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ION GNSS+
(Tuesday-Friday)
Greater Cincinnati, Ohio
JNC Tutorials
Pre-conference tutorials have been organized to provide in-depth learning prior to the start of the technical program. Course materials are the intellectual property of the instructor; an electronic copy of notes may be made available for download by qualified attendees from the meeting website at the instructor's discretion.
Tutorials are included with the cost of a full registration. ION reserves the right to cancel a portion of the tutorial program based on availability of the instructor.
Tuesday, September 8: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Approaches for Resilient & Robust Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)
Logan Scott
GPS/GNSS 101
Dr. John Raquet
Introduction to SatNav SDRs using Python: Part 1
Dr. Sanjeev Gunawardena and Mark Carroll
CTS-153 Software
Terrance Nelson
Break, 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, September 8: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Integrity/Assurance of Navigation Systems
Dr. Samer Khanafseh
An Introduction to Cryptography with Attention to Navigation
Dr. Joe J. Rushanan and Angie Wang
Using a Sextant: Celestial Navigation
Dr. Richard J. Hartnett
Lunch in Event Center I: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Time: Tuesday, September 8, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Diverse elements of international infrastructure are critically reliant on GNSS for precise location and time, often in ways that are not obvious. This tutorial will provide a high-level perspective on the effects of interference on GNSS receivers and offers possible threat mitigation approaches and policy recommendations. The tutorial will start with a discussion of potential GNSS threats and vulnerabilities. Then, after a quick review of how receivers determine position, the focus will be on the effects of various interference types on select signals. The effects of ground mobile propagation in limiting effective jammer range will be examined. Mitigations such as adaptive arrays and IMU aiding will be discussed. Civil jamming examples and incidents will be covered, along with methods to detect, identify and militate against their effects. In particular, the importance of maintaining situational awareness for establishing environmental context will be examined. Techniques for detecting spoofing and authenticating signals will be discussed.
Logan Scott has over 40 years of military and civil GPS systems engineering experience. He specializes in radio frequency signal processing and waveform design. He has pioneered approaches for building jamming-resistant digital receivers and has long advocated for hardening civil infrastructure. He is currently consulting with AFRL on waveforms for advanced navigation capabilities. Logan is an ION Fellow and a Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2018, he received the GPS World Signals award. He holds 43 US patents.
This course presents the fundamentals of the GPS, and other GNSS, and is intended for people with a technical background who do not have significant GPS experience. Topics covered include time-of-arrival positioning, overall system design of GPS, signal structure, error characterization, Dilution of Precision (DOP), differential GPS, GPS modernization, and other GNSS systems.
Dr. John Raquet is the director of IS4S-Dayton. Previously, he was the founding director of the Autonomy and Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Dr. Raquet has a PhD in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary, an MS in Aero/Astro Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Astronautical Engineering from the US Air Force Academy. He has published over 170 navigation-related conference and journal papers and taught 60 navigation-related short courses to over 3600 students in many different organizations. He is the ION's immediate past president and is an ION Fellow.
This two-part course aims to provide attendees with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of satellite timing and navigation (satnav) software receivers and associated signal processing. The course is divided into multiple modules, each comprised of a short lecture followed by a python code demonstration that reinforces the topics covered. By the end of this course, attendees will have an understanding of how the provided satnav software receiver works which includes capabilities such as processing of multiband live-sky sampled data files, acquisition and tracking of visible open GNSS signals, and outputting signal observables. This open-source receiver may be further developed to yield a functional satnav SDR that is ideal for research.
Part 1: Satnav signal bands, signal structures, and link budgets; anatomy of a satnav receiver; software-defined radio concepts; front-end architectures; signal processing overview; sampled data analysis; correlation.
Pre-requisites: Basic understanding of digital signal processing, object-oriented programming concepts and the Python programming language are required to understand the software projects provided. Participating in the code demonstration portion is optional. Attendees registered for the code demonstrations will be able to download the demo software project and sampled data files, via external USB3 hard drives and DVDs, from a secure link that will be provided during the course.
Dr. Sanjeev Gunawardena is a research assistant professor with the Autonomy & Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years of experience in RF, digital and FPGA-based system design. His expertise includes satnav receiver design, advanced satnav signal processing, and implementation. He received his BS in engineering physics, BSEE, MSEE and PhD EE from Ohio University.
Mark Carroll is an Electronics Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate. He received his BS in Computer Engineering and MS in Computational Science and Engineering from Miami University. His research interests include GNSS, Software Defined Radios (SDRs), and machine learning.
With procurement of ground based, handheld and embedded card variants of military GPS receivers, a need to have a reliable tool to facilitate testing and evaluation of these receivers was addressed with the Compliance Tester Software for the IS-GPS-153 Interface (CTS-153) test tool. CTS-153 was originally developed, at the request of the GPS Joint Program Office (now part of SMC's Production Corps), to provide a means for test organizations and program offices (representing platforms integrating GPS) to evaluate the interface characteristics, and/or facilitate integration of military GPS receivers compliant with the various revisions of the IS-GPS-153 Interface. The range of GPS receivers conforming to the IS-GPS-153 includes the Precise Positioning Service Security Module (PPS-SM) based PLGR, Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) based DAGR and GB-GRAM, and the M-Code based GB-GRAM-M. The purpose of the CTS-153 tutorial is to provide prospective users and interested parties with an understanding of basic operation of the test tool and useful features available to aid in successful integration of an IS-GPS-153 compliant GPS receiver. With the increasing availability of Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Inc 1 M-Code cards, this tutorial provides M-Code integrators timely exposure to the free CTS-153 test tool.
This presentation will consist of a real-time demonstration of useful CTS-153 features, including GPS receiver emulator function, RSAM error test function, as well as the data transfer and Hot Start process. Additionally, the presentation will provide an overview of basic IS-GPS-153 concepts and structure, with an emphasis on best ways to optimize integration of M-Code ground-based receivers. A focus will be placed on newly introduced MSID defined messages, which take advantage of the enhanced capabilities/functions of M-Code signals.
Terrance Nelson works for Booz Allen Hamilton where he has supported the Army Product Manager (PM) Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and SMC Production Corps organizations for over 15 years in the area of Interface Control document (ICD) and Interface Specification (IS) development, GPS receiver specification development, platform integration support, and risk mitigation assessment. He functions as the primary CTS-153 SME and ICD-GPS-153 serial interface compliance test engineer and has functional experience in the areas of hardware and software design and analysis, including techniques for solving problems involving complex electrical systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
Time: Tuesday, September 8, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
In critical navigation systems that involve large risks to financial or human life, the design process of such systems needs to be at high levels of reliability in order to limits such risks. This course introduces the concept of integrity and assurance of navigation systems. The course will start by defining assurance and integrity and how system requirements are derived. The concept of integrity risk tree will then by introduced by using the derived requirements, identifying the system components, fault nodes and fault modes, and allocating the risks among these system components and faults. The tutorial will also present different methods and techniques to address the requirements and allocations, and how to evaluate the system performance during the design process. In addition, validation and verification techniques will be discussed. The course will use different examples from aviation and ground applications for illustration purposes at each step of the navigation system design process.
Dr. Samer Khanafseh is a research assistant professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, and the cofounder and manager of TruNav LLC. Dr. Khanafseh has been involved in several high integrity and high precision aviation applications such as Autonomous Airborne Refueling (AAR) of unmanned air vehicles, autonomous shipboard landing for the UCAS and JPALS programs and Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS). His research interests focus on high accuracy and high integrity navigation algorithms for close proximity applications, cycle ambiguity resolution, high integrity applications, fault monitoring and robust estimation techniques. He holds a PhD from IIT in Aerospace Engineering. He received the ION's Early Achievement Award in 2011.
This tutorial offers a brief, broad and benign overview of cryptography. The first half of the course will explain the three main cryptographic methods: symmetric ciphers, hashes and public key cryptography. We will illustrate these methods using a variety of non-navigation examples. We will then segue to the second part of the course, which shows where cryptography is used for navigation.
Dr. Joe J. Rushanan is a principal mathematician in the Communications, SIGINT, & PNT Department of The MITRE Corporation. He was part of the M-code Signal Design Team and the L1C Signal Design Team and the 2019 recipient of ION's Capt. P.V.H. Weems award. He received degrees in mathematics from The Ohio State University and Caltech. In addition, he teaches cryptography for Northeastern University's Khoury College Cybersecurity graduate program.
Angie Wang is currently a systems director at the Aerospace Corporation and is the chief engineer of the MGUE Increment 1 program. Ms. Wang has experience working with GPS through her work on Enterprise Crypto requirements, Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR), Test Vectors, and leadership of the GPS Functional Security Engineering Team (FSET) Cryptography Working Group. Ms. Wang received a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Cal State Long Beach.
Part 2: Acquisition engines; signal tracking techniques and control state machines; inter-frequency aiding; measurement computation; introduction and demonstration of provided python SDR architecture and code.
How do modern navigators use a sextant, chronometer, stars, and almanac information to solve for ship or aircraft position? The fundamentals are likely more straightforward than you realize! Today's mariner typically uses six tools to solve for vessel position:
An almanac (or computer) that predicts precise location of celestial bodies as a function of time;
A reasonably accurate timepiece;
A device to measure elevation angle of a celestial body (e.g., sextant);
A "star finder";
A navigational chart; and
A mathematical or tabular method to convert observations to contours (lines) of position.
This short course will cover some theory; however, the primary focus will be on the practice of using these six tools to solve for vessel position. Final discussions will focus on experiences with celestial navigation, with topics to include best times to shoot stars, horizon challenges, sources of error, and typical accuracy.
Dr. Richard J. Hartnett is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, having retired in 2009 from the USCG as a Captain (O-6). His current research interests include the mathematics of positioning, statistical signal processing methods in electronic navigation, and autonomous vehicle design.


