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Population growth must stop, says Sir David Attenborough
http://talesfromthelou.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/population-growth-must-stop-says-sir-david-attenborough/
By Liz Thomas
Warning: Sir David Attenborough encouraged population growth control
Sir David Attenborough has warned that population growth must be stopped in order to offer a 'decent life' for all.
The wildlife broadcaster said people were shying away from accepting that the world's resources cannot sustain current levels of population growth.
'There cannot be more people on this Earth than can be fed,' he writes in the New Statesman.
'The sooner we stabilise our numbers, the sooner we stop running up the down escalator – and we have some chance of reaching the top; that is to say, a decent life for all.'
Sir David, 84, said the global population is over six billion and will hit nine billion in 30 years, but 'there seems to be some bizarre taboo around the subject'.
He warned of a 'perfect storm of population growth, climate change and peak oil production', leading to 'insecurity in the supply of food, water and energy'.
'We now realise that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all – the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on the planet,' he added.
'All these people, in this country and worldwide, rich or poor, need and deserve food, water, energy and space. Will they be able to get it? I don't know.'
Sir David said there was a 'taboo' tackling the subject and that people shied away from stating the fact that a world's resources cannot sustain current levels of population growth.
He said: 'There seems to be some bizarre taboo around the subject. This taboo doesn't just inhibit politicians and civil servants who attend the big conferences.
'It even affects the environmental and developmental non-governmental organisations, the people who claim to care most passionately about a sustainable and prosperous future for our children.'
Crowded: The global population is now more than six billion and is predicted to hit nine billion within 30 years
The 84-year-old praised controversial 18th century demographer Thomas Malthus, who argued that populations increase until they are halted by 'misery and vice'.
He added: 'The population of the world is now growing by 80 million a year. One and a half million a week. A quarter of a million a day.
'The government's chief scientist and the last president of the Royal Society have both referred to the 'perfect storm' of population growth, climate change, and peak oil production, leading inexorably to more and more insecurity in the supply of food, water and energy.'
Expert: Wildlife presenter Chris Packham spoke of 'too many' people
The global population is now in excess of six billion and is predicted to hit nine billion within 30 years.
Experts have predicted that the British population – which is currently around 62million – will increase to 70million by 2029.
A report by the sustainable development group Forum For The Future said Britain would struggle to handle such growth. The increase in population would be 'catastrophic' and put unsustainable pressure on housing, schools and hospitals as well as natural resources.
Current trends will see a city the size of Bristol added to the population of the UK every year for the next two decades.
Sir David's comments follow a similar warning from BBC wildlife expert Chris Packham.
The Springwatch presenter suggested offering Britons tax breaks to encourage them to have smaller families.
He effectively endorsed China's controversial one-child policy, which sees couples who adhere to the rule given a lump sum on retirement.
But he stopped short of suggesting people should be penalised for having too many children.
Packham, 49, who has no children of his own, told Radio Times: 'By 2020, there are going to be 70million people in Britain. Let's face it, that's too many.'
He added: 'There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other – namely the ever-increasing size of the world's population.'
Controversial: A woman and her child walk by a birth control propaganda poster in China, which has a one-child policy
Packham suggested offering couples a financial incentive as 'a carrot' to persuade them to have fewer – or no – children.
He said: 'I would offer them tax breaks for having small families: say, 10 per cent off your tax bill if you decide to stick with just one child. And an even bigger financial incentive if you choose not to have a family at all.'
'I question the way, for example, people have two children with one partner, then split up and have two with their next partner, just to even up the score.
'Fact is, we all eat food, breathe air and require space, and the more of us there are, the less of those commodities there are for other people and, of course, for the animals.'
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Earth could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say
World Population Growth Curve
http://in.news.yahoo.com/earth-could-be–unrecognizable–by-2050.html
Yahoo! India News – Tue, Feb 22, 2011 4:15 PM IST
The earth could become "unrecognizable" by 2050, if a growing affluent global population keeps consuming more resources, researchers warned at a major US science conference.
"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if the global population continues to increase, said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.
Meanwhile, as income is expected to rise over the next 40 years — tripling globally and quintupling in developing nations, people tend to consume more meat, eggs or dairy products, which would cost more grains to produce, adding more strain to global food supplies.
"We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning," said John Casterline, director of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State University.
It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, AFP reported.
"More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet," Jason Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.
Population experts called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.
[Agencies]
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Posted in Earth Changes | Tagged: Agence France-Presse, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Developing country, Ohio State University, Population Council, Population growth, South Asia, United Nations | Comments Off on Earth could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say


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Q: How to extract a particular text form a string with condition in jquery? How to extract a particular value form a textbox (string) and put it into another text box using j-query with condition in click event of a button?
