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I'm JAMES COOK
"My work is more choreographed than planned because there is a sequence of marks that interact to portray the subject. When I pick up a brush or a trowel and lay down a line, the tool plows up paint and changes the mixture of color. I have to choreograph that interaction between one layer of detail and another. It always takes me somewhere I don't expect." - James Pringle Cook
James Pringle Cook was born in 1949 in Topeka, Kansas. He received his M.F.A. from Wichita State University in 1972. He now lives in southern Arizona with his wife, and fellow artist, DeAnn.
Cook's paintings are in the best tradition of American landscape painting. He is an artist absorbed with the process of painting. He paints quickly and creates richly colored, highly textured surfaces. While his work is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists, it differs from them in that it projects a recognizable reality, dictated by his personal vision and technical skills. His paintings are bold and monumental in scope. Whether he depicts the ripples upon the surface of still pools in mountain streams or the color studies of a stormy sky, his use of color and contrasting textures and techniques invite the viewer into the scene.
Cook often returns to Kansas to paint, plein air, the Flint Hills and other local landscape, often using a hardware store as his studio. His paintings are a consummate demonstration of years of hard work, of looking at and inhaling the landscape and rendering it in a unique and dramatic way.
Selected museum collections:
Brauer Museum of Art Valpariso University
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, MO
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, IN
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Rahr-West Museum, Wisconsin
Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe
Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington
University of Minnesota Museum of Art
University of Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City
South Dakota Museum of Fine Arts, SD
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
State University at Albany Museum of Art, New York
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona
The Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Princeton University Collection, Princeton, New Jersey
Selected public collections:
AT&T, New York, NY
The Bank of New York, New York, NY
Canadian Petroleum Collection, Calgary, Canada
Cargill Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN
IBM, Stuttgart, Germany
New Mexico Governors office, NM
United Airlines, Chicago, IL
Yellowstone National Park Headquarters, Yellowstone, WY


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MOTIVE Art - Modernity and Conflict
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For Muslim women, modernity often leads to conflict. Laws that protect today can oppress tomorrow, which makes assessment and the need for reform necessary.  In Kuala Lumpur a forum has been organized to speak of some of the problems facing Muslim women today.  At the Musawah Global Meeting on Equality and Justice for the Muslim Family here, Rashida Manjoo, an activist, lawyer and professor at Webster University, said laws that are rooted in a certain period in time must be scrutinised to assess if they remain relevent and applicable. "The use of law as protectionism today can end up as oppression tomorrow, so we need to really think of the legacy that we leave behind," said Rashida, who was speaking at the meeting's last plenary session entitled Equality without Exception. "Law is not a panacea for social ills. There is a need for a holistic multiplicity of approaches, including the possibility of internal reform."  Fellow speaker Mahnaz Afkhami, founder and president of the Women's Learning Partnership, added that political and social strategising often deprives women of exercising their right to choose.  "It is not Islam that limits, it is the path that the history of patriarchy has taken that discriminates," said Mahnaz Afkhami, who is also author of Faith and Freedom: Women's Rights in a Muslim World. "There is much disparity between rights in theory and in practice, and we must gear our approach to the current political and cultural situation."  Modernity also does not do much to erase inequalities between men and women, as discrimination against women in developed countries is no different in developing countries.  "Women in developed countries have assumed stereotypical roles with restrictions on their rights, in career advancement and in participation in the public life," said Shanthi Dairiam, founder of International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific.  "Women are tied to a life of dependency in private, and the domination of men in the public sphere is the norm," said Dairiam, who was elected to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) from 2005 to 2008.  In terms of multiculturalism, Canadian Council of Muslim Women executive director Alia Hogben believes that equality should be embedded in religious freedom, and that "living under Muslim law is not the sixth pillar of Islam".  "Does multiculturalism or pluralism encourage each community to retain all their practices, even up to the point that it is incongruous with the rights of other communities?" said Hogben.  Hogben was referring to discriminatory practices that still exist within Muslim countries of different levels of modernity and progress, and which includes racist, classist behaviour.  In addition, conflict can also arise when terms and definitions do not tally, as the word "equality" can mean different things in different cultures. http://www.musawah.org/ Musawah, the global movement empowering Muslim women, was launched with three landmark publications advocating equality and justice in the Muslim family.  The three books - Wanted, Home Truths, and Musawah Framework for Action - bring together theoretical and analytical studies, real-life stories and an action plan that tackles Islamic teachings, constitutional and human rights principles, and the lived realities of women and men.  The books were launched by Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, adviser to the Prime Minister on Muslim Women and Social Development at the Feast of Equals gala dinner to mark the opening of the global meeting to launch Musawah.  "I believe that all resolutions will follow the Quran and Sunnah...and will be given due attention," said Shahrizat of the five-day global meeting. The gathering of over 300 activists and scholars from 49 countries will discuss the necessary reforms to laws that bind, shape and affect the lives of Muslim families.  Wanted: Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family compiles seven theoretical and analytical papers from esteemed Muslim scholars, including Pakistan's head of the Council of Islamic Ideology Muhammad Khalid Masud.  "We wanted arguments within Islam that justify change, equality and justice," said Musawah project director and Wanted editor Zainah Anwar, adding, "we believe that in the 21st century there cannot be justice without equality. We believe that Islam upholds the principles of equality and justice."  Zainah said that they invited scholars to submit papers "to argue why change is possible within Islam, specifically fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and why change is necessary given the realities of our lives in the 21st century."  Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family is a compilation of reports on real-life situations from 31 countries listing the daily challenges faced by women and men while fighting for justice and equality in the family.  Musawah Framework for Action is a document that outlines why equality is possible and why it is necessary in Islam. The framework is based on the development of ideas and principles of experts, activists and scholars from over 20 countries in the field. The Framework took over one year to develop and is available in five languages. "Musawah is designed to bring together scholars and activists who wish to work within a holistic framework to ensure that Muslim women are treated as human beings of equal worth and dignity in the law, in the family and the community," said Zainah. Also present at the groundbreaking event were Prof Yakin Erturk, the United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, the Palestinian Ambassador to Malaysia Abdul Aziz Abu Goush, as well as the participants of the global meeting.  http://www.motive-art.org/news-events/news-stories/Modernity-And-Conflict

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Op-Ed: First selectman expresses gratitude for storm forces
Opinion // Opinion Columns
New Canaan Advertiser
By Kevin Moynihan
First Selectman
The editor of the Advertiser was very kind to publicly thank Town workers and volunteers for their outstanding response to the back-to-back extreme winter storms on March 2 and March 7 (Advertiser, March 15, "Thank you" editorial).
As first selectman, I had the opportunity to witness first-hand how our town's professional staff and community volunteers perform in an emergency, and I want to express my personal gratitude for their dedication and service to our community.
We are very fortunate to have the leadership of long-time resident Mike Handler as our volunteer director of the Office of Emergency Management while he also serves as full-time Director of Administration for the City of Stamford and is also running for governor.
During both storms, Mike was ably assisted in the Emergency Operations Center by OEM deputy director and Fire Department Chief Jack Hennessey, Fire Marshal Fred Baker and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) leaders Stuart Sawabini, Steve Orteig, Lauren Cerretani and Peter Bergen and many CERT volunteers.
The Police Department under the leadership of Police Chief Leon Krolikowski did an outstanding job of identifying and marking hazardous downed electric wires and blocked roads which was essential to maintaining safety in the early hours of the storms. And, of course, our Fire Department and our volunteers at the New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps stood ready to assist in emergencies which fortunately were few during the storms.
The Public Works Department under the leadership of Director Tiger Mann, Highway Department Superintendent Mose Saccary and Parks Superintendent John Howe performed a masterful job of clearing blocked roads and plowing snow from roads, sidewalks and parking lots for both the town and schools.
I would like to acknowledge and thank Library Director Lisa Oldham and YMCA Director Craig Panzano for opening the Library and the YMCA, and the churches for opening their facilities, for warming and charging and showers.
I also want to thank Eversource for providing the resources under very difficult circumstances for making safe and restoring power in a very short period of time given the demands on their system statewide.
Finally, I want to thank our residents for their patience and understanding in dealing with very extreme circumstances with grace. It's times like these that Newcanaanites can be proud and appreciate what a special and caring community we have.


