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Q: Large data set, need PROPER way to calculate averages I'm working on an excel sheet with 26k lines and need to calculate average costs per KG. I'm not sure which method of calculation to use as each is giving me different results.
For example:
(Col A)      (Col B)      (Col C)       (Col D)
Line         Weight       Cost       Cost per KG
====         =====        =====       =========
1            12           30           2.5
2            39           51           1.308
3            29           40           1.379

Do I calculate the average cost per KG by taking the average of Column D?
Method A: Avg(Column D) = 1.729
OR simply divide the total cost by the total weight?
Method B: Sum(Column C) / Sum(Column B) = 1.513
Without going into too much detail, my data set is giving me 7.451 (Method A), and 0.132 (Method B). HUGE difference.
Which method of calculation is correct?

A: It really depends on which "average" you mean when you say "average". If you specify unambiguously what quantity you need, it will be clear which calculation to do.
My expectation (ahem) is that you probably mean "total cost"/"total kg". That's generally what people need more often, and usually what people intend by the term 'average' in this situation, at least if not accompanied by further explanation.
It's also (sometimes) known as a 'volume-weighted average'.

A: When taking the average of $D$, you're actually taking the average of $ \frac{C}{B}$. That'd being said, Method B should be $ \frac{Sumproduct(1/B:B, C:C)}{Count(B:B)}$. Note I'm actually using $ Sumproduct(1/B:B, ... $ because there's no $sumdivision$ function in excel!

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package org.nutz.aop.asm.test;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import org.nutz.castor.Castors;
import org.nutz.lang.Lang;
import org.nutz.log.Log;

public class Aop1 {

    private String name;

    public Aop1(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    Aop1() {}

    protected Aop1(Integer uu) {}

    /**
     * 无参数,无返回
     */
    public void nonArgsVoid() throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("My - " + name + " >> nonArgsVoid");
    }

    protected void voidZ() {}

    /**
     * 有一个参数,无返回
     */
    public void argsVoid(String x) {
        System.out.println("My - " + name + " >> argsVoid");
    }

    /**
     * 有多个参数,无返回
     */
    public void mixObjectsVoid(String x, Object obj, Integer i, JFrame f) {
        System.out.println("My - " + name + " >> mixObjectsVoid");
    }

    /**
     * 有多个参数,无返回
     */
    public void mixArgsVoid(String x, Object obj, int yy, char xp, long... z) {
        System.out.println("My - "
                            + name
                            + " >> mixArgsVoid"
                            + " 我的参数"
                            + Castors.me().castToString(new Object[]{x, obj, yy, xp, z}));
//        new Throwable().printStackTrace();
    }

    /**
     * 有多个参数,无返回
     */
    public void mixArgsVoid2(    String x,
                                Object obj,
                                int yy,
                                char xp,
                                long bb,
                                boolean ser,
                                char xzzz,
                                String ppp,
                                StringBuffer sb,
                                Log log,
                                long... z) throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("My - " + name + " >> mixArgsVoid2");
    }

    public void x() {
        throw Lang.noImplement();
    }

    // public Object mixArgsVoid3(String x) {
    // return mixArgsVoid4(x);
    // }
    //
    public Object mixArgsVoid4(String x) throws Throwable {
        return x;
    }

    public String returnString() throws Throwable {
        return "Wendal-X";
    }

    public long returnLong() {
        return 1L;
    }

    public int returnInt() {
        return 1908;
    }

    public short returnShort() {
        return (short) 34;
    }

    public char returnChar() {
        return 'w';
    }

    public byte returnByte() {
        return (byte) 90;
    }

    public boolean returnBoolean() {
        return false;
    }

    public float returnFloat() {
        return 1.1f;
    }

    public double returnDouble() {
        return 1.1D;
    }

    public Log getLog(StringBuilder builder) {
        return null;
    }

    public void throwError() throws Throwable {
        throw new Error("我是被主动抛出的异常!!!");
    }

    public void throwException() throws Throwable {
        throw new Exception("我是被主动抛出的异常!!!");
    }

    public Object[] returnObjectArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public long[] returnLongArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public int[] returnIntArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public short[] returnShortArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public char[] returnCharArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public byte[] returnByteArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public boolean[] returnBooleanArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public float[] returnFloatArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public double[] returnDoubleArray() {
        return null;
    }

    public Aop1(Object x, Object y) throws IOException {

    }

    public Runnable getRunnable() {
        return new Thread();
    }

    public Enum<?> getEnum() {
        return null;
    }

    public void getXXX(Enum<?> enumZ) {

    }
}

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Q: regex check existence of patterns between two other patterns across multiple lines in python I am trying to check if certain patterns exists between two other patterns across multiple lines. Namely in a SIP SDP I would like to know if 'a=recvonly','a=sendonly' or 'a=inactive' exists between two lines beginning with 'm=' or if there isn't a second 'm=' line then until the end of the string ($).
For example between 'm=audio' and 'm=video' or if no other line beginning with 'm=' exists then until the end, which is an empty line at the bottom.
Example 1
v=0\r$
o=- 1402066778 5 IN IP4 10.1.1.1\r$
c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1\r$
m=audio 2066 RTP/AVP 0 101\r$
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000\r$
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000\r$
a=ptime:20\r$
a=inactive\r$
m=video 0 RTP/AVP 109 34\r$
a=inactive\r$
a=rtpmap:109 H264/90000\r$
a=fmtp:109 profile-level-id=42e01f\r$
$

There is a match here!
Example 2
v=0\r$
o=- 1402066778 5 IN IP4 10.1.1.1\r$
c=IN IP4 10.1.1.1\r$
m=audio 2066 RTP/AVP 0 101\r$
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000\r$
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000\r$
a=ptime:20\r$
m=video 0 RTP/AVP 109 34\r$
a=inactive\r$
a=rtpmap:109 H264/90000\r$
a=fmtp:109 profile-level-id=42e01f\r$
$

There is no match here
Example 3
v=0\r$
o=- 1402066778 5 IN IP4 10.1.1.1\r$
c=IN IP4 10.130.93.210\r$
m=audio 2066 RTP/AVP 0 101\r$
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000\r$
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000\r$
a=ptime:20\r$
a=recvonly\r$
$

There is a match here again
I thought the following should work because '|' is not greedy but it still finds the pattern in Example 2 where it should not since that appears below the m=video.
re1way = re.compile(r'm=audio.*?(a=recvonly|a=sendonly|a=inactive).*?[(^m=).*|(^$)]')

Where is the flaw in my idea please?

A: I'm not quite sure based on your question exactly what the parameters are here. But given your examples and note that the end of a string is a possible endpoint, let's assume you want to determine whether one of the three "a=" instances you cite appear between the first "m=" and either "m="/end of string in a single string object (rather than identifying multiple instances in a single string object).
In this case, I might recommend the following utilizing the '|' special character in a two-tiered solution (this is for explanatory purposes but you get the idea).  I'm sure you could craft a fairly complicated single-line search with some work, but in terms of readability I think this is easier:
a = re.search("m=(.*?)(m=|$)", example, re.DOTALL)
if bool(a) is True:
    ares = a.group()
    aresb = re.search("a=(recvonly|sendonly|inactive)", ares)
    if bool(aresb) is True:
        print("Yes, 'a=' substring found! Matching substring: " + aresb.group())
else:
    print("No initial 'm=' found!")

I note that because the standard regular expressions module doesn't support variable length negative lookbehind assertion patterns, trying to use such methods to create a single line to parse for instances where 'm=' appears before the end of the string (e.g. Example 2) will not work.  A multiline solution is best in my opinion.


