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Falsification of history and interests of the Russian Elite
By I.Shishkin
The uniqueness of the Russian situation consists of that fact, that there is the influential group among the elite of our country which is terribly interested in the debunking of the victory. Besides, there is not less influential group which is absolutely not interested in the counteraction of falsification of history, and there is even more numerous and influential group, interests of which prevent the organization of effective rebuff to the falsifiers.
In May, 2009, before the 65th anniversary of the Victory Day, Dmitry Medvedev has founded «the Commission aimed at the counteraction of falsification of history to the detriment of interests of Russia», on a wave of public indignation of campaign of the blackening of histories of the Great Patriotic War, has appointed one of the maximum government officials – the head of the President administration of the Russian Federation by the head of «the Commission aimed at the counteraction of falsification of history to the detriment of interests of Russia». Accordingly, Dmitry Medvedev has erected the struggle against the falsification of history in a rank of the state policy.
Then, this event «was a bombshell». The international structures and the states which have been transformed history in effective means of the decision of political problems for a long time, have cried together about inadmissibility of the intervention of the state (naturally, the Russian) in historical disputes. The liberal public up country got into a tantrum because the censorship, freedom of our word were in danger, the 37th year was on the threshold. Two years have passed from the beginning of the struggle with falsification of history of Great Patriotic War, declared by the Russian president. What results do we have?
On the 23th of September, 2009 The Polish Seim accepted the Resolution in which it qualified the deliverance of the Western Ukraine and the Western Republic of Belarus by the «Red Army» in September, 1939, having been occupied by the Poles, as the aggression against Poland. For the first time, the USSR was declared at an official level by the aggressor which had started the World War II (while together with Germany). The Russian reaction was expressed in the maximum laconic comment of the Department of the information and press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the appeal to live amicably and to leave the history to the historians: «We are still deeply convinced, that the question about the genesis of the World War II after seventy years should be left to historians finally» (The comment of the Department of the information and press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in connection with the acceptance of the resolution by the Seim of Poland concerning events on the 17th of September, 1939,1362-24-09-2009; the note of the author). The State Duma also has decided to not be humiliated up at all to do the reciprocal steps in the connect with so insignificant event and charged to the Committee of the International Affairs to send the letter with call to mutual understanding to the Polish colleagues.
For comparison, I shall remind, that when not a parliament of the country, and the private person – Sergey Kovalyov, the military historian, has published article «The concoctions and the falsifications in assessments of a role of the USSR on the eve and with the beginning of the World War II» in which he has told about unseemly actions of the Polish side before the beginning of war, Poland arranged such a dramatic scandal, that the Russian authorities being in their fright, deleted the article from the site of the Ministry of Defence. Nikolai Makarov, the general, the head of the of the General Staff hastened personally to refuse from the author (The head of the General Staff also «refused» from the article accusing Poland in the beginning of the World War II; the note of the author). By 2010, the Lithuanian Seim has entered the criminal liability for denying of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. Reaction of Russia was that all the same traditional appeals to live amicably and to leave the history to the historians.
If we apply to the results of the counteraction of the review of history of the Great Patriotic war inside Russia, we will have to recognize, that by the quantity of movies, books and articles, in which the identity of the Stalin USSR with Hitlerite Germany «is proved», Russia still keeps palm of victory of superiority with confidence and is capable to give a head start to any foreign falsifiers.
It is indicative, that in 2010, each third (!) citizen of Russia agreed with the statement that our country bears the equal responsibility with Germany for the beginning of the World War II. Five years before, in the 60-th anniversary of the Victory Day less than six percent people divided such point of view. By 2011 the appropriating interrogation still was not spent, but the tendency is unequivocal.
There are the historical truth, a vertical of authority, the great opportunities of Mass Media being under control of the state, finally, the complete support of the vast majority of the nation on one side. There is all the way through false propaganda on another; and it is such result. However, it is only seeming balance of forces «on a historical field». An actual balance looks absolutely differently, and it is defined, first of all, by interests of the Russian elite and its specific character. «The interest» is the main concept of all this «history about history», as abroad, and inside of the country.
The foreign campaign on the review of a role of the USSR in the World War II is based on not only bent of politicians and journalists for to historical researches, waken unexpectedly, and interests of global elite, interests of elites of the majority of the European states, as well as interests of elites of the new independent states.
The global elite (Whether it coincides with the American elite or has the supernational character, in this case it is insignificant; the note of the author) focused on the construction of the unipolar peace for quite natural reasons, sees one of the primary threats to its objectives sees in Russia. The West has not forgotten that by the 20th century all world already was its colony or semi- colony (the great competition of the colonizers allowed to some people and the states to keep independence). Russia, the only country which is not belonging to the western civilization, talked to the Europe on equal terms, and its power steadily increased. Very Russia frustrated plans of Napoleon to unite the Europe that in those days meant also the establishment of actual domination over the world.
In the 20th century Russia in the form of the USSR «broke a ridge to the Third Reich», one more applicant for the world domination. Together with the USA, it created the modern world political system within the limits of the Yalta – Potsdam arrangements. Owing to the USSR, the colonial system, the result of centuries-old efforts of the West, and almost the half of the world has left from under its control for decades. The process of globalization and construction of the unipolar world has been started as a result of the crash of the USSR, i.e. it is caused by the reasons in Russia in many respects. Even the present Russian Federation is the unique state which is potentially capable to carry out a sovereign policy (5), to become independent civilizational and a political pole, and by that to open a window of possibilities for other civilizational and the political centers, to open a way to the multipolar world.
Therefore there was an objective interest in the new concept of the World War II at a level of global elite which is based on a recognition of the equal responsibility of the USSR and Germany, identity of the «Stalinism» with Nazism which would allow to put the USSR (Russia) from the category of the countries-winners, the pillars of the modern world order, in the category of the aggressor which suffered a defeat (Germany в1945, the USSR в1991).
According to the new concept of history of the war, the West is the savior of mankind from totalitarianism, the plague of the 20th century (in the form of Nazism and «Stalinism») and the Russian Federation and Germany are the assignees of aggressive totalitarian empire, with all consequences following from here. If Germany has followed a way of correction and expiation for a long time and has ostensibly deserved the right to enter into family of civilized people, Russia still should pass this way. Its mandatory condition is the full «disarmament» (in sense of terminology in 1930s) before a Free world, including the refusal of a great-power and imperial chimera of the sovereignty, a sincere repentance, compensation of the damage to the occupied states, the return of the occupied territories and many other things. «De-Stalinization» and denazification are the heavy and long processes, appealed to transform Russia from the subject of the world politics in the object of realization of interests of the global elite.
The World War II l still has not become history for Europe, its results have rendered the most direct influence on the modern political processes till now. Thus, the vast majority of the European countries were in the war on the side of Germany. Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Norway, Croatia, Austria (in the structure of the Third Reich), Spain and Denmark took part in the campaign to the East. Other states sent the volunteers and made the economy serve for the Reich( voluntarily or forcibly). Almost 500000 representatives of the European states which were ostensibly not at the war with us (conforms to the number of four or six Soviet multi-service armies) were taken captive only in the Soviet captivity.
After disintegration of the USSR and the sudden weakening of the positions of Russia, these countries got the unique possibility to pass from the category of the won aggressors or helpers of the aggressor in the category of victims of the Soviet totalitarian empire. First of all, the elites of the East European states which became dependent on the USSR after the results of the war, are interested in that. The concept of the war based on a recognition of identity of Nazism and «Stalinism», to their equal responsibility for troubles small, but the proud democratic countries is ideally appropriate to them for the disposal of own debts and exhibiting of accounts of Russia.
The elite of the Great Britain, the unique active participant of the anti-Hitlerite coalition in the Europe, also turned out to be interested in the review of history of the World War II, both by virtue of the involvement into the global elite, and by virtue of the aspiration to absolve oneself of the responsibility for the policy of «the pacification of the aggressor», for the division of Czechoslovakia and some others, during the pre-war period.
The special activity of Poland speaks in the frame of a historical field is explained by the whole complex of the reasons and the complexes connected with its position between millstones of the German and Russian world. «A friend among strangers, a stranger among friends». It is vitally now for the Polish elite to keep the western areas which were cut off from Germany in its advantage initiated by the USSR, and, at the same time, to restore the influence in «the East Kresy» lost after the Liberation campaign of the Red Army in September, 1939 .It is necessary to introduce durably an image of a victim of German and Russian totalitarianism and imperialism in world public opinion for achievement of these objectives. The purposeful failure of all attempts of Poland to create the system of the collective security in pre-war Europe, and extremely because of self-interested fear to lose the territories of the USSR, occupied in 1920 (nowadays Ukraine and Belarus) at all. From here, an excessively exalted, «the historical policy» Poland, being on the verge of a hysterics, also arises.
The influential forces of the post-Soviet space also have deep objective reasons to rewrite history of Great Patriotic War. The separatists came to power in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Baltics, as a result of disintegration of the USSR. They did not destroy the USSR. The separatist movement which are special to any multinational country, did not have a such power, but the authority turned to be «in the hands» of the separatists. The main task for them was to keep the unexpected conquest, not to disappear, «as a night nightmare», under influence of the integration, centripetal forces when the crisis in Russia will be over. They well have acquired the history of the restoration of the territorial integrity of Russia, in the form of the USSR, after the geopolitical accident in 1917 (all for 22 years).
It has appeared that it is necessary not only to find the strong owner (to enter NATO), but also to create the mass support of separatism, powerful internal forces of counteraction to any attempts of integration inside of the new independent states for conservation of independence from Russia. The reference to «the historical policy» was inevitable in these conditions. The myth about invaders and the centuries-long national-liberation struggle, about Russia as «the empire of the evil», the source of all last and present troubles of their nation was required.
The joint victory in the most terrible and bloody war in the history of the mankind became one of the main hindrances in a way of elites of the new independent states. It did not separate, it united. The only output was the introduction in public consciousness of essentially new view about the war. It is the fight of two totalitarian empires in «millstones» of the confrontment of which the occupied people had been involved.
However it is not enough. The national-liberation struggle is impossible without a pantheon of the heroes. A reasonable question is: where can we take them, if any national-liberation struggle was not neither in Ukraine, nor in Baltics, in Moldova with Georgia? You will not find anybody for this role except for the Nazi helpers, but there is also a problem here. The third Reich and with helpers were at the war not only against the USSR, but also against the USA, the favour of which is the main guarantee of the independence of Russia. From here, the justification of the collaboration which is peculiar to the post-Soviet falsifiers, and a myth about «the third force». It was impossible not to invent it in the developed conditions. As a result, the «heroes»,the fighters with the Soviet invaders appeared, which put on the Schutz-Staffel uniforms to finish with the Soviet totalitarian empire, and then to turn the weapon against Nazism, shoulder to shoulder with the countries of the Free world.
The global elite and the elites of many European states, and the elites of the former union republics, all of them in an equal measure appeared that now, it is necessary to transfer Russia from the status of the state-winner and the liberator in the status of the aggressor at all distinction with a view of both weight categories.
The blackening of the Russian history has older traditions in our country, rather than in near and far abroad. As A.Panchenko, an academician, marked, that even in Nicholas's I reign the new type of the person manifested reign in Russia, in consciousness of which there was an identification of the concepts «Russia» and «angrily» and which began to struggle not with the evil in Russia, and with Russia as a source of the evil .Such struggle inevitably assumes the full break with the tradition, the radical demolition of the national system of values and social life, the destruction of the source of the evil «up to the basis».
However, to achieve it is impossible to achieve it, till «you will not tear off the nation from roots», till you will not introduce hatred to the past in public consciousness. Therefore, the reference to «the historical policy», became the natural result of an output of radical fighters for the light future on public arena which have very quickly turned to the radical fighters with the past, with tradition. Dostoevsky, has enclosed in lips of one of such «demons» the «hammered formula»: «Who will damn the past, that already is ours».
It was so in the days of Dostoevsky, so remains now. People for whom the concepts of "Russia" and «an evil» are identical, who are convinced, that any reforms will give nothing, while the Russian archetype is kept, borrow the very influential positions in a modern ruling layer and media-space. The revolution of the end of the 80s – the beginning of the 90s years transfer them in the elite of the Russian society, as the most consecutive and uncompromising fighters with vestiges of the past (to regret there is nobody and there is nothing to regret).
The great victory has quite naturally appeared to be one of the main obstacles in a way to the next «light future» for them. Pride of the country, of the acts of the fathers and grandfathers is a core not allowing to transform the demolition of the obsolete public forms into destruction of the Russian matrix, desirable for a long time. It is impossible to crush the «empire of an evil» without the debunking of the victory. The theses about the responsibility of the USSR for the World War II, about the identity of «Stalinism» and Nazism, about the gloomy past(«the whole Russia is Katyn») were put not accidentally in the basis of the state program of struggle against the totalitarian heritage, appealed «to modernize» consciousness of the society (it is worked out by Council under the President of the Russian Federation on a civil society and human rights). The Commission for the counteraction of falsification of history was founded by the same President. It is appealed to fight against all this.
The sincere adherents of struggle with «the damned past», certainly, are in the minority among the elite, but they are supported by «the offshore aristocracy», much more numerous groups of the businessmen and the corrupted officials, formed in the «daring 1990s».They have nothing to do with the history of the country and other humanitarian nonsenses. Only money is of importance, there is nothing personal. They have received the fabulous riches as a consequence of so-called, «a grabfest» ,but if you purchased the property, breaking the law ,you will never believe to any legislative guarantees of its immunity. Therefore, their money is in the West. The children are in London. They live and work in Sherwood, Greenfield, Riverside, City, located, the truth, in Moscow and the localities near Moscow. The conflict to the West, moreover because of any treatment of history, is absolutely not necessary for the «offshore aristocracy». Accordingly, the effective counteraction of the falsification of history objectively contradicts to its interests, and it is able to protect the interests.
Certainly, the positions, for whom the country is Motherland, and not the «empire of an evil» and not «a zone of free hunting», are not less strong in the elite of Russia. However, the specific features of this elite group which key occupied the key positions «in zero years», but formed during the crash of the USSR, in the same 90s, conduce the counteraction of falsification of history a little. Let's recall, that we have hear from even the most public-spirited representatives of the elite for last decades, in fidelity to that they consider to be necessary to swear constantly: the European choice and the European values. Thus, they are quite sincerely indignant against the falsifiers and stand up for the greatness of Russia. They are sincerely proud of the Victory.
The absence of these most European values is not the direct result of our nice history, isn't?
If it were not Alexander Nevskiy, Minin and Pozharskiy, if the orthodox brotherhoods, the Cossacks and the simple people who stood to death against the catholicizing in Little Russia ,if it were not the heroes of Borodino and Stalingrad, the European values will have already been imparted to our state. Moreover, if the Russian orthodox people have not existed, then not lime trees, and the real green fields with riversides would be settle down on the East European plain and the continuous European paradise would be observed.
Such duality inevitably «hog-tie» even the sincere fighters with falsification of history in the Russian elite. It Forces them to struggle only with the consequences, but not with the reasons, dooming them to the defeat. Anybody neither on the Russian TV, nor in the Congress of the USA, not in the PACE (the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; the translator comment) is not engaged in the falsification of history for the sake of the falsification. It is only the means of the achievement of the political aims.
However, the recognition of that objective of the falsifiers is not the distortion of the historic facts, and the decision of geopolitical problems, the destruction of spiritual civilizational bases of the state and people, inevitably means, that the counteraction to them should include, besides the refutation of lie, also something another, incommensurably more important thing .It is the strengthening and development of these most spiritual and civilizational bases of the nation.
What should we do with the European choice and the fidelity to the European values then?
The persistent aspiration of the representatives of the «patriotic» group in the Russian elite follows from here to put the political essence of a problem for brackets, to pretend, that it does not exist. It is the extremely important for them to reduce all this to the cleanly historical problems. Therefore, we hear the constant entreaty and conjurations: «Leave the history to the historians», naturally, remaining without response.
As we see, the results of the counteraction of the falsification of history have an absolutely objective character and are caused by the interests and the specificity of the Russian elite which was formed in the 90s and the zero years. However, it does not follow from this, that the struggle against the review of history is doomed to failure. The spiritual health of the Russian society appeared to be stronger, rather than the protectors have expected about its «light future». The instinct of the national self-preservation helped the nation to feel, that there is a question about their own future, the future of the children and the grandsons instead of ostensibly historical disputes. The numerous conferences (including owing to the Commission and to devotees in its structure), are spent, the articles are published , people of the most different trades and ages conduct the sharp discussions about historical problems, expose lie and demagogy of the falsifiers on the Internet.
The Russian society rapidly changes and defends its values, the right to be itself. The explosion of indignation by the supreme commander in chief during the parade is indicative, and in fact, people similar things have been suffering still more recently; or there was the story with the program for the struggle against the totalitarian heritage .It was published, there is not the presidential approval, as well as the disapproval, till now. The sharp public reaction which obviously which has been expected, spoiled the game.
«The recovery» of the society after «the largest geopolitical accident of the 20th century», naturally generates a process of the improvement of the Russian elite. There are people in its environment who consider the orthodox faith, the Russian way of a residence, the tradition to be unconditional, by the matter- of-course value …
The interests of this new, still small group in the Russian elite, as well as the powerful public counteraction to attempt to reconsider the history of the Great Patriotic War are the pledge of that struggle against falsification still only begins, that our people were not and will be not «Ivans, who do not remember the kinship»
Translation from the Russian by Kalyuzhnaya Irina, APIR Center
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We should exercise, not because we feel bad about ourselves and our bodies, but instead simply because it's good for us. Surely that's reasonable? How did it all get this bad?
What I value the most is this: exercise teaches you about your body and mind. It brings relief from pain and makes moving easier. It encourages self-knowledge and reflection. It can grow your critical mind and give you perspective without feeding your judgmental impulses. It creates peace, when it's done well, it improves confidence and subtle awareness. It is challenging to describe.
We tend to think about movement and exercise in very much a sports-centric way. But we don't have to. We talk about healthy competition, and ignore what seems to me to be the much more prevalent issue of unhealthy competition, we talk about athletic progression and developing the human body or machine even. But movement doesn't have to exist only in this context. We can think of movement in terms of artistic expression.
The way to get better at a thing is via feedback. Feedback, unlike criticism, can come in many forms, and is absolutely necessary if your goal is to improve at a thing. My Kung Fu and Tai Chi students sometimes struggle to practice, because they lack confidence that they are practicing correctly.
We often mistake a lack of confidence for laziness, and wonder "why can't I bring myself to this practice? What's wrong with me?" and we find ourselves doing something else, even when we have the time to practice. Mostly I think, it's about not quite knowing what to do, feeling adrift, or unsure of ourselves. We question our own methods and motivation, and on some level it's very easy to wonder what is the point, if we're not training rightly? This is one of the ways in which perfectionism can really get in the way of, well, everything.
A Tai Chi teacher I know recently said that the belief you should be doing it perfectly is the number one reason why people don't practice, especially beginners.
The Simple Art Of Board Breaking.
I've spent the last few months teaching one of the other personal trainers at work how to break wooden boards with her hands. The other day, we held a small demonstration, footage of which can be seen here.
And on that day, I had three people ask me what the trick is. I said training, and conditioning the hand over time, and understanding appropriate progressions. I also pointed out that it's easier with certain striking areas than others, but that is simply an aspect of understanding the nature of appropriate progressions. Now that I reflect upon it though, I think the question reveals something else that's going on in the fitness industry.
Of course there is no trick. It's just training, conditioning the body, and developing over time. The two primary keys to progress are of course known, they are patience and consistency. Moving forward to what will be helpful when it is helpful, but not before. Avoiding injury, over-stimulation, boredom or stagnation.
The easiest way to break a board is with a muscular – rather than bony – surface area. So of course we begin by practicing the correct technique and leverage, and getting the heel of the palm used to a small degree of impact. Over time, one may progress to striking with the knuckles, but of course – while stronger in a certain context, the knuckles are also more fragile and vulnerable to injury. So again, appropriate steps only. Move from the simple to the complex, what is doable to what is challenging.
I notice it quite profoundly – it's easy to mistake simple for easy, and complex for difficult, but it often doesn't work out that way in the end.
Chin-ups are essentially simple, yet quite difficult. Tai chi is extremely complex but it's all about the elimination of tension within the body, so once you've grasped that physically, your practice becomes effortless.
The thing is these days, if it's effortless we think it won't help us get into a smaller pair of pants, so why bother? Clearly it isn't really about health anymore. Learning to move without tension is one of the most useful things in the world, as is learning to maximise tension.
In exercise, and training, you don't need to be disciplined or forceful. We are told we need to work hard all the time, but this is not true – this approach rarely results in improved quality of movement. Working hard, valuing effort above awareness and insight, often results in the development of inefficient movement patterns.
One must learn to train appropriately to the day and the larger objective. This is a subtle skill that develops only over time. But I'm not going anywhere, and I'd hope that after another year of training, I'll be better at it.
For the beginner, discipline and forcefulness are irrelevant, and for the athlete, forcefulness is usually of lesser importance to skill or technique. For a person to be successful at a sport, they generally must be able to effectively apply power to an efficient and effective movement pattern, but at gyms we only value effort, because of the delusion that the reason exercise is good for you is because it 'burns the foods'.
Promise The Moon Part Two: Aesthetics, Athletics And Competition.
I wrote about putting this idea of beauty (as something out there, something you can qualify for, as something, anything that is not within you already) putting this idea of beauty to rest; putting this idea of needing to qualify to rest. Accepting yourself as you are. If you want to 'work on' something, work on discovering your own true character – not on serving the status-quo's exploitative agenda.
How do you motivate yourself to care for yourself, to exercise and all that stuff, when you're over pandering to their demands? If you really are worthy now, as you are, then what's the point of all that hard work?
It's not worthwhile because some day it might make you beautiful. If that's all you're focussed on, you'll miss the forest for the trees. If you're constantly seeking this other thing, you'll neglect – you won't even be able to see – the real benefits that you're getting right now. You'll take them for granted, always looking for this other thing.
All devoted and ethical martial artists I have known care about protecting that which is vulnerable, fragile, weak, valued or loved. The role of discipline is to enable you to protect that which requires protecting, and to develop and grow in a way that serves you and your best interests.
It is not to enable you to police your own oppression – but that's how we are encouraged to apply it these days. We are called weak, and only strong when we are capable of abusing ourselves in the name of health and progress. Our morality is questioned based on our eating and exercise practices, and assumptions are made about our character, based on our size, shape and weight. I have always felt conflicted about discipline. It's a double-edged sword, it can harm or it can serve. It is useful, but in excess, or when misapplied, it can be extremely problematic. And as disciplined as I have been in my life, it never made me look the way I wanted. There are gaps in our assumptions.
I am announcing my new martial arts endeavour. After much, much pondering and a little bit of planning, I am opening my own wushu school: Song Mountain Wushu. Wushu is simply Chinese for martial arts, and I will be teaching kung fu and tai chi. Classes will be held in the dance studio above the gym where I work.
This is probably more relevant to those of my readers who live in Melbourne.
As probably comes as no surprise, I'm running body-postive classes. You often see martial arts advertised with some sort of weight-loss propaganda thrown in for good measure. It is important to me – in a culture that 'encourages' us to be thinner all the damn time – that we have safe spaces for training, where we are not constantly pressured to look different. And of course, the point of martial arts training is not to lose weight. The point depends on you, really – but commonly people train for skills and sporting excellence, for confidence, and to learn practical methods of self-defence.


