Kaon under Siege is a new flashpoint for level 50s introduced with patch 1.1. It has a distinct "zombie" like theme and does differ from some of the previous flashpoints in terms of overall difficulty (bosses have no enrage it seems).
There are 4 bosses in total, one being the bonus boss that drops identical loot to the last boss of the flashpoint (Columi headpiece on hardmode). The bonus boss is quite challenging compared to the rest but the option is there if you want to skip him.
What makes Kaon under Siege different from other flashpoints is the difficulty of the trash. The first half of the flashpoint has some champion level trash mobs that have quite a bit of health but nothing too difficult.
Once you get to the Rakghoul phase of the flashpoint, trash becomes far more interesting. You need to keep your eyes on the following types of trash mobs.
Infected Mercenary: This is a strong level trash mob with the ability Constrict. This is a channeled ability that will stun one of your party members if not interrupted. When facing with a pack of mobs, killing and interrupting infected mercenary is the first priority or you will run the risk of having your tank/healer perm-stunned unless they can break out using their stun breaker on a 2 minute cooldown. These mobs can also bug out if you kill them before they are interrupted. They can use constrict on a party member even after they are killed if left uninterrupted.
Bloated Plaguebringer: This is guy is easy to spot as he is "fatter" than other trash mobs. He will explode with green goo when he is around 10% health, damaging everyone nearby him in a 5-10 m radius for about 40-50% of their health. He should be killed last and lead away from the group to be stunned in place so he doesn't run back and explode onto the party.
Infected screamer: This trash mob loves to do a pushback on unsuspecting tanks. For this reason, tanks should position themselves with their back to a wall or something so they don't get pushed back into another pack of mobs.
There is no actual boss mob in this encounter but rather it is all about survival against packs of incoming trash mobs. There is a turret that one group member (preferably a melee DPS without a lot of AoE attacks) can hop on and shoot at things (don't need to click on the mobs to fire, just point and the turret will shoot).
Do not hop on the turret right away as doing so will trigger the encounter immediately. There is a pack of trash mobs to the right of the turret that you should clear first. Once that pack of trash is cleared and everyone is prepared, one person hop on the turret while another click on the clickable thingie near the chest to activate a timer.
You will get waves of mobs coming at you. At first it is all normal trash that dies pretty easily but pretty soon you will get those "special" trash mobs listed above added to the mix.
As long you kill infected mercenary first, position correctly for infected screamer and kill the bloated plaguebringer away from the group, you should not have much issues here. Remember to fight near the turret so you can AoE down the mobs and prevent the party member on the turret from getting knocked off. Whoever has aggro on the bloated plaquebringer should lead him away from the turret to be stunned and finished off.
The entire fight lasts for about 3 minutes.
He may look big and scary but this fight is actually pretty easy if you have the mechanics down.
If you look around, you will see 4 of these clickable things around the room. They are located at each corner.
Clicking on this barrel will cause it to explode and damage any mobs nearby, including the boss.
The basic mechanic of this fight is having the tank kite the boss around the room and when the boss is near one of those clickable barrels, have another party member click it. This barrel will explode and damage the absorption shield the boss has on himself, allowing you to do significant damage against him. Tank should not get too far away from the boss as the boss will leap to the tank if he/she gets too far away. Beware that the boss can also throw the tank back.
These barrels will respawn after being used thus allowing you to come back to it after you have used up the 3 other barrels. Tank should just kite the boss around in circular path, pathing the boss near each of the 4 clickable barrels. Healer could run ahead to get in position to click the barrels while the two DPS follow the boss along, damaging him along the way. As long the tank is continuously moving, he won't take much damage from the boss and won't need much heals. The couple seconds after the boss is damaged by the exploding barrel is when you should maximize your DPS.
The boss will enter frenzy mode a couple times past 50% hp. Just try not to get hit by the boss.
The bonus boss can be spawned by destroying clickable consoles you find throughout the flashpoint. Before you can get to the bonus boss, you will have to get past a room filled with trash mobs that can be a deathtrap for unprepared groups.
What I recommend here is hug the right wall and move through the room this way, keeping your back against the wall as there are quite a few infected screamers that can knock you into a nearby group of trash mobs. You can jump up the ledge as need to move forward.
The bonus boss is actually the toughest mob in the entire flashpoint and its certainly in the same level as some of the tougher bosses in other flashpoints such as Commander Jorland in BP HM or Krel Thak in Ilum HM.
Once again, having a melee DPS heavy group would be disadvantageous for this fight but luckily there is a way around it.
Explosive shot: Missile attack with splash damage, spread out. 15 second cooldown. Directed at random party member.
Barrage: Channeled missile attack directed at one person for high damage over a short period of time. Cooldown its 60 seconds.
Grapple: This is an AoE grapple that will pull all party members to him unless they are blocked by some obstruction. Party members should run out after being grappled in as there is an AOE proximity attack coming up. Used about every 30 seconds.
Energy Shield + Adds: At precisely 66% and 33%, KR-82 will channel this energy shield on himself for 20 seconds. During these 20 seconds KR-82 will not attack the party. Immediately after he starts the channeling, he will spawn 3 strong probe adds called Emergency response droids that needs to be controlled or killed off.
The hard part about this boss is the three probe adds that spawn at 66% and 33%. These droids hit very hard and if left uncontrolled they can absolutely destroy the party. These droids spawn exactly where KR-82 stands before you engage him, this means that if you pull KR-82 away from his original spot, these adds will take quite sometime to get to you, giving you more time to manage them (arrow in the picture below points to where the probe adds spawn).
Crowd control (CC) abilities works great here if you have two party members that can CC two out of the three probes. The remaining uncontrolled probe can be killed off while KR-82 is in his energy shield phase. You should finish off the two controlled droids as well before the next wave of droids spawn at 33%.
For the wave of adds at 33%, you can kill off one droid, CC the the rest and then just focus on the boss rather than wasting time killing off the two remaining droids.
If none of your party members have a CC ability, you can try to have the adds kited around or have someone with in combat run speed pull the boss far far away (he doesn't enrage in hardmode) such that the probe droids will take forever to get to the boss. This allows your party member to simply burn the boss as you can still attack him even when KR-82 has the energy shield up.
Other than the adds, this fight is pretty straightforward but can be a healer check due to all the random damage your party members will receive.
This fight is super duper easy for the last boss of this flashpoint. This encounter comes with 3 bosses, Commander Lk'garaagth (main boss with ranged attack), Chak'aghakh (melee goonie), G'klarg (rakghoul monster thingie that can pin a party member down). Both Chak'aghakh and G'klarg have a buff called Under Orders and will attack whoever the Commander tells them to.
Shortly after engaging this encounter, you will see an emote text: Commander Lk'graagth has ordered his squad to attack Player X. This is a cue that the two goonies will chase down one person to attack. The good thing is that these two do not hit very hard and can be tanked by pretty much anybody. Tanks should be able to taunt these two goonies off after.
DPS should focus on one of the two goonies and burn one down. After you kill one of them, there will be a wave of plaquebringer adds that come through the door. A few AoE abilities will finish them off quick and the tank can use AoE taunt to gather them up.
If you get G'klarg down past 50%, he will howl in pain – marked by the trail of purplish mist behind him. This will increase his damage output so make sure to finish off any plaquebringer adds before this point and healers pay attention to the health bars.
Killing off the 2nd goony will spawn another wave of plaquebringer adds – then it is time to finish off the Commander.
room before the bonus boss: we just pull the 2 sets into the small room beforehand, and AOE them down without having to worry about knockback, makes the room go by really fast.
on the bonus boss, we tried the kiting method, and found it to be laborious. The easier method for us, the boss is tanked exactly where he stands.
-at 66%, we back up toward the hut in the center of the room, to allow some room for the CC to happen, instead of standing under them. We CC 2, kill one. the tank goes back to the boss. the 2 dps then kills the 2 remaining CC's one at a time, focusing on stuns while dps'ing to minimize damage (this fight isn't about speed).
-at 33%, we repeat, except instead of the dps killing off the remaining 2, we just keep them CC'd until the fight's over.
we found the above method to be a lot more predictable, and easier to execute.
Is that a typo for "plaguebringer" or do these rakghouls come and make your teeth dirty?
Today on HM we hat some difficulty with the last boss while trying to dps down G'klarg first, because the Commander's shots hurt quite some, and likely our tank didn't keep his aggro.
Finally we concentrated on the Commander first, who went down rather quickly. Whoever had the goonies chasing after him, kited them around some, 'till we killed them off.
Bonus boss: Kite him to the behemoth spawn and kill him there. No enrage timer means you can just dps him down without any issue.
Anyone done the bonus boss since they changes in 1.2?
I believe they rooted the boss in place so you can't kite him away (I don't know personally because I've never tried moving him). He does seem to have an enrage as well now, but it doesn't hit too hard. If you don't have at least two in-combat CCs in your party I don't know if it'd even be possible to beat him given how hard those droids hit.How my group does it now is simply stack on the boss for AoE heals. First add wave tank AOE taunts (so a squishy doesn't get unlucky aggro) and we CC two droids and burn them down one at the time, second wave we CC all three and ignore them while burning the boss. One small thing that's made it easier is the added ability to bind target markers to keys, so we can quickly mark + CC a droid for coordination.
Works great if u have some R-DPS as they can fight will standing on those pipes on the back wall.
This guide is really outdated. The bonus boss cannot be moved around anymore and he enrages now. You can still CC the droids but you need to bring good dps for the bonus or altogether skip it.


