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Twenty-Five Seconds Per Life
Volumes have been said about Shavarsh Karapetyan's selfless act of heroism: he has been featured in a myriad of articles, several films and a book. His rescue of 20 people from drowning, which cost the world champion in finswimming his health and further achievements in a brilliant athletic career, was so impressive that an asteroid was named after him. But Shavarsh himself doesn't like to remember that day.
In and out through broken glass
The exact cause of the accident involving one of Yerevan's trolleybuses on the chilly morning of September 16, 1976 remains unknown. Some said one of the passengers attacked the driver after a heated verbal exchange, causing him to lose control of the vehicle. Others claimed the driver had a heart attack. As it entered a bridge in central Yerevan, the trolleybus veered off course and rolled downhill into a water reservoir, known as Yerevan Lake. The noise of the crash drew the attention of athletes practicing nearby, 23-year-old finswimming champion Shavarash Karapetyan among them.
Without giving it much thought, Shavarsh jumped into the water, ordering his brother Kamo, another swimming champion, to help him from the shore.
"It was scary at first. It was so loud, as if a bomb went off. I almost drowned several times. I could imagine the agony of those 92 people and I knew how they would die," Shavarsh told Pravmir.ru.
The rescue operation on Yerevan Lake
At a depth of 33 feet, the passengers were trapped in an iron sarcophagus. Shavarsh first had to break a window to give people the chance to escape. He hit the glass as hard as he could, knocking it out. There was a high chance that drowning people would instinctively cling to their rescuer and drag him down, but being a professional finswimmer Shavarsh knew that it would be best to let them submerge him: at some point, the drowning person would reflexively let go and try to swim up. That's when he would catch and pull the victim out of the water. "In difficult moments like this, your love for fellow humans grows even stronger," Shavarsh said in the documentary "Swimmer."
He dove into the cold murky waters of Yerevan Lake some 40 times, going in and out through broken glass, forced to feel around for people in the dark. Each plunge took about 25 seconds. On his last dive, on the verge of fainting, he emerged clutching a seat cushion instead of a victim. "I had nightmares about that cushion for a long time. I could have saved someone else's life," Savarsh told Russia's Channel One.
A view of Yerevan Lake on September 16, 1976
Savarsh pulled 37 people out of the lake, and nine others escaped on their own through the broken window. The rescue operation was set up in a matter of minutes. Doctors who arrived from a nearby hospital treated the victims right on the shore. Unfortunately, only 20 of those Shavarsh rescued could be saved.
One last hooray
Karapetyan was hospitalized along with victims of the accident. Septic fever, double-sided pneumonia and nervous prostration had doctors fighting for his life for over a month. When he was finally discharged, Shavarsh went right back to practice, but swimming underwater echoed painfully in his lungs. Yet the athlete refused to retire without one more medal.
During the next championship he swam in a haze as his brother Kamo ran along the pool, ready to jump in should Shavarsh suddenly lose consciousness. But Shavarsh came in first and set another world record, without realizing it at the time.
Shavarsh Karapetyan after a swimming round
In the end, the swimmer had to quit the sport – he could no longer bear to be underwater. It made him nauseous.
The man who was once called a "goldfish" and an "amphibian" tried coaching, but after just two months he went on to work at an electronics manufacturing plant.
The story of the heroic rescue, passed from one person to another, became an urban legend in Yerevan even though the Soviet press kept such accounts of accidents under wraps. Karapetyan's audacious, self-sacrificing rescue was publicized only six years later, when the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily published an article by journalist Gennady Bocharov with no mention of the death toll. After the publication, tens of thousands of letters from all over the Soviet Union came pouring in for Shavarsh, many of them simply addressed to "The Armenian Republic, Yerevan, Shavarsh Karapetyan."
Shavarsh Karapetyan competes in an underwater swimming championship
What makes you human
Unlikely as it sounds, the trolleybus rescue was not the first time Shavarsh Karapetyan saved lives. In 1974 the young athlete prevented an accident involving a bus that carried 30 people. The driver had parked the bus to check on some mechanical issue, but left the engine running. Suddenly, the bus began rolling down an incline toward a mountain gorge. Karapetyan, who was on the bus, broke down the partition that separated the driver's compartment, grabbed the wheel and steered the vehicle away from the abyss.
Neither was the trolleybus rescue Shavarsh's last. In 1985 he happened to be near Yerevan's Sports and Concert Arena when a fire broke out in the building. Shavarsh was one of the first people rushing to help the firefighters, getting burned and injured in the process. "Anyone can find himself in a place where somebody needs help, and more than once, too," he said. "The main thing is to remember what makes you human."
During his 10-year long athletic career, Shavarsh won 37 gold medals
Today Shavarsh Karapetyan coaches his son Tigran in hopes that the latter will continue his legacy of athletic achievement. He also heads the Shavarsh Karapetyan Foundation, which organizes competitions for the new generation of swimmers. "Our whole lives, we all owe everything to each other," is something Savarsh tells young people at every meeting.
The outstanding swimmer's athletic career was cut short when he was in top form.
Karapetyan was forced to retire from major athletics at the age of 24, having set 11 world records and holding 17 world championship titles, 13 European championship titles and seven Soviet championship titles in underwater swimming.
It's hard to imagine what else he could have accomplished had he been able to continue. But Shavarsh calls himself a "happy man," and believes the lives that he saved are the biggest achievement of his life.
"Indifference is a very mercurial phenomenon. It depends on the well-being of society," he says. According to him, there are plenty of examples of humanism to be found today, as long as one looks closely enough: "Kindness is nurtured by love. We have to teach our children to love each other from the very beginning."
On behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity will be granted annually to an individual whose actions have had an exceptional impact on preserving human life and advancing humanitarian causes. The Aurora Prize Laureate will be honored with a $100,000 grant. In addition, that individual will have the unique opportunity to continue the cycle of giving by selecting an organization that inspired their work to receive a $1,000,000 award. The inaugural Aurora Prize ceremony will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 24, 2016.


For now it's only a very lightweight signal—affecting fewer than 1% of global queries, and carrying less weight than other signals such as high-quality content—while we give webmasters time to switch to HTTPS. But over time, we may decide to strengthen it, because we'd like to encourage all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS to keep everyone safe on the web.
Google search rankings are important, but arguably less so than they used to be. Folks are getting more of their news and content from social networks, so there's a diminishing influence Google can have on encouraging users and webmasters to use HTTPS. However, slapping a big red Not secure message on every HTTP URL — now that's a direct statement. Additionally, because this change is in Chrome itself, there's no way to circumvent Google's opinion on the security of the page you're on. If a page isn't secure, they want you to know.
This is good for the web. Even so, I can't help but feel a little melancholy. My first webpage, and many of the ones I first enjoyed on the web were all simple HTML, served over plain HTTP. Seeing an HTTPS page usually meant you were at your bank's website or on a checkout page. To think, in a few years, someone's first webpage will be adorned with a red Not secure label is a little disheartening. Even with services like Let's Encrypt, which offer free SSL certificates, it still takes some technical knowhow and server access in order to enable and maintain a good HTTPS connection. The bar has been raised.
However, there's no reasonable argument for HTTP over HTTPS. With today's premium on privacy, secured content is only going to become more important; a basic web-citizen's right, even. The future is HTTPS everywhere, and Google's not waiting around.


Twice in one week I have been stalked. Catspaw and Jon Pipitone both showed up at my office. They didn't know where it was. They didn't know what building it was in, but they were smart... both bloody CompSci and CogSci program types. Figures. They searched my blog and found the address posted long ago. So, to stop this from happening, and to help all of you who are not as methodically wierd, I put the contact information at the bottom of this page. You may now return to your regular morning reading and coffee drinking."


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Q: How to make gnome-do recognize a specific application I have installed an application. But it is not recognized by gnome-do and I have to run it every time from terminal. I am using xubuntu14.10.