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As explained in PM's How to Fix A Scratch Car Clinic a few years back, a car's paint job is capped off with the clear coat. Beneath that lies the paint color, then the primer, then the steel. Most of the scratches in our decade-old silver SUV were light nicks in the clear coat, which Fix-It could fill with ease. That's not surprising, as the product is essentially a tube of clear-coat resins packaged like a marker. You stroke it on, fill the damage, and the formula hardens beneath sunlight. The problem is that deeper scratches in the paint color—the more noticeable ones that most of us would want to disappear—require more work than Fix-It alone can provide.
For those types of scratches, the proper repair would involve some of the steps from our Car Clinic story mentioned above. Let's say the scratch goes into the color, but not through it. First, spread the Fix-It compound along the scratch, and allow it to harden. If the Fix-It clear-coat layer stands proud of the surrounding area—and it will—wet-sand it back with 1000- or 2000-grit wet-or-dry sandpaper. Then polish out the sandpaper scratches with rubbing compound, and buff smooth with a polishing wheel. These steps should leave the scratch relatively undetectable. If, on the other hand, the scratch goes through the color and into the primer or the metal, don't bother with Fix-It. You'll need to spray fresh primer, color and clear coat and blend it all properly.
But our deep scratches didn't have time for all that. As the ad said, we could just Fix-It and forget it, right? Wrong. Once treated, the scratches in the paint appeared to have been highlighted with clear fingernail polish. Still, by sealing the scratch, even improperly, we had stopped moisture infiltration, which would have eventually caused the clear coat to lose adhesion at the edges of the scratch. The silver lining in this clear-coat cloud reminded us of our semi-success with Mighty Putty: It doesn't look like nothing happened, but it looks better than it did.