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The Difference between an Appeal and a Post-Conviction Motion
Posted on January 14, 2021 by JACK MKHITARIAN
Few areas of criminal law are as complex as the appellate and post-conviction process. While an appeal and a post-conviction petition are both ways in which a defendant can obtain relief after a conviction, the two processes are very different. Thus, those who are hoping to overturn a conviction or challenge their sentence should be aware of the differences between an appeal and a post-conviction proceeding.
What Is an Appeal?
Most New Mexico criminal cases take the same path through the justice system. While the path varies depending on whether the case involves a misdemeanor or felony charge, a case is tried initially in front of a trial judge. In New Mexico, the trial courts are the Municipal Court (petty misdemeanors), Magistrate Court (misdemeanor jury trials and felony preliminary hearings), and the District Court (felony jury trials).
If a case ends in a conviction, the defendant can appeal the case to a higher court. Most appeals challenge a legal decision made by the trial judge. Examples of this are such actions as admitting or excluding certain evidence, and the granting or denial of a motion. Generally, factual determinations are left to the discretion of the trial judge and are rarely disturbed on appeal. Thus, most successful appeals are based on some legal error made at trial, rather than on the judge or jury's decision after weighing the evidence. To raise an issue on appeal, the defendant must preserve the issue at trial. New Mexico appellate courts require a defendant to preserve all appellate issues by bringing the issue to the trial judge's attention as soon as it arises. This is most often done through a contemporaneous objection.
Generally, a defendant will file an initial appeal with the intermediate appellate court, the New Mexico Court of Appeals, and all defendants have an automatic right to file. If that court denies an appeal, a defendant can then file an appeal to the New Mexico Supreme Court. However, the New Mexico Supreme Court selects only a certain number of cases to hear each year. Finally, if a defendant is unsuccessful in filing an appeal with the New Mexico Supreme Court, they can pursue an appeal with the United States Supreme Court. Again, however, the U.S. Supreme Court only takes a very limited number of cases per year.
When an appellate court considers a defendant's appeal, it only considers the record below, meaning no new or additional evidence is presented. The defendant presents a brief in support of their appeal, which outlines the legal argument in favor of their requested relief. Thus, challenges to a trial attorney's decision-making process are not typically heard on direct appeal. For example, an appeal could not be based on a defendant's claim that their attorney was ineffective for failing to speak with a known witness, because this would require the court to consider additional evidence not present at trial. These appeals are largely unsuccessful as appellate courts deny about 90 percent of those filings.
What Is a Post-Conviction Petition?
Like an appeal, a post-conviction petition is a way for a defendant to have the court review their conviction or sentence. However, in a post-conviction matter, the court will consider additional evidence. Post-conviction motions are also referred to as habeas corpus petitions. Essentially, a habeas corpus petition alleges that the continued imprisonment of a defendant is unconstitutional based on a violation of their state or federal constitutional rights. In this way, a post-conviction petition prevents wrongful convictions, illegal sentences, and other systematic errors in the criminal justice system.
Defendants can raise a variety of issues in a post-conviction proceeding. However, a few of the most common claims involve:
The ineffective assistance of trial counsel: Examples include a lawyer's failure to investigate a claim of innocence, failure to challenge the admission of certain evidence, conflicts of interest, and more.
Prosecutorial misconduct: Examples include discovery violations and inflammatory comments made in front of the jury.
Judicial misconduct: Examples include undisclosed conflicts of interest or improper comments made to the jury.
Improper or erroneous physical evidence: Examples include DNA evidence presented through outdated or unproven scientific means and the admission of discredited evidence, such as bite-mark or ballistics evidence.
Newly available evidence: Examples include previously unknown evidence suggesting someone else was responsible for the crime, or undisclosed evidence of a defendant's past experiences and mental health issues as they pertain to a sentencing hearing.
Like a direct appeal, there is an automatic right to have a court hear a state or federal habeas corpus petition. Unlike an appeal, there is no time frame in which a defendant must file a post-conviction claim. However, courts do not need to consider the merits of a second or successive post-conviction petition. Thus, it is crucial for defendants to discuss a post-conviction claim with an attorney, so that they can bring all potentially viable claims in their first petition.
Defendants can file state and federal writs of habeas corpus. However, a defendant must first exhaust all available remedies through state post-conviction relief before pursuing a federal habeas corpus petition.
While the appellate process can be complicated, the post-conviction process is a labyrinth of procedural rules, making these claims exceptionally challenging for defendants to bring on their own. Those who believe they did not receive a fair trial or sentence should reach out to a dedicated New Mexico post-conviction legal team for immediate assistance.
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Work on Schedule at Multi-Purpose Stadium in Trelawny
Work is on schedule at the multi-purpose stadium in Florence Hall, Northern Trelawny, as labourers at the facility have been working assiduously to meet the November 30, 2006 project completion deadline.
"We have never been in danger of not finishing on November 30, 2006, but we have always said that we are going to finish ahead of time," Executive Director of the Jamaica Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, Robert Bryan, has said.
He was speaking at a press conference, which was held on April 20 at the site of the stadium.
Mr. Bryan pointed out that plans were also in place for the widening of the Daniel Town main road in the area.
"The north coast highway will be completed in time, so we are not concerned at all about having an issue with roads into Daniel Town. We are just about to start the widening of the Daniel Town main road and we are expecting that, based on schedule, we will get this done very quickly so that we can begin to get the landscaping and other issues surrounding the project going as quickly as possible, to benefit from the anticipated rainy season," he said.
Mr. Bryan said he was pleased with the fact that various sectors across the country were now beginning to look at the implications of a major world event taking place in Jamaica. He noted that the event could not be delivered unless Jamaicans viewed it as part of their responsibility.
Meanwhile, Project Manager, Kevin Chen, said there were some delays in the progress of the work, due to the cement shortage which occurred some weeks ago, "but we are trying to maintain the anticipation ahead of the schedule".


