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Weather Radar Observations In Hong Kong
RADAR stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. Invented just before World War II for military purpose, it has since been applied to many areas, an important one being weather monitoring. Through detecting raindrops in the atmosphere, the weather radar is a very effective tool for monitoring severe weather such as tropical cyclones, thunderstorms and heavy rain in Hong Kong.
Working principle of weather radar :
A weather radar detects rain in the atmosphere by emitting pulses of microwave and measuring the reflected signals from the raindrops. In general, the more intense the reflected signals, the higher will be the rain intensity. The distance of the rain is determined from the time it takes for the microwave to travel to and from the rain.
Doppler weather radar has become increasingly popular in recent years. It is capable of measuring the approach (or departing) speed of raindrops. The Doppler principle can be explained by noting the change in pitch of an ambulance siren. The pitch heightens as the ambulance approaches and lowers as it departs. In other words, the faster the ambulance approaches, the higher will be the pitch. For the case of a Doppler radar, the faster the raindrops move towards the radar, the higher will be the frequency (i.e. pitch) of the microwave reflected from raindrops (Fig. 1). The raindrops' approach speed is determined by the frequency shift, and provides a good estimation of the winds, which carry the raindrops.
Fig. 1 Working principle of a Doppler weather radar.
Weather radar in Hong Kong :
The Hong Kong Observatory's (HKO) first weather radar was installed at Tate's Cairn in 1959. The Decca 41 radar was equipped with a monochrome cathode-ray tube (CRT) for displaying rain areas. A Plessey 43S radar was installed in 1966 adjacent to the first one. Apart from making horizontal and vertical scans of the atmosphere, it was equipped with electronics which allowed the attenuation of echo intensity on the CRT display through different preset gray levels, thus enabling the forecaster to estimate the intensity and vertical extent of rain areas.
The first computer-based radar was implemented in 1983 to replace the Decca radar. It displayed radar pictures in different colours according to the rain intensity, resulting in much improved user-friendliness to the forecaster. Apart from making 3-dimensional scans of the atmosphere, it also featured such products as animated display of radar pictures and forecast radar picture based on extrapolation of rain echoes. These features enabled the forecaster to follow the movement and development of rain areas more effectively. (This radar was decommissioned in 2000.)
HKO installed in 1994 its first Doppler weather radar (Fig. 2a) to replace the Plessey radar. In addition to measuring the rain intensity, the Doppler radar also provided valuable information on the speed of rain areas. This proved to be very useful in estimating the wind strength of tropical cyclones coming within radar range.
Fig. 2 Weather radar in Hong Kong and their locations.
In 1998, HKO implemented a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) at Tai Lam Chung, about 12 km northeast of the new airport at Chek Lap Kok. The TDWR (Fig. 2b) is specialized in detecting severe weather near the airport and provides alerts of microburst and windshear associated with convective storms (Fig. 3), thus ensuring safety for landing and departing aircraft under such weather conditions.
The implementation of a Doppler weather radar in 1999 at Tai Mo Shan (Fig. 2c) marked another milestone in the history of weather radar in Hong Kong. Scanning the atmosphere from the highest peak in Hong Kong, the radar is equipped with a large antenna (8.5-metre diameter) and a high-stability transmitter. By capturing data in high resolution, it provides a much clearer view of the storm structure, thus facilitating the forecaster's issuance of severe weather warnings.
Under severe weather situations, the combined use of both Doppler weather radar at Tai Mo Shan and Tate's Cairn enables a comprehensive radar picture (Fig. 4) to be drawn up, as the coverage of individual radar is limited in some sectors due to possible interference with other radar or blockage by terrain or nearby structures. It also allows the determination of a 3-dimensional wind pattern for Hong Kong (Fig. 5) based on the Doppler wind information obtained with the two radar.
Fig. 3 Signature of tornado over the airport on 20 May 2002, as observed by the TDWR. Cool (blue, violet) and warm (yellow, red) colours indicate winds moving towards and away from the radar respectively. In this image, the sharp contrast in the colours within the red circle indicates opposing winds reaching about 90 km/h.
Fig. 4 Typhoon Yutu's eye was clearly revealed at about 200 km to the south-southwest of Hong Kong in the morning on 25 July 2001. The image is a composite of pictures taken by the Tai Mo Shan and the Tate's Cairn radar.
Fig. 5 Wind pattern (at 1 km above the mean sea level) of a tropical depression centering over the waters to the east of Lantau Island, 18 June 2000, as derived from Doppler wind information obtained with the Tai Mo Shan and Tate's Cairn radar.
Radar information for the public and special users :
Radar images are from time to time presented by the Observatory's professionals in their daily weather programmes on the television and in special briefings to the media during severe weather conditions. Radar images are also disseminated to the aviation community for flight planning and operations. For the public, radar information similar to Fig. 6 is updated regularly on the Observatory's Internet website at http://www.weather.gov.hk/wxinfo/radars/radar.htm.
Fig. 6 A radar image captured by the Observatory's radar in the morning of 5 May 2003. It shows a band of heavy rain was affecting Hong Kong and part of the coast of south China. The Red Rainstorm Warning was in force.
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Suzuki Jimny is dynamite in a small, boxy package
SA Airports > SA Blog > Mail & Guardian > Suzuki Jimny is dynamite in a small, boxy package
Author: Admin January 15, 2020
Mail & Guardian
"Japan's love of little things is legendary, with the Walkman in particular paving the way for a positive plethora of pocket-sized products; a compulsion that combined with a similar obsession with cuteness makes for a match made in heaven." So reads the introduction to a Tokyo Times article on the launch, in 2009, of an iron so small that it looks to have been designed to press the clothes of a doll — and to be wielded by one.
In Japan's vehicle industry, this deference towards the diminutive finds legal expression in an entire regulatory class of vehicle known as keijidosha, which generally translates into English as "light motor vehicle" or "mini cars".
In Japan, and especially in its crowded, narrow-laned cities, mini cars are so popular that they account for more than a third of the market. But they have been much less successful elsewhere; most of the world prefers vehicles full-sized.But there are a few exceptions. The most prominent is the Suzuki Jimny, the pocket-sized 4×4 that can give any G-Wagen a run for its money and inspires intense devotion from its legion of fans.
After spending a week with the latest version of the vehicle — the 2020 Jimny — it is not hard to understand the appeal.There is no denying it: this is a small vehicle. A length of 364.5cm makes it 30cm shorter than a Honda Jazz, while its 170.5cm height is a full 12cm shorter than a Ford Ranger. This is not a negative. In a world of over-sized and underpowered SUVs, there is something refreshing about a 4×4 that is not trying too hard to assert its masculinity. And the compact size makes it easy to handle in city traffic, and highly manoeuvrable off road.
As my wife put it: "This looks like a car that even you can handle." The boxy design owes a large debt to the iconic right angles of a Land Rover, and its interior finishings are sturdy rather than stylish — a deliberate and largely successful effort to prove that the Jimny is about form over function.
Where this philosophy really comes into its own, however, is under the hood. For this, the fourth generation of the Jimny brand, Suzuki has upped the engine size from a 1.3 litre to a 1.5 litre that provides 100 horsepower. Given its compact size, this means the Jimny can handle pretty much anything that is thrown at it, although there is no doubt that it is built for brute force rather than speed. And although the vehicle is marginally shorter than previous generations, the wheelbase is slightly longer, making for a smoother ride.
One negative is the fuel consumption, which, at 6.3 litres per 100 kilometres, leaves much to be desired.
The Jimny is a vehicle built to go anywhere, at anytime — as long as you don't have any children or too many friends. Two people can travel in comfort in the front seat, but the back seats are largely decorative and make for a cramped ride. It is as comfortable scaling mountains and traversing deserts as it is on urban highways and narrow parking garages. It's also really fun and, at R279 900, relatively affordable.
Maybe Japan is right: good things really do come in small packages.
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Q: boost::asio async_read/async_send are bypassing it's handler I made a static-lib. And I created this three classes in
Connection Class
#ifndef _CONNECTION_H_
#define _CONNECTION_H_

