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(published September 23, 2004)
The Somnambulists
by Jack London
"'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay - The very stars are made of clay like mine."
The mightiest and absurdest sleep-walker on the planet! Chained in the circle of his own imaginings, man is only too keen to forget his origin and to shame that flesh of his that bleeds like all flesh and that is good to eat. Civilization (which is part of the circle of his imaginings) has spread a veneer over the surface of the soft- shelled animal known as man. It is a very thin veneer; but so wonderfully is man constituted that he squirms on his bit of achievement and believes he is garbed in armour-plate.
Yet man to-day is the same man that drank from his enemy's skull in the dark German forests, that sacked cities, and stole his women from neighbouring clans like any howling aborigine. The flesh-and-blood body of man has not changed in the last several thousand years. Nor has his mind changed. There is no faculty of the mind of man to-day that did not exist in the minds of the men of long ago. Man has to- day no concept that is too wide and deep and abstract for the mind of Plato or Aristotle to grasp. Give to Plato or Aristotle the same fund of knowledge that man to-day has access to, and Plato and Aristotle would reason as profoundly as the man of to-day and would achieve very similar conclusions.
It is the same old animal man, smeared over, it is true, with a veneer, thin and magical, that makes him dream drunken dreams of self-exaltation and to sneer at the flesh and the blood of him beneath the smear. The raw animal crouching within him is like the earthquake monster pent in the crust of the earth. As he persuades himself against the latter till it arouses and shakes down a city, so does he persuade himself against the former until it shakes him out of his dreaming and he stands undisguised, a brute like any other brute.
Starve him, let him miss six meals, and see gape through the veneer the hungry maw of the animal beneath. Get between him and the female of his kind upon whom his mating instinct is bent, and see his eyes blaze like an angry cat's, hear in his throat the scream of wild stallions, and watch his fists clench like an orang-outang's. Maybe he will even beat his chest. Touch his silly vanity, which he exalts into high-sounding pride— call him a liar, and behold the red animal in him that makes a hand clutching that is quick like the tensing of a tiger's claw, or an eagle's talon, incarnate with desire to rip and tear.
It is not necessary to call him a liar to touch his vanity. Tell a plains Indian that he has failed to steal horses from the neighbouring tribe, or tell a man living in bourgeois society that he has failed to pay his bills at the neighbouring grocer's, and the results are the same. Each, plains Indian and bourgeois, is smeared with a slightly different veneer, that is all. It requires a slightly different stick to scrape it off. The raw animals beneath are identical.
But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the centre of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality.
True, he lives in a real world, breathes real air, eats real food, and sleeps under real blankets, in order to keep real cold away. And there's the rub. He has to effect adjustments with the real world and at the same time maintain the sublimity of his dream. The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded. The man that walks the real world in his sleep becomes such a tangled mass of contradictions, paradoxes, and lies that he has to lie to himself in order to stay asleep.
In passing, it may be noted that some men are remarkably constituted in this matter of self-deception. They excel at deceiving themselves. They believe, and they help others to believe. It becomes their function in society, and some of them are paid large salaries for helping their fellow-men to believe, for instance, that they are not as other animals; for helping the king to believe, and his parasites and drudges as well, that he is God's own manager over so many square miles of earth-crust; for helping the merchant and banking classes to believe that society rests on their shoulders, and that civilization would go to smash if they got out from under and ceased from their exploitations and petty pilferings.
Prize-fighting is terrible. This is the dictum of the man who walks in his sleep. He prates about it, and writes to the papers about it, and worries the legislators about it. There is nothing of the brute about him. He is a sublimated soul that treads the heights and breathes refined ether— in self-comparison with the prize-fighter. The man who walks in his sleep ignores the flesh and all its wonderful play of muscle, joint, and nerve. He feels that there is something godlike in the mysterious deeps of his being, denies his relationship with the brute, and proceeds to go forth into the world and express by deeds that something godlike within him.
He sits at a desk and chases dollars through the weeks and months and years of his life. To him the life godlike resolves into a problem something like this:
SINCE THE GREAT MASS OF MEN TOIL AT PRODUCING WEALTH, HOW BEST CAN HE GET BETWEEN THE GREAT MASS OF MEN AND THE WEALTH THEY PRODUCE, AND GET A SLICE FOR HIMSELF?
With tremendous exercise of craft, deceit, and guile, he devotes his life godlike to this purpose. As he succeeds, his somnambulism grows profound. He bribes legislatures, buys judges, "controls" primaries, and then goes and hires other men to tell him that it is all glorious and right. And the funniest thing about it is that this arch-deceiver believes all that they tell him. He reads only the newspapers and magazines that tell him what he wants to be told, listens only to the biologists who tell him that he is the finest product of the struggle for existence, and herds only with his own kind, where, like the monkey-folk, they teeter up and down and tell one another how great they are.
In the course of his life godlike he ignores the flesh—until he gets to table. He raises his hands in horror at the thought of the brutish prize-fighter, and then sits down and gorges himself on roast beef, rare and red, running blood under every sawing thrust of the implement called a knife. He has a piece of cloth which he calls a napkin, with which he wipes from his lips, and from the hair on his lips, the greasy juices of the meat.
He is fastidiously nauseated at the thought of two prize-fighters bruising each other with their fists; and at the same time, because it will cost him some money, he will refuse to protect the machines in his factory, though he is aware that the lack of such protection every year mangles, batters, and destroys out of all humanness thousands of working-men, women, and children. He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children.
He will recoil at the suggestion of the horrid spectacle of two men confronting each other with gloved hands in the roped arena, and at the same time he will clamour for larger armies and larger navies, for more destructive war machines, which, with a single discharge, will disrupt and rip to pieces more human beings than have died in the whole history of prize-fighting. He will bribe a city council for a franchise or a state legislature for a commercial privilege; but he has never been known, in all his sleep-walking history, to bribe any legislative body in order to achieve any moral end, such as, for instance, abolition of prize-fighting, child-labour laws, pure food bills, or old age pensions.
"Ah, but we do not stand for the commercial life," object the refined, scholarly, and professional men. They are also sleep- walkers. They do not stand for the commercial life, but neither do they stand against it with all their strength. They submit to it, to the brutality and carnage of it. They develop classical economists who announce that the only possible way for men and women to get food and shelter is by the existing method. They produce university professors, men who claim the role of teachers, and who at the same time claim that the austere ideal of learning is passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence. They serve the men who lead the commercial life, give to their sons somnambulistic educations, preach that sleep-walking is the only way to walk, and that the persons who walk otherwise are atavisms or anarchists. They paint pictures for the commercial men, write books for them, sing songs for them, act plays for them, and dose them with various drugs when their bodies have grown gross or dyspeptic from overeating and lack of exercise.
Then there are the good, kind somnambulists who don't prize-fight, who don't play the commercial game, who don't teach and preach somnambulism, who don't do anything except live on the dividends that are coined out of the wan, white fluid that runs in the veins of little children, out of mothers' tears, the blood of strong men, and the groans and sighs of the old. The receiver is as bad as the thief— ay, and the thief is finer than the receiver; he at least has the courage to run the risk. But the good, kind people who don't do anything won't believe this, and the assertion will make them angry— for a moment. They possess several magic phrases, which are like the incantations of a voodoo doctor driving devils away. The phrases that the good, kind people repeat to themselves and to one another sound like "abstinence," "temperance," "thrift," "virtue." Sometimes they say them backward, when they sound like "prodigality," "drunkenness," "wastefulness," and "immorality." They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists. The calm repetition of such phrases invariably drives away the waking devils and lulls to slumber.
Our statesmen sell themselves and their country for gold. Our municipal servants and state legislators commit countless treasons. The world of graft! The world of betrayal! The world of somnambulism, whose exalted and sensitive citizens are outraged by the knockouts of the prize-ring, and who annually not merely knock out, but kill, thousands of babies and children by means of child labour and adulterated food. Far better to have the front of one's face pushed in by the fist of an honest prize-fighter than to have the lining of one's stomach corroded by the embalmed beef of a dishonest manufacturer.
In a prize-fight men are classed. A lightweight fights with a light- weight; he never fights with a heavy-weight, and foul blows are not allowed. Yet in the world of the somnambulists, where soar the sublimated spirits, there are no classes, and foul blows are continually struck and never disallowed. Only they are not called foul blows. The world of claw and fang and fist and club has passed away— so say the somnambulists. A rebate is not an elongated claw. A Wall Street raid is not a fang slash. Dummy boards of directors and fake accountings are not foul blows of the fist under the belt. A present of coal stock by a mine operator to a railroad official is not a claw rip to the bowels of a rival mine operator. The hundred million dollars with which a combination beats down to his knees a man with a million dollars is not a club. The man who walks in his sleep says it is not a club. So say all of his kind with which he herds. They gather together and solemnly and gloatingly make and repeat certain noises that sound like "discretion," "acumen," "initiative," "enterprise." These noises are especially gratifying when they are made backward. They mean the same things, but they sound different. And in either case, forward or backward, the spirit of the dream is not disturbed.
