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Historic Events on Kin 133
Music on Red Electric Skywalker (50)
Eddie Van Halen 1/26/1955 Birth Dutch guitar player
Merle Haggard 4/6/1937 Birth US singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Paul Butterfield 12/17/1942 Birth US musician
Eddie Durham 8/19/1906 Birth US jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and musical ...
William Spooner 5/16/1949 Birth Musician, guitarist, and songwriter (The Tubes)
Michael Praetorius 2/15/1571 Birth German composer
Irving Azoff 12/12/1947 Birth US entertainment executive and personal manager.
Ron Holloway 8/24/1953 Birth US tenor saxophonist
Adrian Wright 6/30/1956 Birth Human League
Charlie Benante 11/27/1962 Birth US drummer (Anthrax)
Christine McGuire 7/30/1926 Birth US singer (The McGuire Sisters)
Jay Dee Daugherty 3/22/1952 Birth US drummer
Joel Grey 4/11/1932 Birth US singer and actor
Jordin Sparks 12/22/1989 Birth US singer and US Idol winner
Kimya Dawson 11/17/1972 Birth US singer
Layzie Bone 9/23/1975 Birth US rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
Marcie Blane 5/21/1944 Birth US singer
Maxine Jones 1/16/1965 Birth US singer (En Vogue)
Mike Bordin 11/27/1962 Birth US musician (Faith No More)
Nat Wolff 12/17/1994 Birth US actor, and singer-songwriter
Show remaining 30 events in Music
Pleasure P 12/27/1984 Birth US R&B Singer. Former member of Pretty Ricky
Randy Guss 3/7/1967 Birth Toad The Wet Sprocket
Sam Fogarino 8/9/1968 Birth US musician (Interpol)
Sopho Khalvashi 5/31/1986 Birth Georgian musical artist
Charles Hedger 9/18/1980 Birth British musician (Cradle of Filth)
Jason King 1/6/1975 Birth English radio DJ (Radio 1)
Méric Casaubon 8/14/1599 Birth English classical scholar
Ruthie Henshall 3/7/1967 Birth English Theatre Actress and singer
Sarah Jezebel Deva 2/25/1977 Birth English singer
Camillo Felgen 11/17/1920 Birth Luxembourgish singer
Keiko Fuji 7/5/1951 Birth Japanese enka singer
Enrico Caruso 2/25/1873 Birth Italian tenor
Eva Amaral 8/4/1973 Birth Spanish singer and songwriter
Kim Larsen 10/23/1945 Birth Danish singer
Bif Naked 6/15/1971 Birth Canadian musician
Sebastien Lefebvre 6/5/1981 Birth Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
August Wilhelm Ambros 11/17/1816 Birth Austrian composer
Joy Nilo 1/11/1970 Birth Filipino Composer
Eric Woolfson 12/2/2009 Death Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive p...
Adolph Deutsch 1/1/1980 Death US composer and arranger
Frederick Fennell 12/7/2004 Death US conductor
Jerry Scoggins 12/7/2004 Death US singer
Paul Delph 5/21/1996 Death US musician and producer
Uncle Dave Macon 3/22/1952 Death US musician
Brian Pendleton 5/16/2001 Death English musician (The Pretty Things)
Roman Tam 10/18/2002 Death Hong Kong singer
Yossi Banai 5/11/2006 Death Israeli singer
Guilielmus Xylander 2/10/1576 Death German classical scholar
Kaleth Morales 8/24/2005 Death Colombian Vallenato singer
* 12/27/1932 - Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
Entertainment on Red Electric Skywalker (57)
Joe Palma 3/17/1905 Birth Standin member of The Three Stooges
Billy Dee Williams 4/6/1937 Birth US actor
Ricky Gervais 6/25/1961 Birth English comedian
Gummo Marx 10/23/1893 Birth US vaudeville performer and theatrical agent.
Brent Musburger 5/26/1939 Birth US sports broadcaster
Dalene Kurtis 11/12/1977 Birth US model
Edie Adams 4/16/1927 Birth US actress
Edwin S. Porter 4/21/1870 Birth US film pioneer
Eileen Fulton 9/13/1933 Birth US actress
Gillian Anderson 8/9/1968 Birth US actress
Jaime Bergman 9/23/1975 Birth US model and actress
Jake Busey 6/15/1971 Birth US actor
James Branaman 7/30/1978 Birth US model and reality show contestant
Joseph McGinty Nichol 8/9/1968 Birth US film producer and director
Julianna Rose Mauriello 5/26/1991 Birth US actress
Julianne Hough 7/20/1988 Birth US ballroom dancer
Karyn Parsons 8/9/1968 Birth US actress
Kelli Garner 4/11/1984 Birth US actress
Leonard Roberts 11/17/1972 Birth US actor
Show remaining 37 events in Entertainment
Malcolm D. Lee 1/11/1970 Birth US actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Mark Ruffalo 11/22/1967 Birth US actor
Peter Mark Richman 4/16/1927 Birth US actor
Preston Foster 8/24/1901 Birth US actor
Richard Ruccolo 3/2/1972 Birth US actor
Sue Lyon 7/10/1946 Birth US actress
Susan Harris 10/28/1940 Birth US television writer and producer
Valerie Perrine 9/3/1943 Birth US actress
Wendy Wasserstein 10/18/1950 Birth US playwright
Chris Hawkins 9/23/1975 Birth British radio personality
Jade Goody 6/5/1981 Birth British television personality
Sheila White 10/18/1950 Birth English actress
Elin Nordegren 1/1/1980 Birth Swedish model
Emi Suzuki 9/13/1985 Birth Japanese model
Marco Praga 6/20/1862 Birth Italian playwright
Om Puri 10/18/1950 Birth Indian actor
Georges Corraface 12/7/1952 Birth Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki Internati...
Denis Héroux 7/15/1941 Birth French Canadian film director and producer
Marcel Achard 7/5/1899 Birth French playwright, screenwriter and author
Edwin Brienen 6/15/1971 Birth Dutch director
Melissa McIntyre 5/31/1986 Birth Canadian actress
Lubomir Stoykov 5/11/1954 Birth Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
Eric Bana 8/9/1968 Birth Australian actor
François Pérusse 10/8/1960 Birth Quebec humorist
David Brian 7/15/1993 Death US actor
Frankie Thomas 5/11/2006 Death US actor
John Wilkes Booth 4/26/1865 Death US actor and assassin (shot)
Lash LaRue 5/21/1996 Death US actor
Zachary Scott 10/3/1965 Death US actor
Adolph Zukor 6/10/1976 Death Hungarian-born producer
Bert Haanstra 10/23/1997 Death Dutch filmmaker
Clodovil Hernandes 3/17/2009 Death Brazilian politician and TV host
Politics on Red Electric Skywalker (57)
Alexander H. Bullock 3/2/1816 Birth 26th Governor of Massachusetts
Barbara Mikulski 7/20/1936 Birth US politician
Jane Pierce 3/12/1806 Birth First Lady of the United States
Merab Kostava 5/26/1939 Birth Georgian anti-Soviet leader
Susan Collins 12/7/1952 Birth US politician, junior senator from Maine
Constans II 11/7/0630 Birth Byzantine emperor
Maria I of Portugal 12/17/1734 Birth Portuguese queen
Stephanie of Hohenzollern-S... 7/15/1837 Birth queen of Portugal
Norman Kirk 1/6/1923 Birth New Zealander politician
Dagfinn Høybråten 12/2/1957 Birth Norwegian politician
Masayoshi Ohira 3/12/1910 Birth Prime Minister of Japan
Livia Drusilla 9/28/0058 Birth wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus
Mary Robinson 5/21/1944 Birth President of Ireland
Sándor Graf Festetics 5/31/1882 Birth Hungarian politician
Jacques Chaban-Delmas 3/7/1915 Birth French politician
Esther Ouwehand 6/10/1976 Birth Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for ...
Albrecht Giese 2/10/1524 Birth German politician and diplomat
Brendan Nelson 8/19/1958 Birth Australian politician
Show remaining 37 events in Politics
James Scullin 9/18/1876 Birth 9th Prime Minister of Australia
Alexander Korzhakov 1/31/1950 Birth Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard
Ambrose Burnside 9/13/1881 Death US Civil War general and politician
David Wilber 4/1/1890 Death US politician
Pamela Harriman 2/5/1997 Death English-born US diplomat
Marriott Arbuthnot 1/31/1794 Death British admiral
Robert Naunton 3/27/1635 Death English politician
Ramon Magsaysay 3/17/1957 Death President of the Philippines
King William I of the Nethe... 12/12/1843 Death
Manuel Ávila Camacho 10/13/1955 Death President of Mexico
Emperor Toba of Japan 7/20/1156 Death
Pietro Nenni 1/1/1980 Death Italian socialist politician
Odysseas Androutsos 6/5/1825 Death hero in the Greek War of Independence
Louis-Joseph Papineau 9/23/1871 Death French Canadian politician
Gamal Abdel Nasser 9/28/1970 Death the second President of Egypt
Karl Salomo Zachariae von L... 3/27/1843 Death German jurist
Thomas Cochran (judge) 10/8/1804 Death Canadian judge
Alexander Battenberg 10/23/1893 Death prince of Bulgaria
Philip William, Prince of O... 2/20/1618 Death
* 1/21/1908 - New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to h...
* 4/26/1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth President Lincoln's assassin, in Virg...
* 5/26/1991 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in th...
* 8/14/1911 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among l...
* 11/2/1675 - A combined attack by the Plymouth Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks t...
* 2/25/1925 - Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union are established.
* 1/1/1980 - Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
* 6/20/1862 - Barbu Catargiu the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
* 12/22/1989 - After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania ending Nicolae ...
* 3/17/1957 - A plane crash in Cebu Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
* 8/14/1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and ...
* 12/22/1885 - Ito Hirobumi a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
* 10/28/1940 - World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albania marking Greece's entry into World War II. It is ce...
* 3/22/2004 - Ahmed Yassin co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist terrorist group Hamas, and body...
* 1/31/1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
* 7/25/1983 - Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred...
* 12/7/1900 - Max Planck in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body e...
Writing on Red Electric Skywalker (26)
Samuel R. Delany 4/1/1942 Birth Science Fiction Writer - Notable work - Dhalgren
George Van Tassel 3/12/1910 Birth US contactee, ufologist, and paranormal research le...
Eliza Roxcy Snow 1/21/1804 Birth US poet
Ernest Tidyman 1/1/1928 Birth US writer
Michael Kelly 3/17/1957 Birth US journalist
Susan Brownmiller 2/15/1935 Birth US feminist and writer
Edward Carpenter 8/29/1844 Birth English poet
Sax Rohmer 2/15/1883 Birth English author
Siegfried Sassoon 9/8/1886 Birth English poet
Eduard Uspensky 12/22/1937 Birth Russian writer
Lorenzo Milá 10/8/1960 Birth Spanish newscaster
Jacobo Timerman 1/6/1923 Birth Argentine writer
Walt Mossberg 3/27/1947 Birth the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
Alex Haley 2/10/1992 Death US author
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John Dos Passos 9/28/1970 Death US novelist
Joseph Heller 12/12/1999 Death US author
Katherine Anne Porter 9/18/1980 Death US novelist
Samuel Beckett 12/22/1989 Death Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Pierre Abélard 4/21/1142 Death French writer
* 7/20/1936 - The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bo...
Art on Red Electric Skywalker (8)
Baldassare Verazzi 1/6/1819 Birth Italian painter
Jane Frank 5/31/1986 Death (Jane Schenthal Frank), US artist
Paul Cadmus 12/12/1999 Death US artist
Pavel Korin 11/22/1967 Death Russian painter
Morihei Ueshiba 4/26/1969 Death Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido
Louis-François Roubiliac 1/11/1762 Death French sculptor
Robert Doisneau 4/1/1994 Death French photographer
Hans J. Wegner 1/26/2007 Death Danish furniture designer
Religion on Red Electric Skywalker (9)
Ibn Hazm 11/7/0994 Birth Arab philosopher
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve 11/2/1883 Birth cardinal and archbishop of Quebec
Pope Benedict XVI 4/16/1927 Birth
Alexander Henderson 8/19/1646 Death Scottish theologian
John Fell 7/10/1686 Death English churchman
Georg Simmel 9/28/1918 Death German sociologist and philosopher
Franz Egon of Fürstenberg 4/1/1682 Death Bavarian Catholic archbishop
* 7/10/1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar...
Science on Red Electric Skywalker (20)
William Harvey 4/1/1578 Birth English physician
Philo Farnsworth 8/19/1906 Birth US inventor
James Paget 1/11/1814 Birth British surgeon and pathologist
John Flamsteed 8/19/1646 Birth English astronomer
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov 5/16/1845 Birth Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate
Hippolyte Fizeau 9/23/1819 Birth French physicist
Ferdinand Eisenstein 4/16/1823 Birth German mathematician
Georg Forster 11/27/1754 Birth German scientist
Korbinian Brodmann 11/17/1868 Birth German neurologist
Harriet Brooks 1/1/1876 Birth Canadian physicist
Boyd Bushman 7/20/1936 Birth Senior research engineer who worked for Lockheed Ma...
Roger Chaffee 2/15/1935 Birth astronaut
James Rainwater 5/31/1986 Death US physicist, Nobel laureate
Wendell Meredith Stanley 6/15/1971 Death US chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Manfred Sakel 12/2/1957 Death Polish psychiatrist
Abraham de Moivre 11/27/1754 Death French mathematician
Michael Neander 10/23/1581 Death German mathematician and astronomer
Christian Doppler 3/17/1853 Death Austrian physician and mathematician
War on Red Electric Skywalker (28)
Nikolay Kamensky 12/27/1776 Birth Russian general
Otto Kretschmer 5/1/1912 Birth German U-Boat commander
Bobby Kent 7/15/1993 Death alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends
Francis Gabreski 1/31/2002 Death American, fighter pilot ace
Freddie Stowers 9/28/1918 Death US soldier
Gabriel Christie 1/26/1799 Death British general
John Moore 1/16/1809 Death British general
* 3/27/1999 - An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
* 1/31/1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* 4/26/1865 - US Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sher...
* 1/16/1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
Show remaining 8 events in War
* 10/8/1856 - The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pe...
* 2/5/1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holoca...
* 2/5/1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
Sports on Red Electric Skywalker (59)
Bob Costas 3/22/1952 Birth US sports commentator
Benni McCarthy 11/12/1977 Birth South African footballer
Peter Maivia 4/6/1937 Birth Samoan professional wrestler
Anthony Muñoz 8/19/1958 Birth US football player
Chris Jent 1/11/1970 Birth US basketball player and coach
Darryl Strawberry 3/12/1962 Birth US baseball player
Freddy García 6/10/1976 Birth US baseball player
Gary Gaetti 8/19/1958 Birth US baseball player
Gene Hickerson 2/15/1935 Birth US football player
James Farrior 1/6/1975 Birth US football player
Jason Hirsh 2/20/1982 Birth US baseball player
Josh Wolff 2/25/1977 Birth US footballer
Matt Barkley 9/8/1990 Birth US football player
Mike DeJean 9/28/1970 Birth US baseball player
Rich Gossage 7/5/1951 Birth US baseball player
Sal Maglie 4/26/1917 Birth US baseball player
Annie Nightingale 4/1/1942 Birth British disc jockey
Brian Jones 3/27/1947 Birth British balloonist
Danny Cipriani English rugb... 11/2/1987 Birth
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Frank Lister 9/3/1943 Birth English footballer
Joanne Goode 11/17/1972 Birth English Badminton player
John Gregory 5/11/1954 Birth English football manager
Lee Murray 11/12/1977 Birth English mixed martial artist
Mary Rand 2/10/1940 Birth British athlete
Jan-Ove Waldner 10/3/1965 Birth Swedish table tennis player
Nathan Astle 6/15/1971 Birth New Zealand cricketer
Kim Dong-moon 9/23/1975 Birth South Korean badminton player
Kenichi Horie 9/8/1938 Birth Japanese adventurer
Avi Strool 9/18/1980 Birth Israeli footballer
Mal Donaghy 3/17/1957 Birth Northern Irish footballer
Willie Cunningham 2/20/1930 Birth Northern Irish footballer
Nenad Krstic 7/25/1983 Birth Serbian basketball player
Gilles Simon 12/27/1984 Birth French tennis player
Xavier Marchand 8/4/1973 Birth French swimmer
Bart Veldkamp 11/22/1967 Birth Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
Christijan Albers 4/16/1979 Birth Dutch Formula One driver
Robert Gesink 5/31/1986 Birth Dutch cyclist
Stefan Postma 6/10/1976 Birth Dutch footballer
Yvonne van Gennip 5/1/1964 Birth Dutch speed skater
Boris Becker 11/22/1967 Birth German tennis player
Maurice Richard 8/4/1921 Birth Canadian ice hockey player
Gualter Salles 9/28/1970 Birth Brazilian racing driver
Chris Tarrant 9/18/1980 Birth Australian football player
Jarrod Sammut 2/15/1987 Birth Australian-Maltese rugby league player, Penrith Pant...
Archduchess Marie Louise of... 12/12/1791 Birth second wife of Napoleon
Ángel Labruna 9/28/1918 Birth Argentinian football player and coach
Keyunta Dawson 9/13/1985 Birth National Football League player
Sixto Peralta 4/16/1979 Birth Argentine footballer
Jock Cameron 11/2/1935 Death South African cricketer
Charles "Chic" Harley 4/21/1974 Death US football player
Floyd Patterson 5/11/2006 Death US boxer
Willie Maddren 8/29/2000 Death English footballer
Roman Lyashenko 7/5/2003 Death Russian ice hockey player
Gump Worsley 1/26/2007 Death Canadian ice hockey player
* 3/17/2009 - New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur breaks the all-time National Hockey League wins record of ...
* 12/22/1989 - Kempsey bus crash: Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales
* 7/30/1978 - The 730 (transport) Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand s...
Education on Red Electric Skywalker (4)
Adamantios Korais 4/6/1833 Death Greek humanist scholar
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn 10/3/1653 Death Dutch scholar
Nature on Red Electric Skywalker (0)
Business on Red Electric Skywalker (4)
Reed Hastings 10/8/1960 Birth US businessman and entrepreneur
I.M. Pei 4/26/1917 Birth Chinese-born architect
Jay Van Andel 12/7/2004 Death US entrepreneur
Accidents on Red Electric Skywalker (4)
* 5/21/1996 - The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria killing nearly 1000.
* 5/26/1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand killing 223.
Other on Red Electric Skywalker (38)
Ai Yazawa 3/7/1967 Birth Japanese mangaka
Yukana 1/6/1975 Birth Japanese seiyu
Hadi Saei Bonehkohal 6/10/1976 Birth Persian taekwondoka
Alice B. Toklas 3/7/1967 Death US companion to Gertrude Stein
Charles Horace Mayo 5/26/1939 Death US medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic)
William Penn 7/30/1718 Death English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Alessandro Moreschi 4/21/1922 Death Italian castrato
Edmund Ignatius Rice 8/29/1844 Death Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presenta...
Nikolai Rukavishnikov 10/18/2002 Death cosmonaut
Bob Denard 10/13/2007 Death French mercenary
Margrave Adalbert of Austria 5/26/1055 Death
Ahmed Yassin 3/22/2004 Death Palestinian co-founder of Hamas
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of... 5/26/1679 Death
* 3/2/1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral Florida with a mission to explore the oute...
* 7/25/1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas the capital ci...
* 1/21/1960 - Miss Sam a female rhesus monkey, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia, aboard Little Joe 1B , ...
* 2/25/1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
* 6/5/1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report tha...
* 6/15/1867 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
* 6/30/1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Ar...
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* 10/18/1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
* 12/22/1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
* 4/1/1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
* 9/18/1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
* 6/10/1924 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
* 11/22/1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council establishing a set of the pr...
* 6/15/1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden County Galway...
* 1/1/1772 - The first traveler's cheques which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London.
* 12/22/1989 - Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and ...
* 9/18/1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
* 1/1/1876 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
* 4/11/1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca.
* 4/21/1922 - The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year.
* 5/21/1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
* 7/5/1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
* 7/5/2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.
* 9/3/1995 - eBay founded.
* 10/28/1628 - The Siege of La Rochelle which had been lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
Destiny Pattern
Guiding Power
Guiding Power is an overseeing and directing energy providing
protection, clarity and guidance. Your Guiding Power is the same color
with your sign and you share similar energy.
Your perfect guide is the same tone as you.
Antipode
Antipode is a challenge power which counterbalances and strengthens
(as in DNA reconstruction). Your Challenge or Antipode is your mirror
to your inner world.
They can serve as teachers who remind us to make good choices.
If they are the same tone, they are your perfect antipode.
Click here to see passengers in this (your) tribe. Very soon, as in during 2018, you will be able to connect with your global kin.
Analog is a supportive, nurturing and like-minded power. Planetary
partners. People of this tribe are friends and allies.
If they are the same tone, they are your perfect analog.
Occult Power is your hidden gift. They are good teachers.
Their energy is opposite yet complementing in a mysterious way.
Trust is the key.
Your perfect occult is found when the two kin numbers equal 261.
Reading for Red Electric Skywalker
by Astro Dream Advisor
Red Skywalker is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.Red Skywalker is the skywalker, the time/space traveller who can jump dimensions to assist you in realizing heaven on Earth. Red Skywalker is unlimited in form but often chooses the form of the angelic messenger.
A person who embodies cosmic wisdom may be known as a sky-walker, sage or bodhisattva. When others see such light in human form, they feel the vibration of heaven. This vibration may be embodied by you or experienced with a guru, master, an energy such as Red Skywalker, or in a 'chance' encounter with an extraordinary person.
An encounter with the energy of Red Skywalker can spark a deep yearning within you for reunion with the Source. Yet from this place of love and compassion, you also have a desire (embodied in physical form) to serve the light. This is the place in you that has the courage to fully express unconditional love, the depths of your being. Red Skywalker asks you to live the new myth by bringing this heaven to Earth in your daily life. As this reality is lived, it touches and awakens the same truth in others: "They kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven."
Red Skywalker represents balance in your life - not static balance, but a dynamic equilibrium that includes both your present expression and your starseeded self. In Red Skywalker's star-glyph you see that the pillars of heaven don't appear to touch the Earth. You are the element that appears to be missing in the star-glyph. You are the one whose expression of the light assists in drawing the pillars of heaven to Earth.
Joining these pillars in yourself can be viewed as reuniting your male and female aspects. Together, in balance, we create the pillars of the etheric temples of heaven on Earth.
The natural state of every system moves toward balance that is fluid and free, as in dance. That balance is experienced differently by each person, but it often brings a sense of steadiness or centeredness even in the midst of movement and change. When you are dancing, you can use your very state of imbalance to create the fluidity of the dance.
Red Earth is your Higher Self & Guide.
Red Earth is the access point to your natural alignment with Earth force. It is the unis mundi, the point of perfect centeredness in the eternal present from which all alignment and magic manifest. Your center, the Earth center, is the secret of gravity's magnetizing force. Red Earth is the channel of harmonic synchronization that is aligned with the galactic heart. From the center point within eslf, you align with this galactic center and connect through your own crystalline structure to the larger crystal grid network. To keep this channel of synchronization open, connect to the elemental energies of earth, air, fire and water, and the seven directional guardians.
Cosmic consciousness is not just 'out there'; it is also resonating within you. Be sacramentally rooted where you are. You are made of the Earth! Look through the 'eyes' in your feet. Your body is the present focus of your consciousness - through it all gifts are received. Remember, too, that your environment is alive and reacts to your awareness of it; therefore, the way you perceive the Earth and your physical form affects the information you receive.
Red Earth is the Earth keeper, the keeper of the garden, the shaman/healer who, through reverence for all life, heals and sanctifies the Earth. Earth keepers preserve the harmonic relationship with nature by connecting to the wisdom held in matter. In Latin, mater means "mother". As you bring light into yourself, you bring light into matter. You and the Earth both contain the holographic seed of the new consciousness emerging.
Center yourself in the present moment! This is where you can most beneficially observe the synchronicities and revelations about your personal pattern and larger purpose. From here your mind can learn to be keenly observant, allowing the larger pattern to take shape as naturally as the small brushstrokes that eventually complete a beautiful painting.Sit in simple relationship to the Earth, like a poet enraptured in a forest. Be rooted where you are now. Out of synergistic centeredness, you will receive your greatest desires and open to the full flowering of the mystic power of the universe. This synchronization can be seen as the alignment of your personal myth with the greater myth of our times. Myth is the framework or "story" in which the truth of the cosmos is revealed in symbolic form. Utilize it to catalyze your unfolding alignment.
By accepting your physical form and your growth process in this world, you access the hub of centeredness out of which all the truth and magic of the universe unfold.Take off your shoes. Touch the one Earth. Find a place to dance with the sacred hoop of life. Contribute your vision as an awakened member of the global rainbow family!
Yellow Star is your Subconscious Self and Hidden Helper.You are a starseed! You contain a holographic 'seed packet' of your evolution into the Mind of Light and the energy that directs you toward wholeness. This resonance offers an expanded view of the larger self and new ways of perceiving reality. Through self-acceptance, you are gifted with this journey. Yellow Star is ignition, like a cosmic milkweed explosion of resonant sparks. It is the launching pad from which you can hear the rumble of the rocket of your accelerated evolution.
The energy of Yellow Star may be experienced as a gentle rocking that becoes a floating and spiraling sensation, ending in a rush of feeling as you move into expanded reality. This sensation has been described as gently cascading fireworks, shimmering burst on the tapesty of Creation. Cascade into this unchartged perspective. Flow on the cosmic winds wherever Divinity directs, arching back to this reality wth a new experience of self.
Yellow Star's starseeded gift is the revelation of the harmony that unites all things. Instead of just aspiring to be harmonious, become harmony. Practice harmony not just as an abstraction, but as a living reality. This practice blends different energies, thoughts, people, and processes. Act on intuitive guidance as to what to combine and when. As you begin to follow your heart, you will know the feeling of being on the return path to the stars.Yellow Star offers you the ability to hold a greatly expanded focus, a unity of awareness that encompasses aspects of the larger constellation of self. An example of this would be a simultaneous awarenss of the desires of the existential self and the truth of the Essence Self. This star harmony encompasses the greatly enlarged perspective of your starseeded self, the part within you that holds the potential of your greatest destiny.Unlike the preceding 7 tones, which were seperate and distinct, Yellow Star begins a more complex harmonic series as it completes the preceding octave. On a spiritual level, Yellow Star begins the development of higher being. The fundamental tones that occur in this series are of a more expanded frequency than those of the preceding seven tones. In this new octave, there is alignment in the harmonies of Earth and the harmonies of the stars that are now being sounded on Earth. Yellow Star is the first in a series of star harmonies that evoke accelerated growth of the starseed potential within you.
Blue Night represents your Challenge and Gift. With maturity and awareness this challenge will turn into a Focus. This is what you desire to learn in this lifetime.One indication of the shadow of Blue Night is being lost in self, being too inward and subjective. Some experience this subjectivity as depression. Yet from this place you can learn to face and free your deepest fears. Instead of resisting this process, embrace it, garnering its wisdom. Go deep inside and discover the positive intent that is held in your experience. What is it trying to show you that you have not been willing to look at? If you can go through your 'stuckness', you can find unexpected insights and gifts in the apparent darkness.
A great opportunity for looking within can also be found in recognizing how you judge and evaluate yourself. Self-judgement impairs access toyour own intrinsic wisdom. Judgement of how you 'should' be affects your process. Perhaps your conditioned beliefs have become harsh tools of comparison and classification. To "be" is not a specific goal; being is simply the innocence that is regained through acceptance of self.
Freed from judgement and labels, your journey naturally opens to growth. It is OK to make "mistakes" along your way. From life, you have created the "house" you live in and from which you see the world. Now is the time to go within and reveal your essence, to break the bonds of the old structures. In this process, it is only natural to feel vulnerable. You are breaking up the blockages and barriers around the heart of self. You are creating a new "home" in Essence Self, a sanctuary within the serenity of innocence.Self-judgment also intensifies issues of self-worth and feelings of separation. You are intrinsically worthy. Become aware of anything that suggests you are not worthy to receive all that you desire. Self-judgment can seriously hamper your evolution. Love yourself. Remember: beliefs that are ready to be transformed show you the way through their shadows. Be willing to follow your process into seeming darkness and discomfort, to find the gifts being offered there. Blue Night can help to show you that apparent enclosures and limitations are only opportunities to learn.Blue Night may also signal an unconscious fear of change, from deep core issues to the fear of life's lessons. A unique opportunity beckons and transformation awaits; where the illusions of fear have been separated from consciousness, the gifts of integration and wholeness are found. What appears to be contraction into self will eventually bring you full circle, like the in-yang symbol, into a more fluid and expanded state. Going deep within, Blue Night teaches you its greatest truth: what is contained in darkness holds the greatest potential for light.
White World-Bridger is your Compliment - something that comes naturally to you. In this life-time you are being asked to release and surrender. Surrender is the opposite of giving up. It is freeing yourself from the desire to be in control, letting go of how you think things should be. Surrender is freedom. You are being invited to release yourself from the bondage of preconceived action, to let everything be all right as it is, so that you can live a more inspired life in the moment!
You are being asked to take action in the process of surrender and release. You are requested to die a symbolic death, to surrender your limiting beliefs. Symbolic death unveils the self by cutting away the outgrown parts of yourself that no longer serve you. In such death, ego structures fall away to reveal the garden of the true self. Look for new ways of being, new people, new ideas, and new directions that will move into the vacuum created through surrender and release. Like yeast, surrender enlivens and empowers you to experience more of life's fullness.
Holding on to past patterns and grievances only limits the possibilities. Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Let go. Surrender whatever limits you. Face whatever you are resisting. In the experience of any loss, it is never too late to complete. Through your willingness to walk in the dark forest, insights and revelations will naturally emerge.Accept the truth of your present situation. Through accepting what is, you are free to go forward. Change and growth become easier and more natural. Each experience in this enlivened state of surrender allows for more joy.
Your Tone is Tone 3 - ElectricMovement, change, flow, current, creativity, integration, sacred trinity.
Three is the ray of Rhythm, the galactic heartbeat of natural flow. This universal river offers you movement, and all possibilities flow within its pulse. Open yourself to its current of change!
The Electric Tone of 3 suggests that there is something you desire to change or integrate into the natural flow of your life. Become the 'third point of light,' created from the integration of polarity. Feel the pulse of the sacred trinity within you, revealing a new creation. Allow it to integrate that which has seemingly been lost, separated, or obscured from your sight.
If you have a tendency to be scattered in your creativity, make an extra effort to focus your energy. Align with your intention to express the truth. Now is the time for the Great Mystery to reveal itself through you. Know yourself as the capstone of light. Allow your creativity to express your spiritual journey.
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The tight-knit art community of Western New York got a double-dose of disappointing news last week, when longtime curators Sandra Q. Firmin of the University at Buffalo Art Gallery and Cori Wolff of Buffalo Arts Studio announced they'd be leaving for new jobs in other cities.
In her 13 years at UB, Firmin consistently mounted challenging and mind-opening exhibitions and oversaw a residency program that brought dozens of talented artists to Western New York from around the world. Wolff, who took control of Buffalo Arts Studio from its founder Joanna Angie in 2012 after several years as its artistic director, helped to stabilize that rickety organization while curating an ambitious series of excellent shows.
These are two remarkably talented and hard-working people, and their departures will leave two glaring holes on the local art scene. But it will also make way for a vital infusion of new blood, a natural feature of any healthy ecology that nonetheless comes as cold comfort in this particular case.
With organizations as small as Buffalo Arts Studio and even midsized ones such as UB's art gallery, the personality and style of the lead curator or executive director permeates everything.
At Buffalo Arts Studio, it was evident in the visually alluring and accessible style of the art on view, which under Wolff's tenure ranged from the tortured trees of David Schirm to the playful, naturalistic wood sculptures of Jesse Walp. The fact that she did this all while guiding the organization through an especially difficult financial time makes her accomplishments there all the more remarkable.
Wolff's new job with Cincinnati's public art program ArtWorks is the perfect move for her, a role where she'll be able to change the daily lives of citizens who have never set foot in an art gallery.
At UB Art Gallery, Firmin's more intellectual bent and focus on conceptual art with connections to issues outside the art world – the evolution of technology, the changing natural environment, the revival of cities – came across in everything she did. Though I too often found Firmin's writing about the exhibitions she curated esoteric and potentially off-putting to art world neophytes, the shows themselves were of consistently high quality and always aimed at expanding her audience's understanding of the world around them. Not just the art world.
The brightest feather in Firmin's cap has to be her extraordinary, meticulously researched "Artpark: 1974-1984," an exhaustive but not remotely exhausting look at the heyday of the Lewiston institution that helped foster so many international art careers. She'll no doubt bring that same academic rigor to her new job as director of the University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum.
Both Wolff and Firmin were key organizers of the Beyond/In Western New York exhibitions of 2007 and 2010, two of the greatest cultural achievements in recent local history.
It helps that this double-whammy of bad news was tempered with a bit of good news, as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery announced the much-anticipated appointment of Chicago-based curator Aaron Ott to serve as the gallery's new public art curator.
Ott's appointment, after a search that produced more than three dozen applicants from Buffalo and far beyond, bodes well for the region. The position is funded by Erie County and the art is funded by the Albright-Knox, a kind of public-private partnership that has helped to revitalize many other American and European cities and will go a long way to increasing Western New Yorkers' limited exposure to contemporary art.
At times like this, when the ground beneath such vital institutions as the UB Art Gallery and Buffalo Arts Studio seems to be giving way, it's important to remember that we're witnessing the natural evolution of the scene.
As former Albright-Knox Art Gallery director Louis Grachos said when he announced his departure for Austin in 2012, new blood is always good for a community.
Firmin's 13 years at UB and Wolff's six years at Buffalo Arts Studio yielded incredible things for Western New York's cultural world. Their shoes will be difficult to fill, and their contributions are likely to linger for decades more.