I have two text box:
<input type="text" id="full-name" value="HYDERABAD[HYB]">
<input type="text" id="code-name" value="HYB">

Button :
<button type="button" id="submit">Search</button>

I have use code for button [submit] on click event:
$('#code-name').val($('#full-name').val().split("[")[1].split("]")[0]);

Up to this it work fine. Now I want to add a condition like, if full-name value contains with [...] then code-name value as above and  full-name value not contains [....] then code-name value will same as full-name.
Like:
<input type="text" id="full-name" value="HYDERABAD[HYB]">
<input type="text" id="code-name" value="HYB">
                   AND
<input type="text" id="full-name" value="HYDERABAD">
<input type="text" id="code-name" value="HYDERABAD">

Note that - code-name value will to convert to upper string if user type in lower case in full-name in both case. Sorry for bad english. How to I do this?

A:

$('#submit').on('click', function(e) {
  var mystring = $('#full-name').val();
  var matches = mystring.match(/\[(.*?)\]/);

  if (matches) {
    $('#code-name').val(matches[1].toUpperCase());
  }else{
$('#code-name').val(mystring.toUpperCase());
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="full-name" value="HYDERABAD[HYB]">
<input type="text" id="code-name" value="HYB">
<button type="button" id="submit">Search</button>

A: You can use javascript string indexOf function to see if a string contains another string as:
var fullname = $('#full-name').val();
var searchFor = 'string-to-search-in-fullname';
if(fullname.indexOf(searchFor) !== -1) {
    // fullname contains searchFor string
} else {
   // fullname not contain searchFor string
}

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Spy Kids ' Daryl Sabara Reflects on His Sobriety Journey
Elyse Dupre
January 25, 2023, 10:42 AM ·3 min read
Daryl Sabara is sharing his road to sobriety.
The Spy Kids alum recently reflected on his decision to stop drinking alcohol and smoking weed during an appearance on wife Meghan Trainor and her brother Ryan Trainor's Workin' On It Podcast.
"I feel good," he said during the Jan. 18 episode. "I feel great."
As Daryl explained, he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana after therapy helped him realize his triggers.
"Figuring out that being alone is kind of a trigger for me, I know now when I'm alone to be ready for the little bastard inside my head to be like, 'Hey buddy. It's just us now. What are we gonna do?'" he explained. "And that's huge to know that it's comin' instead of just being, like, going straight to booze or weed."
Daryl—who shares son Riley, 23 months, with the "Made You Look" singer—noted his sobriety journey wasn't an easy one, adding that he struggled to stop smoking weed.
"That was hard for me because there was no repercussions of weed," the actor said. "I never had like a bad experience on weed. It was only great."
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But the 30-year-old then revealed the advice his therapist gave him that helped him finally cut weed out of his life.
"She just said, 'If you wanna be on your A-game, maybe consider full sobriety,'" he recalled. "And I was like, 'What the f--k? Of course, I wanna be on my A-game.' She was like, 'You'd be surprised. A lot of people don't.' But that really sparked something in me to go, 'OK, you know what? Even though weed's not, like, necessarily bad for me right now, I don't need to keep testing it out to wait for it to get bad or to get in a bad spot. So, let's just try this full sobriety thing.'"
Daryl said weed was his "clutch" when going out to an event or concert and that it had also been his "coping mechanism" for dealing with childhood trauma.
"I would regulate with weed 'cause I had periods of time not drinking alcohol, but I was still smoking weed. So I still had that buddy that was like, 'It's OK dude. You're fine,'" he said. "And taking that away has made me so much more clear, and able to go like, 'OK, I'm feeling this, allow myself to feel it and then go from there.'"
During the episode, Meghan recalled a time she came home from work while she and Daryl were dating and found him smoking a cigarette when she didn't know he smoked.
"I saw Daryl in the backyard, I've dated him for a while now, know him so well, saw a f--king cigarette, I thought it was a lollipop, in his mouth, not even lit yet, about to light it," the Grammy winner, who wed Daryl in 2018, said. "He hears me. I go, 'What are you doing?' Puts it, hides it in his pocket like a toddler."
However, Daryl noted he appreciated Meghan calling him out, noting she makes "me a better person." And the couple continue to have open communication.
"I learned that with you, dating you," Meghan, 29, said. "After that I was like, 'You have f--king secrets from me?' And you were like, 'No, never!' So that worked."
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Am J Pathol. 2000 May;156(5):1653-62.
Immunocytochemical localization of metallothionein and its relation to doxorubicin toxicity in transgenic mouse heart.
Zhou Z1, Kang YJ.
Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, and Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
Previous studies using a cardiac-specific metallothionein-overexpressing transgenic mouse model have demonstrated that metallothionein protects the heart from doxorubicin toxicity. The present study was undertaken to determine cellular and subcellular distribution of metallothionein and located the antioxidant action of this protein in the transgenic heart. Using light microscopic immunoperoxidase method, it was identified that the overexpressed metallothionein is localized exclusively in cardiomyocytes. The electron microscopic immunogold method revealed that elevated metallothionein is in nucleus, myofibers, and sarcoplasm. In contrast with these distributions, metallothionein in nontransgenic myocardium was undetectable by immunoperoxidase light microscopy and was seldom found in nucleus and myofibers by immunogold electron microscopy. Treatment with doxorubicin induced cytoplasmic vacuolization and severe damages in myofilaments and nucleus in nontransgenic myocardium. The most prominent injury, however, occurred in mitochondria, including striking size and shape changes, focal swelling and loss of cristae. These damages were rarely found in the doxorubicin-treated transgenic myocardium. In particular, the internal morphology of mitochondria was maintained essentially normal, although metallothionein was not localized in this compartment in transgenic hearts. This study thus demonstrates that although the subcellularly localized action of metallothionein is important, it also plays a significant role in protection against oxidative injury by doxorubicin in remote organelles.
Photomicrographs of immunocytochemical localization of MT in atria and ventricles of nontransgenic and transgenic mice. Both atrium (A) and ventricle (B) in nontransgenic mice showed negative staining, whereas strongly positive staining was found in transgenic atrium (C) and ventricle (D). At high magnification of C and D, positive staining was seen exclusively on the cardiomyocytes in either atrium (E) or ventricle (F) and also found in the nucleus (arrowhead in F). Arrows indicate the same structure in C and E and in D and F. BV, blood vessel. Original magnifications, ×170 (A and B), ×65 (C and D), ×520 (E and F).
Immunocytochemical Localization of Metallothionein and its Relation to Doxorubicin Toxicity in Transgenic Mouse Heart
Am J Pathol. 2000 May;156(5):1653-1662.
Photomicrographs of immunocytochemical localization of MT in the cardiac blood vessels and valves of transgenic mice. Positive staining was observed in the pulmonary vein (A) and vena cana (B), but not in the pulmonary artery (C), aorta (D), or cardiac valves (C and D). Arrows in C and D indicate the direction of blood flow. PV, pulmonary vein; VC, vena cava; PA, pulmonary artery; Ao, aorta; PVa, pulmonary valve; AV, Aortic valve. Original magnification, ×130.
Photomicrographs of immunocytochemical localization of MT in the kidney, liver, and pancreas of nontransgenic and transgenic mice. In nontransgenic mice, the main staining sites of kidney were on the epithelia of distal convoluted tubules in the cortex (A) and thick limb of Henle's loop in the medulla (B). Positive staining in the liver (E) and pancreas (G) was on the hepatocytes and the acinar cells, respectively. The transgenic mice showed similar staining pattern in the kidney (C and D), liver (F), and pancreas (H) to the nontransgenic mice. Nuclear staining was observed on the acinar cells of pancreas (arrows in G and H). G, glomerulus; D, distal convoluted tubule; P, proximal convoluted tubule; H, Henle's loop; C, collecting duct. Original magnifications, ×260 (A−D) and ×520 (E−H).
Electron micrographs of cardiomyocyte ultrastructure and immunogold labeling of MT in nontransgenic and transgenic mice. No differences were found in the ultrastrucure of cardiomyocytes of nontransgenic (A) and transgenic (B) mice by conventional electron microscopy. MT immunogold labeling on the cardiomyocytes of nontransgenic mouse only demonstrated a few gold particles on the myofibers (C) and nucleus (D), as indicated by arrows. In transgenic mice, strong gold labeling was observed on the myofibers, sarcoplasm, and nucleus, but not on the mitochondria (E and F). Mf, myofiber; Mt, mitochondria; Nu, nucleolus. Original magnifications, ×21,000 (A and B), ×36,000 (C and D), and ×48,000 (E and F).
Electron micrographs of ultrastructural and EM-TUNEL observations on the cardiomyocytes of nontransgenic and transgenic mice treated with DOX. A−D and E−F represent the results of conventional electron microscopy and EM-TUNEL, respectively. Saline-treated nontransgenic myocardium showed normal ultrastructure (A). DOX-treated nontransgenic myocardium showed cytoplasmic vacuolization and mitochondrial damage (B) and myofilament disarray with loss of Z-band (C). However, no obvious ultrastructural changes were found in the DOX-treated transgenic mice (D). EM-TUNEL revealed fragmented DNA in the condensed chromatin structure (arrows) in the cardiomyocyte nucleus of nontransgenic (E), but not in the transgenic mice (F). Mf, myofiber; Mt, mitochondria; Nu, nucleolus. Original magnifications, ×15,000 (A−D) and ×20,000 (E and F).
Light microscopic TUNEL assay of DNA fragmentation in the hearts of nontransgenic and transgenic mice treated with DOX at a single i.v. injection of 15 mg/kg. Both saline-treated controls of nontransgenic (A) and transgenic (B) mice showed negative staining. Many positive cells were found in the heart of nontransgenic mice treated with DOX (C), whereas the positive cells were occasionally observed in the transgenic mice treated with DOX (D). Original magnifications, ×180.