This is a stock-picking fund that aims to deliver 10% per year in all market conditions. The managers look to identify stocks that will either exceed or fall short of analysts' expectations, and construct a portfolio of both long (profit when price goes up) and short (profit when price goes down) positions. There are limits on the overall market exposure, which serves to reduce the volatility of the fund. This fund has a performance fee.
While the Janus Henderson UK Absolute Return fund was launched in 2010, the strategy and the team have a much longer track record running another identical mandate. During that period, the returns have been remarkably consistent. In a nutshell, we like this fund as, unlike many of its sector peers, it has achieved its stated aim, which is to provide equity-like performance, but with one third the volatility.
Janus Henderson is the product of a merger between Henderson Group and Janus Capital Group. Trading on the New York and Australian stock exchanges, the group was formed in May 2017 to form a greater collective and benefit from expanded product ranges and a larger pool of talent employed.
Ben Wallace has run the Janus Henderson UK Absolute Return fund since launch in 2009. He has also run another fund, which employs a similar strategy, since 2004. The team outsource risk management to an expert third party, which aims to prevent unforeseen risks creeping into the portfolio. Co-manager, Luke Newman, joined the team in March 2011 and has previously managed absolute return funds at Altima Partners LLP.
Long/Short fund investing in large cap UK listed companies, looking to provide an absolute (more than zero) return every year whilst also using derivatives to attempt to achieve this.
This is a long/short UK equity fund with two thirds of the portfolio in shorter-term tactical ideas, where the managers believe an earnings surprise could be imminent. The remainder will be in core holdings, where the managers think there are long-term drivers in place that will either increase or decrease the share price over time. Strict limits are place on the overall market exposure.
The fund's performance is driven by the managers' stock-picking skills, which means the main risks relate to whether or not they buy (or choose to short) the 'right' companies. Historically the fund has been around a third to a half as risky as the UK stock market.
Why are investors favouring Targeted Absolute Return funds?
What's your New Year financial resolution?


Sunflower - Tickseed (Bidens aristosa / Bidens polylepis) organically grown flower seeds. Floral Encounters.
This is a truly delightful native annual wildflower that flowers in late fall when little else has any color. The massive of bright yellow flowers bring a spark of color to an otherwise dying garden landscape. For this reason alone it is worth adding to the garden flora. Prefers to have more moisture so is best of wetter areas in full sun or partial shade but needs no care once established. Will self seed in ideal conditions and can form large colonies. Deer may eat some but don't seem to bother it that much.
An native fast growing annual it produces slender mid green compound leaves of 3-7 segments arranged in opposite pairs. Each leaflet is slender pointed ellipses with strongly serrated edges. Complete leaves can be as much as 8" long and 4" across in mature plants. The stems are stiff, reddish in color and much branched producing a slender semi bush like plant. Plants can grow from 3' - 5' in height. The flowers are produces at the ends of each stem and are bright yellow, daisy like, each about 2" across and as many as 10 petals with yellow and brown centers. The flowers are slightly fragrant which can become very noticeable in a large colony. The flowers appear in a late fall when little else is often flowering.
Works well in a wet meadow, ditch or in a mass in areas where color is needed in late fall. Ideal for bog garden, and large rain gardens, do not use in small rain gardens as they can overwhelm other smaller plants.
Prefers full sun in moist or slightly wet conditions. Ideal for moist ditches runoff areas and rain collection areas. Not recommended for rain gardens and it can take over the whole area with its spreading nature. Prefers richer organic soil, which most often occurs in wet areas anyway. Can be grown in dryer areas provided it is watered, a soaker hose around the roots is idea. However pick a location that gets some shade during the day to compensate for the reduced water. In moist sunny conditions it will easily reseed itself and can create large colonies that can be aggressive if not controlled. However it does produce a really lovely flower display under such conditions. If not desired cut down before seeds fall.
Can be sown in situ after all danger of frost has passed or started in pots in mid to late winter.
Outdoors. Clear area of all weeds and prepare soil, dig in any organic material if the soil does not have a reasonable amount already. Sow seeds thinly and cover lightly. If area is moist enough no additional weeding should be necessary. If a dryer location water daily until the seedlings have established. Thin to about 18-24" apart. Set a soaker hose around the plants roots and allow to run about 1 hour per day at least. No further care should be needed until plants need to be cut down in winter.
Indoors. Sow in mid to late winter. Follow general growing instructions for medium seed.


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Finnigan's on the Lake is open
Oneidas up the pay game: Starting cooks will get $20/hour
Troy roundup: Review Baba Duck, Mallo's and Oh Corn! Arepas
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3 old fashioned cocktails with a twist in the Capital Region
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Table Hopping: Rare Form dinner at Northern Barrell, more
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The best veggie burgers in the Hudson Valley
Steve Barnes
Finnigan's Tavern & Grill on the Lake in Ballston Lake opens Dec. 1, 2021, in a building that previously was home to the pizzeria Villago and, for four decades before that, Good Times Lakeview Restaurant.
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Stephanie and Matt Finnigan, former owners of Carney's Tavern in Ballston Lake, have opened Finnigan's on the Lake, also in Ballston Lake.
BALLSTON LAKE — Finnigan's Tavern & Grill on the Lake, the next venture for the proprietors of the former Carney's Tavern in the village of Ballston Lake, opens today, Dec. 1, in the former Villago Pizzeria & Ristorante.
Stephanie Finnigan, who for eight years ran Carney's with her chef-husband, Matt Finnigan, announced in October that the opening for Finnigan's on the Lake was delayed because Matt had undergone heart-bypass surgery.
The menu, although described by Finnigan as "abbreviated," ranges across a swath of comfort food, from potato skins and mozzarella sticks to pizza, burgers, sandwiches, shepherd's pie and chicken Parm. Main dishes cost $15 to $19.
Hours are 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 4 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. to Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Reservations are not being accepted during the opening weeks.
The address is 175 Lake Road. The phone number is 518-952-7185. The restaurant's website has been established but is missing elements.
Gift cards sold at Carney's during the Finnigans' tenure will be honored at the new restaurant, the owners said.
They bought Carney's toward the end of 2013, after it had a short run under a former chef who had tried to take over from the Carney family, who opened it in 1982. Carney's, in a building that dates to the 1840s and previously was a hotel, saloon and general store, closed during the pandemic, including from COVID-19 exposure, then closed again in June on what was said to be a temporary basis. In July, the Finnigans announced they were closing it permanently, citing problems with the historic structure, then days later revealed their plan to open Finnigan's on the Lake.
Villago was opened in mid-March 2014 by Sandy Foster and Joseph Guerrera, who have owned Village Pizzeria & Ristorante in Galway since 1988. They gut-renovated what for more than 40 years had been Good Times Lakeview Restaurant. Villago closed a few weeks before the sale to the Finnigans became public.
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Steve Barnes has worked at the Times Union since 1996, served as arts editor for six years, and since 2005 has been a senior writer. He generally covers restaurants, food and the arts, and is the Times Union's restaurant columnist and theater critic. Steve was also a journalism instructor at the University at Albany for 12 years. You can reach him at sbarnes@timesunion.com or 518-454-5489.

