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Ketchup ketchup everywhere! The fearless Colleen Murphy revisits Shakespeare's grisliest play
Posted on January 28, 2020 by Liz Nicholls
Robert Benz in The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius, Theatre Network. Photo by Ian Jackson, Epic Photography.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca
Colleen Murphy has undertaken some audacious theatrical projects in her time.
Who else in this country do you go to for a 23-actor play with a time span of 500 years, and a polar bear protagonist (The Breathing Hole)? Or a two-part six-hour epic that challenges historical commonplaces about the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham with 33 historical and fictional human characters and 12 animal and bird characters (Geography of Fire/ La Furie et sa géographie)? Or a high-risk drama confronting the grisly horrors against women perpetrated by serial killer Robert Pickton, and the crushing indifference of the police and the culture at large (Pig Girl)?.
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Yes, the much-awarded Canadian playwriting star is dauntless. So when she says on the phone, on the last day of the decade, "what the hell am I going to do here?" you might gulp. Murphy is talking about the commission offered in 2015 by actor/artistic director Stephen Drover of Vancouver's Rumble Theatre. It was an adaptation (her first ever, incidentally) of Shakespeare's gore-splattered revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus, a play with a shocking complement of cannibalism, rape, assorted dismemberments, beheadings, stabbings, etc. A notorious stage direction gives you the drift: "enter a messenger with two heads and a hand."
"They probably thought I was the blood and guts person," says Murphy with an amused shrug in her voice. She said Yes. "I'd never done an adaptation before; I thought it would be easy.…"
Then she read the play again. "O gawd, I don't believe this. And the more I read it I thought 'this is a really boring play. Holy shit, this is very unconvincing'…. It's a young play, an early play, and it's not a good play. Titus returns from war and decides not to be the emperor, and all shit breaks loose. So what?"
An instant hit in 1594, Titus Andronicus went on to prove that even Shakespeare got bad reviews. "One of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written," said T.S. Eliot in one of the milder assessments. Murphy recalls a Brit production of a couple of years ago. "The mark of its success was how many audience members fainted each time…. That kind of stuff just bores me. It's all fake blood and earnestness. I can't stand the earnestness of Shakespeare (productions). I don't believe Shakespeare was an earnest person. Certainly not in the writing."
Marguerite Lawlor in The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius. Photo by Ian Jackson, Epic Photography,
Do not expect boredom from The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius, opening Thursday at Theatre Network. And do not expect fake blood; characters get sprayed with ketchup.
The Bradley Moss production reconnects the playwright with a theatre that has regularly produced her plays, Armstrong's War and Pig Girl among them. And she's working on a TN commission (an initiative enabled by a new Morris Foundation fund): Joan Upside Down is about a girl who gets ejected from a family of brothers with substance abuse issues and dead-end jobs.
Titus Bouffonius is tangible proof that Murphy found a way to connect with an intractable Shakespeare play. "It took a long time to find the way in, emotionally," she says. "That's our job as playwrights…. You don't get paid the big bucks for just soldiering on (small laughter here). It's got to be meaningful."
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It was when Murphy was playwright-in-residence at the U of A, "watching Mike's (Michael Kennard, aka Mump of the celebrated horror clown duo Mump and Smoot) students do bouffon shows every year. And I suddenly started to understand the form in which I could do the adaptation and express that world." Bouffon, she says, "is a style in which nothing is sacred." Not even the fourth wall, the barrier between the players and the audience.
"It's a very rigorous form of clowning. You have to be fearless, and very strict in form." And Kennard, a notable clown mentor who's been working with the Theatre Network cast, is known to be a very demanding teacher, as Murphy points out approvingly. "You can't be a successful clown unless you really know what you're doing and how to control it. It just turns into appeasement, and mush. And for the audience, dull."
The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius is a particularly intricate challenge. Murphy explains. "Five actors are playing homeless characters who live in a shelter, who are bouffon clowns. And on top of that the bouffon clowns are trying to play Shakespeare characters in their own interpretation of Titus they're putting on…. You have three different levels."
"We workshopped it a few times out west. And I said to folks let's keep it low-key…. It's so politically incorrect, and I don't want to be run out of town on a razor blade. Yet again." Murphy laughs. "People loved it," she says, with some bemusement, of the Rumble Theatre premiere in Vancouver that won six Jessie Richardson Awards.
The only characters in Titus Andronicus that Murphy found she cared about were the kids, who in number get killed and/or mutilated in the course of events. "Titus keeps saying 'our kids are going come back and haunt us'. So she went with that: the human cast is supplemented by a contingent of plastic dollies. In Vancouver, the final image was the side walls plastered with dolls painted white, the dead children. "Underneath all the 'fun'," says Murphy, "is a very serious thing: how the hell can you be killing your children like this? And we still do it. Open a newspaper any day of the week…."
"Children's lives are meaningless; they're collateral damage. You can kill them, or rape them, or cut off their hands…. At some point you put your fist in the sky and say I do not agree." Says Murphy, "it's when I find my way in, emotionally that my heart starts to beat."
Controversy seems to be part of Murphy's life as a playwright, witness the brouhaha attending Theatre Network's production of Pig Girl. On opening night of Titus Bouffonius in Vancouver some audience members walked out. OK, only a handful, she amends, sounding supremely unfazed. "And they were challenged by the bouffons for doing it." She is bemused that the walk-outs happened in a scene involving the pulling out of a tampon. "O, that's the test? Really? Cmon, it's the 21st century," she says.
Alas, she won't be on hand for the Theatre Network opening. She's working on a new opera, Fantasma (with Métis composer Ian Cusson) which premieres this year at the Canadian Opera Company. Part II of Geography of Fire/ La Furie et sa géographie, happens at the Sudbury Theatre Centre. Armstrong's War is becoming a film. Joan Upside Down is in progress.
As both a filmmaker and a playwright Murphy has always been a taboo-breaker. One of her favourite mantras, as I recall from other conversations, is playwright Howard Barker's "the theatre of disagreement." In Titus Bouffonius, there's no hiding of the outrageous.
"In some of my other plays, some of the subversiveness is contained under traditional text-based narrative. It's more out front and centre in this one.… And I like that!"
The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius
Theatre: Theatre Network
Written by: Colleen Murphy
Directed by: Bradley Moss
Starring: Robert Benz, Helen Belay, Hunter Cardinal, Bobbi Goddard, Marguerite Lawler
Where: Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd.
Running: Jan. 30 to Feb. 16
Tickets: 780-453-2440, theatrenetwork.ca
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"The killing of children, as well as of clearly identified journalists and medical staffers by security forces during a demonstration are particularly unacceptable," Guterres said. "They must be allowed to perform their duties without fear of death or injury."
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has censured US President Donald Trump's travel ban, stressing that such "blind measures" will probably not be effective against battling terrorism.
The UN Secretary General commended African countries for opening their borders to refugees and people fleeing violence while other parts of the world, including the developed West, close boundaries and build walls.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned about an imminent genocide in South Sudan unless immediate action is taken, renewing his appeal to the Security Council to place an arms embargo on the country.
A "particularly appalling" terrorist bombing at a hospital in Pakistan has drawn condemnation from the UN Secretary-General.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a decision by South Sudan's government to accept the deployment of a regional protection force to help quell the ongoing violence in the country.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about the number of fatalities among Yemeni children as a result of Saudi Arabia's deadly military aggression against the impoverished country.
More than 70 professors in Europe and North America have expressed concern over a UN decision to remove Saudi Arabia from its blacklist of child rights violators amid Riyadh's military campaign in Yemen.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the abhorrent attack carried out yesterday in Idlib city, Syria, which hit a vegetable market and the only bakery in the area.


