The New Google Nexus 7 is out of the bag now. The Google Nexus 7 made a considerable splash when it arrived last year, certainly one that belied its economical size and limited power. In the process, it scooped our 2012 Gadget of the Year, so it comes as no surprise that Google now wants to follow up with something, not bigger... but definitely better.
Here I'm going share with you 7 quick reviews relate to New Google Nexus 7.
Portability is key when it comes to 7-inch tablets. The new model is almost 2mm thinner than the original Nexus 7. The display is the same size, but the side bezels are 2.75mm narrower on each side, making the device a whole 5.5mm thinner.
It's also 50 grams lighter. Although these seem like small changes, they could add up to very different feel overall. Thankfully, the soft back has been retained.
The Chromebook Pixel showed us that Google is serious about bringing big, bold displays to consumer products. The new Nexus 7 only confirms that, as it lands with a 1920 x 1200 Full HD 1080 display - a first for 7-inch tablets - and packs a whopping 323 pixels per inch. That sort of pixel density puts it on a par with the iPhone 5, far beyond the reaches of the original Nexus 7's puny 216ppi.
Google also promises a screen that supports a 30% wider colour ratio - meaning your media will be more brighter and more vivid.
The new Nexus 7 has a Quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4, that itself packs an 80% faster CPU and a GPU that will push your gaming and video framerates up to four times faster. With 2GB RAM in tow, this is the sort of power that again, puts the new Nexus 7 on a par with the latest generation of smartphones and far beyond its predecessor.
Cameras are still not the be-all and end-all where tablets are concerned. But Google has adorned the new Nexus 7 with a 1.2MP front-facing camera for video calls and potential selfies, and there's a 5MP camera on the back.
The new Google Nexus 7 doesn't hold back on the connectivity front. As well as the usual microUSB, the updated Nexus also supports HDMI output, NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and wireless charging.
There will be a 4G LTE compatible version. But hold your horses - it's not 100% clear whether this will just be a US option, so keep your fingers crossed.
Stereo speakers come built-in with the new Nexus, allowing for reasonable sound output for your media. Google has also been working with Fraunhofer to add virtual 5.1 surround sound to the new tablet, particularly exciting for film buffs.
The new Nexus 7 will be the first device to arrive with Android Jelly Bean 4.3 - the next major update to Google's mobile OS. Among other updates and fixes, Jelly Bean 4.3 features upgraded OpenGL - allowing for photo-realistic graphics, and complex dynamic lighting and shadowing for new games.
The new Google Nexus 7 will launch in the US on July 30th - priced at $229 for the 16GB version. A 32GB version will cost you $269 while a 4G-LTE connected 32GB variety will go for $349. That's slightly more than the old pricing scheme of the previous generation, but keep in mind you're getting more bang for your technological buck.


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Barb Galler-Smith is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author living in Edmonton, Alberta.

Her published works include The Druid Saga series of historical fantasy novels, including Druids, Captives and Warrior. Druids was shortlisted for the Aurora Award "Best Novel in English" category in 2012.

Galler-Smith is a member of SF Canada, Canada's national association of science fiction and fantasy authors.

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Federal COVID-19 Vaccination Centers Coming to Arlington, Dallas in Two Weeks
Community Vaccine Centers to open the week of Feb. 22
By Frank Heinz • Published February 10, 2021 • Updated on February 10, 2021 at 5:41 pm
Three new large-scale COVID-19 vaccination centers are expected to open in Texas later this month, two in Dallas-Fort Worth and a third in Houston.
The two North Texas community vaccination sites will be located at AT&T Stadium in Arlington and at Fair Park in Dallas. A third site will be located at NRG Stadium in Houston.
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All three vaccination sites will be capable of administering more than 10,000 shots per day collectively and will be operated by FEMA in partnership with the state of Texas through the Texas Division of Emergency Management and local officials.
The announcement was made Wednesday by White House COVID-19 Response Team coordinator Jeff Zients during a briefing.
"Importantly, FEMA has partnered with the CDC to launch these and other vaccination center sites that use processes and are in locations that promote equity," Zients said.
State officials said FEMA will supply the vaccine, meaning the dosages are expected to be on top of the vaccine allocations Texas is already receiving each week.
"What we're going to be seeing in two weeks is 3,000 in the beginning, 3,000 shots a day from our federal partners. Those numbers will continue to grow," Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Wednesday. "My hope is once that happens, I can take the vaccine that we have now and get a hub going with Irving and another hub going with Garland with the vaccine we're currently getting from the state."
In Texas, more than 5.2 million vaccine doses have been allocated with more than 2.5 million people having received at least one dose. This week, the state of Texas received more than 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
"The COVID-19 vaccine is the only way to bring an end to this pandemic. I have been working tirelessly with the White House, as well as with local and state leaders, to bring as many shots to our region as quickly as possible," said U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX 30th District). "That is why I am pleased that FEMA has announced this morning the establishment of three federally supported vaccination sites – two of which will directly serve North Texas. These sites will be critical in expanding access to vaccines for underserved and marginalized communities."
In a statement released Wednesday morning, the White House said they are deploying federal teams to work hand-in-hand with state and local officials to get the sites up and running in two weeks.
"The goal of establishing these joint federal pilot centers is to continue to expand the rate of vaccinations in an efficient, effective and equitable manner, with an explicit focus on making sure that communities with a high risk of COVID-19 exposure and infection are not left behind," officials said in a statement Wednesday morning.
Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley said while the sites will be operated by FEMA, the county is ready to assist as needed.
"I expect they're going to need us to help with maybe the storage of the vaccines," Judge Whitley said. "They're going to need help maybe with security, getting in and out of the site in an orderly manner."
Though details about registration, waitlists, etc., have not yet been released, a statement from Gov. Greg Abbott's office said the sites "are expected to be open to eligible members of the public beginning Feb. 24."
"These mass community sites will allow us to expand access to COVID-19 vaccinations in underserved communities and help us mitigate the spread of the virus," said Abbott. "Thank you to our partners at FEMA for working with the State of Texas to establish these vaccination sites and help us protect our most vulnerable."
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The Community Vaccination Centers will use primarily federal staff in support of state and local governments, officials said.
The sites were selected using a range of criteria, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Social Vulnerability Index.
Since March 2020, nearly 270,000 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Dallas County and nearly 2,500 of those people have died. In Tarrant County, 231,000 people have been infected and more than 2,500 have died.
Last week, the NFL told the federal government it would make all of its stadiums available as COVID-19 vaccination sites to help expedite . AT&T Stadium is, of course, home to the Dallas Cowboys while NRG Stadium in Houston is home to the Texans.
Zients said the Biden administration has plans to open similar sites in more states in the coming weeks.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said he's grateful for the new site and officials would be working together "to iron out the details, including registration and access."
"We must work collaboratively to vaccinate as many people as possible and in a targeted way to include a diverse population," Turner said.
In Texas, the COVID-19 vaccines are currently available to anyone over the age of 5. The vaccines are still not approved for children younger than 5 however -- those trials are ongoing.
Once vaccinated, people who received either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines are expected to get some level of protection within a couple of weeks after the first shot, but full protection may not happen until a couple of weeks after the second shot. For those who receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine -- there is only one shot needed.
As of Jan. 3, 2022, it is also recommended those who are age 12 and up and who have been fully vaccinated receive a booster as early as five months after their last dose, for a total of three shots. The vaccine made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech is the only U.S. option for children of any age.
As for even younger children, kid-size doses for 5- to 11-year-olds rolled out in November and experts said healthy youngsters should be protected after their second dose for a while. But the FDA also said on Jan. 3, 2022, that if children that young have severely weakened immune systems, they will be allowed a third dose 28 days after their second. That's the same third-dose timing already recommended for immune-compromised teens and adults.
Pfizer and Moderna are studying their vaccines, in even smaller doses, for children younger than 5.
Even when fully vaccinated, it's still possible to become infected by the virus since none of the vaccines offer 100% protection from infection. With that in mind, even if you've been vaccinated it's still a good idea to wear a mask and keep some separation between strangers or those whose vaccination status is unclear.
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Gabe Newell expects the RV to be "a long journey" for Valve
Is there a bright future for virtual reality? Gabe Newell probably believes it. Speaking to IGN about Steam Deck, Valve's new gaming laptop, President Gabe Newell says the company always saw virtual reality as a long-term project and is still in the early stages of development.
"With virtual reality, we hope it's a very long journey and that there are fundamentally important technologies that are being developed," says Newell. "And if at some point you're precisely defining the gates and saying" how's this going against the latest CS: GO update? "You'll always end up making bad decisions based on that."
Speaking of the success of the Valve Index and Steam Deck, Newell continues, "Our assumption is that these are long-term decisions we are making about how we contribute to the health and vitality of this ecosystem, and we always do. we will make you successful as long as that continues to happen. "
Essentially, don't judge virtual reality by current sales and devices or compare your stats to that of very popular games. Valve would say, of course, be a VR merchandise seller, but I'm inclined to agree with Gabe on this issue.
This is not new ground for Newell. The Steam co-founder previously expressed a keen interest in brain-computer interfaces; ways to connect the human brain more directly to an electronic device. It is both less frightening than it seems and really frightening if one considers the potential uses of this technology, from the mundane to the morbid.
Virtual reality, then, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to more immersive gaming experiences.
That's not to say that existing virtual reality headsets aren't fun. The valve index is tremendously good for high-end PC VR and the cheaper standalone VR headsets are becoming more popular. Still, it's reassuring to know that Valve doesn't see the Index as its one and only foray into virtual reality, even if Newell has no news on what that really means today.
However, there are more things in virtual reality than hardware. As Newell explains when asked about receiving the very popular VR title, Half-Life: Alyx.
"It has been very useful to help us think about what we do next, how to keep moving forward in virtual reality, what the opportunities are in space. In that sense, it has been very successful. adoption of virtual reality, had a positive impact. "
"Working on these closely coupled hardware and software designs can have great benefits," Newell continues.
We've still seen a virtual reality title capture the audience for video games, like Half-Life: Alyx, but VR's popularity is growing. Both Valve and Facebook claim that sales grew massively during 2020. While this may have something to do with the global pandemic, it is clear that virtual reality still has much more to offer.


