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Origin story: Lessing (1979), Shikasta
March 13, 2021 Paul Raven	1 Comment
Shikasta was not entirely what I expected—or even partly what I expected at first, to be quite honest. Lessing's first "science fiction" novel starts off as something of a clunky jumble, but eventually clarifies into a variant of the Shaggy God Story, the trope where the state of the modern world is explained as being in part down to alien intervention in deep history, and/or other cosmic malarky. On that basis I'm tempted to compare it to Julian May's Saga of the Exiles, but the comparison is not hugely flattering to Lessing's book, for reasons of technique (to which point I shall return below) as well as coherence and scope.
Perhaps most surprising to me were the distinctly New Age undertones. I've always pictured Lessing (on the basis of an admittedly slight familiarity with her work: The Golden Notebook, and a few collections of the later short stories) as a bitterly disappointed idealist-turned-realist/pragmatist… and there's a lot of that in here, certainly, but the more wooish stuff still seems strange until you situate it historically. Written in the late Seventies, Shikasta is thus contemporary with the long boom of post-Sixties political cynicism, and the compensatory surge of pseudo-religions, occultism, UFO theory, and alternate megahistory: the age of Erich von Däniken and his ilk, of attempts to explain some of the stuff that archaeology had started to unearth, but which the rather sober positivist science of the time wouldn't engage with at all through anything other than dismissal.
And so Lessing depicts deep history from the earliest days of life on Earth, an Edenic paradise of millennia-long lifespans and chummy megafauna, through to a a cataclysmic and dystopian end to what would be the C20th (by our own "Shikastan" count), as a derailed colonial experiment started by benevolent and superior aliens. The people of the Canopean empire (centered on Canopus) turned up first, with the aim of bringing on an already promising planet by introducing some alien chums as caretakers of the burgeoning biosphere, while a lesser and stranger allied empire (the Sirians, centered on Sirius) were permitted to play evolutionary games in certain parts of the southern hemisphere. All was going well until the worm-in-the-apple arrival of the agents of Shammat, the Manichean-caricature "evil" player on the galactic-imperial scene, who took advantage of an unexplained cosmic misalignment that disrupted the connection of earth to the Canopean good-vibes-and-plenitude network, resulting in a general slide into decay and degeneration. Canopus gets most (though not all) of the caretaker "giants" off-planet in preparation for the apparently inevitable aeons of misery, but its own agents keep a perpetual if diminished presence in order to (try to) keep things from backsliding too much into Shammat-sponsored misery and conflict.
Thus it turns out that legends of giants and other magical forebears, and of gods that come and go in flying chariots, are less myth than corrupted cultural memory, and that many of the great religious figures of human history were in fact Canopean agents trying to keep a lid on human affairs—but the cosmic bad vibes (or rather the surfeit of good ones, due to the "misalignment"), and the concomitant degradation of human minds and bodies (as well as of the web of life more broadly) resulted in said doctrines of good behaviour being twisted into dogma and hierarchical hegemony: ethics ossified into instrumentalised morality, if you like.
So far, so Seventies, I guess? That cultural-temporal distance shows up in more subtle ways, too; for instance, Lessing is clearly (and justly) concerned with the horrific legacy of racial and colonial exploitation in late human history, and at pains to depict this (in relentless and often horrifying detail) as indicative of our slide into misalignment with the cosmic good… but at the same time, the Canopeans are themselves ostensibly benevolent colonisers and meddlers in the fate of lesser beings, and there is much talk among them of "eugenism" and the preservation of "good genetic stock", not on the basis of race, but rather on the basis of beneficial traits like psychic "capacities" and empathetic behaviours, implied to be the (very much intended) , legacy of the early colonial blending of native hominids and the caretaker aliens. From the vantage of 2021, this feels a little queasy, if clearly well-intentioned: it's like watching someone try to argue their way out of the structures of racism, but using only the master's tools in their attempt to dismantle the master's house. The unintentional irony of a savage indictment of colonialism which is framed by a megahistory of earth as a benevolent colonial project intended to ensure the right mixtures of genetics and behaviour is… well, I don't think it would float in the current publishing landscape, outside of the presses for whom toying with outdated ideas has become something of a badge of "anti-woke" pride and defiance. To be totally clear, with this book Lessing was on the right side of history in her own time; if anything, Shikasta should probably seen as stridently progressive in its own temporal context. But it also serves as something of a yardstick for how much change there has been in how we think about these issues.
That manifests in another way, namely her portrayal of the practice of politics. For reasons well-known to anyone with even a passing familiarity with Lessing's personal history, Shikasta is informed by her fervent rejection and ridicule of post-war organised leftism, here portrayed as a caricature of empty factional posturing and the ritual exchange of shibboleths that, in some respects, wouldn't feel out of place in contemporary neoreactionary and conservative polemic. To be fair, fascism and capitalism and colonialism do not get any favourable coverage in Shikasta—far from it!—but nor do they get as much time on the stage. Rather, they are positioned as the backdrop, the perpetuation of Shammatean corruption and degeneration: an ever-more-chaotic context against which left activism throws shapes and spouts empty phrases that merely recapitulate and perpetuate the individualist mores of capital. But given Lessing's experience, and further given the terror and turbulence of the Seventies, the caricature surely has some root of truth in it; indeed, there are still some leftists like this today, as a quick visit to the birdsite will ably confirm, and probably always will be.
But at the same time, the differences in contemporary left thinking—shaped, no doubt, by the increasing normalisation of post-colonial and intersectional thinking, and the internalisation of the postmodern rejection of grand projects of top-down liberation through force, framed in an increased awareness (and critique) of history and historiography—are thrown into relief by these caricatures. Things are far from perfect, to be clear, but in a period of prevailing left melancholia, it is oddly reassuring to see that lessons have been learned over the course of my own lifetime. Not yet enough, and not yet so thoroughly as is needful, perhaps… but nonetheless, it's plain that four decades ago, the general grasp of sociohistorical dynamics in general, regardless of political alignment, was considerably cruder than it is at present. (Contemporary denial of these dynamics, while frustrating and damaging, is in effect a testament to the way that they've invaded the discourse.)
