The new album, start hyping!
Re: Into the night world!
Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.
The new song is amazing! Cant wait!
Huh, did they make a record label or what's the deal with that Hubnester Records? Thought they still had a contract with Spinefarm for one or two more albums.
I love the new song!!!
Apparently they split with Spinefarm, don't know the reason though. Hubnester Records is their own label, didn't they also release Redeemer UE under Hubnester?
I must have missed it, but they revealed the track listing with the pre-ordering on iTunes! In case anyone missed it, it's 10 songs, just like in RoaDN.
Personally I'm getting RoaDN vibes from this release: the first track being the one they preview (and the actual title track not being the first one, strangely enough), Twe27ySeven which reminds me of 99 and Pieces, and The Last March of the Undead, which is another nostalgia track akin to Hero.
My personal wish is that The Last March is a remake of the original March of the Undead (yes, the original one).
Love the atmospheric synth. Just curious, does anyone have the lyrics for the singles that have come out?
This album is amazing! I think my fave tracks are Space Boat, Remember Me, Dream Sequence. But if I had to be totally honest with myself I love the entire album haha.
Oh man, has someone been cutting onions in here?
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Iran wants to announce Bitcoin miners, increasingly, the battle – Coin Hero
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To China and some other countries, Iranian authorities to push increasingly in the Mining of crypto in front of currencies, it has a bar.
Mining companies: in Iran, an uninvited guest?
It was only a matter of time until the commitment of the Bitcoin would grow Mining and Mining of other digital currencies. Recently, we reported on the significant increase in Bitcoin Mining Difficulty. In April of this year, there was speculation about whether there will be a Mining ban in the people's Republic of China. Only a few countries worldwide to present, the subject of Mining as indicative as Canada. The province of Quebec had taken some time ago, namely, self-measures, in order to benefit through the provision of cheap electricity from Mining activities economically. The opposite of this Opening for the crypto market is not only in India, where crypto are prohibitions with corresponding effects on the Mining in the conversation. Also Iranian authorities will strengthen their farms measures against Mining. Mining wins worldwide following a rest period of significance. The reason is the significant price gains. Especially the Bitcoin hurried last from one record to the next.
First action with great success
That, of all places, in Iran, Mining companies operating in the near past recordings, at the price current in the country. However, the actors want to put the government on the various regulatory bodies, so to speak, the craft. Authorities are currently working on the implementation of government requirements for the closure of the plants. In particular, the high power consumption, the authorities cited as a reason for intervention. According to the Iranian Ministry of energy had occurred in the just completed month of June a consumption of 7 % above the normal average values. Whether the increased energy consumption can actually be Mining back, is not safe. As an Argument for the intervention of the presumption submitted to the authorities already. In the last week of June, they have closed seemingly two bodies, in which the Miner had established. About 1,000 computers are alleged to have been confiscated.
Earlier, the Iranian energy had given suppliers a clear set of warnings. You said that Mining on the electricity grid of the state is illegal. The words of the state institutions now increasingly followed by action.
Early rethink when it comes to Crypto, because of international sanctions?
Other illegal Miner should prepare for problems, it says in the messages. In the country there is probably a veritable Mining Boom as a result of cheap energy, and rising crypto-rates. In the future, it provides that the state allows Mining that the miners, but only electricity, without subsidies, are available. Exact plans, however, there is still. Interesting: a number of miners in Iran seem to come from China, where the conditions said to have been significantly tightened. The Iranian Central Bank, by the way, had prohibited banks, and other service providers to the financial industry in the spring of Bitcoin purchases and the trade as a whole. Observers expect, however, in the future, with more freedoms, as the country struggles increasingly with foreign sanctions. Crypto-currencies such as Litecoin or Monero could be used to circumvent sanctions.
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Six hundred and sixty days after the Indian Army carried out the surgical strike on terror-launchpads in Pakistan, the exclusive visual footage of the same was released by the Government and picked up by media houses like the Republic TV and Times Now.
The Indian Army had carried out this gallant act on Pakistan on September 29, 2016. A total of four videos, authenticated by Lt Gen DS Hooda who led the operations, have been accessed which show how the Indian army blew away the Pakistan terrorists and destroyed the terror-launchpads.
The video begins with the map of the target area inside the Pakistan territory. The footage has been recorded with head-mounted cameras and UAVs. The UAV aerial shot gives the overhead view of the terror camp 1 with its coordinates. It shows a time stamp of '0615 hours' and date stamp of '27-09-16′ while establishing the position of the Pakistani terror camp.
The first picture in the video showed a Pakistani terrorist near the bunker, the head-mounted camera establishing the location of the enemy. Another shot was taken by the sophisticated cameras showing the terrorists along with the Pakistani Army. The video also shows the target area before and after the decimation, with back to backfiring on Pakistan terror bunkers, with rocket launchers and anti-bunker missiles launched by our special forces conducting the surgical strike.
The video shows the second target being stricken as captured by the UAVs at 6.13 am and within a span of 20 seconds, the third attack on the terror bunkers was recorded by the cameras. A total of eight strikes were captured on camera.
In a colored photo of Target three, four terrorists hanging out in the terror safe house in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) just a few kilometers away from the LoC border was seen. The heat mounted cameras showed a sudden bombardment that shook the ground, spattering the safe house into shambles. In the target four videos, the Pakistani terrorists are seen hovering around the LOC within the Pakistan territory.
The video footage accessed by these media houses were recorded on head-mounted cameras and by UAVs on September 29, 2016, and contains a time-stamp that leaves no doubt that the Surgical Strike, which was denied by Pakistan and defamed by the opposition, irrefutably and unquestionably took place. One if left to think now that will the opposition, which included people like Sanjay Nirupam, who had called the operation 'fake' and had demanded proof, would come out in the open and seek an apology for disregarding the efforts of the Indian Army. As a citizen of the country, this is the basic, he and all the others who had raised a finger at the authenticity of this act of dauntlessness, owes to them.


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The Town of Saugeen Shores has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to revitalize land near the Port Elgin Main Beach including the former tourist train station and mini golf course, as well as the adjacent parking lot.
The RFP outlines specific goals for the property which align with the Waterfront Master Plan including excellent food services, family-friendly activities that enhance the beach experience and a business model that allows for capital investment and upkeep of the property. Ideally, the investment would lead to a longer operating season on one of the most valuable pieces of publically owned real estate.
The RFP also states the Town is interested in the developer providing, or reasonably accommodating, a train amusement ride located at the waterfront as identified in the Waterfront Master Plan.
"Extensive public consultation has occurred with the community during the development of the Waterfront Master Plan, as well as the Corporate Strategic Plan which identifies Waterfront Investment as a priority," said Saugeen Shores Mayor Luke Charbonneau. "Now we are taking the next step to further enhance the Saugeen Shores beach experience for every resident and visitor. This is an exciting opportunity for the future of our waterfront," he added.
The RFP also opens the door for possible public consultation during stage two of the process.
Train and Station up for sale
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EELS frontman Mark Oliver Everett is going to be given the Freedom of the City of London.
The ceremony at London's Guildhall will take place ahead of the band's show at the Barbican Centre tomorrow.
The Freedom of the City of London is one of the oldest surviving traditional ceremonies still in existence today, the first Freedom believed to have been presented in 1237 and has only been open to non British or Commonwealth citizens since 1996.
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Superfluous question. I guess it will have an option to turn it off once it's ready. It's targeted for Phoenix 0.6.
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Узу (правопис за арабски по Американската система BGN Ūzū и Uzu) е село в Чад, регион Борку-Енеди-Тибести, близо до границата с Либия (т. нар. "линия Аозу"). Това е едно от най-малките и най-сухите населени места в страната, и се намира почти в сърцето на Сахара. Узу е разположено в планинския масив Тибести, и средната му надморска височина е 886 m. По-голямата част от населението принадлежи на етническата група Тубу – коренни жители на пустинята.

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Кинеска штампа гравираним дрвеним блоковима је техника штампања текста, слика или шаблона која се широко користи широм источне Азије и потиче из Кине као метода штампања на текстилу и касније папиру. Свака страница или слика је направљена резбарењем дрвеног блока како би се оставиле само неке области и линије на оригиналном нивоу; то су оне које су обојене мастилом и које се приказују у штампаном материјалу, у процесу рељефне штампе. Резбарење блокова је вешт и мукотрпан посао, али се може одштампати велики број отисака.

