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Compass Confusion: The Answers
Physics Puzzler
Out of luck in the Outback
Donald Simanek Emeritus Professor of Physics, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
See the question here
You can compare the earth's near-dipole field to a short magnet with its south magnetic "pole" directed toward the north geographic pole of the earth. The magnetic pole of a compass needle is defined to be the "north-seeking" end, i.e., the end that "seeks" (points generally toward) the north geographic pole.
Small pocket compasses have a magnetic needle pointer balanced on a sharp pivot. In use, the compass case is held in a horizontal plane. In the northern hemisphere, the magnetic field dips downward toward the north (the dip angle), which would cause the north-pointing end of the needle to droop downward. To prevent this, compasses intended for use in the northern hemisphere have the south-pointing end of the needle weighted to balance it. If a north hemisphere compass is used in the southern hemisphere, the south pointing end of its needle would dip a lot more, since that is the weighted end and the field lines dip toward the south. The needle would likely drag on the base of the compass. Simple compasses for use in the southern hemisphere have the north-pointing end of the needle weighted to prevent this. In fact, manufacturers of compasses customize them for five separate geographic zones.
Magnetic compasses used by explorers of the American West were weighted for use in North America. Today one can buy compasses with "global needles" that work equally well in both hemispheres. They have a double system, pivoting the magnets and the needle separately, but coupled. The tilt of the internal magnet doesn't tilt the needle. Since our explorer's compass was so old, it did not have this newer mechanism.
Compasses for determining accurate direction with reference to maps are generally held horizontally, and some have devices for sighting landmarks on the horizon. Had our explorer been more savvy about physics he might have tried holding his compass inclined at an angle until the needle moved freely. Raising it slowly to horizontal, being careful not to rotate it about a vertical axis, he could read the compass bearings correctly. Whether this would work would depend on how the magnetic needle was suspended.
This question arises frequently on the web, often with misleading and wrong answers. People ask, "Will a magnetic compass I use in the USA also work in Australia?" One answer I've seen was "You need one with the needle magnetised the other way round, so it points south instead of north." This may have been a joke. It is true that near the magnetic poles simple magnetic compasses are less sensitive, because the horizontal component of the earth's field is weaker there. In Northern Canada and Southern Australia magnetic compasses perform poorly. But the north-pointing end points northward at mid latitudes in either hemisphere. //
Feedback is appreciated from readers. If you have a favorite physics puzzle that is not well known, not easily found on the web, or in the many published physics problem books, send it to dsimanek [at] lhup.edu. Include your answer, too, if you have one. If used, we'll credit you. I especially like puzzles that can be solved with insightful and simple arguments, preferably with minimal mathematics.
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The fruit Garcinia-Cambogia was once merely the less popular cousin of a trendy fruit, the mangosteen. Now, however, nutritional supplements containing Garcinia cambogia infusion have become the rage, touted for their purported power to cease weight gain and control appetite.
The fresh fruit, also known as the Malabar tamarind, grows across southwest India, Burma and Indonesia. It ripens to a reddish or yellowish fruit about the size of an orange, but resembling the shape of a pumpkin.
Individuals have long-used the dehydrated gambooge rinds for chutneys or curries, and occasionally as an assistance for gut troubles. However in the late 1960s, scientific researchers identified a substance in the rind of the fruit called hydroxycitric acid, or HCA, which has some potentially attractive qualities.
"Some studies have shown that HCA stops an enzyme that turns sugar into fat," said Catherine Ulbricht, senior pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and co-founder of Natural Standard Research Collaboration, which reviews evidence on herbs and nutritional supplements.
A fruit infusion that could interfere with the body's formation of fat? The allure is obvious. Nonetheless, great results in test tubes do not always translate to a whole man.
Garcinia Cambogia Some studies say HCA works, and a few say it does maybe not. Animal studies of HCA demonstrated that mice taking the material ate less, lost weight and generated less fat from sugar.
Human studies had more contradictory results. One weight loss trial showed no difference between folks who took Gamboge tree and those who took a placebo pill. Other trials connected HCA to weight-loss and healthy blood lipid levels (lipids are fats).
"Farther, nicely-designed clinical trials are necessary before any firm conclusions can be created," Ulbricht stated.
Regardless of the popularity of Gamboge tree, it's hard to monitor how powerful nutritional supplements comprising it are.
"Groundwork of merchandise might vary from producer to manufacturer, and from batch to batch within one maker," Ulbricht said. That makes it tough to evaluate one brand to another or even to measure the results of an individual brand.


A film starring the FRIENDS actress Jennifer Aniston in her bid to make it into the movies. She changes from her comic character of the series to a rather unhappy character in this film.
Justine (Aniston) is a depressed shop cashier in a small town of Texas, whose life is just one long unhappy routine. Her marriage to Phil (John C. Reilly) isn't going anywhere, her job is a dead end, and she can't see a way out of it. Until she notices a recently employed co-worker named Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal). Justine gains a strange attraction to Holden. The source of this strange attraction is down possibly down to that Holden is just about as depressed as Justine. Being "The Good Girl," Justine has a mental clash of what is right and what is wrong. Does she stay true to her lazy, pot-smoking husband, or does she engage in an affair that may be the only possibility of an escape from her life.
A slow paced movie that has some subtle comedy. Interesting for people who like to think about a film and have an opinion. A good film, especially for Jennifer Aniston fans.


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Mexico's ONEFA League Quarterfinal Matchups Now Set
Roger Kelly | American Football | 10/26/2015
The ONEFA Mexican college league has finished its regular season with the quarterfinal berths now determined. The 19 team league is now down to eight. As expected the 7-0 UANL Tigres finished first overall and occupy the top spot heading into the playoffs and have home field advantage throughout.
The UNAM Pumas jump into the number two slot after their 16-6 victory over the Águilas Blancas. The two remaining host team spots go to the Cancún Leones and the UVM Linces.
Here then are the playoff matchups.
Quarterfinal #1
UANL Autenticos Tigres v. UVM Linces
The Tigres had no trouble handling the Linces (Bobcats) last week beating them 31-0. This game should end up more or less the same. The Tigres had the best offense in the ONEFA in 2015 scoring 332 points while also producing the top defense giving up no more than 52 points in seven games.
UNAM Pumas v. Univ. anahuac Cancún Leones
The Pumas enter this game after posting a 5-2 record on the year and defeating the Leones 34-22 in the second week of league play. The Pumas had the second best offense and defense in the ONEFA while the Leones had one of the worst defenses. The Pumas should advance to the semifinals from this game
UAdeC Lobos v. Acatlán Pumas
The Lobos boast the second best record in the league finishing at 7-1 in the White division. Meanwhile the Acatlán Pumas barely squeaked into the playoffs at 3-5 after losing the last four games of the regular season. The Lobos should move on.
UAEM Potros Salvajes v. UACH Águilas
This could be the game of the quarterfinals. The 5-3 Potros Salvajes have won two of their final three games of the regular season as did the 4-3 Águilas. . The nod in this one may go to the Águilas as they averaged almost a touchdown more a game than the Potros.
Semifinals:
LICEA JACINTO BOWL: Winner Game #1 (home) vs. Winner Game #4 (visitor)
BOWL CAYETANO GARZA: Winner Game #2 (home) vs. Winner Game #3 (visitor)
Roger Kelly
Roger Kelly is an editor and a writer for AFI. A former PR Director the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League for 7 years, he now lives in Sweden writing about and scouting American Football throughout the world.