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Juri Alexejewitsch Mitropolski (, , englische Transkription Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskiy oder Mitropol'ski; *  im Gouvernement Poltawa, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 14. Juni 2008 in Kiew, Ukraine)  war ein ukrainisch-sowjetischer Mathematiker.

Leben
Mitropolski studierte ab 1938 an der Staatlichen Universität Kiew. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs diente er an der Front, studierte an der kasachischen Universität von Alma Ata, wohin die Universität Kiew evakuiert worden war, und war danach bei der Artillerie. Er war nach dem Wehrdienst ab 1946 an der Ukrainischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kiew, wurde 1948 bei Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Bogoljubow und war ab 1949 leitender Wissenschaftler am Institut für Strukturmechanik. 1951 wurde er bei Bogoljubow habilitiert (russischer Doktortitel) mit der Dissertation Langsame Prozesse in nichtlinearen Schwingungssystemen mit vielen Freiheitsgraden. 1953 wurde er Professor in Kiew und Abteilungsleiter am Institut für Mathematik der Ukrainischen Akademie und 1958 bis 1988 dessen Direktor. Sein Nachfolger war sein Schüler und Mitarbeiter Anatoli Michailowitsch Samoilenko (1938–2020).

Er befasste sich mit dynamischen Systemen, nichtlinearen Schwingungen und allgemein asymptotischen Methoden in der nichtlinearen Mechanik (Erweiterung der Methode von Krylow und Bogoljubow) und qualitativen Methoden in der Theorie der Differentialgleichungen.

1986 erhielt er die Ljapunow-Goldmedaille. Er war Mitglied der Ukrainischen (1961) und Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Schriften (Auswahl)
mit N. N. Bogoliubov: Asymptotic methods in the theory of non-linear oscillations. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1961
mit N. N. Bogoliubov, A. M. Samoilenko: Methods of accelerated convergence in nonlinear mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1976
mit A. K. Lopatin. Nonlinear mechanics, groups and symmetry, Kluwer 1993.
Problems of the asymptotic theory of nonstationary vibrations. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1965.
mit A. M. Samoilenko, D. I. Martinyuk. Systems of evolution equations with periodic and quasiperiodic coefficients., Kluwer 1993
mit Nguyen Van Dao: Applied Asymptotic Methods in Nonlinear Oscillations, Springer 1997

Ehrungen
Mitropolski erhielt zahlreiche Ehrungen, darunter:
 Leninpreis (1965)
 Orden des Roten Sterns (2×)
 Orden der Oktoberrevolution
 Verdienter der Wissenschaften der UdSSR (1967)
 Orden des Roten Banners der Arbeit (1977)
 Held der Sozialistischen Arbeit (1986)
 Orden des Fürsten Jaroslaw des Weisen 5. Klasse (1996)
 Orden des Fürsten Jaroslaw des Weisen 4. Klasse (2002)
 Bogdan-Chmelnizki-Orden (2001)
 Held der Ukraine (2007)

Weblinks

 Митропольский, Юрий Алексеевич Biografie bei Helden des Landes (russisch)
Foto bei der Akademie der Wissenschaften
mathnet.ru

Einzelnachweise

Mathematiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Kiew)
Mitglied der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine
Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Absolvent der Nationalen Taras-Schewtschenko-Universität Kiew
Träger des Leninpreises
Held der sozialistischen Arbeit
Träger des Ordens der Oktoberrevolution
Träger des Ordens des Roten Banners der Arbeit
Held der Ukraine
Träger des Ordens des Fürsten Jaroslaw des Weisen (IV. Klasse)
Sowjetbürger
Ukrainer
Geboren 1917
Gestorben 2008
Mann

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Florilegium at Romanian Athenaeum
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 , ora 10.57
It was on that day when the sun's ray
was darkened in pity for its Maker,
that I was captured, and did not defend myself,
because your lovely eyes had bound me, Lady.
These Petrarchan verses came across my mind on Sunday, March 7, 2010, during a recital which took place in the Small Hall of the Romanian Athenaeum. The recital was performed by violinist Natalia Colotelo-Pancec and guitarist Maxim Belciug.
The program entitled Florilegium brought together works written between the 16th and the 17th Century. I must say that the arrangement of the recital was a surprise for me, as I spent two hours relishing on the musical compositions of Adrian le Roy, Giambattista Gagliano, Martino Pesenti, Gianbattista Pergolesi and Claudio Monteverdi - among others. In fact, these pieces were initially meant for singers accompanied by guitar. But the arrangement for violin and guitar proved to be both surprising and original.
The melancholic character and the delicate expression of courtly love, pure and idealistic, all of this was well identified and conveyed by Natalia Colotelo Pancec, and Maxim Belciug's guitar accompaniment was no less impressive. As the simple yet profound sound of the violin was rising on the arabesques of the guitar, I found it impossible not to think of Petrarch's sonnets. Although he was not contemporary with the composers whose works were performed last night, I believe his sonnets are very compatible with the song interpreted by Natalia Colotelo Pancec and Maxim Belciug.
The end of the recital came with an encore, a sign that the spectators who practically filled the hall were impressed by their performance: Greensleeves, and English song of the 16th Century, with an unknown author, was played for the public by the two artists.
All in all, it was a wonderful evening and I hope its freshness and tenderness will invoke the beginning of Spring that is yet to come. The concert is recorded by Radio Romania Music and you will be able to enjoy it on March 30, 2010, at 7 PM.
Petra Gherasim
Translated by Andra Stroe and Valentina Tache,
MA students, MTTLC, Bucharest University
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Punctuality has always been an issue for Indian train riders, especially when just two months ago, Indian Railways, the national transporter that ferries millions of people on the world's busiest public transportation network reported a declining punctuality of 65% in the second quarter of this year.
The app, with more than 10 million downloads to date per Indian news outlet Economic Times, provides real-time information on trains but doesn't depend on the internet or GPS, making it different from the other train tracking apps on the market.
It relies on cell-tower information, source and destination to locate trains to offer a seamless offline integration between Indian Railways and the IRCTC train schedules. The app also has additional features that allow users to check IRCTC seat availability, fares, track PNR status, and even set destination alerts. All of these make the app useful for people living in small towns and cities as it does not require detailed information nor internet access.