Као метод штампања на тканини, најранији преживели примери из Кине датирају пре 220. године нове ере. Штампање дрвеним блоковима постојало је у Танг Кини од 7. века нове ере и остало је најчешћи источноазијски метод штампања књига и других текстова, као и слика, све до 19. века.

2009. године Унеско је уврстио кинеску технику штампе гравираним дрвеним блоковима на Листу нематеријалног културног наслеђа човечанства.

Традиционална кинеска техника гравираног штампања блокова захтева сарадњу неколико занатлија који поседују стручност, спретност и тимски дух. Сами блокови, направљени од ситнозрног дрвета крушке или жижуле, секу се на дебљину од два сантиметра и полирају брусним папиром како би се припремили за гравирање. Нацрти жељених слика се четкају на изузетно танак папир и проверавају да ли постоје грешке пре него што се пренесу на блокове. Дезени са мастилом пружају водич за занатлију који резбари слику или дизајн у дрво, стварајући издигнуте мотиве који ће на крају нанети мастило на папир. Међутим, прво се блокови тестирају црвеним, а затим плавим мастилом и врше се корекције резбарења. Коначно, када је блок спреман за употребу, прекрива се мастилом и притискује руком на папир да би се одштампала коначна слика. Блок гравура се може користити за штампање књига у различитим традиционалним стиловима, за креирање модерних књига са конвенционалним повезом или за репродукцију древних кинеских књига. Велики број штампарских радионица и данас наставља ову рукотворину захваљујући знању и вештини стручних занатлија.

Историја

Према Књизи Јужног Ћиа, 480-их година, човек по имену Гонг Шуањи (龔玄宜) назвао је себе Гонг мудрацем и "рекао да му је натприродно биће дало "писање са печатом од жада", које није захтевало четкицу: човек је дувао по папиру и ликови су се формирали".  Затим је искористио своја овлашћења да мистификује локалног гувернера. На крају се с њим обрачунао гувернеров наследник, који је вероватно погубио Гонга.  Тимоти Хју Барет претпоставља да је Гонгов магични блок од жада заправо био уређај за штампање, а Гонг је био један од првих, ако не и први штампач. Полумитски запис о њему стога описује његову употребу процеса штампања тако да намерно збуни посматраче и створи слику мистицизма око себе.  Међутим, пронађени су цветни узорци одштампаног дрвета на свили у три боје који датирају из династије Хан (пре 220. године н.е.).

На успон штампарства у великој мери је утицао махајана будизам. Према веровањима махајане, верски текстови имају суштинску вредност за преношење Будине речи и делују као талисмански предмети који садрже свету моћ способну да отерају зле духове. Копирањем и чувањем ових текстова, будисти су могли да стекну личне заслуге. Као последица тога, идеја штампања и његове предности у реплицирању текстова брзо су постали очигледни будистима, који су до 7. века користили дрвене блокове за креирање апотропејских докумената. Ови будистички текстови штампани су посебно као ритуални предмети и нису били широко распрострањени или намењени за јавну потрошњу. Уместо тога, они су сахрањивани у освећеном тлу. Најранији сачувани пример ове врсте штампаног материјала је фрагмент минијатурног свитка дхарани (будистичка чаролија) написаног на санскриту, ископан у гробници у Сијану. Зове се Велика чаролија неокаљане чисте светлости (Wugou jingguang da tuoluoni jing 無垢淨光大陀羅尼經) и штампана је помоћу дрвене плоче током династије Танг, око 650–670.  Сличан комад, Saddharma pundarika sutra, такође је откривен и датиран у 690. до 699.

Ово се поклапа са владавином Ву Цетјена, под којом су Кинески монаси превели Дужу Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, која заговара праксу штампања апотропејских текстова и слика.  Најстарији сачувани докази о печатима на дрвету направљеним за читање су делови Лотосове Сутре откривени у Турпану 1906. године. Они су датирани у време владавине Ву Цетјена користећи препознавање облика карактера.  Најстарији текст који садржи прецизан датум штампања открио је Аурел Штајн у пећинама Могао у Дунхуангу 1907. године. Ова копија Дијамантне сутре дуга је 14 стопа и садржи колофон на унутрашњем крају који гласи: "С поштовањем учињено за универзалну бесплатну дистрибуцију од Ванг Јиа, у име своја два родитеља 13. 4. месеца 9. године Шентонга (тј. 11. маја 868. нове ере)". Сматра се најстаријим свитком на свету са сигурним датумом.  Дијамантску сутру је помно пратио најранији сачувани штампани алманах, Qianfu sinian lishu (乾符四年曆書), датиран у 877.

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Од 932. до 955. штампано је Дванаест класика и низ других текстова. Током династије Сунг, Дирекција за образовање и друге агенције користиле су ове блок отиске за ширење својих стандардизованих верзија класика. Остала дистрибуирана дела укључују Историје, филозофска дела, енциклопедије, збирке и књиге о медицини и ратној вештини.

Године 971. започео је рад на комплетном будистичком канону Трипитака (Kaibao zangshu 開寶藏書) у Ченгдуу. Било је потребно 10 година да се заврши 130.000 блокова потребних за штампање текста. Готов производ, сичуанско издање канона Каибао, познатог и као Каибао Трипитака, штампано је 983. године.

Пре увођења штампе, величина приватних колекција у Кини је већ порасла од проналаска папира. Фан Пинг (215–84) имао је у својој колекцији 7.000 ролни (јуан) или неколико стотина наслова. Два века касније, Чанг Миан је поседовао 10.000 јуана, Шен Јуе (441–513) 20.000 јуана, а Сјао Тонг и његов рођак Сјао Маи су имали колекције од 30.000 јуана. Прича се да је цар Јуан од Лианга (508–555) имао збирку од 80.000 јуана. Укупан збир свих познатих приватних колекционара књига пре династије Сунг броји око 200.

Штампа на дрвету је такође променила облик и структуру књига. Свици су постепено замењени увезима у концертини (經摺裝) од периода Танг па надаље. Предност је била у томе што је сада било могуће окренути референцу без отварања целог документа. Следећи развој везивања (xuanfeng zhuang 旋風裝) био је да се први и последњи листови причврсте на један велики лист, тако да се књига може отворити као хармоника.

Горијо
Године 989. Сеонгџонг из Горијоа је послао монаха Јеогу да затражи од Сунга копију комплетног будистичког канона. Захтев је одобрен 991. године када је Сеонгџонгов званичник Хан Еонгонг посетио суд Сунг.  Године 1011, Хиенџонг из Горијоа издао је резбарију сопственог комплета будистичког канона, који ће постати познат као Goryeo Daejanggyeong. Пројекат је обустављен 1031. након Хиенџонгове смрти, али су радови поново настављени 1046. након Мунџонговог ступања на престо. Дело, од око 6.000 томова, завршено је 1087. године. Нажалост, оригинални сет дрвених блокова уништен је у пожару током монголске инвазије 1232. Краљ Гоџонг је наредио да се направи још један комплет и рад је почео 1237. године, овог пута за само 12 година. Године 1248. комплетан Goryeo Daejanggyeong бројао је 81.258 штампаних блокова, 52.330.152 карактера, 1496 наслова и 6568 томова. Због строгог процеса уређивања који је ушао у Goryeo Daejanggyeong и његове изненађујуће издржљиве природе, пошто је преживео потпуно нетакнут више од 760 година, сматра се најтачнијим будистичким каноном написаним на класичном кинеском, као и стандардним издањем за источноазијско будистичко образовање.

Упркос продуктивном ефекту штампе на дрвету, историчар Ендимион Вилкинсон примећује да оно никада није заменило руком писане рукописе. Заиста, рукописи су остали доминантни до самог краја царске Кине.

Не само да су рукописи остали конкурентни отисцима,  чак су их преферирали елитни научници и колекционари. Доба штампања дало је чину ручног преписивања нову димензију културног поштовања. Они који су себе сматрали правим научницима и правим познаваоцима књиге нису сматрали отиске за праве књиге. Према тадашњим елитистичким ставовима, "штампане књиге су биле за оне који нису истински марили за књиге".

