One of the most exciting phenomena in dealing with non-linear Partial Differential Equations are the Solitons or Solitary Waves. The first person reporting these phenomena was the Scottish engineer John Scott Russel, who described the propagation of a wave in shallow water. Nowadays we have better knowledge of the underlying mathematical properties. Solitons are the solutions of the famous non-linear Korteweg-de Vries Equation. Solutions to this PDE can be found in using the method of Bäcklund transform.
It is possible to construct solutions to the Korteweg - de Vries equation which are non-linear superpositions of regular and irregular single solutions.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, ISBN 0-201-54409-1, 1993.
The solution may be visualizied as a 3D Plot and as a Density Plot (both generated with Mathematica 9.0.1).
Finally it can be nicely observed by looking at the animated graphs, produced as well with Mathematica, Version 9 (available since 2013).
The author of this Web page has written an article (23 pages as a PDF file, Update: February 2014). The contents points out to some history, presents Vvedensky's solutions shows some Mathematica code and presents some graphical results.
The construction method has been performed for one solution as well as for two and for three superpositioned solutions. Each of them have a parameter, say β1 for the one soliton solution resp. β1 and β2 for two waves or β1, β2 and β3 for three waves.
The effect is that a wave travels the faster the greater that parameter is - thus overtaking a slower wave. The two or the three waves preserve their shapes even after the overtaking process.
Even a German TV channel has brought solitons to the public.


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Downfall Of A Once Powerful Medieval Christian Order
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple Of Solomon, or Templars for short, were once seen as a mighty Christian order during its heyday in the Crusade periods. Today, Knight Templars are icons of the Order for a good reason: they were a mighty cavalry force that could crush their opponents with the help of horses, lances, and a religious fighting spirit.
Symbolized by a red cross on a white background and two Knight Templars on a single horse, the Order's main mission was to protect Christian pilgrims and carry out holy military missions in various sites, especially Jerusalem. They were also practically the first bank in history as they utilized several financial techniques, one included keeping valuables or funds of pilgrims that can later be withdrawn in the Holy Land.
By 1312, the Order ceased to exist. All of the wealth and power drifted away like upcoming NFT drops. What actually happened and why losing the Crusade wasn't exactly a direct reason for their fall?
Losing Influence
In the late 12th century, the Order was already losing its grip as Muslims recaptured Jerusalem and for years, it had to relocate to other cities including Acre. This city fell from its hands in 1291, and then in 1303, the last remaining foothold of the Order was lost.
With these losses, support and influence of the Order dwindled over time. Besides being at odds with the two other popular Christian orders: the Hospitallers and Teutonic Order, it also gained tensions among European nobility due to its desire to found a monastic state like its rival orders.
More importantly, because the Order wasn't under the rule of a local government, it was essentially a "state within a state", and having its independent army freely passing your borders didn't look like a fantastic sight, especially when that land was yours. Religious figures were also questioning their immense wealth and power.
Rumors of the Order were also spreading, ranging from homosexual practices and corruption to rejecting the cross and Jesus when registering as a new brother of the Order. Another rumor was also about the supposed worship of an idol named Baphomet, now famously depicted as a goat headed, androgynous figure with breasts and forming a symbolic gesture with each hand.
Despite the losses, rumors and the gradual contempt for the Order, it was still a part of daily life and retained its major presence throughout Europe and the Near East at the time. The banking systems were still ongoing and many businesses were managed by the Order.
An Opportunity
1305 was the year when Pope Clement V, based in Avignon, France, suggested that the Hospitaller and the Templar merge together as one Christian order. Neither Grand Masters of the orders was really excited about the idea, but Pope Clement insisted and the next year, he invited them to discuss it in France.
While waiting for the Hospitaller Master, Fulk de Villaret, to arrive, Pope Clement and the Templar Master, Jacques de Molay, discussed a criminal case surrounding a Templar two years ago, which were looked into by King Phillip IV of France and his nobles. Although the charges were agreed to be false, Clement wanted a more detailed investigation into the matter and sent a written request to Phillip.
This is where the domino was flicked and toppled the rest towards kingdom come. When Phillip received the request, he was already deeply indebted to the Templars as they no longer loaned his wars against England. Having heard of the rumors and criticisms of the Order, he saw this as an opportunity to finally free himself of his debts. For free.
Seizing the rumors and pressuring the church to take action against the Order, Phillip set into bringing it into its inevitable downfall.
On Friday 13 1307, King Phillip sent an arrest warrant that stated in French, "God is not pleased. We have enemies of the faith in the kingdom."
Dozens of Templars were arrested and subjected to torture in order for their confessions to be extracted, though much of these were said under duress. De Molay wasn't spared from the king's action, yet like many other Templars that were released from torture, recanted his confessions, branding himself as a relapsed heretic in the eyes of the law.
Through the few years of the Order's downfall, Clement issued papal orders for the arrest of Templars and the seizure of their assets. Even if some had legal experience to defend themselves in trial, Phillip blocked this attempt and used their false confessions to sentence them to the burning stake.
Under Phillip's threat of military action, Clement finally disbanded the Order, citing its recent scandals as the cause. The Order's assets were also moved to the Hospitaller, though it is thought that Phillip and King Edward II of England may have taken most of those assets for themselves.
De Molay was sentenced to the stake in 1314, and it was reported that he remained defiant to the end, asking to be faced towards Notre Dame with his hands clasped in prayer. As his life was nearing its end, he called out both Phillip and Clement, promising that they would meet their own divine judgement.
Whether that judgement actually happened or it was a coincidence may be up to you based on your beliefs, but the two did die not long after. For Clement, it was a month later. For Phillip, it was within the same year that he died in a hunting accident.
The rest of the Templars were either put on trial with none virtually convicted, absorbed into other Christian orders or be let go so they are pensioned off and allowed to live their remaining days in peace.
Any Templars in Portugal were also lucky as its king, Denis I, refused to persecute them and under his protection, allowed the Templar to simply change its name to the Order Of Christ. It was secularised by Queen Maria I in 1789, and today the modern name of that same former Templar order is now called Military Order Of Christ, based in Portugal.
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This page was last updated: 9 January 2005
Website maintained by: webmaster
[Accessibility Information][website established July 15, 2004]
Syllabus & Readings
Download schedule of Quiz and Film dates
Links to websites on wars
Links to film glossary websites
List of film terms to learn
How to Study a War
How to Study a Film
The readings listed on the syllabus are drawn from Richard Goff, Walter Moss, Janice Terry, and Jiu-Hwa Upshur, The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History, 6th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill. 2002) (ISBN 0-07-234853-4).
Supplementary information is available on the class website: links to information pages for each film, to information pages for each war, to film terminology, and to handouts on how to "read" films and wars. Class powerpoints will be added to the syllabus on the website, where relevant.
RECOMMENDED is James Monaco, How To Read a Film: Book (3rd ed.) and DVD-ROM (Harbor Electronic Publishing; 2000)
Mike Mayo. Videohound's War Movies: Classic Conflict on Film (Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1999
Alun Evans. Brassey's Guide to War Films (Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2000)


The perfect place to stay and discover the natural and historical beauties of the area.
A charming and comfortable double room located in the Northern part of the building with a beautiful view over Mount Pavione. The room is provided with a private bathroom, TV and hairdryer.
A triple room located in the Southern part of the building with a look over Mount Grappa. Comfortable and bright, it is provided with a private bathroom, a double and a single bed, TV and hairdryer.
Triple room located in the Southern part of the building, it faces Mount Grappa. Comfortable and bright, it is provided with a private bathroom, a double and a single bed, TV and hairdryer.


From the bases and landing sites located in Western Norway, we offer scenic flights over the most spectacular areas of Norway, with panoramic view over the glaciers, mountains and the most famous fjords (Geirangerfjord, Nordfjord, Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord).
The flights will differ depending on the landing site in use. From sites close to the glaciers, we do flights from the fjord into the mountain area covered with ice and snow - and with view to the fjord, valleys, lakes and waterfalls.


NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Thursday that the league will start using the Rooney Rule to ensure women are interviewed for open executive positions.
The NFL's Rooney Rule was designed so teams would interview one minority candidate for each open coaching position. It went into affect in 2003 after only a very small percentage of minority candidates were named to head-coaching positions.
Goodell made his remarks at the opening of the NFL Women's Summit, where roughly 250 men and women associated with the league gathered to talk about issues affecting women in sports.
There were a few big firsts for women in the NFL over the current season. Last month, the Bills hired Kathryn Smith as a special teams assistant coach, making her the first full-time female coach in the NFL.
The NFL also recently hired its first female official in Sarah Thomas.