A: Do knows applications by their .desktop file. It searches the standard desktop file paths - /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications are generally the two main ones, but there are others. In order to get an application to appear in Do it needs a .desktop file somewhere in the standard desktop paths.
It turns out that this answer is about how to create a .desktop file for matlab. :)

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Director Matthews danced with The Pennsylvania Ballet where she performed roles both in the corps and as a soloist. She has also performed with "The Phantom of the Opera" Broadway National Tour. Elaine has taught master classes through The Broadway Connection in over ten major cities in the U.S. including Los Angeles and New York City. Her training includes: The School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theater, The Royal Academy of Dance, The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, The Atlantic Theater School, and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Dance Program. She is currently a faculty member at The Lewis Center at Princeton University and is a member of the national judges panel for "Starbound National Talent Competition".
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Instructor Tassin booked her first Broadway role at the age of ten, as the original Baby June in Gypsy, starring Tyne Daly. She also played the role of Young Cosette (Gavroche u/s) in Les Miserables, originated the role of Laura in the off-Broadway play Trophies, and was featured in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular for two seasons. She has done numerous commercials and voiceovers, and has sung live on national television, at the Grand Olde Opry, and for President George Bush. She holds a BFA in Acting, and has taught dance and acting in schools and studios around New Jersey to students of all ages.
Michelle Quiner
Michelle Quiner is a trainee at American Repertory Ballet. She has been featured in Dance Spirit magazine as a Cover Model Search Finalist and as the You Should Know Dancer. She has danced as Clara for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. She is a YAGP New York finalist, a final round participant at the World Ballet Competition and a bronze medalist at the Valentina Kozlova IBC Contemporary Competition. She has won 5 National Titles and top scholarships at various dance workshops. She has received full scholarships to Washington Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Orlando Ballet, Joffrey New York, and Valentina Kozlova's summer programs.
Jillian Quiner
Jillian Quiner began dancing at the age of 4 and grew up training primarily at the Art of Dance under Valerie Harman and the North Jersey School of Dance Arts under Christine Taylor Schmelz and Luba Gulyaeva, where she also performed with the New Jersey Civic Youth Ballet. During the 2017-18 season she had the opportunity to train in New York City as a scholarship student with the contemporary company Jennifer Muller/The Works. Jillian has attended numerous dance competitions and conventions, winning national titles at Turn It Up Dance Challenge and Onstage New York and receiving scholarships from the New York City Dance Alliance, JUMP Dance Convention, NUVO Dance Convention, and other mainstream dance events. In 2016 she was featured as a dancer in Mira, a graduate film produced by New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Jillian also had the opportunity in 2017 to perform in De Novo, a benefit for well-known teacher and choreographer Kevin "TOKYO" Inouye produced by Little by Little. She has served on faculty at the North Jersey School of Dance Arts and the Art of Dance, and is currently a freelance writer for the magazine Inside Dance. Jillian looks forward to sharing her love and knowledge of dance with her students at Hunterdon Hills Ballet!
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HBO's Games Of Thrones publicity stunt sparks Twitter meltdown
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Game Of Thrones' season seven premiere is on July 16, HBO announced on Thursday in a marketing stunt which elated and bemused fans.
In a gimmick The New York Times called "memorably misguided," the US cable network revealed all in a Facebook Live video showing a block of ice which viewers had to melt by commenting "Fire" to reveal the date.
The process was supposed to take about 15 minutes - already a long time to be concentrating on a block of ice - but the video malfunctioned several times, drawing out the process to more than an hour.
The debacle sparked snarky posts on Twitter, where #GoTS7 was one of the top trending hashtags for hours after the announcement.
"Next year, @HBO, a press release will do," said user BeautyBrienne. - AFP
HBO to make mini series on 2016 US presidential election
HBO said on Thursday it is planning a dramatised TV mini series about the 2016 US presidential election campaign, one of the first of several such projects being discussed in Hollywood.
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No casting, title or date was announced for the project, which comes from the team that produced the Emmy-winning Game Change film about the 2008 election that starred Julianne Moore as then Republican vice-presidential contender Sarah Palin.
Jay Roach, who helmed Game Change, will return to direct, and actor Tom Hanks is one of the executive producers.
Mr Len Amato, president of HBO Films, said in a statement that the project "promises to vividly capture the most unique and impactful event in modern American politics". - REUTERS
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President Donald Trump Declares January 22nd "National Sanctity of Human Life Day"
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App Enables Users to Track Brain Disorders on Their Smartphones
By Abigail Klein Leichman
BINYAMINA, Israel — People with chronic diseases are advised to stay home during the Covid-19 pandemic because they are at risk for complications should they become infected.
However, that makes it difficult to get essential medical monitoring for their existing conditions. And while Israel has emerged as a leader in telemedicine, it's easier to check heart rate and blood pressure remotely than to evaluate from a distance what is happening in the brain.
But that is changing, thanks to an FDA-approved solution from Israeli startup Montfort.
Using sensors already built into smartphones, Montfort's EncephaLog app conducts digital neurological tests for conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, psychiatric disorders (like schizophrenia) and post-Covid-19 neurological symptoms.
This approach is not just a stop-gap measure. It's superior to in-person checkups, says Montfort cofounder and CEO Ziv Yekutieli, an electrical engineer and neurological scientist.
"About one billion people around the world suffer from neurological and psychiatric disorders. Diagnostics and treatment-setting are based upon short and infrequent clinical visits, thus limiting patients' quality of care and increasing treatment costs," says Yekutieli. "Evaluating the subject at a random time in the clinic does not represent the actual status of the patient in daily life, so physicians need to rely upon the subject's self-report, which is also subjective. Montfort offers a platform for sampling the subject during regular activity."
Remote checkups were already gaining traction, but Covid-19 turned them from "nice-to-have" to "must-have," he points out.
"Moreover, many countries are starting to reimburse remote monitoring costs, which adds a strong economic incentive for telemedicine," Yekutieli said.
Montfort founders Dima Gershman and Ziv Yekutieli. (Montfort)
Individualized testing prescription
EncephaLog allows the physician to choose neurological tests for each patient from a menu of options covering everything from diagnostics to drug calibration.
"The physician sends a link for the app to the patient. When the patient installs the app, he or she will see the specific tests prescribed with reminders about when to take the tests and instructions in his or her language — it can be any language," says Yekutieli.
The tests measure parameters in three dimensions — motor (such as balance, gait, tremor); cognitive (memory, response time, pattern recognition); and mood indicators. It merges those measures with a fourth dimension of physiological records (genetics, brain scans, data from wearable devices) for a holistic picture.
The collective data and its analysis, using Montfort's propriety algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), lead to simpler, faster, more efficient and personalized care, Yekutieli says.
Worldwide usage
After winning the Henry Ford AI Challenge in 2018, Montfort further developed its technology at Henry Ford Health System's headquarters in Detroit Montfort soon got FDA approval for the first of its test modules and the rest followed within a year or so.
Today, Montfort has projects and collaborations with, among others, the Henry Ford Health System and Medtronic in the U.S., Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong and Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in Italy.
Then, six months ago, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil approached Montfort ago about using its platform to monitor motor and cognitive symptoms in hundreds of health professionals infected with Covid-19.
Montfort's EncephaLog app offers fast, remote, personalized monitoring of neurological conditions. (Montfort)
"For reasons that are not fully understood at this stage, the coronavirus is associated with several neurological symptoms that may have long-lasting effects," says Yekutieli. Accordingly, Montfort added a post-Covid testing protocol.
Most of Montfort's test modules are fully developed and commercially available for a variety of applications. A few are in a pilot phase, including some that may be embedded into products of the pharmaceuticals industry, medical devices manufacturers and HMOs.
"All the tests are conducted by using the existing hardware in standard smartphones," he said. "The innovation is that we leverage existing consumer technologies anyone has in their own pocket to get a medical-grade device."
Inspired by teacher with ALS
A native of Ramleh, Yekutieli became intrigued with electronics and neurophysiology because his beloved high school teacher, Yair Cohen, suffered from ALS and eventually died from this neurological disease.
"That was the seed for my interest in the brain. I spent a lot of time in my first degree studying basic biology and chemistry in parallel to engineering. Then I did a master's in electrical engineering, connecting between neurons and electronics, and a Ph.D. on using electronic tools to offer explanations for two neurological conditions and how they affect the brain."
Working at Intel, Yekutieli met information systems engineer Dima Gershman. They co-founded Montfort in 2014 with Yekutieli as CEO and Gershman as CTO. "For a few years we played with different ideas until in 2017 we left Intel and started working on Montfort full time."
The company's name is based on Mon4t — "mon" for monitor, "4" for the four dimensions it monitors, and "t" for time "because we monitor for a long period," Yekutieli explains. (Montfort also happens to be a beautiful Crusader-era fortress in northern Israel.)
Based in Binyamina near Caesarea, Montfort has just four employees but already is breaking even and has orders into next year, says Yekutieli. The business model is software as a service (SaaS); revenues are on a pay-per-test basis at the clinic and on a per-patient per-month basis for home users.
"We are now raising a Series A round to try and leverage the Covid situation. It's clear to everyone this kind of solution is necessary, so it's a good time to expand."
As far as Yekutieli knows, no other company is as advanced in remote neurological monitoring.
"There are others that offer a specific test for a specific condition, such as concussion assessment for pro athletes. There's a pharma company that developed an app that allows several of the tests we offer, but it is not FDA cleared; it's only for clinical trials."
Montfort's advisory board includes neurologists Peter LeWitt, of Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Program at Henry Ford Hospital, Michigan; Dr. Hagai Bergman, of the Center for Brain Research at Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center; and Paul Friedemann of Charité Universitätsmediz in Berlin, Germany.
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Agrilus topazius é uma espécie de inseto do género Agrilus, família Buprestidae, ordem Coleoptera.

