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Bekker, Miami Music Festival Orchestra deliver an impressive Mahler 6
By Dave Rosenbaum
Yuriy Bekker conducted the Miami Music Festival Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 6 Saturday night in Miami Shores.
Mahler's Sixth Symphony is hardly light summer fare. The conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler called it "the first nihilist work in the history of music." Mahler's friend Bruno Walter refused to conduct it, saying "it ends in hopelessness and the dark night of the soul." Once titled "Tragic," the symphony indeed preceded a period of tragedy in Mahler's life. At 80-minutes long with frequent shifts in tempo, numerous exposed passages for winds, horns and brass and near-constant demands on the strings, the Sixth is no day at the beach for even a top orchestra.
This was the audacious challenge that Miami Music Festival artistic director Michael Rossi set for his orchestra in its opening concert Saturday night at Barry University's Broad Performing Arts Center. Asking a summer orchestra of students to perform it with any kind of success seemed, in a word, gutsy.
Yet, under the baton of Yuriy Bekker, concertmaster and principal pops conductor of the Charleston Symphony, the MMF's 104-piece orchestra stunningly exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. The confident, mostly cohesive performance was at times thrilling and at others beautiful and deeply touching.
There were occasional rough spots. Bekker, who has been with the festival since its beginning in 2014, struggled to keep the orchestra together during some of the quieter passages. But this was a worthy performance that, combined with last week's lovely staging of La Boheme, showed how far the festival has come in a short time.
Is Mahler's Sixth really so pessimistic? Although the symphony opens ominously and concludes on a bleak coda that has been described by some as crushing, it certainly has moments of hopefulness. This is a frequent theme of Mahler's: life is difficult, often devastating, but worth living. Bekker veered in that direction while still capturing a good part of the symphony's intensity in a well-paced, multilayered reading that expressed the work's angst without overemphasizing the melodrama.
Any doubt that the student orchestra would be up to the task was answered in the opening march, which here was more militaristic than funereal. Strings were assertive and confident, deep and rich in the lower ranges, singing clear and high in the upper. Winds and horns were clear, the brass, while slightly underpowered, never sounded strained. Mahler often depicts chaos by making the orchestra sound as if it's about to fall apart, and Bekker put across that chaos while keeping his young players under firm control.
The Andante is one of Mahler's most beautiful creations, and it was the highlight of the performance—passionate without being overly lush, played with admiral restraint that allowed the beauty of the composer's richly lyrical melodies to emerge. Of course, this beauty is quickly shattered by the urgency of the Scherzo. It's a movement of numerous mood changes, from semi-playful to ominous and back again. The orchestra handled the tempo changes well, although a little more playfulness would have been welcome at times.
The fourth movement runs over thirty minutes and opens with a burst of orchestral color, again rendered professionally by the MMF Orchestra. The tuba and violin solos were highlights as was the overall playing by the brass and percussion sections.
Unfortunately, the large size of the orchestra forced the brass to be positioned far off to the side of the stage, almost behind the stage's front wall, resulting in occasionally muted sound. The emotional impact of the finale, too, was likewise shortchanged because the last hammer blow was delivered from a remote portion of the stage, so we never quite experienced the dark night of the soul.
All in all, though, this was an impressive performance that many professional orchestras would be proud of and bodes well for the orchestra's next challenge: a concert of Wagner excerpts with superstar soprano Christine Goerke, the fine baritone Alan Held and soloists from the new Miami Wagner Institute next Saturday night at the New World Center in Miami Beach.
The Festival's Opera Institute presents Broadway Night Tuesday at The Betsy on South Beach and Wednesday at Barry University. Both concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. miamimusicfestival.com
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Posted Jul 12, 2016 at 6:41 pm by Kathryn King
These fabulous music students from top music programs around the world have come together in Miami in less than two weeks to produce a beautiful and bold Mahler 6. Impressive indeed.


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Everything Worth Drinking in Reykjavík, Iceland, According to Mikkeller & Friends' Andreas Petersson
words: Celine Bossart
illustration: Danielle Grinberg
Iceland's capital Reykjavík is ethereal and enigmatic, combining extreme winters and endless summers. The sudden Icelandic food and culture boom worldwide (skyr yogurt, Brennivín schnapps) starts to make sense once you take in the breathtaking expanse of postcard-worthy vistas that surround the city.
In the heart of Reykjavík lies DILL, the white-hot restaurant from local chef and culinary icon Gunnar Karl Gíslason. It's the first Icelandic restaurant awarded a Michelin star, and its upstairs craft beer bar, Mikkeller & Friends, is a destination in its own right.
"Every time you come through the doors here, it is like coming home to a friend," Andreas Petersson, bartender, Mikkeller & Friends, says of his home base.
Here, one of Gíslason's own shares his ultimate dining and drinking guide to Reykjavík. Read on for this installment of Bartography, as told by Andreas Petersson.
KEX Hostel
"KEX is casual and cozy with that special atmosphere you only get at a hostel bar with travelers from all over the world," says Petersson. "Go for a nice local brew and a burger." Location.
Ölstofa Kormáks og Skjaldar
This one's a mouthful for English speakers, but it's charming, Petersson says. "If 'Cheers' would have been made in Iceland, this is the place where they would have filmed it. Grab a local beer from the bar and mingle." Location.
Session Craft Bar
"Go here for the latest and best in craft beer," Petersson says. "Session's staff is extremely knowledgeable, and there's an amazing assortment of beers. Whatever your taste, these guys will find something for you." Location.
"This bar is a real hidden gem! Probably the best assortment of wine in the country and, because so few people know about it, you will always be able to find some peace and quiet." Location.
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Make a reservation for dinner at DILL as far in advance as you can — its 30 seats are a hot commodity, as is the five- or seven-course tasting menu featuring local produce and some of Chef's favorite products, like Icelandic Provisions skyr. While you're there, visit Petersson and his crew at the bar upstairs. "We see DILL and all their staff as family. We frequently discuss ideas and concepts for cocktails with the chefs and wine assortment with their wait staff," Petersson says. "We all spend a lot of time together, even outside of the workplace. We all enjoy each other's company and are able to influence each other every day with new ideas. By doing so, we are able to get better at what we do each and every day." Location.
Skál at Hlemmur Mathöll
"Skál offers honest bar food with great beer and natural wine," says Petersson. "Go for the braised lamb ribs." Location.
"MatBar features Nordic food with influence from Italy. It's always buzzing and lively. The cod cheek on the bone is one of my favorite dishes here," says Petersson. Location.
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Le KocK in Ármúli
Street food is what it's all about here; Petersson recommends Le KocK for its "no-fuss vibe" and highly recommends the burger for lunch. Location.
"I'll give this to our friends at KEX Hostel. Great vibes at the bar downstairs with a mix of locals and tourists that no one else has!" Location.
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Vesturbær 107
"I have to say Vesturbær 107 because of its up-and-coming coffee shops and bars mixed with the everyday culture," says Petersson. This area is approximately a 10-minute cab from KEX, or a 35-minute walk if you're feeling adventurous. Location.