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25 Best Movies and TV Shows About English Royalty
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Certified Royal Drama – Wolf Hall
by Devon Forward | Collider | November 13, 2021
For the days when you just want to watch some certified royal drama. Sometimes real life is even better than fictional drama, which is why so many television shows and movies are based around historical events. Take England, for example. You can't honestly claim that you've never been fascinated by something that's happened to a king or queen of the country's past or present, right? Everyone loves to hear about the strong-willed Queen Elizabeth I, King Henry VIII and his six wives, the elegant current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, and any number of interesting English royals. Luckily, Hollywood feels the same way, and movies and television shows based on stories about English royalty have been made for decades now, with more coming out each year. But which ones are the best?
An earlier appearance by Claire Foy as an English royal, this time around she goes back a bit farther into the past to play Anne Boleyn opposite Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall. Sure, the story of King Henry VIII's deadly reign and six wives is well-known, but there's a reason for that, as his story is one of the most intense and memorable throughout royal history. But what makes this series a bit more unique is that it really focuses on the historical figure of Thomas Cromwell, played by Mark Rylance, a manipulative, charming man who uses his close relationship with King Henry VIII to gain more power for himself. With a target on Anne, attempting to get King Henry VIII away from her influence, Cromwell plays a risky game that might not end in his favor (Spoiler alert: it doesn't).
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Hilary Mantel Hopeful Damian and Mark Rylance Will Return to Their Wolf Hall Roles
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Henry and Cromwell
by Rebecca Jones | BBC News | May 20, 2021
Dame Hilary, 68, is a shrewd observer of political drama that spans the ages. "I think what my books have tried to show is that there is no life without politics," she says.
She has been immersed in Tudor politics for more than 15 years, working on her Wolf Hall trilogy of historical novels about the plots and intrigues at the court of King Henry VIII and the rise and fall of his chief adviser Thomas Cromwell.
Dame Hilary has spent the past year writing the play of The Mirror and the Light herself. She says she wanted to "give it a go".
But, perhaps surprisingly for a writer of 14 works of fiction and a memoir, she was not sure she could do it on her own.
"Although I'd written plays for radio… I've not written a whole stage play by myself. I felt my inexperience," she admits. "I thought, 'I need a collaborator.'"
Ben Miles, who starred as Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring up the Bodies, suggested himself as "co-pilot" on the project.
The television adaptation of The Mirror and the Light is on its way too. "It is going ahead. It's being written now, but delayed by Covid like everything else," she says.
It is therefore unlikely to be on our screens before 2023. "It's just a question of patience." The previous BBC TV adaptation of the first two books – which was entitled Wolf Hall but brought together Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies – won two Bafta TV awards, and a Golden Globe.
She says she "would certainly hope" that Sir Mark Rylance, who played Cromwell in the BBC series and Damian Lewis, who appeared as Henry VIII, will be able to return to their roles, although "these are busy people with big schedules and it will all be a question of timing".
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PBS Masterpiece Hopeful To Be Involved with BBC's Wolf Hall – Jan 9, 2021
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PBS Wants Damian Back for Wolf Hall
by Peter White | Deadline | January 8, 2021
PBS' Masterpiece, which has been home to classic British dramas including Downton Abbey, Upstairs, Downstairs, Prime Suspect and the original House of Cards, turns 50 on January 10.
Susanne Simpson, an exec producer on series including Downton Abbey, took over running Masterpiece in November 2019, replacing Rebecca Eaton. She told Deadline that the success of the regal ITV drama, which ran for six seasons and ending in 2015, was a turning point for British dramas in the U.S. and it has now pivoted to ensure that it still has a pipeline of shows.
However, she is hopeful that PBS would be involved in the sequel to BBC's Wolf Hall. Peter Kosminsky is working on the follow-up to Hilary Mantel's book series, which published The Mirror and the Light last year, and hopeful of getting the original cast such as Damian Lewis back on board.
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Masterpiece (PBS/BBC) Favorites of a More Recent Vintage – Jan 8, 2021
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Two for Damian: Wolf Hall and The Forsyte Saga
by Matthew Gilbert | Boston Globe | January 7, 2021
Here are some of my favorite Masterpiece shows, in no particular order. I have restricted the list to those that have aired in the past 25 years, which is why you won't see the well-known classics, including I, Claudius, The Jewel in the Crown, House of Cards, Elizabeth R, or Prime Suspect.
Wolf Hall (2015)
Based on Hilary Mantel's Henry VIII novels, the mesmerizing six-parter takes place from the point of view of the King's most trusted advisor, Thomas Cromwell, played by a quietly sardonic Mark Rylance. This isn't the bodice-ripping, horse-hopping likes of Showtime's The Tudors; it's elegant, downbeat, authentically lit, intensely acted, and clever and relevant when it comes to 16th-century politics. Damian Lewis is Henry, Jonathan Pryce is Cardinal Wolsey, and Claire Foy is Anne Boleyn.
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100 Best Miniseries Of All Time – Aug 17, 2020
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Wolf Hall Has It All
by Joni Sweet | Lake Geneva Regional News | August 17, 2020
With shelter-at-home orders still in effect, the pandemic has left us with little more to do than veg out in front of the TV. Data released from Comcast in May showed that the average household watched some 66 hours of television each week—more than an additional full workday's worth of television than people were watching in March.
But after so many stay-at-home months and the uncertainty of how many more there will be, it might be time for some fresh content to indulge in while noshing on takeout. Enter the miniseries. It might just be the perfect format for quarantine life. Miniseries offer the rich visuals and storytelling of cinema, with the ability to binge-watch a few episodes, like conventional television. Plus, you've got decades of compelling miniseries to choose from in just about every genre imaginable.
To help narrow down the choices, Stacker collected IMDb data on all miniseries/limited series on July 29, and ranked them according to their IMDb user rating, ties broken by votes. It also looked at reviews from The New York Times, Rotten Tomatoes, Forbes, NPR, The Guardian, and other media to see what the critics have to say.
It should come as no surprise that BBC's striking nature documentaries score highly on this list. But scattered throughout the rankings, you'll discover a mix of historical dramas, shocking true crime documentaries, sci-fi favorites, animated works and shows inspired by comics, and police procedurals that put a new twist on an old-school genre.
From visually-stunning nature documentaries to historical war dramas, here are the top 100 miniseries of all time, according to data from IMDb.
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Cold War espionage thriller follows the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis). The six episode limited series will be available to stream on BritBox. Damian's production company Ginger Biscuit Entertainment Ltd. to co-produce.
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When you consider how much of our waking life we spend at work, it's no surprise that Public Health England (PHE) estimate 40% of people in England are not getting enough! With long commutes and hours spent in the office, it can be hard to find the time, and perhaps the motivation, to exercise during the working week… and come the weekend, you may just want to relax.
Did you know 1 in 6 deaths in the UK are a result of physical inactivity? Really shocking statistics from PHE. Government guidelines recommend we should be aiming to do at least 150 minutes of exercise every week. This may seem like a lot if you're new to exercise, but by breaking that down to just 30 minutes, 5 times a week, we can all try to get more active. Small changes can make a big difference such as; taking stairs instead of lifts, walking up escalators on the tube, going to speak to your colleagues rather than calling or emailing. Most importantly breaking up the day and taking your lunch break. Try using your lunch time to take a brisk walk, building up to a jog or run. It's so important to make the time to get away from your desk and get your heart rate up.
As you read this from your computer or mobile phone, notice your posture and position of your shoulders (Did you just straighten up?!). Hours at your desk with your shoulders hunched and rounded leads to weakened and stretched back muscles, and tightened muscles across your chest. Add in using your mouse on one side and over time this can cause muscle imbalances, back pain, tension and potential long term postural issues.
Pilates or Yoga are both great exercises to stretch tightened muscles and strengthen weaker ones. A good instructor will correct your posture as you move. Teaching in workplaces I am constantly reminding people to relax their shoulders.
Exercise is just as important for your state of mind as well as your body. When you exercise your brain releases endorphins which can help lift your mood and reduce anxiety. So when work gets too much, taking some active time-out away from your desk and your inbox can make a huge difference. Helping to reduce your stress levels, make you feel calmer and more ready to face life's challenges. Finishing the working day with exercise is a fantastic way to clear your mind and switch off before you get home.
I've been teaching Pilates and fitness classes in workplaces for over 5 years and so many of my clients tell me how beneficial they find exercising during their lunch break or after work can be. I often hear how energised they feel and ready to take on the afternoon. It gets them away from their desks, makes them take their lunch break or finish work on time, which many say they wouldn't always do. It's always really lovely to see my clients laughing and chatting with their colleagues during classes – often meeting people from other teams they wouldn't usually talk to. It really is great for team building, internal networking, and perhaps even offering a relaxed environment to give you the opportunity to casually ask your boss for that promotion!!…. So why not organise a weekly lunch time or after work class for you and your colleagues?!
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Then Token Replace came along. Token replace is a mechanism that was added to the DNN core back in 2007 by the Germans (Sebastian Leupold, Stefan Cullman among others). It standardized a way of making HTML templates with "tokens" that, at runtime, would be replaced with data. So "<b>Hello [User:Firstname]</b>" would print "Hello Peter" in bold if I were logged in. Having this mechanism in the core meant that modules could leverage the mechanism by implementing an interface on their objects (IPropertyAccess) which allowed the templating engine to retrieve data values. The typical use case was for (1) display of module content and (2) emails. Token replace has remained mostly untouched since its introduction in 2007. As far as API stability it concerned, they don't come more stable than this.
The current token replace feature in DNN is great but lacks support for repetition and conditionals. It's really just one template and a couple of objects fed into the engine and HTML comes out. This is where I asked myself: could token replace be taught to do repetition and conditionals? This is where we're going to examine how token replace actually works. At the heart of token replace is a simple regex replace. It checks to find [object:property|format] combinations. It then looks up the object from the list of objects it has been fed. Once found it calls the GetProperty method on the object with the property name and the format string. This is not rocket science, and it has worked very well over the years. Here's the central "ReplaceTokens" method from BaseTokeReplace.cs.
Now. Where could be intervene? The approach I've taken is to stay with the regex mechanism and add new kinds of tokens. Tokens that depart from the [object:property|format] pattern and that can be picked up by a new regex that will do the repetition magic. Specifically I've opted for a pattern where the token begins with "[subtemplate|". This indicates to the templating engine that what follows defines a set of conditions, properties, etc for a sub template. What is a subtemplate? Well, it's an HTML blurb just like the main template blurb. And it gets used as many times as needed and is injected at the place where the subtemplate token was put in the main template. The beauty of this solution is that this can be done indefinitely and that it keeps things separate. I.e. I can clearly see the HTML blurb that will be repeated, vs that which will appear only once.
Great blog, it is very useful to all DNN module developers which want to implement templates in their own modules. We also used templates in our modules (Classified Pro, Cross Article.. etc). We choose the simplest way - to let user directly modify the ascx template files. This works if the end user is familiar with asp.net coding, but if user is only familiar with html syntax, then it is a little difficult to create their own templates.
@Lucas: I'm familiar with handlebars. And I agree that many designers are familiar with this new syntax. The goal of these templates, however, is to allow people with a more reduced skillset to adapt how the module displays. With handlebars you can get into all kinds of problems if you forget to close or use a single accolade. It is very prone to screwing up. And even though many designers are on board with this, I seriously doubt that our target audience has a decent portion that is familiar with it.


