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Cette page dresse une liste de personnalités nées au cours de l'année 1980 présentée dans l'ordre chronologique.

La liste des personnes référencées dans Wikipédia est disponible dans la page de la Catégorie: Naissance en 1980.

Janvier

  :
 Jennifer Lauret, actrice française.
 Julie Bernard,  actrice franco-belge.
 Olivia Ruiz, auteure-compositrice-interprète, actrice, réalisatrice et romancière française.
 Virginie Boutin, photographe plasticienne et essayiste française.
 Zineb Triki, actrice franco-marocaine.
 2 janvier :
 David Gyasi, acteur britannique.
 Kemi Badenoch, femme politique britannique d'origine nigérian.
 4 janvier :
 Cüneyt Vicil, footballeur en salle belgo-turc.
 Erin Cahill, actrice américaine.
 June Diane Raphael, actrice, humoriste, podcasteuse, scénariste et productrice américaine.
 7 janvier : Michael Wright, joueur de basket-ball américano-turc († ).
 8 janvier : Lucia Recchia, skieuse italienne.
 12 janvier : Sina Heffner, sculptrice allemande.
 13 janvier : Wolfgang Loitzl, sauteur à ski autrichien.
 16 janvier : Seydou Keita, footballeur malien.
 17 janvier : Zooey Deschanel, actrice, productrice, chanteuse, auteure-compositrice et musicienne américaine.
 19 janvier :
 Jenson Button, pilote de Formule 1 britannique.
 Luke MacFarlane, acteur et musicien canadien.
 20 janvier :
 Matthew Tuck, chanteur et guitariste de Bullet for My Valentine.
 Maeva Méline, chanteuse et comédienne française.
 Karl Anderson, catcheur professionnel américain.
 21 janvier : Nana Mizuki, seiyu et chanteuse japonaise.
 24 janvier : Nicolas Le Phat Tan, acteur, producteur et réalisateur du cinéma français.
 25 janvier :
 Michelle McCool, catcheuse professionnelle de la WWE.
 Xavi Hernandez, footballeur espagnol.
 27 janvier : Marat Safin, joueur de tennis russe.
 28 janvier : Nick Carter, chanteur américain.
 29 janvier :
 Jason James Richter, acteur américain.
 George Al Rassy, chanteur libanais († ).
 30 janvier : Kaaris, rappeur français.

Février

  : Clémence Allain, chercheuse au CNRS.
 2 février :
 Florent Balmont, footballeur français.
 Cyril Garnier, humoriste français.
 5 février : Kamel le magicien, magicien français.
 7 février : Lee Jeong-hyeon, chanteuse et actrice sud-coréenne.
 10 février :
 Gordon D'Arcy, joueur de rugby irlandais.
 Pape Badiane, joueur de basket-ball français († ).
 12 février :
 Christina Ricci, actrice américaine.
 Juan Carlos Ferrero, joueur de tennis espagnol.
 13 février : Louise Stephanie Zeh, judokate camerounaise.
 16 février : Géraldine Nakache, actrice et réalisatrice française.
 18 février :
 Regina Spektor, musicienne américaine.
 Walter Young, joueur de baseball américain († ).
 19 février : Steevy Boulay, chroniqueur télé et radio français.
 20 février : Élise Huchard, primatologue française.
 21 février : Jigme Khesar Wangchuck, roi du Bhoutan depuis 2006.
 22 février : Milen Dobrev, haltérophile bulgare († ).
 24 février :
 Naïm, humoriste français.
 Shinsuke Nakamura, catcheur professionnel japonais.
 26 février : Kak Channthy, chanteuse cambodgienne († ).
 27 février :
 Chelsea Clinton, fille unique d'Hillary et de Bill Clinton.
 Don Diablo, DJ néerlandais.
 28 février :
 Javier Castaño, matador espagnol.
 Sigurd Pettersen, sauteur à ski norvégien.

Mars

 2 mars : Sunny Lane, actrice de charme américaine.
 4 mars : Justyna Kozdryk, haltérophile polonaise.
 5 mars : Renan Luce, chanteur et auteur-compositeur français.
  : Fatoumata Traoré, actrice burkinabè.
 9 mars : Matthew Gray Gubler, acteur américain.
 15 mars : Kang Ye-won, actrice sud-coréenne.
 18 mars : Willy Rovelli, comédien, humoriste, écrivain, chroniqueur et présentateur français.
 21 mars :
 Deryck Whibley, chanteur, guitariste rythmique, leader et compositeur canadien de Sum 41.
 Ronaldinho, footballeur brésilien.
 23 mars : Asaf Avidan, auteur-compositeur-interprète israélien.
 27 mars : Nicolas Duvauchelle, acteur français.
29 mars : Alena Kánová, pongiste slovaque.
 31 mars :
 Carolina Dijkhuizen, actrice et chanteuse néerlandaise.
 Kate Micucci, actrice, humoriste, chanteuse et auteure américaine.

Avril
  : Randy Orton, catcheur américain.
 2 avril : Hinda Déby Itno, Première Dame tchadienne de 2005 à 2021.
 4 avril : Gong Hyo-jin, actrice sud-coréenne.
 6 avril :
 Charly Black, chanteur jamaïcain.
 Tanja Poutiainen, skieuse alpine finlandaise.
 7 avril : Bruno Covas,homme politique brésilien († ).
 10 avril : Charlie Hunnam, acteur britannique.
 14 avril : Steven Holcomb, pilote de bobsleigh américain († ).
 15 avril :
 Fränk Schleck, coureur cycliste luxembourgeois.
 Pierre-Alain Frau, footballeur français.
 20 avril :
 Christophe Grégoire, footballeur belge.
 Vibeke Skofterud, fondeuse norvégienne († ).
 21 avril :
 Hiro Shimono, seiyū japonais affilié avec .
 Vincent Lecavalier, hockeyeur canadien.
 23 avril : Marjorie de Sousa, actrice vénézuélienne.
 25 avril : Lee Spick, joueur de snooker anglais († ).
 26 avril :
 Jordana Brewster, actrice américano-brésilienne.
 Laurent Ournac, acteur français.
 28 avril : Nina Elle, actrice pornographique allemande.
 29 avril : Adrien Antoine, acteur français.
 30 avril : Luis Scola, basketteur argentin.

Mai

  :
 Helen Owen, actrice de théâtre anglaise.
 Zaz, chanteuse française.
 4 mai : Joe van Niekerk, joueur de rugby sud-africain.
 5 mai : Somaya Bousaïd, athlète handisport tunisienne.
 7 mai : Sabina Aliyeva, femme politique azérie.
 9 mai : Mehdi Khaldoun, judoka français.
 10 mai : Zaho, auteur-compositrice-interprète, guitariste et chanteuse algéro-canadienne.
 12 mai : Rishi Sunak, homme politique britannique, Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni depuis 2022.
 14 mai : Florent Peyre, humoriste français.
 15 mai :
 Åsa Lindhagen, femme politique suédoise.
 Cécile Brogniart, joueuse de rink hockey française.
 19 mai :
 Drew Fuller, acteur américain.
 Ielena Kroutova, archère russe.
 21 mai :
 Gotye, chanteur australo-belge.
 Kweku Adoboli, trader opérant à la banque suisse UBS, à Londres, connu pour son rôle dans la perte de trading de la banque UBS en 2011.
 22 mai : Lucy Gordon, actrice britannique († ).
 24 mai : Kareen Antonn, chanteuse française.
 25 mai : Yamen Manaï, écrivain tunisien.
 30 mai :
 Christelle Bosker, athlète handisport sud-africaine.
 Steven Gerrard, footballeur anglais.

Juin

 3 juin : Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani, Émir du Qatar depuis 2013.
 6 juin : Jennifer Armentrout, écrivaine américaine.
 11 juin : Karen Yu, femme politique taïwanaise.
 12 juin :
 Marco Bortolami, joueur de rugby italien.
 Denys Monastyrsky, homme politique ukrainien († ).
 13 juin :
Florent Malouda, footballeur français.
Asmahan Boudjadar, athlète handisport algérienne.
 16 juin :
 Sibel Kekilli, anciennement actrice pornographique et actrice allemande d'origine turque.
 Justine Fraioli, actrice, journaliste et animatrice de télévision française.
 17 juin : Venus Williams, joueuse de tennis américaine.
 20 juin : Carlo Festuccia, joueur de rugby italien.
 23 juin : Melissa Rauch, actrice américaine.
 25 juin : Philippe Lacheau, acteur, réalisateur, scénariste et animateur de télévision français.
 26 juin :
 Rémy Vercoutre, footballeur français.
 Sinik, rappeur français.
 27 juin : François-Xavier Ménage, journaliste de télévision et de radio et reporter français.