There is also an increasing number of women who serve in VP roles, mostly in marketing and public relations.
The league says 30% of employees in its front office are women.
Goodell also said the summit will likely become an annual event around Super Bowl time.


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# Cabana.Share

Cabana A/S Sharing-module.
This sharing module is privacy-embracing, cookie-avoiding and ultra-light.

## Installing
Either you grap one of the build files from /build
... or you use `bower install cabana-share`

To make sure you always have the latest version use:
```<script src="https://rawgit.com/Cabana/cabana.Share/master/build/cabana.Share.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>```

## Usage
```javascript
/**
* Summary of Cabana.Share
* Share current page to external media
* @param Url (optional) - Url to share - will default to window.location.href
* @param Type - Media to share through
* @return boolean
*/
Cabana.Share(Url, Type);

/*
* Minimal version
*/
Cabana.Share(Type);
```

Types are:

- facebook
- twitter
- email
- print
- linkedin
- google

## Configuration
Configuration is not yet possible, but will be in the future.
Configuration can be made, by defining window.CabanaShareSettings

```javascript
window.CabanaShareSettings = {
	'twitter': {
		user: null,
		/* Twitter-handle for user associated with site, will be added to tweet. Defaults to null */
		text: null,
		/* Standard text for tweet before url. Defaults to window.location.href */
		hashtags: null,
		/* Comma-seperated list of hashtags to add to tweet. Defaults to null */
	},
	'email': {
		text: null,
		/* Standard body for email. Every [URL] will be replaced by window.location.href. Defaults to window.location.href */
		subject: null,
		/* Mail-subject. Defaults to document.title */
	},
	'linkedin': {
		text: null,
		/* Standard text for sharing. Defaults to meta[name='description'] content-attribute */
		title: null
		/* Title for sharing. Defaults to document.title */
	}
}
```

###On-share configuration
If you have multiple share actions on one page and want various configurations for those, use the built in on-share configuration.
Instead of passing a string for URL, you pass an object looking like this:
```javascript
var config = {
	'url': 'http://notMyWindowLocationHref.com',
	'options': {
		'user': 'leoorsnes'
	}
};
Cabana.Share(config, 'twitter');
```
Here the options object within the config depends on type of sharing as seen above. Fx. you can use 'user' for Twitter but not for linkedin etc.

##Tracking & listeners

###Google Tag Manager
If Google Tag Manager's dataLayer is found any share-event will be pushed to the object with following parameters:
```javascript
dataLayer.push({
	'event': 'Share.event',
	/* Fx. Share.facebook if Facebook, Share.twitter if Twitter etc. */
	'title': document.title,
	/* The current sites title will be parsed through here */
	'url': location.href
	/* Current url is parsed as well */
})
```

###Event listeners

####Built-in
If you are used to using jQuery event-namespaces, the built-in event listeners will suit you quite well.
Setting a listener:
```javascript
Cabana.Share().on('twitter', function() {
	alert('My cool callback');
});
```
Setting a global listener:
```javascript
Cabana.Share().on('share', function(type) {
	alert('You shared through '+type);
});
```
Removing a listener:
```javascript
Cabana.Share().off('twitter');
```
Setting namespaced listener:
```javascript
Cabana.Share().on('twitter.myCoolNameSpace', callback);
```
Removing a namespaced listener:
```javascript
Cabana.Share().off('twitter.myCoolNameSpace');
```
Output all current listeners:
```javascript
Cabana.Share().listeners
```

####Good ol' listeners
If you are not using Google Tag Manager, you can fetch all the event by listening on the document for 'Share.event'.
If you want to listen for any Facebook sharing-clicks you could do it as follows:
```javascript
document.addEventListener('Share.facebook', function() {
	/* Custom tracking-actions */
});
```

## AddThis replacement
This module is made as an ultra-light and slimmer alternative for AddThis.
This means that the module can work instead of AddThis or "on top" of AddThis - "on top" meaning that it will override all AddThis listeners and functions, all though AddThis will initially run, before it's overridden.
This module will override (or create) both `addthis.update()` and `addthis_sendto()`.

## Status
This module is still in **alpha** release

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Shofirkon (, , ) is a city and seat of Shofirkon District in Bukhara Region in Uzbekistan. The town population was 9,594 people in 1989, and 14,000 in 2016.

History
Archaeological evidence suggests that the settlement on the territory of modern Shafirkan was founded in the early Middle Ages.

According to the Persian historiographer Narshakhi, the founder of the city was a Sassanid prince Shahpur, who lived in the 3rd century AD. Shahpur quarreled with his father, the then ruler of Persia, arrived in Bukhara, married the daughter of the ruler of Bukhara and received land as a gift in the floodplain of the Zarafshan River. He often hunted in these places, which he really liked. Here a canal was dug, called Shahpūrkām  (Shāpūrkām) which means "As Desired by Shahpur" in Persian, and the Vardonze fortress was built in which Shahpur moved with his many retinue from Persia. Later, the fortress became the center of the state. The name Shā(h)pūrkām was then pronounced as Shafurkam by the locals and later as Shofirkon.

The importance of Shapūrkām as the center of the region increased after the fall of the value of the ancient city of Vardanzi in the 1860s.

In 1926, Shafirkan became the district center of the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan.

By a resolution of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of March 7, 1933, a resolution was approved by the Central Executive Committee of the Uzbek SSR of November 3, 1932 on renaming the center of the Bauman district of the village of Khoja Arif to the village of Bauman.

The city has a pedagogical vocational college, a college of agriculture, an economic college, etc.

Currently, Shafirkan is a district center in the Bukhara region of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Representatives of various nationalities live here: Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Turkmens, etc.

References

Populated places in Bukhara Region
Cities in Uzbekistan

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function [bandwidth,density,xmesh]=kde(data,n,MIN,MAX)
% Reliable and extremely fast kernel density estimator for one-dimensional data;
%        Gaussian kernel is assumed and the bandwidth is chosen automatically;
%        Unlike many other implementations, this one is immune to problems
%        caused by multimodal densities with widely separated modes (see example). The
%        estimation does not deteriorate for multimodal densities, because we never assume
%        a parametric model for the data.
% INPUTS:
%     data    - a vector of data from which the density estimate is constructed;
%          n  - the number of mesh points used in the uniform discretization of the
%               interval [MIN, MAX]; n has to be a power of two; if n is not a power of two, then
%               n is rounded up to the next power of two, i.e., n is set to n=2^ceil(log2(n));
%               the default value of n is n=2^12;
%   MIN, MAX  - defines the interval [MIN,MAX] on which the density estimate is constructed;
%               the default values of MIN and MAX are:
%               MIN=min(data)-Range/10 and MAX=max(data)+Range/10, where Range=max(data)-min(data);
% OUTPUTS:
%   bandwidth - the optimal bandwidth (Gaussian kernel assumed);
%     density - column vector of length 'n' with the values of the density
%               estimate at the grid points;
%     xmesh   - the grid over which the density estimate is computed;
%  Reference: Botev, Z. I.,
%             "A Novel Nonparametric Density Estimator",Technical Report,The University of Queensland
%             http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:12535
%
%  Example:
%           data=[randn(100,1);randn(100,1)*2+35 ;randn(100,1)+55];
%           [bandwidth,density,xmesh]=kde(data,2^14,min(data)-5,max(data)+5);
%           plot(xmesh,density)

%  Notes:   If you have a more reliable and accurate one-dimensional kernel density
%           estimation software, please email me at botev@maths.uq.edu.au

data=data(:); %make data a column vector

if nargin<2 % if n is not supplied switch to the default
    n=2^12;
end
n=2^ceil(log2(n)); % round up n to the next power of 2;

if nargin<4 %define the default  interval [MIN,MAX]
    minimum=min(data); maximum=max(data);
    Range=maximum-minimum;
    MIN=minimum-Range/10; MAX=maximum+Range/10;
end
% set up the grid over which the density estimate is computed;
R=MAX-MIN; dx=R/(n-1); xmesh=MIN+[0:dx:R]; N=length(data);
%bin the data uniformly using the grid define above;
initial_data=histc(data,xmesh)/N;
a=dct1d(initial_data); % discrete cosine transform of initial data
% now compute the optimal bandwidth^2 using the referenced method
I=[1:n-1]'.^2; a2=(a(2:end)/2).^2;
val=inf; t_star=0; c=0;
while abs(val)>eps
    [val,t_star]=fixed_point(t_star);
    c=c+1;
end

    function  [out,time]=fixed_point(t)

        f(5)=2*pi^10*sum(I.^5.*a2.*exp(-I*pi^2*t));
        for s=4:-1:2
            f(s)=functional(f(s+1),s);
        end
        time=(2*N*sqrt(pi)*f(2))^(-2/5);
        out=(t-time)/time;

        function [f,t]=functional(df,s)
            K0=prod([1:2:2*s-1])/sqrt(2*pi);
            t=(2*K0/N/df)^(2/(3+2*s));
            f=2*pi^(2*s)*sum(I.^s.*a2.*exp(-I*pi^2*t));
        end

    end

% smooth the discrete cosine transform of initial data using t_star
a_t=a.*exp(-[0:n-1]'.^2*pi^2*t_star/2);
% now apply the inverse discrete cosine transform
if nargout>1
    density=idct1d(a_t)/R;
end

bandwidth=sqrt(t_star)*R;

end

function data=dct1d(data)
% computes the discrete cosine transform of the column vector data
[nrows,ncols]= size(data);
% Compute weights to multiply DFT coefficients
weight = [1;2*(exp(-i*(1:nrows-1)*pi/(2*nrows))).'];
% Re-order the elements of the columns of x
data = [ data(1:2:end,:); data(end:-2:2,:) ];
% Multiply FFT by weights:
data= real(weight.* fft(data));
end
function out = idct1d(data)
% computes the inverse discrete cosine transform
[nrows,ncols]=size(data);
% Compute weights
weights = nrows*exp(i*(0:nrows-1)*pi/(2*nrows)).';
% Compute x tilde using equation (5.93) in Jain
data = real(ifft(weights.*data));
% Re-order elements of each column according to equations (5.93) and
% (5.94) in Jain
out = zeros(nrows,1);
out(1:2:nrows) = data(1:nrows/2);
out(2:2:nrows) = data(nrows:-1:nrows/2+1);
%   Reference:
%      A. K. Jain, "Fundamentals of Digital Image
%      Processing", pp. 150-153.