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Job growth stalled for the second month in a row in June, with employers hiring the fewest workers in nine months. Cuts in government payrolls offset modest job creation in the private sector, where many employers have grown increasingly skittish despite recent economic improvements that have elevated corporate profits and solidified balance sheets. The simmering financial crisis in Europe, diminished trade with Japan, a feeble housing market and squabbling over the debt ceiling and deficit continue to cultivate uncertainty and will support only moderate near-term job growth.
Only 18,000 jobs were added in June, following a gain of 25,000 positions in May. In June, the government sector reprised its role as a drag on employment, as an additional 39,000 positions were cut, the 13th consecutive month of trimming. Budget shortfalls resulted in a loss of 25,000 positions at state and local agencies during June, and local government payrolls have now declined for 20 consecutive months. Further job cuts will accumulate in the months ahead as budget pressures persist.
In the private sector, slight job growth and light cuts underscored the willingness of employers to defer substantive hiring amid lingering economic uncertainty. Overall, six of 10 private-employment sectors created a total of 81,000 positions in June; these sectors offset a small loss of 24,000 jobs in financial services and construction, yielding a net gain of 57,000 workers to private-sector payrolls. Manufacturers added 6,000 jobs last month, although the modest increase betrayed concerns regarding the sustainability of consumer demand. Leisure and hospitality employers geared up for the peak summer travel season, adding 34,000 positions.
Full-time office-using employment rose for the ninth consecutive month in June with the addition of 9,000 workers, the smallest monthly gain during that time. Nonetheless, the addition of 311,000 full-time office jobs since last September when job growth resumed has helped backfill underutilized space and generated positive net absorption of more than 8 million square feet. In 2011, the national office vacancy rate will decline 60 basis points to 17 percent as demand gradually strengthens and few new properties come online.
national apartment vacancy by an estimated 30 basis points in the second quarter and 190 basis points in the past year, to 5.9 percent. The positive effects of pent-up demand will gradually wane, however, and job growth will take over as the primary driver of additional reductions in vacancy. Weaker hiring in June and May will slow demand during the second half of 2011, but the national vacancy rate remains on track to fall 100 basis points this year to 5.6 percent.
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Whether you love it or hate it, sirsa asana brings a whole raft of physical and mental benefits. Here's why a headstand a day could keep the doctor away!
Never mind all the blood rushing to your head – there's nothing better to make you focus thatn balancing upside down!
The constant tiny adjustments you make to maintain balance in your headstand are amazingly strengthening for your upper body.
Reversing the digestive system through the effect of gravity can alleviate many uncomfortable symptoms such as trapped gas and constipation.
Holding your legs upright in a headstand is a major core workout – and if you've ever been told to engage youe mula bandha you know this is key to a great yoga practice!
Literally! Turning your world upside down can give you a fresh look at things that are bothering you. A headstand on a stressful day can change everything!
Not feeling headstand? Go for a different inversion such as shoulder stand, or hang your legs up a wall to get the same great benefits! If you're beginning to learn headstand, you can always use a wall as a safety net while you work on your balance.
Meditation can be the most challenging part of your yoga practice, especially if you're already an overthinker. While sitting still for five minutes might seem simple, for many of us it can cause frustration, boredom and impatience. Here are some tips to get you on track.
You will have days where you are thinking about what you're going to eat for breakfast the whole time you're meditating – that's ok! It takes practice to hold your focus for so long. Don't beat yourself up for not being zen immediately!
Meditating isn't the easiest thing to do independently – if you're having trouble focusing, there are plenty of apps online that offer guided meditation tracks. Be aware that your focus could be different on different days, too – just because you're normally able to focus independently for fifteen minutes doesn't mean you won't struggle to do a guided meditation for five minutes on another day.
If you've got time to make yourself coffee, do make up and hair, and scroll through Instagram in the morning – you've got time to meditate. Make meditating a priority – just like brushing your teeth – and set a time that suits you. Meditating in the morning sets you up for a less stressful day ahead, whereas evening meditation will give you an amazing night's sleep. Who know, eventually you might be meditating twice a day!
Just because you forgot to meditate for a week doesn't mean you should punish yourself or tell yourself off – just start again when you can. Meditation, much like yoga, is a personal journey. No one can tell you how to run your mindfulness practice except yourself!
Seriously. It's OK not to do a headstand, even if the 24 other yogis in the room are all upside down. While it is an awesome feeling to nail a tough looking asana, you'll benefit more from spreading your attention across your whole practice rather than flinging yourself into an inversion.
Catch up on the week's gossip.
While hushed conversations won't disturb anyone, having a full on gossip-fest with your mate is bound to rustle someone's chakras. You never know what kind of day your fellow yogis have had – feel free to talk to people but make sure you're not cackling like Aunt June after a couple of brandies.
It's not a sport! While there are yoga competitions, we can safely assume that the attendees of a 7pm Yin class are there to relax, not to compete. Listen to your own body, respect it, and be the only person sitting practically upright in a forward fold. They're your hamstrings, damn it, and you'll open them as slowly as you please!
It always looks so graceful when your Rocket yoga teacher jumps back into chaturanga and lands with the lightness of a feather in the breeze. However, unless you've got some serious core strength and you can land without making the ground shake, avoid this until you build up your muscle.
This happens surprisingly often. You pick up a couple of blocks, but when you reach for it to support your Half Moon – egad! It's gone! Everyone forgets to pick up a block at the beginning of class from time to time – just grab yourself one from the cupboard and get back to the mat. Do not try to sneakily pilfer your neightbours props (unless you do it by accident, which also happens a fair bit).
Listen to bitchy comments about your practice.
"Oh, can you not do wheel yet?" Sadly, there are a still a fair few competitive yogis out there – remember that this is your practice and no one else's. It's one thing to give constructive feedback on how to improve your practice, but if anyone is making you feel like you're not 'good at yoga', they need to roll up their judgy mat and keep on walking. You're in this for you!
At some point on your yoga journey, you will come across the chakra system. Around for thousands of years, this school of thought originates from the belief that the body has seven points of power through which all energy flows. These are known as the chakras, from the Sanskrit word for 'wheel'.
Sometimes, our environment or attitude can lead to chakra imbalance – where one chakra is more or less active than the other energy centres. It is believed that chakra blockage could lead to illness, stress and other negative feelings. The solution? Yoga, of course!
Not sure what's balanced and what's not? Here are a few signs and symptoms to help you track your chakras!
Balanced: Feeling rooted, grounded and secure.
Imbalance: Problems with the legs, feet and immune system. Feelings of anxiety around basic survival needs such as food and money.
Balanced: Creative, passionate, committed and expressive.
Imbalanced: Lower back and hip pain, difficulty expressing feelings, anxiety about relationships and commitment.
Balanced: High levels of self-respect and self-confidence, assertive and secure in yourself.
Imbalanced: Low self-esteem, feeling like you lack personal power, fear of rejection and high blood pressure.
Balanced: Feeling compassionate and loving, forgiving people easily and generally feeling joyful.
Imbalanced: Upper back and shoulder problems, feelings of jealousy and a fear of loneliness.
Balanced: Great communication skills, honest but firm about what you want and expressive.
Imbalanced: Lack of willpower, feeling like you have no choice available, throat and facial issues.
Balanced: Clear, focused mind. Confident in seeing the difference between what is true and what is not.
Imbalanced: Headaches, vision problems, moodiness, an inability to learn from others and see your own fears objectively.
Balanced: Living in the present moment, trusting completely in your own intuition.
Imbalanced: Being judgemental, constant overthinking and over-analysis of day-to-day situations.
Feel like a chakra or two might be out of balance? Take this quiz and find out!
Looking for the perfect soundtrack to your vinyasa flow? Follow our Yang playlist for energising pop beats and uplifting mantras here.
Need something more low-key? Stretch and relax your mind, body and soul with our Yin playlist. Expect healing sound baths, gentle mantras and minimalist vibes to get you focused on your inner world.
Our Yin & Yang playlist is updated monthly with the best new yogi tunes. We will always keep the golden oldies on there for you just in case you decide to revisit a classic later!
Inversions can be tricky – whether it's building up the strength to hold the position or a mental block due to fear of falling, the journey to getting upside down can have many obstacles. What better way to overcome them than with the help of a yogi friend?
If you've ever watched someone spot for their partner, it can seem a little intimidating (cue visions of dropping your partner, being knocked over by them etc.). However, with a few key tips, you and your partner will be doing safely supported handstands in no time!
Show your partner which leg you're coming up with. Because no one wants to be kicked in the face, but most people will confuse their left and right when they're upside down. Lift the leg you're going up with halfway first so your partner knows which one to avoid.
Hold onto your partner's hips, not your legs. This way, you can give support by taking the weight of their hips (the heaviest part of your body) rather than trapping them in an inversion by holding the legs. There's nothing like being held by your legs with no choice to go down to induce inversion panic!
Use your knees. Your knees are a great place for your partner to rest their shoulders and take on some weight. This also makes it easier on you in terms of distrubuting your weight. Placing your feet in the right place might take a couple of tries but the more you practice, the more you'll get a feel for it.
Help your partner down, as well as up. When your partner is ready to go down, don't just let them come crashing to the floor. Keep your hands on their hips and feel the pelvis pivot as their legs come down to the floor. Your friend will thank you for saving them from certain doom.
Try it out with a partner – you'll be amazed at what you can do. If you're practising handstands, try this awesome wrist warm-up sequence to keep your joints safe.
The first time you encounter Pranayama can be an unsetlling experience even for a seasoned yogi – being asking to stick your tongue out, cross your eyes and heave out your biggest sigh can be intimidating. But never fear – we guarantee you'll be loving this yogic breathing exercise in no time.
Pranayama is the practice of controlling your breath or life force (prana). There are a number of different ways that we can do this – by blocking alternate nostrils, rolling our tongues, sticking our tongues out and much more. All of them look pretty silly but make you feel pretty awesome.
Each type of Pranayama brings a host of its own benefits – for example, sheetali breath can help to reduce stress or anxiety, whereas alternate nostril breathing helps to clear out toxins. Focusing on the breath also brings a host of mental health benefits, giving you the headspace that you need to stay healthy in today's busy world!
Next time you come across this strange practice, forget about what people think and enjoy the benefits.