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We have just started the potty training journey with our 2 1/2 year old son and it is perfect timing as June marks Potty Training Awareness Month. Our son is definitely ready, he talks about going potty all the time and often lets me know when he has to get a diaper change.
We received a Pull-Ups® Potty Partnership Toolkit that has been fantastic to help set us up for success. The Pull-Ups® Potty Partnership launched earlier this year and it offers a whole new way to potty train. It was created in partnership with renowned child psychologist and potty training expert, Dr. Heather Wittenberg and it's tailored to work with every child's unique personality, on their schedule and according to how they learn.
I completed their free, online quiz, and received personalized tips and advised based on my son's personality. He is a little "Owl" and he is determined, busy and predictable. We just started our journey this week and so far we are doing pretty well with fewer and fewer daily accidents, it is so exciting!
Wondering about your own little one's potty training personality? Complete the free quiz and find out if they are a Squirrel, Bear Cub, Puppy, Owl or Turtle.
I love that the toolkit has made it super easy for us to get started. The Pull-Ups®Training Pants are great when going to the bathroom so many times during the day and they actually feel cool within seconds of becoming wet, to help him learn when it's time to go potty. The flushable wipes are great help as well when he wants to wipe himself, as he is learning to do it himself and be independent.
The Fisher Price potty seat has also been a big hit as it plays a song every time he goes potty, he loves that actual musical reward after going potty. He is also a big fan of stickers and the chart to track progress has been a great visual help for both of us.
Finally, he LOVES Mickey and was so excited to see the plush toy. He knows I am saving it as a reward for when he completes all of his stickers and he talks about it daily, he is really looking forward to getting his Mickey Mouse at the end of his potty training journey. We can't wait to go shopping for some underwear as well. He has already requested Mickey Mouse underwear.
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The quiz result was "Owl"….
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The quiz said my son is: Your Owl is determined, busy and predictable. Owls seem to notice everything around them; they make excellent sleuths, picking up on every little nuance. Consistently keeping them in Pull-Ups® Training Pants will help these little ones understand the potty training process, and help them to feel comfortable with this new journey.
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Nolan seems to be a Bear!
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my child is a puppy.
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The case of Sarah Everard should make us all stop and think
10 March 2021, 8:04pm
At the time of writing, we don't know what happened to Sarah Everard. However this story ends, it should be an important national moment of reflection, because the way it has made a lot of people feel deserves serious attention.
When I say 'people', I largely mean 'women'. And that reflection should come from men. Men need to learn some lessons about the way this case makes women feel.
Perhaps there is something jarring about me, a man, writing a column about women's feelings and thoughts. Should I even be trying to describe and report the experience of a group to which I do not belong? There's a lot of identity-based thinking and argument that would say 'No' to that question. In other contexts, it's become common to hear the assertion that a person who does not belong to a category of people cannot speak for that category.
I don't buy that assertion, not least because it's based on a category error. Describing the experience of a group is not the same thing as purporting to speak for that group. If it was, the entire practice of journalism would be impossible. It is surely possible for a person to report the feelings and experiences of others, even though those others belong to other groups and categories. If the media industry forgets that and accepts the false notion that only a person of X group can report on X group, journalism is lost.
So what I'm trying do here is describe what I see and hear many women saying about the Sarah Everard case. It makes them afraid. Afraid that they live in a country where a woman doing the most mundane of things – walking down the street – can disappear.
A lot of the women expressing that fear are young to young-ish, in their 20s and 30s and 40s. Women of that age were born when Britain had had its first female prime minister, where 'girl power' and 'ladettes' were little more than historic curiosities on the road to what superficially looks like an almost equal society.
Women of that age grew up and now live in a country where women are at least as likely to go to university as male classmates, can aspire to do pretty much any job and generally be as free to live their lives as they please. Of course, there remains a long way to go on the journey to real equality, but surely the big fights over the really fundamental stuff – the vote, property, basic physical safety – have been won, right?
Here, I draw on my experience of writing a lot about the women who feel strongly about trans rights' impact on their own standing in society. Time and time again in covering that story, I've heard women confess that they hadn't previously seen the need for feminist activist or women's organisations. As confident, independent women in a world that afforded them near-equal status in most regards, it never occurred to them that the system of politics and government might do things that would affect them without consulting them. On encountering a seemingly unstoppable political and social agenda with what they see as implications for their rights, that proceeds without regard to their wishes, many began to feel disconcerted and even frightened.
One conversation that will always stick in my mind was with a fairly prominent politician, a woman who has held high office and done some tough jobs. She told me that the trans debate made her feel afraid and made her re-evaluate how secure her place in society is. 'I thought we'd won all the big fights so we could just get on with life. I thought we were safe,' she said. 'I was wrong.'
Conversations like that troubled me, and still do. I'm a 40-something white man with a professional job and an established career. There are things in this world that scare me, but they don't include the possibility of being denied a say on political questions. And they certainly don't include being attacked or abducted while walking home.
My guess is that a lot of men will be a little surprised at how deeply and widely the Sarah Everard story affects women. It is not an easy or comfortable thing to accept that a great many people in our country do not always feel physically safe as they go about their everyday lives. This is one of those areas where that idea of 'lived experience' (though it's still an awful phrase) does have real merit. A man and a woman walking down the same street at the same time will very likely have vastly different experiences of that action. We live alongside each other, in very different cities.
Those differences are obviously rooted in biology. I'm more than six feet tall and weigh more than 14 stone: a younger, fitter man could pose a physical threat to me, but it's been a long time since I was last punched in the face and the thought rarely crosses my mind as I go about the world. A woman could reasonably regard almost any male adult as a potential threat, since that person will almost certainly be bigger, stronger and more aggressive than her.
Such a view would not be without justification. Men kill women, not quite every day but every week. The Femicide Census project finds that on average, a man kills a woman in the UK every three days. About two thirds of those killings are committed by the woman's current or former partner.
Men kill men too. And the majority of all murder victims (around 64 per cent) are male, which is the sort of statistic that a certain sort of man likes to introduce into conversations about violence against women. See also: claims about men suffering as much from domestic violence as women.
Much of that is shabby whataboutery and I see no need to dwell on such things, beyond observing that as is so often true, two things can be true at the same time. It's true that men suffer violence and abuse. It's true that men abuse and kill women, and as result, some women routinely feel afraid.
It's also true that the fact of that fear is not adequately reflected or discussed in British society. Discourses (sorry for another one of those words) public and private do not give enough weight to that residual quotidian fear. That is the fear that is activated and heightened by the Sarah Everard story.
That women's fears are not fully acknowledged in our national life is, I'm afraid, down to a failure by men, a failure to take that female fear of violence – and violence itself— seriously enough.
This includes those men who help lead our national conversations. Where are the male politicians who campaign on and speak about domestic violence and femicide? They exist, but they are few.
Where are the male commentators who address these issues? Why are stories of men killing women rarely regarded as newsworthy, and when they are, is the focus so often on explaining and exculpating male violence? Why isn't domestic violence against at least 1.6 million women a year much, much higher up the political agenda? Why are Commons debates about domestic violence one of the few parliamentary events where most speakers are female?
And why does it take a story such as Sarah Everard's to bring women's widespread and routine fears to light? Women can answer that question. Men should too.
My guess is that a lot of men will be a little surprised at how deeply and widely the Sarah Everard story affects women
Written byJames Kirkup
James Kirkup is director of the Social Market Foundation and a former political editor of the Scotsman and the Daily Telegraph.
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Turning trash Into Treasure
Jenna Jambeck is redesigning waste management
Jenna Jambeck
School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering
Written by Leigh Beeson
Published 10.25.17
Updated Dec. 19, 2018: Jenna Jambeck's work with colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Sea Education Association uncovered a startling statistic that was named the 2018 International Statistic of the Year by the Royal Statistical Society: 90.5 percent of plastic has never been recycled.
Prior to Jambeck's research, it was unclear exactly how much plastic was ending up in landfills or, even more problematic, in oceans and gutters around the world. The new statistic gives a sense of scale to the problem of global plastic pollution. Jambeck's previous work includes a 2015 study that was the first to estimate how much of the plastic waste produced on land made its way into the world's waterways. Her follow-up two years later determined the amount of plastic produced worldwide since large-scale production of the synthetic materials began in the early 1950s.
In her latest research, Jenna Jambeck worked with colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sea Education Association to discover that 90.5 percent of plastic waste has never been recycled. Of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic produced since large-scale production of plastic products began in the 1950s, 6.3 billion metric tons became waste.
