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Abele, Julian
From the "Philadelphia Buildings" biography and Abele's Wikipedia entry.
A gifted designer, most of whose recognition came after his death, Julian Abele was the first African-American student to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Architecture.
Born in Philadelphia, the son of Charles R. and Mary A. Abele. His maternal grandfather was Robert Jones, who in the late eighteenth century founded the city's Lombard Street Central Presbyterian Church. His uncle, Absalom Jones, one of the two men who established the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1816, becoming with Richard Allen the first Black Americans to be formally ordained in any American denomination. A cousin, Julian Abele Cook, also practiced architecture and went on to design Howard University, and Abele's son, Julian Francis Abele, Jr was an architectural engineer.
His temperament and his life defy easy characterization. He was a dedicated francophile, and his wife was French. A devotee of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra as well as of the University of Pennsylvania football team, he was reserved and always immaculately dressed. One friend noted that even on vacations at the beach he always wore his suit to the boardwalk. Adele worked in many mediums: watercolor, lithography, etching, pencil; in wood, iron, gold and silver. He designed all his own furniture and made it, even doidng the petit point himself. While he knew many historic styles, he seemed to love Louis XIV French most of all.
He attended the Institute for Colored Youth and Brown Preparatory School in Philadelphia (later Cheyney University) before entering the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (PMSIA), where he gained his Certificate in Architectural Drawing in 1898, earning the Frederick Graff Prize of $25.00 for work in architectural design, evening class students, 1898. From PMSIA he continued to the University, where he would graduate in 1902. His undergraduate career was distinguished by a number of awards which recognized both his design and rendering abilities, including a first prize for the Pretty Memorial of 1902, the Haverford Memorial Gateway (1901), the Arthur Spayd Brook Memorial (also 1902), and the T-Square Club membership prize. In fact, even as the effort of an undergraduate, Abele's work often appeared in the annual exhibitions held by member societies of the Architectural League of New York. In 1901 he exhibited at the Toronto Architectural Club ("A Loggia in a Park"); in 1901/02 his design for a "bird house" appeared in the T-Square Club annual exhibition; and in 1903, after graduation, his work was included in the Pittsburgh Architectural Club's annual show ("A Metropolitan Cathedral"). In 1902/03 Abele also attended classes in architectural design at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
While still an undergraduate Abele worked for Louis C. Hickman in the evenings, and soon after graduation, his work caught the attention of Horace Trumbauer. Tumbauer hired Abele in 1906, and Abele would work as his chief designer for many years. Immediately after graduation in 1902 Abele went to Spokane, WA, where he designed a house for his sister, Elizabeth Abele Cook, wife of John F. Cook, who had held the post of Collector of Taxes for the District of Columbia for a number of years before accepting a position as Postmaster General in Bonners Ferry, ID (information from Alfred Branam letter to Sandra L. Tatman, 5 December 1981).
In the period after this construction Abele traveled to Europe, spending considerable time in France, with the support of his future employer, Horace Trumbauer. Family history and accounts by his contemporaries assert that Abele attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris during this time; however, no records from the Ecole document his attendance. This does not mean, however, that Abele did not work in the atelier system established by the Ecole. Often students would attend an atelier on an informal basis, never attaining the diploma but nonetheless gaining important Beaux-Arts experience. In 1903 Abele also traveled to Italy, where he was granted permission to sketch historic ruins (information from Alfred Branam letter). Both Italian and French sketches would appear later in the T-Square Club Annual Exhibition (1915: "Gothic House, Tours, France" and "Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy"). On his application for membership in the American Institute of Architects, Abele listed travel to England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain.
By March, 1906 Abele was back in Philadelphia and in the office of Horace Trumbauer. Initially he assisted Trumbauer's then chief designer Frank Seeburger; but when Seeburger left the office in 1909, Abele succeeded him as chief designer and retained that position until Trumbauer's death in 1938. Among his first designs in the Trumbauer office, according to a now-missing volume of pay records, were residences for Edgar Scott and Ida Silverman. After Trumbauer's death Abele and William O. Frank continued the firm under the name "The Office of Horace Trumbauer."
Abele's career with Horace Trumbauer included responsibility for many of the office's larger country houses (Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, PA; Miramar, Newport, RI; James B. Clews Residence, Long Island, NY), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and buildings at Duke University. Abele designed or contributed to the design of some 400 buildings, including Harvard's Widener Memorial Library, the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Shadow Lawn Mansion. His clients included the tobacco magnate James Duke, the financier Jay Gould, and a coterie of the wealthy from Philadelphia Main Line to Newport.
Most clients, however, never realized that Abele was chief designer; and due to his race, his name was not well-known outside of Philadelphia architectural circles until after Trumbauer's death. Nonetheless, his friends in Philadelphia, like Henry Magaziner, vividly remember his personality and taste: "He drew with unmatched facility. He worked in many mediums: water color, lithography, etching, pencil; in wood, iron gold, silver. He designed all his own furniture and made it, even doing the petit point himself. . . . While he knew many historic styles, he seemed to love Louis XIV French most of all. . . . However, he was conscious of good architecture everywhere and very careful to relate his buildings to what was around them . . ." (Henry Magaziner, "As I Remember Julian Abele.")
Submitted by gary on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 10:08pm
Associated with these buildings:
As architect:
DUKE (CAMERON) INDOOR STADIUM
DUKE CHAPEL - DUKE WEST CAMPUS
PRESIDENT'S HOUSE / ADMISSIONS OFFICE - DUKE WEST CAMPUS
BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
BASSETT DORMITORY
PEGRAM DORMITORY
BROWN DORMITORY
ALSPAUGH DORMITORY (1926- )
EAST CAMPUS UNION
EAST CAMPUS LIBRARY / LILLY LIBRARY
GILES DORMITORY
SCIENCE BUILDING / DUKE ART MUSEUM / FRIEDL BUILDING
CARR BUILDING - DUKE UNIVERSITY
Associated with these people:
Trumbauer, Horace
opendurham@preservationdurham.org