Juillet

  : Boris Roatta, acteur français († ).
 3 juillet : Vera Mouratova, haltérophile russe.
 4 juillet :
 Stephen Brun, basketteur français.
 Jade Chkif, acteur franco-marocain († )
 5 juillet : Laëtitia Milot, actrice et écrivaine française.
 6 juillet :
 Pau Gasol, basketteur espagnol.
 Eva Green, actrice française.
 Sonia Rolley, journaliste française.
 10 juillet :
 Marina Kvaskoff, épidémiologiste française.
 Jessica Simpson, chanteuse américaine.
 11 juillet : Céline Charlès, dessinatrice de bande dessinée française.
 12 juillet :
 Kristen Connolly, actrice américaine.
 Danièle Obono, femme politique franco-gabonaise.
 15 juillet : Joy Wielkens, actrice néerlandaise.
 15 juillet : Erika Sanz, actrice espagnole.
 18 juillet : Kristen Bell, actrice américaine.
 19 juillet :
 Emilie Mazoyer, animatrice radio française.
 Mikhaïl Tolstykh, militaire ukrainien († ).
 Mark Webber, acteur, producteur, réalisateur et scénariste américain.
 20 juillet :
 Gisele Bündchen, top model brésilienne.
 Énora Malagré, chroniqueuse et animatrice de télévision et de radio française.
 Jin Goo, acteur sud-coréen.
 24 juillet :
 Gauge, actrice américaine.
 Vladislav Frolov, athlète russe, spécialiste du 400 m.
 Sergio Aguilar, matador espagnol.
 25 juillet : Diam's, chanteuse française.
 26 juillet : Jacinda Ardern, femme politique néo-zélandaise, Premier ministre de 2017 à 2023.
 27 juillet : Dolph Ziggler, catcheur américain travaillant à la WWE.
 31 juillet : Mikko Hirvonen, pilote de rallye finlandais.

Août

 3 août : Hannah Simone, actrice, présentatrice TV et mannequin anglo-canadienne.
 8 août :
 John Cannon, joueur de rugby à XV canadien († ).
 Michael Urie, acteur américain.
 9 août : Silas Young, lutteur professionnel américain.
 10 août : Wade Barrett, catcheur anglais.
 11 août : Merritt Wever, actrice américaine.
 12 août : Maggie Lawson, actrice américaine.
 14 août : David Dal Maso, joueur de rugby à XV italien.
 16 août : Vanessa Carlton, chanteuse et pianiste américaine.
 17 août : Lene Marlin, chanteuse norvégienne.
 18 août : Emir Spahić, footballeur bosnien.
19 août :
 Houcine Camara, chanteur et compositeur, finaliste de la saison 2 de la Star Academy.
Darius Danesh, chanteur pop écossais d'origine iranienne († ).
 : Salaheddine Benchikhi, blogueur et présentateur néerlando-marocain.
 24 août : Grégory Villemin, victime de meurtre dans l'affaire du petit Grégory († ).
 25 août :
 Ovidie, réalisatrice, documentariste, scénariste, écrivain, journaliste, productrice de cinéma et ancienne actrice de films pornographiques française.
 Ève Angeli, chanteuse française.
 26 août :
 Macaulay Culkin, acteur américain.
 Xavier Dang, streameur, vidéaste et compositeur français.
 Chris Pine, acteur américain.
 29 août :
 David Desrosiers, bassiste du groupe Simple Plan.
 Corina Ungureanu, gymnaste roumaine.
 Nicholas Tse, acteur canadien.

Septembre

  :
 Sammy Adjei, footballeur ghanéen.
 Shogo Akada, joueur de baseball japonais.
 3 septembre : Jason McCaslin, guitariste canadien.
 6 septembre : Jillian Hall, catcheuse professionnelle américaine travaillant à la WWE.
 7 septembre :
Saïd Kouachi, criminel français († ).
 Gabriel Milito, footballeur argentin.
 9 septembre : Michelle Williams, actrice américaine.
 10 septembre : Mikey Way, bassiste du groupe My Chemical Romance.
 11 septembre : John Fritz Moreau, PDG de Juno7.
 12 septembre :
 Yao Ming, basketteur chinois.
 Anne Tilloy alias Morganne Matis, chanteuse française et actrice spécialisée dans le doublage.
 13 septembre :
 Daisuke Matsuzaka, joueur de baseball japonais.
 Han Chae-young, actrice sud-coréenne.
 17 septembre : Gonzalo Peralta, footballeur argentin († ).
 21 septembre : Autumn Reeser, actrice américaine.
 22 septembre : Norbert Tarayre, cuisinier, animateur de télévision et humoriste français.
 23 septembre : Liz Murray, oratrice américaine.
 24 septembre : Yili Nooma, musicienne burkinabé.
 25 septembre : T.I., rappeur américain.
 27 septembre : Akinori Asashoryu, lutteur sumo mongol,  yokozuna de l'histoire du sumo.
 28 septembre :
 Benjamin Nicaise, footballeur puis entraîneur français.
 Wassila Rédouane-Saïd-Guerni, escrimeuse algérienne.
 29 septembre :
 Iván Fandiño, matador espagnol († ).
 Zachary Levi, acteur américain.
 30 septembre :
 Virgil Abloh, styliste, designer et disc-jockey américain ((† ).
 Martina Hingis, joueuse de tennis suisse.

Octobre

 4 octobre :
 Marieke de Kleine, actrice néerlandaise.
 Tomáš Rosický, footballeur tchèque.
 Ludivine Furnon, gymnaste française.
 7 octobre : Edison Chen, acteur hong-kongais.
 8 octobre : The Miz, catcheur américain.
 9 octobre : Henrik Zetterberg, hockeyeur suédois.
 11 octobre : Albert Vandel, zoologiste et biospéologue français.((† ).
 16 octobre : Jeremy Jackson, acteur et chanteur américain.
 17 octobre : Iekaterina Gamova, ex-volleyeuse russe.
 21 octobre : Kim Kardashian, femme d'affaires, productrice et animatrice de télévision américaine.
 27 octobre : Seth Gueko, rappeur français.
 28 octobre : Jérémy Michalak, chroniqueur, producteur, animateur TV et radio français.
 29 octobre : Kaine Robertson, joueur de rugby néo-zélandais.

Novembre

 4 novembre :
 Jerry Collins, joueur de rugby à XV néo-zélandais († ).
 Marcy Rylan, actrice américaine.
 7 novembre : Muhammad Hassan, catcheur américain.
 13 novembre : Benjamin Darbelet, judoka français.
 12 novembre : Ryan Gosling, acteur canadien.
 17 novembre :
 Luciana Sandoval, danseuse et mannequin salvadorienne.
 Anna Katharina Stoll, musicienne et présentatrice allemande.
 19 novembre : Nurul Izzah Anwar, femme politique malaisienne.
 24 novembre : Beth Phoenix, catcheuse américaine.
 26 novembre : Satoshi Õno, chanteur japonais du groupe Arashi.
 ? novembre : Ndifor Afanwi Franklin, pasteur évangélique pentecôtiste et homme politique camerounais († ).

Décembre

 4 décembre : Antón Cortés, matador espagnol.
 6 décembre : Kei Yasuda, chanteuse, actrice et ex-idole japonaise.
 9 décembre :
 Simon Helberg, acteur américain.
 Verónika Mendoza, femme politique péruvienne.
 12 décembre : Virginie Mamba, joueuse de handball congolaise.
 15 décembre : Élodie Gossuin, animatrice de télévision et chroniqueuse française.
 16 décembre : Alban Lenoir, acteur et cascadeur français.
 18 décembre :
 Christina Aguilera, chanteuse américaine.
 Neil Fingleton, acteur et joueur de basket-ball anglais († ).
 19 décembre : Jake Gyllenhaal, acteur américain.
 22 décembre : Chris Carmack, acteur américain et ex-mannequin.
 27 décembre : Cesaro, catcheur suisse.
 30 décembre : Eliza Dushku, actrice américaine.
 31 décembre : Richie McCaw, joueur de rugby à XV néo-zélandais.