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Monday night's 89-86, Iowa State win over Texas was the perfect microcosm of Big 12 basketball: Wild, unpredictable and a complete grind.
The 19th-ranked Longhorns rallied from as many as 21 points down in the second half, turning Hilton Magic on its head. No. 15 Iowa State got a stark reminder that in this conference, no lead can be taken for granted.
The Cyclones already learned just two days ago that likewise, no opponent is to be taken for granted, either. The Cyclones' confounding loss at Texas Tech completed the Big 12 basketball circle of parity, seen above.
And there's another six weeks of conference play still to go. The Big 12 has not yet begun to cannibalize itself!
Following the perennial Big 12 basketball champion Kansas at No. 9 in the AP Poll and 11 in the Coaches' is a mish-mash of Iowa State, West Virginia, Texas and Baylor. Oklahoma is not far behind, and Kansas State, the league's eighth or ninth-best team at the start of the month, is coming on fast.
Throw in a talented Oklahoma State, and those teams are almost interchangeable on a day-to-day basis. All eight could land NCAA Tournament bids in March.
And were that enough, the conference's bottom teams — TCU and Texas Tech — have quality head coaches in Trent Johnson and Tubby Smith. Either can upset any of its Big 12 brethren on any given night.
All this parity promises to muddle the Big 12's title picture, which can be a detriment in the national landscape. The conference's "One True Champion" tagline caught well-deserved flak when TCU and Baylor shared the Big 12 football crown, and the lack of clarity ostensibly cost the league a College Football Playoff bid.
Big 12 basketball will feel its own pinch, most likely in the form of diminished seeding in March. Based on the current rankings, the best conference in college basketball would get nothing higher than a 3.
Now, Big 12 basketball does benefit from a conference tournament, in which the eventual winner will get its third crack at any three conference foes.
And therein lies why the Big 12 is so much more of a gauntlet than any other league.
Top teams in the assorted super-conferences avoid some of the higher profile home-and-home matchups in conference. Consider the ACC, which can stake the most reasonable claim as the top conference aside from the Big 12.
Virginia only plays Duke, North Carolina and NC State once. It already played its one conference contests against Miami and Notre Dame. Likewise, in the Big Ten, Wisconsin only sees Ohio State once.
Big 12 competition beating up on one another may cost the conference seeding, but the weekly grind will produce game-tested teams better off for the wear.


Police say four juveniles were arrested in connection with flare gun shootings at no less than five homes in San Ramon late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Police say four juveniles were arrested in connection with flare gun shootings at no less than seven homes in San Ramon late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Between 10 a.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday, a vehicle, which appears to be an older model Nissan Sentra, fired flares at homes on Yosemite Avenue, Estero Drive, Aptos Drive and Cree Court.
Sean Weaver wasn't at his Estero Drive home Saturday night but saw the damage to the front porch the next day. Scorch marks are still visible on the porch where the gauge flare landed. "It kind of concerned us because that's attempted arson if something caught fire," said Weaver. His home surveillance system captured the loud flash as well as the fleeing vehicle.
Police thanked citizens who have registered their home security cameras with the "Citizen's View Camera Registry Program," which they credited with helping find the suspects.
Police say someone fired a flare gun at no less than five homes in San Ramon late Saturday night into Sunday morning. Here's a look at surveillance video that police released on on social media.
Police announced Monday that four juveniles had been arrested. Their ages range from 15-16 years of age. Three of the suspects live in San Ramon and one is from Danville.
They face multiple felony counts including shooting into an inhabited dwelling and conspiracy. Police say the homes were randomly targeted.
"It's very shocking, especially in this neighborhood," said resident Sue Stone. Her property was sparred but her neighbor wasn't as lucky as their front window was smashed.
Anyone with further information on the incidents should call police at (925) 973-2779.


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New Innovation Test Center in Örebro, Sweden will create opportunities for exploration drilling
Home/News/New Innovation Test Center in Örebro, Sweden will create opportunities for exploration drilling
Innovation project I-EDDA-TC will establish a leading test center for drilling and drilling-related equipment to foster innovation in mineral exploration
This month, a new Innovation Test Center is set to start drilling to be used for mineral exploration testing in Örebro, Sweden. The Innovation Center will offer testing opportunities for different types of exploration drilling and data acquisition. The Test Center is a close collaboration between industry, research institutes and academia.
The new Test Center, called Innovative Exploration Drilling and Data Acquisition Test Center (I-EDDA-TC) will provide a unique environment for the development of drilling, and related equipment and methods used for the exploration of mineral resources, such as borehole geophysics. The goal for the future is to establish a leading Test Center that supports and creates innovation. The EIT RawMaterials funded Innovation project Innovative Exploration Drilling and Data Acquisition Test Center (I-EDDA-TC) is unique as it offers testing opportunities for various types of mineral and metal exploration drilling and data analysis. The Innovation Test Center is one of a kind in the world as it offers two boreholes each 1 kilometre deep with fully characterized core samples.
With the opening of the Innovation Test Center, we can continue our way towards building wolds unique facility and a competence center within exploration drilling sharing knowledge within the mineral and metals industry. It will create opportunities to cooperate with customers and universities as well as with researchers in order to drive and foster innovation and improve our technologies and products for the future.
Thomas Hallmén, General Manager of the Product Company Örebro, Epiroc Surface and Exploration Drilling division
Effective exploration drilling for mineral resources is an area where industrial innovation plays an important role. Despite this need, there is a lack of testbeds that allow the industry to actively test novel drilling equipment.
Bjarne Almqvist, Project Leader for Innovation project I-EDDA-TC and Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, Geophysics, at Uppsala University, Sweden
The new Innovation Test Center offers companies the possibility to test in an environment that is well-known. Several drilling tests could be combined at the same time, which is cost-effective.
We hope that the new Innovation Test Center becomes a value-added facility for both small and large companies that work within mineral exploration drilling and related technologies.
The Test Center will be built next to the Epiroc Surface and Exploration Drilling division Production Center in Örebro, Sweden. The Test Center will be developed in the next three years and be available for customers at the beginning of 2022. EIT RawMaterials, initiated and funded by the EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), a body of the EU, supports this project.
The new Test Center is a collaboration project between EIT RawMaterials partners: Uppsala University, Lund University, Luleå University of Technology, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) and Epiroc Surface and Exploration Drilling division.


Batman and Spiderman are fictional characters that have been idolized by many people in this country for decades. We dress ourselves and our children as these characters for Halloween. Millions of dollars are made in movies that document and celebrate the "heroic actions" of these characters as vigilantes "fighting crime" with street justice. It is only fitting that state legislatures adopt a law that advocates this type of "heroic action" that is coveted by many, right?


European Men's Handball Championship the next big event coming in Handball sports. The championship began on 12 January 2018 and the final played on 28 January. This year the event is host by Croatia and hopeful to retain the title at home. Last year it was the team of Germany who lift the European Men's Handball Championship after defeating Spain.
What channels will bring the live coverage of the tournament. In Germany the matches of handball championship air-on channel (ARD and ZDF) who got rights from 2016-2018. Currently there is not enough information about channels for (EHF Euro 2018) tournament. Once channels coverage details updated you will see here.
In France and United States beIN sports will bring the coverage of the matches from Croatia. TVE teledeportes show the matches of Spain handball team in (Spain).


«Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle».
To all the KLOWNS that voted "No," y'all need to watch the upcoming special on the Sundance Channel, this Saturday @ 9:00/EDT.
"Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle"
For you uninitiated gopites, this Special is all about "Koolaide."
#Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle will make its world debut tonight at . Q&A to follow with survivors and Jones family members.
Tonight is the premiere of my documentary, "Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle" for #SundanceChannel at IFC Center in the West Village 323 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014. Come check it out!
N O W 40 yrs later, Jim Jones, Jr. & Stephen Jones with Jeff Guinn, Executive Producer of #JONESTOWN: Terror In The Jungle, discuss the new docuseries premiering 11/17 at 9/8c .


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Solus Advanced Materials acquires land for battery foil plant in Canada
SEOUL -- In an effort to establish a bridgehead targeting the North American secondary battery component market, South Korea's electric component maker Solus Advanced Materials has acquired land in Canada to build a 60,000 ton-capacity battery foil factory. The plant will start the mass production of foils as early as 2024.
Battery foils made of aluminum and copper are used as anodes and cathodes for secondary batteries. Foils work as the bridge between external components and internal lithium-ion transports. Aluminum alloys are normally used as the main material for anodes and copper alloys are used for producing cathodes.
Solus Advanced Materials, formerly known as Doosan Solus, said in a statement on November 15 that the company acquired land in Quebec. The area includes a copper foil plant constructed in 2001. Solus said that the company will try to use existing facilities to reduce setup costs and time. The mass production of foils will start in 2024 if everything goes as planned, the foil maker said. details about the acquisition were not disclosed.
"Through the acquisition of a local plant area, we are now able to fulfill our plan to provide foil products to our potential customers by one year early," Solus Advanced Materials CEO Seo Kwang-seok was quoted as saying. Foils created in the Quebec plant will be supplied to battery cell makers in the North American region.
State researchers develop flexible battery shaped like snake scale capable of moving
Samsung SDI secures battery business foothold in US thru joint venture with Stellantis
S. Korea approves sales of battery-powered face masks thru enactment of safety standards
SK On starts demonstration of easy EV battery diagnosis service