Telomere stabilization is critical for tumorigenesis. lines but does not affect telomerase-positive cell lines. The expression of temperature-sensitive p53 in clonal cell lines results in ALT-specific transactivation-independent growth inhibition due in part to the perturbation of S phase. Utilizing chromatin immunoprecipitation assays we demonstrate that p53 is usually associated with the telomeric complex in ALT cells. Furthermore the inhibition of DNA synthesis in ALT cells by p53 requires intact specific DNA binding and suppression of recombination functions. We propose that p53 causes transactivation-independent growth inhibition of ALT cells by hSPRY1 perturbing telomeric recombination. Telomeres are specialized structures that confer stability to naturally occurring ends of DNA molecules. Telomere stabilization is critical for the unlimited GS-1101 cellular proliferation that is necessary for tumor formation. While most tumors achieve telomere stabilization through the activation of telomerase (48) a subset of tumors utilize a telomerase-independent mechanism termed option lengthening of telomeres (ALT) to maintain chromosome termini (7 8 Telomere length in ALT-positive cell lines is usually highly heterogeneous with repeats ranging in size from <5 kb to >20 kb (8). A subset of cells in ALT-positive cell lines also contain large multiprotein complexes in which the telomere binding proteins TRF1 and TRF2 and telomeric DNA colocalize with the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) nuclear body termed ALT-associated PML bodies (APBs) (65). The PML nuclear body is a multiprotein nuclear structure that has been implicated in the control of a number of cellular processes including apoptosis (41 47 leading to the suggestion that cells made up of APBs might be targeted to undergo apoptosis. However APB-positive cells incorporate bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and thus are able to carry out DNA replication (22). In addition the frequency of cells made up of APBs is usually increased when cultures are enriched for cells in the late S phase or G2/M phase of the cell cycle (22 62 suggesting that the formation of APBs is usually coordinately regulated with the cell cycle. Studies carried out with indicate that telomerase-independent telomere maintenance occurs via a recombination-based mechanism (12 32 55 Telomere elongation is usually RAD52 dependent and may occur through a recombination of either telomeric or subtelomeric repeats. It is likely that a recombination-based mechanism also underlies ALT in mammalian cells. Consistent with this hypothesis immunohistochemical analysis exhibited that GS-1101 RAD51 RAD52 and the RAD50/MRE11/NBS1 complex colocalize with APBs (65). Studies investigating the fate of a single marked telomere in an ALT-positive cell line also support a recombination-based mechanism (42). In these experiments rapid changes in the length of the telomere repeat array were observed rather than the gradual changes in size more commonly associated with telomerase activity or telomere loss associated with cell divisions. Furthermore it has been demonstrated that a unique tag embedded in a single telomere will spread to other telomeres in ALT cell lines leading to the proposal that telomere elongation occurs through intertelomeric gene conversion (17). However this only occurs when the tag is usually flanked by telomeric sequences suggesting that this recombination event occurs within the TTAGGG repeat array. In contrast the characterization of GS-1101 the telomeric structure in mouse embryonic stem cells deficient in telomerase suggests that recombination may occur within subtelomeric repeats (38). The mutation of the tumor suppressor protein p53 has been implicated as a contributing factor for ALT activation. Over 80% of the cell lines that use ALT for GS-1101 telomere maintenance are impaired in the p53 pathway either due to the expression of viral oncoproteins or through a p53 mutation (26). In one study all 10 of the cell lines derived from breast fibroblasts of an individual with Li Fraumeni syndrome carrying a germ line mutation in p53 used ALT for telomere maintenance (8). Similarly the expression of.


