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Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:06 pm, Posted by eyeadmin 0	| International News
China's Military Strategy
China outlined its defense strategy to boost its naval capability farther from its shores, saying it faced a grave and complex array of security threats including in the disputed South China Sea.
In a policy document issued by the State Council on 26 May 2015, the Communist-ruled country's cabinet, vowed to increase its "open seas protection", switching from air defense to both offence and defense, and criticized neighbors who take "provocative actions" on its reefs and islands.
The white paper, "China's Military Strategy", issued by the State Council Information Office, outlined a strategy that adheres to the unity of strategic defense and operational and tactical offense.
The nearly 9,000-word paper also underscored "the principles of defense, self-defense and post-emptive strike," adding that China "will not attack unless [it is] attacked, but will counterattack."
In response to the evolving form of modern warfare and national security requirements, more focus will be placed on "winning informationized local wars".
The armed forces will strengthen international security cooperation in areas crucially related to overseas interests.
The paper goes on to highlight four "critical security domains", including the ocean, outer space, cyberspace and nuclear force.
The paper said modernizing and strengthening maritime military forces were critical to national security and overseas interests. The PLA Navy will gradually shift its focus from the sole strategy of "offshore waters defense" to the combined one of "offshore waters defense [and] open seas protection."
"China faces many complex maritime security threats and challenges and requires a navy that can carry out multifaceted missions and protect its sovereignty," Wang Jin, a senior colonel, told reporters.
The paper also cited "grave threats" to China's cyber infrastructure, adding that China would hasten development of a cyber military force.
China opposes weaponization and arms race in outer space and vowed to secure its space assets. The paper also underscored that China will never enter into a nuclear arms race with any other country.
China also pledged to continue to contribute to world peace.
ACTIVE DEFENSE
This is the ninth white paper issued since 1998.
Compared with the previous documents, this one focuses on the core and most sensitive questions concerning China's military and security policy, said Wen Bing, a researcher with the Academy of Military Science (AMS) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).
The essence of China's military strategy is "defense" and it highlights an "active" state, Wen said. China's socialist nature, fundamental national interests and the objective requirement of peaceful development all demand adherence to active defense, the paper says.
It's because of adherance to this strategy that China could enjoy a relatively stable environment for development and win international respect, said Chen Zhou, director of national defense policy research center under the AMS.
No matter how strong China becomes, it will never deviate from this strategy and will not pursue military expansion, Chen said. China opposes hegemonism and power politics in all forms and will never seek hegemony or expansion, according to the paper.
INCREASING THREATS
A world war is unlikely in the foreseeable future and the international situation is expected to remain generally peaceful, according to the paper.
It, however, notes the outside threats of hegemonism, power politics and neo-interventionism.
Small-scale wars, conflicts and crises are recurrent in some regions. Therefore, the world still faces both immediate and potential threats of localized wars, it says.
China remains in a period of strategic opportunities for development, but it also faces multiple and complex security threats, as well as increasing external challenges. This means China still has the arduous task of safeguarding national unification, territorial integrity and development interests, according to the paper.
The paper also warned of threats to China's maritime rights and interests. It mentioned the provocative actions of certain offshore neighbors, including reinforced, and illegal, military presence on China's territory, and outside parties involving themselves in South China Sea affairs.
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Even at 11:30 a.m. on a Tuesday you're going to get that smell. The smell of a long night of rowdy frat boys, chain smoking teens, vomit on the sidewalk and the wafting aroma of $1 beer night.
This is Austin, TX and its famous 6th street district.
Not in the up and coming, trendy east-side, or the grown up version on the west side. We're starting our day drinking on the DIRTY SIXTH. The epicenter of debauchery for the newly turned 21, or in this case, two parents looking to do some day drinking who no longer have weekends alone.
This is by no means is a comprehensive list, but a nice little adventure around town if you have some free time to kill in the afternoon during the week. It's a great time because downtown Austin and its surrounding areas are much different during this time compared to a Friday night. For obvious reasons.
The smell is true, but downtown Austin still has its charm no matter how many people have moved here in recent years. It's small enough to cover a vast scope of styles in a short amount of time. Without moving to the East Side (which is growing quickly enough to have its own post), you have everything you need downtown, but to start we were hungry.
Located at the entrance of Dirty Sixth, Easy Tiger Bake Shop & Beer Garden is the first stop. Featuring amazing breads, pretzels, meats, cheese plates from Antonellis(!), and over 30 beers on tap- it's a good place to fill your belly before filling it up with beer.
When you walk in you're greeted with two options: Walk ahead and order something from the counter to continue your commute, or head downstairs and enjoy the pub-style tables, sit out side and enjoy the work-in-progress riverwalk, or sit at the bar.
The menu isn't super extensive, but know that this isn't a full-fledged restaurant, it's definitely more of a British pub feel, so in this case- smaller menu means everything is good here. EVERYTHING.
I didn't take pictures of the food, but we ordered the cheese plate, potato salad, smoked turkey breast sandwich and the smoked pastrami sandwich. Both half sizes, but could really be considered a full size anywhere else. It was a TON of food.
We got there right before lunch and sat at the bar. The cellar-like feel to it is what struck me as my most favorite. Stone-work walls, lower ceilings, and then the pub-style seating; tables and chairs sitting a little lower so you're forced to enjoy your company. So put away your phone and enjoy this place.
There are chalkboard menus for the beer with a nice focus on Texas beer options (duh). It is also a full bar, so if you want something a little different you can. Knowledgeable and friendly staff more than accommodating to a couple of first-timers.
The first stop on the day drinking tour was definitely a smart choice. Fill up with some amazing breads, meats and cheese and the perfect beer to go with. They could get complex with the beer menu, but you want to be able to enjoy your beer with the food you ordered, and I think the options available best compliment the menu options. Smart choice.
When you're done eating step outside and check out the beer garden, the river currently under construction and the sounds and smells of downtown Austin.
Grab a burger and El Casino del Camino, or Jackalope. Two dive bars with amazing food and cheap drinks.
Head farther down 6th until Lamar and try to control yourself at the flagship Wholefoods.
BTWN 6th and 7th on Trinity, check out Chicago House for an early evening drink. Typically doesn't open until after 4pm.
There are a lot of options around here too- check out Red River, Rainey St for plenty of other options that weren't discussed here.


AUSTIN , Texas —The science radio program Universo will celebrate its 15th anniversary of daily Spanish-language broadcasts on skywatching and astronomy on April 1.
The program includes a special focus on the contributions of Latino scientists and the skylore of Mesoamerican cultures.
Produced by The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory, Universo airs on about 100 stations across the United States, Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela, reaching about 2.2 million listeners daily. Recently, the show has become more easily accessible to radio stations through free, production-quality digital downloading of programs.
The program is recorded at Ixtlan studios in El Paso, Texas. Teresa "Fendi" de la Cruz has hosted Universo from the beginning. The Universo production team also includes associate producer Marco Lara and audio engineer Ignacio "Nacho" Acosta.
In addition to radio, Universo includes a wide range of Spanish-language media. The Universo Web site provides skywatching tips, guides to the solar system and beyond, and text of the radio programs. The extensive Black Holes Encyclopedia is also available in Spanish. Universo's Spanish-language Facebook group provides listeners an arena to discuss programs and offer feedback.
Production for Universo is funded by the Friends of McDonald Observatory and an anonymous donor, with additional support from NASA and the National Science Foundation. The program is available for sponsorship.