Foi descrita cientificamente por Curletti, 1997.

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News | April 2018 | January 2018
March 2018 liquid crystal picture
Image of the cholesteric liquid crystal texture, by Ahlam Nemati, has been selected as the March 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.
PhD student in the field of materials science and biotechnology
12/02/18 23:52 Filed in: Careers
The University of Luxembourg is a multilingual, international research University.
The University of Luxembourg invites applications for the following vacancy in a collaboration between the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biology (LCSB)
Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in the field of materials science and biotechnology (M/F)
S-STR-4002-00-B, ECLECTIC
14 months fixed-term contract, renewable up to 4 years maximum,
Full-time (40h/week)
Student and employee status (36 months studies programme)
The PhD student will be a member of the PhyMS research unit within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication as well as the Developmental and Cellular Biology group within the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biology at the University of Luxembourg. He/she will work under joint supervision of Prof. Dr. Jan Lagerwall and Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Schwamborn. You will, on the one hand, be using microfluidic technology to produce liquid crystal elastomer tubes and evaluating their function as soft actuators, on the other hand, you will do research on the growth of 'organoids', miniaturized versions of biological organs growing in culture medium.
Write a thesis in the domain of chemistry or physics, with a strong side interest in biology
Contribute to interdisciplinary research intersecting materials physics and chemistry and biology and biotechnology
Participate in the research project described above
Master's degree (or equivalent) in physics, chemistry or materials science
Experience in quantitative research methods and practical work in chemistry and physics labs
Knowledge of materials physics and chemistry, including optics, mechanical properties and polymer chemistry and physics
Openness to interdisciplinary research and an interest in biology/biotechnology.
Commitment and capacity for team work and critical thinking;
Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Personal work space at the University.
Dynamic and multicultural environment.
You will be part of an exciting interdisciplinary thrust linking cutting-edge biology and materials physics research activities.
Candidates should submit the following documents:
List of publications (if available)
Copies of diplomas
Please send your application online by 04/03/2018
Apply on-line (only) by following the instructions on this page.
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Post-Doctorate in Simulation and Modeling of Liquid Crystals, with São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Scholarship
The Complex Fluids group of the Institute of Physics (IP), University of São Paulo / Brazil, offers an opportunity for a postdoctoral fellowship (FAPESP financial support), in the framework of the Thematic Project "Structural and biophysical properties of native and modified lipoproteins".
Coordinated by Professor Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto, from the IP, the project has Professor Cristiano Luis Pinto de Oliveira (also from IP) as Principal Investigator and brings together researchers from different universities and specialties in São Paulo: physics, medicine, odontology and nutrition.
The fellow will develop projects in the field of simulation and structural modeling of oriented liquid crystals using small-angle scattering methods. Candidate must have experience in programming, modeling methods, scattering and diffraction. The work has multidisciplinary characteristics combining theoretical and experimental topics in physics, chemistry and biology. The aim of this project is to develop simulation and analysis tools for the modeling of experimental data from small-angle scattering in order to permit the structural characterization of liquid crystal systems and retrieve structural information.
The project will be developed at USP under the supervision of professors Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto and Cristiano Pinto de Oliveira. Candidates should send an e-mail to (crislpo@if.usp.br) with his curriculum vitae (including a list of publications), a cover letter and a letter of recommendation. A distance interview will be held with the candidates.
The position is open to Brazilians and foreigners. The selected fellow will receive FAPESP Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the amount of R$ 7.174,80 (about USD 2,300.00 / tax-free) per month and Technical Reserve. The Technical Reserve of PD Grant is equivalent to 15% of the annual value of the scholarship and is intended to meet unforeseen expenses directly related to the research activity. The duration of the scholarship is for one year, and may be extended for another period of one year.
If the PD grant holder lives in a different city and needs to move to São Paulo, he/she may be entitled to a grant-installation. More information about the FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship is available at www.fapesp.br/bolsas/pd.
Interested candidates should apply until March 31, 2018, sending an e-mail to Professor C. L. P. Oliveira at (crislpo@if.usp.br).
Post-Doctorate in Complex Fluid Physics in Brazil, with São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Scholarship
The Complex Fluids group of the Institute of Physics (IP), University of São Paulo, offers an opportunity for a postdoctoral fellowship (FAPESP financial support), in the framework of the Thematic Project "Structural and biophysical properties of native and modified lipoproteins".
Coordinated by Professor Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto, from the IP, the project brings together researchers from different universities and specialties in São Paulo: physics, medicine, odontology and nutrition.
The fellow will develop projects in the field of structural characterization of lipoproteins using X-ray scattering methods, linear and non-linear optical techniques. Candidate must have experience in non-linear optics techniques and/or small-angle X-ray scattering. The work has multidisciplinary characteristics insofar as the lipoproteins to be investigated will be provided by physicians and odontologists collaborators linked to the thematic project. In particular we are interested in the effects of the diabetes mellitus on lipoproteins, structure and function. The study of lipoproteins presents a great interface with the physico-chemistry of lyotropic liquid crystals.
The project will be developed at USP under the supervision of professors Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto (IFUSP), Cristiano Pinto de Oliveira (IFUSP), Maria Cristina Izar (UNIFESP), Nágila Damasceno (FSP-USP) and Maria Aparecida Neves Jardini (ICT-UNESP). Candidates should send an e-mail to (afigueiredo@if.usp.br) with his curriculum vitae (including a list of publications), a cover letter and a letter of recommendation. A distance interview will be held with the candidates.
The position is open to Brazilians and foreigners. The selected fellow will receive FAPESP Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the amount of R$ 7.174,80 (about USD 2,300.00) per month and Technical Reserve. The Technical Reserve of PD Grant is equivalent to 15% of the annual value of the scholarship and is intended to meet unforeseen expenses directly related to the research activity. The duration of the scholarship is for one year, and may be extended for another period of one year.
Interested candidates should apply until March 31, 2018, sending an e-mail to Professor A. Figueiredo at (afigueiredo@if.usp.br).
ILCC2018: Deadline for abstract submission is extended until 15th February.
Dear the Members of International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS). The deadline for abstract submission of 27th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC2018) is extended until 15th February. ILCC2018 will be held in Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan from July 22 to 27, 2018. ILCC2018 will be held in Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan from July 22 to 27, 2018. Information of ILCC2018 is available from the website and abstract submission is possible on the conference website.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Kyoto.
Masahiro Funahashi
Secretariat general of ILCC2018