Међутим, преписивачи и рукописи су наставили да буду конкурентни штампаним издањима само драматично снижавајући њихову цену. Према аутору из династије Минг Ху Јинглину, "ако није било штампаног издања доступног на тржишту, ручно копирани рукопис књиге коштао би десет пута више од штампаног дела",  такође "када се штампано издање појави, преписана копија се више није могла продати и била би одбачена".  Резултат је да је упркос заједничком постојању ручно преписаних рукописа и штампаних текстова, цена књиге до краја 16. века опала за око 90 процената.  Као резултат тога, писменост је порасла. Године 1488, Корејац Чое Бу приметио је током свог путовања у Кину да "чак и сеоска деца, возачи трајекта и морнари" могу да читају, иако се то односило углавном на југ, док је северна Кина остала углавном неписмена.

Само током династија Минг и Ћинг дрвене и металне покретне врсте алата за штампање су имале значајну употребу, али је преферирани метод остао блок од дрвета. Употреба покретног алата у Кини никада није прелазила 10 одсто свих штампаних материјала, док је 90 одсто штампаних књига користило старију технологију блокова. У једном случају за огрев је коришћен цео комплет дрвеног типа од 250.000 комада.  Дрвени блокови су остали доминантна метода штампања у Кини све до увођења литографије у касном 19. веку.

Штампање у боји
Најранија позната штампа на дрвету је у боји — кинеска свила из династије Хан штампана је у три боје.

Боја је веома честа у азијској штампи на папиру; у Кини први познати пример је Дијамантска сутра из 1341. године, штампана црно-црвеном бојом у храму Зифу у савременој провинцији Хубеј. Најранија књига штампана у више од 2 боје је Chengshi moyuan (), штампана 1606. и техника достигла је врхунац у књигама о уметности објављеним у првој половини 17. века.

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Спољашње везе
 Centre for the History of the Book
 Excellent images and descriptions of examples, mostly Chinese, from the Schoyen Collection ()
 Fine example of a European block-book Apocalypse with hand-colouring
 Chinese book-binding methods, from the V&A Museum
 Chinese book-binding methods, from the International Dunhuang Project
 Chinese woodblock prints from  SOAS University of London
 "Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
 American Printing History Association—Numerous links to Online Resources and Other Organizations

 Block printing in India
 Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on woodblock printing
 The History of Chinese Bookbinding: the case of Dunhuang findings
 Video: Block-printed wallpaper, a video demonstrating printing of multicolored wallpaper with a press, using blocks produced by William Morris

Текстилна уметност
Нематеријално културно наслеђе Кине
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Емпіричний доказ — це інформація, отримана за допомогою органів чуття, зокрема, шляхом спостереження та фіксування закономірностей та поведінки шляхом експериментів. Термін походить від грецького слова «досвід» — ἐμπειρία (empeiría).

Після Іммануїла Канта у філософії прийнято називати знання, здобуті апостеріорними знаннями (на противагу апріорним знанням).

Значення
Емпіричні дані — це інформація, яка підтверджує істинність (яка точно відповідає дійсності) або хибність (неточність) твердження. З емпіричної точки зору, можна стверджувати, що володіти знаннями знання можна лише тоді, коли вони ґрунтуються на емпіричних даних (хоча деякі емпірики вважають, що існують інші способи отримання знань). Це протистоїть раціоналістичному погляду, згідно з яким розум чи роздуми вважаються доказом істинності чи помилковості деяких пропозицій . Емпіричні докази — це інформація, здобута спостереженням або експериментами, у формі записаних даних, які можуть бути предметом аналізу (наприклад, вченими). Це першоджерело емпіричних доказів. Вторинні джерела описують, обговорюють, інтерпретують, коментують, аналізують, оцінюють, узагальнюють та обробляють першоджерела. Матеріалами з вторинними джерелами можуть бути статті у газетах чи популярних журналах, рецензії на книги чи фільми, або статті, знайдені в наукових журналах, які обговорюють чи оцінюють чужі оригінальні дослідження.

Емпіричні докази можуть бути синонімом до результату експерименту. У зв'язку з цим емпіричний результат є єдиним підтвердженням. У цьому контексті термін напівемпіричний використовується для класифікації теоретичних методів, які використовують частково основні аксіоми або наукові закони та результати експериментів. Такі методи протиставляються теоретичним методам ab initio, які суто дедуктивні і засновані на перших принципах .

В науці емпіричні докази необхідні для того, щоб гіпотеза здобула визнання в науковому співтоваристві . Зазвичай ця перевірка досягається науковим методом формування гіпотези, експериментальним проектуванням, експертною оцінкою, відтворенням результатів, презентацією конференції та публікацією в журналі . Для цього потрібний точний зв'язок гіпотези (зазвичай виражається в математиці), експериментальних обмежень та перевірок (виражених обов'язково в умовах стандартного експериментального апарату) та загального розуміння вимірювань.

Висловлювання та аргументи залежно від емпіричних доказів часто називають a posteriori («наступний досвід»), на противагу до апріорі (перед цим). Апріорні знання чи обґрунтування не залежать від досвіду (наприклад: «Усі холостяки не одружені»), тоді як апостеріорні знання чи обґрунтування залежать від досвіду чи емпіричних доказів (наприклад: «Деякі холостяки дуже щасливі»). Поняття про те, що відмінність між апостеріорним і апріорним знанням рівносильно відмінності між емпіричним і не емпіричним знанням походить від Кантівської«Критики чистого розуму» .

Стандартним позитивістським поглядом на емпірично отриману інформацію було те, що спостереження, досвід та експеримент служать нейтральними арбітрами між конкуруючими теоріями. Однак з 60-х років ХХ століття наполеглива критика, найбільше пов'язана з Томасом Куном,   стверджував, що на ці методи впливають попередні переконання та досвід. Отже, не можна очікувати, що два вчені, що спостерігають, переживають чи експериментують над однією подією, будуть робити однакові теоретично нейтральні спостереження. Роль спостереження як теоретично нейтрального арбітра є неможливою. Теоретична залежність спостереження означає, що навіть за умови узгоджених методів умовиводу та інтерпретації, вчені все ще можуть не погоджуватися щодо природи емпіричних даних.

Див. також

 Анекдотичні докази
 Емпірична функція розподілу
 Емпірична формула

 Емпіричні дослідження
 Емпіричні знання
 Емпіричний зв'язок
 Ground truth
 Феноменологія
 Наукові докази
 Науковий метод
 Теорія

