said they will seek no more than life in prison.
Manning's court martial has not yet been appointed a judge, who will then set out a schedule of hearings. His lead defence counsel, thus far, remains civilian lawyer David Coombs.
Defence lawyers say Manning was a troubled young soldier whom the army should never have deployed to Iraq or given access to classified material.
At a preliminary hearing in December, military prosecutors produced evidence that Manning downloaded and electronically transferred to WikiLeaks nearly half a million sensitive battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and video of a deadly 2007 army helicopter attack that WikiLeaks shared with the world and dubbed "Collateral Murder".
Manning's lawyers countered that others had access to the private's workplace computers.
They say he was in emotional turmoil, partly because he was a gay soldier at a time when homosexuals were barred from serving openly in the US armed forces.
The defence also claims Manning's apparent disregard for security rules during stateside training and his increasingly violent outbursts after deployment were red flags that should have prevented him from having access to classified material.
Manning's lawyers also contend that the material WikiLeaks published did little or no harm to national security.
The Bradley Manning Support Group, which contends Manning heroically exposed war crimes, issued a statement calling his prosecution "fundamentally unjust".
"This administration owes all Americans an honest explanation for their extraordinary retaliation against Bradley Manning," said Jeff Paterson, one of the group's lead organisers.


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The Giant Robots That Serve the World's Largest Library Archives
Attila Nagy
The largest libraries do more than just store books and newspapers on their shelves. When a library collection contains millions of documents, it needs complex and highly sophisticated logistical systems in order to serve its readers' requests. It needs library robots.
In many libraries, amazing automated transportation and robotic retrieval systems are behind every book you receive from your librarian. Peek far behind the walls of the familiar reading rooms into the seemingly endless rows of stainless steel shelves, data centers, and intelligent servants that deliver humankind's collective knowledge.
Bodleian Book Storage Facility, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
154 miles of shelving hold over 6.5 million volumes of books and periodicals in this new storage unit where cranes navigate among the uniform boxes.
Photo: Matt Cardy/Stringer/Getty Images
NAVA Tape library robot, Budapest, Hungary
One petabyte (1000 TB) data is stored in this audiovisual library on 1200 IBM Tivoli LTO tapes, retrieved by this automated mechanism upon online request.
Gif source: NAVA
National Newspaper Archive, Boston Spa, United Kingdom
Millions of newspapers are stored on racks at the British Library's National Newspaper Building. The newly built storage void holds 60 million newspapers and periodicals spanning more than three centuries. The temperature and humidity controlled store is operated by robot cranes and can retrieve newspapers from any time and date.
Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
NCI Tape library robot, Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University
NCI is capable of holding 9520 tapes, storing between 13.9 uncompressed and 28.5 compressed Petabytes of data. The time taken for the system to deliver data after a user request depends upon the location of the robot that retrieves tapes, availability of a free tape drive, and the location of the data stored on the 800m plus length of tape. Typically, this delivery occurs between 30 seconds to a few minutes.
Gif source: NCINationalFacility
Telelift system of the National Széchényi Library, Budapest, Hungary
An almost 30-year-old automated electric railway transportation system with 50 carts.
Photo: Attila Nagy/Gizmodo
Jerry Falwell Library, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia
The new Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) uses three cranes to store and retrieve bins (a total of 4,200 bins) filled with items such as books and historical artifacts. The system has a capacity for approximately 420,000 items.
Gif source: Liberty News
James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
The "bookBot" glides down a row of drawers. The automated book retrieval system is just one of many innovations in the new, state-of-the-art facility.
Photo: Allen Breed/AP
Santa Clara University Library, Santa Clara, California
The Automated Retrieval System (ARS) delivers on-demand access to hundreds of thousands of item.
Gif source: SCU University Library
Mansueto Library, University of Chicago
The Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) claims to allow readers access to their desired materials within minutes.
Photo: University of Chicago Library
Top photo: National Newspaper Archive, Boston Spa, United Kingdom (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
MyL1ttleDuceC0upe
Honest question: Why have most of the large and very old documents not been digitally converted yet? It would seem to me that these complex systems would become redundant once the documents are digitally available.


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Students describe why they love America (ESSAYS)
LAUREN DELGADO / Daily News
Nov 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM Nov 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM
Three local students received awards Tuesday at the Masonic Lodge for their essays on why they love America.
FORT WALTON BEACH � Three local students received awards Tuesday at the Masonic Lodge for their essays on why they love America.
At the ceremony, Grand Master Dennis Barbarisi praised the students for their scholarship, patriotism and diligence.
�They are fine young people and examples of the good youth of today,� Barbarisi said.
Each student won a plaque, a bookmark and $150.
Fort Walton Beach Mayor Mike Anderson also praised the students for their gasp on what it means to live in America.
Brandon Ace, who was an eighth-grader at Bruner Middle School at the time of the contest, said his teacher helped inspire his essay. He listed and discussed the freedoms and rights Americans are afforded.
�We have real rights and opportunities,� Brandon wrote. �We are almost entirely free.�
Maggie Gillen, an eighth-grader at Meigs Middle School, said she was inspired by her family�s military background. Her grandfather died saving a comrade in Vietnam.
No matter the differences between our country�s people, Maggie said, at the end of the day they�re still Americans.