When a man strikes a foul blow in the prize-ring the fight is immediately stopped, he is declared the loser, and he is hissed by the audience as he leaves the ring. But when a man who walks in his sleep strikes a foul blow he is immediately declared the victor and awarded the prize; and amid acclamations he forthwith turns his prize into a seat in the United States Senate, into a grotesque palace on Fifth Avenue, and into endowed churches, universities and libraries, to say nothing of subsidized newspapers, to proclaim his greatness.
The red animal in the somnambulist will out. He decries the carnal combat of the prize-ring, and compels the red animal to spiritual combat. The poisoned lie, the nasty, gossiping tongue, the brutality of the unkind epigram, the business and social nastiness and treachery of to-day— these are the thrusts and scratches of the red animal when the somnambulist is in charge. They are not the upper cuts and short arm jabs and jolts and slugging blows of the spirit. They are the foul blows of the spirit that have never been disbarred, as the foul blows of the prize-ring have been disbarred. (Would it not be preferable for a man to strike one full on the mouth with his fist than for him to tell a lie about one, or malign those that are nearest and dearest?)
For these are the crimes of the spirit, and, alas! they are so much more frequent than blows on the mouth. And whosoever exalts the spirit over the flesh, by his own creed avers that a crime of the spirit is vastly more terrible than a crime of the flesh. Thus stand the somnambulists convicted by their own creed— only they are not real men, alive and awake, and they proceed to mutter magic phrases that dispel all doubt as to their undiminished and eternal gloriousness.
It is well enough to let the ape and tiger die, but it is hardly fair to kill off the natural and courageous apes and tigers and allow the spawn of cowardly apes and tigers to live. The prize-fighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash. This is not a brief for the prize-fighter. It is a blow of the fist between the eyes of the somnambulists, teetering up and down, muttering magic phrases, and thanking God that they are not as other animals.
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We all have a story to tell. Your family may have lived in the same city for generations. You may have photographs of ancestors long past. Perhaps, you're part of a neighborhood or community that created organizations or events that you've participated in as a child. Maybe you've lived in the same community for your whole life. We all have history that is valuable and should be preserved for the future.
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This past Saturday, October 27, 2018, the UB Special Collections & Archives hosted our 2nd Annual Community Archives Workshop at the RLB Library. Though outside the weather was chilly and rainy, inside the RLB Library we had a committed group of individuals interested in learning about preserving their personal historical documents.
Community archives are generally managed by small groups of people or individuals who want to preserve their cultural heritage. These archives are often not housed in a formal institution like a university. Instead they are managed by the members of a family or neighbors in a community. They often document and tell the stories of people who may not be featured in other archives. Community archives tell the unique stories of people and groups who are connected by their activities, neighborhoods, or families. Archivists can support community archives by helping to provide resources, support, ideas, and information on how to best preserve their historic documents, born digital materials, and other records. Baltimore has many communities and an abundance of history, and community archives can help preserve it!
The Community Archives Workshop, hosted by the UB Special Collections & Archives, was first created in 2017 by Angela Rodgers-Koukoui, Archives Technician in the UB Special Collections & Archives, with the assistance of Megan McShea, Audiovisual Archivist at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. You can read more about last year's workshop here! The 2017 workshop provided community members with information about preserving their documents and histories. It was so popular that Angela was excited to plan another workshop this year. After learning from colleagues about a project at the University of North Carolina Libraries in which archivists had created "Archivist in a Backpack" kits, Angela decided to create her own version of a toolkit for community archives.
Angela's archivist kits were aimed to help people who were working to save their history, but who also needed information and resources to preserve their materials and archival documents. Angela created a kit for each workshop participant that included a backpack, an archival box, acid-free folders, gloves for handling photographs, appropriate pencils and materials for marking the backs of photographs, and other resources that an archivist often uses to organize and preserve records. Templates for creating inventories and documenting archival collections were also included in the workshop for participants. The kits and a presentation during the workshop provided excellent tools and resources for the attendees to get started on their own community archives projects.
The day began with introductions and an opportunity to discuss the importance of preserving community history. Attendees shared why they were interested in preserving their personal, community, and family histories. Every person had a unique story to tell, ties to their community, local organizations, neighborhoods, past relatives, interest in local history, and a strong desire to see their stories survive through time.
Megan McShea provided an in-depth presentation about the tasks involved when organizing and preserving historic documents (both physical and digital). Her discussion outlined the steps that everyone could take to preserve their own photographs, documents, and historic materials. Participants took notes, asked questions, and learned about the archival process for preserving their collections for future generations. The resources, internet links, and information Megan provided were invaluable to anyone hoping to maintain and save their personal archives.
During the last portion of the event, workshop volunteers handed out the personal archivist kits and the instructions for creating inventories of records. The hands-on activity aimed to allow participants to learn more about some of the tools that could help them better preserve their own archives. Everyone had brought documents, photographs, or their family histories with them to ask questions of the volunteer archivists who were available during the event. As participants began looking at their documents and the new kits, Megan McShea, Laura Bell, Processing Archivist at the UB Special Collections & Archives, and Steven Gentry, Archives Technician at St. Mary's College of Maryland, talked with individuals about their documents, provided further information, and offered advice and feedback for those with questions.
The presentation and archivist's kits with the hands-on activity provided the workshop attendees and the archivists volunteering with a chance to learn, discuss, and share with each other. The workshop and kits aim to empower community members to continue to preserve their personal and community archives. The UB Special Collections & Archives is excited to support our community and we look forward to the next workshop!
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I would love to attend one of your event or get more info on what's avaiable.
Thanks for your comment! Angela has put on this workshop twice over the past two years. When she does it again we'll advertise it here on the Blog and through social media, etc.. Feel free to contact us at specialcollections@ubalt.edu if you're interested in researching at the UB Special Collections & Archives. Thanks!
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ACS expands its environmental science portfolio by launching two new journals in 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | December 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2019 — The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce the launch of two new journals in 2020: ACS ES&T Water and ACS ES&T Engineering. These titles will join the prestigious Environmental Science & Technology family of environmental journals published by the Society.
"Environmental science is among the fastest-growing areas of scientific research," says James Milne, Ph.D., acting president, ACS Publications Division. "ACS ES&T Water and ACS ES&T Engineering will allow us to better serve the community's need for the highest quality research in these areas, while maintaining Environmental Science & Technology as the leading publication in its field."
The launch of these two journals reflects the growing role of environmental science and technology in the chemistry field and in our daily lives. With more scientific attention and public interest focused on the effects of Earth's changing environment, significantly more research is being conducted around the world into the environmental challenges and opportunities impacting us now and in the future. The addition of these two journals to the Environmental Science & Technology family will allow ACS to publish more scientific breakthroughs that will lead to further understanding of our world and, ultimately, a better ability to respond to the challenges which threaten it.
ACS ES&T Engineering will publish experimental and theoretical research in the interdisciplinary areas of environmental technology, engineering and chemistry. This will include new insights and advances in environmental engineering research and technological innovation. The journal seeks original research on the development of sustainable engineering solutions to protect the environment and remediate the risks of hazardous materials and pollutants. Its primary focus is on all engineering-related systems in environmental chemistry and technology.
ACS ES&T Water will publish original, high-quality peer-reviewed research on the broad topic of water quality and anthropogenic and geogenic contaminants, as well as the environmental chemistry and technology for sustainable water management and reuse. Its multidisciplinary water-research focus will welcome all water-related environmental chemistry and technology papers.
Both journals will begin to accept submissions in the spring of 2020.
Founded in 1967, Environmental Science & Technology is the most cited journal in its field. In 2014 the journal expanded to include Environmental Science & Technology Letters. By launching these two new journals in 2020, ACS aims to allow Environmental Science & Technology to continue its focus in a wide range of environmental disciplines, while giving the burgeoning fields of water research and environmental engineering dedicated journals to flourish.
About the American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. The Society is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. The Society does not conduct research, but publishes and publicizes peer-reviewed scientific studies. Through its Publications Division, ACS publishes 60 peer-reviewed journals and many eBooks, including digital archives of legacy scientific research published since the Society's founding, as well as the industry-leading weekly news periodical, Chemical & Engineering News. ACS journals are among the most cited, most trusted and most read within the scientific literature. Its Publications Division offers high-quality service to authors and readers, including rapid time to publication, cutting-edge web and mobile delivery platforms and comprehensive open-access options. The Society's main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