end


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Inside the Oscar Noms as Press and Publicists Return for In-Person Announcement
For the first time since 2016, Tuesday morning's Oscar nominations were broadcast not only to viewers at home but also several hundred press and publicists at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.
The in-person ceremony has been a longstanding tradition — dating back 40 years to when guests would share the nominations news via the building's landline phones — but has been scrapped in recent years. With a livestream and broadcast feed now widely available, such urgency is no longer needed, but many still welcomed back the opportunity to watch the announcement in the room.
With nominations beginning at 5:30 a.m. PT, press check-in started at midnight and continued until 4:45 a.m., eliciting many grumbles about the before-the-sun call time. Breakfast was served starting at 2:45 a.m., as talent, studio and awards publicists slowly trickled in and mingled with members of the press. Unlike some recent awards season events, guests were not COVID-tested nor required to show proof of vaccination, but some chose to remain masked.
As the ceremony neared, the theater lobby quickly filled up, with one publicist noting, "This is crazy. I didn't know there were going to be this many people." It was the first in-person Oscar announcement for many, though a photographer acknowledged, "This feels like old times." Attendees were allowed into the theater at 5 a.m., where broadcast reporters started filming their standup intros in aisles and many went up to the stage to pose with the giant Oscar statues. With the screen counting down the seconds until the announcement went live, nervous energy quickly filled the room with publicists awaiting news on their clients, as one joked, "Many will enter, few will win."
Academy chief communications officer Jennifer Davidson kicked things off with a welcome, followed by an intro from Academy president Janet Yang, who brought announcement hosts Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams to the stage.
The two got the first half of the nominations going quickly, and it was clear immediately of the room's overwhelming support of Everything Everywhere All At Once — Stephanie Hsu and Ke Huy Quan's nods got big reactions, and some of the on-hand content creators (there to provide social support for the Academy) even sported the film's hot dog fingers.
Angela Bassett's nomination also sparked much applause, and Brian Tyree Henry's surprise supporting actor nod caused gasps throughout the room. Laughter broke out when Ahmed had to read back-to-back animated short film nominees My Year of Dicks and An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It, as Williams let it hang in the air before adding, "No comment."
The pair paused for a few minutes for the second half of nominations, as Williams joked to the crowd, "We're not fired yet" and danced at the podium to the intermission music. With the remaining categories, the crowd gave big reactions to the nominations of RRR song "Naatu Naatu," Triangle of Sadness director Ruben Östlund, Women Talking for best picture, and Aftersun's Paul Mescal sneaking into best actor.
The biggest shock of the morning, though, was in the best actress category, with Ana de Armas (Blonde) and, in particular, Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) eliciting stunned reactions from the room.
With the final categories, Ahmed and Williams blew Yang kisses and departed the stage, as publicists mingled to discuss and call their teams, leaving with promises to "see you at the big show."
Short Film Supporting Rights for Women in Iran Screened at Swedish Academy Awards
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You are here: Home > What's On > Manchester Animation Festival
Manchester Animation Festival
Type:Virtual Event
Manchester Animation Festival returns for its sixth edition with UK previews and premieres of animated short and feature films from across the globe along with masterclasses, talks, workshops and an international competition of short films. This year MAF is 100% online so there has never been a better time to indulge in all things animated. Some films screening at the festival are listed below, please see website for times. Why not join us to see something different?
Open (15 Nov 2021 - 19 Nov 2021)*
Dates and times marked with a '*' are provisional and may be subject to change
A purpose-built centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books.
Black dog Ballroom - Dog Bowl
Expect ball dispensers inspired by the brand's own black dog, Bruce the Patterdale…
Bridgewater Hall
Enjoy concerts ranging from classical and jazz through to world and popular music.
Manchester Central
Manchester Central is an award winning, globally renowned venue in the heart of one of…
Castlefield Gallery
Established by artists in 1984, Castlefield Gallery is Manchester's first public…
Great Northern Warehouse
The Grade 2 listed Great Northern building, a former railway goods distribution warehouse…
An incomparable venue in the city.
The Crystal Maze Live Experience
In the 90's, The Crystal Maze was one of the UK's favourite television shows. Now it's…
Home to the world's oldest surviving passenger railway station, and the world's first…
Manchester Opera House
Castlefield Bowl
An outdoor amphitheatre style venue in Manchester's city centre, home to the annual…
HOME, MANCHESTERA purpose-built centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books.
Manchester Science Festival


Ampoe (district) Pai is situated in a volcanic area with a series of geological faults. The sub terrain temperature is calculated, in places, to be between 130 and 180°C.
A forty minute drive through the beautifully scenic Huai Nam Dang National Park is rewarded by a geyser at the roadside that gushes out of the ground at a constant 95°C. The water flows along a short stream and into the Pai River a couple of yards away. As it flows into the river, the water still has a temperature of 90°c!
We will purchase some eggs and boil them in the spring. We'll eat the eggs with some sticky rice and enjoy a cool drink, whilst dangling our feet over the stream and sitting in the steam — very good for a healthy complexion.
Muang Paeng Hot springs are just 10 kilometres further down the road. They cover an area of approximately 100m by 30m; larger and more impressive than Muang Rae Hot Springs.
Here the water bubbles out of the rocks over the whole area, forming pools and riverlets that flow into a stream. You won't be bathing here!
The stream has a temperature of 80°C. The water bubbling out from between the rocks is, again, over 90°C! The stream flows for about a kilometre, slowly cooling, before it too flows into the Pai River.
On the way home, we'll stop off at Tha Pai Hot Springs, for those that wish to bathe or even just hang their feet in the warm water.
Tour Price: THB 700 per person, including eggs, rice, and a stop for noodle soup.
The THB 200 entrance fee for Tha Pai Hot Springs is not included in the tour price.


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Leah Sharibu must not be forgotten
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"It is very sad that Leah Sharibu, the young Christian girl has remained in the hands of her abductors for over three years for the single reason that she refused to jettison her Christian faith. It is a thing of pain, not only for her parents but for most people especially because of the values she represents: loyalty to faith, dependability, focus and maturity. It leaves a sour taste in the mouth when one realises that she may not be able to join her family to celebrate Christmas again this year. I want to appeal to the President in particular to do all he can to bring back Leah so that she can be reunited with her family once again." • Most. Rev. (Dr.) Alfred Adewale Martins, Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos
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Q: Converting a cURL request (with --data-urlencode) into AFNetworking GET request This issue might not be related to AFNetworking specifically, but more in constructing an NSURLRequest.
