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Rock Photos Salvaged in Haverhill Fire
Robert Plant among the images
By SteveAJones
April 20, 2012 in Photos
Photos picked from rubble of Haverhill fire
By Mike LaBellamlabella@eagletribune.com
The Eagle Tribune
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:44 AM EDT
HAVERHILL — After fire destroyed his apartment last month, Jason Cameron thought he'd lost irreplaceable photographs he'd taken of rock music legends who have inspired him since he was a boy.
His family and three other families who lived at 63 Pecker St. could only watch on the morning of March 31 as everything they owned went up in smoke — or so Cameron thought.
"Rock 'n' roll is my life," said Cameron, 41. "It got me through some difficult times when I was a kid and my parents got divorced and now I try to inspire others."
Cameron returned to the scene of the fire on Monday to search for his cat and see if demolition workers had found anything in the rubble. They did: Dozens of photographs he'd taken over the years of rock stars and bands, all of which he thought were destroyed. There was Ozzy Osborne, Ted Nugent, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose and other rock legends.
"I came back to the site to find my cat but I didn't," Cameron said. "But I did get lucky .... The demolition crew found my photographs."
Mementos of all the concerts he'd been to, all of the musicians and singers he'd met and who had posed for pictures. Their photos somehow survived the blaze, which destroyed the brick and wood frame building.
On Monday, Mike Climo of Pentucket Construction was sifting through the remaining debris while Cameron watched. Climo found a family photo album, then came across dozens of photographs of musical artists and bands.
He shouted out to Cameron, whose image was in many of the pictures, posing with the musicians.
"You're the guy in the photos," Climo said.
Climo said he often finds family mementos when working on house demolitions. "You always find something," he said. "It's not easy seeing someone's life getting tossed into a Dumpster."
Cristina Perez, 50, has been visiting the site as well and told The Eagle-Tribune this week that she lost her dog, a Chihuahua mix named "Bella," in the blaze.
Perez lived in a first floor apartment with her daughter, Grace Perez, who was at work at the time.
"I tried to get Bella out, but the smoke pushed me back," Christina Perez said. "None of the smoke alarms went off."
When firefighters arrived, Perez shouted that her dog was still inside the house. "They tried to get her out but it was too much," Perez said. "I cry for my dog every day. I am so sad."
On the morning of the fire, Cameron was at his job at Polartec in Methuen and, after getting a call from his family, he raced back to Haverhill. He breathed a sigh of relief to find everyone had gotten out safely. He hugged his fiance, Christina Turcotte; their sons Elijah, 2, and Cyrus, 4; and Turcotte's mother, Lyn Salter.
Then memories of another fire filled his thoughts.
Cameron was just months into his new job at Malden Mills on Dec. 11, 1995, when fire destroyed three buildings that were part of the textile plant. A fourth building that was not destroyed allowed the owner, Aaron Feuerstein, to rebuild.
"My department was in a small building that didn't catch fire," Cameron said. "We moved our machines into the building so as not to lose our customers and we all pulled together and sacrificed to save the company."
He told his family and neighbors that no matter what happens in life, you have to be strong.
"With hard work and determination, anything is possible," he said. "Each day is a gift and we have to live life to the fullest."
His car's license plate reads "DREAMZ."
Cameron said his company, Polartec, provided his family with blankets, jackets and shirts following the recent fire while other donations of clothing for his family and others who were displaced came from people throughout the area.
He said his family still has many challenges ahead, including finding a permanent place to live. They are currently staying at a motel in Salisbury.
Cameron said every state agency he has gone to for help has told him that because he has a job, he is not eligible for assistance.
"We went to City Hall and they told us they would try to help us," Cameron said. "People have been nice and have been sending us clothing for the children but we're really in a bind right now."
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Great story! Now......how do we help that guy put together a book so we can see his work???
I was thinking it would be great if someone scanned the photos and created an online gallery so people could purchase prints or simply make a donation.
is this guy like a famous photgrapher or somethin?
i mean.....shit
if my house burned down i have some exclusive photos too
you missed the boat on this one SAJ
non story
A story of happy and sad for obvious reasons. Sad about the cat. My best friend had a house fire after his roof was hit by lightning,The resulting fire and water damage from the firefighters meant he lost hundreds of American comic boooks, his vinyl collection dozens of books, hi fi and most of his belongings. He was in the house at the time so he was lucky not to have been injured or worse. The emotional and psychological impact still effects him and it was over16 years ago.
Pleased that his photo's etc were saved so it would be good to see them.


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Q: Doubt in abstract classes public abstract class Person {

    private String name;

    public Person(String name) {
        this.name = name;
        System.out.println("Person");
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    abstract public String getDescription();
}

public class Student extends Person {

    private String major;

    public Student(String name, String major) {
        super(name);
        this.major = major;
    }

    public String getMajor() {
        return major;
    }

    @Override
    public String getDescription() {
        return "student" + super.getName() + " having" + major;
    }

}

public class PersonTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Person person = new Student("XYZ", "ABC");
        System.out.println(person.getDescription());

    }

}

Ques: We cannot create objects of abstract classes, then why Person Constructor has been invoked, even its an abstract class?

A: Because it's still a class and its constructor is invoked as a part of the object instantiation. The fact that it is abstract doesn't have anything to do with this.

A: What you can't do is to create an instance of an abstract class.
As a Student is 'partly' a Person super(...) initializes the 'Person part' of the student, it does not create a Person.
I hope you understand what I try to say

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Ques: We cannot create objects of
  abstract classes, then why Person
  Constructor has been invoked, even its
  an abstract class?

If a class is declared abstract, no objects of that class can be created. That DOESNOT mean you cannot create objects of its subclasses.
You can have references(of type abstract class) refer to a subclass(non abstract) object.

Person person = new Student("XYZ",
  "ABC");

And in order to construct a Student object, you need to have the "person" parts of the student initialized, thats what exactly the constructor of the abstract super class is called for.

A: The constructor is just a method like others. And you are calling it explicitly from your child class' constructor with:
super(name);

A: The Person constructor is invoked from the Student class. From the Java tutorials

An abstract class is a class that is
  declared abstract—it may or may not
  include abstract methods. Abstract
  classes cannot be instantiated, but
  they can be subclassed.

A: An abstract class can have constructors - they cannot be invoked directly, but only as part of constructing a subclass instance, via a call to super() in the subclass constructor.

A: One cannot make an instance of an abstract class but subclasses can call super(name);. Even though it is a constructor, it is just another method.

A: The Abstract class is a part of your overall concrete class. An Abstract class is a class that is allowed to defer many parts to its concrete implementations but it must still initialize itself.
As such it has a constructor and as such the constructor with any parameters it requires to set itself up.
When you call the super(...) method from your Student class you are explicitly calling the constructor in the Person template class. The super() call must be in the first line of the Person constructor so if your person class wishes to override the defaults set up by the Person() constructor, then you have that option. But exactly one person constructor MUST be invoked when you extend a class (Abstract or concrete).

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The European Commission has begun legal action against Germany in response to their continuous application of the country's new minimum wage law to international truck drivers following widespread protests from the road haulage industry.
They announced their response on Tuesday saying that, while they welcomed the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany, its effect on road haulage restricts the freedom of service and movement of goods across the EU in ''a disproportionate manner''.
The German government launched their €8.50 per hour minimum wage on 1st January 2015 and implemented it across the country, including on any non German truck drivers driving across Germany. Almost a month later Germany suspended the law's application on foreign truck drivers after a flood of complaints from foreign haulage companies and transport operators about the long delays at borders being caused by officials checking the truck drivers pay details.
The European Commission has now decided that the suspension of the law alone is not sufficient as it does not give any legal certainty that it will not be re-introduced in the future. Following several weeks of talks with Berlin, Warsaw and other EU capitals, the commission has now sent a formal notice to Germany. This is the first step in a procedure that could end up at the European Court of Justice if further talks fail to resolve the issue.
The German labour ministry now has two months to respond to the notice.
Perhaps the European Commission have 'over-reacted' by issuing Germany a notice. This situation again highlights the difference in wages across the EU for truck drivers and many established EU members are finding it difficult to compete against drivers from Poland, Lithuania and other new member states as their wages are a fraction of the national minimum wages in those countries.
While driver wages remain low in countries like Poland they will continue to capture more and more of the international haulage market and then begin to chip away at the domestic haulage market as well which is clear to see already in both Germany and the UK.