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Prosecutors Seek Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee
Justice Department wants access to witness statements related to riot by pro-Trump mob, people familiar with matter say; House panel won't call former president to testify
Former President Donald Trump speaking in Austin, Texas, this month.Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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and Sadie Gurman
Updated May 17, 2022 8:01 pm ET
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is seeking transcripts of interviews conducted by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, people familiar with the matter said, a possible signal that law enforcement's probe of the riot is expanding. Meanwhile, the chairman of the committee said Tuesday it doesn't plan to call former President Donald Trump to testify as a witness.
Department officials told the lead investigator for the panel in an April letter that some of the committee's interviews might be relevant to their criminal investigation, one of the people said. That inquiry has up to now largely targeted individuals who entered the Capitol building that day and assaulted police officers, though federal prosecutors have also issued subpoenas for information about the planning of the "Stop the Steal" rally of Trump supporters that preceded the attack.


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Q: Papyrus UML for Eclipse 2019-03 doesn't have any profiles? I did search for some free UML tool, that I could use together with my professional growth were I will learn C++.
This way I found "Papyrus" for the Eclipse IDE. Since I did have the IDE already installed I thought this would be a good idea.
Like it says on the Papyrus page I did add "Papyrus - http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/papyrus/updates/releases/2019-03" to my list and checked everything from Papyrus to be installed.
This way I did think that everything would be installed.
After this one I did found the YouTube Tutorial by GWTLecturer (e.g. UML Tutorial 3.0 - Basics of Java Class Diagrams in Eclipse with Papyrus). Even if this one is at this moment about 3 years old I thought it could help me. Since my first trial and error actions didn't work. I could not find a way to create an easy class-diagramm.
Okay he does include the option to generate Java code. And I would like this option to. Even if I do not use, if I want to use this later on or if I will still prefer to write everything by myself. At least at the beginning where I learn the basics it isn't this wrong to write it by myself, at least in my opinion.
Okay but there are the problems.
GWTLecturer did install some GVT tool, that seems to not be available in the new eclipse edition. Okay if there won't be any problem I do not need to install it.
But I do not have any profils available or find any usefull tutorial to help with it. I would like to be able to create code in different programming languages i choose. Maybe to see if I did write them correctly.
Could someone help me please?
(With the professional training we use some online tool. But this one crys by already 3 classes in one diagramm that we use already 32% of the available space for free use. This way it is not a tool I want to use in order to train after the lessons.
(If you would say I should use some other freeware tool I am open for any ideas that use the standard UML 2.5)

A: You can try following this step:
Eclipse > Help > Install New Software> Enter link: http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/papyrus/updates/releases/mars/ into "Work with" field > Press Enter. After Eclipse Fletch > Into the list below > Papyrus Java > Choose what you want to install > Click Next and Follow the wizard.
I hope it work for you!

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ARNOLD MARCUS, LTJG, USN
Arnold Marcus '13
Date of birth: June 26, 1892
Date of death: July 25, 1917
Arnold Marcus
Mill Valley, California
"Marc"
MARC'S academic career has not been one continuous round of loafing. He has been in hot pursuit of that wary little animal called "Tufiv"; but he is in at the death, and his friends rejoice with him that the chase is ended without mishap. Widowed early in Second Class Year, when he lost Brutus—the noblest Roman of them all—Marc mourned the departed one faithfully, but the excitement of the above mentioned chase left him but little time for sorrow. Arnold is the easiest man in the world to rub along with on the basis of acquaintanceship, but very few have come close enough to be numbered with his friends. The playful spirit which sometimes moves him to douse the nearest man at mess with a glass of water is a source of endless gratification to those out of range, but it is a habit he will soon outgrow.
Rifle shooting is Marc's avocation; his success is attested by his place in Captain Jack Kates's aggregation of experts. Regardless of what he may have gained from the side issues of the course, he is a man who can step up to take his sheepskin with the proud feeling that he is getting something earned.
Rifle Team rNt, Sharpshooter—Expert, Clean Sleeve
Arnold was lost on July 25, 1917 when he died of injuries sustained the day before in a gasoline explosion and fire aboard his submarine, USS A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8), while operating in Manila Bay.
He was survived by his wife, Helen. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
From Pigboats:
Arnold Marcus, Jr. was born on June 26, 1892 to his mother, Lillian, who through her father's line, traced her linage back to Thomas Becket and her father, Arnold Marcus, who was twenty five years her senior and a prominent banker in the greater New York metropolitan area. He had multiple interests in Banking, Investment Companies and Railroads. He also represented the Rothschild family investments during the Tammany Hall scandals.
Arnold Sr. died in 1905 leaving the family very well provided for. Arnold Jr. was educated, for the most part, in Germany. His mother loved to travel, and took him with her. After the death of Arnold Sr. the widowed Mrs. Marcus had ambitions of marrying into English nobility, and in 1908 married Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frank Popham Young. He was involved with the governing of India. Young Midshipman Arnold Marcus was the best man.
At age 10 Arnold Jr. is mentioned along with his mother in the society pages as to attending social events in the summer of 1902 at Newport with many other 'moneyed' families.
At age 15 he had apparently completed his overseas education, and was attending a prep school in advance to taking the Naval Academy entrance exams. He was to graduate from the Academy with the class of 1913.
His first duty station as a Midshipman was aboard the USS Pittsburgh CA-4. In 1914 he was detached from the Pittsburgh to duty on Asiatic station. He was to take an army transport ship to the Philippines on May 6, 1914.
It also seems he had service on the Intrepid and Vicksburg and the Milwaukee before being transferred to San Francisco to the Receiving ship there to wait the Army transport.
While aboard the Pittsburgh he met his future wife, Miss Helen Elizabeth Cowles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cowles, a prominent family of Chicago. They met while she was visiting family in San Francisco and he was in that port from duty aboard his ship that had been off the Mexican Pacific coast during the Vera Cruz landings.
Helen and her parents travelled to Hawaii together and then Helen travelled to the Philippines alone to marry Arnold there since he couldn't get leave. Her parents were cruising to the orient on their honeymoon as her father had just remarried. Helen and Arnold were married in Manila in the summer of 1915. She made several trips back to Hawaii, and California during the next two years.
After arriving in the Philippines, on September 5, 1914, he was assigned to the USS Pampanga (PG-39), a schooner rigged gunboat built by the Spanish Navy, and captured in 1898. She retained her Spanish name. In her lifetime, she was commissioned and decommissioned by the US Navy four times. On June 2, 1915, Marcus was detached from the Pampanga, to temporary duty on the armored cruiser Saratoga ACR-2, the former USS New York.
On July 2, 1915, he was once again transferred from the Saratoga to the USS Helena (PG-9), an American Gunboat. He was subsequently transferred on July 16, 1916 to the USS Monadnock (BM-3), an iron‑hulled, twin‑screw, double‑turreted monitor of the Amphitrite class that saw service in the Spanish American War.
On August 29, 1916 he was commissioned a Lieutenant jg, retroactive to June 7, 1916, and in early spring 1917, Marcus was ordered to command of the USS A-7.
