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Milosevic case: The Registrar appoints a Team of Experienced International Lawyers as Amicus Curiae to assist the Trial Chamber.
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The Hague, 6 September 2001
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Milosevic case: The Registrar appoints a Team of Experienced
International Lawyers as Amicus Curiae to assist the Trial Chamber.
Today, Thursday 6 September 2001, the Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Mr. Hans Holthuis, appointed Mr. Steven Kay QC, Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic and Prof. Mischa Wladimiroff to act as amicus curiae in the case The Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic, pursuant to Rule 74 of the Tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence.
The Registrar's Decision follows an order issued by Trial Chamber III on 30 August 2001, which stated that the appointment of amicus curiae was "not to represent the accused but to assist in the proper determination of the case". The order further stated that the amicus curiae would assist the Trial Chamber by:
"(a) making any submissions properly open to the accused by way of preliminary or other pre-trial motion;
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(c) drawing to the attention of the Trial Chamber any exculpatory or mitigating evidence; and
(d) acting in any other way which designated counsel considers appropriate in order to secure a fair trial".
The Decision points out that the amicus curiae will be bound by the provisions of the Code of Professional Conduct for Defence Counsel Appearing before the International Tribunal.
The Registrar's Decision is also based on the consideration that the interest of justice would be best served by the appointment of an international team of experienced lawyers representing a constellation of legal backgrounds.
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The statutory body in Gibraltar responsible for safeguarding children and young people is the Child Protection Committee, ("CPC").
On Tuesday 5th February, the CPC will be supporting the Safer Internet Day. The aim of Safer Internet Day is to inspire a conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively. Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre, the celebration sees hundreds of organisations becoming involved to help promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.
Safer Internet Day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and the community, to join in helping to create a better internet.
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The Child Protection Committee and the UK Safer Internet Centre invites everyone to join Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe to help create a better internet on Tuesday 5th February 2019 and throughout the whole year.
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Healthcare spending will hit 19.4% of GDP in the next decade, CMS projects; And Where is Healthcare Going?
This past week frustration reigned in my office as I saw more cancer patients in one week than I have ever seen in a week. The big problem is that 2 of these patients with advanced disease have no health care insurance or their insurance that they have will not cover their surgery and further treatment. What to do? Wait for the Democrats running for President to give us Medicare for all??
People have to understand that one of the patients has a type of Medicare, however, her policy will not cover further treatment. Remember this for those of you who still believe that Medicare-for-all will solve all our problems.
The other fairly young patient with advanced cancer has a job but no healthcare insurance. But as a dedicated physician, I am going to operate on her in the office only charging her for supplies, which is probably what I will do for the "Medicare type of coverage.
But doctors can't do this on a routine basis otherwise they couldn't pay their bills, pay salaries to their staff and pay for their malpractice, healthcare insurance, pay their mortgage and put food on the table. What then? Less and fewer students would choose to go into medicine and care for us all.
And what happens when both of these patients need chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and or immunotherapy? Who is going to pay for their advanced care?
Harris Meyer reported that Healthcare-spending growth would raise at an annual average of 5.5% over the next decade, slightly faster than in the past few years, due to the aging of the baby boomers and healthcare price growth, the CMS Office of the Actuary projects.
Because that growth will exceed gross domestic product growth, the CMS predicts healthcare's share of GDP will rise from 17.9% in 2017 to 19.4% in 2027, according to a report in Health Affairs released Wednesday. That's close to the 19.7% the CMS actuary predicted in its last national health expenditure report a year ago.
Price increases are expected to account for nearly half the growth in personal healthcare spending from 2018 to 2027, with an increase in utilization and intensity of services accounting for an additional third of spending growth. The authors of the report said prices will increase by 2.8% for outpatient prescription drugs, 2.6% for hospitals, and 1.8% for physicians.
Overall outpatient drug spending is projected to increase by an average of 6.1% per year over the next decade, driven by increased utilization of new drugs and a modest increase in prices.
These spending trends could boost public support for policy proposals to regulate prices and boost competition for healthcare services and drugs. For instance, Democratic proposals for Medicare-for-all and public plan options would pay providers at Medicare prices, which generally are significantly lower than what private insurers pay.
"The cost trend will make it easier to fund a Medicare-for-all or public option plan, because the price differential between what Medicare and the private sector pay allows you to save money by paying Medicare rates," said Gerald Anderson, a health policy professor at Johns Hopkins University.
But he and other experts say the projected spending growth over the next decade—which is sharply less than the 7.3% average annual growth from 1990 to 2007—may not be sufficiently alarming to spur politically thorny policy changes.
"There's nothing here that ought to catch people by surprise," said Gail Wilensky, a health economist at Project Hope who formerly served as Medicare administrator. "These (projections) offer no reason to celebrate, but they're not unreasonable. And they're probably higher than what we'll actually see because there will be public or private-sector interventions of some sort."
The projected 5.5% annual rate of growth from 2018 to 2017 would exceed the 5.3% rate during the Affordable Care Act coverage expansion period from 2014 to 2016, as well as the 3.9% growth rate during the Great Recession period of 2008-2013.
Medicare spending is expected to grow faster than Medicaid or private insurance spending due to the aging of the large Baby Boom population into the program, peaking this year. That will produce a 7.4% average annual Medicare spending growth rate over the next decade, compared with 5.5% for Medicaid and 4.8% for private insurance.
Medicaid expenditures will rise partly because of the new Medicaid expansions in Maine and Virginia and expected expansions in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah.
Per-capita spending growth rates for Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance are expected to be similar, at 4.7%, 4.1%, and 4.6%, respectively.
The 2017 congressional repeal of the Affordable Care Act's penalty for not buying insurance, effective this year, will moderate national health spending growth by reducing private insurance enrollment, the report said. That repeal is projected to result in a net increase in the number of uninsured Americans by 1.3 million, to 31.2 million in 2019.
Still, 90.6% of Americans are expected to have coverage in 2019, down from 90.9% last year.
Overall price inflation for healthcare goods and services is expected to average 2.5% over the next decade, compared with 1.1% for 2014 to 2017. The CMS actuaries said prices will rise at least partly because of the weakening of restraining factors such as patient cost sharing, selective contracting by insurers, and improvements in productivity in physicians' offices.
"Half the growth in spending will be price growth in spite of the fact that all these Baby Boomers are entering Medicare," said Anderson, citing a famous 2003 Health Affairs article he co-authored. "It's still the prices, stupid."
Hospital spending will grow an average of 5.7% per year over the next decade, up from 5.1% in 2019, the actuaries said. Hospital prices will rise due to tighter labor markets and continued wage increases for hospital employees, including nurses.
Average annual spending growth for physician and clinical services is projected at 5.4% for the coming decade, as physician pay is driven up by the shortage of doctors to meet the needs of the aging population.
The economists in the Office of the Actuary who wrote the report acknowledged that their projections can be off for various reasons. For instance, last year they projected that healthcare spending in 2018 would increase by 5.3%. In their new report, they projected spending in 2018 grew only 4.4%.
Sean Keehan, one of the authors, said the 2018 projected spending growth was lowered in the new report due to slower-than-expected Medicaid enrollment and spending increases, smaller out-of-pocket spending hikes, and a more sluggish jump in prescription drug costs.
Anderson said the overall takeaway from the new CMS report is that the U.S. still hasn't seriously bent the cost growth curve. "There's no turndown," he said. "We keep waiting for that turning point and the actuaries aren't seeing that turning point at least through 2027."
So, what do we do? Do we listen to the Democrats running for President and wrap our arms around Medicare for All or do we fix the Affordable Care Act or do we design another system?
Seattle Mayor signs Medicare-for-all resolution
Can the left's 'free-for-all' Medicare work?
Fox News Brie Stimson noted that as the national health care debate rages on, Seattle has decided to support Medicare-for-all.
Last month, Seattle Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced a bill, the Medicare for All Act of 2019, that would transition Americans to single-payer government-paid health care but does not explain how the government will pay for the plan.
This week, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed a City Council resolution in support of Jayapal's bill, making Seattle the first city to back a Medicare-for-all bill.
COST OF 'MEDICARE-FOR-ALL' HEALTH CARE PLAN IS 'A LITTLE SCARY,' DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN CHIEF SAYS
"The U.S. has among the worst health outcomes in the developed world despite spending roughly 19 percent of our nation's gross domestic product (GDP) on health care," Seattle Council member. Lorena González said in a statement. "A single-payer system would improve health outcomes while lowering the cost of medical care and insurance."
Editorial: Medicare for All isn't the only way to go
Merrill Goozner reported that Healthcare providers and insurers are gearing up to oppose Medicare for All. No surprise there. Insurers can't look kindly on legislation that would put them out of business. And providers are deathly afraid of losing the high rates from private insurers that cross-subsidize government-funded patients.
But at the same time as they mobilize to defeat M4A, shouldn't they be outlining what they support?
Here's what M4A advocates want to achieve. The first is universal coverage. Sadly, we're again moving away from this basic human right due to actions by the Trump administration to undermine the Affordable Care Act. They want lower prices. Insurance premiums for employers and out-of-pocket expenses for individuals and families continue to rise faster than wages or economic growth.
Finally, they want an end to the frustration engendered by a system that erects roadblocks between physicians and patients. These range from insurer rules requiring prior authorization to seemingly arbitrary limits on what doctors can perform or prescribe.
Is M4A the only way to solve these problems? Of course not. When it comes to covering the uninsured, the ACA worked just fine. Massachusetts, the first state to implement an ACA-like program, had an uninsured rate of 2.5% in 2017. That's not the 0% of most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, but pretty close.
Politics are at the root of the ACA's failures—not its Rube Goldberg design. The Supreme Court allowed states to opt out of the Medicaid expansion. And when the GOP-controlled Congress eliminated the individual mandate, key to making rates on the exchanges affordable, it reduced sign-ups, raised premiums and stopped the expansion dead in its tracks.
How about service prices? M4A would set prices at Medicare rates, which are well below private insurance rates but higher than Medicaid rates (both Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program are eliminated in Sen. Bernie Sanders' M4A bill). But that's not where most of its savings come from.
According to a sympathetic analysis from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, half of M4A's savings come from reducing provider and insurer administrative overhead. Another quarter comes from lower drug prices.
But these are one-time savings that will do little to stop the upward spiral of hospital and physician costs, which account for two-thirds of all spending. That's where we get to the third issue supposedly addressed by M4A: the administrative hassles and limits imposed on obtaining care.
These aren't eliminated by an expanded public system. They simply transfer the policing of waste, fraud, and abuse from private hands to public hands and change the motivation from padding profits to protecting taxpayers. In the past, Medicare has done a better job than private payers for one simple reason: it can impose price controls. Providers have responded by shifting much of the shortfall to their private-paying patients.
There are alternatives for achieving M4A's goals. They include private companies offering exchange policies with well-defined coverage rules and strict limits on out-of-pocket costs; all-payer rate-setting or global budgets to slow the rate of price increases; merging Medicaid with Medicare (leaving long-term services and supports to the states), which would give private employers and families rate and tax relief; and establishing all-stakeholder oversight councils to develop medically appropriate utilization rules.
There's more. The point is that in the post-Trump era, the U.S. will once again begin moving toward a healthcare system that is universal and affordable with high-quality care for everyone.
A multipayer approach could be like Germany and Switzerland, which rely on private insurers that are regulated to a much greater extent than currently exists in the U.S. Or it will be a single-payer system like Canada, Great Britain or France. Each delivers better results at a lower cost than the U.S.
I'm agnostic on which way to go. I'm still waiting for providers and insurers to articulate their vision.
Some 'Cheaper' Health Plans Have Surprising Costs
Julie Appleby reports that one health plan from a well-known insurer promises lower premiums — but warns that consumers may need to file their own claims and negotiate overcharges from hospitals and doctors. Another does away with annual deductibles — but requires policyholders to pay extra if they need certain surgeries and procedures.
Both are among the latest efforts in a seemingly endless quest by employers, consumers, and insurers for an elusive goal: less expensive coverage.
Premiums for many of these plans, which are sold outside the exchanges set up under Affordable Care Act, tend to be 15 to 30 percent lower than conventional offerings, but they put a larger burden on consumers to be savvy shoppers. The offerings tap into a common underlying frustration.