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Hidden Feature in Sony DRM Uses Open Source Code to Add Apple DRM
December 4, 2005 by J. Alex Halderman
For weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz with tales of intrigue about Sony's XCP copy protection system. Among the strangest revelations was that XCP itself infringes on the copyrights to several open source software projects. In one case, Sam Hocevar found conclusive evidence that part of XCP's code was copied from a program called DRMS, which he co-authored with DVD Jon and released under the terms of the GPL open source license. What made this finding particularly curious is that the purpose of DRMS is to break the copy protection on songs sold in Apple's iTunes Music Store. Why would XCP rip off code intended to defeat another vendor's DRM?
The answer is that XCP utilizes the DRMS code not to remove Apple DRM but to add it. I've discovered that XCP uses code from DRMS as part of a hidden XCP feature that provides iTunes and iPod compatibility. This functionality has shipped on nearly every XCP CD, but it has never been enabled or made visible in the XCP user interface. Despite being inactive, the code appears to be fully functional and was compatible with the current version of iTunes when the first XCP CDs were released. This strongly suggests that the infringing DRMS code was deliberately copied by XCP's creator, First4Internet, rather than accidentally included as part of a more general purpose media library used for other functions in the copy protection system.
This isn't the first time another vendor has tried to make its DRM compatible with Apple's. Apple's DRM, a system called FairPlay, places restrictions on songs purchased through the iTunes Music Store. FairPlay is the only DRM compatible with the immensely popular iPod, and Apple has declined to license it to rival music distributors, effectively locking rivals out from the iPod platform (at least as long as the rivals insist on using DRM). In 2004, RealNetworks attempted to work around Apple and reverse engineered FairPlay so that Real Player could create FairPlay files for use with the iPod. Apple responded by making vague legal threats and updating iTunes to break this compatibility. It looks like the people at First4Internet wanted to create their own iPod compatibility system, but rather than take the time to reverse engineer FairPlay themselves, they copied critical pieces of code from DRMS in violation of the GPL license.
Intriguingly, the FairPlay compatibility code in XCP is not limited to converting files from XCP CDs. The code appears to support conversion into FairPlay of files in a wide variety of input formats – MP3s, WAV files, raw audio files, and standard unprotected audio CDs – in addition to XCP-protected discs. It's also strange that the FairPlay compatibility code is shipped but not made available for use by applications, not even XCP's own player software. (Technically, the code is not exported from the shared library where it is stored.) This might indicate that First4Internet decided to remove the feature at the very last minute, shortly before XCP CDs started to ship.
In any case, the code is present and still works. It's possible to execute it by jumping to the right memory location after performing some basic setup. I've used this method to test various aspects of the software. Here is a screenshot of iTunes playing a protected file that I made from a regular MP3 file using the hidden XCP functionality:
It seems these findings raise more questions than they answer. Where did the code come from? Since it supports audio sources other than XCP CDs, did First4Internet license it from another vendor? Why did Sony disable the code but continue to ship it? How does iTunes compatibility fit in with Sony's overall copy protection strategy? Which is the greater evil – incompatible DRM platforms or GPL violations? Tune in again tomorrow when Ed will weigh in on these and other conundrums.
[This rest of this post contains technical information about how XCP uses the DRMS code. Feel free to stop reading now if you aren't interested in the details.]
Understanding how XCP uses code from DRMS requires some basic knowledge about FairPlay. When you buy a song from the iTunes Music Store, you receive a FairPlay encrypted audio file that can only be played with knowledge of a secret key assigned to you by Apple. iTunes retrieves this key from an Apple server, which prompts you to log in with your Apple ID and password. Your user key is stored on your hard drive in an encrypted key database (a file called SC Info.sidb). When you play the song again, or if you try to copy it to an iPod, iTunes reads your key from the database instead of reconnecting to the server.
FairPlay's security depends on the encrypted key database being difficult for anyone but Apple to decipher, so it is protected using a proprietary encryption method and a system-dependent secret key. (As security experts predicted, this protection was quickly broken; today DRMS is able to defeat FairPlay because DVD Jon painstakingly reverse engineered the database decryption code in iTunes.) iTunes encrypts the key database using a two step process. First, it XORs the plaintext database with the output from a proprietary pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) using a system-dependent seed; then it applies AES encryption with a system-dependent key. As a consequence of this design, the code for the PRNG is exactly the same whether the file is being encrypted or decrypted. To decrypt, iTunes applies AES decryption, then XORs the same PRNG output again. This explains why parts of the DRMS code – in particular, a function called DoShuffle, which computes the PRNG's output – are useful for encryption as well as their original purpose, decryption.
The complex, proprietary PRNG must have been especially difficult to reverse engineer. Rather than expend this effort themselves, XCP's authors appear to have lifted the DoShuffle code verbatim from DRMS. XCP uses this code to manipulate the iTunes key database in the process of adding FairPlay protection. Starting with an unencrypted audio file, such as a track from a protected CD, XCP compresses the audio in memory, then encrypts it using the same algorithm as FairPlay. Instead of using an Apple-assigned user key, XCP creates a new random user key and, with the help of the DRMS code, adds it to the iTunes key database. This ensures that the song file can only be used on the computer where it was created.
The XCP FairPlay compatibility code is contained in a file named ECDPlayerControl.ocx that is installed the first time an XCP CD is played. Here is how the DRMS code ties in with the rest of the library. (I've provided a debugger offset for each function as an aid to other investigators.) The DRMS DoShuffle subroutine (0x10089E00) is called from only two places, a function that encrypts the iTunes key database (0x1008A0C0) and a function that decrypts it (0x1008A300). Both these functions are called from only one other routine, which serves to read the key database, decrypt it, and, if necessary, to add the XCP user key to the database and write it out again in encrypted form (0x1008A470). This routine is called by a higher level function that converts an audio file into a FairPlay-protected AAC file (0x10027D20). You can test these functions by jumping into an earlier routine (0x10010380, apparently the start of a thread for transferring music to iTunes) after some simple initialization. I'll happily provide serious investigators with rough sample code and instructions.
My tests indicate that XCP's FairPlay-compatibility code works with iTunes up to iTunes version 4.8. iTunes 4.9, released June 28, 2005, included changes unrelated to FairPlay that cause the XCP code to fail. XCP CDs released after this date do not appear to contain an updated version of the code.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CD Copy Protection, DRM, Security
I have a copy protected CD, can somebody please give me step by step instructions on how to get the actual songs off of it so they're playable in iTunes? Thanks!
Boing Boing: Sony rootkit ripped off anti-DRM code to break says:
[…] So when Sony's arms-dealer was making its munitions, it added an attractive new feature for Sony and others: the ability to break DRM to sneak music into iTunes. The answer is that XCP utilizes the DRMS code not to remove Apple DRM but to add it. I've discovered that XCP uses code from DRMS as part of a hidden XCP feature that provides iTunes and iPod compatibility. This functionality has shipped on nearly every XCP CD, but it has never been enabled or made visible in the XCP user interface. Despite being inactive, the code appears to be fully functional and was compatible with the current version of iTunes when the first XCP CDs were released. This strongly suggests that the infringing DRMS code was deliberately copied by XCP's creator, First4Internet, rather than accidentally included as part of a more general purpose media library used for other functions in the copy protection system. Link […]
Dennis D. McDonald says:
I think Conspiracy Theorist may be on to something.
What have they been smoking over at sony?
First this reprehensible rootkit fiasco, then it appears that they themselves have not only 'taken' code, but have incorporated it into a system designed to prevent users from owning songs they buy. Sony, can you say hypocrisy?
I don't think DRM is a kiss from the mouth of God, but I find Apple's Fairplay reasonable. It's something I can live with, which is much more than I can say about the other guys.
conspiracy theorist says:
What are the odds that First4Internet and/or Sony deliberately introduced the code with the intention of essentially shaking down Apple? "Look…we have a proof of concept…we can make our players compatible…it's no development cost to you…why don't you just license us the rights to co-market? If you don't work with us, it's obviously just a matter of time until DVD-Jon does the same thing, so you might as well go with the flow…give us a good deal, and we'll all come out ahead."
J. P. Milne says:
John Nilsson:
The question is, should my right to fair use be eroded so that unregulated use may be diminished?
Recording industry: Yes. DRM actively applied.
Customers: No. Active struggle to remove DRM restrictions.
Me: I have not been consulted by either party about my rights.
John Nilsson says:
Someone said that DRM erodes fair use. I just want to mention the fact that the threat against fair use is neglectable in comparison on how DRM erodes _unregulated_ use.
In respect to the GPL discussion: Remember that even though GPL relies on copyright to be effective, it's purpose is to reverse it.
HJ says:
I can't locate the link at the moment, but wasn't one of the DRM peddlers recently responding to complaints about (non-)interobility with iTunes by telling its customers to please contact Apple and urge them to open up FairPlay?
The difference is subtle, and to some perhaps meaningless, but this is it. Sony/F4I broke the terms of the license (GPL) in what they did. DRMS is offered as a tool that does not fall within the terms of Apples ToS, however it is not illegal for DVD Jon to release it. It is true he is enabling people to break the Apple ToS, but in releasing the software he doesn't break their ToS, whereas Sony actively broke the terms of the GPL.
I do agree though that many people who I would term "open-source zealots" look at protections for public IP vs private IP in a very different light, and try and bend their interpretations of the law to fit their views. However, it is far more hypocritical to steal someone else's IP to protect your own. And we haven't even started talking about the ramifications of hijacking someones computer with a rootkit without their knowledge.
Andy Green says:
Are you sure this is a GPL violation by the nice folks at First4Internet? If they linked in pure GPL code then perhaps the intention – and effect – was to GPL their DLL at least. Maybe they just forgot to send out a LICENSE file and somebody should just ask for the sources.
Of course, because the GPL operates through the act of distribution, perhaps owners of this novel GPL'd DRM binary might equally ask Sony(-BMG) for the sources they are entitled to, since Sony distributed it.
Tulse says:
I will grant that both the GPL and Apple's ToS are vastly different in intent, and in their implications for fair use and the like. But the issue raised here seems to be primarily a legal one, namely, did Sony violate the GPL in a legal sense. And it seems to me the only way one can defend the legal foundation of the GPL is by also defending the legal foundation (if not the philosophical principles or societal implications) of commercial ToS. I just find it odd that folks get legalistic about GPL violations, but happily support violations of other licenses, since as I understand it, it's the same legal mechanisms that protect both.
I am not a lawyer, however, and I'd be happy to have this issue clarified.
Tulse:
Copyright does underlie both, and the GPL would not work w/o copyrights to lincense, but the differance is profound.
Terms of service are contracts of adhesion, you can't negoate them. The GPL is NOT a contact at all and makes no effort to limit what you do with or to a product for your own use.
DRM also errodes fair use, an important element of copyright since it balances the social cost of exclusive use with public goods like educational exceptions.
I don't mean this as flamebait, but as a genuine question: How can one get upset about violations of the GPL for software that violates Apple's Terms of Service? Aren't the two licenses covered by the same basic principle, in that you can use them if you agree to the terms, and not use them if you don't? How can one get legalistic about open source license violations while applauding violations of commercial licenses without courting hypocrisy, or at the very least undermining the legal principles that allow open source licenses in the first place?
If this report on SunnComm is true, and it seems so, it would explain the complete lack of morality of all the players involved in the recent fiasco, Sony-BMG, SunnComm and First4Internet.
http://p2pnet.net/story/7201
Customer 1: Have you got anything without DRM?
Music Exec: Well, there's DRM egg sausage and DRM, that's not got much DRM in it.
Customer 1: I don't want ANY DRM!
Customer 2: Why can't she have egg bacon DRM and sausage?
Music Exec: THAT'S got DRM in it!
Customer 2: Hasn't got as much DRM in it as DRM egg sausage and DRM, has it?
Vikings: DRM DRM DRM DRM… (Crescendo through next few lines…)
etc, etc.
James Katt says:
What is interesting about Fairplay is that Apple can come out with new versions of iTunes with each version having an updated encryption algorithm and automatically updating the encrypted key database to conform with the algorithm.
Thus, even if the DRM algorithm is broken through reverse engineering, Apple can always update it at any time with a new version of iTunes – thus keeping ahead of the hackers.
Apple has an updatable DRM. This is, in the end, what allows Apple to keep ahead of reverse engineering, while allowing the user to be not connected to the iTunes Music Store server to play their music.
mamling says:
> Are you aware of any of the authors suing for infringement?
Within minutes of the first such suit, the FUD mongers will be claiming that developers should stay away from Open Source software for fear of being sued.
abb3w says:
First, the Hot Coffee incident is a bad parallel. Hot Coffee was activating stub assembly code (present, but not normally used), by end users. Based on the above report, it seems that Sony used a portion of the copyrighted DRMS code (that is: the code was both present AND in active use), and redistributed the derived executable without associated source. The latter part is a violation of the (L?)GPL license terms. Unfortunately for any copyright case against Sony, any competent Sony lawyer will be arguing that by withdrawing the product from the market once learning the GPL code was included, they are no longer distributing the code. This leaves any case against trying to argue that withdrawal of the offending product is not a sufficient equitable remedy. This would be an uphill battle… unless, of course, you can prove that Sony understood they were using copyrighted code.
Getting an order for discovery of materials related to whether or not Sony knowingly infringed would doubtless release a large variety of interesting correspondence between First4Internet and Sony about the XPC software. IANAL, but I'd guess the discovery order (nearly routine in litigation) would be much easier than the anti-equity argument… especially since First4Internet doesn't have any protection from the GPL's big nasty teeth whatsoever, and discovery would help Sony prove they weren't corporate co-conspirators. The doctrine of unclean hands might have DIRE consequences for the copyright status of any XPC protected music, which might make any future contract negotiations with artists even harder than the current bad press already has.
Sony is up an excremental tributary without propulsion, and those aren't WATERfalls they're hearing ahead.
I wonder how DVD Jon feels now. Not so smug and self-righteous I bet. Here he was thinking he was SuperBit, helping mankind break DRM, and one of the first people to use his code do so to enhance DRM!
Joshua Tauberer says:
With the talk about whether one of the OSS projects will sue, maybe this is a criminal offense (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506) and the DOJ should step in…..
AnonX2 says:
In response to sm:
Judging from the Hot Coffee incident, the presence of unaccessible code in a public release of software is a sticky situation. Whether or not they can be held liable in court is another matter, but in theory with a "mod" I'm sure you could provide an interface to the XCP code.
Anon says:
In response to pete:
Here is an open letter from the developers of LAME, the open source mp3 encoder whose code was apparently included with XCP:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/open_letter_sony_bmg.html
Many so-called "Sony apologists" will state that the responsibility for the illegal inclusion of copyrighted, open source code in XCP falls directly on First 4 Internet. The fact that is it currently unclear if Sony ordered F4I to include the copyrighted code, or if Sony was even aware that XCP included copyrighted code does not reduce Sony's liability in the matter under U.S. law. Merely releasing copyrighted code, even if they were unaware of it, makes Sony as legally liable as F4I.
In other words, whether or not any of the open source developers whose license agreements/copyrights were violated choose to sue Sony is irrelevant as to whether or not Sony BMG broke the law. They clearly did.
The PC Doctor says:
More Open Source code buried into Sony XCP
Freedom to Tinker continues to discover more interesting information about the Sony XCP rootkit DRM junkware. This latest post outlines more code "borrowed" from other applications.
For weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz …
There seems to good evidence that several OSS projects have had thier copyrights violated by XCP. Are you aware of any of the authors suing for infringement?
sm says:
Nice detective work. This is a very interesting development.
Somehow I doubt DVD Jon will file suit against Sony/F4i for stealing his code, but Apple might weigh in on the matter, as it could be argued Sony is "trafficking" in a circumvention device per the DMCA. 'Course, it's not usable out of the box, so that seems unlikely.