Apoptosis/drug effects
Doxorubicin/toxicity*
Heart/drug effects*
In Situ Nick-End Labeling
Kidney/chemistry
Liver/chemistry
Metallothionein/analysis*
Metallothionein/genetics
Mice, Transgenic
Microscopy, Immunoelectron
Myocardium/chemistry*
Myocardium/cytology
Myocardium/ultrastructure
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Global race to fix critical computer errors | Northern Beaches Rating
By William Barge on	 December 11, 2021 Script Kiddies
Security experts around the world are trying to fix one of the worst computer vulnerabilities discovered in years, a critical flaw in open source code that is widespread in industry and government in cloud services and enterprise software.
"I have a hard time imagining a company that isn't at risk," said Joe Sullivan, chief security officer of Cloudflare, whose online infrastructure protects websites from malicious actors. Countless millions of servers have it installed, and experts said the fallout wouldn't be known for several days.
The New Zealand computer emergency team was one of the first to report that the bug in a Java utility for Apache servers, used to log user activity, was "active in the free" just hours after Thursday's public announcement and patch Wildlife "exploited was released.
The vulnerability with the name "Log4Shell" was rated on a scale from one to 10 with 10, the worst possible. Anyone with the exploit can have full access to an unpatched machine.
"The internet is on fire right now. People are scrambling for patches and there are script kiddies and all kinds of people trying to take advantage of it, "said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.
"It has been fully armed in the past 12 hours."
The vulnerability in the module of the Apache Software Foundation was discovered on November 24th by the Chinese technology giant Alibaba, the foundation announced.
Meyers expected computer emergency teams to have a busy weekend identifying all of the affected machines. The hunt is made more difficult by the fact that affected software can be contained in third-party programs.
Exploitation of the bug was apparently first discovered in Minecraft, an online game very popular with children and owned by Microsoft.
Meyers and security expert Marcus Hutchins said Minecraft users had already used it to run programs on other users' computers by pasting a short message in a chat box.
Microsoft said it released a software update for Minecraft users and "customers who apply the fix will be protected."
The researchers reported that they found evidence that the vulnerability could be exploited in servers owned by companies such as Apple, Amazon, Twitter, and Cloudflare.
Cloudflare's Sullivan said there was no evidence of his company's servers being compromised.
Apple, Amazon and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


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Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Spoiler Thread
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Re: Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Spoiler Thread
by panki on Mon 23 Jan 2017 - 1:01
@SanghaRen wrote: Sorry, it's not a spoiler, but it made me laugh. I just love Pablo's answer. I must say, I never stopped to think about it. I don't think she's shown any interest in men or women so far. Funny that the poster believes that PH not answering means it's confirmed. Maybe she can be whatever because it's just not important to the story?
I agree with you about this....maybe she is so occupied with her family troubles, her Mandalorian heritage and the revolution....that romance is just not a priority for her. I think this question arose because YouTuber Urban Acolyte made a video where he felt Sabine could be a lesbian...not based on anything per se....just what he would like to see happen.
Maybe it is the EU fan in me...but I want Sabine to become a canon version of Shae Vizsla, the Mandalorian bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes Mandalore the Avenger to unite her people (though Shae Vizsla lived in the Old Republic era and fought against the Eternal Empire).
And while I prefer Kanan-Hera to be the only romance in rebels, I recently developed a mild interest in a Sabine-Ezra romance.....partly because he obviously has feelings for her so it would be sad if they remained totally unrequited....but also because we don't see Mandos in the OT rebel faction I wonder whether Ezra might have to choose between being a jedi and a Mandalorian...which means he might leave the rebellion and hence survive the OT after all and not cause a continuity error.
panki
by panki on Wed 25 Jan 2017 - 3:03
Doea anyone else think the darksaber could be a canon version of the forcesaber from Dawn of the Jedi?
The forcesaber was an ancient rakatan weapon which channeled the dark side of the force and its owner became susceptible to the dark side with every use of the weapon. This weapon caused a schism in the jedaai order in legends. Pre Vizsla seemed to be a not so nice character....maybe Sabine will also become a darker character as she uses the darksaber.
by SanghaRen on Wed 25 Jan 2017 - 4:04
@panki
Absolutely. That's the first thought that came to my mind. I am kidding. Average SW Fan here I have no idea what rakatan means or who pre Vizsla is. Hello Wookieepedia.
I am honestly quite sure none of the Star Wars Rebels main characters are going to become really dark. Even if Sabine flirts with darkness, she will not become dark. I just do not think that this is the goal of the series. If you look at the dynamic of the series, nearly all episodes - except the ones working in pair - end up with a lesson to learn for one or more character(s). Last episode too. This is not the format of a series that is meant to grow darker. I think it will keep this family-friendly tone - I don't know how else to describe it - until the end.