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Three months later, revelers got their first look at an -colored river when the city poured 100 pounds of the chemical into the water. They got a really good look, too, as the river remained green for an entire week. Over the next several years, the same practice was repeated, and again it was carried out by the Plumbers Local. The only difference was that the amount of dye used was cut in half over the next two years until they finally arrived at the : 25 pounds of dye = one day of green water. Unfortunately, the dye that was intended to help spot pollution was an oil-based fluorescein that many environmentalists was actually damaging the river even more. After fierce lobbying, eco-minded heads prevailed, and in 1966 the parade organizers began using a powdered, vegetable-based dye. While the exact formula for the orange powder (yes, it's orange until it's mixed with water) is kept top-secretБin 2003 one of the parade organizers a reporter that revealing the formula would be akin to Бtelling where the leprechaun hides its goldББthere are plenty of details that the committee lets even non-leprechauns in on. The dyeing process will at 9 a. m. on the morning of the parade, Saturday, March 17 (it's always held on a Saturday) when six members of the local Plumbers Union hop aboard two boats, four of them on the larger vessel, the remaining two on a smaller boat.
The larger boat heads out onto the water first, with three members of the crew using flour sifters to spread the dye into the river. The smaller boat follows closely behind in order to help disperse the substance. (The to catch a glimpse is from the east side of the bridge at Michigan Avenue, or on Upper and Lower Wacker Drive between Columbus and Lake Shore Drives. ) Approximately 45 minutes later, voila, the Chicago River is greenБbut donБt expect it to stay that way. These days, the color only sticks around for about. Which is roughly the same amount of time it takes to get a perfectly poured pint of Guinness if you venture out to an Irish pub on St. PatrickБs Day. Have you got a Big Question you'd like us to answer? If so, let us know by emailing us at. Mardi Gras throws are strings of beads, cups, or other trinkets passed out or thrown from the floats in the, the and all throughout the, to spectators lining the streets. The "gaudy plastic jewelry, toys, and other mementos [are] tossed to the crowds from parading floats". Mardi Gras celebrations in other Gulf Coast cities, such as and, have adopted the custom. "The goodies, or 'throws,' consist of necklaces of plastic beads, coins called doubloons, which are stamped with ' logos, parade themes and the year, plus an array of plastic cups and toys such as or figurines".
The cups that are used as throws are sometimes referred to as New Orleans dinnerware. Beads used on Mardis Gras (known as in some regions) are gold, purple and green, with these three colors containing the of power, justice and faith, respectively. Traditionally, Mardis Gras beads were manufactured in and, although many are now imported from mainland China. As Fat Tuesday concludes the period of Carnival ( ), Mardis Gras beads are taken off oneself on the following day, which begins the penitential season of. As such, one of the "solemn practices of Ash Wednesday is to pack all the beads acquired during the parade season into bags and boxes and taken them to the attic". Spectators have traditionally shouted to the krewe members, "Throw me something, mister! ", a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot. Some women expose their breasts to invite throws. Some krewes have specialty throws; for example, the or the shoes and mirrors.