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Creepy Summer Lesson PSVR Game Gets New Trailer, Details
By Steven Bogos Legacy Author September 15, 2016
Bandai Namco has revealed details on its upcoming "flirt with a high school girl" PlayStation VR game, Summer Lesson
Summer Lesson was one of those Virtual Reality games that was inevitable. The PlayStation VR exclusive from Bandai Namco essentially puts you in the role of a "tutor", teaching and eventually "bonding" with a Japanese high school girl. We thought it was just going to be one of those weird tech demos that just went away but at Tokyo Game Show this year Sony revealed that this is a real game that will launch alongside PS VR.
First up, check out the trailer to the right that was released alongside the new info. It will be sold under its official title, Summer Lesson: Hikari Miyamoto Seven Days Room and is set to launch alongside PlayStation VR on 13 October for 2,980 yen (US$28.93). Furthermore, while the trailer only showed the player interacting with the girl in her bedroom, Sony says that there will also be options for more "intriguing scenarios" with her in the future.
When the game was debuted last year, as well as the Japanese school girl we saw a scenario with a blonde-haired American girl, who is noticeably absent from this build of the game. I guess Bandai knows what the weebs want.
We're at Tokyo Game Show this year and will endeavor to check this one out for ourselves before the end of the show. Stay tuned!
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Irish folks
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On this voyage, he circumnavigated and visited a considerable part of trendy-day Great Britain and Ireland. He was the primary known scientific customer to see and describe the Celtic and Germanic tribes.[18] "Britain" is most like Welsh Ynys Prydein, "the island of Britain", in which is a P-Celtic allophone of Q-Celtic Cruithne in Irish Cruithen-tuath, "land of the Picts". The base phrase is Scottish/Irish cruth, Welsh pryd, which means "form". The British were the "individuals of types", with the sense of shapes or pictures,[19] thought to discuss with their apply of tattooing or war painting.[20] The Roman word Picti, "the Picts", means "painted".
The Irish diaspora consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in nations such because the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and nations of the Caribbean corresponding to Jamaica and Barbados. These international locations all have large minorities of Irish descent, who in addition type the core of the Catholic Church in these nations. In the Republic of Ireland, as of 2011, three,861,335 people or about eighty four.sixteen% of the population are Roman Catholic.[eighty one] In Northern Ireland about 41.6% of the inhabitants are Protestant (19.1% Presbyterian, 13.7% Church of Ireland, 3.zero% Methodist, 5.eight% Other Christian) whilst approximately 40.8% are Catholic as of 2011. The Mac Lochlainn, Ó Maol Seachlainn, Ó Maol Seachnaill, Ó Conchobhair, Mac Loughlin and Mac Diarmada households, all distinct, are now all subsumed collectively as MacLoughlin.
Furthermore, a good amount of Irish individuals with blond, purple or (mild to medium) brown hair can also be discovered within the west. Those who believe that raven-haired Irish can solely be discovered in the west should take what they read (regardless of supply material) with a grain of salt and invest a while in personal analysis.
Can't this be accepted as a wholesome mix of hair and skin colors typical of Northern Europe, the region on the planet (except US) that has the most diversity in hair/pores and skin/eye color. A bit like corned beef & cabbage when it's really bacon and cabbage. Keep it clear what's IRISH AMERICAN and what is truly Irish.
The prevalence of persons in Ireland with medium or dark brown hair, blue eyes and pale skin (suppose Carly Hennessey [4]) can likely also be defined if one once more applies the precept of pure selection here, as an alternative focusing less on lighter hair as one of various desired traits. The second is Courtney Cox.[2] With her darkish hair, blue eyes, pale skin and freckles, this American beauty is an ideal mannequin of a kind which reflects the affect of truthful Germanic peoples on the Atlantic derived inhabitants of Ireland and Britain. 14) Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Marvin C. Shaw None of the above. Black Irish refers to a physical type together with milk-white pores and skin, typically with freckles, blue eyes, and jet black hair, found among most Celtic peoples. The different legend, with a few of the details primarily based actually, however nonetheless not completly provable tells of the spanish seaport that was constructed at gallway bay, west ireland during the sixtten or seventeen hundreds.
Irishman Pierce Brosnan, to whom has dark brown hair and blue eyes has gone on document contemplating himself a representative of the so-called "Black Irish" look. What Mal finds confusing is the notion that such a time period as "Black Irish" even exists, considering that most inhabitants of Ireland are dark haired. What is the origin of the Irish with swarthy darkish features? A topic of historical dialogue, the subject is sort of never referred to in Ireland.
Certainly one thing worth pursuing in future archeological/bodily anthropological studies. Well, the Irish embody various influences, together with Iberians, Scandinavian deriven-Normans and English, to call a few.
Although many Irish have very darkish hair, quite a following perceive them as typically being redheads or blondes with mild eyes and freckles. I presume that is how the time period initially came about, however I can guarantee you that is not solely used within the United States. In truth, I was launched to it by an elder couple from Ireland with connections to Scotland. I do agree; nonetheless girl in ireland, that the term doubtless originated in America, however it can really be heard in several totally different nations. The time period "Black Irish" generally ascribes to Irish people with very darkish hair, as opposed to the blond or pink variation often associated with Ireland and her descendants.
Around 32,000 English settled in Valparaíso, influencing the port city to the extent of constructing it just about a British colony during the last many years of the 19th century and the start of the twentieth century.[193] However, the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 and the outbreak of the First World War drove many of them away from the city or back to Europe. Together with one other 5 largely self-governing Crown Colonies, the federation of Australia was achieved on 1 January 1901. The flag of Australia was permitted by Australian and British authorities, and includes a Union Flag—the flag of the United Kingdom—in the canton. Australia has one of the largest concentrations of people of British heritage. It is a curious irony that this page has writers that are happy with their Irish heritage, but they've never thought-about whether or not Irish individuals would have written down accounts of troopers and sailors staying on in Ireland after touchdown on the western coasts.
Alternative names for Irish people
In the 1920s, the Church in Wales turned impartial from the Church of England and became 'disestablished' but remains in the Anglican Communion.[240] Methodism and other Protestant churches have had a serious presence in Wales. The primary non secular groups in Northern Ireland are organised on an all-Ireland foundation. Though collectively Protestants represent the general majority,[245] the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland is the biggest single church. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, carefully linked to the Church of Scotland by way of theology and historical past, is the second largest church followed by the Church of Ireland (Anglican) which was disestablished within the nineteenth century.
The better of Irish slang and 100+ Irish slang phrases
The Irish pretty much shorten every thing so right here they are saying up North or they say down South to make their lives easier. Whereas the early Neolithic farmer had black hair, brown eyes and more resembled southern Europeans, the genetic variants circulating within the three Bronze Age men from Rathlin Island had the most common Irish chromosome type, with a mutation on the C282Y gene which ends up in blue eyes. A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen's University Belfast has sequenced the first genomes from historic Irish folks, to reply questions concerning the origins of Ireland's individuals and their tradition. In Ireland, young people can courting for a number of years, not registering their relationship, and after they have collected enough financial assets to buy a separate housing, then they can critically discuss concerning the marriage. Be educated about Ireland and Irish culture.
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A quick post between cleaning/cooking.
We do not host New Year's, and have been doing a lot of cooking but not so much cleaning. So far, the pantry, my Tupperware shelf are done, but get this, my children have cleaned our their rooms! I expect the rest of the house will be clean by Chinese New Year.
I've started a batch of kuromame in the crock pot this morning, and it's not too late for you. If you start your crock pot at the stroke of midnight, it will be ready for New Year's eating in the morning.
We are also in charge of bringing a salad to New Year's--my Mom's Japanese coleslaw. Note that I've updated the recipe because Nissin no longer makes the pre-flavored noodle packages. Switched out to the ramen snack packs.
We'll be eating cha-soba with the seasonal fancy kamaboko tonight, and probably mochi for breakfast. For long life and full bellies!
And one that note, making one last push for the Feeding My Ohana Virtual Food Drive. We will add matching funds and additionally, Second Harvest has a donor who will match funds today as well!
Stay safe all and happy new year of the sheep!
Crock Pot Kuromame--in time for New Year's!
On this last day of 2013, I bid farewell to canned kuromame.
For the record, my mother and aunty do not make it from scratch, writing it off as "too much humbug."
Enter Aunty Google. Lots of complicated advice. Most require sitting by a hot stove for about 8 hours. And having a specialized piece of equipment called an otoshibuta a wooden cover that you put on top of the kuromame. Another old-school traditional recipe called for adding 3-4 rusty nails.
Most include dire warnings of unsightly wrinkles forming. This will result in eternal embarrassment at New Year's gatherings.
Consider yourself warned. Now seek the protective magic of the crock pot. Decidedly un-Japanese, but makes for darn-near-perfect texture. And no wrinkles. Or cracks, also an embarrassment.
I used the Honolulu Star Advertiser to start. Anyone who is a print subscriber can download the original recipe. I made adjustments because I didn't want use a bag and a half of dried kuromame, and the original sounded it like it would make A LOT of kuromame. I also added a finishing sauce to intensify the flavor.
Click here for what I did. You still have time to make this for New Year's.
Wishing you and your ohana a healthy, happy 2014!
Girls' Day is celebrated on the third day of the third month. It is a traditional Japanese folk holiday to honor girl power, or at the very least, to celebrate their existence in what historically was a very male-dominated society.
Also called Hinamatsuri, or Doll Festival, households with girls showcase very elaborately costumed dolls for one day only. These are not your mundane Malibu Barbie or Groovy Girls, but Not-to-Play-With Dolls Specifically for Display and Usually Protected by a Glass Case. but The tradition continues that if one leaves the dolls out past Girls' day, it has serious repercussions on the a girl's marriage-ability. I believe that was made up by someone who was a little overzealous about cleaning.
While it has been replaced by the more generic "Children's Day" on May 5th in Japan, Girls' Day is still alive and well in Hawaii and with ex-pat Hawaii folks, at least judging by my Facebook and Twitter traffic. The traditional Boys Day is be celebrated on May 5th.
Our household's modern version keeps dolls out for about a week. Lately it has also signaled the final clean-up of decorations from Christmas/New Year's/Lunar New Year's and a few errant Easter eggs. And while girls typically receive little cookies or mochi, our girl has opted for Tapioca Express bubble tea drinks.
Celebrate the girls and women in your lives.
Happy Girls Day to all!
Happy New Year of the Dragon.
From 12:00 midnight January 1st until January 3rd, it's all about Japanese traditions. Here's not only what's been going on, but why. For this, I need to recognize my long-time friend C2, who did the homework on the meanings of all the New Year's food. All I knew was that we are supposed to eat it.
We eat toshikoshi soba (means "year-crossing") so that literally the first thing done in the New Year is together with your family, in your home, and in the hope of a year of good fortune. The idea of being in Times Square on New Year's just doesn't compute for me.
Soba are buckwheat noodles and symbolize a long healthy life and a prosperous family. We add kamaboko, or fish cake, with special New Year's designs. This year, I have ume (plum) branches and blossoms, and kotobuki (寿) kanji. Plum symbolizes new beginnings, purity and sweetness. Kotobuki doesn't have a direct translation, but has a rejoicing/celebratory sense with a wish for longevity.
On New Year's morning, the traditional breakfast is ozoni, a clear hot soup with mochi, mushrooms, soba and then whatever particulars a family includes. One of my friend's ozoni actually includes hot dogs, definitely an Americanized version. Ozoni is supposed to help nourish you throughout the year.
Sekihan (red rice): sticky mochi rice and azuki. In keeping with a red (azuki)/white (rice) color scheme, it is a celebratory food. This is one of my favorites.
Kuromame: black beans simmered in shoyu and sugar. You're supposed to eat one bean for each year of your age to ensure good health for the coming year and general long life.
Kobumaki: rolled seaweed tied with gourd. Sounds like Japanese "rejoice" (yorokobu, 喜ぶ) and symbolizes joy.
Datemaki: a sweet rolled scrambled egg. It's supposed to look like the sun, another celebratory food.
Gobo: julienned seasoned burdock root. The tough texture symbolizes the Japanese way of life and perseverance.
Nimono/nishime: boiled root vegetables. Includes lotus (renkon), cut so that the holes show, symbolizing that you can see the year ahead; bamboo shoots (takenoko), symbolizing fast growth, and carrots cut into the shape of a plum blossom for fertility.
Tastukuri: dried salted sardines (anchovies) for a good harvest.
Satsuma: mandarin oranges, put on top of the mochi (for good luck) and eaten for a good life.
Wishing you all the good health and happiness for 2012. Eat Well. Be Well.
Today, May 5th, will always be Boys' Day, then Cinco de Mayo.
Boys' Day (5th day, 5th month) is an old-custom Japanese festive day to celebrate, well, boys. Not to worry, there was also Girls' Day on March 3rd (3rd day, 3rd month).
In Japan, this was long ago consolidated to 5/5 as "Children's Day" but in Hawaii, as well as in this household of ex-pat Hawaii adults, Boys and Girls' days are still separate, but equal.
How do we celebrate? By hauling out the traditional Boys' Day decorations--Japanese Boys warrior dolls, a samurai helmet (a symbol of strength), irises, (whose leaves are shaped like swords and therefore, are a symbol of swashbuckling bravery) and flying koi (carp). According to the Japanese American National Museum website, koi symbolize boys because they are 'sprited and lively, and show fighting spirit by swimming upstream. Did they ever get that right!
All will receive some yummy traditional and and modern treat, because it is after all, a celebration day. 'Grown-up' boy gets mochi (for good luck) and cherry blossom white bread (because he likes it and I never buy white bread). For the boy/children, their favorite Japanese soda candy or rice crackers for *both* kids even though it's officially Boys Day. And Calpico for all.
Whatever your traditions--Happy Boys Day and Happy Cinco de Mayo.