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The Anita Sarkeesian mess. You can be incensed by a) the threats, b) the invocation of Marc Lepine, and c) the state of Utah's gun laws:
The school confirmed Sarkeesian's explanation in a statement. "During the discussion, Sarkeesian asked if weapons will be permitted at the speaking venue. Sarkeesian was informed that, in accordance with the State of Utah law regarding the carrying of firearms, if a person has a valid concealed firearm permit and is carrying a weapon, they are permitted to have it at the venue."
Why interrogating teenagers is not the same as interrogating adults, and why having their parents present isn't a clear fix:
Parents have conflicting roles, Dr. Cleary said. "They want to defend their children against accusations of wrongdoing. But we also socialize children to obey the law and tell the truth.
"Some parents might have felt compelled to use the situation as a teachable moment, or they might have felt their parenting skills were being threatened." Dr. Cleary said. "It's not fair to put parents in that situation, particularly without a lawyer." But how do parents balance encouraging children to respect authority against the harm that can befall them by speaking with interrogators?
The New Yorker has a beautiful introduction to the work of newly-minted Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, and I am going to buy BOOKS BY A MAN as a result (he also wrote this excellent piece for the magazine in 2013):
Flanagan's tender, direct way of writing about the body is reminiscent of D. H. Lawrence, and some have found this side of his work a little embarrassing, even cheesy, but I'm moved by Flanagan's sentimental men, known in the beginning as numbers and by the end revealed to possess secret wells of sentiment. In "Narrow Road," Dorrigo is celebrated for his machismo and for being a paragon of his gender: brave, strong, stoic. Australians traditionally value hyper-masculine men who don't expose their vulnerabilities, and Flanagan is deliberately writing against type. You might even say that he's proposing another way of being, though he would hate the didacticism implied there. And it's perhaps why reading the book ends up an uplifting experience, fundamentally of the material, not the dramatic, world. Flanagan said recently in an interview that "love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath," and, on finishing "Narrow Road," that seems about right.
Kara Walker!
You mentioned earlier the question of ego in this work. Generally, it is male artists who are known for and expected to work on this scale. How was this process for you as a woman?
I don't know. It's such an anomaly. I felt like I had to draw on the early industrialists. This wasn't just going to be about, "We're all [messed] up and we're all gonna die and we're all trafficking in other people's bodies." [Laughs.] We were also building something fantastic. So I had to go with that spirit: "We're going to change the world and we're going to do it like this!"
But the gist of the piece was that it wouldn't be rebuilt again, that it would never happen again. It was ephemeral. You build these monuments, but they're really castles in the sand. It's like sugar. It evaporates and goes away. I think that side of it, the disappearance of it, the absence of it, that's something the proverbial male artist isn't doing. The quintessential monument sculptors build something to stand for ever and ever or [create something] to be rebuilt and reconstructed in some other form. That's not what I'm doing.
The title of this alone. THE TITLE. It made me happy.
RIP, Ted Gullicksen:
"I think that all renters in San Francisco will be diminished by the loss of Ted to our movement," she said. "He was a tireless advocate for tenants and really led the charge for tenants' rights in this city for over 30 years."
In a city where almost two-thirds of the residents are renters, housing "was Ted's passion," said his longtime friend and former partner, Sheila Sexton.
"For all of the intense personalities at City Hall, Ted was an amazingly gentle, kind and decent human being," said Board of Supervisors President David Chiu. "He really truly was one of my favorite people at City Hall."
A transplant from Massachusetts who moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s, Mr. Gullicksen was known for his passion for the Giants, doughnuts and Falcor — a moppy part-Maltese mutt that showed up at his door several years ago.
I don't usually link to Kickstarters here, but Doll Hospital has theirs up, and I've already sent authors their way successfully, so feel kindly towards them.
The return of Lesbian Bed Death Radio.
The question of whether trans men should be welcome at women's colleges! Oh, man, sometimes I'm just happy not to be the person who has to Make Decisions About Things That Seem Complicated (I can't imagine kicking out a trans dude who transitioned on campus/trans men are unlikely to be the first wave of traditional patriarchy overwhelming women's colleges/trans men are men/what does it mean to be a women's college/I will punch anyone who doesn't think trans WOMEN should be accepted at women's colleges/trans men face a ton of garbage and could use the environment offered by women's colleges/literally thousands of other things/interesting metaphor in article talking about how HBCUs may accept some white students but can still identify as a community of color):
When I asked Eli if trans men belonged at Wellesley, he said he felt torn. "I don't necessarily think we have a right to women's spaces. But I'm not going to transfer, because this is a place I love, a community I love. I realize that may be a little selfish. It may be a lot selfish." Where, he wondered, should Wellesley draw a line, if a line should even be drawn? At trans men? At transmasculine students? What about students who are simply questioning their gender? Shouldn't students be "free to explore" without fearing their decision will make them unwelcome?
Other trans students have struggled with these questions, too. Last December, a transmasculine Wellesley student wrote an anonymous blog post that shook the school's trans community. The student wrote to apologize for "acting in the interest of preserving a hurtful system of privileging masculinity." He continued: "My feelings have changed: I do not think that trans men belong at Wellesley. . . . This doesn't mean that I think that all trans men should be kicked out of Wellesley or necessarily denied admission." He acknowledged he didn't know how Wellesley could best address the trans question, but urged fellow transmasculine classmates to "start talking, and thinking critically, about the space that we are given and occupying, and the space that we are taking from women."
The reactions were swift and strong. "A lot of trans people on campus felt emotionally unsafe," recalled Timothy, a sophomore that year. "A place that seemed welcoming suddenly wasn't. The difficulty was that because it was a trans person saying it, people who don't have enough of an understanding to appreciate the nuance of this can say, 'Well, even a trans person says there shouldn't be trans people at Wellesley, so it's O.K. for me to think the same thing, too.' "
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This story started after he won gold for Italy's canoeing team in 2012. The two cousins who started M&C had the vision to reinvent what is history and tradition in Friuli, away from the sweet and sickly, cheap mass made wine which has flooded the market. This is fresh, extremely light and extra dry. Friuli's extremely hilly topography make conditions ideal for grape growing with high altitude, cold morning winds, large pebbled soils and nearby sea.
Sustainability scope: Not organically certified but organic farming is practised. Minimal intervention where possible.


I am planning to take the GMAT next month and have been scoring in the 700 range on my practice tests. I will continue to practice and hopefully by the time I take the test I'll have a score of at least 720.
I have 3.5 years of work experience mainly in sales. Most recently I've been managing sales projects with small international teams. My GPA was not great, it's 3.0.
Can anybody suggest some business schools that would be good for my profile? I am not interested in staying in India but would like to go to the US, Canada, or Europe. I know that schools like Stanford and Harvard are probably out of my range but I may apply to one of them just in case.
Your work experience may handicap you somewhat at schools you'd otherwise be competitive at with your projected GMAT score. I'm thinking of schools like Carnegie Mellon, where the average GMAT score tends to be around 690 but the average work experience is in the 5 years+ range. Other schools, like Rice - Jones or BYU, may be within reach.
However, that your experience is in sales and not in tech or engineering, like many other students from India, may help you.
I plan to GMAT test Thanks.
My career goals are to work internationally for at least a couple of years before coming back to India. I would like to transition from sales into a more marketing-related function. I am interested in Carnegie Mellon, are there some other schools like this one where I should apply?
[quote]What are your career goals?
Although something like Wharton would be a great choice, but this seems to me like a reach school for you. IU Kelley, Rutgers, Carlson... These would probably be good schools to start with, given your work experience and GMAT score.
Ok, I'll look into those schools.
Have you thought about doing an MBA in Brazil? We have one year Full-Time MBA Program and students from fourteen different countries and the GMAT score is 600 points.
would like to go to the US, Canada, or Europe.
Hi, I have been in Australia since 2006. I was doing pretty well in the service marketing industry here but in 2008, due to the recession I lost my job. After that I did various kinds of jobs which I was way to over qualified for. Gradually, I again got into the service industry and currently I am the manager of the sales department. I am pretty satisfied with my job profile but I want to upgrade my degrees. I don't want to lose my job again in some other recession and hence I want to be as qualified as possible to retain my job no matter what. Hence I now feel the need to pursue an MBA program to get promoted in the future. But I am at a very critical phase of my career right now. I cannot afford to quit my job hence I was planning to do an online MBA. Can someone please suggest if I should go ahead with doing an online MBA or should I consider doing EMBA?
Good to know that you have stood strong all this while and doing pretty well now. I have been an education consultant since more than a decade and I can tell you with my experience that doing an EMBA is a much better option than doing an online MBA. Let me tell you why I am saying so. First of all, there is a lack of face to face interaction in virtual learning. Moreover, you might face a lot of distractions while pursuing a program online. Also solving doubts gets very difficult in online MBA.
Okay, but what are the pros of taking up EMBA? Moreover I don't want to quit my job at this stage.
First of all, a company would always give preference to a candidate with an EMBA degree rather than a candidate with an online MBA degree. Also you don't have to quit your job. EMBA is part time program designed for managers like you. EMBA is only for people with an average 5 years of work experience and hence you would be perfect for it. Moreover, students like you will be able to understand the concepts much better as you already understand the industry trends and also there will be face to face interaction with the professor.
Ma'am, can you please suggest me some good EMBA colleges in Australia?
According to me Melbourne and UNSW have the finest EMBA programs.
You can check out RMIT, University of Western Australia and Global EMBA at University of Sydney Business school as well.
EMBA is only for people with an average 5 years of work experience and hence you would be perfect for it.
Not necessarily the case. The current cohort in the EMBA at Melbourne, which you refer to, has an average work experience of 13 years.
I have been working with an IT company in India for almost 7 years. I have recently gotten engaged and my husband lives in Singapore and I will move there after we get married. I am very keen to continue working even after I get married, and have hence been looking for jobs in Singapore. However I've found that although jobs are available, most of the good jobs require an MBA degree and it is almost essential I have one if I want to progress in a company. I feel that a full time MBA program would not be beneficial for me as I have already been working for quite long. Could someone please suggest an alternative to the traditional MBA that would be good for me?
Hi, I'm an education consultant and have been one for more than 10 years now. Since you have a good amount of work experience I agree that a regular MBA would not be so beneficial for you. A good alternative to that would be an Executive MBA (EMBA) program. It is for people with more than 3 years of work experience and therefore seems like a better option for you.
Thank you Ma'am. Your input was very helpful. An EMBA does seem to make more sense to me than a regular one. But if I do decide to start working, would I still be able to complete it?
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Q: Issues with NaN as function result instead of necessary integer This post is a continuation of previous ones I have made regarding span values of JS.
In the lines below, when I open my Javascript console in Chrome, I see my values near the closing of the the  tags. Lets say they are 20 and 10 respectively. However those values are not in the actual html code (as depicted below). In my javascript function, I am simply trying to 'extract' the span values, divide them, and return a value. I keep getting 'NaN' as my result. Do I need to typecast something somewhere for the function to return a numeric value?
Note: values are read in from a historian, 'PI'
 (value of 20)