�We might say we don�t like government, or the current president, or how the economy is being controlled,� Maggie wrote. �At the end of the day, those things don�t matter. We stand together as a whole.�
Rhizza Rhen L. Lucena, a sixth-grader at Pryor Middle School, came to the United States from the Philippines in April and fell in love with America.
�I am proud to be an American, even though I am not a full-blooded one. I am still proud to be living here, where at least I know I�m FREE, and that is what matters most in LIFE,� Rhizza wrote.
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Texas Reaches Capital Punishment Milestone
Texas, in the southwestern United States, has carried out its 400th execution since reinstating the death penalty in 1982.
Johnny Ray Conner was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday. The 32-year-old man was condemned in 1999 for the fatal shooting of a convenience store owner in Houston during a robbery.
In his last statement to witnesses, Conner apologized for his actions, but denounced his execution as "unjust." He was the 21st condemned inmate executed in Texas this year. The state leads the U.S. in carrying out the death penalty.
The European Union urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to ban all executions before Conner's death. But a spokesman for the governor said it is a "just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens."
More than 1,000 condemned inmates have been put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on executions in 1976.
Texas Governor Issues Rare Death Sentence Reprieve
The governor of the southwestern U.S. state of Texas has commuted the sentence of a condemned inmate, a rare occurrence in a state that carries out the most executions in the United States. Rick Perry commuted Kenneth Foster's death sentence to life in prison on Thursday, hours before Foster was to die for the 1996 shooting death of a man in the city of San Antonio. The murder occurred while Foster and three other young men were on a robbery spree. Foster, who…


The group also reported a 25.2% -year-on-year increase in total revenue to US$1.5bn (RMB10.13bn). This was attributed to strong overall performance, especially in its two core business segments — infant nutrition and care, and adult nutrition and care.
Sales growth in the infant nutrition and care segment was driven by a 21.3% rise in its infant formula business in China and a 33.6% rise in its probiotics business, with a total revenue increase of 25.8% to US$880m (RMB5.9bn).
In particular, sales of H&H's Biostime and Healthy Times infant formula products saw a respective 19% and 172% increase. Market research firm Nielsen reported that the premium and super premium series under both brands held a 5.8% market share in China.
The group's probiotic revenue in its infant nutrition and care segment saw a year-on-year increase of 31.6% to US$156m (RMB1bn), thanks largely to new products being introduced in the Hong Kong and French markers, comprehensive branding and marketing campaigns, and continued consumer demand.
Growth in the China market alone accounted for 35.6% of Swisse's total sales, supported by revenue from cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) activity, which was driven by several innovative marketing campaigns.
In fact, during Tmall's landmark Singles' Day sale on November 11 last year, Swisse was named the number one health brand and number one imported consumer brand across all industries.
Swisse also successfully registered its Ultiboost Calcium + Vitamin D product with China's State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR), making it the first Australian-made product in the vitamin, herbal and mineral supplement (VHMS) category to have been approved under China's new 'blue hat' filing process.
Currently, the brand has a leading position on China's online VHMS market, with a share of 18.6%.
H&H also invested in the expansion of offline distribution channels in China to increase Swisse's brand exposure in the country.
In a media release, H&H stated that it would "continue to implement its Premium, Proven and Aspirational (PPA) model and undertake innovative marketing campaigns and celebrity endorsements to positively convey the image of its brands on a local and global scale".
It expects to continue to face intense competition in China's infant formula market this year, but is confident it can "consolidate its leading position in the market by leveraging on its leadership in the premium and super premium segments as the premiumisation trend continues".
It will also continue to invest in branding and marketing campaigns, launch new product categories, widen its distribution network and "enhance its strategic partnerships with key customers in China" to ensure it can stay ahead of the competition in both the country's online and offline infant formula markets.
In terms of its adult nutrition and care business, H&H believes increasing health-consciousness among younger consumers will drive growth.
Outside of its infant and adult nutrition and care segments, H&H will also venture into new product categories, such as goat milk infant formula and organic baby food.
Its September 2018 completion of its acquisition of Good Goût, a French baby food brand, is expected to enable the group to take advantage of steady growth in France's organic baby food sector.
Furthermore, H&H recently acquired a Certification and Accreditation Administration (CNCA) approved factory in Australia that can support the production of goat milk infant formula.
NutraIngredients-Asia contacted H&H for more details, but a company spokesman said it "would not be providing further comment beyond yesterday's results announcement at this stage".


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The Truth is Out There: New Online SETI Tool Tracks Alien Searches
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A new online tool will assist amateurs and professionals in digging through massive data banks to uncover new clues into the search for alien life.
CSIRO Telescope Helps Astronomers Detect 20 New Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
As researchers around the globe continue their quest to find physical proof of extraterrestrial life, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) has introduced new software to assist anyone with an interest in 'what's out there' to study the data and draw their own conclusions.
SETI co-founder Jill Tarter — the inspiration for Ellie Arroway, the fictional character in Carl Sagan's blockbuster 1985 science-fiction novel 'Contact' (which became a popular Jodie Foster movie in 1997) — has announced a new web tool called Technosearch, enabling anyone to log on and view, study or mine every publication in the entire database, according to Space.com.
The database includes the document covering every SETI search, beginning in 1960 and continuing to the present day. In keeping with the mission statement of the organization — in part — 'to apply the knowledge gained', users can gain access to all the information to date and draw their own conclusions.