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Writing About What You Don't Know – How far is too far?
I grew up hearing respected book reviewers lament the fact that modern French novels, with a few notable exceptions, were all written by insufferable navel gazers. Everywhere you turned the confessional style had taken over, every childhood, parent, lover worse than the next, while contemporary American fiction was growing ever more bold, fresh and expansive. I had to agree.
It is one of the reasons why I always shied away from writing stories about my own experience, or even about topics that touched me too personally. The one time I did try to write faithfully about someone close to me, the unanimous verdict of my critique group was that it was too far-fetched, that nobody was like that. So much for therapeutic writing, I thought. In hindsight the comments were not so much a judgment on the plausibility of my character than on my inability to connect it to a larger symbolic web, to give it what every good character deserves, a fictional depth that is more than the dressed up sum of their idiosyncrasies.
Going to workshops, one piece of advice I heard on writing about autobiographical subjects, while avoiding becoming too narcissistic, is to change the perspective. If you're a woman, write from a man's perspective; if you're young, write from an old person's point of view. Of course it's up to the writer to decide how far is too far; it would be inadvisable for a straight writer to adopt a gay character' perspective, or for an Indian to write from a Pakistani perspective just to keep flinty book reviewers off their scent.
But what if you have a really engaging idea that requires you to write about an unfamiliar subject or from an unfamiliar perspective?
Depending on your ambitions, it doesn't have to be a great obstacle. Few writers limit themselves to their own experience: subjects and places can be researched, facts can be compiled and illuminated through interviews with experts in order to bring more authenticity to a text. It is not without its challenges, since being too servile to research and data can bog down the most soaring ideas. Nobody likes an info-dump.
Mastering an unfamiliar perspective is a lot trickier. Over the years I have heard many authors' opinion on this. Some believe writing from an unfamiliar perspective should never be attempted and is bound to do a disservice to the person or community the writer is trying to represent: because there are things you can't know if you haven't lived them, because we tend to fill what we don't know with approximations at best, caricatures at worst. We've all seen examples of teeth-clenching cultural stereotypes, the most disturbing ones further tainted by uneven power relations. For a New-Yorker to stereotype a Californian does not carry the same weight than for them to stereotype a Yemeni.
Other authors are fine including restricted foreign perspectives, via secondary or tertiary characters. The most thorough writers will find someone from said culture to read and vet their text. I played the role of such cultural informant once for a novel featuring a French nurse of noble lineage taking care of American soldiers during WWII. How much a 21st century woman without a drop of aristocratic blood, and who actually faints at the sight of it, was able to help with that nurse character is anyone's guess, but I suppose it was better than nothing.
I think there are 1001 ways to write poorly about a culture or an experience that has not been intimately your own. A text can easily snatch all three Rs: reductive, ridiculous and rude. I don't believe that abstaining is the only answer, although I do understand the reasons of those who support it.
Great works of fiction have emerged from perspectives that were very much in contrast to the author's own experience. This pushed them to distill precise and striking insights on religious feelings despite being atheists, on being intersex despite having a typical body, on alien worlds despite having never left Earth…
I also believe that deliberately flawed perspectives have their full place in the literary landscape. The best example I have ever read is the haunting Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. The Guardian describes the book as "the oddest and most audacious of Bellow's novels, set in Africa, a continent he had yet to visit. The richly detailed customs Bellow devises for the novel's fictional tribes, partly drawn from the anthropological texts he studied at university, are what make its Africa so magical and funny. […] Praise for the novel's richness of invention has not always extended to the controversial speech of its African characters. Openly artificial, resembling no real African voice, theirs is the language of "blackface", described by Bellow's friend Ralph Ellison as "pseudo-Negro dialect", "a ritual of exorcism", and indeed, with his self-obsessed thirst for African mysticism, Bellow's perpetually simmering character cannot hear any other voice than the distorted echo of what he imagines Africans to be like.
Because too far vs. too close aren't so much opposite as they are companion problems –moving dots on a spectrum— the only way to find the right distance is to try, and fail, and try again, and fail again, aware that you'll ruffle a few feathers or just plain upset experts and cultural informants around you. When that happens, let yourself be indignant for a minute because you're not that kind of person, then take another minute, or a whole night, as much as you need really, to assess what they said, to see it from their perspective. Whether you stick to your idea or let their feedback color it, you'll be doing what you should as a person and what you must as a writer.
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Chelsea boss Frank Lampard's reinforcement at the back has been praised
28 November 2020, 4:20 pm
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard's decision to make use of his back four has been praised and according to Martin Keown, the Blues could easily challenge for the Premier League title.
The Blues will meet with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday as they look to secure the all-important three points and move up the Premier League log.
"Lampard was chopping and changing his defence. It felt like everybody was on trial," Keown wrote in the Daily Mail.
"But Lampard has found his most reliable back four in Ben Chilwell, Thiago Silva, Kurt Zouma and Reece James and it's paying dividends.
"Whereas previously he could not decide on his centre back pairing, Silva and Zouma have become his regular partnership.
"Since the start of October, they have started together seven times. Chelsea are unbeaten in all of those and have kept five clean sheets.
"Previously, the Blues' habit of ball-watching was getting them into trouble.
"Their naivety was on show in a 3-3 draw with Southampton, which took them to 65 goals conceded in 43 Premier League games under Lampard. Now, they've shut that door."
"Whereas once Chelsea looked disjointed under Lampard, the pieces of the puzzle are now coming together," Keown added.
"Beating his old boss on Sunday — to possibly go top of the Premier League if Liverpool do not win on Saturday — would be another big piece falling into place"
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I was having trouble sleeping the other night, so I decided to go online and check the RSS feeds that I was subscribed to for some late night reading. That probably wasn't a very good idea, because I happened to stumble upon this gallery of vintage mother-child portraits that I have to admit, was downright creepy.
The mothers aren't hidden in the photos because of any strange customs or for any superstitious beliefs. Rather, the mothers were asked to hold their children in place since the subjects (in this case, the children) needed to stay in place for a longer period of time. It took a while for the portraits to be exposed, and we all know how frisky some kids can get.
It's not so creepy now that I'm viewing the photos in broad daylight. But when it's late at night and you're the only one left who's still awake, well, then that's a different story.
There's a whole gallery of these photos up on Flickr, if you'd like to see more.


