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Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships (EXPIRED)
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Job category Visiting fellowship / Professorship / Fixed term
AOS Open
Organization's reference number 12522
Location Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Start date fall 2020
The University Center for Human Values at Princeton University invites applications for Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships for the academic year 2020-21. Fellows devote an academic year in residence at Princeton to research and writing about topics involving human values in public and private life. This full-time visiting program is open to scholars in all disciplines provided their research plans qualify. In recent years fellows have been drawn from fields including philosophy, political theory, literature, history, classics, economics and law, but this list is not meant to be exhaustive.
Fellows are expected to reside in or around Princeton and to be active contributors to the intellectual life of the Center. This includes participating in a weekly seminar attended by fellows and Center faculty to discuss work in progress and in various other seminars, colloquia and lectures sponsored by the Center. Fellows enjoy access to Firestone Library and to a wide range of activities throughout the University.
Candidates must have a doctorate or equivalent professional degree and a strong record of research publications appropriate to their career stage. Typically Fellows hold faculty positions at other universities or colleges; in exceptional cases we consider applications from independent scholars when there is a high level of scholarly achievement. This is not a postdoctoral fellowship program and we do not generally consider candidates who will have held the Ph.D. for less than two years at the time of appointment.
The fellowship period is anticipated to begin on September 1 and run for the academic year. Fellows normally receive stipends of up to one-half their academic-year salaries (subject to a minimum and maximum set each fall). Ordinarily their home institutions provide a portion of their salaries in addition to all benefits, although this is not a requirement for appointment. Stipends for independent scholars will not exceed the maximum for fellows holding appointments elsewhere.
The main considerations in the evaluation of applications are the following:
The significance of the proposed research and its relevance to the purposes of the University Center for Human Values (see http://uchv.princeton.edu/ for more information);
The quality of a candidate's previous research and the contribution the candidate is likely to make in the future through teaching and writing;
The likelihood that the research would benefit from being conducted in the University Center environment.
Candidates must submit an online application at https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/12522 The following materials will be required: 1.	A curriculum vitae; 2.	A scholarly paper (of no more than 12,000 words, not including bibliography) written in the past three years; 3.	A statement (of no more than 1,500 words) describing the proposed research project and including a brief working title for the project; and 4.	Contact information for three referees, including at least one who was not a graduate advisor. Referees will be contacted directly with instructions for uploading letters of reference. These materials must be submitted online by the application deadline of Monday, November 4, 2019, 11:59 p.m. EST. We do not accept application materials by any other method. Letters of reference should be submitted by end of business day on Monday, November 11, 2019. The selection committee begins reviewing applications immediately so letters of reference received after the priority deadline may put candidates at a disadvantage. Decisions are expected to be announced in late March 2020.
Web address to apply https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/applic...
Hard deadline November 4, 2019, 11:59pm EST
Web address for more information https://uchv.princeton.edu/fellowships-awards/laur...
Contact name Regin Davis
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has passed tantalisingly close to Saturn's pitted, icy Dione moon.
The probe was within 321 miles (516 kilometres) of Dione on 16 June, the US space agency said.
Cassini will have an even closer encounter with the moon on 17 August, when it's expected to swoop within 295 miles (474 kilometres) of Dione.
However, this won't be the probe's closest flyby: in December 2011, Cassini was just 60 miles (100 kilometres) above the moon, NASA said.


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Fast quantum modular exponentiation
Rodney D Van Meter, Kohei M Itoh
Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics
We present a detailed analysis of the impact on quantum modular exponentiation of architectural features and possible concurrent gate execution. Various arithmetic algorithms are evaluated for execution time, potential concurrency, and space trade-offs. We find that to exponentiate an n-bit number, for storage space 100n (20 times the minimum 5n), we can execute modular exponentiation 200-700 times faster than optimized versions of the basic algorithms, depending on architecture, for n=128. Addition on a neighbor-only architecture is limited to O(n) time, whereas non-neighbor architectures can reach O(logn), demonstrating that physical characteristics of a computing device have an important impact on both real-world running time and asymptotic behavior. Our results will help guide experimental implementations of quantum algorithms and devices.
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Published - 2005 May
Van Meter, R. D., & Itoh, K. M. (2005). Fast quantum modular exponentiation. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 71(5), [052320]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052320
Fast quantum modular exponentiation. / Van Meter, Rodney D; Itoh, Kohei M.
In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 71, No. 5, 052320, 05.2005.
Van Meter, RD & Itoh, KM 2005, 'Fast quantum modular exponentiation', Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 71, no. 5, 052320. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052320
Van Meter RD, Itoh KM. Fast quantum modular exponentiation. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2005 May;71(5). 052320. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052320
Van Meter, Rodney D ; Itoh, Kohei M. / Fast quantum modular exponentiation. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2005 ; Vol. 71, No. 5.