SETI's January 9 database access announcement at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society seeks to have users from all walks of life work together to keep the Technosearch tool and the enormous reams of data up to date and 100 percent accurate, according to the website.
By aggregating all searches conducted in the sky to date, SETI hopes the new tool will reveal currently-unresolved patterns or hints that could point to new evidence indicating sentient life beyond our planet.
Alien 'Artefacts': Earth May Hide Signs of Extinct Extraterrestrial Life - Study
"I started keeping this search archive when I was a graduate student," noted Tarter, cited by Space.com.
"Some of the original papers were presented at conferences or appear in obscure journals that are difficult for newcomers to the SETI field to access, Tartar said, adding, "I'm delighted that we now have a tool that can be used by the entire community and a methodology for keeping it current."
Developed in collaboration with interns working under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), themselves laboring under the oversight of Penn State University exoplanet and star researcher Jason Wright, Technosearch will play a prominent role in the ongoing use of SETI data, according to former REU student Andrew Garcia, cited by Space.com.
"I've become convinced that Technosearch will become an important instrument for astronomers and amateurs interested in exploring the cosmos for indications of other technological civilizations," Garcia stated.
"We can't know where to look for evidence tomorrow if we don't know where we have already looked," he observed.
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Exploring language among gender nonconforming individuals and nontraditional partners
June is notoriously known as Pride Month, but October features other observances that bring awareness to a variety of health issues and topics that impact LGBTQIA youth. October 11 was National Coming Out Day, October 20 was International Pronouns Day and last week, individuals and organizations recognized Intersex Awareness Day.
In Breastfeeding Priorities: Safe Sleep, Bias, Gender Equitable Norms, and Paid Leave— Q&A with Internationally and Nationally Recognized Breastfeeding Expert, Lori Feldman Winter, MD, MPH, NICHQ poses the questions: How can we acknowledge the need to be inclusive of all types of parents and caregivers? How do we promote gender-equitable social norms to better support breastfeeding?"
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Feldman Winter offers, "… We need to ask, 'how do we better support breastfeeding among gender nonconforming individuals and nontraditional partners?' so we don't alienate anyone when it comes to breastfeeding. It starts with being more inclusive and acknowledging that the benefits of breastfeeding aren't all tied to the concept of the 'breast' itself. Breastfeeding is a complex compilation of systems including biological benefits from skin-to-skin touching and nurturing; nutrients from human milk that can be breast- or bottle-fed; and benefits that come directly from the flora on a lactating/nursing breast.
There are multiple ways to look at breastfeeding and understand its benefits, Feldman Winter continues.
For instance "a chest that may not be able to produce milk can still nurture babies through the benefits of skin-to-skin contact," she's quoted in the NICHQ piece. "People who don't produce breastmilk can still provide human milk through donor milk and bottle feeding. Transgender men and gender nonconforming parents and caregivers may still breastfeed safely if they choose to, and may prefer the term chestfeeding over breastfeeding because it respects their identity. All kinds of arrangements can be made to truly provide an equitable support system. As clinicians and scientists, we need to keep an open mind as we look at breastfeeding and explore how to optimize the health and well-being of all babies and families."
The authors of Effective Communication About Pregnancy, Birth, Lactation, Breastfeeding and Newborn Care: The Importance of Sexed Language present their thoughts about the risks of using desexed language in perinatal care.
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The authors acknowledge that "Desexing the language of female reproduction has been done with a view to being sensitive to individual needs and as beneficial, kind, and inclusive."
They go on, "Yet, this kindness has delivered unintended consequences that have serious implications for women and children. These include: decreasing overall inclusivity; dehumanizing; including people who should be excluded; being imprecise, inaccurate or misleading; and disembodying and undermining breastfeeding. In addition, avoidance of the term 'mother' in its sexed sense, risks reducing recognition and the right to protection of the mother-infant dyad."
As part of this discussion, NICHQ has released statements in regard to the use of its language.
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Heidi Brooks, Chief Operating Officer at NICHQ writes, "NICHQ is not abandoning the traditional use of the terms 'mother' and 'maternal.' We are embracing the inclusive language of 'birthing person/people' across our work. A move toward inclusive language does not force us to stop using language that so many people identify with; at its core, inclusion is about creating more space for one another. We are taking care to expand the use of these terms in our communications, on our website, in our resources, and eventually, in all our projects. This evolution is another aspect of NICHQ's commitment to equity in all forms, including race, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ability."
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) put out its Clinical Protocol #33: Lactation Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Plus Patients in May 2020 to help guide lactation care providers through items like language, creating a respectful health care environment, through the effects of transition-related health care on pregnancy and breast/chestfeeding, fertility options, induced lactation and colactation and milk sharing, as well as put out a call out for future research to better inform practice.
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Check out past Our Milky Way coverage on LGBTQIA health
Uplifting transgender and non binary parents
On becoming transliterate
Working to close the gaps in LGBTQ care
Blurring the binary
Skin to skin image goes viral
Wives co-breastfeed son for two-and-a-half years
Explore youth.gov's page for other past and upcoming events celebrating Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Expression, and Well-Being.


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10 Things You Didn't Know About... Videodrome
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Over the next few weeks we'll have a range of films on offer from the folks at Arrow Video, with a range of cult classics on offer in stores and online, both on Blu-ray and DVD. You can find the full range of films here in our online store and we'll be revisiting some of the best titles, continuing this week with David Cronenberg's cult classic, Videodrome. Here are 10 things you may not know...