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Štefanija je  žensko osebno ime.

Izvor imena
Ime Štefanija je ženska oblika imena Štefan.

Različice imena
Stefani, Stephanie, Tefanka, Stevanija, Stevanka, Stefa, Štefani, Štefana, Ševana, Štefka

Pogostost imena
Po podatkih Statističnega urada Republike Slovenije je bilo na dan 31. decembra 2007 v Sloveniji število ženskih oseb z imenom Štefanija: 4.885. Med vsemi ženskimi imeni pa je ime Štefanija po pogostosti uporabe uvrščeno na 59. mesto.

Osebni praznik
V koledarju je ime Štefanija skupaj z imenom Štefan, god praznuje 26. decembra.

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seznam najpogostejših imen v Sloveniji

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The operator has added more small-business tariffs to its LTE offerings, and revealed it's laying the foundations for a speedier network.
Mobile operator EE is continuing to extend its 4G coverage and customer numbers in the UK, but there's still only a tiny proportion of UK mobile users signed up to LTE.
EE has revealed a series of business 4G plans, along with hints that it's looking to speed up its 4G network.
The operator on Tuesday announced the SME plans, which will be sold under the 4GEE and 4GEE Extra brands.
On the less pricey side of the spectrum, businesses are offered £23 per month tariff with 500 UK minutes, 500 UK texts and a 1GB data allowance, a £28 per month plan which offers 1000 minutes and texts, and 1GB of data, alongside a £33 plan with 2GB of data and unlimited calls and texts.
The 4GEE Extra plans all come with unlimited texts and calls, as well as 180 minutes of calls to Europe, the US and Canada. Data allowances start at 6GB on a £41 per month plan, and top out at 50GB on a £61 tariff. All are on 24-month contracts.
On both sets of packages, EE is throwing in a few SME-themed software sweeteners, including McAfee antivirus. For Extra customers, there's also GoTo Meeting webconferencing software, and six months of 100GB of Box storage.
There's also the offer of higher speeds with 4GEE Extra — a theoretical maximum of between 24Mbps and 30Mbps for those in an area covered by the faster network, with real world speeds around half that.
And more speed boosts could be on the way next year: EE said it's piloting a 300Mbps network this year, and it's aiming for a proper rollout in 2014. "Further details on the trial will be announced in due course," the operator said.


Wiggs JL. Wiggs J.L. Wiggs, Janey L.Primary Open Angle Glaucoma. In: Murray MF, Babyatsky MW, Giovanni MA, Alkuraya FS, Stewart DR. Murray M.F., Babyatsky M.W., Giovanni M.A., Alkuraya F.S., Stewart D.R. Eds. Michael F. Murray, et al.eds. Clinical Genomics: Practical Applications in Adult Patient Care, 1e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2014. http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1094&sectionid=61907034. Accessed April 21, 2019.
Wiggs JL. Wiggs J.L. Wiggs, Janey L.. "Primary Open Angle Glaucoma." Clinical Genomics: Practical Applications in Adult Patient Care, 1e Murray MF, Babyatsky MW, Giovanni MA, Alkuraya FS, Stewart DR. Murray M.F., Babyatsky M.W., Giovanni M.A., Alkuraya F.S., Stewart D.R. Eds. Michael F. Murray, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2014, http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1094&sectionid=61907034.
Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a genetically and clinically complex disease with multiple genetic risk factors and environmental exposure influencing disease susceptibility.
POAG is defined by progressive degeneration of the optic nerve. Elevation of intraocular pressure (IOP) is a risk factor for optic nerve degeneration, however, approximately 30% of POAG patients have optic nerve degeneration despite IOPs in the normal range (called normal-pressure glaucoma or NPG, also normal-tension glaucoma or NTG).
Ocular traits other than IOP also contribute to POAG risk including the thickness of the central cornea, the size of the optic nerve (optic nerve area), and the size of the optic nerve "cup" relative to the overall size of the nerve (optic nerve cup-to-disc-ratio, CDR).
Autosomal dominant juvenile-onset primary open-angle glaucoma caused by mutations in the MYOC gene.
Siblings and first-degree relatives have a 7 to 10 times increased risk of developing POAG overall.
Monozygotic twins have an increased risk of disease when compared to dizygotic twins.
Postmenopausal hormone use and body mass index (BMI) have been suggested as environmental risk factors for POAG.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified five genes or loci for POAG: CDKN2BAS (POAG and NPG), CAV1/CAV2 (POAG), TMCO1 (POAG), SIX1/SIX6 (POAG), and 8q22 (NPG). GWAS for ocular quantitative traits relevant to POAG have also yielded results: CDKN2BAS (CDR), SIX1/SIX6 (CDR), ATOH7 (optic nerve area), and a number of genes or loci for central corneal thickness (CCT), a trait that is a risk factor for the disease. Disease-associated genetic variants (single-nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]) have provided insight into disease pathogenesis; testing for SNPs is not yet clinically validated to diagnose or guide management of POAG.
Testing for common variants has not yet been shown to influence management of POAG.
Algorithm for Diagnostic Evaluation of Patient at Risk for Glaucoma.