Date inconnue
 Camelia Matei Ghimbeu, directrice de recherche au CNRS.
 Moni Mulepati, alpiniste népalaise newar.
 Nicole van Nierop, actrice et scénariste néerlandaise.
 Abdoul Jabbar, auteur, compositeur, interprète et chanteur guinéen († ).

Notes et références

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On Feb. 10, 1983, a fire roared through the landmark Gettysburg Hotel for three hours.
According to news reports at the time the fire started at 2:05 a.m. in the three-story structure. The roof collapsed around 6 a.m. About 40 people were left homeless as a result.
At the height of the fire, flames could be seen more than a mile away. Firefighters from 22 departments in York, Adams, Franklin and Cumberland counties in Pennsylvania, and from Frederick and Carroll counties in Maryland brought in 40 pieces of equipment to battle the flames in the early morning cold.
The building covered about 200 feet along one side of Lincoln Square and also housed offices and a mini-mall with five or six shops on the ground.
In May 1991, the Gettysburg Hotel, finally re-opened on Lincoln Square in downtown Gettysburg.
The hotel housed the temporary White House in 1956 when President Dwight Eisenhower was recovering from a heart attack.
From The Patriot-News archive, "The northeast corner of Gettysburg's town square has been the site of inns and hotels since 1797. Scott's Tavern, The Indian Queen, Franklin House and McClellan House were early inns. The building that burned in 1983 had been known as Hotel Gettysburg from the 1890s until it closed as a transient hotel in December 1964. After it was converted to residential apartments, the structure was called the Lincoln Square Building." According to The Patriot-News in 1991, the hotel "was being operated by Inns of Distinction, based in Wilmington, Del., under a Best Western franchise, according to H.H. "Roger" Robinson, general manager. It will have 83 guest units - 65 in the hotel proper and 18 in the adjacent Scharf-Bigham Building. The opening of the hotel at the time was a welcome event – the charred remains of the former hotel had been an eyesore for eight years. There had been multiple unsuccessful attempts to renovate the building.


Yield was suppressed in this area of the field due to a clogged nozzle in a centerpivot system. Failure to replace the nozzle can result in a loss of hundreds of dollars.
It's tempting to think that a Band-Aid approach to irrigation maintenance can save you time and money. But the best way to keep your system in good shape is to examine it closely from the ground up. By doing so, farmers still hurting from the drought can improve application efficiency and maximize profitability, says Stephen Smith, a Colorado irrigation engineer.
One option is irrigation scheduling. Soil moisture monitors measure water activity in the effective root zone. By tracking this factor in conjunction with weather predictions, you can decide whether to irrigate now or wait for moisture. Delaying irrigation can save pumping costs and labor while fully using available precipitation, Smith says.
In addition to performing efficiently, it is imperative that irrigation systems provide uniform applications of water, says Jay Robbins of Robbins Association/ Irrigation-Mart, Inc., Ruston, La. Non-uniform application can lead to water stress, which can affect crop vitality, growth, yield and quality and cause increased disease pressure. All of these factors affect the bottom line.
It all adds up. Many farmers use a center-pivot system with a nozzle that is not functioning properly or provides uneven distribution, says Dan Rogers of Kansas State University Extension. The nozzle could be replaced for $20 but often goes unnoticed or is ignored.
You might irrigate a corn field 10 times a year under the assumption that all of the land is getting an even 1" of water each time, when in fact 10 of your acres are getting only 8⁄10". During the year, 2" of water is lost. Assuming a typical yield loss of 15 bu. per acre per inch, that's $210 in revenue lost.
Remote-control valves and automation can be helpful, Smith says. Valves are available for many pressurized irrigation systems and can be programmed to flow water on a weekly schedule. Alternatively, a device can be programmed to prevent a system from flowing water when rainfall reaches a specified level, saving thousands of dollars annually.
Robbins recommends best irrigation practices as a starting point for cutting expenses. Regular equipment maintenance can catch other problems, he says. Farmers who use center pivots, for example, should check joints for water leaks and look for worn or broken nozzles and sprinkler heads. Those who are concerned about water quality should flush their system routinely. Monitoring pressure and flow rates to identify leaks, plugging or a combination of the two is also important.
Farmers without an on-site weather station to help manage their system can take advantage of weather station networks operated by irrigation or conservation districts, Smith says.
Rogers advises using both soil moisture monitors and weather-based irrigation schedulers to get the best picture of field activity. If the information provided by these devices doesn't match up, troubleshoot until it does. Tillage systems and crop rotation should also be considered.
Farmers who leave their soil relatively bare will need a different sprinkler package than those who have high-residue fields, which capture more water upon application, Rogers says. Use the smallest wetted-diameter nozzles to avoid creating runoff.
Farmers should tailor their irrigation efficiency practices to the requirements of the lands and crops in their region, Robbins says. "During times of drought, it is easy to focus on a single facet, rather than the entire picture," he says. "But what we really need is a more permanent solution to improving overall farm efficiencies."


The late 19th century was a time of huge innovation in printing and publishing. In the 1880s alone, several hundred patents were granted to scientists and industrialists trying to develop efficient printing machines.
In 1881, an American called David Gestetner invented a simple stencil perforator that he called the Cyclostyle. It used a pen with a miniature toothed wheel on the end. The wheel rolled along the page in line with the pen, punching tiny perforations in the sheet to create a stencil. The stencils were then inked and pressed with a roller: a messy but effective means of duplication.


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Q: Apply multiple find and replace regex queries on multiple .txt files using a Perl code I'm trying to find a Perl on Windows code that enables me to apply multiple find and replace regex queries on multiple files in a specific directory. I'm able to apply multiple find and replace regex queries using many text editors (for example UltraEdit).

A: Your question isn't very descriptive. Does this do what you want?
Edited to work on Windows
perl -i.bak -pe"BEGIN {@ARGV = map glob, @ARGV} s/a/b/g; s/c/d/g; s/e/f/g; " My/Files/Directory/*.txt

Update
Unless you have only a few changes to make it is probably best if you put the substitution commands in a file, like this
changes.pl
BEGIN {
    @ARGV = map glob("\"$_\""), @ARGV;
}

s/a/b/g;
s/c/d/g;
s/e/f/g;

Then you can run it on a set of files on the command line like this
perl -i.bak -p changes.pl My/Files/Directory/*.txt

A: Here is a basic perl program (perhaps name it myreplacers.pl) that can do that:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

while(<>) {
  s/regex1/replace1/;
  s/regex2/replace2/;
  print;
}

Alter this with appropriate regular expressions and replacement texts and run it like perl myreplacers.pl file1 file2 etc.