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By Kimberly Simpson
A Well-Tailored Story of Shareholder Activism
Chico's FAS, parent company of the Chico's, White House Black Market, and Soma brands, made headlines in 2016 when an activist investor dropped its bid for board seats at the company. Chico's FAS was one of the largest U.S. companies targeted in a 2016 proxy contest. The company's victory was credited to a number of factors, including the new CEO's clear vision and the board's preemptive work on governance.
NACD's Florida Chapter recently convened a program at the Chico's FAS headquarters in Fort Myers, hearing insights from NACD Florida Chapter Board member and Chico's FAS Chair David Walker; Jan Fields, chair of the company's corporate governance and nominating committee; and Chief Executive Officer and President Shelley Broader.
To set the stage for the discussion, the group shared details about the company's situation in 2015, prior to hearing from the activist:
In the spring of 2015, the company was coming off a weak earnings announcement. The stock was languishing.
Fields recognized the situation and began to put together a plan in her new role as head of the company's corporate governance and nominating committee.
Walker became the chair of the Chico's FAS board.
As the prior CEO retired, Broader was identified and slated to join in December of 2015.
She quickly assessed and provided the company with a four-pillar strategy that was underpinned by the philosophy that the customer is looking for an excellent experience.
Based on the actions the board took during this period, the panelists shared key steps that every company should consider—not just to fend off activists but, more importantly, to ensure the board and management are looking after all of the company's shareholders:
Ask the question, "What makes us so appealing to an activist?" Think about operations, capital allocation, governance, etc.
Know your shareholders. The stock of Chico's FAS is widely held, so having a strong and engaged investor relations group is a critical element in the company's success.
Identify a team to help point out weaknesses and prepare for challenges. This team could include legal, public relations, proxy advisors, investment banks, etc.
Use the newly-formed team to help you look at the company like an activist shareholder might, and be willing to make tough decisions when performance lags. Look at your company against its peers and review what analysts are saying.
Utilize a skills and experience matrix to ensure the board has the talent it needs to provide oversight to the company. To avoid directors rating themselves as expert in all areas of the skills matrix, ask each director to rate his or her top three areas of strength. Consider term and age limits. Recruit "rock stars" when you need new board members and make sure they are filling any gaps identified in your matrix.
When the activist challenge arose, the Chico's FAS board agreed on the key members who would focus on the issue, and management did the same thing, ensuring that all but a small group at the company would continue to devote themselves entirely to advancing the company's four-pillar strategy and running the day-to-day business during the proxy fight.
For those tasked with meeting personally with an activist, Broader repeatedly stressed the need to actively listen to the activist. Be sure to understand the activist's point of view without reacting or prejudging any ideas or suggestions.
Though settling with an activist can sometimes be in the best interest of shareholders, leadership at Chico's FAS determined that a fight to the proxy stage was warranted. A select group went on a roadshow, visiting significant investors, and creating tailored presentations based on the investor's particular interests. The group also met with proxy advisory firms by phone.
The meetings proved highly valuable, with these firms ultimately siding with the company. In all of its meetings, the company articulated its strategic plan, introduced its slate of board candidates, and explained in detail why both were better options than those being proposed by the activist.
Lessons learned from Chico's brush with an activist investor follow.
Shareholder relationships are like a vaccine. Maintain robust, ongoing engagement.
Be open to change after a vulnerability review. Taking action to address vulnerabilities can result in a stronger defense if one is needed.
Be willing to consider settlement but don't settle if it is not in the company's best interests.
Adopt corporate governance best practices. For example, director independence both by definition and in thinking is critical, and executive pay should be tied to performance. A board must continually hold itself accountable. (It is worth noting that Chico's FAS is a full board member of NACD.)
What does the future hold for the company? Broader says that interesting times are ahead for retail in general, and innovation and design will be important drivers of her company's success. While others are taking resources away from brick and mortar stores, Chico's FAS recognizes the storefront as a key component of its omni-channel approach. No matter the path, the company's board and management team have now learned a great deal about staying ahead of activists.
NACD Florida would like to thank the team at Chico's FAS, for hosting the program and the panelists for sharing their experiences with attendees.
Kimberly Simpson is an NACD regional director, providing strategic support to NACD chapters in the Capital Area, Atlanta, Florida, the Carolinas, North Texas and the Research Triangle. Simpson, a former general counsel, was a U.S. Marshall Memorial Fellow to Europe in 2005.


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Data Protection Issues related to Covid-19, Ressources pour chercheurs en droit
Covid-19 and data protection in Ireland, by Edoardo Celeste
This paper is part of the e-conference on « Data protection Issues and Covid-19: Comparative Perspectives » which consist in a daily publication at 12 p.m. (GMT+1) except on Sundays until the Summer break. A new session will start again at the beginning of the academic year 2020-21. Please subscribe to blogdroiteuropeen, so you don't miss a publication. This e-conference was organised by Dr. Yseult Marique, Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex and FÖV Speyer and Dr. Olivia Tambou, Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, External Scientific Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Luxembourg, and Founder- Editor of Blogdroiteuropeen. If you are interested to contribute for our September session feel free to contact us at blogdroiteuropeen@gmail.com.
Covid-19 in Ireland: a brief overview
On February 29th, the Republic of Ireland reported its first case of Covid-19, which was an individual returning from Northern Italy. From mid-March the number of cases rose exponentially for a month. On April 18th, the Irish Chief Medical Officer officially announced that the curve of contagions had been flattened. According to the Ireland's Covid-19 Data Hub, at the end of June, the death toll amounted to 1,735, with a total of 25,439 confirmed cases, and the number of daily cases consistently under 10.
Political instability and State response to the pandemic
Since the outset, the State's response to the pandemic has been firm and well planned notwithstanding the climate of political instability following the general election held in February. The vote of Irish citizens in the general election did not present a clear majority, leading to months of negotiations among parties. Talks about the new government were halted by the outbreak of Coronavirus. The interim Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, acted as prime minister until June 27th, when the new coalition government supported by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Party, and led by the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin assumed office.
In comparison with other European countries, the outbreak of Coronavirus in Ireland occurred at a later stage. While Italy imposed a nation-wide lockdown on March 9th, similar measures were only imposed in Ireland from March 20th. On March 9th, the Irish prime minister announced the imminent adoption of emergency measures to limit the spread of Covid-19, including the cancellation of the traditional St Patrick's parade. On March 12th, schools and universities were closed for a period that was originally supposed to last for two weeks, but was subsequently extended until the beginning of the new school and academic year. On March 20th, the Oireachtas, the legislature of the Republic of Ireland, passed the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020, which amended the Health Act 1947 inserting a specific provision, Article 31A, to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. By virtue of Article 31A of the Health Act 1947, the Minister for Health acquires the power to 'make regulations for the purpose of preventing, limiting, minimising or slowing down the spread of Covid-19 (including the spread outside the State)'. On April 8th, the Irish Minister for Health adopted two statutory instruments (S.I. No. 120/2020 and 121/2020) imposing temporary restrictions to people's movement, the closure of non-essential retailers as well as the suspension of many commercial activities and services. The Irish police force, An Garda Síochána, was given the power to enforce these regulations, by making their infringement a criminal offence (see, e.g. Section 4(3) of S.I. No. 121/2020). By the end of April, the Gardaí had arrested 76 people for breaching the lockdown measures. From June 6th, the Irish police has lost this power since violations of movement restrictions are no longer criminal.
In May, the Government published a road map to progressively lift the restrictions imposed due to the outbreak of Coronavirus. It was originally composed of five phases, which were subsequently reduced to four and accelerated on June 8th. At the time of writing, all retailers have reopened and movement restrictions within the island of Ireland have been removed. The Government still advises not to travel overseas and a compulsory two-week quarantine is in place for those arriving from abroad.
Main data protection issues and the Data Protection Commission
In March, satellite pictures of Europe depicted a scenario never seen before. The busiest European airports were quiet grass fields. Vibrant metropolises appeared unusually desert and silent. However, human life was only hidden. It pulsed in our houses, and flowed impetuously in the virtual world. When individual mobility rights were restricted in the physical reality, our existence migrated to and flourished in the digital space, in this way exposing us to the multiple threats that information and communication technologies may generate to our fundamental rights, and in particular our rights to privacy and data protection.
In contrast to some non-European countries, the Irish police never resorted to monitor the location of mobile phones to verify if people were complying with the lockdown measures. Some critical voices have been recently raised by Irish trade unions in relation to increased surveillance by employers on individuals working at home. The Irish Data Protection Commission did not directly deal with this issue, but since the beginning of March issued a series of guidelines on how to safeguard privacy and data protection during the health crisis, including practical information for employers. When the government started to put in place emergency measures to fight the pandemic, the Irish data protection authority, being aware of the risks associated to a higher number of individuals working from home, issued a series of guidelines on how employees can continue to protect personal data outside their office, how to deal with data subject requests when a company is closed, and how to avoid data breaches. The Data Protection Commission also offered guidance to the wider population on the potential dangers related to a more significant use of online services, focusing in particular on video-conferencing services. In these documents, the Irish regulator highlighted how our online habits have changed since the outbreak of Covid-19 and the adoption of restrictive measures. In particular, the Commission stressed the risks associated with the use of new apps and services never used before or normally used for different purposes, such as exclusively for work.
Contact tracing app in Ireland
At the end of April, the Government formally announced the development of a contact tracing app for the Republic of Ireland: Covid Tracker App. The Irish health authority HSE worked together with other European public and private organizations to develop a Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) system and elaborate a model of contact tracing which would be GDPR-compliant and respectful of European fundamental rights. Covid Tracker App was also developed in close collaboration with Google and Apple in order to ensure its compatibility with the operating systems of most smartphones. Although declared to be ready since June, the app was only launched on July 7th.
Contact tracing has always been manually operated since the outbreak of Coronavirus in Ireland. The Irish government and the HSE considers the use of Covid Tracker App as an essential instrument to accompany the country in its phase of economic recovery after the lockdown. The app provides a symptom checker and news functions besides its contact tracing functionality. A data protection impact assessment of Covid Tracker App was published following receipt of feedback from the Data Protection Commission and the Attorney General's Office, which in Ireland acts as legal counsel to the government. The app respects the guidelines developed by the eHealth Network, the European Commission and the European Data Protection Board. To this effect, contact tracing is not based on geo-location data, but only uses Bluetooth technology and process proximity data, i.e. the information about the likelihood of virus transmission based on the epidemiological distance and duration of contact between two individuals. Joint data controllers are the HSE and the Department of Health. The chosen data storage model is decentralised, meaning that data are stored on each individual's device. Data are also set to be automatically deleted after a period of time proportionate to the incubation period.
The question of interoperability and the need for an all-Ireland approach
Besides the question, common to many countries, of whether Irish people will effectively download and use Covid Tracker App, the situation in Ireland as regards contact tracing is complicated by the presence of two jurisdictions, the Republic and Northern Ireland, on the same island. At EU level, authorities have stressed the necessity to introduce interoperable apps among European countries in order to guarantee the effectiveness of these instruments in a context characterized by free movement of individuals. Ireland is not part of the Schengen area, but is conversely part of a Common Travel Area with the UK. More specifically, on the island of Ireland, at the moment, there is no physical border between the Republic and Northern Ireland. The UK has however left the European Union in January, and a transition period is foreseen until the end of the year. The conundrum that the introduction of contact tracing apps is therefore creating on the island of Ireland relates to the interoperability of multiple contact tracing apps, respectively developed in an EU and a non-EU country. To make the situation even more complex, Northern Ireland has developed its own app, announcing its interoperability with both the Irish and the British app. In a context where the Brexit negotiations have reopened the question of the Irish border, with a pandemic which conversely knows no frontiers, the choice by individuals of which contact tracing app to download becomes an issue of political allegiance, and the use by health authorities of data collected by those apps may trigger the complexities of a cross-border data transfer to a third country. An all-Ireland approach seems to be more than ever needed.
* I would like to thank Ms Kyra McCarthy for her research assistance.
Edoardo Celeste is Assistant Professor in Law, Technology and Innovation at Dublin City University. His research interests lie in the field of digital rights and constitutionalism, social media policy and regulation, privacy and data protection law, and EU digital policy. Edoardo studied law at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', at the University of Paris II 'Panthéon-Assas', and at King's College London. From 2016 to 2020, Edoardo was an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholar at the Sutherland School of Law of University College Dublin. His PhD thesis 'Digital constitutionalism: The Role of Internet Bills of Rights' examines how the digital revolution is changing contemporary constitutionalism, and explores the constitutional role of Internet bills of rights. Edoardo is currently the principal investigator of the project 'Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard' funded by Facebook Research.
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Malcolm Gurney Salter (10 May 1887 – 15 June 1973) was an English cricketer. He played for Gloucestershire between 1907 and 1927.