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Australia put out a spectacular show at the Carrara Stadium to mark the beginning of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. The Indian contingent was led by ace shuttler PV Sindhu who was the flag bearer of the team. Scottland was the first country to march in the Parade of the nations. Prince Charles declared the games open after Australia concluded the parade.
On Wednesday, the road to glory for 22-member of Indian contingent will officially be underway at the Carrara stadium as Gold Coast will welcome 71 nations in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. With 64 medals (15 gold, 30 silver, 19 bronze to be precise) last time around in Glasgow, India will be looking to beat their overall best of 101 medals grabbed in the 2010 New Delhi games at Gold Coast. With Australia being the hosts, the summertime vibrant vibes are likely to paint vivid pictures on the opening ceremony.
The arena will be revamped into a beach with performers gracing the sage as surfers. Singers Delta Goodrem and Dami Im will take centre stage in the opening ceremonies along with some blistering lighting effects supporting every act. The 2018 Commonwealth opening ceremony will be attended by 35,000 people including the likes of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall — Camilla along with Prince Edward, who is the Commonwealth Games Federation's vice-patron. The 21st edition of Commonwealth Games has also invited Hollywood upper echelons and famous actors such as Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth, Miranda Kerr, Greg Norman and Mick Fanning.
Here are Commonwealth Games 2018, Opening ceremony Highlights:
18:10 PM IST: "It gives me great pleasure to declare the 2018 Commonwealth Games open," says Prince Charles as he declares the Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast open. The Commonwealth Gmaes in Gold Coast were off to a spectacular start with a host of cultural performances that left the audiences in awe of the hosts.
18: 05 PM IST: Kurt Fearnley hands the Baton to Netballer Liz Ellis who gives it to hockey star Brent Livermore. Sally Pearson receives the Queen's Baton from Brent Livermore. She hands it further to Prince Charles who will now declare the Games open.
18:00 PM IST: Peter Beattie, Chairman of Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation: Beautiful one day, perfect the next. Welcome to Australia, welcome to Queensland, and welcome to the Gold Coast. Queen's Baton arrives at the Carrara Stadium. Former Australian swimmer Susie O'Neill is the baton bearer.
17:40 PM IST: Athletes are now carrying the Commonwealth Games Federation (CWGF) flag at the Carrara Stadium as the audience and the dignitaries watch in awe.
The Carrara Stadium looks spectacular
17:30 PM IST: With all the athletes at the Carrara stadium now, artists are performing next. Australian singer Katie Noonan is performing now. The Carrara Stadium is dipped in celebrations as 4500 athletes from across 71 nations will perform at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
17: 20 PM IST: Tuvalu with just seven athletes walk in at the Opening ceremony in Gold Coast. Vanuatu are the next ones to follow. Australia are the last ones to come in. The host nations in the green and yellow take the centre stage amid heavy applauds from the audience. Australian conclude the Parade of nations.
17:12 PM IST: After St Vincent, the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands. The island nations of Fiji and Kiribati walk in.
17:05 PM IST: Athletes from the Caribbean nations Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados' athletes are the next ones to walk at the opening ceremony.
16:57 PM IST: Asian countries start with Bangladesh the first nation to walk in, followed by India who are led by badminton ace PV Sindhu. India will participate in 17 sports in total and have strong chances of bagging medals in badminton, shooting and wrestling. India also are a strong hockey nation and will aim to bag the top prize in the sport. India are followed by the other Asian countries, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
#Proud moment for us to see our pride #NationalFlag 🇮🇳 flying high in the hands of @Pvsindhu1 at #GC2018@afiindia @BAI_Media @BFI_basketball @BFI_official @OfficialCFI @TheHockeyIndia @OfficialNRAI @indiasquash @ttfitweet @WeightliftingIN @FederationWrest @ParalympicIndia pic.twitter.com/6I63YG74p0
— IOA – Team India (@ioaindia) April 4, 2018
PV Sindhu marches with the flag #GoldCoastCommonwealthGames opening ceremony pic.twitter.com/t5RamVn5Sn
— Indro (@indraneel0) April 4, 2018
4:55 PM IST: Seychelles are next team to walk in the Nations Parade. Seychelles hold the record for the most Commonwealth Games medals (6) without securing gold. Gambia are the next ones to follow with the smallest pack of athletes at 6.
4:50 PM IST: After European nations, African nations Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, The Gambia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia are all done.
4: 45 PM IST: Namibia with 28 athletes at Gold Coast are followed by Nigeria who are a great track nation with a number of solid athletes. Rwanda who made their Commonwealth Games debut in Delhi in 2009 are the next ones to walk in.
4:42 PM IST: Nigeria and Cameroon start the parade for the African nations followed with Ghana. With 57 medals in total, Ghana is one of the most successful teams from Africa.Kenya are the next ones to walk in, a majority of gold medals in boxing and athletics the Kenyan team will aim to repeat their previous heroics in Gold Coast.
4:40 PM IST: Northern Ireland walks in Greens. A great group of athletes consisting of 88 members. They are a strong boxing and shooting team and will look for golds there. Wales are the next team to follow in rainbow colours, the Wales contingent is all set to make the most of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
4: 35 PM IST: Gibraltar is the next nation, a total of 22 athletes playing across 7 sporting events. They will look to open their medal tally this year.
4:30 pm IST: The Parade of the nations is started by team Scotland followed by England as they walk in their white and red. England has been one of the most consistent performers in the competition and has hosted the Commonwealth Games twice.
4: 25 PM IST: Australian Defence Force after hosting the Australian singer Ricki-Lee Coulter who is singing Technicolour Love after Damien Rider arrives with the Queen's Baton Relay.
4: 15 PM IST: After Australia's national anthem, the fans are now requested to be seated. The opening ceremony perfectly captures the essence of Australian culture and the Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile we have an update from the Indian contingent where PV Sindhu is all dressed and ready to lead team India in the 'Nations Parade.'
Our #Champion @Pvsindhu1 is #AllSet to lead #TeamIndia in the 'Parade of the Nations' at the grand #OpeningCeremony of the @GC2018 #CommonwealthGames
Voice your support and wish us luck in our biggest #GoldQuest at the #GC2018 in #GoldCoast ! pic.twitter.com/E7Q2h3qAS2
Ted Williams' welcome speech at the CWG 2018 opening ceremony at the Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast: The Welcome to Country is a customary way to begin an event or gathering, and is performed by Traditional Custodians of the lands on which the event or gathering happens. This is usually done by an Elder, and takes the form of their choosing, be it a ceremony, a dance, a song or a speech. A Welcome to Country honours the customs of Traditional Custodians, allowing them to formally welcome visitors to their Traditional Lands and give their blessing to an activity, event or visit. The inclusion of these welcomes is a way in which valuing and respecting appropriate Indigenous ceremonies lead to an increase in the understanding and mutual respect for the cultural practices of Indigenous Australians through observation of protocols and a sharing in cultural practice. The resonance of these traditional welcomes is that they place great value in such things as the recognition of Indigenous people as the First Australians, the promotion of awareness of the history and the cultures of Indigenous Australians and their contributions to our nation, and formal acknowledgement of their ongoing connection to the land. A Welcome to Country is a meaningful occurrence that allows everyone to be part of Australia's Reconciliation journey.
4:07 PM IST: The Prince of Wales along with the Duchess of Cornwall grace the event are welcomed with loud cheers from the crowd. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Louise Martin CBE, President of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), The Honourable Peter Beattie AC, the Chairman of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and Sam Coffa AM, President of Commonwealth Games Australia are some of the dignitaries at the event.
4:05 PM IST: After a visual earth tour, didgeridoo performance takes the stage as the local Aussie dancers treat the fans with their culture. Some beautiful visuals being played out. Hip hop artist Mau Power and pop star Christine Anaud take the stage after William Barton played the didgeridoo from the peak of the Q1 skyscraper.
4:00 PM IST: The opening ceremony is underway in Gold Coast now with the presenter in the middle of the arena sharing a beautiful message of unity while standing with a small blue globe in his hand. 'Hello Earth' is the theme of the ceremony and it begins with a fantastic light show.
3:55 PM IST: The heir to the British throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are on the list of Royal guests present at the opening ceremony. Prince will open the Commonwealth Games on the behalf of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
3:25 PM IST: India will head into the commonwealth as one of the strongest contenders for gold medals. Both the men's and the women's hockey team are the favourites for the top prize in their respective categories. India's badminton team is also one of the strongest in past few years with the likes of Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal in the ranks.
3:15 PM IST: Team India is all set to begin its quest for Gold in the 21st CWG in Gold Coast, Australia. Badminton star and Rio Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu will lead the Indian contingent which is likely to not have all the players as many of them will travel to Australia later due to their games in the later half of the competition.
Just 1 #DayToGo
Doors to the #GC2018 will open in just one more day for #TeamIndia in its quest for Golds 🥇🥇at the 21st @GC2018 #CommonwealthGames
We're all set to dazzle! #SHARETHEDREAM @afiindia @ParalympicIndia pic.twitter.com/sW5aFDK8Jh
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Tonight, Wallace Properties and Baylis Architects bring their plans for a seven-story resident complex in Northgate before the design review board for some early guidance. The plans call for anywhere between 78 & 148 residential units, 3-to-17 live/work units and up to 138 parking spaces. Close to Northgate Mall, the building will infill an underused urban site which the developer is hoping to get re-zoned to 65-feet instead of the current 40-foot limit. That decision will impact which design they move forward with. Either way, it look like residences will mostly be a mix of open 1-BRs and 1-BRs.
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The European University Association (EUA) is gravely concerned about the arbitrary and unjust imprisonment in Iran of Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang, now in its third year. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Iran had no legal basis for his arrest and detention and called for Mr. Wang's immediate release. EUA, which represents more than 800 universities and national university associations in 48 European countries, joins in appealing to the Iranian authorities to free him without delay.
Mr. Wang was a graduate student in history studying Farsi and Persian history when he was detained in the summer of 2016 on unsubstantiated and meritless charges. The Iranian judiciary announced his conviction and sentence in July 2017. EUA denounces this alarming violation of academic freedom, due process and fair trial, which are fundamental and internationally recognised rights and standards. Mr. Wang's imprisonment is deeply troubling for scholars around the world and has a chilling effect on historical research and all scholarly exchange. EUA therefore stands with scientists, universities and others around the world in deploring Mr. Wang's imprisonment and in urging his immediately release and return to his family and scholarly work.