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Cities of the future could be a forest of 'Plyscrapers'
Tokyo's planned 1,148-foot timber tower is just the latest project to use wood as it becomes the material of choice for architects
by Asia Times staff February 20, 2018 February 18, 2020
An artists impression of the planned 350-meter-high wooden skyscraper in Tokyo announced by the Sumitomo Forestry Company. Illustration: Sumitomo Forestry Company
Standing in the heart of Tokyo, it will be 70 stories tall and 1,148 feet, or 350 meters, high. It will also be a mixed development tower block with residential, retail and business spaces. And, of course, it will be made out of wood.
In a move to promote its 350th anniversary, the Sumitomo Forestry Company has announced plans to build by 2041 what The Guardian has dubbed a "Plyscraper." The building will cost US$5.6 billion, nearly double the price of a traditional steel and glass structure.
"This is all about urban development that are kind for humans and making over cities as forests," the company stated.
Renowned architecture firm Nikken Sekkei has been heavily involved in the design for the W350 Project as it is known.
Predominantly built from wood, hybrid materials and small quantities of steel will also be used in the spine of the building to cope with seismic activity.
Up to 6.5 million cubic feet of wood will be needed, which is roughly 300,000 family-sized kitchen tables from Ikea.
Green balconies will entwine the tower's exterior, connecting the building to its environment.
"New technological advances with construction techniques and composite wood make this a very exciting area at the moment," said Riccardo Tossani, who set up Riccardo Tossani Architecture in Tokyo more than 20 years ago.
"It is in many ways the ideal material because it is a renewable resource as well as being somewhat recyclable. For Japan, it is an excellent building material," he added.
Historically, the majority of buildings in the country were constructed in timber but were deemed a fire risk after the country's cities were gutted during the allies' aerial bombing in World War II.
Oakwood Tower in London looks an exciting joint-project proposed by PLP Architecture and Cambridge University's Department of Architecture. Illustration: PLP Architecture
But wood is now back in fashion and is being heavily used in the Kengo Kuma Stadium for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Naturally, it is not just in Japan where the material is taking root in the building industry.
During the past 10 years, there has been a global rush to construct or design timber towers.
At 142 feet, the Brock Commons Tallwood House at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is believed to be the world's tallest "plyscraper."
The Treet in Norway's Central Bergen is another classic "natural wood" block as is the 10-story, 104-foot high Forte residential building overlooking Melbourne's Victoria Harbour.
"Projects like this demonstrate the far reaches of timber's potential," Anthony Thistleton-Smith, the founding director of Waugh Thistleton Architects in London, told The Architects Journal.
"We would hope that in a few decades, it will be possible to build a large structure predominantly in timber without having to load it up with concrete and steel," he added.
Already those seeds are being sown as innovation blossoms.
There are plans to build an 80-story River Beech Tower in Chicago out of wood, while the Oakwood Tower in London looks an exciting joint-project proposed by PLP Architecture and Cambridge University's Department of Architecture.
If it gets the green light, it would stretch to 80 stories and would be 1,000 feet tall. It would also be the city's first timber tower and would only be overshadowed by The Shard.
"There's a whole bunch of new materials made out of wood that are structurally able to build big buildings," Dr. Michael Ramage, of the Center for Natural Material Innovation at Cambridge Universit, told CNN.
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Vince Cheok says:
I do not quite understand the economics or the bottom line profit from such realty but I just love the reversion to the way of nature and all things natural. Really altruistic!
Tom Dwyer says:
What about fire?
Tom Bender says:
Won't rot? Won't burn? Termite-proof? "somewhat" recyclable?? How much is wood, and how much plastics and poisons?
Eduardo Simonelli says:
If you're ready to build and provide such project you sure have a security plan and structure for this kind of event. Even that if it comes up cities like this will have an amount of way to give people security against criinal fire etc.