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Carolyn Wonderland: A Full 'Meal' Of Texas Blues The Austin musician learned guitar after getting thrown out of school at 17 and hanging out in bars.
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Austin musician Carolyn Wonderland kicks off her new album, Peace Meal, with "What Good Can Drinkin' Do," an old Janis Joplin tune. You'd be excused if you thought you were listening to Joplin herself.
"You know, it's a funny thing growing up in Texas: If you're a girl, you pretty much learn that you sing Janis songs to yourself in private," Wonderland says. "You don't do it in public. If it's not against the law, I'm not sure why."
Wonderland tells NPR's Rachel Martin that people think you have to sing Joplin in private because nobody can do it any better.
"That's just true, and that's where it is," she says. "If you want to find your own voice, it's difficult to do in such large footsteps. But after a while, I finally just decided, 'Well, I really want to say thank you.' I mean, I know I can't do it any better, but I sure would like to say thanks to where it came from for me."
For Wonderland, getting thrown out of school at 17 and hanging out in bars got her playing the guitar. Another big-name Texan often mentioned in the same breath as Wonderland is the legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, but Wonderland won't go near that comparison: "Good lord, I don't even come close to filling the toe of either of those."
Wonderland says she feels naked when writing love songs, but she did it anyway in "St. Marks." It's a tribute to her first night together with her husband, comedian Whitney Brown.
"When you're angry, you have this righteous indignation, and you can banter about, you know, 'I feel this way' and 'Aren't I right?'" Wonderland says. "When you're talking about things like love, I mean, you're leaving yourself a little naked."
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Takács Miklós (Újvidék, 1960. augusztus 5.) régész.

Élete
1979-ben a Radnóti Miklós Gimnáziumban érettségizett. 1979–1984 között az ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar régészet szakán végzett, 1985-ben diplomázott. Egyetemi hallgatóként az Eötvös Collegium tagja volt. 1988-ban doktorált. 1992-ben lett az MTA Régészeti Intézetének tudományos munkatársa, 1995-től tudományos főmunkatárs. 1995-től a történelemtudomány kandidátusa. 2009 óta tagja az MTA Régészeti Bizottságának. 2009-2012 között a Magyar Bizantinológiai Társaság titkára volt. 2014-től az MTA doktora.

1985–től Magyar Régészeti és Művészettörténeti Társulat tagja. 2003-tól a Ruralia nevű európai régészeti falukutató munkaközösség vezetőségi tagja, 2007-től a Ruralia titkára. 2006-tól a Magyar Régész Szövetség alapító tagja. Kutatási területei a középkori falu régészete, középkori magyarországi edényművesség és a Balkán-félsziget középkori régészete.

Feltárásokat végzett többek között Győrszentivánon, Lébényen és Ménfőcsanakon.

Elismerései

Művei
1986 Die arpadenzeitlichen Tonkessel im Karpatenbecken. Budapest
A bélakúti/péterváradi ciszterci monostor; Forum, Újvidék, 1989 (Kövek)
1991 A Kárpát-medence, az Alpok délkeleti része és a Balkán-félsziget kapcsolatai a 7–9. században. A jugoszláviai kutatások újabb eredményei. In: Lőrinczy Gábor (szerk.): A népvándorláskor fiatal kutatóinak szentesi találkozóján elhangzott előadások. MFMÉ 1984-85/ 2, 503–528.
1991 Sächsische Bergleute im mittelalterlichen Serbien und die "sächsische Kirche" von Novo Brdo. Südost-Forschungen 50, 31–60.
1993 Árpád-kori települési objektumok Kajárpéc-Pokolfa-dombon. Com. Arch. Hung. 1993 201–226.
1993 Falusi lakóházak és egyéb építmények a Kisalföldön a 10–16. században (Kutatási eredmények és további feladatok.) In: Perger Gyula – Cseri Miklós (szerk.): A Kisalföld népi építészete. Szentendre–Győr, 7–53.
1995 A 10–14. századi falvak régészeti feltárása a Kisalföldön (Kutatástörténet és perspektívák). Győri Tanulmányok 16, 5–50.
1996 Honfoglalás- és kora Árpád-kori telepfeltárások az M1 autópálya nyugat-magyarországi szakaszán In: Wolf Mária – Révész László (szerk.): A magyar honfoglalás korának régészeti emlékei. Miskolc, 197–217.
1996 Formschatz und exaktere Chronologie der Tongefässe des 10–14. Jahrhunderts der Kleinen Tiefebene. Acta Arch. Hung. 48, 135–195.
1996 Veszprém megye 10-11. századi kerámiája. Pápai Múzeumi Értesítő 6, 329–351.
1997 A 10. századi magyar - szláv viszonyról és a honfoglaló magyarok életmódjáról (Néhány megjegyzés Kristó Gyula: A magyar állam megszületése. Szeged 1995. c. könyvéről.). Századok 131/1, 168–215.
1997 A magyar honfoglalás- és kora Árpád-kori edényművesség térképészeti vonatkozásai. In: Makkay János – Kobály József (szerk.): Honfoglalás és Árpád-kor. A Verecke híres útján tudományos konferencia anyagai. Ungvár, 69–103.
1999 Lakóház-rekonstrukciók az Árpád-kori telepkutatásban (Tudománytörténeti áttekintés). In: Bencze Z. – Gyulai F. – Sabján T. – Takács M.: Egy Árpád-kori veremház feltárása és rekonstrukciója. Budapest, 93–129.
2013 Gondolatok a keresztet alaprajzukban, illetve térszerkezetükben megjelenítő templomokról, különös tekintettel néhány, a közelmúltban feltárt, Kárpát-medencei, korai középkori emlékre. Marisia 33, 75-135.
2013 A honfoglaló magyar szállásterület déli kiterjedése. In: Révész László - Wolf Mária (szerk.): A honfoglalás kor kutatásának legújabb eredményei - Tanulmányok Kovács László 70. születésnapjára. Szeged, 641-666.
2014 A magyarországi, 11. századi, ortodox monostortemplomok térszerkezete. In: A Kárpát-medence, a magyarság és Bizánc. Szeged, 295-323.
2014 Die ungarische Staatsgründung als Modellwechsel und/oder möglicher Akkukturationsprozess - Die Aussagekraft der archäologischen Funde und Befunde. In: Härtel R (szerk.): Akkulturation im Mittelalter. Ostfildern, 165-205.
2015 A medium regni falusias településeinek anyagi kultúrája az Árpád- és Anjou-korban. In: Benkő Elek - Orosz Krisztina (szerk.): In medio regni Hungariae. Régészeti, művészettörténeti és történeti kutatások "az ország közepén". Budapest, 171-190.
Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam. Ünnepi kötet Tomka Péter 75. születésnapjára; szerk. Csécs Teréz, Takács Miklós; Lekri Group Kft., Győr–Rábapatona, 2016