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9 of the coolest concert venues in the world
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Attending a concert is a captivating experience in itself... but it can only be amplified by these unbelievable venues. National Centre for the Performing Arts Red Rocks Amphitheatre Sage Gateshead National Theater and Concert Hall The Royal Opera House Kilden Performing Arts Centre Walt Disney Concert Hall Mumuth Esplanade Theatres on the Bay
Attending a concert is a captivating experience in itself... but it can only be amplified by these unbelievable venues.
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Radio waves from Alaska could add to asteroid-defense strategy
By Michael Franco
While Earth should be pretty safe from an asteroid collision for the foreseeable future, scientists are gathering all the data they can about the potentially dangerous space rocks
Earlier this week, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) antenna array in Alaska transmitted a series of long-wavelength radio signals to an asteroid that was passing just two lunar distances away from the Earth. The thinking is that the signals will have penetrated the asteroid, giving scientists an idea of its internal makeup, and arming them with another piece of information that could be critical in defending the planet from a someday collision.
Most asteroid-observing programs here on Earth use either visual studies of asteroids – such as those provided by observatories across the world to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) – or short-wave radio frequencies including those provided by NASA's Deep Space Network to map the size, positions, and paths of asteroids. While these programs provide extremely valuable data regarding any potential danger from an asteroid impact, they are limited in that they only "see" the surface of the asteroid.
HAARP, which is operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has traditionally been used to carry out analysis of our ionosphere (and has even been implicated in a few conspiracy theories). It also has the ability to send out long-wavelength radio signals. Such signals are able to penetrate objects, letting observers get an idea of their internal structure. In this case, learning about the internal architecture of an asteroid could provide scientists with a way to one day blow up or deflect a space rock that's getting a little too close to Earth for comfort.
The target of the observation was asteroid 2010 XC15 which measures about 500 feet (152 m) across, making it small by asteroid standards. It is currently passing by Earth at two lunar distances, or two times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
The HAARP experiment joins other asteroid-investigating efforts such as NASA's DART mission, which slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid in September, and the OSIRIS-REx mission, which grabbed a clawful of soil from the asteroid Bennu in 2020.
While no one expects an asteroid to give Earth any trouble anytime soon, astronomers do have their eyes on an asteroid known as Apophis, which will whiz past Earth at a distance of about 20,000 miles (32,187 km) on April 13, 2029. For context, that's closer than lots of the satellites currently orbiting the planet. Still, even though Apophis was once thought to be a risk, researchers using updated observations now feel that it won't be a menace for at least a century, which gives scientists plenty of time to figure out how to deal with it.
Data from the HAARP observations will be analyzed over the next few weeks, with researchers hoping to publish their findings in the ensuing months.
Source: University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Given that most asteroids seem to have considerable volatile content in the surface material, how much beamed energy over 6 months or so would it take to shift an asteroid's orbit enough to miss? How long in advance can an orbital intersection be calculated? If this is at all reasonable, then a solar powersat/sail hovering over a solar pole might be an option. Most of the time it could be beaming power to Earth or to spacecraft or stations, so it might even pay itself back even without deflecting any asteroids.