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This week I've been reading poetry by T.S. Eliot. I'm not just saying that to be poncy – I really have. I realised I'd never read the whole of 'The Waste Land' which didn't seem right, so I bought myself a collection and read it while sitting in the sunshine drinking beer (I find alcohol always helps me understand poetry. Possibly not correctly, but you can't have everything).
Anyway, back to 'velleity'. A velleity is 'a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action' (from the OED). So basically it's when you want to do something, but just can't be arsed. Like pretty much everything in this hot weather. Here it is in plural action in Eliot's poem 'Portrait of a Lady':
'…And so the conversation slips / Among velleities and carefully caught regrets…'
Interesting fact alert: T.S. Eliot is widely credited with being the first person to use the word 'bullshit' in print. He wrote a poem called 'The Triumph of Bullshit' which is basically an up-yours to the literary critics of the time. It also contains the beautifully written refrain 'For Christ's sake stick it up your ass'. So, next time you use either of those, you can legit say you're being intellectual. You're welcome.
Tagged: Words, Word of the week, Etymology, July 2018
In honour of the fact that it was World Emoji Day yesterday (or 🌍😀📆 if you will), I thought I'd look into the etymology of the word itself. So, it was coined in Japan in the late 90s, and is made up of 'e' for 'picture' and 'moji' for character – nothing to do with the word 'emotion' then. Its counterpart 'emoticon' is however – that's 'emotion' and 'icon' smooshed together.
Strictly speaking emojis are pictograms and emoticons are characters i.e. 😉 vs ;-). It seems like the similarity in the two words is just a nice semantic coincidence. ❤
egregious
This is inspired by (for which read: stolen from) Simon Mayo on last week's Wittertainment podcast. You know what egregious means, right? It's something that's shockingly bad. And you'd be bang on the money. But only in the last 500 years or so. The meaning of egregious has completely changed over time – and not just a little bit like lots of other words. It now means the total opposite of what it did originally.
So, according to the OED in 1534, 'egregious' was a positive word which meant 'remarkably good'. Etymology-wise, it's made up of the Latin prefix 'e-' which means 'out of', 'grex' for 'flock' (see also 'segregate ', 'aggregate' and 'congregate') and then the English adjective suffix '-ous' which means 'full of'. So it literally meant to stand out from the flock (or crowd). But less than 40 years later, people were using it in the negative way we're familiar with now. Why? Well, it looks like it all comes down to the fact that English people like to take the piss. The only explanation I can find is that people started using it sarcastically, and eventually the second meaning stuck. Typical.
I've chosen this one for two reasons: (1) because it's nice to say (paaammmppphhhlet) and (2) because it has an interesting backstory. Unfortunately it's nothing to do with small pamphs (because these are not a thing) – the word comes from a 12-century Latin love poem called 'Pamphilus, seu de amore'. This anonymous poem was so popular that it was copied and passed around from person to person. The Middle French title was 'Pamphilet' and from this we get the English word 'pamphlet'. Because the poem wasn't bound, eventually 'pamphlet' came to mean any unbound text that's shorter than a book.
The poem's about leading man Pamphilus trying to woo (I like the word woo) a lady by the name of Galatea through the mediation of a procuress. I don't know what this means but it sounds dirty. Pamphilus' name comes from the Greek for 'beloved of all'. Aw.

