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The Bell Tolls - Addendum to Dreams, A ghost in the graveyard
Description: A butterfly flaps its wings and a hurricane forms someplace else. An act of violence makes a small change to the world and an old ghost is roused. The Red Witch had not been seen or heard from for some time, but perhaps the absence of Jezebel is louder than her presence was. Loud enough even to awaken Naerose from whatever rock she was hiding under.
I'll do my crying in the rain. It wasn't the actual name of the song, and the words she spoke to go with it were not the lyrics. Still, stirred from some great slumber or out from under some rock by a sudden absence, here she was, as though she'd never left. Unchanged unscarred. In her ears the song plays and on her lips are the words she says,
"We've done a lot of things that we'll never regret
The good ones or the bad ones, moments never to forget. It's hard for me to be cheer, while feeling so blue
By accepting the fact that my life's not the same without you. "
Despite the morose poem she rides along on the bike, a vespa scooter to a location that she just felt like going to, randomly? She doesn't know, it never even occurs to her to wonder.
Elsewhere. . .
Fingers of blood red light tickled the sky as dawn shown the first signs in the morning haze. Darkness still blanketed Boothill cemetery, broken now with headlines, flashlights and the crackling of radio static. Any random onlooker might be forgiven for mistaking this early morning activity as that of police, in fact it would not be long before the call would be made to the real authorities, but for now it was a mere façade. Get too close and these men in black would turn menacing very quickly. One jogger already learned the hard way that he had best take a different route this morning. Still, the men and women were gloomy as they swept the area, perhaps the graveyard infected them with its own melancholy.
The crunch of gravel and the steaks of light announced yet another team sweeping deep amongst the stones. The woman in the lead paused as her radio chirped to life.
"Done searching ma'am. The bus is clean, no sign of the gas or the target."
"Damn, and the blood?"
"Dead end ma'am, there are tire tracks, but they stop once they hit the main road. The lab will try trace the owner, but that will take a few hours."
"Okay, keep searching. We have about a half hour before we have to pull out." The woman in charge grits her teeth, but looks otherwise no different from her many underlings, all tasked with different things either sweeping the cemetery or holding perimeter.
"Blue team, come in," she hissed into her radio.
"Blue team here ma'am."
"Get the bus back to base, have forensics give it another sweep there."
"Roger."
Her black dress suit was doing nothing for the chill nor her mood. She cursed and spat. "It shouldn't be this freaking cold." No one responded, for all their talkative nature her underlings might have well have been the gravestones. The four accompanying her shared glances but then looked back at her for direction.
"Don't just stand there, spread out! We need to recover that damned canister."
They scattered and resumed searching, but she couldn't help but feel it was pointless. The
cemetery was large, and the canister was no bigger than a thermos.
*chzzt* "Ma'am, red team reporting activity."
"We have a woman coming up the drive on a vespa scooter, looks like she just got out of a Halloween party. Red dress, red hat, black sunglasses, it's amazing she can see where she's going. Kind of looks like a cheap witch."
The woman in charge froze, "Don't take your eyes off of her, if she gets any closer get rid of her somehow. She could be super powered for all we know. " And god did she know. Seems every other day a new kind of freak is discovered. Not that she wasn't a trained martial artist herself, she couldn't belch fireballs. Guns would have to suffice for her people.
*chzzt* "Ma'am, red team reporting. The intruder seems to have left."
"Goo- "
"No wait, her scooter is still here. She must be on foot."
"Are you fucking kidding me?" barked the woman.
"Everyone, this is a priority, we may have someone on the grounds, stop whatever you'd doing and find her."
She broke into a run toward Red team's zone, knowing full well that they would kill if they had to. It wasn't that there was a problem with killing, they were working for Shadaloo after all, but better not to draw more attention to themselves then necessary and when you lose a canister of Sarin gas, the heat is already on. She was just rounding a corner when someone shouted, "There she is!"
Sure enough not fifty years away was the woman in red and the sight of her caused all five of them to stop dead in their tracks. "What the hell is that?" one of them uttered while guns were drawn. She was exactly as described. Red dress with long voluptuous sleeves that weren't actually attached to the dress. Buckles in front and boots that went to the knee. She had a hat that fit a witch and black circular shades, it was dawning but still too damned dark for shades. Also she had a broom stick, but that wasn't what brought the C.O. to a halt. It was the damned thermos in her hand.
"I got a shot on her ma'am, I'm going to- "
"Don't shoot you idiot, if you hit the canister we could all be dead." The C.O. hissed, then raised her voice toward the freak in a Halloween getup. "This is the police! Put the canister down slowly and your hands up!"
Her underlings eyed each other nervously. No one gave a damn about impersonating the authorities, but they were sure uneasy about her dropping the Sarin gas, now that it was pointed out the danger they were all in.
Fortunately, the bluff had just the effect. The woman in red looked up with a start and a panicked expression of a child caught red handed with all of the cookies. Unfortunately the woman in red did not follow instructions and instead made a run for it.
"Goddamnit, after her, but do not shoot, we have to get the canister from her, then you can shoot." The C.O. barked, already giving chase. The woman was surprisingly fast for being dressed so idiotically and the C.O. more then suspected that she was one of those powered nuisances. "Everyone surround her, even if she is powered we should be more than enough. "
"Ma'am," someone from red team shouted, "She's running away from her scooter, she's cornering herself!"
"Finally some good damned luck," the C.O. barked as they ran around a mausoleum to where the woman would surely find herself corned only to find nothing.
"Fuck!" cursed the C.O., she didn't believe in ghosts, but the woman in red seemed to vanish into thin air.
"Someone call it in, we're looking for a woman in red who apparently stole the canister. Also call the police, claim to have spotted some blood on a morning jog or something."
Not far a woman in red, a face not seen on the scene for quite some time hops on her scooter after a short broom flight and guns it, escaping at a blistering 35 miles per hour with a thermos shoved in her red witches hat.
Humming the rest of the tune, the woman in red finishes the words that totally don't belong to the song.
"You've been with me, through ups and downs
You'd been willing to feed me all over town. Just to help me get through, my hunger all along And now I guess I'll have to be strong."