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Sir Godfrey Seymour Tearle (12 October 1884 – 9 June 1953) was a British actor who portrayed the quintessential British gentleman on stage and in both British and US films.

Biography
Born in New York City and brought up in Britain, he was the son of British actor/manager George Osmond Tearle (1852–1901) and American actress Marianne "Minnie" Conway (1852-1896), the brother of actor Malcolm Tearle, and the half-brother of silent film star Conway Tearle. His maternal grandmother was Sarah Crocker Conway.

In 1893, he made his stage debut as young Prince Richard, Duke of York, in his father's production of Richard III and in 1908 he appeared in his first film as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. He became a Shakespearean actor of note, appearing on stage in the title roles of Othello, Macbeth and Henry V. His theatrical career was interrupted when he joined the Royal Artillery for a four-year stint beginning in 1915. In 1924 he starred in the West End production of Frederick Lonsdale's drama The Fake. In 1935 he appeared in Bernard Merivale's The Unguarded Hour.

One of Tearle's most memorable screen roles was in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), in which he portrayed Professor Jordan, a seemingly respectable country squire whose missing finger unmasks him as an enemy agent. He was cast as an RAF gunner in One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), a German general in Undercover (film) (1943), an aging First World War veteran in Medal for the General (1944) and as Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Beginning or the End, MGM's 1946 account of the Manhattan Project.

Tearle made his Broadway theatre debut in Carnival in 1919. In his review in The New York Times, Alexander Woollcott noted, "It is difficult to guess why Godfrey Tearle should have selected as the vehicle of his American debut the play called Carnival, which was presented to New York for the first time last evening at the 44th Street Theatre. It is a spare and unsubstantial piece at best, and the role it offers him is distinctly secondary in importance and opportunity." Additional Broadway credits include The Fake (1924), The Flashing Stream (1939), and Antony and Cleopatra (1947).

Knighthood
Tearle was knighted in the 1951 King's Birthday Honours List for services to drama.

Marriages
He was married three times, to actress Mary Malone from 1909 until their divorce in 1932, to starlet Stella Freeman from 1932 until her sudden death in 1936, and to Barbara Palmer from 1937 until their divorce in 1947.

For several years at the end of his life, Tearle lived with the actress Jill Bennett.

Death
Sir Godfrey Tearle died on 9 June 1953, aged 68.

Complete filmography

Romeo and Juliet (1908 short) - Romeo
The Fool (1913) - Sterndale
Lochinvar (1915 short) - Lochinvar
Sir James Mortimer's Wager (1915 short) - Sir James Mortimer
The Real Thing at Last (1916 short) - Macduff
The March Hare (1919) - Guy
 A Sinless Sinner (1919) - Tom Harvey
Fancy Dress (1919) - Tony Broke
Nobody's Child (1919) - Ernest d'Alvard
Queen's Evidence (1919) - Adam Pascal
Salome of the Tenements (1925) - John Manning
Guy of Warwick (1926 short) - Guy of Warwick
If Youth But Knew (1926) - Dr. Martin Summer
One Colombo Night (1926) - Jim Farnell
 Infatuation (1930 short) - Gerald Norton
These Charming People (1931) - James Berridge
The Shadow Between (1931) - Paul Haddon
Puppets of Fate (1933) - Richard Sabine
Jade (1934 short) - The Man
The 39 Steps (1935) - Professor Jordan
The Last Journey (1936) - Sir Wilfred Rhodes
East Meets West (1936) - Sir Henry Mallory
Tomorrow We Live (1936) - Sir Charles Hendra
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) - Sir George Corbett - Rear Gunner in B for Bertie
Tomorrow We Live (1943) - Mayor Pierre Duchesne
Undercover (1943) - Gen. Von Staengel
The Lamp Still Burns (1943) - Sir Marshall Freyne
Medal for the General (1944) - General Church
The Rake's Progress (1945) - Colonel Robert Kenway
The Beginning or the End (1947) - President Roosevelt
Private Angelo (1949) - Count Piccologrando
White Corridors (1951) - Mr. Groom Sr.
I Believe in You (1952) - Mr. Pyke
Mandy (1952) - Mr. Garland
Decameron Nights (1953) - Ricciardo / Bernabo
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) - The Bishop