If they follow TCW, which was also an animated TV show seen by kids, they can get pretty dark....for instance, when Maul decapitates Pre Vizsla with the darksaber, we see his head roll away... Also, Dave Filoni has said that not everyone will survive the series....so they definitely can go down a dark path.
But even if they decide to be family friendly, the darksaber can always be explored in movies or a novel....RO already hinted an imperial project with a name hinting the darksaber...I think it is dark sword....don't remember.
I think they can go dark, definitively. I just don't think any main character will go the whole Anakin/Vader way. Unless they go with the fact that their audience has grown and decide to focus on them. But then they might have to change the parental guidance. In Germany it's 6 for Rebels, 12 for TCW.
@SanghaRen wrote: @panki
I don't think they need to make the main characters go all dark etc., especially with the emphasis on exploring the middle ground in the force like the Bendu......but I also see a certain amount of darkness seeping in where Sabine might have to choose between loyalty to Mandalore and to the rebellion.....or maybe something happens to her brother (the rebels have a tendency to abandon their own in times of crisis- the RO team being a big example) and she leaves the rebellion....and Ezra might end up joining her, whether because of his feelings or because he sees flaws in the rebellion as well.
We need explanations to deal with plot holes as to why there are no Mandos in the rebellion, why Luke would be the last jedi when Kanan and Ezra existed just a few years before, why Kanan, Sabine and Ezra seem to be a forgotten chapter of the rebellion (Hera and Chopper appear in RO)....I am hoping it is not because they die....maybe that is why I am looking for an explanation....and the darksaber being a channel for the dark side means they leave the jedi way behind (it doesn't necessarily mean they turn evil).
But speaking of dark.....a few episodes back, they showed Murad Sumar getting blown up when Thrawn makes him operate a speeder he sabotaged and they showed bits of wreckage and his burnt up broken helmet landing on the ground, implying he was in bits and pieces all over the room....we even see the scorch marks in places (we've seen decapitations in previous seasons, Kanan's graphic blinding and the seventh sister get brutally killed by Maul).....I think they do make the show go really dark occasionally....but when they do, it is normally for the sake of a good story and not for shock value.
I guess I don't see it dark because it still ends well. At 6 you start watching also stuff that includes death, pain and sadness. It's part of the learning process. I think US is 7 for Rebels. I guess the difference is whether it's one scene or the whole episode that is gloomy. However it's quite a jump between age 6 and 12 or 7 and 13 in the US. As I said they might darken it, but will also get rewarded with a stricter PG. I read somewhere that TCW also started with a lower PG and then it was put higher because the tone became darker. It's true that Season 1 of Rebels seemed lighter and seasons 2 and 3 seem darker. I actually wonder if the PG can be changed in the course of a season.
I am sure they will explain some plot holes. PH is involved! I am just not convinced that it automatically means very bad things happen. To me leaving the Jedi way would actually be a good thing
Would be interesting to ask Filoni about whether the show will go darker to adapt to their audience growing up. I think PH once said TCW did not appeal to its audience anymore because said audience had grown out of watching such animated series.
Sorry, working in Marketing for some years now, I am curious about the demographics they target. Can't help it.
Actually your analysis of target demographic makes a lot of sense....I think maybe I am interpreting dark differently...but you're right about them always ending episodes on an optimistic note.....when I mean dark episodes, I was talking about isolated incidents that they throw in which make me wonder if I am watching a kid's show....but of course, they don't happen in every episode.
My thinking is that if Kanan and Ezra incorporate a bit of the dark side of the force (which doesn't mean something that has to end tragically), they wouldn't be jedi any longer...so they don't need to be killed off for continuity sake.... I also want to see more of how the rebellion weren't always the good guys ....or even if they were the good guys, they had bad elements in it....I don't think the rebellion was one unified cohesive group and am sure a lot of factions got disillusioned and left.....just one look at a couple of those cabinet ministers in RO should tell us that some of them were quite mean....so I feel a great way to explain people not being around is because they got sick of how things were run and left....or maybe they even turned a bit dark because of it (in the case of Sabine, Kanan and Ezra).
I am also sure Disney/LF will sort out the continuity eventually..... but where is the fun in waiting for the answer without speculating how it will be done?
It's a good point about the Rebellion. We haven't seen much division yet except for Saw but that was one episode and it was, I guess, a bonus. It'd be interesting to see someone creating trouble in the Rebellion to mirror Kallus being the Fulcrum.