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UNC team discovers promising target for new pancreatic cancer treatments
Chapel Hill, NC — One of the most frustrating problems faced by doctors who treat pancreatic cancer is the lack of effective therapeutic options. More than 38,000 people in the United States die of the disease each year, and new drugs and treatments are desperately needed.
For almost three decades, scientists and physicians have known that a gene called the KRAS oncogene is mutated in virtually all pancreatic cancers, making it an important target for scientists looking for a way to stop the growth of pancreatic cancer tumors. The problem is that the KRAS gene triggers cancer cell growth in numerous ways, through multiple cell signaling pathways, and scientists have had difficulty determining which one will be the most promising to block — an important first step in designing a drug for use in patients.
In a paper published today in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a team from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has narrowed the focus of this scientific quest to a protein called RGL2.
According to Channing Der, PhD, who led the research, "The pathway we talk about this paper is one we have investigating for more than five years. We think it is an attractive target for achieving what has, to date, been impossible: making a KRAS-blocking drug."
Der, who is a distinguished professor of pharmacology and UNC Lineberger member, says, "We are particularly optimistic about RGL2 because we know that this protein is a critical component of KRAS signaling to another class of proteins called Ral GTPases, which are essential for the growth of almost all pancreatic tumors."
Working with Jen Jen Yeh, MD, assistant professor of surgery, Sharon Campbell, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, Der and his laboratory team were able to demonstrate that RGL2 is overexpressed — not only in pancreatic tumor cells grown in the laboratory but also in tissue taken from pancreatic cancer patients.
According to Der, "Many ideas work in the artificial environment of cell culture but not in real cancer patients. Our work with actual pancreatic tumor tissue makes us optimistic that our new understanding of this pathway can lead to a therapeutic impact for the cancer patient."
Other members of the UNC Lineberger team include postdoctoral fellow Dominico Vigil, PhD, Timothy Martin and Falina Williams.
The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, UNC Lineberger's National Cancer Institute Special Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Gastrointestinal Cancer, the Emerald Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Kimmel Foundation, the American College of Surgeons and by the University Cancer Research Fund.
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The Couple From That 'America's Got Talent' Trapeze Fall Explains What Went Wrong
"The feeling is just gut-wrenching. It still makes me sick, when I think about it."
By Emma Baty
Mary and Tyce, the trapeze couple that fell on America's Got Talent, knew that going into the Judge Cuts round was going to require them to really step up their game, so they decided to make the already-challenging trapeze act even more so. Tyce was going to do the routine blindfolded, which mean everything was dependent on verbal cues.
"We have a music cue that I'm waiting for, but I also give Mary a verbal cue," Tyce explained to Entertainment Tonight. "What happens is, when she falls, when she lets go, I have to place my hands directly in the right spot to catch her feet at the right time or I miss her."
Because of the crowd cheering for them (which they're very thankful for and appreciative of) Mary couldn't hear Tyce's cue, causing her to plunge toward the stage. You can watch it in this video.
Tyce started "freaking out" when he felt Mary slipping through his hands. "You can see in the video, she was already gone, but I have this, like, last effort to still try and get her," he said. "And that feeling is just terrifying. I mean, it was miserable. I felt like it lasted so long. It was really uncomfortable."
In their years of doing trapeze together, they've fallen other times, but it never gets any less scary, Tyce said. Mary knows a specific position for making sure she doesn't break her neck on the fall.
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"I'm thinking, 'Can I get in that position fast enough so that I don't get hurt?'" she said. "Because even when you're trained to fall, sometimes you don't get to the position you need to fast enough and you can get seriously hurt. I've had injuries before from that."
Mary said as soon as she realized she was okay, her first concern was seeing their two-year-old son. "I try not to be so emotional, but when my son gets involved, that's when I just can't control it."
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The trouble began a few years ago, at the Syracuse show. I had just dropped a sizeable chunk of pocket change on a new NCE PowerCab, thus hurtling myself headlong into the world of Digital Command Control. With only two decoder-equipped locomotives in my entire fleet at that point, I had some tough choices to make. In order to get more decoders, I had to swear off buying any more locomotives for a while. It was easy at first, but then the GG-1 on the table winked at me.
I've always loved GG-1s. In the world of railroading, many locomotives don't last beyond their 15-year trust certificates. Have we amortized that piece of junk yet? Good, get it out of here. By contrast, the GG-1 was a stunning success story. The first one, originally billed as the underdog in the competition for the Pennsylvania Railroad's next electric locomotive, won handily, spawned 138 production examples, and went on to have a 48-year service life itself. No wonder Gs are so popular.
I had the opportunity to see GG-1s in action, just barely. My family spent the night once at a motel just south of Enola yard, sometime in the late '70s. I awoke the next morning to a growing low rumble, stepped outside, and watched as a pair of extremely dirty Gs lugged a long freight train past. God, it was like visiting the age of the dinosaurs. Extinction came before our next vacation, unfortunately.
Today, I'm modelling in N scale, with a focus on northern Pennsylvania, circa 1963. I have some Pennsy equipment, also some Erie Lackawanna, and some short-line stuff. The PRR electrified zone ended a hundred miles away from the area I model, but no matter. There, on the table, was Kato's magnificent new GG-1, and it was in the green wide-stripe scheme, no less. I was powerless to resist.
Not that I didn't make a token effort to do so. I didn't buy it that day. I knew the vendor, though, and I knew I'd see him at other shows later in the season. So I asked him to set it aside for me. I started socking away the money. By Christmas, it was mine. Or vice versa.
Like I said, my memory of Gs in action was on freight, and in their later years, they moved a lot of it. Originally, they were built for long-distance passenger service, hauling the Pennsy's vaunted "Blue Ribbon Fleet" all points east of Harrisburg. But hey, I'm northern Pennsylvania, remember, where passenger trains were all but gone by 1963. No temptation here, right?
Now, if you've been married for a while, you know that there is a threshold for hobby purchases. Items below that threshold will escape scrutiny, and perhaps even escape notice. Items above that threshold will place you in some degree of jeopardy. The GG-1 was below the threshold, but the Broadway set was not. I braced myself for the firestorm, prepared my defense, and practiced the murky art of being a very, very good husband. When the inevitable came, I did my best to provide assurance that this kind of thing would hardly ever happen again.
There's an ironic footnote to this chapter: six weeks after I purchased the Broadway set, the hobby shop burned to the ground. When I pointed out to my wife that had I not purchased it, the set likely would have gone up in smoke, she was less begrudging about it. She hates to see things go to waste.
So I have the G, and the G has a Broadway Limited to haul. The G elbowed its way to the top of my decoder-installation list, not surprisingly. The Broadway cars demanded—and received—lighting kits. Now the entire train is ganging up on me and insisting upon its own layout. Not necessarily a large one, but something with properly-sized curves, and catenary poles.
Oh, I'm going to be in trouble again.
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From PPPL: "Return of the Blob: Scientists find surprising link to troublesome turbulence at the edge of fusion plasmas"
John Greenwald
Image showing spiraling magnetic field fluctuations at the edge of the NSTX tokamak. (Photo courtesy of Physics of Plasmas. Composition by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications.)
PPPL NSTX -U at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ,USA
Blobs can wreak havoc in plasma required for fusion reactions. This bubble-like turbulence swells up at the edge of fusion plasmas and drains heat from the edge, limiting the efficiency of fusion reactions in doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called "tokamaks." Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have now discovered a surprising correlation of the blobs with fluctuations of the magnetic field that confines the plasma fueling fusion reactions in the device core.