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Review: The Fishermen
Book by CHIGOZIE OBIOMA
Reviewed by ANGELA AJAYI
The year I left Nigeria, 1993, was a momentous one. For the first time in about a decade, there was a presidential election—a democratic process that had eluded Nigeria after at least two military leaders had ruled the country, seizing power through coups. I was 18, old enough to vote but not inclined to do so. My parents were not politically active, though my father loved to discuss current affairs with his friends at our house in northern Nigeria. That year, their discussions were filled with excitement about Nigeria's future, about the presidential candidate, M.K.O. Abiola, whose beaming face was plastered on flimsy poster boards along busy roads. I, too, found myself swept along by the high hopes for the country despite the increasing power outages, corruption, fuel scarcity, and religious and ethnic tensions.
When the election finally occurred, on June 12, 1993, the charade that followed left us all jaded and crestfallen: the election, which Abiola won, was annulled due to unfounded accusations of rigging. An interim president was quickly instated, after which Sani Abacha took over the country and ran it with the iron hand of a despot.
Chigozie Obioma's novel, The Fishermen, is set in this moment in Nigeria, when the wave of optimism crashed and then receded. Predictions that Nigeria would develop into thriving democracy became a fantasy at best. It is in this spirit of doom and gloom that the story of a family of eight, including five boys and a girl, living in Akure, a town in western Nigeria, unfolds. Narrated by the second youngest of the five brothers, Benjamin, now 20 years older, in an unwavering, confessional tone, the novel begins with imminent change:
I remember the night Father returned home with his transfer letter; it was on a Friday. From Friday through that Saturday, Father and Mother held whispering consultations like shrine priests. By Sunday, Mother emerged a different being. She acquired the gait of a wet mouse, averting her eyes as she went about the house. She did not go to church that day, but stayed home and washed and ironed a stack of Father's clothes, wearing an impenetrable gloom on her face.
On Monday, Father announces his transfer to the whole family and leaves for Yola, a town farther north, to live and work for an indefinite time, returning occasionally for short visits. Mother, who runs a food store in the nearby market, is left to take care of Ben and his five siblings. But she is not suited for the role of matriarch (Father being the stricter of the two), and soon the four older boys, Ikenna, Boja, Obembe, and Ben himself, free from their father's rules, go in search of "a physical activity to fill up [their] after-school hours."
This is how the boys become fishermen, "trekking the long tortuous path to Omi-Ala river … where they mostly only harvested a few palm-sized smelts, or some brown cods that were much more difficult to catch, and, rarely, some tilapia." The Omi-Ala river is also "dreadful," forsaken. Before the British colonists arrived and converted the people of Akure to Christians, the river had been considered a god and was worshipped by the inhabitants of Akure, who "erected shrines in the river's name and courted the intercessions and guidance of Iyemoja, Osha, mermaids and other spirits and gods that dwelt in water bodies." Along its banks, now largely abandoned and rumored to be the location for all kinds of rituals, also treads a sinister figure, the madman Abulu. On one of the brothers' fishing trips, he reveals a vision to them, a disturbing tale of blood-filled violence and fratricide. He predicts that Ikenna, the oldest, will "die like a cock dies" and that one of his own brothers will kill him.
After Abulu's prediction, Ikenna, to whom Ben defers because of his age, goes through a "metamorphosis," becoming a vengeful, irascible boy whose heart is possessed by fear, which "robbed him of many things—his peace, his well being, his relationships, his health, and even his faith." Once the madman's strange but powerful vision is set forth, there appears to be no arresting it, and Ikenna destroys all in his path, including his close relationships with his brothers, and their "prized possession": a copy of the Akure Herald with a story of how Ikenna led his brothers to safety during the 1993 political riots after the elections were annulled. The destruction of the newspaper seems to portend the end for the family as a cohesive unit. Boja, the second oldest son, develops a grudge against Ikenna, as insults and slights compound themselves, and the two boys come to frequent blows until Abulu's prediction bears out: one morning, in a fit of rage, Boja kills Ikenna with Mother's kitchen knife.
Father promptly returns home from Yola, and Ikenna is buried, his body in the coffin, as Ben observes, "the shape of a prolate spheroid; an ovoid, the shape of a bird. This was because he was, in fact, a sparrow; a fragile thing who did not design his own fate." More death, more tragedy follow—Boja drowns himself in a nearby well; Ben and Obembe decide to avenge their older brothers' death by killing the madman in an especially brutal manner; and Mother, who has simply borne too much at this point, winds up in a psychiatric hospital, "her mind exploded, and her perception of the known world … blasted to smithereens."
Obioma's skill as writer is evident; his descriptions are beautifully crisp, replete with intriguing analogies. Mother's senses, he writes, became "imbued with extraordinary sensitivity so that to her ears the sound of a clock in the ward became noisier than the din of a drilling machine. The sound of a rat became to her as peals of many bells." Such passages, often filled with curious comparisons and deceptively simple sentences, propel the narrative toward Ben's imprisonment—punishment for his part in killing Abulu—and toward his entry into "a new and frightening world devoid of [his] brothers."
Well-crafted and intriguing as they are, these passages, especially as applied to Mother's thoughts and actions, belie an underlying issue in the novel. The main female characters are typecast as dramatic gossipers ("'Biyi drunk again last night and came home naked,' Iya Iyabo said. She put her hands on her head and began to squirm plaintively."), or as "the greatest of sufferers," a reference to Mother, who embarrasses herself by exposing her breasts in public, adopting country superstitions considered beneath a city woman, claiming to have seen "a presence she perceived to be that of Boja's restless spirit," or sitting in the house, "silent, staring wildly at nothing in particular." Individually, these characterizations can be interesting and almost endearing at times, but as a whole, they cast women as the weaker sex, constantly on the verge of or in states of gloom, insanity, grief, and despair. This is especially striking in a novel whose plot primarily revolves around the lives of its male characters. Tragic as they may be, the writer imbues them with agency, something he doesn't accord his female characters.
Of course, this book is a novel, an ambitiously imaginative product of a talented young writer's mind. Born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria, Obioma earned his MFA from the University of Michigan's creative writing program. The Fishermen, his first novel, is still an impressive debut, casting a wide literary net and filling it, in an orderly way, chapter by chapter, with the twists and turns of a plot that keep the reader engaged. The language is accessible, though certainly not simplistic. Placed within a larger context, The Fishermen also provides useful commentary on Nigeria, its sad state of affairs in the 1990s. It's easy to draw parallels between the brothers and Nigeria. The brothers live in a household and town that reflect in language and ethnic diversity the country as whole. The family is Igbo, primarily from the eastern region of the country, but they live in Akure, in the west, a region populated by many Yorubas. Their use of language at home reflects this: "… Mother said all else in English instead of Igbo, the language with which our parents communicated with us; while between us, we spoke Yoruba, the language in Akure." English is the official language of Nigeria while Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa, the three main indigenous languages, are spoken in specific parts of the country.
Also, Father, the undisputed head of the house, is primarily absent, as his family disintegrates. This could be said of Nigeria's corrupt and greedy leaders who rule, seemingly in absentia, while the majority of the people suffer in poverty and desperation. And what about that madman Abulu's vision in the novel, in which the brothers kill each other and as a result destroy the family unit? To this day, religious and ethnic differences result in violence and bloodshed. The madman's vision has already been realized in Nigeria, and the parallels only seem to multiply, sadly, as in a tragic myth.
In August of that election year, when I bid my parents a tearful farewell and stepped onto a plane that would take me to college in the U.S., I still felt a tinge of that optimism for Nigeria. (Perhaps it will always be with me.) Wrapped up in that feeling was also the hope that the country would give women their due, to raise them to the levels they deserved. Progress, however, has been slow, painfully so. (The missing Chibok girls come to mind.) Unfortunately, Obioma's book, for all its lovely prose, doesn't buck the trend. Until the fairly recent success of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose books, Americanah and Half of the Yellow Sun, explore the lives of strong and complex female characters, African literature, as it is known to the western world, has been dominated by male narrators. Have their female characters lacked complexity? Not always. Nevertheless, newer visions for Nigeria should reflect not only hope in the future generations, the egrets, as narrator Ben calls his two youngest siblings who "in the midst of the storm, … emerged, wings afloat in the air." They should also convey the known might of its women.
Angela Ajayi is a writer living in Minneapolis. Her essays and author interviews have been published in the Star Tribune, Wild River Review, and Afroeuropa.
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Review: The Fishermen 07.11.2015
Friday Reads: December 2020
Curated by ISABEL MEYERS
In the final Friday Reads of 2020, we're hearing again from our volunteer readers on what books have been keeping them engrossed and entertained as the weather gets colder. For this second batch, our readers highlight books set everywhere from an Anishinaabe reserve in Ontario to Sofia, Bulgaria and a city in 1950s Italy.
Review: The Life Assignment
ALICIA MIRELES CHRISTOFF
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado calls his poems incantatory: they are meant to be sung or recited, to gather sense through their sounds. I felt this reading The Life Assignment: the enormous power of words--flat on the page and threatening permanent inertness--rising up animated and alive when given mouth and breath and ear, like fallen leaves swirled up by the wind.
Review: The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart
JASMINE V. BAILEY
In Argentina, the short story is not what you write until you manage to write a novel; it is a lofty form made central by twentieth-century titans like Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and Silvina Ocampo.