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2021-22Regular SeasonRound 9
UNICS Kazan 74
November 11, 2021 CET: 20:00
Local time: 21:00 OAKA Altion
UNICS escape Panathinaikos with narrow win
UNICS Kazan collected its first road victory of the season by prevailing 72-74 in a back-and-forth game at Panathinaikos OPAP Athens. The contest was tight throughout with 8 points being the biggest lead. But Lorenzo Brown knocked down the game-winning jumper with 19 seconds left to give UNICS a 4-5 record. Brown finished with 13 points while Andrey Vorontsevich and Isaiah Canaan both scored 15 points and Mario Hezonja chipped in 9 points and 4 rebounds in his return to Athens to face his former team. Panathinaikos dropped its third straight game to fall to 2-7. Georgios Papagiannis collected 14 points and 17 rebounds, while Daryl Macon Jr. scored 14 points, Kendrick Perry had 10 points and Ioannis Papapetrou tallied 10 points - though the Greens captain missed a three-pointer at the buzzer at the end of a poorly-executed offense.
.@unicsbasket goes to Athens and takes the impressive road W#EveryGameMatters
— Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) November 11, 2021
Hezonja opened the game with a free throw for the guests. It would be a while until UNICS would score again with Okaro White scoring 4 points and Papapetrou hitting a three-pointer for a 9-1 lead. OJ Mayo answered with a three-pointer for UNICS's first basket after more than 5 minutes play. Lorenzo Brown followed from deep and Tonye Jekiri finished a 0-6 spurt to give the visitors their first lead 13-15. The game was even 15-15 after 10 minutes.
After Canaan opened the second quarter with a three-pointer for UNICS, Panathinaikos put together a 9-1 run with a Howard Sant-Roos triple for a 24-19 advantage. Vorontsevich snapped the 4-minute stretch without a basket with a three-pointer and Marco Spissu added a three-point play to make it 26-25. Macon nailed 2 three-pointers for the hosts, but Vorontsevich countered with a three-point play and triple. Still it was Panathinaikos ahead at the break, 36-35.
Papagiannis opened the second half for the hosts, but Canaan converted 3 free throws and Lorenzo Brown drained a triple as UNICS went up 38-41. White answered with an and-one only to see Canaan score 5 points at the other end for a 43-48 cushion. Panathinaikos punched back with the next 6 points to reclaim the lead and Papapetrou drained a three-pointer at the buzzer of the third quarter to knot the game 54-54 after 30 minutes.
Perry opened the final frame with a three-pointer and he added free throws to put Panathinaikos up 61-58. UNICS went back ahead with Brown and Hezonja draining three-pointers to make it 63-65. Perry stepped up with another triple to put Panathinaikos back ahead. After Papagiannis scored for a 70-68 lead, Canaan hit a reverse layup and Hezonja nailed free throws with 95 seconds left for a 70-72 edge. After Jeremy Evans's free throws evened the game again, Lorenzo Brown knocked down a jumper with 19 seconds left to put UNICS back ahead, 72-74. Panathinaikos did not execute a play in its final offense and Papapetrou's three-pointer was off the mark as UNICS escaped with a victory.
BIG stuff from @jehyve_floyd #7DAYSMagicMoment pic.twitter.com/rjOJHGrJd7
Pivotal performer: Canaan conquers Greens off the bench
Isaiah Canaan played an outstanding game off the UNICS bench. The 30-year-old guard played nearly 30 minutes and scored 15 points - hitting 3 of 5 two-pointers and 2 of 5 on three-pointers and all three of his free throw attempts. Canaan grabbed 1 rebound and dished out a season-high 5 assists. He committed just 1 turnover - the fourth straight game he lost just one ball in the game. And he played a major role with his excellent energy.
Major double-double from Papagiannis
Georgios Papagiannis came up with a big double-double in the loss. He connected on 7 of 12 shots in scoring a season-high 14 points. The Panathinaikos big man also grabbed 17 rebounds - to set a new career-high. Seven of those were offensive rebounds, setting another personal best mark for Papagiannis. It was the second double-double for him this season following the 12 points and 10 rebounds against Anadolu Efes Istanbul in Round 6.
Telling numbers: UNICS by an edge
Not only was the final score close but so too were the game's stats. UNICS Kazan committed 1 fewer turnover - 13-12; made 2 more three-pointers 7-9; and converted 2 more free throws 11-13 - than Panathinaikos. But the Greens can be happy about a couple of stats. Panathinaikos was one of only five teams shooting below 50.0% on two-pointers but shot 54.1% on those attempts. And the hosts took the second-chance points stat 16 to 6. But it was UNICS that won the game.
Referees: PEREZ, MIGUEL ANGEL; PANTHER, ANNE; OBRKNEZEVIC, UROS
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens 15 21 18 18
UNICS Kazan 15 20 19 20
Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
3 PERRY, KENDRICK 14:15 10 1/3 2/3 2/2 1 1 1 4 2 7
5 MACON JR, DARYL 27:37 14 3/5 2/5 2/2 1 1 3 1 2 1 13
6 PAPAGIANNIS, GEORGIOS 32:27 14 7/12 7 10 17 3 1 24
7 BOCHORIDIS, ELEFTHERIOS 9:32 0/1 0/1 3 1 1 2 -1
10 PAPAPETROU, IOANNIS 32:52 10 2/4 2/11 2 2 1 4 3 4 -1
11 FERRELL, YOGI DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14 KASELAKIS, LEONIDAS 5:16 2 1/2 2 1 2
15 WHITE, OKARO 16:34 7 2/2 0/4 3/3 2 2 4 1 1 2 7
20 FLOYD, JEHYVE 7:33 2 1/2 1 1 1 1 4
26 NEDOVIC, NEMANJA 3:31 0/1 1 -2
40 EVANS, JEREMY 23:26 4 1/3 2/2 3 2 5 1 1 1 8
74 SANT-ROOS, HOWARD 26:57 9 2/3 1/3 2/2 1 3 4 2 2 3 1 2 12
54.1% 25% 100%
Head coach: PRIFTIS, DIMITRIS
UNICS Kazan
0 SPISSU, MARCO 11:39 5 2/4 0/1 1/1 1 1 1 1 3 3
00 BROWN, JOHN 30:08 2 1/4 0/1 2 4 6 5 4 1 4
3 CANAAN, ISAIAH 28:44 15 3/5 2/5 3/3 1 1 5 1 3 2 14
4 BROWN, LORENZO 28:21 13 2/6 3/4 2 6 8 2 2 16
5 BRANTLEY, JARRELL 4:55 0/2 1 1 1 -2
8 ZAITCEV, VIACHESLAV DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 HEZONJA, MARIO 26:33 9 1/2 1/5 4/6 2 2 4 1 2 5 8
12 KLIMENKO, ARTEM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
13 UZINSKII, DMITRII 6:07 1 1 1 2
23 JEKIRI, TONYE 25:35 8 3/4 2/4 1 8 9 1 2 3 2 12
32 MAYO, O J 13:41 7 2/3 1/1 1 1 3 5
33 VORONTSEVICH, ANDREY 24:17 15 3/3 2/6 3/3 1 3 13
PRIFTIS, DIMITRIS
"Unfortunately this is a bad result for us - the way it came. We fought and tried according to our quality and condition. Definitely we handled the last possession in a silly way. We had a chance to find a better shot. It is what it is and we have to proceed. Not much to say."
PERASOVIC, VELIMIR
"I am very happy because it's always very difficult to win in OAKA. We know that after two losses for Panathinaikos that they were nervous and a victory would have been very important. Like the last games, we started very bad. But finally we found a way to stop their creation and their outside players. In the end, both teams could have won the game. We had more luck that our shot went in and their shot didn't. And the victory went to us."
PERRY, KENDRICK
"I think we reacted sporadically but without duration. We were hurt by some offensive rebounds. We tried, we presented a better picture compared to the previous game. But everything is judged by the result which was not good for us. It's a bad night for us. Sometimes when you do not score, you play good defense, and sometimes the opposite happens. We tried. We know why we came here. At the end of the day, this is basketball. We do this all our lives. We have to be confident."
BROWN, LORENZO
"Just a bunch of energy from both teams who were out here playing hard. All of our players played consistently tonight. So we earned it tonight for sure."
CANAAN, ISAIAH
"We stayed together at the end. We got the stops that we needed. Give Panathinaikos credit. They came out and played a good game. Their crowd was amazing. They feed off that crowd. They play good at home. We were expecting a good game. We just made the stops and plays at the end."
UNICS Kazan celebrates
Lorenzo Brown - UNICS Kazan
Tonye Jekiri - UNICS Kazan
Georgios Papagiannis - Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
OJ Mayo - UNICS Kazan
Eleftherios Bochoridis - Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
Isaiah Canaan - UNICS Kazan
Ioannis Papapetrou - Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
Daryl Macon - Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
Andrey Vorontsevich - UNICS Kazan
Okaro White - Panathinaikos OPAP Athens
November 11 18:00 CET LIVE FINAL
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In this post I'll describe how to get geographical data from AMPL and display it in IPython using an interactive Google Chart. I'll use a simple map coloring problem implemented with AMPL constraint programming extensions.
First install the ampl extension for IPython also known as iampl if you haven't done this already. The extension is now available in the Python Package Index so you can use standard Python tools such as pip or easy_install to install it. See the installation instructions for details.
Now let's use Google Charts to display a colored map. GeoChart is a simple helper function which takes two positional arguments, a list of column names for the data table and a dictionary containing the data itself. It also takes arbitrary keyword arguments which are mapped to chart options. See the GeoChart documentation for the list of available options.