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Ezzell, Ben November 13, 1947.
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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- The Israeli Civil Administration is expected to approve 1,427 new illegal settlement units, on Sunday, and to announce plans to construct another 3,500 units next week.
Haaretz news outlet reported that the Israeli Civil Administration is expected to approve the 1,427 new settlement units across the occupied West Bank.
Sources mentioned that the administration would also announce plans to begin construction of another 3,500 settlement units and possibly approve an additional 1,500 other units.
According to settlement watchdog Peace Now, in the two years since President Trump took office some 14,454 units in the West Bank has been approved, which is more than three times the amount that was approved in the year and half before his inauguration (4,476 units).


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Stephanie Frappart oversaw her first Europa League game in October when Leicester City hosted Zorya Luhansk. [PHOTO | COURTESY]
French referee Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman to take charge of a men's Champions League game when Juventus host Dynamo Kyiv on Wednesday.
Frappart became the first woman to take charge of a major men's Uefa competition match when Liverpool and Chelsea met in the 2019 Super Cup.
The 36-year-old also refereed the 2019 Women's World Cup final between the USA and the Netherlands.
She has refereed French Ligue 1 games since 2019.
Frappart oversaw her first Europa League game in October when Leicester City hosted Zorya Luhansk.
Switzerland's Nicole Petignat was the first woman to referee Uefa men's matches, when she took charge of Uefa Cup qualifying round games between 2004 and 2009.


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It's February, and smartphone launches in India have already started to gain momentum. Many new phones are due to launch in India in the coming weeks after MWC 2019. Since the start of the year, we have seen the launches of the Honor View 20, Huawei Y9 2019, Honor 10 Lite, Samsung Galaxy M10 and the Samsung Galaxy M20. Now, Honor has announced an exclusive online partnership with Reliance Digital, which is the largest consumer durables and IT retailer in India.
Honor is a sub-brand of Huawei. Up until now, the company's phones have been exclusively available online in India via Flipkart or Amazon, while Huawei-branded phones are available in offline retailers as well. The Honor View 20 marks a change here as it will be available offline exclusively across Reliance Digital and MyJio stores in India.
Honor also states that it will be creating a 3D Motion Gaming Setup across seven cities in seven stores for nine days starting from February 16 to February 25, 2019. Consumers can try out the Honor View 20's features such as its 48MP rear camera, punch hole front camera, the Kirin 980's performance, nano texture design, and the 3D TOF sensor. They can experience the Honor View 20 in Reliance Digital Stores at Mantri Mall in Bangalore, R City and Infiniti Malad in Mumbai, Shipra Mall in Ghaziabad, Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, Market City Mall in Chennai, Inorbit Mall and AS Rao Mall in Hyderabad.
The Honor View 20 costs ₹37,999 ($533) in India for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage variant and ₹45,999 ($645) for the 8GB RAM/128GB storage variant. These prices compete head-to-head with the OnePlus 6T's prices in India. As such, they represent a rather significant price hike over the launch prices of the Honor View 20's predecessor, the Honor View 10. On the other hand, the Honor View 20 still has a high value proposition in the Indian smartphone market despite the price hike, as it is one of the fastest phones in the market.
Separately, Motorola has launched the Moto G7 Power in India without much fanfare. The Moto G7 Power is a part of the Moto G7 series, which was launched in Brazil on February 8. Its list of specifications includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 SoC, 4GB of RAM with 64GB storage, 6.2-inch HD+ (1520×720) 19:9 IPS LCD, 12MP rear camera, 8MP front camera, and a big 5,000mAh battery. The phone ships with Android 9 Pie out of the box.
In India, the Moto G7 Power will be sold for ₹13,999 ($196) for the single 4GB RAM/64GB storage configuration. It will be available in Ceramic Black, and has gone on sale through Flipkart and offline retailers.
Motorola didn't reveal any details regarding the launches of other phones in the Moto G7 series, though we expect them to launch sooner or later. The price tag of the Moto G7 Power is still a worrying decision in a series of worrying decisions that Motorola has been making recently. In terms of value, the phone doesn't have enough to compete with the likes of the Asus ZenFone Max Pro M2, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro (and the upcoming Redmi Note 7), and even the Samsung Galaxy M20.
Note: Huawei has stopped providing official bootloader unlock codes for its devices. Therefore, the bootloader of the Honor View 20 can't be unlocked, which means that users cannot root or install custom ROMs.


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Wednesday 19 August 2015 4:53 am
Protests grow as Brazil's crisis deepens: Impeachment threats make Dilma Rousseff's future look uncertain
By: Express KCS
Crisis is engulfing Brazil as hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets demanding the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, as the country slides into its worst economic crisis for 25 years.
Protests have taken place across the country in the third major day of demonstrations this year, following unrest in March and April.
Rousseff is less than a year into her second term as president, but her approval rating is at seven per cent. She was re-elected on a pro-reform platform, but those plans have turned to dust, and her critics say she must shoulder the blame for the prolonged slump the country is now facing.
PROLONGED RECESSION
Inflation surged to 9.5 per cent at the end of July, the highest rate in 12 years, while the economy is in recession and expected to contract up to two per cent this year. The Brazilian real has fallen heavily and the strength of the country's bank has been called into question. Last week, its government debt was downgraded to one notch above junk status by ratings agency Moody's.
"We are moving towards a more dramatic turn of events. We will see the currency depreciate further, the pressure from external factors [lower commodity prices] will increase and there will be more capital outflows," predicts Maarten-Jan Bakkum at NN Investment Partners. "At some point, Brazil will reach the point where growth is so weak… There will be a climax where they need a new government and reforms."
PETROBRAS SCANDAL
Protestors are calling for Rousseff to be impeached over the so-called "car wash" corruption scandal that has been unravelling at state-owned oil company Petrobras – where $2bn (£1.28bn) is alleged to have been stolen to pay for bribes.
Rousseff was chair of Petrobras while its directors were allegedly taking bribes and funnelling money into political parties which suited their aims. The corruption probe has drawn in dozens of politicians and members of Rousseff's inner circle. There have been 117 indictments issued so far.
"It is incompetence… Petrobras is indicative of the fact that the government has used a lot of the large corporate entities and the state banks as a tool of nepotism and misguided policy," says Oliver Leyland of Hermes Investment Management.
A presidential impeachment is not unprecedented, as back in 1992 President Fernando Collor was accused of corruption by his brother. He resigned from office on the last day of his impeachment trial.
FORMER GLORY
All of this is so far from where Brazil was a decade ago, when at the height of the commodity boom the country seemed set for glory.
Economists ranked Brazil as head of the "Brics" – Brazil, Russia, India, China – considered to be the most promising emerging markets where investors ought to focus their attention.
For now, these hopes are ruined. "The big picture from Brazil is pretty ugly… The recession will be deeper and longer lasting than most analysts expect," says Neil Shearing of Capital Economics.
In the meantime, economists expect politics to continue to dominate.
"The political landscape is likely to have a very large impact on the economic story for some time as this scandal continues to unfold and with growing discontent among the population," says Esty Dwek of Loomis Sayles.
Petrobras offloads gas pipeline to Engie as Brazilian firm looks to cut debt
Credit Suisse blasted by Swiss watchdog for corruption failings
Rolls-Royce embroiled in Petrobras bribery scandal following annus horribilis for both companies
Rolls-Royce dragged into Petrobras bribery scandal
Petrobras boss quits alongside five executives
Petrobras share price jumps as chief Maria das Graças Foster and five senior executives resign amid Brazil corruption scandal