The name Lucifer originally denotes the planet Venus, emphasizing its brilliance. The Vulgate employs the word also for "the light of the morning" (Job 11:17), "the signs of the zodiac" (Job 38:32), and "the aurora" (Psalm 109:3). Metaphorically, the word is applied to the King of Babylon (Isaiah 14:12) as preeminent among the princes of his time; to the high priest Simon son of Onias (Ecclesiasticus 50:6), for his surpassing virtue, to the glory of heaven (Apocalypse 2:28), by reason of its excellency; finally to Jesus Christ himself (2 Peter 1:19; Apocalypse 22:16; the "Exultet" of Holy Saturday) the true light of our spiritual life.
The Syriac version and the version of Aquila derive the Hebrew noun helel from the verb yalal, "to lament"; St. Jerome agrees with them (In Isaiah 1.14), and makes Lucifer the name of the principal fallen angel who must lament the loss of his original glory bright as the morning star. In Christian tradition this meaning of Lucifer has prevailed; the Fathers maintain that Lucifer is not the proper name of the devil, but denotes only the state from which he has fallen (Petavius, De Angelis, III, iii, 4).
MLA citation. Maas, Anthony. "Lucifer." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09410a.htm>.


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Q: Display Notification only once with Alarmmanager (Android Studio) I want to show notification on a specific time. So I created this function:
fun specificTime() {
    val _intent = Intent(this, AlarmBroadcastReceiver::class.java)
    val pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, _intent, 0)
    val alarmManager = this.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE) as AlarmManager
    alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent)
    val calendar = Calendar.getInstance()
    calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis())
    calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 13)
    calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30)
    calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0)
    alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, calendar.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent)
}

It works perfectly. When the time arrives, the application shows the notification and everything is good. The problem is now, when I open the app later again, he display the notification again. I'm confused, because as you can see on the function, I've give the the notification a specific hour and time, so I don't understand why he show me the notification again, even when I open the app 10min later. I added to the Notification the line .setOnlyAlertOnce(true), but the result is the same.
UPDATE (1)
The problem is the last line of the function alarmManager.set(...). The documentation says:

If the stated trigger time is in the past, the alarm will be triggered
  immediately.

I tried to replace it with alarmManager.setExact(...), but the result was the same.

A: This below Method works me fine try it
public void notifyAlarm(){

    Intent Alarmintent = new Intent(this,NotificationReceiver.class);
    PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this,0,Alarmintent,PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

    //set up the alarm Manager
    AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,21);
    calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE,0);
    calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND,0);
    if (calendar.getTime().compareTo(new Date()) < 0) calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);

    assert alarmManager != null;
    alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,calendar.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY,pendingIntent);

}

A: My solution:
val timeUntilAlert: Long
    if (System.currentTimeMillis() < calendar.getTimeInMillis()){
        timeUntilAlert = calendar.getTimeInMillis()
    } else{
        timeUntilAlert = calendar.getTimeInMillis() + 86400000
    }

alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, timeUntilAlert, pendingIntent)

Thanks to this dude here. The answer from @Jimale Abdi is very similar.

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Ocean's Illusions — Now You See Me Review
Four of the world's greatest magicians, brought together under mysterious circumstances, become worldwide phenomenons as they perform tricky heists in plain sight. Hot on their heels is a team of FBI agents led by Agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), a skeptic's skeptic who finds himself partnered with Interpol agent Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent). Chased from location to location, the team of illusionists and tricksters reveal their true intentions — as modern Robin Hoods, they dispatch their own form of justice by taking from the rich and giving it to the poor who've been wronged.
J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) leads the Four Horsemen, a team comprised of mentalist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), former assistant and escape artist Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and the unscrupulous street magician Jack Wilder (Dave Franco). Performing under the patronage of Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine), the group heads a show in Las Vegas that ends with spectacular bank robbery that uses a member of the audience as an unwitting accomplice. Heading to New Orleans to perform another show and possibly another caper, the team is followed by agents of the FBI and Interpol looking for answers. The authorities fail to apprehend the crew before another successful heist ups the ante, and the magicians get ready to perform one more show for a worldwide audience.
Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) officially joins the fray after the magicians betray Tressler at a show. A professional debunker, Bradley makes a living revealing tricks through his website. Eventually, all roads lead to New York City where plot twists and reveals give way for the grand finale and the identity of the mysterious figure pulling the strings. That final plot twist comes across as unexpected, but it isn't very effective — it almost seems a little counter intuitive because it's the character no should expect. While the movie is entertaining, the main problem with Now You See Me is the execution — characters pat themselves on the back, talking vaguely while trumpeting up grandiose plans, and as the end of the movie approaches, the wheels come off because the payoff is too weak. There's plenty of misdirection, distraction, and a bit of mentalism in the magicians' bag of tricks, and the script goes to great lengths to lead audiences through a labyrinth of twists and turns. The movie falls apart at the seams because it works against itself — computer graphics dispel the grounded sense of reality necessary for building up palpable tension. There's also the feeling that, no matter how many obstacles are thrown their way, the authorities never seem to stand a chance of stopping the Four Horsemen's bid for the ultimate trick. There's a bit of pretense, and the lack of characterization amounts to a dearth of sympathy leaving Now You See Me feeling like a husk of a movie. It's an illusion in and of itself — its sweeping camera pans and award-show glitz and glamour reveal a movie on rails when the curtain's pulled back. It's entertaining — the more so if you're able to suspend disbelieve for 115 mins, and that's a trick not everyone can do.
Now You See Me (2013)
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Written by: Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin, Edward Ricourt
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, and Woody Harrelson
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NBA finals are here. We started this morning with King James writing another amazing chapter in his quest to become the G.O.A.T. Tomorrow, we get to see which one of Warriors or Rockets joins Cleveland in their quest.