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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation (Gen 2:1-3).
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy (Ex 20:8-11).
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account (Heb 4:9-13).
Since going to seminary, Hebrews has become probably my favorite book in the New Testament. It is a richly theological book, uniting the reality of the Gospels with the practical and theological points of Paul's writing (so much so that many believe Paul wrote it, though this was probably not the case), but making those same points with a very Rabbinical Jewish line of theological reasoning.
As I was reading through it again, something struck me about its teachings about the Lord's Rest in chapters three and four. I'd highly recommend you read those two chapters really quick (and Ps 95, since Heb 3-4 are a Rabbinical rundown of Ps 95 in light of the coming of Christ), though this should be understandable with just the part I quoted.
So what hit me as I was reading these chapters recently was how the Sabbath is a promise of God. We often hear the Sabbath explained as a way of honoring God's creation, and that's certainly a major reason given when God gave the Sabbath commandments. But I think it goes much deeper than this.
Ps 95 and Hebrews treat the Lord's rest as a promise. It is something that the people of God "strive to enter" (v. 11). It is a time when, as God rests from His works, we shall rest from ours (v. 10).
And I think this answers a major question people have: why did God command us to rest on the Sabbath? Because it's a promise of what is to come.
For those of you who have been reading for a while, you probably remember me talking about the New Testament perspective of, as Gerhard Vos and George Ladd put it, "already but not yet;" that is, salvation is here in Jesus Christ, but is not completed until His return. And we've talked about how Paul describes the Holy Spirit as the "down payment" on our inheritance—which is to say that what we have now in Christ is only a part of what is yet to come.
The Sabbath commandments are there because the Sabbath rest is a down payment on the rest we will receive in Christ's return.
This is a reason why Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for humans, not humans for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). In keeping the Sabbath, we enjoy one of the first fruits of our life in Christ. And by doing so, we gain all the more confidence in the coming fulfillment of our inheritance as children of God—just as someone who might doubt if someone will pay what they promised looks to the down payment and is reassured.
So this makes it all the more important to keep the Sabbath! If you cannot enjoy the Sabbath now, when it is only part of your inheritance, will you so willingly enter God's rest in His return, when the payment comes in full? If you do not keep the Sabbath holy, will you continue to have faith in your inheritance in Christ? And if you doubt your inheritance—as we all do at times—why not enjoy the portion you already have?
I know you're busy. Especially right now, with finals. But you will always have good reasons not to honor the Sabbath. Remember, the people to whom the commandment was first given were people who largely lived on subsistence agriculture: if they didn't work hard, they might not have eaten.
Honoring the Sabbath is as much an exercise in faith as it is a way of restoring your faith. And it always has been. Faith is like that.
So even now, in your finals, set aside a day to honor God with the Sabbath. Does this mean you'll have to work all the harder on other days? Absolutely. But it's so worth it!