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Labs & Branches
Laboratory of Chemical Physics
Acting Chief: Robert Tycko, Ph.D.
Lab Menu
Lab Sections
Current research in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics is primarily concerned with experimental, theoretical, and computational problems in the structure, dynamics, and function of biological macromolecules and their relation to human diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and sickle cell diseases.
Scientists in the lab study diverse topics in chemical and biological physics. These include:
fundamental aspects of the mechanism of protein folding;
new techniques and approaches for determining the structure and dynamics of bioactive molecules;
the structure and dynamics of proteins, protein-protein complexes, and protein-nucleic acid complexes using multidimensional NMR spectroscopy;
solid-state NMR methods for structural studies of amyloid fibrils
the gap between theory and experiment; and
the relationships between protein structure, dynamics, and function using ultrafast time-resolved laser spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.
Experimental techniques include solution and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), time-resolved X-ray crystallography and optical spectroscopy, rapid kinetics methods, and single molecule spectroscopy. The development of fundamental aspects of experimental and theoretical techniques is an active area in the laboratory.
Five of the seven tenured PI's in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics have now been elected members of prestigious academic societies: Adriaan Bax, Marius Clore, William Eaton, Attila Szabo and, most recently, Robert Tycko to the US National Academy of Sciences, Marius Clore to the British Royal Society (founded in 1663) and William Eaton to the Accademia dei Lincei (the Academy of the Lynx, founded in 1603, the Italian equivalent of the American Philosophical Society). In addition, LCP scientists have received numerous highly prestigious awards, including the 2018 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry to Adriaan Bax and the 2020 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for investigators under the age of 45 to recently tenured Robert Best.


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Candidate for Ohio governor, Ed FitzGerald,…
Candidate for Ohio governor, Ed FitzGerald, discusses issues at AFL-CIO event
Cuyahoga County Executive and Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Ed FitzGerald.
By Adriana Adkins |
Cuyahoga County Executive and Democratic gubernatorial Ed FitzGerald made a brief stop in Lorain Oct. 19 to speak at the Lorain County AFL-CIO's Spaghetti Lunch.
The purpose of FitzGerald's visit to Lorain was to meet with residents and local union members to discuss the creation of jobs, educational opportunities and economic development for Lorain County and Ohio.
The event was held at St. Frances Cabrini Parish Hall located at 2143 Homewood Drive.
Running against Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, FitzGerald said Ohio needs a shift in leadership from an administration that protects the interests of the wealthy to one that looks out for the well-being of the working middle class.
'I believe Gov. Kasich makes his greatest mistake when he talks about how great the economy is,' FitzGerald said. 'For 23 months, we've been below the national average and JobsOhio has been underperforming. There needs to be a change.'
Already working to establish an economic development fund, FitzGerald said that if he were elected as governor, he would make efforts to focus on small businesses, provide educational opportunities, and strengthen the local economy by focusing on small businesses.
FitzGerald was questioned about recent political backlash claiming that he lacked a permanent driver's license for over a decade.
'If you run for governor, you're going to get attacked for something,' said FitzGerald. 'I'm not focusing on that though. I'm focusing on the issues that people want to hear – jobs and education.'
Harry Williamson, president of the Lorain County Organized Labor Union, said he was more than happy to invite FitzGerald to speak at the event, calling him an excellent candidate standing up for the rights of the working middle class.
'I think by far, Ed FitzGerald is the best candidate in Ohio right now,' Williamson said. 'He has a wonderful vision that supports working men and women of the middle class. That's the type of person we need in office.'
Agreeing with Williamson, Jim Sloan, co-president of the Lorain County Organized Labor Union, said he fears that if Kasich wins the election, he would seek to bring the Right to Work law to Ohio.
'We've done the research and have learned that in Right to Work states, injuries are up and wages are down,' Sloan said. 'We've already seen what Kasich tried to do with the public sector with Issue 2. We think there's a good chance that he may try to bring the Right to Work law to Ohio and if he does, that would affect every middle class Ohioan. That's why I'm voting for FitzGerald.'
Members and supporters of the Ohio AFL-CIO and We Are Ohio previously hosted an event at Black River Landing June 17 to protest the Right to Work law.
Adriana Adkins


This week on Relay Station: Nehkara and Shiver are joined by special guest Zhane from The Base. Special thanks go out to Nitro Typat for helping produce the show this week.
The cast talk about the recent news in development and discuss some of the implications of later tech as well as take regular questions from the audience.


Kids who don't struggle with self-control or social skills might stop to think about how their anger affects other people. They might use that insight to keep their anger in …... Anger is unavoidable. However, there are ways to avoid and solve anger issues. I mean really, what can you resolve by being angry? Alright, in today's world, you can't help but get angry at many things especially people.
Many anger management programs build problem-solving goals into the curriculum to teach people how to problem solve instead of becoming angry. The main point here is that getting angry does not solve anything. Rather, problem-solving helps rectify whatever the issue is. Anger management participants are presented with problem-solving activities to learn how to handle problems in a way …... If you think you might have a problem with anger and would like to try and get it under control, some of the strategies below should help. For some people, these strategies might be all that's needed. For others, they can be a useful addition to getting professional help.
If you think you might have a problem with anger and would like to try and get it under control, some of the strategies below should help. For some people, these strategies might be all that's needed. For others, they can be a useful addition to getting professional help.


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Primer amor, a mil por hora (English: First Love, A Thousand per Hour) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa in 2000. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled Quinceañera. This teen-oriented soap was one of the highest-rated in its time slot.

On Monday, October 9, 2000, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Primer amor, a mil por hora weekdays at 7:00pm, replacing Locura de amor. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, February 23, 2001 with Amigas y rivales replacing it the following Monday.

Anahí, Kuno Becker, Ana Layevska and Valentino Lanús starred as protagonists, while Mauricio Islas, Arleth Terán, Fabián Robles, and Leticia Perdigón starred as antagonists.

Cast

Anahí as Giovanna Luna Guerra
Kuno Becker as León Baldomero
Ana Layevska as Marina Iturriaga Camargo
Valentino Lanús as Imanol Jáuregui Tasso
Mauricio Islas as Demian Ventura
Arleth Terán as Priscila Luna Guerra
Alexa Damián as Emilia Baldomero
Fabián Robles as Santiago García "La Iguana"
Leticia Perdigón as Catalina Guerra de Luna
José Elías Moreno as Esteban Luna
Sebastián Ligarde as Antonio Iturriaga
Mariagna Prats as Pilar Camargo de Iturriaga
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez as Conrado Baldomero
Arturo García Tenorio as Indalesio Cano
José María Torre as Bruno Baldomero
Aitor Iturrioz as Boris
Daniela Luján as Sabrina Luna Guerra
Socorro Bonilla as Milagros García
Beatriz Moreno as Benita Morales
Blanca Sánchez as Andrea Camargo
Héctor Gómez as Fernán Camargo
Pilar Pellicer as La Chonta
Alfredo Ahnert as Luis Fernando "Fher"
Damián Mendiola as Vinnie Montijo
Mauricio Aspe as Rodolfo "Rudy"
Rafael Bazán as El Morrito Cano
Enrique Borja Baena as Ricardo "Richard"
Gabriela Cano as Melissa Molina
Roxana Castellanos as Ana Lozano
Ehécatl Chávez as Tirilo
Marcelo Buquet as Sebastián Olivares
Liuba de Lasse as Lourdes "Lulú" Durán
Jackeline del Vecchio as Aura
Kika Edgar as Olivia
Sebastián Rulli as Mauricio
Alan Gutiérrez as Enrique #1
Renato Bartilotti as Enrique #2
Karen Juantorena as Itzel
Adriana Laffan as Dorita
Felipe Nájera as Valente Montijo
Carla Ortiz as Gina
Flavio Peniche as Poncho
Juan José Peña as Comandante Merino
Axel Ricco as Huicho
Eduardo Rivera as Artemio
Karime Saab as Ana's Assistant
Damián Sarka as Diego Ulloa
Pedro Sicard as Claudio
Laisha Wilkins as Tamara
Sergio Sánchez as Ivan
Patricia Martínez as Bernarda
Julio Sánchez as Mariano
Susan Vohn as Bárbara Smith
Alec Von Bargen as Adrián
Arturo Vázquez as Cienfuegos
Dulce María as Brittany
Khotan as José Crescencio Martínez
Lourdes Canale as Susana
Luis Carillo as Dimitri
Arturo Barba as Beto
Alizair Gómez as Julio
Lucero Lander as Inés
Anabel Gutiérrez as Ella
Julio Camejo
Mauricio Barcelata