The Medical Subspecialties Section was developed in 2002 by the Association of Specialty Professors project "Integrating Geriatrics into the Specialties of Internal Medicine: Moving Forward from Awareness to Action," funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies, Inc.
This year's keynote session will feature a panel of leaders discussing how to navigate cultural challenges between the subspecialties and aging. Members of the AGS Medical Subspecialties Section will provide updates on activities within their disciplines, thereby showcasing opportunities for subspecialists to advance the geriatrics agenda within their specialty societies and their institutions. All medical and surgical subspecialists are encouraged to attend. Breakfast will be served.
This session will identify barriers to Advance Care Planning for patient populations, and review take-home tools to overcome these barriers. Learning Objectives: (1) describe the importance of patients' possessing an Advanced Care Plan (Directive), how it works, and what are the current barriers to completion; (2) review available tools to improve patient adherence with Advance Care Planning; (3) identify specific challenges to Advance Care Planning; and (4) describe the role of chaplains and faith leaders in supporting implementation of advance care planning in the healthcare system.
Going beyond Checking the Box: Why Advanced Care Planning is Crucial to our Patients' Care and What Are Barriers to Completion?
This open workshop will focus on answering your questions about CPT coding and billing, Medicare incentive and penalty programs (e.g. MIPS), reimbursement rules and related practice management issues. Attendees bring their questions for discussion.Learning Objectives: (1) discuss CPT/HCPCS coding and billing; and (2) describe how Medicare policy can affect your practice.
This SIG aims to connect AGS folks who are frustrated with the pace of change and are looking to capitalize on the often small opportunities for big gains in creating a reliable, affordable set of arrangements that support frail and disabled older adults. We will share coffee and pastries, connect with one another, share insights and opportunities, and consider what strategies could effectively move politics and social arrangements in time to accommodate the rising numbers of elders in need of excellent geriatric care, reliable personal care, and workable caregiving and financing.
The session will discuss algorithms developed by the OPTIMISTIC team to manage UTIs, skin and soft tissue infections and pneumonia in the nursing home. Learning Objectives: (1) utilize algorithms to appropriately manage pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections in the nursing home; (2) state the principles of antibiotic stewardship that pertain to common infections in the nursing home such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections; (3) incorporate goals of care as well as acuity of illness into management of pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections in the nursing home; and (4) interpret laboratory and imaging studies in combination with patient assessment to differentiate conditions requiring treatment with antibiotics from those that will not.
Come to this session to hear and discuss new research in Geriatric Cardiology. This session will present the latest peer-reviewed geriatrics research with questions and answers to follow. Learning Objectives: (1) discuss new and original geriatrics research; (2) describe an emerging concept or new scientific focus in aging research; and (3) summarize the key findings of projects with relevance to care of older adults.
This Section is intended for women of all disciplines working in geriatrics. The purpose is to provide a forum for women to discuss challenges and share ideas related to their personal and professional lives.
The Wound Prevention and Management SIG is an interdisciplinary group of healthcare professionals who strive to improve outcomes in skin and wound health in vulnerable older adults through supporting education, research, and quality improvement initiatives. The SIG serves as a platform to discuss educational initiatives at AGS, policy objectives so that we may get our patients "what they need to get those wounds closed!", and updates budding research. We welcome all interested, regardless of experience.
The Geriatric Literature Update is always one of the most popular sessions at the annual meeting. The session will focus on the year's most important published papers. Discussion includes the significance of findings and application to patient care. Learning Objectives: (1) identify areas in clinical medicine where new strong evidence has been uncovered that should affect geriatric practice; (2) describe the results of a critical appraisal of this evidence; and (3) discuss clinical advances in caring for older adults from a review of approximately 30 peer-reviewed journals January-December, 2018.
Half of all adults living with HIV in the US are age 50 and older. Learning Objectives: (1) discuss challenges facing older adults living with HIV including complications of long term HIV medications; (2) describe interactions between HIV drugs and those to treat age-related comorbidities; and (3) describe the role geriatrics health professionals can have in caring for the aging HIV population. HIV prevention in older adults will also be discussed.
The purpose of this symposium is to provide attendees with practical knowledge and information regarding emerging developments in the field of caregiving. Learning Objectives: (1) discuss the importance, challenges, and successful implementation of incorporating family caregivers in research; (2) describe how to support caregivers of older adults with dementia through an innovative and effective intervention that complements standard clinical practice; and (3) review the current state of family caregiving policy in the United States and how it impacts current clinical practice.
How Are We Supporting Caregiving in the Realm of Public Policy?
Come to hear research on new approaches to optimize medication use for older patients.This session will present the latest peer-reviewed geriatrics research with questions and answers to follow. Learning Objectives: (1) discuss new and original geriatrics research; (2) describe an emerging concept or new scientific focus in aging research; and (3) summarize the key findings of projects with relevance to care of older adults.
This case-based symposium will illustrate the utility of neuroimaging in the evaluation of patients with cognitive impairment. Learning Objectives: (1) describe neuroimaging tests available to the geriatrics healthcare provider; (2) discuss the application of these tests in evaluating patients; (3) review when each test might be helpful; and (4) appreciate the interpretations of neuroimaging results.
Negotiation is a common and daily activity for most healthcare professionals and skill building in negotiating is important for improving collaboration and problem solving in the workplace. Learning Objectives: (1) describe benefits of negotiations between individuals acting either for themselves or as representatives of organized groups of individuals; (2) describe the elements of the basic needs model of negotiation including negotiation and strategic skills, diagnostic skills, and negotiation planning; and (3) apply the basic needs model in a negotiation to identify personal needs in the negotiation, establish the best alternative to a negotiated agreement, and identify strategies and tactics for the negotiation.
Learning Objectives: (1) compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of different glucose lowering medications; (2) formulate a framework for when and how to prescribe and de-prescribe glucose lowering medications; and (3) develop strategies to address common glucose management issues in patients who are in the nursing homes or who are at the end of life.
The Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery is a national initiative to improve the peri-operative care of all older adults planning for surgery. Learning Objectives: (1) discuss cognitive assessment prior to an operation, to understand delirium prevention and management after an operation, and to understand how to implement best practices of preoperative cognitive assessment and postoperative delirium prevention/management within a hospital system; (2) review assessment of function prior to an operation, to understand how to prevent functional decline after an operation, and to understand how to implement best practices of preoperative function assessment and postoperative function preservation within a hospital system; (3) describe assessment of goals of care prior to an operation, to understand how to reconsider goals of care after an operation, and to understand how to implement best practices of preoperative establishment of goals of care and postoperative reconsideration of goals of care within a hospital system; and (4) discuss assessment of nutrition prior to an operation, to understand how to prevent nutritional decline after an operation, and to understand how to implement best practices of preoperative nutrition assessment and prevent postoperative nutritional decline within a hospital system.
Leadership and Management are not mutually exclusive; most of us will need to have both of these skills to be successful and it requires discernment to recognize which is appropriate in the situation. Learning Objectives: (1) define and explore framework/evidence based practices for leadership and management; (2) review examples of lapses in effective leadership and management (direct care and organizational); and (3) cite examples of effective leadership and management by physicians (direct care and organizational).
By the end of this session, participants will better understand Integrative Medicine and how it can be used in their geriatrics practice and teaching to improve the health and well-being of older adults. Learning Objectives: (1) define Integrative Medicine and discuss its potential contributions to optimizing the health, well-being, and clinical care of older patients; (2) discuss the evidence for nutrition, mind-body modalities, and exercise in the care of healthy and frail older adults; (3) consider how adding integrative modalities to your clinical tool bag can improve the health and well-being of your patients; and (4) list resources for learning more about integrative geriatrics and optimizing aging.
The Benefits of Mindfulness for Older Adults: What Is the Evidence?
Come and learn from the newest research to guide care of nursing home residents. This session will present the latest peer-reviewed geriatrics research with questions and answers to follow. Learning Objectives: (1) discuss new and original geriatrics research; (2) describe an emerging concept or new scientific focus in aging research; and (3) summarize the key findings of projects with relevance to care of older adults.