At the University of Skövde we ses internationalisation as a natural part of higher education. An international perspective should always be a part of the work of the University in order to guarantee high quality. Internationalisation work should be included in all areas of the University, involving all of its departments and schools.
Our goal is to achieve an efficient internationalisation of all our education programmes and courses. Furthermore, we want to encourage student exchange and teacher exchange as well as develop our study programmes, or parts of them, to make them more suitable for internationalisation.
The University of Skövde is actively taking part in several international exchange agreements and networks. Most of the student, teacher and staff exchanges take place within the European scholarship programme Erasmus. Within this programme, students, teachers and administrative staff can apply for a scholarship. The exchange can take place at some of the partner universities in Europe which the University has an agreement with.
The University of Skövde also takes part in Nordplus, a programme that offers exchanges within the Nordic and the Baltic countries. Through the Linneaus- Palme exchange programme, which is financed by Sida, the University of Skövde runs an amount of projects with universities in developing countries. Students can also apply for a Minor Field Studies (MFS) scholarship, a scholarship that enables students who are going to write their thesis the possibility to make a minor field study in a developing country. The University also takes part in an Erasmus-Mundus network called Lamenitec, a network between institutions in Europe and Latin America.
When working with internationalisation it is important for the University to develop new and attractive exchange agreements with universities abroad as well as manage the current agreements. The University of Skövde has about a hundred of active agreements in about thirty countries.
At the University of Skövde, internationalisation is coordinated by the International Coordinators at the International Office (IO). The International Office is independent area of work, under the department of Academic Affairs and Student Support, and it is run by Kassie Sundin, Head of Academic Affairs and Student Support Office.
The International Coordinators administrate the University's agreements and scholarships in addition to dealing with all the teacher and staff exchanges within the Erasmus programme.
The International coordinators also have contact with students who are going to write their thesis within the MFS-programme.
Together with the department of Coordination and Communications Office, the International Coordinators also work with the international marketing of the University. Additionally, in every department at each school within the University there is an international contact person who also plays an important part in the work of internationalisation.
Jörgen Hansson, Head of School of Informatics, has the strategic responsibility for the University's internationalisation.