On July 24, 1917, Marcus and his crew were running drills with the A-7 on Manila Bay when the submarine suffered an explosion. The A-7 was commissioned in 1902 and had a gasoline engine that had been overhauled a short time before this trip. Fumes were always a problem, and some vapors had settled in a bilge pocket, and built up. There was a spark when an electrical switch was thrown. It was followed by an explosion causing severe burns, and setting the interior on fire. Marcus and his men battled the blaze until he ordered the crew topside, and into the boats that had been summoned alongside. Marcus was the last man to emerge from the interior of the crippled submersible. He sent up distress signals to the nearby monitor Monadnock, and then took the helm himself in an attempt to beach the submarine.
He refused all attempts of personal assistance until all his men were removed from the A-7. One had died almost at once from the blast; seven later died in the hospital from complications as a result of their burns, and two survived though they had burns also. Once every crewman was off the submarine, he finally submitted to being taken from the vessel for treatment. He died the next day.
Ultimately, all the bodies of the men who died from the explosion on the A-7 were shipped to the United States for burial.
The dead were: Lt jg Arnold Marcus Jr, of Mill Valley, Cal. died the next day in the Canacao Naval Hospital, July 25, 1917. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery Plot: Section E Div Site 3808.
Jesse Mellon Currie, Chief Electrician, he also died the next day in the Canacao Naval Hospital, July 25, 1917. Buried in Oakwood Cemetery in his hometown Richmond, Virginia.
Ira Dell Hixon, Machinist's Mate, Second Class, from Yakima, Wash., also died the next day in the Canacao Naval Hospital, July 25, 1917. Buried; Tahoma Cemetery, Yakima, Washington. Plot: F 16 NW 2
Otho George Hopewell, Gunner's Mate, Second Class, of Brushy Knob, Mo. likewise died the next day in the Canacao Naval Hospital, July 25, 1917. Buried in Brushy Knob Cemetery in Vera Cruz, Missouri.
Arthur Martin Jacobs, Fireman Second Class, lived until August 1, 1917. Buried, Mare Island Cemetery, Vallejo, California. Plot: Section E, Row 02, Plot 614.
Joseph Anthony Kunz, Machinist's Mate, First Class, from Cameron, Texas, died the next day in the Canacao Naval Hospital July 25, 1917. No burial data.
Harold Holden Lang, Machinist's Mate, First Class, of Dorchester, Mass. died the next day in the Canacao Naval Hospital, July 25, 1917. Buried, Mountain View Cemetery, Cambridge, Vermont.
Theodore Schaiblin, Chief Electrician, home town of Greenwood, Mo., survived until Aug. 5, 1917. Buried, Mare Island Cemetery, Vallejo, California. Plot: Section E, Row 02, Plot 611.
The survivors were; Fireman Arthur M. Jacobs of Rigby, Idaho and J. P. Nixon, Machinist's Mate. Nixon was only slightly injured. All who died did so because of extensive burns that covered their bodies. Where the survivors went after the explosion isn't known at this time.
Arnold Marcus was buried with full military honors at 3:00 PM on October 10, 1917. Navy Chaplain Roundtree conducted the service at the Arlington Cemetery Chapel. His wife, Helen Marcus, had accompanied her husband's body on the long trip from Manila to Washington, DC.
On August 22,1919 the destroyer USS Marcus DD-321 was commissioned in memory of Arnold Marcus Jr. and sponsored by his widow, Helen Cowles Marcus. His mother, Lady Young, was also present.
Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels wrote a letter to the widow Marcus, and in it stated, "The conduct of your husband was that of a most gallant officer, who, though fatally Injured, without regard to self, devoted every action and thought to the care of his vessel and men."
Thanks to James Haas for additional information.
USS Marcus (DD 321) was named for Arnold; the ship was sponsored by his widow.
Arnold is one of 9 members of the Class of 1913 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
← Clay Pearse '13
Harry Skinner, Jr. '13 →
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USS A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8)
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Commercial law advisors Whipping the Cat are poised to disrupt the status quo of the traditional, high cost legal industry by becoming a fixed cost legal partner for businesses of any size. The boutique consultancy has this week announced the launch of its fixed-fee commercial legal services, aimed primarily at modern small- to medium-sized businesses, and also catering to the outsourcing needs of larger corporates.
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Through the use of technology and the employment of an outsourced legal consulting model, Whipping the Cat promises to provide high quality, skills-based legal services at a fair price, quoted upfront for a fixed annual fee.
Rasheed Hargey, CEO of Cape Town-based communications solutions provider Tellumat, says that the freedom to adjust his legal package according to his company's requirements has been beneficial.
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Buying a house isn't for the faint of heart. They say that moving can be one of the most stressful life situations you can go through.
Not only do you need to physically uproot all of your belongings to a brand new location, but you have to keep your finances in order during the entire process.
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Put your mind at ease and know that you have all of your bases covered by having a legal advisor close by.
The excitement of moving and buying a home can often make people unrealistic about what they can truly afford.
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You might want to move into an old house that needs a lot of work doing to it.
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In the end it might be worth moving into a house that is ready to go.
Ask yourself what the true reasons are for your move; is it going to be worth it?
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Very valid reasons for wanting to move would be for a new job, to upsize or to move closer to family.
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The DK-H200 delivers native, full frame-rate 1080p video acquisition in a space-efficient form factor.
Hitachi Kokusai will feature new software updates for two of its HD, compact box POV cameras. New firmware for the DK-H200 1080p camera adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) support, while an update to the 1080i-capable DK-Z50 further enhances its capture quality.
The HitachiDK-H200 delivers native, full frame-rate 1080p video acquisition in a space-efficient form factor, making high-performance, progressive capture affordable and accessible for more applications. The DK-H200's 2.6 million pixel, 2/3-inch MOS sensors deliver sharp, clear images and combine with digital signal processing to create images with low noise, faithful color reproduction and high sensitivity.
Meanwhile, the multi-purpose DK-Z50 combines 2/3-inch CCDs with 14-bit analog-to-digital conversion to provide quality images for 1080i and standard-definition workflows at an economical price point. The small and lightweight nature of the two cameras also makes them ideal for robotic operation and other discreet installations.
The multi-purpose DK-Z50 combines 2/3-inch CCDs with 14-bit analog-to-digital conversion to provide quality images for 1080i and standard-definition workflows at an economical price point.
Hitachi's new DK-H200 camera update brings the benefits of HDR to the box camera format, enabling visibly superior HDTV productions with increased contrast, expanded mid-tones and greater detail in dark and bright picture regions—thus improving viewing experiences without the higher costs and workflow overhead of Ultra HD. The new firmware supports HDR specifications including HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) and HPQ, which is compatible with the HDR10 open standard for consumer TVs.
The DK-Z50 has also been upgraded with improved image quality, enabling closer picture matching with Hitachi Kokusai's Z-HD5000 broadcast studio and field production camera. The new firmware also increases the DK-Z50's signal-to-noise ratio to greater than 60dB while also enhancing its detail functions and characteristics.
The new DK-H200 and DK-Z50 firmware updates are slated to be released in Q2.


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Rolene Strauss announces pregnancy
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Rolene Strauss. (Photo: Instagram/@rolenestrauss)
Amor Vittone's dad is cancer-free and recovering after collapse
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PIC: Denise Zimba gives first look at baby Leah - and she's the cutest!
Cape Town - Former Miss World Rolene Strauss, has announced in a live video on her YouTube channel that she's pregnant with her second child.