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Dem japanischen Anbieter von Telekommunikationsgeräten, OKI Electric Industry, ist es gelungen Ultra HD-Material via IPTV von Japan über Singapur zu den Phillipinen zu übertragen. Dabei wurde das Internet Protokoll IPv6 genutzt, welches heute das standardisierte Verfahren zur Übertragung von Daten ist.
Dieser Versuch sollte auch verdeutlichen wozu das IPv6 Protokoll fähig ist, da dieses in keinem der Märkte großen Anklang findet.
Das Ultra HD-Material, welches von Hokkaido Television Broadcasting zur Verfügung gestellt wurde, ist auf einen MediaServer von OKI gespeichert worden und von dort via Lightweight Interactive Multimedia Enviroment (LIME) über IPTV übertragen worden. Die Übertragung war Teil der Video-Übertragungs-Studie im Rahmen des Sapporo Snow Festivals Anfang Februar.
Japanische Hersteller, haben es mit Unterstützung der Regierung, an die Spitze der Entwicklung und Vermarktung des neuen 4K Ultra HD-Standards geschafft. Da 4K die benötigte Datenmenge quasi vervierfacht, gab es immer wieder Bedenken, dass heutige Übertragungsmethoden diesen Ansturm an Daten einfach nicht gewachsen seien – deshalb entschied man sich für die Übertragung via IPv6.
OKI betonte in der Pressemitteilung, dass der Media Server nur mit üblichen Video-Übertragungs-Funktionen ausgestattet und via installierten IPTV Server trotzdem in der Lage war, das hochauflösende Material zu übertragen. Diese Botschaft war OKI sehr wichtig, da es noch keine einheitlichen Standards für die Übertragung von 4K gibt. Im Grunde ist es aber bereits mit den vorhandenen Mitteln möglich, Ultra HD-Material zu übertragen.
OKI (TOKYO:6703) recently concluded successful trials based on the OKI MediaServer video distribution system as part of efforts to promote ITU-T IPTV Standards. These trials involved the distribution of IPv6-based video to Singapore and Philippines, regions where IPv6 has yet to be adopted; the distribution of 4K video content based on state-of-the-art IPTV technologies; and feasibility confirmation for new IPTV applications allowing collaborative linking to services available on the Internet.
The trials were performed using the ITU IPTV IPv6 Global Testbed ("testbed" hereafter), an experimental environment that uses OKI MediaServer to distribute content created by Hokkaido Television Broadcasting (HTB) based on the Lightweight Interactive Multimedia Environment (LIME) standard. Previous trials distributed video content to the ITU-T Headquarters in Switzerland and to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The latest trials distributed video to Singapore and the Philippines, regions that have yet to fully adopt IPv6. The trials took place over the three-day period from February 5 to 7, 2013, as part of the Sapporo Snow Festival Video Distribution Trial hosted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Dr. Hideo Miyahara).
This is an IP video delivery system. It is equipped with typical video delivery functions as standard and it can be easily established in various systems that utilizes video and audio such as VOD, linear TV, live delivery systems, start over(*10), satellite stations and monitoring systems. OKI MediaServer is used as an IPTV server for telecommunication carriers, capitalizing on standard compatibility and technology to comply with larger-scale servers.
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HELP SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP MANY OTHERS
Liz Kanter had an idea. This was 1989, and she was single. She had spare time. She wanted to volunteer. Do a little good. So she opened a phone book. Called a few places. Most were not set up for anything less than a large commitment, six months to a year, minimum hours per week.
"What about a one-time thing?" she wondered.
She called some friends, found a COTS shelter, and one winter Sunday, she and seven pals went down to Peterboro Street in Detroit and cooked hamburgers and french fries for the homeless.
The next month, in a near blizzard, she and some more pals did a Habitat for Humanity project. When their fingers thawed, Liz noticed something. Her friends were talking about the project at work.
"You won't believe what we accomplished . . ." they said.
Most people don't believe what they can accomplish. It is why we do so little for others. We are sympathetic. We write checks. But the idea of getting our hands dirty, turning thought into reality — well, most of us feel we cannot make a difference.
Liz felt that way once. Not for long.
Her monthly "drag my friends out" sessions began to attract people who didn't even know her. She wasn't looking to form an organization, but she realized if somebody did the paperwork, set up the sites, got the info out — and all potential volunteers had to do was "plug themselves in" — well, people would show up.
So, working first out of her house, then, later, by her office desk (she worked for her father at American Benefits Group), she founded an organization called Volunteer Impact. It was the best kind of charity: formed in the head, powered by the heart and done with the hands.
I met Liz three years later, in 1992, when she asked me to speak at Hands-On Detroit Day, which brought people together from all over the city for a day's worth of volunteer projects. I remember using the men's room that day and standing next to another speaker/volunteer.
"Hi, I'm Dennis Archer," he said.
He would soon become the mayor.
Over the years, Volunteer Impact has grown from Liz's apartment to a basement office with no windows. But VI was never about frills. It was about human power. At its peak, VI had 14,000 people on its mailing list and was running 60 volunteer events a month! People would call, say how much time they had — two hours, a day, a week — and VI would plug them into soup kitchens, tutoring at-risk kids, building houses, painting neglected schools, doing Christmas parties at shelters. The challenge was keeping up with all the volunteers.
Now Volunteer Impact has a new challenge. It's going broke.
Sept. 11 had a chilling effect on groups like VI. Corporate sponsorship dried up. Two major donors reneged on promises. And suddenly, incredibly, this wonderful organization, which opens so many doors, may have to close its own.
Sorry. Can't let it happen. I have been working with VI for five years, having formed the splinter group A Time To Help for monthly volunteer events. I see how people are affected by volunteering. It opens eyes, then opens hearts.
At its peak, Volunteer Impact's annual budget was not even $300,000. That's the price of one corporate party weekend. This is a bare-bones operation. It is also a feeder agency: If it goes, so does a lot of support for other charities.
I usually don't get involved with pleas for financial help. There are just so many. But I have seen the impact firsthand, and I believe things are in your path for a reason. So: Volunteer Impact, 23077 Greenfield Road, Suite LL10, Southfield, MI 48075; 248-559-4950; www.volunteerimpact.org. It started with a notion, the best kind, the kind that says, "I am able, let me help." Maybe, for one of our city's best ideas, we can do the same.
Contact MITCH ALBOM at 313-223-4581 or albom@freepress.com. He will sign "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Barnes & Noble in East Lansing and at 7 p.m. Friday at Chapters in Windsor's Devonshire Mall.