References

Sources
 Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies - published by Harper-Collins -
 Guide to Movies & Videos  published by Dell -

External links

1884 births
1953 deaths
Actors awarded knighthoods
Male actors from London
English male silent film actors
English male film actors
English male stage actors
British male Shakespearean actors
20th-century English male actors
American emigrants to England
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American people of British descent
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This year three SWE-ECI members supported the Iowa Regional Future City Competition again. For the special award, Rowena Aburto and Alyssa Reinhardt were looking for the team that used the most aesthetic diversity in the materials used to build the model of their city.
The judging criteria were based on the diverse use of building materials, colors, shapes, sizes and also successful city zoning. The winning team for this year's SWE-ECI Special Award was Purifica from Turkey Valley Middle School.; The team members are Sadie Nymeyer, John Gossling, Morgen Kuennen, Shelby Reicks, and Emily Luzum. They were supported by their teacher, Sharon Samac, and their mentor, Paul Herold.
"Purifica's city model used all planes for construction; they had solved the problem of storm water runoff by building purification solutions underground, which you can see in the model. They also used mirrors on their backdrop to make partial structures look 'complete'; this was one of the most creative things we saw across all the competing schools. High construction quality, very diverse shapes, and lighting all lead to their high score." says Alyssa.
The slideshow above shows all of the special award winners from this year's competition. This year's competition had 35 entries from schools across Iowa. Several videos from this year's compeition have been shared on YouTube. There were many very good entries in the competition, and Xaliah from Harding Middle School came out on top. Hannah Peterson, Julia Brewer, Afnan Elsheikh will represent Iowa and the National Future City Competition in Washington D.C.


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A new release round up ..
By Stuarton July 5, 2015
New for late June / July come a mixed bag of new releases;
Firstly some new Rolling Stones releases – "Street Fighting Men In Milan" on the Dog n' Cat label features the bands two shows played in the Italian city on the 1st of October, 1970. The first show was previously released on the RS, Vinyl Gang and Mayflower labels, the second show has been released on the DnC, No Label and Mayflower labels. Presumably this is a 2CD set bringing both the first and second shows together as Mayflower – a Misterclaudel offshoot – did previously but this set doesn't include the DVD of the show that was recorded of the second show.
Another couple of European 1970 shows are presented on Goldplate's "Live From The Radio". It goes back to the previous month and features what is presumed to be the definitive version of these EUROPE 1 broadcasts from the Palais Des Sports, Paris, France shows on both the 22nd and 23rd of September, 1970.
The Hot Lips label bring us 'Citrus Bowl 2015' – An audience recording of the show at the Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Florida, June 12th 2015. Announced as being 'Incredible Ambient Recordings Off Master', 'She's So Cold' was the requested track that night. The three bonus tracks on this set come from the Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, June 9th 2015, optimistically announced as 'Nice Ambient Recordings Off Master.' A deluxe 3 disk edition is also available featuring a Blu-Ray-R disk of the full Orlando show, the Orlando show from a different source and the complete Atlanta show.
The Beatles 'John Barrett Master Collection + The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios' is a 5 CD and 1 DVD set compiling the complete set of John Barrett source recordings with additional recordings from Abbey Road for good measure. One CD features the audio from the 1983 Abbey Road Video Show that accompanied the tour of the studios at the time. The DVD features the visuals for the show in two incarnations – the original 1983 comp and a new 2015 version with upgraded stereo sound.
Yet more recordings from Paul McCartney's Japan 2015 tour have arisen too. Inner Groove bring us 2 DVDs of a recording from the Tokyo Dome on the 27th of April. Selected songs are a matrix of audience shots while the rest are static audience shots.
Nanker have a 4 CD, 1 DVD set of something quite exciting – The full show from the Budokan, Tokyo on April the 28th from a multi angle camera matrix on one DVD, the complete show over 2 CDs then the complete sound check comprising of the first band sound check then Paul joins the band for the rest, this is the other 2 CDs accounted for.
Empress Valley attempt the trump the rest with their 12 CD set from both the Osaka and three Tokyo shows, including sound checks – Knowing Empress they probably have these shows from a soundboard recording too.
"2015 Kyocera Dome MK4 Master" EVSD-837/838/839
(Disc 1)
Soundcheck Party at Kyocera Dome, Osaka, Japan 21st April 2015 [EX-Audience Source (Original MK4 Master) Recording]
01. Band Jam 02. Intro 03. Honey Hush 04. Blue Suede Shoes 05. Magical Mystery Tour 06. Junior's Farm 07. C Moon 08. Let 'Em In 09. San Fransico Bay Blues 10. Every Night 11. Midnight Special 12. Ram On 13. Big Barn Bed 14. Bluebird 15. Queenie Eye 16. Lady Madonna 17. Outro
Live at Kyocera Dome, Osaka, Japan 21st April 2015 [EX-Audience Source (Original MK4 Master) Recording]
01. Opening 02. Magical Mystery Tour 03. Save Us 04. Can't Buy Me Love 05. Jet 06. Let Me Roll It / Foxy Lady 07. Paperback Writer 08. My Valentine 09. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five 10. The Long and Winding Road 11. Maybe I'm Amazed 12. I've Just Seen a Face 13. We Can Work It Out 14. Another Day 15. Hope for the Future 16. And I Love Her 17. Blackbird 18. Here Today 19. New 20. Queenie Eye 21. Lady Madonna
01. All Together Now 02. Lovely Rita 03. Eleanor Rigby 04. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! 05. Something 06. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 07. Band on the Run 08. Back in the U.S.S.R. 09. Let It Be 10. Live and Let Die 11. Hey Jude 1st Encore; 12. Day Tripper 13. Hi, Hi, Hi 14. I Saw Her Standing There 2nd Encore; 15. Yesterday 16. Helter Skelter 17. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End 18. Closing
2015 Tokyo Dome 1st Night MK4 Master IEM Matrix" EVSD-840/841/842
Soundcheck Party at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan 23rd April 2015
01. Band Soundcheck 02. Intro 03. Honey Don't 04. Blue Suede Shoes 05. Drive My Car 06. Coming Up 07. Let 'Em In 08. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On 09. On My Way To Work 10. San Francisco Bay Blues 11. Everybody Out There 12. Ram On 13. Bluebird 14. Massage Song / Lady Madonna 15. Outro
Live at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan 23rd April 2015
Soundcheck Party at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan 27th April 2015
01. Keyboards Soundcheck 02. Intro 03. Honey Hush 04. Blue Suede Shoes 05. Flaming Pie 06. Birthday 07. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' 08. Let 'Em In 09. Every Night 10. It's So Easy 11. Midnight Special 12. Ram On 13. Bluebird 14. Massage Song / Lady Madonna 15. Outro
Live at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan 27th April 2015
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Kyoorius Design Yatra is an international annual design conference happening in India. In 2017 the event was organized in Goa under the topic "Optimism", it was the 12th edition and the idea was to open the stage to stories of hope for a better world.
I was invited to be part of a panel discussion about "Type design now" focused on the experience of designing Typefaces in Indic scripts. It was an amazing woman-majority panel integrated by Kimya Gandhi, Noopur Datye and me, moderated by Ishan Khosla.
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Back to Functional Program Design in Scala
Learner Reviews & Feedback for Functional Program Design in Scala by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Starts Jul 19
In this course you will learn how to apply the functional programming style in the design of larger applications. You'll get to know important new functional programming concepts, from lazy evaluation to structuring your libraries using monads. We'll work on larger and more involved examples, from state space exploration to random testing to discrete circuit simulators. You'll also learn some best practices on how to write good Scala code in the real world. Several parts of this course deal with the question how functional programming interacts with mutable state. We will explore the consequences of combining functions and state. We will also look at purely functional alternatives to mutable state, using infinite data structures or functional reactive programming. Learning Outcomes. By the end of this course you will be able to: - recognize and apply design principles of functional programs, - design functional libraries and their APIs, - competently combine functions and state in one program, - understand reasoning techniques for programs that combine functions and state, - write simple functional reactive applications. Recommended background: You should have at least one year programming experience. Proficiency with Java or C# is ideal, but experience with other languages such as C/C++, Python, Javascript or Ruby is also sufficient. You should have some familiarity using the command line. This course is intended to be taken after Functional Programming Principles in Scala: https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1....
This is a university degree course which takes enormous effort to complete. But still its beond the programming course range giving you whats not possible to google or learn practical way. Thanks!
Thank you for this exciting course! I did the FP in Scala course a few years ago and decided to do the full certification now. I am looking forward to the next courses in the specialisation.
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By Abhinav P
I was optimistic about this course based on the previous course, because that course was consistent, self-contained, and systematic. On the other hand, this course was clearly put together by throwing together, rather haphazardly, bits and pieces of other courses, some of which no longer even exist. This is outrageous; a course like this would never be taught at a prestigious institution like EPFL, and it is highly deceptive to give us a course, put together in a arbitrary, incoherent, Frankensteinish fashion, right after a course that was quite systematic and coherent.
Week one and two were not bad, hence why I gave two stars instead of one. But week three involves a programming project that has literally nothing to do with the lectures at all. To be sure, I didn't mind learning about Scala Check, but I had to do it pretty much entirely on my own; it was mentioned for about five seconds in the lecture videos. If I wanted to just read documentation without any actual teaching, why would I sign up for a course like this?
And week 4! Coursera/whoever put this course together isn't even trying anymore. The videos are clearly from multiple different courses, and Odersky himself makes references entire weeks worth of content that simply doesn't exist anymore. This is a damn mess. In its current state, the course is simply not worth publishing.
For what its worth, the removed lecture videos can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMhMDErmC1TdBMxd3KnRfYiBV2ELvLyxN
But these videos do not contain the removed exercises/programming projects, unfortunately.
By Gabriel G C
It seems that this course was partially updated, but it was not done in a seamlessly way. I think this course deserve a full remake, if possible with the same instructor all the time.
By Shaul E
The course starts well and has really good exercises, HOWEVER at weeks 3-4 the lectures lose their logical order, it feels like a collection of random lectures from other course syllabus that have been "reused" here.
Week 3 exercise has very little to do with the lectures, and week 4 lectures are even worse, martin says he'll talk about 1 thing that is later not in the course, then we switch to someone else that talks about "things we've seen before" - which we haven't!
Don't get me wrong, you can still learn a lot from this and understand most of it, but it just feels very unprofessional, glad I've only audited this course and didn't pay for it, if that was the case I would feel very disappointed
By Jonathan S R
everything was intuitive and enjoyable
By Zeb S
I suspect I am not alone in finding the fourth week of this course to be somewhat lacking. I agree with the majority of the feedback regarding the shortcomings of the final week; however, as a whole this was a fun course and I learned a lot.
By Dmytro S
This is actually a very good course. There are some inconsistencies but it's actually good: when I fix them I have realized that I've learned more deeply. Anyway, this is a "must" course for someone who is learning Functional Programming Design.
By Ankur S
Very Good. Some parts can be provided with some material to refer . Example reactive programming.
By Santiago A
The course is great. I put 4 stars because week 4 is very hard to follow up and may take more than one week.
By Andrius V
Course material needs reviewing and updates
By Alex L
Definitely challenging. Sometimes there were some tricky gaps between what the lectures covered and what the assignments were looking for information wise.
By Light0617
By Malhar J
The course was good but not as good/detailed as the first one. Martin did an excellent job as usual though. I felt the course content was interesting but got very dull towards the end. The assignments were not really challenging.
By Patrik M
I've enjoyed some lectures. But overall, this course was less educative than the first one in the Scala specialisation. I do appreciate Erik Meijer as a professional and a scientist. But, in my humble oppinion, he is not a great lecturer.
By 李帅鹏
I want learn more about Scala. I find Someting interesting. Thank you, Mr Odersky.
By Bidhya N S
The course is not structured well. Also concepts like monads and functors are not covered in detailed way.
By Joël V
Provides an interesting theoretical bird view on: monads & its relation to for expressions, streams & lazy evaluation, elegant examples of mixing mutable and immutable data-structures for stateful programs, and finally signals for event management. The exercises are fun ;-) and illustrative although not too challenging.
By Subodh C
The structure of course could be refined to be more coherent.
By Marcin Z
Better than the first part!
By Antoine L
This course felt a bit less fundamental than the Functional Programming Principles but offered some nice introduction to more advanced concepts that feel to bridge the gap between theoretical advantages and real-world use cases.
On the other hand the Monad concept which I often hear about still feels a bit fuzzy, I felt like less time was dedicated to theory in this course.
This time again the exercises are challenging but fun and above all really help internalizing the concepts, although it feels like it will take me more work to really grok Signals not to mention Future which are not used in any exercises.
By Ignacio G S
Excellent course from the best professionals in the world. The Futures content should be tested as well.
By Angelos M
It is a really nice course but a bit dated.
By John S
Very enjoyable course!
By Siyuan W
there are a lil bit disordered of the course arrangement
By John M
There's a lot to chew on here, and it's well-articulated. Some of the examples are a bit opaque and academic - a little more of a practical, intuitive approach would go a long way.
By Brendan M
This course is really disjointed. Unlike the first course in Scala Functional Programming specialization, this course is stitched together from bits and pieces of other courses. The lectures make reference to other lessons that no longer appear in the course, and the assignments frequently have nothing to do with the lecture material.