Right before Jenna Jambeck was returning to school to get her doctorate in environmental engineering in 2000, racing captain and oceanographer Charles Moore showed the industrialized world that its obsession with plastic had a cost.
Moore's articles on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch described a swath of free-floating marine debris, much of it plastic, that is now twice the size of Texas. The discovery was horrifying evidence of the consequences of man's fascination with disposable, prepackaged goods. But perhaps more horrifying was that the microplastic-filled soup of trash wasn't the only one; it was just the first to be discovered.
Jambeck was disgusted.
"I felt like we were doing something wrong on land if our trash is ending up in the ocean," says Jambeck, now an associate professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia. But a senior advisor at the time told her no one really cared that garbage was making its way from land into the world's waterways. "Waste management in general, people haven't really cared about that either."
But to Jambeck, that was unacceptable.
After coming to Georgia, she and colleague Kyle Johnsen developed a free and easy-to-use app, Marine Debris Tracker, that gives ordinary people across the globe the power to record the location of debris they find on shores, on land and in the water. The information users submit helps determine some of the hot spots where trash is washing up on shore and gives the researchers an idea of the most common types of plastic and waste showing up as litter.
A year later after Apple gave the app a visibility boost in its 2014 Worldwide Developer Forum promo video, Jambeck was all over the news when Science published her study estimating that 8 million metric tons of plastic entered the ocean in 2010. For the first time, there was a number—a conservative estimate, but an undeniable quantity—that showed exactly how ubiquitous plastic had become. A follow-up study in 2017 by Jambeck and some of the same colleagues from the previous study found that humans have created 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic since mass production began in the '50s. And the majority of it, 6.3 billion metric tons to be exact, ended up as waste.
Both of Jambeck's articles prompted stories in The Washington Post, Scientific American and The New York Times, among others. The research also got her in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
She warned senators that as global production of plastic continues to grow—and it is expected to continue to grow for decades—more animal and human lives are at risk, as are tourism dollars lost from polluted beaches and boating industry money from clogged pump systems and tangled boat propellers. While it's important to put money and effort into cleaning the oceans, stopping the plastic from reaching our waterways and reducing our reliance on non-reusable plastic in the first place is paramount, she told them.
In the summer of 2017, the State Department sent Jambeck to the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, Vietnam and Thailand to look for ways to improve solid waste management infrastructure and reduce the use of plastic products. The key to decreasing the amount of plastic in the environment is to minimize the amount being produced, which means reaching out to industry.
I felt like we were doing something wrong on land if our trash is ending up in the ocean.
Jenna Jambeck Associate Professor, College of Engineering
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Hope this is worth my while.
all hope for the Gemini is now gone.
and my car is gone.
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all of my underwear is gone.
It's all over. My career is gone.
All my girlfriend's jewelry is gone.
All right. Good. And this thing with my brother is over.
and all my crimes have gone unpunished.
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My hope is to save all three.
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Direct Another Day: Skyfall director Sam Mendes signs up for next Bond film
American Beauty director: 'I very much look forward to taking up the reins again'
James Legge
Friday 12 July 2013 16:37
The James Bond franchise has kept most of its biggest names in place, with Skyfall director Sam Mendes confirmed as the director of the next James Bond film.
Daniel Craig has also been officially cast as the lead, his fourth time in the role.
The Revolutionary Road director will film the next installment - set for a 2015 release - around theatre commitments. He has spent most of this year concentrating on his musical stage production of Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Mendes's 007 debut Skyfall, released last year, quickly became the highest-grossing film of all time in the UK.
The unnamed follow-up, the 24th film in the series, is scheduled for UK release on October 23 2015. Screenwriter John Logan, who worked on the most recent film, is also lined up for it.
Producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement: "Following the extraordinary success of Skyfall, we're really excited to be working once again with Daniel Craig, Sam Mendes and John Logan."
Mendes, who won an Oscar for American Beauty, said: "I am very pleased that by giving me the time I need to honour all my theatre commitments, the producers have made it possible for me to direct Bond 24.
"I very much look forward to taking up the reins again, and to working with Daniel Craig, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time."
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Mohamed Salah's stunning winner the highlight of Liverpool's third day of internationals
Eight Liverpool players were in action for their international sides on Friday, with two scoring as an exciting day of football played out in Europe and Africa.
The first two days of the break saw both Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dom Solanke score for England, ensuring victory for the seniors and U21s respectively.
Though the Three Lions were in action on Thursday, the following day was set up as the more exciting, with six of Jurgen Klopp's key players lined up.
Mohamed Salah got the Reds' representatives off to a bright start as he scored an excellent 88th-minute winner for Egypt against Tunisia.
With the scores level at 2-2, the 26-year-old played a neat one-two to drive into the penalty area, before dinking the ball over the goalkeeper to seal the three points.
Egypt had already booked their place at next summer's Africa Cup of Nations, but this victory took them level with Group J leaders Tunisia with a clash in Niger to come in March.
Virgil van Dijk and Gini Wijnaldum both started for the Netherlands against world champions France, and the midfielder scored in a 2-0 win that knocked Germany out of their UEFA Nations League group
Wijnaldum reacted quickly to turn home after Ryan Babel's initial shot was saved, before Memphis Depay's last-minute panenka penalty sealed the result.
Van Dijk played the full 90 minutes at the back, while Wijnaldum was replaced on 89 minutes after an impressive display in a more offensive role than he's deployed in at Liverpool.
Alisson and Roberto Firmino were named in Tite's starting lineup as Brazil took on Uruguay at the Emirates, with Fabinho on the substitutes' bench.
The midfielder remained unused in a 1-0 win for the Selecao, decided by Neymar's second-half penalty, but both Alisson and Firmino played 90 minutes.
Both Harry Wilson and Ben Woodburn were named on the substitutes' bench for Wales' UEFA Nations League clash with Denmark in Cardiff, but the introduction of Wilson was unable to thwart a 2-1 loss.
Ryan Giggs' bold, youthful side went behind to a Nicolai Jorgensen strike in the first half, with Martin Braithwaite and Gareth Bale both scoring within two minutes in the closing stages.
Kamil Grabara's tenure as No. 1 for the Poland U21s continued as he started in their first-leg U21 Euro qualifier at home to Portugal, in a side also including Arsenal's Krystian Bielik and Leicester's Bartosz Kapustka.
The 19-year-old shipped a goal through Diogo Jota on the half-hour, and the hosts were unable to claw back at result in Zabrze, leaving it all to do on the road on Tuesday.
Finally, Viteszlav Jaros played the full 90 minutes between the sticks as the Czech Republic U18s took on Italy, but conceded three in a end-to-end 3-3 draw.
Saturday is set to be relatively low-key day for Liverpool's internationals, with the majority of those in action coming from the academy.
However, Sadio Mane should start for Senegal in their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier away to Equatorial Guinea, safe in the knowledge that they have already qualified for next summer's tournament.
Andy Robertson will wear the armband as Scotland take on Albania in the UEFA Nations League, looking to live up to the Braveheart nickname bestowed to him by Klopp.
Both Neco Williams and Morgan Boyes could turn out for Wales in their latest U19 Euros qualifier against Sweden, while Tom Clayton can hope to feature for the Scotland U19s as they take on San Marino.
Rafa Camacho is in contention as the Portugal U19s take on Armenia, as is Curtis Jones for the England U18s' clash with the Republic of Ireland and Edvard Tagseth in the Norway U18s' friendly against China.
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Hornets' West out for season with ACL tear
Adrian Wojnarowski
After tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, New Orleans forward David West has been lost for the rest of the season and will face six months of rehabiliation, league sources told Yahoo! Sports on Friday.
West suffered the devastating injury Thursday night in a Hornets overtime victory against the Utah Jazz, and an MRI on Friday in Phoenix revealed the tear.
The season-ending injury is a crushing blow to the Hornets, who are clinging to the seventh seed in the Western Conference. Memphis trails the Hornets by one game, and Houston is three back now.
After dunking the ball for his 29th point on Thursday, West buckled to the floor and had to be carried off the court. After averaging nearly 19 points and 7.6 rebounds a game, the Hornets' frontline will struggle immensely to overcome the loss of West.
It's possible West, who has until June 30 to opt out of his contract and become a free agent this summer, has played his final game for the Hornets. He turned down an offer for a contract extension earlier this season, and had hoped to make as much as $10 million a year in a new deal. West had planned to exercise the opt-out clause on the $7.5 million owed him 2011-'12, but it's too early to tell if the severity of the injury could cause him to re-think going onto the market coming off a knee injury.
League executives believe that is unlikely that West would opt out of the $7.5 million on his contract for 2011-12. Sources close to West say it's too soon to know how the injury will affect the possibility of the opt-out, but one Eastern Conference executive told Yahoo! Sports, "He's got the double whammy of the injury, and the uncertainty of a new CBA that could lower the salary cap. I would think he just stays put in New Orleans another year, rehabs the knee and comes back there."
And with the possibility of a long lockout, it's possible that West could be fully rehabiliated by the start of a delayed training camp.
West hadn't closed the door on returning to the Hornets, who drafted him in 2003, but it's been unclear how far the franchise would go to meet his demands. Several teams with cap space in 2011, including Indiana and New Jersey, have an interest in signing West.
West, 31, was expected to be one of the premier free agents on the market this offseason.