Firmly back in blonde, bubbly mode, Fool's Gold is a connections movie for Kate Hudson. Director Andy Tennant used to dance professionally with her mother Goldie Hawn, co-star Donald Sutherland was in her parents' circle of friends in the '70s and she's re-teaming with Matthew McConaughey for their second rom-com, playing a squabbling couple on the hunt for sunken treasure in the Caribbean (albeit shot in Australia).
Q:Is it an adrenalin rush doing a movie like this, where you're outdoors all the time and presumably doing plenty of action?
A:I think it totally depends on the movie. This is totally messed up because it's definitely an action movie so you have days where, like, there's going to be an explosion, although really those are the days that are the most tedious because it takes like two hours to re-rig the dynamite and you're sitting there and the director's going like, "…and, Boom!!" and you have to pretend and everybody's laughing at you. So those scenes are the most tedious days and then there are those days when you do the fighting sequences, which you don't realise but your adrenalin starts going as if you were in an actual fight! You don't realise how exhausted you are. You are so pumped.
A:The bad guys! I get kidnapped at one point and I try to fight my way out of the situation. Tess is definitely an action person but she's like a tough litle girl so she can't ever back down from anything. She's uncomfortable in fight situations but she always ends up getting through them so it's fun to play. It's playing the shovel going into somebody's face with all conviction and then her shock at a shovel going into somebody's face.
Q:Is it slapstick fighting, did you get any training or is it all improvised?
A:No, it's definitely very choreographed and it's funny. I've never worked with guns either – that's new and that's something that definitely was kind of a scary experience because you really have to be careful when you're working with guns. I had my first ever gun pointed at my head. But most of the action happens in this movie underwater and I have to do a lot of free diving. I've been learning how to breathe longer, expand my lungs.
Q:Did you get your scuba certificate?
A:Yes, I got certified on the Great Barrier Reef! It's in my wallet – I get to carry it with me everywhere I go! You can do the training in a week, but it's at the diver's pace, everyone does it differently. Matthew got certified in five seconds, it took me a couple of weeks. I've gotten over a lot of fears on this movie, especially like diving period. I didn't think I would be so scared to get in the water with all that scuba gear on and all of a sudden you're pressing the deflate button and you start going down and you feel the weight and you start… it kind of freaked me out, especially being in Australia where there are so many things that can kill you.
Q:How is Tess different from other characters you've played?
A:She's feisty, she's strong, she kind of wears everything out on her sleeve, but she's a much tougher character than I've ever played. She's definitely more of a tomboy. I'm not wearing any Hermes scarves in this movie, that's for sure. She's a diver.
Q:How confident are you when you know you're not wearing much on screen? Do you worry?
A:I don't really worry, you know, because I've danced my whole life, I work out all the time, it makes me feel good and I'm not worried about being totally perfect. I'm actually quite strong in this movie. I had this thing where I was like, "I'm going to be Matthew's diving partner, I have to buff up a little bit so I better get a little more bicep." Plus she's a diver, so I'm not in this tiny little string bikini – they're more the Speedo type bikini – you know, the ones that cover pretty much everything.
Q:It's your second movie with Matthew McConaughey. He sums it up that you flirt well together and you fight well together. Do you think you two interact well?
A:You know, Matthew has one of those very youthful spirits that some people might call crazy, others call it a blast and I can really appreciate that. Matthew is so much fun and those are the people that sometimes drive you the most crazy, the ones with those 'out there' personalities, but I have the same kind of thing so I think we recognise it in each other and appreciate it. There is not a mean bone in Matthew's body, which I love, and that's really hard to find in people period. Matthew just wants to have a good time and that's why I can connect with him. He really does have a spirit that can be contagious. It's like, "Gosh, he's really having a great time in everything he's doing, whether he's working or he's playing." I think maybe there's something in that for me.
Q:How was director Andy Tennant to work with?
Q:How is it for you when you spend months on a set and then you have to go back to your life?
A:It's weird. There's a hard transition when you get home, especially when you fall in love with certain places. I remember when I came back from Ireland – I shot a movie in Ireland – and that was very difficult for me. I fell madly in love with Ireland and I may have the same thing with Australia but it's more about Australia as a whole. The Gold Coast is one thing but it's like going to Miami in the late 70s whereas you go down to Byron Bay or you go up to Port Douglas and they're just little gems.
Q:Do you ever get depressed when you go back to your life?
A:No, usually you're pretty happy. When you have a family you're pretty happy to get home to your bed. Especially when you've been away for five months, I think you're ready. I get depressed after work – and I wouldn't say depressed because that's the wrong word, it would be more like an unloading – but you get home and you've got a lot to do and then all of a sudden you've got nothing to do and that's usually when you call your agent and say, "What's going on? Is there anything to do?" And it's only a week later.
'Fool's Gold' is in Irish cinemas, Friday April 18th.


