This article is reprinted with permission from Pain Treatment Topics, Pain-Topics.org.
Chronic non-cancer pain (CNP) is a serious and likely undertreated public health problem. In a 2005 survey, 19% of US adults reported chronic pain and 34% reported recurrent pain.1 The annual costs of pain-related healthcare, litigation, and compensation are estimated at $100 billion in the United States alone.2 While opioids have been a mainstay in the treatment of acute pain, the role of opioids in treating chronic pain is less well defined and overshadowed by persistent concerns of misuse, abuse, and addiction. Fortunately, during the past 20 years, there have been major advances in clarifying these issues.
The emphasis on improving treatment of CNP has produced a dramatic increase in the prescription of opioid analgesics. From 1999-2002, the sales of opioids reported through the DEA's Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS) database increased by an astounding 76%.10 While opioids can be a powerful option in treating chronic pain, their use comes with some potential side effects and risks of serious medical complications including misuse, abuse, addiction, overdose, and death.
Evaluation of the Patient. A medical history and physical examination must be obtained, assessed, and documented in the medical record.
Treatment Plan. A written plan should state treatment objectives that will be used to determine therapeutic success.
Informed Consent and Agreement for Treatment. The physician should discuss with the patient the risks and benefits of using controlled substances.
Periodic Review. The physician should periodically review the course of pain treatment and any new information about the etiology of the pain or the patient's state of health.
Consultation. The physician should be willing to refer the patient as necessary for additional evaluation and treatment in order to achieve treatment objectives.
Medical Records. The physician should keep accurate and complete records.
Compliance with Controlled Substances Laws and Regulations. To prescribe, dispense, or administer controlled substances, the physician must be licensed in the state and comply with applicable federal and state regulations.
While the Model Policy was not intended to be a clinical practice guideline, at its core is a framework for commonsense opioid prescribing and risk management. The items listed above reflect necessary steps, including the due diligence required to protect both the patient and the provider, and their universal application can help manage risks when prescribing opioids. In the following sections, these seven requisites are addressed with a particular focus on opioid risk management.
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9. IPTA (Intractable Pain Treatment Act). Missouri Revised Statutes. 2006. Section 334. pp 105-107. Available at: http://www.moga.state.mo.us/statutes/ C334.htm. Accessed 8/9/07.
10. Paulozzi L. Increasing deaths from opioid analgesics in the United States. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2006. 15:618-627.
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Update: Since this article originally published, local news outlets are reporting that human remains may have been found nearby the scene of the explosion. We will update as more information becomes available.
Charlotte, NC — An explosion rocked downtown Nashville early Friday morning as those nearby began their Christmas celebrations. Police were responding to a call for shots fired around 6:30 a.m. EST when they came upon an RV that was playing a recorded message. The message that was playing advised everyone that an explosion would happen within 15 minutes.
The explosion caused damage to multiple nearby buildings and injured 3 people. Police are still searching for clues as to who is responsible.
Multiple buildings suffered damages in the explosion. Crews are on scene continuing to look at the structural integrity of many buildings to assure they are safe. You can see some of the damage in the photo shared on Twitter below.
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Local news station 5 shared a surveillance video of the moments before the explosion. You can hear the warning playing that the area should be evacuated immediately just before the explosion occurs.
The FBI and Nashville PD are investigating and have asked for information regarding the arrival of the RV into the area. With the location being downtown, there are several surveillance shots of the area that show the RV arrived at just after 1 a.m.
BREAKING: This is the RV that exploded on 2nd Ave N this morning. It arrived on 2nd Ave at 1:22 a.m. Have you seen this vehicle in our area or do you have information about it? Please contact us via Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463 or online via https://t.co/dVGS7o0m4v. @ATFHQ pic.twitter.com/JNx9sDinAH
Law enforcement believes the act was intentional but have little clues in order to guide their investigation at this point. At a morning briefing, they asked the public for more information to help them move forward.
Thankfully, no lives were lost due to this act of violence. There were no threats of violence in the area leading up to the holiday and no terrorism chatter that had been received.
Stay tuned to The Liberty Loft, as we will continue to bring you all the latest information. You can find us on a wide variety of social media channels or subscribe to our notifications to receive all the latest information as it is released.
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ABSTRACT This paper focuses on older Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese migrants who spent their working lives in Switzerland and explores their different forms of geographical mobility between Switzerland and their home countries. Although drawing inspiration from the transnationalism literature and the new mobilities paradigm, we do not neglect a more structural perspective that stresses the constraints endured by older migrants when they try to build mobile lives. We approach the issue of transnational mobility using mainly quantitative data from the survey Vivre?Leben?Vivere, which focuses on the living conditions and health of individuals aged 65?years and above currently living in Switzerland. Within this survey, an oversample of approximately 300 older immigrants of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese origin aged between 65 and 79?years was conducted in Geneva and Basel. The quantitative data are complemented by material from interviews with three Spanish families living in Geneva. Our data show that to ?settle in Switzerland? or to return home does not imply that older immigrants' transnational mobility ceases. To some extent, it could be argued that they never really ?settled? and transnational mobility is a way of life that is more adapted to the duality of resources and references that they have built up during their adult life. Their geographical mobility can take different forms and is adapted to legal constraints, to family configurations, and to individual situations. Copyright ? 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This year the Golden Globes unveiled slow-motion camera's on the red carpet. Though it may seem a little unnecessary, it also makes the star look absolutely amazing. Shout out to Rob Lowe who could be the only one considered to be posing correctly. Great jawline, Rob.


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Unless your name happens to be Arthur Fonzarelli (in which case, that's crazy!), it's hard to define the word "cool". And even harder to apply the label to hotels, when "cool" could mean historic, or trendy, or that the place is actually a decommissioned Coast Guard helicopter with a full-service bar... in your room!
But since we're not above doing hard work, we tried to figure out just how each state would define cool, and then applied that spirit to their hotels. In the end, we came up with what we think is each state's coolest, most emblematic hotel. Or we were wildly off. You decide.


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Q: Layer wise propagation(LRP) in keras neural network I have been following LRP implementation using pyTorch and wanted to test it out using Tensorflow and Keras. I am using the same model with weights(VGG16) in Keras and was able to successfully execute the forward pass and element wise division using
# keras-tensorflow implementation
z = incr(clasifierLayers[l](A[l])) # forward pass step(1)
s = (R[l+1]/z) # Element wise division step(2)

But i am facing trouble in recreating the backward pass. In the original code(LRP), which uses pyTorch, the backward pass is computed using
# pyTorch implementation
(z*s).sum().backward(); c = A[l].grad

and when i tried to find the replicate the backward pass using tensorflow, my gradient returns None. Here is my code trying to compute the backward pass.
def getGradients(product,layer,l):
    with tf.GradientTape() as tape:
        tape.watch(product)
        a=layers[l](A[l])
        gradient = tape.gradient(product, a)
    return gradient

c = getGradients((z*s).numpy().sum(),layers[l],l) # backward pass step(3)

Can someone tell me whats wrong with this implementation?
Thanks in Advance

A: I tried to replicate the issue with one layer and performing an LRP backward step, here is the code:
import tensorflow as tf

x = tf.ones((1,10))
layer=tf.keras.layers.Dense(10)
y=layer(x)

with tf.GradientTape() as tape:
     tape.watch(x)
     z = tf.keras.layers.Dense(10)(x)+1e-9
     s = y/z
     s = tf.reshape(s, z.shape)
     c = tape.gradient(tf.reduce_sum(z*s), x)
     y*c

This code works, in the sense that it returns the gradients to c.
I did not test it with a dataset, so do not know if it works as it should. Nonetheless, I think the problem with your code is that you should have the first block:
# keras-tensorflow implementation
z = incr(clasifierLayers[l](A[l])) # forward pass step(1)
s = (R[l+1]/z) # Element wise division step(2)

inside the TapeGradient scope and ask for the gradients with respect to the A[l].
Edit:
I forgot to avoid gradients being propagated through s. The gradient computation should be done as follows:
     c = tape.gradient(tf.reduce_sum(z*s.numpy()), x)

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I was fortunate to be introduced to the Carmelites at an early age. A close family friend of my parents, Fr. Robert Carroll O. Carm., baptize me and has been present at family gatherings throughout my life from before I could remember. I grew up in Orland Park, IL forty-five minutes southwest of Chicago, where I attended St. Michael's school from first through eighth grade. I then attended Mount Carmel High School in Chicago because my grandfather and father were both graduates.
It was on my Kairos retreat there that I first heard the call. However, I chose to pretend not to hear it for a while. After high school, I went on to the University of Illinois where I studied Kinesiology. After college, I began working at the Chicago Board of Trade and traded commodity futures for over eight years. I also coached little league baseball, volunteered with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and participated in many intermural activities throughout these years.
However, I didn't feel as though I was giving enough and began a much deeper discernment near the end of 2012. In March of 2013 I decided to leave the trading world and entered into the world of financial advising. I believed this would allow me to use the eight and half years of knowledge I had gathered trading to help people secure their future. Then something funny happened. The more I was helping people, the more I wanted to help people.
Ironically money was never very important to me and I knew I was meant for something different, something closer to God. In February of 2014, with the help of Fr. Carroll and Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, I attended the Vocations retreat at Carith house and learned where my home truly lay. This occurred to me as I listened to Fr. Jack Welch describe the "Interior Castle." Theresa says "May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to." With Carmel's help, this is what I intend to do.