Evaluate the technical feasibility of the functional analysis, work with others on the technical analysis or carry out the technical analysis in order to meet the needs of users and make possible the efficient programming of the application.
Implement and enhance the technical applications, taking the analyses of the FAS and/or TDS into consideration in order to meet the requirements of users.
Cooperate in Identity, Access Management tool (IIQ) and Provisioning. The IIQ connectors for provisioning are being implemented on the segregated platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux, ...) to ensure the continuity of the IAM & provisioning of the migrated applications (to the segregated network).


Steve has designed, managed and developed industry leading solutions for over 20 years.
Today, Steve is the VP of Product Development managing the various product offerings of pavliks.com along with being the principal architect of The Portal Connector for Dynamics CRM, the leading portal technology for Microsoft Dynamics 365 build with Progress Sitefinity.
Learn about the tools available within Sitefinity to accelerate your platform development. In this session, you will learn where to start with modules, widgets, config files, the EventHub and other useful features of Sitefinity. We will also review some best practices for creating your own solutions within Sitefinity.


Meteorologist Joel Gratz takes weather prediction off the beaten path. Gratz, founder of the skier-beloved forecast company OpenSnow and alumnus of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently created a new app for iPhones that provides forecasts for hikers of Colorado's highest peaks. Gratz graduated from CU Boulder in three years with both an M.S. in Environmental Studies and an MBA. His new app, OpenSummit, delivers hourly temperature, wind, precipitation and lightning forecasts for every mountain in Colorado over 14,000 feet. The app is also synced with Instagram, so users can see for themselves the recent conditions at each summit. OpenSummit launched in September 2016, so summer 2017 will be its first ever 14er season.
OpenSummit aims to help eager hikers find ideal days to climb the big peaks, giving them more enjoyable and safer conditions. Hiking above tree line, as all of these hikes require, presents a severe risk of lightning strikes. According to the National Park Service, "Each year in Rocky Mountain National Park people are injured—sometimes killed—by lightning." The National Lightning Safety Institute ranks Colorado as 3rd most deadly for lightning strikes behind Florida and Texas. From 1990-2003, 39 people died from lightning strikes in Colorado.
Indeed, Gratz is no stranger to filling forecast niches. His powder forecasts started as an email chain to his friends in 2007 and transformed into OpenSnow by 2011. OpenSnow provides mountain-specific forecasts, webcams, and snow reports for hundreds of ski destinations across the globe. While it's difficult to know the impacts of these forecasts on ski resort turn out, Gratz is confident in the reach of OpenSnow. "In a lot of the locations where we're the strongest—here in Colorado and in Utah and Tahoe—our forecasters are looked at as the main local forecasters for those mountain regions…And just by the number of people that are using our service and the number of partners that are advertising with us, my gut feeling is that we have a pretty good influence." The OpenSnow app and website see about 2 million visitors each ski season and have over 40,000 likes on Facebook.


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Roseanne Barr tweets viciously racist comment about Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
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Roseanne Barr, a supporter of President Trump, has faced heavy criticism over her "racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and hate speech" in recent years, although her comments took a particularly vile turn on Monday when she tweeted about former President Barack Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett:
Roseanne is apparently referring to top Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett, who is African-American. https://t.co/LjpXzotFsA pic.twitter.com/W1sTA1Yuu4
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) May 29, 2018
Barr made her comment in a thread bashing "Obama's secrets," in which one user commented "Jarrett helped hide a lot."
Jarrett declined to provide a comment to The Wrap, but Qasim Rashid, a lawyer and human rights activist, tweeted: "White privilege is being an open racist [and] Islamophobe [and] still getting a prime time TV spot."


So, you've written your new blog post (or your blog writer has written it for you) and added it to your website. Now, you need your target audience to see it, read it, interact with it and think to themselves 'hmm, that company really knows their stuff'. But how do you get them to do that?
Blogs take time to research and write. It can be difficult to come up with topics that people will care about. Plus, you have a million and one other things to do to keep your business running smoothly. So, why should you bother blogging? Is it worth investing your time and energy in a business blog?


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05/13/2020 — NEW PODCAST: Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Speak Out
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The Green New Deal was the first U.S. Congressional climate change proposal to include food and farming.
The resolution calls for "working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically feasible, including—(i) by supporting family farming; (ii) by investing in sustainable farming and land use practices that increase soil health; and (iii) by building a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food."
What do U.S. farmers and ranchers think of the Green New Deal? That's what we've been asking them in our new Farmers & Ranchers for the Green New Deal Podcast, and in videos broadcast live on the Regeneration International Facebook page.
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Julie Davenson, Stonewall Farm (Keene, N.H.):
"I think farming is a potential, important and powerful solution to climate change, but it's often overlooked and overshadowed with renewable energy. I find most people don't even know that it is a potential and powerful solution. That's why I'm so excited about the Green New Deal, because it has a focus on regenerative agriculture and agriculture as a whole. I don't think we can achieve the changes that we need with renewable energy and technology alone. I think we need biological solutions and that's what regenerative agriculture is."
Francis Thicke, Radiance Dairy (Fairfield, Iowa):
"We need to make agriculture profitable for farmers. We need to break up the large monopolized agribusinesses. I don't think we can really fix our environmental problems if we don't fix it holistically. One thing I like about the Green New Deal is that it looks holistically at it, by supporting family farmers, investing in regenerative agriculture and so on."
Seth Watkins, Pinhook Farm (Clarinda, Iowa):
"My first step in the Green New Deal comes to how we care for our soil and our natural resources and the practices that are carbon friendly that get that carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil. I don't want to pick on Third World countries, but we're having Third World country problems in rural America because of perceived efficiencies in our agriculture system that are really false efficiencies, and what I'm seeing is that when we go back to these ecological solutions of better crop rotation, of the principles of conservation agriculture, keeping our ground covered, reintegrating livestock in a smart way, in a way that honors the rights of the animals, as well, I see it making rural America a better place to live.
Chris Petersen, (Clear Lake, Iowa):
"The Green New Deal is the best deal since the deal that F.D.R. put out, the New Deal, to save the family farm. That's the first thing. Number two, it's about time all of agriculture joined in, in a solution to the problem. You know, overall, we're not the best actors in the world of trying to stem greenhouse gases. Regenerative agriculture. Sustainability. I practice it. It's the wave of the future, if we're going to retain the ability to feed ourselves."
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MS Dhoni showed in World Cup that he still has a lot of cricket left in him: Diana Edulji
India's loss fuelled speculation over Dhoni's retirement but Edulji said the World Cup winning captain showed in the tournament that he still has a lot of cricket left in him.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni walks off after getting dismissed for 50 in 2019 World Cup first semi-final between New Zealand and India at Old Trafford in Manchester. (AP)
BCCI acting President CK Khanna and COA member Diana Edulji on Thursday lauded India's performance in the World Cup following the team's heartbreaking loss against New Zealand in the semi-finals. India, who had topped the league stage, did not play to their potential in the knock-out game to lose by 18 runs.
"The team played well. It was just unfortunate that the game went into the second day. Three early wickets put the team on the backfoot completely. Then it was a great recovery from Jadeja and Dhoni. It was a case of so close but yet so far. Hats off to Jadeja and Dhoni for the way they played," Edulji told PTI.
READ| 'Retirement ka vichar bhi aap mann mein mat laayiye,' Lata Mangeshkar's heartfelt message to MS Dhoni
Chasing a modest target of 240, the Indian top order suffered a stunning batting collapse to leave the team reeling at 24 for four. Ravindra Jadeja (77) and MS Dhoni's (50) seventh-wicket partnership put India back in the game but the latter's run-out tilted the match in New Zealand's favour.
India's loss also fuelled speculation over Dhoni's retirement but Edulji said the World Cup winning captain showed in the tournament that he still has a lot of cricket left in him.
"I completely appreciate the way he played in the whole tournament. That (retirement) is his personal decision. Only he can take that decision and it is his body which has to answer him. I still feel that he has a lot of cricket left in him. The youngsters in the team still need his mentorship, " Edulji, herself a former India captain, added. Khanna too applauded the efforts of the Indian team.
READ | 'Hasta la Vista Dhoni,' Watch how Martin Guptill's bullet throw broke Indian hearts
"It was a tough game and I think our boys played their hearts out. No one wants to lose a game. Each player tried really hard but it was just not our day," Khanna said.
"India played brilliant cricket in league phase. I am sure our team will work hard and come up with more success in future. Congratulations to New Zealand team. I wish them all the best," he said.
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Q: Finding a symbol in my own process Here's the setup:

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*There's an application A that loads liba.so (linked at compile time)

*liba.so exports a symbol expA

*I don't control either A or liba.so

*Application A can load a library I specify, libmine.so, into the same process via dlopen (think plugin architecture)

*I need to use expA from libmine.so but don't know how to find it without explicitly linking against liba.so, which is what I've been doing so far. I assume this won't work in the real world since that symbol is not guaranteed to be at the same address as the one in my local copy of liba.so (or is it?). libmine.so will be closed-source and can't be recompiled with A.