#include <boost/array.hpp>
#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/enable_shared_from_this.hpp>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <memory>
#include "ByteBuffer.h"

class Connection: public boost::enable_shared_from_this<Connection>
{
public:
  typedef boost::shared_ptr<Connection> pointer;

  explicit Connection(boost::asio::io_service& io_service);
  virtual ~Connection();
  boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket& socket();

  virtual void OnConnected()=0;
  virtual void Send(std::shared_ptr<uint8_t> buffer, int length);
  void Receive();
  void Disconnect();
  bool connected;
protected:
  virtual void OnReceived(ByteBuffer &b) = 0;

private:
  void handle_Receive(const boost::system::error_code& error, std::size_t bytes_transferred );
  void handle_Send(const boost::system::error_code& error, std::size_t bytes_transferred);

  boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket socket_;
  bool disconnecting;
  boost::array<uint8_t, 1000> read_buffer_;
};

#endif

#include "Connection.h"

Connection::Connection(boost::asio::io_service& io_service)
    :socket_(io_service),disconnecting(false),connected(false){}

Connection::~Connection(){}

boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket& Connection::socket(){
    return socket_;
}

void Connection::Send(std::shared_ptr<uint8_t> buf, int length){
    boost::asio::async_write(socket_,boost::asio::buffer(buf.get(),length),
            boost::bind(&Connection::handle_Send, shared_from_this(), boost::asio::placeholders::error, boost::asio::placeholders::bytes_transferred));
}

void Connection::handle_Send(const boost::system::error_code& error, std::size_t bytes_transferred){

}

void Connection::Receive(){
     boost::asio::async_read(socket_,boost::asio::buffer(this->read_buffer_),
        boost::bind(&Connection::handle_Receive, shared_from_this(),boost::asio::placeholders::error,boost::asio::placeholders::bytes_transferred));
}

void Connection::handle_Receive(const boost::system::error_code& error, std::size_t bytes_transferred)
{
  if(!error)
  {
      if(bytes_transferred <=0){
            this->Disconnect();
      }else{

ByteBuffer b((std::shared_ptr)this->read_buffer_.data(), this->read_buffer_.size());
                this->OnReceived(b);
                this->Receive();}
      }
    }
void Connection::Disconnect()
{
    if (!disconnecting) {
        boost::system::error_code ec;
        socket_.shutdown(boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket::shutdown_send,ec);
        socket_.close(ec);
        disconnecting = true;
        std::cout<<"disconnected"<<std::endl;
    }
}

ConnectionFactory class
#pragma once
#include "Connection.h"
class ConnectionFactory
{
public:
    ConnectionFactory(void);
    virtual ~ConnectionFactory(void);

    virtual Connection::pointer create(boost::asio::io_service& io_service) = 0;
};

#include "ConnectionFactory.h"

ConnectionFactory::ConnectionFactory(void)
{
}

ConnectionFactory::~ConnectionFactory(void)
{
}

Server Class
#ifndef _SERVER_H_
#define _SERVER_H_

#include "Connection.h"
#include "ConnectionFactory.h"

class Server
{
public:
  Server(boost::asio::io_service& io_service , std::string ip,short port,boost::shared_ptr<ConnectionFactory> factory);
  ~Server();
private:
  void start_accept();
  void handle_accept(boost::shared_ptr<Connection> conn,const boost::system::error_code& error);

  boost::shared_ptr<ConnectionFactory> m_factory;
  boost::asio::io_service &io_service;
  boost::asio::ip::tcp::acceptor acceptor_;
};

#endif

#include "Server.h"

Server::Server(boost::asio::io_service& io_service,std::string ip,short port,boost::shared_ptr<ConnectionFactory> factory)
    :io_service(io_service), acceptor_(io_service, boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint(boost::asio::ip::address_v4::from_string(ip.data()), port)){

        m_factory = factory;
        start_accept();

        std::cout<<"Socket accepting connections..."<<std::endl;
}

Server::~Server()
{
}

void Server::start_accept(){

    boost::shared_ptr<Connection> conn = m_factory->create(this->io_service);
    acceptor_.async_accept(conn->socket(),
        boost::bind(&Server::handle_accept, this,conn,boost::asio::placeholders::error));

}

void Server::handle_accept(boost::shared_ptr<Connection> conn,const boost::system::error_code& error){
    if (!error){
        std::cout<<"on connected"<<std::endl;
        conn->OnConnected();
        conn->Receive();
        start_accept();
    }
    //conn->Disconnect();
}

and I drevid from the static-lib and used this classes and it's working perfect
in my main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "auth_proto.h"
#include <Server.h>
#include <ConnectionFactory.h>
#include "AuthConnectionFactory.h"

using namespace std;
int main()
{
    Auth_Setup();
  try
  {
      boost::asio::io_service io_service;
      boost::shared_ptr<ConnectionFactory> fact (new AuthConnectionFactory(io_service));
      Server s(io_service,"5.113.195.156",9959,fact);
      io_service.run();
  }
  catch (std::exception& e)
  {
    std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
  }

  return 0;
}

I really don't understand what is wrong here , when it comes to the Receive() function it's receive the data from the client but it does not invoking the handle_Receive() method so I can use this data, the behavior that am waiting that it should call the handle_Receive() so I can pass the data to ByteBuffer and use it but that's not happening ......

A: boost::asio::async_read seems to call the read handler only when it reaches the "amount of data" passed to it.
Quoting boost's 1.46.0 reference:

async_read
Start an asynchronous operation to read a certain amount of data from a stream.

So as a solution, use socket_.async_read_some instead of boost::asio::async_read if you wish to be informed of any arbitrary amount of data received.
Another solution, as Sam Miller was trying to say in the comments, you can add a fixed size header containing the number of bytes incoming before each frame you're supposed to receive, read the header then call boost::asio::async_read with the previously extracted number.

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package com.xem.mzbphoneapp.atys;

import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.handmark.pulltorefresh.library.PullToRefreshBase;
import com.handmark.pulltorefresh.library.PullToRefreshListView;
import com.loopj.android.http.RequestParams;
import com.xem.mzbphoneapp.R;
import com.xem.mzbphoneapp.entity.StoreFatisfy;
import com.xem.mzbphoneapp.utils.MzbUrlFactory;
import com.xem.mzbphoneapp.utils.NetCallBack;
import com.xem.mzbphoneapp.utils.RequestUtils;
import com.xem.mzbphoneapp.utils.TitleBuilder;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import butterknife.ButterKnife;
import butterknife.InjectView;
import butterknife.OnClick;

import static com.xem.mzbphoneapp.R.layout.ground_comm_back;

/**
 * Created by xuebing on 15/8/3.
 */
public class E2_StoreFatisfyAty extends MzbActivity {

    @InjectView(R.id.titlebar_iv_left)
    ImageView back;
    @InjectView(R.id.e2_storelist)
    PullToRefreshListView storelist;
    @InjectView(R.id.ground)
    RelativeLayout ground;

    private List<StoreFatisfy> data = new ArrayList<StoreFatisfy>();
    private MyAdapter adapter;
    private View footView;
    private int curPage = 0;
    private String ppid = "";
    private JSONArray jsonArray;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.e2_storefatisfy_aty);
        new TitleBuilder(this).setTitleText("满意度得分(门店)").setLeftImage(R.mipmap.top_view_back);
        ButterKnife.inject(this);
        ppid = getIntent().getStringExtra("ppid");
        GetStoreFatisfyList(0);
        adapter = new MyAdapter(E2_StoreFatisfyAty.this);
        storelist.setAdapter(adapter);

        storelist.setOnRefreshListener(new PullToRefreshBase.OnRefreshListener<ListView>() {
            @Override
            public void onRefresh(PullToRefreshBase<ListView> refreshView) {
                GetStoreFatisfyList(0);
            }
        });

        storelist.setOnLastItemVisibleListener(new PullToRefreshBase.OnLastItemVisibleListener() {
            @Override
            public void onLastItemVisible() {
                GetStoreFatisfyList(curPage + 1);
            }
        });

        storelist.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(E2_StoreFatisfyAty.this, E1_CommSelectAty.class);
                Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
                bundle.putString("branid", data.get(position - 1).getBranid());
                bundle.putString("ppid",ppid);
                intent.putExtras(bundle);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

        footView = View.inflate(E2_StoreFatisfyAty.this, R.layout.footview_loading, null);

    }

    @OnClick({R.id.titlebar_iv_left})
    public void onDo(View v) {
        switch (v.getId()) {
            case R.id.titlebar_iv_left:
                finish();
                break;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
    }

    public void GetStoreFatisfyList(final int page) {
        RequestParams params1 = new RequestParams();
        params1.put("ppid", ppid);
        params1.put("begin", page + "");
        params1.put("count", 10 + "");
        RequestUtils.ClientTokenPost(E2_StoreFatisfyAty.this, MzbUrlFactory.BASE_URL + MzbUrlFactory.BRAND_SBRANCH, params1, new NetCallBack(this) {