It wasn't a very good poem, she decided. Whatever she saw there, she wasn't sure what to make of it, but she probably did believe in ghosts and maybe some actions result in weird outcomes. Maybe those outcomes included her. She was hungry, but not yet hungry enough to try whatever was in the weird thermos yet.
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Beautiful besttijd for were times, and Ferrari, Alonso despite problems second with McLaren
Kimi were times on the last day in his Ferrari to the fastest time driven, the Fin was nearly the track record of team-mate Sebastian Vettel yesterday. At McLaren, there were again problems for Fernando Alonso, though, the Spaniard eventually in to the second time to drive.
Yesterday gave Sebastian Vettel his business card in his Ferrari the track record at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona to pulverize. Today wanted to team-mate Kimi were times not simply because in a time of 1:17.221 he was not only the fastest, he was just a few hundredths slower than Vettel yesterday.
Again, satisfied faces and so at Ferrari but at McLaren, that will this morning, not been the case. After the very successful and productive day of our compatriot Stoffel Vandoorne yesterday, team-mate Fernando Alonso this morning after barely an hour of testing came to a halt. Again was a spill on the basis of the problem with the McLaren MCL33. The Spaniard even had no timed lap put.
Less good news there was also a note in the factory team of Renault. The past few days was the renstal very productive but in the morning there was detected a problem with the gearbox of Carlos Sainz ' car. Sainz had to, just like fellow countryman Fernando Alonso for hours watching how the other riders were testing. With Alonso it was because McLaren decided the entire engine to be replaced.
When Ferrari got Kimi were times under steam. Around 12: 30 pm let the Fin the absolute besttijd of the day, write it down. With a time of 1:17.221 was were times in just 39 thousandths slower than the track record of Vettel on Thursday.
Were times went with a good feeling lunch but when Sauber was slightly less the case. The image below predicted, after all, very little good, and the mechanics of the Swiss team were running to the car of Charles Leclerc get ready for the afternoon.
A little after 14h, we saw Alonso after his motorwissel again on the job. It turned out to be the beginning of a very productive afternoon for Alonso and McLaren. The Spaniard succeeded in bringing his rondentotaal to float up to 93 laps, and he left it the second time. All in all, still a positive shutoff valve for Alonso and McLaren.
Ferrari the past few days with a lot of attention, also for Mercedes, it was today a very productive day. Bottas and Hamilton reason, respectively, 104 and 97 laps, which equates to 201 laps in total. What the lap times are concerned let Mercedes with a sixth and eleventh period of time is clearly not in her cards look.
After today, the preparatory work on it, and the teams quickly return to their factories to get the latest updates and preparations for the first race of the new season to work. Within barely two weeks of that already in place in Melbourne, Australia. There rest of the teams but had very little time to return to the factory, and then the other side of the world to search.
Rash day 8 in Barcelona:
1. K. Räikkönen Ferrari 01:17.221 157
2. F. Alonso McLaren 01:17.784 93
3. C. Sainz Jr. Renault 01:18.092 45
4. D. Ricciardo Red Bull 01:18.327 92
5. R. Grosjean Haas 01:18.412 181
6. V. Bottas Mercedes 01:18.825 104
7. B. Hartley Scuderia Toro Rosso 01:18.949 156
8. E. Ocon Force India F1 01:18.967 163
9. C. Leclerc Sauber 01:19.118 75
10. S. Sirotkin Williams 01:19.189 105
11. L. Hamilton Mercedes 01:19.464 97
12. L. Stroll Down Williams 01:19.954 27
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League Two news: Richard Money axed as manager of struggling Cambridge United
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1 Richard Money Cambridge United have sacked manager Richard Money after three years at the helm.Money guided the U's to promotion back into the Football League in 2014 and to FA Trophy glory in the same season.Last term, he presided over a memorable FA Cup run, which saw Cambridge take Manchester United to a replay, and led the club to League Two survival.He was duly rewarded with a three-year deal in May which also gave him greater off-field control. But Money has now been shown the door just five months later after a difficult start to the new campaign.Cambridge have won just five of their 16 games and are 18th in the League Two table following Friday night's defeat at home to Bristol Rovers.Assistant manager Joe Dunne will take charge of training this week ahead of the club's FA Cup tie against Basingstoke at the Abbey Stadium on Saturday."The club has taken this difficult decision due to the disappointing pattern of results over the last nine months and because the current squad is not showing consistent signs of achieving its potential," read a U's statement."We want to place on record our sincere thanks to Richard, who has been instrumental in the club's progress over the last three years. "He led the team to success in the FA Trophy, promotion back to the Football League and a memorable run in the FA Cup last season which culminated in two games against Manchester United. Richard has achieved a special place in the history of Cambridge United Football Club and will always be warmly welcomed at the Abbey Stadium." read more
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Meanwhile, police on Tuesday said they were investigating whether Onate was involved in questionable business dealings with at least one of the suspects that could have led to his death. "We speculate they were involved in illegal goings-on, but I can't say what that is. … It may have been something that went wrong that precipitated the attack," said Pasadena Police Department Cmdr. Mike Korpal. Court records show Bruister has a 2003 conviction for burglary. Hampton was convicted in 2005 of possession of heroin and cocaine paraphernalia. She was also convicted in 2001 of being under the influence of narcotics while driving with a suspended license. Villagomez was convicted in 2006 of receiving and concealing stolen property, in 2005 of possessing narcotics, and in 1988 of grand theft, according to court records. Police were called to the bus stop about 9:55 p.m. Thursday. Officers found Onate lying on the sidewalk near the stop. He had been shot multiple times. He died later at a hospital. molly.okeon@sgvn.com (626) 578-6300, Ext. 4496 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set! PASADENA – Prosecutors on Tuesday declined to file charges against one of three people arrested in the shooting death of a 42-year-old Pasadena man at a bus stop last week. Prosecutors said they rejected filing a murder charge against Jorge Villagomez, 38, of Pasadena in the Thursday shooting of Frank Onate in the 700 block of North Los Robles Avenue. Villagomez was expected to be released from custody Tuesday. Murder charges remained in place against a second suspect, Johnny Bruister, 46, of Pasadena. AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREStriving toward a more perfect me: Doug McIntyre Deputy District Attorney Martin Bean said prosecutors have a videotape that shows the shooting. The third suspect, Cherlyn Hampton, 42, of Pasadena, was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Bruister's and Hampton's arraignments were postponed. Bail for Bruister was set at $2million. Hampton's bail was set at $500,000. Investigators believe Onate might have known one or more of the suspects. read more