When you have vacuum seal storage bags, you do not have to worry about the foul scent when you first open it up. They never establish the musky smell that in some cases occur with plastic boxes as well as garbage bags. They are additionally really simple to use. Simply open the bag, insert the products you intend to keep, whiz it closed, as well as vacuum cleaner out all of the air. Your garments will not wrinkle up, also if they seem wrinkled in the bag, and they will stay wrinkle complimentary, even if you leave them in the bag for a year.
Have you ever had an over night visitor surprise you and you feel unprepared since you don't have enough cushions or sufficient blankets that await them? You will no more need to manage that circumstance. All you will need to do is endeavor into the storage room where you have your added coverings and cushions saved, unzip the vacuum seal storage space bags that holds them, and hand them to your visitors. Which method would certainly you prefer?
What does it cost? simpler will life be if you can save everything you have in vacuum space saver bags? Will you take pleasure in being able to find your favorite jacket without entering into various boxes to discover it? You can save bedding set suits with each other and you could save all other things as well as see exactly what is within without excavating. Just what do you assume you will keep when you have jumbo sized bags that do not use up big sized areas in your storage room?
How many plastic boxes does it take to hold your warmest winter clothes? Those sweaters and fluffy wintertime coats that keep you warm no matter what the temperature level is outdoors? Vacuum seal storage bags could make it possible for you to get rid of a few of them and occupy less room in your storage space area. You could use one for coats, one for sweaters, as well as one for a selection of various other cozy items. Isn't really that far better than cumbersome boxes as well as trash can that tear?
Everybody has needed to deal with a situation where they need a jacket, however understand that they will have to wash it prior to they could use it. Temperatures transform without advising in some cases. Just what you may be expecting does not always mean that it will take place. Nobody wants to use musky garments that smells negative. It makes it nice if you know ahead of time that the jacket you evacuated in 2015 will certainly be as fresh when you unpack it as it was when you loaded it away for the summer season.
Check out the important things in your storage room. The number of space saver bags do you have in there? Can you think of removing them all as well as in their location having storage space bags? You could take the boxes out and place two big vacuum seal storage space bags in its place. The bags will certainly hold more things in a smaller quantity of area. You could use them to store cushions, coverings, coats, and all your winter season clothes things. As soon as vacuumed down, they will certainly save area as well as enable you to put extra in the exact same location.
Do you like the idea of having even more room in your storage room or even more space in the shed out back? Storage bags that could be vacuumed to a smaller sized dimension will aid. Then, you will be able to pile multiple bags of clothing or blankets in the very same quantity of room that you would generally have space to put a solitary plastic tote. This will make it simpler for you to stay on top of your products as well as for you to place every little thing in its location, also if you do not have a great deal of shelves offered for it.


Discussion in 'General Chat' started by sawz, May 21, 2008.
Is that a tattoo? Look like a painting for me.
That guy is asking for trouble with such a sissy tattoo.
He should have got a car or a football tattooed on his back. Or even a wizard or a guitar. Popeye would roll over in his grave.
omg i bet he is not straight. he wanted some actions in jail that's why he got that tattoo.
Its not looking like a tattoo. Seems some painting was done on his body... But whatever it is, its a good piece of art work. Why he was sent to prison???
I wonder if the girl painted is someone he knows or just a fantasy girl.
Haha that's some awesome stuff.
Yeah I agree it may be painted on. If its real he may have gotten this tattoo because its art to him.
Looks like it's just ordinary paint from the way the light is reflecting off it. Also the way that the paint smudges as it gets up his neck and on his face. 99% chance that this is not a real tattoo.
I think that it will be popular in prison also. He will be well liked.


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Q: Execute multiple .py files at the same time I have three .py files that I want to run at the same time in a Python script file. I initially called subprocess.call() three times (once for each .py file) but remembered that it blocks until the command is finished. I tried subprocess.Popen(['screen', 'python_file']) since I believe it doesn't block but when I was checking for the processes with screen -ls there was only one process running. How do I get all three programs running at the same time with a Python script? Should I be using the multiprocessing or multithreading library?
Edit: The other processes aren't supposed to finish since they're running in an infinite loop. Here's exactly what I had in my Python script file. I'm using screen because each .py file has stdout logged onto the terminal and I want to be able to see what is being logged for each one.
subprocess.Popen(['screen', './submitter.py'])
subprocess.Popen(['screen', './worker.py'])
subprocess.Popen(['screen', './tester.py'])

A: If you want to use multiprocessing, you can try this:
import multiprocessing

def worker(file):
    # your subprocess code

if __name__ == '__main__':
    files = ["path/to/file1.py","path/to/file2.py","path/to/file3.py"]
    for i in files:
        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=worker, args=(i,))
        p.start()


Has anyone used Auction Direct USA Raleigh to "find" them a car ?
A friend of mine did, and the car didn't impress me.
Looks like it led a rough life. Many poorly done paint touch ups and a small puncture in the seat (2 year old Hyundai).
Do not recommend them at all.
I do not like that you pay the reserve price, not the actual price the car sold at auction. So if you set the reserve price at $25K but they are able to buy it for $24K, they get to keep the $1K-- plus the $300 fee.
I can't think of ANY other product that you might spend $25,000 on where $1300 (a little better than 5%) would be viewed as an excessive profit margin.
I don't get to buy food wholesale, and my grocery bills are higher than I like-should I open a restaurant so I can?
Auction Direct is a business. They are in business to make a profit. How could they operate a business if the sold the cars for the same price thay paid for them? Who pays for the facility and the employees and the liability insurance?
I understand fully wanting to get a good deal. I do my best to pay a fair price for everything I buy-everything. That said, I struggle to understand why when it comes to cars it seems that all bets are off and the seller should not make anything.
The dealer I buy our cars from is very good to me on both the sales and service side. I send them business whenever I can. I believe that they take care of me because I respect their right to operate a business and most people who walk into a car dealership think it should operate at a loss for their personal benefit.
Transport fees, paying a detailer to clean it up, repairs (auction cars are often in need of some repairs before they are sell-able), salesman commission, etc... All said and done, they'd be lucky to put $400 in the bank on that sale.
We have used Kathy at the Car Connection to find our last three cars. You call her and tell her what you want and she finds it and gets it shipped here. She got us the Odyssey we wanted, for a discount, when the Honda dealers laughed at you here when you said you wanted a specific color or a discount. She just found us the exact Flex we wanted with the features we wanted, when none of the dealers in Raleigh had them. She also finds used cars. I simply can't imagine going through dealers anymore.