Soundtrack
 2000: Primer amor... a mil por hora Album.
"Primer amor" by Anahí
"A mil por hora" by Lynda Thomas
"Juntos" by Anahí & Kuno Becker

Awards

References

External links
 Official site on Televisa

2000 telenovelas
Mexican telenovelas
2000 Mexican television series debuts
2001 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Mexico
Televisa telenovelas

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The Who – L.A. Forum 1973 2nd Night Mike Millard Master Tapes (Wardour-493)
By relayer67on December 28, 2021
L.A. Forum 1973 2nd Night Mike Millard Master Tapes (Wardour-493)
The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA – November 23, 1973
Disc 1 (65:26) Pre-Show, Intro, I Can't Explain, Summertime Blues, My Wife, My Generation, I Am The Sea, The Real Me, The Punk And The Godfather, I'm One, Helpless Dancer, 5:15, Sea And Sand, Drowned
Disc 2 (73:02) MC, Bell Boy, Doctor Jimmy, Love Reign O'er Me, Won't Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel Me, My Generation, Let's See Action, Magic Bus, Naked Eye
For the past year and a half I have been actively following the weekly installments of "The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes" presented by the JEMS collective. As most know by now, they are actively releasing recordings made by Mike Millard from known lineage tapes, some coming directly from the master tapes. This series has been going on for some time, but has really picked up steam with the discovery of a stash of Mike's actual master tapes but in all reality, the series has been releasing music to the masses from some seven years ago. There was anticipation as to what recording would be the "centennial" release, for the history of this recording and background information I am again referring to the liner notes of this historical installment, and recording.
"To celebrate this milestone, we have selected Mike's very first recording as our 100th release: The Who playing the second of two shows at The Forum on the Quadrophenia tour.
Jim thinks Mike may have attempted or tested concert recording even earlier, but this Who show is tape number one on his list and likely his first successful attempt at recording a complete concert. As you'll see in Jim's notes, Mike was pretty hard on his early work, and like the Moody Blues last week, The Who '73 may not be the sonic marvel so many of his later recordings are (have you heard Edgar Winter Vol. 94 yet? Damn.), but is a gem in its own right. Judged by the standard of most 1973 audience tapes, especially of The Who and their deafening PA, Millard's capture is highly listenable, albeit with a few caveats.
Mike talks frequently throughout the recording, not yet learning as all tapers do the importance of staying quiet when you are the closest person to the microphone. He recorded the first 80 mins of the show on a TDK D-180 cassette (as I did myself the first time I tried to tape a show), the rest on a D-90. D-180 tape is as thin as it gets and after 48 years, it took some effort to get the tape to play through properly and even then there were considerable pitch issues. Professor Goody spent considerable time addressing those and getting the pitch of the recording to an acceptable place. He has been a stalwart partner in the Lost and Found series and this one really needed his expertise.
Mike's masters also had a lot of dropouts, starting at the end of the first tape and occurring more frequently across the second tape. Many are short, less than a second, but there were some much longer gaps of several seconds. Upon close examination, we recognized that the dropouts were not silent; the audio was still there, only -25-35db lower than the surrounding material. Rather than leave these in as cuts or silence them, we have attempted to restore the missing parts by amplifying the low signal.
That sounds simple, but doing so creates a massive increase in noise and hiss which then require more fixes and corrections. You will notice every one of the dropouts, but you will also hear the music that was previously lost through the fuzz. That compromise to preserve as much music as possible, even if it sounds crappy, felt like the right one for this recording. In its best moments, which include nearly all of the first 80 minutes and long stretches of the final 70 minutes when it isn't dropping out, Mike's recording is good. There is mild distortion which was unavoidable given the gear he was using and the volume of the concert, but the music comes through. The fidelity of the tape is on the narrow side, but Entwhistle's bass is there as is Keith Moon's ever-ringing cymbal once you tune your "bootleg ears" to the sound. Samples provided.
And what a show it is. The Quadrophenia tour setlist is outstanding, featuring what is ostensibly a full performance of the album (free of any backing-tape playback issues this night as sometimes occurred in 1973), plus slices from Tommy, Who's Next (though curiously not "Baba O'Riley"), a long, jammy "Magic Bus," the rareish "Let's See Action" and "Naked Eye," and two romps through "My Generation." Online setlists for this show have "Baby Don't You Do It" as the final song of the set, but it seems pretty clear from Mike's recording that the show ends with "Naked Eye," as his tape keeps rolling for a few minutes and we clearly hear lights-on, go-home music playing.
Just before he shuts down the deck, the recording captures this exchange between Mike and a nearby fan:
Fan: "Did you get it all on tape?"
Mike: "Want my number?"
Fan: "What?"
Mike: "My number is 528-8308, 528-8308, 528-8308"
That's the same phone number Jim's mother wrote down in a phone message when Mike called after meeting Jim at a Yes show four months later. We hear one more comment from Mike before the recording runs out:
"I think we're done now. I'm turning off the power. Don't tell anybody."
Here's what Jim R recalled about The Who at The Forum, November 1973:
Volume 100. We finally made it. A special show has been set aside for this week: The Who at The Forum, Friday, Nov 23, 1973, Mike's first recording. Mike often referred to this tape as "The Dark Ages," but there is no getting around its historic significance. It was the start of an era and, to borrow a baseball analogy, victory number one for a future 300 win pitcher.
Allow me to set the scene.
On the Quadrophenia Tour, The Who played The Forum on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, November 22, and Friday, November 23. Mike and I separately attended the same show on Friday, the day after Turkey Day. Living at home, my mom would not approve of us going to a concert on Thanksgiving, a family event. So the Friday show was my only choice. We did not know each other yet. That would come at a Yes show in early 1974. I have come to learn Mike attended the first night, which was meant to be his debut recording, but he had technical issues with his recorder. It was at that show that he met Barry G, who would become another member of Mike's inner circle for a time. Millard also shot photos that first night, two of which are featured on the included artwork.
The Who's label mates Lynyrd Skynyrd opened the concerts. Their debut album featuring "Freebird" had come out a few months earlier so that was an added bonus in hindsight. At the time I did wonder: Who are these guys and what's with four guitarists? The Quadrophenia Tour was extremely popular and there was super high ticket demand. With only two SoCal dates, The Who surely could have sold out additional Forum concerts. But at the time, two nights in an arena was the de facto maximum for major acts like Jethro Tull, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Over the next couple of years, that would expand to multi-night stands, with the Stones, Zeppelin, Tull and Pink Floyd all playing longer runs in LA in 1975. That same year, Elton John took it to the next level by moving up from arenas to playing Dodger Stadium.
Even at the time, I knew we were witnessing a special show and it was privilege to be there. The Who had reached superstar status. The previous tour behind Who's Next was their breakout. I remember talking to someone who attended the Long Beach December 1971 show and how blown away he was. It took almost two years for them to return, a long time in that era of concert touring. Pete Townshend had already built a reputation as someone who smashed up guitars and amps, and on this night he didn't disappoint. Of course Keith Moon was not far behind in obliterating his drum set. Then you have Roger Daltery swinging his microphone around with maybe 20-feet of cable. The Who performed with an edge. High energy. Explosive. Dynamic. With great songs to boot.
As far as the recording, you'll notice Mike is talking quite a bit, having not quite figured out proper tapers decorum. Because you can hear so much of his voice, Mike referred to his first recording as "amateur hour." In fact, it is the only tape on his list rated "Bad," which presumably places it lower than "Poor," a rating given to a handful of other tapes. But we have already established that Mike was his own worst critic. The Who show is quite listenable, and hearing Millard on his own recording 48 years later now feels like an historic artifact. "Mike The Mike" Show No. 1. History in the making. It was my honor to pen this. Cheers to my buddy Michael G. Millard."
So there you have it, the history of one of Mike's earliest recordings. As described in the notes Mike begins recording well before the show and you can hear a conversation, assuming that's Mr. Millard. A quick pause and we are treated to the stage introduction and the band reading themselves. Even from the beginning of I Can't Explain you realize this recording falls easily into the good category and is very listenable and enjoyable. The vocals, guitar and bass are clear in the mix with Moon's drums low in the mix, the drums become more audible as the recording goes on. It sounds like Mike was a bit farther back from his "sweet spot" so often described in "The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes" which means the sound is better balanced and you get a bit more audience, the audience are primed and ready for The Who, there reaction between songs is loud and gives a great idea of the energy being generated by the performance. Summertime Blues follows and raises the energy level, the band are happy to be back in Los Angeles.
The oldies section continues with a bass centric My Wife, Entwistle's bass is nice and clear, his unique tone fights for lead instrument against Townshend's Les Paul and we are the clear winners. The song is a bit loose and they jam just a bit, My Generation also features a bit of improvised jamming, the band are starting loose to get warmed up before they get in the click track and backing tapes that are used to keep them in time during the Quadrophenia section. The crowd cheer as the pre-recorded tapes are played signaling the new music, the band launch into a furious version of The Real Me, Moon has completely removed the cobwebs of the Cow Palace show a few days prior, The Punk And The Godfather follows on its heels and is as energetic making for an extremely strong beginning to Quadrophenia.
Pete gives an introduction to I'm One, if Quadrophenia had one drawback, American audiences didn't seem to fully understand the English story line, hence the introductions, simply spoken tell the story of youth angst. The backing tapes can be clearly heard during Helpless Dancer and the band sound in sync with them quite well. Keith does some superb drumming during 5:15, the band sound rather subdued during the performance, Moon interjects some power to the song, the latter tempo change is in contrast to the power of the first part. The introduction to Sea And Sand finds the audience a bit impatient during the quiet parts, a bit chatty but the band play a great version of the song, the power of Entwistle's playing comes through.
Roger's doing an introduction to Drowned, Mike can be heard saying "what'd he say" in a moment of pure hilarity. I am sure when he listened back to this recording he understood the importance of keeping quiet. The audience give Moon a huge ovation when he is introduced as part of the introduction to Bell Boy. He sounds great vocally and he gives the concert back a bit of energy, something that has been diminished with the Quadrophenia section. Much of Love Reign O'er Me is lost, only the last 1:50 remain certainly due to a tape flip. The songs conclusion brings an end to the Quadrophenia section and was certainly one of the highlights of the set. Keith's introduction to Won't Get Fooled Again brings the house down, the audience is back and ready to go. The song has some dropout issues which are easy to hear, I am in total agreement with leaving them in, while not sonically pleasant, to remove them would have left awkward cuts, you hear them at 3:15 to 3:21.
It's obvious the audience loves the hits, Pinball Wizard keep the energy flowing, the high drama of See Me, Feel Me brings the house down, the crowd claps and sings along, they bring this energy to My Generation, free of the click tracks and backing tapes, the band improvise at will, the result is a dynamic and bombastic version of Rhythm and Blues. Let's See Action is a curiosity to these North American audiences, the song was released as a single between Won't Get fooled Again and Baba O'Riley and was not released in the US. A quick one that is almost a teaser for the well received Magic Bus. The wooden stick percussion instrument comes clear in the mix, the throbbing bass acts as time keeper and Pete just riffs along, Roger adds some nice harmonica and vocal improvisation comes from the band. There are several drop outs in the second half of the song, they are well handled, the mastering giving the listener the best chance from a sound and listening perspective. The concert ends with a 9 minute version of Naked Eye, the 19,000 strong gives the band a massive ovation, and as eluded to in the notes, Mike lets his recording machine run for a couple of minutes after the show, you can hear music being played over the P.A system as the crowd still applaud.
The packaging features inserts covered with photos of the previous nights performance, The Who played two nights at the forum, Millard successfully recorded the second night. Sadly, Wardour did not try to use any photos included with the original torrent, it should be noted that these photos were part of artwork and not by themselves. Still the rear cover featured an actual photo taken by Mike, would have been a great inclusion. Nonetheless, the artwork is very nice and is, of course, housed in a slim lined jewel case. This release is a historical document for Millard enthusiasts as well as a great performance by The Who.
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Two teens charged with armed robbery in Yazoo City
by: Biancca Ball
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WJTV) – Two teenagers who are accused of robbing a Yazoo City gas station at gunpoint were arrested and charged with armed robbery.
The Yazoo Herald reported the robbery happened on Sunday, December 18 around 9:20 p.m. at the Citgo gas station on Highway 3.
One killed in officer-involved shooting at Richland Walmart
According to the newspaper, a 16-year-old and 17-year-old were charged with armed robbery. The 17-year-old also faces a grand larceny charge for allegedly stealing a vehicle that was involved in a shooting earlier that day.
The 16-year-old reportedly lives in a home directly behind the store. The 17-year-old turned himself in to law enforcement.
Officers said the two teens entered the store wearing masks and carrying firearms. They're accused of taking about $3,600 to $3,800. No injuries were reported at the scene.