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Physical Anime vs Digital Anime
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In the video game world, there are tons of arguments held daily about what console is the best or what version of a game is better, the Xbox One version or PS4. Though one of the still long running arguments in the world of gaming is what is better, physical copies of games or digitally downloaded versions? Ironically, anime fans also find themselves in this conundrum as they tend to argue the same thing. Today, here at Honey's Anime, we will be arguing for two sides of the same coin. We will state two reasons why physical anime collections triumph over digital ones and vice a versa. Maybe we can finally end the war for the age-old question of what is better, physical anime or digital anime?
Show off that beautiful collection
When you go to a museum or an art exhibit you tend to see proud works displayed everywhere. While anime might not be in a museum—unless you count the Ghibli Museum—you can show friends and anime fans your own collection of anime anytime with physical anime. What do you think looks cooler personally? Some guy showing off a list of names on a phone saying this is his anime collection or a guy showing off tons of Blu Ray/DVD boxes of their favorite series on a nice shelf or movie rack? We think many of you will say the latter option.
One of the best arguments against someone who loves digital anime collections is to show them a box set of your favorite series. Collector's editions only tend to truly exist in the physical landscape and usually come jam packed with cool extra stuff like art books, soundtracks, posters, key chains and collectible boxes with art from the series. Digital collector editions might offer some similar goodies, but you'll rarely find someone showing off an art book in a digital format. A collector edition is the bread and butter of a physical anime collector and truly is one of the shining examples of why physical anime is sometimes cooler than digital.
Save some much-needed room
Many anime collectors have rooms dedicated to their favorite medium and we here at Honey's Anime aren't any different. However, some people don't have the ability to store thousands of anime like Parasyte, Gurren Lagann, the numerous alliterations of Gundam and so forth without losing much needed space in smaller environments like apartments or personal bedrooms. There are some of us here at Honey's Anime that buy a new show and then try to figure out where to put it so it won't cause a shelf to collapse or be in the way of our movement in a room. Digital anime collections solve this dilemma by being on a phone or laptop and can only be stopped by the amount of memory you have.
At home or on the go
While physical copies of anime can be watched if you have a portable Blu Ray player and or DVD player, the price of these devices can sometimes be expensive and are often hard to carry around on places like a train or in a plane. The beauty of having digital anime is that you can download a show and watch it from your cell phone of choice anywhere and anytime. A cell phone screen might be small but the convenience of having the ability to enjoy a show no matter where you are is just a small price to pay for a bit of eye strain. Plus, you could always use a laptop if your staying maybe at a hotel or trying to sneak in an episode of Shokugeki no Soma while at work…which we really don't advise doing as a boss might not be too happy to see work being pushed aside for anime viewing.
Ultimately, whether you're a collector of physical anime or digital anime, you're still a fan supporting his/her passion and helping the anime industry strive. Our so-called argument might seem serious to some, but there is no right or wrong way to buy anime and enjoy it ladies and gentlemen. Buy anime any way you will enjoy it more and try to remember that what works for you might not appeal to another anime fan. Though with that being said, we'll open the comments to you now. What are your thoughts on Physical Anime Versus Digital Anime? Tell us in the comments below and if you love articles like this be sure to keep checking out our amazing hive here at Honey's Anime!
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Q: Flutter - How to display an array of strings in the same paragraph with varying styling using a builder of some sort? Any help you could provide would be BEYOND appreciated. I cannot figure this out.
I will be processing JSON datafiles containing varying arrays of strings that we would like all to be displayed within the same single paragraph. Will need to programmatically iterate through the array to dynamically create the widgets that are displayed.
The paragraph will include words that are to be displayed as normal text, bold, and italic. (We can provide the types in a second argument of a structure, but more on that later.)
I can do this manually in Flutter, as displayed here:

This is the code fragment that created this:
(am dumming up a data array here...the real ones will be read in at runtime.)
List data = [
    "For example, ",
    "this(1)",
    " is bold. And ",
    "this(2)",
    " is italic. And, finally ",
    "this(3)",
    " is bold and italic."
];

 return Text.rich(
             TextSpan(
                  text: '',
                  children:
                      <InlineSpan>[
                         TextSpan(
                              text: data[0],
                           ),
                         TextSpan(
                              text: data[1],
                              style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold,),
                        ),
                                TextSpan(
                                  text: data[2],
                                ),
                                TextSpan(
                                  text: data[3],
                                  style: TextStyle(fontStyle: FontStyle.italic),
                                ),
                                TextSpan(text: data[4]),

                                TextSpan(
                                    text: data[5],
                                    style: TextStyle(
                                        fontWeight: FontWeight.bold,
                                        fontStyle: FontStyle.italic)),

                                TextSpan(text: data[6]),
                      ],
                    ),
          );

But, I need to create the widgets programmatically at runtime (using some sort of builder function or something).
Have tried to use RichText and Tech.rich, but to no avail. Also, cannot find any helpful examples about ParagraphBuilder (found the class description, but that is not sufficiently helpful).
Does anyone know how to do something like this in a single paragraph in Flutter, coming from an array/List/Map)
Thanks so much, in advance?
An example of a data array and the code that works manually is displayed below (setting aside the issue of how exactly to provide the style type..which I can explore after I figure out how to even display the strings in the same paragraph from an array).

A: To generate widgets in a list, you can use a simple for loop :
<InlineSpan>[
  for(var string in data)
    TextSpan(text: string),
]

A: Thanks @MickaelHrndz and @psink
@MickaelHmdz - It worked perfectly!!! Thanks so much!
Here is the associated code for the first part - Putting the array/List of strings into the same paragraph:
var list = [
      "one asdfads",
      "two fasdf aeer",
      "three asdf 23v ar uppo  ",
      "four aspl ojv mepfif hepv,"
    ];

...

body: Center(
        // Center is a layout widget. It takes a single child and positions it
        // in the middle of the parent.
        child: RichText(
          text: TextSpan(children: <InlineSpan>[
            for (var string in list)
              TextSpan(text: string, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black)),
          ]),
        ),
      ),

And here is a screenshot of the result on the phone:

UPDATE: Used ternary operators to handle the styling within the .
Works perfectly, with styling!!!! Thanks Guys!
Here is the updated result:


A remake of a TV movie from 1973, "Don�t Be Afraid of the Dark" feels as though it, too, were made in the �70s.
Aside from a few (not overly graphic) slashings and assorted mutilations, the scares are resolutely old-school: creaks and rustlings and whisperings in the dead of night. An architect (Guy Pearce) brings his young daughter (Bailee Madison) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) to stay in a Gothic mansion he�s spiffing up to be sold. The little girl, Sally, is ill at ease even before the family arrives at the mansion�s ornate door: she feels passed around between her mother, who doesn�t seem to have time for her, and her father, who is busy flipping the house. The place, which we already know is bad news from an ominous prologue, intensifies Sally�s bad vibes. Soon she and we see why. Little creatures live behind the grates, in the boarded-up basement. They want Sally; they want to play with her, and they come and find her in the darkness.
The creatures have a certain creep factor. They scuttle like rats over the dusty banisters; they lurch, hunched over, on wiry arms and legs, looking a little like the monsters drawn by Berni Wrightson in the horror-comic classic �Nightfall.� There�s a fine, spooky moment when several pairs of hellishly glowing eyes appear under Sally�s bed, confirming everyone�s childhood fear: yes, kid, you�re right, they�re down there, and they know how to use knives. Brought to life by computers, the creatures are convincing, but there�s still that Stephen King theory about the monster behind the door: eventually you have to open the door, and more often than not the audience is relieved to see what the thing looks like, whereas before you could horrify them by working on their imagination. It doesn�t help that the trailer gave it away, either.
The muted photography, which already looks as if it�s been blown up for a drive-in screen, joins together with the loud bass-violin score to produce something amusingly retro. Sally and her father use cell phones; other than that, the movie seems consciously timeless, and most of the movie is a three-character play. This old-fashioned old-dark-house flick, rated R for �violence and terror,� is perhaps an audible unseen knife-slash or two away from a PG-13; nothing in it is as scary (the clown doll) or as gruesome (the paranormal assistant hallucinating peeling his face off in bloody chunks) as the PG-rated Poltergeist. The parents are distracted but loving; the little girl is kind of refreshingly uningratiating � if she smiles once in the film, I must�ve blinked and missed it. She�s plausibly haunted by inner as well as outer demons. The movie never quite draws a connection between the two, though; the subtext is there if you want to insist on it, but the script throws in too many details, forcing the creatures out of the shadows in more ways than one.
It�s a decent spook show, and parents who�ve just moved to a new house should keep their small children the hell away from it; also, it�s not in 3D, which is fast becoming a big plus.
1/24/12 mr.mike Slight improvement on the TV-movie, which was'nt great to begin with.
1/16/12 action movie fan good sets and effects but do be afraid of a dull silly screenplay.
8/29/11 Sean Davis Was extremely disappointed. There was nothing to be afraid of!