So, yes: an interesting (if very of-its-period) big picture story, told mostly through the experiences and observed actions of one Canopean agent incarnated as human, like some latter-day Christ. And therein lies my biggest gripe, from a purely literary perspective—or rather from a paraliterary perspective.I'm long past the stage of special pleading for genre-qua-genre, but Shikasta is a very clear demonstration of the extent to which a literary writer who decides to play in the speculative sandbox will often find themselves either reinventing the wheel in terms of technique, or—if you'll excuse the overextension of the metaphor—relying on sledge-runners because they've never seen a wheel deployed effectively.
The first quarter of the book is basically one huge cascade of as-you-know-Bob, in which Johor (the Canopean who will later incarnate as George Sherban) rambles on about his first missions to Shikasta/Earth, back in the days of the impending misalignment of cosmic whatever-it-is, explicitly for an audience of other Canopeans who have at least a passing familiarity with the topic… but in which he steadfastly declines to use Shikastan names for places. This deliberate omission continues in other Canopean-drafted interjections all through the book, with the result that not long after you've had the minor piecing-it-together pleasure of working out that "the Isolated Northern Continent" is North America, and "the Northwest Fringes" are Western Europe, you're rolling your eyes at what has become willful obscurantism that isn't even justified by the narrative frame. Or, more plainly: if you were writing a history of the C20th for other members of your benevolent colonial empire, in which said empire had spent literal millennia being intimately involved as it attempted to prevent things going too tits-up, and you were doing so at the ridiculous lengths implied by the framings of these archival excerpts and "suggested further reading" links, you would surely have started using the native placenames for your own convenience as much as for the reader's. (As I've already used a few terms from the Turkey City Lexicon, I might as well identify this as an unusual variant on "calling a rabbit a smeerp".)
Things are much improved once Johor/George gets incarnated, because from then on events are mostly recounted through the epistolary or journalistic point-of-view of characters around him. (Johor-as-George doesn't get to narrate himself, perhaps to avoid showing off his awareness of his being-in-mufti and his precognitive abilities.) Lessing's superpower was always character through voice, and so the actual human narrators are variously vivid, tragic and infuriating (or some mixture of all three). The continued insertion of Canopean reports on particular subjects or people, meanwhile, seem to use a sort of polite incomprehension as a proxy for the alien positionality, which (as noted above) becomes frustrating and a little absurd after you've considered how long they've been involved with their accidentally and tragically botched colony… and it's perhaps this issue of technique that really drew my attention to the unintentional irony of a critique of colonialism written from the perspective of benevolent alien colonisers. (Of course, we can't help reproducing the ideologies in which we are embedded—that's what makes them ideologies—so I don't mean to rag on Lessing here; I just think it's a really striking illustration of that phenomenon, made all the more particular by the lack of the standard sf-nal narrative toolkit.)
If you're willing to take the annihilation of the majority of humanity in mutual all-out war on a ravaged planet, followed by the survival and return-to-harmonious-living of small enclaves of the formerly institutionalised and/or downtrodden, as a just desert—and given the catalogue of human failings and sufferings that Lessing stuffs into this book, I have to presume she was—then there's a happy ending here, of sorts. On that basis, one might level an accusation of Malthusian dystopia at her, and there's definitely some of that in the mix—again, this is a book of the mid-to-late-Seventies! But my feeling is that Lessing's less concerned about the raw numbers of population than the inherently fallen or "degenerate" nature of the humans that make up those numbers. Interesting, though, that the cause of that fallenness is posited as a combination of cosmic misfortune (quite literally the wrong planet in the wrong place at the wrong time), and the meddling of a black-hat empire whose portrayal is so glancing a caricature of evil that it makes Frank Herbert's House Harkonnen look like a a longitudinal sociological study into the unintentional reproduction of emotional damage and cruelty. In other words, it's a very religious, and indeed quite a Christian way of looking at humanity's original sin… which again brings us back to that Seventies surge of alternate belief systems, as people searched for a new prime mover on which to hang a re-badged but nonetheless comfortingly familiar moral-teleological system.
(It occurs to me that the Shammat caricature is so thin, so much like a pantomime villain forever off-stage, that one might very easily do for Shikasta what Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer did for Tolkein's Lord of the Rings… though it's not such an interesting proposition that I actually fancy writing it, and I dare say it would be a pretty hard sell even if you did. But if you like the idea, go for it—just credit me with the idea when you collect your Hugo, OK?)
All that aside, an interesting and unusual read–and the sort of thing that I'd probably have fallen for very hard as a younger reader, particularly during my own Graham Hancock/von Däniken phase. I had some hope that this first volume of a five-book series might just be setting the stage for further adventures in the utopian future of Shikasta/Earth, but a friend who's familiar with it tells me that Lessing uses the other books to trundle off into more distant corners of her imagined universe, and into escalating levels of New Age weirdness and woo… which might be fun some day, but it's not what I'm looking for right now.
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Q: How to rename node attributes I am trying to make an XML API more friendly. Part of it is renaming names.
So far, I managed to rename the nodes to my liking, however, I can't figure out how to rename node attributes.
XML:
<result>
  <rowset name="characters" key="characterID" columns="name,characterID,corporationName,corporationID,allianceID,allianceName,factionID,factionName">
    <row name="Sult Dizarra" characterID="93125548" corporationName="Dry Atomic Fusion" corporationID="98012663" allianceID="154104258" allianceName="Apocalypse Now." factionID="0" factionName=""/>
    <row name="Bingu Pondarra" characterID="93421113" corporationName="Realm of Echidna" corporationID="98349254" allianceID="0" allianceName="" factionID="0" factionName=""/>
    <row name="Janna 'Wabisuke' Cobb" characterID="93431793" corporationName="Super Sexy" corporationID="98383185" allianceID="0" allianceName="" factionID="0" factionName=""/>
  </rowset>
</result>