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Q: Derivation of parallel axis theorem- understanding integration with a dot product. I am considering this proof of the parallel axis theorem (note that I have recently posted a question about this, but I now have different queries that I feel would be better suited to a new post):

So I am confused about how they got from the second from the last line to the penultimate line (yes, I have read the comment below the derivation- several times!)
In the question I asked about this previously, I did query how they got from one line to the next in a comment (it was this post here) and I kindly received a reply that "the definition of I0I0 becomes ∫(r2−(n⋅r)2)dm∫(r2−(n⋅r)2)dm, which deals with the terms with two rrs, and linearity of the integral gives ∫a⋅rdm=a⋅∫rdm∫a⋅rdm=a⋅∫rdm, which is what happens to the linear terms"
However I am very much confused by this. Specifically,

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*Why is it that the $\textbf a$ can be taken out of the integral even though it is DOTTED WITH THE $\textbf r$. I can see that the same 'trick' was used for integrating the $2(\textbf n . \textbf r)(\textbf n.\textbf a)$ term. Are there specific cases when you can/can't do this? I appreciate that this might be a rather large topic, so I would be very grateful if someone could even just provide me with a link that deals with this well.

A: I don't know what the notation used in the book is exactly, but if you suppose $\mathbb{a}=(a_{1},a_{2},a_{3})$ and $\mathbb{r}=(r_{1},r_{2},r_{3})$ then you can see that an expression like $\int \mathbb{a}\cdot \mathbb{r} \,dm$ can be handled so:
$\int \mathbb{a}\cdot \mathbb{r} \,dm= \int (a_{1}r_{1}+a_{2}r_{2}+a_{3}r_{3}) \,dm= a_{1}\int r_{1}\, dm+a_{2}\int r_{2} \, dm+a_{3}\int r_{3} \,dm= \mathbb{a}\cdot \int \mathbb{r}\, dm$
where $\int \mathbb{r}\, dm=\big(\int r_{1}\, dm,\int r_{2}\, dm,\int r_{3}\, dm\big)$, and we use the linearity of the integral.
I hope this answers your question.

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Books, Festivals, Fiction, Literary events
Salman 'Let's drop the Sir shit' Rushdie, at MWF 2014 (28 August)
October 6, 2014 October 6, 2014 by Jenny May Ackland
Rushdie, sans zoom
Almost done with my catch-up posts.
I went to see Salman Rushdie speak at what I call Dallas Brooks Hall but which I think now has another name. I can't move with the times which is why it's always 'Spencer Street Station', 'Telstra Dome' and 'Kardinia Park'.
I had a good seat and as I was settling, ran into an old colleague from uni, who I helped with some research work, a few years ago. It was really good to see him and we had a quick catch-up before he went and found his seat. Then I sat and waited and saw a trolley suitcase in the aisle, next to an empty seat, which was next to a woman who, the longer I looked at her, seemed very intense and calm. My brain started, and then I thought about how there'd been no security going into the venue, and indeed tickets hadn't even been checked as we'd walked into the auditorium. I actually went in and out twice as I'd left my phone in the car. The longer I sat there, the more nervous I got. I swear, I was considering leaving. Something to do with having been around bombs in Istanbul in the early to mid nineties, it's crazy I know but you know how when you start thinking something it's hard to get it out of your head? Yeah, that.
I'm thinking: fatwa. The fatwa didn't get lifted with death of Khomeini. When did he die? Is Rushdie still in hiding? But no, here's here, with publicity. And there's that suitcase. Why is it there? Are the organisers so bomb-unaware that they haven't even noticed it? Anyone who travelled in the nineties and two thousands knows about rubbish bins, bags at airports, unattended bags anywhere. The places you don't go or don't linger: public toilets, phone boxes, bus stations, government offices.
So I asked. I called over an officious older woman in black, who looked like she might have travelled in the early nineties at least, and as soon as I pointed out the case she knew exactly where my head was at. Don't worry, she said. It might not look like it but there's so much security here. And the suitcase? It was the photographer's, she said.
The theme of the evening was 'Freedom to Write' and I have to tell you, I didn't expect to like Salman quite so much. I'm not sure why, but I had thought he was a bit of a pompous man. There was something I remember reading about his memoir of the 'hiding years' Joseph Anton (a book I have but have not opened), something about how the use of the third person was deemed pretentious. Also I'd formed (unconsciously even) an opinion about him based purely on the fact that he's had a very gorgeous wife. Unfair I know but still, these viewpoints get formed. I've never read anything of his. Tried Midnight's Children like so many other people, and failed to get into it.
Straight up, Rushdie was self-deprecating. Let's lose the sir, he said. It's really only good for getting seats in restaurants, he said. He told a story about a friend's daughter in New York who'd been very excited about his knight-ship, how she was disappointed 'there wasn't any armour.' But even as he was charming us with these stories, I thought: he's still mentioning it. He's focusing on something that he's said he wants to not focus on. These big authors, they have their shtick. I suppose we all do, even the little people, in our own small worlds, we are all operating.
Rushdie was jetlagged. He'd arrived that afternoon and he was a sniffer and a nose-toucher. One of my people. To my ear, at first, his accent sounded South Efrican. Is that possible? I made a note in my books, it had a definite inflection, that seemed to soften as he went on, and he became more British. He talked about coming to Australia 30 years ago, being at the Adelaide Festival, about sitting around with Angela Carter and Bruce Chatwin, watching Chatwin fail to pick up a beautiful woman who was sitting nearby. Again: charming and personable.
Twain and Dickens went on the road a lot. If Dickens didn't invent the book tour he did a lot to popularise it. Back then it was more of a performance, as Dickens would read and do all the voices. Literature is important, Rushdie told us. 'This strange thing literature.' Humans are the only creatures on earth that tell stories… to try to understand what sort of creatures we are. We have grand narratives, of history and of religion, and as a people we live within these narratives. When we want to understand something, it's a story we look to because that's where the truth is exposed, the answers kept.
There might be attacks on literature, and they might be censorship but it seems more profound even than censorship because attacks are on our need to listen to and tell stories. A deep human need. It's always been the case that the literate and the powerful have been at odds with each other, he said. Voltaire said it was always a good idea for a writer to live near an international frontier, and Joyce's Stephen Dedalus said what a writer needs is 'silence, exile, cunning.'
Rushdie told that when the fatwa was issued, an uncle of his (a 'real bad guy' who was involved with Al-Qaeda later etc etc) took out a full-page ad in the Pakistan press saying 'we didn't like him anyway.' (Rushdie linked back to this later, saying that he has often had people offside with his writing, and that he has never written to please the mullahs.)
Writers and politicians to some degree fight for the same territory – they try to tell you how things are and want you to buy them. Rushdie quoted Milan Kundera from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting said: the struggle on man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. That we live in an age where there can be violent disagreements about reality. Apparently Indira Gandhi sued Rushdie a couple of years after Midnight's Children because he had said something unflattering about her and her ex-husband's relationship. But then she was assassinated, so 'nothing happened with that.' Then with his next book Shame one of the Pakistani generals didn't like it, 'but he died in a plane crash.' 'And,' continued Rushdie, 'on my small matter of conflict with the Ayatollah Khomeini, all I'll say about that is that one of us is here and the other isn't.' Big audience laughter. 'As a dictator dispatcher, it's a small service I can perform.'
On success and failure
Pushing the boundaries as an artist, it's difficult work and you can succeed or fail. And the people who don't want you to do it seem to be increasing [in numbers]. But Ovid's poetry has outlasted the Roman Empire; poet Osip Mandestam wrote about Stalin's moustache and was sent to a labour camp and died. But his poetry lasted. Rushdie quoted widely: Saul Bellow, Joyce, Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered but whose work persists.
Literature continues to speak when its opponents are silenced.
Art doesn't need defending, Rushdie said, because it lasts, but writers can be damaged, hurt; they need help and defending. The job of the writer is to speak truth to power.
Chat with Louise Adler
Adler opened with a question on whether writers need to be politicised. Rushdie said when writers speak outside their work, they're essentially speaking as citizens. He doesn't want to be polemic in his work, it dates the work and while writers have felt obliged to do this, he doesn't. The problem is that you are always trying to write a book that lasts. If you write a politically relevant book, it won't be read in twenty, thirty years.
If you're my kind of writer, you want your books to last. My friend Martin Amis says you want to leave behind books on a shelf.
The Mullahs never liked anything I said, Rushdie said. They never liked anything Edward Said said either. 'I wasn't writing for those gentlemen.'
On the day of learning about the fatwa, he said he wished he'd been more critical. The book itself isn't a criticism of Islam but a religion that reacts to a book it doesn't like in this way needs to be criticised, he said. Midnight's Children is a London novel, set in the '80s, what we've come to think of as a time of 'high Thatcherism'. The west as we know it is an incredibly fractured place, and in the Islamic world the real battles are between the differences within Islam, he said. 'The old battle between Sunni and Shi'ite has a new edge.' There's no such thing now as Islam, and no such thing as the west. More young British muslims are going off to fight with jihadist groups than joined the armed forces.
And on news?
People get the news they deserve.
Rushdie is an historian, he never studied literature or did creative writing. History is the science of trying to understand the world, he said. The problem with golden ages in history is that people always think they will last forever. Golden ages only last a short time and then there's a fall. His novel Fury was written the summer of 2000. What he didn't know was that the publication date of Fury was September 11, 2001. Instantly, on the day it was published, this very very contemporary novel became historical. (It had been written 'right up against' his experiences of living in New York. When people started to read again it was nostalgia they yearned for.
Response to audience questions
Given the choice of love and not love, Rushdie would choose love. And pay the price later.
It's rare for books to effect social change, but books can have a deep impact on a person who loves it; it changes the way you see the world. We are what we read.
Rushdie, zoomed
I went and bought The Satanic Verses and lined up to get it signed. When I got to the top of the very long queue, I'd decided not to say anything, just hold the book out for him. He looked up at me and said 'hi' and his voice was very tired. I said 'hi' back, he signed the book and away I went.
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diannegray says:
Good grief – I'm so jealous. Rushdie is my favourite author and I would have loved to have been there. I've read all his books – he is truly a literary genius!
I forgot to put pics in, so have adjusted for you Dianne. I really must read him, is it a matter of just persisting? I don't doubt he's a genius.
I see them now, well done! His writing is so layered that it can be difficult to get through at times, but he has the most amazing command of the English language. if I'm ever feeling disinclined to write I read one of his books again and it gets the muse fired up! 😉
I'm reading his memoir now which is really fascinating and so well written, and funny! I'm hoping it'll be a way to shoe-horn myself into his fiction.