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Location: Chicago. (The non-murder part.)
Ah, for the days when we went trick-or-treating as teenagers, sans costumes, and getting beers from random dudes in the seedier neighborhoods.
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rider384
Want fries with that?
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
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Location: Gainesville,Fl
Pulled on an RB swapped 240sx in 4th gear today.
And did my first drifting event.
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I got this in a chain letter today. Thought you guys might enjoy.
Originally Posted by Chain Letter
In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman
that plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The
woman apologized to her and explained, "We didn't have
the green thing back in my day."
That's right, they didn't have the green thing in her day. Back then,
they returned their milk bottles, Coke bottles and beer bottles to
the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, using the same bottles over and over. So
they really were recycled.
But they didn't have the green thing back her day.
In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an
escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the
grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every
time they had to go two blocks.
But she's right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have
the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy
gobbling machine burning up 220 volts – wind and solar power really
did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that old lady is right, they didn't have the
green thing back in her day.
Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house – not a TV in
every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a pizza dish,
not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they
blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric
machines to do everything for you. When they packaged a fragile item
to send in the mail, they used wadded up newspaper to cushion it, not
styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to
cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They
exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to
run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.
They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty, instead of using a
cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They
refilled pens with ink, instead of buying a new pen, and they
replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the
whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But they didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar and kids rode their bikes to
school or rode the school bus, instead of turning their moms into a
24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not
an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they
didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest
pizza joint.
It's a crying shame that we didn't have "the green thing" back then!
gearhead_318
I'd think 300 horsepower machines where probably about as common in the mid-late 60's/early 70's as they are today.
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Originally Posted by Gearhead_318
Yup. But the process in which they are produced has radically changed, so has fuel efficiency, man power used for machining, blah blah blah.
I just thought it was interesting.
Yeah, the number of 300 hp cars today vs 50 years ago is probably similar. (Actually, I had a hard time finding a "muscle car" that only made 300 HP while looking at new cars on Edmunds.) Of course, a 300 HP car today gets about twice the average fuel economy of a 150 HP car from the 1960s.
It's kind of the same deal on the TV sets, actually. I looked up the specs on a few LED-LCD TVs in the 46-48" range, and they're all in the general neighborhood of 75-100 watts power consumption. Ye ole' 12" "pizza plate" TV sucked down a hell of a lot more power than that. So did old console-style tube based radios. (In fairness, I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here, as there's a 55" 3 CRT rear-projection TV sitting in the same room that I'm typing this.)
I honestly can't remember whether the dryer was gas or electric powered in the house I grew up in, but that place was built in the early 60s, and I'm pretty sure the appliances were all-original when we lived there. But I won't argue that clothes-lines were more efficient. Of course, 'lectric dryers came into being at about the same time as "modern" top-loading washing machines, which were a hell of a lot better than the ones they replaced. A childhood friend of my mother's lost an arm in one of those. (What is the "acceptable" loss rate in terms of amputations-per-TWh?)
Of course, back then we didn't have the capability to generate baseline power on the multi-GW level without burning fossil fuels or destroying whole ecosystems with dams.
If you really want to "go green", you have to go back a hell of a lot further than the 1950s. Greenpeace would have had a blast in the late 1800s, when trains were criss-crossing the country belching out clouds of black coal smoke.Some folks just won't be happy until we've gone all the way back to a pre-industrial hunter/gatherer society. Except that killing animals and eating them is evil, too.
Progress is good.
It was, I never thought about the glass bottles being recycled before. Seems like a better idea then recycling plastic bottles, plastics (i think) are melted down and recast, glass would just need to be sterilized. I'd think a lot less energy would go into sterilizing.
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Except that killing animals and eating them is evil, too.
Animals are people too Joe.
Location: Cypress, TX
We mustn't forget that the car industry changed from SAE gross HP ratings to SAE net HP ratings in the 70s.
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Enlighten us, drunky
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Is it bad that I come back home to realize that Birmingham, Alabama isn't as scary as I thought it would be? Not that I would want to pack up and move there, but it really wasn't bad ata all. I will say that the old wrinkled ***** Don Panoz needs to take a trip over to Baber Motorsports Park to see how a real race track should look and be run. BMP really makes Road Atlanta look like a shithole.
BTW we were staying over off 280 near the Meadowbrook area. That whole area, whle pretty busy, wasn't bad at all. Went to Flip Burger at The Summit on Sat. night.......******* win right there. Drove around downtown quite a bit, seemed cool and the 20th Ave/Highland Ave/Magnolia Park area seemed to be the "happening" spot at night.
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Originally Posted by Bond
The cliffs are that manufacturers used to be very liberal with their dyno testing procedures, running the engine with basically open headers, no accessories, that kind of thing. Made for higher numbers.
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I'm going to call BS on the idea that we had as many 300hp cars back then as today. First, the engines were rated differently (as was pointed out) and would make significantly less using the 1972-newer SAE ratings. Previous ratings were gross hp ratings and weren't standardized from manufacturer to manufacturer (temp, baro pressure etc.) and were not measured with air filters and housings, full exhausts, water pumps, and fans installed as they are today. A 140hp engine would often actually put down about 75hp at the wheels. It was not uncommon for cars factory rated at 300 gross hp to put down dyno or drag trap speeds that indicated 180whp.
More than half of the cars were sixes in the 50s and 60s. More than two thirds of the 67-69 Camaros were six cylinders according to production figures. Chevy used them in everything from pickups to intermediate size. For reference:
The 230 replaced 235 cubic inches (3.9 L). It was also used by Chevrolet and GMC trucks, primarily the half-tons. It produced 140 hp. This engine was used on the following vehicles:
* 1963-1964 Chevrolet & Chevelle
* 1965-1968 Checker Marathon
* 1965 Chevrolet El Camino
* 1966-1970 Chevrolet Nova
* 1966 Studebaker Commander, Wagonaire, Daytona and Cruiser
* 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle
* 1967 Chevrolet Camaro
* 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu
The stroked 250 version produced 155 hp (116 kW) for Chevrolet and GMC.
This engine was used on the following vehicles:
* 1966-1984 Chevrolet (passenger cars to 1979, trucks/vans to 1984)
* 1968-1976 Pontiac Firebird
* 1968-1970 Pontiac Tempest
* 1968-1976 Pontiac LeMans
* 1968-1969 Buick Special
* 1968-1972 Oldsmobile F-85
* 1975-1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass
* 1971-1975 Pontiac Ventura
* 1968-1971 Buick Skylark
* 1973-1975 Buick Apollo
* 1968-1979 Chevrolet Camaro
The 144 cu in (2.4 L) engine was first introduced in the 1960 Ford Falcon. The 144 was made from 1960 through 1964 and averaged 90 hp during the production run. While not known for being powerful or a stout engine, it proved to be economical and could get fairly good gas mileage for the time (up to 25-30mpg).
This engine was used in:
* 1960 - 1964 Ford Falcon
* 1960 - 1964 Ford Ranchero
* 1960 - 1964 Mercury Comet
* 1961 - 1964 Ford E-Series
In 1961 the 170 cu in (2.8 L) became an option for the Falcon line. The 170 was a stroked version of the 144, changing the stroke from 2.5" to 2.94". The original 1964½ Ford Mustang used a 101 hp version. The Econoline van and Ford Bronco received a heavier duty version with mechanical valve lifters.
The 200 engine model was introduced in the middle of 1963 and shared the four main bearing design used in the 170 engine. The 1965 Mustang used this engine as standard with 120 hp. The Mustang continued to use the 200 as its base engine until it was dropped in 1971. The 200 was used in the Ford Maverick and Mercury Comet models, and continued in the Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr until the Fairmont and Zephyr models were retired at the end of the 1983 model year.
The 250 cu in (4.1 L) straight six was an engine option offered in 1969 in the Mustang, and 1970 in medium-sized Ford cars (Maverick). The 250 was a stroked 200, made by changing the stroke from 3.126" to 3.91". Output was 155 hp (115 kW) in the Mustang, and became the base engine in 1971. Power was re-evaluated at 98 hp for 1972 (due to power rating changes) and 88 hp the next year.
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Ok, how's this:
Cars, in general, are considerably more powerful today than they were during the 1950s and 60s. Despite this, average fuel consumption per mile has been reduced by perhaps 50%, and harmful emissions per mile have been decreased by many orders of magnitude.
Obviously, these same advances could be applied to build tiny, super-light automobiles which are modern analogues of the Peel P50 or the Reliant Robin, and in fact, some vehicles of this nature are available. The free market, however, has made it evident that there is a practical lower limit to what consumer are willing to accept when given a choice between vehicles of various costs / sizes / efficiencies. So long as no external force (eg: depletion of the global supply of oil) exists, only artificial pressure (eg: government mandate) will result in a meaningful change in consumer behavior in this regard.
I think it's important when reading things such as the chain letter to not mistake poverty for altruism. The reason folks "only" had a single 12" TV is because that's all that was available and all most families could afford. But even back then, some would say more so back then, the average westerner (by which I count not just citizens of the US and Canada, but most of the European nations as well) were very quick to adopt "newer, faster, better!" They flocked in droves to the car when it became widely available in the 1940s and 50s. They fell over themselves to buy clothing and furniture made from synthetic materials in the 1960s.
Lots of folks like to argue that one of the bigger problems from a socio-enviro standpoint is the whole idea of suburban expansion and the long commuted and crowded roads that come with it. Well guess what? My generation didn't invent the 'burbs. That would be my parents. Or for a lot of folks here, their grandparents.
Go watch "Back to the Future." One thing that film portrayed pretty accurately was the rise of (and lust for) nice, groomed bedroom communities in the 1950s, as road infrastructure and affordable cars allowed folks to flee the crowded cities and own a "piece of the American dream" with a little white fence around it.
Don't try to idealize the '50s and '60s as a gold standard for sustainable living. Those bastards invented styrofoam packaging, disposable razors, battery-powered everything, and the modern traffic jam.
Agreed. That was kinda the point I was getting too. It's amazing the amount of power some sh**boxes make today from the factory, that are just throw away cars. I wouldn't even know where to start as to thinking which ones will be collector's in say twenty years.
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What'd you say? Oh, you posted it online so you could feel validated by internet buddies for your extremely good deal? That's cool. Hmm? No one responded? That's okay, I'll chime in here and say, "Good job! What a steal!"
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Why the hell do printer manufacturers decide to size their papers trays such that they will accommodate, at a maximum, slightly less than one full ream of 20# paper? Do they sell paper in multiples of 437 sheets per pack in other parts of the world?
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It's called "making you buy the optional 2nd paper tray". Even if the printer doesn't accept a second paper tray.
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Community Based Organizations – CORD
Community-Based Organizations
The Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) of women, men, youth, and children are CORD's main instruments for implementing its strategy of motivating, mobilizing, and enabling communities to plan, execute, and evolve. These CBOs, especially the women's groups, are the heart of CORD's constituent programs, and, around these CBOs, other program components evolve.
These CBOs, especially when registered legally, qualify to have direct access to funds from the government. Each CBO elects its President, Secretary, and if required, a Treasurer. They learn to conduct monthly meetings, maintain records of finances, delegate responsibilities, establish priorities, and resolve multiple issues. Their ownership in the CBO besides their active role in decision making and taking up responsibilities is established further by a small donation (called chanda) of Rs. 2 to Rs. 10 per month by each member.
Once these CBOs are nurtured in each village ward on various issues, one of the aims is to encourage them to participate in local self-governance, first in the Up-gram Sabha at each of the wards in a Panchayat, and then at the Gram Sabha (where all the wards in the specific Panchayat come together) of the Panchayat.
The following are the CBOs that are nurtured by CORD over the years. More information about each of these programs is available on CORD India's website.
Mahila Mandals (Women's Groups)
The Mahila Mandals are the nuclei of all CORD's work. They are the hub from which all program components of CORD have evolved. The objective of Mahila Mandal is to empower women financially, socially, and politically and enhance their decision-making capacity. Regular women's group meetings give women both support and a platform to resolve the challenges they face and address village issues as an empowered community group.
Some of the women leaders come forward as Village Volunteer Resource Persons (VVRPs) to look into specific issues such as nurturing adolescent girls and children's groups, ensuring sanitation and hygiene in the village, mobilizing communities in local self-governance, etc. Mahila Mandals once they mature a little are formally registered as an independent entity.
Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
Within a newly formed Mahila Mandal, CORD forms SHGs with ten to twenty women in each SHG. The purpose of the SHG is to obtain microcredit from banks with, encourage members to save, and to lend money to its members. In an informal setting, women learn basic financial skills. They begin with minimal contributions, learn to inter-loan, and keep books.
They move from taking loans for their essential needs to set up their own retail outlets such as Guru Dhara Self-Help Group Shop. The SHGs are also forums to link family members to other financial products- individual bank accounts, pension and insurance schemes of the government. CORD is moving towards the digitalization of the SHGs through the e-Shakti program of NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development).
Men and Farmer's Club
CORD works with men through their CBOs called Men and Farmers Club, also referred to as Kisan Clubs in the villages. It was the success of the Women's Groups (Mahila Mandals) that motivated and mobilized the men and youth to come together collectively for their own growth and that of their village. In 2008, CORD formally formed and registered the Farmers Clubs with NABARD.
Adolescent Girls Group (Yuvati Samuh)
Mahila Mandals play an important role to help CORD organize adolescent girls groups called Yuvati Samuh to mobilize and harness the energies and potential of the young girls for their own growth and for the collective development of the village.
Children's Group (Bal Vihar)
The aim of this CBO is to empower children. The brigade of next-generation is also sensitized towards social issues through the Balveer (children's army) wing of the Balvihar. Learning for children is made interesting with games and fun. An attempt is made to improve primary school education through Balvihars and involvement with local government schools.
CORD has formed advocacy groups like Chinmaya Umang for persons with disabilities, single women group, women in agriculture and local self-governance, people with old-age, promotion of education through school management committees, etc. It also focuses on the promotion of health, nutrition, hygiene, and sanitation through groups such as the Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC). CORD also offers youth leadership programs.


