I don''t remember much in detail from those days. I forget how much I had to pay for a tram ticket or how much bread used to cost. However, what I remember perfectly well is that, as staff member of Gdańsk University, I was earning more or less the equivalent of 17 US dollars. My wife, our young son and I shared one tiny room. Only after they went to bed did I turn on the TV to watch the Round Table negotiations – or rather, a summary of them. I remember committees, sub-committees, discussions. I remember faces – those of Adam Michnik and Andrzej Stelmachowski [representing the opposition], Czesław Kiszczak and Aleksandr Kwaśniewski [on the government side]. Unlike many of my friends, I did not choose to go into politics. I had already embarked on my own writer''s path to which I have stayed faithful until this day. But I did support those changes ardently and wrote a few ad hoc articles wondering what future had in store for Poland, a country with no capital and a very poor society, as the burden of reforms – drastic and inevitable – was obvious even to a layman. In a word – how we would get through the next period with its many unknowns.
Looking back after 20 years it all appears quite different – our optimism of those days, our faith in the future and our joy may seem somewhat naïve and unsubstantiated. But as the time has come to sum up, I will try to do so unemotionally, in a dry, factual and analytical way.
So, first of all: what made the victory of Solidarity as an idea and a specific movement possible was primarily the fact that its resistance was based on the principle of non-violence. Despite communist propaganda claims in the first months of martial law (that a bloodbath was being prepared for the regime) not a single window or shop, not a single people''s police headquarters were attacked or broken. It was a revolution without violence that called for a respect of civil and political rights, reminiscent in essence of Gandhi''s movement. Go ahead, attack us, beat us up, lock us up in prisons and detention centres – we won''t fall for your provocations and we will not respond to violence by violence. Undoubtedly, the personality and authority of Pope John Paul II was of huge significance in this respect. His ascendance to the throne of St. Peter in 1978 changed everything in Poland, giving the small group of people in opposition as well as millions of ordinary people courage and the sense that they could demand something more than organized holidays or subsidized milk.
The Church played an enormous and positive role in these changes. Today some in the Polish Catholic Church hierarchy cannot find a modus vivendi alongside full freedom of speech, market, politics, and customs, as if they were irritated by the fact that the crucible of transformation did not bring forth a 100% Catholic Poland, patriotic in a traditional style, coherent in its attitudes to religious education at school or to in vitro fertilization. I do not share this irritation and I am concerned by the occasional expressions of xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-European views in the Church. Yet – despite their loudness, as for example in Radio Maryja – these are not dominant views.
Secondly, during the first years of transformation we went through a painful Gründer period, so fascinatingly described in Ingo Schultze''s piece on the transformation of the GDR. The side-effects of our great national effort of freedom building – the predatory privatization, shady careers, gross abuses – were a kind of anti-advertisement for democracy, showing off its weaknesses rather than its strengths. They revealed the dark side of freedom. Privileges were granted to big capital in order to attract it to a country that had no capital of its own, while neglecting the labour factor and the rights of former small property owners who never managed to regain their property that had been confiscated by the communists. E. Wedel, Poland's best loved pre-war chocolate factory, nationalized back in 1945, was sold to PepsiCo with a total disregard for the rights of the heirs, just as if they had never existed. This example is only the tip of the iceberg of the speedy privatization that brought huge profits to middlemen and former state managers.
Thirdly, the demon of lustration has plagued us throughout the twenty years of our new reality. Sadly, Poland has not adopted the German or the Hungarian model of lustration, which allows everyone access to the communist police archives. In our country the files are accessible only to selected journalists and politicians, particularly those in power. The past, contained in and created by, the secret service archives, has become an instrument of political struggle. This is how Lech Wałęsa ended up being accused of having been an agent-collaborator, in spite of a court verdict that confirmed his innocence. As a prominent member of staff at the Institute of National Memory admitted: the investigation will never end. This means that despite independent court verdicts something can always be dug up against everyone. It is a well-known fact that in 1989 the team of the then Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak burned, shredded and archived compromising documents for its own use. This has led to further confusion, opening the possibility that an accusation can be planted in the files at any time. Małgorzata Niezabitowska, the Tadeusz Mazowiecki government''s spokesperson, had to spend several years proving she had not collaborated with the secret police. She provided evidence beyond any doubt, the accusations of her political enemies were proved to have been manufactured out of thin air, yet she had to spend several years under the pressure of this terrible slander. Instead of hundreds of kilometres of new motorways we have hundreds of kilometres of new court files.
Fourthly, the hidden criminals of the martial law era, such as the people who were behind the killing of Father Popiełuszko and many other kidnappings, secret beatings and arson, have not been found and indicted until this day. It is a paradox that, given the zeal for lustration mentioned earlier, these criminals are yet to be found. And they are certain never to be found, even though this is precisely the kind of case where effective functioning of the Institute of National Memory would be more than desirable.
Fifthly, the pessimistic scenarios with regard to Polish democracy have fortunately not come true. It has had its peculiar twists and turns, moments when it was out of breath or in crisis, but over the past 20 years it has proved itself as a system of responsible governments – i.e. governments to whom the voters can and do issue a green or a red card.
Sixth, Poland''s greatest success since 1989 has been its local government. I know what I''m saying since I always vote for the candidate in my local elections who promises to and really does, build the greatest number of bicycle lanes. And since I ride my bike from spring to autumn I am in excellent contact with reality and thus have full control over the meeting of election promises. At the moment the number of bicycle lanes in Gdańsk is increasing at a pace incomparably faster than in any other Polish city, which makes me, simply and selfishly, happy. In 1989 I still had an old Ukraina bike dating back to the August strike [1980 in Gdansk]. It was good, sturdy although very heavy. But when I rode it, I had to sneak along pavements or, risking my health and even life, dodge traffic on the main road. These days, when I ride from Gdańsk-Oliwa to the Old Town, I can whiz along an uninterrupted bicycle lane all the way to the city centre. And ditto to the beaches in Jelitkowo, Brzeźno or Sopot, in a line straighter than any national (and non-existent) motorway. Is this an insignificant detail? I don't think so. Quality of life is expressed precisely in such seemingly minor details, not just in great ideas, continuous discussions, demands, reckonings or accusations. I could go on and on about this. Yet, by singing the praises of bicycle lanes in my city I wish to stress that my vote, that of a potential voter interested in specific way of expending public monies, does count.
Seven, despite all its weaknesses and internal conflicts, I think Poland is generally a wonderful country that has undergone an unimaginable metamorphosis since 1989. And following years of deterioration, poverty and hopelessness it has started to awaken – thanks also in part to European help – into a new situation which is crucially different from that of 1989. Of course, here I have to contradict myself: isn''t that optimism exaggerated? Meagre pensions, collapsing health system – all this is beginning to affect me more and more personally. Yet, can one expect a continuous stream of successes in one lifetime? I have learned a lot from my parents: they survived the hell of occupation, the hard years of Stalinism, the lean years of the Polish People''s Republic. They have not acquired anything apart from illness and a scandalously low pension. Nevertheless, every time I talk to them they radiate the undeniable joy of a newly acquired freedom. They take part in every election – local and national. And they never ask me who they should vote for. Even though, I suspect, we sometimes vote for different candidates.
Eight, democracy is going through a crisis. It is turning more and more into a telecracy. It is undergoing a Berlusconi-ization. The democracy we dreamt of before 1989, uncritically gazing towards the West from a Soviet satellite's perspective, has undergone a huge change over the past 20 years. The project of French philosophers, British pragmatists and American Founding Fathers that we used to discuss and read about endlessly has become worn and faded. Discussion of values and genuinely competing programmes have been replaced by the beauty contest, the TV studio, a wink at the voter, make-up, lighting, image specialists. To be informed, one no longer has to read: it''s enough to watch the gleaming screen of a computer or a home TV set. Everything is getting fast and becoming even faster. I don't think this is just a change of medium. It is a change of mentality and thus also a different way of gaining support and votes. Wałęsa lost a presidential election to Kwaśniewski not because his programme was less convincing but because of one stupid sentence he spoke in front of TV cameras, live, watched by millions of Poles. Perhaps the Vatican conclave may still be free of these problems but, then again, we are not that concerned about the rivalry among cardinals.
Nine and, finally ten – my friend Ingo Schultze has given a lot of attention to the situation in Germany after 1989, from the point of view of a former citizen and inhabitant of the former GDR. There is something to his criticism of the rushed unification, the Wessis'' treatment of the Ossis and the whole issue of the West patronizing the East. Yet, my dear Ingo, let me offer you the following political and economic fantasy as a mental exercise: Imagine your country, suddenly liberated from communism, with a 40 billion debt in US dollars (and that in 1989!), shortages of food, electricity, medication, petrol etc, without the help of a Western cousin. Without his rapid investments, credits, institutions. Even if they were motivated by mercantile calculation and not civic and patriotic feelings. This was Poland in 1989. And that fact that we can discuss all this in Warsaw today is to me a good omen for the future.
This article was originally published in Polish in the Gazeta Wyborcza on 25 May 2009.