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Biggest IPO of 2016: Chat app Line plans $1.14bn stock market float
Messaging app Line is planning a dual Japan-US IPO, which could raise as much as $1.14 bn, which could make it the biggest tech IPO of 2016.
The Japan-based chat app, known for its emoji-like stickers has priced its shares at ¥3,300, which represents the top end of its range thanks to high demand.
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The company grossed $1bn in revenue for the first time last year, but still failed to make a profit. Currently, the app is very localised to Asia, making nearly 90% from its native Japan, while more than 60% of its income is from its games.
The company plans to use the new capital to go after other markets in Asia and raise its profile for potential expansion plans elsewhere in the world.
The company is all set to begin trading in New York on Thursday and in Tokyo on Friday.
The company had delayed its IPO price range in late June as global markets reacted to the UKs Brexit vote.
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It has been said, if you are going to believe your good reviews, then you must also believe your bad. In light of this, here are the best and worst clips:
"Torke is a bright American hope, a vitally inventive composer"— Financial Times
"This is a composer with a completely developed style, and has established himself as one of our truly great composers. He's an American treasure." —American Record Guide
"Michael Torke is one of the foremost compositional talents in America today." —Gramophone
"Michael Torke practically defined post-Minimalism, a music in which eclectic young composers utilize the repetitive structures of a previous generation to incorporate musical techniques from both the classical tradition and the contemporary pop world." —Mark Swed, The Los Angeles Times
"Torke is our Copland: the rare composer who combines staggering technical chops, a rigorous and uncompromising approach to the working-out of material, and the guts to shape that material into music with broad appeal and without irony."— American Record Guide
"In fact, Torke may turn out to be the true heir to Bernstein's populist throne rather than America's answer to Michael Nyman. Torke's is certainly music to confound snobs and give immense pleasure." —BBC Music Magazine
"a master orchestrator whose shimmering timbral palette makes him the Ravel of his generation"—The New York Times
"some of the most optimistic, joyful and thoroughly uplifting music to appear in recent years"—Gramophone
We got kindergarten rhythm that fed a ladies'-tea-party idea of what Mendelssohn was about...W.H.Auden had a phrase for it when, pouring his tea out the window , he shocked the gathering with the appraisal, "Tepid urine." Village Voice
...the Stravinsky estate should sue —New York Magazine
"Torke, [Peter] Martins' Stravinsky, writes bad music." —Arlene Croce, The New Yorker
"...more monotonous and irritating than a Czerny five-finger exercise." —New York Magazine
...a twenty-two-minute piece of breathtaking banality. It could figure on a P.D.Q. Bach program as a comedy portrait of a late-Romantic composer...Andrew Porter, The New Yorker
...almost completely without substance...In the program guide we were "respectfully requested" not to applaud at the conclusion of the mass; I found the temptation easy to resist. Time Page, Newsday
"The difference between Torke and Barber seems to be that Barber wrote music that meant something to him, that worked on the listeners' mind and emotions, that was compact, logical and passionate, while Torke is still playing games." —New York Newsday
"It's possible that Torke is putting us on, but Bronze is too pretentious and badly made to succeed even as a parody. Following this bizarre miscalculation, Samuel Barber's lush First Symphony, branded as conservative in 1936, seemed positively progressive and bursting with creative vitality." —New York Magazine