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Subo demonstrated excellent technique, achieving good height and constant eye contact with the pancake. Pic: SCIAF.
SUSAN Boyle showed off her pancake-tossing skills in front of amazed schoolchildren today.
At the fundraising event in an Edinburgh school the singing sensation also revealed she was again giving up her beloved chocolate for lent, as she did last year.
SuBo and Cardinal Keith O'Brian, head of the Catholic church in Scotland, showed pupils at St Augustine's High School how to mix, cook, toss, serve and enjoy a pancake lunch ahead of of the Scottish Catholic Internation Aid Fund (SCIAF)'s annual fundraising campaign.
The drive calls on people to give up a favourite treat during Lent such as cakes, coffee or wine, put the money they save in a SCIAF 'wee box', and donate the proceeds at Easter to help the agency's life-changing work in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In April last year SuBo revealed she had made it through Lent without once indulging in sweets or chocolate.
The 'Wee Box' campaign starts tomorrow and runs until 6 April.
Speaking at the launch Susan said: "SCIAF and its work with people living in poverty in developing countries is really close to my heart and always has been. I'm happy that I'm now in a position to help them more than I used to be able to.
"It's going to be really tough giving up chocolate for Lent again so it was great to tuck into a small feast with the young people today. It's been great fun and I know every penny raised from the Wee Box, Big Change campaign will help people in need."
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, SCIAF's Chairman, said: "SCIAF's works in some of the most serious and difficult environments in the world but that doesn't mean you can't have a lot fun raising funds to support its work.
Cardinal Keith O'Brian looks on in approval as Susan achieves a mid-air pancake flip. Pic: SCIAF.
"Today's launch with Susan and the marvellous young people of St Augustine's will hopefully inspire more people to join the campaign and give up a wee treat during Lent, put the money they save in a Wee Box, and donate it to help SCIAF's work!"
Philippa Bonella, SCIAF's Head of Education and Communications, added: "Nearly one billion people still suffer from hunger and poverty in the world today and that is just not acceptable. We can all play a part in changing this disgraceful situation.
"The Wee Box, Big Change Lent campaign is an easy way to raise vital funds so that people suffering from severe poverty and injustice can get the practical help they need."
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I am not aware of rexx, hence i am using the clist.
to convert a date from i.e. a gregorian to a julian date.
Here is some REXX code for julian conversion. It should be placed in a REXX library. This REXX will convert from julian to gregorian or gregorian to julian.
Entering TSO JULIAN provides instructions on how to use. It allows for leap years, so you can enter any julian or gregorian date and receive the converted date.
If Spfdbug = Y Then Trace "r"
If IP_DATE="" then say "Julian to Gregorian date requires YYDDD input"
If IP_DATE="" then say "i.e. TSO JULIAN 05123 "
JULI = YEAR||DD" YYJJJ format"
GRED = YEAR||"/"||MONTH||"/"||DAY||" YY/MM/DD format"
Date is not a CLIST function. It is a rexx function. Everyone is giving you advice to use rexx. Please take our advice.
sorry for the late reply and also accept my apologies since have no idea whether i can use the same post.
This gives a two year and three day Julian date from Gregorian input. You can easily change it to give yyyyddd format too.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah Pierre, so why is the OP saying that the leading zero from the day part of the Julian date is missing ?
That is why I put the RIGHT functions in my code to ensure that the leading zeros remain.
Too many Leffe at the weekend ?