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namespace PhysX
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Flag that determines the combine mode. When two actors come in contact with each other, they each have materials
	/// with various coefficients, but we only need a single set of coefficients for the pair.
	/// Physics doesn't have any inherent combinations because the coefficients are determined empirically on a
	/// case by case basis. However, simulating this with a pairwise lookup table is often impractical.
	///
	///	For this reason the following combine behaviors are available:
	/// Average, Min, Multiply, Max
	///
	///	The effective combine mode for the pair is maximum(material0.combineMode, material1.combineMode).
	/// </summary>
	public enum class CombineMode
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Average: (a + b)/2.
		/// </summary>
		Average = PxCombineMode::eAVERAGE,

		/// <summary>
		/// Minimum: minimum(a,b).
		/// </summary>
		Minimum = PxCombineMode::eMIN,

		/// <summary>
		/// Multiply: a*b.
		/// </summary>
		Multiply = PxCombineMode::eMULTIPLY,

		/// <summary>
		/// Maximum: maximum(a,b).
		/// </summary>
		Max = PxCombineMode::eMAX
	};

	public enum class DataAccessFlag
	{
		Readable = PxDataAccessFlag::eREADABLE,
		Writable = PxDataAccessFlag::eWRITABLE,
		Device = PxDataAccessFlag::eDEVICE
	};

	/// <summary>
	/// Error codes.
	/// These error codes are passed to #PxErrorCallback.
	/// </summary>
	public enum class ErrorCode
	{
		NoError = PxErrorCode::eNO_ERROR,

		/// <summary>
		/// An informational message.
		/// </summary>
		DebugInfo = PxErrorCode::eDEBUG_INFO,

		/// <summary>
		/// A warning message for the user to help with debugging.
		/// </summary>
		Warning = PxErrorCode::eDEBUG_WARNING,

		/// <summary>
		/// Method called with invalid parameter(s).
		/// </summary>
		InvalidParameter = PxErrorCode::eINVALID_PARAMETER,

		/// <summary>
		/// Method was called at a time when an operation is not possible.
		/// </summary>
		InvalidOperation = PxErrorCode::eINVALID_OPERATION,

		/// <summary>
		/// Method failed to allocate some memory.
		/// </summary>
		OutOfMemory = PxErrorCode::eOUT_OF_MEMORY,

		/// <summary>
		/// The library failed for some reason.
		/// Possibly you have passed invalid values like NaNs, which are not checked for.
		/// </summary>
		InternalError = PxErrorCode::eINTERNAL_ERROR,
	};

	public enum class PairFlag
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Process the contacts of this collision pair in the dynamics solver.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		ResolveContacts = PxPairFlag::eRESOLVE_CONTACTS,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact modification callback for this collision pair.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		ModifyContacts = PxPairFlag::eMODIFY_CONTACTS,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact report callback or trigger callback when this collision pair starts to be in contact.
		/// If one of the two collision objects is a trigger shape (see PxShapeFlag::eTRIGGER_SHAPE) then the
		/// trigger callback will get called as soon as the other object enters the trigger volume.
		/// If none of the two collision objects is a trigger shape then the contact report callback will get
		/// called when the actors of this collision pair start to be in contact.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyTouchFound = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_TOUCH_FOUND,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact report callback or trigger callback while this collision pair is in contact.
		/// If one of the two collision objects is a trigger shape (see PxShapeFlag::eTRIGGER_SHAPE) then the
		/// trigger callback will get called as long as the other object stays within the trigger volume.
		/// If none of the two collision objects is a trigger shape then the contact report callback will get
		/// called while the actors of this collision pair are in contact.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyTouchPersists = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_TOUCH_PERSISTS,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact report callback or trigger callback when this collision pair stops to be in contact.
		/// If one of the two collision objects is a trigger shape (see PxShapeFlag::eTRIGGER_SHAPE) then the
		/// trigger callback will get called as soon as the other object leaves the trigger volume.
		/// If none of the two collision objects is a trigger shape then the contact report callback will get
		/// called when the actors of this collision pair stop to be in contact.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyTouchLost = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_TOUCH_LOST,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact report callback when the contact force between the actors of this collision pair
		/// exceeds one of the actor-defined force thresholds.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyThresholdForceFound = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_THRESHOLD_FORCE_FOUND,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact report callback when the contact force between the actors of this collision pair
		/// continues to exceed one of the actor-defined force thresholds.
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyThresholdForcePersists = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_THRESHOLD_FORCE_PERSISTS,

		/// <summary>
		/// Call contact report callback when the contact force between the actors of this collision pair
		/// falls below one of the actor-defined force thresholds (includes the case where this collision
		/// pair stops being in contact).
		/// Note: Only takes effect if the colliding actors are rigid bodies.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyThresholdForceLost = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_THRESHOLD_FORCE_LOST,

		/// <summary>
		/// Provide contact points in contact reports for this collision pair.
		/// </summary>
		NotifyContactPoints = PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_CONTACT_POINTS,

		/// <summary>
		/// Provided default flag to do simple contact processing for this collision pair.
		/// </summary>
		ContactDefault = PxPairFlag::eCONTACT_DEFAULT,

		/// <summary>
		/// Provided default flag to get commonly used trigger behavior for this collision pair.
		/// </summary>
		TriggerDefault = PxPairFlag::eTRIGGER_DEFAULT
	};

	/// <summary>
	/// Enum for selecting the friction algorithm used for simulation.
	/// </summary>
	public enum class FrictionType
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Select default patch-friction model.
		/// </summary>
		Patch = PxFrictionType::ePATCH,

		/// <summary>
		/// Select one directional per-contact friction model.
		/// </summary>
		OneDirectional = PxFrictionType::eONE_DIRECTIONAL,

		/// <summary>
		/// Select two directional per-contact friction model.
		/// </summary>
		TwoDirectional = PxFrictionType::eTWO_DIRECTIONAL
	};

	public enum class BatchQueryStatus
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// This is the initial state before a query starts.
		/// </summary>
		Pending = PxBatchQueryStatus::ePENDING,

		/// <summary>
		/// The query is finished; results have been written into the result and hit buffers.
		/// </summary>
		Success = PxBatchQueryStatus::eSUCCESS,

		/// <summary>
		/// The query results were incomplete due to touch hit buffer overflow. Blocking hit is still correct.
		/// </summary>
		Overflow = PxBatchQueryStatus::eOVERFLOW
	};

	public enum class FilterFlag
	{
		Kill = PxFilterFlag::eKILL,
		Supress = PxFilterFlag::eSUPPRESS,
		Callback = PxFilterFlag::eCALLBACK,
		Notify = PxFilterFlag::eNOTIFY,
		Default = PxFilterFlag::eDEFAULT
	};

	public enum class ContactPairHeaderFlag
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// The actor with index 0 has been deleted.
		/// </summary>
		DeletedActor0 = PxContactPairHeaderFlag::eDELETED_ACTOR_0,