Our dear friends Paul and James popped over to see us, flying back with Kev from London for the weekend, bless them i think they were heading for some sunshine, but unfortunatley our weather has been very similar to the UK of late, rain, rain and yes more rain. But that didn't stop us getting out there and showing them around.
Wellies are our staple footwear at the moment and we have acumulated a range of sizes ready for any visitors.
A footpath or a mini river.
Saturday night was steak and red wine night and after a delicious meal cooked by Kev and a few bottles of the local red stuff, we face timed our friend Jacks back in London and it looks like she had already had a few bottles of the red stuff herself!!!!!
After a fabulous weekend the boys headed back to London for a detox and Kev headed for India.
I had a busy few days clearing up and decorating and then on Friday our new windows arrived.
It didn't take us long to start knocking out the old ones, the first to go in was in Marion and Ian's spare bedroom.
Give Kev a power tool and he can turn his hand to anything…..
Ta Dah and here it is our first window in place, we loved our original windows but they let so much cold air in so they had to go but they will be recycled as Kev is going to make a green house for me.
The dark grey wooden frames look lovely, and yes the room was so much warmer.
Frosted windows for the bathrooms.
Then on Saturday we headed for the Aveyrone to look at a antique fireplace for our kitchen.
Last monday we had visited Laurent the Mares son in laws antique showroom and fell in love with his wood burning stove, it was an origional Godin Colonial, he told us about a great website a bit like ebay called "Bon Coin" which means good corner. After a bit of searching we found a few of them and the best was the one in the Aveyrone.
Luckily the one we saw was in fabulous condition so we bought it there and then and as soon as we got home it was put in place and a fire lit.
The critters however had another relaxing week!!!!!!


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Jony Talukdar (born 6 June 1993) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has played for Dhaka Division. He made his Twenty20 debut for Uttara Sporting Club in the 2018–19 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League on 26 February 2019.

See also
 List of Dhaka Division cricketers
 List of Prime Bank Cricket Club cricketers

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1993 births
Living people
Bangladeshi cricketers
Dhaka Division cricketers
Prime Bank Cricket Club cricketers
Uttara Sporting Club cricketers
People from Narayanganj District


Jesus clearly states that those who worship God must worship Him both in spirit and truth. In previous weeks, I have discussed aspects of each individually. Today, I would like to begin to look at how these tie together because I believe that if both are not present, our worship is not what God has intended for us.
There will always be a struggle of leaning too heavily in one direction or another. People who know me are aware that I place a very heavy emphasis on truth in worship. This is true. Both Scripture and personal experience have taught me that this is essential. However, as I look closely at my life, I find that I vacillate back and forth between two extremes, with occasional stops in some sort of balanced area.
It is very easy for me to get lost in the details. I know what I need to do, most of the time. I know what my obligations are as follower of Christ, husband, father, pastor, employee, etc. I have certain things that I know I need to do every day. And I do them. This includes my spiritual life. I read the Word. I try to pray. I listen to music that focuses on the gospel. I try to live in obedience to what I think is God's will. However, I find that there is, at times, little devotion or delight in the process of carrying out these daily duties. I am attempting to live out God's truth, but something is missing.
Then, maybe I swing to the other extreme. I am looking for something that shows me the purpose in what I am doing. Or maybe I am looking for some demonstration of God's love or purpose for me. Am I following God's path for my life? Why do I feel so far away from You God? How long will this situation go on? Why will you not give me some sign that shows me I am not drifting in a boat without a sail or paddle? Why can't I hear Your voice? Why do other people seem to hear You and know exactly where You are taking them? Why can't I have what they have? Oh God, please empower me to be the man I need to be! Give me Your strength and wisdom! Show me You are there! As so the conversation goes.
Two different ways of living. Both include aspects that can be present in a godly, balanced Christian life. Living in obedience and wanting to experience the presence of God are great pursuits. However, lived in exclusion of each other, we become unbalanced and I think we miss God's best for our lives. The first can lead to a life of obligation or duty. The second, can lead to a life of infatuation and disenchantment.
A life lived solely out of obligation and duty has little or no devotion. It does not move beyond the task or principles to the Person behind the principles. We live our lives, fulfilling our responsibilities, and our relationship with God gets lost in the details. The law of God and works He has called us to do were not meant to exist apart from our relationship to Him. The coming of Christ, our Immanuel, was for the purpose of uniting us with our Creator, breaking forever the curse of sin. Our God is with us.
The life of infatuation rarely goes below the surface or the immediate. We are looking for experiences or signs that make us feel close to God or prove that He is with us. When the fruit and direction from God are apparent and overflowing, we are on a roll. We are running with God. When things don't go well or God seems to have gone on vacation, we become disheartened or bored with spiritual things. Even worse, we can feel that God has abandoned us. We don't move beyond the gifts or benefits to the Giver of the gifts. God wants to grow and build our lives and show us the depth of Who He is and what He has done, but we are grasping for temporary things. Again, Christ is lost in our pursuit.
Truth is foundational to worship that is in spirit and truth. As we learn from the Word of God, that truth produces wisdom and knowledge in our lives of Who God really is. We better understand ourselves and our utter hopelessness apart from Christ. The Holy Spirit enlightens our heart and minds to understand the wonders of Who God is and what He has done for us in Christ. As we fill our minds with the Word of God, He works in us to transform our minds and lives into the image of His Son.
As God's truth sinks down into our hearts, the flame of worship is ignited by the Holy Spirit. The expression of our hearts, in response to the wonders of God and His works, is an essential part of biblical worship. We worship God in spirit, and this response is grounded on the truth of God as revealed in His Word. As our relationship with God grows and deepens, we respond to Him in love, rather than mere duty or obligation. We are no longer trying to produce fruit through our own good works. God is producing the fruit in us, by the power of His Spirit.
The binding together of worship in spirit and truth together produces a treasuring of Christ. As we seek to know God better through His Word, our knowledge of Him increases, and so we grow in love for Him. This in turn, should propel us to seek to know Him more, and so the journey continues. We sink our roots deeper and deeper into Christ and our lives become saturated with Him. He truly becomes our treasure, our First Love. God works in and through us to do His will and to spread the gospel of Christ. Our worship is not based on obligation or pursuing experiences, but it is rooted in truth and producing a life that pursues after Him. What a glorious gift God has given to us. We may come to Him and know Him through Christ.
What greater aspiration could we have? Though this life will be filled with struggles and our relationship with God will have its ups and downs, God will not forsake us. He calls us to draw near to Him, in Christ. It is this life's great pursuit. Through it, God will transform our lives and use us for the great glory of His holy name.
This entry was posted in Foundations, Worship on May 25, 2011 by Phil Hill.