            @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT)
            @Override
            public void onMzbSuccess(String result) {
                try {
                    JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(result);
                    if (obj.getInt("code") == 0) {

                        if (page == 0) {
                            data.clear();
                        }
                        jsonArray = new JSONArray(obj.getString("data"));
                        for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
                            JSONObject object = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
                            StoreFatisfy storeFatisfy = gson.fromJson(object.toString(), StoreFatisfy.class);
                            data.add(storeFatisfy);
                        }

                        if (data.size() == 0) {
                            View grounds = View.inflate(E2_StoreFatisfyAty.this, ground_comm_back, null);
                            ground.addView(grounds);
                        }

                        curPage = data.size();
                        add2removeFooterView();
                        storelist.onRefreshComplete();
                    } else {
                        storelist.onRefreshComplete();
                        showToast(obj.getString("message"));
                    }
                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onMzbFailues(Throwable arg0) {
                showToast("请求失败");
            }
        });
    }

    private void add2removeFooterView() {
        ListView lv = storelist.getRefreshableView();
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        if (data.size() % 10 == 0 && data.equals(0) && jsonArray.length() != 0) {
            lv.addFooterView(footView);
        } else {
            lv.removeFooterView(footView);
        }
    }

    static class ViewHolder {
        public ImageView logo;
        public TextView name;
        public TextView consultant;
        public TextView beautician;
        public TextView service;
        public TextView result;
    }

    public class MyAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
        private LayoutInflater mInflater = null;

        private MyAdapter(Context context) {
            this.mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return data.size();
        }

        @Override
        public StoreFatisfy getItem(int position) {
            return data.get(position);
        }

        @Override
        public long getItemId(int position) {
            return position;
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            ViewHolder holder = null;
            if (convertView == null) {
                holder = new ViewHolder();
                convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.e2_storefatisfy_aty_cell, null);
                holder.logo = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.e2_logo);
                holder.name = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.e2_store_name);
                holder.consultant = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.e2_store_consultant);
                holder.beautician = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.e2_store_beautician);
                holder.service = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.e2_store_service);
                holder.result = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.e2_store_result);
                convertView.setTag(holder);
            } else {
                holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
            }
            imageLoader.displayImage(data.get(position).getLogo(), holder.logo);
            holder.name.setText(data.get(position).getName());
            holder.consultant.setText(data.get(position).getConsultant());
            holder.beautician.setText(data.get(position).getBeautician());
            holder.service.setText(data.get(position).getService());
            holder.result.setText(data.get(position).getResult());
            return convertView;
        }
    }
}

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aloha@spartix.com
SPARTIX is a cybersecurity and technology consulting company in Honolulu, Hawaii that advises government, critical infrastructure and commercial entities on Information Security, Cybersecurity Risk Management, and Cybersecurity Incident Response Planning.
The principal consultant is Michael Miranda. Michael is also an Assistant Professor of Information Security at the University of Hawaii at West Oahu, which has been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He recently served as the Director of Information Security for Hawaiian Telcom, and previously held cybersecurity positions with Northrop Grumman and Referentia Systems.
Michael earned his J.D. from Gonzaga University, a B.A. in English from the University of Central Florida, as well as a B.A. in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of Hawaii. He holds current Global Information Assurance Certifications (GIAC) as a Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA), Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), Forensic Analyst (GCFA) and in Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM).
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The AV Club
James Bond producer still prefers a male James Bond
Matt Schimkowitz
December 7, 2021, 11:48 PM ·3 min read
Michael Wilson, Daniel Craig, Barbara Broccoli, and Rami Malek
The boss of James Bond, Barbara Broccoli, has more or less shut down any hopes that a female actor might don the tux in future installments. In a new profile by The Hollywood Reporter, Broccoli says that she doesn't think a woman should play James Bond, preferring new characters for women as long as they're not named James Bond because that's taken.
"I think it will be a man because I don't think a woman should play James Bond," Broccoli said. "I believe in making characters for women and not just having women play men's roles. I don't think there are enough great roles for women, and it's very important to me that we make movies for women about women. He should be British, so British can be any [ethnicity or race]."
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Her comments echo those made by Daniel Craig, who wrapped his run as the steely bow-tie-wearing big boy this year. "There should simply be better parts for women and actors of color," he told Radio Times. "Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?"
Since the Pierce Brosnan era, Broccoli and her half-brother Michael Wilson have played M to the James Bond series, inheriting control of the franchise from their father Cubby Broccoli in 1995. (Forget female James Bond. Can't we have a series about a spy named "Cubby Broccoli?")
For a brief moment in time, it felt like that James Bond might be hanging up his standard-issue silver medallion with male symbol that we assume he wears around his neck. In the /decade/ six-year lead up to the latest Bond adventure, No Time To Die, many speculated Lashana Lynch, who had been cast as 007, might become the world's first female James Bond. But, alas, she mostly disappears from the movie after giving Bond a ride home.
Of course, this might change. As per Broccoli's comments earlier in the interview when she said, "One of the successes of Bond is that it hasn't been afraid to change with the times." If the times dictate that it is now acceptable for a woman to play the role of a fictitious super spy caught between a drinking problem and some A.I. blood poison that threatens life on Earth, then, by God, maybe a woman will play the role. "Sometimes it got a little stuck in the time, but the books were written in the '50s, the films started in '60s," she continued. "I mean, the world has changed dramatically since then. We've just had to constantly reinvent him, and we've had the opportunity with each new actor to recalibrate the series."
And the world continues to change. With Gen Z running amok, we'll probably see James Bond wear a pair of wired headphones soon. Could you imagine? What's next, a woman playing James Bond?
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Art Theroy II From the 18th century to the present
- Prof Parul Dave Mukherji
This course focuses on the emergence of aesthetics as a discipline around the time of Enlightenment during the 18th century. Marking a shift from Neoclassical aesthetics and its retake on mimesis, the Romantic aesthetics centred around the artist as a genius and insisted on aesthetic autonomy. To counter such fixation on extreme subjectivity, formalism emerged as a new methodology around the middle of 19th century and its claims of scientificity underscored the formation of art history as a discipline. While a number of philosophers (Kant and Hegel) and art historians (Alois Riegl, Jacob Burkhardt, Heinrich Wolfflin etc.) have shaped the basic structure of the discipline, a wide range of thinkers of the 20th century belonging to diverse fields such as linguistics, cultural anthropology, semiotics, photography, literary studies, political studies, gender studies, cinema studies and culture studies have impacted its disciplinary reconfiguration from without. As a consequence, the art objects progressively lost their autonomous status and instead turned into texts for tracking larger shifts in the cultural landscape and social imaginary. They upturned standard notions of authorship in the fields of visual arts, cinema studies and theatre and performance studies and problematized the very project of history writing with its concern for truth and limits of interpretation.
Attention shifted to the role played by cultural institutions, the cinematic and performative apparatus, art writings and the media along with the political economy of the art market, multiplexes and theatrical spaces where meanings were generated and controlled. Giving centrality to the body and its embeddedness in the historical moment, feminist art historians and cultural theorists have questioned the Kantian autonomy of forms and shifted emphasis on the conditions of production as a site of meaning. Its impact on performance studies has been enormous where the body and the gestural become the key site for identity formation. Cinema Studies with its engagement with spectatorship, desire and gaze have more than any other discipline foregrounded the question of the public sphere. The various critiques of art history as a discipline have exposed its euro-centrism. With the rise of multiculturalism and globalization, the very project of writing the history of art, performance and cinema from a universal perspective is questioned. Out of this crisis, a new field of Visual Studies has emerged which claims greater democracy by including within its ambit images produced through mechanical reproduction and redresses its elitism by encompassing images of popular visual culture that circulate in our everyday life.
Key Readings:
• Martin Banham, ed., The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988.
• Norman Bryson, Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1983.
• Eric Fernie, Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology, Phaidon, London, 1995.
• Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams, eds. Reinventing Film Studies, Arnold, London, 2000.
• Stephen Melville and Bill Readings, Vision and Textuality, Duke University Press, Durham1995.
• Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey eds. Art History Aesthetics Visual Studies, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001.
• Toby Miller, A Companion to Cultural Studies, Blackwell, London 2006.
• Keith Moxey, The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics and Art History, Cornell University Press, New York, 1994.
• Donald Preziosi ed., The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
• Nanette Saloman, "The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission" from (En)gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe, Joan E Hartman and Ellen Messerdavidow (eds.) University of Tennessee Press, Tennessee,1991.
• Richard Schechner, Performance Theory, Routledge, New York, 1977.