It's 4:30 am on Monday morning, and I am sitting in LAX International Airport after a whirlwind experience at the first annual Accessible Yoga Conference (AYC). I am blissfully exhausted, relieved, and proud to have been invited to contribute to such an amazing event. If you were unable to attend, I strongly suggest you make it a priority for next year!
Together we embarked on an incredible journey that would expand my awareness of how yoga and diversity appear on the mat.
Only a few short weeks ago, I traveled from my hometown of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, to the sunny and gorgeous city of Santa Barbara, California. As I arrived at the Accessible Yoga Conference, I was greeted by my colleagues from the Yoga and Body Image Coalition, and together we embarked on an incredible journey that would expand my awareness of how yoga and diversity appear on the mat.
As the founder of the Yoga For All movement, my vision has always been to make the yoga world more inclusive. Yoga For All is aimed at creating a brave space for people in larger bodies, the LGBTQ community, people of every race and socioeconomic status, and those in differently abled bodies. Whether or not they are struggling with barriers in asana, these individuals all deserve to feel safe, included, and supported within the global yoga community. The founding principles of Yoga For All have evolved alongside my experience leading and teaching physical yoga practices within my local community and abroad. I've realized that there are many different barriers preventing people with large bodies, and those of color and other marginalized populations, from practicing and embracing yoga. The barriers include financial accessibility, able-ism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and geographical availability. In response, Yoga For All began to focus on changing attitudes toward how we see ourselves, how we see each other, our ideas about what yoga is, and what yoga means to people on the margins of dominant culture. I believed we needed to demystify yoga and make it possible for all to feel welcome.
While at the conference, I had the pleasure of meeting Matthew Sanford, a man I have long admired for his role in creating environments of inclusivity in yoga. His teachings focus on the connection between the body and mind, regardless of what body you have. His message is that your body isn't something that needs to be overcome. In hearing Sanford speak, I realized that I'd never heard his story in its entirety before, and I found myself profoundly moved. I felt connected to the power of his experience and what it means to feel like you don't belong. Matthew became a paraplegic at the age of 13, and I realized that many of his experiences mirrored my own experiences as a person of color living in North America. I had felt different too. His story also shed light on how our lives are often determined by how others view our differences as a burden, limitation, disability, or "unfortunate" set of circumstances. It reminded me that we must consciously choose how we view our circumstances, and we must advocate for ourselves.
It reinforced for me the idea that we all want many of the same things. We want love and acceptance, and we want to feel our lives matter. We all feel love, anger, and disappointment, and we all have insecurities about ourselves and our bodies (regardless of what bodies we occupy). Our light comes from the same source. It is our bodies, external influences, and our experiences that make us seem different. At the end of the day, we all want to believe in something, be it science, God, or the power of the universe. We desire to connect to the miracle of this existence, even if we view it through different lenses.
At this conference, I felt included. I felt that I belonged.
The Accessible Yoga Conference was a one-of-a-kind experience. It was about offering yoga to bodies with varying abilities and disabilities, and I was thrilled to witness a full range of bodies that we don't often see at mainstream yoga conferences. It also seemed that many of the people who attended had a deeper connection to the spiritual practices of yoga, letting asana take a back seat. For me, this was both new and refreshing. From my previous experiences at yoga conferences, I had grown accustomed to seeing mostly young, thin, and flexible Lululemon-clad yogis drinking fancy coffee and exploring advanced asana practices. Because I don't fit that cultural mold, I often feel like an observer at mainstream conferences. But at this conference, I felt included. I felt that I belonged. And it seemed to me that others would be open to a new perspective on yoga teachings.
When I first spoke with Jivana, the conference's founder and visionary, I explained that I wanted to share a Yoga For All class that was full of positive and playful energy. I also wanted to create a supportive environment where everyone could share their personal practice experiences. And while my intention to be as inclusive as possible at the AYC (and as a yoga teacher in general) had long been set, the more practitioners I met and the more I listened to their stories, the more I began to feel that my initial understanding of what "accessible yoga" looked and felt like was changing (and drastically) since first pitching my class to Jivana.
My class was billed as Yoga For All. But as my time to teach approached, I started to ask myself: Was it really for all? Was I ready and equipped to offer something for someone in a wheelchair? Fortunately, I got the opportunity to find out. Rev Rudra, a powerful human being in a wheelchair, arrived willing and ready to share his authentic self as a participant in my first AYC workshop. Rev is a self-realized yoga practitioner, which means that he knows his body better than I (or any other yoga teacher), and he is not afraid to make his yoga experience individual and unique for himself. He connected with his wheels as an extension of his body. His forward folds included a bolster on his lap. He moved with grace and awareness from his chair to the floor. It was amazing to watch this person so connected to his body in a way that was hard for an able-bodied person to truly understand. I was excited to see him enter my space. He did his practice, and he added dimension to class. His poses were beautiful and made me see asana in an entirely different way.
Whenever I share a yoga class with students, be it in a local studio or at a large yoga conference, the most important thing I ask them to do is to create their own experiences. It is important to me that students come as they are, use what they have, and do what they can. I never want to single out anyone, or to use a student as an example without their permission. My goal is simply to allow each and every individual to feel included and free to explore their experience of yoga as it unfolds.
I want to create an inclusive space for all. I want to encourage fellow yoga teachers, and our students, to look at our yoga spaces and begin asking: "Why is there a lack of diversity here, and how do we create more? Why are we so afraid to take different approaches to teaching yoga? How can we create classes that help people feel safe? How can we make yoga more socioeconomically and geographically accessible? How do we create classes that invite and celebrate different cultures? Can we be okay with offering a brave space for people of color to practice?" The recent backlash in Seattle around POC classes shows that we are not willing to listen or help people when they tell us what they need. We have yoga for large bodies, women-only spaces, men-only spaces, yoga for children, prenatal yoga, and yoga for older adults. Why are classes for POC so threatening? I have watched people build their confidence in specialized classes, and my experience is that they do move outward to other classes once they feel empowered by the practice. When more people feel more comfortable with yoga, the more specialized classes won't be needed any longer.
We need to create space and time for the difficult but important conversation on yoga and diversity. Growth happens outside of comfort zones. Engaging in a meaningful way with people who are different from us changes our perceptions of each other and the world. As individuals who practice mindfulness, we simply must walk our walk.
So, as I sit here and reflect on my experiences and all of the insights I gathered during my time at the AYC, I have begun to realize that Yoga For All isn't just a progressive asana class. Instead, it is a conversation about how we each step into our personal power—as we do a little asana along the way! Yoga For All is about making yoga more of an internal practice, rather than an external one. It happens by confronting and accepting change, supporting each other in the practice of yoga, and embracing the power that comes from sharing our personal stories.
I have begun to realize that Yoga For All isn't just a progressive asana class. Instead, it is a conversation about how we each step into our personal power.
I want to thank all the practitioners, supporters, and conference organizers behind the Accessible Yoga Conference for being true game-changers. Thank you for allowing me to share my vision of accessible yoga, and for teaching me about the lessons all around me as we venture to create a yoga experience that is truly accessible for all.
Growth continues, for all of us.


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At SXSW, a "King" will be selected winning $5,000 in prize money and $5,000 in Rackspace Cloud hosting credit…and of course, a championship belt. The King will also have the chance to defend their title at the next future showdown. The winners will battle it out during the SXSW's Lean Start-up track, taking place on Saturday, March 12, at 11 am at the Austin Convention Center.
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A veeery old thing I did in 2013 when I didn't really know how to program yet.
I was bored in math class so I did this thingy on my calculator.
At the time, the thing blurted out a frame every 28 seconds. Needless to say I was REALLY bored.
A friend of mine already adapted it for Love2D a while ago, with much better results (video).
For fun times, try doing what I first did when I wrote this code: setting elasticity above 1/2.
This is cool. It shows how powerful the pico-8 system is.
Really cool! Simple but super effective... A version colliding against a triangle mesh would be sick, but inevitably kill performance.
to be honest I could probably improve performance if I rewrote the code but I'm lazy.
I also wanted to add rigidity at some point but the effects wouldn't be very visible on a 15*15 cloth.
ARE YOU A WIZARD? DO YOU WEAR A POINTY HAT AND COLORFUL ROBES AND WAVE A POINTY STICK AT YOUR COMPUTER?
Nice! But... mem keeps increasing?