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Overwatch 2 will reduce PvP team sizes to 5v5 instead of 6v6
The move is designed to make the game easier to keep track of what's going on
20th May 2021 / 10:18 pm
Chris Scullion
Overwatch 2 will change the original game's formula by reducing the number of players in each PvP team from six to five.
The news was revealed during an Overwatch 2 developer PvP livestream held today, during which game director Aaron Keller announced the change and attempted to explain why it was being made.
"We'll talk about a lot of the changes that we want to be making and that we're currently making to PvP but there's one in particular that I want to highlight right now, because it's substantial and I think it has a big impact on the way the entire team approaches PvP on Overwatch 2, and it's also something that we're really excited about," Keller said.
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"Overwatch has always been played with two teams of six players. Overwatch 2 will be played with two teams of five players, consisting of two support, two DPS and one tank.
"There are a lot of reasons for why we wanted to make this change. Overwatch has changed over time. We've gone from having no hero limits at all in the game before launch – you could pick six Winstons if you wanted to for your team composition – to having a hero limit.
"We ended up introducing a role lock over the course of the game, and we feel like this is the next step in the way that Overwatch ought to be played.
"If you think about it, there's a lot going on in Overwatch now. It is incredibly fast-paced and we have always tried to make our combat easy to read and very understandable, and even with all the work we've put into that, sometimes it's just hard to track what 11 other players are doing on the battlefield.
"Removing two of those simplifies everything, it allows players to understand everything that's happening around them, and to be able to make better choices because of it.
"This change obviously has a really big impact on tanks […] but tanks can be problematic. A DPS hero is simple, they're shooting. But a tank has abilities that can be noisy, or when stacked with other tanks can cause problems for other teams to try to overcome and counter."
Blizzard has previously said that both Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 will not launch until at least 2022.
Announced in November 2019, the Overwatch sequel will see original Overwatch players able to play on all the same maps as Overwatch 2 players, including new maps and new heroes, with progression and cosmetics also carrying over.
Blizzard says it still has 'a ways to go' on Overwatch 2
Studio plans to discuss the sequel in more detail in February
The team shooter sequel will feature PvE story missions exploring the backstories of the game's heroes.
Heroes can be levelled up and customised with new talents for co-op game modes, while the game's core PvP mode will be expanded with new maps, "multiple" new heroes and a new Push map type.
Overwatch 2 is set for release on PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Switch.
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Kay Hagan
Maturity Number 1
Life Path #22
Birthday #8
Personality #11
Kay Hagan was an American lawyer, banking executive, and Democratic politician, who earned a B.A. degree from Florida State University and a J.D. degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law, and served as a United States Senator from North Carolina, making her the first woman to defeat an incumbent woman in a U.S. Senate election.
She was born on Tuesday May 26th 1953, in Shelby, North Carolina, United States.
The life of Kay Hagan should be marked by assuming roles of leadership and developing a self-reliant, pioneering spirit. In her their later years, Kay should be truly independent and able to look back on a successful life based upon leading others to places they may not have been able to go alone.
As she matures, Hagan will find herself needing an increasing amount of independence and individuality. She will fight harder for the recognition and rewards she feels she deserves, and will be less willing to accept failure or limitations in any form.
Kay Hagan's drive and determination will grow, as does her ability to take charge.
If there are already several 1s in her numerological chart, especially among the core numbers, Kay Hagan will have to strive to avoid becoming bossy, rigid, stubborn and selfish. A person who allows these characteristics to run free will become bullish and lonely later in life.
If there are not many 1s in her chart, the influence of the Maturity Number will help Kay to establish her independence and success. From this foundation, Hagan will have an active, adventurous, and exciting latter part of life.
You and Kay
About Kay's Maturity number
Kay Hagan's Maturity number indicates an underlying wish or desire that gradually surfaces around age thirty to thirty-five. This underlying goal begins to emerge as Kay gains a better understanding of herself.
With self-knowledge comes a greater awareness of who Hagan is, what her true goals in life are, and what direction she wants to set for her life.
Read more about our numerological interpretation of Kay Hagan's maturity number . . .
Other celebrities with maturity number 1 as Kay Hagan
Lamar Odom (1979)
An American former professional basketball player who won NBA championships in 2009 and 2010 and was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2011 as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers
Kirby Jenner (1995)
An American artist who self-describes himself as an "amateur model", best known for his popular Instagram account, which he started in July 2015, and has received nominations for the Webby and Shorty Awards in social humor, best photography, and parody accounts
Kanye West (1977)
An American hip hop recording artist, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, who is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 32 million albums and 100 million digital downloads worldwide
Bill Cosby (1937)
An American stand-up comedian, actor, and author who started his stand-up comedy at the hungry i in San Francisco, followed by a starring role in the 1960s television show I Spy, and feature appearances on The Electric Company
Paul Walker (1973-2013)
An American actor who played in films as She's All That and Varsity Blues, but became known, in 2001, for his portrayal of Brian O'Conner in the street racing action film The Fast and the Furious, repeating that role in five of the next six installments
The Weeknd (1990)
A Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer whose songs "Earned It", "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face" have simultaneously held the top three spots on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart, making him the first artist in history to achieve this
Tiger Woods (1975)
An American professional golfer who has been World Number One for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer, and has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years
Michael Jordan (1963)
An American retired professional basketball player, a businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets, who is considered the greatest basketball player of all time, and populaizer of the NBA around the world
Charlie Sheen (1965)
An American actor who became famous playing in a series of successful films such as Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), Eight Men Out (1988), Major League (1989), Hot Shots! (1991), and The Three Musketeers (1993)
Kay Hagan Numerology -- Maturity Number 1 | © Copyright 2009-2021 Celebrities Galore and Master Numerologist Hans Decoz