		/// <summary>
		/// The actor with index 1 has been deleted.
		/// </summary>
		DeletedActor1 = PxContactPairHeaderFlag::eDELETED_ACTOR_1
	};

	/// <summary>
	/// Collection of flags providing information on contact report pairs.
	/// </summary>
	public enum class ContactPairFlag
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// The shape with index 0 has been deleted.
		/// </summary>
		DeletedShape0 = PxContactPairFlag::eDELETED_SHAPE_0,

		/// <summary>
		/// The shape with index 1 has been deleted.
		/// </summary>
		DeletedShape1 = PxContactPairFlag::eDELETED_SHAPE_1,

		/// <summary>
		/// First actor pair contact
		/// The provided shape pair marks the first contact between the two actors, no other shape pair
		/// has been touching prior to the current simulation frame.
		/// Note: This info is only available if PxPairFlag::eNOTIFY_TOUCH_FOUND has been declared for the pair.
		/// </summary>
		ActorPairHasFirstTouch = PxContactPairFlag::eACTOR_PAIR_HAS_FIRST_TOUCH,

		/// <summary>
		/// All contact between the actor pair was lost.
		/// All contact between the two actors has been lost, no shape pairs remain touching after the current simulation frame.
		/// </summary>
		ActorPairLostTouch = PxContactPairFlag::eACTOR_PAIR_LOST_TOUCH,

		/// <summary>
		/// Internal flag, used by PxContactPair.extractContacts().
		/// For meshes / heightfields the flag indicates that the contact points provide internal triangle index information.
		/// </summary>
		InternalHasFaceIndices = PxContactPairFlag::eINTERNAL_HAS_FACE_INDICES,

		/// <summary>
		/// Internal flag, used by PxContactPair.extractContacts().
		/// The applied contact impulses are provided for every contact point.This is the
		/// case if PxPairFlag::eSOLVE_CONTACT has been set for the pair.
		/// </summary>
		InternalHasImpulses = PxContactPairFlag::eINTERNAL_HAS_IMPULSES,

		/// <summary>
		/// Internal flag, used by PxContactPair.extractContacts().
		/// The provided contact point information is flipped with regards to the shapes of the contact pair.
		/// This mainly concerns the order of the internal triangle indices.
		/// </summary>
		InternalContactsAreFlipped = PxContactPairFlag::eINTERNAL_CONTACTS_ARE_FLIPPED
	};
};


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Everywoman was a weekly radio magazine programme broadcast on the BBC World Service between March 1997 and April 2006. Billed as "for and about women", the programme covered a variety of social, political, environmental, and health issues from a woman's viewpoint. Everywoman was regularly presented by Anna Umbima, Jane Garvey, and Shyama Perera.

The song "Agolo" by Angélique Kidjo was popularised by its use as the programme's theme tune.

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The last highlight of the week was the world premiere of the new show at Friedrichstadtpalast: VIVID Grand Show. They have a new show every year, and I saw the last two shows, which were both amazing. I do love their shows and was excited to see the new one. I can't tell if I liked this one better than the past shows, but it was at least as great as the other ones. This time they even had a real storyline. If you are into shows and stuff like that, you should definitely consider seeing it when in Berlin 🙂 I can truly recommend it.


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Airdate: Star Trek: Lower Decks
Space, the funnest frontier, is coming to Amazon Prime.
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Animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks is headed to Amazon Prime Video across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan, India and more.
Ten episodes will screen from late January.
Despite being produced by CBS All Access in the US, this marks the second time a Star Trek title will screen through Amazon Prime in Australia and not 10 All Access (following Picard). That platform will also relaunch as Paramount+ in 2021.
Developed by Emmy Award-winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites), Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. The Starfleet crew residing in the "lower decks" of the U.S.S. Cerritos, includes "Ensign Beckett Mariner," voiced by Tawny Newsome, "Ensign Brad Boimler," voiced by Jack Quaid, "Ensign Tendi," voiced by Noël Wells and "Ensign Rutherford," voiced by Eugene Cordero. The Starfleet characters that comprise the ship's bridge crew include "Captain Carol Freeman," voiced by Dawnn Lewis, "Commander Jack Ransom," voiced by Jerry O'Connell, "Lieutenant Shaxs," voiced by Fred Tatasciore and "Doctor T'Ana," voiced by Gillian Vigman. The series includes special cameos by Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard actors Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as well as John de Lancie as Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The series is produced by CBS' Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios' new animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Secret Hideout's Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin and Roddenberry Entertainment's Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth, and Katie Krentz (219 Productions) serve as executive producers alongside creator and showrunner Mike McMahan. Aaron Baiers (Secret Hideout), who brought McMahan to the project, serves as a co-executive producer. Titmouse (Big Mouth), the Emmy Award-winning independent animation production company, serves as the animation studio for the series. Star Trek: Lower Decks airs on CBS All Access in the United States and is distributed worldwide by ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group.
Friday, January 22, 2021 on Prime Video.
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Freddie says:
December 21, 2020 4:30 pm at 4:30 pm
Another hit for 10 All Access. CBS10 really doesn't care a whole lot about it do they?
Thanks! I was literally hunting this down this morning and was frustrated it was only available on CBS's streaming service. I can wait a month.
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The ATLAS 5.5 GHz survey of the extended Chandra Deep Field South: The second data release
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Huynh, M.
Bell, M.
Hopkins, A.
Norris, R.
Seymour, Nick
Huynh, M. and Bell, M. and Hopkins, A. and Norris, R. and Seymour, N. 2015. The ATLAS 5.5 GHz survey of the extended Chandra Deep Field South: The second data release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454 (1): pp. 952-972.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
10.1093/mnras/stv2012
This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
We present a new image of the 5.5 GHz radio emission from the extended Chandra Deep Field South. Deep radio observations at 5.5 GHz were obtained in 2010 and presented in the first data release. A further 76 h of integration has since been obtained, nearly doubling the integration time. This paper presents a new analysis of all the data. The new image reaches 8.6 µJy rms, an improvement of about 40 per cent in sensitivity. We present a new catalogue of 5.5 GHz sources, identifying 212 source components, roughly 50 per cent more than were detected in the first data release. Source counts derived from this sample are consistent with those reported in the literature for S5.5 GHz > 0.1 mJy but significantly lower than published values in the lowest flux density bins (S5.5 GHz < 0.1 mJy), where we have more detected sources and improved statistical reliability. The 5.5 GHz radio sources were matched to 1.4 GHz sources in the literature and we find a mean spectral index of -0.35 ± 0.10 for S5.5 GHz > 0.5 mJy, consistent with the flattening of the spectral index observed in 5 GHz sub-mJy samples. The median spectral index of the whole sample is amed =-0.58, indicating that these observations may be starting to probe the star-forming population. However, even at the faintest levels (0.05 < S5.5 GHz < 0.1 mJy), 39 per cent of the 5.5 GHz sources have flat or inverted radio spectra. Four flux density measurements from our data, across the full 4.5-6.5 GHz bandwidth, are combined with those from literature and we find 10 per cent of sources (S5.5 GHz ? 0.1 mJy) show significant curvature in their radio spectral energy distribution spanning 1.4-9 GHz. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Deep 20-GHz survey of the Chandra Deep Field South and SDSS Stripe 82: source catalogue and spectral properties
Franzen, Thomas; Sadler, E.; Chhertri, R.; Ekers, Ronald; Mahony, E.; Murphy, T.; Norris, R.; Waldram, E.; Whittam, I. (2014)
We present a source catalogue and first results from a deep, blind radio survey carried out at 20 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, with follow-up observations at 5.5, 9 and 18 GHz. The Australia Telescope ...
Spectral properties and the effect on redshift cut-off of compact active galactic nuclei from the AT20G survey
Chhetri, R.; Ekers, Ronald; Mahony, E.; Jones, P.; Massardi, M.; Ricci, R.; Sadler, E. (2012)
Spectral index has been traditionally used to separate extragalactic radio sources into compact and extended populations, with the spectral transition placed variably between -0.4 and -0.6. We use high angular resolution ...
AMI radio continuum observations of young stellar objects with known outflows
Ainsworth, R.; Scaife, A.; Ray, T.; Buckle, J.; Davies, M.; Frantzen, T.; Grainge, K.; Hobson, M.; Hurley-Walker, Natasha; Lasenby, A.; Olamaie, M.; Perrott, Y.; Pooley, G.; Richer, J.; Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, C.; Saunders, R.; Schammel, M.; Scott, P.; Shimwell, T.; Titterington, D.; Waldram, E. (2012)
We present 16 GHz (1.9 cm) deep radio continuum observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) of a sample of low-mass young stars driving jets. We combine these new data with archival information from an ...