I've never done anything like this, so am a bit unclear on the details of library loading. For example, if I try to dlopen("liba.so") from within libmine.so, will I get a handle to the already loaded library or a new copy?
In terms of how libmine.so is loaded, all I know is that it will be loaded with RTLD_LAZY (and nothing else).
Any help and pointers would be greatly appreciated!

A: If all the liba.so library is dlopened using RTLD_GLOBAL, then you can use dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "expA") to find the symbol without needing to reopen the library.
If the liba.so library is dlopened using RTLD_LOCAL then you will need to obtain a handle to the library using dlopen again within your own libmine.so. Note the following:

If the same library is loaded again with dlopen(), the same file handle is returned. The dl library maintains reference counts for library handles, so a dynamic library is not deallocated until dlclose() has been called on it as many times as dlopen() has succeeded on it. The _init() routine, if present, is only called once. But a subsequent call with RTLD_NOW may force symbol resolution for a library earlier loaded with RTLD_LAZY.

i.e. it's the same copy of the library.
the mechanism is (pseudo), assuming expA is a function: int expA(int value):
int (*fpointer)(int) = NULL;

void *handle = dlopen("liba.so", RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_LOCAL);
if (handle != NULL) {
    void *symbol = dlsym(handle, "expA");
    if (symbol != NULL) {
        fpointer = (int (*)(int ))symbol;
    }
}

That's pseudo code, with little to no error handling.

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Carriera

Club
Kjartansson ha cominciato la carriera con la maglia del Selfoss, formazione all'epoca militante nella 2. deild karla. Grazie alla promozione nel campionato 2006, in cui l'attaccante ha segnato 2 reti in 17 incontri, il Selfoss è arrivato nella 1. deild karla. Kjartansson è rimasto in forza al club per altre due stagioni.

Nel 2009 è stato ingaggiato dall'ÍBV Vestmannæyja. Il 10 maggio ha potuto così esordire nell'Úrvalsdeild, massima divisione locale: è stato titolare nella sconfitta per 2-0 sul campo del Fram Reykjavík. Il 1º giugno ha realizzato la prima delle 2 reti messe a segno in campionato, contribuendo al successo per 3-1 sul Grindavík.

Nel 2010 ha fatto ritorno al Selfoss, ormai militante nell'Úrvalsdeild. È retrocesso al termine del campionato, tornando così nella 1. deild karla. Anche grazie alle 16 reti in 22 partite segnate dall'attaccante, il Selfoss si è guadagnato l'immediata promozione. Kjartansson è rimasto in squadra per un'ulteriore stagione, culminata con 7 gol in 21 partite di campionato.

Nel 2013 è stato messo sotto contratto dal Fylkir. Ha debuttato con questa maglia il 6 maggio, in occasione della sconfitta casalinga per 1-2 contro il Valur: è stata sua la rete in favore del Fylkir. A fine stagione, ha totalizzato 13 reti in 22 presenze in campionato.

Il 20 dicembre 2013 ha firmato un contratto triennale con i norvegesi del Vålerenga, valido a partire dal 1º gennaio 2014. Ha debuttato nell'Eliteserien il 28 marzo 2014, schierato titolare nella sconfitta per 2-0 sul campo del Molde. Il 6 aprile ha realizzato le prime reti in squadra, con una doppietta nella vittoria per 3-1 sul Bodø/Glimt.

Il 14 settembre 2014, con la tripletta realizzata ai danni dell'Haugesund, è diventato il calciatore ad aver segnato più gol nell'arco di una stagione con la maglia del Vålerenga: con 24 reti, infatti, ha superato il precedente record detenuto da Jørn Andersen, che nel campionato 1985 aveva messo a segno 23 marcature.

Il 17 ottobre 2014, il suo nome è stato inserito tra i candidati per la vittoria del premio Kniksen per il miglior attaccante del campionato. Il 10 novembre, si è aggiudicato la vittoria in questa categoria. Si è laureato capocannoniere con 25 reti in 29 partite di campionato.

Il 21 novembre 2014, il Vålerenga ha comunicato d'aver rinnovato il contratto di Kjartansson per altre quattro stagioni. Il 20 gennaio 2015, il Vålerenga ha annunciato d'aver trovato un accordo per la cessione a titolo definitivo del calciatore ai cinesi del Jiangsu Sainty, formazione militante nella massima divisione locale: il trasferimento sarebbe stato ratificato al superamento delle visite mediche, previste per la stessa giornata.

Torna in Scandinavia per iniziare la stagione 2016 nel Malmö FF, imponendosi come capocannoniere del campionato fino al momento della sua cessione, avvenuta a torneo in corso: il 30 agosto 2016 infatti si è trasferito agli israeliani del Maccabi Tel Aviv con un contratto quadriennale. Per il club svedese, che due mesi dopo si sarebbe ugualmente laureato campione di Svezia, è stata una delle cessioni più remunerative della propria storia, visti i circa 4 milioni di euro ricevuti.

Al Maccabi Tel Aviv, Kjartansson è stato il capocannoniere della Ligat ha'Al 2016-2017 con 19 reti all'attivo. Nel corso della sua seconda stagione israeliana ha realizzato invece 13 reti in campionato, chiudendo comunque la classifica marcatori al 2º posto in solitario.

Nell'agosto 2018 è stato acquistato dai russi del Rostov, firmando anche in questo caso un contratto di quattro anni. Qui è diventato compagno di squadra dei connazionali Ragnar Sigurðsson, Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson e Sverrir Ingason. La sua permanenza in Russia tuttavia è durata meno di un anno, periodo durante il quale ha collezionato 8 presenze in campionato senza mai segnare, rimanendo spesso in panchina. Le uniche due reti con la maglia del Rostov le ha realizzate in Coppa di Russia contro il Syzran-2003, squadra di terza serie.

Il 18 marzo 2019 ha iniziato ufficialmente la sua seconda parentesi nel campionato svedese dopo quella avuta tre anni prima con il Malmö FF: è passato infatti in prestito agli stoccolmesi dell'Hammarby per metà stagione, fino al successivo 15 luglio, giocando durante questo periodo 15 partite e realizzando 7 reti.

La dirigenza del club biancoverde ha provato a prolungare l'accordo almeno fino a fine anno, ma il Rostov ha preferito optare per un prestito al Rubin Kazan'. Il prestito al Rubin tuttavia è terminato prematuramente, così, nella successiva sessione invernale di mercato, il giocatore islandese è tornato al Rostov per poi essere però girato nuovamente in prestito nel giro di pochi giorni, questa volta nella Süper Lig turca allo Yeni Malatyaspor, con un accordo valido per 6 mesi comprensivo anche di un'opzione per un eventuale anno in più.

Il 28 agosto 2020 ha fatto ritorno al Vålerenga, a titolo definitivo: ha firmato un contratto valido fino al 31 dicembre 2023.

Nazionale
Kjartansson ha giocato per le selezioni Under-17 e Under-19 islandesi. Il 23 maggio 2014, è stato convocato in Nazionale maggiore in vista delle partite amichevoli contro  ed . Il 30 maggio è stato schierato titolare nel pareggio per 1-1 contro la selezione austriaca.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 10 marzo 2021.

Cronologia presenze e reti in Nazionale

Palmarès

Club

Jiangsu Sainty: 2015

Individuale
Miglior attaccante dell'Eliteserien: 1
2014

Capocannoniere del campionato norvegese: 1
2014

Capocannoniere del campionato israeliano: 1
2016-2017 (19 reti)

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale islandese

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Q: Probability - Counting techniques I have a hard time understanding counting problems and have no clue how to even start. Here is a problem that I am working on.
A family consisting of four persons—A, B, C, and D—belongs to a medical clinic that always has a doctor at each of stations 1, 2, and 3. During a certain week, each member of the family visits the clinic once and is assigned at random to a station. The experiment consists of recording the station number for each member. Suppose that any incoming individual is equally likely to be assigned to any of the three stations irrespective of where other individuals have been assigned.
(a) What is the probability that all four family members are assigned to the same station?
(b) What is the probability that at most three family members are assigned to the same station?
(c) What is the probability that one station has two family members at it and the others have only one?

A: (a) $3\times\left(\frac{1}{3}\right)^4$
(b) $1 - 3\times\left(\frac{1}{3}\right)^4$
(c) $$ \frac{3{4\choose 2}\times2!}{3^4}$$
( Choose 2 members out of 4 and put them in 1 of the 3 three stations. Then, there are 2! ways to arrange the remaining 2 members)


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Tomáš Suslov (Szepesújfalu, 2002. június 7. –) szlovák válogatott labdarúgó, a Groningen játékosa.