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Corporate Law, Criminal Law
5 White Collar Crimes That Shocked The World
White collar crimes are generally those crimes concerning embezzlement, fraud, and insider trading. The people behind these harebrained schemes typically receive huge payouts, which is the most appealing part of the crime.
Money makes people do crazy things, and white collar criminals are the greenest of them all. The United States economy loses hundreds of millions of dollars every year to white collar criminals, which is why the authorities are consistently on the hunt for new legal conquests.
Take a look at a few of the most notorious white collar criminals in history.
Charles Ponzi – Estimated Booty: $250,000 a day
Charles Ponzi is the notorious father of the so-called "Ponzi Scheme." and for good reason. Possibly the most profitable white collar crime in history, Ponzi drew in the equivalent of more than a quarter of a million dollars per day.
Charles devised an operation that used the money from his current investors to pay a return to his original investors. He quintessentially robbed Peter to pay Paul and kept any profit for himself.
Bernard Madoff – Estimated Booty: $65 Billion
Madoff pulled off an almost perfect "Ponzi" scheme, and was only caught due to a recession. Had the U.S. economy not taken a plunge in the late 90's, Bernie may well have gone on for much longer.
As the former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange, Madoff was highly revered for his financial management knowledge. Investors were more than eager to give him their money.
Bernard encouraged wealthy individuals and businesses to invest, and paid off existing investors with new donations. Pocketing the difference, Madoff became a very wealthy individual.
Martin Frankel – Estimated Booty: $200 Million +
Martin Frankel was a particularly unethical white collar criminal who defrauded several insurance agencies around the nation for an estimated $200 million. Frankel acquired the insurance companies through a private trust fund set up under a false name to stay under the radar.
He was banned from doing so under his own name due to suspicious activity a few years before. He was caught because he converted his money to diamonds. He forged false papers to move the diamonds, and was busted.
Samuel Israel III & Daniel Marino – Estimated Booty: $300 Million
These two hot shots set themselves up for failure by spending their investor's money on lavish lifestyle choices. They took in over $300 million in investments, promising over $7 billion in returns.
When the two were finally forced to confront the lack of return, they took one step further into the world of white collar crime. Samuel and Daniel created their own (fake) accounting firm to create misleading auditing results.
When the two were close to being bust, and the gig was up, Marino tried to fake his death. He was caught shortly thereafter.
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Oxford alumni founders of It Gets Brighter launch a campaign for Mental Health Week
It Gets Brighter is a not-for-profit student mental health organisation founded by Oxford students Emma Lawrance (Lincoln, 2012) and Rhodes Scholar Joshua Chauvin (New College, 2011) in 2014-15.
Currently led by Rhodes scholar Vidal Arroyo (Univ, 2019), the organisation has come into its own with the pandemic, operating since day one as a platform on which peers are encouraged to post video testimony sharing their own narrative.
Arroyo says that never has there been so much demand for support from students and other young adults whose lives have been heavily disrupted by the pandemic. Knowing this he has launched a campaign with the hashtag #BrighterCOVIDeos.
Emma, now Dr Emma Lawrance following her Oxford DPhil in neuroscience and a Mental Health Innovations Fellow at Imperial College London, says that while the pandemic has in some ways released people from some pre-existing sources of stress, nonetheless she sees the pandemic as having cast a pall over the mental health of millions of students and young adults. It has been a net negative.
She and Arroyo report that the pandemic has tended to exacerbate mental health challenges, especially as a source of isolation. Then there has been considerable anxiety generated by the virus itself, COVID-19, relationship stress as individuals have found themselves stranded far apart, and finally money worries as well. Ultimately, young lives have been put on hold, and that is a major shock.
Emma's message is that 'It Gets Brighter is providing a platform to share experiences and what helps make it brighter. By sharing these messages of solidarity and hope, we will spread kindness this Mental Health Awareness Week.' She adds that people often report feeling 'less alone' having watched some of the videos of peers posted on the website.
Behind each narrative there is the encouragement to believe and see that bad mental health episodes often pass – in other words it does get brighter.
Everyone is encouraged to upload their own message should they wish to share with others – and can do so anonymously if they prefer to.
Vidal, from Orange County California, who is pursuing his Oxford MSc in Research Statistics, says that his goal with the #BrighterCOVIDeos campaign 'is to alleviate fear, build community, and bring hope to those who need it most.'
European Mental Health Awareness Week begins on 18 May, and from 4 October in the USA.
It Gets Brighter website
Twitter: @ItGetsBrighter