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Gavin Appel & Rebecca Eastwood - August 30, 2021 7 MIN READ
SPAC with an E, available for listing, one careful owner...
Welcome to Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap, where they cut through the noise to bring you their favourite insights from the technology and startup world. Ignition Lane works with ambitious business leaders to apply the Startup Mindset to their technology, product and commercialisation problems.
This wrap goes out free to subscribers every Saturday. Don't forget you can catch Gavin Appel discussing the week on the Startup Daily show on Ausbiz every Monday at 2pm. If you miss it, you can catch up on the week's shows here.
Here's their review of the week.
The little rocket that could
A big week for rocket SPACs.
On Monday Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit announced that it will go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). That deal is expected to raise US$483m, valuing the company at US$3.7bn.
Two days later NZ-US Rocket Lab went public, listing on the NASDAQ. The company merged with SPAC Vector Acquisition, which valued Rocket Lab at US$4.8bn and added US$777m to its war chest.
$RKLB has launched! Today's exciting next step in Rocket Lab's story was made possible by the incredible people behind us – our team, our families, our customers, and our investors. Thank you, thank you, thank you. #SpaceIsOpenForBusiness #NasdaqListed pic.twitter.com/DLmVsmtqOj
— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) August 25, 2021
Rocket Lab was founded by Peter Beck, who has been rocket-obsessed since his school days in Invercargill:
"It's always been about the rocket, there's never been a question really – even at high school. I remember I failed a careers assessment test and they needed to talk to my parents about it. I was so defined about what I wanted to do and the test didn't allow for that."
He began seriously experimenting with rockets while working as an apprentice at Fisher and Paykel. In 2000, aged 23 (or 24?), he built a rocket-powered bike that blasted down a street in Dunedin accelerating from zero to 140kmh in just under five seconds.
In 2006 he founded Rocket Lab and, by 2009, it became the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space, after launching its Ātea-1 sounding rocket from Michael Fay's* private NZ island (video below).
*For all you non-kiwis, Michael Fay was a banker infamous for his involvement in a 1990s scandal known as the Wine Box enquiry.
Today, Rocket Lab is considered the leader in the small launch space.
Its Electron rocket is the only reusable small launch vehicle currently on the market. Since its first orbital launch three years ago, it has carried 105 satellites to space, bringing in US$48m in revenue in 2019 and an estimated US$33m in 2020. It expects launch revenue to rise to $915m by 2027. By comparison, Virgin Orbit expects to bring in $15m this year and $2.1bn by 2026.
The latest cash injection of US$777m will help Rocket Lab grow its existing business and build a larger rocket called Neutron, which it unveiled earlier this year. Capable of sending around 8,000kg to low-Earth orbit, Neutron will compete against SpaceX.
The company has also been testing a new approach to recover and reuse its boosters. Using atmospheric friction and a parachute, the booster slows until a helicopter can fish it from the sky.
Beck, still at the helm of Rocket Lab, has achieved all this despite never going to university. He and the Rocket Lab team are an inspiration to kiwis and rocket-enthusiasts around the world.
But wait there's more (ecommerce deals & shpiels)
D2C Hero. BWX is acquiring a 50.1% of Go-To Skincare for $89m cash. BWX owns a suite of natural beauty and skincare brands and sites, including Sukin and Flora & Fauna. Go-To Skincare, founded by beauty expert Zoe Foster-Blake, has built a solid business centred around a direct to consumer (D2C) model. Its customer experience and branding is gold standard (aside from this), resulting in strong revenue & EBITDA growth (below). + Bonus mini analysis by Adir Shiffman here.
A deals deal. Global Marketplace (the company behind Click Frenzy) is acquiring GrabOne for NZ$17.5m. The GrabOne marketplace has more than 2,400 active merchants, and 300,000 members.
How convenient. The grocery delivery war is certainly heating up. Woolworths cemented a partnership with Uber to offer one-hour deliveries (a formalisation of the service it trialled in 2020). Geezy Go launched in Sydney, offering sub 20 minute delivery. And Send, which just started operating in Melbourne and Sydney, raised $3m from international investors.
If you read last week's newsletter (The start of Aussie's grocery delivery wars?), you probably think we have a crystal ball. You're not wrong.
Little Birdie launched with a bang. Little Birdie (founded by Catch alumni) wants to become "the homepage of shopping." The site, which holds pricing data for about 70 million products, helps customers seek out the lowest prices by providing detailed data on how an item has been priced at different stores and by offering exclusive discounts.
You want wine with that? Hospitality food wholesale marketplace, FoodByUs, announced it is expanding into alcohol after closing several big liquor industry partnerships. The marketplace was cofounded by Menulog alumni, and originally started life as a sharing economy platform connecting home cooks with members of the community.
ASX FY21 results stocktake
Kogan's sales passed $1bn for the first time – gross sales were up 53% to $1.179bn. Revenue was up 57% to $780.7m, gross profits rose 61% to $203.7m, and gross margins hit 26.1%. However, due to logistics detention charges, excess inventory related costs, and the Mighty Ape acquisition, this growth didn't translate through to its statutory results – EBITDA was down 86.8% to $22.5m, and NPAT down 88.3% to $3.5m.
MyDeal's gross sales were up 111% to $218.1m, revenue increased 150% to $38.3m and gross profit up 119% to $33.3m. It reported a $4m EBITDA loss, citing investment in customer acquisition and its newer private label business. Q4 FY21 private label sales accounted for 5.2% of gross sales. It's a big margin expansion opportunity.
AfterPay's group income was up 78% to $924.7m. EBITDA was down 13% to 38.7m and its net margin as a % of underlying sales was down 0.2pp to 2.1%. It reported a $156.3m statutory loss. In the early weeks of the new financial year it has cracked 100,000 merchants.
Zip's revenue increased 150% to $403m. Net margin as a % of underlying sales was down 0.3pp to 3.5%. Thanks to its aggressive acquisition activity and the purchase of US BNPL QuadPay last August, losses stretched to $653m. It also announced it will takeover of South African BNPL firm Payflex.
HiPages revenue was up 19% to $55.8m, 94% of that is recurring. Statutory EBITDA was $5.6m adjusted for one-off IPO related costs of $6.1m (listing is expensive, friends).
Local raising news. Trending: HealthTech
Seer raised $34m from Cochlear, EWM Group, SG Hiscock and Giant Leap. The company's home-based epilepsy diagnostic service uses devices that monitor physiological signals (e.g. brain, heart and respiratory function) and behaviour to differentiate epilepsy from other conditions such as cardiac, sleep or psychological disorders. Its systems have been used to monitor over 7600 Australians, saving the health system over $100m and 140 years of bed-time. It plans to expand into the sleep and cardiac diagnosis space.
Quantum Brilliance raised $13m co-led by a consortium of Main Sequence and the founder of QxBranch. The startup aims to commercialise quantum accelerators the size of a lunchbox with over 50 qubits by 2025.
Quantum Brilliance uses synthetic diamonds to build quantum accelerators that do not require the near absolute zero temperature or complex laser systems that give other quantum computers a large physical footprint.
The smaller accelerators have the potential to accelerate the adoption of quantum applications by bringing the technology to a wider range of industries.
Carbonix raised $6.3m led by ASX-listed defence manufacturer Quickstep. Carbonix supplies carbon-fibre drones, flying and data collection services. It recently signed a deal with Ausgrid (the largest electricity distributor on the east coast) to map and monitor power lines, reducing its reliance on helicopters.
ezyCollect raised $6.2m at a rumoured EV of $38.4m in a pre-IPO raise. The account receivable management software helps around 1,000 customers manage more than $11 billion of receivables. Its ARR is approx. $4m.
Nutromics raised $5.7m led by Artesian. Nutromics is developing biosensor technology integrated into a wearable smart patch (like a "lab-on-the-skin") for remote patient monitoring and individualised antibiotic dosing. The real-time information about drug exposure in a patient informs dosing decisions, which can lead to better patient outcomes and a reduced burden on the healthcare system.
The Nutromics team shared their lessons learned from the raise process – nice. Some interesting data points for ya:
Total Time Taken to Raise: 11 months
No. Investors We Attempted to Contact: ~200
No. Investor Meetings: ~100
No. Investors Committed: 19
No. Cornerstone Investors: 2
Oscer raised $5m led by Blackbird. According to research published by the Medical Journal of Australia, diagnostic errors occur in up to one in seven clinical encounters and more than 80% of diagnostic errors are preventable. To reduce these stats, Oscer is building a diagnostic support tool for doctors using automated transcription, coding and analysis of consults.
Send raised $3.1m for its 15 minute grocery delivery service.
Pi.Exchange raised $2.75m. Pi.Exchange describes itself as an AI-as-a-Service provider – its AI engine offers a faster, simplified and more cost-effective way for companies to build and maintain AI. It is targeting the banking and retail to professional services sectors.
HEO Robotics raised a seed round. HEO Robotics visually monitors satellites and space debris, helping satellite operators to monitor their space assets and assisting governments to understand space situational awareness. The funds will be used to release HEO's inspection product for satellites, HEO Inspect, which helps to reduce space debris by troubleshooting known issues and preventing future failures.
In VC Land
Jelix Ventures raised $15m for a new early stage fund to invest in up to 20-25 startups focused on software and deep tech. The fund has already made its first investments in FL0, Quantum Brilliance and Bitwise Ag. Founder and CEO Andrea Gardiner and team are amongst an increasing number of people who are changing the face of VC funding – "Over a third of our existing portfolio have a female founder, and over 20% of our fund investors are female."
VCs want you to join their startups. It's a war for talent out there, especially in the world of tech. VCs are trying to help a brother out with jobs boards, talent networks and fellowships. This week AfterWork launched a new talent network. Blackbird did the same a few months ago. Innovation Bay (not a VC, but Jelix's Investment Partner, Ian Gardiner, is a cofounder of Innovation Bay) recently launched a job board and are hosting a talent and team building mini series. Here's a handy link to all the job boards.
OnlyCorn returns (replace C with P). Fear not OnlyFan lovers, the company has reversed its stance from last week to ban sexually explicit content, saying it received "assurances" from banking partners that it can support payments its creators (who, let's be real, are mostly sex workers). PR stunt? The ban generated tons of headlines, and renewed interest in OnlyFans around the world – check out the "OnlyFans" google search trend below – that peak is the ban announcement.
In case you're interested, here are the top Australian cities searching for OnlyFans:
Two big Q2s:
China-based Xiaomi reported 87.8bn yuan revenue (US$13.56bn – up 64%) and 6.3bn yuan net profit (US$975m – up 87.4%) as its phone sales surged again in Q2, shipping 52.9 million units. The company wants to become the world's largest smartphone maker in three years and move into electric vehicles. So does Apple.
Salesforce Q2 revenue grew 23% to $6.3bn. It expects to close the year out with $26.2 – $26.3bn in revenue. Only around 100 Salesforce employees are working in the company's 61-story tower, San Francisco's tallest building that has capacity for several thousand people.
Before we go… props to the growing list of businesses giving their team a paid day off or two to help reduce the pressures of lockdown (particularly with kids): Auror, AdoreBeauty, Carted, Linktree and CircleIn.
Heres a lockdown sport you can try:
this is my favorite sports highlight of the year pic.twitter.com/MFiUFhywKO
— Tim Marcin (@TimMarcin) August 20, 2021
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Precise clamping down to the nearest thousandth percent: With its high-precision power chuck of the HPF series, the SAV Group provides a clamping device with a run-out reproducibility of less than 0.003 mm.
SAV developed the 3-jaw chuck with large throughput especially for use in machining technologies that require the highest precision. This makes it the ideal clamping chuck for cylindrical grinding, hard turning and precision turning with counter spindle and suitable for internal and external stresses. Based on decades of know-how in rotary clamping technology and high-precision manufacturing methods, the HPF series of SAV achieves a run-out reproducibility of less than 0.003 mm.
The innovative jaw interface, which was developed by the experts in the rotating clamping technology especially for the HPF series, guarantees exceptionally precise exchange reproducibility. The wedge hub connection between the base and mounting jaw ensures that the rework of the clamping points is not required after changing the jaw.
A permanent lubrication and thus a constant clamping force ensures the oil capacity. The clamping chuck is sealed against the penetration of dirt and coolant as well as against the leakage of the lubricant and hence is virtually maintenance-free. The design-optimised double-angle housing guides the dirt away from the clamping point by using centrifugal forces. An anti-stick coating also ensures that no dirt adheres to the chuck. The expense for cleaning work is therefore significantly reduced.
Despite its lightweight design, the HPF series 3-Jaw high-precision power chuck is particularly wear-resistant. Since selected materials such as high-strength aluminium are used, customers benefit from a long service life. The chuck is actuated by a force clamping cylinder.