I am trying to issue the falling GET request using AFNetworking-
curl -X GET \
  -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: Q82knolRSmsGKKNK13WCvISIReVVoR3yFP3qTF1J" \
  -H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: iHiN4Hlw835d7aig6vtcTNhPOkNyJpjpvAL2aSoL" \
  -G \
  --data-urlencode 'where={"playerName":"Sean Plott","cheatMode":false}' \
  https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore

This is from the parse.com API https://parse.com/docs/rest#queries-constraints.
However, I can't figure out how to write the

[AFHTTPClient getPath:parameters:success:failure:]

for this request. The where clause does not look like a dictionary, however this function only takes a dictionary for its parameter input.

A: The parameter expects an NSDictionary which will be turned into key/value pairs in the URL. So the key is easy but to the value you'll need to convert it to JSON before setting it in the dictionary...
NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                @"Sean Plott", @"playerName",
                                [NSNumber numberWithBool:NO], @"cheatMode", nil];

NSError *error = nil;
NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:jsonDictionary options:0 error:&error];

if (!jsonData) {
    NSLog(@"NSJSONSerialization failed %@", error);
}

NSString *json = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSDictionary *parameters = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:
                            json, @"where", nil];

If we assume that your client is configured something like this (normally you subclass AFHTTPClient and could move this stuff inside
AFHTTPClient *client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.parse.com/"]];
[client setDefaultHeader:@"X-Parse-Application-Id" value:@"Q82knolRSmsGKKNK13WCvISIReVVoR3yFP3qTF1J"];
[client setDefaultHeader:@"X-Parse-REST-API-Key" value:@"iHiN4Hlw835d7aig6vtcTNhPOkNyJpjpvAL2aSoL"];
[client registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFJSONRequestOperation class]];

Then you should be able to call
[client getPath:@"1/classes/GameScore"
     parameters:parameters
        success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
            NSLog(@"Success %@", responseObject);
        } failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
            NSLog(@"Failed %@", error);
        }];

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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He leads me into a dim hall, the winter sun struggling through the skylight. The squeaking from my rubber sandals echoes around the room.
"WC," he grunts, gesturing at the toilets, and opens another door into a larger room, a domed ceiling framing a knee high marble slab. Basins with ornamental taps line the walls.
The door slams behind me as I step inside and he disappears. After ten minutes I'm pouring out the sweat that has pooled in my sandals. After 20 minutes, I'm wondering at what point dehydration becomes lethal when he appears again through the condensation of the door's window, his pants and woolly jumper replaced with a tea towel and rubber slippers just like mine. He splashes some water around and opens the door without looking at me.
He gestures at the basin he's filled with water and I go to sit in it, which elicits a disgusted click of the tongue, and a light shove sits me down next to the basin. He scoops hot water over me for a long time, and when I open my eyes he's wielding some sort of glove that looks soft, but when he grabs my head and attacks my face with it I find it's actually quite coarse. It's only now I remember to unbend my legs, as my knees have been at my chest the whole time, giving him a sore eyeful of white-boy wang. He moves on to my arms, back, chest and legs with the exfoliating scrubber and grunts to point out all the grey flecks of dead skin making a mess everywhere.
Next, I'm lying face down on the marble slab in the centre of the hammam, and with freshly soaped hands he goes at me like a wrestler. He intersperses his attacks by bending my legs back to angles they'd never achieved before and never will again. Then he goes at my back once more, and the force of his bald, deceptively flabby mass on me and his fingers groping for my organs blow all the air out of my lungs. My involuntary grunts echo around the hammam. Mercy comes momentarily as he moves to my legs, and it's almost a relief as he works furiously at them, time and again those buff fingers brushing my virgin buttocks. But there is no room for squeamishness in the hammam: it's just me and an old guy who's seen far too many wet towels clinging to nether regions to have any interest in my pasty arse.
A tap on the back tells me it's time to move his assault to my front. My arms are pulled across my body just short of the point of dislocation, and individual fingers are yanked until the joints crack. Then, covered in soap, I'm sent back to the basin where my hair is rubbed through with shampoo. He grabs my head and braces himself, and for a moment I think he's going to finish me off once and for all. Something in my neck cracks audibly, and it takes him two goes to get the same result on the left side. All of a sudden, I feel 20 kilos lighter.
I'm doused in water again and my attacker sends me back to the sauna with a point and a, "Sauna. Wash," and he pinches his fingers together: "Tip service." In the sauna, a muscular young Turk is hyperventilating and groaning as he writhes on the bench, evidently overcome with fear at the ordeal he's about to undergo. He is summoned with an opened door, and with a final a slap of the chest and a grunt, he steps into the breach. I sit and sweat until I'm reaching the texture of a sultana, douse myself a few times back at the basin and stagger into the reception.
It's cool out there and I'm wrapped in a towel and sat on a couch by a stove. The masseuses are sitting around watching music videos of similarly moustachioed men whining about lost love and shredding on their ouds. The obligatory old man with nothing else to do but sit in the reception is chain smoking across from me and the smoke drifts towards a high ceiling. The room is all dark wood, and there is little light. I've been in Turkey long enough that I'm not surprised when tea is placed in my hands, a small pile of sugar cubes nestled by the tulip shaped glass on a saucer.
Eventually my Dutch cousin and Australian travelling companion arrive from the women's hammam with news that although the women's massage is less gruelling, everyone in there is completely naked. They had only met for the first time that morning, and several hours later found themselves sitting side by side in their birthday suits, subtly checking out the other's breasts. We climb the stairs beneath the stone inscription bearing the Nişancı Hammam's founding date – 1475 – and step into the biting sea breeze of a January day in Istanbul, resolving on a kebab for lunch. My skin feels pure and my joints have a greater dexterity than before, their movements freer and less taxing to the muscles. And with each waking moment in the open air, wearing clothes, exposed to the outside world, we feel the purity slipping away. "You will never feel as clean ever again," goes the cliché, which is just as much a tragedy as it is miraculous.


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Velika nagrada Kitajske 2013 je tretja dirka Svetovnega prvenstva Formule 1 v . Odvijala se je 14. aprila 2013 na dirkališču Shanghai International Circuit v Šanghaju. Zmagal je Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, drugo mesto je osvojil Kimi Raikkonen, Lotus-Renault, tretji pa je bil Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes.