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Venezuela in Store for More U.S. Sanctions Following the Launch of the Petro
The U.S. could respond with sanctions against Venezuela as soon as Monday due to the country's launch of the Petro.
President Nicolás Maduro may have thought launching the Venezuelan Petro was a good idea, but President Donald Trump thinks absolutely not.
As a result, the Trump administration is expected to slap Venezuela with sanctions as early as Monday, according to reports. These sanctions would be in addition to a host of them that the U.S. has already levied against the country that is now considered a dictatorship.
Day of more reckoning
According to the news outlet McClatchy, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order as early as Monday that calls for the new sanctions. The media outlet notes that these would be part of a larger package of measures that also include several individual sanctions against Venezuelan officials and/or associates.
These will likely be financial sanctions like those already in place. For example, Americans are prohibited from buying Venezuelan debt.
We told you in February that these sanctions could be coming. When the U.S. Treasury department saw that Maduro was hell bent on issuing the crypto, it sent a strong warning to U.S. investors to steer clear of it.
The sanctions it has in place for Venezuela prohibit the purchase of newly-issued Venezuelan debt. The Treasury sees the Petro as an extension of credit to the Venezuelan government. Because of that, it could expose U.S. citizens to legal risks.
The Petro born
In February, Venezuela held its presale of its Petro cryptocurrency, reportedly raising $735 million. It's backed by the country's oil, gold, and diamonds.
Maduro has continuously said that the crypto can save his country from further economic ruin. As recently as last week, Maduro said that the Petro had raised $5 billion from its ICO, we reported to you. If true, the amount makes this the most successful ICO in history, according to TelSur.
Thumbing nose at the U.S.
Maduro has continuously ignored warnings about the feasibility of the country having its own cryptocurrency.
He's authorized payments in cryptocurrency for Venezuela's consulate services and fuel on the border, reportedly saying, it is just the "kryptonite" Venezuela needs to take on Superman, which observers say is code for taking on the U.S.
Maduro said:
"Today, a cryptocurrency is being born that can take on Superman."
From wealthy to near-ruin
Once considered a democracy, wealthy from having the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is now burdened with a failing economy. The bolivar is the country's national currency, and its value has been plummeting for years.
Observers point out that the prices for everything from food to medicine have skyrocketed. In many cases, supplies are scarce to none.
Then there is the matter of the country's limited amount of cash. Reportedly, Black-market money changers charge commissions of up to 20% to score paper money for small business people who pay their workers in cash. Even banks are barely functioning, with them reportedly running out of bank notes.
Maduro has partly blamed the country's cash supply on smugglers who he says are taking off with bolivar notes and taking them to Colombia.
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What Is Best Social Media Site?
Re: What Is Best Social Media Site?
I like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram too much because I get so many benefits from these and I believe these are major social media sites.
The quick and dirty answer: The best social media network for your business is the one where your audience is engaging. But there's more to it than that.
You need to determine how much time you can realistically spend on social media. You also have to consider your budget — It's free to create profiles and share organic updates, but you'll need tools to schedule, monitor, and measure your efforts. Costs for those can increase the more social media profiles you have. Plus, social media marketing works best when you use a combination of both organic and paid promotion, so you should budget some advertising spend into the equation.
If you haven't created buyer personas, do that first, outlining your ideal customer's demographics, goals, and challenges related to your product or service, interests/hobbies, etc. It should also include a section on which social networks they actively use.
Facebook - Upload your email list and/or install Facebook's tracking pixel on your website and look for matches to Facebook users. You need to wait a week or two with the pixel to give it a chance to collect enough information. Look for a match rate of at least 15-20% to consider using Facebook.
LinkedIn -If you use Gmail, Rapportive is a great tool for matching email addresses to LinkedIn user accounts. It can be time-consuming, though, so take a random sample of contacts from your database, copy their email addresses, and place them in a new email in Gmail. You can also search LinkedIn by job title, company, and location.
Twitter - Like Facebook, you can upload email addresses and install a pixel to check if your audience is using the network. Most likely match rates will be lower r than Facebook, but if it's less than 5%, it's time to move on.
Pinterest - Look at your competitors' followers, or find bloggers in your industry that are active on Pinterest and see if their followers are your ideal customers. Above all, if possible, ask your customers if they use Pinterest.
Instagram - Look at competitors' and bloggers' followers to see if they include your target audience, and ask your customers if they use Instagram. Also, use hashtag research tools to see if people are using hashtags that use your brand name, product/service names, etc.
Other Social Networks -Pew Internet Research is a great resource for social network usage and demographic data though they tend to focus on the big five. You can also try Googling "[insert social network name] demographics" to help you decided if it's even a network to consider.
If you find your customers are active on five networks, it doesn't mean your business needs to be active on five networks. Your different ideal customers may not be using the same networks, but look for overlaps. Maybe most of them are using Facebook, but a few are using Instagram. Start with Facebook. Build your presence and engagement with your audience and then consider adding a second network once you have the first one mastered.
There are many kind of Social Media sites.
[url="http://xoomania.com/"]Xoomania[/url] is new in market and quite interesting for users.
Best social media site are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram etc.
All answers are best. Social media sites that are usefull.
I like Facebook and Instagram. Instagram is especially because it is a source of beautiful photos and useful motivative information from bloggers.


For questions about AWS Greengrass, a service that allows local compute and messaging features for IoT devices. For technical support, consider asking at Amazon's support site instead.
Is it possible to implement AWS RTOS on nrf51822? If not what is the alternative solution for connecting nrf51822 to IoT cloud?