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}

This works for any class that has a constructor, e.g.:
class b {
    k: number;

    constructor(k: number) {
        this.k = k;
    }
}
console.log(typeGuard(new b(5), b));

I'm having trouble getting this to work for something like:
console.log(typeGuard(5, number));

or
console.log(typeGuard<number>(5));

I've tried this:
type prim = "string" | "number" | "boolean"; // or without quotes
function typeGuard<T>(o, constructor: { new(...args: any[]): T }): o is T;
function typeGuard<T extends prim>(o): o is T;
function typeGuard<T>(o, constructor?): o is T {
    if (constructor) {
        return o instanceof constructor;
    }
return typeof o ==="string";
}

But this implementation doesn't let me look into what T is and do something like if typeof o === T or something like that.
Is there a way to implement this? Theoretically I'd like to pass string as the constructor argument like typeGuard(5, string) but this would require constructors type to be: { new(...args: any[]): T } | Type<string> | Type<number> | Type<boolean> but I don't know how to implement this in typescript.
Example of use:
class firstClass {
    n: number;
    constructor(n: number) {
        this.n = n;
    }
}

class secondClass {
    id: Date;
    constructor(d: Date) {
        this.id = d;
    }
}

function toConsole(a): void {
    if (typeGuard(a, firstClass)) {
        console.log(a.n);
    } else if (typeGuard(a, secondClass)) {
        console.log(a.id);
    } else if (typeGuard(a, string)) {
        console.log(a);
    }
}

A: I'm still not sure what the real need is for this to be a single function, but let's see what we can do.  You need to provide, at runtime, a value for the function to use to determine if you're checking for a string, number, or something else.
Let's say that the second argument to typeGuard() is called sentinel, of type Sentinel, which can either be a constructor, or one of the string values corresponding to what typeof gives you.
type TypeofMap = {
  string: string,
  number: number,
  boolean: boolean
}
type Sentinel = (new (...args: any[]) => any) | keyof TypeofMap;

Then, given a value of a type that extends Sentinel, the type you're guarding is related to the type of Sentinel via the following conditional type:
type GuardedType<T extends Sentinel> = T extends new (...args: any[]) => infer U ?
  U : T extends keyof TypeofMap ? TypeofMap[T] : never;

And you can implement typeGuard() like this:
function typeGuard<T extends Sentinel>(value: any, sentinel: T): value is GuardedType<T> {
  // assign to Sentinel instead of generic T to allow type guarding†
  const concreteSentinel: Sentinel = sentinel;
  if (typeof concreteSentinel === "string") {
    return typeof value === concreteSentinel;
  } else {
    return value instanceof concreteSentinel;
  }
}

(† See Microsoft/TypeScript#13995 for the reason for concreteSentinel)
And here's how you'd use it:
declare const thing: string | number | RegExp;
if (typeGuard(thing, "string")) {
  console.log(thing.charAt(0));
} else if (typeGuard(thing, RegExp)) {
  console.log(thing.flags);
} else {
  console.log(thing.toFixed(0));
}

Does that make sense?

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Examining the utility of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in boreal peatlands. 2012. Waddington, J.M.; Thompson,D.K.; Wotton,M.; Quinton,W.L.; Flannigan, M.D.; Benscoter,B.W.; Baisley,S.A.; Turetsky,M.R. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42:47-58.
Available from the Journal's Web site. †
DOI: 10.1139/X11-162
† This site may require a fee.
The Duff Moisture Code (DMC) and Drought Code (DC) components of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System are used by fire managers to assess the vulnerability of organic soils to ignition and depth of burn despite being developed for upland soils. Given the need to assess wildfire risk in peatlands, we compared the DMC and DC in eight peatlands located in five regions in boreal Canada with water table position (WT) and surface volumetric moisture content (VMC). The slope of the change in WT and DC relationship ranged greatly (–0.01 to –0.11 cm) between sites and years likely due to differences in site-specific peat properties, catchment water supply, and presence of seasonal ice. A DC of 400, which has been associated with wildfire vulnerability in uplands, corresponded to a seasonal drop in WT in the range of 4–36 cm. The slopes of the relationships between DMC and DC with 5 and 15 cm VMC also varied greatly between sites. Our findings suggest that these FWI components are suitable for predicting the general moisture status and fire danger in boreal peatlands. However, there is a need for a modified DC for specific peat types to indicate when the WT has reached a critical depth upon which fire danger increases. We also present a suggested framework for the development of a new peat moisture code within the FWI.
Waddington, J.M.
Thompson, D.K.
Wotton, B.M.
Quinton, W.L.
Flannigan, M.D.
Benscoter, B.W.
Baisley, S.A.
Turetsky, M.R.


With a little spelunking through the TWriter/TReader code, you can see that the Delphi classes almost give us what you need. There is a TWriter.WriteProperties public method. There isn't a TReader.ReadProperties equivalent. There is a TReader.ReadProperty protected method. There isn't a TWriter public method for resetting the private FPropPath field to an empty string (we need this to make the property path name local to our TPersistent object).
However, with a judicious hack of the Delphi streaming system, and accessing some protected methods, we can create a nice, clean streaming system for non-published TPersistent objects.
The trick comes down to making the Delphi streaming system believe we are writing a collection. When we write a collection to a stream, the TWriter class resets its FPropPath variable and allows us to write out "collection items" the way we want.
The same trick can also be used to write out our non-published PurchaseHistory object list.
I hope you found this useful. I know I did. The full code, including a test program, is available to download.
This entry was posted in Coding on December 24, 2015 by tgrubb.
The Delphi streaming system is a marvel of design. For most cases, streaming components to and from any stream (memory, file, string) just works. You publish the properties you want to stream when designing your class, and the streaming system takes care of reading and writing your published properties. Even streaming non-published properties is relatively easy. However, there is one non-published property type that is much more difficult than it should be: object properties descended from TPersistent.
By default, writing an object to a stream writes the values of all its published properties, and reading the object in reads those values and assigns them to the properties. Objects can also specify methods that read and write data other than published properties by overriding the DefineProperties method.
Make sure you call the inherited DefineProperties method so that any ancestor classes can write our their fake properties.
Note that the TFiler class does the work of figuring out when to call your Reader and Writer methods so you don't have to put in any special checks in your code. For example, when reading the stream, when the Filer object detects your fake property name in the stream, it will position the stream and then call your Reader method.
The Delphi streaming system starts to fail you when you want to write out non-simple published properties. Unfortunately, the TWriter class does not have a WritePersistent method or something similar to write out our THouse.Comparable property. Comparably, the TReader class lacks ReadPersistent method for reading these types back in. So what are we to do?
Write the properties of the TPersistent object yourself (this is the worst way to do it as it is extremely tedious (as you have to write all the properties yourself), error prone (what happens if the class deletes a property at a later date?), and not maintainable (what happens if new properties are added to the class? They are not streamed out).
Create a TComponent wrapper class that has a published TPersistent property which you set to your TPersistent class and then stream the TComponent using Writer.WriteComponent.
The second method works and something similar is what I used for many years. The idea is that you create a TComponent descendant whose only purpose is to read and write your TPersistent descendant class. The Delphi streaming class has TWriter.WriteComponent and TReader.ReadComponent methods, which you can then use to stream your TPersistent property.
In general, this is decent method for writing object properties. It writes out all published properties of the TPersistent-descended class (even fake properties!) and does not need to change as your TPersistent class changes.
For now, Happy Holidays and Happy CodeSmithing!
This entry was posted in Coding on December 23, 2015 by tgrubb.
Since XE2, I have been writing cross-platform (Windows, OSX, iOS, and Android) and "cross-library" (VCL and FMX) Delphi components. My goal has always been to write as little unique platform or library code as possible (to reduce bugs and maintenance). Sadly, Embarcadero (or Idera or whoever owns Delphi this week) did not put much emphasis on making code portable between VCL and FMX at first, though this has been improving with each version of Delphi since XE2.
For example, TVector, TMatrix and TPointF were not originally in the common run-time library (RTL) but in FMX only, which made no sense for code that had no library dependencies. But though Embarcadero has been improving the RTL greatly, what about visual code? If you use the end-point controls (TListBox, TEdit, etc), it is possible to mostly write code that uses them that would work for both VCL and FMX (e.g., ListBox1.Items.Add('Hello')). However, if you have to dive into using the Canvas, there has not been much, if any, progress made there.
What are Class (Record) Helpers?
A class or a record helper is a type that - when associated with another class or a record - introduces additional method names and properties that may be used in the context of the associated type (or its descendants). Helpers are a way to extend a class without using inheritance, which is also useful for records that do not allow inheritance at all.
What this means is that it is a way to attach new methods and properties (but not new fields) to a class or record that can be used by calling code as if the new methods and properties were defined when the class was built. These new methods and properties apply to the original class as well as any descendant classes as long as the class helper is in scope.
Careful readers will notice that I added a procedure Clear( const AColor: TAlphaColor ) method. This method gets to the purpose of this post. By specifying a method with the exact same signature as the FMX TBitmap.Clear, your code that clears bitmaps can be written exactly the same with no changes whatsoever. It can be a literal copy-and-paste.
Now onto the first point. By using class helpers you can simplify your code base significantly by ensuring method signature and functional parity for the most part between the two libraries. For example, in our TPaintBox example above, the code can be significantly simplified by creating TCanvas helpers that add VCL TCanvas drawing functions to the FMX TCanvas and vice-versa. By adding functions like DrawFocusRect, you can make the FMX TCanvas have methods exactly like the VCL TCanvas. In this file, I have made class helpers for TBrushStroke and TCanvas. Adding this file to the uses clause for my FMX PaintBox application, the errors have been significantly reduced.
Class Helpers have no fields you can add to the original class, so you cannot imitate some functionality. For example, the VCL TCanvas has the MoveTo and LineTo methods. The LineTo method draws a line from the previous MoveTo or LineTo call to a new point. Since we cannot store the last point, we cannot imitate these methods. However, at least in this case, we can use class helpers for both libraries to introduce methods to provide the equivalent functionality. For example, by creating a DrawLine method that takes the start and end point and using that method in both VCL and FMX.
If the functionality doesn't exist, you cannot imitate it. For example, the VCL TBrush has the Style property that specify different fill patterns. You could sort of imitate this behavior by setting the FMX Fill.Kind to TBrushKind.Bitmap and using a bitmap as the pattern but it is not the same. In this case, I decided the effort wasn't worth it.
Simple types can be challenging. For example, in FMX the canvas coordinates are singles, TPointF, and TRectF. In VCL, they are Integer, TPoint, and TRect. To get the center point in FMX, you would write code like MyPoint.X := (Rect.Right – Right.Left) / 2 + Rect.Left. This code produces a single, which in VCL needs to rounded to truncated. You CAN get around even this though with a little work. In the RSGraphics.pas unit (FMX.RS.Graphics in FMX) that is in the RiverSoftAVG Common Classes Library, there are TCanvasPoint types that map to TPoint for VCL and TPointF for FMX. There are also functions like CanvasDiv, which in FMX does the division above but in VCL uses a DIV to keep everything in Integer. You can get the RSGraphics.pas unit by installing the RiverSoftAVG Charting Component Suite (or if you are an owner of any RiverSoftAVG product) as the RiverSoftAVG Common Classes Library comes with it.
The SCOPEDENUMS directive used in FMX can be a real headache. Converting code from (VCL): Canvas.Brush.Style := bsSolid becomes in FMX: Canvas.Fill.Kind := TBrushKind.Solid (or Canvas.Brush.Kind if you are using my class helper). You can get around it by defining an enumeration in VCL that looks like the FMX version, but it is an annoyance.
There can be only one class (record) helper per class or record. This is the toughest limitation of all if you encounter it, and there is not a lot you can do about it. If it is an Embarcadero/Idera class helper, you can copy and paste the class helper functionality into your own class helper, but if it is a third-party's code, you may be out of luck.
Well, that is the end of another long blog post, but I hope you think it was worth it and that it can help you in your porting of code between VCL and FMX.
This entry was posted in Coding on December 12, 2015 by tgrubb.