The girls Junior quad of Amelia Maskell, Helena Griffiths, Martha Bullen and Amelia Moule raced at Peterborough Spring Regatta on Saturday, racing over 1000 metres on the four lane course.
They competed in the Women's Open Coxless quad event where they won their heat in a time of 3.36. In the final, against Peterborough RC, Leeds RC and Leicester RC, the Sudbury crew had a very strong race to finish in first place in a speedy time of 3.27.
The second win of the day was Byron Bullen in the Junior 18 single sculling event. He won his heat in a time of 3.43 which secured him a place in the final. His opposition crews from Cambridge 99, Notts CRA and Nottingham RC were out sculled by the Sudbury sculler who won in a time of 3.47.
Other crews to race were Helena Griffiths in the Women's Junior 15 single sculls event, where she finished third in her heat in a time of 4.37, unfortunately missing out on a place in the final.
Sam McLoughlin raced in the Junior 16 single sculls event finishing his heat in a time of 4.01 just missing out on the final.
He also doubled up with Byron Bullen to compete in the Junior 18 double sculls event where they rowed well in the final, rowing past Rob Roy RC to take second place in a time of 3.36.
The girls Junior 16 double scull of Martha Bullen and Amelia Maskell finished second in their final in a time of 3.57 behind a very strong Leicester crew.
The Junior 14 double scull of Fergus Grant and Harry Moule finished third in their final in a time of 3.59.
Jen Titterington raced in a composite crew with Bev Goodchild from Ipswich RC in the Women's Double sculls event. They won their heat in 3.56 to secure a place in the final, where they came a very close second, 0.9 of a second behind a crew from Bath.
The two scullers also competed against each other in the Women's single sculls event. Goodchild won her heat in a time of 4.00 and Titterington came second in her heat, also in a time of 4.00 both meeting in the final together with scullers from Bath University. The Ipswich sculler finished in fourth place in 4.12, Sudbury finished in third place in 4.06.
In the Women's Junior 18 single sculls event Amelia Moule finished second in the third heat in a time of 4.12, taking her through to the repechage. After a good, solid scull she won the race well ahead of her opposition to gain a place in the final. The opposition crews from St. Ives, Durham School and Isle of Ely were very strong but the Sudbury sculler had a superb race with the final result showing a second place finish in a very fast time of 4.02.6, only 0.6 of a second behind the Junior GB sculler from Isle of Ely.
Picture above: Martha Bullen, Amelia Moule, Byron Bullen, Helena Griffiths and Amelia Maskell.
The second day of the Peterborough Spring Regatta was attended by Senior and Masters crews.
The only win of the day came from the Men's Masters C coxed four of Lee Adams, Tim Hysom, Stephen Nichols, Paul Adams and Helen Sharp (cox), who won their final in a time of 3.32, ahead of Bedford RC, London Otters RC and York RC.
The Men's Masters D eight finished second in the final in a time of 3.24, two seconds behind the winners from York City RC.
The Masters E double scull of Robin King and Simon White came second in their heat and third in the final in a time of 3.56.
The Masters F double scull of Mike Arnott and Sean Moriarty came third in the final.
Other crews competing were the Women's Masters E coxless quad of Tracy Muir, Teresa Moriarty, Sarah Stirling and Rosemary Hogsbjerg.
Muir and Moriarty also raced in the Women's Masters D double sculls, and Hogsbjerg and Stirling competed in the Women's Masters E double sculls.
Jen Titterington raced in the Women's Open single sculls.
Sophie Lovegrove competed in the Women's Intermediate single sculls event as well as the Women's Masters C single sculls event.
Sudbury adaptive rower Sophie Brown raced in the Women's single sculls event (Band 3).
Paul Adams, Tim Hysom, Stephen Nichols, Helen Sharp (cox), Terry Gostling (coach) and Lee Adams.
Last weekend saw a great performance from a very young J18 quad at the high profile junior event, National Schools Regatta at Dorney Lake.
Amelia Maskell, Martha Bullen and Amelia Moule were joined by Helena Griffiths when a hamstring injury meant that Freya Evans had to withdraw from the crew a few days before the race. The crew had to complete a time trial over a 1750 metre course where only 18 of the 39 crews would proceed to the 2000 metre finals.
The Sudbury crew completed the trial in a time of 6.41 securing a place in the C final where some very spirited sculling and determination saw them overcome a local rival crew from Kings School Ely, Cambridgeshire in the last few strokes, in a time of 7.44, to finish 16th in the country.
The next event will be St. Ives Regatta on the 23rd June.
Susie Moule – Sudbury Rowing Club.