Silly comparison? I think not. First, let's look at "electricity." Consider electricity on the left coast especially, and that is California. For years, California regulated electricity to the ultimate degree. No new plants could be built because of absurd "environmental" rules and other artificial heavy baggage. Rates were controlled, as was every facet of the industry. New plant construction applications were routinely denied, as if it were an appeal for a traffic ticket. A new South Central LA super clean plant, which would have paid $8 million in taxes, improved the area, provided employment, and supplied needed current was recently voted down by an ignorant electorate. For decades, new plant construction, new lines, and permanent improvements have been denied utilities. That's why they elect Democrats.
Now the chickens have come home to roost, and as if it weren't bad enough already, the state PUC has devised a plan to raise rates by 50%, with the highest increases going to the highest users. Does this remind you of a famous quote from the Communist Manifesto, which says, "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his need?" When this happens, the race to the borders and seeing who can have the "For sale" signs painted on the factories fastest, will be something to witness. Stupidity piled upon ignorance….
Hasn't the same thing been happening to the gold and silver mines and producers? California electricity producers have been denied needed funds and permission to build much needed plants to serve the increasing population. Gold and silver mines have been denied the needed prices to survive, explore, maintain, and improve their mines. These prices have been denied them by the same governmental forces that denied California's electricity producers the right to build plants and meet the needs of their customers. Gold and silver mine owners have been denied needed profits because of government and bank manipulations which have kept gold and silver prices down so low, that many mines have closed and are not recoverable. Governmental manipulation of California's electric industry has resulted in a doubling of prices of electricity, and the end is not in sight. New plant construction will be underway, and the manipulators will be ousted perhaps, but the damage has been done and it will take years for California to recover. California's blight may even spread to the rest of the states it is said, thanks to the EPA, and tree huggers anonymous preventing construction of generating plants in other places. In my state of Colorado, a new coal plant has been proposed, because gas has become too expensive…again thanks to regulators. Gold and silver mines have been harassed to death here in America by MSHA (the mining version of OSHA) and the EPA. The handful of American mines still open, are a small fraction of the gold and silver mines that could still be open and operating profitably if it were not for those two agencies. Those two agencies aren't alone in cutting off American mines, as the BLM and Forest Service have claimed ownership of practically every mountain in the west, which has abundant minerals in them, and permission to mine them has been denied. If the manipulators hadn't been artificially holding down prices, the world may not have lost quite a few producers of gold and silver. A further comparison is also in order, and that is demand. California's demand for juice has escalated, just as has the world's demand for gold and silver. All the while, the producers are hammered, and production has slowed, both in electricity and gold and silver. What happened in California, was that when it hit the fan and brownouts commenced, everyone suddenly realized they had been fooled by low prices for so long, they had taken them for granted.
Gold and silver have been held so low, and production sources so hampered from their maintenance, exploration, and improvement, that when it hits the fan; like with California electricity; the howls will begin. Mines are closed for lack of profits. The public has been lulled into a false belief that gold and silver are worthless, and pieces of paper with ink on them have value. Californians were lulled into the belief that there was cheap electricity thanks to regulations, and that it would last forever. Gold and silver buyers have been lulled into the thought that absurd, below cost of production prices will last forever, because after all, gold and silver have no actual value, whereas pieces of paper with ink on them do. If gold and silver are so valuable, why aren't the prices higher? These are the ones who bought Yahoo at $250, with a P.E. ratio of zero, and watched it fall to $14. "Gee, I wonder what happened?"
The California electricity, and gold and silver prices are so close that it is scary, and a sure portent of events to come. When something with an actual, historic value for thousands of years has been manipulated to a price that is at or below production cost for specious reasons, the end will not be far ahead, just as California's electricity debacle had to happen. Gold and silver prices HAVE to go up stratospherically, just as sure as 2 plus 2 makes 4. Market manipulation, for whatever reason, cannot have a permanent life, as history has shown over and over again. When one sees artificial price manipulation, or government controls that manipulate or force prices below cost, which includes new plant construction, maintenance, and profits, as with the California debacle, and the gold and silver mining industry have had forced upon them, the forces that did the dirty work will fail eventually. When the manipulators and regulators have failed, the prices will go to their market indicated levels, which in the case of California will be over market to make up for lost time, and the same may be true for gold and silver. The demand is there, the producers are failing, thereby cutting off supplies of gold and silver. There is no place in the world that silver can be produced for $4.40 per ounce, even with slave labor. The warehouses are empty with demand constant. Why cannot the people see that this has to end? For the same reason that they kept buying stocks till the end happened, and they got wiped out. When gold and silver begin their imperative massive escalation in prices, the masses will begin to buy. When gold went to $850, and silver to $54, people were breaking down my door, and I was refusing to sell to them! They were too late, and I told them so. They hated me, just as they would have hated an honest stock broker who advised them not to buy Yahoo.
When has the majority EVER been right? Were they right in Noah's day? Jesus Day? In 1929? In 1987? In 2000? Are they right now in making a gold broker's day one of leisure, when we should be frantically filling orders while the prices are at all time lows, and below production costs? No, but when it starts up in a big way, we'll be busy as bees in a flower garden. Only the smart ones will have bought now, with the rest being like the owners of Yahoo at $250, when gold gets to $600, or $1600, or $2600, when pieces of paper with ink on them are losing fast. What is historic, tangible, beautiful, fungible, and accepted everywhere, will endure. Pieces of paper with ink on them, just like Yahoo, will not.


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Q: Partial directory list in linux If I have a directory containing hundreds of files, using ls, ls-l, or dir gives me a list that's too long for the command terminal screen, so I'm unable to see most of the files in the directory.
I recall there being some argument for ls that allows one to scroll through the list in short increments, but can't seem to find it.

A: One option is to pipe the output to less or more
ls | less

or
ls | more

A: Try doing this in a shell :
ls -1 | less

A: One more way is to redirect the output of ls into a temporary file and then view that file with any editor of your choice - that way you can do searches etc. as well:
ls > res.tmp
vim res.tmp
emacs res.tmp
gedit res.tmp
grep "pattern" res.tmp

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Esquire magazine and Marshall Field's State Street store are looking for the best-dressed real man in America, with an understated cool style that people notice but not in that point-and-snicker kind of way.
This is where girlfriends, sisters and wives come in--because these guys aren't the type to nominate themselves. If you think your guy makes the cut, register him at Esquire.com for "Are You the Best Dressed Real Man in America?"
Then, do what you must to get him to Marshall Field's State Street store at 6 p.m. April 18 for one of the 10 regional contests. There, in the second-floor men's department, he'll have a shot at being judged worthy of appearing in the September issue of Esquire magazine.
Come dressed to undress: Gen Art's Shop CHICago returns Thursday, and if this fifth installment follows precedent, you will want to arrive early to avoid lines and be ready to shed clothes quickly.
From Sujata Gazder's flirty dresses to Clandestine Industries' T's (conceived by Fall Out Boys bassist and Wilmette native Pete Wentz), more than 50 emerging clothing/accessory talents will display their goods for cocktail-sipping shoppers to try on and buy, often at lower-than-retail prices. Boutiques such as Breathe and Calvin Tran also will bring capsule collections from their stores. A deejay will set the tone for a fashion show at 8:30 p.m. Beauty on Call and Bliss spa will provide makeup consultations and more.
Shop CHICago is from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Great Hall of Union Station, 210 S. Canal St. Attendees must be 21 or older, and RSVP is required to genart.org or call 312-229-1701. Admission is free.