Information about the current (2018) Colville NF Forest Forest Plan Revision will be posted on this page.
Be sure to periodically check this page for additional information as it becomes available.
If you have not previously commented during one of the previous public comment periods on this project, you do NOT have "standing". That means while you can comment during this public comment period, your comments will be received and logged; no further action will be taken (they will NOT be reviewed or considered). If you send them to me, I will review and include, if appropriate.
Colville National Forest (CNF) Documents Released Fri, Sep 7th; objection period has begun!
Today the CNF released the draft Record of Decision (ROD), the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), and Revised Land Management Plan 'Forest Plan' (FP). They also released a lot of supporting documentation with this release.
If you have an interest in the CNF I would strongly encourage you to download the draft ROD as this is the document that tells you why they chose the alternative they selected to move forward with. These documents do NOT make specific on the ground decisions, but rather provide the overall management polices that will govern future on the ground decisions at the "project level".
After reading the draft ROD, the next document to read would be the Final FP. It is 250 pages long.
There is no way most individuals can comprehend everything in the FP (even I still can't after working on this for over 10 years!) so concentrate on those things that effect you, i.e., camping, recreation, motorized or non-motorized access.
If you have questions about something in the FP, then you may want to take a look at the FEIS. Beware: The FEIS is over 1,500 pages and is in 3 volumes. The FEIS explains the rational behind the decisions listed in the RoD and that will be implemented in the FP.
There are also "Specialist Reports" available for download here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=45826 (on the Supporting tabs under "Project Documents"). If you recreate in the Colville NF, you will probably be mainly interested in the Recreation Specialist Report.
Additional messages will be posted as I delve into the documentation. I have quickly scanned through the draft ROD.
Contact me - preferably by old fashioned e-mail if you have questions/comments.
Remember, if you have not previously commented during one of the previous public comment periods on this project, you do NOT have "standing". That means while you can comment during this public comment period, your comments will be received, and logged; no further action will be taken (they will NOT be reviewed or considered). If you sent them to me, I will review and include, if appropriate.
1. The 60-day objective period began on the day after the official notice was posted in the USFS Region 6 newspaper of record - The Seattle Times - on Fri, Sep 7. Therefore, comments must be in the hands of the Colville NF on or before close of business on Tues, Nov 6th (Election Day!). Remember, if you have not commented on this project during any of the previous public comment periods, you will not have "standing" which means your comments will be received and logged, but not reviewed. If you want to include some comments, be sure you make substantial comments (not just "I like it" or "I don't like it"). If you object, it helps the USFS if you include reason(s) and provide an alternative you can support. You can send your comments to myself, but be very specific so I can look up your reference(s) in the documentation.
2. Management Areas (MAs): The revised Forest Plan includes 13 Managements Areas (page 93 of the Forest Plan and Chapter 3 provides information on the 13 MAs). Of particular interest to motorized recreationists should be Administration and Recreation Sites (ARS) and Backcountry Motorized (BCM). Most MAs do allow motorized recreational use (see E-1 on page 207 for list of authorized/non-authorized activities in the various MAs). Within each MA there are Desired Conditions (DC); Standards (STD); Guidelines (GDL); and Suitable Uses (SU). Each are explained under each MA as they vary depending upon the MA designation. There is a map on page 236 of the Forest Plan that shows the MAs.
3. Alternatives - PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS TOPIC! The Revised Forest Plan and the accompanying documents refer to six, yes 6 alternatives. Of interest should be only 2: No Action Alternative (this would be to change nothing and use the Forest Plan dated 1988 as their course of action [and their base line to compare actions against]) and Alternative P (the "Preferred Alternative"). Do NOT confuse Alternative P (the "Preferred Alternative" with the "Proposed Action" alternative. The "Proposed Action" alternative was the desired course of action for the 2011 draft Forest Plan - an alternative which has been dropped in favor of Alternative P ("Preferred Alternative".
4a. Kettle Crest Recreation Area. The Kettle Crest Recreation Area consists of 80,300 acres along the east and west slopes of the Kettle River Range located on both the north and south sides of U.S. Highway 20. Details about how this area will be managed begins on page 133 of the Forest Plan.
4b. Wilderness Areas: Way back in 2008 there were 21 areas that were designated "Proposed Wilderness Areas" (PWAs). These have been narrowed down to only three "Potential Wilderness Areas": Abercrombie-Hooknose (29,330 acres); Bald Snow (17,400 acres); and Salmo-Priest Adjacent (14,900 acres). Information on these three PWAs begins on page 149 of the Forest Plan.
5. Currently, the interactive GIS maps linked from this web page https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/colville/landmanagement/planning/?cid=stelprd3824594 is not available. The Team Lead is aware of this and working on getting it linked.
1. Objections to the documentation must be in received by the USFS no later than Nov 6th. Remember, if you have not commented during any of the previous public comment periods for this project, you do not have "standing" to object. What this means is you CAN send in your objection(s); they will be logged in and filed with no further action taken. If you want to send them to me I can review them and include them in my objection response. See page 6 below for more information on objecting.
2. There is a chart titled "Recreation Opportunity Spectrum" (ROS), This defines various classes of recreation opportunities: Primitive (P); Semi-Primitive Non-Motorized (SPNM); Semi-Primitive Motorized (SPM); Roaded Natural (RN); Roaded Modified (RM); Rural (R);Urban (U). These help to define the amount of recreational facilities you MAY find in a designated area.
3. BE SURE TO READ THIS! Road Density: Some of the management areas in the Colville have a road density desired condition. Most of the watersheds in the Colville do NOT meet the desired density (tables 153 and 154 of the EIS). What this means is while the forest plan does NOT open or close specific roads, if an area exceeds the desired condition of road density, in the future there MAY be a site-specific project which COULD Include closing some of the roads. I intend to object to this because I believe if a road (or trail) is functioning properly, i.e. not causing resource damage and serves a need, it should not be closed just because the road density is exceeded.
4. Maps. If you obtain a printed copy of the 3-volume EIS, in the back of volume 1 there is a "map package" (also available on the forest plan revision website), you'll see most of the maps have been significantly reduced to 11"x17". Previously they were approximately 44" x 34" (about the same size as the Motor Vehicle Use Maps). In some instances this make reading the map rather difficult!
5. Speaking of maps - if you need to view the maps using Google Earth, there is a website set up for this. However, I have found it does not function easily. I have the Google Earth maps and can send them to you (approx 12.5 MB). Or if you are familiar with any of the ESRI ArcGIS programs, I also have them in that format.
6. Where to send your objection(s): See pages 34 and 35 of the draft Record of Decision for instructions on how to prepare your objection(s) and where to send them.
If anyone needs to refer to previous documentation on this project, please let me know. I have about 9 inches of shelf space with documentation on this project as well as over 25 GB on my hard drives!