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Pineoblastoma is a cancerous (malignant) tumor that develops in the pineal gland. The pineal gland is located in the brain and makes the hormone melatonin to regulate the body's sleep patterns. Pineoblastoma is a type of primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). Pineoblastoma mainly affects children, but can also occur in adults. Treatment of pineoblastoma includes surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
Because pineoblastomas are quite rare, the exact cause of these tumors is not yet known. Most are thought to occur by chance (sporadic cancer). However, there is some evidence that a small proportion of pineoblastomas may be caused by an inherited predisposition, meaning that changes (mutations) in a gene inherited from a parent may increase the chance that a pineoblastoma could develop. Mutations in the RB1 gene are known to cause an increased risk for pineoblastoma.
Only a small proportion of pineoblastomas are thought to be inherited. Of the inherited pineoblastomas, most are associated with changes (mutations) in the RB1 gene, which are usually associated with an increased chance of developing eye tumors known as retinoblastomas. A few articles have suggested that inherited changes in the APC gene, which are usually associated with an increased chance to develop colon cancer and brain tumors, might contribute to the development of a small number of pineoblastomas. There has been a report of a mother and daughter both developing pineoblastoma, which suggests that there may be other inherited causes of this tumor.
Standard treatment for pineoblastoma begins with surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible. Surgery is followed by radiation therapy, which aims to destroy any cancer cells that may remain near the original location of the tumor, and chemotherapy, which is designed to kill any cancer cells that may have traveled to other parts of the body.
ClinicalTrials.gov lists trials that are related to Pineoblastoma. Click on the link to go to ClinicalTrials.gov to read descriptions of these studies.
Li MH, Bouffet E, Hawkins CE, Squire JA, Huang A. Molecular genetics of supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors and pineoblastoma. Neurosurgical Focus. 2005; 19:E3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16398467. Accessed 12/12/2011.
Tate MC, Rutkowski MJ, Parsa AT. Contemporary management of pineoblastoma. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 2011; 22:409-412. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21801990. Accessed 12/12/2011.
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Grandma holds suspect at gunpoint until police arrive
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. -- A 75-year-old grandmother held a wanted man at bay with her rifle until police arrived at her home in Limestone County, Alabama.
"I walked out and said, 'Can I help you?' and he said, 'Yes, ma'am, I'd like to use your phone.'"
According to WAAY-TV, that was the conversation between Marcia Black and Cameron Powers, a suspect who had been on the run after crashing a stolen car on E & L Lane near Black's home.
"I was just calm as could be. I knew what I was doing," Black said. "I was in control."
Black spoke with the wanted man from her front porch, rifle in hand.
"I wanted to keep him at a distance," she said. "I didn't intend to kill him. I just wanted him to think that I would shoot him."
But as the man inched closer to her house, Black says she reacted to keep the grandkids inside her home safe.
"He wouldn't get down, so I shot in the air, and he realized I meant business, so he got down on his knees," she said.
Deputies arrived at the home shortly after Black's granddaughter called 911.
"He feared the deputy more than he feared my rifle," Black said. "He jumped up and ran zig-zag right across the field."
Powers didn't make it far before he was detained and handcuffed.
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Home > Opinion > Thailand's Leaders Can't Afford Confrontation
رابط المصدر: https://english.aawsat.com/node/2575091
Thailand's Leaders Can't Afford Confrontation
Tuesday, 20 October, 2020 - 08:45
Clara Ferreira Marques	[1]
Anti-government marchers have been gathering across Thailand in defiance of a state of emergency, and their list of demands now stretches to include reining in the powerful monarchy. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha has indicated he wants to talk. He could do with listening, too.
Discontent has simmered since a March 2019 election, but gathered steam late in the year with the disqualification of opposition leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and the subsequent dissolution of his party. With few concessions and despite multiple arrests, restlessness has intensified and student-led protests have broadened. Former junta leader Prayuth has few useful options in his normal toolkit. A glance at the ailing $500 billion-plus economy provides one good reason for officials to show flexibility.
Thailand was worryingly sluggish even before the pain inflicted by 2020, thanks to unimpressive productivity growth, the Sino-US trade war, severe drought and its stubbornly strong currency. The coronavirus has hit tourism especially hard. The country has since done better than most neighbors in containing the pandemic, with the exception of Vietnam, but the aftermath has been painful. Now, the prospect of prolonged unrest risks spooking businesses and consumers, whose confidence has only just begun to recover. Tourists, who contribute roughly 20% of gross domestic product, may stay away even if restrictions slowly begin to ease.
In the latest escalation, the government ordered emergency measures last week that ban gatherings of five or more people and news considered detrimental to national security, and used water cannon to disperse the crowd. Nonetheless, tens of thousands of people came together again at the weekend. Now, authorities are threatening to censor troublesome media, too.
Protest is hardly new. The Southeast Asian country has seen about a dozen coups and many unsuccessful attempts since the transition to constitutional monarchy in 1932. The economy does recover, but the bounce has grown less pronounced as underlying, untended structural woes from labor to education and infrastructure linger. Analysts at Capital Economics point out that private investment, excluding housing, has yet to reach levels seen before the 2014 coup that first put Prayuth at the helm.