 (value of 10)

JS Function:
 function divide(n1,n2)
 { ans = n1/n2;
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");
     return ans;
 }

 var a = parseInt($("LineSpeedGE.PIData[data-tag]").data("tag"), 10);
 var b = parseInt($("AimPsSpd.PIData[data-tag]").data("tag"), 10);

divide (a, b);

I get NaN as a result instead of the expected '2'. If I plug in regular integers into the variables, the actual division is fine. I seem to have trouble 'capturing' the actual value of the span that not visible in my html code. I suspect data-types are clashing?
Here is the link to my original post: Storing a span value into a javascript variable for reference if this seems convoluted.

A: G2LineSpeedGE is not a number, neither G2rCurrentAimPsSpd is.
 will work.

A: First off, your selectors are wrong.
$("LineSpeedGE.PIData[data-tag]")

This looks for a element named LineSpeedGE (<LineSpeedGE/>).  You probably want:
$("#LineSpeedGE.PIData[data-tag]")

The # makes it search for ID (if you're searching by ID, the .PIData[data-tag] isn't necessary).
Also, the data-tag values aren't numbers.  They are G2LineSpeedGE and G2rCurrentAimPsSpd, those aren't numbers.

A: Your selector is wrong so you are not getting any elements returned.
$("LineSpeedGE.PIData[data-tag]")

It is missing the #, so you are looking for an element named LineSpeedGE, not an id.
$("#LineSpeedGE.PIData[data-tag]")

Same thing applys to AimPsSpd. Missing the #
Also G2LineSpeedGE is a string, not a number so that will also result in NAN when parseInt is run.


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2 N. American ice hockey players become S. Korean citizens for 2018 Winter Olympics
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Korean Canadian hockey player Caroline Park (Yonhap)
SEOUL, March 23 (Yonhap) — Two ice hockey players from North America have acquired South Korean citizenship and will represent their adopted home at international competitions, the justice ministry said Monday.
The two are Mike Testwuide, an American-born ice hockey player playing for Anyang Halla of Asia League Ice Hockey since 2013, and Caroline Nancy Park, a Korean Canadian who played in the American Collegiate Hockey Association's Division 1 at Princeton University. Park joined the South Korean women's national ice hockey team in 2013.
The Ministry of Justice approved their naturalization on Friday in accordance with a revised immigration law that allows qualified foreign nationals to hold multiple citizenships.
The Korean Olympic Committee had asked the ministry to fast-track their naturalization to help the South Korean national hockey teams qualify at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
South Korea currently ranks 23rd and 24th in men's and women's hockey, respectively, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Canadian ice hockey players Michael Swift, left, and Brian Young smile as they hold up Korean citizenship papers last year. (Yonhap)
In 2014, two Canadian ice hockey players, Brian Young and Michael Swift, became naturalized citizens here.
This year, the ministry also granted a South Korean passport to Han In-suk, a Korean-American professor in biochemistry, who now heads the South Korean campus of the University of Utah in Incheon, west of Seoul.
South Korea implemented the new immigration law in 2011 to cut the red tape in nationality review procedures and allow talented foreigners, such as chiefs of government agencies, legal institutions and universities as well as leaders in the fields of business, sports and science to have multiple citizenships.
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Your student didn't get into a 'choice' program? There's another option this year.
Parents line up during audition orientation and signup at the Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach in 2012.
The parents of more than 20,000 Palm Beach County students will hear this afternoon whether they won a coveted seat in a public school's choice program, and nearly half will be getting bad news.
But this year there is a new option for parents hoping to send their kids to a public school other than their locally assigned one: open enrollment.
Under a new state law, parents are now allowed to apply to enroll their kids at almost any public school with sufficient extra capacity, meaning one with at least 10 percent of its seats open.
NEW: These 78 PBC schools are accepting open-enrollment students for next year
In Palm Beach County, more than a third of the county's public schools will be accepting at least some students for next year through open enrollment, the school district says. Parents have until May 5 to apply via the school district's choice office.
Students accepted through open enrollment won't be able to take a school bus to school. And they won't be eligible for any of the schools' specialized choice programs.
But the new policy gives parents another set of options if they're dissatisfied with their neighborhood school or think their child would be better off in a different one.
The district is expected to release a list Monday of schools accepting open-enrollment applications. Pete Licata, director of the school district's choice program, said it will include about 80 of the district's 185 schools, including most of the middle schools.
Because most of the county's high schools are already at or near capacity, only a handful are accepting applications.
Since this is a new process, school district administrators aren't sure how many applicants to expect. Many of the more than 10,000 students who didn't get a seat in the choice lottery will surely try their luck in open enrollment, but how many is anyone's guess.
Most of the county's most popular schools are already at or near capacity and won't be accepting applications. Parents and students can apply online beginning Monday afternoon at www.mypbchoiceapp.com.
"I think we will have some interest," Licata said. "I think a lot of people have been investigating and will keep their eyes on this."
Applicants won't necessarily be spared the same roll-of-the-dice fate as choice applicants, who in most cases had to be selected via a lottery system. For schools where there are more open-enrollment applicants than open seats, the district will resort to lotteries once again.
Under the law, students can now apply to under-capacity schools in other counties, although to do so they must submit their application with the county school district that operates the school of interest.
Licata asks that parents interested in applying not contact the individual schools but apply online or direct questions to the school district's choice office at (561) 434-8755.
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Fat Americans
Posted By Susan Davis On August 3, 2002 @ 12:00 am In article,articles 2014 onward | Comments Disabled
"The platter kills more than the sword."
(England, 1384; Illinois, mid-20th century)
This proverb meant something different in the late 14th century than it does today. Most likely it was an attack on the corrupt and illegitimate luxuries of the church, expressing an attitude shared by all European peasants. Late medieval people were more likely to starve to death than to come down with gout, and church reformers depicted priests as bulky gluttons.
Piero Camporesi, the historian of Italian food, tells us in The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society that "the fearful threat of famine [hung] over people's lives at least until middle of the 19th century…" Most of the population were "malnutritti," the malnourished. Even "during the century of scientific and technical advance, when the railways had begun their rumbling progress," Camporesi writes, "some people still ate foods made of acorns just as they did in the mythical golden age, when the hard labor of cultivation was unknown… .The terrible contradictions of human mythologies!"
As Camporesi puts it, diet is the red thread of history. "When the dark days of famine came, peasants tried to make bread," "the fundamental element," "with an infinite variety of materials…": Rough grass, roots, vetch, thistles, hawthorn, sawdust of young trees, and vine shoots …" were baked and choked down, "but the 'refuge' of the rich was profoundly different from that of the poor," and "in human history nothing reflects class differences so profoundly as diet."
That may be true, but by the 21st century, the old relationship between body size and class has been inverted. The rich are thin, and everyone else is getting heftier, at least in the United States. Here, as is well known, income inequality has increased dramatically over the last thirty years, and more than a quarter of American children live below the federal poverty line. At the same time, 60 percent of adult Americans are overweight, and nearly 18 per cent of Americans are categorized by public health officials as obese. Even more concerning, the proportion of obese children is now 25 percent. Obesity and poor nutrition are implicated in a host of serious diseases, including one that used to be called adult onset diabetes. It's now so common among children that doctors can't call it that anymore. It's now "Type II Diabetes."
Here in Illinois, the size of people is astounding. Midwesterners are notorious for consuming high-fat, high cholesterol meals. A cluster of eight states in the Midwest and the upper south –Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana — are among the ten with the highest mortality rate for coronary heart disease. Together, they make up a region dubbed "Coronary Valley," actually the ancient southern Mississippi River plain. Historically, black and white people in the upper south raised pork and corn, and often fried their food. 19th-century settlers from Europe brought sausage, pastry, and beer to the Midwest, reinvigorating the high-fat, high calorie pattern.
These dietary habits made sense when men and women labored in farm or factory for 12 and 14 hours. But today these preferences persist in the context of sedentary work, lots of driving, and reliance on processed foods. Recently, I took my son out to dinner at a family-run Italian restaurant. Like a lot of kids, the only thing he'll order is chicken fingers. He got them, but since this is the Midwest, the deep-fried slivers of chicken came with a side of pasta, a plate of french fries, and "for free," a plate of fried cheese. I'd never seen fried cheese before, but it's very popular in this part of the country.
It isn't just outgrown habits that are causing the American body to expand. It's new habits, too. Most families eat more than seven meals a week away from home, and because they eat on the run they are inhaling more restaurant and processed foods. Poor and working families are more likely to eat at fast food restaurants where nutritional values are lower and calories higher. Food manufacturers have increased the calories in their products over the last decade, making them sweeter in an effort to get people to buy and eat more. Sugar is incredibly cheap and it seems to have as much of a stimulating as a satiating effect on eaters. Sodas and french fries are where the profits are in the fast food business. Putting two and two together, the hot "rollout" in the frozen food locker this season is cinnamon sugar-sprinkled french fries.
For several years, I've been pondering portion sizes — the very image of the lethal platter. Why is it that when you go out to eat, they try to stuff you instead of feed you? Why has a plate of spaghetti or roast beef or Chinese food gotten bigger and bigger, until we leave restaurants lugging a week's supply of leftovers back to the fridge?
It turns out that this is a deliberate restaurant strategy, or so my students who have studied "food service marketing" tell me. Restaurant managers believe that customers go home feeling more satisfied if their guts are aching, because being overfed makes Americans feel they've gotten a real bargain. The managers are convinced that if you eat two of their meals, one in the restaurant and one at midnight in front of the TV, you have them in mind twice a week instead of once. This is eating as advertising.
Overfeeding is used in all price ranges except the most expensive, where the reverse principle operates and you pick lightly at a few slivers of belly of tuna comforted by a caper and an asparagus spear. In most restaurants, profits are made when the volume of inexpensive foods or "sides" increases on the plate. Commodity prices for most vegetables, starches and legumes are so low that restaurants have been able to double serving sizes with out doubling prices. Portion sizes have gotten so large that one can easily consume 2200 — 2400 calories in a single mid-price restaurant meal, more than the total an adult needs for a day. How can this be possible when an uncounted number of people in United States don't get enough daily calories?
The super-sizing strategy gets extreme in the fast food industry, the part of the restaurant business that markets most heavily to kids. Here you really have to step back and marvel at the magic of capitalism. The fast food folks figured out how to make it more profitable to sell highly processed, mechanically shaped, frozen, artificially flavored and deep fat fried segments of potato, than it is to sell a plain baked or boiled potato. The key is volume. As Eric Schlosser shows in Fast Food Nation, McDonald's has driven potato prices so low that they can sell a pound of cooked French fried potatoes for twenty times what they pay for it frozen.
Piero Camporesi writes that Westerners are of two minds about fat bodies. On one hand, in Christian tradition, especially as regards the Pentecost and Final Judgment, "lightness and agility were associated with salvation, purity and beauty, while ugliness was indissolubly linked with corpulence, slowness, heaviness, bad odours and (obviously) damnation." But on the other hand, in the age of the malnuttriti, "the code of female beauty" was "florid and soft with white flesh." Cushiony, creamy female bodies were considered beautiful and desirable, and powerful men tried to look large and well fed.
Camporesi laments that "the plump Venus no longer walks in our lands: she belongs in the past..," as slenderness is not only considered beautiful, it signifies wealth and moral worth. But Piero, caro, come to Illinois!
Susan Davis teaches at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She can be reached at sgdavis@uiuc.edu
URL to article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/08/03/fat-americans/