Other topic: were that convorees watching over Sabine's training? To the left of the screen. One comes flying in at the beginning of the scene. If there are convorees, does it make sense there are 3 of them if we go with convor = Ahsoka? I guess there could be normal ones and special ones. Or it's a gathering of non Jedi force user spirits.
by panki on Thu 26 Jan 2017 - 14:01
I'm not sure how it works in canon but in the EU the Nightsisters believe in a parallel spirit world with departed souls becoming plant and animal spirits depending on their totem animal (and they are powerful in that form)...this is the closest parallel I can find to the convorees (in Rebels and TCW) and fireflies that guided Yoda with Qui Gon's voice (in TCW)......the convorees in the Sabine episode dont have the orange and white colour of the convor thought to be Ahsoka.....so you could be right- they might be the souls of other departed force users.....my theory is that they might be the souls of the three jedi padawans who were killed in the "Padawan Lost' episode of TCW as they were hiding with Ahsoka and convorees were first introduced in that episode.
by SanghaRen on Sun 29 Jan 2017 - 21:29
Maybe it will never be explained what or who the convorees are in that scene. Maybe it's just to tease the fans and lead them to speculate I just thought it was strange to see one of them fly in like that because your eyes are obviously following it as it joins the two others. A way to say "look, convorees!". I mean, I noticed them and I usually miss such things.
Look at my 2 new companions. This is it. I am not allowed to buy SW merchandizing until the Convention and even then, only if it's something really awesome.
by jakkusun on Tue 31 Jan 2017 - 12:41
@SanghaRen this is for you (since we were talking about how cool it would be for Hera and Thrawn to fight in hand-to-hand combat)
https://drawingsbyleigh.tumblr.com/post/156602557143/hera-v-thrawn-inspired-by-a-discussion-i-had
(and yeah this is my art...I'm not very good yet)
jakkusun
by SanghaRen on Wed 1 Feb 2017 - 1:43
@jakkusun wrote: @SanghaRen this is for you (since we were talking about how cool it would be for Hera and Thrawn to fight in hand-to-hand combat)
Thank you Come on, this is already very good. I love how focused Hera looks : "You are going down, Thrawn!". You should send it to Dave Filoni. I think he really likes when fans show appreciation for the show.
What are you using? Pencils? I should practise too, but I am more into self-portraits. The type no one wants to see anyway But then I draw for myself. I tried to do smaller and quicker cartoon-like drawings but I think I am just not good at it and I get annoyed very fast too. The only cartoon-like drawings I used to do was Garfield, but that was years ago and I was then drawing greeting cards for family and friends. I tried some time ago to draw Garfield again and realized that I don't remember how to draw him. My cousins and I once did for our grandma's birthday a collection of comic-like drawings of each member of the family. That was quite a lot of work. Each one got 4-5 people to draw with a specific story behind it - I drew for instance one uncle as The Thinker. It was so much fun and was unique - you could really see the 4 different styles. It's kind of sad that nowadays we just buy stuff instead of making stuff. Sorry, I am getting carried away in nostalgia-land.
Keep up the good work! And really you should tweet it to Dave Filoni.
by FrolickingFizzgig on Wed 1 Feb 2017 - 1:45
I love it, @jakkusun!
Just keep practicing. I always wished I had continued with art. I guess it's not too late.
FrolickingFizzgig
@FrolickingFizzgig wrote: I love it, @jakkusun!
No, you're definitively too old...
by jakkusun on Wed 1 Feb 2017 - 5:18
thank you @SanghaRen and @FrolickingFizzgig
It's too bad Dave Filoni hasn't been super active on Twitter lately, but maybe I'll still try tweeting it to him.
I'm using the procreate app on an iPad mini with a stylus. Self portraits are the best for practicing making your art more accurate I think because looking in the mirror is a convenient reference. I totally agree with you about making your own cards and things--it's way more meaningful.
Trailer for the next episode.
https://youtu.be/tPgjXMi_1qE
I really have to admit something here : I don't get the fascination for Mandalorians. I see many fans expressing the wish to see more of them and I am left scratching my head. Maybe it's because I missed some other SW material, but with what I've seen so far, they look to me as a people that loves to fight too much and (blindly?) follows the guy with the sword. Wasn't Revan's partner a Mandalorian? I know, I know, it's not canon. Can someone explain to me what it is I am missing to join the club of Mandalorians fans?
by panki on Wed 8 Feb 2017 - 8:07
@SanghaRen wrote: Trailer for the next episode.
I like the Mandalorians...wouldn't say I love them but there is something nice about stories about warrior cultures....I'm taking a guess here but maybe people like them because they're a bunch of non-force sensitives who are some of the best warriors in the galaxy, don't fear force users like the jedi and try to live by a strict code of honor (with some exceptions). They were also a very inclusive culture and allowed any person, irrespective of species or planet, to join their group as long as they followed the Mandalorian way of life....that and the cool costumes probably make them very appealing to some.
Revan's partner/apprentice Malek wasn't Mandalorian...both of them defied the jedi council to help the old republic fight the Mandalorians as the republic was being roundly defeated by them.
I could definitively see the cool costumes as part of the appeal . It's not my thing, but who am I to judge when I have a fascination for the twi'leks lekku. I don't dislike Mandalorians, I just do not care much for them. But the reasons you mention do make sense. The people no one seems to be able to defeat except themselves when they have their clan battles...