"Traditional health plans have not been able to stem high-cost increases, so people are tearing down the model and trying something different," said Jeff Levin-Scherz, health management practice leader for benefits consultants Willis Towers Watson.
Not everyone is eligible for a subsidy to defray the cost of an ACA plan, and that has led some people to experiment with new ways to pay their medical expenses. Those experiments include short-term policies or alternatives like Christian-sharing ministries — which are not insurance at all, but rather cooperatives through which members pay one another's bills.
Now some insurers — such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and a Minnesota startup called Bind Benefits, which is partnering with UnitedHealth Group — are coming up with their own novel offerings.
Insurers say the two new types of plans meet the ACA's rules, although they interpret those rules in new ways. For example, the new policies avoid the federal law's rule limiting consumers' annual in-network limit on out-of-pocket costs. One policy manages that by having no network — patients are free to find providers on their own. And the other skirts the issue by calling additional charges "premiums." Under ACA rules, premiums don't count toward the out-of-pocket maximum.
But each plan could leave patients with huge costs in a system in which it is extremely difficult for a patient to be a smart shopper — in part because they have little negotiating power against big hospital systems and partly because the illness is often urgent and unanticipated.
If these alternative plans prompt doctors and hospitals to lower prices, "then that is worth taking a closer look," says Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute. "But if it's simply another flavor of shifting more risk to employees, I don't think in the long term, that's going to bend the cost curve."
Balancing freedom, control, and responsibility
The North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield "My Choice" policies aim to change the way doctors and hospitals are paid by limiting reimbursement for services to 40 percent above what Medicare would pay. The plan has no specific network of doctors and hospitals.
This approach "puts you in control to see the doctor you want," the insurer says on its website. The plan is available to individuals who buy their own insurance and to small businesses with one to 50 employees. It's aimed at consumers who cannot afford ACA plans, says Austin Vevurka, a spokesman for the insurer. The policies are not sold on the ACA's insurance marketplace but can be purchased off-exchange from brokers.
With that freedom, however, consumers also have the responsibility to shop around for providers who will accept that amount of reimbursement for their services. Consumers who don't shop — or can't because their medical need is an emergency — may get "balance-billed" by providers who are unsatisfied with the flat amount the plan pays.
"There's an incentive to comparison-shop to find a provider who accepts the benefit," says Vevurka.
The cost of balance bills range widely but could be thousands of dollars in the case of hospital care. Consumer exposure to balance bills is not capped by the ACA for out-of-network care.
"There are a lot of people for whom a plan like this would present financial risk," says Levin-Scherz.
In theory, though, paying 40 percent above Medicare rates could help drive down costs over time if enough providers accept those payments. That's because hospitals currently get about double Medicare rates through their negotiations with insurers.
"It's a bold move," says Mark Hall, director of the health law and policy program at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Still, he says, it's "not an optimal way" because patients generally don't want to negotiate with their doctor on prices.
"But it's an innovative way to put matters into the hands of patients as consumers," Hall says. "Let them deal directly with providers who insist on charging more than 140 percent of Medicare."
Blue Cross spokesman Vevurka says My Choice has telephone advisers to help patients find providers and offer tips on how to negotiate a balance bill. He would not disclose enrollment numbers for My Choice, which launched Jan. 1, nor would he say how many providers have indicated they will accept the plan's payment levels.
Still, the idea — based on what is sometimes called "reference pricing" or "Medicare plus" — is gaining attention. Under that method, hospitals are paid a rate based on what Medicare pays, plus an additional percentage to allow them a modest profit.
North Carolina's state treasurer, for example, hopes to put state workers into such a pricing plan by next year, offering to pay 177 percent of Medicare. The plan has ignited a firestorm of opposition from hospitals in the state.
Montana recently got its hospitals to agree to such a plan for state workers, paying 234 percent of Medicare, on average.
Partly because of concerns about balance-billing, employers aren't rushing to buy into Medicare-plus pricing just yet, says Jeff Long, a health care actuary at Lockton Companies, a benefits consultancy.
Wider adoption, however, could spell its end.
Hospitals might agree to participate in a few such programs, but "if there's more take up on this, I see hospitals possibly starting to fight back," Long says.
What about the bind?
Minnesota startup Bind Benefits eliminates annual deductibles in its "on-demand" plans sold to employers that are opting to self-insure their workers' health costs. Rather than deductibles, patients pay flat-dollar copayments for a core set of medical services, from doctor visits to prescription drugs.
In some ways, it's simpler: There is no need to spend through the deductible before coverage kicks in or wonder what 20 percent of the cost of a doctor visit or surgery would be.
But not all services are included. Does this sound familiar? As I started this post with my examples…ladies and gentlemen, we have a problem!!
Patients who discover during the year that they need any of about 30 common procedures outlined in the plan, including several types of back surgery, knee arthroscopy or coronary artery bypass, must "add in" coverage, spread out over time in deductions from their paychecks.
"People are used to that concept, to buy what they need," said Bind CEO Tony Miller. "When I need more, I buy more."
According to a company spokeswoman, the add-in costs vary by market, procedure, and provider. On the lower end, the cost for tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy ranges from $900 to $3,000, while lumbar spine fusion could range from $5,000 to $10,000.
To set those additional premiums, Bind analyzes how much doctors and facilities are paid, along with some quality measures from several sources, including UnitedHealth. The add-in premiums paid by patients vary depending on whether they choose lower-cost providers or more expensive ones.
The ACA's 2019 out-of-pocket maximums — $7,900 for an individual or $15,800 for a family — don't include premium costs.
The Cumberland School District in Wisconsin switched from a traditional plan, which it purchased from an insurer for about $1.7 million last year, to Bind. Six months in, according to the school district's superintendent, Barry Rose, the plan is working well.
Right off the bat, he says, the district saved about $200,000. More savings could come over the year if workers choose lower-cost alternatives for the "add-in" services.
"They can become better consumers because they can see exactly what they're paying for care," Rose says.
Levin-Scherz at Willis Towers says the idea behind Bind is intriguing but raises some concerns for employers.
What happens, he asks, if a worker has an add-in surgery, owes several thousand dollars, and then changes jobs before paying all the premiums for that add-in coverage? "Will the employee be sent a bill after leaving?" he wonders.
A Bind spokeswoman says the former employee would not pay the remaining premiums in that case. Instead, the employer would be stuck with the bill.
Next week back to finding a way to improve the Affordable Care Act/ Obamacare.
This entry was posted in ACA Fixes, Affordable Care Act, Congress, Democrats, Health Care, healthcare delivery, Insurance, Medical education, Medicare for All, Obamacare, Physicians, Pros and Cons of Medicare for All, Senator Harris, Single payer health care, Uncategorized, Universal health care on March 18, 2019 by raaorsini.
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Because a picture speaks a thousand words, we've made a number of short films in Northland regarding chemtrails/ geoengineering. Many show video footage and photographs taken locally and a number include interviews with overseas experts and local residents.
Evidence Weather Modification Technology Was Used In Whangarei During Drought in 2010? This was taken at dusk in early 2010 and looked like a huge over-hanging dome. It is a shame the photograph did not capture how bizarre this looked. There were criss-crossing aerosol trail formations visible nearby that night also.
Rowe had reported some particularly alarming occurrences associated with chemtrail sightings of 2000 to John and Melody Anderson of the Mysterious New Zealand website in 2005. She had been very healthy until she saw her first chemtrail. Three days later she became very sick and everything in her body seemed to start breaking down. Subsequently, she suffered from chronic ill-health effects in her last years, which she attributed to the constant aerosol spraying over the Marlborough Sounds and neighboring areas. Learn more.
Betty Hooper was the last person to have visited Betty Rowe on the island before she fell into a coma. Sadly, Betty Rowe passed away on May the 18th, 2008. Fortunately however, the information she imparted lives on. When Hooper saw chemtrails in Northland in late-2009, then again in early-2010, she suggested starting a Northland Chemtrails Watch Group and this is how this website began, as we saw a crime being committed that had to be documented. A big thank-you to Betty Hooper and to Betty Rowe for their contributions.
To see more films made locally on the Internet other than the ones posted below, please visit the WebofEvidence and JimReeceWhangarei channels on YouTube.
Clare, well done, you do a fantastic job on maintaining this site. you're on to it.Thumbs up.from Jim.
They are at it again…THOSE DAMN HARPIES.
Stranded whales right now, an hour ago, today, a 45 min drive from me.
This is a precursor once again as you say (window of 1-3 weeks) to massive quakes in Pacific!!! Same location, exactly a month later this occurs again. This is NOT natural.
Watch it will probably hit the north island this time…could be within the week!!!
Thanks Joe. It is surprising how few have noticed the changes to their environment that have occurred. Keep up the good work waking them up to it!
Seen this occur over Christchurch in the last week. Also whenever there is an easterly breeze forcast, the trails are over the sea, and a norwester, over the mountains.
Awesome work well done. Had planes flying overhead today – already had to flush my nose with water.
Itchy face, nose, eyes, throat, glands swollen, had to bring my child inside as not to aggravate her asthma.
Keep up the good work, I'll send through some pics if I get a chance.
Thank-you. Send the photos. It is good for everyone to see what is going on around the country.
Sorry to learn you got a dose of the crap they are spraying. Eat a really healthy diet and keep your vitamin C levels up to try and knock back any pathogens in the environment.
A naturopath recommend drinking olive leaf tea.
Wanganui has a huge asthma problem.
Hi Sasha, It would be hard to pin point. Chemtrails are linked to increases in the incidence of asthma however.
"Several types of experimental polymer fibers are repeatedly being found in various locations subsequent to observed incidences of aerosol discharge by aircraft," a member of the scientific study group told The Spotlight. "Research and development of electronic polymer fibers is identified and described in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) documents. Other polymer fiber types are mentioned in other government and military documents that we have obtained.
"It is believed that the combination of barium salt mixture and polymer fibers are responsible for the recent nationwide epidemic increase in cases of asthma, allergies and upper respiratory system illnesses, including pneumonia," he said.
These medications are used in New Zealand.
Thanks, Claire for all the great work you are doing.
did you check out www thecrowhouse.com film on "'Fight the New World Order with Global Non Compliance?" the answer are there. We need to stop supportng the system .
We're getting chemtrails down south too. Heres a link to a youtube video of one in we saw in Wanaka on 22nd July.
Perhaps you may wish to expand this site to simply Chemtrails NZ?
makers seem not to consider us when producing their brilliant and important films ?
It is lucky you did not have to pay to watch it, isn't it. It is easy to make your own videos as you see fit using Windows Movie maker.
Being upset after the first two planes, I phoned TV3 newsroom in Christchurch, where the reporter had no idea of what I was talking about and was incredibly rude and condescending — typical of the ignorant… I am sure everyone here has met with that same blind arrogance…. Finally, I rang Investigate magazine and got hold of Hilda Wishart who informed me that they were the first mag in NZ to do stuff on chemtrails years ago — phew – thank heavens, at last.. She said they would be doing a lot of expose type stuff on the New World Order this coming 2012 – the year of change – the year to come out of darkness into light — bring it on.
They do it at night too and we wake up to a thick layer of dirty low cloud, blow a clear blue sky, like today. Can't see anything that is going on above us right now, and the sky is metallic and impossible to look at.
They are insane – they must be stopped.
BUT the powers that are, are merely few — WE ARE MANY. They hate that and want to reduce us to dust.
the blue sky that was has now been completely covered in mirk from planes 6,7 and 8 and the day is not over yet – my head and eyes hurt, the atmosphere is unbearably bright, I guess from radiation… how is this allowed to be when the few control the many — IT MUST STOP NOW.. Time for ZEITGEIST.
Lynn Stoddart Hector, West Coast, South Island.
Good job. Now, how to get them to cease this mass murder and awaken the majority who are asleep or do not care.
This has become a war for our planet like no other before. In this war women can and will fight. It is a war of observation and information, communication and commitment.
chem trails not only changes the geo genetic make up,it causes skin irritations since the beginning of the chemical war on humanity,the chemicals also as is suggested re-act to the human biology due to the chemicals being absorbed in to the skin then into the bloodstream,and in the most severe cases resulting in death, long-term illnesses and on a personal point and only my view is the number one contributing factor to the high increase of cancers prevalent in today's civilised densely populated societies, with the inclusion of metallic particles the dynamics of this warfare is now propelling into the manipulation of the human Psychology, communications,geology and more, this day and age we have genetic engineering of all fields, is chem trailing really that hard for this age of people to see..or is it that people choose not to see.
Hi I'm so grateful to have found you people…. I am just new to this but have noticed that in Auckland the bees and bumble bees here are less and that some of my plants are burnt. I have noticed the decline in our weather for years and have been 'fluffed off', so to know that I am not crazy is fabulous.
What can I actively do to help get this information out and known to people around me so they to can also know the truth?
We've found that giving them DVDs is perhaps the most effective way. You could send them a link to Aerosol Crimes by Clifford Carnicom. We had a stand at a farmers' market, which was good as people stopped to read info and take DVDs when they had an interest in the topic.