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86 items matched your search for "Joseph Cook"
Section All About Us (1) Bay Area & State (2) Bay Area Citizen (1) Bay Area News (1) Business (4) Central Coasting (1) Crime (3) Local (2) News (64) Sports (8) Type All Article (85) Obituary (1)
Man gets long prison term for shooting Oakland cop during crime spree
February 25, 2015 | Henry K. Lee
Nathaniel Joseph Cook, 32, was found guilty last month by an Alameda County Superior Court jury of trying to kill Officer D'Vour Thurston in 2013. ... After shooting Thurston, Cook ran away, police said. ... ...
DONALD COOK
Cook, Jr.Donald Joseph Cook, Jr. was born February 23, 1938 in Manhattan, New York. He was the first of three sons born to Donald Joseph Cook and Josephine Cook (nee McGivney). ... Cook became Trans World Airlines' youngest pilot ever in 1965.
Man convicted of trying to kill Oakland cop
January 24, 2015 | Henry K. Lee
Nathaniel Joseph Cook, 32, was found guilty Thursday by an Alameda County Superior Court jury of trying to kill Officer D'Vour Thurston on Jan. 25, 2013. ... After shooting Thurston, Cook ran away, police ...
Ronald "Joe" Joseph Cook
Ronald "Joe" Joseph Cook, of Seabrook, son of Donald and Virginia Cook, passed away on Saturday, August 10, 2013 in Houston, Texas at the age of 64. ... Joe is survived by his wife Debbie, children Michelle ...
Man charged with shooting Oakland cop
Nathaniel Joseph Cook, 30, tried to kill Officer D'Vour Thurston on Friday night when he shot the officer in the leg near 49th Avenue and East 12th Street in East Oakland, police said. ... After shooting ...
Suspects in Oakland police shootings IDd
Nathaniel Joseph Cook, 30, allegedly shot and wounded an officer in the leg on Friday evening near 48th Avenue and East 12th Street in East Oakland after trying to steal a bike at gunpoint while fleeing the ...
Carmel's Steven Whyte: making it big as a sculptor
November 25, 2015 | Meredith May
Whyte created busts of more than a dozen CEOs, politicians and athletes, including the Duke of Westminster, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and the late Australian Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook.
Drugs, prostitution and 'unspeakable dance halls': How the Tenderloin became the Tenderloin
September 9, 2016 | Bob Bragman
On July 14, 1895 - Joseph Cook, "the former gay and popular Police Court Clerk of this city, who made the mistake of having a rousing time in the Tenderloin District for several years with moneys belonging to ...
S.F. office rents at lowest since dot-com boom / Office rents in S.F. lowest since 1996
June 21, 2002 | Chronicle Staff and News Services
"Activity's picked up," said Joseph Cook, a senior managing director in Cushman's San Francisco office.
People in Business
March 13, 1998 | Colleen Benson:
She succeeds retiring CFO Joseph Jaeger who remains as an executive financial consultant. ... Health Plan of the Redwoods, of Santa Rosa, named physician executive Joseph Cook chief medical officer.
She replaces Joseph Cook, who was named operating manager of five Bay Area branches.
Angels of mercy who arrive via helicopters
February 13, 2003 | Paul McHugh
Then current CEO Joseph Cook (former commander of an army crash rescue group) came on board, and focused on returning the service to fiscal health. ... "We're looking at a crunch in these economic times," Cook said.
Amid neighbors' opposition, rezoning postponed for Tobin Hill apartments
April 27, 2021 | Madison Iszler
The project shouldn't necessarily be squashed but the Zoning Commission should "reign in the number of planned units to something that's more acceptable and in keeping with the neighborhood size," neighbor Joseph Cook said.
Local dairy farmers hurt by tariff war ask for more compensation
November 26, 2018 | Ana Radelat
Joseph Cook, senior dairy analyst for Informa Economics, said the tariffs were imposed "at a time when U.S. … milk margins have remained at the lowest levels seen in years." "The impacts of the tariffs ...
Longhorn kicker's headshot goes viral
July 30, 2014 | Joshua Fechter
By Joshua Fechter and Joe Cook, San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO -- Texas Longhorn kicker Nick Rose has seen plenty of playing time in his two seasons at the University of Texas. ... Scroll through the ...
Police: Texas man had crossbow, tomahawk to kill ex's husband in Australia
July 18, 2014 | Joe Cook
By Joe Cook, San Antonio Express-News A Texas man was arrested Tuesday in New South Wales, Australia in connection to an incident where he is accused of attacking his ex-wife's current husband with a crossbow ...
Texas man gets life in prison for seventh DWI conviction
By Joe Cook, San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO -- A man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday by a Burnet County jury after he was convicted of driving while intoxicated for the seventh time. ...
Alamo Drafthouse expanding south
By Joe Cook, San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO -- Alamo Drafthouse, the popular San Antonio movie theater and restaurant combination, is set to open up a new franchise in Laredo and plans for construction to ...
Cool River Ranch to host Float Fest at end of August
July 9, 2014 | Joe Cook
Joe Cook, San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO -- Some of the country's hottest music acts will be performing this August at one of the coolest tubing areas and concert venues in the state. ... The Man, ...
San Antonio ranked second for taking jobs from Wall Street
June 30, 2014 | Joe Cook
Joe Cook, San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO - Wall Street long has been the nation's home for jobs in the financial sector. ... San Antonio was one spot ahead of Austin, and six spots ahead of Dallas. ...


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Aryob () or Aryub is the main town of Zazi District in the Paktia Province of Afghanistan where the Zazi tribe of Pashtuns live.

See also
 Zazi Maidan, town in Khost Province, Afghanistan
 Loya Paktia

References

External links

Populated places in Paktia Province

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Chile: Gay man dies of injuries after homophobic attack
Nick Duffy April 9, 2014
The murder of ... in 20.. galvanised Chile's LGBT community
A gay Chilean man who was left comatose by a homophobic attack has died of his injuries.
According to newspaper La Tercera, 21-year-old Wladimir Sepúlveda died in hospital early on Sunday, suffering from brain injuries.
He was left comatose after the attack in October last year, and had never recovered from the incident.
According to the earlier reports, Sepúlveda was walking home in Mostazal with friends, when he was brutally attacked by four men, who yelled: "We will massacre you queers."
He was repeatedly kicked in the head, leaving him with the injuries that have now proved to be fatal.
Only one person was ever prosecuted for the attack, which LGBT group Movilh allege is a 'cover up'.
Government spokesman Álvaro Elizalde said: "This latest death just goes to show how much more we have to advance as a society
"We hope that justice will be served, the facts of the case are cleared, and the corresponding punishment is determined."
Chile's president signed a hate crime bill into law in 2012, following a separate attack on a gay Chilean teenager.
More: Americas, Anti-gay, Assault, attack, Chile, chile, coma, death, homophobic, kiling, murder


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Q: Vectorize Pytorch Tensor Indexing Operation I'm trying to vectorize an operation in PyTorch, but I'm not sure how to do it. This is the code using for loops right now. 'm' is a dictionary with int keys and a 1d tensor as value.
The output mask is 2d. L is the number of layers, this loop is probably necessary. I am therefore looking to mostly replace the 2 inner loops. I was thinking of using torch.gather somehow, but without success
for l in range(L):
    mask = torch.zeros((m[l].shape[0], m[l-1].shape[0]))
    for i in range(m[l].shape[0]):
        for j in range(m[l-1].shape[0]):
            mask[i,j] = R[m[l-1][j], m[l][i]]
    masks.append(mask)

I would appreciate any help! Thanks in advance.

A: I think I've found the answer myself. One can use numpy advanced indexing as described here: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.13.0/reference/arrays.indexing.html
It then comes down to the following
for l in range(L):
    mask = R[m[l-1], m[l][:, np.newaxis]]
    masks.append(mask)

np.newaxis makes sure that the colum index is repeated for each row.