In order to meet the government's new minimum cybersecurity standards, NHS Digital named Robert Coles as the new chief information security officer (CISO). Starting his job from October 2018, Coles will lead the healthcare sector's response to cyber-attacks.
Previously, Robert served as a CISO at GlaxoSmithKline for four years and previously held the same posts at National Grid and investment bank Merrill Lynch.
The appointment comes after the 'lessons learned review of the WannaCry ransomware attack' authored by NHS England's CIO Will Smart. The review stated 22 recommendations, including the appointment of a CISO to work alongside the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, NHS Improvement, and NHS Digital.
"The role will lead national cyber working groups, help inform policy and drive improvements and standardization," the review stated.
In his role, Robert Coles will work with CEOs and CIOs of local healthcare organizations to ensure they meet the government's minimum cybersecurity standards and Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) certification.
The WannaCry Ransomware hit Microsoft Windows OS during May 2017. It affected the operations of nearly 200,000 systems across 150 countries. The National Health Services hospitals in England and Scotland were amongst the worst affected; the impact included disturbing critical devices like MRI scanners, blood-storage refrigerator, even theatre equipment.
On October 27, 2017, the United Kingdom claimed that it believes that North Korea was behind the devastating cyber-attack. WannaCry malware that led to havoc across the world did grievous temporary damage to the network security of Britain's National Health Service (NHS).