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Further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, working party
Reference code(s) : GB 1538 M12
Held at : Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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Full title : Further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, working party
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Extent : 1 box, 1 volume
Name of creator(s) : Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The working party was established by the College in July 1980 in order "To consider developments in further specialisation within the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, including training implications, and to make recommendations" (minutes 6 Nov 1980: ref M12/1). The working party first met in November 1980. It presented its report to Council in 1982. The report was published as a discussion document in November 1982.
Papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) working party on further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, comprising copy minutes, 1980-1982; correspondence and other records, including a report by the working party's chairman, C R Whitfield, on his visit to America, 1980-1982; correspondence between Anthony Alment, PRCOG, and others concerning further specialisation; also related records, including a copy of the working party's 'Updated Guidelines for Discussion on Subspecialisation', June 1981; published copy of the working party's final report, 1982.
Open 20 years after last date on file.
Copyright: vested in the College.
A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.
Not certain, but the secretary to the College Secretary provided administrative support for the working party, so some of the material may have passed to the Archives by the College Secretary's Office. There is also a considerable quantity of President's correspondence included, so other material may have come from the President's Office.
RCOG Archives hold records of the Sub-specialisation advisory group, which was established to advise on ways of implementing the working party's recommendations (Ref: M17).
Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.
Alment | Sir | Edward Anthony John | 1922-2002 | Knight | gynaecologist
Whitfield | Charles Richard | b 1927 | obstetrician and gynaecologist
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I configured remote read and remote write URL's in prometheus.yml and deployed it.
Here when I opened 8086 port from anywhere the connectivity from ECS task to EC2 VM happening successfully and data is written into InfluxDB. But when I changed the security group to open 8086 port only for the security group where EC2 VM and ECS task are running then I am getting error as -
ts=2022-09-23T04:40:18.441Z caller=dedupe.go:112 component=remote level=warn remote_name=33b2e7 url="http://x.x.x.x:8086/api/v1/prom/write?db=prometheus" msg="Failed to send batch, retrying" err="Post \"http:/x.x.x.x:8086/api/v1/prom/write?db=prometheus\": context deadline exceeded"
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Most of the time a run down place serves the best food!