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Q: Trials and tribulations of changing NSOrderedSet order in Core Data I have an NSOrderedSet attached to a Core Data object that's passed into a UITableViewController. The managedObjectContext is alive and well in the UITableViewController and myNSOrderedSet displays properly my tableView. When I go to reorder myNSOrderedSet, the app crashes. I put a breakpoint in moveRowAtIndexPath to see what's going on and everything's fine up until I try to save it.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)fromIndexPath toIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)toIndexPath {
    // BREAKPOINT: "po self.routineToEdit.exercises" shows order is 0, 1, 2
    NSMutableOrderedSet *orderedSet = [self.routineToEdit.exercises mutableCopy];

    [orderedSet exchangeObjectAtIndex:fromIndexPath.row withObjectAtIndex:toIndexPath.row];

    // BREAKPOINT: "po self.routineToEdit.exercises" shows order is 2, 1, 0
    self.routineToEdit.exercises = orderedSet;

    [self saveContext];
}

- (void)saveContext {
    if (self.managedObjectContext != nil) {
        NSError *error = nil;
        if ([self.managedObjectContext hasChanges] && ![self.managedObjectContext save:&error]) {
            NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
            abort();
        }
    }
}

Rather than passing my object into MyUITableViewController, I'm tempted to use a fetchedResultsController to grab my object and display it on MyUITableViewController. Before I go that route, I'd like to see I can re-order an NSOrderedSet with the object that's passed in from AnotherUITableViewController.
Here's the console output from my crash:
2015-07-12 06:39:53.176 MyApp[26505:1105589] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString appendString:]: nil argument'
*** First throw call stack:
(
    0   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001060dec65 __exceptionPreprocess + 165
    1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x0000000105663bb7 objc_exception_throw + 45
    2   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001060deb9d +[NSException raise:format:] + 205
    3   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001060afabf mutateError + 159
    4   CoreData                            0x000000010591ec26 -[_NSSQLGenerator prepareMasterReorderStatementPart2ForRelationship:] + 118
    5   CoreData                            0x000000010598cfb8 -[NSSQLAdapter newCorrelationMasterReorderStatementPart2ForRelationship:] + 72
    6   CoreData                            0x00000001059a5671 -[NSSQLiteConnection writeCorrelationMasterReordersFromTracker:] + 817
    7   CoreData                            0x00000001059a5f81 -[NSSQLiteConnection writeCorrelationChangesFromTracker:] + 65
    8   CoreData                            0x0000000105997627 -[NSSQLCore writeChanges] + 1351
    9   CoreData                            0x00000001058d32c7 -[NSSQLCore saveChanges:] + 423
    10  CoreData                            0x00000001058a3e74 -[NSSQLCore executeRequest:withContext:error:] + 484
    11  CoreData                            0x000000010597ee3f __65-[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator executeRequest:withContext:error:]_block_invoke + 4335
    12  CoreData                            0x0000000105987c30 gutsOfBlockToNSPersistentStoreCoordinatorPerform + 192
    13  libdispatch.dylib                   0x0000000108890614 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
    14  libdispatch.dylib                   0x0000000108876002 _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_invoke + 365
    15  CoreData                            0x0000000105979245 _perform + 197
    16  CoreData                            0x00000001058a3a58 -[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator executeRequest:withContext:error:] + 504
    17  CoreData                            0x00000001058cd52d -[NSManagedObjectContext save:] + 1213
    18  MyApp                           0x000000010511083e -[EditRoutineTableViewController saveContext] + 222
    19  MyApp                           0x0000000105110673 -[EditRoutineTableViewController tableView:moveRowAtIndexPath:toIndexPath:] + 371
    20  UIKit                               0x0000000106817822 -[UITableView _endReorderingForCell:wasCancelled:animated:] + 565
    21  UIKit                               0x000000010682b89d -[UIControl touchesEnded:withEvent:] + 462
    22  UIKit                               0x0000000106767958 -[UIWindow _sendTouchesForEvent:] + 735
    23  UIKit                               0x0000000106768282 -[UIWindow sendEvent:] + 682
    24  UIKit                               0x000000010672e541 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 246
    25  UIKit                               0x000000010673bcdc _UIApplicationHandleEventFromQueueEvent + 18265
    26  UIKit                               0x000000010671659c _UIApplicationHandleEventQueue + 2066
    27  CoreFoundation                      0x0000000106012431 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17
    28  CoreFoundation                      0x00000001060082fd __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 269
    29  CoreFoundation                      0x0000000106007934 __CFRunLoopRun + 868
    30  CoreFoundation                      0x0000000106007366 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 470
    31  GraphicsServices                    0x000000010a12ba3e GSEventRunModal + 161
    32  UIKit                               0x00000001067198c0 UIApplicationMain + 1282
    33  MyApp                           0x000000010510a05f main + 111
    34  libdyld.dylib                       0x00000001088c4145 start + 1

Thank you for reading. I welcome your input.
I found this issue that's in the "same neighborhood" of the problem I'm encountering, however the order of my set is not static like the example given in the example.
Core Data ordering with a UITableView and NSOrderedSet

A: I think the fetch results controller does not give you any advantage here (mainly due to the sorting requirement which does not make sense here).
I would just use the ordered set (the to-many relationship of the object being edited) directly to inform your table view data source. And I would check that assigning the newly ordered ordered set back to the object is working as expected.

A: The StackOverflow consensus seems to be there's a bug with how NSOrderedSet relationships are handled by Core Data. I was able to manipulate the order of my NSOrderedSet using the information contained in Dmitry Makarenko's post on the accessors generated by Xcode:
Exception thrown in NSOrderedSet generated accessors
I also cleaned up (at least I think so) the code I used for moving rows in the UITableView:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)fromIndexPath toIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)toIndexPath {
    NSMutableOrderedSet *orderedSet = [self.routineToEdit mutableOrderedSetValueForKey:@"stretches"].mutableCopy;

    // This is necessary, as exchangeObjectAtIndex:withObjectAtIndex doesn't work passing in indexPath.row
    NSInteger fromIndex = fromIndexPath.row;
    NSInteger toIndex = toIndexPath.row;

    // Swap objects at indexes
    [orderedSet exchangeObjectAtIndex:fromIndex withObjectAtIndex:toIndex];
    NSLog(@"ending orderedSet = /n%@", orderedSet);

    // Assign NSMutableOrderdSet to the object's NSOrderedSet
    self.routineToEdit.stretches = orderedSet;

    // Added performBlockAndWait so the save is complete before doing anything else
    [self.persistentStoreCoordinator performBlockAndWait:^{
        [self saveContext];
    }];

}

Saving the object to the managedObjectContext right after the UITableView rows/NSObjects are swapped is critical--I discovered this when I saw not all my changes were being saved when I clicked a Done IBAction w/ the save method invoked there:
[self.persistentStoreCoordinator performBlockAndWait:^{
            [self saveContext];
        }];

...but the app still crashed.
Finally, I changed the relationship between BOTH entities to ordered and that did the trick:
crash on coredata ios8
For my purposes, this is sufficient. I tried each of these fixes independently and none of them worked on a stand-alone basis. At this point, my app works the way I want it to, so I'm going to leave it alone for now.

A: You are already halfway there by calling mutableOrderedSetValueForKey:, don't call mutableCopy on it! Also, do not reassign this mutable ordered set back to exercises. just save your context, call refreshObject:mergeChanges: on the context, and exercises should reflect your changes.