Based on the work of my literature review, pertaining to groove, along with the vast amount of research that has been carried out by a multitude of academics, (Keil, Janata, Oliver, Witek are just some examples) it has become increasingly clear to me that defining the word "groove" is no simple task. Each individual experiences music in a highly personal way, and based on our tastes, cultural background and musical familiarity, it is no wonder that groove can take on a variety of meanings.
Nonetheless, there seem to be some underlying principles that resurface in the majority of researchers' investigations, such as music provoking the listener to engage in physical movement, as a way of enhancing the experience and expressing enjoyment.
Musical nuances are the fine-grained 'expressive variations' that are often characterized as contributing to a performer's interpretation of a musical work. I demonstrate that there are different ways of perceiving a nuance; an inadequate way can block the emergence of a perceptual Gestalt to which a nuance contributes, and thus stand in the way of our grasping the nuance's musical significance. I criticize Diana Raffman's account of nuances by arguing that she does not acknowledge that nuances can be perceived in different ways; there is a perceptual way implicit in her work but it is one that is inadequate and prevents the relevant Gestalts from arising. My account of nuances is developed through a detailed account of a Gestalt that is grounded in nuances—the rhythmic phenomenon of groove (the feel of a rhythm). On my account, a groove is a dispositional mind-dependent property of music, one that can only be 'unlocked' by means of certain perceptual ways. These ways involve allowing certain timing nuances to be perceptually preserved as ambiguous . In elucidating this perceptual role, I clarify Merleau-Ponty's 'perceptual indeterminacy' by defining a perceptual role I call 'reverberation.' I highlight the importance of grooves and nuances in contemporary popular music by invoking two ontological views of musical works; nuance and groovetypes can be properties of classical works, but particular nuances and particular grooves are properties of pop works. These grooves are not merely perceptual qualities, they are pivotal relational properties through which musical elements make their connections. The body movement of listeners is not merely a reaction to rhythm; body movement may influence the way we hear rhythms. I draw both conservative and controversial conclusions regarding this relationship. In drawing the latter, I adapt Merleau-Ponty's notion of 'motor intentionality' to temporal perception, and claim that a certain kind of understanding of a rhythm is activated only when we move to a rhythm's pulse; this understanding influences the resulting experience. When we move our bodies, our experience of a groove may be qualitatively different than when we do not.
DeFonso, Lenore E. , Johnson, Stephen M. , Rowlett, Mary E. 's Does information or involvement increase reported enjoyment of classical music?
Attempted to determine whether reported enjoyment of classical music is affected by having some task that involves one in the music while listening, or by receiving information about the music, as opposed to simply listening. Three groups of participants heard eight short musical excerpts, all programmatic classical music. An Involvement group was asked to imagine a scene or story while listening. An Information group was told the title, composer, and what the music represented. A third group simply listened to the music. All groups then rated the excerpts on several measures. A significant group effect was found for four of the excerpts when pre-experiment experience with classical music was controlled for. The Information group consistently reported liking the excerpts better than did the other two groups. The Involvement group did not show an increase in liking; in fact, their mean ratings for some of the excerpts were lower than the control group. Prior exposure to classical music significantly affected ratings, and there was a significant gender effect for some excerpts. Other factors affecting the results are also discussed, as well as implications of the research for ways to increase people's liking for classical music.
It is my hope that with the help of these sources, along with other research, that I will gain a deeper understanding of groove in the world of classical music. I am curious to find if there are any consistencies within most classical musicians in how they define/perceive groove, and if this experience of groove is heightened because of their training in the field. Furthermore, I am hopeful to learn more about the actual enjoyment of classical music (if it requires many years of familiarity/training/exposure to be truly appreciated), as it is a current hot topic that classical music's relevance is rapidly fading.
I intend to carry out this research with readings of scholarly articles, along with conducting a few informal interviews with some classical musicians at the Yale School of Music. One possible method is to gather samples of classical music that I personally deem "groovy" and share these examples with others, asking them to voice their opinions on whether or not this music grooves, and why. I will also hopefully gain some insight as to why classical music might not be an initially obvious choice when looking for music that truly grooves.
It is practically indisputable that listening to music is a multidimensional experience. Engaging in a musical experience as a listener is a particularly complex phenomenon, and it is especially curious that we, as human beings, often experience a compulsion to move along to the music that we hear. We seem to receive some sort of satisfaction from this aural-to-physical connection, and this engagement perhaps heightens our overall musical and personal experience. The concept of groove, which in recent years has become a widely researched topic, is a means to learn more about the musical properties that invite a listener into a more profound relationship with the music. When one hears the word groove, it likely sparks imagery of a comfort zone, or perhaps a consistent momentum of sorts, or even being in a positive state of mind. In a musical context, groove is a rather broad term, and brings forth many questions when searching for its precise meaning. What in fact makes music groovy? Can groove exist in any type of music, or is it restricted to a select few genres? Is groove simply a matter of musical taste, that is highly personal and subjective, or can it be universally identified, regardless of who is listening? Many researchers have sought out to answer these questions and many more, using a diverse series of approaches. For the purposes of this literature review, the content will be organized in a fashion firstly addressing the many definitions and functions that have led numerous researchers to a greater understanding of groove, followed by the implications of groove in different musical genres, in hopes of discovering new insights. One might question the importance or merit of delving into the meaning of groove. After all, could our understanding of groove best be left explained as a simple path to enjoyment for the listener? Perhaps an even greater enjoyment and appreciation of music begins to exist as we investigate the deeper components of groove and its impact.
Charles Keil, in his "Defining Groove" (2010), explains how the word itself has yet to be understood as having a singular concrete definition, and is still not currently interchangeable with words akin to "swing, flow, focus, grace, in the pocket…etc". Keil's approach to defining groove is an engaging one, in that he seems to seek his definition through somewhat casual observations, pulled from a remarkable wealth of personal musical experience, as opposed to rigorous scientific testing. He speaks of a groove being created via "participatory discrepancies" and defines them as "measurable differences or discrepancies in attack points and release points along a time continuum." Therefore, is groove perhaps achieved by musicians consciously or unconsciously creating subtle rhythmic imprecision or by taking small rhythmic liberties? Using a rhythm section as an example, Keil explains further: "the drummer and bassist are consistently in synchrony with each other, but they are also consistently discrepant, different, slightly out of phase or in and out of phase with each other." While it is not possible to know if all performing musicians are aware of this rhythmic push-and-pull as it occurs in real time, it is helpful to acknowledge that some degree of rhythmic flexibility is present. Another notable definition is from Oliver Senn and Lorenz Kilchenmann, taken from "The Secret Ingredient" (2009): "its principal meaning describes the music's effect on musicians and listeners: music with a good groove incites people to engage emotionally with the music, and to participate with their bodies." This reinforces the notion that listening to music is indeed a complex activity, with many linked human systems simultaneously reacting. Maria A. G. Witek provides another possibility: "due to the repetitiveness of the groove, it was hypothesized that microtiming in groove might facilitate a type of arousal that is not peak-based, but rather reflects the groove state of listening, which has been conceptualized as a steady mental state in synchronization with the music," (Groove Experience, 2009). Focusing primarily upon the repetitive naures of music, Richard Middleton, in his "In the Groove or Blowing Your Mind?" (1986) concludes that "the production of musical syntaxes involves active choice, conflict, redefinition; at the same time, their understanding and enjoyment take place in the theatre of self-definition, as part of the general struggle among listeners for control of meaning and pleasure." It becomes increasingly clear that a universal definition of groove is difficult to create, however one can certainly summarize that it would encompass rhythm, pleasure, microtiming, and physical movement.
In "Groove as Familiarity with Time" (2013), Rowan Oliver explores in depth many fascinating aspects of groove that emphasize its presence in a variety of musical genres. As each genre of music is defined by its unique set of sonic characteristics, it is of significance that a musician has the ability to manipulate sound in such a way that makes groove malleable between styles. Oliver explains that a musician can use timing as an expressive force, as long as he/she is aware of the "contextual senses of time", which he divides into three useful categories: "1) In the first category, the contextual sense of time is contingent upon shared prior knowledge on the part of all musicking participants, as in the reggae 'one-drop' rhythm, for example. 2) In the second category, a musician 'sets up' the contextual sense of time in some way prior to the start of a performance proper for the benefit of the other musicking participants, as in styles based around a stated timeline pattern. 3) The third category relies on a shared sense of metronomic time, although in practice this tends to be more of a general feeling of an underlying isochronous pulse rather than a precisely 'metronomic' understanding." Oliver's distinctions can perhaps be applied to detect groove in a variety of types of music. Stereotypically, groovy music is usually linked to styles of swing, jazz, and funk, although these principles can certainly be related to other genres. The way in which a conductor gives a preparatory beat gesture to an orchestra no doubt influences the following sonic outcome, and it's possible that such gestures impact the groove of a type of music. Mark Jonathan Butler's "Unlocking the Groove" (2006) investigates the realm of electronic dance music (EDM), which in the last decade has exploded in popularity, and points to relevancy when discussing groove. Many EDM tracks have a driving, quasi-hypnotic repetitive structure, and undoubtedly cause listeners to move along to the music.
Petr Janata, Stefan T. Tomic, and Jason M. Haberman present another refreshing approach to studying groove. In "Sensorimotor Coupling in Music and the Psychology of the Groove" (2012), Janata aimed to define groove as a psychological construct, and used surveys of university students to see if participants identified similar constructs that could be appropriated to groove. "In closing, we consider the construct of the groove in relation to the evolution of entrainment and social behavior. Synchronizing with the beat is the simplest form of entrainment, not only with a musical stimulus, but also with other individuals." Many of the survey's musical examples were taken from a diverse selection, and reinforce that groove is a flexible and far-reaching concept.
As shown, the research directed towards the somewhat elusive concept of groove is growing, and we are beginning to identify salient characteristics that aid in describing the mystifying experience of listening to music. The dialogue for developing our understanding of groove is in flow, and perhaps Charles Keil said it best, "that commitment to keeping up your musical life and keeping your participatory mode going is what keeps us on the same wavelength, keeps us in the same groove," (Music Grooves, Charles Keil & Steven Feld, 1994).
Butler, Mark Jonathan. (2006). Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music. Bloomington, USA: Indiana University Press.
Janata, Peter., Tomic, Stefan T., & Haberman, Jason M. (2012). Sensorimotor Coupling in Music and the Psychology of the Groove. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 141(1), 54-75.
Keil, Charles. Defining Groove. (2010). PopScriptum 11: The Groove Issue. University of Berlin.
Keil, Charles., Feld, Steven. (1994). Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues. Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press.
Madsion, Guy. (2006). Experiencing Groove Induced by Music: Consistency and Phenomenology. Music Perception, 24(2), 201-208.
Middleton, Richard. (1986). In the Groove or Blowing Your Mind? The Pleasures of Music Repetition. Popular Culture and Social Relations. 159-176.
Oliver, Rowan. (2013). Groove as Familiarity with Time. Music and Familiarity: Listening, Musicology and Performance. 239-252.
Senn, Oliver., Kilchenmann, Lorenz. (2012). The Secret Ingredient: State of Affairs and Future Directions in Groove Studies. Musik-Raum-Akkord-Bild: Festschrift zum 65. 799-810.
Witek, Maria A. G. (2009). Groove Experience: Emotional and Physiological Responses to Groove-Based Music. European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 573-582.
Witek, Maria A.G., Clarke, Eric F., Wallentin, Mikkel., Kringelbach, Morten L., Vuust, Peter. (2014). Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music. PLoS ONE, 9(4), 1-12.
Zagorski-Thomas, Simon. (2007). The Study of Groove. Ethnomusicology Forum, 16(2), 327-335.
Zbikowski, Lawrence M. (2004). Modelling the Groove: Conceptual Structure and Popular Music. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 12(9), 272-297.
STEP 3: Literature Review – UPDATED DEADLINE!
The literature review for your individual project is now due by Monday, October 27, 12:00 PM (Virtual Lab posting & emailed PDF).
As noted in class, I am expecting the lit review to be about 4-6 pages (standard font & margins, double-spaced), not including the bibliography. Your lit review should start with an introduction that defines the topic and identifies the different strands and questions related to the topic, and how your lit review is organized. The organization of the contents should follow from how your topic subdivides itself; this is often done either topically (themes or questions within the topic) or methodologically (different research methods or paradigms used to investigate the questions related to the topic). It is also not uncommon to have a 2-tier organization. Once your lit review is completed, post a copy on your individual page, with the bibliographic citations linked to the Virtual Lab's main Bibliography sub-wiki, and email me a PDF copy as well.
As noted previously, you should not put the project away and stop thinking about it. Make a working plan that will allow you to read the materials, have time to digest the information, and produce a well-crafted review that will keep your project on tracks.
Goal: Collect 10-12 directly relevant sources in preparation for your literature review (due October 16).
Review my feedback on your proposal. Revise as needed.
Identify a set of keywords based on the topical areas relevant to your "big" question. Pick one or two more specific questions you identified and identify a set of keywords related to these as well.
Carry out your database search using these keywords and at least three scholarly databases (e.g., RILM, PsycArticles, Google Scholar, Web of Science). Based on this initial search, identify a few sources that are particularly promising and use these to identify more specific descriptors or subjects for additional searches, as well as related articles (e.g., cited articles or articles that cite these sources).
After you have identified at least 3-4 promising sources, review the abstracts more closely and browse through the articles. Refine your question (or select the one question that seems to be the most promising), balancing personal interest with available research, course topic, and other practical considerations.
Conduct additional searches using keywords, subjects, and other descriptors related to your revised question to complete your set. You should strive to have a variety of source types, including review articles and experimental reports as well as music-theoretical or ethnographic studies related to the different aspects of your question.
Browse through your sources. Take special note how the authors discuss the topic, what are some of the issues to consider, the experimental design or empirical method used, and findings (i.e., "state of research"). How will each source contribute to your literature review? Do the sources fall into two or more categories?
Post your preliminary bibliography on your personalized category on the Virtual Lab with your "big" question as title.
Goal: Submit a potential question (or set of questions) on which you plan to carry-out research.
1. Identify a topical area of interest to your work as a musician, music theorist, or cognitive scientist.
2. Brainstorm: What are the big questions pertaining to this topic? What are some of the concepts and tools that have been used to explore those questions? What are the findings so far? Why should we care, i.e., what are the implications for your field of study and for the larger community? What are some issues and what is your position on these issues?
3. Identify a small set of more specific questions that you imagine you could reasonably engage within the confines of this course. You may find it helpful to also specify the methods you plan to use to explore the question.
4. Submit the question (or set of questions) by posting it in your personalized tab/category. You may also make an appointment with me for additional feedback.