I am bad with names, but I was thinking about Revan's partner in the eponymous book. Somehow I always remember his wife's name Veela, but not his. I just checked and it's Canderous. They're both Mandalorian.
by TheBastardofMandalore on Wed 8 Feb 2017 - 12:11
@panki wrote:
I agree, the Mandos are a fun group. They could hold their own against the Sith and Jedi (not canon, I know) and yet had no special powers except for sheer will. They have a very ancient Viking-esque culture that resonates with some people I guess. They even had dragons, once upon a time, called Mythosaurs (see my profile pic). Who doesn't love dragons? Kind of like the Targaryens of the SW universe. Their armor is bad a** too.
TheBastardofMandalore
Localisation : California (USA)
by spacebaby45678 on Wed 8 Feb 2017 - 13:59
@TheBastardofMandalore wrote:
@TheBastardofMandalore
I read an exchange between a fan and Pablo, the fan had a pretty good theory that Mandos are hiding their force sensitives from the Jedi. Pablo did not confirm, but I thought it was an interesting thought.
spacebaby45678
by SanghaRen on Thu 9 Feb 2017 - 3:16
They had dragons? Now I am interested. I LOVE dragons. Bring the dragons back in the canon! At the same time, it would become too close to typical fantasy stories so maybe not such a good idea unless they star-wars-ize them. Somehow your profile dragon reminds a little bit of Luke's tauntaun but with bigger teeth.
I am not a GOT fan. I tried because I love fantasy stories and I was expecting a lot more fantasy aspects to it, but I realized that it's very much a rough middle age story with too much incest and violence to my taste. Still, I tried because of the dragons and the wolves, but I can't stand harm being done to animals even in fiction. Usually I stop watching as soon as an animal gets hurt - speaking of tauntaun, my heart was broken when it died. So first time I tried to watch an episode, one guy wanted a wolf's head on a pike and they started to chase the wolf. Gone I was. I tried a second time because of the hype. And here came a scene where the 3 dragons were locked up in a cellar and cried for their human mother as she closed the door. And gone I was again. I do watch the dragon scenes on YouTube and that's all I know and care about when it comes to GOT
by TheBastardofMandalore on Thu 9 Feb 2017 - 9:31
@spacebaby45678 wrote:
@spacebaby45678
Ooh, that's very interesting! Pabs silence on the issue might be kind of telling too.
by TheBastardofMandalore on Thu 9 Feb 2017 - 10:59
@SanghaRen wrote: @TheBastardofMandalore
Yeah, GoT is tough to watch sometimes. I hate it when animals, even fictional ones, are hurt too. I remember watching ROTJ with my parents for the first time when I was little and I crying when the Rancor was killed by Luke. Since then I have always had an aversion to the Skywalkers. They are horrible to animals. Obi-Wan on the other hand loves animals. He even has a herd of Banthas on Tatooine that he calls his family...and he named them all too (yes, it's canon). It's so sweet and horribly depressing at the same time. That poor man...
Here's the synopses for the remaining 7 episodes. Looks promising. But I am kind of disappointed that the Maul vs Kenobi confrontation might only be one episode. Still, I can't wait. http://screenrant.com/star-wars-rebels-season-3-episodes-descriptions-thrawn-maul/
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Rediscovering optical sound, an invention of the 1920's originating in film and employed in early synthesizers, Mariska de Groot provides the technology with a life of it's own, creating machinery that openly reveals it's functioning.
The Lumisonic Rotera' is a comprehensive instrumentarium conducted by Mariska de Groot, generating a mesmerizing light-is-sound projection performance in space. Light is projected on spinning wheels holding perforated graphical patterns, so the light filtering through the wheels is picked up by optical sensors and converted into audible frequencies. Physically re-placing and manipulating the objects in space, the constructivist forms of light and sound projected into the surrounding space are in a continuously changing composition. Seeing the sounds not used, the mind can try to grasp this full potential by drawing its own trajectories of sound and image, fueled by the abundance of 'left' projection.
The instrument is fully analog and doesn't use any computer or [digital] modulation.


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Fall Fest World connects clubs, organizations in retro video game platform
The virtual husky navigates toward the Academic Enrichment booth.
Jessica Silverman, deputy campus editor
Northeastern hosted its first-ever Fall Fest World today to introduce all of the different student organizations offered on campus. Due to COVID-19 concerns, the university decided to move the traditionally in-person event to a video game-like format, where students roam around as a husky character to various booths to get information on clubs.
The event had three shifts to accommodate students from different time zones: 7 to 9 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m Eastern Standard Time. The clubs were organized by categories, such as leadership and governing, club sports and performing arts. When students clicked on a virtual booth, they were presented with a brief description of the organization, photos, videos and the opportunity to join a live chat with members of the club.