Pályafutása

Klubcsapatokban
2010-ben került a Spišská Nová Ves akadémiájára, majd 2014 elején csatlakozott a Tatran Prešov korosztályos csapataihoz. 2017 decemberében egy hetet töltött el a német FC Bayern München csapatánál. 2018 augusztusában két évre írt alá a holland Groningen-hez, ahol az akadémiára került, majd a következő évben hosszabbított 2022 nyaráig. 2019-ben sikerült a klub történelmében először megnyerniük az U17-es bajnokságot. 2020. február 22-én mutatkozott be az első csapatban a VVV-Venlo ellen a 88. percben Azor Matusiwa cseréjeként. Szeptember 13-án lépett következőleg pályára és megszerezte első bajnoki gólját a PSV Eindhoven ellen 3–1-re elvesztett találkozón. Néhány nappal később 2025-ig hosszabbított vele klubja. 2022. január 28-án 2026 nyaráig újra meghosszabbították a szerződését.

A válogatottban
2017 és 2018 között többszörös pályára lépett az U16-os válogatottban. Végigjárta a korosztályos válogatottakat. 2020 novemberében kapott először meghívót a felnőtt válogatottba, de Észak-Írország ellen a kispadon kapott lehetőséget. November 18-án debütált Csehország elleni Nemzetek Ligája-mérkőzésen a 62. percben Albert Rusnák cseréjeként. 18 évesen 164 naposan ő lett a válogatott legfiatalabb debütáló játékosa, megelőzve Németh Szilárdot.

A 2020-as labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokságon két mérkőzésen lépett pályára. 2021. november 14-én három gólpasszt jegyzett a Málta ellen 6–0-ra megnyert világbajnoki-selejtező mérkőzésen. 2022. június 3-án megszerezte első gólját Fehéroroszország elleni Nemzetek Ligája-mérkőzésen.

Statisztika

Klub
2022. május 15-én frissítve.

A válogatottban
2022. június 6-án frissítve.

Góljai a válogatottban

Sikerei, díjai
Peter Dubovský-díj: 2021

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások
Tomáš Suslov adatlapja a Transfermarkt oldalon

Szlovák labdarúgók
Labdarúgó-középpályások
Iglóiak
2002-ben született személyek
A Groningen labdarúgói
Az Eredivisie labdarúgói
A 2020-as Európa-bajnokság labdarúgói
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British guitar Ian Brighton was tutored by Derek Bailey, and was a member of John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble and the Tony Oxley Quartet; this release coincides with the guitarist's 72nd birthday, in a variety of setting with a great list of improvisers.
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 recorded 2013-2015.
Ian Brighton is a free improvising guitarist, known for the bands Balance, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, and Spontaneous Music Orchestra.
Trevor Taylor is an improvising musician based in the UK, performing electroacoustic improvisation. He is best known for his band Circuit, and his associations with saxophonists Evan Parker and Paul Dunmall. He is also the label leader for FMR (Future Music Records).
"Philipp Wachsmann. Born Uganda, 1944; violin, viola and electronics.
In the CD booklet to Gushwachs, John Corbett notes that Phillip Wachsmann came to free improvisation from a predominantly classical background, particularly via the contemporary experiments of "indeterminacy, graphic and prose-based scores, conceptualism and electroacoustics, listening to Webern, Partch, Ives, Berio and Varèse, reading 'Die Reihe' and interrogating the rhythmic, harmonic and melodic preoccupations of Western art music. Starting in 1969, Wachsmann was a member of Yggdrasil, an ensemble performing works by Cage, Cardew, Feldman, Ashley and others and in this group he used contact mikes on the violin and made his own electronic instruments, ring modulators and routing devices. Ironically, his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1969-1970) pushed him hard in the direction of free music. He recalls: 'Despite her neoclassical orientation, her insistence that composition is about the imagination of performance and its realisation, the live moment, and her stunning ability to make this happen was a powerful influence on me, steering towards 'performance' and therefore 'improvisation'.'"
Wachsmann moved from Yggdrasil to Chamberpot - recorded on Bead 2 - and shortly thereafter appeared on Tony Oxley's influential February papers, forward looking in the virtual 'industrial' orientation of some of the tracks, years before this became an accepted genre; the two musicians have continued to work together, in various groupings but notably in the percussionist's Celebration Orchestra. Philipp Wachsmann has also performed and/or recorded with: Derek Bailey's Company, e.g. on the recording Epiphanies; Georg Graewe; Barry Guy; Iskra 1903; King Übü Orchestrü; London Jazz Composers' Orchestra; Evan Parker, particularly as part of the Evan Parker Electronic Project; Quintet Moderne; Fred Van Hove's ML DD 4; Rüdiger Carl's COWWS (now CPWWS) Quintet; and Lines, with Martin Blume, Jim Denley, Axel Dörner and Marcio Mattos. He also plays as a solo musician.
Phillip Wachsmann also administers Bead Records."
"Ian Brighton's first album Marsh Gas was released on Bead Records in 1977. This, his second album, is released nearly forty years later. Marsh Gas is now, sadly, a rare and virtually unobtainable artefact (other than the availability of some tracks via YouTube) so it's significant that Brighton's Now And Then has been released to coincide with the guitarist's 72nd birthday and which proves that he has not lost an iota of the iconoclastic dynamism he evinced all those decades ago. In addition to his solo performances, he was also a member of John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble and the Tony Oxley Quartet.
"A Voice You Left Behind" begins poignantly with the inimitable strains of Derek Bailey's softly but incisively spoken words on the subject of the potential oxymoron of recorded improvisation. Bailey was Brighton's guitar tutor and mentor and this is apparent from the moment Brighton starts playing his electric archtop. However, Brighton is by no means a copyist, he has his own distinct style and avoids the overuse of Bailey's trademark harmonics.
"Chasin Lol" is a solo guitar paean to the late and greatly missed soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill. Here Brighton employs frenetic, darting movements, often incorporating both a slide and some behind the bridge playing.
"Alive And Well" featuring Brighton on solo guitar once more and which was recorded in 2001. In contrast to the lone guitar, "Percussion Discussion" is absolutely gripping. Sheets of echoing percussion cascade and envelope the metallic florid guitar notes. Frank Perry and Trevor Taylor play in tandem along with intermittent contributions from Nicky Heinen on flute. The only slight negative here is that it is not possible to determine which percussionist is playing what. But this is a minor quibble as the overall effect is dramatic and engaging.
"Generations Apart" features Brighton with his son Paul on electronics and from the opening, Brighton's characteristic bold note-striking tendency is encountered whilst the electronics provides aural light and shade.
"Going Home" benefits from an underlay of electronics over which the guitarist explores tintinnabulating territory. Along with others including Derek Bailey, Marc Ribot, Roger Smith, John Russell, Keith Rowe and Fred Frith, Brighton is a significant if too rarely heard innovator in the world of guitar improvisation.