MBSE HSLC/HSSLC Routine 2019: Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) has released the HSLC, HSSLC Exam 2019 Routine for the forthcoming board examinations. While class 10 examination will begin on 28th February, higher secondary school leaving certificate exam (class 12) will begin on 5th March, 2019.
Mizoram Board of Secondary Education is going to conduct the HSLC/HSSLC Examinations in February/March months. Students presently gaining education from Mizoram Board can download Mizoram HSLC Routine and Mizoram HSSLC Routine 2019 in December/January months at indiaresults.com or MBSE Official website. Students can get ready to check the Mizoram board time tables 2019 for class 10th and class 12th. Follow the MBSE Official website, mbse.nic.in for regular updates regarding the examination dates, timings, latest notifications and other information. Check the following article for more details.
The Mizoram Board of Secondary Education (MBSE) is the state level education board that offers the secondary and higher secondary education for students. Annually a huge number of 10th and 12th classes students will take place in the examinations. The Higher Secondary Leaving Certificate (HSLC) and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) examinations will be conducted for the understudies in March/April Months annually and the results of Mizoram HSLC /HSSLC will be announced in the month of May. The board is also having the successful pass percentage for class 10th and 12th. Students getting education under MBSE can check the MBSE Official website, mbse.edu.in on regular basis to check the information regarding the examination dates.
Last Year the Mizoram Board has conducted the HSLC examinations from 28th February to 15th March and HSSLC Examinations from 5th March to 29th March. The MBSE HSLC Date sheet was released in December month and MBSE HSSLC Date sheet was also released with a few days difference. As per the last year schedule, the MBSE HSLC and HSSLC Time Table 2019 is likely to release approximately same this year also. Hence students can check the MBSE Official website regularly for latest updates. Candidates can also follow the Mizoram local news papers and TV Channels to know the information regarding the examination dates.
It is hereby notified for the information of all concerned that the High School Leaving Certificate Examination, 2019 under the Mizoram Board of School Education shall be held as per the programme given below: Class 10 examination will begin on 28th February, 2019.
Unexpected holiday(s) declared by any authority other than the Chairman, Mizoram Board of School Education, after publication of the Examination programme, will not prevent conduct of the examination(s) scheduled for the day(s) concerned.
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Le HMS Sjöbjörnen était le troisième navire de la classe Sjöormen de sous-marins suédois, nom du projet A11.