Equity investors are certainly not sticking around. The benchmark SET index has declined by almost a quarter this year, making it one of the worst performers in the region, with consumer stocks particularly dented. Foreigners have already pulled, net, more than $9 billion from domestic equities in 2020 — exceeding 2018's record annual outflow. Though admittedly easing some concerns about Thai competitiveness, the baht currency has gone from outperformer to one of Asia's weakest in 2020.
The trouble is that it's difficult to envision how the government's next steps can help either the economy or future stability. During his time in office, Prayuth has shown no hint of pliability or instinct for radical reform, even when he had untrammeled power as junta leader. Equally, his government appears unsure how to deal with a leaderless popular movement that will be hard to silence in the age of social media. One credible option is returning to charter reform, given one of the protesters' demands is rewriting a constitution drafted by a military-appointed panel after 2014. So far, that effort has stalled as lawmakers instead want to vet plans submitted earlier. At best, it would buy time. The worst case would be lethal violence that has periodically suppressed protests over the decades.
Even harder to see is how the monarchy would make concessions to those protesters who want to see a more democratic version of the institution, with the king, who spends most of his time in Germany, separating his wealth from the crown's assets and relinquishing control over some army units. They also want to see laws that punish insulting the monarch scrapped. Yet the issue is divisive, even among demonstrators.
Without efforts to foster a truce, let alone tackle deep divisions within Thai society, instability will continue. That's a worryingly open-ended distraction for a government expecting to see the economy post its worst drop on record this year.
Growth — and investors — won't return in earnest until that changes.
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DESIGN PREFERENCE- A designer should keep in mind whether the person is male or female for whom you are designing that would make the work easier and the piece can be designed accordingly.
Occasion and Theme- After deciding the type of jewellery a designer should identify client's interest in design. The design must be on those themes by keeping the latest trend in mind. Along with this, the occasion on which customer is going to dress in it matters a lot, it may be Engagement, Wedding, Birthday, Anniversary, Valentine's Day, Diwali, Eid, Christmas, official meets etc.
Size of Jewellery- Some jewellery pieces needed a particular size to wear i.e. Ring, Bangles, Bracelets, Necklaces, etc. Ring Use a ring that fits you to settle on your ring size. The length of the Bracelet to buy is determined by the size of the wearer's wrist and size of the beads in the bracelet. The design would vary accordingly.
Metal- It is necessary to make a blueprint of the design before it is converted into real Jewellery piece so the designer must show metal description in their design. What is appropriate metal i.e. gold, silver, platinum, alloy, brass or other substance?
Metal decoration- Metal decorations enhance the look of jewellery. So after deciding metal designer should work out on metal decoration. Whether it can be Matt finish or satin finish so many types of finishes are there can be used. Hammering textures are trendy these days.
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Of these four aspects, the most important is the carat of the diamond. As the weight and size increased the price become very higher. The facets of the gemstone should be balanced and this is called symmetry. And finally, the cuts should be made through specific lines. Gemstones should be clear.
However, looks can be illusory, but if you are not wise enough to choose a good quality of gemstones, you might end up with the poor quality of gemstones. Gemstones either depend on customer choice or the look of jewellery. Sometimes they choose it or like to wear it according to their planetary point.
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Jack and Emily - Working Together to GET THERE!
By ATIPT
When Jack Dibble injured his knee during a varsity football game last season, the first thought that crossed his mind was "I hope I can finish the game!" Jack, a sophomore at Coal City High School in Illinois didn't get to finish that game . . . and, unfortunately didn't get to finish the season. Jack had torn his anterior cruciate ligament, commonly known as the ACL. The ACL is one of the four major knee ligaments that support and stabilize the knee.
Jack had surgery to repair his ACL following his injury, and received post-operative rehabilitation at ATI Physical Therapy in Morris, IL.
"Following my surgery, I was sad that I couldn't finish my football season," said Jack. "But I knew I would recover and would be able to play again." Jack, a self-motivator, took strength from the professional football players that fully recovered from the same injury, and was supported by his therapy team at ATI.
"My therapists at ATI were so encouraging, and the clinic atmosphere was great! They knew how to make therapy fun, but still challenged me just enough so I could recover and return to play safely."
Jack gives equal credit for his recovery to his athletic trainer, Emily Edman with ATI Sports Medicine at Coal City High School. "Emily was there when my injury happened and supported me through my surgery and therapy. My parents appreciated the fact that she was there to answer questions about my injury, and she gave them guidance on my recovery."
During his physical therapy, Emily checked in on Jack regularly, monitoring his return to activity at the high school. She worked with the physical therapists to transition Jack back to play and currently works with him to continue his rehabilitation.