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Several days in advance: Make 100 lilies using royal icing, 1 5/8 in. lily nail and tips 67 and 14. Insert stamens, using all varieties, and let dry 1 to 2 days.
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Position lilies along top borders. Pipe tip 5 fleur de lis on back base of each lily to support on cake. Pipe tip 363 shell bottom borders.
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Kruskal's MST algorithm and applications to clustering; advanced union-find (optional).
So let me now introduce you to the union-find data structure.
Let's not lose sight of our goal.
Our goal is to be able check for cycles in Kruskal's algorithm in constant time.
for each connected component with respect to the edges Kruskal has chosen thus far.
is going to have an extra pointer field.
with each connected component, we're going to designate one vertex.
And we don't care which one.
what is the point of having these leaders?
with its extra pointer, points to the leader vertex of its connected component.
w, another containing the vertices x, y and z.
just says every vertex should be pointing to the leader of its component.
u has its own pointer, it should be pointing to itself.
z also points to x.
everybody's pointing back to the leader of their component.
is each component is in effect inheriting the name of its leader vertex.
who happens to be the representative, who happens to be the leader.
Well, how do we do that.
boils down to checking whether there's already a path between u and v.
only if they're in the same connected component.
Given two vertices, u and v.
How do we know if they're in the same connected component?
we see if we get to the same place.
If they're in the same component, we get the same leader.
If they're in different components, we get different leaders.
v, comparing a quality of leader pointers that is clearly constant time.
the leader pointer of the object that you were handed.
and you return wherever you wind up.
But and certainly this is a recurring theme in our data structure discussions.
Whenever you have a data structure and it needs to maintain an invariant.
Whenever you do an operation that changes the data structure.
So in this case when you do a union fusing two groups together.
if it does how are you going to restore the invariant without doing undue work.
So in the present context of Kruskal's algorithm here's how this plays out.
it doesn't create a cycle, our cycle check fails.
we're building and that fuses two connected components together.
every vertex should point to the leader of it's component.
they are both pointing to the leader vertex of their respective components.
we've gotta do some updating of leader pointers.
In particular, there used to be two leaders, now there has to be just one.
And we have to rewire the leader pointers to restore the invariant.
So to make sure you're clear on this important problem.
now to restore the invariant you have to some leader pointer updates.
required in order to restore the invariance?
So, the answer to this question, somewhat alarmingly, is the third answer.
pointer updates to restore the invariant.
the one which fuses the final two connected components down into one.
For all you know, those two components have exactly the same size.
They have n over 2 vertices each.
You're going down from two leader pointers to one.
inherit the leader pointers from the other side.
of leader pointer updates that seems to be giving rise to a quadratic time bound.
first idea was idea number one.
Presumably there's an idea number two and here it is.
data structure you would probably very naturally do this optimization yourself.
consider the moment in time in which some component A merges with some component B.
all vertices from that group are pointing to that leader vertex.
Now when they fuse, what are you going to do?
well let's not bother computing some totally new leader.
Let's either re-use the leader from group A or the leader from group B.
pointers that need to be rewired are the ones that come from component B.
their same leader pointers as before.
So that's the first point.
which one are you going to retain?
Maybe one the components is 1,000 vertices.
The other component only has 100 vertices.
That way you only have to rewire the 100 leader pointers of the second group.
pointers from the first group and that seems silly and wasteful.
group, and rewire everybody from the second group, the smaller group.
you can augment the data structure we've discussed to facilitate that.
group so you maintain a size field for each group.
different groups and figure out, again in constant time, which one's bigger.
field, it's just the sum of the sizes of the two constituent parts.
So let me know revisit the question from the previous slide.
might you have to rewire when you merge two components together?
Well unfortunately, this song remains the same.
exactly the same reason as on the previous slide.
you're merging two components that both have size n over 2, so it doesn't matter.
updating the leader pointers of n over 2 or theta of n vertices.
us anything in our asymptotic analysis of the running time.
these leader pointers updates in the following different way.
let's adopt a vertex-centric view.
you just point to yourself.
your leader pointer will periodically get updated.
At some point you're no longer pointing to yourself.
You're pointing to some other vertex.
some other vertex and so on.
might you as some vertex of this graph have your leader pointer updated?
Well here's the very cool answer.
The answer is the second one.
updated a logarithmic number of times over the course of Kruskal's algorithm.
it has maybe 20 vertices, so you're 1 of 20.
Now, suppose at some point your leader pointer gets updated.
with some other group that has to be bigger.
So you're joining a group at least as big as yours.
your new connected component is at least double the size of your previous one.
is at least twice as large as before.
Now, you started the connecting component of size one.
The connecting component is not going to have more than n vertices.
So the number of doublings you might have to endure ss at most log base 2 of n.
So that bounds how many leader pointers you will see as a vertex in this graph.
using the scaffolding on the connected component structure to do cycle checks.
We of course have not changed the preprocessing step.
the beginning of the algorithm, and that still takes O(m log n) time.
So what work do we have to do, beyond this sorting preprocessing step?
Well fundamentally, Kruskal's algorithm is just about these cycle checks.
a given edge would create a cycle with those edges we've already added.
is that we can check cycles in constant time.
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restoring the invariant each time we add a new edge to the set capital T.
too expensive that could be up to linear in just a single iteration.
it's only going to endure a logarithmic number of leader pointer updates.
leader pointer updates is only n log n.
the total number of leader pointer updates.
this implementation of Kruskal's algorithm is actually sorting.
n log n, than we do in the entire for loop, which is only m plus n log n.
in Prim's algorithm implemented with heaps.
we get a running time which is almost linear.
Only a logarithmic factor's slower than reading the input.
you should find Kruskal's algorithm to be very competitive in practice.