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Robert Gray has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing for Farécla Inc. at its headquarters in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Robert will be helping to develop the business activities of the company in automotive, marine and aerospace.
The new position has been created in response to Farécla's continued growth in the Americas. Last year, despite the recession, revenue was 30 percent higher than the previous year, thanks to the popularity of the brand and the increasing penetration into Canada, South America and the Caribbean.
Farécla President Michael Pearson said, "The company has evolved into a very substantial Americas operation and with it my duties and responsibilities have grown considerably, so that there is now a need to bring in a right-hand person who has the breadth of experience required to assist in managing those responsibilities."
"Robert was formerly with Sherwin Williams Automotive for over 20 years in a variety of management positions and brings a wealth of information and industry knowledge," Pearson added. "He is joining a growing company with powerful brands, and his experience will undoubtedly help to strengthen Farécla going forward."
Robert begins his new role on Sept. 7.
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Circle Brunch At The Breakers Named To OpenTable's 2016 List Of The 100 Best Restaurants In America
by Lyssa Goldberg | Dec 2016
One of the 100 best restaurants in America is right here in Palm Beach.
OpenTable has released its 2016 list of the best restaurants in America, and the Circle Brunch at The Breakers made the list once again.
The 100 best restaurants were selected from more than 24,000 restaurants based on more than 10 million reviews submitted by OpenTable diners between Nov. 1, 2015, and Oct. 31, 2016.
"The common thread running through this list of winning restaurants is excellence in hospitality," Caroline Potter, OpenTable Chief Dining Officer, said in a statement.
The Circle's Sunday brunch, served inside The Breakers' spectacular circular dining room with intricate frescoes and an oceanview, offers a lavish buffet of carved meats, fresh fish, a caviar station, raw bar, sushi, pasta, imported cheeses and pâté, breakfast favorites including Belgian waffles and eggs benedict, and a selection of more than 30 desserts.
While New York and California led with 13 and 12 restaurants on the list, respectively, Florida had six total (three more than last year). The other five Sunshine State restaurants were: Arabellas Italian Ristorante in Winter Haven, The Cellar Restaurant in Daytona Beach, Chef's Table at the Edgewater in Winter Garden, Collage Restaurant in St. Augustine, and Maison Blanche in Longboat Key.
The Circle's Brunch is served every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at a cost of $110 for adults and $50 per child (prices may vary during holidays and special events).
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Cantwell, Smith secure $9.1 million for Noise Mitigation in Highline Public Schools
Jun 25, 2019 | Burien News, Education, Environment, Headlines, Health & Wellness, Politics, Schools, Science, Sea-Tac Airport
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, on Tuesday (June 25) announced that $9.1 million in federal funding was awarded to support noise mitigation projects at schools in Highline Public Schools.
These funds will help support student learning by reducing classroom interruptions from excessive aircraft noise from nearby Sea-Tac Airport.
"Students in Burien and Des Moines deserve a healthy and productive learning environment, despite their close proximity to our state's busiest airport," said Senator Cantwell. "I'm proud to have teamed up with Congressman Smith and the Port of Seattle to ensure these critical noise mitigation projects receive the resources they need to support Highline students."
"This is a great example of how partners at all levels of government can work together to keep the promises made to our students. Having grown up in SeaTac myself, I know firsthand the challenges faced by our communities and how important federal resources and support are to fixing them," said Congressman Smith.
The grants announced yesterday by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) award the Port of Seattle with $6 million for noise mitigation measures for Highline High School in Burien and $3.1 million for the same purposes for Des Moines Elementary in Des Moines. In total, these projects will benefit more than 1,600 students. The funds will be disbursed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
"The Port is committed to economic opportunity and quality of life for all local residents, and there is no more important investment in our communities than modern, clean and quiet schools for our students," said Port of Seattle Commission President Stephanie Bowman. "Senator Cantwell's and Representative Smith's leadership on ensuring this funding was a major victory, and we look forward to working with both of them, the FAA and the school district on these projects."
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is located in the center of the school district, and many of the district's schools are impacted by airport noise. A 2002 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Port of Seattle, the FAA, and Highline Public Schools outlined noise mitigation for a number of Highline schools. Since the MOA was signed, the Port and the Highline school district met their portion of the funding obligation. During that time, the noise contour map around the airport was slightly changed, leaving a number of schools in areas that then did not qualify for the previously agreed upon funding. Still, schools in these areas continue to be negatively impacted by airport noise.
Last year, Senator Cantwell and Representative Smith pushed for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to fix this issue by allowing the FAA to provide noise mitigation funds to schools that were excluded from the previously-committed funding due to the changes in the noise contour map. The amendment was ultimately passed by Congress and signed into law, giving Highline Public Schools access to more than $14 million in FAA Airport Improvement Grants for noise mitigation projects. These projects include replacement of doors, windows, and the installation of through-the-wall AC units, as well as funds for new construction to include noise mitigation.
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Smoke and Mirrors—An Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Interview by Michael Czyzniejewski (Read the Story) June 22, 2015
Art by Ashley Inguanta
There's a long tradition in literature of connecting food and sex. Here, you seem to be taking that down a dark path, the food a relief from this particular type of sex. Why do you think food has this connection, this saving power?
When I was six or seven, I saw my mother serving food to a hungry boy. I can still recall his expression after he ate. I realized, when you're hungry, there is no longer a barrier in your mind that separates right from wrong. What else can be more powerful than that? So, I used it in this story as an escape mechanism.
Obviously, even with these memories and occasional treats, your narrator is in the worst possible scenario—literally, I can't imagine a worse hell. How do civilized countries—India, the U.S., whomever—allow this type of slavery to continue?
I believe that the problem of sex slavery/flesh trade is universal. It is yet another example of the physically stronger section of the society controlling the weaker. In some ways, I think, it is there because even though we, as a race, condemn it, we lack compassion and its skillful execution to put an end to it. Also, better and stricter laws can prevent such crimes. The purpose of this story is to evoke empathy for the characters who are stuck in such situations.
Your use of the name "Julie" seems to be a subtle but effective hint that this ring extends its grasp to the West. Is that what you were going for?
The East always has a fascination with the West and I wanted to portray that fascination here, in a subtle style, like you said. But it can also be interpreted in a way you mentioned which makes the issue global.
The end of the first vignette tells us that Rubina isn't ready to leave. Does that mean that there's more escape planned here than ice cream and almond sauce?
I wanted to convey that there is an option to escape if carefully planned. And in this case, the narrator is concerned about Rubina's child, who is growing up in such difficult circumstances, and hence wants her to leave. In the world where everyone is exploiting or being exploited, the narrator is thinking about what's best for Rubina's child.
I tend to eat Indian food about once a week and wish I could cook it myself. What's your best korma recipe?
The one made by my mother: slow-cooked meat marinated in yogurt and spices, sprinkled with cilantro and garam masala. Served hot with a side of her radiant smile. Oh, well; I am a vegetarian now.
Tara Isabel Zambrano works as a semiconductor chip designer. Her work has been published in Tin House Online, The Southampton Review, Slice, Triquarterly, Yemassee, Passages North and others. Her full-length flash collection, Death, Desire And Other Destinations, is out in Sept'2020 with OKAY Donkey Press. She lives in Texas.
About the Interviewer
Michael Czyzniejewski's fourth collection of stories, The Amnesiac in the Maze, is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in 2023.
Ashley Inguanta is a writer, art photographer, installation artist, and holistic educator. Her work has most recently appeared in Atticus Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, and the anthology The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry. Her newest chapbook of poems, The Island, The Mountain, & The Nightblooming Field honors a human connection with the natural world.
This interview appeared in Issue Forty-Eight of SmokeLong Quarterly .
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Once again here in the COVID times I sit here teary-eyed, and this time it's because of the passing of Chadwick Boseman.
I never see movies. Most people I meet get quickly exasperated with me about this. "What do you MEAN you haven't seen" x or y movie? For me and my limited attention span, it's hard to get me to go sit still somewhere for 2+ hours.
I saw Black Panther in theaters twice. I thought it a magnificent experience. I don't think I can describe how energizing it feels to see people of color – I'm not Black. But I hadn't realized how much I had, deep down, yearned for portrayals of heroes and fantasies reflecting non-white experiences. Not just a token character here or there, but a fully realized world. (Also, I nearly shouted in the movie theater the first time, at the car chase scene in Busan, in a truly bizarre fit of homesickness. 한국 사랑해요!).
If the film had that much impact on me, a thirty-something Asian woman, imagine the impact on a young Black child growing up in this world.
I've read that Chadwick had been diagnosed with cancer in 2016 – meaning that he had likely been on set and filming as the cancer ravaged his body. He knew how important this role was; here is a shining example of someone literally giving all they could, to art:
I can't quite fully deal with knowing that Chadwick knew he himself had cancer, while writing letters to these children. It's too much.
Lately I've been interviewing people about death. (It's development, for a show, which is what I love to do and what I always do). In COVID times, people can disappear from life and you just get a text, and maybe there's a Zoom funeral with everyone in boxes muting and unmuting, and it can feel vaguely unsatisfying. But we also have more time than we did, time to sit in our feelings and process the rift.
When my grandmother died – when we went through the days long Buddhist funeral process and when the monk gestured towards our heads, signifying that we could remove our headbands – I felt the moment that she stopped being my earthly grandmother, the woman who fed me bread with laughing cow cheese and laughed so softly, and moved on to becoming my ancestor.
Now Chadwick Boseman joins the Djalia, the collective memory of a people. Where the distinction between past/present/future holds less tyranny than it does here, where we are told time and time again that racism and fascism are relics of the past and to just get over it. Here, where Black people are shot dead in their houses, immigrant children are torn from their parents and locked in cages. Where I'm a virus.
I've been an atheist since the age of 14. I was a lot more rigid about that in my high school and early college years, having formed almost a sort of identity about it, in response to being surrounded with mostly white Catholic and Protestant types all throughout school. These days, my views are a lot more syncretic and fluid. I read tarot. I have a happy Buddha statue on my mantle that I pray to sometimes, when the anxiety gets to be too much. I give offerings for the dead.
In some way or other, the ancestors do watch over us. I hope to add my art to the collection, and to fight for the visions that our ancestors revealed to us. I hope to live the rest of my life in a way that does justice to their time on earth.
Published August 29, 2020 By kimblery
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TRAVIS NOT 'COMING AROUND' TO IDEA OF NEW DRUMMER
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The band await a full medical report on Neil Primrose's back injury as their headline slot hangs in the balance...
TRAVIS have revealed they consider it "totally inappropriate" to use a replacement drummer for V2002.
The group's headline appearance at the festival hangs in the balance following the injury to Neil Primrose in France earlier in the month (July 7). Travis have already cancelled European dates following the injury to the drummer.
The band had completed a performance at the Belfort Festival. Whilst relaxing in the pool, Primrose struck his head and was knocked unconscious. After realising his predicament, other band and crew members dragged Neil from the pool and gave him assistance.
He was taken by ambulance to the local hospital in Belfort to receive treatment and to undergo tests.
Primrose underwent surgery last week (July 11) to stabilise the fractured vertebrae in his neck. As part of the operation he had a bone graft from his hip and surrounding the fractured vertebrae was inserted a small internal metal cage.
Following the successful operation, he will return to the UK tomorrow (July 18). A statement issued today reveals that on his return he will undergo physiotherapy, but it remains unclear how long his recovery will take.
Travis also took the opportunity to reveal that they will not play with a replacement at the festival in Chelmsford and Stafford on August 17-18.
The statement reads: "Neil is recovering well following surgery and is looking forward to returning to the UK on Thursday to begin a period of physiotherapy. It is not clear at this stage how long this treatment will continue but, doctors are very encouraged by the progress that Neil is making.
"Travis are awaiting to receive a full medical report at the end of this week before making any decisions regarding V2002, although, they have indicated that it would be totally inappropriate to consider using a replacement drummer under the circumstances."
V2002 bosses say they remain "very hopeful" Travis will appear.
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LeapFrog launches US$350mn investment partnership
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) and LeapFrog Investments announced today the launch of a US$350 million investment partnership to access high-growth markets in Africa. Managed by LeapFrog, the new investment vehicle will target investments in life insurance companies in leading economies on the continent, including Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, to be made over a three- to five-year period.
Charles Lowrey, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Prudential's International Businesses, said "This investment expands Prudential's footprint into Africa, a continent that we believe offers tremendous potential for growth over the long term. We are delighted to partner with LeapFrog Investments, given their deep experience in Africa, and their impressive record of success as insurance investors focused on emerging consumers."
Dr. Andrew Kuper, founder and CEO of LeapFrog Investments, said, "The global insurance industry is looking for ways to close the protection gap for millions of people in emerging markets. This partnership will help address that need, while tapping some of the world's highest growth markets. We are delighted to broaden our relationship with Prudential, a values-driven partner whom we know well and greatly respect for its global leadership in life insurance, retirement and asset management. By enabling LeapFrog to pursue larger and more established assets than via our private equity funds, this partnership also diversifies our capabilities as an alternative investment group."
Prudential is an investor in LeapFrog's most recent private equity fund, and also a member of the LeapFrog Insurance Innovation Circle, a knowledge-sharing and innovation initiative that convenes many of the world's leading insurers and reinsurers.
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Febrile Seizures Tied to High Risk of Mental Illness, Epilepsy
Pauline Anderson
Recurrent febrile seizures in children are associated with a higher risk of psychiatric disorders and epilepsy in later life, new research shows.
Danish investigators found the 30-year risk of epilepsy and psychiatric disorders in children who had three or more febrile seizures was 15% and 30%, respectively. In comparison, the risk of mental illness and epilepsy in unaffected individuals is 2% and 17%, respectively.
"These findings are very important since both epilepsy and psychiatric disorders may have a major impact on the quality of life in affected individuals and their families, and because these disorders are associated with great societal costs," study investigator Julie Werenberg Dreier, PhD, postdoc, National Center for Register-based Research, Aarhus Univerity, Denmark, told Medscape Medical News.
The study also showed that mortality is increased in patients with recurrent febrile seizures who go on to develop epilepsy.
The findings were presented here at the Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) 2019.
Stepwise Increased Risk
Febrile seizures are relatively common in childhood, affecting an estimated 3% to 4% of children. In general, such seizures are considered benign. However, children who have one episode are likely to have recurrent seizures.
Previous studies have not been large enough to investigate the long-term consequences of recurrent febrile seizures, said Dreier. From the relevant Danish registries, she and her research team identified a cohort of 2.1 million singleton children born between 1977 and 2011. Of these, 75,593 (3.6%) were diagnosed with a febrile seizure for the first time.
Using a graph to illustrate ages of first hospital admission for febrile seizures, Dreier demonstrated that the incidence rapidly increases starting at about 6 months of age, peaks at about age 16 months, then declines. At about age 3 years, "90% of all the children with febrile seizures will have presented," she said.
Investigators defined three subpopulations of children with febrile seizures and no previous diagnosis of epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intracranial tumors, severe head trauma or intracranial infections. These subpopulations included children who had experienced at least one febrile seizure; those who had experienced at least two; and those who experienced at least three.
The risk of recurrence before age 5 years in children who had one febrile seizure was 22.7%. This risk increased with each additional febrile seizure.
From other national registries, the investigators collected data on epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. They used competing risk regression to estimate cumulative incidences, and Cox regression to arrive at hazard ratios (HRs) for risk of onset of these disorders at various ages depending on the number of febrile seizures.
The cumulative incidence of epilepsy over a 30-year follow-up period started at 2% at birth. For every febrile seizure, there was a stepwise increase in the risk of epilepsy, so for children with three or more febrile seizures, the 30-year cumulative incidence was just over 15%.
The researchers found that children with one febrile seizure had a sevenfold increased risk of an epilepsy diagnosis before 5 years of age (HR, 7.11). However, if the child had three or more febrile seizures, the risk was elevated 42-fold (HR, 42.06).
Looking at admissions for psychiatric disorders, the researchers found that the 30-year risk at birth was about 17%. Here again, there was a stepwise increase with each additional febrile seizure. In the subgroup with three or more febrile seizures, the risk approached 30%.
Dreier noted that when looking at the broad spectrum of psychiatric disorders associated with febrile seizures, the "most pronounced" were psychotic disorders including schizophrenia.
The researchers wanted to know if the association between febrile seizures and psychiatric disorders could be explained by comorbid epilepsy. After adjusting for epilepsy, "the association was somewhat attenuated but was still significant," said Dreier. "So epilepsy can't explain the entire pattern that we see."
Researchers also collected mortality data from the national death registry. They found increased mortality in children with recurrent febrile seizures, but after adjusting for epilepsy, "this association completely disappears," said Dreier.
"This suggests that there's only an increased mortality in children with recurrent febrile seizures who later develop epilepsy," she said.
It is unclear whether the associations uncovered by the study were directly related to the seizures themselves or were as a result of some common underlying conditions, such as genetic susceptibility, said Dreier.
Interesting Research
Commenting on the study following the presentation, session co-chair Marte-Helene Bjørk, PhD, associate professor, University of Bergen, Norway, described the study as "very elegant and interesting."
She speculated that the increased risk of psychiatric disorders may be an effect of febrile seizures on the temporal lobe.
"It could be a direct effect of the seizures, but it's also possible that it might be some genetic confounding that could increase the risk of febrile seizures as well as the risk of psychiatric disorders," said Dreier.
The second session co-chair, Hanna Cock, MD, professor of epilepsy and medical education, St. George's University Hospital, London, United Kingdom, said parental anxiety may also play a role in the association of febrile seizures with psychiatric disorders.
"There is so much evidence that the social background and parenting in those early months and years is a huge predictor of future psychiatric outcomes," said Cock.
She also wondered if these data may have implications for counseling of families regarding psychiatric risk associated with febrile seizures.
The study investigators, Bjork and Cock have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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import com.izforge.izpack.api.data.InstallData;
import com.izforge.izpack.api.data.Panel;