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A Point of View: The revolution of capitalism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14764357
Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but he was right about much of capitalism, John Gray writes.
As a side-effect of the financial crisis, more and more people are starting to think Karl Marx was right. The great 19th Century German philosopher, economist and revolutionary believed that capitalism was radically unstable.
It had a built-in tendency to produce ever larger booms and busts, and over the longer term it was bound to destroy itself.
Marx welcomed capitalism's self-destruction. He was confident that a popular revolution would occur and bring a communist system into being that would be more productive and far more humane.
Marx was wrong about communism. Where he was prophetically right was in his grasp of the revolution of capitalism. It's not just capitalism's endemic instability that he understood, though in this regard he was far more perceptive than most economists in his day and ours.
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More profoundly, Marx understood how capitalism destroys its own social base - the middle-class way of life. The Marxist terminology of bourgeois and proletarian has an archaic ring.
But when he argued that capitalism would plunge the middle classes into something like the precarious existence of the hard-pressed workers of his time, Marx anticipated a change in the way we live that we're only now struggling to cope with.
He viewed capitalism as the most revolutionary economic system in history, and there can be no doubt that it differs radically from those of previous times.
Hunter-gatherers persisted in their way of life for thousands of years, slave cultures for almost as long and feudal societies for many centuries. In contrast, capitalism transforms everything it touches.
It's not just brands that are constantly changing. Companies and industries are created and destroyed in an incessant stream of innovation, while human relationships are dissolved and reinvented in novel forms.
Capitalism has been described as a process of creative destruction, and no-one can deny that it has been prodigiously productive. Practically anyone who is alive in Britain today has a higher real income than they would have had if capitalism had never existed.
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The trouble is that among the things that have been destroyed in the process is the way of life on which capitalism in the past depended.
Defenders of capitalism argue that it offers to everyone the benefits that in Marx's time were enjoyed only by the bourgeoisie, the settled middle class that owned capital and had a reasonable level of security and freedom in their lives.
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In 19th Century capitalism most people had nothing. They lived by selling their labour and when markets turned down they faced hard times. But as capitalism evolves, its defenders say, an increasing number of people will be able to benefit from it.
Fulfilling careers will no longer be the prerogative of a few. No more will people struggle from month to month to live on an insecure wage. Protected by savings, a house they own and a decent pension, they will be able to plan their lives without fear. With the growth of democracy and the spread of wealth, no-one need be shut out from the bourgeois life. Everybody can be middle class.
In fact, in Britain, the US and many other developed countries over the past 20 or 30 years, the opposite has been happening. Job security doesn't exist, the trades and professions of the past have largely gone and life-long careers are barely memories.
If people have any wealth it's in their houses, but house prices don't always increase. When credit is tight as it is now, they can be stagnant for years. A dwindling minority can count on a pension on which they could comfortably live, and not many have significant savings.
More and more people live from day to day, with little idea of what the future may bring. Middle-class people used to think their lives unfolded in an orderly progression. But it's no longer possible to look at life as a succession of stages in which each is a step up from the last.
In the process of creative destruction the ladder has been kicked away and for increasing numbers of people a middle-class existence is no longer even an aspiration.
As capitalism has advanced it has returned most people to a new version of the precarious existence of Marx's proles. Our incomes are far higher and in some degree we're cushioned against shocks by what remains of the post-war welfare state.
But we have very little effective control over the course of our lives, and the uncertainty in which we must live is being worsened by policies devised to deal with the financial crisis. Zero interest rates alongside rising prices means you're getting a negative return on your money and over time your capital is being eroded.
The situation of many younger people is even worse. In order to acquire the skills you need, you'll have to go into debt. Since at some point you'll have to retrain you should try to save, but if you're indebted from the start that's the last thing you'll be able to do. Whatever their age, the prospect facing most people today is a lifetime of insecurity.
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At the same time as it has stripped people of the security of bourgeois life, capitalism has made the type of person that lived the bourgeois life obsolete. In the 1980s there was much talk of Victorian values, and promoters of the free market used to argue that it would bring us back to the wholesome virtues of the past.
For many, women and the poor for example, these Victorian values could be pretty stultifying in their effects. But the larger fact is that the free market works to undermine the virtues that maintain the bourgeois life.
When savings are melting away being thrifty can be the road to ruin. It's the person who borrows heavily and isn't afraid to declare bankruptcy that survives and goes on to prosper.
When the labour market is highly mobile it's not those who stick dutifully to their task that succeed, it's people who are always ready to try something new that looks more promising.
In a society that is being continuously transformed by market forces, traditional values are dysfunctional and anyone who tries to live by them risks ending up on the scrapheap.
Vast wealth
Looking to a future in which the market permeates every corner of life, Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto: "Everything that is solid melts into air". For someone living in early Victorian England - the Manifesto was published in 1848 - it was an astonishingly far-seeing observation.
At the time nothing seemed more solid than the society on the margins of which Marx lived. A century and a half later we find ourselves in the world he anticipated, where everyone's life is experimental and provisional, and sudden ruin can happen at any time.
A tiny few have accumulated vast wealth but even that has an evanescent, almost ghostly quality. In Victorian times the seriously rich could afford to relax provided they were conservative in how they invested their money. When the heroes of Dickens' novels finally come into their inheritance, they do nothing forever after.
Today there is no haven of security. The gyrations of the market are such that no-one can know what will have value even a few years ahead.
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This state of perpetual unrest is the permanent revolution of capitalism and I think it's going to be with us in any future that's realistically imaginable. We're only part of the way through a financial crisis that will turn many more things upside down.
Currencies and governments are likely to go under, along with parts of the financial system we believed had been made safe. The risks that threatened to freeze the world economy only three years ago haven't been dealt with. They've simply been shifted to states.
Whatever politicians may tell us about the need to curb the deficit, debts on the scale that have been run up can't be repaid. Almost certainly they will be inflated away - a process that is bound to be painful and impoverishing for many.
The result can only be further upheaval, on an even bigger scale. But it won't be the end of the world, or even of capitalism. Whatever happens, we're still going to have to learn to live with the mercurial energy that the market has released.
Capitalism has led to a revolution but not the one that Marx expected. The fiery German thinker hated the bourgeois life and looked to communism to destroy it. And just as he predicted, the bourgeois world has been destroyed.
But it wasn't communism that did the deed. It's capitalism that has killed off the bourgeoisie.
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(1935–1996) was an American professional pool player. Murphy was the first African-American professional pocket billiards player to ever win world and U.S. national titles. He is also one of two players to win the World Straight Pool Championship on his first attempt, the other being Ray Martin who won the title in 1971.

Murphy was capable of running 200 balls, missing a shot, then running another 200. He would do it with one of the more unusual strokes in billiards history, coming to a dead stop at the back of his stroke.  Murphy described it as "a one- or two-second hiccup," which allowed him to take a picture of the shot before committing to it. It was so uncommon that billiards fans gave it a name: the "hesitation stroke."

Career

Cisero Murphy grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, one of eight children. His father left the family home when Murphy was a child, forcing his mother to go on welfare. At 15, he was a high school dropout. One summer, however, young Cisero began playing pool at the Police Athletic League (PAL), and except for short-term jobs, he continued playing pool for the duration of his life.

He became city champion in 1953 and state champion in 1958.  From 1959 to 1964, he was eastern state champion in the PAL.  Later in life, Murphy participated in city programs in an effort to help young adults and children, such as Billiards in the Streets, which was sponsored by the Department of Parks and Recreation.  He also would visit veterans hospitals, senior citizen homes, and mental hospitals giving trick shot exhibitions and teaching people how to play pool.

He won the New York City championship at age sixteen, and when he was in his twenties, he won the Eastern States 14.1 Championship six straight times. Because he was African American in an era when there were racial tensions in the United States, Murphy was not invited to compete in world title events until 1965 despite his skills as a player. Many other African Americans who were not accepted in the world title events avoided confrontation due to intimidation. Murphy won the Burbank World Invitational 14.1 tournament in 1965, defeating white players such as Joe Balsis, Jimmy Moore, and Luther Lassiter. Pool players picketed outside the front of the now-defunct Commodore Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, which was the site of the 1964 Billiard Room Propriety Association of America tournament, to protest Murphy's exclusion.  The next year he competed in the Burbank World Invitational 14.1 tournament against top-flight competition, and was defeated by Luther Lassiter in the finals.

Some people have compared Cisero Murphy to Major League Baseball's Jackie Robinson, breaking the racial barriers (including the baseball color line) in sports. Murphy was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame 1995. Cisero Murphy at the time the only players in the history of pocket billiards competition to win a world title on his first attempt. He continued to place near the top in straight pool events during the 1960s and during his career, he had high runs over 250 balls.

After taking the title, Murphy was officially in the upper echelon of players. According to Ebony magazine, he earned $8,000 in 1965 and figured to double that number the following year — and he padded his income by giving exhibitions for $150 a day.

In the Flatbush neighborhood of New York City, there is a mural painted of Cisero Murphy shooting pool, along with fellow New Yorkers and baseball players Joe DiMaggio and Mike Piazza and Joseph "Cyclops" Bouie III.