xml.traverse do |node|
  if node.kind_of?(Nokogiri::XML::Element)
    node.each do |child|
      child.keys.each do |key|
        key.name = rename_method(key.name)
      end
    end
  end
end

But I went wrong somewhere here along the way. Can someone nudge me in the right direction?

A: Easy peasy:
require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::XML('<root><node foo="foo" /></root>')
node = doc.at('node')
node['bar'] = node['foo']
node.delete('foo')
doc.to_xml # => "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<root>\n  <node bar=\"foo\"/>\n</root>\n"

The core of this:
node['bar'] = node['foo']
node.delete('foo')

can be simplified to:
node['bar'] = node.delete('foo')

This is all in the Nokogiri::XML::Node documentation. I'd suggest spending time reviewing it, as Node and NodeSet contain the majority of the methods used with Nokogiri.

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This project communicates with the [BreweryDB](http://brewerydb.com/) api. It is built with angularJS and is leveraging [Foundation's](http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/) flex grid for layout.

###  Current Functionality
  - Get a random beer
  - View the Brewery details of that beer
  - Search function that searches for beers. Only beers with Brewery details will be returned

### Installation

```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/garmeeh/angular-beer.git angular-beer
$ cd angular-beer
$ npm install
$ gulp serve
```

To develop and use live reload use this in place of gulp serve:
```sh
$ gulp watch
```

### Demo

Or to just demo the app I have left in the compiled JS and CSS for now.

```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/garmeeh/angular-beer.git angular-beer
$ cd angular-beer/dist
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
$ Go to localhost:8000 in your browser
```

License
----

MIT

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Rustemburgo (em inglês e africâner: Rustenburg; literalmente em africâner: local de descanso) é uma cidade sul-africana com população de  (Censo Nacional de 2001) situada na base da cadeia de montanhas de Magaliesberg na província de Noroeste. Próxomo à cidade, encontram-se as duas maiores minas de platina do mundo e a maior refinaria, a PMR (Precious Metal Refiners), que processa ao redor de 70% da platina mundial.

História
A cidade foi estabelecida em 1851 como um centro administrativo de uma fazenda que produzia frutas cítricas, tabaco, amendoim, girassóis, milho e trigo, além de ter uma criação de animais bovinos. Em 10 de fevereiro de 1859, a Igreja Reformista Holandesa foi fundada em Rustemburgo. Em 1863, a nordeste da cidade, o então presidente de Transvaal, Paul Kruger, comprou uma fazenda de .

Entre os primeiros residente de Rustemburgo estavam imigrantes de origem indiana. Uma das primeiras famílias de origem indiana a chegar a cidade foi a família Bhyat, cuja contribuição para a história da cidade foi marcante. Por conta disso a rua principal se chama Fatima Bhyat Street. Fatima Bhyat e seu marido Abubakr Ahmed Bhyat, os primeiros residentes de origem indiana eram proprietários de uma loja que supria as linhas de frente de Paul Kruger durante a Guerra dos Bôeres.

Rustemburgo é a cidade que mais cresce na África.