"Jack and I work on his function, strength, and agility each day," said Edman. "The benefit of having an athletic trainer at the high school is the ability to monitor the athlete's progress following completion of physical therapy, continue care and transition him or her back to play safely."
Just five months later, Jack is looking forward to running track as a sprinter, and has hopes of making State with his relay team. "Everyone tells me that I made a remarkable recovery," said Jack. "Having Emily here is one reason why. She was my second coach, motivator, counselor and teacher. She gave me the guidance I needed to return to activity, and told me I could do it. And, if Emily says I can do it, I know I can!"


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It leads to everythingPatricia Fara
Vol. 43 No. 18 · 23 September 2021
It leads to everything
Patricia Fara
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe
by Paul Sen.
William Collins, 305 pp., £20, April, 978 0 00 826279 2Show More
The threat of catastrophe is alluring. In 1990, when the existence of global warming was routinely contested, a Nasa scientist spoke frankly on television: 'It's easier to get funding if you can show evidence of impending human disasters … Science benefits from scary scenarios.' Last year, the Doomsday Clock was set to a hundred seconds before midnight, indicating that man-made global apocalypse is closer than at any point since the clock was created in 1947. This year, it has been kept at that setting as a 'Covid wake-up call', but the chief apocalyptic risks are still nuclear destruction and climate change.
In Einstein's Fridge, Paul Sen exhorts us to study thermodynamics so that we might make better-informed decisions about how to save the world. The study of thermodynamics began in the 17th century with attempts to create a vacuum inside a glass globe – the subject of Joseph Wright's famous picture An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) – but it wasn't established as a science until the Victorian era, when Scottish physicists drew on French research to improve the efficiency of the massive steam engines driving industrialisation. The word itself combines the Greek terms for heat and force, but its application now extends way beyond machinery to include biological processes, quantum mechanics and information processing.
All fridges, including Einstein's, are governed by the laws of thermodynamics, which rest on the distinction between heat and temperature. As Sen puts it, 'Heat never spontaneously flows from cold to hot.' If I hold a hot stone in my cold hands, it will cool down. Similarly, food placed inside a refrigerator will get colder as its heat passes into the concealed coolant. The coolant will get warmer, but it will still be at a lower temperature than the kitchen outside, so it cannot spontaneously transfer that extra heat into the room: some work (typically electrical) must be performed to pump it out and keep the coolant sufficiently cold to do its job.
As statistical methods were taken up by physicists during the 19th century, probability theory was used to analyse the relationship between the fluctuations of countless tiny molecules and the large-scale observable behaviour of a system. This work culminated in the modern formulation of thermodynamics, which relies on the concept of entropy, a term coined in the 1860s. Real machines are different from the ideal versions in mathematical models. Inside a factory, the grating of pistons and the clanging of metal causes the continual dissipation of tiny amounts of energy. This process is irreversible, and the lost energy can't be retrieved to carry out useful work. Every time you ride a bicycle or freeze a bag of peas or carry out a search on Google, some energy becomes unavailable, and the total amount of entropy in the universe gets ever so slightly larger. Because entropy is constantly increasing, it marks a direction in time: eventually, no energy will be available for use and the universe will grind to a halt. In The Time Machine (1895), H.G. Wells evoked this grim prospect. As his travellers approach the far distant future, 'the darkness grew apace … All the sounds of man … the stir that makes the background of our lives – all that was over.'
In the 1940s, Claude Shannon – an American scientist employed by AT&T to carry out blue-sky research – unexpectedly tied entropy to information. Some messages have a higher content value than others: it's much more interesting to be given the number of the lottery ticket that will win tomorrow than any of the numbers destined to lose. Shannon devised a way to quantify the amount of information carried in a message, and noticed that the mathematical laws governing its transmission closely resembled those of thermodynamics. In the static endpoint universe Wells envisaged, machines could not function and, just as important, information could not flow. It has since become clear that the basic principles of thermodynamics govern any situation in which energy and information are involved, including biological reproduction, sub-atomic processes and the behaviour of black holes.
Stephen Hawking was told when he was writing A Brief History of Time that each equation he included would halve sales. In the event he kept just one – E = mc2, Einstein's fundamental formula of mass-energy equivalence – but Sen has eliminated them entirely. Einstein's Fridge is a superb introduction to the complexities of the universe, but Sen claims a bigger role for the book than that, asserting that learning from the past will help us to protect the future. In principle it seems right that better-informed citizens would be in a stronger position to challenge the decisions made by those in power. But what sort of knowledge do they need? Understanding the molecular intricacies of vaccine protection would do little to help anyone wishing to expose the weaknesses in the government's financial and political strategies for minimising the effects of the pandemic. Yet, according to Sen, learning about the developments and setbacks in thermodynamics over the last couple of centuries will somehow help to safeguard the future of humanity.