Titles
 1953 New York 14.1 Championship
 1959 Eastern States 14.1 Championship
 1960 Eastern States 14.1 Championship
 1961 Eastern States 14.1 Championship
 1962 Eastern States 14.1 Championship
 1963 Eastern States 14.1 Championship
 1964 Eastern States 14.1 Championship
 1965 BRPAA World Straight Pool Championship
 1966 Stardust Open Straight Pool Championship
 1969 Maine State 14.1 Championship
 1972 Maine State 14.1 Championship
 1973 U.S. Masters Straight Pool Championship
 1995 Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame

References

1935 births
1996 deaths
American pool players
People from Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

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New GM emerges from bankruptcy
Alisa Roth Jul 10, 2009
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KAI RYSSDAL: The new GM has the same name as the old bankrupt one: GM. Other than that, the two companies couldn't be more different. CEO Fritz Henderson made things official this morning. He talked about rolling out 10 new models in the next 18 months. And selling them on eBay, as I said. The company will be more responsive to its customers, more willing to listen to criticism.
And the boardroom's going to look a lot different too, now that the company's owners include the federal government. The Obama administration has promised to keep it's hands off. But can it?
Marketplace's Alisa Roth reports.
Alisa Roth: All over the world, it seems like rescuing carmakers bas become practically a requirement for governments. Most bailouts call for keeping plants open and running.
The U.S., on the other hand, has insisted that GM's makeover include shedding some serious weight, to be a smaller and leaner company.
Now don't get the wrong idea: There won't be any government employees either at GM's headquarters in the Renaissance Center or on the company's board.
Daniel Roos studies the auto industry at MIT. He says the government should stay out of day-to-day operations.
Daniel Roos: Once you open that door, it's a slippery slope. The government is not appropriate to run an automobile company.
But the government does own more than half the new GM and will get to appoint four of the new board's 13 members.
Ed Peper's in charge of Chevrolet, one of the brands the new GM is hanging onto. He says GM will be run just like any other company.
Ed Peper: We will be reporting to the board. But they're going let us run the business on a day-to-day basis. That's what they pay us to do.
The government does have an investment to protect though. And MIT's Roos says it should have a say.
Roos: Now clearly if they decide at some point in time that this thing isn't working out and they're going to stop the payment or decrease the payment, that's an appropriate thing to do.
But some critics say the government's already acting like a backseat driver: Influencing what plants should stay open, where new cars should be made and what dealerships should not get shut down.
I'm Alisa Roth for Marketplace.
Ryssdal: A quick note on GM sort of being out of bankruptcy. It's true that the new GM is free and clear of court supervision. But the old company, the one with all the debt and liabilities, that's still in Chapter 11. It's now called "Motors Liquidation Company."
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Organizing a grassroots, legal and legislative fight for the right to water in Detroit.
Five years ago, Marian Kramer – a long-time advocate for social justice and co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union – discovered that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department had shut off running water to more than 40,000 Detroit-area residents who had gotten behind on their bills, without giving these low-income citizens any help or even the opportunity to appeal. Kramer, who had been contemplating retirement at the time, decided to mobilize instead. She organized picket lines, pressed her case with the media, and petitioned those in power to make change.
Then she added key legal tactics to her arsenal. At Kramer's urging, attorneys drafted a proposal to prohibit the widespread practice of shutting off running water to nonpaying Detroit residents without appeals, arguing that all customers have the right to due process. In addition, Kramer argued that the lack of running water creates the conditions for a potential public health crisis. Kramer's advocacy led the Detroit City Council to adopt a Water Affordability Plan, now in its final stages of implementation. The multi-million dollar plan will help those who fall below federal poverty guidelines by subsidizing their water and sewer bills and assisting them in paying back what is owed.
Through the windows of the downtown Detroit office shared by the National Welfare Rights Union, the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, and the Detroit Neighborhood and Family Initiative are the twin spectacles of Comerica Park – the stadium's sleek stone tigers guarding the baseball fortress – and the colorful neon of the opulent Fox Theatre.
Like the other grassroots organizations with headquarters in the historic Central United Methodist Church, Marian Kramer and colleagues daily witness the stark demarcation of rich and poor in a city where the latter are mostly invisible. Kramer and her colleagues stand guard against official indifference – taking care of those in need, while irritating the powers-that-be with demands for justice and compassion.
As co-director of the National Welfare Rights Union, Kramer, 63, sees herself as an ordinary person with perhaps more courage to confront authority when fairness is at stake. That courage and her persistence are finally moving authorities from awareness to action on behalf of thousands of low-income Detroit residents.
In the late 1990s, Kramer discovered that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was shutting off running water to thousands of Detroit-area residents who had gotten behind on their bills, without giving those low-income citizens any help or even the opportunity to appeal.
When Kramer first heard about the water shutoffs, she had been advocating on behalf of residents without heat and electricity. Kramer and colleagues had taken on the big utilities, demanding that they give customers a chance to appeal their bills before cutting off their gas and electricity. They prevailed, convincing Detroit Edison to keep the heat on at least during Michigan's bitter winter months.
The water department was another entity altogether – a taxpayer-subsidized utility that was supposed to be working in the people's best interests. But Kramer had been hearing sporadic reports in her poor Detroit suburb of Highland Park that residents were living without running water because they couldn't pay water bills. When a neighbor asked Kramer if she could run a garden hose from Kramer's residence to her own, confiding that her water had been shut off months earlier, Kramer began asking around. Her counterparts in other social service organizations had heard many similar stories.
So Kramer and the folks at the Rights Union got busy doing what they do best: They confronted elected and appointed officials in Highland Park and Detroit, demanding documentation about the water shutoffs and a more equitable way for residents to challenge their rising bills. (The water department eventually produced a report showing that it had cut off water to 40,000 homes in 2001-2002. In Highland Park, which supplies its own water to residents, roughly half of all households, or 7,000, had been cut off at one point.)
Kramer co-founded the Highland Park Human Rights Coalition. She pressed the Highland Park City Council to address the exorbitant estimated water and sewage bills, and to stop the placing of delinquent water bills on property taxes. Town hall meetings called by the Union in the late 1990s at first attracted only a few dozen residents. Soon, a few hundred residents attended. Kramer says residents were initially hesitant to shout too much about their grievances, out of shame – and fear that the court would remove their children from the home because of the health hazard caused by a lack of running water.
Gaining Traction
The cause gained momentum. Kramer and her comrade-in-arms, MWRO Director Maureen Taylor decided on a legal approach to the problem. With help from Michigan Legal Services, they enlisted a national utilities expert to help advance a legal argument to support the right to running water.
The Water Affordability Plan was born. The plan would subsidize water and sewer bills for low-and fixed-income residents in Detroit using late fees and contributions from customers who opt to kick in an extra few bucks each billing period. Perhaps more important, the plan also would guarantee no shutoffs, a widespread practice of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Two years ago the Detroit City Council approved it. The Water and Sewerage Department's Board of Directors agreed to implement it in July of 2006. But bureaucratic foot-dragging has delayed implementation so far.
"We're hoping and praying and still pushing," says Kramer, who notes that the department cut off the water in 4,000 Detroit homes in May 2007. "We have July 1 as a goal, and we're not giving up."
Lorray Brown, managing attorney with the Michigan Poverty Law Program, says Kramer has organized the support needed for the Accountability Plan's passage and implementation. "Each time we've been faced with a stumbling block, [Kramer and the Rights Union] have been able to mobilize roomfuls of people," Brown says.
One of those protest voices, Tapeka Dixon, says Kramer helped her not only when the gas company shut off her heat in 2004, by putting her on a budget plan and finding money to cover the bill, but also when the water department shut off her water for nonpayment of a $1,000 bill. Dixon had told the department that the fees applied to the previous homeowner; she didn't get anywhere. But when Kramer contacted the water department, they listened; department officials met with Dixon and reduced her bill by $600.
Always Marching
As an African-American growing up in the South, Kramer marched for civil rights and organized voter registration drives, landing in a Louisiana jail once for eight excruciatingly muggy and insect-plagued nights.
After Kramer's mother divorced her father, Marian's grandparents stepped in to help raise her while her mother worked two jobs and volunteered for civil rights organizations that were forming in the South. She also opened their home to people who needed a meal.
"She made us promise we would always try to help one another," Kramer recalls. "My family was always sharing."
Her strategies for being heard today range from street-level picketing and sloganeering to letter-writing campaigns and phone calls to formulating sophisticated proposals to redress wrongs. Kramer is known for her ability to quickly organize people to show up at the Mayor's office or a City Council meeting to challenge a vote.
Kramer calls the Union's success with the water affordability plan a watershed event in her career as a grassroots activist. She says it's also opened her eyes to different water-related challenges. Kramer recently accompanied the Detroit chapter of the Sierra Club to a Great Lakes conference in Washington, D.C., where she spoke about the Union's successes and strategies, and where she learned about the pollution of Great Lakes waterways and widespread industrial dumping in the Detroit River.
As for where she'll go with a newfound knowledge, she's not sure yet. But the broader water issues are on her radar.
"The question of just having water turned on goes beyond that to quality of water. We're looking at environmental justice. Yes, we represent poor people, but this goes beyond poor people. I could be a senior – plant flowers every day – but there's too much to be done."
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My vacation look while in Cape Cod (ahem, yes another vacation), was a little bit borrowed from my familial roots as well as a homage to the local New England spirit.
Where else can you wear obnoxiously loud plaid oxfords, and feel completely unironic, especially with a two-toned loafer? I rest my case. I also took style inspiration from my Grandma, who is the picture of class, and brought along her straw bag.
More photos from my trip to the Boston and Cape Cod area coming up in a hot minute.