Esportes

Sede da Copa de 2010
Rustemburgo foi uma das cidades escolhidas para ser sede da Copa do Mundo de 2010. O Royal Bafokeng Stadium, que foi uma das sedes da Copa do Mundo de Rugby de 1995, será reformado e terá capacidade para  espectadores para a primeira e a segunda fase da copa.

Ligações Externas

Rustemburgo

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It was the final race of the year for Von Scherr, who, along the way, won the DVL title in the 200 and 500, setting and re-setting the school record in both. Her time in the 500 at the DVL meet was faster than the winning boys' time in the same event. She also won the CIF-SS Division 3 title in the 500, becoming the first desert swimmer (boy or girl) to win a CIF title in any event since Palm Springs' Kat Wickham won the 200 freestyle in Division 2.
Von Scherr was also the first La Quinta swimmer (boy or girl) to win a CIF divisional title at the school.


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Cominsky is the Americanized form of Polish Komiński. Notable people with the name include:
 Jim Cominsky (1918–2003), American professional basketball player
 John Cominsky (born 1995), American football defensive end
 Lynn Cominsky, American astrophysicist and educator

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### Section 2.10 : Base class with recursive type specification

One time definition of a generic base class with recursive type specifier. Each node has one parent and multiple children.

{% highlight csharp %}
/// <summary>
/// Generic base class for a tree structure
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The node type of the tree</typeparam>
public abstract calss Tree<T> where T : Tree<T>
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Constructor sets the parent node and adds this node to the parent's child nodes
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="parent">The parent node or null if a root</param>
    protect Tree(T parent)
    {
        this.Parent=parent;
        this.Children=new List<T>();
        if(parent!=null)
        {
            parent.Children.Add(this a T);
        }
    }
    public T parent { get; private set; }
    public List<T> Childre { get; private set; }
    public bool IsRoot { get { return Parent==null;  } }
    public bool IsLeaf { get { return Children.Count==0; } }
    /// <Summary>
    /// Returns the number of hops to the root object
    /// </Summary>
    public int Level { get { return IsRoot ? 0 : Parent.Level+1; } }
}
{% endhighlight %}

The above can be re-used every time a tree hierarchy of objects needs to be defined. The node object in the tree
has to inherit from the base class with
{% highlight csharp %}
public class MyNode : Tree<MyNode>
{
    // Stuff
}
{% endhighlight %}

each node class knows where it is in the hierarchy, what the parent object is as well as what the children objects
are. Several built in types use a tree structure, like `Control` or `XmlElement`and the above `Tree<T>` can be used as a
base class of any type in your code.
For example, to create a hierarchy of parts where the total weight is calculated from the weight of all the children,
do the following:

{% highlight csharp %}
public class Part : Tree<Part>
{
    public static readonly Part Empty = new Part(null) { Weight=0 };
    public Part(Part parent) : base(parent) { }
    public Part Add(float weight)
    {
        return new Part(this) { Weight=weight };
    }
    public float Weight { get; set; }

    public float TotalWeight { get { return Weight+Children.Sum((part) => part.TotalWeight); } }
}
{% endhighlight %}

to be used as

{% highlight csharp %}
// [Q:2.5] -- [P:4.2] -- [R:0.4]
//    \
//      - [Z:0.8]
var Q = Part.Empty.Add(2.5f);
var P = Q.Add(4.2f);
var R = P.Add(0.4f);
var Z = Q.Add(0.9f);

// 2.5+(4.2+0.4)+0.9 = 8.0
float weight = Q.TotalWeight;
{% endhighlight %}

Another example would in the definition of relative coordinate frames. In this case the true position of the
coordinate frame depends on the positions of all the parent coordinate frames.

{% highlight csharp %}
public class RelativeCoordinate : Tree<RelativeCoordinate>
{
    public static readonly RelativeCoordinate Start = new RelativeCoordinate(null, PointF.Empty) { };
    public RelativeCoordinate(RelativeCoordinate parent, PointF local_position): base(parent)
    {
        this.LocalPosition=local_position;
    }
    public PointF LocalPosition { get; set; }
    public PointF GlobalPosition
    {
        get
        {
            if(IsRoot) return LocalPosition;
            var parent_pos = Parent.GlobalPosition;
            return new PointF(parent_pos.X+LocalPosition.X, parent_pos.Y+LocalPosition.Y);
        }
    }
    public float TotalDistance
    {
        get
        {
            float dist =
    (float)Math.Sqrt(LocalPosition.X*LocalPosition.X+LocalPosition.Y*LocalPosition.Y);
            return IsRoot ? dist : Parent.TotalDistance+dist;
        }
    }
    public RelativeCoordinate Add(PointF local_position)
    {
        return new RelativeCoordinate(this, local_position);
    }
    public RelativeCoordinate Add(float x, float y)
    {
        return Add(new PointF(x, y));
    }
}
{% endhighlight %}

to be used as

{% highlight csharp %}
// Define the following coordinate system hierarchy
//
// o--> [A1] --+--> [B1] -----> [C1]
//             |
//             +--> [B2] --+--> [C2]
//                         |
//                         +--> [C3]