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Delegates from FEDETON (EU Federation of Nautical Tourism Destinations) were treated to a warm Donegal welcome when they arrived Donegal Town for their General Assembly.The AGM which was held in the Central Hotel was hosted by Donegal County Council with assistance from Donegal Tourism Ltd. Cllr.Terence Slowey, Cathaoirleach of the Council said he was delighted to be there to welcome these delegates to Donegal and to showcase all that Donegal has to offer on the Wild Atlantic Way. He told us: "It was a great privilege for me to welcome these delegates to Donegal. Those attending the meeting had travelled from several EU countries including Croatia, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy and Donegal County Council is the only Council in Ireland to be a member of FEDETON."I think this demonstrates the Council's commitment to developing our marine tourism sector and maximising opportunities that are being presented by the Wild Atlantic Way."FEDETON is an EU representative body with a specialist interest in nautical tourism. The objectives of FEDETON include the development of nautical tourism destinations in member regions, lobbying the EU commission to gain recognition and seek funding opportunities for this sector and to develop networks amongst nautical tourism destinations such as Donegal to encourage knowledge exchange and collaborative approaches to benefit all regions.The President of FEDETON, Mr. Bernard Faucon was welcomed by Cllr. Slowey at the meeting and was presented with a commemorative Donegal Pen and a bottle of Selkie whiskey from the Sliabh Liag Distillery in Donegal to mark the occasion of his visit to the county. During the meeting action plans for the future were discussed during a very lively discussion on the way forward for nautical tourism destinations in FEDETON.After the business of the day came to a close, the delegates had the opportunity to tour the county with Joe Haughey Tours taking them along our beautiful coastline. They were very impressed when stopping off in Killybegs to see the many fishing vessels and the location of the new marina. Onwards towards Sliabh Liag along the coast road, delegates were in awe of the stunning coastal scenery. Meeting Paddy Byrne at Teelin Pier, the delegates took a boat trip out to Sliabh Liag and were amazed by the sheer height of the majestic sea cliffs of Sliabh Liag. They even managed to catch a large Pollock fish from the boat, a moment that will be remembered forever.That evening delegates enjoyed some local fresh seafood with a meal in Castle Murray House as the sun set over the beautiful Donegal Bay.The President, Mr. Faucon remarked that 'a place of such rugged coastal beauty such as Donegal has the opportunity to become one of Europe's premier nautical tourism destinations of excellence and our shared objectives within FEDETON have the potential to achieve this goal'.Several of the delegates had planned to stay in Donegal after the meeting to spend a couple of days touring the county, while others said they looked forward to returning soon. EU TOURISM GROUP GETS WARM DONEGAL WELCOME was last modified: July 20th, 2016 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:donegalFEDETON (EU Federation of Nautical Tourism Destinations) read more
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Houlihan Lokey Advises Meredith on Sale of Sports Illustrated
Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Sports Illustrated, a subsidiary of Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP), has been acquired by Authentic Brands Group (ABG) for $110 million.
As the most-read sports magazine in the world, Sports Illustrated is an undisputed leader in journalism with an audience of more than 120 million consumers. Its enterprise includes a fastest-growing top 10 sports website, storied print magazine, rising TV and digital platform, Emmy award-winning digital innovation, and enduring franchises including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and the nationally televised Sportsperson of the Year award ceremony. The print magazine has shaped the narrative around sports culture over the last six decades, publishing thousands of covers featuring the world's most disruptive professional athletes including Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams, and Tiger Woods, as well as influential sports teams, celebrities, and political figures.
The Sports Illustrated transaction does not include the FanSided digital platform which reaches more than 40 million unique monthly users; this property is currently in the process of being sold.
Meredith is the No. 1 magazine operator in the U.S., and owner of the largest premium content digital network for American consumers and has been committed to service journalism for more than 115 years. Today, Meredith uses multiple distribution platforms—including broadcast television, print, digital, mobile, and video—to provide consumers with content they desire and to deliver the messages of its advertising and marketing partners.
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Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Meredith Corporation and assisted in initiating, structuring, and negotiating of the transaction on its behalf.
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So, I spend 6 out of 7 days a week with so much homework that by the time I'm done all I want to do is sleep. No more writing. My brain is usually so fried.
Today though… day 13 I got 2353 words written. I'll also be holding a WC on Skype tomorrow night after hours of homework and we'll see how much writing I can get in then. I'm not that far behind and NaNo isn't really stressing me out as much as school is. But I am committed to finishing NaNo.
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I have a bad habit of making my first Prisoner post from memory, but there's no danger of that here, because I have no memory at all of "It's Your Funeral" -- save that it is muddled, repetitive, and involves a fabulous training montage. These impressions didn't change much upon rewatch, though André van Gyseghem's retiring 2 was more moving than I remember, and there are some interesting implications for the development of 6's character.
Adding to the off-model quality is the fact that most of it obviously wasn't shot in Portmeirion. It won't be the last on that ignoble list, though I think it's the first.
-Nesbitt's 2 doesn't begin to understand 6, and this is apparent from his remark about the fainting 50: "She's become a lady in distress, and he's going to be all good deeds and sympathy now." 6 is many things, but if there's anything we know he's not, it's a man who's moved by a damsel -- and whatever residual empathy he once had for such an approach has been eradicated by now.
It seems to be a part of the standard 2 briefing, however, that 6 abstains from sugar: "Here's the stick, here's the scarf, here's the oversized phone, Number 6 doesn't eat candy, turn out the lights on your way out."