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For One Night Cleveland Reigned Supreme
By Robbie Dipaola
If Game 5 is the end of the 2017 NBA Finals, then last night Cleveland and their loyal fans had their night to remember.
Late last night an elated crowd poured out of Quicken Loans Arena and filled the streets of downtown Cleveland after watching their team take down the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
Even though the Cavaliers still trail the series 3-1, there is an overwhelming sense of relief from the fan base after their team refused to throw in the towel and provided many memories, even if the Cavaliers ultimately fall to the Warriors.
The biggest key going into Game 4 was that the Cavaliers would need to get off to a quick start, or they would be in trouble against the high-powered Warriors offense. Right out of the gates the Cavaliers had the Warriors on their heals, scoring an NBA Finals record 49 points in the first quarter.
Kyrie Irving once again played spectacular basketball, shooting 15-27 (55 percent) from the field and 7-12 (58 percent) from beyond the arc. Throughout the game multiple defenders were thrown Irving's way, but he shook them off one-by-one on his way to a 40 point performance.
Several times during the night Irving found himself guarded by one of the better wing defenders in the NBA, Klay Thompson, and time after time Irving made him look average with his plethora of jaw-dropping dribble moves.
In fact, Irving's clutch performance put him on a very short list. He is just the third player since 1963 (LeBron James and Elgin Baylor are the other two) to record multiple 40 point games in an NBA Finals elimination game.
Not to be outdone, LeBron had himself yet another Finals game for the ages. His line of 31 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists gave him his ninth career NBA Finals triple-double, which is now the most in NBA history.
James' highlight of the night came early in the second half when he brought the ball down the court and proceeded to leave his feet near the foul line and looked to dish the ball to one of the shooters on the perimeter.
However, with no good passing options, James took matters into his own hands and threw the ball off the glass, caught it and two-hand slammed the ball home. The crowd went into a frenzy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_2lLpHONj0
While the performances by Cleveland's two best players were spectacular, the reason why the Cavaliers looked like their old selves is because the rest of the team stepped up in a major way.
Kevin Love got back on track with a 23 point, 5 rebound performance. There was also a Tristan Thompson sighting for the first time in this series as he grabbed 10 rebounds and provided the physicality that was necessary to throw the Warriors off their game.
J.R. Smith left his shooting slump behind him, as his canned five three pointers, which electrified the crowd. The ageless wonder himself Richard Jefferson played solid defense on Kevin Durant and again provided a spark off the bench that the Cavaliers desperately needed.
And after going 12-44 from three-point range in Game 3, the Cavaliers turned that around in a big way, as they cashed in an NBA Finals record 24 three-pointers. If the Cavaliers want any shot at coming back in this series, they will need to have their role players hit shots on a consistent basis.
This game had the feeling similar to what turned out to be the turning point in last year's series when the Warriors began to show their frustration on the court. Draymond Green, who has been quiet (with his play, not his mouth) seemingly threw a fit the entire game and appeared to be thrown off his game.
Steph Curry and Klay Thompson also had a quiet nights. The two-time MVP shot just 4-13 from the field and 2-9 from beyond the arc, while Klay went 4-11 overall with all four of his makes coming from beyond the arc.
All night long the Warriors seemed to be off their game, and for the first time this series the Cavaliers finally took advantage of it. The crowd was fired up from the tip, chanting things such as "Draymond sucks" and "Cavs in 7." It was an entertaining night if you were rooting for the Wine and Gold.
This series now shifts back to Oakland where once again the Cavs will have no room for error as they'll face elimination in enemy territory. This is not last year, the Warriors have far more elite firepower and they are virtually unbeatable on their home floor.
So proceed however you choose to, there is definitely reason to have some hope after what Cavalier fans witnessed last night. However, if Game 5 is the end of the road for Cleveland, for at least one night Cavalier fans felt the elation that brought back memories of 2016's magical run.
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Q: Database modeling with mean.js and mongoose I am classical developer who is normally developing relational DBs form my web applications.
I want to learn the new way and build an application with mean.js and mongoDB. I used yo generator from the meanjs.org to get started.
When I model my data I always fall back into the classic relational modeling. And I think this is not what the "new way" of app building is all about.
So my question is: What is he best practice to model my data model sample?
My learning sample is an app in which you have a specific given list of music albums (like best 50 Jazz albums of all times) and the user checks in and rate the music.
I have a CRUD module for adding and editing albums the user should listen to. This ends in an ordered list of albums.
I have a CRUD module for users, generated by the yo generator.
A user now can see the list and mark the albums which he already heard. He should be able to give a rating and a comment.
So the question is: where to store the user listenTo info? In the relational world I would introduce a new foreign key table which has a relation from user to album and model the properties like rating and comment in the foreign key table. I don't think this is how things should work in mongo DB world, does it?
I could add the user listenTo information to each album. I would have a list of users and comments on each album. Then, I need to ensure that if the list is requested, only the information of the current user is present. So I would have to filter on property on a sub-sub-document. Feels strange.
Or, I could copy the album list for each newly created user but then I need to write code that changes the user's object when I edit the original list.
What would you recommend?