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Janet Phyfe, 97, Past President of Darien Book Aid, Volunteer at St Luke's, Tots 'n' Teens, Loved Gardening, Tennis
Janet Unz Phyfe, 97, died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 at Masonicare in Wallingford. Janet grew up in New York City and moved with her family to Darien for her junior year of high school. Her father was a founding member of the Norwalk Skating Club, providing the family hours of shared enjoyment with the skating community. Janet graduated from Low Heywood School and earned her bachelor's degree at Wheaton College.
Irene Kubovic, 82, St. Luke's Volunteer, Avid Reader, Photographer, Docent in Art Museums
Irene "Carol" Kubovic died peacefully on Dec. 25, 2021 at AdventHealth Orlando. She was 82. She was the devoted wife and partner to John Kubovic for over 60 years. Carol was born on the Fourth of July in 1939 in Troy, New York.
Katherine Kelly Young passed away on Dec. 31, 2021 in New Canaan. She was 59. Katy was born on April 11, 1962 in New York City to Robert Jackson Kelly Jr. and Patricia Cohalan Kelly. She grew up in Darien and was a graduate of Darien High School.
Cameron Repp, 92, Active Volunteer, Youth Hockey Coach, Enjoyed Boating, Skiiing, Fishing, Golf
Cameron Herbert Repp a resident of Norwalk, passed away peacefully at home on Dec. 12, 2021 at the age of 92. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to the late Herbert Nelson Repp and Lavinia Stuart Repp. Cameron attended Hindley Elementary, Deerfield Academy and Kent State University, graduating with a bachelor's degree. He then went onto have several jobs which included working for Walden Books, Yacht Haven, Rings End Lumber, Lloyd Lumber and Creative Cabinetry.
Carol Brown, 85, DHS Class of '53, St Luke's Parishioner, P2P Volunteer, Enjoyed Bridge
Carol Jean Swanson Brown, of Charlotte, North Carolina, passed away peacefully on Dec. 21, 2021. She was 85. Carol was born on March 27, 1935 in Stamford, to Florence (Daly) and Carl Herbert Swanson. Raised in Darien, Carol was a member of the Darien High School class of 1953.
Dorothy Shillinglaw, 93, Editor, Loved Genealogy, Travel, Active in St John Church
Dorothy Theresa (Hanrahan) Shillinglaw of Darien passed away peacefully on Dec. 22, 2021 at Stamford Hospital. She was 93. Dorothy was born in the Bronx on Sept. 30, 1928 to the late Edward Francis and Dorothy Josephine (Riley) Hanrahan.
Patrick Raffaele, 82, Loved Cooking, Eating Out, Following the Yankees, Coaching Little League
Patrick M. Raffaele, 82, died comfortably at home in Newtown on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. A longtime resident of Darien, Patrick was born on Nov. 25, 1939 in Stamford, where he met his wife, Winifred (Ambrose) Raffaele during their high school years. The two were married for 60 years and raised three children together.
Judith Henry, 79, Former Darien Resident, Loved Animals, Mahjong
Judith "Judy" Henry passed away on Dec. 8, 2021. She was 79. Judy was born on Oct. 3, 1942 in Syracuse, New York to Eugene and Bertha Stoll and raised in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey.
Edith Omicioli, 92, Darien Native, Worked in Convalescent Homes, Volunteered at Food Bank
Edith Omicioli, formally a resident of Portland for over 60 years, passed away peacefully on Dec. 8, at Hillsborough County Nursing Home in Goffstown, New Hampshire, at the age of 92. She was born Feb. 28, 1929, in Darien to John Levay and Florence (Stevens) Levay. Edith worked at Queens Convalescent Homes in Middletown, Stonehaven, and Portland Connecticut and Elmcrest, also in Portland, before retiring.
Maude Morley, 92, Loved Golf and Bridge, Former Member of Nutmeg Curling Club, Country Club of Darien
Maude Marie Morley passed away on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. She was 92. Born on Sept. 16, 1929 in Regina, Saskatchewan, she was the only daughter of the late Edward and Charlotte Kern.
Richard Terhune Sr, 86, DCA Board Member, Church Elder, Enjoyed Reading, Genealogy
On Friday, Dec. 10, Richard "Dick" Terhune said goodbye to this world and strode into the light to rejoin the love of his life, Gretchen Reiche Terhune. Dick was 86 years awesome and a resident of OceanView in Falmouth, Maine. Despite the brief illness that laid him low at the end, he was a six-and-a-half-foot hunk blessed with good health, great humor, chronic curiosity and an affectionate, adoring personality that brightened the lives of his beloved family and many, many friends. Dick was born on Jan.
Milton Graham, 87, Pro Football Player, FBI Agent, Mountain Climber, Inkeeper
Milton R. Graham, 87, of Norwalk passed away Monday, Dec. 13 at the Brightview Assisted Living Center in Norwalk. Mr. Graham was born July 28, 1934, in Defreestville, New York. He was the son of Russell and Lucile (Tucker) Graham. He married Gertrude Jo (Engle) Graham on June 13, 1959 at Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church in East Orange, New York.
Glen VanCura, 57, Active Parishioner at St John Church, Owned Bicycle Store
Glen Bruce VanCura of Rowayton, Connecticut passed away peacefully on Dec. 4, 2021 at Greenwich Hospital. He was 57. He was born to the late Joseph Clement VanCura and Kathleen (Kitty) Moody of Goshen, New York on April 5, 1964. An avid cyclist all his life, Glen attained ownership of Dave's Cycle in Cos Cob in 1992, and took great pride in running his business and embracing his customers for the past 30 years.
Eileen Hanford, 73, Longtime Darien Realtor and Resident, Loved the Beach, Visiting New York City
With heavy hearts but boundless love and appreciation, the family of Eileen B. Hanford announce the Dec. 3 passing of their beloved wife and mother at the age of 73. Born in 1948 to Anna and Peter Brabazon, Eileen B. Hanford was the youngest of seven children and made a point of letting everyone she met know this about her. She attended St. Andrew Avelino School and Mary Immaculate Boarding School in Ossining, New York, where she graduated in 1966.
James Calcagnini, 59, Active in St John Church, Treasurer of Pacific House, NY Board of Trade Member
James Arthur Calcagnini passed away peacefully at his home in Darien on Dec. 7, 2021 after a courageous battle against ALS. He was 59. James was born on Feb. 9, 1962 in West Islip, New York.