The stories seem to be increasing.
More and more people losing their jobs. Many others who live in constant fear of losing their jobs. People's retirement funds dwindling. We all wonder, when are things going to change? Have we hit bottom yet?
I am just so in awe of all God is doing at BHCC and beyond! This has been an incredible weekend of victory for our Lord!
We had record attendance yesterday! Our Sunday worship attendance has doubled since we first moved our worship services to the theater in 2007!!!
John and I just got home from taking a 24 hour vacation. We left around noon yesterday and drove down to Ithaca, NY. We stopped at a few of the state parks located down there. Even though it was a bit cold, we bundled up and took long, refreshing walks in the woods with our dog, Jonah. It was beautiful! They have many beautiful waterfalls down that way--not far from Watkins Glen.
I continue to pray for my brother who was in and out of the hospital again this week. He and my mother have been on a long, difficult journey the last few years.
There's quite a few people in our church that I am praying much for. I sense the spiritual battles that they are in..... I don't think most people have any idea how much burden their pastors carry for them or how much we love and pray for them.


This module will overview the bioanalytical analytical analysis methods commonly encountered within biomedical science supporting quantitative and qualitative analyse of biological and pharmacological agents and their metabolites. Modern instrumental methods will be reviewed and practical experience given.
The module aims to introduce students to a range of techniques for determining the presence of an element or compound in a specified sample and the concentration at which it occurs and to describe the theoretical background and instrumental requirements for these techniques. Through extensive practical work and structured examples, it will give students experience of quality control, quality assurance, handling analytical results and assist students to develop practical skills in selected techniques and develop a feel for sample preparation, instrument calibration and other practical aspects of analysis.
Spectroscopic methods: Solution spectrophotometry - instrumentation and applications; assess samples using appropriate light source and the principles behind choosing the correct source for a sample; Quantitative analysis of solutions in the UV/Visible; quantitation in the infrared; fluorescence and phosphorescence.
Separation Methods: chromatographic separation - Plate Theory, HETP. Instrumentation for gas chromatography- injectors, column packings, detectors; quantitative applications. Instrumentation for High Performance Liquid Chromatography: theory and quantitative applications. Recent developments in chromatographic systems - chiral chromatography, capillary chromatography, gel filtration.
Developments in Flow cytometry. Ultracentrifugation as a separation technique for fractionation of cells and lipoproteins. ELISA methods for sample identification and quantification.
The module is delivered through a range of different mechanisms including introduction to techniques lecures, practical work, tutorials, on-line material and directed course work.
Targeted practical sessions (18 h) are used to emphasise the need to record experimental data rapidly and accurately, verify quality via QA and QC processes, to produce results to deadline and to display material in clear and appropriate forms. Students will be expected to process and interpret results obtained from sessions. Literature assignments (10 h) linked to the practicals are used to place the analyses in context.
Lectures (10 h) are used to introduce the basic concepts of analysis, backed up by practical application. Theoretical and descriptive information is delivered by a mixture of lectures and tutorials. Tutorial sessions (14 h) are either problem-directed, based on producing numerical solutions to specific data sets, or interactive group problem solving, discussion-based, aimed at establishing the way in which analytical systems is suited to a sample. Students will be expected to prepare for practical and tutorial sessions weekly by reviewing appropriate material and devoting sometime to problem-solving exercises (15 h).
The module is supported by a website on WebLearn which includes a number of electronic learning aids. Students would be expected to use the site for assisted study (30 h). Profiling will be delivered via an on-line site. Students will use the study weeks to reflect on experience to date and prepare material for the portfolio.
3. identify any errors arising from a determination and evaluate the reliability of the results obtained.
Assessment will comprise two practical reports (1500 words each) where a part of the report students will be required to interpret and evaluate biochemical data.
Hofmann, A and Clokie, S. (2018) Wilson and Walker's Principles and Techniques of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 8th Edn. Cambridge University Press.


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What is the DMPTool?
The DMPTool is a free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans. These plans, or DMPs, are now required by many funding agencies as part of the proposal submission process. The DMPTool provides a click-through wizard for creating a DMP that complies with funder requirements. It also has direct links to funder websites, help text for answering questions, and resources for best practices surrounding data management.
Go to ask.dmptool.org to see our answers to frequently asked questions and to ask your own.
Want a quick overview of the DMPTool? Check out our 90-second video describing the DMPTool's features. Go to DMPTool Video page.
DMPTool Background
The original DMPTool was a grassroots effort, beginning in January 2011 with eight institutions partnering to provide in-kind contributions of personnel and development. The effort was in direct response to demands from funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), that researchers plan for managing their research data. By joining forces the contributing institutions are able to consolidate expertise and reduce costs in addressing data management needs.
The original contributing institutions were:
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library
Digital Curation Centre (UK)
University of California, Los Angeles Library
University of California, San Diego Libraries
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Library
Since its release in October 2011, the DMPTool has generated huge interest among the science and library community, including its appearance on the Library of Congress' Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011. As of November 2013, more than 6,000 users from over 600 institutions have used the DMPTool. Given the success of the first version of the DMPTool, the founding partners obtained funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a second version of the tool, released in May 2014. Go to the main DMPTool website to learn more.
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Sam Allardyce tells Everton to "turn on your magic" as he eyes first away win in months
Blues travel to Newcastle on Wednesday night with Big Sam asking for more flair
Sam Allardyce wants Everton to "turn on the magic" against Newcastle – as they look for a first away win in the Premier League since January.
The Blues are unbeaten in their last three Premier League games and have risen to 10th in the table after wins over West Ham and Huddersfield followed up by Sunday's draw with Liverpool.
Sam Allardyce made no apologies for Everton's tactics at Anfield but wants his side to play with far more flair at St James' Park tonight.
Everton haven't won on the road since seeing off Allardyce's Crystal Palace in January but Big Sam wants to stop the Blues' rot with the players showing their "brilliance" in front of goal.
"When we finally got an opportunity (against Liverpool) we maximised it 100% so we will hopefully got more space and time to play through the lines and into the opposition's half on Wednesday night and that would be our aim, without losing the fact that we have to play two ways: one in possession and one out," Allardyce said.
"If they are in transition in attacking, how good are we at getting back and defending, making sure we're solid and frustrating Newcastle?
Full extent of Liverpool anger after Everton draw revealed as Coutinho, Milner and Klopp fume
"And when we win the ball back, how good are we in transition to turn that possession into a positive attack to put Newcastle's defence under pressure which would cause a mistake or an unforced error which might give us an opportunity to score a goal?
"Or a bit of brilliance as we've seen already, particularly Wayne Rooney and the goal he scored against West Ham.
"You want a bit of brilliance from your attacking players in the final third and that's where you turn your magic on and show all your abilities and skills and can that bring us a super goal or, if the opposition make a mistake, can we pounce on it?"
Everton Christmas cancelled by Sam Allardyce as Blues boss eyes strong end to year
Allardyce added that he wants "quality" at both ends of the pitch - but highlighted Rooney's influence once again during Sunday's Anfield derby.
"I instill the basics in the team and then the team expresses itself how it feels, because they have to be the ones who make the right or wrong decisions from there-on," said the Blues boss.
"And if you make fewer mistakes than the opposition you give yourself the opportunity to win a game - and then it's how much quality have you got to win that game?
'Get out, my room stinks!' - Brilliant moment young Everton fan meets Liverpool stars at Alder Hey
"Quality in the end, is what pays off wherever you are and whatever league you play in and the quality of our defending paid off on Sunday then one moment - we barely had another - we took full advantage of.
"I have to say the quality of Wayne's ball that opened up the Liverpool back-two caused the panic and the panic resulted in the penalty."