A: When I think of Data Modeling, I break things down into the following relationships:
1 <--> 1
1 <--> Few/Many (A finite number, say a list of user's phone numbers)
1 <--> Very Many
The general rule of thumb with MongoDB is you should embed wherever possible.  So for 1 <--> 1 and 1 <--> Few/Many if the document size is something small, you should embed the collection inside the user document.
It's important to think about the use case here.  If we want to track all songs that the user likes or listens to, this could potentially be hundreds or thousands, so we probably want to store this information in a separate collection and contain an indexed reference to the user there.
In the case of tracking if a user listens to the song, I would probably structure it like this in your use case:
{
    _id: ObjectID, // The identifier of the document
    user_id: ObjectID, // The user who listened to the song
    song_id: ObjectID, // The id of the song
    count: number, // The number of times the user listened
    rating: number, // The number of stars the user rated the song
    favorite: boolean, // If the user marked the song as a favorite
    last_listened: Date // The last time the user listened
}

With an index on { user_id: 1, song_id: 1 }.
Here is a really good reference on how to approach your problem:
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/applications/data-models-relationships/


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Island Green Living Group Seeks Leader
A St. John based non-profit promoting ecological approaches to island living is putting out a call for applicants to lead a series of new and continuing initiatives.
Island Green Living Association (Island Green) says its creating the post of executive director, "as it expands its mission in support of greater sustainability and resilience on St. John and throughout the USVI.
" .. a full-time executive director is sought to lead efforts. The newly created position will guide Island Green's vital programs including aluminum can recycling efforts, expanded composting, bio-diesel program, ReSource Depot where more than 250,000 lbs. of building & household materials have been reused/repurposed to date, sustainability education, sustainability advocacy and more," the statement says.
One of the chief responsibilities of the director will be overseeing the creation of the IGLA Sustainable Living Center, "where the community will have access to Island Green's expanded resources.
'In addition to being a highly motivated multitasker dedicated to eco-friendly values, the candidate must have grant writing capabilities. In addition, proven fundraising abilities and corporate sponsorship solicitation experience will be a plus," said Island Green President Harith Wickrema. "We are seeking a positive self-starter with leadership qualities, excellent writing, communication and managerial skills who is able to work under deadline. Strong preference will be given to candidates residing on St. John."
Among its past efforts, ILGA operated a recycling center near the Susannaberg Transfer Station for several years. They hosted a recycled art contest there last year for high school students.
The group also played a role in the campaign to eliminate the use of plastic shopping
bags at grocery stores and has promoted sustainable building practices compatible with island environments.
Further details regarding the position are available on Island Green's website through the following link: Executive Director Description.
Island Green asks qualified candidates who are passionate about preserving our islands and promoting green living to provide a cover letter and resume to President Harith Wickrema at harith@islandgreenliving.org.
Established in 2004, Island Green Living Association (Island Green) is a registered 501 (c)(3) not for profit organization dedicated to sustainability throughout the USVI.
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NAB 2017 showed that the early demise of the SDI interface as a bit of an exaggeration, as it has found new life with the adoption of 12G as an interface on a range of new products at the show. The reasons for this are many fold and includes the well-established specifications for 12G-SDI and the inherent understating of how to connect the output of one black box to the input of another, making installation and maintenance straight forward.
There seems to be a desire by many to adopt the SMPTE 2110 video over IP standard which is the final stage of the AIMS Alliance implementation. Many manufacturers who have already implemented SMPTE 2022-6, however, are waiting for full ratification of the standard and implications before further investing in full product implementations supporting SMPTE 2110.
This makes the choice of whether to invest in SDI or IP test equipment a difficult one. Omnitek has decided to simplify the choice with one box that does both.
At IBC this year, Omnitek will be demonstrating its new Ultra TQ which supports the analysis of video over SDI or an IP link as a SMPTE 2110 / SMPTE 2022-6 enabled waveform rasterizer for broadcast applications.
The Ultra TQ can be booted in normal operating mode to allow physical later analysis and monitoring of SDI signals up to 3G or booted in IP mode to allow the monitoring of SDI video or SMPTE 2022-6 video. This means that all the conventional tools such as picture, waveform, vectorscope, gamut meters, CIE charts, audio meters, loudness graphs, etc are available in both SDI, SMPTE 2110 / SMPTE 2022-6 or mixed installations.
The Ultra TQ is a highly cost-effective solution as customers dont have to have 2 distinct sets of equipment or chose SDI or IP. Omnitek believes that IP is just another connection type and it will not penalise its customers for changing technology and advancements in the industry. For all those just wanting to check the quality of the content, and not design an IT infrastructure, the Ultra TQ is an obvious choice.
The IP option on the Ultra TQ can be purchased, at nominal cost, at any time. The Ultra TQ option structure has been designed to provide the basic functionality required as standard with options to enable the more sophisticated functionality for more specialised analysis.
The Ultra TQ was designed to support both SDR and HDR production and provides all of the necessary tools to do this. In the Ultra architecture, it does not matter how the video arrives, it can be monitored and analysed using the same intuitive user interface. The Ultra TQ can support PQ, HLG and S-Log production work flows and allows the section of different input and output profiles to automatically configure the system to suit the chosen work flow.
When you first make the decision to purchase an Ultra TQ you only need to purchase the functionality that you need immediately. Extra functionality can be added in the future as required. If the ground moves under your feet, or the goalposts change, you can upgrade or cross convert to any of the other Ultra family products.


Many of us have read recently about Republicans from the bygone era of the Reagan coalition who discuss feelings of disaffection. When I read about them, it's easy for me to personalize as a story about kindred spirits. After having wandered off the reservation several years ago due to the partying having lost its way on economic policy, it's difficult to find a rationale for wandering back with Trump's tariff policy slamming that reservation gate closed and applying a heavy duty padlock.
That assumption is probably wrong because the reason inflation is rising is really important here, negative supply shocks raise inflation and reduce AS. In a simplified example, if M*V = P*Y, assuming all else remains equal and nothing goes on with M or V, then we're just looking at the split between P and Y shifting around, perhaps from 40/60 to 60/40 (or worse – and this is the best case scenario!).
But we need to take into consideration the fact that, even though there has been more and more discussion at the Fed about doing away with the simple growth rate inflation target, something material has yet to come from it. Thus it wouldn't surprise me if, in response to the rise in inflation due to Trump's negative supply shocks, we found ourselves in a world where both M and V are decreasing in addition to the split between P and Y shifting around, which is the worst of everything (and probably the best reason I can think of about why growth rate IT is a really not a good idea, and bad trade policy on top of it is really BAD).
With nothing changing on the MP front, TIPS spreads experienced a jump to 2.1% for the five-year and we have experienced dramatically higher market volatility, something we really wouldn't expect from an expansionary monetary policy. With new and ever bolder tariffs being announced weekly, trade policy itself is currently highly volatile and is likely the source of what we're seeing in the markets and the TIPS.
We're not getting more M (or more NGDP) as to cause the rise in TIPS spreads. There isn't any evidence that we are getting more and the former does not naturally lead to the latter. We're getting less AS from animus trade policy as to cause a rise in TIPS spreads (negative supply shock), which means more P and less Y. As expected under simple growth rate IT, this will result in less M, V and Y as to keep P roughly anchored around 2% (the logical explanation for metaphor of the extra PB&J squishing out of the proverbial sandwich under the soft NGDP cap).
Facebook may be a convenient, superficially plausible scapegoat for the tech selloff, but it isn't to blame for the widespread magnitude of it. Trump is to blame for that. It would be beneficial to realize here that the damage being done is a conscious choice that is being made, and given the state of monetary policy, the eggs that are being broken can't be unbroken. Given that time is a non-renewable resource, this is a net, dead weight loss in the shorter and longer term.