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*NEW* BAYWATCH REVIEW *NEW*
June 11, 2017 November 5, 2017 by pmbayobale, posted in Action, Adaptation, Best and worst films, Cinema, Comedy, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Reboots, Remakes, Uncategorized
Big, dumb and full of . . . sun.
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) butts heads with a brash new recruit (Zac 'High School Musical' Efron), as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay.
From the director of Horrible Bosses. That should sum up your expectations in a nutshell. A loud, crude BUT (hopefully) entertaining flick.
And for a good portion of the running time, Baywatch was. Undeserving of the incredibly low ratings on Metascore. I've seen a lot, lot worse. BUT at that same stroke, I've seen a lot better.
The first 30-40 minutes was everything I hoped for. I don't think this would have worked without The Rock. He carried the film with his charisma and ridiculous physique. Lapping up the silliness of it all. And almost making it work.
A man respected by the community. Doing everything to keep his bay safe while protecting his 'family' (the Baywatch team). Corny BUT watchable.
Efron played Brody brilliantly. He worked well with the Rock and they made a great duo.
The selfish Olympiad bumping heads with the head honcho spiel was predictable but engaging as the pair spewed childish insult after insult at each other.
As much as they poked fun at the silly plot line with drug deals and political corruption, it was really dull.
When the jokes and banter died down, there wasn't much else and you really felt the pace; which was a little long at the tooth.
Of course, Baywatch was never going to win plaudits for groundbreaking cinema and mind-bending plots. It's CSI on the beach with lots of beautiful people frolicking around in tight bikinis and shorts.
Putting my inadequate body to shame (He says piling in more crisps while writing this review).
I was a little disappointed with Alexandra Daddario's (San Andreas) role. Her naff romance (If you can call it a subplot) with Brody didn't really work. It was far too cheesy and the banter didn't come off as well as it could have. Shame.
Jon Bass (Big Time in Hollywood) stole the show as Ronnie. The fumbling tech geek aspiring to be a lifeguard. Well, to work with one lifeguard, in particular. And no, it ain't Mitch.
Wowewow, Pamela who?
Ronnie's desperate attempts to woo CJ (Kelly Rohrbach) were hilarious and delivered some of the better laughs.
I haven't really rated Hannibal Buress in the past BUT he was surprisingly funny as Ronnie's pal. His commentary during Ronnie's awkward encounters with CJ had me in stitches.
The meta-textual references were spot on. You can't do a Baywatch reboot without the slo-mo.
The slo-mo gaffs worked but that joke soon overstayed its welcome. Especially when they started doing SUPER slow-mo. And by the time, a Baywatch icon made her introduction in the closing minutes, I was done.
Priyanka Chopra (Quantico) wasn't in this enough.
No. Not just because she looked stunning. A proper femme fatale. Even Big Mitch was on edge.
"A Bond villainess? Not yet". She played the part really well and chewed up the scenes BUT her screen time was reduced to nothing. Only to be brought back in the frantic and rushed finale!
It was watchable guff that killed the time.
Brody's deluded theorizing with Mitch's put downs was fun. The action sequences were well done.
The silent punch up in a nursery was fantastic as Mitch took on a henchman. Quietly spewing hushed threats, "You're going night night b*tch" while slapping each other about with kids' toys.
The morgue investigation was more of what I expected. Crude gags with a dead man's appendage. Funny one liners and utter mayhem.
If anything I wanted more of that silliness and crude humour, the writers played the piece a little too much like a Baywatch episode.
I know I'm normally a cynical movie-goer BUT I would have been happy to watch The Rock jump off more burning yachts with insane rings of fire. Even watching Efron dive off a pier while racing a motorbike did the job.
The ending seemed rushed and too chaotic. It was as if the writers didn't know what to do with it. The tone was all over the gaff and The Rock dropped the tough guy bravado for sheer buffoonery.
A mess.
BUT a fun one. Just.
3/5 (Just)
Tagged Alexandra Daddario, Baywatch, Big Time in Hollywood, CSI, Dwayne Johnson, Hannibal Buress, High School Musical, Horrible Bosses, Jon Bass, Kelly Rohrbach, Metascore, Priyanka Chopra, Quantico, San Andreas, The Rock, Zac Efron1 Comment
*NEW* BAD NEIGHBOURS 2: SORORITY RISING REVIEW *NEW*
October 9, 2016 by pmbayobale, posted in Best and worst films, Cinema, Comedy, Film essay, Hollywood, Hollywood mess, Movie review, Sequels, Uncategorized
"We've been Cosby'd!"
Bad. Just bad!
When their new next-door neighbours turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there, Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) team up with their former enemy, Teddy (Zac Efron) to bring the girls down.
Pretty much the exact same thing (just with a sorority) BUT a lot less funnier! Yikes.
I was surprised that a sequel was even green lit in the first place?! The first outing was watchable (At best) and delivered the odd laugh BUT it wasn't that great.
As you could tell, I was a little skeptical before watching and the opening 20 minutes was actually quite funny and, for a moment, I wondered why people had torn into this? It was never going to win plaudits BUT it was silly college humour with all the old faces coming back.
However, it wasn't long before my smile became a scowl as we drudged through the same old guff. You could relate to Shelby (A reasonable turn from Chloe Grace Moretz) and co as they conspire against the traditional sorority system. Creating their own society where anybody can join and do what they want.
Cue some silly spiel about sororities not being able to host parties (Google it! No, I didn't either), a perfect property on the market, some crazy neighbours and we have . . . a dreadfully mediocre comedy.
Zac Efron didn't do too badly and delivered the (little) laughs. Flashing his ridiculous six pack at any chance and not giving a fook.
It was great to see the old frat pack pop back up in this. Just a shame that it came with a silly subplot. As well as having to deal with the same old frustrations of not achieving any life goals, Teddy must come to terms with Pete's (Dave Franco) "coming out" and impending marriage.
Look, I hate to be a stickler BUT didn't Pete sleep with Teddy's girlfriend in the first film as part of Mac and Kelly's revenge ploy? Either way, his big gay wedding didn't work and was lazy and unnecessary. You could understand Teddy's childishness and refusal to grow up BUT we had all that in the first one.
Ike Barinholtz (Suicide Squad) was funny yet again as Mac's retarded pal Jimmy. He stole the show every time. The only problem was that once he was united with Paula (Carla Gallo – Bones), he soon got on my nerves.
Her unfunny introduction wasn't needed and brought nothing to the mix other than dropping a disgusting gag involving a baby foetus foot (Yep, you read that right).
Speaking of bad gags, the airbag gag died a death in the first movie. Bringing it back for a second time? Really? Come on! Cue another badly CGI'd Efron/Rogen flailing about in a car garage. Terrible.
Kelsey Grammer was great in his tragically short cameo as Shelby's dad. Dr Crane knows how to get the laughs. Even Phoebe from Friends (Lisa Kudrow) got a titter with her "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" appearance.
BUT things must have been getting desperate as I was actually pleading for Hannibal Buress (Daddy's Home). I couldn't stand him in the first film. He wasn't funny and overstayed his welcome. This time around, I wanted more. The role reversal with the black police officers seizing white drug dealers was an unexpected satirical dig that delivered.
And if I'm not mistaken, I'm sure there was supposed to be more of him from the trailers. Well, none of it featured in the actual film.
Rogen and Byrne weren't really in it as much as I thought. BUT don't worry. They haven't changed one bit (No, really. They do the exact same thing). It was a nice touch having the same child actors playing the adorable Stella. I couldn't believe how much they had grown up in 2 years.
The sorority delivered a somewhat mixed response. Kiersey Clemons (Dope) and Beanie Feldstein were actually quite funny BUT I just wish the pranks were.
The girls dressing up as Minions and fumbling about like their Dreamwork counterparts? AWFUL! Making bold statements about sexism when performing an equally revolting gag compared to a fraternity doing the same thing? Surprisingly entertaining.
Prank calling Mac so he flies over to Sydney looking for his wife?
It really was miss more than hit with a finale that was a complete retread of the first. The drug and sex gags just didn't cut it. I mean they only just got away with it the last time! And it ended so cornily that . . . I lost the brain cells to think of a clever insult.
BUT I'm sure it would have been better than this bilge. Hopefully there won't be another.
Tagged Bad Neighbours, Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising, Beanie Feldstein, Bones, Carla Gallo, Chloe Grace Moretz, Daddy's Home, Dave Franco, Dope, Dreamworks, friends, Hannibal Buress, Ike Barinholtz, Kelsey Grammer, Kiersey Clemons, Lisa Kudrow, Minions, Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, Suicide Squad, Zac Efron
*NEW* DADDY'S HOME REVIEW *NEW*
January 19, 2016 April 17, 2016 by pmbayobale, posted in Best and worst films, Cinema, Comedy, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Uncategorized
Daddy should have stayed away.
Marky Mark and Ron Burgundy take each other on in a mediocre reunion.
Stepdad, Brad Whitaker (Will Ferrell), is a radio host trying to get his stepchildren to love him and call him Dad. But his plans turn upside down when the biological father, Dusty Mayron (Mark Wahlberg) returns.
Not bad. If you're expecting The Other Guys 2, you might be left a little disappointed. We open to a ridiculously OTT sequence with Ferrell's sickly sweet Brad praising fatherhood. Well, step-fatherhood. He plays the dim-witted simpleton so well. It doesn't even feel like the guy's acting. He's a natural. Happy to have a family even if his delightful step kids draw demented doodles of him with a knife in his head and "homeless man poop" for hair. His response? Relief. Relieved that he's NO longer dead in the pictures.
It's easygoing enough BUT not quite as laugh out loud or as engaging as I hoped. Things pick up when Wahlberg makes his introduction. The game afoot from the get go as Dusty leaves Brad waiting at the airport.
The pace dipped in and out as Brad's naive step dad is repeatedly duped and manipulated by the ultra cool Dusty. The 12A rating restricted the pair from really pushing the envelope. I missed the random improv that they had in The Other Guys. Don't get me wrong. They still had that chemistry and worked well off each other. If it wasn't for them, I don't think it would have worked.
The OTT stunts were stupid BUT delivered the laughs. Ferrell trying to showboat on a motorbike resorted in half the house being renovated. A back yard skate off drew some unexpected laughs BUT soon went on far too long. And that was the problem for me.
For every snappy one liner and crafty gag, there were a dozen duds. Thomas Haden Church's (Sideways) radio producer was a mixed bag. If it wasn't for his random stories that had no relevance, I would have cut him out altogether. The kids were funny. To be honest, they could have been in it more. The stunning Linda Cardellini (ER) was far too straight faced in this mad mess. The running gag with Griff (Hannibal Buress) the handyman overstayed its welcome like the character. Seriously, it really annoyed the hell out of me.
The whole "he's better at you in every way" spiel was a little predictable. BUT that wasn't to say that it didn't deliver. Dusty's fairy tale bed time story of the wicked step king wasn't too bad and the endless battles to outdo each other on giving the kids presents or saying good night had a chuckle here and there.
Bobby Cannavale (Ant Man) was terrible in his cameo as a fertility doctor. Merely setting up a gag for the pair to draw swords (If you catch my drift). The recurring gag of Marky Mark without a shirt pops up yet again. It didn't quite work as well as Date Night BUT I'm sure the ladies won't be complaining. Performing crunches and lifts while Ferrell watches in awe.
Brad's desperation to win the family back got the better laughs. His drunken meltdown at a basketball stadium had me in stitches. I may have shook my head at the nauseating father/daughter dance finale BUT I couldn't resist the buffoonery of Wahlberg and Ferrell.
It did feel like a case of the "best bits in the trailer". If you were lucky NOT to see them than it might be a bit more entertaining. It was all far too cheesy, OTT and a little slow at times. If NOT for Gamble and Hoitz, I mean Brad and Dusty, this would have been a write-off. It killed the time BUT not their best.
Tagged Ant Man, Bad Neighbours, Bobby Cannavale, Daddy's Home, Date Night, ER, Hannibal Buress, Linda Cardellini, Mark Wahlberg, Sideways, The Other Guys, Thomas Haden Church, Will Ferrell3 Comments


I can't say for how long I've been waiting to give you this news. Koei Tecmo's Japan-exclusive PC game Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation has released on Steam on March 26, and in English as well! The other supported language are Korean, Chinese and Japanese.
There was no noticeable announcement, no fanfare, nothing whatsoever to anticipate this release. Well, unless there was something in Japanese that flew under the radar. Just as the original Japanese version published by DMM in 2017, DOAX: VV is a free-to-play game where cute girls play volleyball, try tons of different bikinis through a Gacha system and are unnecessarily embarrassed most of the time. Well, sometimes it is justified, to be honest, as you are mostly a spectator in this game.
But there is a catch: this Steam release is only destined to the Asian market, which means you can't play unless you can find a workaround.
And now you ask: if this game is on Steam and furthermore with an English localization, why isn't it available in North America and Europe? Because Koei Tecmo has decided it doesn't want to subject itself to another round of backlash due to the game's sensitive subject and objectification of women. It's understandable, but is it really to blame on western players only?
Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation just saw the release of its new character, Oni girl Kanna.