CIVIC-TV is based on an real Canadian TV channel
David Cronenberg based the trashy TV station CIVIC-TV on a real-life Toronto-based CITY-TV, an independent station that launched in 1972 and became infamous for its late-night programming. Examples of their output included a softcore pornography showcase series called Baby Blue Movies and a daily show called Naked News, which featured female news anchors gradually removing their clothes as they read out that day's news stories.
One of Videodrome's characters, a TV station executive named Moses, is reportedly named after one of CITY-TV's co-founders, Moses Znaimer.
The 'alive' television set was controlled using a modified synthesizer
Many of the special effects employed in the film were created by Rick Baker, a renowned make-up artist and special effects supervisor who has worked on countless films from The Exorcist and American Werewolf in London to Star Wars and Maleficent. Baker spent months devising and creating the television set used in the film, devising ways to make the set pulsate and breathing using hydraulics, compressed air and various other techniques. All of these were controlled by a modified synthesizer which was programmed to activate different effects when its keys were pressed.
Betamax cassettes were used because they made the special effects easier
Another of Baker's innovations for the film included creating the prosthetic torso fitted to James Woods in order to insert video cassettes into an orifice that opens up in his stomach. This involved having the actor partially embedded into a sofa with the prosthetics glued to his body. Because of the size and complexity of the prop, betamax cassettes were used instead of VHS because they were slightly smaller and fitted better with the design.
Professor O'Blivion is based on a tutor at Cronenberg's former University
Pop culture analyst and philosopher Professor Brian O'Blivion, played by Jack Creley, is based on a well-known academic named Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian professor best-known for coining the term "the medium is the message" and the phrase "global village". Although not a student of his, Cronenberg had studied at the University of Toronto where McLuhan was a lecturer in media studies, and had been influenced by his book Understanding Media.
The man who plays the Japanese porn salesman became a real-life politician
David Tsubouchi's acting career began and ended with a bit part in Videodrome, where he played a salesman pedalling a Japanese pornography film called Samurai Dreams for possible broadcast on CIVIC-TV. He abandoned his fledgling acting career to take up a career in politics instead and spent six years as a local councillor before serving another eight years as a cabinet minister in Canada.
Incidentally, his character's name in the film is Hiro Nakamura, a name you might recognise from Tim Kring's superhero series Heroes.
An epilogue was planned, but never filmed
Cronenberg had planned to film an additional scene which featured Bianca O'Blivion (Sonja Smits) and Nicki Brand (Debbie Harry) with their own chest-slits that protruded mutated sex organs, but due to overrunning costs and the fact that Harry had stomach flu, the scene was abandoned.
Andy Warhol was a fan of the film. James Woods' mum, not so much...
Warhol loved Videodrome and referred to it as "the A Clockwork Orange of the 1980s". The same can't be said of James Woods' mum however; the actor told Den of Geek in a 2014 interview that while she normally loved his work, she said of Cronenberg's film: "I'm sure there's some kind of message here, but honestly, it's silly. It's bullsh*t."
The ending was James Woods' idea
When the film began shooting, Cronenberg was reportedly working from an unfinished script and there was a fair amount of experimentation during the filming of several scenes, including the film's ending. Three different end scenes were shot, but the one Cronenberg ended up using was actually suggested by the film's lead actor, James Woods.
The film inspired a scene in a later Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, but it didn't make the cut
During the making of A History of Violence, Cronenberg and the crew spent an entire day making a gory 'dream sequence' scene in which Ed Harris' character is killed with a shotgun, but even though it was a very difficult scene to shoot the director later decided not to use it in the final cut. On the DVD extras for A History of Violence there's a featurette named The Unmaking of Scene 44 in which we see how the scene was made, followed by some behind-the-scenes footage of Cronenberg explaining to the cast and crew why he was dropping it. "It would be in homage to myself" he tells the cast, before adding "which I'm not above doing... but I think not."
The trailer was made almost entirely with a Commodore 64
If you're old enough to remember the Commodore 64 then you probably used it for playing games like Lode Runner or International Soccer, but while this 8-bit machine might not seem like the most sophisticated computer now, at the time it was cutting edge stuff and Cronenberg found a use for it that went way beyond endless rounds of Double Dragon. Aside from the live action sequences spliced into the trailer, the rest was all done using the computer's graphics programs and its though to be one of the first to use these in a cinematic trailer.
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Memphis ranked in top 25 cheapest places to live in U.S.
by: Gregory Raucoules
Posted: Aug 9, 2022 / 03:09 PM CDT
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – While Americans continue to feel the sting of inflation, Memphis was named one of the cheapest U.S. cities to live in by business and personal finance site Kiplinger.
Using calculations of living expenses in 267 urban areas from the Council for Community and Economic Research, Kiplinger compiled a list of the least costly 25 U.S. cities with at least 50,000 residents in their metro area to live in. The council's cost of living index measures prices for housing, groceries, utilities, transportation, healthcare and miscellaneous goods and services like going to the movies.
Memphis came in at No. 18 on Kiplinger's list of cheapest cities to live in with costs of living roughly 15% below the national average. Like its Volunteer State counterparts, lower-than-average housing costs make Bluff City more appealing compared to other cities.
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"Average home prices come to $305,002 – an amount that would elicit screams from people who live in the most expensive U.S. cities. (The national average stands at $398,690, per C2ER.) Renters benefit, too. A typical apartment in Memphis rents for about $200 a month less than the U.S. average."