Développement
La planification de la classe comprenait un certain nombre de solutions AIP différentes, y compris la propulsion nucléaire, mais les navires ont finalement été achevés avec des batteries extrêmement grandes pour l'époque. Le navire était un sous-marin à simple coque, avec une forme de coque influencée par le sous-marin expérimental américain . La coque était recouverte de tuiles de caoutchouc pour réduire la signature acoustique (tuiles anéchoïques), ce qui était à cette époque une technologie pionnière. La classe Sjöormen a également été pionnière dans l'utilisation d'un gouvernail en forme de croix de saint André (par opposition à un gouvernail en forme de croix grecque) comme caractéristique standard (par opposition à un sous-marin expérimental).

Service en Suède
Le Parlement suédois a décidé de l'acquisition du navire en 1961. Le navire a été commandé au chantier naval de Karlskronavarvet et sa quille a été posée en 1966. Le navire a été lancé le  et a rejoint la flotte suédoise le .

Le , le Sjöbjörnen était sur le point de s'échouer avec sept députés à bord.

Le sous-marin a servi dans la Marine royale suédoise pendant près de 30 ans et a ensuite été vendu à Singapour en 1997 avec ses quatre sister-ships.

Service à Singapour
Le navire a été vendu en 1997 à Kockums, qui l'a revendu à Singapour. Après des modifications apportées au navire pour sa tropicalisation, Singapour a racheté le bateau le 28 mai 1999 et le HMS Sjöbjörnen a été rebaptisé RSS Challenger. Il a été remis en service le 26 juin 2004 après un important carénage. Après 11 ans dans la marine de Singapour, il a été mis hors service le 11 mars 2015 et mis au rebut.

Galerie

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Bibliographie
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Liens externes
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Voir aussi

Liens internes
 Liste des sous-marins de la Suède

Sous-marin de la Marine royale suédoise
Sous-marin d'attaque conventionnel
Bateau lancé en 1968
Nom de bateau
Navire construit en Suède


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Q: Admob wont display with webview I cant get my admob ads to display.. I think the problem is with the setContentView(web), but I cant figure out how to fix it.  I think its because i switch to a different layout? I tried searching but couldnt find a solution
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A: Encapsulate your WebView in a another ViewGroup and put AdView in it. then you can change contentView with your AdView. Actually, when you set your activity's contentView in to a web view or to  another single View  it will show only the view. therefore, you better set your content view to a ViewGroup like LinearLayout and put your views in it.
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Last year, 819 new companies appeared in Madeira, of which 32 percent were born within the tourism sector. Numbers pointed out recently by the vice-president of the Regional Government, at the opening of the conference 'Trends and Innovation in Tourism', in the auditorium of the Casa da Luz Museum.
Pedro Calado recalled that the 250 thousand inhabitants and also the space will not allow the construction of many more hotel investments, but said that it is necessary to maintain the quality. "There are still new investors interested in investing in Madeira," he said.
The governor took the opportunity to recall 2017 numbers: Madeira recorded 1.4 million tourists and 7.5 million overnight stays. In that year, the hotel industry raised more than 400 million euros.
The conference is organized by Startup Madeira and Turismo de Portugal.


Angolan mobile phone's company, 7Mobile, which is part of the TGI GROUP, has recently launched a new smartphone, "Swegue2" with a projection to start getting its footprint into other African markets, a release by the company has stated.
The Swegue2 is a 4G phone smartphones and an upgraded version of its predecessor, providing a robust, reliable and faster device, operated by a genuine Android operating system certified by Google.
The 7mobile is currently definitely, one of the fastest growing brands in sales and distribution of mobile phones, accessories and services within the country.
Together with Movicel and Unitel, the main operators in the country, 7Mobile says its mission is to connect Angolans with the right balance of highest quality and affordability for smarthphones, accessories and services.
The "7mobile is committed to creating an outstanding consumer experience through a strong focus on innovation, simplicity and service delivery in a sector that is constantly changing," the company added.
Completely different from the first version, "Swegue2" brings a slightly different design approach than its predecessor, also offering enhanced security system and better camera quality, designed to meet the needs of the market, as well as the feedback from the final consumer.
The phone features an Android 8.1 operating system with face recognition, voice recognition and fingerprint technology.
It is compatible with 2G, 3G and 4G, with a Quad Core, 1.3GHz processor, a 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM with expansion capacity, a 6.18" FWVGA + IPS screen, boosting a 8.0MP (Front camera) a 16.0MP + 2MP (dual rear camera), powered with a 3300mAh Battery and continuing with a company tradition of manufacturing only dual SIM mobile phones.


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Depending on chance and serendipity, great Australian artist-scavengers have found their way to a variety of dumps, in a bid to gather material for their art. Amongst them is Colin Lanceley, an early street scavenger, who had relished the seductive nuances of his materials, for their textured, coloured shaped beauty and their evocative power.
Somewhere between October 1963 and June 1964, when out on the prowl for parts, Lanceley made an extremely propitious discovery. It was an enormous cache of wooden pattern parts of machinery in a disused Balmain store belonging to Morts Dock Pty Ltd. According to Robert Hughes "one morning while scavenging for junk in the abandoned drawing offices of the old engineering firm, Lanceley blundered onto…the basement ….crammed to its collapsing ceiling with thousands of obsolete dusty spider-webbed wooden patterns once made for sand-casting maritime machine parts."
What may have been fragments for cast machinery looked like a lexicon of all organic and mechanical forms in the world. Together with fellow sculptor Robert Klippel, Lanceley raided this treasure trove of industrial detritus, and they carried off in truckloads the pieces that each would use in very different sculptures.
With his haul, Lanceley assembled a group of works quite unlike any he had done before, including the utterly original 'Atlas' (1965). The work embodies a distinct joie de vivre that is wonderfully invoked by its interconnecting tumbling and rotating parts, its bold saturated colours, and the playful provocation of its protruding formations. It is the most human-like of Lanceley's sculptures, a spirited junk figure that seems to stare back, exposing the whimsical machine-organics of its construction. Void of any suggestion of great weight, the figure appears at odd with the gravitas of Atlas's fate of holding up the heavens for eternity. There is instead a great sense of lightness to the work with Lanceley activating empty space into to the rotational movements of the figure's workings. These disparate parts which create a cohesive, functional whole alludes perhaps, to the greater ticking over of the cosmos from the trivial parts of its every day.