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Sources ID dead officers; dead shooter
BATON ROUGE – Authorities continue their investigation Monday into the ambush and murder of three law enforcement officials and the shooting injuring of three others the day before.
> ALERT: Authorities released vivid information about the attack on officers at a 2 p.m. news conference Monday. Click HERE for the story.
State Police Col. Mike Edmonson said in his latest remarks, the shooter sought out police.
Two Baton Rouge Police officers and an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputy were shot and killed when Gavin Long, 29, opened fire as officers arrived to calls of Long walking around masked with a gun near Hammond Aire Plaza just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Three others – two deputies and a city police officer – were shot and injured. A deputy, Nicholas Tullier, was on life support as of Monday, the sheriff said.
(Long's) movements, his direction, his attention was on police officers," Edmonson said, indicating Long was on a mission to kill police.
Long, of Kansas City, Missouri, was a former Marine. He was killed at the scene. WBRZ learned Monday morning Long was identified by his fingerprints. Long was identified as the shooter Sunday afternoon.
Social media posts indicate Long was an active member of an anti-government group called New Freedom Group. He carried out his attack in Baton Rouge on his birthday. Videos on his YouTube also indicate he was in Dallas around the time officers there were killed in an attack on July 7. The timing appears coincidental; Long is not connected to the Dallas attack.
Long acted alone, authorities have said. Police dispatch recordings indicate police responding to the initial, chaotic shooting scene thought there were multiple shooters. Listen to the dispatch HERE. Two people taken into custody in West Baton Rouge immediately after the attack in Baton Rouge Sunday were questioned and released.
Investigators will spend Monday interviewing people who had contact with the gunman. Edmonson said officials are still looking for others who may have had contact with Long and asked that anyone with information contact State Police.
The shooting Sunday was less than a mile from Baton Rouge Police headquarters – an already stressed area that has been the center of protests after the officer-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling on July 5.
Killed Sunday by Long were BRPD officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald along with sheriff's deputy Brad Garafola.
Matthew Gerald
Matthew Gerald and his wife have a 3-year-old daughter together and he adopted his wife's daughter from a previous relationship. Gerald and his wife Dechia celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported.
"[Gerald] was a good family man, good cop, loving husband," family friend Skye Turner said.
Gerald was a former Marine and Blackhawk crew chief in the Army. He joined the department four months ago.
Montrell Jackson
Baton Rouge Police officer Montrell Jackson was described as a "gentle giant" by his father-in-law. Jackson lived in rural Livingston Parish. Lonnie Jordan told reporters Jackson was sizable, but carried himself with a peaceful disposition.
"[Jackson] was "always about peace," Jordan said in a report on the Associated Press wire.
Like most law enforcement officials in the city, Jackson had been working long hours since the death of Alton Sterling sparked protests. In a Facebook post that has since been removed, Jackson wrote about the toll the job has taken – posting as an African American, he received stares out of uniform and stares when he wore the uniform. Click the link to read the WBRZ.com story on Jackson and the post.
Brad Garafola
Slain sheriff's deputy Brad Garafola was described as a family man by people who knew him. Garafola was never seen without at least one of his four children, who range in age from 7 to 21, the AP reported.
[Garafola] was "the epitome of a peace officer," neighbor Rhonda Smith told the Associated Press.
Garafola had been with the sheriff's office for 24 years when he was shot and killed with Gerald and Jackson Sunday morning.
A man in Baton Rouge played taps in his front yard Sunday evening.
In a national TV interview Monday morning on FOX News, the sheriff said one deputy is on life support in the hospital, suffering from gun shot wounds to the head and torso. A second depuy was shot in the arm. Both deputies underwent surgery Sunday, the sheriff said.
The sheriff did not release the names of the deputies hospitalized on TV, but the department identified the deputies Sunday as Bruce Simmons, 51, and Nicholas Tullier, 41. Simmons has been with the department for 23 years. Tullier has been with the department for 18 years.
Officers responded to reports of a man armed with an assault rifle at the B-Quik store on Airline Highway near its intersection with Old Hammond Highway at around 9 a.m. Sunday.
Dispatch audio records what happened next as officers were reported down when a man at the scene opened fire, shooting "indiscriminately," according to a witness at the scene. Several officers were hit and a massive manhunt began in the area as authorities searched for suspects that were described as wearing all black or camouflage clothing.
Police worked an active shooting scene at the B-Quik gas station into the afternoon. Law enforcement confirmed Long died somewhere close to the store after he was involved in a gunfight with officers at an Airline Highway car wash. Authorities have said Long was clad in all black and wore a mask to conceal his face. A witness reported seeing him run toward the scene of the eventual shooting with a rifle in his hands. Police sent a robot into the store to check for explosives after the scene was contained and Long was dead.
"We believe that the person who shot and killed our officers that he was the person that was shot and killed at the scene," State Police Col. Mike Edmonson said Sunday.
An alert went out to the public to stay indoors and contact authorities should they spot any suspicious activity. Two men were stopped in Addis after someone said they were initially spotted heading into the Port Allen Walmart to change clothes. They were stopped by police on LA-1 South at a gas station where the men were taken into custody. A witness at the scene said the vehicle had Texas plates. The individuals were questioned and later released.
"To me this is not so much about gun control as it is about what's in men's hearts," said EBRSO's Sid Gautreaux at the beginning of a Sunday afternoon news conference.
While officials said the lone gunman was dead, authorities asked people to remain vigilant and report suspicious activity by calling the toll-free number 1-800-CALL-FBI.
At the news conference, Gov. John Bel Edwards spoke strongly against the hatred he feels is behind the shooting. He declared the state will avail itself of all federal resources needed to bring about justice in the days after the shooting. He called the shooting "an absolutely unspeakable heinous attack."
"The violence and the hatred has to stop," said Gov. Edwards. "There simply is no place for more violence. That doesn't help anyone, it doesn't further the conversation."
Leaders of the Baton Rouge religious community held a press conference at 2 p.m. at the Triple S convenience store on North Foster Drive. That store was the site of an officer-involved shooting that left a black man dead in the early morning hours of July 5. Police said they have yet to establish a motive that connects the shootings to recent protests or the death of Alton Sterling. Saturday night saw no protests in connection with that shooting.
President Barack Obama was briefed on the situation shortly after the three officers were attacked and was in contact with authorities, local leadership and the governor at several points during the day. He addressed the shooting at 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
"We don't need inflammatory rhetoric, we need to temper our words and open our hearts," he said.
Earlier in the day, a statement from the White House condemned the attack.
"I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop," said a statement from President Obama. "I've offered my full support, and the full support of the federal government, to Governor Edwards, Mayor Holden, the Sheriff's Office, and the Baton Rouge Police Department. And make no mistake – justice will be done."
East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Beau Clark said autopsies will be performed on the deceased officers on Monday.
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Shooter wanted to kill police; Deputy on life support Monday
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FMP have completed the supervison of the fit out works for Amazon at the Airport Business Park Cork. FMP act for IA Architects London and Seattle who are design Architects for the Amazon project. The fit out was carried out to 100m2 of Unit 2 Block 6600, which is located between Amazons two existing office units at the Business Park.