var A1 = RelativeCoordinate.Start;
var B1 = A1.Add(100, 20);
var B2 = A1.Add(160, 10);

var C1 = B1.Add(120, -40);
var C2 = B2.Add(80, -20);
var C3 = B2.Add(60, -30);

double dist1 = C1.TotalDistance;
{% endhighlight %}


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Israel Gamzu: I Will Adjust Limitations on Shuls
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Gamzu: I Will Adjust Limitations on Shuls
By Aryeh Stern
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 5:08 am | י"ד אב תש"פ
A Shacharis minyan outside a shul in Beitar Illit, April 20. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Coronavirus task-force manager Prof. Roni Gamzu promised Monday night in a discussion with reporters that he would adjust restrictions on shuls so that they fit with each shul's size.
"I apologize for the fact that there are differences in restrictions [between various venues], with restaurants treated differently from shuls – I know that this is upsetting, and it upsets me, too. I was in a shul on Tishah B'Av, I saw the differences and it hurts me, and this is one of the things I am telling you that I will change, but it will take time, as it requires changes in law."
At the press conference, Gamzu shared some his challenges.
"I think that when it comes to closed, indoor spaces, limitations have to be expressed in terms of the size of the place. It's hard to instate restrictions that apply equally to small shtieblach and giant shuls. This is true for restaurants, too. When it comes to fixing a number or form of regulation – how can we know that it will really happen? It's easy to say 'no more than 10-20 people,' and much harder to speak in terms of percentages.
"Things also depends on what the facts of the virus are right now. They tell me that we've managed to bring down the spread of the virus, so is now the time to take the chance and ease restrictions? Even though I don't think it was wise to limit mispallelim to ten in a small shtiebel and ten in the Great Synagogue."
Gamzu added a veiled attack on his precursors: "I must say that there were some limitations that lacked order, and this week I intend to organize them. We won't tolerate a situation in which there are built-in contradictions. There has to be a clear line of policy, not one that I can't explain."
The professor also shared with the media a bit about how the restrictions become garbled in application.
"The government comes along with a decision, but then there's the whole process, of adjusting it, and … circumventing it. One decision began as a total lockdown on weekends, but ended with a closure on factories and other workplaces on weekends, but restaurants remained open. The result was that a shoe store closes while right next to him a restaurant is open. There were aberrations like these – give me time to fix them."
Gamzu refused to speaks about flights to Uman, commenting only: "I don't know yet. I am not familiar enough with the subject. I intend to study it."
Natan Eshel, close associate of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, had harsh words for attacks in the secular media against the Breslev kehillah's attempt to travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, asking: "Where is it more crowded, at the four tefillos at Uman [over the two days of Rosh Hashanah] or at the dozens of protests in Israel – either hypocrisy or anti-Semitism, you decide."
Reopening of Economy Accelerates
Israel's Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 199
Knesset Extends Emergency Coronavirus Regulations as New Cases Surge
Gloomy Coronavirus Report Gets Critical Scrutiny
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Could online sports betting violate New York's gaming pacts with Indian nations?
As lawmakers in Albany wrestle with the issue of legalized sports betting in New York, consider this hypothetical future scenario: Sports betting has been legalized in the state, and lawmakers have agreed that bettors can make wagers online, using phones or other devices. A player sits on a couch in Syracuse, or at a bar in Utica, or on the beach on Oneida Lake, and places a bet through one of the state's authorized casino betting venues. A problem? Yes, according to a national gaming expert who has a track record of insightful analysis of New York's gaming industry. The bettors placing those wagers would be within the 10-county region of Upstate New York in which the Oneida Indian Nation has a exclusive right to offer casino gambling. In return for that exclusivity, the Oneidas pay the state 25 percent of revenues they make on their slot machines. That has amounted to more than $200 million paid to the state, and to Madison and Oneida counties, in the past five years. … [Read more...] about Could online sports betting violate New York's gaming pacts with Indian nations?