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|-
! 1
| align="center" | 10
|  Lewis Hamilton
| Mercedes
| 1:35,793
| 1:35,078
| 1:34,484
| 1
|-
! 2
| align="center" | 7
|  Kimi Räikkönen
| Lotus-Renault
| 1:37,046
| 1:35,659
| 1:34,761
| 2
|-
! 3
| align="center" | 3
|  Fernando Alonso
| Ferrari
| 1:36,253
| 1:35,148
| 1:34,788
| 3
|-
! 4
| align="center" | 9
|  Nico Rosberg
| Mercedes
| 1:35,959
| 1:35,537
| 1:34,861
| 4
|-
! 5
| align="center" | 4
|  Felipe Massa
| Ferrari
| 1:35,972
| 1:35,403
| 1:34,933
| 5
|-
! 6
| align="center" | 8
|  Romain Grosjean
| Lotus-Renault
| 1:36,929
| 1:36,065
| 1:35,364
| 6
|-
! 7
| align="center" | 19
|  Daniel Ricciardo
| Toro Rosso-Ferrari
| 1:36,993
| 1:36,258
| 1:35,998
| 7
|-
! 8
| align="center" | 5
|  Jenson Button
| McLaren-Mercedes
| 1:36,667
| 1:35,784
| 2:05,673
| 8
|-
! 9
| align="center" | 1
|  Sebastian Vettel
| Red Bull-Renault
| 1:36,537
| 1:35,343
| brez časa
| 9
|-
! 10
| align="center" | 11
|  Nico Hülkenberg
| Sauber-Ferrari
| 1:36,985
| 1:36,261
| brez časa
| 10
|-
! 11
| align="center" | 14
|  Paul di Resta
| Force India-Mercedes
| 1:37,478
| 1:36,287
|
| 11
|-
! 12
| align="center" | 6
|  Sergio Pérez
| McLaren-Mercedes
| 1:36,952
| 1:36,314
|
| 12
|-
! 13
| align="center" | 15
|  Adrian Sutil
| Force India-Mercedes
| 1:37,349
| 1:36,405
|
| 13
|-
! EX
| align="center" | 2
|  Mark Webber
| Red Bull-Renault
| 1:36,148
| 1:36,679
|
| B
|-
! 15
| align="center" | 16
|  Pastor Maldonado
| Williams-Renault
| 1:37,281
| 1:37,139
|
| 14
|-
! 16
| align="center" | 18
|  Jean-Éric Vergne
| Toro Rosso-Ferrari
| 1:37,508
| 1:37,199
|
| 15
|-
! 17
| align="center" | 17
|  Valtteri Bottas
| Williams-Renault
| 1:37,769
|
|
| 16
|-
! 18
| align="center" | 12
|  Esteban Gutiérrez
| Sauber-Ferrari
| 1:37,990
|
|
| 17
|-
! 19
| align="center" | 22
|  Jules Bianchi
| Marussia-Cosworth
| 1:38,780
|
|
| 18
|-
! 20
| align="center" | 23
|  Max Chilton
| Marussia-Cosworth
| 1:39,537
|
|
| 19
|-
! 21
| align="center" | 20
|  Charles Pic
| Caterham-Renault
| 1:39,614
|
|
| 20
|-
! 22
| align="center" | 21
|  Giedo van der Garde
| Caterham-Renault
| 1:39,660
|
|
| 21
|-
! colspan=8|Vir:
|}

Dirka

|-
! 1
| align="center" | 3
|  Fernando Alonso
| Ferrari
| 56
| 1:36:26,945
| 3
| align="center" |  25
|-
! 2
| align="center" | 7
|  Kimi Räikkönen
| Lotus-Renault
| 56
| +10,168
| 2
| align="center" | 18
|-
! 3
| align="center" | 10
|  Lewis Hamilton
| Mercedes
| 56
| +12,322
|  1
| align="center" |  15
|-
! 4
| align="center" | 1
|  Sebastian Vettel
| Red Bull-Renault
| 56
| +12,525
| 9
| align="center" |  12
|-
! 5
| align="center" | 5
|  Jenson Button
| McLaren-Mercedes
| 56
| +35,285
| 8
| align="center" | 10
|-
! 6
| align="center" | 4
|  Felipe Massa
| Ferrari
| 56
| +40,827
| 5
| align="center" | 8
|-
! 7
| align="center" | 19
|  Daniel Ricciardo
| Toro Rosso-Ferrari
| 56
| +42,691
| 7
| align="center" | 6
|-
! 8
| align="center" | 14
|  Paul di Resta
| Force India-Mercedes
| 56
| +51,084
| 11
| align="center" | 4
|-
! 9
| align="center" | 8
|  Romain Grosjean
| Lotus-Renault
| 56
| +53,423
| 6
| align="center" | 2
|-
! 10
| align="center" | 11
|  Nico Hülkenberg
| Sauber-Ferrari
| 56
| +56,598
| 10
| align="center" | 1
|-
! 11
| align="center" | 6
|  Sergio Pérez
| McLaren-Mercedes
| 56
| +63,860
| 12
|
|-
! 12
| align="center" | 18
|  Jean-Éric Vergne
| Toro Rosso-Ferrari
| 56
| +72,604
| 15
|
|-
! 13
| align="center" | 17
|  Valtteri Bottas
| Williams-Renault
| 56
| +93,861
| 16
|
|-
! 14
| align="center" | 16
|  Pastor Maldonado
| Williams-Renault
| 56
| +95,453
| 14
|
|-
! 15
| align="center" | 22
|  Jules Bianchi
| Marussia-Cosworth
| 55
| +1 krog
| 18
|
|-
! 16
| align="center" | 20
|  Charles Pic
| Caterham-Renault
| 55
| +1 krog
| 20
|
|-
! 17
| align="center" | 23
|  Max Chilton
| Marussia-Cosworth
| 55
| +1 krog
| 19
|
|-
! 18
| align="center" | 21
|  Giedo van der Garde
| Caterham-Renault
| 55
| +1 krog
| 21
|
|-
! Ods
| align="center" | 9
|  Nico Rosberg
| Mercedes
| 21
| Vzmetenje
| 4
|
|-
! Ods
| align="center" | 2
|  Mark Webber
| Red Bull-Renault
| 15
| Odpadlo kolo
| B
|
|-
! Ods
| align="center" | 15
|  Adrian Sutil
| Force India-Mercedes
| 5
| Trčenje
| 13
|
|-
! Ods
| align="center" | 12
|  Esteban Gutiérrez
| Sauber-Ferrari
| 4
| Trčenje
| 17
|
|-
! colspan=8|Vir:
|}

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Formula 1 sezona 2013
2013


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A Tisha B'Av Message
* Note: this was written several years ago, but is still applicable today…
Devarim 8:7-10
For the LORD your God brings you to a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valley and hills;
A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
A land where you will eat bread without scarceness, you will not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.
And you will eat and be satisfied, and bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.
The blessed land of Eretz Yisrael – God's eternal gift to the Jewish nation.
Do you remember Tish'a Be'Av?
Last Tuesday*, the 9th of Av seems so far away, but not as far away as the memory of what that day represents – the destruction of our two holy Temples in Yerushalayim. Tuesday come every week, whereas we have an entire year to keep our minds concentrated on "real life" before we have to think again about the Bet Ha'Mikdash.
I mention the 9th of Av because our parasha has much to do with how we conduct ourselves on that day.
Tish'a Be'Av is identified with fasting. Indeed, what is Tish'a Be'Av without fasting, isn't it the very essence of the day!
But that is problematic. Tish'a Be'Av is a day of mourning. But mourning does not engender fasting. The most halachically severe laws of mourning are in effect for a parent who passed away. The mourning period for a parent is 12 months, for other relatives it is 30 days (in all cases kaddish is recited for 11 months). The renting of a mourner's garment is on the left side near the heart for a parent, for all other deceased relatives it is on the right side.
But, however severe the mourning over a parent, there is no halacha that requires the mourner to fast. True, that from the time of death until the burial, the soon to be mourner may not eat meat or drink wine, but he may eat and drink all else.
So why did the rabbis institute the refraining from food on the national mourning day of Tish'a Be'Av?
Open a siddur (prayerbook) to Birkat Hamazon (grace after meals) and slowly study the text.
In the first chapter we acknowledge that it is HaShem who provides sustenance for all things He created, and concludes with the blessing:
Blessed are You HaShem who sustains all
In chapter two we offer praise to HaShem for the basic foundations of our Jewish lives: The gift of Eretz Yisrael, the exodus from Egypt, Brit Mila (the sacred, eternal covenant between HaShem and the Jewish people), the gift of life and for the food that sustains us.
This chapter includes the verse in this week's parasha:
The concluding blessing is:
Blessed are You HaShem for the land and for our sustenance.
Chapter three is our prayer to HaShem that He deal compassionately with His people Yisrael and His city Yerushalayim and Zion, and restore the Davidic Monarchy and Bet Hamikdash.
It concludes with the blessing:
Blessed are You HaShem who in His compassion rebuilds Yerushalayim. Amen
The above three chapters have the halachic status of a Torah based mitzva. The fourth chapter is a later rabbinic addition to commemorate the burial of the defenders of the great city of Betar, following the destruction of Yerushalayim.
It too deals with the appearance of the Mashiach and ultimate redemption of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael.
Birkat Hamazon is so thoroughly Eretz Yisrael, that I often wonder why it is not deemed to be a part of the land (agricultural) mitzvot which are observed only here.
Our holy rabbis, in their wisdom, declared that Tish'a Be'Av and its "satellite" days of mourning over Yerushalayim (17th of Tamuz, 3rd of Tishrei, 10th of Tevet) should be days when we refrain from eating. Because eating would require us to recite Birkat Hamazon that permits us in some small way to identify with the Bet Hamikdash and Eretz Yisrael.
It was the rabbis' intention to heighten the feeling of total devastation at the loss of our Bet Hamikdash, the abolition of our national independence and our forced exile from Eretz Yisrael, to the extent that we may not even mention these holy matters even in Birkat Hamazon, because by refraining from eating we will not be obligated to recite Birkat Hamazon.
This was perhaps the original intent of our rabbis, and I am quite certain that the desired effect of feeling our total devastation was accomplished. But, unfortunately, as we became more accustomed to life in the galut, especially in the "golden" ones, our sharp religious-national reactions became dulled. The music in the word YERUSHALAYIM became common place, even wearisome, and Birkat Hamazon became a tedious duty.
I am acquainted with holy people in Eretz Yisrael who wash for bread even when they are not hungry, just to become obliged to recite Birkat Hamazon and identify with the Holy Land, Yerushalayim and the Bet Hamikdash. (The same can be achieved when eating one of the "seven agricultural products of Eretz Yisrael" which requires one to recite "mai'ain shalosh", although it is not universally agreed upon that this blessing has a Torah status).
How strange it seems to me, that a Jew living in Chicago and eating bread made from wheat grown in Kansas, declares the sanctity of Eretz Yisrael, Yerushalayim and the Bet Hamikdash. The kindest word I can find for this conduct is "ludicrous," when in reality it is much more serious than just ludicrous.