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When Rudy Lesso Jr. walks into his office, he is greeted with a perfect panoramic view of Biloxi Back Bay. On a clear blue sky kind of morning when the wind is still, the surface of the water is like glass and beautifully captures a pristine reflection of shrimp boats lined around his docks that have been home to independent fishermen since 1978.
As he sits behind his large mahogany desk and takes in the picturesque scene that has bountifully provided for his family for 36 years, the owner and president of R.A. Lesso Seafood can't help but to pause every now and then for a moment of thanks. Rudy credits his love for the seafood industry to a strong heritage of fishermen who tirelessly navigated coastal waters for shrimp since the early 1900s.
His grandfather, Sam Lesso, Sr., emigrated to New Orleans from Croatia in 1905, and he and a couple of other Croatians jumped ship and headed toward Biloxi when they learned a large Croatian community was established in the city well-known for its thriving seafood industry. At that time, Biloxi was quickly moving toward the status as the "Seafood Capital of the World," and even though the Lesso patriarch didn't know any English, he immediately found work on shrimp boats to make a living.
He also eventually learned some English. Rudy knew his grandfather well and remembers conversations with the gentle giant: "He could understand everything we were saying, and he could speak English, but he would just rather speak in Croatian," he says. "Back then, when he came over to the Coast, and up until his death, a lot of people in east Biloxi that were from Croatia still spoke the language."
Rudy, now 67, has fond memories of growing up in a close-knit Croatian community full of people known for their dedicated work ethic. Within Biloxi's melting pot of different cultures, they served as a vital asset to the development of the seafood industry on the Gulf Coast. In most cases, entire families worked to secure income, and in the Lesso family, while the patriarch was shrimping, his wife worked in a factory, and all six of their children were involved in the industry.
"Back in those days, a lot of people on the east end of Biloxi didn't have the opportunity to finish school, and they had to go work to supply their family with money and to make ends meet," Rudy says. "That's when all three sons and all three daughters went to work. The women worked in factories and the men worked on boats and bought their own boats."
Rudy's father, Rudy Lesso Sr., was the captain of his own boat, and there was no greater joy for him than to be on the water pulling in net after net teeming with wild-caught gulf shrimp. However, when shrimping hit a slump around the mid-1950s, providing for his family was priority, and Rudy Sr., his two brothers and a slew of other fishermen who also were boat owners, started working for the oil industry as captains of oil boats that traveled around the world.
After 10 years of only being able to see his family once a year due to the demanding schedule of the oil business, Rudy Sr. jumped at the opportunity to come home when he learned the shrimp industry was starting to shift in a promising direction again.
"Seeing my dad once a year was tough on the whole family, and it wasn't worth the time and effort for him to be over there the rest of his life," Rudy says. "He was really happy to get back on the boat here and get back to his first love of being on the water as a fisherman."
Although shrimp was the lifeline of past generations, when Rudy graduated from college, he worked for Chevron as a sales rep in Miami for four years managing 25 to 30 full-service gas stations. He enjoyed his job, but after a while, he knew the Gulf Coast was calling his name: "The culture, the friends…I missed all of that," he says. "I would say to myself, 'I've got to find something to get me close back to Biloxi.'"
With a stroke of luck, Rudy stumbled across a Merrill Lynch ad in the Miami newspaper looking for stockbrokers, and within a short time, he was hired, relocated to Mobile, Ala., and worked for the company for five years until it was time to heed another calling — the shrimp industry.
Rudy joined the crew on his father's shrimp boat in 1976, and by 1978, he ventured into the processing side of shrimping and opened R.A. Lesso Seafood, which successfully grew to house three business segments: IQF (Individually Quick Frozen); "Value Added Business" (various types of cooked shrimp and specialty packaged product); and standard processing (peeled, block frozen, headless block frozen).
When Rudy opened the business, the landscape of the Gulf Coast was bustling with 33 additional processing plants, and today, only a handful of processors are in operation. For almost four decades, Lesso Seafood has stood the test of time, but not without enduring its share of trials. Hurricane Katrina was a tough blow when it left $8 million in damages to the plant and stole $3.5 million worth of product, but by far, the hardest hit was the recent passing of Rudy's son, Rudy Lesso III, who worked with his father and managed the value added operation.
When it comes to this type of business, there is an unparalleled resiliency fostered through tribulation, whether natural disaster or personal grief, that will test the limits of courage to keep pressing forward in an industry that cannot afford to rest during seasonal months. Rudy says losing his son last August was difficult for everybody at the company, and he is indebted to his loyal team who kept the plant running despite the hard time.
He and his nephew, Jesse, are running the value added aspect of the business with "no desire yet to quit." Their specialty is Peeled and Headless block frozen shrimp as well as IQF Peeled, Headless shrimp and Cooked shrimp. They currently sell to food distributors, casinos and other processors around the country.
He feels blessed that his son was able to work with him for so many years and experience the joy of being in the shrimp industry, which is the foundation of the Lesso lineage: "The biggest part of this business is loving what you do," Rudy says. "How many people after 36 years can say, 'I love what I do and I don't want to retire.'" And with a hearty laugh, he adds, "They'll have to take me out of here with my boots in the air!"
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Warriors' Kevin Durant apologizes for getting tossed from Game 1
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Rusty Simmons April 15, 2019 Updated: April 15, 2019 2:59 p.m.
Warriors' Kevin Durant apologizes for getting tossed...
1of5Golden State Warriors Kevin Durant and Los Angeles Clippers Patrick Beverley share words in the fourth quarter during game 1 of the Western Conference Playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers at Oracle Arena on Saturday, April 13, 2019 in Oakland, Calif.Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
2of5OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors plays defense on Patrick Beverley #21 of the LA Clippers during Game One of the first round of the 2019 NBA Western Conference Playoffs at ORACLE Arena on April 13, 2019 in Oakland, California. Both players were ejected after the play. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images
3of5OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors has words with Patrick Beverley #21 of the LA Clippers during Game One of the first round of the 2019 NBA Western Conference Playoffs at ORACLE Arena on April 13, 2019 in Oakland, California. Both players were ejected after the play. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images
5of5OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Patrick Beverley #21 of the LA Clippers plays tight defense on Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors during Game One of the first round of the 2019 NBA Western Conference Playoffs at ORACLE Arena on April 13, 2019 in Oakland, California. Both players were ejected later in the game. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images
A little more than a day and half after being ejected from Game 1 of the first-round series against the Clippers, Warriors forward Kevin Durant apologized at Monday's shootaround.
Immediately after helping the Warriors take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, Durant believed the exchange of taunts and trash-talking with Patrick Beverley that got both players tossed Saturday was in fun and about setting the tone for a competitive series.
But after hearing the reaction from his team and reading how the Durant-Beverley matchup had become the paramount storyline for the series, he changed course ahead of Game 2.
"I don't want to disappoint my coaches, the fanbase and the owners, who expect me to be out on the floor, so I apologize for being thrown out of the game," Durant said. "… In the moment, it was cool, but it's just the reaction after the game. I don't want my coaches, my teammates or the organization upset with me because of some (expletive) I did. I don't want to get in the way of what's going on out on the floor, and I think it was a huge distraction. I don't want that to be part of the series. I just want to play."
Golden State Warriors Kevin Durant and Los Angeles Clippers Patrick Beverley share words and get a double technical and are ejected in the fourth quarter during game 1 of the Western Conference Playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers at Oracle Arena on Saturday, April 13, 2019 in Oakland, Calif.
Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
Durant had 23 points on 8-of-16 shooting in Game 1 and generally just laughed off Beverley's consistent pestering. He finally gave in midway through the fourth quarter, getting called for technical fouls 19 seconds apart.
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Was Kevin Durant's apology genuine? You be the judge
The four-time scoring champ said he can control himself enough to avoid suspension and will "shut up and play" for the rest of the series. He smartly limited himself to 16 techs during the regular season, one short of a mandatory suspension.
In the postseason, players are suspended on their seventh technical foul.
Durant debated with himself about whether he expects the Clippers' to change their Game 1 strategy of using 6-foot-1 Beverley against his 7-4¾ wingspan. He described Beverley's playing style as "hard" and "intense."
Then, Durant had heard enough questions about Beverley.
"This is not about me or Patrick Beverley," Durant said. "It's about the Clippers vs. the Warriors."
Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: rsimmons@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Rusty_SFChron
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In February 2000 Vince Carter put on one of the greatest one-man show's ever seen. He dominated the NBA Allstar Weekend dunk competition to such a degree that it's still spoken about with reverence 20 years later. Half Man, Half Amazing indeed. Then a few months later on the other side of the world with USA emblazoned on his jersey he did something even more spectacular.
Did Vince Carter dunk over a 7-foot player at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney? Yes. On 25th September 2000 during a group game in the Sydney Olympics Men's Basketball competition. NBA-star Vince Carter jumped clean over French centre, Frédéric Weis and dunked the ball. This play would be felt around the world and remains iconic to this day. Carter was listed as 6ft6 tall and Weis 7ft2. In France the moment is known as "Le dunk de la morte".
There's so much surrounding this. What led up to the moment? Was it planned? Did it really end the career of Weis? Is it truly the best in game dunk ever?
The Reaction
To begin, let's start at the end. Or at least the moments immediately after Carter landed from his legend creating dunk. You see Carter, then 23, immediately erupted in celebration. This isn't a soccer match. This isn't how players usually react when they score a basket. It was a sign in itself something special had just happened. For Carter's part in it, in that moment he wasn't even aware of exactly what he had just done. While in flight he felt he had taken off a little early, unaware that he had sailed clean over Weis' head. He was stretching and straining just to get the ball to the rim and save himself from potential embarrassment. It was only later that he understood the gravity of the moment when he saw himself on replays. The next person to react was Kevin Garnett. The Team USA Power Forward and eternal hype man, ran over so fast and got so close that Carter almost punched him in the face while flexing after the dunk. Garnett amped everyone up by pushing and jumping with Carter, soon the whole stadium followed suit. Weis would later recall hearing and seeing his own team mates celebrating the play, even though it was against their team. This is one of the great things about sport and specifically Basketball. Sometimes the drama and beauty of a moment can transcend all boundaries, even those between opponents locked in a fierce competitive match. Some things are just to great not to celebrate. Across the world the commentators were heard going bananas, English and French language alike. I personally remember downloading a grainy clip on my School computers that morning to get my first glimpse of what everyone was talking about.
Vince Carter vs Ray Allen
Leading up to the Olympics Carter wasn't even in the squad. He was young, just in his second year of NBA action and far from the house-hold name he was to become. Early in 2000 he was de-selected from the USA Squad in favour of Ray Allen. This perceived snub would give Carter the anger many felt he needed to start to realise his potential. This desire to prove he belonged saw him put on the best performance ever seen in the Allstar weekend dunk contest before putting up a franchise high 47pts against Allen's own Milwaukee Bucks team. It was an injury that let him slide into the spot for the Olympics, where he would team up with Allen to help guide Team USA to a perfect 8-0 record and the gold medal. Carter would lead the team in scoring with 14.8 points on 50% shooting.
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Like so many of the greatest moments in Basketball, this dunk didn't come from some elite set play drawn up to take advantage of Carter's athleticism. Carter hadn't sat on the team bus that morning and said to his team mates, "I'm going to jump clean over that big centre they've got". It was born of a broken play, mistakes. If many things had happened slightly differently in the seconds before the dunk then it would never have happened and that opening round game between the eventual finalists would be long forgotten by the world and those involved.
It started with USA point guard Gary Payton missing a layup. This was grabbed by his team mate Vin Baker, but he was blocked by Weis while attempting the put back. This positioned Weis as the furthest man back for France as the rest of the USA team dropped, ready to play defence, France's Yann Bonato, who had snared the rebound threw a lazy spinning, round the back-outlet pass. Carter, an elite defender, read the situation and sprang forward, easily intercepting the pass. At this point Weis was the only French player in a position to affect the play. Carter was travelling at full speed toward the rim. Weis froze in place. Confident his gigantic 7ft2 body would deter Carter from the rim. At this point Carter could have passed to one of 3 team mates, unguarded in the paint, all (in theory) in a better position to score than him. But legends aren't born by taking the easy path. He loaded his leg's and went up. At it's peak he held the ball higher than the square on the backboard. He split his legs, leaned in and threw it down. The arena erupted.
On the other side of the world Weis' middle school basketball coach was probably watching on, shaking his head and muttering "Frédéric, je vous ai dit de garder les mains en l'air". (Frederic, I told you to keep your hands up)
Before Vince Carter had started his third season in the NBA he had built his legacy both as one of the best show dunkers of all time AND as THEE best in game dunker of all time. Great offensive players rely on the fear a defender has of them. For the rest of Carter's NBA career (still going as at time of writing!) defenders would constantly fear his leaping ability around the rim. Weis famously (and jokingly) dismissed the dunk as "just 2 points". But for Carter, the fear defenders have had of him from that one play has probably been worth at least 2 easy points in every game he's played in since.
Weis, who had been drafted by the Knicks and was in disputed contract talks with them during the Olympics would never make it onto an NBA court. Featuring, and aggravating a back injury, in Summer League. He would go on to have a successful international and European club career, retiring in 2011.
The French team recovered from the dunk of death, to reach the final match of the Olympics. Ultimately losing to the USA again and winning a silver medal. Weis recovered well, far from his career being ended by Carter, he was a central part of that silver medal winning team.
Not before or since has any player, during a competitive basketball match jumped clean over a player of Weis size to finish with such power and poise. Make no mistake. This is the greatest in game dunk that has ever been caught on camera.
In my personal view, it was almost topped in the 2016 NBA Finals when Lebron James barrelled to the rim in the closing moments of Game 7. As he rose to finish a ferocious dunk over multi time defensive player of the year and nemesis Draymond Green – that would surely have sealed the title win, Green had the smarts to foul Lebron. Robbing the world of what would have been one of the most iconic moments in all of sports, as Lebron would have sealed a first title for Cleveand by posterising the best defensive player on a record breaking 73 win Warriors team. Maybe if Weis had had the same idea, we would see Vince Carter much differently than we do today and the world would be a much sadder place.
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TOMOSYNTHESIS, the mammography of the future.
Early detection of apparently precancerous breast lesions saves lives.
*Advances in imaging techniques make a more precise and clear view of breast tissue possible.
*Women with an average or high risk of breast cancer can benefit from these advances.
Despite mammography being the best available early-detection tool in breast cancer today, it does not detect all breast cancers. A new technique has been developed to improve breast disease diagnosis: tomosynthesis. More sensitive and effective in the detection of lesions, breast tomosynthesis overcomes some of the limitations of standard mammography.
Performed at the same time as normal mammography, tomosynthesis (3D mammography) consists of taking very thin (1 mm) tomographic slices of the breast, which prevents the superimposition of tissue. In reality, this is a 3D mammogram, which is especially useful in dense breast tissue.
During a mammogram, two X-rays of each breast are usually taken from different angles, from top to bottom and obliquely from side to side. To do this, it is necessary to move the breast away from the body, compress it and hold it between two glass plates to guarantee complete visualisation. Although compression is necessary to obtain images of the breast, it can cause overlapping of breast tissue and the abnormal tissue can be hidden while superimposed normal tissue can appear as abnormal. As in conventional mammography, only 1 compression is performed in each breast.
How does a tomosynthesis mammogram work?
breast cancer) than with conventional mammography, significantly reducing the indication for unnecessary biopsies and improving the detection of very small lesions.
The fundamental use of tomosynthesis mammography is early detection of breast cancer. 25,000 new cases of this cancer are diagnosed in Spain every year. According to data presented at the 3rd Spanish Breast Congress, this technique can detect up to 43 per cent more cases of cancer than mammography, thanks to the greater amount of information which can be obtained.
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Suvir Varma has over 25 years of experience in management consulting and private equity. Most recently, he was a Senior Partner with Bain & Company, where he led the firm's Financial Investor practice across Asia Pacific. In that role, he advised private equity and sovereign wealth funds on their investment strategies across the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Varma also served on Bain's Investment Committee for many years, and is currently a Senior Advisor to the firm.
Prior to joining Bain in 2002, Mr. Varma spent 6 years at A.T. Kearney, where he led the firm's Strategy Practice in Southeast Asia. Mr. Varma started his career in investment banking in the US and Hong Kong.
Mr. Varma holds an MBA from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and a B.Sc from Babson College, USA.