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Q: How do I make Visitor Pattern more extensible by making subtype elements require specific subtype visitors via generics? I have the following setup defined as follows:
public interface Element {
    public <R> R accept(Visitor<R> visitor);
}

public interface Visitor<R> {

}

class SpecificElement implements Element {
    @Override                                    // ERROR: didn't override accept in parent
    public <R> R accept(SpecificVisitor visitor) {
        return visitor.visitSpecificElement(this);
    }
}

class SpecificVisitor implements Visitor<Boolean> {
    public Boolean visitSpecificElement(SpecificElement element) {
        return true;
    }
}

How can I change the setup above such that I can require subtype SpecificElement to only accept SpecificVisitor and able to override parent class' accept method.
What I want to happen is to mandate that the implementing class SpecificElement will only accept visitors of type SpecificVisitor and nothing else, but still keep the signature of Element's type interface at Visitor.
UPDATE 1: I added the type parameter V extends Visitor<?> in Element, then extended it with SpecificElement extends Element<SpecificVisitor<?> and was able to get what I want (stricter  parameter types in method accept): <R> R accept(SpecificVisitor<?> visitor). However my problem now is that I want to determine the return type of the method accept based on the type parameter of the argument visitor (in this case ?). Changing ? to R causes compile error.
public interface Element<V extends Visitor<?> {
    public <R> R accept(Visitor<R> visitor);
}

public interface Visitor<R> {

}

class SpecificElement implements Element<SpecificVisitor<?>> {
    @Override
    public <R> R accept(SpecificVisitor<R> visitor) { // error in type parameter R in SpecificVisitor
        return visitor.visitSpecificElement(this);
    }
}

class SpecificVisitor implements Visitor<Boolean> {
    public Boolean visitSpecificElement(SpecificElement element) {
        return true;
    }
}

UPDATE 2: I would like to write a family of Visitors for a family of Elements without giving up type safety. Notice the use of same Visitor subtype for an Element subtree. For Example:
--- Element -> Visitor<R>
       |
       |---- SpecificElement -> SpecificVisitor<R>
       |            |
       |            |---------SpecificElementA -> SpecificVisitor<R>
       |            |
       |            |---------SpecificElementB -> SpecificVisitor<R>
       |
       |---- FancyElement -> FancyVisitor<R>
                    |
                    |---------FancyElementA -> FancyVisitor<R>
                    |
                    |---------FancyElementB -> FancyVisitor<R>

A: This can be accomplished, as long as you know your subtypes you want to use in advance. (You're using the visitor pattern, so you need to know all the element types in advance, anyway.) The important thing is to build your Visitor interface from the bottom up, not the top down:
public interface ElementVisitor<R> extends SpecificVisitor<R>, FancyVisitor<R> {
}

public interface Element {
    public <R> R accept(ElementVisitor<R> visitor);
}

Now Element subtypes will need a little boilerplate, so that they can implement the Element interface:
public abstract class FancyElement implements Element {
    public abstract <R> R accept(FancyVisitor<R> visitor);

    public <R> R accept(ElementVisitor<R> visitor) {
        return accept((FancyVisitor<R>) visitor);
    }
}

And then we can define the specific subtype visitors and elements:
public class FancyElement1 extends FancyElement {
    public <R> R accept(FancyVisitor<R> visitor) {
        return visitor.visit(this);
    }
}

public interface FancyVisitor<R> {
    public R visit(FancyElement1 e);
    // ...
}

… and repeat for SpecificVisitor.
Now you can define either a FancyVisitor that can only visit FancyElements, a SpecificVisitor that can only visit SpecificElements, or an ElementVisitor that can visit all Elements.

A: maybe this version will be usefull.
make Element interface generic
interface Element<V> {
    <R> R accept(V visitor);
}

and SpecificElement should be so:
public class SpecificElement implements Element<SpecificVisitor> {
    public <R> R accept(SpecificVisitor visitor) {
        return visitor.visit();
    }
}

note that Element_s generic type V is not strict type, there can be anything. implementor of Element interface, can write any class in it, even if it doesn't implement Visitor interface. this is the disadvantage of this code.