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Alcohol Withdrawal Timeline: How Long Does Alcohol Detox Take?
Aug 31, 2020 | Alcohol Addiction, Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment
The first step toward successful recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) is admitting you have a problem and then committing to a treatment that begins with alcohol detox. In this post, we're going to shed light on the alcohol withdrawal timeline and other important details that people with AUD and their loved ones should be aware of.
Alcoholism Overview
Alcohol use disorder, or alcoholism, is defined as a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling alcohol consumption, being preoccupied with drinking, and continuing to drink even when it causes consequences. Unhealthy alcohol use involves binge drinking and heavy drinking.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as consuming five or more drinks (if you're a man) or four or more drinks (for women) in two hours or on the same occasion. On the other hand, heavy drinking is the consumption of at least four drinks on any day for men or three or more drinks for women.
The numbers show that in 2018, about 14.4 million people ages 18 and older had AUD. Of these, 9.2 million people with alcoholism were men, while 5.4 million accounts for women. Only 7.9% of adults with AUD received treatment.
Alcoholism has serious consequences if left unmanaged. Thankfully, this problem is treatable, and it all starts with alcohol detox.
What is Alcohol Detox?
Alcohol detoxification, or alcohol detox, is the first step in treating alcoholism. It's defined as the natural process that occurs in the body as it tries to eliminate waste products and toxins from excessive and long-term consumption of alcohol. Therefore, alcohol detox is not a standalone treatment for alcoholism, but only the first phase on the road to a successful recovery.
Who Needs Alcohol Detox?
Men and women who are dependent on alcohol and want to get sober will need to go through alcohol detox. Generally speaking, people who develop severe alcohol dependence and/or have experienced serious symptoms of alcohol withdrawal are the biggest candidates for the detox process.
The best way to determine whether you should look for an inpatient alcohol rehab center in Texas or help with your problem is to take a good look at your drinking habits.
Think about how much alcohol you drink now compared to when you first started drinking.
Does a day go by without you having more than one drink?
Do your relationships, productivity at work, and other aspects of life suffer because you drink alcohol?
Do your friends and family members complain you're drinking too much?
It's not uncommon for people to start drinking more without even realizing it. That's why it's so important to evaluate your drinking habits. Be honest with yourself.
Many people think they're occasional drinkers. That being said, occasional use can progress to habitual use wherein a person doesn't even make a conscious decision to drink; they just do it without thinking.
Do you find yourself doing that?
In other words, does drinking alcohol seems like something you do automatically?
Alcohol detox is necessary when a person suffers from physical symptoms of alcohol dependence. These may include headache, sweating, shaking, nausea, just to name a few.
The whole process starts in the facility where an addiction specialist recommends the proper treatment route based on the severity of the addiction. A thorough physical and mental health evaluation is used to determine the need for alcohol detox.
Alcohol Withdrawal Timeline
The alcohol withdrawal syndrome is a condition that occurs after intentional or unintentional abrupt cessation of heavy or constant drinking in patients with AUD. This is a dynamic and complicated process whose exact course may vary from one person to another. Keep in mind that no two people are the same, so their addiction problems and symptoms differ too. They way they experience detox can also be different.
When it comes to the alcohol detox timeline and withdrawal symptoms, scientific evidence describes the following:
Six hours after a person has had their last drink, minor withdrawal symptoms tend to occur. However, people with a long history of heavy alcohol consumption could experience seizures in this timeframe. The initial symptoms of alcohol withdrawal tend generally mild but may worsen as time goes on.
More precisely, at this stage, you may experience:
Trembling i.e., "alcohol shakes" (they usually peak in one to two days)
12 Hours to 24 Hours
About 12 to 24 hours after stopping drinking alcohol, some people may experience hallucinations. This isn't a common symptom, though. Only a small percentage of people will experience this symptom of alcohol withdrawal i.e., they see or hear things that aren't there. Sure, hallucination seems scary, but it's not considered as serious withdrawal complication. It's worth mentioning, though, that hallucinations can change the way a person experiences some things such as:
Sound (auditory stimulation)
Sight (visual stimulation)
Touch (tactile stimulation)
When it comes to other withdrawal symptoms, they may become increasingly severe at this point. This is especially the case with pain.
During this time, minor withdrawal symptoms may be present. Painful symptoms usually tend to persist two days into alcohol detox.
You may experience tremors, headache, and upset stomach. The symptoms tend to peak about 18 to 24 hours after stopping the consumption of alcohol. Then, the symptoms start to weaken after four to five days.
Some people may experience seizures at this stage, but you can expect them to subside after day three. The main characteristics of alcohol withdrawal seizures include the following:
Some people may experience up to six seizures in six hours
Seizures could increase the risk of delirium tremens
A person can have one or two generalized tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal seizures)
At this point, some people may experience severe complications of alcohol withdrawal – delirium tremens (DT) or alcohol withdrawal medium. We will discuss DTs in more detail below in this post. Other symptoms of alcohol withdrawal may come and go. This happens to be the time when a person is at the highest risk of life-threatening symptoms.
Alcohol withdrawal symptoms are at their worst about 72 hours after a person has had their last drink. Moderate withdrawal symptoms can even last for a month in rare cases. These symptoms may include illusions and a rapid heart rate. Some symptoms may persist for a few weeks, but they can be treated with medications.
Four to Six Weeks
A few weeks after the acute withdrawal symptoms fade, a person may still experience protracted alcohol withdrawal syndrome or post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS). The long-term alcohol detox symptoms may include:
Hostile behavior
Trouble thinking and concentrating
Unexplained pain
Keep in mind that not every person will experience these symptoms in every stage of withdrawal. As mentioned above, people may experience alcohol withdrawal differently.
Why Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms Occur?
The alcohol withdrawal timeline sees different symptoms occurring as a person's system is going through detox.
The question is why alcohol detox symptoms happen.
Well, alcohol interacts with gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors in the brain. The inhibitory GABA neurotransmitter usually activates these receptors. This happens through the interaction that defines the baseline level of neural activity throughout the CNS (central nervous system).
Alcohol modifies the responsiveness of these receptors, thereby amplifying the inhibitory signaling power of GABA. With long-term use of alcohol, the excitability of CNS keeps decreasing, and the brain starts adjusting to this new reality by down-regulating GABA receptors. More precisely, alcohol depresses the CNS to induce feelings of euphoria and relaxation.
In other words, the more alcohol a person drinks, the more neurochemical and structural changes occur. This leads to tolerance.
The body works to maintain balance, and it starts sending signals to the brain to make more neurotransmitter receptors that stimulate or excite the central nervous system.
The greater tolerance to alcohol, the more you need to drink. Abrupt cessation creates a shock to the brain and its connections, thus impairing signals sent throughout the body. All this leads to withdrawal symptoms. This happens because when you stop drinking, you deprive receptors of the alcohol, which puts the nervous system into the state of being overactive.
That's why people who undergo alcohol detox as the first stage toward recovery experience symptoms ranging from anxiety and irritability to nausea, rapid heart rate, sweating, and tremors.
How Long Does Alcohol Detox Take?
How long is alcohol detox could be one of the most frequent questions on this subject.
As seen in the timeline above, initial alcohol detox takes about a week. That being said, some people may experience symptoms for longer, even a few weeks after the initial detox. Medications are used to help manage the withdrawal symptoms that linger.
Alcohol detox and withdrawal symptoms affect each patient differently but are carefully monitored by addiction specialists and healthcare professionals who make sure you complete the process successfully.
What is Delirium Tremens?
Delirium tremens (DT) is the most severe form of alcohol withdrawal. Not every person who undergoes alcohol detox will experience DT; the risk is higher among men and women with severe addiction. Delirium tremens is a neurologic syndrome indicated by excitation of the autonomic nervous system and changes in mental status.
People have DT because their brain is unable to adjust its chemistry properly after they stop drinking alcohol. The alteration in the brain leads to dangerous changes in breathing, temperature control, and blood circulation.
People with DT experience vital sign abnormalities and symptoms such as:
Visual hallucinations
Diaphoresis (sweating)
Symptoms of DT may show up about three days after alcohol cessation and last up to seven or eight days and may persist even longer.
People who have DT also tend to experience:
Severe confusion
Extreme hyperactivity
Evidence shows that about 50% of people with AUD experience withdrawal symptoms when they stop drinking, but 3% to 5% will have severe symptoms with DT being the most dangerous.
The factors that increase the risk of experiencing DT include these:
Abnormal liver function
History of DT
Use of other drugs and substances
Having brain lesions
Older age at the time of alcohol withdrawal
Preexisting dehydration
Seizures with alcohol withdrawals
Low sodium levels
Low platelet levels
Low potassium levels
How are DTs Treated?
As the most dangerous form of alcohol withdrawal, DT is considered a medical emergency. Ideally, delirium tremens should be managed in a locked inpatient ward or the intensive care unit. Treatment of DT revolves around supportive care with continuous sedation through the administration of benzodiazepines. Intravenous fluids are administered to address dehydration and problems with electrolyte levels. For the prevention of hallucinations and to calm agitation, antipsychotic medications are prescribed.
What Happens After Alcohol Detox?
Alcohol detox is only the first phase of alcoholism treatment. Once the detox is over, and withdrawal symptoms go away, or they're managed with medications, patients undergo rehab. This is mainly performed in an inpatient setting, which provides a greater level of care and structure. Inpatient programs are particularly beneficial for men and women with severe addiction, a tendency to leave outpatient treatments, and patients who need more structure and zero distractions. When looking for alcohol detox near me, I always focus on the level of care and support patients get. That way, you will be confident in the successful completion of your journey to recovery.
Alcohol detox helps men and women with AUD jumpstart their journey toward successful recovery. As the first stage of recovery, detox causes withdrawal symptoms that range from mild to moderate and severe in intensity. For that reason, alcohol detox should be performed under medical supervision. That's the safest and most effective way to manage withdrawal symptoms.
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/moderate-binge-drinking
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics
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Mapping international drug use by looking at wastewater
Published: 23Oct2019
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known source of wastewater, such as a sewage influent to a wastewater treatment plant, scientists can estimate the quantity of drugs used in a community from the measured levels of illicit drugs and their metabolites excreted in urine. The results of the international monitoring campaigns performed annually over seven years (2011-2017) by an international group of scientists, the SCORE group (Sewage analysis CORe group Europe), are now compiled in an article published in the prestigious journal Addiction.
Drug use data from 37 countries around the world
In total, wastewater from over 60 million people in 120 cities from 37 countries was analyzed at least once over a one-week period to explore spatial population-level trends in the use of four illicit substances (amphetamine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, cocaine). Two Canadian cities in Quebec, Montreal and Granby, were monitored and contributed to building a core data set that allowed scientists to assess temporal trends in drug-taking behaviours.
"Participating in the SCORE project allowed us to contribute to the development of best practices for the implementation of the wastewater-based epidemiology as well as contributing to an international data set on geographical and temporal trends on drugs consumption, said Viviane Yargeau, from McGill University's Department of Chemical Engineering. "The expertise developed was also instrumental in designing and conducting the pilot project that Statistics Canada started in March 2018 on the monitoring of drug consumption through wastewater analysis in order to collect additional data in the context of the legalization of cannabis."
Different countries, different drug habits
The findings confirm the wide differences in drug use around the world:
Methamphetamine dominated the drug landscape in cities monitored in North America (United States and Canada) and Australasia (Australia, New Zealand and South Korea), with average levels exceeding by far those found in eastern Europe.
For both Granby and Montreal, consumption was generally around or below the average for all cities included in the study, except for methamphetamine for which both cities were part of the dominant cities.
The consumption of methamphetamine, although low on average when compared to other stimulants, presented some localized hot-spots in eastern cities (in Slovakia, Czech Republic and east of Germany) and it is being expanded to the north and centre of Europe.
Cocaine dominates the drug use scenario in southern and western cities (in Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom), and its levels underwent an upsurge over 2011-2017 in most of the sampled sites.
Belgium and The Netherlands reported also a very high use of cocaine and of amphetamine, a substance that also increased its consumption in many northern European countries.
In South America (Colombia and Martinique) cocaine prevailed over the other substances. No temporal trends could be discerned in this case due to the recent inclusion of non-European sites in the international monitoring campaigns.
Ecstasy does not dominate any drug scenario, but its use was increased over the period 2011-2017 in most of the cities where it was reported.
The correspondence between drug use figures derived from wastewater analyses and from established epidemiological indicators, e.g. prevalence data or drug seizure statistics, demonstrates the potential of the analysis of wastewater as an additional and complementary indicator of drug-taking trends. This discipline provides near real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug consumption that allow to identify new patterns of abuse much earlier than other methodologies.
To read: "Spatio-temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring" by Iria González-Mariño et al in Addiction doi:10.1111/add.14767
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Founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1821, McGill is a leading Canadian post-secondary institution. It has two campuses, 11 faculties, 13 professional schools, 300 programs of study and over 40,000 students, including more than 10,400 graduate students. McGill attracts students from over 150 countries around the world, its 12,500 international students making up 30% per cent of the student body. Over half of McGill students claim a first language other than English, including approximately 20% of our students who say French is their mother tongue.
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