New aspect of understanding
Further investigation of this correlation and its role in the loss of heat from magnetic fusion reactors will help to produce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars. "These results add a new aspect to our understanding of the plasma edge heat loss in a tokamak," said physicist Stewart Zweben, lead author of a paper (link is external) in Physics of Plasmas that editors have selected as a featured article. "This work also contributes to our understanding of the physics of blobs, which can help to predict the performance of tokamak fusion reactors."
Fusion reactions combine light elements in the form of plasma — the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that makes up 99 percent of the visible universe — to produce massive amounts of energy. Scientists are seeking to create and control fusion on Earth as a source of safe, clean and virtually limitless power to generate electricity.
PPPL researchers discovered the surprising link last year when re-analyzing experiments made in 2010 on PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) — the forerunner of today's National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U). The blobs and fluctuations in the magnetic field, called "magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)" activity, develop in all tokamaks and have traditionally been seen as independent of each other.
Surprise clue
The first clue to the correlation was the striking regularity of the trajectory of large blobs, which travel at roughly the speed of a rifle bullet, in experiments analyzed in 2015 and 2016. Such blobs normally move randomly in what is called the "scrape-off layer" at the edge of tokamak plasma, but in some cases all large blobstraveled at nearly the same angle and speed. Moreover, the time between the appearance of each large blob at the edge of the plasma was nearly always the same, virtually coinciding with the frequency of dominant MHD activity in the plasma edge.
Researchers then tracked the diagnostic signals of the blobs and the MHD activity in relation to each other to measure what is called the "cross-correlation coefficient," which they used to evaluate a set of the 2010 NSTX experiments. Roughly 10 percent of those experiments were found to show a significant correlation between the two variables.
The scientists then analyzed several possible causes of the correlation, but could find no single compelling explanation. To understand and control this phenomenon, Zweben said, further data analysis and modeling will have to be done — perhaps by readers of the Physics of Plasmas paper.
Support for this work comes from the DOE Office of Science, with portions of the research performed under the auspices of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory managed by Princeton University. PPPL, on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J., is devoted to creating new knowledge about the physics of plasmas — ultra-hot, charged gases — and to developing practical solutions for the creation of fusion energy. Results of PPPL research have ranged from a portable nuclear materials detector for anti-terrorist use to universally employed computer codes for analyzing and predicting the outcome of fusion experiments. The Laboratory is managed by the University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, which is the largest single supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.http://www.energy.gov.
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Trend Observation
You Heard It Here First: The unfairer sex
Joyce Lam
Joyce is a Senior Trends Analyst at Mintel, focusing on capturing consumer behaviour for the Asia Pacific market, as well as supporting the global Mintel Trends team to identify new consumer trends.
March 19th, 2019August 02nd, 2019
Mintel has been at the forefront of predicting the trends that matter most, calling them early and accurately, over the last 15 years. In our series You Heard It Here First we take a look at some of the predictions that we've made and where they are today.
Gender inequality still remains an issue despite major efforts and improvements. Even in China, where gender equality rights are enshrined in the constitution and women are supposed to 'hold up half the sky', the country's gender gap score ranked 100th out of 144 countries in 2017, according to the Global Gender Gap report by the World Economic Forum.
In Asia-Pacific, women still face gender stereotyping, discrimination, or even worse, harassment at home, the workplace and beyond. We announced the "Mintel Trend 'The Unfairer Sex'" back in 2012, highlighting how brands and consumers are challenging existing gender gaps to strive for equal rights, treatment and opportunities between men and women. Today, this has become a hot topic that is being discussed more than ever before.
In these past couple of decades, a rising number of women in Asia-Pacific have been able to enjoy better education and achieve financial independence, giving them more freedom to make their own life choices. While these improvements may sound like a positive change, women feel more overstretched than ever before; they are in a continuous battle between pursuing career opportunities, while managing the traditional social pressure of getting married and starting a family.
When it comes to household chores, Mintel's latest research on cleaning the house in China reveals as many as four in five women are still taking more responsibility than men (three in five) when it comes to cleaning duties, despite more men helping out compared to three years ago.
Brands stepping up to challenge the status quo
Brands and companies have been encouraging female consumers to do things that used to be labelled as 'for men only'. Nike's global 'Dream Crazier' campaign, which inspires women to challenge the status quo, has also been adapted locally in Asia. In Hong Kong, for example, the campaign featured five female athletes on building-tall billboards, calling on women to live their lives on their own terms.
Source: brandinginasia.com
An annual campaign since its launch in 2016 is cosmetics brand SK-II's #ChangeDestiny initiative. It questions the traditional perceptions of marriage in modern day China, highlighting the struggle that Asian women have finding a balance between their own life choices and family expectations.
Over in South Korea, we see the rising popularity of the #escapethecorset movement where South Korean women are destroying makeup products in protest at the country's unrealistic beauty standards.
The risk of stereotyping women (and men)
Brands that make the mistake of stereotyping gender roles may face a backlash. Giordano's ad in Hong Kong, which featured a woman wearing a T-shirt saying 'cook', sparked outrage on social media. Other brands had similar accusations for being insensitive towards women in their marketing activities; IKEA's ad showed a mother scolding her daughter for not bringing a boyfriend home, and Audi was comparing women to used cars in an attempt to promote its second-hand platform.
Brands should be prepared to adapt their products and services to the changing values and lifestyles of women, especially since their economic strength will prove too formidable to ignore. Mintel's report on marketing to singles in China shows that over a third of single females think marriage isn't necessary. This significant shift in values also indicates there is room for more diversity and inclusivity, in life and in the workplace.
Employing gender-positive internal company policies are a way to identify a brand's genuine value. Creating female-friendly working environments, including equal pay across genders, flexible working hours for parents, and having a clear career trajectory for female workers—which is not impacted by maternity leave—are often the first things that brands can do to show their support for gender issues. For instance, brands can take inspiration from Adobe India, which closed the wage gap between its male and female employees.
Despite major efforts, social attitudes usually take a long time to change, and the gender gap is no exception. In Asia-Pacific, the discussion continues about creating a safer environment for women, both physically and mentally, to enable them to make their own life decisions, be it career, family, or hobbies and interests.
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Live Works at Incline Gallery
Jeremiah Barber · October 15, 2011
I Was of Three Minds, Performance, 30 min, 2011
Incline Gallery San Francisco
November 4 - December 3, 2011
Performances Nov 4 7pm-10pm
Exhibition Nov 4 – Dec 3
DOWN, a three-person performance art show featuring Bay Area artists Jennifer Locke, Jeremiah Barber, and Michael Namkung will take up the steep hallway ramps at Incline Gallery (long ago used to transport bodies to an embalming station for an adjacent mortuary). This unique one-time performance will take place on November 4th with artifacts from the performances on view through December 3rd.
Drawing on the language of sports training, athletic performance, and the sensory experiences of drawing under physical strain—often until to the point of failure, Michael Namkung presents an endurance piece for DOWN. Namkung's Drawing Gym Performance Group will inchworm up and down the cycle of ramps holding chalk in their hands in order to make a drawing of this extraordinary exertion.