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Recognising that "fighting the last war" won't adequately prepare the financial industry for the next financial crisis, DTCC recently released a white paper, The Next Crisis Will Be Different – Opportunities to Continue Enhancing Financial Stability.
In the paper, DTCC reviews how the nature of risk has morphed dramatically since 2008 and discusses the implications of this evolution on the risk management function.
In addition to highlighting some of the key risks facing the industry today, the paper identifies trends that could have systemic ramifications and outlines a series of forward-looking opportunities to help enhance financial stability in anticipation of future market shocks.
Michael Leibrock, Managing Director, Credit and Systemic Risk, DTCC (ML) and Adrien Vanderlinden, Executive Director, Systemic Risk Office, DTCC (AVL) sat down to discuss some of the key findings from the paper.
In the decade following the financial crisis, the financial industry has made substantial progress in strengthening global market stability and enhancing resilience. What are some of the key changes the industry and regulators have pursued in response to the crisis?
ML: The 10th anniversary of the Lehman insolvency marks a fitting milestone to reflect on the dramatic changes that have transformed global financial markets and risk management over the last decade. Supervisors around the world have dramatically increased legislative and regulatory requirements designed to create a more robust financial ecosystem. In the United States, for example, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, fully known as Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, introduced a comprehensive set of new regulations specifically designed to mitigate systemic risk and help prevent another Great Recession from occurring by tightly regulating key financial institutions.
Financial firms have deleveraged significantly and banks have strengthened their capital structure. Banks' liquidity buffers have also been enhanced considerably, largely thanks to the introduction of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR).
In addition, the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) have been a key driver of significant enhancements by CCPs and other market utilities around the globe in areas as varied as cybersecurity, recovery and resolution, stress testing, loss allocation models, capital structure and governance.
Lastly, central bankers have skilfully applied monetary policy tools to mitigate the impact of the crisis while keeping inflation in check.
The financial ecosystem – and the world at large – has changed considerably over the last 10 years, giving rise to new and ever-changing threats. What new systemic risk challenges have emerged since the crisis and how can the industry mitigate those risks?
AVL: In the wake of the crisis, new systemic risk challenges have emerged with respect to the macroeconomic environment, market-related risks and concerns related to technology.
With respect to technology-related risks, we believe that cybersecurity concerns, capabilities and plans should continue to be prioritised, emphasising resilience and recovery as much as prevention, incorporating tabletop exercises and promoting public-private partnerships. We also feel that, while fintech developments do not pose a systemic threat at present, they should be carefully monitored and thoughtfully supervised to balance the associated risks and rewards.
In addressing macroeconomic concerns, we promote a holistic approach to managing risk which includes cross-disciplinary experts to tackle an ever-widening array of interconnected risks.
The fact of the matter is that the next crisis might be fundamentally different than anything we can envision right now, and could be triggered by new types of risks that don't even exist yet.
What is DTCC's role in supporting these initiatives?
ML: While the tools to implement these opportunities are not all under DTCC's control, we are developing several initiatives that are designed to promote, or support, some of their underlying objectives.
For instance, we see additional opportunities to optimise and accelerate the U.S. equity settlement cycle beyond T+2 to further reduce the exposure associated with unsettled trades.
The sharpened focus on cyber-resiliency is evident across the industry. Cybersecurity is consistently ranked as the number one risk facing the global financial system in our Systemic Risk Barometer, and industry players are actively collaborating to develop cybersecurity standards and best practices to improve firms' defences while fostering innovation. An example of this is the establishment of a new World Economic Forum consortium led by DTCC, Citigroup and Zurich Intelligence that will look closely at bolstering cybersecurity across fintechs.
Our Global Market Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility continues to play a significant role as new financial regulations globally increasingly mandate the use of LEIs to help regulators and market participants aggregate and better understand exposures, enhance market transparency, and significantly improve the analysis of systemic risk.
What are some of the forward-looking opportunities the financial services industry should pursue to enhance system-wide resilience?
AVL: There's been considerable progress to enhance the financial sector's resilience. However, further work remains to be done to fully address some of the vulnerabilities that triggered or exacerbated the financial crisis, as well as new risks that have emerged over the past decade.
First, centralised clearing for both cash and derivatives markets can be further expanded to more fully leverage the risk management benefits provided by central counterparties.
Second, increased regulatory harmonisation and cooperation among all stakeholders is essential to harness the full potential of derivatives trade repositories as early warning signals for the build-up of systemic risk.
Third, the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) in regulatory reporting should be globally mandated to increase market transparency. Lastly, enterprise data management capabilities should become foundational to financial firms' risk management frameworks.


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The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) published between 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Article Count and Share for Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Life Sciences 8 1.06
Earth & Environmental Sciences 5 1.23
10.53 11.05 8.39 12.28 11.13
Compare Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) with other institutions
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
22.07% Domestic
77.93% International
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) by Share (11 total)
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Domestic institution
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Crete (UOC) (7.26)
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)3.99
University of Crete (UOC)3.27
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Patras (6.45)
University of Patras2.77
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Ioannina (UOI) (0.93)
University of Ioannina (UOI)0.57
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' (NCSR) (0.75)
National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' (NCSR)0.42
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Agricultural University of Athens (0.75)
Agricultural University of Athens0.46
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) (0.53)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)0.19
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Diana Laboratory (0.13)
Diana Laboratory0.10
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Technical University of Crete (TUC) (0.12)
Technical University of Crete (TUC)0.06
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University General Hospital of Heraklion (PAGNI) (0.08)
University General Hospital of Heraklion (PAGNI)0.06
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Thessaly (UTH) (0.06)
University of Thessaly (UTH)0.03
Top 10 international collaborators with Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) by Share (205 total)
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Max Planck Society (2.31)
Max Planck Society1.78
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and National Research Council (CNR) (1.65)
National Research Council (CNR)0.68
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) (1.43)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)0.40
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) (1.21)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)0.40
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) (1.14)
Technical University of Munich (TUM)0.85
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and Leibniz Association (1.10)
Leibniz Association0.56
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (1.10)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)0.29
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Göttingen (1.04)
University of Göttingen0.55
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Leeds (1.00)
University of Leeds0.90
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) (0.96)
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK)0.47
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), FORTH
ELI Delivery Consortium International Association (ELI-DC AISBL)
Jumping on board ciliary transport
Waking up to sleep secrets
University of Tsukuba
Exotic viral chemistry explained
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The Acropolis: Greece's most famous monument weathers the crisis
by Sean McLachlan on Feb 3, 2012
Visiting Greece and not visiting the Acropolis is unthinkable. Set atop a high rock overlooking Athens, the temples here were built primarily to honor the city's patron goddess Athena in all her attributes. The buildings here are some of the best examples of Greek architecture and have had a profound effect on the architecture of all the Western world. While I have a preference for medieval sites like Acrocorinth, and I've visited the Acropolis before, I couldn't help but go back.
The last time I was there was 1994, and a lot has changed. There has been a great deal of restoration and the world-class Acropolis Museum has opened up.
Here's one attraction that the Greek government needs to preserve as it passes through its worst economic crisis since World War Two. People still flock here and it's a major reason why Greece is an important tourist destination. Tourism accounts for 18 percent of the Greek GDP and tourist numbers went up last year. Several sources told me there were two reasons for this: budget-conscious Europeans are traveling closer to home and people are staying away from North African favorites like Tunisia and Egypt.
Even though sites like the Acropolis generate billions of euros a year in revenue, the Ministry of Culture survives on just 0.7 percent of the national budget, and that budget is shrinking faster than the supply of Greek olives I brought back from this trip. In the past year the ministry has seen its budget slashed by almost a third, with warnings of more cuts to come. Museums are already feeling the pinch and now ministers, archaeologists, and site directors are scrambling to find ways to maintain their their heritage. There are even plans to lease the Acropolis for film backdrops and photo shoots to help raise funds.
%Gallery-146241%This last bit is actually nothing new. Archaeological sites have always been available for rent, but costs were enormous and most projects were rejected out of hand. Now the Acropolis will go for the bargain-basement price of $1,300 a day for a photography session and about $2,000 a day for filming.
Despite Greece's financial woes, restoration and conservation are continuing. Funds are still coming through from the government and from the European Union. The most visible is the restoration of the pronaos (front inner porch) of the Parthenon shown here in this image by flickr user dorena-wm, who obviously had better luck with the weather than I did. This image was taken last year and now there is considerably more scaffolding obscuring the front. The photo I took last Sunday is in the gallery.
At the Erechtheion, where Poseidon and Athena competed for possession of Athens, the interior of the famous south porch with its caryatid columns is screened off as the ceiling is cleaned with an innovative laser system developed specifically for this project. In ancient times it was believed that Poseidon, the sea god, struck at the ground here with his trident and a salty spring gushed forth. Athena created an olive tree, the first in the world. The Athenians judged that the olive tree was more useful and so dedicated their city to her. The city continued to honor the sea god, though, and the Erechtheion is devoted to his local aspect Erechtheus. Athens owed her power to her great navy, and so it was smart to honor the god who rules the waves, even if he did come in second place in the competition for the city.
No reconstruction was going on when I went, though. I took advantage of Sundays being free to revisit the Acropolis. It was low season and bitterly cold and overcast, but there were still large crowds exploring the ruins. One family from Crete entered at the same time I did and took the same route through the monuments. The father gave a long lecture about the place to his young son and daughter. It was heartening to see how much they enjoyed it. They asked questions, told him some things they'd learned in school, and were obviously having a good time. They took dozens of pictures and I offered to take one of them all together. That got us talking. The father's English was limited, but his national pride was obvious even through the language barrier. As we talked, his kids went off to take more pictures.
The Acropolis Museum was opened in 2009 to much fanfare and became an instant success. Between between June 2010 and May 2011 more than one million and three hundred thousand Greek and foreign visitors passed through its doors. The museum explains the importance of the site from earliest times through the Classical era and beyond. It's probably best to see this museum before you see the Acropolis as it will give you a much deeper understanding of that most historic of attractions.
To combat museum fatigue, take a break at the restaurant or café. Prices are remarkably reasonable and floor-to-ceiling windows give a splendid view of the Acropolis and two of its buildings-the Parthenon and the Sanctuary of Athena Nike.
The museum is not free on Sundays but that didn't stop the crowds coming out in full force. The restaurant, café, and gift shop were all doing a brisk business. Most popular was the third floor, where a reconstruction of the Parthenon sculptures can be seen. As the labels make clear, most of these are plaster casts because between 1801 and 1805 Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire that then ruled Greece, got permission to remove about half of them. As you can see from the display at the Acropolis Museum, he took the best ones. Now they are in the British Museum in London, while several other sculptures were taken by other antiquarians and ended up in other museums.
The Greeks want their sculptures back. The British Museum says they took them with permission of the government that was then in power. Here is the official Greek position and here is the British Museum's position.
The economic crisis has added a new dimension to the struggle to return the sculptures. While the plaster casts in the Acropolis Museum are very well done, seeing the real thing is always better. Getting them back would be a major coup for a country that has only had bad news for far too long, and it would help bring in much-needed tourism revenue. But with both sides dug in, it looks like the Greeks won't be getting good news like that anytime soon.
Don't miss the rest of my series: Our Past in Peril, Greek tourism faces the economic crisis.
Coming up next: The Athens War Museum
Farmer in Bangladesh kills more than 83,000 rats and wins a color TV
by Jamie Rhein on Oct 3, 2009
I've seen a rat scurry across a New York City street at night. It looked like a small cat. Startling. Rats in New York are one of the city's long-standing jokes. The idea of the 83,450 rats that one farmer in Bangladesh killed over the last nine months, thanks to a government rat killing campaign, is astounding–seriously disgusting. Truly.
Pair those rats with the 37,450 that another Bangladeshi farmer caught and YOWZA! They are not the only two farmers who have been killing rats. Five hundred farmers showed up to the event this last week where the contest winner was named.
This massive rat killing campaign with a color TV as the grand prize was part of Bangladesh's government's response to the country's serious rat problem. The rats destroy at least 1.5 million tons of grain each year, half the amount that the country exports. Last year the rats destroyed the rice crop.
Along with getting rid of a massive amount of rats in one year, the campaign has had another positive effect. Farmers have learned that they can do something about the rat problem and have motivation to do so. No, it's not the idea of winning a color TV.
As Mokhairul Islam, a poultry farmer and first place winner found out, he needs to buy three less bags of poultry feed a week now that 83,450 rats aren't chomping away at his chickens' food. Killing rats makes good economic sense. Islam has vowed to keep up with his efforts.
I imagine that lessening the rat population certainly would have a positive effect on other aspects of the country's economy– tourism for example. If there are that many rats around two people's farms, imagine the rest of the country.
Bangladesh is a country worth visiting. For starters, it offers part of the Sundarbans National Park, UNESCO World Heritage site that protects the Royal Bengal tiger and the Ridley Sea Turtle, and also Cox's Bazar, a fishing port town that boasts the world's longest natural sandy beach.