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New crackdown shows failure of immigration policies, say US bishops
Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles (CNS)
A planned increase in federal immigration raids is "yet another depressing sign of the failed state of American immigration policy," Archbishop Jose H Gomez of Los Angeles said last week. The raids were announced in mid-May.
Archbishop Gomez's comment was echoed by Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio L Elizondo, chairman-elect of the US bishops' Committee on Migration.
"These operations spark panic among our parishes," Bishop Elizondo said last week. "No person, migrant or otherwise, should have to fear leaving their home to attend church or school. No person should have to fear being torn away from their family and returned to danger."
While saying he recognised the federal government's role in upholding immigration laws, he said the deportations would not be "an effective deterrent" to migration because these "vulnerable populations" are facing a humanitarian crisis in their home countries.
Last Tuesday US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel deported a mother and her 14-year-old daughter from the South Texas Family Residential Centre in Dilley, Texas.
ICE took the action despite knowing that the family was afraid of being killed in their home country, that their asylum claim had never been heard, and despite knowing that attorneys had requested a stay of removal and were in the midst of filing an appeal, according to Katie Shepherd, managing attorney for the Cara Family Detention Pro Bono Project, which provides legal representation and undertakes advocacy on behalf of mothers and children held in federal family detention centres.
According to Shepherd, ICE also knew that attorneys had requested a stay of removal for the family and were in the midst of filing an appeal.
"ICE swiftly deported the mother and her child, informing counsel only after the fact. It is outrageous that, knowing that her appeal was in the works and that she had expressed a fear of return, ICE chose to hustle the family out of the detention centre in the dark of night and put them on a plane before the courthouse doors opened," Shepherd said.
"Just like in January, we are seeing mothers and children who are confused, disorientated and terrified for themselves and their children," she added.
In January, Bishop Elizondo and Bishop Kevin W Vann of Orange, California, chairman of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (Clinic), wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about recent raids that had netted 121 undocumented immigrants in a three-day span, many of them mothers and children.
"Our organisations have firsthand knowledge that these actions have generated fear among immigrants and have made their communities more distrustful of law enforcement and vulnerable to misinformation, exploitation and fraud," the two bishops told Johnson. "To send migrant children and families back to their home countries would put many of them in grave danger because they would face threats of violence and for some, even death."
Clinic is one of four partners in the Cara Project. The others are the American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Refugee and Immigrant Centre for Education and Legal Services.
"This family is just the latest in the string of lives destroyed by a government that refuses to administer our refugee protection system with the care it requires. Sadly, ICE's harsh enforcement tactics will put many more vulnerable people at risk," said the Cara Project's Shepherd.
Bishop Daniel E Flores of Brownsville, Texas, also spoke about the new wave of deportation raids.
"Children and families should not be used as pawns in a politics of deportation aimed more at maintaining the illusion that we have a viable immigration policy in this country than at actually addressing the issue," he said. "The entire system needs reform; it fails to protect the most basic of human goods. Those fleeing violence should be accorded due process protection."
Over the past year or more, the Brownsville Diocese, which is in the Rio Grande River Valley, has had an increase of immigrants with numbers as high as 200 on some days. Mostly from Central America, the immigrants receive help at the diocesan respite centre at Sacred Heart Church in McAllen and continue north to other states.
Michelle Mendez, who represents some clients for Clinic and does training and legal support as well, also moderates a closed Facebook page for women who were detained. Introduced just last October, the group now has 750 members, she said.
Having worked in direct services for many years prior to joining Clinic, Mendez said: "I learned that clients, despite lacking sophistication in some areas, had on their phones What's App or something that's cheaper to call internationally, and Facebook, because they want to connect with folks all over."
On the page, "we give them guidance on the removal proceedings," Mendez said. "They have a lot of misinformation or lack of information. They think that reporting to ICE on a monthly basis is the same as going to court. Or that changing your address with ICE is the same as changing your address with the court." Neither is true, she added, and some women have been tripped up by this false belief.
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Department of Defense helps staff new St. George monoclonal antibody treatment site
The facility will serve older adults, who are vulnerable to severe COVID-19 infections.
(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A new treatment center for monoclonal antibodies is shown to media, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Murray. The Utah Department of Health, which will operate the facility, will use the treatment for those sick with COVID-19 and provide infusions for up to 50 patients per day.
By Alastair Lee Bitsóí
| Nov. 11, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
| Updated: 10:02 p.m.
In southwest Utah, Snowbirds, also known as elderly retirees, now have access to another tool to help them fight off any COVID-19 infections. A new facility in St. George opened up for older adults in this part of the state to get monoclonal antibody therapy, a treatment to help fight off a COVID-19 infection.
Last week, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) announced the opening of the St. George monoclonal site. This site will expand access to populations eligible for this treatment from southwestern Utah, including individuals who have recently tested positive, are symptomatic, and who have health conditions or advanced age that may put them at higher risk of hospitalization.
As age is closely linked to the risk of hospitalization, the fact that St. George has double the rate of older adults than the state at large makes it an optimal location for this service.
Monoclonal antibody treatment uses artificially created proteins to mimic the body's immune system to help fight off COVID-19 infections. Monoclonal antibody treatment has been in use since last November, public health officials said and can be effective if taken immediately after a person shows symptoms of COVID-19.
Public health officials say the treatment could cut the number of high-risk patients who end up hospitalized with COVID-19 by one-eighth.
The monoclonal antibody facility in St. George is a joint mission between UDOH and various military branches of the Department of Defense, which has deployed 15 U.S. Air Force staff, including doctors, nurses and other health care workers, to help with mitigating COVID-19 in southern Utah.
The staff is part of a clinical response team deployed to Utah after a request through the Federal Emergency Management Agency that Utah submitted two weeks ago, said Kevin McCulley, the UDOH public health and emergency preparedness manager.
"As we seek to expand the number of individuals treated with monoclonal antibodies, the Utah Department of Health coordinated with health care partners, and assessed case counts by population centers and demographics in Utah and determined that St. George is an optimal location for a new state-supported site," said McCulley.
The five-county region of Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane and Washington has over 41,558 cases and 413 deaths since the start of the pandemic, and 49 patients are currently hospitalized. Since Oct. 28, the region has had 700 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths.
Residents can find out if they qualify for monoclonal antibody therapy by using the health department's risk calculator. This calculator screens persons needing treatment by asking questions about whether they are at the highest risk for being hospitalized from COVID-19.
According to Charla Haley, public information officer for UDOH, the state health department operates two monoclonal antibody facilities — in Murray and St. George. Monoclonal antibody treatments are available at various hospitals and outpatient clinics throughout the state in addition to the two operated by UDOH, Haley said.
The new facility, which opens from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., is at the old hospital site of Intermountain Healthcare. Treatment is offered at no cost to patients by the federal government.
Correction 3:00 p.m. Thursday: This article was updated to clarify who is eligible for monoclonal antibodies.
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HP's latest network-attached storage system is designed to allow small and mid-sized business to consolidate backup of file, print and Exchange e-mail data on Windows Storage Server 2003 devices. The result is lower cost and complexity, HP reports.
E-mail is the communications medium businesses love to hate. According to The Radicati Group, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based research firm, the average corporate e-mail user processes 10 MB of e-mail a day. That is expected to increase to 15.8 MB per user, per day by 2008.
So how does a business, especially a small or mid-size business, keep its e-mail servers from getting clogged up? In a move to help SMBs better store and retrieve e-mail, HP today announced a Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) system designed to consolidate Exchange Server 2003 data on Windows Storage Server 2003-powered NAS systems. That way, businesses can back up and store data from file, print and e-mail servers on a single NAS device.
More specifically, HP said its StorageWorks NAS 1200s and 2000s will now support Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 Feature Pack. Prices begin at $2,495 for the 1200s and $5,800 for the 2000s. The announcement came at Microsoft's Tech ED 2004 conference in San Diego.
"Just storage is not enough for SMBs. Now they can consolidate print, file and Exchange. Previously, they would have needed multiple servers — they would have needed a SAN," Harry Baeverstad, director of Network Attached Storage, HP Enterprise Storage and Servers said. HP claims that by implementing its new NAS offering, SMBs can consolidate servers by as much as 50 percent. Baeverstad described HP's new NAS offering as a "radically simple approach to handle an explosion in data."
Storing e-mail data is one thing, retrieving it quickly if you need to is another. "With compliance issues related to HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, you may some day need to be able find one e-mail in a million," Baeverstad said. To offer a context-based recovery capability for StorageWorks NAS systems, Baeverstad said, HP will partner with CommVault Systems, an Oceanport, N.J.-based data management software company.
The CommVault QiNetix Small & Medium Business Edition for HP StorageWorks NAS software suite is available for HP StorageWorks NAS 1200s and 2000s devices and is designed to protect consolidated Exchange server and file server data hosted on HP NAS devices, migrate Exchange server data to secondary storage, use HP NAS systems as a target for disk-to-disk-tape backup for existing Exchange servers, and deploy HP NAS as a target for Exchange server e-mail.
The add-on software is available either directly from CommVault or HP's channel partners with prices starting at $2,495.
To help resellers better serve the SMB market, HP also announced that it is bringing its Easy-as-NAS program to the U.S. A joint initiative with Microsoft, the program offers sales and services training, product launch events, business plan development, partner collateral and funding as well as trade-in and buy-and-try programs. The Easy-as-NAS pilot program has been underway with channel partners in HP's Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
With other storage vendors such as EMC now targeting the SMB market, Baeverstad said HP's long-standing relationship with Microsoft is a key differentiator. To offer the interoperability needed to make NAS realistic for small companies, "our products — laptops, desktops, servers and storage — are architected to work together. HP and Microsoft create a consistent look." Baeverstad also pointed to price differences between EMC and HP's NAS offerings, referring to EMC's $6,100 NetWin 110 system announced last week.
When it comes to storage and SMBs, HP isn't at the very top of buyers' minds, but it's close. According to a recent survey of SMBs by Forrester Research, HP was second only to Dell when respondents were asked which brands they were most likely to consider when making storage purchases. IBM was third followed by EMC.