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Alicia Keys and Willow Smith's Stunning Red Table Talk Duet Has Us Wanting an Album ASAP
Alicia Keys and Willow Smith Red Table Talk Duet Video
October 17, 2019 by Chanel Vargas First Published: October 16, 2019
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The cast of Red Table Talk was treated to an impromptu duet when Alicia Keys teamed up with Willow Smith on Monday. After filming an episode of the talk show, Keys and Smith sat around a bright red grand piano to put their own spin on the show's theme song, and their harmonization was absolutely breathtaking. "I just want to be myself / I don't want to be anyone else," Keys and Smith sang in synchronization while putting an angelic spin on the short tune.
As if performing a duet with a 15-time-Grammy-winning musician wasn't enough, Smith also received a sweet compliment from Keys at the end of their performance. "Your voice is so beautiful," Keys told the 18-year-old singer-songwriter after they hugged. Watch the full clip from Smith's Instagram account here, and prepare to be absolutely blown away.
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Arriving on Naxos
Το ηλεκτρονικό μας κατάστημα Σας προσφέρει μια τεράστια γκάμα φαρμάκων, ικανή να φέρει πίσω την αρρενωπότητα Βιαγκρα Ελλάδα Όταν το κάνετε αυτό, εξασφαλίζουμε χαμηλές τιμές, απόλυτη ανωνυμία και την ευκολία αγοράς, ωστόσο, όλα με τη σειρά.
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Naxos is the largest island of the Cyclades in the Aegean Pelagos. It's area is 435 sq. km . and a coastline of 91 km The shape is oval with a mountainous volume from North to South across the island . The backbone of this ridge dominate Za Mountain ( 1004 m) the highest in the Cyclades.
The distance from the port of Piraeus is 103 nautical miles and from the port of Rafina, 87 nautical miles. The resident called Naxians or from Naxos , Axiotis or Axotis (and Naxiotissa , or Axiotissa Axotissa respectively). Boys generally called Girl and the small " kopelakia " . Girls and young kopeloudia kopeloudakia . Among the inhabitants are called while the mountainous Naxos , ( eastern ) , Anomeritou , and lowland Naxos ( western ) lowlander or Livaditi , and the capital of Naxos Town Choraites .
Naxos reside in the 4th millennium BC continuously until today. The study of place names attest that Naxos, unlike other islands was never deserted by residents, and that in all areas of the island, from ancient times until today living the same people who obviously regroup, having the power to assimilate foreigners, at times, peacefully or by force of arms set on the island.
The first inhabitants of Naxos considered the Thracians. Naxos was inhabited by the first son of Boreas dip. According to tradition, two hundred years Thracians dominated the island. Thracians they were succeeded by Kares who came from Asia led by Naxos. The Naxos imposed his name to the island.
The oldest discoveries in Naxos dating to the Neolithic period around the 5th millennium BC, as shown by the excavations at Grotta area which can be found on the north side of the city of Naxos, as well as Zas cave next to Filoti. According to these archaeological findings, the Cycladic civilization was already developed at that time in Naxos and seems to have begun in 5500 BC and flourished in 3000 BC.
Naxos played an important role in the Cycladic civilization. Among the important changes that occurred at that time was the development of the waterways, the construction and use of copper, ceramic and marble processing. In Grotta in Naxos town, but also in other locations on the island, found many figurines which are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Naxos, in the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, as well as a small number of them in the archaeological museum in Apeiranthos. The Archaeological Museum of Naxos has the second largest collection of Cycladic findings after the archaeological museum of Athens.
Mycenaean
A part of the capital of Naxos in the Mycenaean period (1300 BC) was discovered under the square in front of the Orthodox Cathedral of the island, where it is today is the archeological site Grotta. Just below the square formed an epitope museum. The museum has a glass floor elevated walkways. Guests pass over the disclosed ruins (walls, houses and workshops) of the Mycenaean period (1400-1100 BC). Mycenaean era finds (decorated with paint, pottery, weapons, utensils, etc.) also exposed in the Archaeological Museum of Naxos.
Around the 8th century BC Delos was a powerful worship due to the temple of Apollo. There gathered guests and offerings from almost all parts of the eastern Mediterranean, while hosting the delegations of the Ionian cities in their annual meeting which is take place on the island. From the middle of the 8th century BC until about the 5th century BC Naxos obtains control of the sanctuary, thus significantly increasing the political power of Naxos in the Aegean. At the same time in the war between Halkida and Eretria, Naxos participates actively supporting Halkida, while a little later, Naxos is at war with the island of Paros. In this warfare the Parian lyric poet Archilochos was killed fighting . That time naxos was colonized by the Ionians and begins a long period of growth for the island.
During the next few years Naxos was inhabited by Ionians, which marked an important time for the island. During that period begins and reaches its peak in the classical period (7th-6th century BC), while flourishing of the arts and especially of sculpture and architecture. Portara, large marble, is what is left of the Temple of Apollo, begun in that period.
In 490 BC Naxos was destroyed by the Persians. After the final defeat of the Persians by the Greeks, Naxos was forced to join the Delian League, after it was destroyed and burnt down by the Athenian fleet (466 BC), while Pericles established a garrison of 500 colonists led by General Tolmidis (453 BC) to the financially bled for the benefit of the Athenian Republic. After the end of the Athenian Republic, after about a half century Naxos never managed to recover and regain its old glory and importance.
Since that time saved the sanctuary of Demeter near Sangri, which is partially restored. The temple is considered very important in archeology because it has survived in good condition and gives a lot of information on how to build and architecture of ancient temples.
The ancient city of Naxos was the site of today and near which was brilliant temple of Dionysus. Many are those who believe that the surviving ruins on the island palaces.
Naxos belonged in Byzantine times in the Aegean Theme. In Naxos there are many Byzantine churches. The valley Tragaia called "small Mystras" because of the many churches that are scattered everywhere. There are churches dating from the 7th to the 15th century. Most famous are the Virgin Drosiani, which had 3 layers of wall with the oldest dates back to the 7th century. Some of these churches were built during the period of Iconoclasm.
In 1207 the island was occupied by the Venetian Marco Sanudo, who founded the Duchy of Naxos. The Venetians will dominate in Naxos for three and a half centuries in creating a feudal system, which will last until the early 19th century. During this period, Naxos will find in the sights of Venetian-Turkish competition for dominance in the Aegean and the advent and activity mainly French missionaries on the island with the tolerance of the Ottomans will reinforce the already strong presence in the western Cyclades during the Ottoman . Witnesses of the Latin presence in Naxos are the monuments left behind by the conquerors as Castle Country and scattered throughout the island towers.
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1944 encyclopedia of knots by Clifford W. Ashley / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots written and illustrated by the American sailor and artist Clifford W. Ashley. First published in 1944, it was the culmination of over 11 years of work. The book contains 3,857 numbered entries (the final number, "3854", is added to by three "1/2" #s (794.5, 1034.5, & 2585.5) and, in later editions of the book, #1425a for Hunter's Bend; and one number has no entry) and approximately 7,000 illustrations.[1] The entries include knot instructions, uses, and some histories, categorized by type or function. It remains one of the most important and comprehensive books on knots.
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Alibaba launches new project, backed by $16.3b funding, to improve goods delivery in China
by Kaylene Hong — in Asia
An Alibaba-led logistics network project was launched today in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, as the Chinese e-commerce leader seeks to boost the delivery of products purchased online.
According to a Sina Tech report, Alibaba has collaborated with a few industry partners to set up a company under the project, dubbed the China Smart Logistics Network.
Alibaba has teamed up with financial institutions including China Yintai Holdings, Fosun and Forchn Holdings, as well as major delivery companies to launch the new company, named "Rookie Network". China Yintai chairman Shen Guojun will be the company's CEO, while Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma will be the chairman of Rookie.
It was announced at the launch that the first stage of investment stood at 100 billion yuan ($16.3 billion). The company is aiming to build a network that can support an average 30 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) worth of daily online shopping transactions within 5-8 years. Other earlier reports also noted that the network would allow the delivery of products across China within 24 hours.
In 2012, Alibaba topped 1 trillion yuan ($157 billion) in combined sales volume on its Tmall and Taobao websites during the first 11 months of the year.
Last year, the company also said transactions on Alibaba platforms, which were reorganized in July, was likely to surpass both Amazon and eBay in annual online sales.
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Harald Hammarström, born in Västerås, Sweden, 1977. Ph.D. from Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
How to use a computer to calculate the history of languages starting from linguistic data.
For centuries, linguists have reconstructed trees from contemporary data (words, sound changes, grammatical features) on languages. The trees reflect the historical dispersion of the languages and, in want of written testimonies, are our only reliable source on the prehistoric movement of the populations involved. The most well-known such tree is the Indo-European family tree, underlying hundreds of geographically disparate modern languages, such as Afrikaans, English and Hindi. Other well-known families are Austronesian (over 1000 languages in the Indo-Pacific archipelago), Niger-Congo (over 1000 languages in Sub-Saharan Africa) and Sino-Tibetan (hundreds of languages in China and the Himalayas). Not only which languages are related, but how close they are related is the following question. For example, observing that English and Dutch resemble each other more than either to Hindi, one may argue that they two of them should form subgroup. Thanks to information on what are likely kinds and amounts of changes, it is possible to make principled inferences on what are more likely scenarios. With more data, more languages and the possibility that one or more characteristics may be borrowed across branches, these problems become enormously complicated. Language tree-reconstruction has traditionally been done manually by humans. But key parts of the tree-reconstruction, i.e., looking up words in a dictionary, weighting of evidence for millions of alternative tree scenarios, etc are better suited for a computer. Only now, in the digital age, are both computational power and large linguistic datasets available.
1) Hammarström, Harald. 2013. Pronouns and the (Preliminary) Classification of Papuan languages. In Harald Hammarström & Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classi?cation of Papuan languages (LLM Special Issue 2012), 428-539. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
2) Hammarström, Harald. 2010a. Rarities in Numeral Systems. In Jan Wohlgemuth & Michael Cysouw (eds.), Rethinking Universals: How rarities affect linguistic theory (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 45), 11-60. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
3) Harald Hammarström 2008 Counting Languages in Dialect Continua Using the Criterion of Mutual Intelligibility. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15(1), pp. 36-45.