Wait a minute, have you ever asked yourself why some of the top Rich and influential Motivational Speaker (s) around the world today barely venture into any other business? The answer is simple. Its because speaking business is a very vast and lucrative business that everyone can do and at the same time, choose a Niche in public speaking where you will become an expert. Have you been wondering if motivational speaking business is really a profitable business to venture in? Then this post is for you. Here i have given a detailed guide and steps to follow to become a well known, Rich and influential Motivational Speaker.
It's true that some people tend to move mountains when the talk to people. There is this my friend back then in campus; anytime he talks to people about life, majority tend to pay serious attention to him. I once saw a young guy talking to some ladies about "THE END TIME" lo and behold to my greatest surprise, before this guy could finish talking; About 4 ladies out of 11 of them started biting off their fixed finger and toenails….
Wow! This is crazy! and how could that be. This guy must really be gifted with speaking talent.
Now the question is. Do people give you good listening ears when you talk? Do you move people emotions and feeling anytime you talk? Do people tend to ask you to talk or ask for your opinion when you are in a meeting? Do you command and show authority when you talk? If your answer to question is all YES. Honestly speaking, this post might be your big opportunity to know all you need to know to become outstanding in the crowd, move and talk life into people and at the same time make good money as an influential motivational speaker.
This is an era where people make use of their talents to make good and millions of money for themselves. Hope you are not going to sit back and wallow in poverty because you have refused to use your God-given talent.
Currently most talented and award-winning Musicians, actors, comedians, dancers, high Business IQ guys, Hand gifted crafters are smiling to the bank because they have stood up to take advantage of their gifts. Don't you think it's time you yourself as a speaker smile to the bank too?
All over the world, motivational speakers are hugely and equally earning big and some have built amazing wealth just by speaking to people the right words at the right time, there are great, rich and influential Motivational Speaker in Nigeria who have created space for themselves in the industry and are making millions of Naira from it. Prominent among them is Niyi Adesanya (The official speaker of ETISALAT NIGERIA) He have been able to go places, help people create wealth as well as himself, all through his ability to speak and motivate!
The power of motivational speaking can never be over-emphasized! Any good motivational speaker can motivate a dying soul to live again and again, and inspire a dummy to perform like an Athlete. There is nothing as refreshing and reinvigorating as carefully chosen words spoken at the right time by a crafty speaker. Ever listened to Les Brown? If you don't, then you should try that once you are done reading this post.
People like Solomon Buchi Bartholomew have spoken to tons of broken relationship that never had hope of uniting again and made great impact that hope is restored and the love affair revamped. On the contrary, Solomon Buchi Bartholomew still single. Dude is really gifted when you talk about building a good relationship and love life.
There is no better time to speak to people and make money in the process than now that most businesses and careers are falling apart, families are being broken, and people roaming around the streets wearing sad faces. People needs to be inspired now to reach their goals. High and lack of proper motivation could damage great potentials.
A word spoken at the right time can change someone's outlook towards life and help make their world a better place to stay. This is the right time to create value in people's life by motivating and inspiring them and get rewarded with wealth.
All I can tell you here is just be good and you will be very surprised at how many people out there who are willing to pay for your services.
My little research on this shows that professional motivational speaker do charge companies and organizations about $25,000 (5500000 Naira) per session to motivate and train their staffs while some charges per head and peg their fees at $100 per participant. To be brief, Try and research how much Les brown, Roberts Kiyosaki, Ken Katas, Niyi Adesanya charges for them to be in your program.
For the bloggers and marketers reading this, Try inviting someone like Neil Patel or Harsh Agrawal to speak to your seminars, conferences or events and you will understand what am trying to say here.
The amount of money you make depends on you expertise and your brand – that's why the first thing you need to work on as an aspiring public speaker is your brand. Now, Here are the key point and things you need to do to sky rocket your Motivational speaking business.
For you to have read this up to this point, that means you have considered yourself to be a natural good speaker, that's why you're giving this a thought but you must understand that a good speaker in a private setting may not be good enough when it comes to public speaking. If possible, get yourself close if not attached to an accomplished speaker to learn how motivational speaking is done both in delivery and in business sense. If you're looking up to people who are not within your reach, Follow them across all their social networks, read about them, watch their videos and follow their guidelines but don't try to imitate their exact method. (Just as some pastors in a church do and dress exactly like their general overseer. It's not like that in motivational speaking) you must have to deviate from trying to be someone else if you really wants to achieve your full potential as a rich and influential motivational speaker.
Improving your speaking skill doesn't mean clamming popular quotations and churning them out in public as if that will impress anyone! People tend to love motivational speakers who really speak from the trench of their heart. You see them talk with references. It's good to put out useful quotations here and there during your speech but don't make your speech all about quotations. Try to be distinctive and avoid making the mistake of making noise in the name of being a speaker. Be sure you know who you are. A gifted speaker may not need much training in this regard.
Just know your skill is not too good if at the time you are on session, and the people who are listening to you are dozing off or sleeping, not jotting, or Not expressing any feeling of remorse, touched etc.
2. Read Related Books and blogs!
As a motivational speaker, you are bound to know anything and that's how you will make yourself appear not only as an intelligent speaker but a smart, experienced and expert speaker. Try to have good knowledge in various sectors of life but most importantly, read more of the books that are related to what you are doing. At the time, you can read plenty of books on any topic not just on public speaking. A good speaker is someone who is well read and experienced in various businesses. Frankly speaking, "it takes many books to write one book and speaking is like writing a book". Read many books and blogs to learn how to write your own book in the sense of public speaking.
3. Listen To Audios and Videos!
Les Brown said in one of his Audios I got from YouTube, that to keep that burning motivation alive, "you need to listen to good tapes every morning" You need to listen to good public speakers and learn how they speak and manipulate words. If you are planning on becoming a motivational speaker and you don't listen to motivational tapes, then you are already missing something big. Follow the steps below to get good audios right away.
Step 1 Search for the list of the top 10 or 20 motivational speakers in the world on Google.
Step 2 Write down the list from any of the blogs you got the list from and then proceed to the next step.
Step 3 go to Youtube.com and search each of the names you have written down from step 2 above. Now kindly save or download the videos and audios you like from the results shown to you. I recommend downloading at least 5 videos or audios from each person.
I recommend saving those videos because you will probably watch them again and again thereby saving you that data of going back to YouTube to watch them. You can also do the same search for your favourite speakers on YouTube and get their videos and audios.
Packaging is a very huge factor in motivational business. That is why most companies pay big for their product branding and packaging because how people see will give the first impression if it's worth buying or not. To a greater percentage, the appearance of their product determines whether they will get a new buyer or not. Don't think its only products that are packaged. Humans providing services package themselves too. That is why you see Musicians and entertainers living a luxury life out of the money they have. They are all packaging and most people have failed to understand the reason why it's like this. Here is the logic!
1). Companies with products package their products and not themselves, that is why you will see a man looking very common in the street but has so much money in his account made from those products. Product providers often don't appear too flashy when compared to Service providers.
2). Service providers with no product to sale often package themselves. Example is what you see in the music and entertainment industry.
As a motivational speaker, what you're selling is your good and encouraging words, you want to help someone with a product, You can't be teaching people how to become rich when you are standing before them looking like a poor man. You have to look good and responsible. Look like what you are talking about.
By now, after listening and watching all the audios and videos in your playlist, I belief you must have learnt some things on how to speak well. Do make that speech of yours simple and use understandable language as well as avoiding confusing your listeners with "Self Educatedness" that's the word I coined for the thoughtless use of high sounding words. You have to learn to avoid too much use of pride and flamboyant words if you don't want to be alienated from your prospective audience. Doe as a speaker, you need to brag in few cases but not in most cases. Don't speak too much and avoid using huge and big grammars like one of my Nigerian senators from Delta state.
In business, brand is everything! You need to sell yourself first using the points above before you could sell anything. Motivational speaking is a business and should be seen as such; you need to brand yourself perfectly if you hope to sell your services to your potential clients. Now here are the various ways you can promote yourself in this business of being a motivational speaker.
Take enough time to edit your pages and make it look good and attractive, add pictures of your previous Programs/events if you have any – you do not need to talk much here if your photo albums tell stories about you in a professional and positive way. Use the best of your photos as profile picture and page covers. Let people see who you are by just seeing your profile picture.
Always Tweet and update your Facebook status with good and inspirational quotes and motivational excerpts, maybe once in a while try to update some funny status so that you don't appear to be too official. Add humor to it. Social media holds more prospects than you can ever imagine, the people you meet online today might turn out to become your clients in the nearest future or be the ones to recommend you to clients that will pay for your services.
Before I started blogging, I was motivated by Christain Chuks of Techvaid and Nasarity, This guy really talked me into taking my Graphics, Business planning and speaking business into an online business and since then it has been a very helpful tool to me and I recommend it for everyone reading this. The best and most powerful brand building tools online is your website or blog, and blog has a way of giving you credibility as well as another source of income. Build your expertise online and watch how people will be calling you after some months. All you need is to give your blog a good attention. Once you start blogging, make sure you follow people like Neil Patel of QuickSprout and Kissmetrics, Brian Clarks, Jon Morrow and the rest of them for the best SEO advice and how you can easily rank on Google search results.
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Some speakers are making more money using their blog than the normal service demand they get. Set up a blog today and write inspirational articles regularly, there is no better way to build your brand than this! People will read those articles and if they are inspired, they may want to go the next step with you!
See, for you to become a motivational speaker, you must go on air.
The media has got a lot to give you if you use it the right way. If possible, negotiate regular slot on Radio and TV and talk to people. Let them hear you talk, the quality of your speech will be the connecting factor between you and the prospective clients and the public in general.
There is no faster way to build and market your brand than the radio and television. When people hear and see you, they get to like and get connected with you.
If you are skilled in anything, it's an add-on for you. All you have to do is organize and host seminars and charge people to attend.
Below is a rough Estimate price of what it will cost you to host a seminar on a small scale.
Materials Depends on the materials want to sale if any.
NOTE: The estimate above is gathered in Nigeria, I can really tell for other countries. Please refer to your local event planner for a rough estimate of your country location.
One thing you must know is that people have different problems and they are all looking for solutions. As an Influential motivational speaker you are about to become, you must be a problem solver or else you will not do well in this business. Once you've done all these, it will be time for you to sit back and watch dollars (whichever one you choose) rolling in. How much you charge depends on your demand, start small but don't portray yourself as being too cheap. I can say at this point is best of luck as you enter the world of being a motivational speaker.
Speaking is power and there are power is words of the mouth. If you are gifted in this, you can use it and create a multi-million brand for yourself. Follow the steps I've given above and watch how your motivational speaking career will skyrocket to the next level. All the influential Motivational Speaker (s) in the world understand the right use of powerful words to speak into people's spirit and you a potential speaker can leverage this huge opportunity too.
Let's make this a section now. Kindly drop your comments and don't forget to share this across the various social networks.
Best wishes as you start your motivational speaking business.
Thank you very much for this article. It makes a lot of sense to me. I really want to be a public speaker. Please I need mentorship and probably personal contact with you.
Thanks Temitope for your Kind words.
The truth is that you really need to build a good reputation for yourself as well as a strong brand for yourself before you can get to that highest level as a Motivational speaker.
Also thanks for your inspiring text message.
I must confess that this write up is an eye opener. Thanks alot.
Thank so much for this article. There is a saying that there is no mountain anywhere! your mountain is your ignorance! You are simply the best! This information is a goldmine to me and I intend to search and maximize all opportunities that shows itself. However I still wish to have a physical mentor in this profession. I know the social media will go I long way. I still hope for a network within Abuja. Thanks a lot.
You see getting started is the best way to get to where you're going. feel free to contact me anytime.
Wow! What an awesome piece of information! God bless you!
Am glad you found it useful Ugo.
Thanks much for this Sir.
I have spoken most times at school events and the methods you specified here were used in cultivating me up.
Though it occurs as talent in some people but talent without practice is waste.
speaking can be a natural gist for some people, however, those who adopted it because they love to must master the art the work with it.
After building yourself up, How do you start landing speaking jobs?
Social media has made reaching customers easy.
Running good promotions on social media will convert in two ways, ulling traffic to your paltform and gaining exposure faster.
Clients will view your videos and when if they're impressed, they will always want to get in touch with you. then, the choice is your to make your time with anyone a pay or not.
Thanks so much for this amazing guidelines, this would really help me. My earnest desire is to make an impact and touch lives with my God given talent.
Thank you very much Gudtalent,, I've been thinking about this for a very long period of time, but I felt I know less of all I need to face my dream,but right now, I feel this confidence in me and I believe I need to add up more effort and have more knowledge in various sectors of life, like you have said. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the wonderful teaching and advice. I deeply appreciate.
Very inspirational indeed, God bless you.