This is my first experience in writing as a blogger.
Over the years, there have been plenty of days when the world felt like it was caving in – blocking the light, blocking the hope. Digital technology offers an amazing opportunity to extend business opportunities for all companies in different size, and let ideas and entrepreneurs to come into the field and build their ideas easier and sooner.
Let's face it – what I am right now trying to bring for my readers is what I'm learning day by day in my career in IT industry, or perhaps to be more specific in the DevOps industry, particularly in the public cloud sphere. There is a tacit assumption that in today SAAS based organizations: various tools and environment for our project to run and to deliver, required various skills of different levels of a project cycle, from planning, analyzing, implementing, quality assurance, to deploying, maintenance, and scaling.
With so much great content on the web and so many people writing about DevOps, It is definitely a challenge for me to step in this area and writing new topics. DevOps is included but not limited to many different technologies, a mixture of programming, operation, network admin, a lot of cloud tools, continuous integration, deployment and agile, automation and testing, and more.
The DevOps concept is built around a group of people who believe that their plan and application cab be evolved with appropriate technology and attitude development and delivery. The people who are striving to do better and committed to continuous growth, both personally and as a team. So, the DevOps is a team thought to push the envelope with a multidisciplinary skill set, to build up infrastructure and do configuration, to write test cases and debug the features in a fast pace environment.


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package org.mustangproject.ZUGFeRD;
/**
 * Mustangproject's ZUGFeRD implementation
 * ZUGFeRD exporter helper class
 * Licensed under the APLv2
 * @date 2014-05-10
 * @version 1.2.0
 * @author jstaerk
 * */
import org.apache.xmpbox.XMPMetadata;
import org.apache.xmpbox.XmpConstants;
import org.apache.xmpbox.schema.PDFAExtensionSchema;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.ArrayProperty;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.Attribute;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.Cardinality;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.ChoiceType;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.DefinedStructuredType;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.PDFAPropertyType;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.PDFASchemaType;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.StructuredType;
import org.apache.xmpbox.type.TextType;

/**
 * Additionally to adding a RDF namespace with a indication which file attachment if Zugferd, this namespace has to be described in a PDFA Extension Schema. I
 * know there is a PDFAExtensionSchema in the context of PDFBox' XMPBOX but I have been using PDFBox' JempBOX so far because I could not find out how to write
 * XMPBOX XMPMetadata to a PDF file. So this is my version of PDFAExtensionSchema for PDFBox' jempbox XMPMetadata
 *
 * @author jstaerk
 */

@StructuredType(preferedPrefix = "pdfaExtension", namespace = "http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/")
    public class XMPSchemaPDFAExtensions extends PDFAExtensionSchema {

	public final String xmlns_pdfaSchema = "http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#";
	public final String prefix_pdfaSchema = "pdfaSchema";
	public final String xmlns_pdfaProperty = "http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#";
	public final String prefix_pdfaProperty = "pdfaProperty";