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Історія ідей
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Uncle Drew is coming to the big screen with a loaded cast
Kyrie Irving will be back with his undercover, old man, street balling shenanigans this summer, when he puts on the back-brace and steps out as his elderly alter-ego, Uncle Drew. Uncle Drew came onto the scene a few years back, when he surprised all by dominating pick-up games across the country. Irving wrote, directed, and starred in a five-part series based around the geezer, which was produced by Pepsi.
On June 29, the movie, Uncle Drew, will be released. The film follows the hooping old-timer as he travels around the country in an attempt to find his old teammates, so that they can compete in a street ball tournament together.
The teammates that will be joining Uncle Drew on the floor are:
The movie will also have some legitimate Hollywood talent on the roster, which is encouraging. We wouldn't want this thing to flop like Kevin Durant's movie, Thunderstruck, did in 2012. Ever heard of it? Probably not.
Lil Rey Howery recently played a role in the critically acclaimed and Oscar Nominated thriller, Get Out.
And in what I can assume is an awesome casting job, Kyrie got Nick Kroll to play the bad guy. I can't wait to see what Kroll brings to the character. He's one of the best in the game at playing a wide variety of roles with completely different personalities. His TV show, the Kroll Show, is a skit-like program where he plays a number of different characters. He should bring something unique and hilarious to the film.
We will be on the lookout for the Uncle Drew trailer, and when it's released, it'll surely be posted.
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During the two years between mid 1933 and mid 1935 Rakusan produced a series of at least 180 individual woodblock-printed fan designs. These fan designs are printed as negative images with a single impression of black ink. Although all are actually woodblock prints, this traditional negative-image printing style is called 石摺(り), ishi-zuri, lit. 'stone rubbing', from its superficial resemblance to that technique. Rakusan called this series 篁子生石摺画選, Koushisei Ishizuri Gasen, lit. 'Koushisei's Stone-rubbing Print Selection', but it is usually called here the Fan Series.
Rakusan did not include the Fan Series in his main sequence numbering. Therefore, the original number used for each of the 36 Series prints has been modified to identify the Fan Series members of its theme. The five different fan silhouette shapes have been here assigned arbitrary numbers 1 through 5. To indicate a fan design these shape designations are added to the 36 Series number separated by a hyphen. In themes which contain duplicated fan shapes, one has been arbitrarily designated A and the other B. 121-2A indicates that this is one of two Fan Series designs with fan shape 2 in the 121 Kumazasa Bamboo-grass and Pine theme. Like all other designs in this series, 121-2A was only produced in a single print run, and few copies are currently documented.
The 121 Kumazasa Bamboo-grass and Pine theme has a complex history, and it has more individual prints than any other theme. Rakusan had originally planned to have two separate themes, one for kumazasa bamboo-grass and one for pine. From the signature and seal markings, it appears that two of the pine fan designs may have been created as early as the end of 1933, and the other two pine designs (including 121-2A) and all four kumazasa bamboo-grass designs by early 1934. Then Rakusan set both incomplete groups aside for several months. Around the middle of 1934 Rakusan changed his original plan and combined the two as a single compound theme. He then painted 121-0 as the model for the 36 Series design 121 which included both original components.
The Fan Series delivery documents for installment six in September 1934 announced that kumazasa bamboo-grass and pinecone designs would be published the following month. Those for installment seven confirm that the Fan Series of the121 Kumazasa Bamboo-grass and Pine theme were printed during October 1934 and distributed October 15, 1934 as part of installment seven (of twelve). On both sets of delivery documents Rakusan used the theme subject title 熊笹に松笠, kumazasa ni matsukasa, 'kumazasa bamboo-grass and pinecones' which is only an appropriate title for 36 Series design 121 published at the same time. Because Fan Series design 121-5A contains only pine seedlings and pine needles without pinecones, here a more general theme title 隈笹に松, kumazasa ni matsu, 'kumazasa bamboo-grass and pine', has been adapted. The original spelling of Rakusan's title is used here only for the 36 Series design 121 for which it was devised.
This compound theme incorporates eight designs, three more than the normal quintet. There are two designs each for fan shapes 1, 2, 4, and 5, but none for fan shape 3. Using all eight designs from this theme meant that for installment seven to have exactly fifteen designs, the other themes in this installment would have to have fewer designs than normal. Accordingly, none of those three themes,119, 120, and 121, ended up with a regular fan quintet.
The general name for all kinds of pine trees, Pine, Pinus, spp. is 松, まつ, マツ, matsu. It is difficult to identify the exact species of pine that Rakusan intended to show. The pines illustrated in this theme most closely resemble the pine in 39. However, in the title-caption for 39 Rakusan uses the general name 松 matsu with the descriptor 小, ko, 'small, young' which here refers to the age and/or size of the pine and is not a species designation. In the future it might be possible to identify the pine species more closely.


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Grivas: Chess Expertise Step by Step
11/5/2011 – Greek grandmaster Efstratios Grivas is a highly experienced chess trainer and chess author. He has participated in the ChessBase sponsored program of training sessions for talented young players. In addition he has recorded a number of training DVDs, the latest of which deals with rook handling in the endgame, with four hours of personal video instructions. Do not miss this one.
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Efstratios Grivas: Chess Expertise Step by Step
Vol. 3: Rook Handling
Rook handling and endings in general constitute one of the most fascinating elements in chess. Rich in both tactical and strategic possibilities, they offer us the opportunity to marvel at its endless creative potential and unique ideas.
Of all chess endings (pawn, queen, rook, bishop and knight), rook endings are the ones encountered most frequently. Like all aspects of chess technique, rook endings (and in general the correct handling of rooks) encompass a significant amount of theoretical and repeated motifs, which we have to be aware of – just like our openings. In this way we will be able to make correct decisions at important junctures of the game, decisions that will either promise us victory or allow us to secure the draw.
This DVD, called 'Rook Handling', tries to cover important parts of this field and help you to assimilate knowledge and to understand in depth the proper handling of rooks in certain cases. We shall examine how to keep our rook active, how to trap a rook, how not to lose a drawn rook ending, how to handle technical rook endings, how to successfully transfer our rook, how to enhance cooperation between rook and knight and finally how to defend against a knight and three pawns.
To be honest, this is just a small amount of the huge quantity of material that one has to learn about rooks, but in any case it is a good start! Video running time: four hours.
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Training by GM & FST Efstratios Grivas
Earlier this year GM Grivas held a series of lectures for young German talents, in the offices of ChessBase in Hamburg. The aim of this series of lectures is to enable participants to teach young and gifted players in schools and chess clubs, and to educate trainers and chess teachers not only in their own countries but also on an international basis.
Successful chess trainer GM Efstratios Grivas
The material started to develop in early 2004 and was used Grivas' personal training sessions, where he developed a system based on serious sport (chess is treated like a sport) and chess material (focusing on middlegame and endgame). In 2005 this material was first printed in Greek, in a series of training books called 'Skakistiki Proponisi' (six volumes, 680 pages). It then appeared in an improved version in an English series 'Chess College' (Gambit 2006, three volumes, translator Sotiris Logothetis) and 'Practical Endgame Play' (Everyman 2008). It was also translated (in another improved version) into Turkish in 2009. Finally a further improved version appeared in the latest FIDE book for training the trainers called 'Syllabus' (FIDE 2010, proofer Andrew Martin).
"I use this material to make my students understand that health and other sport assets are valuable for a chess player's improvement, and not just never-end analysis in openings," says Stratos (as his friends call him). "For example in Turkey, where I am working on my program, all my trainees exercise some physical activity in accordance with their chess education." Since middle of 2006, when he started training youthful Turkish talents, three players have made their grandmaster norms and two more are close to this goal. And a number of IMs have also arisen in the process.
In the meantime Grivas, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Alexander Beliavsky and Georg Mohr are cooperating to produce a total training system, which will appear in 30 books (around 3,000 pages) based on the idea of full training in the middle and endgame. The work is being edited by the Turkish Chess Federation (which has the rights) and for the moment it is printed only in the Turkish language. The project started in early 2010 and it will be completed in 2012.
Trainers (and players) all over the world can use the series presented on the ChessBase news page freely. Any question can be addressed directly to the author: GrivasEfs (at) yahoo.co.uk.
Lecture plan
1 Physical and Psychological Factors
2 Getting to know Ourselves
3 Building a Repertoire
4 Chess Literature
5 Activity of Bishops and Knights
6 The Backward Pawn
7 The Art of Exchanges
8 The Golden Rules of the Endgame
9 How to Think in Endgames
Grivas in a lecture session for young German talents, for example...
WIM Melanie Ohme, 20, has been the poster girl for German chess since her pre-teen days. IM and WGM Elisabeth Pähtz, 26, is the highest ranked female player in Germany. "Elli" is the daughter of GM Thomas Pähtz and at nine won her won her first German championship in the under-11 age group. In 2005 she won the World Junior Chess Championship for girls.
FM Hagen Poetsch, 19, is rated 2408. Jonas Lampert is 13 and rated 2127
4. Chess Literature
The question concerning every young and ambitious chess player, apart from the selection of the proper trainer, revolves around the selection of the proper literature, through which he will be taught the secrets of chess.
The number of books available is truly immense and it is often hard to determine which ones are most worthy of study. I am convinced that every good chess player can suggest certain books, but opinions often differ, thus making the process of selection more difficult.
The FIDE Trainers' Commission (TRG) provides a 'subjective opinion', based on works we have found most useful, can be found in its website and it is in accordance with the 80th FIDE Congress (Halkidiki 2009) decisions and with the official endorsement by FIDE.
The lists were created in four languages (English, German, Russian and Spanish) by respected and well-known trainers: Jeroen Bosch, Uwe Boensch, Anatoly Bykhovsky and Miguel Illescas, respectively. The lists are offered in forms of zip, pdf, xls and doc.
Just like an athlete collects his gear, a chess-player must collect those books that will help him train better, more efficiently and productively. In cooperation with his trainer he will be able to comprehend and absorb the knowledge enclosed in them. And then he is 'doomed' to improve!
Further lectures to follow...
Efstratios Grivas
Efstratios Grivas is a grandmaster and highly experienced chess trainer and chess author.
He lives in Athens, and he is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (Secretary of the FIDE Trainers' Commission), an International FIDE Chess Arbiter and an International FIDE Chess Organizer. He has represented his country on a great many occasions, winning the fourth position in the World Junior Championship 1985, an individual gold medal at the 1989 European Team Championship and an individual silver medal at the 1998 Olympiad.
In 2010 he was awarded the worldwide highly important FIDE TRG Awards – the Boleslavsky Medal (best author) for 2009.
Previous lectures
Grivas Training: Building a Repertoire
18.04.2011 – "In contrast to the middlegame and the endgame, where theory is objective and accepted by everyone, in the opening each chess player makes his choices in accordance with his emotions and his personal experience. No opening loses, no opening wins." World renown chess trainer GM Efstratios Grivas explains how you should build your repertoire in Part 3 of his lecture series.
Grivas Training: Getting to Know Ourselves
13.02.2011 – Young chess players need to be able to identify the assets and weaknesses of their chess personalities. Many trainers and trainees have wondered how this can be done properly. The basic resource are one's recent games, which are used to produce an "X-ray image" of one's chess-self. GM Efstratios Grivas, a world-class trainer, tells us how to go about it, in Part 2 of his lecture series.
ChessBase Training with GM Efstratios Grivas (Part 1)
28.01.2011 – How do you help talented young chess players to realize their potential? Working with a world-class trainer is a good way to start. ChessBase has started a program to sponsor a series of training sessions, which started, logically, in our offices in Hamburg. Five young talents got a full-day session with an internationally known chess coach, who has graciously placed his entire lecture at our disposal.
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KARACHI (92 News) – MQM-P leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said that the attitudes of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) divided the Sindh province.
Addressing a joint press conference on Saturday, he said that there were two Sindh and an announcement in this regard has to be made. "The PPP had deceived the MQM and the people in the 18th Amendment. There is a situation of crisis and emergency in Sindh province," he said.
He demanded that 35 percent resources should be devolved to the lower level. "Resources have been snatched from a common man in the name of the provincial autonomy," he added.
Kanwar Naveed Jamil said that the Sindh governance has full arrangements for the destruction of the country.
He announced that the MQM-P will hold a big public meeting in Bagh-e-Jinnah on April 27.