The city's status as a premier inland port makes the city a hub for shipping and transportation jobs. Memphis is home to FedEx, International Paper and AutoZone.
There is no shortage of entertainment options like the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies, the iconic Beale Street and Elvis Presley's famed estate 'Graceland.'
Study: Tennessee could add 1 million new residents by 2040
No state income tax and relatively low property taxes make cities across Tennessee appealing to middle-class families and retirees. Here are the Tennessee cities which are considered the cheapest to live in.
The largest city in East Tennessee landed at No. 7 on Kiplinger's list of cheapest American cities to live in. According to the cost of living calculations, the average cost of living in Knoxville is 17.7% below the U.S. average, headlined by low housing costs which are 30% below the U.S. average.
Apartment rents are about a third less expensive and the typical Knoxville home price is more than $100,000 below the national average.
"The city is notable for its across-the-board affordability for everything from food to transportation, according to the Cost of Living Index," Kiplinger said.
Fastest growing cities in Tennessee
The median household income in Knoxville is $56,857 with the median home value listed at $180,700. Knoxville's resident-friendly environment recently landed it on Forbes list of best places to retire in 2022.
Forbes writeup on Knoxville also cited the city's abundant doctors per capita, good air quality, comfortable climate and strong economy among the enticing factors for retirees.
Housing costs could be on the rise with Knoxville and many cities in its metro area among the list of fastest-growing home prices in Tennessee. Knoxville's population was 190,740 according to the 2020 U.S. Census.
Jackson, Tenn., ranked 11th on Kiplinger's list thanks to a cost of living more than 16% below the national average. Housing costs, including mortgages, rents and insurance, are 29% lower than the U.S. average.
Lower healthcare costs also contributed to Jackson's appeal.
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"Folks looking to buy will be happy to hear the average house price stands at $280,867, a savings of $118,000 when compared to the national average. Average apartment rent is $889 vs. $1,218 for the U.S. as a whole," Kiplinger wrote.
The city is home to major employers like Kellogg and Stanley Black & Decker. Jackson is home to the Ned R. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center, the West Tennessee Healthcare Sportsplex and the International Rock-A-Billy Hall of Fame Museum.
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The second disagreement. It is necessary to keep highlighting, as Mamdani has done, the existence of the "fuel" (aka 500 years of colonialism) which ignites at the "spark", specially in a context where imperialist mythologies are working overtime to normalise all the sins of the past. But the "fuel" does not explain the present anger expressed by Muslim fundamentalism with pictorial depictions of Mohammed. It is important to underline the fact that there are numerous traditions of depicting Mohammed within different Muslim societies and the present embargo on pictoral depictions of Mohammed is entirely, entirely a recent creation of Muslim fundamentalism.
While Mamdani recounts the fact that Jyllands Postan did not accept cartoons of Christ for publication while publishing the Mohammed ones, he forgets to mention another, equally important story connected to this entire incident. The school board of Denmark wanted to introduce a course to teach children in primary school about different world religions. They wanted an illustrated book with short stories about different prophets and traditions. While they got illustrations for all religious traditions, no one was willing to draw Mohammed, given the recent killing of Theo van Gogh in neighbouring Holland. It was this terror at drawing Mohammed even for ostensibly progressive, at the least ecumenical, purposes which opened the political space for right wing papers like Jylland Postan to move in with an open contest asking whether there are any Danes left who would have the "guts" to draw Mohammed. A clear case as ever of the politics of reaction feeding off each others excesses.
Here I would like to assert that the "Muslim" protest against the Denmark Mohammed cartoons were only nominally against the West. To accept the claims of Muslim fundamentalism as true is to delude oneself. When the angry young men stomp and burn the Danish and American flags in Delhi, Lahore or Cairo they are actually sending a more direct message to individuals within their own community that dissent and protest will not be allowed against the writ of the fundamentalists. There is no doubt that anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism contribute support to the contemporary politics of Muslim fundamentalism. But it will be wrong to forget that the primary focus of Muslim fundamentalism is not the West or any thing/body external. Like all fundamentalisms, the primary aim of Muslim fundamentalism is to discipline the 'Muslim' and in a particular manner. Neither the cause nor the sustenance of "Muslim" anger at the West/Christianity/America can be found in the "fuel". How can one forget that just a decade and half ago, Muslim fundamentalism, or as most people say "Muslims", were the strongest ally of imperialism?
To use Mamdani's unfortunate distinction, the ostensible protest against "bigotry" is much more a warning to "blasphemers". The angry Muslim is much more likely to attack the heretic and heterodox near him than some distant Nordic cartoonist. Which is why Mamdani's argument cannot explain the seamlessness of the attack on Taslima Nasreen and Jyllands Postan. Same time, same people, same anger, same politics…. what use is the distinction between bigotry and blasphemy here? There is much to be said about the political and social uses / implications of fundamentalisms, but all I would like to stress here is that we should be careful in (a) accepting, at face value, their claims of representing the community, and (b) remembering that fundamentalism has a clear, historically inviolable position with relation to the barricades of class struggle.
The third disagreement. There are two points about defending freedom of speech. It has to be remembered that this right is absolute, while the necessary qualifications are historically contingent. Further, this right accrues to an individual and not to a collective (Millat/Party/Nation). As Rosa Luxemburg put it, "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." This right is there to protect the individual from the collective. Mamdani seems to ignore this.