I thank HaShem every moment of my life for freeing me from that state of self denial, when He permitted my wife and me to descend from the silver wings of an El Al eagle, to take our 4 steps on the holy soil of this land and stoop to kiss the ground sanctified by our Father in Heaven.
Nachman Kahana
Copyright © 5772/2012 Nachman Kahana
* Note: this was written several years ago, but is still applicable today.


I feel like a bit of a fraud creating this page considering I am still on my weight loss journey, but background is helpful when writing a blog.
I was always a chubby child. I remember looking in the mirror, disliking my chubby face. I also remember my mum telling me I was fine, it was puppy fat, it would go away with age. She may have truly believed that, but she was mistaken. It never did, it wasn't puppy fat, it was the beginnings of years of an unhealthy lifestyle. My diet wasn't great, I hated exercise, I was always the chubby child, and when I look back at pictures I cringe. I was never huge, but big enough to look overweight.
When I hit my teens (and puberty truly started) I began to think more about my weight, and my morals and life in general. I went vegetarian, much to the ire of my meat eating parents. I decided I would make my own meals, however these were cheese and egg filled meals usually. Regardless of this I lost weight, in fact, when I was around 15 I was the lightest I have ever been in my life, around 9 stone and a size 10. I still thought I was fat but in reality I was probably in the best shape of my life.
I moved out of home and sadly went back to eating meat. I'm not sure why, convenience, going through a hard time mentally, I really wish I hadn't. The weight started coming on, slowly to begin with, but during pregnancy with my son I really ate for two. It opened the floodgates to a bad habit of binge eating and terrible choices. Not diagnosable, not so bad I felt sick binge eating, but frequent bouts of late evening eating that I still struggle with nowadays. After my son I reached around 14 stone which was horrifying enough, but after my daughter I was around 16 stone. My diet was awful, consisted of huge, high fat meals, too many takeaways, and I hated exercise. I lost site of health, what it even meant. I was tired, depressed, I have psoriasis and this was in a constant flare up, generally I felt awful.
I have yoyo lost weight over the years, three times I had lost three stone. Inevitably, I would cave, and my eating habits would go back to the ways of old, and put back on the weight. Unfortunately each time I was heavier than the previous when I started so I was going nowhere fast. Actually getting heavier and sicker as the years progressed.
I had attended a variety of slimming clubs including Scottish Slimmers and Slimming World, along with a few visits to the dietician. It wasn't like I didn't know what to do, I just seemed unable to maintain it in the long term. I told myself I was bad at exercise, just one of those people who hated it and would never change. It was genetic.


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On May 17, the training program for the 2022 Winter Olympics was launched in Yanqing district, Beijing. The program is expected to train 100,000 people from 2018 to 2022.
Yanqing's Human Resources and Social Security Bureau signed contracts with Beijing Industry and Trade Technician College and Shougang Technician College at the launch ceremony, agreeing to open training courses in pastry making, ski gear maintenance, and emergency treatment at ski resorts, among other subjects.
The training program will be tailored to serve the Winter Olympics and the International Horticulture Exposition (IHE) as well as address other human resource demands in Yanqing. Technicians and workers receive training to improve their vocational skills in various fields such as event security, winter sports, horticulture, catering service, and volunteer services, in order to ensure smooth operation at the Winter Olympics and the IHE.
Municipal officials said that with the Winter Olympics and the IHE approaching, the Beijing municipal government is striving to work with Yanqing district in strengthening vocational training and building training platforms. The upcoming events have brought opportunities as well as challenges to Yanqing, local officials said, and the training program will benefit the district with much needed technicians of different skills.
On May 17, the training program for the 2022 Winter Olympics was launched in Yanqing district, Beijing. The program is expected to train 100,000 people from 2018 to 2022.


When you think about road accidents, the first victims that come into your mind are car drivers and their passengers. That is totally fine, considering that they do make a big portion of all road accidents, but this should not mean that you can disregard the other victims, particularly the motorcyclists.
It can even be argued that motorcyclists are more vulnerable than those from passenger vehicles. According to the website of McCutchen & Sexton – The Law Firm, those who have been hurt in motorcycle accidents that are not their fault may take legal action. This is a good way to make motorcycles feel more protected. But is it enough?
Motorcycles, when compared to full-time vehicles, have smaller and thinner wheels. This is a bigger issue than you realize. These relatively inferior wheels make motorcycles more prone to tripping on objects that full-time vehicles will have no problem rolling over, such as debris and rocks left on the road.
Also, the fact that motorcycles only have two wheels make this danger a little more complicated. The required balancing technique on motorcycles also makes it more vulnerable to tripping, not to mention sliding because of traction issues.
Again, when compared to cars, motorcycles are much smaller. The issue with smaller objects, not just in terms of traffic, is that they are harder to see. This can be more problematic in traffic, because visibility is an important aspect of safety.
Since motorcycles are harder to see, they may be more vulnerable to getting hit by other motorists. It also doesn't help that motorcycles weave through traffic, so there may be instances where their maneuvering motions create confusion or put them on blind spots of drivers who can potentially hit them.
But when everything is said and done, you will never know when you will be involved in a motorcycle accident. Maybe it is because of the issues stated above, or maybe it is because of other issues, such as your own recklessness.
Whatever the reason may be, you are still going to get hurt. Motorcyclists only have helmets, pads, jackets, pants, and boots as their protections against accidents. When compared to car drivers, they are inferior, because car drivers are enclosed in vehicle frameworks that may absorb impact, and airbags and seatbelts that may prevent further damage.


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This article appears in the September 11, 2009 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
LaRouche:
Fed Crimes Cannot Be Buried
Sept. 3—Lyndon LaRouche today forcefully warned that any effort to cover up the crimes committed by the Federal Reserve Bank, during the Bush and Obama administrations, will be "tantamount to treason."
LaRouche was responding to reports from reliable sources close to the Obama White House, that the top leadership of the Democratic Party is "desperate" to block any disclosures of the Fed's role in the preferential bailout of certain key American banks, during the period since the August 2007 blowout of the financial system. As reported in the Washington Post on Aug. 28, as the result of the actions of the Fed and the U.S. Treasury Department, under the Bush and Obama presidencies, four big U.S. banks—JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo—along with Goldman Sachs, have consolidated almost total control over the entire U.S. banking system, managing one-third of all deposits, one-half of all mortgages, and two-thirds of all credit card debt.
In Senate testimony in July, the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Neil Barofsky, had warned that the total cost of the bailout, to date, was a staggering $23.7 trillion—counting funds already spent and funds already allocated. Yet, a record number of regional banks have been allowed to go bankrupt, and the most recent report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) cited more than 400 additional banks on the verge of collapse.
Who Will Audit the Fed?
In particular, the top Wall Street-allied Democrats are reportedly frantic to sabotage Congressional passage of H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, which would mandate a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the Fed's lending practices, and its relations with foreign central banks and other foreign financial institutions. H.R. 1207, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), has been co-sponsored by more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, thus assuring its passage, and mandating that it be brought to a floor vote. A parallel Senate bill, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009, has been introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and has 23 co-sponsors, so far.
Given the overwhelming support, the Fed Audit bill is currently unstoppable in the House. Enter Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who chairs the Financial Service Committee, where the bill sits. Frank has professed to support the Paul measure, but there are indications that he will try to fold it into a broader bank reregulation bill, rather than leave it free-standing. This would increase the likelihood that the bill will be weakened or defeated.
There is also panic at the White House, the Fed, and on Wall Street, over the Aug. 24 ruling by Chief Judge Loretta Preska, of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, ordering the Fed to disclose documentation of its expanded lending and other interventions in 2007 and 2008, particularly around the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan Chase. The order came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, brought by Bloomberg LP against the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, after two Bloomberg News reporters were denied access to Fed documents on the government-subsidized takeover.
LaRouche minced no words in warning about the consequences of a successful coverup, including the sabotage of the Fed audit bills now before Congress.
The issue is: The system will be blown out if this information is concealed. You cannot sweep this under the rug. The American people have both the right, and the urgent need, to know what has been done with their tax dollars. Only by un-burying the evidence can you save the U.S.A.
You cannot conceal the truth. Whatever the price, the full disclosure must be brought to the public. The American people must know the full extent of the folly of the Bush and Obama presidencies. If they kill the Paul and Sanders bills behind closed doors, such suppression of the information will be tantamount to treason.