-Speaking of misunderstanding, the retiring 2 has a point when he tells 6, "You've never understood us, number 6 -- we never fail!" 6 is starting to believe that by now, though, and one gets the feeling that the only reason he saves the man is to prove him wrong about that, at least for the moment.
-(Would 6 have gone so far as to help the retiring 2 escape, however, if he hadn't been so sympathetic in his anger and despair? Maybe 6 can be moved by distress after all, so long as it comes from someone he identifies with.)
-This episode's filming was apparently very troubled, and I suspect that McGoohan's performance reflects the tensions on set: we've never seen 6 less controlled, his trademark singsong becoming a cracked aria on lines like "I'll listen so long as what you say isn't too obviously phony, yes."
It makes sense in-universe, too. 6 is coming to a truly desperate point. His experiences in "Many Happy Returns" have exhausted him and destroyed his remaining hope for meaningful escape, and his initial reactions to the conspiracies range from apathy to inappropriate rage. He is a character in revolt against his storyline.
What's interesting is that this desperation leads to places 6 never expected to reach: he has begun to identify with the Village, to fight for its citizens' best interests, to think like a 2 and act as an equal member of whatever organization they represent. I am not sure if this is a stroke of genius on his part, the only remaining offensive move, or whether it just means the Village has won and only continues to torture him because it doesn't know what winning looks like.
-The Serious Business sequence predicting 6's day is brilliant, and could have run for the rest of the episode so far as I'm concerned. Most of the time, I find myself totally disinterested in the magic computers of the Village -- the anxieties they represent are so unrelated to the anxieties I feel about computers today -- and the revelation that the Village can map out its citizens' lives as if they were so many Sims is no different, but on the other hand, "Subject cooling off."
-Likewise, I know it's a joke, but I actually quite like 118's portrait of 6 (whose square-and-circle theme echoes the aptitude test from "Arrival").
-It's a pity that just about every viewing order places this lengthy and pointless Kosho sequence before the one in "Hammer Into Anvil," which is almost identical but placed in a context that renders it hilarious.
-The revelation that 6 spends most of his days in endless, mindless athleticism makes me wonder what else there is to do in the Village than Kosho, shooting, walking, water-skiing, heavy bag, and chess: do they not have any books? I'm sure we've seen a few as set dressing, and yet I find it hard to believe the Village allows anything of substance into its borders, the 2s not being great fans of imagination on a whole.
posted by thesmallmachine at 8:27 PM on August 9, 2014 [4 favorites]
I find this one's narrative of Twos confusing. In all previous episodes, we've been shown that Twos are transient; they come, they take a crack at Six, they're pressured by whatever voice is on the end of their phone, they fail, they go.
But here it's suggested that Two is a long-term position; Young-Two is the appointed successor to old-Two (and is identified by Control's staff as "the acting number two". And am I remembering the dialogue correctly that old-Two tells Six that he's been away and that all the previous Twos were "interims"?
This seems a different version of succession what has we've been shown before. It could be an act, yet another play for Six -- but the plot continues to play out for old-Two even when Six is not present to witness it. Are the two Twos being played as well?
The villagers treat the succession ceremony as entirely normal matter-of-fact. Have they seen it before? Or is this just the same going-along-with-the-act business as their participation in the "election" in Free For All?
This desperation leads to places 6 never expected to reach: he has begun to identify with the Village, to fight for its citizens' best interests, to think like a 2 and act as an equal member of whatever organization they represent.
The contrast with Free For All is interesting. In that one Six's interest in the villagers was in rousing them to revolt. In this one his interest is in maintaining the status quo.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 1:46 PM on August 10, 2014
Also: I love how smarmy young-Two is.
And I love how resigned old-Two is at the end. He knows full well -- and tells Six as much -- that even if he takes the helicopter he won't actually escape. But none-the-less he takes the chance; just like Six always did.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 1:49 PM on August 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
There's also a contrast with Checkmate here: in that episode, it is the other conspirators who reveal Six's plan to escape to Two; here, it is Six who reveals a conspiracy to Two(s).
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 5:05 PM on August 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
It's a strange episode because it does so much to evolve and darken 6's character, but it's also a strikingly superficial story that never feels fully integrated into the canon. To explain the 2s' frequent rotation is antithetical to the spirit of the series; the rather lighthearted idea of the jammers meshes oddly with the unusually tyrannical depiction of a Village prepared to punish assassination with mass killing; the plot depends on an absence of the heavy surveillance and mutual policing that is the bedrock of the series; the idea of the new 2 killing his predecessor and using the death as an excuse to violently punish the Village isn't remotely in line with the iron veneer of utopia that other 2s see as sacred; the new 2 is cluelessly out of his depth in a way that undermines the menace of the role and the omniscience of his masters. The idea of 6 collaborating to prevent a greater evil, and perhaps as a show of his own power, is a believable and logical step. It's just that this episode never fully sells it.
There's also nothing about this episode that feels as if it could be a metaphor for 6's own thought process -- all the best ones work on both levels. Someone in an earlier thread made the very sharp observation that the 2s represent things 6 has to overcome, and that has stuck with me all the way through the rewatch, but I'm at a loss to describe what Nesbitt's 2 would represent. If it's 6's confidence that his flawless spycraft will see him through, it's an episode too late.
The idea holds for the retiring 2, though: both he and 6 have to overcome the idea that, in a futile situation, one's individual actions no longer matter.
posted by thesmallmachine at 10:59 PM on August 11, 2014 [2 favorites]
I would love to know more about 26 (?), the bald man in the control room, who appears to run the day-to-day operations. And what is with the black badges?
I agree, I'd watch an entire episode of surveillance footage of Our Hero. Now I can see how he manages to win those fistfights.
Doesn't the Village run on work units? Do they give an allowance?
I am totally lost with the Kosho sequence.
After the return to England and his betrayal/ditching, I think Our Hero has realized that even if he leaves, he may not get out.
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\section{INTRODUCTION}