The other point about freedom of speech, like with most other rights, is that it has been won by the people from the State in struggles against the ruling class – the bourgeois order. Today, some lazy Marxists can get away by terming these and other rights, "bourgeois", but these are bourgeois only in so far as they are incorporated in the rights schedule of the bourgeois state. They are popular rights won by the masses against the ruling classes. The ruling classes have always countered the demands for such individual based rights to the "sensitivities", "feelings" and "rights" of collectives, specially primordial collectives, precisely because they have understood, perhaps in a pre-theoretic manner, the radical edge to the rights demands of the people. The specific right to freedom of speech is a life-line for those who are fighting against heirarchy, privilege and oppression. It is a crucial weapon against reaction and it is a convenient tool for proximate ruling classes / elites to set up a clash between this and cultural sensitivities/feelings/ emotions.
The failure to appreciate the radical origins of much of the rights, specially freedom of speech, makes Mamdani commit another error by putting a hard won political right (freedom of speech) on the same plane as a political programme (civil peace). For much of history, these two have been on opposing sides of the political divide and, usually, remain so today. The demand to curtail a right in the interests of civil peace is almost always a demand of the privileged and powerful against the upsurge of the oppressed and exploited.
The fourth point of disagreement with Mamdani is regarding his examples of how curbs on freedom of speech are often appropriate. The first one about Allen Lane burning books which hurt Christian sentiments leaves me a bit perplexed. What that man did is totally unacceptable. We might as well go and burn all of M.F. Husain's paintings to achieve "civil peace". I just hope that I have not been able to comprehend the correct import of his example and will leave it at that, since if what I have understood Mamdani as trying to say is correct, then its a shockingly retrogressive position. One which we should reject unambiguously.
The second example is also irrelevant with regard to the Mohammed cartoons. Mamdani refers to a talk show in the US where two white men mimicked blacks and made fun of them. That was not an attack on ideas and beliefs, it was an attack on, humiliation of, actual people. This just cannot be the same. Attacking living human beings, deepening prejudice against them which weakens their political and social positions is not the same as attacking an idea or belief, however similar they may appear to us. There is a basic difference which needs to be remembered, specially in times when the waters are so muddied. To put it in somewhat simplified, if stark, terms: the human being need to be defended against attacks, not his belief-system nor his prophet.
It is instructive that Mamdani ends his talk with a call to "Muslim peoples" to learn the right lessons. Who, or what, is that? The 1.1 billion strong global ummah which is the wet-dream of the Mullahs?
The reason I have spent so much time to write out this response is because in Mamdani's talk I have found an eloquent, persuasive expression of a purportedly anti-imperialist position which will, in my estimation, lead to the further entrenchment of fundamentalists within different Muslim societies.
I think you are right to say that fundamentalism is first and foremost a mode of controlling the "internal" population and demonstrations of violence have two audiences. Mamdani, on the other hand, seems to have only one, "the West," or those for whom Muslims, fundamentalist or not, are merely bombs waiting to explode. This may be why his tone is so passive and why he uses the blasphemy/ bigotry distinction. The distinction is *not* to be universally applied––you note the hazards of doing so––but an explanation of why the caricatures were received as they were. That is, the cartoons were not read as daring blasphemy to prod thinking but bigotry with generations of history. I agree with you that this analysis misses the internal aims of the fundamentalists, but it does explain why the cartoons are not really a religious issue as the fundamentalists themselves claim. Mamdani wants both to chastise the cartoons but not align with the fundamentalists; he wants to demonstrate an anti-imperialism that doesn't include internal oppression of those who want to blaspheme against their coreligionists.
That said, thank you for articulating the importance of rights as a radical weapon against the ruling interests. I too am frustrated with crude dismissals of rights as bourgeois.
A good read and all Valid Points made.
I think both of you have absurd arguments. The original piece is as bad as your reply. The fact is that all civilised institutions are inherently divisive. Be it the family or the religion or the country or the race to which you belong. You try to protect your family even if you are wrong, and so on. Fundamentalism and bigotry takes it to another level. The question is where do we draw the line. I think one should improve onself before expecting others to listen. How may times have we tried to influence others to make sure that we get a better job or our children get a better education at the expense of more talented people. Thats all because of the basic devisive nature of all our institutions trying to protect themselves first before looking around if it is right or wrong to do such a thing. If we ourself are like this then what the use of discussing if te danes are right or wrong or even if the reaction to it was justified. Both writers are just trying to make sence out of nothing because they by defending and accusing one anothers actions are proving that they are divided from the heart and their judgement is not impartial at best.
In general agreement with you Aniket, although I do empathize with MM's project which makes a distinction between bigotry and blasphemy to benchmark legitimate grounds of censorship. But here's my question for him – this distinction will hold good only instances of clear religious faultiness. So, while I understand the distinction between bigotry (Danish Cartoon) and blasphemy (Aseem trivedi's hideous cartoons) I would hesitate to extend that distinction to the NCERT Ambedkar cartoon. When we talk of caste, who is 'outside' and who is 'inside' becomes fuzzy. The political action of censure, removal of cartoons, in this case, actually feeds on this very distinction between what internal, and what's external. This is my discomfort – besides of course,as you say, it stops me from any critical act against another religion.