"We decided to get pregnant again at the end of last year," Rolene says in the video.
But before they started trying, she wanted to complete the photo shoot for a recent Women's Health cover. Preparing for the photo shoot meant she'd have to follow a strict diet and an intense exercise regime.
A post shared by Rolene Strauss (@rolenestrauss) on Jul 11, 2019 at 12:58am PDT
After completing the photo shoot she and her husband, D'Niel, started planning for their second child.
"Literally three days later [after the decision] my son ran up to me and said, 'Mommy, Mommy, there's a baby in your tummy!' "
A while later, she started feeling nauseous all the time and decided to take a pregnancy test. "And the rest is history," Rolene says.
A post shared by Rolene Strauss (@rolenestrauss) on Jun 9, 2019 at 3:49am PDT
The couple's son, whose name they don't want in the media, is two years and seven months old.
"For a while we could give him all our time and attention. So it feels that the time is right to get pregnant again.
"I'd like to give birth in January or February," Rolene says.
A post shared by Rolene Strauss (@rolenestrauss) on Mar 23, 2019 at 8:01am PDT
Rolene is now three months pregnant and past the potential crisis stage of the pregnancy. But she'll be going for an ultrasound on Tuesday to check for any possible risks.
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The development of social inequality and political hierarchy in village societies
Anthropologists have come to realize that the emergence of wealth inequalities and hierarchical distinctions in mortuary displays were not inevitable progressions but changes in social conditions that need to be explained. Similarly, the expansion of such differences to a regional level – where several villages pay tribute to a regional political ruler – was uncommon enough to suggest that there were powerful mechanisms promoting village autonomy. My research focuses on how to reliably document such changes in the archaeological record and why various forms of hierarchy emerge and collapse.
Spatial and network analysis
How humans organize in space is a crucial indication of the pushes and pulls affecting their lives. Over time, archaeology and geography have developed conceptual tools to study the regional dynamics of settlement systems. One such tool, the geographic information system (GIS), is increasingly the 'container' that organizes archaeological data in space. Spatial analyses for evaluating prehistoric settlement patterns such as extent of clustering and least cost paths pre-date GIS but are accomplished with much less labour because of it. My work uses the computational abilities of GIS to demonstrate patterns in space and test specific hypotheses about how and why people in prehistory used the landscape the way they did. Network models do not require spatial information, but are increasingly used as tools for thinking about the relationships between people in ancient societies.
Bronze Age Europe
During the European Bronze Age (c. 2700 – 750 BC), craft production intensified, and many settlements built large fortifications. Mortuary displays favoured fewer and fewer people, concentrating large amounts of objects such as bronze axes, gold hair curls, and amber necklaces in only a small percentage of burials. Some people attribute these changes to the influence of hierarchical Indo-European culture forged in the Russian steppe environment a thousand years early. Others argue it was an indigenous development in which local leaders controlled practices such as bronze metallurgy, or restricted the extent and directional flow of valuables into the regional cultural system. Whatever the causes, many archaeologists believe that regional political hierarchies were common features of Bronze Age Europe.
While this may be true in some cases, my research in eastern Hungary suggests that the Bronze Age landscape was variable in the extent to which economic and political control was regionally consolidated. The long term goal of my research in the Carpathian Basin is to understand how the interaction of similar people and cultural systems over a large area could produce diverging economic and political trajectories favouring regional hierarchy in some cases but autonomous villages in others.


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World AIDS Day: Cameroonians Poised to end Pandemic by 2030
in Actualités, Santé / Environnement
Cameroonians have this December 1, 2020 joined their efforts to that of the international community to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
They are doing this as the world commemorates the 33rd edition of the World AIDS day with theme, "Global solidarity, shared responsibility."
The Cameroonian effort could be seen in the strides made thus far in fighting the killer disease in the country.
Strides made in fighting AIDS in Cameroon
– Sensitisation of target population especially the youth has contributed in reducing transmission rate
– Decrease in number of AIDS-related deaths
– Those living with AIDS are receiving treatment
– Seropositive pregnant women give birth to uninfected children
Cameroon's First Lady at the Battle Front
Cameroon's First Lady, Chantal Biya is one of those who has put in effort to combat the AIDS Pandemic.
Her humanitarian organisation, African Synergy against AIDS and Suffering which was created in 2002 has been effective in sensitising target groups especially the youth on preventing AIDS.
African Synergy has also been instrumental in ensuring that AIDS patients receive treatment and that mother-to-child transmission of AIDS at birth is prevented.
Facts and Figures on AIDS in Cameroon
2018 statistics in Cameroon reveal that there has been a 19% decrease in AIDS-related deaths since 2010.
The statistics also indicate that the number of new HIV infections have dropped from 36000 to 23000 within the same period.
Furthermore, in 2018, 74% of people living with HIV knew their status meanwhile 52% of them were on treatment.
UNAIDS on the Offensive
UNAIDS designed a 90-90-90 target by 2020 which envisaged that 90% of people with HIV should know their status, 90% of infected persons should be on treatment and 90% of persons on treatment will have suppressed viral loads by the end of 2020.
While work continues towards achieving this goal and an end to HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS calls on countries to make more investments in global pandemic responses and to adopt a new set of bold, ambitious but achievable HIV targets.
Eleanor Ayuketah Ngochi
Le premier roman en France de l'écrivaine camerounaise Djaïli Amadou Amal remporte le Goncourt des lycéens 2020


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CODE OF PRACTICE FOR RETAILER / SUPPLIER RELATIONS IN THE EUROPEAN HOME IMPROVEMENT SECTOR
This code lists some general principles which characterize behaviour and relations within the European Home Improvement supply chain, based upon fair cooperation, long term relationships, mutual understanding and respect.
The Code does not contradict existing legislation nor national codes of fair conduct where they already exist. Its purpose is to emphasize what has to be continued, developed or implemented to ensure a high standard of responsibility among companies belonging to the European Home Improvement Industry in the areas of sustainability, employment, environment and health.
Relations in the Home Improvement Sector supply chain have evolved in a largely positive way, due partly to the distinct nature of our supply chain. For example, relatively long stock turn times and the considerable size of some of the suppliers in our sector make the home improvement sector quite distinct from other areas of retail, in particular grocery retail.
Relations between retailers and suppliers in the home improvement sector are characterised by a partnership approach, for instance in gardening products, a range of plants will need to be agreed upon and developed by the retailer and supplier in close cooperation, up to 12 months before they are put on the market. It is thanks to this relationship that we have been able to develop a European voluntary code of conduct based on existing good practice.
Principle 1: Commercial Contracts
Suppliers and Retailers abide by the contractual commitments that they have negotiated freely, which should not contradict existing legislation;
Terms of business to be available in writing for both parties;
The terms of business shall be respected by both Retailers and Suppliers;
Reasonable notice of variation of a Retailer or Supplier's terms of business shall be given to the other party within a minimum period agreed in advance.
Principle 2: Orders
Orders shall respect agreed terms of business between Retailer and Supplier, such as prices, packaging, quantities, freight cost, delivery time;
Both parties agree to work together to best ensure accurate forecasts are made where possible;
In case of EDI orders, both parties shall make sure all necessary information has been well updated before interacting on EDI;
Both parties recommend growing their EDI relationship in the future.