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Neurogenesis in demented and non-demented individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Micci, Maria-Adelaide
University of Texas Medical Br Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
Search 6 grants from Maria-Adelaide Micci
Search grants from University of Texas Medical Br Galveston
Malaria Transmission and the Impact of Control Efforts in Southern and Central Africa
Development and Validation of a Zebrafish Model for Vanishing White Matter Disease
Inhibitors of HIV-1 Protease via In Situ Click Chemistry
Clinical Biomechanics of Cervical Spine
Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in Turtles
Microtubule Dynamics and Chromosome Segregation
Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy (CHAP): Data Coordinating Center
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common and severe age-associated neurodegenerative dementia. Because of an aging population, it is estimated that 15 million individuals will be affected by AD by the year. 2050, with a direct healt care cost far exceeding $1 trillion. There is currently no cure for AD, and the need to develop innovative, effective treatment targets is urgent. Notably, rare individuals remain cognitively intact despite the presence of neuropathological features usually associated with a fully symptomatic stage of AD. The existence of these unusual cases, herein referred to as Non-Demented with Alzheimer's disease Neuropathology (NDAN), suggests that there is a natural way for the human brain to resist (or significantly delay) the neurotoxic events that normally lead to cognitive impairment in AD. It follows that understanding the cellular mechanisms involved in such extraordinary resistance would reveal a very effective therapeutic target. A growing body of evidence and our own preliminary data show that the number of neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus (an area of the brain that plays a critical role in learning and memory and is most affected by AD) is significantly reduced in the brains of AD patients, while it is increased in brains of NDAN individuals. In this proposal, we will test the hypothesis that the generation and integration of new neurons in the hippocampus is a key protective feature of the newly appreciated intrinsic ability of the human brain to resist the development of AD-associated cognitive decline.
In Specific Aim 1 we will test the sub-hypothesis that normal generation and integration of progenitor cell-derived new neurons accompany intact cognitive function in NDAN individuals.
In Specific Aim 2 we will test the sub-hypothesis that the epigenetic regulation of proliferation and differentiation of hippocampal neural progenitor cells differ between AD patients and NAND individuals. These studies will be performed on autopsied brain tissue provided to us as part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Randy Woltjer, Director of the pathology core of the Layton AD Center at Oregon Health Science University, Portland, OR. At the completion of the work proposed, we will have characterized the process of neurogenesis in NDAN subjects as compared to AD individuals, with the overall objective of demonstrating the existence of a significant relationship between intact/increased neurogenesis and preserved cognitive competency despite the presence of AD neuropathology. Furthermore, we will be able to generate a specific working hypothesis on the mechanisms underlying the observed cognitive resistance of NDAN individuals based on specific pathways involved in the process of neurogenesis. This is the first fundamental step toward achieving our goal of understanding the molecular mechanisms of cognitive resistance in NDAN individuals, which will ultimately allow us to identify an effective target for prevention and/or treatment of cognitive decline in AD.
Public Health Relevance
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common and severe age-associated neurodegenerative dementia with a projected health-care cost for 2050 far exceeding $1 trillion. The ability of rare individuals to remain cognitively intact despite the presence of the neuropathological features of AD has raised the hope that understanding the cellular mechanisms involved in such extraordinary resistance would reveal a very effective therapeutic target. In this proposal we will study the process that leads to the generation of new neurons (neurogenesis) in biopsied brain tissues from these rare individuals with the overall objective of identifying the biological mechanisms that preserve neurogenesis and support cognitive function despite the presence of AD neuropathology.
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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Petanceska, Suzana
University of Texas Medical Br Galveston
R03 AG Neurogenesis in demented and non-demented individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Micci, Maria-Adelaide / University of Texas Medical Br Galveston $75,175
Briley, David; Ghirardi, Valeria; Woltjer, Randy et al. (2016) Preserved neurogenesis in non-demented individuals with AD neuropathology. Sci Rep 6:27812
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HTC Aims To Popularize Virtual Reality As Part Of Its Metaverse Strategy
Tech giant HTC Corp. is working on popularizing virtual reality as part of its metaverse strategy. The goal is to advance the technology in both the consumer and enterprise markets. According to Charles Huang, HTC's corporate vice president, there is a growing demand for VR devices in many segments. So far, remote conferencing, education, training, healthcare, design, and exhibitions have seen the most demand.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated most of the VR demand, and HTC is betting on the business-to-business segment to drive more growth in the VR market. That said, the company is cooperating with other heavyweights in the sector to develop new applications.
According to Huang, the metaverse isn't a slogan or a distant future. Therefore, HTC is working around the clock to strengthen technological exchanges and information sharing in the metaverse. The goal is to build an interconnected, mutually beneficial, and compatible metaverse ecosystem.
So far, HTC has launched Viverse, its own metaverse platform that offers seamless experiences. Most of these experiences can be accessed on any device. And are powered by VR, AR, AI, blockchain, and high-speed connectivity.
What Should The Perfect Metaverse Platform Look Like?
Last year, the VR and AR market was estimated to be worth $14.67 billion. It's expected to grow at a 38.8% CAGR in the next five years, reaching over $74 billion. Additionally, the Chinese AR and VR market was estimated to be worth about $2.13 billion in 2021. And its growth is expected to reach $13.08 billion by 2026. This will make HTC's home market the second largest in the world.
Earlier versions of the metaverse already exist, which offers users a glimpse of what to expect with the technology. However, these are very raw versions as most companies invested in the space try to figure out what the perfect platform will look like.
Technology experts expect the successful version of the metaverse to feature a decentralized, open platform. One that can be accessed using VR headsets and will be powered by blockchain technology. According to Pedro Palandrani, technology analyst at Global X ETFs, "a truly immersive metaverse experience, for instance, engages all the senses—sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Today, VR mostly involves sound and images."
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Ruminations on Ingrid, Berlin, and Obama
For me, a frantic August is approaching its close (after a thirteen year hiatus I am back to teaching 8th grade U.S. History), but I am still chewing over two sets of images from July.
The first set grew out of the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and for a glimmer of hope that Colombia's forty-year civil war might soon come to a peaceful end. By coincidence, at the moment news hit the streets of the Colombian Army's audacious scam on Betancourt's FARC captors, my Colombian-born son was back in Bogotá, the first visit there by any member of my family for the same thirteen-years mentioned above. My son had taken his girlfriend to Colombia, and to a mountaintop overlooking Bogotá, to propose marriage. (She accepted!)