Jeremiah Barber relies on his continuous preoccupation with solitude, toil, and transcendence for his newest project, a self-portrait via other people's dreams. Family members' oddly distorted and half-remembered glimpses of the artist during their dreams are translated into real objects, to be destroyed during the performance. The materials left behind from the destruction, video, and photographs will document the piece.
For DOWN Jennifer Locke will make use of the steep halls and her history of interacting with fluid materials. Drawing from herexperiences as a dominatrix, champion submission wrestler, and artists' model, Locke's performances involve physically intense actions in relation to the camera and specific architecture and employ material barriers, live audio and video feeds, and mini-cameras.
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Michael Namkung holds a BA and a MEd from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from San Francisco State University. He has performed and exhibited in venues such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the LAB, Root Division, Kearny Street Workshop, the Richmond Art Center, the POW! Performance Art Festival. He is a recent recipient of an Individual Artist Commission Cultural Equity Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. Michael lives and works in San Francisco.
Jeremiah Barber is a visual artist based in San Francisco, California. He completed an MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University and a BFA at Columbia College, Chicago. A former member of Marina Abramovic's Independent Performance Group, his work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, and The LAB. The son of a priest, Barber writes for KQED, teaches media classes at Stanford University, and recently returned from a summer residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
Jennifer Locke has exhibited in venues such as the 48th Venice Biennale; Air de Paris, Paris; the 9th Havana Biennial; the Basel Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Basel; La Panaderia, Mexico City; Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Canada, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Art; and the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley. She has curated for Artists' Television Access and Queens Nails Annex, co-produced a cable access show, and sung in punk bands. Locke teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives and works in San Francisco, and was recently awarded a 2012 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship.
Through the unique collaborative relationship between San Francisco's Paxton Gate and the San Pancho Art Collective, an unusual series of ramps and volumes is transformed into the Incline Gallery, a new San Francisco contemporary art space. Incline Gallery seeks to offer a nurturing platform and a solid support system for emerging Bay Area visual and performative artists.
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Sam Smith cancels Australian shows
By Martha Ross | mross@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
Sam Smith, suffering a hemorrhage on his vocal chords, has been forced to cancel his upcoming Australian mini-tour, ABC News reported.
The "Stay With Me" singer broke the news to fans on Instagram Tuesday.
"The doctors have told me I need to fully rest until my vocal chords have healed, otherwise this could become a huge long-term issue," the Grammy Award winner wrote. "I am so sorry to all who have bought tickets, I truly am."
Smith, 22, is in Sydney now. "I have been vocally exhausted for awhile now," he added. "(But) this kills me."
He is expected to perform in Tokyo on May 7 and May 8. Smith's website says the Tokyo shows are still on, according to the New Daily News.
Smith is also scheduled to perform at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Aug. 9.
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Turn the Page: It's time for the Detroit Pistons to finally tear it all down
The Pistons have flirted with being competitive for a decade. It's time to finally commit to turning the page on an era of mediocrity and failure.
By Brady_Fred@Brady_Fred Feb 2, 2020, 5:00pm EST
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The Detroit Pistons have been afraid to rebuild for 11 years.
They've spent that entire time trying — poorly, most times — to field a competitive basketball team. It's what the franchise has done for the better part of 30 years, in fact. But, as we all know, it hasn't worked.
With Blake Griffin out for the year and the current season clearly circling the drain, and a handful of seemingly moveable players, they finally have a chance to do what's been needed for years.
They can finally push the reset button.
That means trading Andre Drummond. It means moving Derrick Rose. It means giving Langston Galloway and Markieff Morris, clearly lesser talents but still valuable role players, a chance to go help teams that matter.
It means they must be aggressive sellers this week.
The NBA Trade Deadline is Thursday, and the Pistons should come out of it a shell of themselves.
Andre Drummond
Start with the man in the middle, Drummond.
He's expected to opt out of his deal this summer, and that would likely be the end of his up-and-down tenure in Detroit. The market isn't expected to be lining up to offer him max money, but he should be able to land a deal with a franchise that he feels he can thrive with on (and off) the court.
But there's also the, say, 5% chance that he doesn't find that deal. The interest may not be there, which may result in him opting into the final year of his deal.
That would be b-a-d.
It puts the Pistons, who are reportedly struggling to trade him now because he can walk this summer, in the EXACT same position next season.
We've seen Detroit's ceiling with Drummond. If they rebuild, he'll put up his big numbers but he won't help usher them into a new era. It'll be a do-over of the Drummond era, which has been incredibly underwhelming from a team-success perspective.
Is that his fault? Not totally. But it's time to move on here.
Listen, I'll start with this: Watching Derrick Rose morph back into a sorta-star-caliber point guard this season has been incredibly fun. He's an enjoyable player to have on this team from an on-the-court perspective, and they're clearly a better team with him with the ball in his hands.
That doesn't mean they should keep him.
The Detroit Free Press reported recently that the team wants a lottery-caliber pick for Rose. That won't happen. The teams that NEED him aren't ones picking in the lottery. They're the Lakers and Sixers of the world, teams that feel Rose would push them over the top.
Rose and Pistons executive Arn Tellem have a deep-rooted relationship dating back to Rose's early playing days, and that matters here. It's likely why Rose is in Detroit in the first place. But to not try hard to trade Rose with his value at the highest it will ever be is just… so bad.
It's the Pistons in a nutshell. They need to move Rose this week. He tweaked his groin on Sunday against the Nuggets and, at 31-year-old, he's going to get hurt again and, this isn't a bold take, but he'll never play this well again in his career.
Father time ain't going to allow it. It was a fun half season but make the move while Rose's playing like a stud.
Langston Galloway/Markieff Morris
I'll clump these two together because, lost in this mess of a season, these two have useful veteran role players.
Galloway can help any team with his shooting, Morris can provide a boost with his shooting and physicality. This is simple: Grab a few second round picks and let guys like Christian Wood, Sekou Doumbouya, Svi Mykhailiuk, Bruce Brown and Louis King soak up all of that playing time.
This front office has shown that, unlike Stan Van Gundy, they can draft. Adding second round picks gives you more chances at prospects like Bruce Brown or gives you ammo to move into the first round.
Now, you're probably wondering what's next.
The Pistons will be bad, incredibly bad. They'll play hard. The young guys will get all of the chances they can handle. It's going to suck to watch, and the losing is going to be even worse for Dwane Casey and the team, but it's the best way for them to land an elite talent in this draft.
If you can sink low enough this year and bring in a guy like Georgia's Anthony Edwards, you add another potential blue-chip prospect to Doumbouya. That's important because, really, the ceiling for guys like Svi, Brown and Wood are key bench players on a legit playoff team.
Those guys are all showing us that they're something – but the Pistons need more than glimpses of something. They need the type of talent that can be THE guy.
Maybe that's Sekou? Hell, maybe it's Luke Kennard, the forgotten man. But the point is that they need more, period.
The next face of the Detroit Pistons isn't Drummond. It's not Rose.
Finding that guy starts with officially turning the page on the current era this week.
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Q: Using cd to go up multiple directory levels I'm dealing with java projects which often result in deeply nested folders (/path/to/project/com/java/lang/whatever, etc) and sometimes want to be able to jump, say, 4 directory levels upwards. Typing cd ../../../.. is a pain, and I don't want to symlink. Is there some flag to cd that lets you go up multiple directory levels (in my head, it would be something like cd -u 4)? Unfortunately I can't find any man page for cd specifically, instead just getting the useless "builtins" page.