As Sen occasionally seems to recognise, his narrative entwines two conflicting plotlines. In the prologue, he promises that his account of thermodynamics will explore the reciprocal interactions of science and society. Over the last few decades, historians of science have adduced countless examples demonstrating that science is embedded in a wider culture, its applications and achievements inseparable from political, commercial and imperial interests. Yet in the rest of his book Sen mostly avoids such issues, preferring instead to explain theories and celebrate individuals. By the end, he seems to have moved to a binary vision of society: scientists (the good guys) and everybody else. For him, scientific research needs no external justification.
Sen's scientists inhabit an idealised zone where the baton of truth passes from one individual to the next. This risks giving in to the way these people liked to present themselves and their work. For instance, Sen describes the classic paddle-wheel experiment James Joule carried out in a brewery. But he doesn't mention what the historian Otto Sibum found when he attempted to replicate it: Joule had omitted several essential details from his instructions, notably the presence of co-experimenters – the countless 'invisible assistants' (many of them women) who have been obliterated from so many historical records.
The main characters in Sen's story are almost all men, though he pays generous tribute to Emmy Noether, a German mathematician who carried out fundamental work on theories of symmetry and the laws of energy conservation. At the New York World's Fair in 1964, hers was the only female face in a mural depicting eighty Men of Modern Mathematics. Women feature here mainly in cameo roles to spice up the narrative, including a sex scene among the thermionic valves in the MIT computer room, and lengthy speculations about the relationship between James Clerk Maxwell and his wife, Katherine, with whom he occasionally collaborated.
Sen insists that to make decisions about electric cars, wind farms and nuclear energy requires a grasp of the scientific fundamentals. But why should a familiarity with Carnot cycles, Maxwell's demon or Turing's Universal Machine help a reader looking for ways to slow down the pace of climate change? Understanding the mechanism of a phenomenon is very different from being able to mitigate its impact. The physicist John Tyndall identified the greenhouse effect in 1860, but generations of scientists have failed to instigate reforms that might slow it down. Perhaps it would be better to focus not on explaining the science, but on exposing the political and industrial interests that dictate the course of scientific research.
'Knowledge is shaped by and, in turn, shapes society,' Sen writes in his prologue, and he might have presented thermodynamics as an excellent example of that relationship. Instead, Einstein's Fridge reinforces the argument that technological progress is driven by a disinterested thirst for knowledge, even though the mathematical laws of thermodynamics were developed more than a hundred years after steam engines were first introduced to pump water out of Cornish silver mines. Sen blames Watt and his business partner, the factory-owner Matthew Boulton, for causing a thirty-year hiatus by manipulating the patent system to ward off competitors, but engines produced power and generated money long before scientific laws and equations were developed to explain how they worked. When Boulton invited James Boswell to admire Watt's steam-operated engines, he boasted: 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have – Power.'
The fridge in Sen's title illustrates some of the inconsistencies in his approach. Einstein is portrayed here as a benevolent practical genius who, after hearing about a fatal accident in a Berlin kitchen, decided to do his bit for humanity by inventing safer, cheaper devices. He teamed up with the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, but after they managed to design a successful model, the goalposts shifted. Sen's brainy humanitarian mutated into a keen businessman who took out 45 patents in six different countries and negotiated generous royalties from the German Electric Company. The venture fizzled out in the face of commercial competition from the cheap coolant Freon, a major contributor to holes in the ozone layer.
Despite ample evidence of this sort, the myth of the pure scientific 'quest to discover the truth about the universe' persists. To take just one example, Marie Skłodowska Curie's reputation as a scientific martyr is often supported by quoting her denial (carefully crafted by her American publicist, Marie Meloney) that she derived any personal gain from her research: 'There were no patents. We were working in the interests of science. Radium was not to enrich anyone. Radium … belongs to all people.' As Eva Hemmungs Wirtén pointed out in Making Marie Curie, this claim takes on a different hue once you learn that, under French law, Curie was banned from taking out a patent in her own name, so that any profits from her research would automatically have gone to her husband, Pierre.
Science enthusiasts often stake out the intellectual high ground. Sen claims that science already holds all the solutions to climate change (perhaps unsurprisingly, he doesn't dwell on the ways in which technological innovation dramatically accelerated its onset). In addition to expanding our use of renewable energy sources, he argues, we should increase our investment in nuclear power ('carbon neutral and considerably safer than most people think'), as well as geothermal and tidal power. He gives the credit for all the benefits of such innovations to supposedly disinterested scientists, while laying the blame for any side-effects on blinkered, ambitious politicians. Many physicists had recourse to a similar argument in 1945 after the US dropped two atomic bombs over Japan (others fled to the life sciences or abandoned research). It was during this time of panicked reflection that the Doomsday Clock was set up by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a perpetual reminder that the fate of the world is a collective responsibility, and that scientists are not exempt.