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Interview: Ben Prunty, Sound Designer For Video Games Sound designer Ben Prunty integrates audio into some of the most popular independent video games. He figures out how to make sounds that match the feel of the game and build tension at the perfect moments in action-packed adventures.
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Composing Game Soundtracks That Move 'Faster Than Light'
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You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, "MILKY WAY")
RATH: An excellent soundtrack can make any video game feel cinematic and epic, drawing you deep into a virtual world. Ben Prunty creates some of that music for a few of the popular independent video games out there, including this song, "Mantis," from last year's giant hit "Faster Than Light" or "FTL," nominated for IGN's best overall music and best PC sound of 2012.
This week, Prunty is one of the featured speakers at the IndieCade Festival in L.A., a gathering of independent game developers from around the world. And he joins me now in the studio. Ben, welcome.
BEN PRUNTY: Hi.
RATH: Tell us about this game, "Faster Than Light." How do you play?
PRUNTY: It's a spaceship simulator game. Instead of piloting the ship, you're more like the captain, kind of like in "Star Trek." So you're commanding your crew. You're telling your crew to, like, oh, go fix the engines or go put out this fire in the room or...
RATH: It's more strategy in chess game than first-person shooter, kind of.
PRUNTY: Exactly.
RATH: Let's hear a little bit of the battle sound, though, first.
PRUNTY: Sure, yeah.
(SOUNDBITE OF "FASTER THAN LIGHT" THEME MUSIC)
RATH: All right, that's clearly a battle. Definitely something in a marshal mood. How do you make it so the music reacts to what's going on?
PRUNTY: There are two tracks. I write a piece of music, but it doesn't have percussion, let's say. And then I'll write another version of the same track that has the same musical cues, the same chords, but then I add, let's say, percussion over that. While the game is going, they're technically both playing at the same time but then it cross-fades between the two. So when the battle starts, it just cross-fades to the other track. And it just sounds like it's suddenly changing.
RATH: So they're all running simultaneously.
PRUNTY: Yeah.
RATH: Well, like an old eight-track tape player, right?
PRUNTY: Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
RATH: And you're just flipping in between them when...
PRUNTY: Yeah, except the game's doing it when you're playing, yeah.
RATH: Right. You're currently working on sound for an upcoming game called "Gravity Ghost" with Indie game designer Erin Robinson. What was her vision for the music in this new project?
PRUNTY: "Gravity Ghost," Erin was like, I want it to be kind of weird and whimsical.
RATH: What did you add to make it weird (unintelligible)?
PRUNTY: I just sort of like, didn't leave out any instruments than I thought. Maybe it was like, oh, maybe we'll put in electric guitar, maybe we'll do like a rock drums or something or any kind of instrument I could think of. And she seemed to like all of it, so...
RATH: Let's take a listen to that.
(SOUNDBITE OF "GRAVITY GHOST" THEME MUSIC)
RATH: What's your setup as you're writing and deciding what kind of sounds you'll be pulling in? Like, what's your kind of bank of sounds that you're pulling from?
PRUNTY: I find libraries online. There are a lot of unusual sound libraries. I found a sound library that was all just recordings of light bulbs being struck. And it's really strange, but it made for neat-sounding percussion. And it's giving the game a very unique sound that you won't hear, like, anywhere else.
RATH: I want to play a little more music. There are some fan favorites out there. This one's called "Milky Way."
PRUNTY: Yes.
RATH: Let's hear a little bit of that.
RATH: It's one of the more retro ones, for sure.
PRUNTY: It's very retro, yeah.
RATH: I feel like I should be watching, like, a science program from 1981 or...
RATH: But it really puts you in that space.
PRUNTY: Yeah, yeah.
RATH: What kind of stuff do you listen to? What sort of music do you listen to for inspiration or just for pleasure?
PRUNTY: I'm a huge fan of funk music, and that kind of influenced "FTL" a little because there's a lot of, like, strong baselines in "FTL."
RATH: Uh-huh. Nice. You know, I'm going to go back now and see if I can hear any traces of Bootsy Collins in those games. But, Ben, that was great. Thank you so much.
PRUNTY: Hey, thanks. Yeah.
RATH: Ben Prunty is a sound designer for Indie video games. He's one of the speakers at this weekend's IndieCade, the gathering of Indie game developers. Ben, thanks again.
PRUNTY: Thank you.