A host of first team players were able to get minutes as the Brewers faced Shrewsbury Town in the Central League Cup.
Ben Fox, Ben Turner, Joe Sbarra and Damien McCrory all started at the Montgomery Waters Meadow, alongside Young Brewers Tom Armitage and Tom Hewlett.
Marcus Harness scored twice in a 4-3 defeat, in which Elliot Hodge also got on the scoresheet.
The Brewers took the lead when Academy graduate Marcus Harness was brought down in the box by Ryan Sears and a penalty was awarded. Harness took the kick himself and converted to open the scoring.
Former Wycombe Wanderers forward Lee Angol levelled things up for the hosts in the 30th minute. Winger Abo Eisa drove down the left and crossed for Angol to tap the ball into the net at the back post.
Elliot Hodge fired the Brewers back in front before half-time after his deflected strike found its way into the net.
Shortly after half-time, Shrewsbury drew themselves level. Angol latched onto Charlie Colkett's pass and fired past Callum Hawkins to score his second of the game.
Angol then secured his hat-trick in the 65th minute after Shrewsbury broke from a Brewers set-piece and opened up the defence to take the lead for the first time in the contest. Shaun Whalley then fired home Shrewsbury's fourth with five minutes to go.
Harness scored his second in the 90th minute but the Brewers were unable to draw level.
Academy Manager Dan Robinson said: "It was a good opportunity for the players to get some game time against a strong Shrewsbury team.
"The game did exactly what a reserve game is there to fulfil: senior players who are trying to get into the first team got minutes. Players (Ben Fox and Ben Turner) who are coming back from injury got minutes in preparation for getting back in the first team and Academy players had the opportunity to experience playing against senior players and push themselves to give themselves a chance to progress as a professional.


Here you get all stats for the EA Game Medal of Honor Warfighter with many features.
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This is my first experiment in blogging, the plan is to run with it for one year.
A year in which you, my avid reader will hopefully enjoy a glorious selection of camping recipes together with a travelogue and a selection of pub, restaurant and campsite reviews, recommendations and other assorted opinionated rubbish.
like the website and if you feel you want to cover your feet in tescos next time you go try looking for something called "Vibram five fingers" they are as close to barefeet as you can get. i like barefoot running and i use these to run in. they are much better than trainers but i haven't converrted totally to barefooting yet. you can email me about them if you like.