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Bears On Ice, the only Icelandic men only festival, will be held in Reykjavík for the 11th time from the 3rd to the 6th of September. Organizer Frosti Jónsson promises an event that will be remembered for a long, long time.
"It's a fantastic weekend where bears and friends get together for a long weekend. Where you can enjoy the company of like-minded guys, be yourself and have fun in a totally relaxed and attitude free environment," he says with excitement about the upcoming festival.
"I've always been attracted to bear like men and the cuddly types," admits Frosti, when asked why he was drawn to the bear scene to begin with. "But as I got to know more and more guys, initially abroad, guys with a similar perspective on life as me and who were determined on being themselves, that's when I really felt the connection. And now I've made so many great friends since we started hosting Bears on Ice in Iceland. Friends who I keep in touch with."
Asked what the bears concept stands for Frosti explains that the roots of that concept are in America in the seventies.
"Then there was a group of gay men who didn't feel they fit into the gay scene at the time who was very focused on looks and fashion. We don't all fall under that stereotype, we come in all shapes and sizes, and the bears scene emphasizes respect for that. We all have a right to have a good time and be appreciated regardless of how we look."
Frosti says that the emphasis on good looks and hot bodies has been part of society for as long as anyone can remember and that the gay scene is neither better or worse than the rest of society in that regard.
"It's necessary to break free from those stereotypes and those ideas on how people are supposed to look and dress. Respect is the key concept of the bears scene and we welcome all gay, bi and trans men to our parties."
But has not the bear concept become a stereotype of it's own by now?
"No, not at all. How can people of all shapes and sizes be a stereotype," Frosti asks back. "Of course the guys who find themselves in this scene have certain attributes in common, but first and foremost it's a question of attitude. The bears scene is all-inclusive, you just show up and act like yourself and no questions asked."
"If you are not satisfied with the gay scene in Iceland as it is then make something else happen yourself. Be a doer…"
Frosti says that the bears scene has grown a lot in recent years and that it is now a big part of the gay scene everywhere. "Luckily it has become accepted that we don't all look the same and we behind Bears on Ice have really emphasized that point. It takes all kinds to make a society and the same goes for the queer community."
DJ Brent Milne, Big Dipper and GoGo Starr will entertain on Saturday.
Frosti was on the news recently criticising the people who were criticising the Pride Parade in Reykjavík and he says that he is tired of people sitting at their computers criticising everything that other people are doing.
"If you want to see changes be the one who changes things," he says. "If you are not satisfied with the gay scene in Iceland as it is then make something else happen yourself. Be a doer, not a talker, or shut up."
But how did Frosti himself end up organizing the only men only event in Iceland?
"It all started back in 2005," he says. "Then I got an email from two guys in London who wanted to visit Iceland to have a good party and asked me if I could organize that. I really liked the idea and we created an event that lasted for three days and was a huge success that we wanted to repeat. And that's how the Bears weekend in Reykjavík became an annual event."
Since then Bears on Ice has grown tremendously. This year about 150 foreign participants have confirmed their coming and all the events of the whole festival are sold out.
"But there is room for everyone at the dances and parties," Frosti says and he hopes that Icelandic gay, bi and trans men will show up at the Welcome Party in Iðusalir on Thursday and the big gala night in Þjóðleikhúskjallarinn on Saturday where the famous American musician Big Dipper will be the main attraction. "Newly crowned drag queen of Iceland, GoGo Starr will also entertain guests and DJ's DJ Dramatik, Bistro Boy and Brent Milne will keep people dancing til the wee hours of the morning."
See the full Bears on Ice program here.
Bears on Ice is becoming more popular every year. In light of his talent for organizing popular events Frosti was approached by a group of girls who asked if he would put together a girl's only event, but he respectfully declined. "It isn't really my area of expertise," he gleefully admits. "Besides, I have my hands full with the bears." Photos by Páll Guðjónsson. GoGo Starr photographed by Andri Marinó.
Friðrika Benónýsdóttir
Friðrika Benónýsdóttir has been writing about literature and culture in icelandic media for decades. She was the cultural editor of Iceland's biggest newspaper, Fréttablaðið and is currently one of the literature critics for the hugely popular TV show Kiljan on national television RÚV. Friðrika is also a published writer of three books; a biography, a book of poetry and a novel.


One of the difficulties is coping with announcement of new satellite constellations is coming up with a superlative to describe a really large number when describing gigantic plans.
The latest news, that a Chinese organisation wants to put up 300 satellites, each operating in low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide "global communications", definitely puts the scheme in the 'super-constellation' band.
However, the 300 satellites from China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp (CASC) and dubbed Hongyan (translated as Wild Goose) is moving forward very rapidly. The first satellite, according to state news agency Xinhua, will be orbited later this year and the constellation fully completed by 2021. Later this year will see ground terminals tested.
But 300 Chinese satellites are a drop in the orbital arc. Another scheme is for 156 mini-satellites from the Xingyun consortium led by China Great Wall Industry Corp, an affiliate business to CASC, already has its first satellite in orbit and is designed to serve broadband and Internet of Things connectivity.
Other satellite constellations are in advanced stages. They include a couple of 'mega-constellations' and each has filed applications for permission with the Federal Communications Commission. OneWeb, for example, will launch its first test satellites later this year.
A report from Northern Sky Research says that China's ambitions could easily be expanded, and pose a very real threat to the 'Western' mega-players and their constellations.


Sheep grazing in a pasture seem like the definition of a simple, pastoral scene. But that pasture is more than just a sheep dining room, it's a pharmacy too, where sheep can be taught to select their own medicine.
Dr. Juan Villalba, associate research professor of foraging behavior in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University, and his colleagues have found that sheep struggling with gastrointestinal nematode infection – otherwise known as internal parasites (IP), otherwise known as an upset stomach – can be trained to purposely select foods that act as medicines to help alleviate what's hurting inside.
Tannins are secondary compounds produced by plants. They have an astringent affect that sheep are typically not fond of and can reduce the amount of forage sheep consume as well as inhibit protein digestibility. But at the right doses they also reduce the number of parasites in a sheep's gut. A series of papers released by Villalba et al. over the past five years, most recently "Selection of Tannins by Sheep in Response to Gastrointestinal Nematode Infection" (Villalba, Provenza, F.D., Hall, J.O., and Lisonbee, L.D., 2010) in the Journal of Animal Science, describe how sheep with parasites can be trained to prefer a food with plant secondary compounds (PSC), chemicals that do a variety of wonderful things: provide plants with self-defense by limiting how much herbivores will eat; attract pollinating insects for reproductive purposes; resist water and nutrient stress, and provide ultraviolet protection.
Basically, PSC is a plant weapon and animal medicine, and for sheep suffering with intestinal parasites, PSC is just what the doctor ordered.
Tannins, sodium bicarbonate, polyethelene glycol, and sericea lespedeza are just some of the compounds that help ward off ailments such as IP. These findings were deduced after laboriously repeated procedures and tests.
Villalba and his colleagues exposed lambs both with and without IP to alfalfa with tannins (AT), alfalfa being a plant that sheep thoroughly enjoy. The lambs were eventually selected down to 20. Half were provided a nutrient called Ivermectin to eradicate the PI. The other 10 weren't provided any type of medication. Over different periods of time throughout the 37-day testing, several combinations of AT versus normal alfalfa were provided. Overall, results showed that lambs with parasites consumed more AT than the lambs without parasites, and counts of parasite eggs found in sheep feces decreased in direct relationship to consuming tannins.
However, don't think that the sickly sheep will always go searching for tannins. As Villalba said, while we humans enjoy Tums when our stomach is asking for it, surely we won't go on consuming such tablets when we are feeling fine once again.