I specialize in family law cases involving divorce, support and custody disputes, and domestic partnerships, among other matters.
Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, recently announced that he will transfer a percentage of the company's stock to his wife, Mackenzie. This transaction involves holdings estimated at more than $35 billion. According to the trades, while still pending, the Bezos divorce settlement will likely be the largest in world history.
In all our work together, Mackenzie's abilities have been on full display. She has been an extraordinary partner, ally, and mother Mackenzie posted a tweet of her own, saying, "Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff from each other. … Happy to be giving him all my interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares to support his continued contributions with the teams of these incredible companies.
Jeff and Mackenzie's decision is an example of parties who dignity resolved their dispute with dignity notwithstanding the amount involved and the background that led to the separation.
In this regard, tabloids reported intimate text messages between Bezos and TV anchor Lauren Sanchez, bringing into the public domain private information. Others have extensively written about this. Often "revelations' of this kind lead to ugly legal fights that negatively impact the lives of those involved. Minor and adult children are impacted. Sadly, lawyers often fail to counsel their clients on how best to resolve economic disputes, and parties spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars, attempting to appease the emotional overlay of a family in disarray. Although this writer is unaware of the legal theories that could have led to the Bezos family becoming involved in expensive litigation, to the credit of the parties here, they agreed with excellent counsel to put emotions aside and enter into a settlement that saved the family the emotional and economic cost of formal litigation. Sadly, this is the exception to the general rule.
In my practice, I often learn of cases where parties devote substantial financial resources and emotional energy conducting discovery and investigation to prepare for an eventual trial date. In situations where businesses must be characterized as separate or joint property or apportioned, discovery is necessary. There are also situations where property has been hidden and investigation is required. In addition, where real property is in dispute, appraisals are necessary. In other words, certain fact patterns necessitate limited discovery. But to what end and extent? In counseling my clients, I try to determine which party is the "hurt" party and how that party may impact resolution. A lawyer should never forget that he or she is also a counselor and attempt to put the entire divorce process into context for the client who wants to "destroy" the other party.
Most jurisdictions require parties to engage in mediation before a trial commences. However, mediation is not mandatory until a few weeks before a trial is scheduled to begin. During mediation, a skilled mediator explains to the parties the pros and cons of proceeding to trial and at some point, during the mediation one or both parties ask: "Why did we go through costly pre-trial litigation when we could have worked out our differences in mediation?" The simple answer is emotions motivated one or both parties during the beginning of the divorce. In other words, one or both of the parties were not ready to explore settlement. This writer is of the opinion those involved in divorce should learn from the example set by the Bezos family who calmly settled their dispute with dignity and respect.
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Love's Funny That Way
On February 10th and 11th, Readers Theatre Repertory has a Valentine for its audiences: an evening themed "Love's Funny That Way" topped off with chocolate truffles from Via Delizia.
Director David Berkson, making his debut as RTR's newest company member, has chosen Sure Thing, by David Ives, and Terminating, by Tony Kushner, as the perfect "date night" outing. In one short hour, two of the funniest playwrights in America will take the audience through first dates, second chances, fertility clinics and Oedipal conflicts. Shakespeare's Sonnets # 138 and 75 will round out the evening.
"Let's face it," says Berkson, "love is funny. It's sort of a jumble of slapstick and tragicomedy and farce and a kind of hilarious goofy earnestness, all rolled up in one."
In honor of the month, Via Delizia, a Pearl District dessert destination, treated the audience to sweets for sweethearts – and others! — enjoying an evening of love's foibles at RTR.
The cast included Shannon Day, Andy Lindberg, Garland Lyons and Ina Strauss.


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Paper manufacture using the "testliner white"
Since the invention of paper in Egypt 3500 BC, when it was produced by using the papyrus plant, paper is one of the most important consumer goods of the world.
For example in Germany, the paper consumption is as high as nowhere else in the world. A German citizen wastes round about 236 kg paper per year. With the total waste of the popu-lation of the federal republic you could construct a tower of standard paper size sheets from the earth up to the top of the moon.
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The paper mill I work at, has a machine width of only 4,90 meters. Because of this fact it is comprehensible that one has to produce many different kinds of paper in order to be able to exist on the buyer's market for a longer period of time.
This machine has a technical capacity of 220,000 tons per year and a turnover of 52 Million Euros. There are two major products produced on the PM1: testliner brown, white and plas-terboard liner (grey, ivory and green).
I want to give a short outline of the fabrication paper on a "double fourdrinier machine" using the example of testliner white. Yonder is one of the main products for the packaging industry. The product consists of two plies: A brown underlayment (70 % of the paper) and a white top ply (30 % of the product).
To fabricate paper you need three sorts of raw materials. First of all you need recovered paper or cellulose. Owing to the increased costs it is better to use recovered paper (one ton of recovered paper has a market price of 45-56 €, and cellulose has got a market price of 450 – 470 €).
Recovered paper is not qualified for every kind of paper production, because its fibres are more and more destroyed after every recycling progress. But these fibres are important for the sheet formation and resistance of the paper.
The second raw material is water. You need lots of water, on average 6-7 litres per one kilo produced paper to defibrate the recovered paper or cellulose.
The last important raw materials are the chemical additives. You need them for the produc-tion progress. For example you need it for the paste application so that the end product is water-repellent. Or in order to abort the frothing of the stock chest water.
In the first step of the production you have to defibrate the recovered paper or cellulose in so called pulpers. These are big tubs filled with hot water and an agitation device. At this junc-ture the fibres are pressed by a centrifugal force on the border of the pulper. The waste mate-rials (for example styrofoam, plastic or scrap) are collected by the pulper rope in the middle of the pulper and transported to the Reject-Section, where the waste materials are collected and later brought to a dumpsite. In this connection it is important that you have a low reject proportion in the recovered paper, because of its high disposal costs.
After the defibration the the pulp (also called slurry) passes through the stock preparation. Here the slurry is cleaned in the "Axial Turbo Separators", which are huge barrels, where the mixture of water, contaminants and fibres is filtered.
After that the pulp passes the refiners, which can be compared to huge coffee mills. The dif-ference is that you mill the fibres and not coffee. This is a very important operation of the production. Without it the fibres cannot conjoined to each other, because the specification of the paper has to be maintained.
After having been milled the slurry passes the cleaner – section. The cleaner-section consists of many centrifugal hoppers, which separate the fibres from the contraries.
The pulp is now ready to pass the headbox. Now it is collected in the vat and extruded with high compression onto a moving wire, which the papermaker speaks of "sheet forming".
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Blood Test Spots CTE Dementia
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Diagnosing CTE, a dementia common to athletes, is crucial. It's often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's, but CTE needs different treatment. For the first time, there is an experimental test that can confirm a CTE diagnosis during life. See how.
A new study suggests that CTE can be diagnosed on a PET scanner using a new compound called [18 F]-T807.
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The experimental positron emission tomography (PET) tracer is effective in diagnosing concussion-related brain disease while a person is still alive, according to a case study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and at Molecular Neuroimaging (MNI) LLC in New Haven, and published September 16 in the journal Translational Psychiatry.
Specifically, the study results suggest that the experimental radiolabeled compound called [18 F]-T807, which is designed to latch onto a protein called tau that accumulates in the brain with repetitive blows to the head, can be registered on a PET scanner to effectively diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The study results also argue the process can differentiate it from other forms of dementia while the sufferer is still alive. Until now, CTE diagnosis has only been possible by evaluating post-mortem brain tissue.
"Our data suggest that PET imaging using the [18F]-T807 tau tracer is an effective method of diagnosing or ruling out chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a living brain," says Samuel Gandy, MD, Director of the Center for Cognitive Health and NFL Neurological Care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "Estimates of the prevalence of CTE have varied wildly, with the most recent figure coming from the National Football League who predicts that one in three NFL players will suffer significant brain damage. We can now begin to test this while the players are still alive. Moreover, we are now equipped to tell prospective athletes of all ages some real data on the risks that accompany sports involving repeated traumatic brain injuries."
Signs of CTE were originally spotted in boxers and retired National Football League (NFL) players. Before their deaths, many of these athletes struggled with symptoms like memory loss, depression, and violent outbursts, and in some cases they became suicidal. The NFL is currently helping to launch large-scale studies of the condition. More recently, the brains of ice hockey players and battlefield veterans exposed to repeated bomb blasts have revealed evidence of CTE.
In recent years, scientists have developed radiotracers like [18F]-T807 that attach to protein aggregates and emit high-energy particles called positrons that are registered on a PET scanner. The [18F]-T807 tau tracer selectively binds only to tangles of tau in the brain and not to amyloid proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease, making it superior to other proposed tau tracers to date in terms of CTE detection, according to the study authors.
The Mount Sinai case study included the evaluations of two living patients, a retired NFL football player with a history of multiple concussions and a patient with a single, severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Both patients presented with cognitive decline and suspected Alzheimer's disease (AD). Both were evaluated by a combination of molecular imaging techniques to pinpoint specific brain disease and damage
Brain injury, whether as a result of repeated head trauma or a single, traumatic brain event, may jumpstart a process whereby tau protein, which functions in a healthy brain to help stabilize a nerve cell's protein skeleton, breaks off the skeleton and begins to build up inside nerve cells. The theory is that tangles of tau protein accumulate and cause nerve cell damage in the CTE brain.
While various dementias like CTE and AD share many symptoms, the nature and distribution of brain degeneration in chronic traumatic encephalopathy is distinctive from AD. CTE is characterized by prominent formation inside nerve cells of structures called tangles, a process called a tauopathy. The dementia of CTE occurs in midlife after a latency period of years or decades after exposure to repetitive head trauma.
In this study, led by Dr. Gandy, both patients underwent neurologic and neuropsychological assessments by a team of TBI and AD experts. Following this comprehensive evaluation, the experts disagreed as to whether AD was present in this retired NFL player.
Both patients underwent PET imaging with florbetapir, another chemical that is FDA-approved to detect the brain amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease during life. In the case of the retired NFL player, who suspected he had AD and presented to the team at Mount Sinai in hope to participate in a clinical study for AD, the florbetapir PET scan was negative for cerebral amyloidosis, thereby excluding AD and the possibility of his engaging in a treatment protocol for his suspected, incorrect AD diagnosis. He also underwent [18F]-T807 PET imaging that revealed signs of aggregated tau in some temporal areas of his brain.
The current study is the first where one technology was able to show both the abnormal accumulation of tau protein in a person that experienced several concussions in the distant past, while at the same time demonstrating that the patient did not have the protein signature seen with Alzheimer's disease.
"Although we are just now understanding the clinical impact of PET, our use of tauopathy PET imaging to evaluate the progressive alterations in brain proteins for CTE patients already offers us a powerful new tool for evaluation," says Ken Marek, MD, President and Senior Scientist at Molecular Neuroimaging (MNI) LLC in New Haven, where the [18F]-T807 imaging was performed. "In particular, we can directly measure the accumulation of tau protein we believe associated with the devastating symptoms experienced by patients and their families and evaluate the disease during life in ways that were previously only available to the pathologist's microscope."
A tauopathy imaging program at Mount Sinai Hospital is expected to commence in early October, 2014.
Researchers from the University of Virginia also contributed to the study.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health system committed to providing distinguished care, conducting transformative research, and advancing biomedical education. Structured around seven member hospital campuses and a single medical school, the Health System has an extensive ambulatory network and a range of inpatient and outpatient services—from community‐based facilities to tertiary and quaternary care.
The System includes approximately 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians, 12‐minority‐owned free‐standing ambulatory surgery centers, over 45 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, as well as 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
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Carlos Oliveira Wed Oct 01, 10:47:00 AM EDT
As a tool for research, that bionarker it is interesting, but only as a tool for research, because, as patients with traumatic brain injuries, even pediatric patients, or teenagers, or young and adult patients, imediatly after the traumatic brain injuries and during a couple months after moderate to severe brain injuries, keeps higher levels of tau and betamyloid accumulation (even pediatric patients), and as after that couple months from the brain injuries, in the large majority of cases, the tau and betamyloid lowers again to it normal levels, maybe, we will see a lot of misdisgnosis, if the doctors starts a massive use of tau biomarkers after any brain injuries, and probably some football players and others patients, maybe, will be treated based in that misdiagnosis.
But is a good tool for research...
Carlos Oliveira Wed Oct 01, 08:27:00 PM EDT
Correcting:
"As a tool for research, that biomarker it is interesting, but only as a tool for research, because, as patients with ACUTE traumatic brain injuries, even pediatric patients, or teenagers, or young, adult and elder patients, IMEDIATLY AFTER the traumatic brain injuries..."