The movement towards a connected digital home continues to advance, along with the means by which consumers control such applications and devices. Traditional handheld remote control devices are making way for sensor-based gesture recognition control.
The gaming industry has been one of the first adopters of natural human-machine user interface control. Along with Internet connected games consoles; Parks Associates is forecasting that households will connect more than 260 million game consoles worldwide to the Internet by 2015; sensor-based gesture recognition interaction trends are quickly making traditional games controllers redundant (see figure 1).
Following the launch on November 4, 2010, Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor sales totaled eight million units in its first 60 days, holding the Guinness World Record of being the "fastest selling consumer electronics device"; faster than even the Apple IPhone and IPad products. Eye opening, 18 million units of the Kinect sensor had been shipped as of January 2012.
Following the success of the Kinect, all the major competing games console manufacturers have introduced similar sensor-based controller-free user interfaces. The trend is not only limited to just gaming consoles. Gesture recognition control as well as face recognition for user profiling and login are being introduced on next generation IPTV and IP-Set Top Boxes.
Even medical applications are considering such technology. Illustrated in figure 2, it provides a very practical solution for monitor control during surgery, where the hands of a surgeon are otherwise occupied.
The functional block diagram of a typical IP Camera is relatively simple (see figure 3). At the frontend, a sensor will continuously capture the image array. The image array and sampling rate will depend upon the required image format and resolution.
Lower costs and power consumption has increased the popularity of CMOS sensors over traditional charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors. Image signal processing is required, including exposure control, white balance, gamma correction, defective pixel and cancelling, before converting the image into a YUV (Y=Luma component, UV=Chrominance component) 8-bit /or 10-bit parallel output format.
Video compression, typically H.264/MPEG 4 or Motion JPEG, reduces video signal bandwidth, sufficiently to encapsulate into an Ethernet frame for streaming. Ethernet support for IEEE 802.1AS Time Synchronization provides a real-time, synchronized network clock for use in the sampling and encapsulation. Cable transmission is provided by the Ethernet PHY transceiver.
Challenges to the power management system are diverse. Low noise, efficient power management is crucial to IP camera applications. Moreover, multiple voltage requirements increase system complexity.
Part Three will discuss challenges to efficient imaging.