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Low carb critics also will sometimes contest that leaving sugary stuff out of the diet is "unbalanced", as if there were some sort of actual, dietary need for refined sugar. The notion that it is part of a "healthy, balanced diet" to deliberately include a "foodstuff" (and I use the term very loosely) that has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever is nonsensical in the extreme, and can only be seen as a sop either to people's addictions, or to the food processing industry, depending on who is suggesting it.
Indeed, one of the recent programs that is closest to a truly balanced diet is the Zone, which advocates that you get 30% of your calories from protein, 30% from fats, and 40% from carbohydrates -- only way it could get more balanced would be to eat a 33.3%/33.3%/33.3% ratio. Yet Barry Sears has been taken to task over his "low carbohydrate diet." For that matter, my own Careful Carb Diet, one of the three main approaches to controlling insulin described in my book _How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds!_, is far closer to being a truly "balanced" diet than anything either the government or Dr. Ornish have recommended.
The notion of the "balanced diet" has no actual scientific definition, it is simply a reflection of how people have generally eaten over the past few hundred years. (I have in front of me a mainstream nutrition text that asserts "...as currently consumed, sugars pose no major health threat..." I find it incredible that we could increase our intake of any highly concentrated substance by over 2000% in 200 years time -- the increase in American sugar consumption between 1800 and 2000 -- and not have it be a health threat. Heck, if we drank that much more water it might be a danger.) Two better questions would be: What diet comes closest to that on which the human race evolved? What diet makes my own personal body work best?
We aren't entirely sure what diet the human race evolved on, but there are some things that are quite clear. First of all, it didn't contain any refined sugar, since refined sugar has only existed for the past several hundred years, and has only become inexpensive enough for the masses to consume within the past 200 years or so. Sugar is not a part of the evolutionary diet of humankind.
Secondly, it did not contain grains or beans in any great quantity. How do we know this? First of all, in order to get any great quantity of grains and beans, one has to farm them, and farming was only invented about 10,000 years ago. Sounds like a long time, but the history of humankind is estimated to be somewhere around 2 million years.
Secondly, grains and beans are largely inedible without some sort of technology. Grains have to be "threshed" -- that is, removed from their inedible seed coats -- and cooked, at the very least, the other possibility being that they might be ground into flour or meal, which takes even more technology. Beans, too, have to be removed from their pods -- easier to do by hand than with grains, since beans tend to be larger -- and they, too, must be cooked. Further, unlike grains which can be cooked by the relatively low tech methods of either simply parching the individual seeds, or by making flat breads on a hot rock (note, though, that this would require some sort of milling into flour), beans require a vessel to cook them in -- again, some sort of technology was required, if only that of making a simple, heat resistant pot.
So you can scratch large quantities of grains and beans from the pre-agricultural, pre-civilization diet. Oh, no doubt cave folks chewed on a handful of grass seeds now and then, and pulled up and ate the bean when they went after a sprout, but they surely weren't eating 6-11 servings of grains a day.
We do know that prehistoric humans were hunter-gatherers, and we suspect that gathering supplied more of their diet than hunting. After all, leaves, roots, shoots, berries, and nuts don't run away or fight back. So figure that the bulk of the diet was made up of what we now refer to as vegetables, along with nuts (easy to gather, they store well with no preserving, and they have a lot of calories, which is very good in a pre-industrial world), and fruits in seasons. Also keep in mind that those vegetables and fruits would have been considerably lower in sugars than the ones we buy in the store today; modern plant breeding has made virtually all fruits and vegetables sweeter. They also would have eaten a far wider variety of vegetable matter than the average American does today (can't speak for other nations; my experience is somewhat provincial here), since it's likely that they ate anything they could eat. Too many of us eat a little iceberg lettuce and tomato on a sandwich, and the occasional green pepper and onion in a fajita, and that's it.
We know that prehistoric humans ate meat; indeed there is some speculation that some species -- the North American mammoth for instance -- were actually hunted to extinction, which is pretty impressive for a bunch of guys with homemade stone spears, don't you think? What sorts of animals they ate no doubt varied with where they lived -- I have a hunch that if you lived near the ocean, you might find it a whole lot easier to dig for clams than to chase a deer! We also know that surviving hunter-gatherer peoples eat bugs, and I'm guessing that bugs were a pretty goodly part of our historical diet there's a lot of them, and they're pretty easy to catch. And just about every omnivorous mammal finds eggs to be a delicacy, and they don't run, either, so I'm betting that our ancient ancestors ate just about any kind of eggs they could get their hands on -- bird, turtle, whatever.
(One of the things we don't know, by the way, is how high or low in fat this diet was. We do know that game is much lower in fat than grain fed, farm raised meat -- but then, we primarily eat only the muscle meats anymore, while we're pretty certain that our ancestors ate the whole thing -- liver, kidneys, spleen, thymus, brain, you name it, and many of those organ meats are higher in fat and cholesterol than the muscle meats. Also, those bugs they probably ate -- many bugs are rich in fats, as well, and of course nuts are high fat. We do strongly suspect that the fatty acid profile of the meat they ate was considerably different than what we get today, since we know that game, and even grass-fed beef, is lower in cholesterol and saturated fats than farm-raised meats. What impact this shift in fatty acid profile is having on our health is unclear.
So, we're looking a a diet of meat, fish, birds, eggs, bugs, nuts, seeds, lots and lots of vegetables, and fruits in season, with all the fruits and vegetables being somewhat lower in sugar than what we can get today at the grocery. Add to this the occasional lucky discovery of honey, and that's about it. Were they eating an "unbalanced" diet? Well, if you consider grains, beans, and sweets all to be an essential part of a "balanced diet", they sure were. Yet somehow we survived and thrived.
Then there's the question of what diet your own personal body runs best on, and that's a question only you can answer. Those of you who have read my book know that I do not advocate one specific low carb program for everyone, nor can I assert "You should eat X number of grams of carbs per day, no more, no less." I can't tell you whether you should eat dairy, or if you're one of the people who will lose weight and feel better without it, although I can tell you that, at least from what I've been reading, herding started earlier than plowing and planting, so dairy products seem to have an older history in the human diet than grains and beans.
I can't tell you if you're one of the many, many people whose cholesterol will drop on a low carb diet, regardless of the amount of saturated fat you may consume, or if you're one of the smaller group who will need to not only cut carbs, but also to concentrate on fish and poultry instead of beef and pork for your protein, and olive oil, avocados, and nuts instead of butter for your fats. I can't tell you if you're one of the people who will do best on a Basic Low Carb diet, such as Atkins or Protein Power, or if you're one of the few people I've communicated with who find that they simply never adjust to such a diet, feeling tired and mentally foggy all the time, and will do far better on a -- dare I say it? -- more balanced program like the Careful Carb Diet.
I can tell you that I suspect that it is possible to damage one's ability to metabolize carbohydrate foods safely by abusing the mechanism for years and years with vast quantities of sugar and other high impact carbs. I suspect this is the case with my own body. If this is, indeed, true, then perhaps there are many of us who could have eaten a diet somewhat richer in carbohydrate if we hadn't abused ourselves for many years, but who now need an "unbalanced", low carbohydrate diet to compensate for those years of abuse.
I can tell you that your body has no inherent need whatsoever for separated, concentrated sugars, for white flour, for highly processed cereals, and that you will do yourself no harm at all by eliminating them from your diet entirely, no matter what epithet the world may throw at you and your way of eating.
And I can tell you that if you feel dramatically better when you restrict your carbohydrate intake, if you lose weight, if your energy level is higher and more constant, if your moods are better, if your bloodwork improves -- if, by any reasonable measurement, a low carb diet makes you healthier -- than you are approaching a balance that is right for your body, and adding back foods that make you tired, fat and unwell to be "nutritionally correct" would be a sad and foolish thing to do.
If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Balance your diet for your body, not for some abstract notion fabricated by the government, influenced by the lobbying of the agricultural industry.