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R. Prasanna (better known as Guitar Prasanna), is a pioneer in performing Carnatic music on the guitar. He also plays jazz, progressive rock, and world fusion.

Early life and background
Prasanna grew up in Chennai, India and fell in love with the guitar at age of five after hearing his neighbor play. He received his first guitar when he was ten years old and would try to play Tamil and Hindi film songs and imitate the sounds of his sister's Carnatic singing with the instrument. Prasanna's interest in Western pop music developed when his father's colleague gave him some cassette tapes with songs by the Bee Gees, ABBA, Toto, Peaches and Herb, and the Pointer Sisters.

While still in high school he began making a reputation as a guitarist with local band XIth Commandment. During his years studying naval architecture at Indian institute of Technology, Madras (where he also met his wife Shalini), he toured India with his rock bands (The Haze and then Shakuni & the Birds of Prey), covering songs by Santana, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rush, Steely Dan, Jethro Tull, and the Scorpions and compositions like "Peaceful" and "Blues for Saraswati". Prasanna's musical development led him to blues and jazz. After working as a  software consultant, he gave up a career in engineering and IT and moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music where he majored in Jazz and Classical Composition.

Education
Prasanna received a Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1992. He also graduated magna cum laude from the Berklee College of Music, Boston.

Educator
 Established Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music and served as it president
 Faculty member at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada for international workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in May 2008
 Lectures and clinics at Harvard University, Institute of Music at Osnabrück University, Berklee College of Music, MIT, Tufts University, New School in New York, University of Arizona, Utah State University

Discography

As leader
 Guitar Goes Classical (Audio Fine, 1993) (India)
 Evergreen Melodies on Guitar (Keerthana, 1993) (India)
 Evergreen Classicals on Guitar (Keerthana, 1993) (India)
 Vibrant Aesthetics (Inreco, 1993) (India)
 Spirit of Youth (Saragam, 1993) (India)
 Guitar Indian Style (Oriental, 1996) (U.S.)
 Roots (Sangeetha/HMV, 1997) (India)
 Echo (Saican, 2000) (Canada)
 Apoorva Ragas on Guitar (Kalakendra, 2000) (U.S.)
 Natabhairavi (Inreco, 2000) (India)
 Shakthi: The Omnipotent (Music Today, 2000) (India)
 Peaceful (Susila, 2001)
 Ragamorphism – Guitar instructional DVD (Susila, 2004)
 Be the Change (Susila, 2004)
 Ra Rama (Kosmic, 2005) (India)
 Electric Ganesha Land (Susila, 2006)
 Live in Sedona DVD (Susila, 2009)
 Ragabop Trio (Abstract Logix, 2010) with Steve Smith, George Brooks
 Tirtha (ACT, 2011) with Vijay Iyer, Nitin Mitta
 All Terrain Guitar (Susila, 2016)
 "Apna Ek Kal" feat. Anuradha Palakurthi and Hariharan (2016) (single)

Special projects
 Summa cum Jazz (BMG, 1999)
 Lagaan (Sony, 2001) with A.R. Rahman
 Moon Guitars (De Werf, 2002) – Fabrizio Cassol, Prasanna, David Gilmore
 Million Dollar Arm (Walt Disney, 2014)
 The Hundred Foot Journey (Hollywood, 2014)

As guest
 Play by Ear – Deep C, 2002
 Peace in Progress – Manisha Shahane, 2003
 Apfelschaun – Ben Schwendener/Uwe Steinmetz (Gravity Arts, 2003)
 Moving – Tony Grey, 2004
 The Music Messiah – Illayaraja (Agi Music, 2006)
 Hidden Mandala – Marc Rossi (Gravity Records, 2008)
 Inner Duality – David Hines (Spice Rack Records, 2009)
 Mantra Revealed – Marc Rossi (Innova, 2012)

Soundtracks
 Kochadaiyan (Tamil) – A.R. Rahman, 2014
 Highway (Bollywood) – A.R.Rahman, 2014
 Essaye Moi (French) – Pierre Van Dormael, 2006
 Mumbai Express (Tamil) – Illayaraja, 2005
 Ghajini background score (Tamil) – Harris Jayaraj, 2005
 Swades (Bollywood) – A.R.Rahman, 2004
 Dil ne Jisa apna kaha (Bollywood) – A.R.Rahman, 2004
 Udhaya (Tamil) – A.R.Rahman, 2003
 Ramanaa (Tamil) – Illayaraja, 2002
 Nee Romba Azhaga Irukke (Tamil) – Aravind/Jaishankar, 2002
 Lagaan film (Bollywood) – A.R.Rahman, 2001
 Grahan film background score (Bollywood) – Karthik Raja, 2001
 Dumm Dumm Dumm (Tamil) – Karthik Raja, 2001
 Vanchinathan (Tamil) – Karthik Raja, 2001
 Pukar (Bollywood) – A.R.Rahman, 2000
 Split Wide Open (English) – Karthik Raja, 1999
 Harischandra (Tamil) – Agosh, 1999
 Enn Swasa Kaatre (Tamil) – A.R.Rahman, 1998
 Jeans (Tamil) – A.R.Rahman, 1998
 Kizhakkum Merkkum (Tamil) – Illayaraja, 1998
 Zor (Bollywood) – Agosh, 1998
 Nam iruvar namakku iruvar (Tamil) – Karthik Raja, 1998
 Kadhala Kadhala (Tamil) – Karthik Raja, 1998
 Ullasam (Tamil) – Karthik Raja, 1996
 Lovebirds (Tamil) – A.R.Rahman, 1996
 Muthu (Tamil) – A.R.Rahman, 1995
 Puthiya Mugam (Tamil) – A.R.Rahman, 1992

Composer

Film
 Framed (2007)
 Smile Pinki (2009)
 The Open Frame (2011)
 Vazhakku Enn 18/9 (2012)
 Algorithms (2012)
 After My Garden Grows (2014)

Dance Theater
 Soliloquy (1997)
 Sanaatana (2001)
 DNA in Dance (2004)
 The Tempest (2004)
 A Story and a Song (2007)

References
 Kopman, Budd. Prasanna Biography. All About Jazz.
 Kopman, Budd  "Tirtha at The Jazz Standard". All About Jazz.
 Prasanna leaves Musical Borders Behind on 'All Terrain Guitar', an article in Guitar Player magazine
 Prasanna: All Terrain Guitar, an article in Vintage Guitar magazine
 Prasanna's history of the Carnatic guitar

External links
 Official site

Indian jazz guitarists
Carnatic instrumentalists
Berklee College of Music alumni
Living people
Indian film score composers
Carnatic musicians
1970 births
IIT Madras alumni
21st-century guitarists

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John D. Pellegrin, Of Counsel to the firm, specializes in business matters, advising new and established companies, entrepreneurs and consultants on transactional issues. This includes business succession planning, employment, franchising, and multi-faceted business strategy issues. He also has an extensive practice and experience in the fields of Intellectual Property (trademark, copyright, patent coordination/referral, computer/Internet, entertainment, media, literary & agency) project management & coordination, consulting, communications, government contracting, international, non-profit organizations, litigation, and wills/trusts/estates. Formerly a member of the Federal Communications Commission's legal staff, Mr. Pellegrin is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and New York. He holds degrees from Georgetown University (Management), and Fordham University (J.D.). He holds an AV (highest) rating from Martindale Hubbell, the international directory of practicing attorneys. He has written numerous articles on telecommunications and new technology issues, appeared before many industry groups, and represents multifaceted entities (some international in scope), associations, and non-profit/educational entities, assisting with the planning and implementation of their projects and lines of business/service.Mr. Pellegrin is also active in the community, as a Board member serving on several non-profit entities, the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce (former President), and former President of the Springfield Golf & Country Club. He also serves on the Fairfax County Small Business Commission.
Mr. Pellegrin is currently serving on the Fairfax County Small Business Commission, Chairman of the SBC, and on the Board of MVLE, Inc. (serving adults with different abilities/disabilities) and has been honored with various awards by The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, is a recipient of the Volunteer Fairfax Benchmark 500 Award, several Rotary International awards, as well as recipient of the Community Champion Award.
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Mitaka  är en stad i Tokyo prefektur i Japan. Staden fick stadsrättigheter 1950.