What a wonderful run !!!
It's been a week since we closed Homo File and the excitement continues. We sold out 8 of 9 shows in our run and we are starting to make plans to take the show to other cities.
Here are some images from the show that we thought you might like. And at the bottom a special treat from one of our fans. Local tattooist Suzanne Shifflett of Modern Electric Studio created this comic for us. What an honor.
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As we looked forward to the ordination and installation of our new bishop, we appropriately heard many thoughts about the personal gifts that Bishop Martin Amos brought to our diocese and about those that Bishop Thomas Zinkula is bringing. We have a great deal for which we can be grateful. Along with those thoughts, I propose that we also spend some time reflecting on the significance of the episcopacy and of the local church for whom the diocesan bishop is the sign of unity.
The office and work of the bishop was one of the key areas in which the church underwent significant renewal after Vatican II. In the time leading up to that council, many of us thought of the bishop mostly as an administrator or ruler — a rather distant figure who deserved our obedience and as a representative of the authority of the pope, of the church and, ultimately, of Christ. While it is certainly true that the bishop exercises leadership and authority, we often neglected even more central aspects of the bishop's work. Christus Dominus, the Vatican document on the episcopacy, begins by stressing the role of bishops as pastors who perpetuate the pastoral work of Christ.
The document on the church describes the bishop as the "steward of the grace of the priesthood" of Christ, which is shared by all ordained priests and in a different way by all members of the church (LG 26).
As pastor and priest, the bishop of the diocese exercises his ministry most clearly in the presiding at the Eucharist and in preaching the Gospel. We are reminded as we reflect on the ordination of the bishop that as a community of faith, we believe Christ makes us one through the Gospel and in the Eucharist. Thus the sacramental and teaching roles of the bishop deserve greater attention than they tended to receive prior to the council.
During the prayer of ordination, the Book of the Gospels is held over the head of the bishop-elect. Later, he is handed that book and exhorted to "preach the Word of God with all patience and sound teaching." The bishop has a special responsibility to call us to learn and to be faithful to the truth which is found in the Gospels as well as in the rest of Scripture and in the tradition of the church. As we hear the bishop exhorted to take his responsibility seriously, we are reminded of our duty to continue studying, learning and contemplating the truth.
The Eucharist is described in the Vatican documents as the sign and source of our unity. While we can't say with certainty who presided at the very earliest Christian eucharistic celebrations, by the end of the first century, the bishop was generally regarded as the ordinary presider. Sometimes when a presbyter was acting as celebrant, unity with the bishop was expressed by placing a fragment of bread from the bishop's Mass into the chalice. The bishop is to be responsible in a particular way for the celebration of the Eucharist in communion with the whole church. Here again, the bishop's calling is directly related to our own. How can we grow in fidelity and devotion to the Eucharist?
Installation of a bishop in our diocese reminds us of our identity as a local church. A diocese is defined as a particular church in which "the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church is present and active." While theologians continue to discuss the exact relationship between the local and the universal church, we agree that Vatican II placed a renewed emphasis on the former. It is within the local church (diocese) that we learn and live out our Catholic faith.
Relative to the population of the Davenport Diocese, only a few members were able to attend the ordination and installation of Bishop Zinkula. But let us each take time to give thanks for the church, especially the local church as we experience this transition.


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Looking Good Dead
October 6, 2021 | By Hugh Simpson	More
★★☆☆☆ Unfortunate
King's Theatre: Tues 5 – Sat 9 Oct 2021
Review by Hugh Simpson
Subtle as a bulldozer and only sporadically gripping, Looking Good Dead, which is at the King's all week, works on one level as undemanding entertainment, but is not exactly guaranteed to have the crowds flocking back to the theatres.
Another adaptation of a best-selling DS Roy Grace novel by Peter James, this is a murder yarn that does not so much stretch the bounds of credulity as leap over them at the first opportunity. Thereafter it is an uneasy mix of police procedural and melodrama that would be extremely nasty if it wasn't so profoundly silly.
Adam Woodyatt and Gaynor Faye. Pic Alastair Muir
This story (also recently seen on TV) deals with Tom Bryce, a businessman on the verge of bankruptcy, who discovers a USB stick on the train. Attempting to find who owns the device, he discovers a website featuring real-life murder, and his family are suddenly in danger.
DS Grace is a character who is often open to seeking supernatural help in his cases, something that works much better in print than on the stage. That is thankfully not much in evidence here (unless you count the spookily magical properties of the USB stick) but the police, despite being represented by three characters, seem to be lacking in concentration and resourcefulness to an extent that is almost criminal.
Outwitted by almost everyone and largely sidelined, Grace seems to rely on the suggestions of outside experts (when he finally gets round to consulting them), or waiting for anonymous tip-offs to tell him what to do.
profoundly undramatic
This lack of action may be realistic, but it is profoundly undramatic. So many actors have now tried to portray Grace, with such unprepossessing results, that it must be concluded that the character simply lacks charisma on stage. Harry Long's solid, likeable performance is probably the best that could be hoped for.
Leon Stewart is on a hiding to nothing as his sidekick Glenn, forced to deliver a series of 'jokes' that are met with a stony silence. That such an accomplished performer as Gemma Stroyan is ill-at-ease as DC Moy only shows how underwritten her character is.
Gaynor Faye, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Leon Stewart and Adam Woodyatt. Pic: Alastair Muir
The cops are saddled with such extraordinary dialogue as 'a pair of snuff movies of a particularly nasty kind' (as opposed to the delightful kind, presumably). They are also not remotely concerned by people having their throats cut, only by the fact that scarab beetles are placed in the wound, which only shows how loopy this all is.
Similarly unfortunate dialogue is also constantly given to the Bryces' 17-year-old son Max, whose computer skills are either genius-level or frustratingly lacking depending on the demands of the plot at any given moment. That Luke Ward-Wilkinson does so well with such unpromising material speaks highly of his talent.
Of course, you do not play the one-man Greek tragedy that is EastEnders' Ian Beale for 36 years without some serious acting chops, and Adam Woodyatt is more than serviceable as Tom Bryce, making some of this almost plausible. This is marketed, if not conceived, as a vehicle for Woodyatt, and he certainly does enough to satisfy his fans. His relationship with wife Kellie, however, does not stand up to much scrutiny.
the maximum of conviction
Recovering alcoholic, compulsive cleaner and credit card addict Kellie is such a curious collection of stereotypes that even the best efforts of another familiar TV face in Gaynor Faye do not convince.
The rest of the cast (Ian Houghton, Mylo McDonald and Natalie Boakye) attack their roles with the maximum of conviction.
That you could drive a bus through the holes in the plot, or that the requisite twists are by turns overly predictable and utterly bizarre, would not matter so much if the script had as much determination as the acting.
Shaun McKenna's adaptation suffers from a common problem when adapting novels for the stage, however, in trying to remain too faithful to the narrative. That James is listed as a producer probably does not help in trying a more creative approach.
The staging certainly passes muster, with Michael Holt's design and Jason Taylor's lighting meaning that some clever use is made of different acting spaces, although the constant disappearance and reappearance of the police station set does begin to grate.
Jonathan O'Boyle's direction, meanwhile, is often sufficiently pacy to cover up a great many drawbacks in the storyline, but at other times (perhaps striving to create a doomy atmosphere) is decidedly flat.
This does not help when a greater than normal suspension of disbelief is required to believe in a production that is often funny – although not always intentionally – but is far from convincing.
Running time 2 hours 10 minutes including one interval
King's Theatre, 2 Leven Street, EH3 9LQ
Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 October 2021
Evenings: 7.30 pm; Matinees Wed and Sat at 2.30 pm
Information and tickets: Book here.
Glasgow Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 3QA
Monday 25 – Saturday 29 January 2022
Evenings: 7.30pm; Matinees Thurs and Sat: 2.30pm
Adam Woodyatt and Luke Ward-Wilkinson. Photo Alastair Muir
Tags: Adam Woodyatt, Gaynor Faye, Gemma Stroyan, Harry Long, Hugh Simpson, Ian Houghton, Jason Taylor, Jonathan O'Boyle, King's Theatre, Leon Stewart, Looking Good Dead, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Michael Holt, Mylo McDonald, Natalie Boakye, Peter James, Review, Shaun McKenna, Theatre


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A groundbreaking event on Wednesday, May 30, marked the ceremonial start of the latest construction project at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
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Tompkins Cortland Community College celebrated its 49th annual commencement ceremony Thursday evening at the BorgWarner Morse TEC Field House on campus.
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About 600 students received their diplomas Thursday night as part of the 49th annual commencement ceremony at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
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Sleep Fainting: A Neurocardiogenic Entity
Hunaina Shahab, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Ambreen A. Sonawalla, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA.
Maryam Khan, Ziauddin University, Karachi, PAK.
Aman Qureshi, Ziauddin University, Karachi, PAK.
Fainting is a common clinical presentation, with vagally mediated (neurocardiogenic) causes being the most common for syncope presentation to the emergency room, and for hospital admissions. Classic teaching is that upright posture is a prerequisite for vagally mediated syncope (VMS) and that syncope in the supine position has more sinister causes. We present five patients, three males and two females, with a mean age of 44.4 (range 29-67) years, who presented with VMS in the supine position (sleep fainting). Four patients also had a history of classic upright syncope. Based on their clinical features and thorough investigations, we excluded other causes of loss of consciousness and diagnosed these patients to be having VMS in the supine position (sleep fainting). We further describe the management and follow-up of these patients. Sleep fainting/syncope is a new entity and has to be recognized for appropriate management. A diagnosis can be established if there is clinical suspicion, preserved left ventricular function without evidence of coronary artery disease, no high-risk electrocardiographic evidence of pre-excitation, long or short QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome or arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, and normal neurological work-up.
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Shahab, H., Sonawalla, A. A., Khan, M., Qureshi, A. (2018). Sleep Fainting: A Neurocardiogenic Entity. Curēus., 10(12), e3751.
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