In exonerating scientists from blame for the uses their findings are put to, Sen treats them as an elite group set apart from the rest of humanity. In Britain, this sort of thinking originated in a class-driven ideological contrast between natural philosophers, who were (supposedly) above such mundane concerns as financial reward, and inventors, who were disparaged for working with their hands and seeking commercial gain. Wordsworth idealised Isaac Newton as a 'Mind forever/Voyaging thro' strange seas of Thought, alone', but James Watt received less reverent treatment. Although steam engines generated much of the nation's wealth and international power, when a statue of Watt was planned for Westminster Abbey after his death in 1819, some protested that it wasn't an appropriate place to celebrate a mechanical engineer who had sued his business competitors. After a long and acrimonious debate, the statue went up with a compromise inscription honouring Watt as 'an original genius, early exercised in philosophic research'.
'Iwent into science a great deal myself at one time,' Dorothea Brooke's uncle remarks in Middlemarch, 'but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.' Sen seems to think scientific progress is independent of political or commercial influence or the rise of global capitalism. I believe, by contrast, that the consolidation of the image of science as humanity's most worthwhile endeavour is the result of what amounts to a sustained promotional campaign. Science is not a well-defined field of human activity that advances steadily; it is an unstable, shifting set of practices that influence and are influenced by other social processes. Its claim to superiority hinges on the way it is valued, not on any intrinsic quality, and its rise to prominence has been far from inevitable. As late as the 19th century, London's Royal Society remained an unsubsidised poor relation; it flourished only after it aligned itself with projects to augment British industry, global trade and imperial power.
Sen doesn't mention C.P. Snow, but he does echo the warnings Snow made in his 'two cultures' lecture, delivered in 1959 during the Sputnik era, when the Doomsday Clock was set at two minutes to midnight. British intellectual culture was, he argued, dominated by the humanities, but the world's problems – how to reduce poverty, how to distribute wealth, how to ensure a future for humanity – could never be solved by a society whose 'natural Luddites' ('literary intellectuals') had no more knowledge of modern physics than their 'neolithic ancestors'. Sen, like Snow, believes that the answers are to be found in science education, although that again seems to contradict his assertion that resolving our current predicament depends on political change.
In Sen's progressivist model, pouring money into science must bring future improvement. But there is no contradiction in acknowledging, on the one hand, the benefits of modern medicine and centrally heated homes, and insisting, on the other, that there are choices to be made about our possible futures. Should medical researchers be concentrating on the use of sophisticated genetic engineering to treat rare conditions, or on basic health measures for the millions of people around the globe who suffer from curable afflictions? This is an old question, but it remains as vital as ever.
Patricia Fara's Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career came out in February.


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Q: Alfresco REST API:Data Size Limit? I am developing REST based webservices in alfresco for data transfer & want to know what is the maximum amount of data i can send/get thru REST protocol?
Any reference would be very helpful.
Regards.

A: The max amount of data is as large as 2147000000. That's why if your data is large enough it is advisable to stream it to post to your REST service. Here's an example.
Sender/ Uploader Application or Client
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.Append("Just test data. You can send large one also");
        var postData = sb.ToString();
        var url = "REST Post method example http://localhost:2520/DataServices/TestPost";
        var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
        var dataContractSerializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(string));
        dataContractSerializer.WriteObject(memoryStream, postData);
        var xmlData = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray(), 0, (int)memoryStream.Length);
        var client = new WebClient();
        client.UploadStringAsync(new Uri(url), "POST", "");
        client.Headers["Content-Type"] = "text/xml";
        client.UploadStringCompleted += (s, ea) =>
        {
            if (ea.Error != null) Console.WriteLine("An error has occured while processing your request");
            var doc = XDocument.Parse(ea.Result);
            if (doc.Root != null) Console.WriteLine(doc.Root.Value);
            if (doc.Root != null && doc.Root.Value.Contains("1"))
            {
                string test = "test";
            }
        };

REST Service method
[WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "TestPost", Method = "POST", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.WrappedRequest, RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml)]
    public string Publish(string market,string sportId, Stream streamdata)
    {
        var reader = new StreamReader(streamdata);
        var res = reader.ReadToEnd();
        reader.Close();
        reader.Dispose();

    }

Don't forget to put the following configuration settings on your REST Service config file if you don't have this it will throw you an error
<system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
    <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="2147000000" maxQueryStringLength="2097151" maxUrlLength="2097151"/>
  </system.web>
  <system.webServer>
    ........
  </system.webServer>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />
    <standardEndpoints>
      <webHttpEndpoint>
        <standardEndpoint name="" helpEnabled="true" automaticFormatSelectionEnabled="true" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147000000" maxBufferPoolSize="2147000000" maxBufferSize="2147000000"/>
      </webHttpEndpoint>
    </standardEndpoints>
  </system.serviceModel>

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Matroska är ett projekt ämnat för utveckling av filformat som kan samla olika former av multimediainformation i en sammanhållen fil. Exempelvis ljud- och videospår. Matroska är en öppen standard med öppen källkod. Namnet kommer från den ryska dockan Matrjosjka. Vanliga filändelser är .mka för ljudfiler och .mkv för video med ljud och även eventuell textning. Det är vanligt att med denna standard samla alla multimedia från en Bluray-skiva till en mkv-fil som kan sparas som backup eller för uppspelning med hjälp av kompatibel mediaspelare.