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Cynthia McKelvey
Animal description
The relatively simple zebrafish, Danio rerio, may not spring to mind as an animal useful for studying the complexities of multiple sclerosis. However, the animals are proving useful for studying the mechanisms involved in myelination and as a medium for high-throughput drug screening.
Currently, there is no multiple sclerosis zebrafish model per se. Researchers use the animals to study normal myelination processes to better understand them and to find potential targets for remyelinating therapies. But the immunopathogenic aspects of MS have not yet been characterized in zebrafish. According to David Lyons, Ph.D., of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K., this is partly because the adaptive immune system is still not well understood, though researchers have studied the innate immune system extensively.
Zebrafish make an appealing animal model because they are cheaper and easier to work with than mice. A zebrafish pair produces between 100 and 300 offspring, and the embryos develop outside the mother. Their axons begin to myelinate by day three, when they are still a tiny embryo, and they are sexually mature in about 8 to 12 weeks. Best of all, the embryos are completely transparent. This enables researchers to watch myelination take place in the central nervous system (CNS) in real time, with the help of fluorescent proteins. Because zebrafish share 70% of their genome with humans, the genetic and physiological processes of myelination are thought to be well conserved.
Transgenics
Relative to modifying the mouse genome, researchers can easily modify the zebrafish genome, and often at less expense. In MS research, scientists use transgenic zebrafish lines that express green fluorescent protein (GFP) in oligodendrocytes and oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). Using these, researchers have been able to visualize several aspects of the interaction between OPCs, oligodendrocytes, axons, and myelin in the developing zebrafish. Specifically, Kirby et al. (2006) used a transgenic line, Tg(nkx2.2a:megfp), to monitor OPC behavior in real time. Two other teams (Jung et al., 2010; Almeida et al., 2011) using similar transgenic methods used myelin basic protein in oligodendrocytes to drive GFP expression. Czopka et al. (2013) used a transgenic line to monitor myelination in real time. Most recently, Yin and Hu (2013) examined the effects of knocking out the lingo1b gene on the development of zebrafish myelination.
A transgenic model of demyelination is under development in zebrafish. In order to examine questions of how oligodendrocytes react to a demyelinating event, Chung et al. (2013) developed a transgenic line expressing the bacterial gene nfsB, which encodes a nitroreductase (NTR) in oligodendrocytes. To conditionally ablate oligodendrocytes, the team exposed the fish to metronidazole (Mtz), which NTR converted into cytotoxin. Remyelination occurred 7 days after the team removed the fish from the Mtz medium.
Forward genetic screening
Researchers can also discover new genetic targets in myelination by generating random mutations in zebrafish using a process known as forward genetic screening. The scientist treats the zebrafish with the mutagen, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (more commonly referred to as ENU) and then monitors subsequent generations for mutant phenotypes, which can then be linked to specific genetic changes. For example, Pogoda et al. (2006) identified novel genes involved in myelination. Lyons et al. (2009) also used this method to show that the kinesin motor protein, Kif1b, is essential for localizing mRNA from myelin basic protein to the processes of oligodendrocytes. The same method helped another team discover a novel regulator of peripheral nervous system myelination in Schwann cells that is conserved in mammals (Monk et al., 2009; Monk et al., 2011; Mogha et al., 2013). Future screens may similarly uncover novel regulators of oligodendrocyte development.
High-throughput drug screening
Buckley et al. (2008) reviewed the use of zebrafish embryos as a model for high-throughput drug screening for potential remyelinating therapies. Administering drugs is cheap and easy, according to Lyons, since larvae can be kept in a petri dish as small amounts of potential treatments are pipetted in. Researchers often use GFP-tagged transgenic lines to more easily visualize the effects of drugs. Buckley et al. reported testing 80 drugs per week using zebrafish embryos.
In drug development, zebrafish are well suited as the next step in screening promising hits identified on high-throughput cell-culture platforms, said Wendy Macklin, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in an interview with MSDF at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory glia meeting in July 2014. "Fish will never be very useful for screening 100,000 compounds; they will be useful for screening 1,000," she said. The original compounds are typically refined through medicinal chemistry, which can be tested quickly in the zebrafish for target and off-target effects, toxicity, dose, timing, and mechanisms of action before moving on to mouse models, she said.
One of the most attractive features of using zebrafish is that they are relatively cheap. Though costs vary between labs, researchers generally agree that zebrafish can be maintained for a fraction of the cost of maintaining mice. Determining how much less expensive depends on the metrics of the calculation, according to Kelly Monk, Ph.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. For example, maintaining one tank of zebrafish may cost 50% to 80% less than maintaining one cage of mice. In terms of number of offspring, however, zebrafish are several hundred times cheaper than mice since they produce hundreds of offspring, whereas achieving a litter of eight mouse pups is considered lucky.
The zebrafish's high fecundity also makes them efficient to use for forward genetic screening. Additionally, their embryos develop externally and are small and transparent, making them windows into cellular interactions during development. As such, zebrafish lend themselves to unraveling mysteries surrounding myelination and remyelination.
Zebrafish are also hardy animals, so much so that many high school science labs easily maintain an aquarium of the fish. However, maintaining a colony of adults or continuing a colony through several generations requires some skill and experience. For example, Macklin said that zebrafish are "finicky" at some stages of their life cycle, requiring specific types of food. However, the skills are relatively easy to develop since zebrafish are generally well studied and labs that use them are often very forthcoming with techniques and tips.
Weaknesses/Caveats
The zebrafish adaptive immune system remains somewhat understudied, and there are no strong models to mimic the immunopathology of MS. In a comprehensive review in Glia, Preston and Macklin (2014) note that myelination studies in zebrafish are generally carried out in the embryos. While several aspects of developmental myelination are "recapitulated" in remyelination, Preston and Macklin write, "analysis of developmental myelination may be quite different from remyelination in the adult nervous system, particularly in an injury context." They go on to explain that in demyelinated lesions, researchers often observe OPCs recruited to the area. However, these OPCs don't mature into myelinating oligodendrocytes in large enough numbers to adequately remyelinate the affected lesion. This suggests that certain processes surrounding maturation may be dysregulated in the context of injury, and the role of these processes may not be well defined in development. Additionally, zebrafish have a lifelong capacity to regenerate neurons and myelin, which potentially could affect studies of remyelination.
Since drugs are administered to zebrafish via the water they swim in, some researchers have raised concerns about the lack of permeability of some large-molecule drugs. It's possible, then, that potentially useful drugs might slip through the cracks of research and go undetected. Therefore, it's wise to also examine potential drug therapies in cell culture and mice along with zebrafish.
Modeling MS disease processes
Myelination and remyelination can be studied with the zebrafish, though the animal's native regenerative capacity must be considered. At present, no zebrafish models for immune-mediated demyelination have been reported, though researchers are beginning to explore potential models for autoimmune disease in zebrafish. To study remyelination, myelin is removed via various forms of ablation.
As of now, the adaptive immune system of zebrafish is not well understood. Immune-mediated demyelination cannot be studied in zebrafish as well as it can be studied with some mammalian models. However, zebrafish "appear to possess a full complement of immune cells," according to Preston and Macklin (2014). It's possible that researchers will soon develop a model in zebrafish that would allow them to peer inside the immunological process. Preston and Macklin note some important first steps being taken in this regard. Quintana et al. (2010) devised a method of inducing FoxP3 regulatory T cells to infiltrate the CNS by inoculating zebrafish with a combination of cells from the zebrafish CNS and complete Freund's adjuvant. Macklin described this adaptive autoimmunity as similar to the one observed in the rodent experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model.
Though zebrafish are relatively low maintenance, Macklin advised that it helps to have one or two lab members who are trained in zebrafish husbandry in order to maintain the colony. "We have some specific people who run that facility; they spend half the time running the facility and half the time doing research in fish labs," she said.
Macklin also suggested that researchers new to zebrafish would find it helpful to contact other researchers who use the zebrafish model to get their advice and help in starting a transgenic line, if one is needed.
Zfin.org is a useful resource for any researcher working with zebrafish. It has an extensive database of all the various zebrafish models.
Utility for probing relevant biology
Forward genetic screening in the zebrafish has already demonstrated a few genes involved in myelination that were previously unknown to MS researchers (Raphael and Talbot, 2011; Pogoda et al., 2006). Additionally, in vivo time-lapse imagery has unveiled several physical and chemical mechanisms of myelination and oligodendrocyte interaction that were previously unknown (Kirby et al., 2006; Czopka et al., 2013).
Researchers who use zebrafish to study myelination in development argue that understanding normal myelination will help lead the way to understanding mechanisms of demyelination, why remyelination fails in patients with MS, and how to treat it.
The story goes that in the late 1960s, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon needed an animal to study development. He went to a local pet store and chose zebrafish because they mated quickly and produced a lot of offspring, and because their embryos matured rapidly. These qualities helped zebrafish ascend to the de facto animal model of choice for studying developmental biology (Grunwald and Eisen, 2002).
However, it wasn't all smooth sailing. In a review of the history of the zebrafish published in Nature Reviews: Genetics, Grunwald and Eisen (2002) wrote that developing the zebrafish as a model organism was an "immense gamble." Before the 1970s, no one had studied the genetics of the organism. At the time, there was also little appreciation for the conservation of crucial regulatory functions. Nevertheless, as time went on the zebrafish proved itself as a useful model organism for the study of development.
The first publication to discuss myelination in the zebrafish appeared in the journal Glia in 2002 (Brösamle and Halpern, 2002). Written by Christian Brösamle, Ph.D., and Marnie Halpern, Ph.D., from the Halpern lab at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore, Maryland, it sparked an interest taken up by several researchers at Stanford and at the University of Colorado, Denver.
David Lyons, Wendy Macklin, Bruce Appel, and Kelly Monk all aided in the reporting and reviewing of this article.
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Italy xiii. IRANIANS IN ITALY
xiii. IRANIANS IN ITALY
It is difficult to speak about a true Persian community in Italy. The presence of Persians in Italy has always been fragmentary and discontinuous, which never led to any extended, cohesive social groups of permanent residents. Even during the periods when the migratory flow from Persia towards other countries was at its peak (India until the 18th century, France from the middle of the 18th century, Sweden and the USA, for different reasons, after World War II and especially following the Revolution of 1978-79), few Persians arrived in Italy. Unlike other countries, Italy has not been an especially favored destination for a long stay abroad or for exile, due to its fewer cultural and diplomatic links and the less developed legislation on immigration, work availability, and refugee asylum.