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Reading Acts
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About Reading Acts
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Israel Trips
Phillip J. Long
Book Review: Sidnie White Crawford, Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran
Crawford, Sidnie White. Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2019. 406 pp. + 8 pp of figures. Hb; $50. Link to Eerdmans
Sidnie White Crawford's new book on the Dead Sea Scrolls and their relationship to both Qumran and the Essenes is a clear presentation of what might be considered the current consensus view on these issues. She does not engage in any fanciful new theory to completely overturn previous scholarship. On the contrary, she present a reasonable thesis based on evidence draw from both the archaeology of Qumran and the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Crawford's Scribes and Scrolls won the American Schools of Oriental Research Frank Moore Cross Award for the most substantial volume related to the history and/or religion of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. She previously published Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times (Eerdmans 2008).
In the introduction Crawford says her goal in this book is to take the insights of the first generation of scroll scholars and combine them the more complete picture from ongoing archaeological studies and the complete publication of the scrolls and develop a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and the various caves in which documents were found. She argues in this volume there is enough evidence to identify the Qumran collection as a sectarian library and that the main purpose of the Qumran settlement was as an Essene scribal center and library (p. 16). As she observes later in the book, almost every aspect of the "Essene Hypothesis" has been challenged since the 1980s (p. 271).
The evidence for this conclusion is drawn from the archaeology of Qumran and its caves as well as a fresh survey of the contents of the library. Although the Qumran-Essene theory has been challenged, Crawford argues current understanding of the textual and archaeological evidence favors the view Essenes occupied Qumran prior to the destruction of the site by the Romans in 68 CE.
To achieve her goals, Crawford begins with two chapters on scribes and libraries in the Ancient Near Eastern (Mesopotamia, Egypt and Ugarit) and Mediterranean (Hellenistic and Roman) worlds. Scribes were involved at all levels of society. The transmission of literary texts necessarily involved revision and updating of texts. Unsurprisingly, she concludes it is difficult to identify a library room prior to the Roman period unless books are found in situ (p. 48). In fact, a library as a collection of books is a relatively late development.
With this background in mind, Crawford then surveys what can be known about scribes and libraries in Ancient Israel. With respect to libraries, the evidence is meager (perhaps in Jerusalem and Masada). By examining the biblical references to scribes she infers the scribe was associated with the royal court and like scribes in other Ancient Near Eastern contexts, families are associated with the profession (i.e. the family of Shaphan). She takes the reference in Jeremiah to the "false pen of the scribes" turning the Torah into falsehood (Jer 8:8) and the scribal collection of Solomon's proverbs (Prov 25:1) to suggest scribal activity in the temple and royal courts (p. 57). The evidence is better in the Persian period (539-332 BCE), with several inscriptions and papyri in addition to books like Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah produced in the period. The best data comes from the Hellenistic and Roman period (300 BCE-135 CE), including the Wisdom of Ben Sira, written by Jesus ben Sira, a professional scribe (p. 73). The book has a lengthy description of an ideal scribe (Sirach 38:34-39:11). The Enoch literature, Jubilees, the Aramaic Levi Document and Daniel are included in the evidence for scribal activity in this period. The New Testament is treated in an appendix to chapter 3. Crawford concludes the New Testament portrays scribes as "teachers, interpreters of Scripture, and experts in the Law of Moses (p. 111).
The second part of the book devotes three chapters to the archeological and textual evidence in the light of her description of scribes and their libraries. In chapter 4 Crawford catalogs the caves around Qumran and their contents. She divides the material by examine the the limestone caves as a group before moving on to the marl caves. This survey includes cave 53, recently excavated by Oren Gutfeld and Randall Price. Although the cave only produced one rolled up parchment and the remains of one had, Crawford suggests it is "profoundly for understanding the function of the limestone caves related to Khirbet Qumran" because the material assemblage resembles the other limestone caves , implying the jars were "taken to the caves at least since the first century BCE" (p.123). The purpose of storing scrolls in jars was for long-term storage, but not all the manuscripts can be considered burials of retired scrolls (contra Joan Taylor).
The man-made marl terrace caves were not intended for long-term habitation (p. 137) although they were used on a daily basis by the residents of Qumran (p. 164). Crawford suggests these caves functioned like a remote storage facility based on the likely presence of wooden shelves in Cave 4Q. Cave 4Q has a "working quality" (p. 260).
The difference between the limestone caves and the marl caves is not the content of the scrolls, but the function of the cave. For Crawford, there is overwhelming evidence the manuscripts in all eleven caves were one collection owned by one group of people (p. 156). One scribal hand is responsible for at least 54 manuscripts found in five different caves and one manuscript at Masada (p. 162). She surveys the contents of the caves and concludes the manuscripts were a "living collection" rather than deposited in the caves before Rome destroyed Qumran. The exception is material was "thrust helter-skelter into Cave 4Q in anticipation of the Roman attack" (p. 258).
Crawford revisits the archaeology of Qumran in chapter five, arguing Qumran was built to function as a scribal center and library for the Essenes in Judea (p. 166). Based on the archaeology of the site, it was not a fortress, although there was a watchtower and outer wall. Neither was Qumran a Hasmonean villa, even if the main building was "built on the footprint of a Hasmonean villa" (p. 214). There are no mosaic floors, frescos, swimming pools, or triclinium. She therefore concludes it was a community settlement occupied by Jewish men who engage in some small-scale industrial and agricultural work (p. 215). Since Jewish scribes in the Second Temple period were all male, that Qumran was a working library and scribal center explains the lack of archaeological evidence for women at the site (p. 319).
She then surveys the contents of the caves and concludes the manuscripts were a "living collection" rather than deposited in the caves before Rome destroyed Qumran. The exception is material was "thrust helter-skelter into Cave 4Q in anticipation of the Roman attack" (p. 258). With respect to the origin of the scrolls, it is likely the majority of the scrolls were copied elsewhere and brought to Qumran (p. 261), about 25% of the manuscripts predate the settlement at Qumran (p. 157). Although there was scribal activity at Qumran, the site was not engaged in large scale book production.
The final two chapters of the book draws conclusions based on the archeological and textual evidence amassed in chapters 4-6. First, Crawford revisits the Qumran-Essene Hypothesis by asking "Who Owned the Scrolls?" In order to answer the question, she first surveys the contents of the sectarian documents found in the library. From the rules documents (Serek Hayahad and the Damascus Document) she outlines admission procedures, organization and leadership roles, legal interpretations of Sabbath and purity laws, and the sharing of property. These sectarian documents also describe some practices of the community such as prayer and worship and living separate from all Israel. She only briefly discusses the theological topics of eschatology and predeterminism. Using Josephus's list of Jewish "philosophies," she concludes the only possible candidate for the owners of the scrolls is the Essenes. Although I agree with this conclusion, it is entirely possible a group Josephus ignores occupied Qumran. His "four philosophies" is not exhaustive of all sub-groups within Second Temple Judaism. For example, Enochian Judaism and perhaps even early Jesus-followers could be described as a Jewish sect even if it is not included in Josephus's list.
In the conclusion to the book Crawford outlines her "New Synthesis" and offers a suggested sequence of events which explains why the community hid their scrolls in the Qumran caves. Qumran was likely built with the permission of Alexander Jannaeus, explaining an enigmatic reference to the king in 4Q448. Qumran operated as a library until it was destroyed in 68 CE., serving Essenes who lived throughout Judea. This scenario avoids making the Essenes into an eschatological sect waiting for the last days in a desert monastery. On the contrary, the community functioned like a Roman library until the disastrous war with Rome destroyed the site.
Conclusion. Crawford's contribution to the study of Qumran and the manuscripts discovered in the Judean desert summarizes and build on previous scholarship and advances a modest proposal by comparing the collection at Qumran to Roman libraries. This is not a thorough introduction to either the Dead Sea Scrolls or the archaeology of Qumran, but there is more than enough detail for to support her contention the Essenes occupied the site at Qumran and the scrolls found in the nearby caves were their working library.
I noticed page 277-8 repeats verbatim material from page 227-8.
NB: Thanks to Eerdmans for kindly providing me with a review copy of this book. This did not influence my thoughts regarding the work.
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Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed share powerful message about spreading hate
By Jordan Appugliesi
For years, rumors have circulated that Nikki Reed and Nina Dobrev were in a feud over Ian Somerhalder. Dobrev and Somerhalder used to date, but after their breakup, when Somerhalder married Reed in 2015, the internet decided the pit all three against one another.
On Tuesday, Reed, Somerhalder and Dobrev took to Instagram to share a group photo from a recent get-together. Somerhalder and Dobrev just wrapped production on the series finale of The Vampire Diaries — which is coming to an end after eight seasons — and the cast has been spending a lot of time together.
While all three posted a group image, it was Reed who added a lengthy caption to the picture that took aim at gossip websites and tabloids for starting all the rumors. Reed wrote the following:
"For the last few years we thought addressing any baseless rumors with silence was the best way. ... I now see that silence was taken as an opportunity to fill in the blanks with even more falsities and juicer stories, and we, yes WE, believe we have a moral responsibility to young girls to end that narrative, because at the end of all of this, those young girls are the ones who lose."
Reed continued the inspiring message by suggesting it's time to finally put an end to those fake stories of "on-set jealousy, betrayal, made-up friendships lost and women hating women."
"Because at the end of the day, that's what this is about: teaching girls that you have to hate other girls only breeds a generation of women who believe you have to hate other women," she added.
The Twilight actress ended her post by asking for gossip sites to change the narrative of pitting women against each other. "When we write these headlines, we teach hate. I've seen it firsthand. Let's shift what we put into the universe starting now, and hopefully we will start to see a shift in the way we treat each other and view ourselves," she concluded her post.
Somerhalder echoed his wife's statement by sharing the same photo and writing, in part, "Let's stop spreading hate everyone, there's already too much of that right now in our world. Join in on the love. Only love here — always has been always will be."