/**
 * Pre-validation panel action.
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 * @author Tim Anderson
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public class PreValidatePanelAction extends TestPanelAction
{
    /**
     * Constructs a <tt>PreValidatePanelAction</tt>.
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     * @param panel       the panel
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    public PreValidatePanelAction(Panel panel, InstallData installData)
    {
        super(panel, ActionStage.prevalidate, installData);
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The Mix / The London Marathon is not all about sore feet
by Chris Martin (he/him)
On Sunday April 23rd, I will join 39,000 other people to run through the streets of the capital with the aim of making the 2017 London Marathon the first mental health marathon.
I have run the London Marathon before and I have also completed marathons in New York, Paris and – less glamorously – Brighton. In doing so I have learned two things. Firstly, the London Marathon is the greatest event of its kind in the world. And secondly, that for many people, completing a marathon is about much more than just running.
Running 26.2 miles is no picnic but it is just the tip of the iceberg of the hundreds of hours of training required to make it possible. People take on this incredible challenge for many different reasons. Some want to get fit, some to beat a personal goal, others simply because it's there. However, the people who really make an impression are the charity runners.
Every charity runner has decided to get off the sofa and do something amazing to make a change in our society. As you run the marathon, you are struck by the thousands of colourful shirts showing the huge range of causes the runners support. It is truly inspiring.
Thanks to the Heads Together campaign led by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry of which The Mix is a part, this desire for positive change will be even more obvious in the 2017 marathon. We want to banish the stigma around talking about mental health forever. To do this, 700 Heads Together runners and many hundred more supporters will be donning blue headbands to change the national conversation and raise vital funds for services like The Mix that work to support people struggling with their mental health.
The marathon is the culmination of a year of campaigning by Heads Together and its eight charity partners. We have made incredible progress. A YouGov survey commissioned by Heads Together has shown that 51% of the nation has had a conversation about their mental health in the last month. We are at a tipping point where talking about our mental health can be as natural as talking about our physical health. Make no mistake – these are conversations that can change and save lives.
Running is not for everyone but that doesn't mean you can't get involved in this incredible movement. Come out and support on the day. Watch and share Heads Together videos using the hashtag #oktosay. Follow our runners' journey using the hashtags #teamheadstogether and #themixheroes. Donate to Heads Together charity partners. Even better, talk to someone about mental health.
Every Heads Together runner in the mental health marathon is doing their bit for this incredible cause. Join us and let's flip the conversation around mental health forever.
Published on 13-Apr-2017
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