Mccarl, Robert, Susan Levitas, Thomas D Carroll, David Alan Taylor, and Martha Cooper. Crowd watches as statue of San Rocco is secured to the float . New Jersey Paterson United States, 1994. -08-14. Photograph. https://0-www.loc.gov.oasys.lib.oxy.edu/item/afcwip001590/.
McCarl, R., Levitas, S., Carroll, T. D., Taylor, D. A. & Cooper, M. (1994) Crowd watches as statue of San Rocco is secured to the float . New Jersey Paterson United States, 1994. -08-14. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://0-www.loc.gov.oasys.lib.oxy.edu/item/afcwip001590/.
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Spending time in nature for at least 20 minutes a day is the best way to decrease stress levels, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology.
Dr MaryCarol Hunter, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and lead author of the study explained: "We know that spending time in nature reduces stress. But until now it was unclear how much is enough. How often to do it, or even what kind of nature experience will benefit us. Our study shows that for the greatest payoff, in terms of efficiently lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol, you should spend 20 to 30 minutes sitting or walking in a place that provides you with a sense of nature."
Forty four people participated in an eight week experiment, called the ''nature pill'' by the scientists. The participants had to spend at least 10 minutes in nature, three times a week.
Participants were required to avoid talking, reading or physical exercise during their 10 minutes. Phones, social media and internet was also off limits. They could choose when and where to take their ''nature pill'' and for how long to stay outside. They did however have to commit to have true contact with nature.
"Building personal flexibility into the experiment, allowed us to identify the optimal duration of a nature pill. No matter when or where it is taken, and under the normal circumstances of modern life, with its unpredictability and hectic scheduling." Dr Hunter explained. Each participant took saliva samples before and after having their ''nature pill''. The samples were went to the researchers at the end of the first, third and seventh week.
After analysing the saliva, the scientists found that the cortisol levels decreased by 21% per hour when the participants spend 20 to 30 minutes in nature. The stress hormone was reduced by 12% per hour.
Dr. Hunter explained:
"We accommodated day to day differences in a participant's stress status. We did that by collecting four snapshots of cortisol change due to the ''natural pill" says Hunter. "It also allowed us to identify and account for the impact of the ongoing, natural drop in cortisol level as the day goes on. That made the estimate of effective duration more reliable."
"The data revealed that just a twenty-minute nature experience was enough to significantly reduce cortisol levels. But if you spent a little more time immersed in nature experience, 20 to 30 minutes sitting or walking, cortisol levels dropped at their greatest rate. After that, additional de-stressing benefits continue to add up but at a slower rate."
According to a previous study published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found exercising outdoors could improve our mood and be a great stress reliever.
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UNESCO urges southwest governors to rescue Yoruba cultural value
For cultural heritage of one of Africa's oldest monarch the Oyo royalty in South -West, Nigeria to be preserved, governments have been advised to support the traditional ruling system.
Alaafin of Oyo, Oba {King} Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi-111
This much advice was offered by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation {UNESCO} during the second edition of the World Sango Festival held in the ancient town of Oyo, Oyo State. In giving the advice,, the Director of Country Representative of UNESCO in Nigeria, Hassana Halidou stated: "'The uniqueness of Oyo traditions is worthy of emulation". Halidou cited as "examples the respect Yoruba people have for the institutional authority, clothing and mode of dressing". She noted that the Yoruba values have no equal anywhere in the world. "Tthe beauty of Yoruba language with its semantics, the use of proverbs and aphorism, different satires of Yoruba poems full of wisdom and philosophy have no equal all over the world''.
Halidou's representative at the event, Ayanwande Olayanju who relayed the message therefore urged the governments of the six states of the Yoruba's southwest to come to the rescue of the people's culture. The South-West states include Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti.
The throne is known as Alaafin of Oyo and is currently headed by the Oba {King} Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi-111. The monarch derives its existence from Oyo Empire of ancient Yoruba era {14th - late 18th Century}. The empire has been regarded as one of the most-organised traditional monarchy of pre-colonial Africa eras.
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We all remember the iconic magazine that launched in 1964; it was every teenage girl's link to the latest fashion and music. Back in the day when there were no mobile phones, emailing or social media and your only connection to your friends was through the pages of your beloved Jackie magazine. Revisit those days of over 40 years ago – the 'do's and don'ts of a first date and above all the "Cathy 'n' Claire" problem pages. It's a tidal wave of nostalgia with a pulsating live soundtrack throughout.
Enjoy Donny Osmond and David Cassidy once again as your taken on a whirlwind tour of Planet Seventies in this exciting new musical.


A series of spoons, knives, forks, and chopsticks have all been designed to rest on your table without getting it dirty.
"Would you like to keep your fork?" It's the worst question to get from a waiter as he takes my plate. My fork is resting on my dish for a good reason. The prongs are covered in the bright viscousness of my own gluttony, and I don't want to spread that saucy shame all over the restaurant's nice table.
But Cantilever flatware, by the two-man design team iLoveHandles, makes this plate-or-table debate a thing of the past. It's a set of eating utensils, including a knife, fork, spoon, chopsticks, and spatula, that can dig deep and dirty into your food, but then rest on the table with the messy bits hovering above the surface.
Designing the spoon and fork were relatively simple: Since each is already angled, the challenge was just to tweak the angle to make it float. The knife proved tougher. "The puzzle was basically how to make something that is flat float above the surface–without adding a clunky support," Moore writes. The answer wasn't immediately obvious, and it wasn't until taking a trip on a plane or train–Moore can't remember which, but credits a lot of his ideas to these sorts of commutes–that he realized one half of the knife could taper like a triangle, while the other side would be normal and flat. He drew up some sketches, sent them to his partner Avik, and they began 3-D prototyping.
Luckily, iLoveHandles found the right taker for the job. And now, their flatware ($25), chopsticks ($5), and cooking utensils ($15) can all be ordered from their site.


Organizers of the protests in Sudan that forced longtime President Omar al-Bashir from office held a second day of talks Sunday with the ruling military council afterurging the military to "immediately and unconditionally" hand power to a transitional civilian government that would rule forfour years.
Omer el-Digair, leader of the opposition Sudanese Congress Party, told the protests at a sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum after Saturday's meeting that the atmosphere had been "positive." He said talks would focus on submitting the organizers' demands and transition plan, and that they are calling for dissolving al-Bashir's ruling National Congress Party.


The Grid Compass, introduced in 1982, was the first portable computer with the now-familiar clamshell design.
The Grid Compass originally sold for $8,150.
I've been reviewing laptops for more than a decade, but the very first device that we'd consider a true laptop dates back much further. There were a small handful of technically portable computers before it, often called "luggables," but the first PC we'd recognize as having a readable display, a built-in keyboard and a clamshell-style hinge was the Grid Compass, introduced in 1982.
One of the key figures behind that groundbreaking laptop has died, reports The New York Times.
John Ellenby, 75, died on August 17 in San Francisco, said the Times. Ellenby was a British born computer engineer and the founder of Grid Systems, the company that created the Compass. That was later sold to the Tandy Corporation, itself an early computer pioneer.
The Grid Compass, co-created by influential industrial designer William Moggridge, featured an Intel 8086 processor, a 320x240-resolution display and ran its own Grid-OS operating system. It originally sold for $8,150.


When is Ethiopian Easter, or Fasika?
This post is contributed by Desta Seyoum, who is an Advisory Member on our Board of Directors and local expert in the region where we work in Ethiopia.
The celebration of Easter in the SNNPR of Ethiopia is not much different from other parts of the country.
All Ethiopian Christians observe the Easter Holiday. Easter is a widely celebrated occasion throughout the country. This year, Easter falls on April 12, 2015, one week later than the Western Churches. This is because Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar to determine Easter dates.
In the Amharic language, Easter is referred to as Fasika, originated from the Greek word Pascha. In both Kembata and Hadiya languages it is called "Shashiga". In liturgical terms, it is referred to as "Tinsae" means "to rise". Many devoted Christians also observe Palm Sunday known as "Hossana" and Good Friday "Sikilet".
Members of the Catholic and Protestant Churches which are dominant in the Southern parts of Ethiopia mark the day by attending church services. Followers carry candles to symbolize the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Generally, church services are held in somber moods and are not as colorful as at other occasions.
For members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Churches Fasika marks the end of a 56-day period of Lent. On Saturday night, followers attend a church vigil that goes until 3am. When they return home, they break their fasting from meat and dairy products.
Easter is an important festival for all Ethiopian Christians as the Resurrection of Jesus is considered more significant than his birth. Easter is also a time for families and friends to get together. Relatives travel from remote areas to join in festivities and express good wishes to their families.
The preparation for this special occasion starts weeks before the actual Easter day. Families involved in the time-consuming task of preparing traditional foods that include beautiful details, unique ingredients and lots of passion. They prepare chicken dishes for the symbolic occasion, and lamb for extended feasting. Doro wot (a spicy chicken stew) is the most traditional food served in all families during Easter. It is accompanied by Injera (flat-bread made from Teff). The provision of home-brewed drinks such as Tella (a dark beer from barely) or Teji (honey wine), is abundant for the occasion. Difo-Dabo (a large and round home backed wheat bread) is another food with exotic look and taste.
Besides the religious aspect of Fasika, the interesting traditional processing of food, the tantalizing smell of baking bread and injera, the roasting of coffee along with the burning of incense, the smell of firewood and smoke that emanates from many households, the loud songs of churchgoers, the busy open markets and the noise of chicken and sheep on the streets during this time of year enhance the holiday spirit, and spur beautiful memories.
This photo was taken by Anthony Pappone Photography.
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