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 Officiell webbplats

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Many Architectures of Internet routers, ATM and Ethernet switches have been proposed and analysed in literature. Theoretically reliable and valid solutions have been developed to achieve high performances, but a lot of them are not feasible in practice for commercial and technological reasons. Few papers develop the implementation and simulation aspects. The objective of this study is the design of a packet switch with a minimum cost and hardware complexity. We propose an input-queuing architecture using a multistage interconnection network and a simple cell selection policy implemented by hardware. The switch is described and simulated using a VHDL language. Performances in terms of throughput and cell loss are evaluated.
© 2005 Azeddine Bilami, Mustapha Lalam and Mohamed Benmohammed. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


It is 4 months into 2019 and despite not posting here I have been trying to keep a semi-regular writing schedule but don't really have anything that is worth posting here at this point in time. I have transitioned to a new role working from home as of early last month and I have been enjoying that.
I have created a couple of sites in this time as well as learning and adapting to my new role. Goals are still being tentatively created and pursued.
The internet connection at my home has been increased to 200/200 which has been enjoyable.
Skype For Business is a great tool and an adequate replacement for Lync within an enterprise environment.
After moving to O365 hosted exchange, a client had issues getting the cloud-based Skype For Business running on conference machines. The issue that was happening was 10-20 seconds into the call it would disconnect with no error message. The call would just close and that was all she wrote. These conference room machines were a part of the active directory environment of this client and did not have a local account login.
Intermittent and random in occurrence.
Perhaps network-based traffic QOS rules were needed given the offsite solution?
Maybe, bloatware was killing the connection?
Antivirus could be at fault?
Local windows firewall killing the connection?
None of the above ended up being the case and the root cause was found to be that users were not logging out and instead were clicking "switch user" which is a "fast user switching feature".
Here is how you disable that!
Extra credit would be creating a separate computer based OU within ADUC and apply the GPO server side for any user that logs onto these machines. This could save a considerable amount of time given the above instructions would require interaction with any communal / conference room computer that multiple users could be logged into at any given time.
Got a tad bit bored of this format but I might revert to monthly versions of this.
I post news stories that interest me in real time on twitter and on a dedicated feed telegram channel.
Some new posts are coming soon!
Seriously, Delete your facebook account if you still use one or at the very least reduce your use of the platform.
Drop any apple device with some unicode, this is the second time this has happened in recent memory.
After 4th DWI, man argues legal limit discriminates against alcoholics – Not cool police men, not cool.
Apple spent 5 Billion on a new HQ but looks like they have had 2 cases of "minor cuts but did not appear to require hospitalization". Another interesting idea is that California has law in place that they could be breaking in order to keep the "spaceship" campus aesthetics.
Is it really though? This is tied in with stories that have been linked in previous weeks in regards to GPU shortages, the Search For Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) researchers state that they want to expand operations but can't because they can't buy graphics cards due to the market. This is the barrier to entry? It doesn't seem like this would be a barrier to entry for anyone doing serious research, it is a good headline though.
This is more of a youtube channel but I have watched around 80% of the total content uploaded by this channel. The engineering that goes into theme park rides that are just lost to time is incredible. Very interesting and well researched content.
I got IFTTT to work with Telegram to post a daily hydration reminder to a channel that I admin (unfortunate that this is a thing), I saw a library for python => Telegram which could be of use.
I am still enjoying Toby The Tab Manager but currently Papaly also offers a great bookmark management solution.
Twitter Is Great. An A-hole Filter Would Make It Even Better – Would it really though?
Reduced Self-Control after 3 Months of Imprisonment; A Pilot Study – Prison doesn't work, we shouldn't be locking people in cages and expect them to come out better for it.
Working on integrating Telegram with IFTTT + additional workflows.
How a malicious seed generation website stole $4 million – Can't trust an anonymous entity to not store information and then steal all of your crypto. The worst things that happen with any cryptocurrency is when it is CENTRALIZED. A lot of work went into this post and it is a great read.
Coalfire Establishes Labs Research and Development Team to Drive Industry Advancements in Cyber Security – Open source projects like this mean that we all win.
Washington Bill Would Make it Illegal to Sell Electronics That Don't Have Easily Replaceable Batteries – The "right to repair" is an interesting concept but I don't know if a bill like this would be pushing it in the correct direction.
A Boy Ate 3 Laundry Pods. This Is What Happened To His Lungs. – I really enjoy the way these videos are done. Heavily researched and presenting information in a very enjoyable way.
How To Make Your Own Subway Sandwich – Comedy video lambasting the way that Subway sandwiches are made. The way that they are able to extract any love put into the sandwich making procedure has always fascinated me.
What Would Happen If You Replace All Drinks with Water? – Stay Hydrated.
n-gate.com – excellent blog with a really entertaining perspective on tech.