Hey, prime cycling weather is here, and Wigwam is adding a feature for all you Beacon Bicyclists, present and future! Every Friday we'll do a bicycle-related post. Topics will include how to choose and equip a bicycle for riding about town, tips for riding in our local traffic and road conditions, options for riding with your kids, and lots more. We'll also bring back our Bike People of Beacon feature, quick Q & A's with local folks getting about on two wheels.
But first, we start off with a reminder to all of us, drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, to share our roads.
Summer is here and more and more Beaconites are choosing to ride bicycles to go to the grocery store, the library, or one of the many fine restaurants in our little city. As an operator of both motor vehicles and bicycles for the last few decades, I would just like to remind us all to stay focused and share our roads.
There are signs on a number of the entry roads into town that show an image of a bicycle followed by the words "IN LANE." While they may lack a bit of clarity, they do not mean "Get the &^%#!! Off the Road!!" an interpretation I've heard twice in the last week while traveling south on 9D between the bridge and Main Street, where one of the signs is in plain sight.
These signs are meant to remind drivers that they should expect to encounter bicycles fully in the travel lane. New York State law permits bicyclists to move into the lane when hazardous conditions are present on the shoulder or the right-hand portion of the lane, and of course Main Street has the "door zone" down its entire length, and good chunks of 9D (and Verplank) have high curbs and no marked shoulders. Cyclists should also heed the signs and take the lane, a safer option than traveling at any speed in the door zone or directly next to a foot-high curb.
In one of the incidents where I was instructed to remove myself and my vehicle from the roadway, the poor guy was actually sitting in his vehicle heading in the opposite direction, waiting in traffic to cross the Newburgh-Beacon bridge. Just the thought of a bicycle on the road was enough to irritate him.
Every time someone leaves their car home and takes a bike instead, that means less wear and tear on our roads. We save money in taxes devoted to infrastructure upkeep.
While we may feel antsy driving behind a bicyclist on Main Street, we're probably losing about the same amount of time overall as waiting for someone ahead of us to parallel park. And since the bicycle does not take up a parking space, we save time driving around looking for one at our destination.
Bicyclists are someone we know.
It's that whole "degrees of separation" thing. Someone we care about rides a bike.
Riding a bike saves us money.
Cars are expensive to own and operate. Relatively speaking, bikes are practically free. The average car costs about $7,000 per year to keep on the road. Going from two to one would be a significant savings. Even using the bike for every other trip to town results in gas and maintenance savings.
Riding a bike saves us time.
For local trips into town, the bike is hardly different timewise than a car after you factor in traffic and parking. And unlike the driver of a car, bicyclists can multitask. Yes, we can remove the cardio/aerobic portion of our gym workout if we ride our bike around town regularly. And eat more ice cream.
Riding a bike is fun and convivial.
We can wave to our neighbor or pull over to chat with a friend. For errands in town, we have chosen the right tool—a bit of muscle power and 30 pounds of steel instead of 2,000 pounds of steel and 250 horsepower to go fetch a quart of milk and a loaf of bread, or even a week's worth of groceries with the right accessories.
Drivers, let's take pride in our task and pay attention. Remember, driving is a responsibility not a right. Using hand-held cell phones is illegal (and studies show that hands-free use of phones is equally impairing to drivers.) We are all busy, but perhaps by freeing up our hands, we could find the time to use our blinkers. Let's be patient with people who choose to bicycle or walk.
Cyclists, we need to obey traffic laws and ride predictably. Riding on Main Street sidewalks is prohibited for people over the age of 14, and in general not a good practice on any sidewalk because we put ourselves at elevated risk when crossing curb cuts and side streets. Good bicycle lights are cheap, and required by law after dark, front and rear, and it is crazy not to use them.
But the number one way to make cycling in Beacon even better is for more people to ride bicycles. Happy Summer!
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And if you can't ride a bike, try walking! A lot more people walk in our area than other places; particularly in the south. If you walk in southern cities (smaller ones), it seems like people think there must be something wrong with you!