Marty Sullaway, a first-year electrical and computer engineering major, initially joined the 7 to 9 a.m. session, but found that more clubs were available for Zoom chats in the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. session. Sullaway explored clubs such as the Wireless Club, Northeastern Hillel and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.
"All the clubs I talked to seemed really well-informed and excited, and everyone wanted to welcome you which was awesome," Sullaway said.
The site also featured a two-hour-long video of different clubs on campus. Forty-five student organizations, including the Nor'easters acapella group and NUDANCO dance company, performed on the Blackman Auditorium stage in pre-recorded videos.
"It was really cool because it highlighted a lot of different things on campus that I'm not sure if I would find naturally myself," Sullaway said. "It was cool to force myself to be exposed to that."
First-year computer science and design major Leroy Shaigorodsky shared Sullaway's views on Fall Fest World. While he wasn't able to attend many of the club Zooms due to scheduling conflicts, he felt that Fall Fest World was a unique and enjoyable experience.
"Fall Fest was definitely probably different than how it was done before, but I did think it had a little bit of its charm in how the website was set up," Shaigorodsky said.
Shaigorodsky believed Northeastern still found a way to make the event engaging for students overall.
"Given the circumstances, it was a fairly nice kind of event. Considering what they could have done and what would have been the easier way out to do this, I think what they put in the product was very satisfying."
Sullaway appreciated the opportunity to learn about different organizations coming into his first year at Northeastern.
"It sucks that we have to be like this, but [Fall Fest World] was really good considering where we are in the world," he said. "I think it was well-pivoted."
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OK, it's garlic and it's for your sandwich. It seems so simple but there is a perfect blend of rich garlic flavor, umami and slight saltiness from the parmesan and sweetness from the honey. It takes just a bit to make your sandwich amazing.
This recipe makes great leftovers and will keep for about a week in the refrigerator. Keep it in a tightly sealed container so that foods around it do not pick up a garlic flavor. Note that cooking time does not include chilling time.
Cut the stem end off of the bulb of garlic.
Place 1 teaspoon of olive oil in a small sauce pan with a lid.
Place the garlic in the pan cut side down.
Cover and place in the oven for 40 minutes. Remove and let cool.
Peel the garlic and place in a blender or mini-chopper with the remaining olive oil, parmesan and honey.


Lim Chin Hoang,18; Wong Jiunn Woei, 18; Ko Boon Hao, 20, Lom Zhi Hao, 23, and the four juveniles, aged between 15 and 17, nodded their head after the charge was read out to them before Magistrate Azureen Sahira Saufee Afandi.
However, no plea was recorded from all of them.
They were charged with participating at an unlawful gathering for the prosecution of a common objective which was to murder Chia Min Yong, 21, at Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) Kuo Kuang 1, Taman Ungku Tun Aminah here at 12.30 pm last Nov 11.
The five men were charged with committing an offence under Section 149 of the Penal Code and upon conviction, could be punished under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder, which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
One of the, Lim, was also charged under Section 324 of the Penal Code with voluntarily causing hurt with a knife on Heng Wei Lun, 15, at the same place, time and date.
The court set Dec 19 for mention.
The prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutor Abdul Jalil Salam Muhamad, whikle all the accused were unrepresented.
Meanwhile, in another Magistrate's Court, six men, including four juveniles aged 14 and 15, pleaded not guilty to possession of weapons while rioting at a national-type Chinese school at Taman Ungku Tun Aminah here at 12.30 om last Nov 11.
Tay Boon Lay and Ooi Boon Jet, both 18, as well as the juveniles, were charged under Section 148 of the Penal Code, which provides an imprisonment for up to five years or fine, or both, if found guilty.
Magistrate Noor Aisyah Ahmad set Dec 19 for mention.
Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Ghazali prosecuted, while the six accused were unrepresented.


Join the Chapter to ring in the Holidays at the 11th annual Salute to Soldiers Holiday Celebration. This event includes Caroling, Buffett dinner, DJ music, Santa and Mrs. Claus, professional photographer (free), dancing, and gifts for the kids. Don't miss this great family holiday event open to all Service Members, Military Civilians, and Family members - active, reserve, and retired. The Holiday celebration, held at the historic Fort Belvoir Officer's Club, is one of the ways that the Chapter shows its appreciation for the hard work and sacrifice of our Soldiers, Army Civilians, Army Families, and all Veterans.
Can't atttend but want to donate toys for the kids, become an event sponsor, or provide raffle items, please contact Nancy Jean-Louis, 703-586-0781; moetze1@yahoo.com or see the ticket options.
The event is located at the Fort Belvoir Officers Club and as such attendees must possess appropriate Federal or military ID to gain entrance. Those without will have to use Tully gate and gain access through the Visitors Center. Parking is available at the Officer's Club.
You are not expected to bring anything, this party is for you and your family.
Refunds will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
Sure but we would like to know before hand.