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Astroparticle physics equipment for CTA
Lead Research Organisation: University of Leicester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Please see joint UK CTA proposal submitted by Tim Greenshaw, University of Liverpool
Planned Impact
Nov 14 - Mar 15
ST/M006956/1
Jonathan Stephen Lapington
Particle Astrophysics (100%)
High Energy Cosmic Rays (100%)
University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
Nagoya University, Japan (Collaboration)
Argonne National Laboratory, United States (Collaboration)
Friedrich-Alexander University (Collaboration)
Columbia University, United States (Collaboration)
University of Bari Aldo Moro (Collaboration)
University of Amsterdam (Collaboration)
University of California Los Angeles, United States (Collaboration)
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Durham University, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Stanford University, United States (Collaboration)
University of Siena (Collaboration)
University of Utah, United States (Collaboration)
University of Perugia, Italy (Collaboration)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
The University of Iowa, United States (Collaboration)
Observatory of Paris (Collaboration)
National Research Council CNR - Italy (Collaboration)
Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
University of Leiden, Netherlands (Collaboration)
University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States (Collaboration)
Aix-Marseille University, France (Collaboration)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy (Collaboration)
Washington University in St Louis, United States (Collaboration)
University of Adelaide, Australia (Collaboration)
Jonathan Stephen Lapington (Principal Investigator)
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Title Publication Date Published
Lapington J (2017) The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Further Funding
Description This funding gave us the capability to prototype complex electronic circuits fpr cameras for use in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Without this in-house capability the costs and timescale of procurement from industry would have limited the scope of the electronics development. This equipment has substantially reduced production costs allowing design iteration to optimise performance.
In 2016-2017 this equipment was used extensively indevelopment of the TARGET electronics module, a multi-channel high speed data acquisition system, a core component in the camera developed for the UK involvement in Cerenkov Telscope Array. This work could not have been undertaken without the equipment funded in this project. It has also proved extremely valuable for many other research council funded projects at the University of Leicester.
Exploitation Route The facility is available for other University of Leicester projects and for CTA collaborators.
Sectors Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology
Description This electronics production facility has been intensively used for the research and development of the front-end electronics for the CHEC camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. These FEE electronics include a) a miniaturised low power 64 channel high speed preamplifier, and b) a matching 64 channel 1GSa/s waveform digitiser and trigger module. The CHEC FEE module, developed at Leicester University, was designed, manufactured and delivered in Q3 2017 for the CHEC-S prototype camera which is now undergoing laboratory testing prior to on-telescope tests in Q2/Q3 2018. The facility will also be used for projects with non-academic impact at the University of Leicester, making outputs from these projects more cost-effective and productive. Leicester has joined the US-led SCT collaboration developing a Medium-Sized Telescope (MST) for CTA, and the facility has helped to develop a modified FEE module for SCT. The facility is also being incorporated in the new advanced manufacturing infrastructure suite being assembled at Leicester. This will form part of the Space Park Leicester project to integrate space research at Leicester with aerospace companies, bringing low cost access to space capabilities to the East Midlands.
First Year Of Impact 2014
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Environment,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology
Impact Types Societal,Economic
Description CTA-UK
Amount £820,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ST/S00260X/1
Organisation Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC)
Start 06/2018
End 12/2019
Description Cherenkov Telescope Array Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) Collaboration
Organisation Argonne National Laboratory
PI Contribution Leicester joined the SCT collaboration in 2018 to bring expertise in front end electronics (FEE) to the SCT project.
Collaborator Contribution The SCT partners have pioneered the design of a Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope as one of the Medium-Sized Telescope designs for the CHerenkov Telescope Array. The SCT's two-mirror optical system is designed to better focus the light for greater imaging detail and improved detection of faint sources.
Impact Transfer of sensor and front-end electronics design and implementation technologies from the CTA-GCT project to the CTA-SCT collaboration. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving detector physics, mechanical and electronic design expertise
Organisation Columbia University
Organisation Nagoya University
Country Japan
Organisation National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Department National Institute of Nuclear Physics - Perugia
Department National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Bari
Department National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Napoli
Department National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Pisa
Organisation National Research Council
Department SuPerconducting and other INnovative materials and devices institute
Organisation Polytechnic University of Bari
Organisation Stanford University
Department SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Organisation University of Alabama in Huntsville
Organisation University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Department Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Organisation University of Iowa
Organisation University of Perugia
Organisation University of Siena
Organisation University of Utah
Description Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope
Organisation Aix-Marseille University
PI Contribution UK contribution is to lead the development, manufacture and characterisation of the camera which includes the photon-counting sensor array, electronics system and the mechnical design.
Collaborator Contribution International collaboration to jointly develop and deply the Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT), a Small-Sized Telescope (SST) design for the CHerenkov Telescope Array. Contributions to the development and deployment of GCT in all areas, including design and development, including exchange of research and techcical staff, provision of required skills and expertise, training of personnel, support of component and system testing, manufacture and procurement of hardware, software and firmware, support for field trials. and eventual deployment of many (30+) GCT telescopes at final site in Chile.
Impact Development and manufacture of the GCT telescope (several tens+) for deployment on the Cherenkov Telescope Array facility in Chile. Multi-disciplinary: Telescope optics, detector system design, mechanical engineering, Monte Carlo modelling of physics.
Organisation Durham University
Organisation Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Department Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
Organisation Leiden University
Department Leiden Observatory
Organisation Max Planck Society
Department Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Department Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research
Organisation Observatory of Paris
Organisation University of Adelaide
Department School of Chemistry and Physics
Organisation University of Amsterdam
Department Center of Excellence for Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics
Department Department of Physics and Astronomy
Organisation University of Liverpool
Department Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
Organisation University of Oxford
Department Division of Structural Biology
Organisation Washington University in St Louis


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TV To Go: Harry Treadaway...	TV To Go: Harry Treadaway gets inside the mind of a murderous psychopath
TV To Go: Harry Treadaway gets inside the mind of a murderous psychopath
by Keith Watson Published September 4, 2018 Published Sep 4, 2018
Where are you right now?
I'm on a train from Exeter to London, I'm just trying to find a toilet so I can talk…
Hang on a minute, have you seen Bodyguard? Train toilets are bad places to be in that…
Yes! If the phone goes dead, you'll know what's happened… [silence]. Ah — it's empty!
So on to Mr Mercedes. how did you get into the mind of your character, Brady Hartsfield?
I read a lot. The more you learn about it, the more you come to understand — these young males, and it is mostly males, nearly all had horrific childhoods, which makes them empty inside. You don't sympathise but you understand.
How do you play 'empty'?
It's quite liberating, in a way, to play someone who is empty inside. You don't have to think 'how would he react?' because he's a blank. He's really good at pretending to be human.
Brady is fictional but he feels real…
Mr Mercedes is based on a true story — Stephen King read about a woman driving a car into a crowd and that's how it started. We talked about that a lot, making the series. The attention tends to be all about terrorist attacks — you forget that there's a lot of home-grown terrorism out there.
You bust some crazy moves to Radiohead…
That was my one contribution to the soundtrack! It was a scene with me tapping away on the computer and I was just bouncing around to Radiohead and they said: 'OK, we'll leave that in.' The music is great in the show, it really adds to it.
True — I'll never listen to the opening chords of The Pixies' Here Comes Your Man in quite the same way. What was the toughest scene?
Finding my mum on the floor coughing up blood because she's ingested a poisoned burger — that was a pretty harrowing scene. I had a lot of scenes with Kelly Lynch, who plays Brady's mother, and she was great fun. You need that when you're playing those scenes.
On the case: Retired cop, co-star Brendan Gleeson
So it wasn't tough shaving your hair off?
I was fine with that. I felt like I'd given my all to the part so I thought, 'why not go out with all guns blazing?' The best thing was that with all my hair gone, there was no way they could call me back for reshoots.
And now you're back for season two…
It's a completely new challenge because in season two I'm in a hospital bed in a coma and we're exploring the inside of Brady's head. We'd brainstorm ideas about what's going on in there and it gets quite freeform at times. As an actor you usually bounce off people, so this was a tough one.
Mr Mercedes season one is available on Amazon Prime. Season two is on Thursdays (episode one is available now)