Recent research is now casting light upon the presence in Rome, in ancient times, of important personalities from the Persian court as well as members of the nobility, in particular during the Parthian and the early Sasanian eras. They included sometimes hostages or refugees staying for long periods of time as guests of the Roman imperial court and later on also newly converted Christian pilgrims (Nedergaard; Ricci 1996; Piemontese, 2001; idem, 2003). The scant information available concerning Persian merchants and ambassadors who came to Italy (especially Rome and Venice) between the Middle Ages and the modern era does not reveal either a steady presence or lengthy stays. It seems that the first group of Persians to settle in Italy followed the arrival of the first Persian chargé d'affaires, Narimān Khan Qawām-al-Salṭana (1896) and then with the entourage of the minister plenipotentiary, Malkom Khan, in Rome (1899-1908), but about whom very little is known. The creation of a diplomatic seat gave a degree of continuity to a small-scale, but significant, Persian presence in Italy, which was represented by diplomatic staff and their families. The period of their residence in Italy, however, depended on the length of their assignment to their diplomatic posts, and, besides, they tended to isolate themselves from the Italian society in general, mainly residing within the areas around the embassy and the consulates. This has remained relatively constant even throughout crucial political and institutional changes. At present (2004), the Persian diplomatic corps, divided between Rome and Milan, consists of about forty individuals, including officers and clerical staff and their respective families. Since the mid-1980s, the Persian embassy to the Vatican has become a point of reference for the Shiʿites in Italy, and, as the European Islamic Cultural Centre, has published numerous religious works.
Historically, students have always constituted the main body of Persians residing in Italy. Fragmentary information indicates that since the 17th century, although still very sporadically, there has been the custom of spending spells in Italy to pursue artistic studies. Uncertain information indicates an educational voyage of a certain Moḥammad-Zamān to Rome in the first half of 1600. It is not clear whether he is the same Moḥammad-Zamān Farangiḵᵛān, who translated into Persian the Idea del giardino del mondo of Thomaso Tomai (see ITALY xii. TRANSLATIONS), or the famous painter living in India at the Mughal court (see Manucci 1901, II, pp. 16-18; Tucci 1949, pp. 79-80). Another known name is that of the intellectual and painter Mirzā Abu'l-Ḥasan Khan Saniʿ-al-Molk Ḡaffāri (q.v.), who spent five years (1846-50) in Italy studying at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome and copying the works of Italian masters. In 1860, he became the editor of the first Persian newspaper, the Ruz-nāma-ye waqā…yeʿ-e ettefāqiya, published in Tehran (Davarpanah; Ḏokāʾ, pp. 18-19). Alongside these students of the arts (who remained very few until the 1950s), since 1927 another kind of Persian student could be found at the Naval Academy in Livorno, where Persian cadets received military and naval training (together with technical training in a variety of specializations up to university level), with the objective of creating the Persian Royal Navy. The influx of students to the Academy was, however, interrupted by the advent of the Revolution of 1970. In any case, both of these projects were temporary, and, with a few rare and not statistically significant exceptions, most students returned home after completing their studies.
A greater flux of Persian students to Italy can be identified from the 1950s onwards. This new flux was soon helped by the creation of study grants established in accordance with the Cultural Agreement signed between the two countries in 1958. Exact figures are not available, but between 1950 and 1970 some tens of thousands of Persian students came to settle for varying periods of time in Rome, Florence, Turin, Venice, Perugia, and other major Italian cities, to study architecture, fine arts, music, engineering, medicine, and agronomy.
In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, among these students, who were mainly children of the wealthy classes from Tehran, opposition groups began to form against the politics of the shah. These groups were linked to the international network of the Confederation of Iranian Students, National Union. The activities of these student associations, such as the Federation of the Unions of Iranian Students in Italy, was never comparable to that of their equivalent groups in France, Great Britain or Germany, and in terms of publications, it never went much further than a few pamphlets.
During the same period, in particular during the late 1970s, Italy witnessed a boom in the importation of Persian carpets, with an increase in the number of Persian tradesmen coming to Italy. The trade in carpets and the vast network of shops and related activities (cleaning, repairs, etc.) has also represented the main working opportunity for the new generations of Persians in Italy during the twenty-five years following the Islamic Revolution.
With the advent of the Revolution of 1978-79, the majority of the last generation of students who had arrived during the monarchy regime decided to stay on in Italy, and many eventually started new lives there, mostly obtaining Italian citizenship (currently, approximately 5,000 Persians who were born in Persia have Italian citizenship). At times, these new residents have responded to the need to express their identity through cultural activities connected to their language and world (small publishing companies such as Entešārāt-e Bābak, which has been active for several years, the Persian bookshop, Nimā, active in Rome since 1994, several cultural associations, the longest standing of which is the Associazione culturale Italia-Iran in Florence, magazines with a few issues, concerts, recording of traditional Persian music, etc.). Others have integrated into Italian environments and working situations, using the training they have acquired in cultural and technical fields such as medicine and engineering. On the whole, it is particularly noticeable that since the second half of the 20th century, a rather significant number of artists and intellectuals (writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers, actors) who completed their education in Italy settled there, assuming a productive role in their respective fields of expertise. This recent Persian contribution to Italian culture has yet to be duly recognized.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, as an aftermath of the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, a new migratory influx from Persia started to move towards Italy, although on a smaller scale compared to the same phenomenon towards other Western countries, especially the United States (see DIASPORA viii). According to information provided by the Ministry of the Interior (the only available data), the number of Persians in Italy rose from 10,131 in 1981 to 13,536 by 1986, who were fairly evenly spread throughout the country. Part of a sociological investigation carried out between the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s on the Persian immigrants in Italy highlighted some of the characteristics of this migration. The immigrants came almost exclusively from the middle class of Tehran and displayed the features of first generation immigrants: young people (80% under 30 years of age), mainly male (71.1%), and mostly unmarried (58.3%). A common feature seems to be the temporary nature of their immigration. As already mentioned, Italy's legislation and employment situation do not make it an ideal country either for exile or for a long-term integration project. The pretext for coming to Italy has always been to study, though this is often neglected in favor of some form of temporary employment. Employment is still perceived as temporary even when it lasts over ten years, since the final and constant objective is to return to Persia as soon as the conditions permit.
The link with Persia is never broken and is often reinforced by economic ties with the family. A feature that characterizes Persian immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s is a sense of national identity common both to those who come from a religious background and culture and those who have arrived with secular or lay backgrounds and positions. The former, even when politically opposed to the authorities of their country, consider the return to the homeland as absolutely fundamental, whilst the latter seem to be more open to integration in the context of Italian society, even if in a state of continuous uncertainty. In any case, partly due to this constant "utopia of returning home" and also due to the higher than average level of culture and social conscience, Persians in Italy do not consider themselves "immigrants" and tend not to lay down the foundations for the creation of a real Persian social network. Work—always present even if often temporary, especially for those who have arrived most recently (and particularly in the carpet sector, as already mentioned)—, personal relations within a limited range, and the distant but rooted link with their homeland have been main features of the Persian identity in Italy in the last two decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
Persians of the Bahai religion are an exception. Though overall a minority, they put their religious faith with its ecumenist characteristics before their national identity. They consider themselves citizens of the world and brothers of the Italians (or people of other nationalities) sharing the same religion. Consequently, they pursue social integration in the country where they are guests, supported by an efficient network of assistance from their own community, which in Italy is focused mainly in Rome and the surrounding area.
This context of the Persian presence in Italy, small-scale and fragmentary, is reflected in the low rate of political dynamism that can be seen. Despite the presence of almost all the opposition factions to the Islamic Republic, from Marxists to liberals, from monarchists to the Mojāhedin-e Ḵalq (probably the most active, with periodic demonstrations and radio broadcasts), as well as the supporters of the Tehran government, political debate has never turned into any particularly noteworthy activity, either in periodicals or in noteworthy occasional publications.
This framework, together with the most recently published figures from the Italian National Institute of Statistics, which indicate 8,371 Persian citizens (5,041 males and 3,330 females) legally present in Italy in 1999, confirm the notion that Persians in Italy, while representing a significant presence, especially due to their integration at certain professional and cultural levels, have not yet constituted a true "community."
Data has been used from the Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, from the Italian National Institute of Statistics, and from private archives. Stefano Allievi, "Sciiti d'Europa: Una minoranza senza visibilità," in Arnaldo Nesti, ed., Laboratorio Iran: Cultura, religione, modernità in Iran, Milan, 2003, pp. 113-26.
Changiz Davarpanah, "Il primo giornale a stampa iraniano e l'Italia (1853-56)," Rivista degli Studi Orientali 70, 1996, pp. 199-225.
Yaḥyā Ḏokāʾ, "Mirzā Abu'l-Ḥasan Ḵān Ṣaniʿ-al-Molk Ḡaffāri, moʾsses-e naḵostin honarestān-e naqqāši dar Irān," Honar o mardom, no. 10, 1963, pp. 14-27.
Niccolao Manucci, Storia do Mogor, tr. William Irvine as Storia do Mogor or Mogul India 1653-1708, 4 vols., London, 1907-1908; repr. Calcutta, 1965.
E. Nedergaard, "The Four Sons of Phraates IV in Rome," Acta Hyperboraea 1, 1987, pp. 102-15.
Angelo Michele Piemontese, "L'antica Persia veduta in Roma," in Laura Biancini et al., Roma memoria e oblio, Rome, 2001, pp. 71-81.
Idem, La memoria romana dei santi martiri persiani Mario, Marta, Audiface e Abaco, Rome, 2003.
Cecilia Ricci, "Principes et Reges externi (e loro schiavi e liberti) a Roma e in Italia: Testimonianze epigrafiche di età imperiale," in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti. Classe di scienze morali, S 9/7, 1996, pp. 561-92.
Chantal Saint-Blancat, "L'immigrazione iraniana in Italia: vera o falsa parentesi?" in Giovanni Cocchi, ed., Stranieri in Italia: caratteri e tendenze dell'immigrazione dai paesi extracomunitari, Bologna, 1989, pp. 109-25.
Idem, "La presenza iraniana in Italia," Inchiesta, no. 90, 1990, pp. 59-67.
Giuseppe Tucci, Italia e Oriente, Milan, 1949.
See also bibliographies above: i. CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH PERSIA; ii. DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH PERSIA.
(Mario Casari)
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Q: Use firebase cloud functions to log firebase analytics event I use firebase infrastructure as backend to process my in-app-purchases... as i have many gateways and accept offline payments i cannot rely only on google-billing to log the purchase events.
I would like to do it in my firebase function that process gateway payment status and updates the database, but seams that firebase analytics is not well imported to the cloud functions infrastructure
    var firebase = require('firebase');
var analytics = firebase.initializeApp().analytics();