Muon beams of low emittance have been proposed as the basis for  intense, well-characterized neutrino beams for the Neutrino Factory and for lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at the Muon Collider~\cite{ref:nf, ref:nf2, ref:nfmc}. The stored muons at such facilities originate from decays of pions and therefore inherit a large volume in phase space. For efficient acceleration the phase space volume (emittance) must be reduced (cooled) significantly to fit within the acceptance of a storage ring or accelerator beam pipe. Due to the short lifetime of the muon, ionization cooling is the only practical technique by which to cool beams of muons~\cite{ref:neuffer, ref:cooling-methods}.

In ionization cooling, a muon beam passes through an absorber material losing momentum in both transverse and longitudinal dimensions, thereby reducing the RMS emittance and increasing its phase space density. Subsequent acceleration though rf cavities restores the longitudinal momentum, thus resulting in a net reduction of the transverse emittance.
\begin{figure*}[!htb]
   \centering
    \includegraphics*[width=\textwidth]{TUPML065f1}
   \caption{Layout of the MICE Step IV configuration showing the absorber module, tracking spectrometers and detectors for particle identification.}
   \label{fig:mice_step4}
\end{figure*}

\section{MICE}

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE)~\cite{ref:miceweb} has taken data with liquid hydrogen (LH$_2$) and lithium hydride (LiH) absorbers under various optical configurations to make detailed measurements of the scattering, energy loss~\cite{ref:ipac18-tm, ref:ipac18-pf, ref:ipac18-vb} and phase space evolution. A schematic drawing of MICE Step IV is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:mice_step4}.
An absorber is placed within a superconducting focus-coil module sandwiched between two superconducting spectrometer solenoids instrumented with scintillating-fiber trackers.  Each spectrometer solenoid generates a uniform field in the region of the trackers, and  has a section to match the beam with the adjoining focus coil module. The trackers  provide precise measurements of the emittance upstream and downstream of the absorber. Particle identification upstream of the absorber is performed using two time-of-flight hodoscope (TOF) stations, and two threshold Cherenkov counters. Downstream, contamination from decay electrons is rejected using a TOF, a pre-shower calorimeter and a fully active scintillator calorimeter~\cite{ref:mice-tracker, ref:mice-step1, ref:mice-pions, ref:mice-emr}.

In this paper the evolution of phase space density is reported for a single configuration (denoted as ``6-140'') of the cooling apparatus where the muon sample has a nominal emittance of 6 mm and momentum around 140 MeV/$c$ in the upstream spectrometer solenoid. The absorber was a 65 mm thick LiH disk.

Since each muon is measured individually, it is possible to select a particle ensemble from the collection of measured tracks. In this analysis, muons have been selected with: 1) longitudinal momentum in the range 135 to 145 MeV/c; 2) time-of-flight between TOF0 and TOF1 consistent with muons in this momentum range; and 3) a single, good quality track formed in the upstream tracker.

\section{PHASE SPACE DENSITY EVOLUTION}

\subsection{Emittance}

The transverse normalized RMS emittance is the most common cooling figure of merit. In a fully transmitted beam, emittance reduction is a clean
signature of the contraction of transverse phase space volume. However, for non-gaussian beams, e.g. partially scraped beams, the RMS emittance is not an accurate measure of the beam phase space. An alternative to RMS emittance is to study the evolution of the density of the ensemble, as it allows for the selection of a well-defined and identical fraction of phase space upstream and downstream of the absorber.

\subsection{Amplitude}

The 4D amplitude of a particle with phase space vector $\mathbf{v} = (x, p_x, y, p_y)$ is given by,
\begin{equation}
A_\perp = \varepsilon_N \mathbf{(v-\textbf{\si{\micro}})^T}\Sigma^{-1}\mathbf{(v-\textbf{\si{\micro}})},
\end{equation}
where $\textbf{\si{\micro}} = (\left<x\right>, \left<px\right>, \left<y\right>, \left<py\right>)$ is the beam centroid. In order to prevent the tails of the distribution from skewing the core, only those events with amplitude less than $A_\perp$ have been included in the calculation of \textbf{\si{\micro}} and $\Sigma$ for a given event. Thus, high amplitude particles are iteratively removed from the sample. The distribution of muons is represented in Fig.~\ref{fig:amplitude} in the tracker station that is furthest downstream in the ($x,p_x$) projection.
The distribution exhibits a clear high-density Gaussian core of low amplitudes, while the tails are easily identified as high amplitude points.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics*[width=\columnwidth]{TUPML065f2}
   \caption{Scatter plot of the particles in the tracker station that is furthest downstream in the $(x, p_x)$ projection. The color scale represents the individual particle amplitudes.}
   \label{fig:amplitude}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Subemittance}

The $\alpha$-subemittance, $e_\alpha$, is defined as the RMS emittance of the core fraction $\alpha$ of the parent beam.
For a truncated 4D Gaussian beam of covariance $S$, it satisfies

\begin{equation}
\frac{e_\alpha}{\varepsilon_N} = \frac{|S|^{\frac{1}{4}}}{|\Sigma|^{\frac{1}{4}}} = \frac{1}{2\alpha} \gamma \Big(3,Q_{\chi_4^2}(\alpha)/2\Big),
\end{equation}
with $\gamma(\cdot,\cdot)$ the lower incomplete gamma function and $Q_{\chi_4^2}(\cdot)$ the 4-degrees-of-freedom $\chi^2$ distribution quantiles.

If an identical fraction $\alpha$ of the input beam is selected upstream and downstream, the measured subemittance change is identical to the
normalized RMS emittance change. The evolution of the 9 \%-subemittance is represented in Fig.~\ref{fig:subemittance}. The choice of
9 \% is natural in four dimensions as it represents the fraction contained within the 4D RMS ellipsoid of a 4-variate Gaussian. This quantity exhibits a clean cooling signal across the
absorber that is unaltered by transmission losses and non-linearities. The only trade-off is that the relative statistical error on $\alpha$-subemittance grows as $\alpha^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ .
The estimated relative emittance change with this technique is $-$7.54 $\pm$ 1.25 \%, compatible with predictions.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics*[width=\columnwidth]{TUPML065f3}
   \caption{9 \%-subemittance evolution through the the MICE cooling channel.}
   \label{fig:subemittance}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Fractional emittance}

The $\alpha$-fractional emittance, $\varepsilon_\alpha$, is defined as the phase space volume occupied by the core fraction $\alpha$ of the parent beam. For a truncated 4D Gaussian beam, $
\varepsilon_\alpha = \frac{1}{2}m^2\pi^2{\varepsilon_N}^2Q_{\chi^2_4}^2(\alpha)$. This volume scales as function of $\alpha$ only and is proportional
to the square of the normalized emittance. For a relative
emittance change $\delta = \Delta\varepsilon / \varepsilon_{N}^{up}$, one yields
\begin{equation}
\frac{\Delta\varepsilon_\alpha}{\varepsilon_{\alpha}^{up}} = \delta(2+\delta) \approx 2\frac{\Delta\varepsilon_{N}}{\varepsilon_N^{up}}.
\end{equation}