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Hey, want to listen to two friends debate (read: argue) the merits of two movies? Yes? Then I have good news! My friend Colleen and I have started a podcast. You can download our first episode here, or check out the "Podcast: Love this movie, hate this film" page where I'll post them as they're completed.
Love this movie, hate this film #1 (30 MB) Topic: Thelma and Louise vs. Mona Lisa Smile
P.S. Constructive feedback only, please. It's our first time!
May 27, 2010 June 13, 2010 ZA Tagged feminist, film, mona lisa smile, movies, podcast, thelma and louise	4 Comments
I hate them, too.
[Edited later: If you can't tell by the relatively high number of comments on this post, I got featured in the Freshly Pressed section of the WordPress homepage and I'm rather proud to say I received about 7,000 hits over about two days.
One of the great parts about that was all the feedback I got about this post, including one comment from Robin Esrock from Word Travels, who promoted my post on his Facebook page and Twitter. Check out his comment below, where he says travel writing isn't always the dream job people think it is, and you'll also find a link to his site.
After reading all the comments, I just want to add that, realistically, being a travel writer probably isn't all it's cracked up to be. You're always on the road, it's a lot of hard work coordinating with different people in different countries all the time, and sometimes the locations are pretty remote. Even so, I'd probably choose that over data entry.]
If I were to rank the best jobs in the world, it would probably go something like this: Ian Somerhalder's personal masseuse, roller coaster tester and then travel writer (or TV host). But until I can make all, or any one, of these a reality, I will have to be satisfied with reruns of The Vampire Diaries, trips to amusement parks and watching luckier bastards than me travel the world for the living. And in the meantime, I'll watch my three favourite travel shows for pointers while I boil with envy.
Word Travels
Currently in its third season on OLN and CityTV (and Nat Geo Adventure internationally)
Hosted by Robin Esrock and Julia Dimon
This is a Canadian show that follows two travel writers as they, well, travel and write. It's an interesting take on the traditional travel show, as it's just as much about their personal experiences looking for stories and piecing together columns and articles as it is about the places they visit. Plus, having one writer – Robin – focus on the extreme side of traveling (like snowboarding down sand dunes in Dubai) and having another – Julia – write about the quirky, cultural side of travel (like training to be a gladiator in Rome) makes for a great diversity of content.
I also like reading about how the hosts of travel shows got those jobs. Robin, who's based in Vancouver, used to work in music and marketing, but after being struck down by a car while on his bike he got a sweet $20,000 settlement and decided to run off and travel the world for a year. He wrote a column and a travel blog about it, and the rest is history. Julia, meanwhile, started her career writing a movie column for the Toronto Star at the age of 12 (yes, 12!) and after six years transitioned to travel writing. Someone needs to explain to me how she managed to get that gig.
Currently in its third season on OLN and CityTV
Hosted by Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach
Another Canadian production, Departures was initially supposed to follow two friends – Scott and Justin – as they leave their regular lives behind and travel around the world for a year. Luckily for them, the show was successful enough to extend their travels and they're currently in their third season. The best part of this show is that neither of the hosts are experts in any sense of the word. At the risk of sounding patronizing, Scott and Justin are regular guys who interact with the places and people they meet from the same inquisitive perspective as their audience. Plus, they tend to shy away from the touristy, Travel + Leisure side of travel and stick to the less beaten paths. They even spent a whole episode on Ascension Island, a tiny island in the middle of the South Atlantic that hardly anyone has heard of. (Plus, they're really cute.)
The show's website doesn't fully explain how the guys managed to secure this gig, but Scott has a film background (he met the camera dude Andre while in film school) and when they came up with the idea for Departures, he called up his old high school friend Justin and a show was born!
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Currently in its fifth season on the Discovery Channel in Canada (the Travel Channel and the Discovery Travel & Living channel in the States)
Hosted by Anthony Bourdain
This American show highlights one of the best – if not the best – parts of traveling: food. Not only is food one of the foremost expressions of a culture, but it's also something everyone can enjoy and it differs in very interesting and revealing ways from one place to another. The great part about this particular show is that Anthony brings an enormously likable persona and infectious love for food to every dish and beachside tavern. He's also a bit grumpy and has a bit of disdain for vegetarians, but that's all part of the charm. His knowledge of food and international travel makes him a hugely entertaining guide.
Anthony has a culinary background and jump started his life as a famous writer and television personality by writing about his life working in restaurants "good, bad and horrible" in his book Kitchen Confidential. He later combined travel and food in A Cook's Tour and now he has his own awesome show.
May 26, 2010 June 14, 2010 ZA 56 Comments
So lost.
I've never watched Lost before, but since I felt really left out with the series finale craziness tonight, I decided to watch anyway. Here's how that went…
9 – 9:07 Very confusing bits and pieces. There's a doctor, and a guy who I guess used to need a wheelchair.
9:07 Priest named Desmond is orchestrating some kind of hostage situation that involves a fugitive and a corpse. I think he's part of a crossover with Touched by an Angel.
9:08 I think the girl escaped to an island. Good for her. But everyone seems to have emotional baggage. Jacob seems to have been born again, or something. Or something.
9:09 A mission! To destroy a magical leprechaun in the Heart of the Island. Fun banter. Ominous close-up. Credits. Commercials!
9:14 Another hostage situation with a confused fugitive. If he's driving a Hummer he must be a bad guy. Hey! It's either Merry or Pippen! And he's… goth. I think the big curly-haired guy is another Angel. A very badass Angel with a tranquilizer gun.
9:16 I think someone should be tending to that girl's wounds. I can see the blood and I think her arm is broken. Where are their priorities?
9:17 Aragorn is captured. He calls the bald guy "Smokey." Is he the Smoke Monster I keep hearing about?
9:18 I think one camp likes the Island. And the bald-headed guy wants to destroy it. I guess I'm rooting for the Island to stay put.
9:19 More characters! I don't recognize these people from EW. They seem nice, though.
9:20 The T.V. screen goes crazy. I'm scared.
9:21 Ha, the kidnapping priest Desmond is now the hostage. How the tables have turned. Commercials!
9:26 I think the little guy in the back with the walkie-talkie is going to betray the bald guy.
9:27 Gah! More characters to keep track of…
9:28 Of course the black smoke is evil. I thought we were post-racial. Wait, there's another island?
9:29 Now it's a CSI-type thriller, possibly in the past, or future, or alternate sideways universe. With bedside drama and the FBI agent from V!
9:30 Japanese lady is having déjà vu for two. 😦 They've had some tragic love story. I'd watch that movie.
9:31 Hey! They speak English… Liars, trying to make that nice doctor look stupid. Commercials!
9:35 Boromir is running away to join Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli.
9:36 More hospitals. I thought this was supposed to set on an island.
9:38 These guys are being pretty dramatic about a grey hair.
9:39 Another plane crash with new survivors? Or is the pilot an original survivor? How long has he been floating in that water?
9:40 Damn. She really hates that bald-headed guy. Where did that gun come from? This is probably how she ended up in jail in the first place.
9:41 Okay, I'm dropping the LotR metaphor now. Commercials!
9:45 Aw, they call each other "doctor", like "honey" or "sweetie." Gag.
9:46 Oooh, Desmond is a weapon. I'm intrigued. Although, why doesn't Desmond just run away? The bald guy only has a little knife. Also, Jake is going to kill the guy whose spine he fixed? Is that irony?
9:47 "I believe in you, dude." Gag. I thought he was supposed to be badass. Where's his tranquilizer gun?
9:48 So confused.
9:49 I guess that little waterfall is a wormhole or something. Cool. Commercials!
9:53 "You can't let other people decide who you are, dude. You have to decide that for yourself." Gag.
9:55 Syed to the rescue! Like Batman. Another love story… but inter-racial this time. So, do all these people have amnesia or something? Yay! Ian Somerhalder. I know him from The Vampire Diaries.
9:56 Another angry chick with a gun. Named Claire, apparently.
9:58 Desmond keeps talking about going towards the light. Does that mean what I think it means?