Japans nationella centrum för astronomisk forskning, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)  är baserat i Mitaka.

I Mitaka ligger Ghibli-museet, med utställningar främst om Studio Ghiblis produktioner.

Kommunikationer
Den viktigaste kommunikationslinjen för Mitaka är Chuolinjen som ansluter direkt till både Shinjuku och Tokyo station, de två mest trafikerade stationerna i Tokyo och även västerut inåt landet.

Källor

Orter i Tokyo prefektur
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Creepy | November 12, 2016
10 Speculations About The Wild Hunt
Benjamin Welton
On the night February 6, 1127, the citizens of Peterborough, England, heard "a whole pack of huntsmen in full cry" galloping through the night. Local monks continued to hear the ghostly huntsmen's horns, thus signaling their demonic nature.
The myth is further found in Scandinavia, Wales, France, Germany, and the Slavic nations of Central and Eastern Europe. Despite this, the tradition of the Wild Hunt has not been deeply documented. This has allowed for rampant speculation.
10The Mythical Leader Of The Hunt Changed
Photo credit: Emil Doepler
In Scandinavia, the hunt's appearance was presaged by the loud barking of Odin's hounds. When this occurred, it was widely believed that war was on the horizon. Meanwhile, in Germany, the pagan god of the wind and death frequently takes Odin's place at the hunt's lead.
Outside of Germanic Europe, other figures were said to lead the huntsmen. In Brittany and Wales, King Arthur was frequently depicted as the leader of the hunt, while in central France, a mythical character named the Great Huntsman of Fotainebleau was said to have warned French citizens of the murder of King Henry IV and the French Revolution.
9Historical Leaders Were Part Of The Wild Hunt, Too
Photo credit: Wikimedia
In one story from the German Rhineland from around 1250, Theodoric the Great, the Ostrogoth king who ruled over a conquered Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries, encounters the Wild Hunt as he tries to rescue the maiden Babehilt from the huntsman Fasolt, a giant who rules the forest with a vicious pack of dogs. For the medieval Germans, Theodoric the Great's conquest of the evil Fasolt was a way to remind them of their own heroic heritage.
For later people, the Wild Hunt took on a much more menacing aspect. In these cases, the devil was frequently seen as the hunt's leader. If not the devil, then rakish rogues like Sir Francis Drake were substituted.
8The Hell Wain
Photo credit: Reginald Scott
In medieval England, the Hell Wain was a type of death coach that behaved similarly to the Wild Hunt. According to 16th-century author Reginald Scot, the English author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, one of Europe's first openly skeptical works on black magic, the Hell Wain was supposedly a wagon that came up from hell and could be seen on certain nights in the sky. On Earth, the Hell Wain would collect all the souls of the damned and drag them down to their everlasting torment.
In Ireland, the Coiste-Bodhar performed a similar function. In the 19th century, West Virginians told tales about a ghostly black hearse drawn by a pair of headless white horses, while in the 20th century, the hearse was updated to a black automobile.
7The Witches' Sabbath
Ronald Hutton, a professor of history at England's University of Bristol, has a unique view of the Wild Hunt. For starters, he believes that the most common depiction is a synthesis of several different myths created by Jacob Grimm. On top of this, Hutton believes the ancient story of the Wild Hunt directly influenced ideas about the Witches' Sabbath in Early Modern Europe.
Specifically, Hutton argues that the roots of the Wild Hunt stretch deep into the history of northern Europe. For instance, he references Tacitus's claim that the Harii tribe would paint themselves black and attack their enemies during the night. This was intended to invoke either the Einherjar, the ghostly soldiers of Odin, or simply angry specters. Later medieval records from northern Europe speak of ghostly or demonic hosts in the night sky. These stories, which had been in circulation in European villages for centuries, formed the basis of the Witches' Sabbath, which usually involved children being abducted by flying witches.
6The Benandanti
Photo credit: Hans Baldung
The myth of the Benandanti werewolves is particularly strange. They transformed on four different nights of the year to journey to hell to battle evil witches known as the Malandanti. According to historian Carlo Ginzburg, their mythology shared certain overtones with the Wild Hunt. For instance, the Benandanti believed that while they slept, their spirits traveled through the night to protect their neighbors from harm.
Also, like the Benandanti (many of whom were tried for Satanism and witchcraft in the Italian region of Friuli in the 16th and 17th centuries), those who claimed to have witnessed the Wild Hunt were frequently tried for supernatural crimes.
5A Larger Mystery Cult?
In writing about the Benandanti, Ginzburg saw them as part of a pre-Christian tradition widespread in rural Europe. In particular, Ginzburg articulates that prior to the Inquisition and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, northwestern Italy was home to an indigenous folk magic tradition intricately tied to the natural world. In a similar vein, Austrian scholar Otto Hofler believed the Wild Hunt pointed toward a continuity between Germanic paganism and German folk customs under Christianity.
While Hofler's ideas have lost much of their appeal thanks to Hofler's close association with Heinrich Himmler's Ahnenerbe project, there is something compelling about his notion that the Wild Hunt, formed a kind of ancestor worship that echoed the mystery cults of the Mediterranean. Specifically, Hofler argues that the participants in the Wild Hunt celebrations formed a type of secret society that was the Germanic equivalent of the Mithras mysteries.
4The Specter Of Herne The Hunter
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A slightly menacing figure in English folklore, Herne the Hunter is said to be the lord and ruler of Windsor Forest and Great Park, both in Berkshire. Shakespeare even mentions him in The Merry Wives of Windsor, having Mistress Page speak of how Herne the Hunter sounds his horn, turns milk into blood, and shakes a chain at midnight during the winter months. Some Anglo-Saxon versions of the Wild Hunt legend claim that Herne the Hunter would lead the hunt on certain nights.
Margaret Murray asserted that Herne the Hunter was a version of the ancient Celtic god of witches. He was part of a broad, pre-Christian underground religion that included such things as fertility rites and the Wild Hunt.
3Corpse Paint?
Photo credit: Vassil/Wikimedia
Although first worn by the likes of Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Arthur Brown, corpse paint—the blending of white and black greasepaint to create a garish, horrifying visage—has many different stories attached to it. Some claim that it has its origins in the Black Death and certain macabre performances that would heavily make up those actors performing the role of the plague dead. However, Austrian black metal musician Kadmon articulates the notion that corpse paint has its origins in the Oskorei, or Wild Hunt traditions of both Scandinavia and the German-speaking regions of the Alps.
In particular, Kadmon states that Oskorei participants were young men who rode through the night during the winter and punished those who did not follow local customs. Kadmon, whose arguments aren't widely supported, also shows how modern Perchten parades in and around the Alps contain echoes of the Wild Hunt.
2The Furious Host
Photo credit: Peter Nicolai Arbo
Another common name for the Wild Hunt in medieval Germany was the Furious Host. According to tradition, the fury came from both the wind and the thunderous riding of Wotan (or Wodan) and the souls of dead. A euphemism for death used to be "joining the old host," underlying that the Furious Host was as much of a death ritual as anything else.
Once again, Kadmon links the Furious Host with black metal (which also comes from northern Europe, after all). Like other rituals associated with death, violence, and rebirth, Kadmon has argued that one part of the Oskorei ritual included making frightening noises. For the most part, the nocturnal actions of the Oskorei participants would not be out-of-place in a modern Halloween celebration.
1The Wild Hunt And Yule
Photo credit: Robert Chambers
Long before the coming of the Christian Yuletide, which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, ancient Germanic pagans celebrated Yule. Activities associated with Yule included gift-giving, sacrifices to the gods, and feasting. The 12 days of Yule, which roughly corresponded with December 25 through January 6, were considered a time of great magic and a time when the fates turned in a different direction. More importantly, Odin rode freely during Yule because the demarcation lines between the living realm and the land of the dead were thin and permeable.