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Using a CIAN International Travel Grant I visited the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea January 2015. Being an international student, it's a really wonderful opportunity for me to go S.Korea for an international experience. I spent 8 days working with Professor Lee's group. I also worked on my research process flow with photo lithography, SEM, and etch process. The most interesting and surprising thing I saw while visiting that I haven't seen before is that graduate students there work for at least 12 hours each day, Monday through Friday. Also, group meetings and research meetings occur every weekend. S.Korea is an awesome country and has many exciting places to visit.
Kishore Kumar Komirisetty is currently pursuing his last semester of a Masters degree at Norfolk State University, VA. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) from India. Currently, he is doing research in Dr. Geddis' lab at NUS on Tunable photodetectors. Kishore is also the SLC representative for the NSU chapter. Kishore's posts.
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Armie Hammer's Dad, Michael Armand, Dies From Cancer At 67: Reports
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Call Me by Your Name star Armie Hammer, 36, has lost his father, Michael Armand, to cancer, TMZ reported on Nov. 22. The late businessman passed away on Sunday, sources close to the family told the outlet. Michael, who died at the age of 67, was battling cancer "for some time" and was buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, according to the outlet.
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Armie Hammer's father, Michael Armand Hammer, has died. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
Michael was born on Sept. 8, 1955, in Los Angeles to his parents Julian Armand Hammer and Glenna Sue Ervin. He was notably the grandson of Occidental Petroleum founder, Armand Hammer, who died in 1990. At the time of publication, Armie has yet to issue a public statement regarding his father's passing. HollywoodLife has reached out to Armie's reps for comment.
In 2020, Armie was quarantined with his late father along with his ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, 40, in the Cayman Islands, per an interview with British GQ. The disgraced actor called the lockdown period a "very complicated, intense situation" when speaking to the outlet two years ago. "It was a very complicated, intense situation, with big personalities all locked in a little tiny place. It was tough, man. I'd never dealt with anything like that before in my life, so I didn't have the tools," Armie said of the COVID-19 lockdown. "It was just this thing that snuck up on everybody. I don't think I handled it very well."
The actor, his father, along with the other Hammer men in their family were the center of the Discovery+ documentary, House of Hammer, which was released on Sept. 2. The film takes a look at the allegations against Armie, which include claims of abuse and rape. Armie's aunt, Casey Hammer, also was featured in the doc, in which she revealed some of the family's dark history. "When all this came out about Armie, I was not shocked," she said. "You just don't wake up and become this dark, controller, abuser. This behavior is deep rooted."
Since the allegations and the documentary came to light, Armie has kept out of the spotlight. He and Elizabeth were married from 2010 until their official divorce in 2020. They share two kids: Harper Grace Hammer, 7, and Ford Armand Douglas Hammer, 5. The late Michael was previously married to Armie's mom, Dru Ann Mobley, from 1985 to 2012. He is survived by his most recent wife, Misty, and other son, Viktor Hammer, 34.
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Best of 2020!
Here are my favorite releases of 2020…
2020 sure has been something… Musicians have been hit hard this year, so I'm prouder than ever to announce my Best of 2020 list!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you for joining me in exploring 24 AMAZING artists in my Advent Calendar Features series! (If you didn't read it, you're missing out! Start from day one with Madame Daley for the full effect.) The new year is approaching, and with it comes new music. But how can we celebrate all of this year's awesome releases while making room for next year's? By discussing the best overall singles, EPs, and albums of 2020!
In order to be eligible for any of the below categories, the piece must have been previously featured or reviewed on this blog during 2020, and have qualified for one of the quarterly "best of" prizes (exception: Fall 2020 reviews are eligible for awards without previous Best Of Inclusion). One artist may not win multiple categories, even if they qualify, but will be bumped up to win the higher-ranked category.
While I can only include my top 10 winners, please know that if your band/your favorite band wasn't included, it does NOT mean they lack in any way, it just means that the field is so competitive that only the best of the best (in my opinion) can be considered.
I'm excited to announce my favorite music of the season, highlighting some of the musicians that deserve recognition the most for their accomplishments in an unprecedented year.
Everything about these submissions was analyzed, from the production of the record as a whole to the quality of each instrument and vocal part. Without further ado, these are my top 10 of 2020!
Best Music Video of 2020: "Blood Runs Cold" by Rags & Riches
Like all of Rags & Riches' tracks that I've reviewed, "Blood Runs Cold" has that special something that makes you want to listen over and over again. The song's unique harmonies and carefully off-beat spacing of echo the off-kilter feeling of not knowing who you are. As usual, Tanner's voice is crisply accentuated by powerful electronic rhythms and a dynamic, rising edge in the track's aesthetic.
Explore the Social Abyss with Rags & Riches' New Single, "Blood Runs Cold"
The video accompanying the audio of "Blood Runs Cold" may not be a classic "music video," but it is an incredible piece of art all the same. The imagery of people in gas masks evokes the dystopian aesthetic Rags & Riches has cultivated over the past year, but also suits the track in meaning and rhythms. Overall, this video was not only captivating in terms of visuals, but meaningful, making it my pick for the best music video of 2020.