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Зигль, Сигль () — имя собственное; распространено в виде фамилий.

 Зигль, Зигрун (род. 1954) — восточногерманская легкоатлетка.
 Зигль, Патрик (род. 1976) — чешский футболист, полузащитник.
 Зигль, Хорст (род. 1969) — чехословацкий и чешский футболист, нападающий.

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First Ski Lesson Sunday - Please Read!
This Sunday, December 12 is our first meeting of the club this season. We will be meeting at 10 am at the Canmore Nordic Centre in Meeting Room B (up the stairs). We will have a short meeting followed by a lesson and assessment for all the children.
Trail tickets are required on our ski days at a cost of $5 for children age 6 and up and $10 for adults. Children 5 and under are free. Please do not purchase your tickets at the ticket booth when you arrive – this is a special rate for BWJR - we will have tickets available in Meeting Room B. Please bring cash or a cheque payable to Susan Duska to pay for your tickets – exact change is always appreciated!
Please dress for the weather and come ready to have some fun!
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Prize lecture
The Long Road to the Higgs Boson - and Beyond
2015 Royal Society Bakerian Lecture by Professor John Ellis CBE FRS
Add to Calendar 03/03/15 06:30 PM 03/03/15 07:30 PM United Kingdom (GMT) The Long Road to the Higgs Boson - and Beyond
2015 Royal Society Bakerian Lecture by Professor John Ellis CBE FRS
 The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG
Watch the Royal Society Bakerian Lecture by Professor John Ellis CBE FRS on physics.
The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN's LHC accelerator in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations was the culmination of a decades-long search that had started in 1964 with the proposal of this unique particle, a signature of the origin of the masses of elementary particles. The Higgs boson completes the Standard Model that describes successfully all the visible matter in the Universe, but its discovery leaves unanswered many questions: is 'empty' space unstable? what is the origin of the matter in the Universe? what is the dark matter? This talk introduced how experiments at future runs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other proposed accelerators may be able to answer these and other questions in fundamental physics.
The Bakerian Lecture series began in 1775 and is the premier lecture in the physical sciences. Professor John Ellis CBE FRS was awarded the 2015 Bakerian Award for his ground breaking contributions in the physics of the Higgs boson and his attempts at unifying the fundamental forces of nature through his work with the LHC.


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Q: How to pass a custom query to the sfPager for getting pagination? Below is the sql query. Here 3 tables are used. EMPLOYER, COMPANYPROFILE,JOBSEEKERFOLLOWER
$c=new Criteria();
$c->add(EmployerPeer::ITEMPLOYERSTATUS, 1);
$c->addJoin(EmployerPeer::IDEMPLOYER, CompanyprofilePeer::IDEMPLOYER);
EmployerPeer::addSelectColumns($c);
$c->addJoin(EmployerPeer::IDEMPLOYER, JobseekerfollowingPeer::IDEMPLOYER);
JobseekerfollowingPeer::addSelectColumns($c);
$c->addAsColumn('count', 'COUNT(EMPLOYER.IDEMPLOYER)');
$c->addGroupByColumn(CompanyprofilePeer::VCCOMPANYNAME);

//echo $c->toString(); exit;

$pager = new sfPropelPager('Employer', E4sConfig::getRecordsPerPage());
$pager->setCriteria($c);
$pager->setPage($this->getRequestParameter('page', 1));
$pager->init();
$this->pager=$pager;

If I remove the exit and print the SQL query and if I run it, it is getting perfectly.
Now, I need to pass it to pager for pagination. But issue with this is, if Employer class is used while creating a new object for sfPropelPager it results only the elements of that class. I don't get any details of other two tables/ classes (company profile and jobseekerfollower). It happens same if used with either of the tables.
What I exactly want is - just to execute the query. How can this be achieved? Please let me know few good examples where joins and custom queries are used with sfPropel object.
Thanks


Dilution volumes (in ml) are for 0.1M solutions in dry, alcohol-free DCM or acetonitrile (see specifics below). Adjust accordingly for other concentrations. For µmol pack sizes, products should be diluted as 100µmol/ml to achieve 0.1M, regardless of molecular weight.
2538 - Dilute to 0.1M in dry, alcohol-free DCM.
2539 & 2540 - Dilute to 0.1M in dry acetonitrile.
In all cases the use of 4Å molecular sieves is highly recommended.
A 15min coupling is recommended. Due to the mild deprotection conditions we recommend using fast deprotecting amidites. Prior to dilution of amidites ensure that all product is at the bottom of the vial. Dilute to the recommended concentration and mix thoroughly in sealed vial to ensure that all contents are dissolved. Once dissolved, add the sieves. We recommend using ETT (3140/2/5) as the activator for these products.
Cleave and deprotect the CAL dye labelled oligo in 2-methoxyethylamine/MeOH (1:3) for 3h at 60ºC (all products) or 6h at 25ºC (CPGs). Filter the sample and evaporate the supernatant. Re-dissolve the CAL dye labelled oligo in water. The use of strong bases, such as concentrated ammonia, causes degradation and must be avoided.
The products are light sensitive. Prolonged exposure to light may cause photo-bleaching. The products are also susceptible to oxidation when left out in the open or undesiccated. Store at -20ºC, desiccated. Amidite solutions should be stored under argon, but used within 24h.


The Wallpaper version of "Blinded by the Bling Bling"
This is awesome I really like it.
This is dope man...good job..both of you..
love this. great wallpaper, using it now.
this is so sweet... i love it!
hey! pj just told me youre in first year in lsad!!! i'm in third year and you are like six billion times better than me!
oh wow awesome! thanks very much! Its great to find people from LSAD on here! What are you doing yourself? Graphics? Thanks again for the nice compliment!
i'm in printmaking, grace o neill, i'm doing a load of work on writing at the moment, kind of graphicky stuff actually.
Awesome! I still havent done printmaking yet in first year but I reckon it would be fun..
Ugh wong gets enough recognition already. Don't get me wrong, you're good, but this isn't your best. The hand is nice, the eye is nice, but it's just messy..
very nice, its my new desktop, FAVE!