On the night my son was born, just as the obstetrician made the decision to deliver the baby by cesarean, an ambulance rushed in with a senator who had lost much of his face to an assassination attempt. While medical personnel turned their attention to the senator*, my wife waited on a gurney somewhere in the inner sanctum of the hospital and I roamed halls full of live TV reporting. An angry crowd filled the parking lot, shouting imprecations against the perpetrators. I spent the wee hours of the morning pondering what the future might hold for my son, for Colombia, and for a world polarized (at that time) into free democracies and Marxist totalitarian regimes. That the wounded senator was also a leader of the Colombian Communist Party did not override the human bond. I wrote a note of sympathy and handed it to the senator's wife. In my mind, we were all in this together.
The second set of images centers around Barack Obama's speech in front of Berlin's Tiergarten Siegessäule, and the 200,000 Berliners who turned out to provide him with rock star adulation.
The Siegessäule, or "Victory Column,"
surrounded by scaffolding during my
second trip to Berlin, in 1976.
All by themselves, Berlin and the Tiergarten bring back powerful personal memories. In 1972, I made my first trip to Berlin, then a divided city. On a foggy October night, I walked several miles along the western side of the Wall, suddenly coming upon the burnt-out hull of the Reichstag building, still boarded up from the 1933 fire that Adolf Hitler used as an excuse to shut down Germany's parliament and place the blame on the Communists. The next day I climbed a tower near where, nine years before my visit, John F. Kennedy declared Berlin to be the definitive case study of the differences between Communism and the Free World. Ecstatic crowds showered Kennedy's entourage with flowers, rice and torn paper. Almost like adulation for a rock star.
From the tower, I spent several hours studying No-Man's Land and pondering the nature of the world in which we lived. Then I snuck into a Tiergarten thicket and rolled out my sleeping bag for the night.
Fifteen years later, Ronald Reagan would come to the same spot to challenge Mikhail Gorbachev to tear the wall down. Of course, on the eve of Reagan's visit 25,000 Germans rioted in anger.
It seems to me Berliners have a very poor record for recognizing the U.S. presidents who served even Germany's best interests. The Wall had gone up thirty-nine days after the newly inaugurated JFK's first meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. In Vienna, the Soviet dictator gave JFK a tongue-lashing for which he had no comeback, leading Khrushchev to size-up Kennedy as inexperienced and naïve. Khrushchev decided he could get away with both building the Wall and planting missiles in Cuba. Kennedy performed well in answering those challenges, but a better job in Vienna might have preempted them altogether. Ultimately, the Wall only came down some two years after Reagan gave his challenge, and it fell due to conditions Reagan was one of the few to foresee.
In 2000, I went back to Berlin. I wanted to show my children where the Wall had once stood. I happened to be standing near the Brandenburg Gate at the moment French President Jacques Chirac arrived to visit German Chancelor Gerhard Schröder, to join him in walking under the Brandenburg Gate, and into the Reichstag building, where he addressed Germany's parliament. Symbolically, it not only brought the Cold War to its final punctuation, but it completed a normalization of French-German relations that erased Hitler and all the memories that his name brings to mind.
Others have pointed out the parallels between Kennedy's eagerness to meet with Khrushchev and Obama's offer to meet with leaders like Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It's true, I don't see John McCain making the same mistake. However, the parallels I see match Obama more with President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson, a progressive and a university president, leapt to the presidency after two years as governor of New Jersey. As an academic, he'd written the standard college text on the workings of Congress. As war broke out in Europe, he ran for reelection as a peace candidate, even as he understood there would be war. He led us into that war, calling it "The War to End All Wars." Then, with the war won, he toured Europe to rock-star adulation. He carried with him a remarkable set of progressive ideals, but in the hard bargaining at Versailles, he could not sell them, even to the friends who owed us the most. He won the war and lost the peace. With all that European adulation, he could not draw the European leadership into decisions for their own best interests, and for all his knowledge of Congress, he could not talk them into buying the meager treaty he could bring home. One has to admire his attempt, but his failure guaranteed the outbreak of World War II. At Versailles, he may also have set the stage for my generation's war in Vietnam by snubbing Ho Chi Minh and that nation's aspirations for independence.
There is a fascinating moment in Ingrid Betancourt's interview with Al Jazeera in which she describes the campaign for the Colombian presidency that she was waging at the time she was kidnapped. She believed as president she could negotiate with the FARC. Betancourt stops and asks the Al Jazeera interviewer for the English equivalent of the French word ingénue. "Naïve," she is told. "Yes, I was naïve," she answers. In fact, she was glad hard-liner Alvaro Uribe was elected. He had served the country well in standing up to FARC. In a different interview right after her release, she reported that FARC had counted on the Colombian electorate alternating between hard-line and "Peace" presidents. FARC's leadership assumed they could hunker down during the hard-line administrations and recover and thrive while stringing along the presidents who were willing to negotiate. What they had not counted on, and could not recover from, was the constitutional change that allowed Uribe a second term.
This is my worry about Barack Obama: Momentum has shifted in our favor in Iraq, but we have paid too high a price to win the war and then lose the peace. We have also forced Al Qaida to hunker down, but it is naïve to think that like the FARC, they haven't planned a rebound as soon as the U.S. elects a "Peace" president. On Colombia, Obama and congressional Democrats seem even more eager to let the FARC enjoy enough of a breather to get up from the mat.
I will have more thoughts on Barack Obama in my next post.
*(The Colombian senator was Hernando Hurtado, targeted by a dissident member of FARC. Mrs. Hurtado could not risk a paper trail leading back to a North American serving with an Evangelical mission, but somewhere I still have an oblique and unsigned telegram of appreciation.)
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I was born and raised in Everett, Washington. I earned bachelor degrees in philosophy and psychology from the University of Washington, and I earned a master degree in statistics and a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. My doctoral dissertation is online at the U.C. Berkeley College of Engineering.
I am now an independent scholar pursuing my intellectual interests, one of which is politics. I developed a theory of commerce and government, and The People's Amendment is a result of the theory.
More generally, as a result of the theory, I've written proposals for nine constitutional amendments. The topics include these: restructuring the Supreme Court, restructuring the presidential election procedure, correcting the criterion for citizenship by birth (which was poorly stated in amendment 14), and establishing a rational scheme of taxation.
My theory of commerce and government includes a theory of fiat money (paper money), showing how a self-regulating system of fiat money can be implemented using market principles to replace the current monopolistic regulation by the Federal Reserve Bank.