Principle 3: Prices
Any change in prices and conditions shall be communicated before implementation by supplier to retailer within a reasonable time, previously mentioned and agreed by both parties.
Principle 4: Delivery
The Supplier shall deliver the ordered goods at the agreed time to the named point, in faithful performance of the Supplier's duties. In case of delay, not related to "force majeure", the Supplier shall compensate the Retailer according to specifications previously mentioned and agreed by both parties in the business contract;
Where possible, orders should reflect previous agreements between the retailer and supplier;
The Retailer shall accept on-time deliveries. If not, the Retailer shall fully compensate Supplier for any additional costs linked to such refusal.
Principle 5: Payments
The Retailer shall pay the Supplier according terms and conditions previously agreed;
The terms and conditions, written in a commercial contract, shall not be unfair nor contradict existing legislation;
In case of litigation, no deduction nor delay of payment should be made without prior agreement between both parties.
Principle 6: Sustainable Development
Suppliers and Retailers commit to supporting measures designed to reduce household carbon footprint, such as measures to promote sustainable consumption and production and improvements in eco‐design and labelling;
They commit to sharing information on risks to the supply chain arising in the developing world (e.g. deforestation, labour & production practices) and to work together to eradicate their future occurrence;
To take action to remedy any instance of child labour in the supply chain;
Where possible and practicable, Retailers and Suppliers commit to labelling origin on imported products; to convey consumer information on environmental sustainability and alternative energies;
Retailers and Suppliers will work to favour regenerative, renewable, re‐usable or recyclable resources, e.g. concerning packaging.
Principle 7: Information Sharing
Aware of the problems associated with transportation, Retailers and Suppliers agree to a steady improvement in service quality along the supply chain through a comprehensive exchange of information between representatives of both associations;
Retailers and Suppliers commit to working toward greater performance improvement across their operations in order to continually increase value for consumers;
In order to ensure that best practice is respected by all parties, EDRA and Fediyma representatives commit to periodically meet to review progress being made.
Principle 8: Quality of Life and Products
Both parties agree
To comply with or exceed the basic standards of providing healthy living and working conditions established by the European Union;
To provide that goods used according to their specification are neither harmful to health nor cause harmful environmental effects;
To strive to increase and improve quality standards across products.


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Epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine for appendectomy in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a case report
Mikako Kusakai1,
Atsushi Sawada1Email author,
Natsumi Kii1,
Yasuyuki Tokinaga1,
Naoyuki Hirata1 and
Michiaki Yamakage1
Received: 12 November 2018
Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) present increased risks for anesthesia-related complications. We present a case of epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine for open appendectomy in a patient with ALS who refused invasive mechanical ventilation.
A 50-year-old man with a 3-year history of ALS was scheduled to undergo open appendectomy due to repeated appendicitis. He refused to undergo invasive mechanical ventilation using an endotracheal tube. Hence, we decided to administer epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine for anesthesia during the surgical procedure. The patient underwent open appendectomy without complications and with no pain or discomfort during surgery. There were no neurological complications at the 3-month follow-up after surgery.
Epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine may be effective for the anesthetic management of patients who would benefit from regional anesthesia.
Epidural anesthesia
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects both upper and lower motor neurons and finally leads to death due to respiratory insufficiency [1]. Patients with ALS present increased risks for anesthesia-related complications and require careful perioperative management. General anesthesia may cause fatal respiratory depression because ALS patients are known to be sensitive to neuromuscular blocking agents. Although regional anesthesia is considered to be relatively contraindicated in patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders, regional anesthesia reportedly did not lead to postoperative worsening of neurologic deficits as compared to preoperative findings in 136 patients with CNS disorders [2]. Here, we report a case of epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine for open appendectomy in an ALS patient who refused to undergo invasive mechanical ventilation.
This case is significant for the indication for regional anesthesia and the perioperative anesthetic management, which enabled avoidance of respiratory insufficiency and was not associated with worsening of neurological symptoms at a 3-month postoperative follow-up in our patient with ALS.
Approval and consent for publication of this report were obtained from the patient and his wife.
A 50-year-old man (body weight 55 kg; height 168 cm) with a 3-year history of ALS was scheduled to undergo open appendectomy due to repeated appendicitis. Clinically, he had advanced bulbar symptoms with dysarthria and dysphagia and muscle weakness in both upper limbs. He had no muscle weakness in his lower limbs. His kidney function was normal. Pulmonary function testing indicated that his forced vital capacity (FVC) was 3.15 L and %FVC was 85.6%. Although he accepted future placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy for nutritional supplementation and the necessary equipment for non-invasive mechanical ventilation for pulmonary support, he refused to undergo future invasive mechanical ventilation using an endotracheal tube or tracheotomy in the advanced stages of ALS. In order to avoid the respiratory depression associated with general anesthesia, we decided to administer epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine for anesthesia during the surgical procedure.
After obtaining the patient's informed consent, we transferred him to the operating room and established standard monitoring. After placing the patient in the right lateral position, an 18-gauge Tuohy needle and loss-of-resistance technique with saline were used to obtain epidural access at the T12/L1 vertebral interspace. After careful aspiration to avoid intravascular and intrathecal injection, 11 mL of 1.5% lidocaine with 1:200,000 epinephrine was injected directly via the Tuohy needle. Then, an epidural catheter was placed for intraoperative and postoperative analgesia. We confirmed anesthesia of the T6 to L3 dermatomes using the cold test with ice. Active hip, knee, and ankle flexion were maintained during the surgery. Dexmedetomidine infusion was administered for sedation at 4 μg/kg/h for 10 min and continued at 0.4 μg/kg/h along with 3 L/min O2 via a face mask. The patient underwent open appendectomy without complications. The operative time was 43 min. He had no pain or discomfort intraoperatively. Dexmedetomidine infusion was terminated at the end of surgery. For postoperative analgesia, 0.125% levobupivacaine was continuously infused at 4 mL/h via the epidural catheter. He was monitored overnight in the intensive care unit (ICU) to assess his respiratory status and was shifted from the ICU the day after surgery. The patient walked without support after discharge from the ICU. There was no worsening of motor function in his lower limbs or interference with passing urine both during the effect of epidural analgesia and after it had worn off. The epidural catheter was removed on the fourth day after surgery, and the patient was discharged home on the fifth day after surgery. There were no neurological complications due to epidural anesthesia at the 3-month follow-up after surgery.