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To meet the needs of those families 'just managing', the Government must free up local authorities to take more decisions on how and where housing can be delivered. In this report we argue that only by affording local authorities greater flexibility around finance and land can the Prime Minister hope to achieve the million new homes she targets by 2020.
Whilst the UK may be struggling with a housing challenge, each area of the UK has its own distinct issues; as does each family and individual. From affordability to demography, and from suitability to supply, the UK isn't home to one housing market in crisis, but rather hundreds in need of correction. Each area requiring a slightly different prescription to cure the ailment.
Thankfully, there is now an emerging consensus that more must be done to build the homes people need, in the places they want them. The previous government, and now Theresa May's new administration, pledged to make house building a priority – Secretary of State for Local Government, Sajid Javid, has described tackling the country's housing shortfall as "a moral duty" – and this report has been written to help them deliver on it.
Local housing challenges require local solutions. We will not provide the homes our nation requires with a one-size-fits-all approach. This is not to say we do not need a national strategy, far from it, but we need a better one. It should set political direction then be permissive enough to allow local areas to respond to local need. This is the next logical step in the devolution agenda.
In her first speech as Prime Minister, Theresa May talked of a Government that is driven by the interests of those who "can just about manage, but… worry about the cost of living". Housing is only one part of this equation, but one of the most important. If the new administration is to be successful, acknowledging that the problem is different depending on where you live will be a good start.
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This page is dedicated to sharing my experience and opinion of the Japanese food that I have been able to sample while I was in the country.
Nato: This is probably my least favorite Japanese food. It is compiled of soy beans that are fermented. It looks like beans in caramel and has the same consistency. But it doesn't smell or taste like caramel. One waft of this and you'll think that you just took a trip to the Garbage dump. Tasting it isn't any better! My Score: Negative ***** ; I only have tried this once, back in America. My brother gave me some and told me to try it. All I can remember is leaning over he sink heaving. While I was in Japan I had the opportunity to smell it many times though. The Japanese like to have this for breakfast and sometimes even cooked in other things. While I was in Japan there was a cooking show where 2 chefs had to make all their dishes from Nato...What a task!!! On the other hand the Japanese equivalent of Nato to them is eating rice in milk with cinnamon and sugar (A Fausett family favorite).
Soba: There are two kinds of soba, fried or the regular. The Regular is composed of Buckwheat noodles that are about 12 inches long and 1/2 an inch in diameter. The noodles are in a tasty (what I thought) beef broth that has onions and a few other vegetables in it. This is usually ate with Tempura or battered vegetables and fish. My Score: **** ; this dish is very healthy and has a heartwarming taste. It isn't too rich but isn't dull either. Soba filled me up very quickly and didn't weigh me down. I would recommend this dish to all those health nuts out there. I was able to try this on the day that we went to see the Buddha's.
Unco: Actually Onco, but the name is appropriate for it taste. Sweet beans. This is the weirdest stuff and I particularly don't care for it. It has a bean/grainy texture, but it tastes sweet, which to Americans that is unusual. They use onco to make pastries, Ice cream, cakes, and all manner of other sweets. My Score: * ; I first had Unco in Asaksa and then found that this stuff was everywhere, once I arrived in Aizu. I had tasted it in a deep fried green batter, a pastry, and had seen it in Ice Cream. There is also a cartoon called Unco man where the Hero comes to the starving people and instructs them to take a bite from his head.
Kaki: A bright red/yellow fruit. The fall is the season in which it flourishes. It is about the size of a small apple and it's consistency is like a hard peach. It has a slightly sweet flavor and there is no other fruit like it. It doesn't have a citrus tang or a really dull taste. To me it is kind of a plain fruit. My Score: ** ; I was able to try this many times while I was in Aizu. I had it plain and tried it with some mayonnaise on it, which was suggested by a friend. It actually enhanced the taste. During the holiday season it is a normal custom to send boxes of these to family and friends.
Nashi: This fruit is AWESOME! It is a mix between a pear and an apple. Imagine the size of a VERY large apple and the crispness thereof, the texture of a pear, and the sweet refreshing juices of both an apple and a pear combined. It is one of the things that I miss about Japan. My Score: ***** ; I had this fruit while I was in Aizu and I loved it. I am going to try to find it back in America.
Ramen: Now this isn't the same kind of ramen that you eat in America. This had very thick and very long noodles (depending upon where you eat it at; could be home made) in either a beef, pork, or chicken broth, or in Miso (Soy bean sweet flavored soup) soup. The noodles are not alone though. There are also onions, cabbage, mushrooms, pork, fish cakes, and other various items, depending upon which ramen you order. It is normally about twice the size of the ramen you get back in America and is probably twice as healthy for you too. The broth and soup is sweeter and contains more of a spicier flavor than the ramens back home. My Score: ***** ; I first had ramen back in Tokyo, but had some more that knocked my socks off in Aizu. It is probably one of my favorite Japanese foods now. You eat it with chopsticks (which I must say I have developed the skill to eat with them now) and a large soup spoon. The noodles are Slurped up from your chopsticks. This is done, not to be rude, but to cool the noodles off as they enter your mouth. It is required to eat this loud. The broth is drunk with the spoon while you eat. Oishi!
Sukiyaki: A skillet with no handle is placed upon the table. Inside the skillet is placed a sauce made up of soy sauce, sake, water, and other unknown (to me) ingredients. The sauce is then boiled in the skillet and Beef (or pork), mushrooms, cabbage, clear noodles, and onions are added to the boiling brew. As they cook a bowl with a raw egg stirred up is placed in front of every person. Once the meat and other items are cooked, each person grabs, with their chopsticks, what they would like to eat out of the skillet, dips it in their raw egg and eats. This continues, adding more sauce and items when needed. A bowl of rice is at the side, just like any traditional Japanese meal. My Score: ***** ; My all time favorite Japanese meal. Outstanding in taste. It is sweet but contains a rich salty and spicy flavor at the same time. The raw egg helps to lock in the flavor. I thought it was quiet weird to dip things into a raw egg the first time I had this in Tokyo, but once I had tried it, I would never be the same. I again had this dish in Aizu at home.
Tempura: Basically anything that is battered and deep fried. Usually sweet potatoes, onions, shrimp, fish, squid, and about any other vegetable you can think of. Usually dipped in soy, vinegar, and ginger sauce. My Score: **** ; This is very good food. The sauce brings out the flavor of all the fried items. I had this a few times while I was in Japan. A very common food. It is fried so it isn't the healthiest thing to eat though.
Melon Pan: This is a bowl shaped bread. Flat on the bottom it bubbles up on the top. It is about 6-7 inches in diameter. The inside tastes like normal sweet bread (slightly doughy). The crust on the outside is lightly sweetened and has a bit of a sugar cookie flavor. My Score: ***** ; This was one of my favorite morning foods or desserts while I was in Japan. One food item that I miss. I love sweets and this was something that satisfied my cravings. Eric introduced me to this in Aizu.
Okunomiyaki: Basically a pan cake that has all your left over's in it. A light bread batter is made with eggs. Vegetables, fish, and in our case bacon are all placed into the batter and stirred up. It is then fried on a skillet and eaten with a barbecue like soy sauce. My Score: *** ; This was pretty good. I had it in Aizu with my brother and his wife when we wanted to get rid of all the left over's in the fridge. It turned out better than expected, but isn't something I would like to eat every night.
Sashimi (known to Americans as Sushi: Raw fish of all kinds wrapped up in Sushi (which is rice wrapped in seaweed). The types of Sashimi that I saw in Japan were sea urchin, tuna, salmon, another common fish, squid, (2 kinds) shrimp, fish eggs, and egg (cooked slightly). Each usually has a little bit of hot radish paste on it except the egg kind. The egg is usually sweet in taste. Sashimi is dipped in a little bit of soy sauce before eaten an some do not have seaweed wrapped around it. My Score: **** ; I first had sashimi in Tokyo. I tried tuna, shrimp, egg, and squid. It all actually tasted fine, except the squid was a little chewy. It wasn't fishy in taste as I had suspected. Though the smell of the sushi bar that we had went to got to me. I felt sick as I hobbled out of the place. When I was down in Aizu I tried it again. This time I loved it!!!
Acerola Water: A cherry like fruit in Japan is used to flavor some water. It is like a very watery juice, but nothing like anything tasted in America. My Score: **** ; Very refreshing and has a sweet tangy flavor. It doesn't leave you thirsty. It has a red color to it and smells like skittles candy.
Karashi: Hot yellow mustard. My Score: PURE BLISS ; This hot mustard goes good on Anything and I mean anything. One night I was eating some Karashi with rice and it got so hot I thought my head was going to pop. My eyes were watering and my hands waved uncontrollably while I danced around the room. I then sat down very quiet and content. My brother exclaimed ,"Brady has reached enlightenment by Karashi!". So this is the coined phrase now for this mustard. ENLIGHTENMENT BY KARASHI!!!
Matsutake: Very famous and expensive mushrooms. They smell like a skunk that rolled around in mushrooms. These are cooked in many different ways, but generally are used to make a soup. My Score: *** ; I first saw these in a store in Aizu. They were on sale for 60 bucks a mushroom. Luckily Emi's family sent her some of these delightful funguses so that we could have some. I sampled it and it tasted how it smelled. It was good, but obviously a Japanese acquired taste.