exports.teste = (req, res) => {

    analytics.logEvent('analytics.EventName.PURCHASE', {
        currency: 'BRL',
        items: [{
            item_id: 'sku'
        }],
        shipping: 1.00,
        tax: 2.00,
        transaction_id: 'SM_1234',
        value: 20.0
    });

    let message = req.query.message || req.body.message || 'Hello World!';
    res.status(200).send(message);
};

A 2020-06-25T20:50:37.613Z teste Provided module can't be loaded. teste
A 2020-06-25T20:50:37.613Z teste Is there a syntax error in your code? teste

the admin sdk doesn't include the analytics module.
is there any way to log the events in the cloud functions?

A: There is no provided backend SDK for logging events to Analytics.  This can only be done in the client app.  Your only alternative is to get the client app to log the event somehow.

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Ultron wants to be a real boy; but has no "Jiminy Cricket" to keep him on the straight and narrow. I've marked it down a star, only because as a standalone movie it's a little weak. You need to be following the MCU.
WARNING: Review contains Moderate Spoilers.
This movie has a lot going on. It's very much the "middle" of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and therefore if you haven't seen at least the previous Avengers movie, and Guardians of the Galaxy, you may not really follow the plot here.
So, the Russians via HYDRA got their hands on Loki's scepter and have been using the information contained within to do their own human experimentation and augmentation. The results of which are Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, AKA Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. The Avengers come in to reclaim the scepter, and Tony Stark (Ironman) finds out that the gem which gives the scepter it's power over the mind also contains the key to an Artificial Intelligence program he and Bruce Banner have been working on – Ultron – to bring "peace in our time".
5 minutes after having been created, Ultron absorbs/learns the entirety of the internet (with a few exceptions) and decides that the only way to bring "peace" is to wipe out the human race. Of course.
We later learn that the blue gem in Loki's scepter actually contained one of the six "Infinity Stones" – the Mind stone. Within the MCU, we've been introduced to a few of these stones already: the Space Stone is contained within the Tesseract (from Captain America & Avengers 1), the Reality Stone took the form of the Aether (Thor: The Dark World), and the Power Stone changed hands a few times at the other end of the Galaxy (Guardians of the Galaxy). That's 4 out of 6 so far: just the Soul and Time stones left to find (I reckon Doctor Strange could certainly put the Soul Stone to good use… that's the plot for his movie pretty much in the bag then). The "big bad" of the MCU, behind all nefarious acts, has been Thanos. Usually sat idly on a big space-chair looking smug, and purple(ish), he's after all of the Infinity Stones with which he will complete the Infinity Gauntlet – and no doubt bring death and destruction to the universe!
Ultron's attempts at building himself a new body (he wants to be a "real boy" – cue the constant humming of "I've got no strings"), ultimately bring about the newest Avenger "Vision".
There's plenty of action to keep you going throughout the story here. Scarlet Witch throws a few spanners into the works by playing her mind games. A few of the otherwise neglected characters from previous movies get a little bit more to play with this time around. Finally Hawkeye (Clint Barton) gets some fleshing out with a more rounded personality, and a hint at a backstory. Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) and Hulk (Bruce Banner) keep plotting to run away together, which is cute but there are bigger issues that keep getting in their way. Like saving the world, again. The most under-served character this time around is Captain America (Steve Rogers), but then he has already got two solo-movies to his name.
There seems to be a fair bit of buzz online regarding the so-called-misogyny around the Hulk/Black Widow relationship – however I didn't see that theme to be particularly pronounced. As their relationship developed, the scared Bruce Banner simply wants to run away with his new lady-friend. Natasha, however, although tempted by this invitation to a simpler life, realises that their responsibilities outweigh her personal wants. So she essentially says, "Thanks, but no".
Lastly, Ultron's final plan to turn an Eastern-European town into a man/machine-made meteor has a few real-world-physics errors, and (probably) wouldn't have had quite the result he was after. But it would have caused a large amount of destruction nonetheless. Check out the reasons why, via the link below.
And Bonus – I felt compelled to draw a picture of the Hulkbuster Armour (or Veronica as Ironman calls it), because obviously – it's the Hulkbuster! It came our more comic book like than I originally planned, but it's otherwise OK! I'm going to have to upgrade my drawing materials methinks..
Next Post: Beneath the Surface.