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Q: How to print diamond shape w/ c++ I need help, I created a short little program a while ago where it would print a simple pyramid with "*" like this:
  *
 ***
*****

but I decided to challenge myself and see if I could create a simple diamond shape like this:
  *
 ***
*****
 ***
  *

Here is my code so far.
I should also add that the value you input, for example 5, determines how big the diamond is.
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main() {

int value = 0;
cout << "Please enter in a value: ";
cin >> value;
cout << endl;

for (int i = 0; i < value; i++) {
    //print spaces v v v
    for (int x = 0; x < (value - i - 1); x++) {
        cout << " ";
    }
    //print * v v v
    for (int y = 0; y < (2 * i + 1); y++) {
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

for (int i = 0; i < value; i++) {
    int number = 0;
    number+= 2;
    //print spaces v v v
    for (int x = 0; x < (value - value + i + 1); x++) {
        cout << " ";
    }
    //print * v v v
    for (int y = 0; y < (/*ATTENTION: What do I do here? Plz help*/); y++) {
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

return 0;
}

What I've been trying to do is figure out what to put inside the parenthesis where it says (//ATTENTION). I've been working for at least an hour trying to do random things, and one time it worked when I input 4, but not for 5, and it's just been very hard. This is key to building the diamond, try putting in just value and compile to see what happens. I need it to be symmetrical.
I need to know what to put inside the parenthesis please. I'm sorry this is very long but the help would be appreciated thanks.
I also apologize if my code is messy and hard to read.

A: #include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main() {

int value = 0;
cout << "Please enter in a value: ";
cin >> value;
cout << endl;

for (int i = 0; i < value; i++) {
    //print spaces v v v
    for (int x = 0; x < (value - i - 1); x++) {
        cout << " ";
    }
    //print * v v v
    for (int y = 0; y < (2 * i + 1); y++) {
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

for (int i = 0; i < value-1; i++) {
//    int number = 0;
//    number+= 2;
//    //print spaces v v v

    for (int x = 0; x < i+1; x++) {
        cout << " ";
    }
    //print * v v v
     for (int y = 0; y < (2*(value-1-i)-1); y++) {
        cout << "*";
        }
    cout << endl;
}

return 0;
}

I hope that you will get this .Also in the second for loop you were iterating it one extra time by iterating the loop upto value. But since the pyramid is symmetric so the no of rows in the pyramid will be 2*value-1.So I in the second loop i should vary upto value -1.

A: This code should resolve the problem:
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

void printSpaces(int howMany) {
    for(int i = 0; i < howMany; i++) cout << " ";
}

void figure(int size) {
    bool oddSize = size % 2 == 1;
    int center = size / 2;
    int spaces = size / 2;
    // If figure is of an odd size adjust center
    if (oddSize) {
        center++;
    } else { // Else if figure is of even size adjust spaces
        spaces--;
    }

    for (int i = 1; i <= center; i++) {
        printSpaces(spaces);
        for(int j = 0; j <  1 + (i - 1) * 2; j++) cout << "*";
        cout << endl;
        spaces--;
    }

    spaces = oddSize ? 1 : 0; // If the figure's size is odd number adjust spaces to 1
    center -= oddSize ? 1 : 0; // Adjust center if it's an odd size figure
    for(int i = center; i >= 1; i--) {
        printSpaces(spaces);
        for(int j = 0; j <  1 + (i - 1) * 2; j++)
           cout << "*";
        cout << endl;
        spaces++;
    }

}

int main() {
    int value = 0;
    while(value < 3) {
        cout << "Please enter in a value (>= 3): ";
        cin >> value;
        cout << endl;
    }
    figure(value);
    return 0;
}

A:
int number = 0; and number+= 2;
value - value inside for (int x = 0; x < (value - value + i + 1); x++) {

are not required.

Inside the parenthesis, you can use
2*(value-i-1)-1

However, I would suggest you to first analyze the problem and then try to solve it instead of trying random things. For instance, let's consider the cases of even and odd inputs i.e., 2 and 3.
Even Case (2)
 *
***
***
 *

The Analysis
Row Index    Number of Spaces    Number of Stars
0            1                   1
1            0                   3
2            0                   3
3            1                   1

For row index < value

*

*Number of Spaces = value - row index - 1

*Number of Stars = 2 * row index + 1
For row index >=value
The number of spaces and stars are simply reversed. In the odd cases, the situation is similar too with a small exception.
Odd Case (3)
  *
 ***
*****
 ***
  *

The Analysis
Row Index    Number of Spaces    Number of Stars
0            2                   1
1            1                   3
2            0                   5
3            1                   3
4            2                   1

The small exception is that while reversing, we have to ignore the row index = value.