ALS is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by death of upper and lower motor neurons. Respiratory muscle weakness occurs due to loss of bulbar, cervical, and thoracic motor neurons [3]. Due to the inherent muscle weakness, general anesthesia combined with muscle relaxants may cause fatal respiratory insufficiency in patients with ALS. Historically, regional anesthesia has been relatively contraindicated in patients with CNS disorders for fear of causing postoperative worsening of neurological symptoms [4]. On the other hand, a previous prospective investigation reported no new or worsening of postoperative neurologic deficits as compared to preoperative findings in 139 patients with preexisting CNS disorders who underwent regional anesthesia [2]. The reduction of FVC has been previously reported to be negligible under lumbar epidural anesthesia in patients without respiratory depression [5]. Although lumbar and low thoracic epidural anesthesia was previously reported to induce a temporary reduction in FVC in a patient with ALS, it was not associated with the development of hypoxia or any clinical symptoms [6]. In our case, the patient had no respiratory depression after epidural anesthesia. In the event that epidural anesthesia severely depressed respiratory function in our patient, we intended to noninvasively support respiration via a ventilation mask until the respiratory depression induced by epidural anesthesia subsided. Therefore, we administered lidocaine as the local anesthetic for epidural anesthesia despite its greater potential to cause motor blockade as compared to other local anesthetic agents, because lidocaine has a shorter duration of action than levobupivacaine and ropivacaine.
Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective α2-adrenoceptor agonist. Its clinical effects include sedation, analgesia, and prevention of a detrimental stress response without respiratory depression [7]. Previous randomized trials revealed that dexmedetomidine provided safe and adequate sedation in patients with the risk of pulmonary aspiration who underwent upper endoscopy [8] or endoscopic interventions [9]. Dexmedetomidine provided appropriate sedation and comfort to our patient with ALS without respiratory depression or pulmonary aspiration.
In summary, epidural anesthesia combined with sedation with dexmedetomidine may be effective and suitable for the anesthetic management of certain patients with ALS.
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The authors thank Masayuki Ishii, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Science, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, for assistance in the perioperative management.
The authors have no sources of funding to declare related to this manuscript.
The datasets are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
MK helped with the administration of anesthesia to the patient. AS conducted the perioperative management, administered the anesthesia, and wrote the manuscript. NK helped with the writing of the manuscript. YT, NH, and MY helped with the perioperative management of the patient. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Ethics approval is not applicable because this manuscript is a case report.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for the publication of this case.
Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South 1, West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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Thanks to our Venice day trip it's easily possible to experience the magic of this incredible city in just a day. But what are the top things to see and do when you only have a limited amount of time? Here are our favourite things to do in Venice in one day.
You've got one day in Venice: what to see? How about the whole city! There's no better to start your day in Venice than getting a bird's-eye view of the city from the vantage point of the 98.6m-tall Campanile San Marco. One of the most famous bell towers in the world, this one dominates the Piazza San Marco, right alongside the basilica, and offers commanding views over the whole of Venice and beyond. Here's a challenge for you while you're up there: see if you can spot a single canal.
One of the most striking buildings you'll notice when you're at the top of the Campanile is its next door neighbour, the Doge's Palace (or Palazzo Ducale, to give it its name in Italian). Once the residence of the powerful Venetian rulers, the Doges, this opulent Venetian Gothic building is now a museum, and tickets are available online to save you time on the day. From the Doge's Apartments to fascinating temporary art exhibitions, there's lots to see here.
Connecting the Doge's Palace with the city's prison, the Bridge of Sighs is one of Venice's most celebrated landmarks. You'll get to cross it on your Doge's Palace ticket, and peeking out through its small windows, you'll get the same glimpse of Venice as the prisoners who once crossed it. It's their "sighs" that have given the bridge its famous nickname, thanks to a romantic notion that they sighed wistfully as they looked out on Venice one last time on their way to the cells.
Is there are more archetypal Venetian activity than a gondola ride? The gondoliers in their straw hats and striped T-shirts are one of the most enduring images of this beautiful city, and the gondolas themselves have a fascinating history as well. Don't miss the chance to take a romantic journey through Venice's atmospheric waterways.
Finally, no list of things to do in Venice in one day would be complete without a mention of the Rialto, the city's grandest bridge. This picturesque landmark spans the Grand Canal and makes a wonderful viewpoint over the waterborne traffic bustling on the canal below. The bridge is lined with small shops, meaning that it's also the perfect place to pick up a souvenir as a reminder of your day in this magical city.
How Venice's canals were built: how was a city built on water?


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Who Got Eliminated On Big Brother 2013 Last Night? Week 3
By: Todd Betzold | July 19, 2013 at 8:01 AM EDT
It was a pretty calm week in the Big Brother 15 house, minus the racial slurs that went on after last week's eviction show, so would that lead to a calm live eviction since we already knew who got eliminated on Big Brother 2013 last night before the show even started? Get the results for the Week 3 eviction show in our Big Brother 2013 spoilers that follow!
Here is the deal: heading into the live eviction show for Week 3 on Big Brother 2013, here were the three nominees:
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Jeremy McGuire
Spencer Clawson
The plan all week was concocted by Helen Kim, the Head of Household for Week 3. She wanted to backdoor Jeremy and get him out of the house, even though everyone in the house seems to hate Aaryn (and in the country). Well, Helen felt Jeremy is a bigger threat in the game and he had to go!
Well, the vote happened and in a pretty resounding manner (9-1 vote), Jeremy McGuire was the third HouseGuest eliminated from the Big Brother 2013 house! Helen's plan did work, but he is only part of the problem. We now must focus on getting the Mean Girls (Aaryn and GinaMarie)!
I really wouldn't have been upset to see any of them go home last night, but I am so intrigued to see the reaction of the crowd and the aftermath when Aaryn is evicted. I think it will be more calm then we think, but I want to see the drama unfold as she goes back to her everyday life and has no job and has probably lost a lot of friends along the way!
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| (55901) - || 1998 CL2 ||15 februari 1998 || BAO Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program
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| (55902) - || 1998 CO2 ||15 februari 1998 || BAO Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program
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| (55903) - || 1998 DN || 17 februari 1998 || Campo Catino
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| (55904) - || 1998 DR1 ||20 februari 1998 || Kleť
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| (55905) - || 1998 DD3 ||21 februari 1998 || Kleť
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| (55906) - || 1998 DS20 ||28 februari 1998 || P. G. Comba
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| (55907) - || 1998 DW27 ||23 februari 1998 || Spacewatch
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| (55908) - || 1998 EV4 ||1 maart 1998 || Spacewatch
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| (55909) - || 1998 EB11 ||1 maart 1998 || E. W. Elst
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| (55910) - || 1998 EN12 ||1 maart 1998 || E. W. Elst
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| (55911) - || 1998 EP12 ||1 maart 1998 || E. W. Elst
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| (55912) - || 1998 FD9 ||22 maart 1998 || Spacewatch
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| (55913) - || 1998 FL12 ||26 maart 1998 || ODAS
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| (55914) - || 1998 FV14 ||26 maart 1998 || ODAS
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| (55915) - || 1998 FB17 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55916) - || 1998 FM25 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55917) - || 1998 FN30 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55918) - || 1998 FP30 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55919) - || 1998 FA39 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55920) - || 1998 FM43 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55921) - || 1998 FK50 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55922) - || 1998 FL51 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55923) - || 1998 FD55 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55924) - || 1998 FE55 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55925) - || 1998 FY57 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55926) - || 1998 FE60 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55927) - || 1998 FN60 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55928) - || 1998 FG64 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55929) - || 1998 FW64 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55930) - || 1998 FY64 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55931) - || 1998 FM67 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55932) - || 1998 FE68 ||20 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55933) - || 1998 FD73 ||30 maart 1998 || P. Pravec, M. Wolf
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| (55934) - || 1998 FF73 ||28 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55935) - || 1998 FO74 ||24 maart 1998 || W. Bickel
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| (55936) - || 1998 FO76 ||24 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55937) - || 1998 FN105 ||31 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55938) - || 1998 FO113 ||31 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55939) - || 1998 FD118 ||31 maart 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55940) - || 1998 GU8 ||2 april 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55941) - || 1998 HS4 ||23 april 1998 || Kleť
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| (55942) - || 1998 HJ12 ||19 april 1998 || Spacewatch
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| (55943) - || 1998 HJ15 ||20 april 1998 || Spacewatch
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| (55944) - || 1998 HP18 ||18 april 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55945) - || 1998 HF23 ||20 april 1998 || LINEAR
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| (55946) - || 1998 HP24 ||22 april 1998 || Višnjan Observatory
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It's been a bit since we've talked about my beloved Orlando. So, how about a Flashback Friday post to one of my favorite places to eat at Walt Disney World: Via Napoli!