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Set in one of the most picturesque sites along the River Thames, the Riverside is an ideal pub for settling down with a beer on a warm summer's evening. Find a spot in the beer garden located right on the river bank, and enjoy spectacular views of the historic Ha'penny Bridge before staying overnight in one of the many comfortable rooms. Enjoy food from the extensive menu in either the inside dining area or out on the patio, with a BBQ available during the summer months. The Riverside is also ideally located, with easy access to nearby attractions and towns such as Swindon and Cirencester.
With its rolling gardens reaching down to the banks of the River Coln, the Inn at Fossebridge will offer you an idyllic retreat from the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life. Situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, you will not be disappointed with the spectacular location of this quintessential Cotswold pub. The menu offering home-cooked food is enough to get mouths watering, and you can enjoy it in the four acres of land that this pub is home to. There is even a breakfast menu on offer which guests can enjoy from the scenic Garden Room; surely the perfect start to any day!
For a traditional riverside pub, The Fox Inn ticks all the boxes. Its spectacular location, nestled next to the banks of the River Windrush, provides the perfect setting for enjoying the locally sourced cuisine and the views across to the ancient meadow make this a place that you won't want to leave. The menu includes a special fish of the day, and an Asian twist to many of the dishes making this pub that little bit different. Kick back and relax in the picturesque beer garden, before heading off to explore the pretty village of Bibury.
The Duke of Wellington could not be set in a better location, as it lies right in the heart of the must-visit village, Bourton-on-the-Water. Choose from an extensive menu brimming with freshly prepared meals, including plenty of gluten free dishes, sat in the garden next to the tranquil babble of the River Windrush. There is also a fantastic children's menu, and on Sundays you can indulge with a full carvery. In its pretty setting surrounded by water, it is easy to see why Bourton is fondly referred to as 'The Venice of the Cotswolds'!
Located on the stunning banks of the River Coln, this former Cotswold coaching inn offers the perfect spot for enjoying traditional pub food in glorious surroundings. The Swan Hotel's menus are seasonal; offering a plethora of tasty fare from Bibury trout caught in the local river to pork belly. For a quintessentially English experience, you can even have a spot of afternoon tea on the banks of the river, before spending the night in one of the luxurious rooms.
A popular stop off point since the mid 1800s, The Red Lion is steeped in history. With its location on one of the most beautiful stretches of the River Severn and with a menu boasting a selection of locally reared meats, this pub is the perfect venue for enjoying a leisurely lunch. Sit outside and admire beautiful views out across the river, or find a seat inside next to the log burning fire, where you can curl up and watch the world go by.
In keeping with its name, The Trout Inn makes the most of its riverside location through its menu offering a fantastic selection of locally sourced fish alongside seasonal game. Take in the spectacular views whilst sampling the fish of the day, before settling down for the night in one of their cosy rooms. With the River Thames flowing by just outside the front door, there's even the choice to arrive by boat and moor up outside! Be sure to explore the local area whilst you're there, with attractions such as Blenheim Palace close by.
If you're seeking a traditional Cotswold Pub in a stunning setting, look no further than the Swan Inn. Enjoy a pint of local beer or lager from the Cotswold Brewing Company on the scenic banks of the River Windrush, before heading off to pay a visit to the nearby Burford. The local theme continues into the restaurant with the beef being sourced from the University Farm in Bledington, whilst the pork, lamb and poultry also come from the area. Complete your visit with a stay in the pub's picture-perfect Riverside Cottage, with views that won't disappoint.
Positioned on the beautiful banks of the River Churn and just a few miles north of Cirencester, The Bathurst Arms is a fantastic place to spend a sunny day. Try the slow roasted lamb sat in the pretty beer gardens as the river meanders past, creating an atmosphere of calm and relaxation. Afterwards, embark on one of the many scenic local walks from which you can admire views of historic sites such as the 12th century All Saints Church and the spectacular Rendcomb College. You can then choose to stay in one of the pub's spacious rooms which look out over the gardens - the perfect end to a glorious day in the Cotswolds.
A sympathetically restored 16th century corn mill, the Egypt Mill Hotel and Restaurant offers guests a wonderful dining experience in the beautiful Cotswold village of Nailsworth. With its positioning on the banks of the River Frome and its setting against stunning countryside, you will struggle to find a better place to spend a summer's day. The tranquil gardens backing on to the water create a space for relaxation, and the eccentric-styled restaurant has a menu offering all the classic favourites including a ballotine of chicken and a whole rack of ribs. If you can't bear to tear yourself away, stay in one of the 32 individually designed bedrooms that are on offer.
Sit on the riverside terrace and sample one of The Boat Inn's ten real ales or twenty real ciders, and bring your four-legged friend along too since this pub prides itself on being dog friendly. With its positioning on the west bank of the River Severn, you can enjoy idyllic views in a pretty rural setting. Even better, the pub has recently started serving traditional basket meals, including burgers with locally sourced beef, with the menu continuing to grow.
Situated 2 miles north of Tewkesbury, The Fleet Inn is set amongst beautiful open space on the banks of the River Avon. Enjoy spectacular views from expansive gardens reaching down to the river, with plenty of places to sit and enjoy a summer's evening with a pint. The renowned chef's specials are sure to satisfy hungry visitors, and the menu is wide ranging, from wild boar, apple and sage sausages to Thai beef salad. The bar is well-stocked with locally brewed Wadworth beers, and the interior is stylishly decorated to give a modern twist on a traditional design.
As its name suggests, the Severn Bore Inn is set on the banks of the famous Severn Bore, a tidal area which is formed when surging waters force their way upstream. As a result, fantastic spectacles are created at certain points during the year, which can be enjoyed from the gardens of this nearby pub. Stand on the river banks and watch the waves come crashing in, and you might be forgiven for thinking you're on a beach in Hawaii (albeit a cold one!)! The menu offers a fantastic range of traditional pub-grub, such as Hunter's Chicken and their special Surfer's Breakfast.
It may not technically be by a river, but for stunning water-side views The Old Boathouse will not disappoint. Located at the beautiful Cotswold Water Park, this is a pub that will provide you with a spectacular dining experience. Enjoy a memorable evening sat on the decking with a glass of Prosecco whilst looking over the lakes and countryside that surround you. The menu is also enough to get stomachs rumbling, offering a 21 day dry aged steak and a superfood salad, and on Sundays, delicious roast dinners with all the trimmings are served.
Although it is located just 15 miles from Oxford, this idyllic retreat will make it feel as though you are worlds away from the busy city. The Old Swan and Minster Mill is set in a luscious 65 acres of its own grounds, with the River Windrush flowing through the meadows and woodland areas. The buildings feature an old English mill which makes for a quintessential rural setting while the sympathetically decorated interior gives a modern twist on the historical charm. The Old Swan pub and restaurant serves seasonal but simple food, including a classic afternoon tea which can be enjoyed in the beautiful grounds as the river ripples past.