A: You could write a function (it has to be a function, as you want to change the state of your shell itself, namely the working directory; an external command would affect only its own process).
Here's a function that will go up a number of levels passed as argument (default 1):
up() {
    # default parameter to 1 if non provided
    declare -i d=${@:-1}
    # ensure given parameter is non-negative. Print error and return if it is
    (( $d < 0 )) && (>&2 echo "up: Error: negative value provided") && return 1;
    # remove last d directories from pwd, append "/" in case result is empty
    cd "$(pwd | sed -E 's;(/[^/]*){0,'$d'}$;;')/";
}

Use it like this:
up 4

A: A simple function, with an alias, too:
function cd_up() {
  cd $(printf "%0.s../" $(seq 1 $1 ));
}
alias 'cd..'='cd_up'

(You could define this in ~/.bashrc if you want it in every instance).
It's simple to use:
$ cd.. 10

A: Or... try this: (yay Google)

Navigate up the directory using ..n :
In the example below, ..4 is used to go up 4 directory level, ..3 to
  go up 3 directory level, ..2 to go up 2 directory level.
Add the following alias to the .bash_profile and re-login.
alias ..="cd .."
alias ..2="cd ../.."
alias ..3="cd ../../.."
(etc)

See Hack #2

A: Not exactly what you're asking for but you should look into pushd and popd. I find them much more useful for folder navigation than some cd... alias
If you're going back and forth from a couple fixed areas, the usual thing is to have aliases.
alias proj1='cd /some/dir/containing/proj1'
alias proj2='cd /some/deeper/dir/structure/containing/proj2'

A: Instead of using aliases you could also use the following bash function:
function mcd() {
  up=""

  for ((i=1; i<=$1;i++)); do
    up="${up}../"
  done

  cd $up
}

(or as a one-liner: function mcd() { up=""; for ((i=1; i<=$1;i++)); do up="${up}../"; done; cd $up; })
Adding this to your ~/.bashrc file will make it available in your terminal and the building of a String ../../../../../../ before calling cd will also make it possible to use cd - to jump back to the start directory.
A more helpful implementation could also contain some user-input checks:
function mcd() {
    if [[ $1 -lt 1 ]]; then
        echo "Only positive integer values larger than 1 are allowed!" >&2
        echo -e "\n\tUsage:\n\t======\n\n\t\t# to go up 10 levels in your directory\n\t\tmcd 10\n\n\t\t# to go up just 2 levels\n\t\tmcd 2\n" >&2
        return 1;
    fi

    up=""

    for ((i=1; i<=$1;i++)); do
        up="${up}../"
    done

    cd $up
}

A: The syntax proposed in the answers are frankly unintuitive and meh.
You should be able to go back simply by repeating the period i.e. cd ... or cd ....
https://github.com/parkercoates/dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh/expand-multiple-dots.zsh
or
https://github.com/knu/zsh-manydots-magic

A: A simple, low-tech solution that doesn't need any setup. Only works in shells with bash-style command editing, though.

*

*Type cd ..

*Press Up-arrow Return as many times as needed. Very fast if you use two fingers.

A: Turns out the correct answer is 'cd +n', where n is the number of levels you want to go up. Too bad this isn't documented anywhere!

A: Do you know about autojump? It's a third party hack, but can be useful in your scenario.

A: Try the rarely used environment parameter CDPATH. Then you might not have to explicitly set the level.
Example:
$ find workspace -type d
workspace
workspace/project1
workspace/project1/com
workspace/project1/com/java
workspace/project1/com/java/lang

$ CDPATH=".:~/workspace:~/workspace/project1:~/workspace/project1/com:~/workspace/project1/com/java:~/workspace/project1/com/java/lang"
$ cd com
$ pwd
~/workspace/project1/com

If working on multiple projects, you can make the CDPATH setting into a project specific environment file. And trigger it with a shim for additional automation.
I tend to use pushd and popd quite a lot. I tend to use CDPATH to let me hop between project trees rather than subdirs in a project - but at the moment I'm working on a lot of small projects, not a few big projects. :)

A: If you are previously on the target directory:
luna:/tmp % mkdir -p a/b/c/d
luna:/tmp % pwd
/tmp
luna:/tmp % cd a/b/c/d
luna:d % pwd
/tmp/a/b/c/d
luna:d % cd -
luna:/tmp % pwd
/tmp
luna:/tmp %

A: Take a look at DirB. It's a BASH script that allows you to create bookmarks as follows:
OPERATIONS

*

*s       Save a directory bookmark

*g       go to a bookmark or named directory

*p       push a bookmark/directory onto the dir stack

*r       remove saved bookmark

*d       display bookmarked directory path

*sl      print the list of directory bookmarks

Very simple, very effective.

A: Step further from @Grigory's answer:
function cd_up() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    cd ..
else
    cd $(printf "%0.s../" $(seq 1 $1 ))
fi
}
alias 'cdd'='cd_up'

That is :
// go up 1 directory level
$cdd

// go up 3 directory level
$cdd 3

A: Got sick of this exact same problem and ended up writing cd-plus as a result. A single file CLI utility that lets you cd up multiple directories.
Usage
echo `pwd` # /foo/bar/foobar/baz/foobaz/bazfoo
d baz

echo `pwd` # /foo/bar/

A: Adding the below code to your .bashrc will extend cd's completion to honor three plus dot notation
_cd_dot_expansion() {
    local path="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"

    if [[ "${path}" =~ ^\.{3,} ]]; then
        local dots="${BASH_REMATCH}"
        local levels="${#dots}"
        local tail="${path##*...}"
        local expanded_dots='..'

        # the loop starts at two because the first set of dots is
        # assigned to `expanded_dots` when it is initialized
        for (( i = 2; i < "${levels}"; i++ )); do
            expanded_dots+='/..'
        done

        path="${expanded_dots}${tail}"
        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -A file "${path}" ) )

        return
    fi

    _cd
}

complete -o nospace -F _cd_dot_expansion cd

Once this snippet is run in your bash shell typing cd .../ and hitting <TAB> will complete the path to ../../ and list the relative paths of all of the directories that are two levels up, for instance.
Update: bash-completion must be installed to have access to the _cd method referenced in the code above.  It's installable via most command line package managers

A: For fish shell:
Since no one has made a solution for the fish shell, I'd like to give it a try.
Just making a Fish version out of the answers given here, so consider this, Fish Shell edition.
1st solution is based from @Grigory K answer.

Solution #1
Fish version would be like this:
function cd_up
  cd (printf "%.s../" (seq $argv))
end

alias 'cd..'='cd_up'

Solution #2 (using a loop)
function cd_up
  for i in (seq $argv)
    set -a data "../"
  end
  if test -n "$data"
    cd (string join "" $data)
  end
end

You could remove the test branch if you don't want to cover the case where you pass zero.
alternative for solution #2
function cd_up
  for i in (seq $argv)
    set -a data "../"
  end
  cd (string join "" $data)
end

And just add an alias to cd.. via alias 'cd..'='cd_up'
You can edit your fish config via: vi ~/.config/fish/config.fish

A: Please note I am not the first to suggest the pushd approach in this thread - I believe that is Richard Homolka.
Use basic Unix tools, but change your strategy. Use pushd and friends to keep a ring of directories. Return to them instantly. Don't count anything.
Use pushd <DIR> to add a directory to your ring - this becomes your current directory.
Obviously, use cd to navigate between directories without affecting your ring.
Empty your ring with dirs -c. There will always be one remaining - your current directory.
Use dirs -l -v to view your ring.
Remove directories from your ring with popd or popd +N or popd -N.
Rotate your the directories around the ring with pushd +N. If L is size of the ring, then for any j in {0..L-1}.
for ((i=0; i<L; ++i)); do pushd $j; done
is an idempotent operation on the ring - it returns the ring to its initial state. The size of the ring is always at least L=1, since the current directory is always the first entry.
Use push -n <DIR> to insert directories at the position in the ring behind the current directory, so that the current directory does not change.
Finally, make aliases (e.g., pu, po, and dv) that do not conflict which other aliases or commands that are already defined on your(!) environment.
In this example, I make directories {a,b,c} and add the three directories to my ring, which has one to start with - the current directory, for a total of four. I show that rotating your ring at any nonzero position four times in a row is idempotent. I demonstrate the commands mentioned above. I pipe unimportant output to /dev/null. I use curly braces {} to group command output redirection.
<0.o>mkdir -p a/b/c

<0.o>{ pushd a; pushd b; pushd c; } > /dev/null

<0.o>dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 2  /home/f41k0r/a
 3  /home/f41k0r