It's the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars. The geek community is buzzing still from Star Wars Celebrations. We're a few months from The Last Jedi. Disney World and Disneyland are hard at work on the Star Wars expansion. It's an amazing time for any Star Wars fan.
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Last year, we took my nieces to Disney World for their first trip, and specifically planned it to be during Star Wars Weekends in May. This is a family of Star Wars nerds, so this was a must-do for the kiddos first time there.
The Legends of the Force Motorcade, or as we called it, the Star Wars Parade, was probably the highlight for our family. But for more reasons than just enjoying a motorcade of people in costumes and celebrities from various different Star Wars movies and shows. When we came into the park that day, slightly later than we intended because we were trying to run to get the girls signed up for Jedi Training, an employee stopped us. She noticed that we were all decked out in Star Wars, including the adorable two little girls, and asked if the girls would want to be in the parade as little padawan representatives of the Jedi Training Academy. Of course, we said yes. And they needed one adult per child to go with them behind the scenes at Disney before the parade and walk behind them during the parade and wave to the people. Uh. Yeah. I definitely volunteered to go with my brother.


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Rochas Okorocha To Appear In Court For Sedition
Okorocha is to appear in court on October 8.
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Welcome to Volume 3 Issue 3 of the VOX-Pol Newsletter.
If you're in Brussels or have colleagues located there, please note that VOX-Pol will be hosting a Lunch Briefing Series during September – October, 2016.
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Suzzette Lopez Abbasciano joined Dublin City University in April, 2016 as a visiting VOX-Pol researcher for five months. She is exploring the role of social media campaigns in countering violent extremism (CVE) by building on concepts from public communication campaigns and crisis and disaster communication studies. Suzzette is a criminology Doctoral Student at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Researcher at the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies (CTSS).
Ryan Scrivens also joined VOX-Pol in Dublin, on a three-month research visit this summer. He is currently working with machine learning specialist Prof. Pádraig Cunningham at University College Dublin (UCD), and they are using text analysis to explore the differences between the two most visible websites in the white supremacy movement: Stormfront and The Daily Stormer. Ryan is a PhD Student in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada, and Researcher with the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC).
VOX-Pol's two-day Mid-Project Conference "Taking Stock of Research on Violent Online Political Extremism" was held at Dublin City University's All Hallows campus on 22 – 24 June. The conference, which was officially opened by the Irish Tánaiste (deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Justice, Ms. Frances Fitzgerald TD, was composed of three pre-conference workshops, two keynotes, two high-level roundtables, and 45 individual papers. The keynotes were delivered by Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media, and J M Berger, author of The ISIS Twitter Census (2015). The conference attracted 160 participants from over 20 countries, including contributors from academia, government, law enforcement, and industry. Press coverage of the event is here.
A NATO Science for Peace and Security-funded Advanced Research Workshop on 'Terrorist Use of the Internet: Assessment and Response', jointly organised by VOX-Pol and the University of Swansea's Cyberterrorism Project was hosted at Dublin City University from 27 – 29 June. The invitation-only workshop provided an opportunity for the 60 participants including academics, law enforcement, military personnel, and others to engage in in-depth discussion around some of the most pressing issues in this area, including the risk of cyberterrorism, online terrorist financing, etc. A workshop report detailing the latter discussions and a series of recommendations arising from these will be available shortly and an edited volume containing a selection of the workshop presentations will be published in 2017.
The second week-long VOX-Pol Summer School took place on 4 – 8 July, 2016 at Central European University, Budapest. The Summer School is designed to provide PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, civil society representatives, policymakers, and others with an introduction to the role of the Internet in contemporary violent extremism and terrorism, with an emphasis in Budapest on exposing attendees to a range of critical debates around related Internet governance and security policy issues. Topics covered included the ethics and practices of monitoring violent extremist content, impacts on and challenges for freedom of expression and privacy online, and the role of Internet and social media companies in responding to violent political extremism online. The event attracted 25 participants from 19 countries. It included a field trip to the Open Society Archives and a public lecture by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Director for International Freedom of Expression, Jillian York, on 'Freedom of Expression and Safety Online', a video of which is available here.
A book chapter entitled 'Terrorism in Japan' authored by VOX-Pol Post-doctoral Researcher Sara Dissanayake, will be published in August in the Handbook of Terrorism in the Asia Pacific. The Handbook provides an historical overview of terrorism in the Asia–Pacific, the evolution of the terrorism threat in the region, and present threats faced by countries with the rise of the Islamic State. For access click here.
An article entitled 'Thinking and Writing About Terrorism' was published in Arab Media & Society by VOX-Pol Ethics Advisory Board Member Prof. Philip Seib, where he shares his thoughts on his upcoming book Confronting Terrorism. The article is available here.
VOX-Pol Academic Advisory Group Member Prof. Alex Schmid's 'Research on Radicalisation: Topics and Themes' was published in the open access journal Perspectives on Terrorism. is a member of the VOX-Pol Academic Advisory Board. The article can be accessed here.
A paper entitled 'Terrorist Migration to the Dark Web' by VOX-Pol Academic Advisory Board member Prof. Gabriel Weimann also appeared in a recent issue of Perspectives on Terrorism. His article is available here.
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Seeking Status through Authenticity
by Still Thinking on June 6, 2012 in Thinking • 0 Comments
To be immediately distinguished from, and contrasted to seeking "statis", whether through it's rhetorical and judicial interpretations or via it's medical or dramatic definitions. In fact, especially against its dramatic form, as "a state or condition in which there is no action or progress; static situation: dramatic stasis". Why start a thought on 'status' by pondering 'statis'? Because statis is what status is not. And it appears that a state of statis is highly likely to lead to a loss of status.
Does Status have a relationship to Authenticity?
Working through the basics of status evolves into a helicopter view of the seeking of status, and we are now beginning to touch on the real thinking behind this post. For what is "seeking status" really about? And so we embark on a roving ponder which was initially triggered by an impromptu library loan of "Satre Explained – From Bad Faith to Authenticity" by David Detmer. What was intended as a bit of light reading in between bouts of uber-heavy financial literature, elevated itself into a full-blown introspection of self, memory, truth and authenticity. But most importantly, 'authenticity'. "Give me this day my daily face" may have been my old high school literature teacher's favourite misquote from Tom Stoppard's work but the idea clearly struck a chord, as it has resonated in my observation and thought ever since. So the active pursuit of authenticity would seem a past-time well worth the learning.