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How and why does Parkinson's disease affect women and men differently?
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Summary: Study highlights the role estrogen plays in the differences in the progression of Parkinson's disease between men and women.
Source: IOS Press
There is growing evidence that Parkinson's disease (PD) affects women and men differently. In this insightful review, published in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, scientists present the most recent knowledge about these sex-related differences and highlight the significance of estrogens, which play an important role in the sex differences in PD.
PD is a slowly progressive disorder that affects movement, muscle control, and balance. It is the second most common age-related, neurodegenerative disorder, affecting about 3% of the population by the age of 65 and up to 5% of individuals over 85 years of age. The risk of developing PD is twice as high in men than women, but women experience a more rapid disease progression and a lower survival rate.
"It is becoming increasingly evident that PD differs in women and men," explained lead author Fabio Blandini, MD, Scientific Director of the IRCCS Mondino Foundation, National Institute of Neurology, Pavia, Italy. "Recent research findings suggest that biological sex also impacts on disease risk factors and, potentially, on molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of PD."
This review meticulously examines the most recent knowledge concerning differences between women and men with PD including:
* Motor and non-motor symptoms
Genetic and environmental risk factors
Pharmacological therapy of motor and non-motor symptoms
PD and steroids
Impact of biological sex on pathophysiology
Recent research has shown that women and men have distinctive motor and non-motor symptoms as their PD progresses. Motor symptoms emerge later in women: tremor is a common first presenting symptom associated with recurrent falls and more severe pain syndromes with specific characteristics such as reduced rigidity, a higher propensity to develop postural instability, and elevated risk for levodopa-related motor complications. Conversely, male PD patients show more serious postural problems and have worse general cognitive abilities: freezing of gait – the most disabling motor complication of PD – develops later in men; however, men have a higher risk of developing camptocormia (abnormal severe forward flexion of the trunk when standing or walking). An ongoing clinical trial is evaluating the prevalence in PD and the biological sex impact on other postural abnormalities, such as Pisa syndrome (a reversible lateral bending of the trunk with a tendency to lean to one side), antecollis (dystonia of the neck resulting in excessive forward flexion), scoliosis (a sideways curvature of the spine), and deformities related to hands and/or toes.
Non-motor symptoms have been the subject of a study of over 950 PD patients, which concluded that symptoms such as fatigue, depression, restless legs, constipation, pain, loss of taste or smell, weight change and excessive sweating are more common and severe in women. Other studies have demonstrated that male PD patients have worse general cognitive abilities and male sex is the primary predictive factor for mild cognitive impairment and its more rapid progression in the severe stage of the disease. A diagnosis of PD with dementia has a greater impact on life expectancy of women than men; in addition, women show distinctive symptoms as well as differences in the response to pharmacological therapies and deep brain stimulation, and in their personal evaluation of the quality of life compared to men.
The authors note that the distinctive clinical features, as well as the contribution of different risk factors, support the idea that PD development might involve distinct pathogenetic mechanisms (or the same mechanism but in a different way) in women and men. They highlight the significance of estrogens, which play an important role in the sex differences in PD, providing disease protection as demonstrated by the similar incidence of the disease in men and post-menopausal women.
"Sex hormones act throughout the entire brain of both males and females and sex differences are now highlighted in brain regions and functions not previously considered as subjected to such differences, opening the way to a better understanding of sex-related behavior and functions," added Silvia Cerri, PhD, head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology of the IRCCS Mondino Foundation and first author of the article. She commented: "Neuroinflammation is an important piece of the pathogenic puzzle of PD. Current evidence suggests that the physiological role exerted by microglial and astrocytic cells could become compromised during aging, thus contributing to PD onset and progression. Since estrogens have anti-inflammatory properties, their actions throughout the lifespan could partially account for sex-related risk and manifestation of PD."
Differences in PD symptomatology and risk factors between women and men. PD patients show a different clinical phenotype according to the gender. Moreover, distinct factors seem to contribute to PD risk in women and men. GLA, galactosidase alpha. The image is is credited to Armando Barone.
By drawing attention to sex-related differences and disparities in PD, Dr Blandini and colleagues hope this will further encourage the scientific community and policy makers to foster the development of tailored interventions and the design of innovative programs – for example in care practices – that meet the distinct requirements of women and men with PD. "Women diagnosed with PD are a sizable portion of the PD population, but their specific needs are still partially overlooked. The differences between women and men strongly suggest the need for a personalized (sex-related) therapy in PD," concluded Dr. Blandini and Dr. Cerri.
Diana Murray – IOS Press
The image is credited to Armando Barone.
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"Parkinson's Disease in Women and Men: What's the Difference?". Fabio Blandini et al.
Journal of Parkinson's Disease doi:10.3233/JPD-191683.
Parkinson's Disease in Women and Men: What's the Difference?
Increasing evidence points to biological sex as an important factor in the development and phenotypical expression of Parkinson's disease (PD). Risk of developing PD is twice as high in men than women, but women have a higher mortality rate and faster progression of the disease. Moreover, motor and nonmotor symptoms, response to treatments and disease risk factors differ between women and men. Altogether, sex-related differences in PD support the idea that disease development might involve distinct pathogenic mechanisms (or the same mechanism but in a different way) in male and female patients. This review summarizes the most recent knowledge concerning differences between women and men in PD clinical features, risk factors, response to treatments and mechanisms underlying the disease pathophysiology. Unraveling how the pathology differently affect the two sexes might allow the development of tailored interventions and the design of innovative programs that meet the distinct needs of men and women, improving patient care.
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In a previous post I wrote about a strange fragmentation of newly created InnoDB data files. Turns out that it's not InnoDB's fault, but Windows'.
I did some more tests and used a little script to just fill a bunch of files with 2GBs of garbage on a freshly defragmented partition. Same result: The files were not contiguous as one would expect, but scattered around the free space. So this clearly has something to do with NTFS's allocation strategy. If someone knows more about this, please feel free to leave a comment or drop me a line via email.
So if you really want contiguous data files for your MySQL database, first defrag your partition to get contiguous free space. After the create the data files and shutdown the database. Now defrag again, to have the data files be put together. From my experience more files of smaller size are easier to handle, because in order to have the defragmentation tool put them together it needs enough contiguous space to effectively put a copy there. I switched from ibdata files with 2GB each to 4x the number of files with 512MB each.


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Q: Batman Cartoon Movie featuring Satellite-based Blast About 7-8 years ago,  I watched a Batman cartoon movie on Cartoon Network in which Joker used an energy blast originating from a satellite. Before each blast, a light beam was projected to target. Batman always escaped the blast due to this light beam indicator from the satellite. Robin was also a character in this movie.
Can you please identify the movie?

A: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (also known as Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker in Europe and Australia) is a 2000 direct-to-video animated film.

... Back in the Batcave, Terry deduces that Tim must be working with the Joker when he discovers that the high-tech equipment the Joker have been stealing can be combined to form a machine that take control of any satellite, thus explaining what happened on the yacht.


Praz-Delavallade is pleased to announce A Gathering of Eagles, Jwan Yosef's first solo exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition features new paintings and site specific installations.
Yosef's work, while minimal in execution, is loaded with political and autobiographical signifiers. Having emigrated with his family from Syria to Stockholm at a young age and being educated in western cultural society, Yosef draws from a variety of pop culture, personal and political influences from these disparate places.
For one group of paintings, Yosef focuses on propaganda shots of Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad whose power grab (and that of his son, Syria's current leader Bashar al-Assad) deeply impacted him at a time when his family decided to emigrate to Sweden. In another series of canvases, he focuses on glorified publicity stills of Hollywood pop icon Rock Hudson, whose transcendence from cinematic idol to queer icon changed the public's perception of AIDs, humanizing the disease and also becoming a deeply important persona for Yosef. Two other paintings in the exhibition feature portraits of his father Ahmad Yosef, a Kurdish Muslim who at the time crossed ethnic and religious lines to marry a Christian Armenian which triggered the families move to Sweden and profoundly impacted Yosef's life. Each of these characters, distinctly different in their political and popular persona, represent separate memories and time frames for Yosef throughout his upbringing and who would later in life come to bring a deeper understanding of his heritage and search for identity. His interest in the plasticity of material is forefront in the works as he removes the staples from behind the painting, crumping and distorting the canvas. In this suggestive stripping, Yosef links the once simply emblematic portraits with a seductive and seemingly destructive gesture. Seen together, the works are comments on the wider perception of our immediate being and surrounding cultural and political situations.
Jwan Yosef (b. 1984, Syria) studied at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Stockholm, SE and received his MFA from Central Saint Martins, London, UK. He was recently the focus of a solo exhibition at the Goss Michael Foundation in Dallas TX, US. In 2013 he took part in the Threadneedle Prize and was awarded the BEERS Contemporary Award Emerging Art. Yosef is also a founding member of the not-for-profit art studio The Bomb Factory Art Foundation in Archway, North London. His work is held in public collections such as Karolinska, Solna SE and Stockholms Kulturvorvaltning, Stockholm SE along with various private collections.