…difficult to understand…the critic seems to be alone and solitary…the collective memory and thinking has a dynamic all its own, which no left theorist was ever able to theorise…and i believe that was the reason for its political irrelevance…and most beautifully the marxists had always known this…they have also always joked in private, "…does the frog know that it has a latin name",…Prof. Mamdani what i can glean from the crticism seems to be saying that the wrath and agony of "muslim fundamentalism" is bed rocked in the 500 years of colonialism and perhaps a derivative (or maybe the very discourse) of Orientalism itself…do we need to remind ourselves here that the imagined or otherwise constituted world of islam is a tangible and concrete socio-political and economic reality of the "post-modern world"…and the collective/common space of this 'reality' is at stake, which the critique rightly points out…but the criticism falls short of saying that the "eurocentric" hegemonic construct which is also i would say coincidentally 500 years old contesting for that same collective/common space in the reality of the "muslim world"…we can not fool ourselves to deny that there is no such social-political economic reality as a "muslim world"…therefore the criticism seems to be at pains to suppress the inadvertent denial of this fact that his argument is posing…it would have been better if the criticism would have also dissected the "eurocentric" bias of itself…now the moot point is why the muslim youth, albeit a small minority if we grant our critic some leniency, though i do not believe that the youth on the street is fighting for space in the community rather it is the other way round as rightly pointed by Prof Mamdani, have to do what they do?…the rights are born out of protest is what the leftists always believed, but the corollary that power would therefore become always illegitimate and without rights has haunted them relentlessly, and it seems they have still not resolved the dilemma they put themselves in…power can be legitimate, in fact it is almost always legitimate as told by gramsci…but the question is against what and against whom the youth are on the streets?…truly they are against america and the eurocentric hegemonic construct that they think has denied them their rightful place under the sun…this is what each one of those youth will say…do we need to ask further?, that is the question…do we need to find a latin name for the frog and then try to teach it to the frog?


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China's prolonged falling yuan may harm Vietnam's trade
China's yuan (renminbi) has remained above the sensitive level of seven to the US currency for the last three days, hinting that trade friction between the US and China is entering a dangerous phase.
The Vietnamese currency value has been almost unchanged in the last three months, while the yuan has depreciated by about 4 per cent against the US dollar. — Photo chinafocus.com
The escalating tension between the two world powers is predicted to have negative impacts on Viet Nam's trade in the short term.
The yuan on Monday crossed the red line of seven to the US dollar, which has remained stable for 11 years since 2008, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose new 10 per cent tariffs on US$300 billion of Chinese imports, effective from September 1.
The People's Bank of China linked the fall of the yuan to the new US tariff threat, though in the evening of the same day it said China had no intention to use the yuan exchange rate as a weapon in the trade war.
China's currency continued to depreciate in the following two days, being traded between 7.0235 and 7.0529 to a dollar on Wednesday, data of Bloomberg showed.
In Viet Nam, analysts have predicted the fall of yuan may last a long time.
"The US-China trade issues will not likely be resolved and the tension may escalate in the future. At that time, the yuan exchange rate may be used to compensate for damages caused by US tariff hikes," economist Nguyen Tri Hieu told Viet Nam News.
According to Hieu, the US-China tension is not purely a trade issue but involves political calculation by Trump, especially when he is bidding for re-election in 2020.
With the slogan 'America First', Trump may not give concessions and if he went ahead with imposing tariffs on Chinese imports, China would retaliate, Hieu said.
Analysts predict China's central bank will let the yuan gradually rise in the coming months.
According to UBS economists, the US dollar-yuan exchange rate could move to 7.2 at end-2019 and 7.3 in 2020 in the case of escalating trade tensions. But they also discounted the possibility of a sharp devaluation of the yuan as that could deteriorate the confidence of Chinese businesses and investors which could trigger capital outflows.
The State Bank of Viet Nam on Tuesday increased its daily reference rate by VND15 to VND23,115 per US dollar, its highest-ever rate. The reference rate on Wednesday was set higher at VND23,117.
The USD/VNS exchange rates quoted by banks have not changed much though, trading between VND23,155 and VND23,285.
Pressure on trade
The Vietnamese dong has only depreciated 0.3 per cent against the US currency in the year to date. The local currency value was almost unchanged in the last three months, while the yuan has depreciated by about 4 per cent against the US dollar.
"The yuan is cheaper compared to the dong, meaning Chinese goods are becoming cheaper," Hieu said.
Viet Nam was suffering trade deficit with China and if imports of Chinese goods into Viet Nam rose, production and business activities of local enterprises would be negatively affected, he added.
Hieu said the Vietnamese central bank would likely continue its stable exchange rate policy but he suggested it "adjust exchange rates at a suitable margin or it would adversely impact Vietnamese goods sold to the world", especially when major currencies have also lost value.
"The Dong is allowed to depreciate by 3 per cent this year which means the central bank has ample room to regulate the exchange rate."
Mac Quoc Anh, vice chairman and general secretary of the Ha Noi Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Hanoisme), said about 70 per cent of Vietnamese agricultural products are exported to China. The decline of the yuan wod hinder Vietnamese exports, especially when China was raising its barriers in terms of food safety standards.
Viet Nam has signed many strategic trade agreements with other countries, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreements (EVFTA), of which many members are not direct competitors to Vietnamese goods.