While the day-to-day play-acting of societally appropriate roles has piqued and titilated, Jean Baudrillard's "simulacrum" has annoyed and pestered and poked to the point where you just want to clasp hold of your brain with two hands, and shake out the relevant simulacrum-identifying neurons. Once you are exposed to this insidious concept, you will see its continual applicability to our modern world. It provides a diagnostic label for the condition in which a thing "becomes "true" in its own right while bearing no relation to any reality, past or present"*.
And you know how it is once a disease has a name – you begin to see it everywhere that you previously did not. It's a bit like buying a baby-poo-blue Mini, and then noticing just how many other people loved the same colour, and suddenly every interesection is full of baby-poo-blue Mini owners trying very hard not to notice each other.
So a simulacrum may be a picture, concept, quote or anecdote from history or a classic work of literature – but used in an empty, disposable manner. You see that a lot in blogland or in the world of art and also in advertising, where references are used and abused, haphazardly and shabbily. So a simulacrum can be considered a lie, a reference to something that has or had meaning but is now stripped of context and devoid of meaning. One approach to this is to shrug your shoulders and sigh "so what?". Just because someone uses a parody of Hitler to sell beer, shampoo, tea, alcohol, food et al, why should we care? If an Italian chain store wants to use Hitler to sell jeans, where's the problem? Is it just a form of bad comedy or intellectual ignorance, and if that is the case then why worry about it?
But there is something to worry about – because a thing is being presented for that which it is not. Once presented, that "thing" now assumes a life of its own, in effect stealing the original meaning, and consigning the original meaning to oblivion by shoving it into the societal rubbish bin of discarded trivia. If we hold truth as being anything more than a quaint historical fancy then there is something to worry about. "Authenticity" is a many facetted precious jewel.
And so we return to authenticity and status. A chain of causality and outcomes, reality and experience, that is fattened by even a cursory skim through Andrew Potter's "The Authenticity Hoax – how we get lost finding ourselves". Mr Potter takes us on a journey through the workings of our developed-world pursuit of that esoteric but highly valued sense of "authenticity". But he does so with a serrated bayonet, of the kind so hated in the trenches of the first world war. It just doesn't seem fair when our preferences, prejudices and most deeply held principles are hacked apart in a rough and brutal manner – we humans prefer a more surgically precise, logically esoteric and more readily denounced attack on our innards and inner workings. Mr Potter defends that difficult concept of "modernity" against those who would seek to "return" to a better time, a time of cleaner air, purer water, when men were men and sheep were scared. Maybe not that last comment- but the idea is that the slow food and local food movements are nothing more than attempts to retain status by claiming ever more fringe elements of what it is that defines "authentic". If healthy eating becomes mainstream fodder (is that funny?) then there is a need to identify with a "higher-status" form of eating. Your food may be healthy but mine comes from local produce… Your food may be local but i grow my own… and so it goes.
Is "Slow Food" authentic or just more status-seeking?
This is going to fly in the face of all those who seek to achieve a better world, with fairer outcomes for all, and greater levels of understanding. Some of these folk associated with searches for authenticity are going to see Mr Potter's premise as an insult to their efforts or as a refutation of the desire for a simpler lifestyle and will seek to make a rebuttal against the support of modernity. But they will be fighting their fight from a shaky bastion, as it can always be argued that what we do, we do for ourselves – whether it be to obtain status from others or to justify our own status image.
And so we will return to Mr Potter's thoughts on what it is to be authentic…
With respect to the self, it is about being spontaneous, risky, sentimental, and creative. Authentic social relations are built around small, organic communities that are nonhierarchical, noncommercial, and nonexploitative. Finally, an authentic economy is small and low-impact, with goods and services sourced locally and provided by family-run businesses, not franchises or other large industrial operations.
I don't think there is going to be much argument there. Mr Potter goes on to point out that commercial usage of the term "authentic" is ok, because its context is overt and obvious "… you are in a world of bullshit, but you know it is bullshit, and they know that you know it is bullshit". However, in the main, attempts at identifying "authentic" are at heart just further attempts to delineate authentic in terms of the exotic or an expensive form of sophisticated simplicity.
The Death of Authenticity
"There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish… it was so fragile". We hear Marcus Aurelius utter these words to the general-hero Maximus in the movie Gladiator. He could just as easily have been talking about authenticity, and to some extent, he was. Maximus led his legions throughout the empire, fighting because they were told to, but also for Rome – even though neither Maximus nor many of his soldiers would have ever even seen Rome.
The quest for authenticity takes some quirky turns.
And so we are being asked to imagine a return to an earlier time, when the world (Rome) was a magical, better place, and a worthy memory under which to kill people today . Something akin to the American public pining for a return to frontier individualism and values. Should you doubt my draw of the longbow, spend a moment to read this gem from the Texas Monthly then follow it up with a few chapters of Cormack McCarthy's "Blood Meridian". Our Australian version is the heroic colonial past contrasted with the colonial eradication of the Tasmanian aborigine.
Mr Potter suggests that a closely connected modern world transmits cool at such a rate that cool is now a commodity like any other. Where once upon a time, bohemian enclaves sprouted and flourished in quiet locations before being liberated to the mainstream world, any such non-mainstream activity is quickly "found", discussed and introduced to the mainstream. In other words, there isn't time for authentic to occur authentically – it must be actively created or sought after. And therein lies the conundrum, doesn't it? Conundrum or corruption – you choose.
Can there be authenticity in a knowing world? Are all attempts at authenticity status-seeking at heart? Can we aim for goals of authenticity without falling into these traps? If we accept that self-awareness is a positive characteristic, does the conundrum presented by the concept of authenticity remove the possibility of attaining the goal at any time?
The Russian-dolls of Self-Knowledge
So authenticity becomes hostage to a knowing. If we are aware of our task of being authentic then we are failing to be, authentic?
With all the multiple layers and facets that make up any individual, at what stage can we lay claim to the title "authentic"? Image: posterize / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Is it possible that all this investigation and interrogation of "authentic" is just another example of being "too clever"? This is not as dismissive as it sounds, even though it successfully ticks a few of the fallacy basics from Philosophy 101. Ponder for just a moment. We are being asked to see the quest for "authenticity" as a statement of negation. That is, a non-statement that only makes sense when contrasted with that which "is".
As justification, we are considering starting points for this "new" dynamic, and it has to be seen as new or else we are actually seeing something that has always existed, and which can be seen as a basic building block of the human condition.
image source : http://johnfalchetto.com/blogging/being-authentic-online/
Mr Potter points to Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the ignition point of this quest for authenticity. Does it destroy the premise if we can find an earlier flashpoint? How about the Zealots of Thessalonica? Surely this little episode counts as a negation of authority, and a call for a return to "authentic"? But maybe not. History is resplendent in its quilt of regalia reformed, reshaped, reworked and redefined.
And here i am, a thousand years or so later, still pondering the inequity, unattainable, yet utterly and completely desirous, authenticity.
Am i just another status seeker?
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