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Brian Carlson
Visiting Assistant Professor - Biology, BCMB
Office: Williams 183
Email: bcarlson@wooster.edu
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati 2015
B.S., Xavier University 2010
BIOL 111: Foundations of Biology
BIOL 305: Cell Physiology
BIOL 306: Genes & Genomes
BIOL/BCMB 401: Junior Independent Study
The idea of being able to simply observe an organism and know something about its genome or, conversely, to look at genotypic data and know something about how an organism looks, functions or behaves has fascinated me since my first exposure to the principles of genetics and has served as one of my primary motivators as I have pursued educational opportunities and sought out research projects. Along the way, I have also developed an interest not only in identifying the genetic underpinnings of phenotypes, but in helping to develop the tools and resources that enable us to ask these questions in the first place. I am also a strong believer in the power of collaboration, and enjoy using my skill set to assist others in answering questions of interest to them.
Betta splendens, commonly known as the Siamese fighting fish, is a species that is widely known to the public, but comparatively poorly known to the scientific community, especially from a genetic standpoint. However, these fish are tractable in a lab setting, have a dedicated hobbyist community actively engaged in citizen science, and show excellent potential for use in scientific outreach to a wide variety of audiences, making them an extremely attractive study system for scientists who view their research as a teaching tool.
Betta splendens has been used in scientific studies investigating topics ranging from learning and aggression to pest control and the impact of environmental contaminants, but one particular feature of this species has captured the attention of scientists, hobbyists and the general public alike: pigmentation. Betta splendens displays vibrant pigmentation in its natural state, but human intervention through artificial selection has resulted in captive-bred Betta populations showing a wide variety of pigmentation phenotypes that vary in both coloration and patterning. While hobbyists and pet owners prize these fish for their beauty, these derived pigmentation phenotypes are also of scientific interest. Past studies have shown that these changes are not merely aesthetic, but rather that they impact behavior (e.g., mate choice and schooling) and physiology (e.g., immune responses) as well. Despite the attention that this subject has received, the specific genes mediating these changes in pigmentation have yet to be identified.
In our investigation of the genetics underlying various Betta splendens phenotypes, my students and I are picking up where the citizen scientists of the hobbyist community have left off. Specifically, hobbyists have identified a number of coloration patterns (or components thereof) that appear to obey the laws of Mendelian genetics. This means that we can expect that one or more mutations in a single gene are responsible for altering certain aspects of a fish's pigmentation, for example whether or not a fish is predominantly blue. My lab's goal is to draw upon what is known about the genetic basis of pigmentation in other species to 1) develop a list of genes potentially underlying these pigmentation phenotypes, 2) successfully determine the coding sequences for as many of these genes as possible, and 3) determine whether there are any apparent coding mutations or differences in gene expression that potentially link these genes with observed pigmentation patterns.


Dr Mamadou T Bah is Visiting Research Fellow within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Dr. Mamadou T. Bah graduated with a BSc and MSc degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from Odessa State Polytechnic University (Ukraine) in 1997. Prior to this, he studied Mathematics and Physics at Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Senegal). Dr. Bah was initially trained as a researcher at the University of Technology of Troyes (France), as part of the French degree ''Diplome d'Etudes Avancees''. During his research, he developed numerical methods for time-variant reliability analysis of dynamic systems.
Dr. Mamadou T. Bah was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 by the University of Southampton, as part of a British Aerospace-Rolls Royce University Technology Partnership for Design. During his doctoral research, he developed Finite Element (FE) based reduced order modelling techniques to efficiently predict the effects of inevitable blade-to-blade structural differences on the response of bladed disc assemblies. His doctoral experience was directly transferable to the biomechanics, where a great challenge lies in combining complex FE modelling and the simulation of unavoidable variability and uncertainty in important parameters. He therefore took a postdoctoral position with the Bioengineering Sciences Research Group in computational modelling of total joint replacements (generation of high-fidelity models of femurs from CT scans, implantation, CAD modelling, Reverse Engineering-based solid modelling, FE meshing, Contact Analysis). As part of his postdoctoral research, he developed numerical methods for the structural integrity assessment of load bearing hip implants, combining FE modeling and the application of suitable reliability (probabilistic) codes such as the Response Surface Method, First and Second Order Reliability Methods. Successful application of this methodology has resulted in (i) the development of an efficient and powerful FE based surrogate modelling technique that is able to systematically incorporate the uncertainty and variability in critical FE input parameters such as loading (ii) the quantification of the impact of uncertainty and variability on the hip implant biomechanical performance through application of probability of failure and sensitivity analyses.
Dr. Bah was appointed in 2007 as a Research Fellow to work on a three-year EPSRC funded research programme in the area of robustness assessment of total hip replacements, as part of a collaborative research programme involving the Bioengineering Sciences and Computational Engineering and Design research groups, the School of Medicine, DePuy International and Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd. He developed computational tools that can efficiently and simultaneously account for the effects of uncertainties in various parameters on the performance of cementless hip replacements. These parameters include surgical technique, loading and properties of bone. In the course of his research projects, Dr. Bah has co-supervised students in: ''The Development of Reliability Theory for Structural Integrity Assessment of Medical Devices programme'', ''Computational Methods to Predict the Robustness of Cementless Total Hip Replacements'' and ''Finite Element Contact Analysis of the Plastic Deformation Behaviour of an Elasto-Plastic Al. Substrate Indented by a Rigid Punch''. Dr. Bah has worked on various Finite Element Modelling consultancy projects the Research Institute for Industry at the University of Southampton.
Dr. Bah is a Reviewer for the Journal of Biomechanics, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, IMechE Journal of Engineering in Medicine, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing and Philosophical Magazine Letters. He is a Member of the European Society of Biomechanics, Orthopaedic Research UK and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is fluent in English, Russian, French and Wolof.
Research is currently conducted to develop a new computational tool specifically designed for multiple simulations of the effects of implant positioning in THRs, as part of an on-going collaboration between Simpleware Ltd. and Southampton University. New wizards are being developed to allow the analyst to conduct a complete Design of Computer Experiments taking into account possible changes in for example ante/retroversion, varus/valgus, anterior/posterior orientations and implant translations.


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Vacant jobs in agriculture costs producers $1.5B
Annual farm cash receipt losses to Canadian producers due to job vacancies are $1.5 B of the industry's total value in sales and production.
Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council
Ottawa, ON – Annual farm cash receipt losses to Canadian producers due to job vacancies are $1.5 B or three per cent of the industry's total value in sales and production.
This is a key finding of newly released Labour Market Information (LMI) research by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) during the 'Growing the AgriWorkforce Summit' in Winnipeg. The LMI research also revealed that primary agriculture still has the highest industry job vacancy rate at 7 per cent. The research was based on 2014 figures.
"The situation is critical now and will only get worse unless it is effectively addressed," explains Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, CAHRC Executive Director. "The Council has established the necessary collaborative channels with government and industry and now we need to continue to move forward to find solutions."
The current gap between labour demand and the domestic workforce is 59,000 and projections indicate that by 2025, the Canadian agri-workforce could be short workers for 114,000 jobs. In response, industry efforts have been encouraging young people and workers from other sectors to get into agriculture as a career. Despite extensive efforts gaps still exist and there still will be a large void in the future.
Labour shortages create risks to farmers who can only hope they will have the same or greater access to both domestic and foreign workers in the future as they do now. The LMI study examined only primary production; agri-food industries such as food and beverage processors or input suppliers, which have additional labour demands, were not considered in the research. However, labour shortages affect both primary producers and food processors in Canada.
Effects of the projected gap in the agricultural workforce could extend beyond the farms and fields and into Canadian homes. Unfilled jobs in Canadian food processing plants force Canadian foods to be processed outside of Canada in places like the United States and Mexico where there are workers. This means Canada must import the food back in after processing, which adds to food costs for Canadians. These two factors together could have a significant impact on Canada's ability to produce and process its own food.
The research indicates that the worker shortage is critical today and will be even more so ten years from now, with dire consequences for business viability, industry sustainability and future growth. Access to less labour for Canadian farmers now and into the future will affect food security for Canadian consumers and will also affect export potential of Canada's entire agri-food industry.
The LMI research was derived from surveys, interviews and focus groups with 1034 representatives of Canadian agricultural organizations, employees, and employers – 813 of whom were primary producers.
More information on this and other LMI results can be found at www.cahrc-ccrha.ca. The LMI research was funded by the Government of Canada's Sectoral Initiatives Program.
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Melissa Bell: Broken News?
Zaharom Nain
Centre for the Study of Communications and Culture, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
The media environment in Malaysia remains a heavily controlled and censored one, strictly monitored and policed by an authoritarian regime.