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There is something lovely about sweaters and scarves this time of year...snuggly...esp. when walking with someone who is also snuggly!
Yes, autumn woos and wows me too. I like how you put that, Janet!
Oh that is a delicious little quote. She nailed it! Lovely color in your corner!
beautiful, Brenda, as always!! Enjoy!!
So true! We just got back from our evening walk in the autumn darkness. The Big Dipper sat upright overhead and leaves crunched beneath our feet. Great quote!
Dear Brenda - I love those thoughts that autumn brings and your pictures are beautiful my friend. Have a blessed day.


Home Is Resilience Always Enough?
Resilience is the ability to overcome or bounce back after a difficult set-back or circumstance. It enables us to learn from the experience and apply our knowledge to future experiences.
Where resilience is reactive, "grit" is a word that can mean "the drive required to achieve something that is difficult." Grit is when you dig down deep, keeping your nose to the grindstone, without looking up; it's when you work through the mundane because that's how achievement occurs.
Angela Duckworth, in her book, "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance", found that "grittier people are dramatically more motivated than others to seek a meaningful, other-centered life".
She cites Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps as an example of true grit: beyond talent, Phelps put in the lonely hours spent in the pool doing the same thing over and over, day after day, year after year. That is grit.
Grit is that "thing" in you that has you persevering against the odds. This is what Viktor Frankl had; the famed Austrian neurologist and psychologist developed Logotherapy in and through his harrowing experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. It wasn't his resilience that saved him: it was his grit. He didn't just bounce back each night when he recollected the events of his day; he decided that he was going to live and he told himself that every minute of every day.
Harriet Tubman exemplifies pure grit: she led enslaved people into safe houses and the Underground Railroad to reach the freedom of the North. At great risk, enduring great hardship, time after time, she made the trip with those escaping from slavery.
Find what your interest or passion is—fall in love with something.
Develop a capacity for doing hard practice—the kind scientists call "deliberate practice." Over years of working in a very diligent way on your weaknesses, you improve.
Find purpose and meaning. The meaning of life according to Viktor Frankl lies in finding a purpose and taking responsibility for ourselves and other human beings. By having a clear "why" we can face all the "how" questions of life. Only by feeling free and sure of the objective that motivates us will we be able to make the world a better place.
Have hope. In "Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverance", Duckworth identifies two kinds of hope: one that has us yearning for sunnier weather, or a smoother path. It comes without the burden of responsibility: the onus us on the universe to make things better. Grit depends on a different kind of hope in which our own efforts improve our future. "I have a feeling tomorrow will be better" is different from "I resolve to make tomorrow better". The hope that gritty people have has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with getting up again.
As clinical social workers, what are your thoughts on assisting clients in developing resiliency and grit? How about developing these in yourself?
Neurofeedback training is a form of treatment intended to empower the client to improve brain function.


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Javier Perianes, Orchestre de Paris & Josep Pons
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Ravel: Concerto en sol, Le Tombeau de Couperin & Alborada del gracioso
Biography Javier Perianes, Orchestre de Paris & Josep Pons
has worked with leading conductors including Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim, Jesús López Cobos, Antoni Wit, Daniel Harding and Vassily Petrenko. Recent and forthcoming highlights include appearances with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the New World Symphony, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as well as recitals in Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg and Miami.
The acclaim accorded to the pianist Javier Perianes by audiences and critics alike confirms his status as one of Spain's most exciting young artists. Hugely popular with Spanish audiences, he has a growing international reputation.
Javier Perianes has performed in concert series throughout the world, having made appearances in New York's Carnegie, Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Barbican, Royal Festival and Wigmore halls in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, New World Center in Miami and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. He was Artist in Residence at the Granada Festival in 2012 and was in residence at the Teatro de la Maestranza and Seville Orchestra during the 2012/13 season. He has worked with leading conductors including Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Yuri Temirkanov.
Concerto highlights this season include debut appearances with Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre, National de Lyon, Washington National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Gävle and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Copenhagen and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestras. He will make return appearances with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra. In season 2015/16 he will appear with among others London Philharmonic, Tonkunstler Orchester, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestra of St Luke's, Chicago, Boston, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras and the Netherlands Radio Phiharmonic. Recent and upcoming recitals include performances in Madrid, Barcelona, Leipzig, Saint Petersburg, Paris, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Marseille and Hong Kong.
Javier Perianes records exclusively for harmonia mundi. His most latest CD Songs without Words, a selection of piano works by Mendelssohn, has received unanimous critical praise. Next month, harmonia mundi will release Javier Perianes' recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto recorded live in concert with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo last October paired with a selection of Lyric Pieces. His previous releases for the label include Schubert's Impromptus and Klavierstücke, Manuel Blasco de Nebra's keyboard sonatas, Mompou's Música Callada, …les sons et les parfums focussing on works by Chopin and Debussy and Moto perpetuo, a selection of Beethoven sonatas. His recording of Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain and selected solo works received a Latin Grammy Nomination.
In 2012 Javier received the 'National Music Prize' awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
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Singhal. P (2018) Transforming Together: Movement Beyond Boundaries: Translated by Scanlon. D. The Foolish Poet Press, Wilmslow, England. A NEW HOPE. Page Number 27.
With places of doubt, freshness comes with contentment.
In many farewells, sweet calm was often present.
The promises short lived hopes may yet flower.
Youths sweet moments with a wisdom above.
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Introduction - granuloma Introduction - foreign body Introduction - foreign body granuloma Immune response Demographics Causes Clinical features Complications Diagnosis Differential diagnoses Treatment Outcome
How does the body usually get rid of foreign bodies?
The body mounts an inflammatory reaction to get rid of foreign bodies. Neutrophils form the initial host defence by attempting to envelop and digest (phagocytose) the foreign material. If this response is not sufficient in eliminating the foreign body, then monocytes and local tissue macrophages will be activated to engulf the foreign material. If the foreign body is small enough, these cells will effectively remove it from the tissue [1–3].
If foreign bodies are present on the surface of the skin (such as debris in a wound), keratinocytes migrate along the connective tissue formed by fibrin, fibronectin and type V collagen, and dissect it from the underlying tissue during the proliferative phase of healing.
Who gets foreign body granulomas?
Foreign bodies are most commonly introduced into the body through voluntary means, such as tattoos and cosmetic fillers. Involuntary causes of foreign body granulomas, such as minerals and metals accidentally imbedded in the skin, are often seen in those who work in construction industries [3].
What causes foreign body granulomas?
A foreign body granuloma forms when the host immune system is unable to digest the foreign body, resulting in the accumulation of macrophages and histiocytes. As macrophages surround and isolate the foreign body, some of them will fuse to form multinucleated giant cells. T cells and fibroblasts also participate in this inflammatory response [3].
Substances that cause foreign body granulomas include:
Carbon pigments in cosmetic tattoos, and industrial and firearm accidents
Cosmetic fillers, such as collagen, silicone, paraffin and hyaluronic acid
Medications, such as intralesional corticosteroids, polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and hydroquinone
Mineral and metallic particles, such as road gravel, silica, aluminium, zinc and nickel
Ruptured cyst, hairs, calcium
Other biotic and abiotic materials, such as talc, cactus spines, glass, retained sutures, splinters, and natural and artificial hair.
What are the clinical features of foreign body granuloma?
Foreign body granulomas most commonly appear as red or red-brown papules, nodules or plaques, which may or may not ulcerate [2,3].
Common presentations of foreign body granuloma
Tattoo granulomas are normally confined to the area of the tattoo. They are most often tender erythematous nodules. Lichenoid or eczematous plaques may also occur. Granulomas usually arise after a new tattoo, although delayed reactions have been reported up to 17 years after tattoo placement.
Bovine collagen injections
Hypersensitivity reactions to bovine collagen result in induration and erythema in the area where the collagen has been injected. Sterile abscesses may occur, which can last for several months or longer.
Silicone implants and injections
Silicone granulomas can form in the dermis when trauma causes the capsule around a silicone implant to rupture. Larger nodules, ulcers and sclerosis may slowly develop, months to years after the injury. Distant nodules can also form due to the leakage of silicone into dependent sites.
Subcutaneous liquid silicone injections may also result in cutaneous nodules and indurated or ulcerated plaques.
Paraffin injection
Paraffin injection for breast or penile implants can lead to a firm, non-tender, nodule, an indurated and ulcerated plaque, and an abscess at the site of injection. This reaction is known as sclerosing lipogranuloma or oleogranuloma.
Intralesional corticosteroid injections
A nodule may form at the site of intralesional corticosteroid injection, due to incomplete absorption or unusual dispersion of the injected material.
Papules, nodules and indurated plaques may develop within a scar after trauma involving glass, sand and dirt.
Aluminium can be introduced into the body through vaccines and immunotherapy. Granulomas may appear as persistent subcutaneous nodules some months after injection.
Granulomas are a rare side effect of insulin injections containing zinc. They present as sterile furuncles (boils), which later heal with atrophic scarring at the injection site.
Talc (hydrous magnesium silicate) is found in many antibiotic and dusting powders and may cause granulomas if these powders are applied to open wounds. Talc granulomas are erythematous papules or nodules that can take years to appear. Reported sites include the umbilicus of infants, amputation stumps, injection sites and the inguinal area.
The retained suture material can be responsible for an inflamed wound site a few weeks after a cutaneous surgical procedure. A fistula to the skin surface may form, and the suture may be ejected from the skin (spitting sutures). Natural materials, such as gut, are more likely to 'spit' than monofilament nylon.
Cactus spines
Cactus spines can induce an acute inflammatory reaction and produce clusters of skin-coloured dome-shaped papules, each with a black dot in the centre. These are found on the hands and fingers of people who handle cactus fruit. A similar reaction can affect people handling sea urchins.
What are the complications of foreign body granuloma?
Complications of foreign body granuloma can include:
Ulceration and abscess formation
Lymphadenopathy, due to the migration of the foreign body to the lymphatic system
Keloids and hypertrophic scarring, more commonly seen in individuals with darker skin [2,3].
How is a foreign body granuloma diagnosed?
Clinical history and examination are often adequate to diagnose foreign body granuloma. Investigations may include:
Biopsy and histological examination
Ultrasound, especially in those with cosmetic fillers where biopsy is not desirable
Observation of silica crystals under polarised light
Optical coherence tomography and confocal scanning laser microscopy of tattoos (eg, for assessment before removal by laser) [2–4].
What is the differential diagnosis for foreign body granuloma?
The differential diagnosis of foreign body granulomas includes other forms of granuloma and other reactions to foreign bodies (for example in-growing hairs can cause pseudofolliculitis, especially in the beard area). The differential diagnoses include:
Cutaneous sarcoidosis
Granuloma annulare
Pyogenic granuloma
Granuloma faciale
Granulomatous dermatitis
Actinic granuloma
Granuloma inguinale
Majocchi granuloma [3–5].
What is the treatment for foreign body granuloma?
Foreign body granulomas can be excised. Other methods of removal depend on the cause.
The gold standard for the removal of superficial skin tattoos is non-ablative quality (Q)-switched lasers. Picosecond lasers have also been used. The surgical removal of deeper tattoo granulomas may be required.
Topical steroids, intralesional steroid injections, tacrolimus, imiquimod and etanercept have been used successfully to treat granulomatous tattoo reactions.
Foreign body granulomas due to cosmetic fillers may be treated with antibiotics, oral steroids, and
intralesional corticosteroid injections. Fluorouracil injections have also been used. Surgical removal may be undertaken if other treatment options fail.
Other medical options used to treat foreign body granulomas include:
Ascomycin
What is the outcome for foreign body granuloma?
The natural history of foreign body granuloma varies depending on the cause. Foreign body granulomas and abscesses due to bovine collagen injections often regress spontaneously within 1–2 years [2–4]. Other types of foreign body granuloma may persist for decades.
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Keloid and hypertrophic scars
Tattoo-associated skin reactions
Dermal fillers and augmentation procedures
Hyaluronic acid implant
Normal wound healing CME
Abnormal wound healing CME
Reactions to external agents
Skin-nontumor: Foreign body reaction — PathologyOutlines.com