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Intel's WiMax chip sets sail
Stephen Lawson
Published: April 18th, 2005
WiMax broadband wireless technology will clear a hurdle Monday as Intel Corp. announces volume shipments of its Rosedale chip for the wireless broadband technology, people familiar with the company's plans said this week.
Intel has put its marketing weight behind WiMax for years as standards development dragged on, but the chip giant finally is supporting the technology the way it knows best, churning out silicon. Equipment vendors including Alvarion Ltd., Proxim Corp., Redline Communications Inc. and ZiMax Technologies Inc. all have announced agreements to use Intel silicon in products based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard that Rosedale addresses.
In addition, some equipment vendors will announce products on Monday using the chip, formally called the Intel Pro/Wireless 5116. Among them will be Redline, in Markham, Ontario, which will launch its RedMax line of customer premises equipment. The company will introduce a product with an outdoor antenna and an indoor box with connections for phone and broadband data service, said Kevin Suitor, vice president of business development. It will cost consumers less than $500, Suitor said. Redline currently is running 50 trials with service providers using its pre-WiMax product, called the AN-100, he said.
Intel is not the first chipmaker to announce WiMax silicon, but it carries a lot of weight as both a high-volume chip leader and the rich uncle of the WiMax family, ready to put marketing dollars behind the technology.
Rosedale hitting the market marks a significant moment for WiMax, according to Michael Cai, an analyst at Parks Associates, in Dallas.
"The industry is really looking at Intel, because it's been positioned as the leader in the WiMax space," Cai said.
The next major step for WiMax will be product certification and interoperability testing by the WiMax Forum, the industry body moving to commercialize 802.16 technology. Industry observers expect 802.16-2004 products, which are designed to deliver broadband services to homes and offices without wires, to be tested by the forum in this year's third quarter and hit the market some time before year's end.
Rosedale is a "system on a chip" for customer premises devices that would send and receive data from a base station that could be several miles away. The chip includes a MAC (media access control) component for the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard, a "phy" (physical interface) element that uses OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), an integrated 10/100M bps (bit-per-second) Ethernet MAC for a home or office LAN, and a TDM (time-division multiplexing) controller interface to support voice and streaming data, according to Intel.
Intel integrated all those components on the chip as part of its focus on low-cost equipment that it believes will make wireless broadband a success. Some earlier wireless broadband technologies have stalled because of the cost of proprietary equipment and the need for engineers to set up a "line-of-sight" connection for each customer's antenna.
However, opinions are mixed on the potential for fixed WiMax, which in many parts of the world will compete against well-established DSL (digital subscriber line) and cable modem services. Even Intel has said the larger opportunity lies in IEEE 802.16e, a standard still under development that will allow for WiMax services to mobile devices such as notebook PCs. That technology is expected to hit the market in 2007 or 2008.
For fixed WiMax customer devices such as those based on Rosedale to take off in the market, they will first have to go below $200 in total cost, said Philip Solis, an analyst at ABI Research, in Oyster Bay, New York. That isn't likely to happen for two to three years, in his view. However, service providers could shield subscribers from some or all of that cost through subsidies, he said.
The fixed WiMax that Rosedale supports may be relegated to filling in where other broadband is not available in Western Europe and North America, according to some analysts, but it could have greater potential in less developed areas.
ZiMax, a subsidiary of Shenzhen, China-based ZTE Corp., expects initial response to its products to be strongest in China, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, according to James Jiang, general manager at ZiMax, which is based in San Diego.
Analysts said countries such as India and China, which have dense populations and less broadband infrastructure in place, may be ripe for fixed WiMax. It's likely to show up in metropolitan areas first, but could extend out to rural villages if governments mandate widespread broadband coverage, said Parks Associates' Cai.
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The next-generation Triumph Rocket III has been leaked from an alleged dealer meet.
Going by the leak, the 2019 Rocket III, with its new single-sided swingarm and exposed rear end, is a is a lot beefier when compared to the outgoing model. The handlebar on the new bike looks flatter too.
Also worth noting is that the new model in this leak has a monoshock as compared to twin spring rear shock absorbers on the outgoing version. Therefore, it is likely to have a new chassis as well.
The outgoing Rocket III rocked the world's largest production bike engine – a 2.3-litre inline-3 unit! However, the bike was axed globally after it failed to meet Euro-IV emission norms.
The 2020 Triumph Rocket III is expected to go official at the 2019 EICMA. It will then go on sale a few months later.