10:04 Ohhhh, Claire is the pregnant sister. I'm getting' it, I'm gettin' it…
10:05 Angry chick reunion at a benefit concert with a very mismatched band.
10:07 The place at the bottom of that waterfall looks very mystical. No! Don't step in the water! You'll wake up the water zombies! Wait, no, that's Harry Potter…
10:09 What the hell just happened? Did he pull out the stopper in some mystical drain to Hell? Uh oh…
10:10 Wow, Jake cannot take a punch. Commercials!
10:15 Damn, this show has everything. An impromptu birth backstage at a concert! Wow…
10:16 Damn, more déjà vu.
10:17 Oh, for heaven's sake. Fastest delivery ever. Did she even cut the umbilical cord?
10:19 ANOTHER love story.
10:20 I can't tell which one is the "real" world…
10:21 Earthquake! And panic music! And rain! It's like someone is shaking the giant snow globe they're all in.
10:22 Why didn't they repair that plane five seasons ago? Locke probably stopped them. He's super evil.
10:23 Showdown!… and commercials…
10:27 Gasp!
10:29 "What happened to your neck?" Oooooh, the worlds are bleeding into each other. So, is this going to be awkward when Locke wakes up?
10:32 All these moments where people are remembering their Island selves (I'm assuming…) are very touching. I've never even seen the things they're remembering, but I'm so moved. Also, Jack is definitely going to be the last to remember. Loser. Commercials!
10:36 Where did those ladders on the side of the cliff come from?
10:38 All you need to fix a plane is duck tape. Noted.
10:39 Hmmm… maybe if you have that déjà vu experience in the sideways universe, you are free from the Island in the… uh, Island universe?
10:40 What is their attachment to the Island??? Gawd, learn to let go, guys.
10:41 They're kissing each other goodbye, probably forever, and I'm just thinking about how uncomfortable it must be to be wearing wet jeans on a tropical island. Commercials!
10:46 Ha! See? Duck tape.
10:48 "Maybe you should read the machine its rights." lol I'm going to remember that trick the next time a vending machine eats my money.
10:49 I feel a happy ending coming on. Uh, not that kind of happy ending. Commercials!
10:57 Somebody always has to be the suicidal hero.
10:58 "The Island needs you"? Is this like Little Shop of Horrors?
10:59 Ewww, don't drink that dirty water. Magical dirty water.
11:02 How did she swim with what appears to be a broken arm?
11:03 Yay! Claire is going with them! No loose ends! I wonder where her kid is…
11:05 Yes, now put the phallus back in the hole and everything will be alright.
11:06 Free! Free at last! I hope they have enough gas to get… anywhere.
11:08 Jeez. Jack looks like he's lost his mind. Commercials!
11:13 So is Ben going to just live out in that courtyard? Work out his issues?
11:16 Aw, Hugo is so sad. He's got big shoes to fill… I'm assuming. Rise to the occasion, Hugo! Aw, he gave Ben exactly what he needed.
11:18 Everyone who's had their memories restored seems so Zen. I guess Jack has the most emotional baggage.
11:21 Aw, it's a little multi-faith chapel. How P.C.
11:22 Oh, snap. Someone lost the corpse. Oh, wait, not exactly… "Jack, I am your father."
11:24 *tear* I guess dying can't be easy… So, I guess the Island is, like, transitional therapy for newly dead people?
11:26 Wait, wait, no, the Island was real, and this sideways place is a place they made up to find each other… in death? Or, afterlife?
11:29 I still don't get it. But at least everyone looks happy. Puppy!
11:30 To the blogs!
May 23, 2010 May 26, 2010 ZA Tagged lost, lost finale, lost series finale	7 Comments
"Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched." – Thomas Fuller
I assume I'm not the only one who thinks about where I "should" be at a certain age. In a steady job by 25, married by 30, taking kids to preschool by 35, etc. etc… And I also assume I'm not the only who compares myself to other people to either a) feel better about my situation 'cause they're even further "behind" or b) feel discouraged/motivated because they're further "ahead" than I am. My sister recently admitted to me that she's constantly trying to guess the ages of strangers, particularly mothers, for that exact reason.
Even though the rational part of my brain understands that this is a silly thing to do, I can't help but indulge myself every so often. Lately, I've found myself Wikipedia-ing the lives of famous writers and political activists. Hey, if Jack Kerouac didn't finish writing On the Road until he was 29, that gives me almost 5 years to catch up…
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Best known for: On the Road, finished writing it in 1951 at the age of 29, published in 1957 at 35
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Academic background: Had a football scholarship at Columbia University, dropped out after injury; given a posthumous Doctor of Letters from University of Massachusetts
Work history: sports reporter, construction worker, joined the marines and the navy, wrote steadily but didn't publish until On the Road made him famous
Marriage and children: Two ex-wives (first at age 22, second at age 29), one daughter
Worth noting: Problems with depression, alchohol and drug abuse; also honorably discharged from the military for "psychiatric" problems
Death: Died at the age of 47 due to an internal hemorrhage as a result of cirrhosis caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Best known for: Fighting discrimination against Indians in South Africa, starting more or less in 1893 at the age of 24, and leading India to independence from 1915 to 1945 (ages 46 to 76) through nonviolent civil disobedience.
Birthplace: Gujarat, India
Academic background: Went to law school in London, England around the age of 19
Work history: Worked as a lacklustre lawyer, which is what brought him to South Africa and started his whole political activism thing
Marriage and children: Had an arranged marriage at the age of 13 to Kasturbai Makhanji (14). Had 4 sons, the first at the age of 18ish
Worth noting: Was awesome.
Death: Assassinated at the age of 79. 😦
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Best known for: Frankenstein, published in 1818 at the age of 21 (started writing it when she was 18)
Birthplace: London, England
Academic background: No formal education, but highly educated by her father and tutors
Work history: Full-time writer
Marriage and children: Married Percy B. Shelley when she was 19, had 3 children though only 1 survived
Worth noting: Had an affair (and a baby) with Percy until his wife committed suicide, after which they got married
Death: Illness likely caused by a brain tumour at the age of 53
Nelson Mandela (1918-)
Best known for: South Africa's first black president elected by a fully democratic election, and badass anti-apartheid activist. He was inaugurated at the age of 76.
Birthplace: Umtata, South Africa
Academic background: Earned his B.A. though correspondence and earned his law degree from the University of London while in prison.
Work history: Had a scattered political career, spent 27 years in prison for being a badass activist
Marriage and children: Married three times, at the ages of 26, 40 and 80. Had six children.
Worth nothing: Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 (shared with another guy) at the age of 75.
Death: Don't be morbid.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Best known for: Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), but he published his first novel Player Piano at the age of 30 in 1952
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana
Academic background: Studied chemistry and mechanical engineering, did graduate studies in anthropology (Cat's Cradle was accepted as his thesis)
Work history: Served in WW2, worked as a reporter (briefly for Sports Illustrated and did PR for General Electric), managed a car dealership
Marriage and children: Married for the first time around 1945 (age 23), the second time around 1979 (age 57), raised 3 children from his first marriage, adopted 3 of his nieces and nephews after his sister died of cancer and adopted a 7th with his second wife
Worth noting: Attempted suicide in 1984
Death: Brain injuries sustained during a fall in his home at the age of 85
J.K. Rowling (1965-)
Best known for: Harry Potter series, first of which was published in 1997 at the age of 32
Zodiac sign: Leo
Birthplace: Gloucestershire, England
Academic background: BA in French and Classics. Has a bunch of honorary degrees.
Work history: Worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International, taught English in Portugal, studied for her postgraduate certificate of education while on welfare
Marriage and children: First married at the age of 27, and again at the age of 36. Has 3 kids, the first born when she was 28.
Worth noting: Suffered from depression. Came up with dementors during this time.
Death: 😦
Just a few things I thought were interesting: Both Kerouac and Vonnegut were born in 1922. Both On the Road and The Catcher in the Rye were published in 1951. Almost everyone lost family members early on in their lives, and kind of stumbled into their biggest successes. They all have different Zodiac signs.
(SOMEONE better get something out of this post, 'cause it took for-e-ver.)
May 13, 2010 May 27, 2010 ZA Tagged gandhi, jack kerouac, jk rowling, kurt vonnegut, mandela, mary shelley, nelson	7 Comments