Learn more about Rags & Riches:
Rags & Riches Explores the "Tension of the Season"
A Summer Night Q&A
When Times get Tough, Rags & Riches Reminds You: Don't Look Down
Catchiest Song of 2020: "Come Follow Me" by Jame Doe
[Jame Doe is an electro-pop vocalist who sings about boys, getting older, and feeling lost in the big blue sea.]
"Every individual element of "Come Follow Me" feels integral to the track as a whole. With every listen, there's another well-placed detail to discover: a fill here, a well-phrased line there—it's all purposeful and well-done. Even placement of vocals and space between the notes work well towards the overall picture of the track. For its catchy vocals, dance-able instrumentals, and all-around good vibes, "Come Follow Me" could very easily be a new summer playlist staple."
Meet Jame Doe: Avant-Garde Fashion Enthusiast, Plant Lover, and Electro-Pop Vocalist
"Come Follow Me" was a fun summer release that made you want to dance in your chair. Impressive all around, this track proves that Jame knows who he is, and his style shines through in every part of his music and persona. I couldn't get that smooth bassline and those background vocals out of my head!
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Best DIY Release of 2020: Creature by Old Old
Classic blue may be the new black, but "Creature," Old Old's latest EP, is the new (new) bar for punk releases in 2020.
The first track of Creature is "Skreamer. " Bringing us into the EP with classic punk guitar lines and energy to spare, the song shows off the spaces between notes as much as its inherent rhythms. "Skreamer" is guided through its 3:30 running time by bouncy bass and dynamic percussion, every instrumental part falling into line to create a solid, steady song, even without vocals in the first two minutes. When the vocals do enter in an edgy mix of distorted whispers, the track is given extra depth and atmosphere, making it a great start to the record.
"Creature by Old Old is the New New"
Creature is the classic DIY punk release we all need to get through a year without basement shows, dive bars, and backyard venues. Old Old's understanding of their own sound is fluid in this record in the best way: Many of these tracks could be featured on indie playlists as well as punk playlists, a great thing for today's melding of musical worlds.
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Most Creative Artist of 2020: Bad Ties with "Venus Infers" and Music 4 No One Vol. 1
Bad Ties has proven that poetry can be pretty cool, and "Venus Infers" only solidifies their point.
The track gets into the thick of things with dreamy bass, staccato drum beats, and loaded keyboard, all ready to spring into the story. Steadily creating an ambiance to help set the scene for the story, the instrumentals steady behind the vocals. Soon, the bass breaks free, its rhythms echoing the vocals' rise and fall. The lyrics are delivered in spoken-word style, their balance wavering to reflect the story as it grows and swells.
"Bad Ties Returns with Venus Infers"
Bad Ties always makes poetry cool! Based out of Asheville, North Carolina, since 2017, Bad Ties takes PoJazz to a new level with their experimental mix of spoken word, jazz, and post-punk to create a brand new style of beat poetry.
Music 4 No One Vol. 1 is their fourth LP. The record, mixed and mastered by Sid Saravanan, focuses on themes of heartbreak, displacement, and substance abuse, and was released on December 14, 2019 at a celebratory hometown show. With the single that followed, "Venus Infers," the group blended irresistibly dreamy instrumentals with masterful storytelling to create another compelling and creative record.
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Most Impactful Album of 2020: Quarantine Dream by Assorted Artists
The album art for Quarantine Dream was created by Tim Cheesebrow, who also contributed a track to the album.
When musicians come together with a cause, magic can happen. This is exactly the case with Quarantine Dream, a benefit album created with the selfless intentions of Minnesota musicians.
As mentioned in Coronavirus: Musicians Speak Out, the album was the brainchild of Ted Hajnasiewicz and Ryan Rud (Frequency Collisions, The Rabbit Hole). After the pair's casual co-writing led to deeper conversations, Ted and Ryan created collective of Minnesota musicians. The group aims to raise money for Jessa Roquet. Jessa, a member of the Minneapolis folk-pop band Gambler's Daughter, was "hit hard from all sides as a working musician and single mother of three". When Jessa was diagnosed with stage four liver cancer at the start of quarantine, "her fellow artists answered the call."
-"Quarantine Dream: Musicians Sharing a Vision of Hope"
This album is proof that the music community is the best! We look after our own, and it was an honor to be involved with this record through reviews and promotional efforts. If you're looking for an eclectic album full of talented artists that makes a tangible difference in the world, this one is for you!
Quarantine Dream debuted digitally on August 7, 2020 on BandCamp. All proceeds go to Jessa Roquet's medical expenses, and donations can also be made through Jessa's GoFundMe campaign.
Best Single of 2020: "Purple Skies" by Klemntyna
Nostalgia. Vulnerability. Hope.
"'Purple Skies' showcases the hard work and thought behind Klemntyna's music career. Long inspired by Scandinavian music and Nordic-style sounds, Klemntyna blends her unique interests with the "rawness and futurism" that she found from the inspirations of the city to create something all her own.
The song begins with ambient, echoing instrumentals reminiscent of a quiet New York night. Klemntyna's gentle, sweet vocals enter like a wave rolling in, rippling over the rippling surface of the backing track as it almost imperceptibly builds towards the first chorus."
Explore the Purple Skies of NYC with Klemntyna
Klemnyna was inspired by New York City's sunsets, and it shows in her rolling, smooth vocals. Showcasing a place close to my heart, New York City's magic shines through in the longing vocals and minimalist instrumentals of "Purple Skies," making it my top single for 2020!
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Best EP of 2020: I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Constellations