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Lawrence Andrew Reid – amerykański językoznawca, specjalista w zakresie języków austronezyjskich. Zajmuje się przede wszystkim autochtonicznymi językami Filipin, ich historią i rozwojem.

Jest absolwentem Uniwersytetu Hawajskiego, gdzie uzyskał magisterium z językoznawstwa (1964). Doktoryzował się tamże w 1966 r. Studiował także muzykę w Canterbury College w Christchurch (Nowa Zelandia) oraz teologię w Commonwealth Bible College w Brisbane (Australia).

Jego dorobek obejmuje liczne książki, artykuły, recenzje i tłumaczenia. Wśród jego książek można wymienić: An Ivatan Syntax, Central Bontoc: Sentence, Paragraph and Discourse Structures, Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies, Bontok-English Dictionary, Guinaang Bontok Texts.

Swoją karierę akademicką związał z Uniwersytetem Hawajskim, gdzie był długoletnim wykładowcą. Laureat wielu stypendiów i grantów. Piastował stanowiska badawcze i dydaktyczne w instytucjach w całym regionie Pacyfiku, m.in. na Uniwersytecie w Auckland, Australijskim Uniwersytecie Narodowym i Uniwersytecie Thammasaat (Tajlandia). Pracował także w Instytucie Studiów nad Językami i Kulturami Azji i Afryki w Tokio.

Zajmował się także językami tajwańskimi.

Publikacje

 An Ivatan syntax (1966)
 Central Bontoc: Sentence, paragraph and discourse (1970)
 Philippine Minor Languages (1971)
 Bontok-English dictionary, with English-Bontok finder list (1976)
 Philippine linguistics: The State of the art: 1970–1980 (1981)
 The demise of Proto-Philippines (1982)
 Guinaang Bontok texts (1992)
 Morphological evidence for Austric (1994)
 Guide to Isinay Orthography (2016)

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Over the pass years I was unexpectedly introduced to a different type of music generally called "K-Pop". Which is weird to think about listening to songs that is in a different language and has a different style than the majority of the songs in America. Vixx is one of those bands that are unique and creative. Each song has their own story and style with dance moves that coordinates with the lyrics. So even if someone isn't able to understand Korean just watching their body movements is a way to translate the meaning of the song. When watching Vixx their dance moves are very sharp and precise, and along with their facial expression can leave one in awe after watching one video.
Vixx is a six member band with the leader being N, rapper Ravi, vocals Leo, Ken, Hyuk, and Hongbin. At the beginning of their debut in 2012 the leader N mention on a music talk show that he really didn't want to become an idol which shocked all the viewers. Soon later his mind was changed when Vixx quickly became famous over the past 2 years, they were able to win 2 awards in South Korea and had performances on famous shows such as Music Bank and Show Champion. They also have concerts around the world including an upcoming one at K-con which is in California. ( I shall be attending the concert to see them! ). Their songs are able to captive their audiences, and their voices and looks seem to fit perfectly together. This group was selected to be together through the company so the members didn't know each other until training days before their first debut. After years past the group is now close friends with each other as seen on their show Vixx T.V, at the beginning there was a sense the awkwardness of the band, but if you were to watch the videos now you can see how close they are to each other.
The songs that Vixx performs have deeper meanings in their lyrics and have theme to each video. One of the recent songs that came out is called "Eternity" which is about how they wish that there dream about the one they love will last forever. In the music video they dance moves resembles a clock and their facial expression is able to convey the loneliness and sadness they feel as their dream is slipping away. Another music video is "Voodoo Doll" that sounds creepy but I think it is one of the most interesting ideas for a song. The lyrics are expressing that they love the person to such as extent that they are willing to act like a voodoo doll. Other words the girl they love treats them any way she wants and they are just accepting and going along with whatever she wants.
Vixx Voodoo Doll music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmrNMf_jzkE
As I mention above this is a link to the live version of "Voodoo Doll". The reason why I chose to the live version and not the music video is because in the video is the whole dance and close ups to show their intense facial expressions. Also, you will notice that all their movements are sharp to resmemble a voodoo doll being controlled, and when one of the members are pinned they all react in the same way. When you are done watching the video maybe search the same video with English sub-titles to have a deeper understanding.
Vixx Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIXX
The wikipedia page has information on how the band was created and each reward that Vixx has won. There is a list of music videos and T.V programs where they were guest stars. Also, some of the members have side jobs as actors and has a list of dramas and shows of their performances.
Vixx Fan page : http://kpopcolorcodedlyrics.wordpress.com/vixx-members-profiles/
The fan page has information on each member which include their whole name and what position they have in the band. For each member there are interesting facts about them and you can get to know their personalities more.
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Supermarket giant Sainsbury's is walking away from Bingley after promising for three years it would develop the defunct Bradford & Bingley headquarters.
But before selling the site, once worth £6 million, the retailer has pledged to flatten it and remove the building which some say is a blight on the town.
Shipley Tory MP Philip Davies was told about the surprise decision at a meeting with Sainsbury yesterday – after he pressed them for straight answers on the subject.
Mr Davies said he was disappointed and pleased by finally getting to the truth. He said: "We were in danger of nothing happening so I'm pleased I've managed to force the issue. It is best we know sooner rather than later.
"Selling that site as soon as possible is crucial to the future of Bingley town centre. Retailers need something to happen." Mr Davies explained the history behind this latest twist.
He said: "I told them we couldn't keep waiting year on year and asked them to go away and make it viable and if they couldn't then to sell it to someone else.
"If they didn't we would have ended up with another Westfield situation.
"They've done what I asked and in some ways it is positive. But I'm really disappointed they are not going to go ahead as I'd sooner they were moving to Bingley.
Mr Davies said this was out of consideration for traders by not disrupting the town centre at a crucial retail time.
Andrew Sanderson, Sainsbury's development manager, said: "We know how much the people of Bingley wanted us to build in their town and we are actively looking for smaller sites in the area.
"We are with immediate effect looking to sell the site so that it can be redeveloped as soon as possible.
"We will work closely with partners to ensure this is done quickly and delivers the best outcome for Bingley.
Ward Councillor David Heseltine (Con, Bingley) said: "At least they are not blocking the site and if cleared it will be a much more attractive proposition.
Fellow Conservative Councillor John Pennington said: "Let's look on the up and invite Waitrose to town instead.


Security is one of the most important issues for any homeowner today. It really doesn't matter where you live; you need the services of a professional locksmith in order to have a safe and secure house. You really can't afford to be care-free for the reason since even the most secure neighborhoods if left unlocked get broken into and robbed.
Locksmiths are very professional as they will highly advice you on the best devices irrespective of the neighborhood you live in. one of the devices you are bound to be recommended to use when you ask a locksmith is the key pad lever door.
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It's very scary to think that each day, robbers, crooks and burglars device new way to break into your house. However, it's also convincing and reliving to hear that locksmiths also update themselves on the best way to counter such techniques used by burglars. One such method that comes to mind is the use of key pad lever doors. They are very strong and heavy devices that are used to lock your doors. The material used to make them ensures that they can be drilled off.
Why should I install keypad locks?
You should note that most burglars and crooks mostly succeed in areas where proper measures have not been put into place. It's very unfortunate for you to think of a locksmith only after you've been robbed. This is because it'll be a little too late for you to recover your valuables. However, it'll be a bold and wise step as you'll be better prepared the next time robbers and burglars strike. any locksmith will tell you that having a key pad lever door is the best way to challenge them the next time they try to put a hit on your house. They are very convenient since you won't have to carry or misplace your keys.