The last approximation holds for small fractional changes. The volume of a fraction $\alpha$ of the beam is reconstructed by taking the convex hull of the selected ensemble~\cite{ref:hull}. Fig.~\ref{fig:fractional-emittance} shows the evolution of the 9 \%-fractional emittance. The estimated relative emittance change with this technique is -7.85 $\pm$ 1.08 \%.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics*[width=\columnwidth]{TUPML065f4}
   \caption{9 \%-fractional emittance evolution through the the MICE cooling channel.}
   \label{fig:fractional-emittance}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Non-parametric Density Estimation}

Unlike parametric density estimation techniques, such as those based on amplitude, non-parametric methods make no assumptions about the probability distributions of the variables being assessed. Among the many classes of estimators that have been developed, three have been considered
in this study: optimally binned histograms, $k$-Nearest Neighbors ($k$NN) and Tessellation Density Estimators (TDEs)~\cite{ref:hogg, ref:knn, ref:nonpar, ref:tde}.
Systematic studies showed that the $k$NN method is the most efficient and robust technique in four dimensions.
For a given phase space vector $\mathbf{v} = (x,p_x,y,p_y)$, we find the $k$ nearest points in the input cloud, calculate the distance, $R_k$, to
the $k^{th}$ nearest neighbor, and evaluate the density as
\begin{equation}
\rho(\mathbf{v}) = \frac{k}{V_k} = \frac{k\Gamma(\frac{d}{2}+1)}{\pi^{\frac{d}{2}}R_d^k},
\end{equation}
with $d$ the dimension of the space, $V_k$ the volume of the $d$-ball of radius $R_k$ and $\Gamma(\cdot)$ the gamma function.

The choice of parameter $k = \sqrt{N}$ has been shown to be quasi-optimal in general~\cite{ref:nonpar2}.
This estimator is applied to the sample in the tracker station that is furthest downstream and is represented in the $(x,p_x)$ projection for $(y, p_y)$ = (0, 0) in Fig.~\ref{fig:knn-estimator}.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics*[width=\columnwidth]{TUPML065f5}
   \caption{k-Nearest Neighbors estimate of the phase space density in the $(x,p_x)$ projection for $(y, p_y )$ = (0, 0) in the tracker station that is furthest downstream.}
   \label{fig:knn-estimator}
\end{figure}

This method removes any underlying assumption about a Gaussian core and allows to reconstruct generalized probability contours. The volume of the $\alpha$-contour is the $\alpha$-fractional emittance, as defined above. An MC method is used to reconstruct the volume of a contour: we select the densest fraction $\alpha$ of the input points and record the level of the lowest point, $\rho_\alpha$. N random points are sampled inside a box that encompasses the contour and we record the amount $N_\alpha$ with a density above $\rho_\alpha$. The volume of the contour is simply $\varepsilon_\alpha = N_{\alpha}V_{box}/N$, where $V_{box}$ is the volume of the 4d-box. The 9 \%-contour volume evolution is represented in Fig.~\ref{fig:knn-evolution}. The estimated relative emittance change with this technique is -7.97 $\pm$ 1.63 \%.

\begin{figure}[!htb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics*[width=\columnwidth]{TUPML065f6}
   \caption{Evolution of the volume of the 9\%- contour of the $k$NN estimate through the MICE cooling channel.}
   \label{fig:knn-evolution}
\end{figure}

\section{CONCLUSION}

While the traditional normalized RMS emittance measurement is vulnerable to transmission losses and non-linearities in the particle ensemble, density estimation techniques provide the most viable option to recover quantitative cooling measurements. Amplitude-based techniques -- subemittance and fractional emittance -- rely on a well known quantity to select and study an identical fraction of the beam upstream and downstream of the absorber. Nonparametric density estimators allow to go one step further in removing any assumption on the underlying distribution. Both approaches yield compelling results when applied to a poorly transmitted and highly non-linear beams in a realistic simulation of one of the MICE cooling channel settings.
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I can do it fine with a single object, but I cannot do it with a nested object.
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user: {
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lastName: string
jobTitle: string
email: string
phone: string
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Phainantha is a small genus of herbaceous climbers restricted to South America. It is a disjunct genus containing five species, four of which are found in the Guyana Shield tepuyes region while the fifth is endemic to the Cordillera del Condor in Ecuador.

Species
 Phainantha laxiflora (Triana) Gleason
 Phainantha maguirei Wurdack
 Phainantha myrteoloides Wurdack
 Phainantha shuariorum C.Ulloa & D.A.Neill
 Phainantha steyermarkii Wurdack