As such, Odin and his horsemen would ride through the sky in search of weary souls. It's interesting to note that the Wild Hunt's closest parallels in the modern world, such as Krampus and the Perchta/Berchta celebrations of Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and elsewhere, all take place around Christmas.
Benjamin Welton is a freelance writer based in Boston. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, Listverse, Metal Injection, and other publications. He currently blogs at literarytrebuchet.blogspot.com.
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Transhipment Warehouse
Whaley Bridge, High Peak
The first warehouse at the head of the Whaley Bridge Branch of the Peak Forest Canal was built in 1801 and it is attributed to Thomas Brown who was the Resident Engineer for the construction of the canal. This was a three-storey building of gritstone construction positioned at 90 degrees to the canal. It was five bays wide with the central bay straddling the canal. There was an arched shipping hole in the central bay that permitted two boats to enter, side-by-side, so that they could be loaded and unloaded undercover. A single-gabled pitched roof constructed of slate, on an east-west axis, with a chimney-stack at its western end, covered the building. At the eastern end of the building, on the north elevation, there was a cathead in the pitched roof that housed a pulley used to hoist goods on the wharf up to the first and second floors. Adjoining this there was a wall jib crane that was used to hoist goods out of boats and onto the wharf and vice versa. A cantilever jib crane was positioned on the opposite wharf by the warehouse and this was similarly used to hoist goods into and out of boats.
The 1801 warehouse as it appeared prior to the removal of the top floor in 1915/16.
The wharf on the left is piled high with limestone waiting to be taken away by boat. The boat on the right is a day boat used for maintenance purposes and a boat with a cabin can just be seen alongside it.
The capacity of the 1801 warehouse was adequate for effective day-to-day operation until the Cromford and High Peak Railway, between Cromford and Whaley Bridge, opened throughout in 1831. This brought about a considerable increase in traffic for the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge and it was deemed that the existing storage facilities were no longer adequate and neither was there a connection with the railway. Consequently, it was decided to increase the storage capacity and make a railway connection by adding an extension of gritstone constructionto the original building.
The potential of the Peak Forest Canal was considerably enhanced when it became the northern terminus of the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831, offering a route for Midlands carriers from the Cromford Canal to reach Manchester and the North West via the Peak Forest Canal.
The first section of the Cromford and High Peak Railway to open was from Cromford Wharf on the Cromford Canal (later extended to join the Midland Railway at High Peak Junction) to Hurdlow, which opened on the 29 May 1830 and the second was from Hurdlow to Whaley Bridge, which opened on the 6 July 1831. The length of the railway was 33 miles.
The extension was built southwards over five bays and it was three bays wide, with the canal running along the central bay. Three gabled pitched roofs, on a north-south axis designed to match the original warehouse, covered the extension. The roofs of the 1832 extension are supported by king-post timber trusses held up by the side walls and a number of hollow cast-iron columns comparable to those used in mill construction of the period. Being hollow, these columns were designed to drain rainwater from the roofs. Two of these columns were fitted with column jib cranes to enable goods to be lifted into and out of boats.
The extension was built in 1832 and a stone tablet over the central bay of the south elevation, is inscribed with the date, '1832'. It was built by David Bellhouse Junior, the esteemed Manchester contractor, who was responsible for the construction of the 1830 Manchester warehouse for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. The Manchester warehouse was built in record time, being completed on the 15 August 1830 and on the day of the official opening of the railway on the 15 September 1830, the top floor was used to lay out refreshments for quests. David Bellhouse Junior took over his father's business in about 1820, David Bellhouse Senior being a leading local carrier and timber merchant.
The Ordnance Survey map of 1875 shows the railway approaching the north and south elevations of the warehouse on the east side. However, this was later changed to a single-track line entering the western bay of the extension through a doorway in the south elevation. This line had a curious arrangement in that it did not provide direct access from the main railway line. Rather, it curved in from the siding of the Bingswood Print Works and an amount of shunting by horses would have been required before waggons from the main line could enter the warehouse. A possible explanation for this arrangement is the possibility that a considerable amount of goods associated with the print works were carried on this line. Conversely, there was direct access by a single-track branch from the main line to the limestone wharf on the eastern side of the canal.
The south elevation of the 1832 extension, c.1950.
The railway track entering the western bay can just be seen in the road curving round from the right.
The original 1801 warehouse and the 1832 extension remained intact until 1915 when, for reasons now lost, the top floor of the warehouse was removed. The remaining north, east and west elevations of the original building were then re-modelled and re-roofed to match the 1832 extension. The lowered south wall of the original warehouse retained its function as a curtain wall between the 1801 and 1832 buildings. Concurrently, the northern stone archway of the 1801 building was removed and replaced by a substantial cast-iron beam to support the wall above. The north elevation now contains a stone tablet inscribed with the date, '1916', which commemorates the demolition of the top floor of the original warehouse.
It should be noted that this work was undertaken during the period of the Great War when the canal was, in effect, nationalised.
By definition, a warehouse is a building where goods are stored prior to their use, distribution or sale. However, in the case of the extension to the original warehouse at Whaley Bridge, it was custom built for very specific requirements and its prime function was to facilitate the safe storage and transhipment of goods, produce and merchandise between the older Peak Forest Canal and the Cromford and High Peak Railway.
As a result of its historical and architectural merit, the warehouse is listed as Grade II*, List Entry No. 1088081, date first listed 18 December 1972. Because of its condition the building is on the Heritage at Risk Register.
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The complete warehouse as it appeared prior to the removal of the top floor of 1801 warehouse.
The branch line from the Cromford and High Peak Railway is shown entering the 1832 extension through the tall doorway to the left of the chimney. Waggons stand on the line in the foreground and a boat is moored at the limestone wharf. The railway line in the background is the Manchester - Buxton line of the London and North Western Railway.
The north elevation of the warehouse, August 1935.
The top floor of the 1801 warehouse has been removed and the ground floor and first floor have been re-modelled and re-roofed. The cantilever jib crane still stands on the right. The crane was Inventory No. GCR C.399, Safe Working Load 5 tons, later reduced to 3 tons. The railway waggons alongside the limestone wharf on the left are from Stoke-on-Trent.
The track from the Cromford and High Peak Railway inside the 1832 extension, 2 October 1976.
A rail joint showing a fishplate bolted to the rail ends, 2 October 1976.
The remaining column jib crane (Inventory No. GCR C.400, SWL 1 ton, later reduced to 12 cwt) inside the warehouse, 2 October 1976.
Formerly there were two cranes of this type.
Detail of the column jib crane, 2 October 1976.
This view shows the single-purchase mechanism used to operate the crane. Note the operating handle, band brake and drum on which the chain was wound.
The cast-iron Great Central Railway warning plate on the column jib crane, 2 October 1976.
The cast-iron Safe Working Load plate on the column jib crane, 2 October 1976.
This shows that originally it was not to be used to lift loads greater than 1 ton.
The cast-iron instruction plate on the column jib crane, 2 October 1976.
An unattached cast-iron warning plate in the warehouse, 2 October 1976.
Almost certainly, this notice was from the cantilever jib crane that formerly stood on the wharf outside the building.
The Whaley Bridge Incline viewed from Bridge Street, early 20th century.
This incline was 180 yards long with a gradient of 1 in 13½. It was last used on the 9 April 1952.
Photographs: Author's Collection