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Move over, James Webb: humanity is about to get another eye in the sky. There's just been a new space telescope announced, named TOLIMAN, and it's already got funding from the Breakthrough project.
The telescope is designed around two things: its target, and the exotic optics the telescope will use. TOLIMAN's mission is to point directly at the Alpha Centauri system, in order to search for potentially habitable exoplanets there. The system actually contains three stars; Proxima Centauri (inside the red circle above) is confirmed to host a rocky planet in its Goldilocks zone, and there are likely several other planets elsewhere in the system.
Proposed design of the TOLIMAN space telescope. Credit: University of Sydney.
The name TOLIMAN stands for "Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood." Clunky, we know. But the acronym was chosen in homage to the space telescope's target star system. Toliman is the official name of a star within the Alpha Centauri system: α Centauri B, the smaller and cooler of the binary pair around which Proxima Centauri orbits.
The 30-cm telescope is surprisingly small, for a space telescope, but its target is Earth's nearest neighboring star system: Alpha Centauri. Alpha Cen is the brightest star in the constellation Centaurus, visible in the southern sky, and it's about 4.3 light-years from Earth.
Image: Stellarium, via NASA
The system was first documented by Arabic astronomers during the Golden Age of Islam. The word "Toliman" itself is the Latinized version of an ancient Arabic name for Alpha Centauri, which meant "the Ostriches." But two other stars in the Southern sky already bore that name, so to bring the name of the new star into accord with the constellation in which it was found, it was later renamed Rijl al-Qinṭūrus. This in turn was Latinized to Rijel Kentaurus, "the Centaur's foot," which is where TOLIMAN is going to point.
TOLIMAN's exotic optics are its other keystone feature. The telescope will use a "diffraction pupil lens" for its observations. Multiple overlaid structural patterns are arranged on the surface of the lens, so that the different areas separate incident light by its phase.
Top: Black and white regions show three overlaid patterns on the diffraction pupil lens; black and white regions in each are in antiphase. They perform a kind of binning by phase. Bottom: The point-spread field associated with each. Right: "The patterns to the left illustrate 3 separate log-harmonic spirals, while to the right is the combined effect of the sum of all 3 log-harmonic spirals (upper) together with the corresponding PSF (lower)." Credit: study authors.
Because of this ability to distinguish separate sources, this design lends itself very well to studying Alpha Cen in particular. The system's binary pair are only about 23 AU apart — about the distance from the Sun to Uranus. That means they have very little angular separation between them. Even so, the two stars can be clearly distinguished by the diffraction pupil design, because where they might overlap visually, using this lens means that different light sources stand out from one another in an obvious, kaleidoscopic way:
Different light sources really do stand out quite sharply from one another. Image: Fig. 3, TOLIMAN project abstract; Tuthill et al., 2018.
The international collaboration is led by Peter Tuthill of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, and it includes teams from the University of Sydney, Breakthrough Initiatives, Saber Astronautics, and NASA's JPL. Jason Held, CEO of Saber Astronautics, described TOLIMAN in a press release as "an exciting, bleeding-edge space telescope," one that will be "supplied by an exceptional international collaboration. It will be a joy to fly this bird."
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Returns: A lot of returns and other items accumulate through out the store in a given day. The cashiers usually are the ones to put these away when there is down-time. With perishables most clerks would just do the "feel test" if it feels cold then they put it back on the shelf if it feels warm they will mark it damaged and it will not put it back. Well what I am trying to tell you is you could be purchasing perishables that have been defrosted. The best hint I can tell you is look at the package for signs of possible defrost.
Also on the note of returns: Have a non-perishable item that you do not want anymore? Does your supermarket sell this item? a lot of supermarkets are very lenient on their return policy. I know of a lot of stores that do not require a receipt for items under $10 ...so why not bring your unwanted item back and get a few extra dollars! However remember that supermarkets are also becoming more high tech. If they want to investigate if they did in fact sell you the item they probably could. In big chain stores all transactions are stored in the computers and they can be called up by your card number check number, time/day of your order, or the manager can do a search and see if they actually sold this item when you say they did. This is why I would not try and bring high priced items back to a store you did not purchase it from.
Scanning Policy: a lot of stores have price accuracy policies. If any item scans at the wrong price you could get the item for free. If you notice this tell the cashier or go to customer service. There are limitations though as to the price of the item. See the store for details.
"Fresh or Free" policy: If you find an item that is out of date, you bring this item to the service desk with an identical, in date item and they will give you the in date (and sometimes the out of date) item for free! It helps them to keep the inventory moving and you get free groceries.
Supermarket Design: Most supermarkets are designed to slow you down as much as possible. Every extra minute you spend lingering will cost you $1.70 according to current research. The more time they get you to spend in their store the more money you will likely spend. This is why milk is put way at the back. A store is often designed so that you cannot even follow a straight path to the back but must move around the produce, the fresh backed bread, and the large displays in the middle of the aisles.
Supermarkets want you to think that they have across-the-board low prices, which is often not true. Many stores use a mix of highly advertised items sold at cost, then some at 5% above cost, and others at 10%, 15% and 20%. By keeping it confusing, stores can create the illusion that everything is at a rock bottom price.
Store-brands may be made by national-brand manufacturers.
Aisle Ends: Supermarkets strategically place nonsale items along with the big sale items at the end aisle displays. They hope the customer will buy the item thinking its on sale. Always look at the tag of an item before buying it.
Store Brands: Many store brands are made by the same companies who sell much more expensive brand-name products. Most supermarkets do not have the own manufacturing plants as it is cheaper for them just to have their products packaged by established manufacturers.
Productive Produce: Think it's a coincidence that you almost always have to walk through the produce department when you enter the supermarket? The produce is the second most profitable section. While it occupies a little over 10% of the supermarket, it brings in close to 20% of the store's profits.
When you are bored and standing in line at the check-out counter, you may find yourself reaching for a magazine, a pack of batteries, duct tape, or chewing gum. It turns out that this section of the store sells roughly 3x as much merchandise per square foot as the rest of the store (Food Marketing Institute, Washington DC). Often these are high profit items. Batteries, for example, usually sell for less at discount department stores.
Products at eye level sells! Companies pay big bucks to place their products at adult eye level for adult sales or children's eye level for children's sales. Stocking fees or "slotting allowances" are often paid to place products at eye level. Brand-name products and high profit products are often sold this way.
Non-grocery convenience items such as medicine, motor oil, office supplies, and light bulbs are often over priced compared to other stores like Walmart.
It is possible to get a lower price if the product is damaged or out of date. Also you may be able to substitute other items for sale items. Talk to a manager and be nice!
Some packages are being reduced in weight, but the packaging looks the same.
Most supermarkets now have ATM Machines and most supermarkets also let you pay for your order using ATM cards. What a lot of people still do not know is that instead of paying the fee for withdrawing money from your bank account using the ATM you can simply purchase something from the store, use your debit card to purchase it, and ask for additional cash back. In the supermarket I worked for you could have the store charge your debit card for $200.00 over the amount of your bill and they will give you $200 cash back. They do not charge any fee for this so you save money.
Most supermarkets have all the registers linked to a main computer. This main computer is usually located in the management or courtesy office. uses of the computer include making sure cashiers are being honest and faithful by ringing a customers order correctly. The manager is able to view current orders at a specific register with the computer and make sure everything that the customer had was in fact scanned.
Don't assume that everything at the end of the aisle is on sale. �You always want to check to see if there is any kind of sale sign. If there is not, guess what, you�re probably paying full price," says Lempert.