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1 in 5 COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a mental illness within 3 months
Soon after the coronavirus pandemic started, we saw a sharp increase in reports linking survivors of COVID-19 with the development of mental health problems. But until now, nothing had fully proved how bad the situation was. Finally, we have some numbers to back those claims.
A new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry has found that almost one in five people who have had COVID-19 have also later on been diagnosed with a mental illness within three months of testing positive. How were these calculations made and what does it mean for the double-edged sword that is coronavirus?
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For months now, we have been warned of an oncoming 'tsunami of mental health problems' due to the pandemic. Professor Til Wykes, Vice Dean for Psychology and Systems Sciences at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, who was not involved in this research, told the MIT Technology Review that "We know from previous pandemics that mental health difficulties usually follow in survivors, and this study shows the same pattern after COVID-19, so it is not unexpected."
To calculate the exact consequences of testing positive for coronavirus and coming out of it alive, researchers from Oxford University and NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre gathered the electronic health records of 70 million patients in the US, including 62,354 who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 from 20 January to 1 April 2020, but did not need to be hospitalised.
They found that 18 per cent of patients were diagnosed with a mental health issue in the 14 to 90 days after a diagnosis. Then, to differentiate how COVID-19 patients reacted compared to those suffering from other diseases, the team of researchers compared data with six other conditions (including flu and fractures) over the same time period.
Data showed that the likelihood of a COVID-19 patient being diagnosed with a mental health issue for the first time was twice that of those with other conditions. Anxiety disorders, insomnia, and dementia were the most common diagnoses.
On top of that, people with a pre-existing mental health condition—in particular, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia—were 65 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19.
Vaccines coming shortly or not, this study highlights how urgent the need for more mental health support is as more well-being problems appear across society in the coming months and even years. This collective trauma we're going through will not heal itself without the necessary support. The loss of control over some major aspects of our lives and the lack of a clear endpoint to the situation led many of us to spiral into a diagnosable mental health problem, without even being diagnosed with coronavirus.
Obviously, we're not all going through the same thing and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic can mean different things to different people. For example, healthcare workers as well as coronavirus patients are at an increased risk of such issues. The stress they have been under (and still are) could take months to be processed, which means we won't know the pandemic's full impact for a while.
Until then, putting a support system in place becomes our only hope at overcoming what has been one of the hardest years of the century.
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High functioning depression: what are the signs and symptoms to look out for?
Depression has many faces, and high functioning depression is one of them, which can have serious consequences if not addressed and treated. While many mental illnesses are severe enough to impair a person's ability to function. In some cases, a mental illness may be less severe, and although a person experiences symptoms, they are still able to function normally (or almost normally) most of the time.
The signs and symptoms of high functioning depression are similar to those caused by major depression but are less noticeable, which is why you should be looking out for them. Here are some clear signs and symptoms that can indicate whether you're suffering from high functioning depression or not.
What is high functioning depression?
Depression affects all personalities and can look very different in various people. High functioning depression, officially called persistent depressive disorder (PDD), is the real deal, however it can be difficult to detect in oneself, and even more so in others.
To the outside world, a person with PDD seems completely fine but internally, that person is struggling. This can lead some to think that high functioning depression is not as 'serious' as major depression, but it should be diagnosed and treated, just like any other mental illness.
High functioning is not the same as fully functioning—with this type of depression there is still some impairment. When someone is able to function but still experiences significant symptoms of depression, that's what is called PDD. Previously, this mental illness was called 'dysthymia' and is sometimes still referred to by that term.
What are some of the symptoms of high functioning depression?
High functioning depression is a recognised mental health condition that should be diagnosed by a psychiatrist or other mental health professional. There are certain criteria that describe the symptoms and that need to be met for a precise diagnosis to be made. Many of the symptoms are similar to those used to diagnose major depression.
An individual suffering from PDD experiences a depressed mood most days and for most of the day, for a minimum period of two years. The depressed mood must include two or more of these symptoms: lack of energy and fatigue, insomnia or oversleeping, decreased appetite or overeating, difficulty concentrating and making decisions, lowered self-esteem, and feeling sad and hopeless.
In addition to these symptoms that cause a depressed mood most of the time, there are a few other criteria that have to be met to make a diagnosis of PDD. The symptoms mentioned above must be felt on most days for at least two years without any relief from depression for longer than two months during that period, otherwise, you might just be having a rough few months.
If the individual has been through a period of mania or hypomania, an unusually euphoric and energetic mood, then this might not be PDD. You should also be careful whether these symptoms of depression aren't better explained by a different mental illness, a medical condition, or by substance abuse.
Finally, the symptoms and depressed mood mentioned previously must cause some impairment in one or more areas of normal functioning and significant distress in the individual. Only after 'meeting those criteria' will you be able to confirm whether you're suffering from high functioning depression. And even then, you may also meet criteria for major depression.
What does it feel like to live with high functioning depression?
You're feeling down most of the time, and no matter how many times your friends and family refer to you as grumpy or gloomy, you simply can't shake it off. When you do feel happy, it doesn't last long. You feel tired all the time, whether you've slept enough or not. You're not lazy, but people might assume so just because you can't summon the energy needed to function normally. You manage to do everything you're supposed to do, like go to work, keep your flat clean and force yourself to interact with others just enough, but it always seems like a monumental effort.
You feel bad about yourself, and judge the way you look or the way you behave. You gain or lose weight without meaning to, because you either have no appetite or overeat without thinking about it. You may cry without an obvious reason sometimes. At work, you do your best but focusing on a task is a real challenge. PDD can result in substance abuse, chronic pain, relationship difficulties, and problems at work or school.
Can high functioning depression be treated?
Trust me, it can. While PDD may not be as severe or debilitating as major depression, no one should have to live with a constant low mood when effective treatments are available. First things first, you'll need to get a diagnosis before even thinking about medication. As easy as that sounds, realising that your symptoms are actually clear signs of a mental illness is the hardest part. PDD hides behind your ability to function. That's exactly when loved ones need to guide and support you, they could have the highest chance in recognising that something is wrong.
Once diagnosed, high functioning depression can be treated with a combination of therapy and medications. Antidepressants can help but they can take several weeks to work, and beware of their side effects. This means that you might have to try a few different types to find a medication that works best for you.
Therapy is also a major help when treating PDD. By teaching you ways to recognise negative patterns in your thoughts and actively change them, therapy can be the first step towards 'recovery' in many cases.
Getting help is essential, because treatment (both through therapy and sometimes medication) can make your life more enjoyable, improve your mood and your functioning. It can bring you a better quality of life. Battling with a mental health condition is often done internally, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't reach out for external help, it's there for you.