Now, if we put the above analysis in code we get the solution
//Define the Print Function
void PrintDiamond(int rowIndex, int value)
{
    //print spaces v v v
    for (int x = 0; x < value - rowIndex -1; x++) {
        cout << " ";
    }
    //print * v v v
    for (int y = 0; y < 2 * rowIndex + 1; y++) {
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

And then inside main
//Row index < value
for (int i = 0; i < value; i++) {
    PrintDiamond(i,value);
}

//For row index >= value reversing the above case
//value-(value%2)-1 subtracts 1 for even and 2 for odd cases
//ignore the row index = value in odd cases
for (int i = value-(value%2)-1; i >=0; i--) {
    PrintDiamond(i,value);
}

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How refreshing to see Danny Boyle and the team behind this summers's Olympic Opening Ceremony taking the Beyond Theatre prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
It is only the second time the gong which "celebrates theatricality outside the confines of the auditorium" has been awarded.
The event at London's Savoy Hotel celebrated and rewarded some of the finest theatrical achievement of the year.
Winners included Simon Russell Beale who took best actor award for his leading role in the National Theatre's Timon of Athens. While the NT's artristic director Sir Nicholas Hytner received a brace of awards, including Best Director, for the same production.
Nick Payne became the youngest playwright ever to receive the Best Play award. The 29-year-old won the prize for Constellations at The Royal Court.
Matthew Tennyson won the Outstanding Newcomer for Making Noise Quietly at the Donmar and Best Actress went to Hattie Morahan for her performance as Nora in The Young Vic production of A Doll's House.


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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PushbackInputStream;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

/**
 * /**
 * Project:CleanBT
 *
 * @author zzhen zzzhen1994@gmail.com
 *         Create Time: 2016/10/16.
 *         Version :
 *         Description:
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public class DictNode implements Node {

    static final char DIC_START = 'd';
    static final char DIC_END = 'e';

    private Map<String, Node> value = new HashMap<>();

    public DictNode() {
    }

    public DictNode(Map<String, Node> value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    public Map<String, Node> getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public void addNode(String key, Node value) {
        this.value.put(key, value);
    }

    public Node removeNode(String key) {
        return value.remove(key);
    }

    public Node getNode(String key) {
        return value.get(key);
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] encode() {
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        baos.write((byte) DIC_START);
        value.entrySet().stream().sorted(Comparator.comparing(Map.Entry::getKey)).forEach(entry -> {
            try {
                baos.write(new StringNode(entry.getKey().getBytes()).encode());
                baos.write(entry.getValue().encode());
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        });
        baos.write((byte) DIC_END);
        return baos.toByteArray();
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] decode() {
        String format = "{%s}";
        String content = String.join(",",
                value.entrySet()
                        .stream()
                        .map((entry -> entry.getKey() + ":" + new String(entry.getValue().decode()))).collect(Collectors.toList()));
        return String.format(format, content).getBytes();
    }

    /**
     * @return
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    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return value.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

        DictNode node = (DictNode) o;

        return value.equals(node.value);
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    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return value.hashCode();
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}


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'Don't let the minute spoil the hour'
Ted Joans, poet and artist, died in April. I remember seeing Ted read his poems at 'Shakespeare and Co.', the famous bookstore in Paris. My brother was staying in Paris for a month, and I was over to help the artist Cornelia Parker install an exhibition. I was 19, had just moved to Glasgow to go to Art School, and was enjoying my first tastes of fresh air after the stifling gas of suburbia.
We spent a few weeks in Paris drinking with people in bands that Chris had met under the pretences of starting a magazine that never got off the ground. Chris had wanted to show me the bookstore, so we went along one night to hear Ted Joans give a reading. He gave a fantastic performance, drawing out the lines and swooping his body to accentuate the rhythms in his poetry. He closed by urging us all to steal books from chain stores, then invited us to go and join him for drinks in a nearby bar, where he entertained a growing audience with more anecdotes, dirty jokes and poems.
I'm off to Paris in a couple of weeks, for the first time since that trip, so it feels strangely circular to come across news of Ted Joan's death. Looking back, my trip reads like such a cliche – suburban kid goes to Paris to hear Beat poets, work with an artist and hang out with moody musicians who lived in crumbling 12th arrondissement apartments. But cliches are not cliches when you're hearing them for the first time. I was lucky enough to work with Cornelia Parker on a couple more exhibitions, in Leipzig, East Berlin and London, and those trips were full of encounters like the one with Ted Joans at Shakespeare and Co. Full of those happenstance moments when you pinch yourself and think 'I can't believe I'm actually here, doing this'.
[more on ted here]
May 16, 2003 - 2:29 pm Chris
Wow. I'd completely forgotten about him, and about that evening. My whole time there was living a cliche – and it was fantastic.
August 11, 2003 - 5:40 pm Vivien Powell
A friend of mine has some interesting old wooden sock formers (about 150 of them!) and is thinking of turning them into an installation, but hasn't got a studio. She thought Cornelia Parker might be interested in them. I can't find any contact details for her and wondered if you might pass this on to her. My friend was a hat maker, now retired. I'm an aromatherapist and photographer and hosted 'Open House' exhibitions during the Brighton Festival for 6 years until last year. You can still see our website on http://www.66.org.uk
May 4, 2004 - 12:32 am John Carver
Let me introduce ourselves. We are the operators of http://www.brightonfestival.co.uk . On the site you will see a brand new forum which we intend to build on with membership in the future. We wish to build a board which will allow local talent to display their ideas.
John Carver
http://www.brightonfestival.co.uk
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Moving by bicycle in Florence is a beautiful idea, especially if the city has the innovative free floating bike sharing system. Bicycles for everybody, Florentines and tourists, for ecological and fast movements.
It's a success, without a doubt, the new service that has pleasantly invaded the city with thousand of grey/orange bicycles endowed with GPS and patented padlock.
How to use the service? Before, it's necessary to download the free Mobike APP (App Store or Google Play), creating an account using a phone number. The user will receive a verification code to insert for paying the deposit (a modest amount, totally reimbursable). The App immediately will show the nearest bike on the map; clicking on the button "unlock" on the APP and scanning the QR Code (next to the handlebar of the bike), the padlock automatically opens and... let's go! At the end of the bike ride, the bicycle must be parked in one of the dedicated spaces, or in a rack for bike; it will be enough to close the padlock, always through APP.
The fares are extremely cheap! Bycicles are also available for foreign tourists with international SIM card.
Discover information and details on Mobike site!


This wouldn't be the first time that casemodding king Ben Heck has cranked out an Xbox 360 laptop. As a matter of fact, this is the fifth revision of Heck's portable 360 modding shenanigans. But the fact that he manages to cram such a beefy system into a portable case never gets old for me.
The Xbox 360 Portable – Revision 5 gives the luggable gaming system a svelte new shell, complete with a 17-inch widescreen LCD monitor, running at 720p resolution. This latest version improves upon Ben's previous 360 laptops by adding better ventilation, and adds an Ethernet port for wired network access. The previous models only had Wi-Fi, but for the ultimate in network speed, nothing beats a hardwired connection, IMHO.
The design of the latest revision includes a flush-mounted DVD drawer, and manages to keep the familiar Xbox 360 light ring intact, mounted into the surface of the console, alongside the console's control buttons and flanked by a pair of tiny stereo speakers. Here's a pic of the laptop spilling its guts so you can see how it was built.


Kicking off the fall conference season, our team members grabbed their branded gear, packed their bags and traveled to the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) Summit. Held between September 24-28 at The Ritz-Carlton in McLean, VA, the event featured panels on emerging technologies within the real estate industry.
We're excited to announce that Cheri Lines and Renee Alberty have been named as HousingWire's 2018 Women of Influence! Each year, HousingWire recognizes women who are leading the mortgage and real estate industries that drive change and develop innovative solutions. We're proud to work with these outstanding leaders as we celebrate all the women that transform our industry.