Some astronomers put their ears to the sky.
The frontier of human knowledge can be measured in collisions. With the right instruments, you can hear their echoes, from billions of years ago, many light years away.
Physicists and astronomers are slowly listening to the stories inside these echoes, known as "gravitational waves," in hopes of learning more about the birth of the universe and the nature of our reality. One of these researchers is Washington State University physics professor Sukanta Bose, who is helping to develop a new gravitational wave observatory center in India through a U.S. partnership. He is tasked with further developing the country's scientific community by using astronomical research with the help of LIGO facilities (or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory).
LIGO began as a joint project between MIT and Caltech, funded by the National Science Foundation, but has since grown into the international LIGO Science Collaboration. Its two facilities are located in Hanford, Washington, about three hours southwest of Spokane, and in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The new project, expected to be complete in 2024, is another node in an ongoing network of gravitational wave detectors around the world.
"Unlike optical observatories, we don't care about the quality of the night sky," Bose tells the Inlander from India. "The sites that we choose can have cloud cover." Instead, the detectors rely on sound, or rather, vibrations, he says.
When two major astral bodies collide, they cause ripples in the fabric of space-time, a model of our universe that combines the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time. Albert Einstein predicted these rippling waves in his theory on general relativity in 1915, and in the last few years astronomers have been able to detect them.
These facilities have detected six major astral collisions since 2015. The discoveries have substantiated Einstein's theory, but the tricky thing about astronomy is that new answers tend to leave scientists with even more questions.
So they're building more detectors. The research has proven practical, too, Bose says. For example, when a star blows up in a supernova explosion, it leaves behind a very small and incredibly dense core, known as a neutron star. After observing an August 2017 merger of two neutron stars — and the electromagnetic radiation emitted by it — scientists suggest that these collisions could be the "primary cosmic factories" that produce heavy elements such as gold and platinum, Bose says.
"The story of how these elements were created is still unraveling," Bose says. "Gravity actually aids in unlocking these stories for us."
These facilities essentially act as ears for astronomers, detecting the slightest of vibrations in the sky. The more ears in the sky, the easier it is for astronomers to aim their telescopes in a certain direction. For example, the use of multiple facilities allowed several dozen observatories to study the latest wave detection, which produced about 500 academic papers, written in collaboration by about 3,500 authors, says Caltech researcher Fred Raab, an associate director operations for LIGO who works at the Hanford site.
"That's a big deal. That's about a third of professional astronomers in the world who worked on that ...," Raab says. "It's only the beginning for something that is an emerging trend in astronomy."
The science used in these wave detections is almost inconceivably precise. For example, the facilities must be located on varying parallels along the Earth and separated far away from each other, but they must also be remote enough so they don't pick up too much noise from any highways or urban centers, Bose says. The new project in the state of Maharashtra, India, is located on the Deccan Plateau, an area that is "seismically quiet," he says.
The Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector in Japan (also known as KAGRA) takes its detection a step further by going underground, where it's exposed to less seismic activity, and even uses cryogenic systems to cool its instruments to a degree that "molecular vibrations within the material itself will be brought almost to a stop," according to LIGO's website. Germany and Italy are also home to LIGO sister facilities.
But there is another major reason for developing more detectors.
The discovery of gravitational waves supported Einstein's theory, but it's far from bulletproof. His theory provides that gravitational waves exist on two "polarizations," and so far his theory has been correct, Raab says. (Polarization refers to the specific way the gravitational waves disturb space-time, according to the American Physical Society.) However, mathematically, there may be as many as five or six states of polarization.
"Einstein's theory is well restricted. In his imagination of the universe, where space and time is made up of Jell-O and can wiggle like Jell-O, he has only two possible ways that it can wiggle," Raab says. "But mathematically there are five. So the question is: Is Einstein's theory perfect? Everyone believes the theory has to break down. Or quantum mechanics has to break down."
Building different detectors in distant locations around the globe can help detect these elusive polarizations, if they exist.
"We have these theories from the beginning of the 20th century that have tremendous evidence that support them, but at a certain point they are incompatible," Raab says. "One of them has to be modified to make it fit with the other."
The original print version of this article was headlined "Ears in the Sky"
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Maurycy Polaski, ps. Moryś (ur. 1963) – aktor, muzyk, artysta kabaretowy.

Życiorys
W roku 1987 ukończył studia na wydziale aktorskim PWST w Krakowie. Współzałożyciel Kabaretu Pod Wyrwigroszem i zespołu rockowego Kurtyna Siemiradzkiego. Ma córkę Olgę.

Filmografia
 2000–2001: Klinika pod Wyrwigroszem – pan Kazio
 2005: Pensjonat pod Różą – Piotrek, kolega Ksawerego (odc. 64 Panna Młoda. Część I, odc. 65 Panna Młoda. Część II, odc. 88 Tylko miłość. Część I)
 2005: Szanse finanse (odc. 3 Farby)

Role teatralne
 1987: Ferdydurke – Pimko (Teatr PWST w Krakowie)
 1996: Spotkanie z Balladą - Proboszcz
 1996: A słów miałbym tyle... – Doktor (Teatr Zależny w Krakowie)
 1998: Koniec wieku (Teatr Ludowy w Krakowie)
 1999: Historia o doktorze Johannie Fauście – Faust (przedstawienie impresaryjne)
 2004: Sztuka kochania. Sceny dla dorosłych (Teatr STU w Krakowie)
 2010: Kogut w rosole (Teatr STU w Krakowie)

Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Teatralnych im. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Krakowie
Polscy aktorzy teatralni
Polscy aktorzy filmowi
Polscy artyści kabaretowi
Urodzeni w 1963

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Central and Northern Sydney Regional Training Awards
UTS: Design, Architecture and Building was the host venue to over 30 finalists in the Central and Northern Sydney Regional Training Awards on Friday (01.07.16)
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ACCM was also proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Awards. We would like to wish all students the very best for the future and we can't wait to see what next year brings.
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