Constellations is a melodic metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona. Image by Kelly Fox.
"Cursed" starts things off with swinging guitar rhythms and a swell of incoming instrumentals. Sweetly rough vocals enter the mix, layering attitude and emotion over the foundation laid by classic pop-punk drum beats. Perfect for fans of Doll Skin, the track's vocal phrasing combined with its instrumental rhythms make it easy to move to.
Powerful, self-assured lyrical delivery during the chorus combines with detailed verses to form a song that is equal parts catchy and full of story.
–"Constellations Will help You Feel at Home in This World"
Constellations combines raw, powerful lyrical delivery with catchy instrumentals for the perfect mix of punk and pop. Not only is this album a pleasure to listen to, but it carries important commentary on everything from mental health and unhealthy coping mechanisms to the state of today's world. As a whole, the EP was insightful, well-put-together, and professional.
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Best Female Artist of 2020: Giovanna Crescenzo with "You"
Drawing inspiration from 90's music and hit artists like Ariana Grande, Khalid, and Lana Del Rey, Giovanna mixes trap and R&B with her signature ambient vocals and harmonies to create sweet, spacey pop music.
"Sweetly melodic and divine in its composition, "You" features mysterious, twinkling instrumentals and syrupy vocals. Giovanna's clear, saccharine voice glides over the echoes of piano, twisting as it rises and falls throughout the track, highlighting the lyrics. Giovanna's poetic talents come into play from the very first verse, her expert lyricism flowing through the track's smooth diction…."
Songwriter and Producer Giovanna Crescenzo Refuses to Water Herself Down
Even if Giovanna's beautiful vocals and masterful composition weren't enough to land her on this list, her ingenuity in writing an ode to the moon definitely was! I loved every facet of "You," and so did the 1,200+ people that viewed the original article on the song. They have great taste!
Giovanna is exactly the kind of artist who proves women can kill it in the music industry, so I'm proud to honor her talent as my Best Female Artist of 2020!
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Best Artist of 2020: "Boyfriend" by Quorum
"A cheeky, undeniably catchy track, "Boyfriend" has all the makings of a hit single. Perfect for fans of pop, rock, and alternative music, "Boyfriend" features unique, sweet vocal melodies that flow over the instrumentals in a way that makes it hard not to nod along. Strong harmonies and perfectly-placed pauses create a sense of movement within every measure, giving the track a depth that is only emphasized by soft, steady percussion, blended bass, and twinkling guitar lines."
Meet Quorum, Your New Favorite Band
From the moment I first listened to Quorum's music, I knew they were a special group. Both the audio and music video for "Boyfriend" have just the right mix of fun, flirty, and individuality that can catch a listener's attention and make them a full-time fan. Between their unique style, catchy choruses, and musical range, I was extremely impressed with their music in 2020.
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Best Music of Spring 2020!
Artist to Watch Out for in 2021: Heavenly Faded with Mt. Hope & "CTRL"
"Carefully held in check and ready to explode all at once, "CTRL" certainly suits its name, and is a steady favorite in my books."
Heavenly Faded is in CTRL and Here to Stay
Like many, Heavenly Faded has had a rough year. Still, they've managed to release several records that made it into regular rotation on my personal listening playlists. If they can be so successful in a year practically manufactured to ruin the music industry, I can only imagine what's next! I'll have my eye on them in the coming months, and I highly suggest you should, too.
Meet Heavenly Faded:
Heavenly Faded Scales Mountain of Success With New Single, "Mt. Hope"
Heavenly Faded's New Single Shines Bright!
Interested in seeing more of this year's talent? Check out some of my previous Best Of lists below!
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Over the past 39 years, this event has provided a reunion opportunity for crewmembers of the USS Cowpens CVL25 who served in WWII and those from the USS Cowpens CG63, which is currently serving in our US Navy's fleet. Each year the veterans and their families return to our town to celebrate their history and service to our country. Today, the festival is a four-day event that boasts a variety of fun-filled events and patriotic support!
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Riccardo Turicchia (born 5 February 2003) is an Italian footballer who plays as left-back for  club Juventus Next Gen.

Career
Turicchia began playing youth football for local club Borgo Tossignano, and Casalfiumanese before joining Imolese, where he played for three years. In 2014, he moved to Cesena, before joining Juventus' youth setup.

On 9 October 2021, Turicchia made his unofficial debut for Juventus in a 2–1 home win against Alessandria coming on as substitute in the 63rd minute. On 24 October, Turicchia made his professional debut for Juventus U23—the reserve team of Juventus—in a 1–1 home draw against Pro Sesto, coming on as substitute in the 84th minute. He spent the 2021–22 season playing for Juventus U19, scoring eight goals in 39 matches, and helped the U19s reach the UEFA Youth League semifinals, their best-ever placing in the competition.

On 8 November, he renewed with Juventus till 2025.

Style of play
Turicchia is a generous player. For this reason, beside his natural role of left back, he played several times as left winger and even central midfielder

Career statistics

International

References

Notelist

2003 births
Living people
People from Imola
Footballers from Emilia-Romagna
Italian footballers
Association football fullbacks
Imolese Calcio 1919 players
Cesena F.C. players
Juventus F.C. players
Juventus Next Gen players
Serie C players
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Bologna


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Currently writing a Vocaloid EP.
Thanks. Already experimented with these settings. Will try your specifics though.
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