Are you creating a security system for a SaaS application? This article is here to help! It lists the important questions to ask from the beginning of your project to avoid security breaches or functional limitations that will hold you back later.
This article lists the technical and functional specifications allowing you to attain both goals. It will help you conceptualize the security of your SaaS application, taking into account important constraints from the beginning of your project. You will thus be able to cover short terms needs, while at the same time anticipation any future evolutions necessary to the development of your business.
Limit user account administration to a client, or a subset of the clients' users.
Limit the types of administration operations.
Limit administration to certain application.
With all these possible scenarios, you need to plan a flexible access control system, allowing you to delegate several levels of administration rights, according to your clients' internal organization and needs.
Adapt the system to the chosen platform. In the case of Windows AZURE, you must take into account the specifications of the operating system and SQL Azure.
To accomplish this, mechanisms to manage security tokens should be included (to create, transfer and secure the tokens). These mechanisms must be optimized, to avoid overloading the server (you cannot "simply" authenticate a user and then reload their security for each page visited: the response times become too long when the number of visits increases).
By default, you will create a new account for each user that needs to access the SaaS application.
The problem with this is that a user will already have multiple accounts to remember.
Certain clients may wish to reuse their existing user accounts (for example, their Windows accounts). Your access control system should therefore permit giving these accounts access rights to your applications.
Depending on your company's strategy and the evolution of the market, your initial go-to-market strategy may be filled out by other models (for example, to serve new client categories or increase your line of products).
Your security system should allow for this type of evolution.
The application is hosted by the vendor with the security system. Users access it via the Internet.
The vendor still manages the Access Control: customers pay to use the application on a time-limited, recurring basis.
The access control system should therefore be able to give existing accounts access to your SaaS applications.
The software vendor can add this model to their catalogue (in addition to a SaaS model) to increase their product offering.
The access control system should be easily deployed to clients (simple and sound administration tools, completed documentation…).
When the SaaS application is in to production, the user authentication process and the calculation of their access rights must be optimized to avoid long wait times. For example, a system that needs to access the security repository each time a user opens a new page has a greater chance of performance issues when the number of users and page views increases.
Security data should not be readable by direct SQL access. You should require a connection via the SaaS application or via the administration interface to read and modify this data.
Sensitive data like passwords should be encrypted.
Denial-of-service: the access control system should include protection against attempts to make it unavailable to customers by saturating it with numerous logon requests.
Unauthorized administration operations: a user could discover how to access the administration interface or the APIs that manage access control. You need to include protection that blocks giving supplementary access rights to user accounts.
Between the client browser and the web server (Support for SSL/HTTPS protocols, encryption of communications between the browser and the web server…).
Between the .NET components inside the SaaS application.
Password cracking: the access control system should allow you to define a sophisticated Password Policy to protect against password cracking (guessing a password via trial and error).
Packet sniffing: the access control system should include protection against the capture of data packets to find passwords or security tokens in transit over the network. A hacker could steal these tokens to make calls to the system as though they were a user.
The access control system probably contains search fields – for example, to find a user account. You need to pre-arm this system against SQL injections, which consist of inserting parts of SQL orders in the search, with the goal of consulting confidential information, or illegally changing the security data.
Timeframe is key: we've seen in this article that security and access control for SaaS applications involve complex functionalities. If you are working on an internal project, they require a significant time commitment and skilled developers.
If you are working in a limited timeframe or the required expertise is not available, a ready-to-use access control solution may be the best solution.
· Evolution: consult the history and past versions of the solution: does it follow the technical evolutions of the market; are new versions published regularly, and most importantly, recently (risk of obsolescence)?
Longevity: what will happen if the solution provider disappears? Is the solution delivered with its source code? Does the provider propose an escrow agreement (a copy of the source code is deposited with a third party who will send it to all clients if there is an interruption in service by the provider)?
Why not combine all these advantages? If providers are attentive to their users' needs when choosing how to continually evolve their application with the market, you will benefit from the advantages of a standard solution (more stable and complete at a lower cost) while being able to influence future development to better cover your specific needs. Ask to see the product roadmap and verify if the provider knows how to take into account user suggestions.