Causal reconstruction is the task of reading a written causal description of a physical behavior forming an internal model of the described activity and demonstrating comprehension through question answering This task is difficult because written descriptions often do not specify exactly how referenced events together. This article characterizes the causal reconstruction problem presents a representation called transition space, which portrays events in terms of transitions or collections of changes expressible in everyday language and describes a program called PATHFINDER, which uses the transition space representation to perform causal reconstruction on simply English descriptions of physical activity PATHFINDER works by identifying partial matches between the representations of events and using these matches to form causal chains fill causal gaps and merge overlapping accounts of activity. By applying transformations to events prior to matching PATHFINDER is also able to handle a range of discontinuities arising from a writers use of analogy or abstraction.
Humans often learn about the causal workings of physical systems by reading written descriptions of the sort appearing in encyclopedias, reports and user manuals this article presents research in getting programs to read and reason on the basis of such descriptions [7, 8].
This task is both important and difficult It is important because written causal descriptions constitute not only an abundant resource for use in constructing intelligent user manuals design documentation systems and planning /diagnosis systems, but also a convenient medium for interaction with these systems during operation Moreover, these descriptions cover a wide range of phenomena humans find difficult to describe by other means: complex interactions such as combustion and phase changes, intuitive concepts such as sounds, paths and collections, and metaphorically-modeled activities such as radio signals "spreading" in space.
The task is difficult because written causal descriptions rely heavily on the reader's ability to supply missing objects and events, identify relations between parts of the description and perform inference from the information provided. One especially difficult subtask is that of determining how the events in a description fit together into causal chains or overlapping accounts of activity as often these relationships are left implicit by the description.
Given this description, a human previously unfamiliar with the operation of a camera should be able to answer nontrivial questions such as the following.


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Wings of Glory – Giants of the Sky campaign ends with $126,111 pledged
After a great flight, the Wings of Glory Miniature Game – Giants of the Sky project on Kickstarter ended with $126,111, 630% funded, with the support of 762 backers. Thanks to this great success, the "Giants of the Sky" models - the Handley-Page O/400 and the Zeppelin Staaken R.VI - will become a part of the WW1 Wings of Glory game next October.
The campaign funded the release of these huge models for Wings of Glory, and it was also a great opportunity to promote the game and reach new players. About 200 backers pledged at the "Rookie" reward levels, targeted for newcomers.
The campaign launched on March 10th, and the initial funding goal of $20,000 was achieved in only 2 hours and 29 minutes. Nine stretch goals were unlocked, adding more rewards for the backers: poster maps to use together with the bomber models as gaming mats, a delxue management card, a package of five scenarios, the WW1 version of the Wings of Glory Toolkit app for Android and IOS, decks of aces, crew and skill cards, and a beautiful poster with all WW1 Wings of Glory airplanes.
Backers could add to their rewards several add-ons to enhance the gameplay experience, as items of Aerodrome Accessories (our official licensee) and other from the official product range, and also a very special item, "Snoopy the Flying Ace", a kit, produced by Running Press, which commemorates Snoopy in his iconic role as the Flying Ace.
Ares Games thanks all backers for their support, as well its partners, Aerodrome Accessories and Running Press.
Tags: Bombers, Kickstarter, News, WW1 Wings of Glory
War of the Ring – The Card Game is shipping to distributors now
War of the Ring – Card Game releases in 9 languages in Q1/2023
New largest game ever for Wings of Glory: 117 players at FirenzeGioca 2022


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