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Determinants of Foreign Technological Activity in German Regions - A Count Model Analysis of Transnational Patents
Eva Dettmann (), Iciar Dominguez Lacasa (), Jutta Guenther () and Bjoern Jindra ()
Jutta Guenther: Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH-Halle), Germany, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jutta Günther ()
Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), 2014, vol. 8, issue 1, 34-51
Abstract: Most research on R&D internationalisation focuses on comparative analysis of location factors at the national level of analysis. Very little work, however, has taken place in this field for the sub-national regional location behavior of multi-national enterprises (MNE). The paper contributes to the existing research by providing evidence on the determinants of foreign technological activities at the sub-national level for Germany, which hosts the largest share of foreign R&D within the EU27 and features the highest cross-regional dispersion of patented research. Using a pooled count data model, we estimate the effect of various sources for externalities on the extent of foreign technological activity across regions. Particular attention is paid to the role of local knowledge spillovers, technological specialization and diversification. We differentiate foreign and domestic sources of specialisation and account for region and sector-specific influences. This is the first time that the 'cross-border-ownership' principle to measure R&D internationalisation is combined with regionalised patent information. To verify our findings we develop hypotheses. In particular, we expect and find that foreign technological activity is attracted by technologically specialised sectors of regions. In contrast to current empirical work, this effect applies both to foreign as well as domestic sources of specialization, although effects on foreign specialization seem more significant. We expect and find the same for science-industry spillovers. We postulate a negative impact of domestic specialization on foreign technological activities and a strong positive effect from diversification spillovers, by comparison with specialisation spillovers, but these hypotheses are rejected. We find that the direction of the specialisation effect depends on dominance in the position of domestic firms as well as on the balance of knowledge flows between them and foreign actors. Note: Downloadable document is in Russian.
Keywords: R&D internationalisation; knowledge spillovers; specialisation externalities; cross-border patent ownership; patent statistics; technological specialisation; domestic specialisation; foreign specialisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
https://foresight-journal.hse.ru/data/2014/03/28/1 ... 0%B5%D1%80-34-51.pdf (application/pdf)
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hig:fsight:v:8:y:2014:i:1:p:34-51
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Clomid works as a SERM or an ester gene receptor modulator. In most cases it is used in PCT for regulating estrogen and for normalizing body chemistry after taking aromatising steroids.
He was originally developed for ovarian stimulation but has since become one of the top PCT medications used by bodybuilders. Clomid has a slight performance-enhancing element because it can help the body to regulate testosterone production and ensure that testosterone can continue to be produced after a steroid cycle. This means that bodybuilders can continue seeing quality results and individuals that suffer from low testosterone can work at receiving the performance boost that they need to push their training to the next level.
Clomid prevents estrogen from binding to certain receptors within the body which means that estrogen will never perform in an undesirable manner or cause estrogen related side effects. While some other medications prevent testosterone from converting into estrogen, clomid works to reduce the amount that it acts upon the body which will in turn reduce the total amount of estrogen throughout the body.
In most cases athletes will start to use Clomid following their testosterone cycle. Some enjoy it for its uses as testosterone replacement therapy but ultimately it works to promote natural testosterone production after testosterone production has been chemically enhance. Clomid can be taken in a specialty oral format and this is usually the easiest way for you to get the right dosage. Clomid is also extremely beneficial to be used with a cycle to prevent any negative estrogen related side effects. Nolvadex and Clomid can be used in alternating fashions, one for PCT one for cycle.
Clomid doesn't really come with many side effects other than stimulating natural testosterone production. Ultimately it's best to have Clomid on hand immediately after you finish any testosterone cycle so that you can control your results and maintain your results. Clomid should also be regularly used if you experience issues such as gyno and other estrogen related side effects.