When you wake up on Wednesday, the price of fuel in South Africa will be at an all-time high.
And as is usually the case, motorists are expected to queue at service stations later on Tuesday to fill up ahead of the midnight increase, which will see a litre of petrol rising above R16.
From midnight, you will need an extra 26c for each litre of 95 octane petrol, and 23c per litre for 93 octane petrol. Diesel will also increase by 26c (0.05% sulphur) and 24c (0.005% sulphur).
But according to the South African Automobile Association (AA), the increases could be avoided if the government reconsidered the amount of tax placed on the fuel price.
AA spokesperson Layton Beard warned that another fuel price increase was expected between July and August, and there could still be more later in the year.
Beard said the levy paid to the general fuel levy amounted to billions that were managed and used by the National Treasury, and the usage of which was not limited to roads and traffic management, but other government responsibilities as well.
The latest fuel increase has been blamed on international markets and the depreciation of the rand against the dollar, as well as a decrease in the prices of crude oil and import prices of petroleum products.
Meanwhile, Durban motorists on Monday joined the People Against Petrol and Paraffin Increases (Pappi) in protesting against the hikes by stopping their cars on the side of roads for at least 10 minutes.
The public transport industry said it has also been severely hit by the fuel increases.
In the city, Bonny Ndjishe of the Mamelodi Amalgamated Taxi Association said they were not making profits anymore.
He said it was a pity the government did not subsidise the taxi industry despite the fact that it transported almost 70% of the country's workforce. "We will not increase the taxi fares just because the price of petrol increased, although the increase does reduce the money drivers are left with after filling up with petrol per trip.
The director of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa, Nico Vermeulen, said the organisation did not expect the hike to negatively affect them. "Prices of fuel go up and down depending on movements in prices of oil and the exchange rate. This increases consumer awareness about fuel consumption and fuel efficiency. That will affect purchasing decisions at the time of vehicle replacement or new vehicle purchases," he said.
Some took to social media to highlight that South Africans could soon find themselves paying more than R20 a litre like their counterparts in countries such as Iceland (R27) and Norway (R25.72).


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The 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden begins on Wednesday
11/11/2008 – It starts in the evening at 20:08h local time (reflects the year 2008 – get it?) with a big opening gala which has show stars and musical performances. Over 500 persons are involved in the show. If you cannot be in Dresden you can still catch the opening ceremony and the rest of the event on the Chess Olympiad TV. And on Playchess, which will broadcast 32 games plus video interviews. Details.
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38th Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008
The City of Dresden, the German Chess Federation (DSB) and FIDE have the honour of inviting all FIDE member Federations around the world to participate in the
38th Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008 (12th-25th November 2008)
79th FIDE Congress Dresden 2008 (17th-25th November 2008)
which will take place in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
The official schedule of the 38th Chess Olympiad will be as follows:
10th Round
There will be more than 2,000 active participants at the Chess Olympiad in Dresen. With 152 registered nations Dresden surpasses the previous Olympiad 2006 in Turin with seven additional countries. There are a total of 275 teams, 156 in the main tournament, including a second German team, teams for the deaf, blind, and correspondence chess players. In the women's sections there are 119 teams. All of this makes the Chess Olympiad the sporting event with the second largest number of participating nations worldwide (after the Summer Olympics). In addition to the participants the organisers expect 1,500 visitors per day.
Two unusual rules are being implemented in Dresden. The first says that no draws will be allowed before move 30 of a game. And the second, more radical, says that all players must be present at their boards at the starting time of each round. Anyone who is not there when the clocks are started will be immediately forfeited.
Floor plan of the Olympiad
The playing hall – on Tuesday still under preparation
Ahh, tables in place, so we are getting there...
And now, , 48 hours before the start, they have set up the sensor boards and clocks
The press center, where we will all be battling for LAN cables and bandwidth
You can follow the Chess Olympiad on the special TV channel set up by the organisers, where matches, highlights, interviews and portraits are showsn 24 hours a day. To view the Chess Olympiad TV you need a Windows-based computer (Vista or XP), an updated version of the Windows Media Player and a two Mbit download Internet connection. You have to download a player at the site given on the official Olympiad site (click on the logo on the right). The broadcasts start shortly after the opening ceremony on Monday.
Live coverage on Playchess
A selection of 32 games will be broadcast live on our chess server Playchess.com. There will also be live video interviews with players after their games. If you are not a member of the Playchess community (which as of Monday, November 8th 2008 had 307,966 registered users) you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. If you have ChessBase, Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Rybka, Hiarcs, Shredder) you can automatically access the server. All these programs come with a one-year subscription to Playchess. Note that if you have a trial account you may not be able to watch the games if too many registered members are logged in.
Official Olympiad web site
All ChessBase reports on the Olympiad
Full information on the teams and quotas, registration, travel, accommodation, the FIDE Congress, contacts, etc. can be found in our first report on the Olympiad