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Tagbilaran school loses gadgets to burglar
Photo: DCPNHS Facebook page
A public school in Tagbilaran City lost several pieces of a gadgets including a laptop to a still unidentified burglar, police said.
The assistant principal of the Doctor Cecilio Putong National High School (DCPNHS), Melchor Daniel, Jr., 48, reported the incident to police immediately after discovering that the items were lost on Thursday.
Daniel told authorities that the suspect carted away one Lenovo laptop, an LG mobile phone and USB flash drive.
According to Daniel, the suspect broke into his office and stole a sling bag which contained the items.
The DCPNHS immediately implemented tighter security measures following the incident particularly as over 12,000 delegates to the Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (CVIRAA) are set to arrive in Bohol before a week-long meet which starts Saturday.
The school will be the quarters of some CVIRAA atheletes from Cebu.
Meanwhile, police units of the Tagbilaran City police's theft and robbery section have been deployed to investigate the case. (wm)
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Revealed: How data analytics is giving top players like Federer and Djokovic another edge on their rivals
Roger Federer is understood to have begun his work with Golden Set Analytics Credit: reuters
Simon Briggs, Tennis Correspondent
1 July 2019 • 8:41pm
Simon Briggs
Wimbledon Tennis
Men's tennis is undergoing a secret data revolution, with six-figure annual retainers being paid to teams of analysts hedged with non-disclosure agreements.
As Alexander Zverev said in The Daily Telegraph, "All the big guys are using data analysis, they just don't like to talk about it. I use it a lot. It's a big part of the game now. It's helped me with game-plans and preparation for individual opponents, and it was particularly helpful at the ATP Tour Finals [where he beat world No 1 Novak Djokovic in the final]."
The leading agencies in this growing market include Tennis Stat and Golden Set Analytics. They are pitching for new work within the women's game, where the idea has not yet caught on to the same extent, and quoting sums of £80,000 or more for an annual package. If you want an exclusive deal – in which your rivals cannot access the same company's services – then the fee rises further.
The tipping point for serious analytics was at the start of the 2017 season. Roger Federer, always a far-sighted player who is prepared to invest in himself, is understood to have begun his work with Golden Set Analytics shortly before his dramatic comeback win at the Australian Open.
At the same time, Novak Djokovic introduced Craig O'Shannessy – the Australian who runs the Brain Game Tennis website – to his team. Djokovic and O'Shannessy have always been open about their relationship but Federer – who is understood to pay more than double the standard rate in order to secure exclusive access to GSA's services for as long as he remains in a tournament – is rather more discreet.
Novak Djokovic is a big fan of data analysis Credit: epa
Rafael Nadal's team say that they use no outside agencies, only the analytical mind of his coach Carlos Moya, who also joined Nadal's camp in December 2016. Andy Murray, however, has long been one of the most advanced thinkers and has experimented with numerous outfits, including Lawn Tennis Association analyst Lorcan Reen.
According to the company's website: "Golden Set Analytics is the 'Moneyball' for tennis, and the leading tennis analytics and 'big data' company. Led by economists, mathematicians, statisticians and former players trained at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of California, San Diego, and overseas, the Company has created groundbreaking statistical and computational models and software algorithms that provide revolutionary strategies to professional, college, and junior players."
Tactical analysis has been around for as long as overarm serves, but the new techniques bring a deeper level of sophistication, which has been recognised and appreciated by the game's best coaches. One popular idea is the "stat tree", which shows where a player is most likely to hit the ball from each position on the court. It's then relatively simple to create two-shot patterns to exploit your opponent's weaknesses.
These data services give the players who can afford them a competitive advantage over the field, helping the best stay on top of the rankings.
Several leading male players have experimented with them, but they are very much a luxury, both financially and in terms of the skill level that is required to implement such specific game-plans.
A rank and file performer is better advised to focus on his or her own game, rather than overcomplicating the already challenging business of hitting a tennis ball at 80mph. But the more versatile your game, the more benefit can be gained. The women's world No 1 Ashleigh Barty was an early adopter, for example, having worked with Tennis Australia's analyst Darren McMurtrie for a decade.
"When people watch the elite players – Roger, Rafa or Novak – they think the result is much more down to their play and their patterns," O'Shannessy told The Telegraph. "But there's a hidden game going on against each opponent where they know the weaknesses so they're modifying and adjusting their game plans much more than the average person would realise.
"The Big Three do it more than the other players. Further down the list, the players tend to focus on what they do and the patterns they want rather than what's going on the other side of the court and understanding their opponent."
The technology continues to develop, and could potentially come to be used while matches are in progress if tennis's governing bodies press ahead with their trials of coaching from the stands.
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This Blog is intended to be a manifesto on my attempt to become a civilian. For many years I have shamelessly stockpiled ill-gotten booty, blatantly scoffing at the constant corporate blathering about the disappearance of the industry. Now many years later I realize that this, in a different way, is exactly what is happening.
While Gaming is not going anywhere, hell it's becoming the pay-per-play model that the movie industry has wanted all along, it is shifting in an important way. PC was the place to be, had the latest hardware advancements and was pushing innovation in capability and visual panache. Now the industry has moved from innovation to cultivation, dumbing down gameplay, removing interactivity in lieu of cinematic gushing and utilizing round, pretty, sparkly shapes so that grandma's pension is no longer outside the tipping of coffers.
This pussifying of the entertainment has lead to the console becoming the forefront of the industry. PC gamers are now subjected to waiting with foreign plastic input devices for delayed releases of console games that barely function on hardware that is so superior, you feel you are comparing calculators to Deep Thought. But don't fool yourself, the bigger culprit in the war of the HID's is simply Piracy.
Stop your "but.. but.. but.." right there and shutup - You are not talking to some civilian-turned-politician who has never even seen a ack request. We both know it's theft, we just didn't care; "screw the fatcats and their greed - they can afford it. Games aren't going anywhere." It's what I thought, it's what you think - spare me. What we have done to the industry is create a Fascist, DRM-ridden rental mentality where we as gamers will never own a single game we buy. Yes I said have - Read your EULA.
I by no means believe that the industry is in any way altruistic, nor do I delude myself that piracy does not have it's place in keeping things honest. I do however realize that given the course, if things don't change we will be stuck 'renting' online services for everything and the PC will be nothing more than a dumb terminal.
My reasoning for this Blog is simple; to contribute to the positive movements, to document my transformation and the pains of doing so. Replacing pirated software with open-source and freeware or, god forbid, buying the software I require on a daily basis. I will link the best freeware and open sourced software I find and use myself, pass on and write reviews and stories on the industry that I feel is relevant and useful, and on occasion fly off on a rant or two about likely unrelated topics.


Various non-governmental organisations including schools gathered at the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban on Wednesday in celebration of the late Nelson Mandela's centenary through an initiative called '100 ways over 100 days'.
The initiative, which is aimed at transforming lives of the poor in the inner city of Durban, is championed by the Denis Hurley Centre working with other NGOs such as 'I Care', an organisation caring for street children and 'Hope For Winter'.
The centre, which is located at the heart of the Durban Cathedral, has been doing community work through different initiatives including feeding schemes for the poor, shelter for refugees, and many other community upliftment initiatives.
The director of the centre Raymond Perrier said the aim of the event was to encourage people to volunteer and do community work.
"It's 50 days before Mandela's birthday and we want to encourage people to volunteer not just on Mandela Day but throughout these 100 days. Different organisations came together and discussed what each needs [to do] and how we can all work together to achieve it," he said.
Denis Hurley Centre director Raymond Perrier with activist Ela Ghandi at the Denis Hurley Centre.
The 100 ways over 100 days initiative starts from 30 May to 6 September this year.
Activist and former Member of Parliament, Ela Gandhi, said events like this are important as they raise awareness and teach people about ways they can bring about change in communities. "This centre is doing so much work for the community and bringing about awareness of the plight of the people and trying to meet the needs through community," she said.
Gandhi also said it was important for people to learn that they can do great work through community involvement. "This shows us that we don't always have to be dependent on the government to meet certain needs. We as the people can make the changes ourselves. And every change that we make is important because it's one step closer to liberating their entire nation," she said.
Among other groups who attended the event were different schools from Durban central. A 16-year-old pupil from Holy Family High School, Sinethemba Thethwayo, said it's important for people to volunteer and help the needy. "At school we are taught that for one to get joy it's important to give and help those who are less fortunate, and nothing warms my heart like seeing homeless people smile when we come around here to volunteer and help them out," she said.
The organisations have appealed for donations of any kind from everyone willing to assist.


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Students wear high heels to raise sexual assault awareness
Diana Eva Maldonado
HARLINGEN — Some of them walked awkwardly and others walked slowly, but they all walked around the TSTC campus in Harlingen in women's high heel shoes with a mission to spread awareness of sexual assaults.
The "Walk in her Shoes" event yesterday featured nearly a dozen male students and staff teetering on stilettos and pumps as they carefully walked around the campus courtyard carrying signs with statistics on the number of women and men who are sexually assaulted each year.
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center says one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives.
The center says of all the women who report being raped, 51 percent were assaulted by an intimate partner and nearly 41 percent by an acquaintance. The statistics for men indicate more than 52 percent are assaulted by an acquaintance and 15 percent by a stranger.
NSVRC says one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old.
TSTC counselor Alex Galan and coordinator for support services Patty Flores organized the campus walk.
"We're doing this to raise awareness for sexual assault month and we want to show our support on the campus for anyone who's ever gone through any of this," Galan said. "Feel free to contact us. We offer counseling services."
With the sound of Beyonce's hit song "Put a Ring on It" blaring from a speaker, a couple of the men stumbled, but never fell, and all of them mentioned how uncomfortable the shoes were to walk around in, particularly on the pebble stones.
Jesse Robles of San Benito also put on a pair of shoes.
"We're walking around with a bunch of statistics today to support all the men and women that are victims of sexual assault."
Flores said finding volunteers to take part was easy, but they had to order the extra large sized shoes.
"We actually ordered them online. So we had to get big sizes; we had from size 12 to 16 for males."
Family Crisis also provided students with information on how the agency can help students if they are victimized.
Students can contact the TSTC Student Support Services at (956) 364-4520.
Diana Eva Maldonado is the Digital Editor for the Brownsville Herald, Valley Morning Star and Coastal Current. She can be reached at dmaldonado@valleystar.com or (956) 421-9872 or (956) 982-6618.


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