Open source software has been a great success in recent years. Businesses rely on it; the Internet depends on it. Can the communications infrastructure, historically the preserve of blue-chip and monopoly telecommunications companies, follow in the footsteps of the Internet and open source? I will compare the constraints and opportunities available for a wireless commons from technical, regulatory, and open organizational perspectives.
For much of the past century, the communications infrastructure has become increasingly centralized. The limitations of spectrum, the cost of building phone lines, cable systems, and radio transmission facilities, and the the economic benefit of interoperability have conspired to favor a few large companies to build and operate the infrastructure.
The end-to-end architecture of the Internet has demonstrated that standards and computer technology can reduce infrastructure costs and make interoperability compelling in an environment with many suppliers. Technological advances – such as spread spectrum, agile radios, and mesh networks, all designed to operate in a less hierarchical environment – may provide solutions to limitations of spectrum.
. . . should governments be getting into the telecoms business at all? . . . Critics complain that public networks distort the market by competing with private firms. . . . Kevin Warton, a communications-policy expert at the University of Pennsylvania . . . [says that Wi-Fi] is not a reliable substitute for broadband services such as cable or DSL. . . . the limitations of the technology seems to have been overlooked.
There are indeed technical challenges with using Wi-Fi for community wireless. The effective range of most Wi-Fi transmitters is less than 100 meters, and the signal is easily obstructed. Nevertheless, the City of Cork in Ireland recently launched a Wi-Fi mesh network covering a 1.5 square kilometer network in the city's core (ElectricNews.net, 2005). Such projects are relatively recent and rare: the BC Wireless Project in British Columbia, for example, does not list any hot spots on their home page (BC Wireless, 2005). Private industry, meanwhile, does not appear prepared to filling the gap.
A focus on Wi-Fi technology, however, ignores the larger issue. The range and reliability of Wi-Fi is limited by the high frequency and low power specified by government regulation for the license-exempt 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in which it operates. Furthermore, the aforementioned new technologies could reduce or eliminate the problem of spectrum scarcity with a technology like Wi-Fi. The question is not technical possibility, but – as The Economist hints – political will.
Law, then, can become the critical battleground for innovation.
For example, a number of cities in the United States are investigating municipal broadband, in most cases using Wi-Fi technology. Philadelphia's effort is the largest, but there are also initiatives in Chicago, several cities in Florida, and elsewhere. (Lipman, 2005; Scott, 2005). In response, there are efforts (e.g. Cox, Giovanetti, McClure, Titch, Rizzuto, and Tuerck, 2005) – largely by major telecom companies (as shown by Ellison, 2005; Fleishman, 2005) – to ban such endeavors, arguing that they are not in the public interest and should not compete with private business.
The telecommunications industry has succeeded in limiting innovation in the past. For example, FM radio was crippled by U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations imposed at the bequest of RCA and others who did not want competition with their AM infrastructure (Lessig, 2004, pp. 3-7, 196). Earlier FCC intervention in 1927 led to an American radio market in which two companies supplied 97% of night-time broadcasts (Lessig, 2002, p. 74)1.
There is some regulatory movement towards allocating spectrum for wireless broadband: on 10 March the FCC allocated 50MHz, in the 3650MHz band for to provide broadband services (FCC, 2005). However, it is important to note that this is licensed bandwidth, unsuitable for license-free applications such as mesh networks.
The regulatory terrain remains uncertain. Is there an alternative route to community wireless under the current regulatory regime, even without the support of government?
In 1984, Richard Stallman was concerned that software source code at the MIT AI Lab, which had previously been open to all, was becoming proprietary (Stallman, 2002). Leveraging existing copyright law and the efforts of himself and others, he was able to kick-start the development of a software commons of free and open source software (FOSS)2 which since become essential to the Internet at large, and to many important companies in particular (e.g. IBM and Apple). Could something similar be done with wireless?
Community wireless and FOSS would appear to be similar. Both are built around a commons, one for software, the other for bandwidth. Both have arisen as distributed alternatives to hierarchical incumbents. Both software and bandwidth are intangible resources. Can the wireless commons repeat the success of open source, or is the comparison misplaced?
Weber (2004, p. 271) lists a number of characteristics of tasks likely to be amenable to an open source approach.
First, he requires that individual contributions can be based on non-proprietary knowledge. Both the knowledge and license-exempt spectrum available for community wireless fit this definition.
Second, the product must be valuable to a critical mass of users; the efforts of cities like Philadelphia certainly suggest that it is.
Third, the product should benefit from a strong network effect. This is a property of open source that Weber describes as anti-rival: its value increases the more that it is shared (2004, pp. 149-156). Software is by its nature non-rival: one person having more does not mean anyone else has less. Radio, on the other hand, is naturally rival. Spectrum can be "used up" and is vulnerably to abuse by powerful transmissions; only certain architectures, such as mesh networks, allow it to be non- or anti-rival. Also, the network effect in wireless is diminished by the cost of additional hardware required for growth – a limitation that does not apply to software, which can be duplicated at zero cost.
Fourth, there should be benefits to widespread peer review. This applies much less to a physical network, and so may not be a competitive advantage for an open process.
Finally, a small group should be able to take the lead and develop something useful on its own, and a voluntary community should be able to make iterative efforts to improve the product. It is certainly possible a community like Philadelphia could such a role. But if they do, the limited range of the available spectrum mean that the network effect is largely local.
Weber also argues for the importance of motivation. Open source and free software are the products of a scholarly and culture and liberal ideology extending back to the 1950s, predating commercial software. This ideology has played a central role for Stallman and many of the developers who followed. Compared to even the commercial software industry (which shares many of the values of the open source movement), the business of telecommunications is hierarchical and conservative; its incumbents dominate in a way that no software company – even Microsoft or IBM – ever has.
In its favor, wireless shares with software the potential for a commons. Just as with the Internet and FOSS, a distributed architecture is possible – especially using anti-rival mesh technology. The current license-exempt bands provides the necessary raw spectrum; existing open source software enables mesh networks right now (Cringley, 2004). However, current deployments are marginal. Standing against wider success is the might of an industry opposed and alerted by the history of the Internet, the rival and excludable nature of spectrum, and the lack of a culture of openness. Most difficult of all is the local nature of community networks: success in one community may not translate into gains elsewhere. Compared to the engineering required to build an operating system, the barrier to entry may be low, but the network benefits are also limited. Individual communities may find the model beneficial, but any shift towards community networks on a large scale is likely to be much slower than the rapid progress of open source. Regulatory support could make all the difference.
1Interoperability and economies of scale for equipment mean that Canada generally follows the U.S. lead.
2The differences between free and open source software are largely ideological; while significant, the distiction is beyond the scope of this paper.
The Economist. (2005). Wi-Fi pie in the sky. The Economist March 19, p. 68.
Lessig, L. (2004). Free culture: How big media uses technology and the low to lock down culture and control creativity . New York: Penguin Press.
––. (2002). The future of ideas: The fate of the commons in a connected world . New York: Vintage Books.
Machiavelli, N. (1972). The Prince . George Bull, trans. London: The Folio Society.
Stallman, R. (2002). The GNU Project. Free software free society: Selected essays of Richard M. Stallman . Joshua Gay, ed. US: GNU Press.
Weber, S. (2004). The Success of Open Source . US: Harvard University Press.


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Bulgarian lawmakers approve talks with U.S. on F-16 jet deal
By Reuters For Citizen Digital
Published on: January 17, 2019 14:20 (EAT)
British Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth intercept two Russian Long Range Blackjack bombers and escort them whilst in the UK area of interest. Photograph issued from Lossiemouth, Britain, September 20, 2018. RAF/Ministry of Defence/Handout via REUTERS
Bulgaria's parliament approved the government's plan to engage in talks to purchase eight new F-16 fighter jets
This is in an aim to replace its aging Soviet-made MiG-29s and improve compliance with NATO standards.
Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov said that negotiations would last about four months, with the first meeting expected in Brussels next month.
Supporters hail the move as a strategic choice for Bulgaria but many in the Balkan country criticized the process with President Rumen Radev describing it as "a triumph of lobbying".
Bulgaria's parliament approved the government's plan to start talks with the United States on buying eight new F-16 fighter jets to replace its aging Soviet-made MiG-29s and improve compliance with NATO standards.
Some 130 lawmakers voted in favor of the plan of the center-right government, led by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov while 84 deputies were against it, accusing the cabinet of breaching the tender rules.
A deal for Lockheed Martin's F-16V Block 70 would be worth around 1.8 billion levs ($1.05 billion), Bulgaria's biggest military procurement since the fall of Communist rule some 30 years ago.
Other bidders had included Sweden, with Saab's Gripen jets, and Italy, with second-hand Eurofighters.
Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov, who has conceded that the United States' bid exceeded the budget by 300 million levs, said that negotiations would last about four months, with the first meeting expected in Brussels next month.
"From now on there are many issues that we need to clarify – delivery dates, service… spare parts delivery," Karakachanov said.
The question of which warplanes to buy has been vexing successive governments in Bulgaria for more than a decade.
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"The U.S. Embassy welcomes the decision today by Bulgaria's National Assembly to initiate negotiations to acquire new F-16 Block 70 aircraft from Lockheed Martin," the U.S. Embassy in Sofia said in a statement.
"We look forward to continuing to strengthen our strategic partnership with our NATO Ally Bulgaria."
The plan has spurred heated political debates in the Black Sea country with supporters hailing it as a strategic choice for Bulgaria but many in the Balkan country criticized the process with President Rumen Radev describing it as "a triumph of lobbying".
F-16 fighter jets
MiG-29s
Minister Krasimir Karakachanov
President Rumen Radev
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