Anh said local enterprises, especially small and medium ones, should find and diversify partners, seeking support from Vietnamese trade counsellors in other countries and trade counsellors of foreign countries in Viet Nam.
"However, one of the most important things when approaching foreign markets is that local enterprises must study markets carefully and keep their product quality and prices stable," Anh told Viet Nam News.
He has also suggested the central bank expand the number of prioritised sectors which can enjoy preferential lending rates to other areas such as mechanical engineering or pharmaceuticals to support enterprises.
Five prioritised sectors include agriculture and rural development; export; supporting industry; small and medium enterprises; and enterprises applying high technology. – VNS
Mai Huong
Vietnam's producers meet difficulties as yuan weakens.
In an effort to encourage exports in the context of the trade war, the Chinese central bank PBOC has set the yuan/US dollar reference exchange rate at 6.8365 yuan per US dollar, the lowest level since January 2019.
VASEP concerned over seafood exports to China amid yuan devaluation
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has expressed concern over a decline in Vietnam's seafood exports to China due to the sharp depreciation of the yuan.
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4% inflation target set for 2021 within reach: experts
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Vietnam is likely to meet its target of reining in inflation at a rate of below 4% in 2021, although experts warn that unfavourable factors could impact market fluctuations.
Vietnamese billionaires' net worth increases after battling headwinds of 2020
2020 was a difficult year for the global economy including Viet Nam, but some Vietnamese billionaires still saw their net asset value increase.
Disbursement of public investment at record since 2016, still misses Gov't target
The disbursement of public investment was estimated at VND398 trillion as of the end of December, meeting 82.8 per cent of the Government's plan – the highest rate in the 2016-20 period, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Vietnamese dragonfruit needs to find new export markets: Experts
In the first 11 months of this year dragonfruit exports fell by 10 per cent because of the COVID-19 pandemic but still dominated Vietnamese fruit exports with shipments of more than US$1 billion.
Fintech forecast to be robust this year, driven by the creation of regulatory sandbox
The regulatory sandbox for financial technology (fintech) which is expected to be created this year, coupled with efforts to promote the use of digital financial services, are expected to accelerate the development of fintech in Vietnam.
Brexit deal met with relief across Europe
After four long years of debate, negotiation, elections, and more debate, the United Kingdom has finally and officially left the European Union.
Party congress to highlight critical role of private sector
FEATUREicon 07/01/2021
Vietnam's development outlook is set to be formulated over the next few weeks when the 13th National Party Congress takes place in Hanoi,
Country's IT groups pioneering in digital transformation efforts
The Vietnamese IT market has seen a strong increase in digital products, platforms, and services in 2020, with many gaining bolder steps in domestic and international markets.
Building a modern Vietnam for all
The Vietnamese economy has been witnessing tremendous achievements over the past few decades under the sound policies and strategies by the government and the great contributions of the planning and investment sector.
Cash flows to Vietnam, more young people start up businesses
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted investment flow into Vietnam's startups, but for venture funds, Vietnam is still considered a priority market in Southeast Asia in 2021.
Investment funds beat the market in 2020
2020 marked an unexpectedly successful year for big investment funds in Vietnam, with Pyn Elite Fund having the best performance.
Over 14 billion USD mobilised through G-bond auctions at HNX in 2020
Nearly VND324 trillion (over $14 billion) was mobilised through G-bond auctions at the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) in 2020, accounting for 108 percent of the set plan.
VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 7
Handicrafts target $5 billion in export value by 2025
Vietnam heads towards modern, integrated agriculture
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong talks about measures to promote modern agricultural development.
After fast growth, domestically assembled cars face downtrend
The year 2020 witnessed many ups and downs of the car market. In H1, demand dropped dramatically because of Covid-19, but in H2, cars sold well thanks to the preferential vehicle registration tax.
Digitizing traditional markets – $10 billion potential
Traditional markets and groceries still hold the largest share of the consumer retail market, but new business models are scrambling for a piece of the pie.
Inflation control cannot be taken lightly
Although many forecasts said that inflation would be controlled at less than four per cent this year, economists recommended it was still important to pay attention to inflationary pressures.
Concerns for reform
A strategic advisory body on reform and development is essential in the transitional economy in Vietnam.
Cross-border taxation to bolster national budget
Collecting tax from cross-border platforms as well as people profiting from them is the government's leading mission in 2021.
Fitch Solutions revises up Vietnam GDP growth forecast to 8.6% in 2021
Vietnam's strong growth momentum in manufacturing is expected to continue in 2021, supported by growing external demand from trade deals such as the EVFTA, UKVFTA, and RCEP.
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Q: $\int_{-\infty}^2 \frac{x}{(x-2)^{1/3}}dx$ convergence or divergence? $\displaystyle\int_{-\infty}^2 \dfrac{x}{(x-2)^{1/3}}dx$
I first try to apply $x\to -x$ transformation so
$\displaystyle\int_{-\infty}^2 \dfrac{x}{(x-2)^{1/3}}dx\to -\displaystyle\int^{\infty}_{-2} \dfrac{x}{(x+2)^{1/3}}dx$
I think $\displaystyle\int^{\infty}_{-2} \dfrac{x}{(x+2)^{1/3}}dx$ I may transform this into series form and using series test to show it is divergent but couldnot.

A: $$\dfrac{x}{(x-2)^{1/3}} \sim x^{\frac{2}{3}}$$
when $x \to -\infty$