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Huawei Announces the World's Smallest LTE Cat4 Mobile WiFi
Saturday, July 20, 2013 China, Huawei, LTE
Huawei introduced an LTE Category 4 Mobile WiFi device boasting top download speeds of up to 150 Mbps.
The new unit, which measures 99mm x 62.2mm x 14.4mm, offers 2x2 WiFi as well as 5 GHz coverage. The company states a a battery lasting up to 6 hours. It also features an auto offload function that can switch to a secure WiFi connection as soon as one becomes available.
"The new HUAWEI E5372 reinforces Huawei's position as a global LTE industry leader and joins its portfolio of world-class products, as the world's smallest LTE Cat4 mobile WiFi device," said Mr. Wu Shimin, President of the Mobile Broadband Product Line, Huawei Device. "The E5372 is further evidence of Huawei's continued commitment to the research and development of LTE technology and its global commercialization."
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>Crypto Characters: Hal Finney Was the Original Cypherpunk
Crypto Characters: Hal Finney Was the Original Cypherpunk
Those of you who are on the hunt for one of the most mysterious characters of our century, Satoshi Nakamoto, probably know very well who Hal Finney is: a cryptographer, computer scientist, contributor to bitcoin and the very first person Satoshi sent his newly-invented digital currency.
Julia Gerstein | Nov 27, 2020
Being a subscriber to the cypherpunks' mailing list, Hal Finney downloaded the bitcoin software on Jan.9, 2009, the day it was announced, and a week later received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto himself – to test the software.
This first transaction touched off numerous rumors, and even though both cryptographers were actively corresponding, some people in the community believe that Finney might have been bitcoin's creator.
There are various arguments in favor of and against this theory, but here's one interesting thing that happens in the life of every Satoshi-hunter:
Once you get through this who-is-Satoshi phase, you realize that there were a few more interesting cypherpunks surrounding him, and without their contributions, bitcoin would have never happened.
Hal Finney was one of those cypherpunks.
From Punch Cards to Blockchain
Have you noticed that a lot of people who tremendously impacted the world of technologies had early access to computers?
When Bill Gates was 13, a Seattle computer company offered to provide computer time for the students of Lakeside School, the one Gates was attending. The year was 1968. Steve Jobs saw his first computer in 1967 at the age of 12 when he joined the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club.
As for Hal Finney, he was introduced to his first PC early, too. He attended a high school in Arcadia, California, in the early 70s, and this school happened to have some early machines.
Hal started learning all about programming there, in particular about storing data on hard rectangular perforated cards.
His classmates often saw him walking down the corridors with a bunch of those perforated cards in his hand.
Attending Caltech, Discussing Philosophy
Hal Finney was a third child in the family of five, his mother was a housewife, his father was working for Union Oil of California for quite a long time, and they had to move a lot. But no matter where they lived, Hal was always into learning, reading and philosophical debates; his hobbies took the form of a discussion club later in college.
While attending Caltech, Finney gathered large audiences to engage in conversations on philosophy, politics and programming; college is also the place where he met his future wife, Fran.
Bitcoin's Early Days
Although he never had a passion for developing games, after graduation from Caltech, Finney spent some time developing Adventures of Tron, Armor Ambush, Astroblast and Space Attack for Mattel, an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California.
During the early 1990s, he became involved with the cypherpunk's mailing list and started posting there himself. He launched the first cryptographic-based anonymous re-mailer and helped Phil Zimmerman to develop the encryption program called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) that has later become the most popular e-mail encryption software in the world.
Initially, he wrote code for free, but Zimmerman got financial support and promoted Hal to senior software engineer at his newly-founded company later.
That being said, Finney had always been a cryptographic activist. He created the first reusable proof of work system (RPoW) before bitcoin in 2004.
It was based on Hashcash, the work of another cypherpunk Adam Beck and, in principle, was a foundation for Satoshi's proof-of-work algorithm.
Corresponding with Satoshi Nakamoto
In January 2009 Hal started corresponding with bitcoin's inventor in an attempt to run the software on his side:
>Hi Satoshi – I tried running bitcoin.exe from the 0.1.0 package, and >it crashed. I am running on an up to date version of XP, SP3. The >debug.log output is attached. There was also a file db.log but it was >empty.
Together with Satoshi, they managed to start the process, and he famously tweeted: "running bitcoin".
In his message to the bitcoin Forum on March 19, 2013, Finney wrote:
"When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I immediately grabbed on to it. I think I was the first Bitcoin user since Satoshi. We talked to Satoshi by e-mail, and when he sent me 10 coins as a test, I was the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction."
"Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at that time I thought I was dealing with a very intelligent and sincere young man of Japanese origin. I was lucky to know a lot of wonderful people throughout my life, so I pay attention to the signs of destiny" … "A few days later Bitcoin was working quite steadily, and I left him alone. Those were the days when the difficulty was one, and you could find blocks with the CPU without even using the GPU. Over the next few days, I got a few blocks, but I decided to unplug because my desktop PC (IBM) was overheating, and I was worried about the fan noise. In retrospect, I regret that I didn't keep up the good work, but on the other hand, I was extremely lucky to be at the very source. This is one of those examples of a half full and half empty glass."
Reintroduced to Bitcoin in 2010
When the network started running steadily, Finney stopped mining. Next time, he heard of bitcoin in late 2010. To his surprise, the payment system was not only still going but bitcoins had monetary value. The price climbed up to real money.
As he says, he dusted off his old wallet, discovering with a relief that his bitcoins were still there, and, then, he sent them to an offline wallet hoping that someday they would be something to his heirs.
He already knew that he was ill, so he started preparing for what his future had in store for him. Finney put bitcoins into the family's safe deposit for his tech-savvy son and daughter to access them in time.
Fiercely Optimistic Despite ALS Diagnosis
Hal Finney died, on August, 2014, at the age of 58, as a result of ALS, a progressive degenerative disease that paralized his body functions.
But Hal had always been very strong, physically and emotionally, he used to run marathons and the horrible diagnosis didn't break him. Here is the excerpt from the post he wrote a little over a year before he died:
"Today, I am essentially paralyzed. I am fed through a tube, and my breathing is assisted through another tube. I operate the computer using a commercial eyetracker system. It also has a speech synthesizer, so this is my voice now. I spend all day in my power wheelchair. I worked up an interface using an arduino so that I can adjust my wheelchair's position using my eyes.
It has been an adjustment, but my life is not too bad. I can still read, listen to music, and watch TV and movies. I recently discovered that I can even write code. It's very slow, probably 50 times slower than I was before. But I still love programming and it gives me goals. Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation."
In fact, Hal Finney was a very optimistic person, he believed in the future advancement of the technologies, and his faith was strong. He was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation after he died, and he had cryopreservation arrangements with the Alcor Foundation for over 20 years.
One thing's for certain, Hal's contributions to cryptocurrency will never be forgotten.
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Julia Gerstein
Julia Gerstein graduated from The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia as a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. She had been working as a reporter at a major news agency RIA Novosti and for The Rolling Stone Magazine before she got interested in Blockchain & Crypto. For the past three years, she has been covering news, creating analytical & educational blog posts and writing about fellow cryptonians. Julia's mission is to help readers find what they need, understand what they find and use what they understand appropriately.
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