<0.o>pushd +3 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 3  /home/f41k0r/a

<0.o>pushd +3 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a
 1  /home/f41k0r
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 3  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>pushd +3 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 1  /home/f41k0r/a
 2  /home/f41k0r
 3  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c

<0.o>pushd +3 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 2  /home/f41k0r/a
 3  /home/f41k0r

<0.o>pushd +2 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a
 1  /home/f41k0r
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 3  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>pushd +2 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 2  /home/f41k0r/a
 3  /home/f41k0r

<0.o>pushd +2 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a
 1  /home/f41k0r
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 3  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>pushd +2 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 2  /home/f41k0r/a
 3  /home/f41k0r

<0.o>pushd +1 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 1  /home/f41k0r/a
 2  /home/f41k0r
 3  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c

<0.o>pushd +1 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a
 1  /home/f41k0r
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 3  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>pushd +1 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 3  /home/f41k0r/a

<0.o>pushd +1 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 2  /home/f41k0r/a
 3  /home/f41k0r

<0.o>popd +2 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b
 2  /home/f41k0r

<0.o>popd +2 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>popd +1 > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>pushd -n /home/f41k0r/a > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a/b/c
 1  /home/f41k0r/a
 2  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>popd > /dev/null; dirs -l -v
 0  /home/f41k0r/a
 1  /home/f41k0r/a/b

<0.o>dirs -c > /dev/null; dirs -l -v

<0.o>pwd
/home/f41k0r/a

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Freddie could have slept in his snuzpod for at least another month but I felt it was time for us to be seperated from the bed. He was getting so wriggly, his feet kept of digging into my front or back, whichever way I was facing and I was hoping that moving to a bigger space would help him sleep better, a little atleast. I was wrong. The half hour, hourly and two hourly wakes still happened. I wrote on his seven month update that he had his first ever full night sleep from around 11pm until 6am. I had started doing a little bit of sleep training then but I failed. I gave in and decided to stop.
I felt like the evenings were getting worse. He was waking up every single evening around half an hour after I put him down to bed. I'd then pick him up and feed him all over again. This time it would take an extra hour, sometimes two to settle him back and only for him to wake up an hour or less again. I was feeling down and frustrated. I missed my evenings. I was behind on work. I needed a break. I wanted to feel like me again. I was exhausted. I felt like I was constantly feeding and settling him and just not getting a break at all during the day or night.
His day naps have improved - a lot. He used to nap a silly 10-20 minutes, 30 minutes if I was a lucky, a day. Maybe twice, not often. He was extremely grumpy and I knew it was because he was just having such little sleep. From around 8 or 9 months he started to have long naps that lasted anything from 1, 2 or 3 hours. Sometimes a little longer. It's done him and myself a world of good. He catches up on his sleep and in a better mood for the rest of the day and I manage to get some time to myself during the day to do whatever needs doing, whether it's housework, work or just chilling.
On Saturday the 13th, I decided it was time to start the sleep training, for the second time and not to give in. My partner was out working and I had planned to catch up on work that evening myself. Freddie had other ideas, I fed him around 6 times, even though there was no chance that he was hungry, he used me as a comfort. Every single time that I put him down in his cot, he woke up screaming. Every. Single. Time. When it was around 9.30pm I decided I had to stop picking him up. I was feeling exhausted and down from him waking up half an hour after I settle him, every single evening and I was fed up of it. My evenings were just gone and by the time he was in a deep sleep, I was exhausted. So I thought it was time to start, that evening. He went to sleep around an hour or two afterwards.
I did the normal routine and put some blackout curtains up in our bedroom hoping it would help. I fed him and put him down as normal. He woke up around 20 minutes later. My partner went up to put his dummy in and walked out the room. He returned every 10 minutes until he settled back to sleep. This took around 50 minutes. Freddie slept all night until around 6am.
Normal bedtime routine. He woke up half an hour after being settled, again. He took around 40 minutes to settle back. He woke up around 11.30pm and was up every two hours.
Normal bedtime routine. He woke up again, around half an hour after being settled. Took around half an hour to be settled. He woke up at roughly 2.30am, 4 am and started the day at 7am.
Went to bed about 15 minutes later than normal as I went to my Slimming World group to get weighed quickly. Fed and settled him. He woke up within 10 minutes and took a while to settle back. We did the normal back and forth. He settled first time at 9pm. I went to bed 9.30pm, he was stirring had a few cries. Deep sleep then from 10.30pm until 7am the following morning.
Normal routine. Freddie woke up as normal around 20 minutes after being settled. I put the dummy in his mouth and he went to sleep within half an hour. He slept all night until 6am ish the following morning.
Normal bedtime routine. He fed and was just drowsy. He wouldn't go into a deep sleep. I put him down, he cried straight away. I picked him up and fed him on the other side. He still wouldn't settle. It was coming to an hour and I decided to get him drowsy/half asleep again, put him down and he did cry but I did the sleep traning by coming back and forth. He eventually settled back to sleep around half an hour later. He woke up once during the night around 2am. I put him back in his cot about an hour after. He then woke up 6.30am.
He went to bed a little later as we arrived home late after him being in his Nain and Taid's house for the day. He did the same as Friday, very slow at going to sleep. I put him down in his cot half asleep, after a feed. He cried, eventually fell asleep around half an hour after. He woke up once during the night at around 3am but I think it was because Elliw scared him by shouting. He then slept until 7am and again until 8am.
I'm really pleased how it's been. On the evenings/nights where he took much longer to settle or woke up loads during the night it really worried me that it wasn't working but looking back at the week, he's had more good nights than bad nights which is making me stronger to carry on. I am planning on doing another week of this kind of post, which should be up next Sunday. It will be a little different as I have decided to combi feed.
Did you every 'sleep train' your babies?


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Альбому предшествовали выходы двух синглов: «Don't Go Yet», который попал в чарты разных стран, достигнув 42-го места в Billboard Hot 100. За ним последовал «Bam Bam» с вокалом английского певца и автора песен Эда Ширана, который достиг 23-го места в Billboard Hot 100, 9-го места в UK Singles Chart и 10-го места в Billboard Global 200 и канадском Hot 100. Для продвижения альбома Кабельо выступила хедлайнером виртуального концерта TikTok под названием Familia: Welcome to the Family 7 апреля 2022 года.

История
В декабре 2019 года Кабельо выпустила свой второй студийный альбом Romance, который в основном посвящен теме влюбленности. Он дебютировал на третьем месте в Billboard 200 и на первом месте в Канаде. В том же году она выпустила совместные песни с другими артистами, такие как «Señorita» с Шоном Мендесом и «My Oh My» с участием DaBaby. 14 июля 2021 года Кабельо впервые анонсировала новую музыку, используя свой аккаунт в Instagram, поделившись крупным планом своего лица вместе с подписью: listos? что переводится с испанского как Готов?. 16 июля 2021 года Камила объявила через свои аккаунты в социальных сетях, что главный сингл с альбома «Don't Go Yet» выйдет 23 июля. В тот же день она подтвердила название альбома.

 ― сказала она в интервью.

Критика

Альбом был встречен положительными отзывами критиков. На сайте Metacritic альбом получил средний балл 76, основанный на девяти рецензиях, что указывает на «в целом благоприятные отзывы». Ник Левин из NME назвал альбом самым богатым и убедительным альбомом Кабельо на сегодняшний день, который раскрывает ее происхождение. В аналогичном обзоре критик Rolling Stone Томас Миер написал, что альбом представляет собой несовершенную, но раскрывающую мозаику кубино-мексиканского наследия Кабельо. Отметив многочисленные изменения в стиле как довольно дезориентирующие, Майер похвалил грубую и честную лирику альбома, сравнив ее с чтением дневника Кабельо. В рецензии для The Guardian Алим Херадж похвалил яркие латинские мотивы альбома.

Трек-лист

Чарты

Примечания

Ссылки

Альбомы Камилы Кабельо
Альбомы Epic Records

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