Traditional media ownership in Malaysia is heavily concentrated in the hands of institutions and local conglomerates that are aligned to or owned by the Barisan Nasional (BN) government. One corporation, Media Prima, owns all four of Malaysia's free-to-air commercial television stations and three newspapers (Harian Metro, Berita Harian, the New Straits Times). Media Prima is an investment company of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant political party in the ruling BN coalition. The largest circulation English-language newspaper, The Star, is owned by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), another key party of the BN.
There is a slew of laws that constrain both traditional and online media from being critical of the regime. One of these, the Sedition Act (1948), was widely used in 2015 and 2016, leading to the detention of more than 150 Malaysians, including journalists.
Despite these political, legal, and economic constraints, the internet and social media have continued to grow after the regime launched the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in 1996. Internet penetration rates have increased tremendously since then, while internet news media, like Malaysiakini, FreeMalaysiaToday, and the new The Malaysian Insight, have captured the imagination of an increasingly urbanised Malaysian public. Many have attributed this growth to the Bill of Guarantees that came with the launch; a pledge by the regime that the internet will not be censored. However, use of other legal constraints – including the Sedition Act – to harass and detain journalists, academics, politicians, and activists has, in reality, voided that `guarantee'.
2016 witnessed one of the most unfortunate closures in the Malaysian media industry, that of The Malaysian Insider (TMI), a news portal that, since its establishment in 2007, had risen rapidly to rival the more established Malaysiakini (est. 1999). The official reason for the closure was economic, as TMI was incurring extensive losses that its financial backers, the Edge Group, could not sustain. However, political reasons were also clearly evident, with the site having been blocked by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the state regulatory body.1
Television news continues to hold on to audiences, especially in the rural areas, often described as `the Malay heartland'. Over the past year, the commercial TV station, TV3, has continued to dominate the airwaves, not necessarily because of its news content but because of its more catchy presentation style – predominantly aimed at a rural, ethnic Malay audience – which has enabled it to do better than the staid, state-owned television station Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) for more than two decades.
Newspaper circulation continued to fall in 2016, with the English-language New Straits Times and once hugely popular Malay daily, Utusan Malaysia, recording ongoing losses. Both newspapers have not recovered from their loss of credibility from the late 1990s onwards. Their unyielding support of the regime, despite the latter being hit by a series of scandals in 2016, made them lose large segments of the rising middle-class Malaysian audience.
Malaysia's growing internet penetration rate is certainly one of the main reasons why online news portals have become the medium of choice for many for a variety of news – amusing, complex, opinionated, and even political. Indeed, three factors are central to this development: the declining credibility of the mainstream media, the spread of a purportedly `free' and `independent' digital media environment, and the easier and more-immediate access to these news sources.
`Fake news' has been around in Malaysia for years. For opposition groups, the term describes regime propaganda; something that has been churned out since at least the 1960s when state television was introduced into Malaysia and when UMNO took ownership of the Utusan media group. The regime, on the other hand, clearly capitalising on recent Western official critiques of fake news, has turned the argument around to help counter questions and critiques posed by news portals such Malaysiakini, the London-based Sarawak Report, and even international news agencies. A new portal, Sebenarnya (the truth), was set up in March this year by the MCMC purportedly to enable Malaysians to check the validity of news.2 There has been talk also of greater legal policing of social media and new legislation is anticipated in 2017.
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The Malaysian public has trust issues with local media. State/regime ownership and control of much of these media, coupled with their constant manufacturing of falsehoods and crude regime propaganda, are the main reasons for this distrust. Many subsequently turn to social media for news.
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Ecumenical pilgrimage from the Promised Land to the Land of the Promise
From Poland, an ecumenical pilgrimage organized by Mons. Grzegorz Rys, the Bishop of Lodz, who visited the Holy Land a few days ago, took place. Many participants composed of clergy and faithful from the Catholic, Orthodox, Polish-Catholic, Evangelical-Ausburga, Evangelical-Reformed, Evangelical-Methodist and Baptist churches were present. "We want to go there," said F.r Semko Koroza, the president of the Lodz branch of the Polish Ecumenical Council "to visit these places connected to our faith and to pray together."
It was a long journey. On April 13 this year, at the end of the first edition of the Ecumenical "Way of Light," a path that went through the streets of Lodz, in the Evangelical-Ausburg church of St. Matthew, some priests associated with the Lodz branch of the Ecumenical Polish Council, along with a representative of the Catholic Church, signed a letter addressed to the faithful of their churches that encouraged them to participate in the pilgrimage.
"We wish to invite you, dear sisters and brothers from all of the Churches, to this journey, which is not only spiritual, but it is also a real effort," said the message of the clergy of the Christian churches. "Let's go together to the land of the Savior for a true experience of returning to our roots," said the clergy.
"Our pilgrimage connects with what we understand today about ecumenism," said the organizing archbishop of this work. "In ecumenism, it is essential that each one of us, regardless of the confession to which we may belong, get closer to Jesus through a personal relationship. The more we return to this event, which is the paschal event of Jesus Christ: his incarnation, Christmas, his death, his resurrection and Pentecost, when each one of the Churches deepens these fundamental events of the faith, the closer we get to one another." This is why this idea came about to to organize a pilgrimage toward the origins of our faith. The registrations for the pilgrimage, which began at the end of April, have been high. The organization of the pilgrimage was entrusted to the Commissariat of the Holy Land, which is known in Poland for taking pilgrims to the Land of the Savior.
There are numerous moments of daily common prayer that have been planned, based on the Word of God and different places where biblical events took place: Nazareth, Mount Tabor, Caesarea, Capernaum, the River Jordan, the Shepherds' Field and the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion. "We cannot celebrate the Eucharist together, but we can read the Gospel together," said Archbishop Rys, especially in those places where the events recounted in the Gospel took place."
Each of the communities participating in the pilgrimage will have time to pray according to the tradition of his or her confession, but there will also be common parts. Nazareth, Mount Tabor, Cana of Galilee, the Mount of Beatitudes, Capernaum, Bethlehem and Jerusalem are just some of the places that pilgrims will visit during these days.
The pilgrims, walking through the narrow streets of the Holy City, will follow in the footsteps of the Savior, who carried the Cross, and they will travel through the stations of the Ecumenical Via Crucis. It is a reference to the tradition of the Via Crucis of Łódź, which for many years was celebrated every Good Friday on the streets of the Promised Land of Władysław Reymont. The ecumenical pilgrimage of Lodz to the Holy Land is the first initiative of this kind by representatives from the local Christian churches and shows that we desire to go together to the sources of the faith so as to draw the strength necessary for building unity in our communities.
"Trusting in this physical and spiritual exhaustion, we will be able to discover everything that unites us, without avoiding and neglecting what still divides us and can be an issue. Being together every day and praying together allows us to look at our differences differently and also challenges us to reflect on what else we can still do to further the cause of unity. We are convinced that the Lord is calling us to undertake this journey, this effort and this witness," said the common letter from the clergy.


Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY, USA) is a pioneer of video and performance art, and an acclaimed multimedia artist whose work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. Trained in art history and sculpture, Jonas was a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s, and her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of ritual, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Joan Jonas is a New York native and she continues to live and work in New York City. She received a B.A. in Art History from Mount Holyoke College in 1958, studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Columbia University in 1965. Jonas has taught at MIT since 1998, and is currently Professor Emerita in the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology within the School of Architecture and Planning.
Light Time Tales, a major exhibition of Joan Jonas's work, was on view at the HangarBicocca in Milan, Italy from October 1, 2014 – February 1, 2015. Safety Curtain by Joan Jonas is at the Vienna State Opera this opera season.
The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Jonas's most recent solo exhibitions include those at Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan (2014); Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Stockholm (2013); Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico (2013); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2013); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2011); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010). She has been represented in dOCUMENTA in Kassel, Germany, six times since 1972, and has had major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany; and the Queens Museum of Art, New York.


In August 2015, a group of researchers from the CEED Earth Crisis group went to Kamchatka to collect samples from the recent eruption of the volcano Tolbachik. An interesting finding was the presence of salt deposits, which can provide key information on the composition and chemistry of salts and metals in the volatile phase.
This year 15 students participated in the Masters-level course "A Changing Arctic" which blends social, legal, geopolitical and natural science topics. The students brought a diverse range of backgrounds including law, industry, chemistry, politics, oceanography, geophysics and societal studies, and came from several European nations as well as Russia, Mexico and China. In addition to lectures by UiO staff, several guest lecturers were invited from industry and research institutions around Norway, plus Alaska and Copenhagen.
My interest in the deep, cold far North might seem an interesting arena of study for an Aussie but such is the international domain of geosciences – research takes you places, and not just for interesting conferences!