I was young when my parents divorced. My dad moved out, and my mother raised me and my three siblings. Things started out "normal". My siblings and I would see my dad often, but after a while, we saw less and less of him. Even though I was in fifth grade when he left, I didn't have many memories of my dad being a father.
When I started learning about a personal relationship with God, relating Him to being a "Father" was hard for me. In today's culture, family relationships can sometimes fail to reflect God's heart. I had so many questions…Would God leave? Was I good enough? Did He feel that I was worth being loved? Could God love me?
Thankfully, I did not have to deal with the feelings of rejection or absence of a father for too long. My mother remarried while I was in eighth grade to a man named Gary. He treated my siblings and I like we were his very own. He guided me spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. Despite my flaws, stubbornness, and bad decisions- he showed me Gods love and grace. He taught me about God's love for me- and that He would never stop loving me despite my mistakes and mishaps.
As I learned to trust Gary has my earthly father, I learned to also trust my Heavenly Father.
Trusting God completely is one of the most rejuvenating feeling. Trusting God is simply believing that He loves you, that He is good, that He has the power to help you, that He wants to help you, and that He will help you. Jesus tells us in John 15:5 that apart from Him, we can do nothing. Through trusting Him, my spirit has grown stronger. When our spirits grow in strength- we can hear God speaking to our hearts, and make decisions based on His leading. God wants us to put Him first in our lives. He wants us to put our confidence and all of our trust in Him.
Learn to trust in Him. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. He wants to stretch His hand of grace out to you. He wants you to lean on Him. And He wants to love on you and bless you.
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Alcatel-Lucent wins India's TEMA award for Excellence in R&D for pioneering WiMAX technology
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and C-DOT, the Indian Government's telecom technology development center, today announced that the C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Centre—a joint venture between the two organizations — has received the Telecom Equipment Manufacturer's Association (TEMA) Award for Excellence in R&D 2007 from Dr. Shakeel Ahmed, Honorable Minister of State for Communications & IT.
TEMA instituted this award to acknowledge outstanding technological innovations that have brought prestige to India. It is awarded to those Indian innovators and their companies who develop technology that meet the highest global standards. Technologies that are considered for the award are those that lead to commercially successful products, processes and services that give India a sustainable competitive advantage.
"This is a very proud moment for all of us," said Patrick Veron, CEO, C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Center, who accepted the award from Dr. Ahmed. "We worked very hard to develop a reference design for low cost terminals for WiMAX 802.16e, which will help to meet broadband needs in India and elsewhere in the world. WiMAX 802.16e offers a very efficient way to bridge the digital divide, offering affordable connectivity in rural and urban areas where there is no high-quality wireline networks in place."
"This award makes us proud as a co-parent of the research centre along with Alcatel-Lucent," said Vijay Madan, Executive Director C-DOT. "We are happy that the young teams at the centre have worked very hard. We appreciate the role played by Mr. Poornalingam Chairman Board of Directors, Mr. Patrick Veron CEO, Mr. Brito CTO and the staff involved in the centre to make it possible. It is good that our partner in the joint venture is also sharing new technology innovations to develop creative and cost-effective solutions to enable mass market broadband connectivity. This award also reflects Alcatel-Lucent's worldwide efforts in the broadband wireless technology and C-DOT's new initiatives towards market oriented R&D. We wish that C-DOT Alcatel Research Centre captures a major share in Indian as well as Global WiMAX market."
"I am delighted that our India R&D organization is getting due recognition and that the pioneering activities of C-DOT Alcatel Research Center in Wireless Broadband space are highly appreciated by the Indian Telecom Industry," said Ravi Sharma, President of Alcatel-Lucent's activities in South Asia. "The government of India has declared 2007 the 'Year of Broadband' and it envisions 9 million broadband connections by the end of 2007 and 50 million broadband connections by 2010 - a sign that the country understands and appreciates the potential of WiMAX and the impact it can have in meeting the average person's day-to-day communication and information needs." Alcatel-Lucent is among the world's leading WiMAX vendors, with 70 operators worldwide deploying its WiMAX equipment and 11 commercial deployments.
TEMA selected the winner after rigorously evaluating several Indian technology companies through a careful analysis of a variety of parameters including technology innovation, commercial success, execution of strategy and dedication to research and development. The TEMA National Telecom Awards 2007 ceremony was held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in the presence of Dr. Ahmed, along with many senior officials from TEMAas part ofthe World Telecom & Information Society Day on May 17.


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Q: NuxtJS Headless ghost unable to view individual blogs I have an existing nuxtjs page running in SPA mode that basically just serves static html. I recently set up a headless ghost blog and added the code needed based on the tutorial on the ghost site to pull from the site. That works just fine
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however when i click the link to go to blog post I get page not found. I looked at the network traffic in firefox and i can see that the app is trying to pull form localhost, for eg. localhost:3000/welcome instead of https:api.example.com/welcome
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and my posts.js file
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A: I made an _slug.vue file. What i needed was a _slug directory with and index.vue file. I moved everything over and now it functions correctly


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Hong Kong police launch tear gas in bid to end protest
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets.
Hong Kong police launched tear gas at protesters on Sunday, as a massive pro-democracy march continued late into the evening.
The action was the latest confrontation between police and demonstrators who have taken to the streets to protest against an extradition bill and call for electoral reforms in the Chinese territory.
Protesters targeted the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (Bobby Yip/AP)
Later, police threw tear gas canisters at protesters to try to disperse them.
Hong Kong media released video footage showing masked assailants attacking commuters in a subway station. Among those attacked were protesters clad in their trademark black clothing and yellow hard hats.
The attackers, meanwhile, were dressed in white with black masks pulled over their heads. On Saturday, demonstrators wore white at a counter-rally in support of police.
Footage from Apple Daily showed the attackers using umbrellas to beat people in the station and inside a subway carriage. Subway passengers filmed by Stand News and iCABLE angrily accused police officers of not intervening in the attack.
Clashes during protests in Hong Kong (Lo Kwanho/HK01 via AP)
The statement also said that "some radical protesters initiated a series of violent acts… despite repeated warnings" by the police. They said the acts included the hurling of petrol bombs, setting fires and throwing bricks.
"This is absolutely unacceptable to Hong Kong as a society that observes the rule of law," the statement said, referring to the acts of the subway attackers as well as the protesters.
Organisers said 430,000 people participated in the march, while police said there were 138,000 during the procession's "peak period".
Protesters march in Hong Kong (Vincent Yu/AP)
Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, has declared the bill dead, but protesters are dissatisfied with her refusal to formally withdraw the legislation. Some are also calling for her to resign amid growing concerns about the steady erosion of civil rights in the city.
A former British colony, Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 and was promised certain democratic freedoms under the framework of "one country, two systems." Fuelled by anger at Ms Lam and an enduring distrust of the Communist Party-ruled central government in Beijing, the current demonstrations have ballooned into calls for electoral reform and an investigation into alleged police brutality.
Walking in sweltering heat, protesters dressed in black kicked off Sunday's march at a public park, carrying a large banner that read "Independent Inquiry for Rule of Law."
Protesters took to the streets on Sunday morning (Vincent Yu/AP)
"I think the government has never responded to our demands," said Karen Yu, a 52-year-old Hong Kong resident who has attended four protests since they started. "No matter how much the government can do, at least it should come out and respond to us directly."
Marchers ignored orders from police to finish off the procession on a road in Wan Chai, according to police and the Civil Human Rights Front, the march's organisers.
Protesters repeated the five points of their "manifesto," which was first introduced when a small group of them stormed the legislature earlier this month. Their main demands include universal suffrage — direct voting rights for all Hong Kong residents — as well as dropping charges against anti-extradition protesters, withdrawing the characterisation of a clash between police and protesters as a "riot" and dissolving the Legislative Council.
Protesters read the demands aloud in both English and Cantonese in videos released Saturday.
Protesters clashed with riot police in Hong Kong (Bobby Yip/AP)
While the demonstrations have been largely peaceful, some confrontations between police and protesters have turned violent. In Sha Tin district last Sunday, they beat each other with umbrellas and bats inside a luxury shopping centre. Demonstrators broke into the Legislative Council building on July 1 by moving past barricades and shattering windows. Meanwhile, police officers have used pepper spray, tear gas, bean bag rounds and rubber bullets to quell the crowds.
On Friday, Hong Kong police discovered a stash of a powerful homemade explosive and arrested a man in a raid on a commercial building. Materials voicing opposition to the extradition bill were found at the site, local media said, but a police spokesman said no concrete link had been established and the investigation was continuing.
The People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper, condemned "radical extremists" who attacked the legislature and "trampled" on Hong Kong's rule of law in a front-page column on Sunday. The paper said a counter-rally on Saturday intended to show support for the police reflected "mainstream public opinion" in Hong Kong.


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Q: Dynamic Reports in Splunk I want to pass splunk query as token.
I have tried it.But the passed query stops at the first equal symbol.For eg if splunk query is index=cq*.Then it is passed only till index.Things from first equal symbol are not considered.Morever any query can contain multiple = signs.

A: You probably need to URL-encode the query before passing it.