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Right now, a lineup of Finnish companies at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is proving why Finland remains a technological superpower. While Nokia already stole the show by announcing a beautifully convincing reboot of the Volkswagen Beetle of cellphones, the 3110, there's plenty more to get excited about. Here's our line-up of cool companies, showcasing their top tech at the Finland Pavilion, who we think are worth a closer look.
What's going on with developed countries? Well, our populations are getting older, with reproductive activities tapering off at unprecedented rates, even in newly middle income countries. VideoVisit is among the frontrunners tackling the questions of caring for elderly populations, having already deployed a system of virtual home care services for the City of Helsinki. At MWC, VideoVisit will explain how these services have reduced costs for home care by 85%.
Are you a dog person? If you are, you're probably aware of the unique genius of dogs as companions who are bred and trained to understand us, work with us, and even just chill with us. One could even say dogs are the first purpose-built artificial intelligence humans "constructed". Yet, most of us aren't quite inside our dogs' heads, and since our canine fellows can't speak, important aspects of your dog's well-being could go unnoticed. Sense of Intelligence challenges this with their upcoming wearable sensors that will connect your dog to the internet to provide you with indicators of feelings, activity and health.
The Internet of Things is coming, whether you want it to or not: compute capacity is dropping in price to the point where you can justify putting networking capability in anything. Some will argue that IoT is part of the requirements for maintaining a leaner, more efficient global human civilisation under 21st-century challenges. Luckily, IT consultancy powerhouse Tieto is already here, standardising on development platforms that can make products happen in a responsible and supported manner.
Have you ever cursed at your home computer and wondered how big companies can pull off the stunt of making tens of thousands of computers and mobiles work with their own systems, at least most of the time? The answer lies in products from companies like Miradore that help IT departments in automating, collect real-time inventory of and keeping running heaps of computers. From a desktop and server management suite to a free cloud-based Mobile Device Management tool you can get started with today, Miradore has IT covered.
What do sports, retail, healthcare and security have in common? From now on, they share at least the potential for disruption through cool and novel ways to track persons and objects in different environments for analysis. With a small Bluetooth location tracking token that can be installed in everything from shopping carts to hockey pucks, Quuppa makes the presence of the Internet of Things unmissable.
Enterprise Resource Planning doesn't sound like the type of software you'd use for fun. Well, it probably isn't, since ERP software helps organisations plan how people and other resources are utilised, along with keeping track of what is done and how. However, FastROI specialises in mobile-ready planning solutions, especially in healthcare, daycare and social work. The company's apps help professional helpers in fields such as home care get their work done in style while spending more time with clients and patients than filing paperwork. This isn't just some small startup: FastROI's software is already in use in major institutions across municipalities and private care alike all over Finland.
Have you ever thought about how your work life might be a tad less stressful without trying to fit all communication within e-mail? Well, millions of other people have, and as a result, different tools for intelligent team collaboration are growing in popularity. Joiqu puts a new spin on this approach with an interactive, cross-team workspace application oriented around project management in a direction most people probably won't recognise as an intranet, no matter which device is in use.
Ever wondered where the sector along with public safety, medical and other critical societal functions go to buy tech gear? Well, to companies like Bittium, hopefully. Previously known as Elektrobit Corporation, Bittium offers 30 years of experience in developing specialised, secure and reliable networking and computer gear. Examples of products include hardened Android smartphones, comms secure software for these designed to work without reliance on 'public clouds'.
Those of us who've ever done the switch between mobile platforms know what a mess it can be to transfer the data and crud we build up on devices throughout our digital lives. Piceasoft aims to ease this transition, allowing mobile carriers, retailers and repair shops to sell consumers exactly the phones they want by providing on-the-spot help with data transfer. Likewise, the solution can be used to ensure secure, full erasure of customer data on old phones, allowing phones to be repurposed, in an auditable manner, without comprising upcoming EU data protection requirements.
If you want to keep your information private, you're in for quite a ride in today's computing environment. The world is packed with bad options for cloud storage and small business or home file servers you can get, but these generally don't pass closer inspection on the privacy and security side. Varaani provides hardware with all the file sharing capability you'd need, with a focus on keeping your data redundantly backed up and available in a minimalist 'hybrid cloud'. Photographers with terabytes to store may be interested as well.
Thomas Nybergh is a Digital Producer and writer for Ink Tank Media. Passionate about user-centred design and culture, he's spent a decade working at the crossroads of technology and marketing. He can be found sharing his thoughts on Twitter.


Enjoy Your Deck or Patio More This Summer With a Motorized Pergola!
A motorized pergola with louvered roof will extend your indoor living space to a patio or deck. The louvers in the roof rotate up to 120 degrees, allowing you to control the amount of shade and sun with the touch of a button.
Made from aircraft grade extruded aluminum, they are built to withstand high winds and heavy snow loads. There are 3 stock colors and over 80 custom colors. Maintenance free, with several options and add-ons available such as gutter systems, ceiling fans, heaters, lighting, and screens.
Reduces or eliminates fade on floors and furniture caused by harmful UV rays and rain.
Reduces the temperature of your deck or patio by 15-20 degrees.
Battery or solar operated motorized units are controlled via remote control.
Withstands strong winds and heavy snow loads in winter.
Great doing business with Action Awning and I would recommend them my friends. Also, our products were very efficiently installed!
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I can say doing business with Action Awning has been a great experience. Through the entire process, we could not be happier. We recommend Action Awning as your first choice.


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For many years we have known a printer name called "Canon."
From year to year, there are always new printers that are issued. And from year to year too, many people are confused when buying a printer because in addition to many brands, the type of one brand alone is diverse.
One of the favorite types of home-based printers in 2015-2016 is a multifunctional printer like Canon Pixma MG5721, a Wireless or wireless printer that can print using a Wi-Fi network.
It is said to be a home-based favorite printer because this printer is intended for printing activities without features such as faximile, ethernet port, and features ADF (Automatic Document Feeder).
I myself chose to review the printer Canon Pixma MG5721 is because in addition to this printer is very good to support the activity of light printing, this printer also has the cheapest price for the printer class.
The advantages of Canon Pixma MG5721 printer in general is its ability to produce high-quality prints, which for some people has become enough reason to buy a printer.
Canon Pixma MG5721 is a wireless printer that offers performance and performance of high quality prints with paper size support up to 8.5 "x 11".
In addition to having a large enough size, which is 14.6 "x 18" x 5.9 ", this printer also has a heavy enough weight for a printer that is 6.25 Kg.
On the front of this printer you will be able to find a 2.5 "LCD screen whose function is to show images of what you want to print before printing.
In addition, the LCD screen on the Canon Pixma MG5721 printer serves as a navigation tool for your printer.
In Canon Pixma MG5721 there are 5 pieces of ink storage tank which when compared with the storage tank on the printer in its class, the tank is on this printer can be spelled out as an ink tank that has high efficiency.
It is called an ink tank that has high efficiency because you can replace the ink content yourself easily even if you are a beginner in using the printer.
Download Driver Canon PIXMA MG5721 For Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Mac. Find complete driver functionality and installation software for Canon IR 2020i printer.
However, the step-by-step of the installation (and vice versa), it can be differed depend upon the platform or device that you use for the installation of Canon PIXMA MG5721 The above mentioned, the installation is occurred using Windows 7 and Mac for windows XP or windows 8 is not much different way.