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These pre written websites are called site templates, and several of them are extremely well done. Website templates are usually created one of three ways — they are: Html, Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Flash. When you know how to change html, a template can be a quick and easy approach to turn your ideas into a new web site. I am able to already hear some of you saying "That's no good in my experience, I can't write code! ". Could ok! You will find the photoshop type of web site design template that you can make an effort. Do you have an electronic camera? Have you ever put a title on your images? Have you edited your photos or manufactured a collage out of these? (multiple photographs joined into one.. ) Should you have, then you can likely make your own web site applying Adobe Photoshop – or possibly a similar picture editing request. The photoshop templates do all the first design be right for you, you just have to complete the text areas with whatsoever you want to state. It really basically that hard to do. The software will do most of the job, you just need the 'content' to fill in the provided spaces. Have a go at home using your individual digital photographs, and when you get a couple of pages download a photoshop design and help to make a complete web site. Of course you should have someone to web host your new web page, but as many ISP's will include a small 'home page' area with every bill, you can likely put your new site now there to begin with. The next type of website template uses Macromedia Thumb to create it. Web site layoutsdesigned employing Flash are generally animated and may have some quite advanced enhancements. The downside to using Expensive templates can be they are probably not intended for amateur web designers – the Flash software is quite complicated — but the effects can be really worth the effort.
As a side take note, search engines have a very poor knowledge of Flash sites, and if you need to create a industrial or organization web site, then you certainly would be better off using code or photoshop for your design and style.
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Internet traffic trends of Pakistan.
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The study determines and assesses the Internet traffic trends of Pakistan. The study evaluates the usage trends of Internet users in the country to assess the preference for using Internet as a medium of information, services and entertainment
Internet is an amazing communication tool through its open architecture and global outreach. With the passage of time, internet usage models have moved away from being more passive and static text driven content to rich digital content. User's expectations of how these applications respond to their input however remains the same. They expect the experience to be seamless, instantaneous and smooth. It is inevitable that the Internet and power-hungry applications will continue to grow unabated as more people move online.
If we compare the ICT trends in Pakistan, 72.4% of households have a TV, 65% population uses mobile telephony, 33.5% own a computer whereas only 15.8% are accessing Internet. Over the past three years, the beam of the ICT services in the country is emerging due to the strong infrastructure development. The mobile infrastructure and the Fiber backbone in particular are playing key role in attracting more subscribers base. In recent years, the application devolopment and its usage in Pakistan shows high demand of ICT based services. The following chart depicts the increase in this trend.
Broadband subscribers in Pakistan have touched 1.4 million mark, compared to 900,000 subscribers. In order to assess the Internet usage trends of the users, an extensive exercise was carried out by analyzing the Internet traffic of the country. The data has been gathered through International and National Internet gateways been managed by PTCL and Transworld Associates. The results concluded by the traffic trends are summarized as follows.
The trends of the usage are quite positive keeping view the interest of the users in utilizing Internet for carrying out various activities as well as acquiring information knowledge, entertainment and social networking.
The general usage pattern states that 38% of Internet users browse for social networking sites, 27% for educational purposes, 24% to access e-mails and 21% browse the Internet for search purposes on daily basis.
While analysing the top usage categories it was found that over the last 4 months, social networking had been the most popular usage pattern followed by search engines, job hunting, online shopping and entertainment. The incresing interest in online shopping is quite encourging for businesses to introduce such services for the consumers.
The following graph shows the number of website hits recorded at the Internet exchange points of Pakistan over the last 4 months. The trends shows a upward trend while more users are been addded in overall Interent penetration.
In regards to browsing public department's websites over the Internet, State Bank of Pakistan is one the top over last 4 months. 22.42% of the Internet users accessed its website while website of Pakistan International Airline was accessed by 22.35% of the users. Federal Board of Revenue is presuming 18.67% while Pakistan Telecommunication Authority attracted 14.90% Internet traffic in the government websites category.
The search engine usage patterns highlights that 61.33% of the traffic was directed to access Google search engine followed by Bing, Ask, AltaVista and AOL.
Online banking is flourishing in Pakistan as it reflects a 32 percent growth witnessed last year. Electronic banking (E-banking) is getting increasingly popular as the number and values of e-banking transactions in the country have shown a significant growth in the last fiscal year. A total of PKR 124.6 million e-banking transactions were recorded valuing PKR 13.9 trillion during the fiscal year 2008, showing a growth of 25.4% in numbers and 32.3% in amount when compared with the fiscal year 2007.
Bank of Punjab is most popular bank website followed by Bank Al-Habib. Other popular banking websites include Muslim Commercial Bank, Bank Alfalah and Allied Bank.
Online editions of daily newspapers in Pakistan are among the top visited services. Currently, Jang is the market leader with 45.80% of compartive share on the online accessed newspaper while Express emergingly following the Jang with a 30.20% of comparitive share. English news papers including The News and Dawn have 17.25% share while other newspapers eneded up with 6.75%.
The fever of Cricket is one of the renowned characteristics of natural enjoyment sense of Pakistani Public. The Internet flow conforms the true story as Cricinfo the leading website about all cricket activities across the globe is the torchbearer with the 41.45% massive averaged share over the last year while Ten Sports website follows the Cricinfo with 20.75% traffic share. World Wide Wrestling Entertainment and Yahoo Sports are here with promising 18.90% and 11.04% traffic shares.
Currently, the Media is acquiring a prominent place in the internet usage as well. Express News Network is leading with 24.62% of averaged internet usage while Geo Network is following with a little margin and having an appreciated share of 23.84%. ARY Network is getting attention of the Internet users with 20.49% averaged share during last year while Dunya TV network and Sama TV network are having 17.20% and 9.32% shares respectively.
Gmail is the most popular e-mail service in the country followed by Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL.
Facebook, as a social giant with more than five million users accounts from Pakistan and is with 36.47% of the total share of social networking websites traffic of Pakistan on Internet while twitter is on the second place followed by LinkedIn and newly introduced platform of Google+.
The impact of internet on education sector in Pakistan is quite significant. Every major university, college and school is offering various services to students and public over their websites.
The trends shows that during the last four months FAST website is on the top with 26.87% of the traffic. NUST is next in line with 26.03% and LUMS has total share of 19.23% while GIKI shows 11.75% of the hits.
Job hunt is among the most poular Internet traffic trends in the country. Rozee.pk, the jobs search gaint, populated the Internet with 35.91% traffic in this regard while joinpakarmy website follows the Rozee.pk with 23.14% share.
While connecting the previous dots, the future seems not so much fuzzy. The future trends road map of Pakistan is stupefying. The current trends and changing technology horizons are the source of insight into the future. The world is rapidly converting to a real role model of Global village under the umbrella of social networking, multimedia communication and most importantly with the usage of internet through wireless devices. However, social networking will evolve and get a proficient significance in the online life while the acquisition of information through search engines as a natural desire of human being will lead the internet life as well. Jobs, email, Video content, local content and other field of interest over internet will get boom as well and especially more discoveries are still to be loomed.
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