So I was running and gunning with the TwentySixteen theme for most of 2017 and I figured why not change the look a little bit in 2018. This new theme is Galaxia and it is similar in nature with slight changes. Design and visual arts are two things that don't come all that easily to me as you can tell by my choices to use well designed landing pages and themes as I believe my time is better spent doing other things.
I have added the RSS feed link on the landing page which was accessible before but not without a little bit of monkeying around. Speaking of which I am looking to get MailChimp up and running for new posts so that users can subscribe via email to get maybe a weekly rundown on the regular + whatever else I have going on at the time. Work has had me very busy lately but the Weekly Rundown will be coming out as scheduled and I have enjoyed putting them together.
How to make the most secure Windows Server ever!!1!
AKA – What to do if you install 2 antivirus products on one machine and RDP/Vsphere console are completely non-responsive.
At this point you will be able to uninstall the antivirus that is causing the issues and then restart your server and everything should be back up and running.
That concludes the How to portion of this post but the bigger question is how could this be avoided by the antivirus itself and/or does this occur with every antivirus? It surely would be interesting to see what products cause the most of this problem. Perhaps that will be a post for the future.
The title of this post was a bit tongue in cheek in that if not even IT staff is able to access a server it must be Fort Knox! One would think that if the primary goal is to secure a computer does that mean that the antivirus has failed in its goals or has it succeeded? It is interesting to me that an antivirus wouldn't see another antivirus installing as being malicious or potentially causing harm. This opens a larger door in the balance between security and ease of use. Should an Antivirus product not allow you to access the sites of their competitors? This would make sure something like this wouldn't happen but it also has the possibility to cause more issues than it is preventing.
Most people know not to install two copies of AV over one another but it does happen and most likely will continue to happen. This will also question the use of classic signature based AV in the sense that we are generally moving towards more innovative ways of capturing this sort of data in machine learning / AI integrated products. I will conclude this post with the question in that what if an AI was turned against itself in the form of having to AV products that were AI driven? Would we be in a worse spot than what inspired this blog post? Only time will tell.
Juice Company Dumped Orange Peels In A Deforested Area– What sounds like an act of littering ends in a great composting success 16 years in the making.
Firefox Quantum keeps getting better – Tracking protection out of the box? Yes please.
Inmates Are Using VR For A Chance To Get Out Of Prison (video) – Very interesting and perhaps controversial idea. This could greatly reduce the amount of shock that a rehabilitated person returning back into society from prison faces.
AMD, Nvidia must do more to stop cryptominers from causing PC gaming card shortages, price gouging – Do they really need to do this? Why not just increase production to meet market demand?
Android Users: To Avoid Malware, Try the F-Droid App Store – All android users should try the F-Droid App Store because Free Software is awesome!
Pocket – I have been using this when browsing my news feeds on my phone as to save things for later to add to my rundowns. The feature of just being able to share an article and then selecting pocket (Android) is nice and centrally managed. Naturally, if something self hosted existed for this it would be neat to use but for now Pocket works very well. The integration with Firefox / Firefox accounts is also an awesome feature.


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The meeting will start at 4.15 and finish at 6.30 pm.
upstairs to the first floor.
Steve Pickett and Campbell Lovatt – specialist performers of plucked instruments from 16th to 18th century Europe.
However, due to personal issues they have needed to cancel the performance for this month. We hope to get them to play for us later in the year.
David Miller, Maggie Cole, Stephen Gordon and David Jaggs. In this film you will learn about the instruments of the day, baroque ornamentation, trills, inegal, campanella, dynamics, phrasing, and much more from leading players. There are also some lovely performances of Weiss, Scarlatti, Sanz etc.
An absolute must for anyone interested in interpretation and style.
At a total playing time of 87 minutes we will not watch the whole presentation but rather about the first 50 minutes. There is much beautiful playing and excellent instruction here.
At our last meeting Owen had copies of the ensemble booklet available for purchase. Yeh! A great program for the year. A great job on Owens part. He has chosen very nice music that is also playable by less experienced players.
We are keen to have our ensemble practise these pieces up well so we can record them and put them on our youtube channel.
The music can be found in our cloud folder at WCGS_2019_Music.pdf . Feel free to print it out as you wish.
As usual we will have time for members playing. Either ensembles, duos or solos. And please, it does not have to be classical music that you perform. Jazz , pop , folk. And also own compositions.
There is a magazine that is published 4 times a year in the States. I have a subscription. It is called Classical Guitar. It used to be published in England. The spring edition has just arrived. It contains an article on "The guitar as a chamber instrument" Included was a page featuring our own Jane Curry.


HAGERSTOWN - One month after a Washington County Board of Education member made comments about a school board candidate that the candidate's attorney described as potentially "slanderous," a videotape of that meeting has not been televised.
The board voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone approval of the minutes from the Dec. 11 business meeting. By not approving those records, they are unavailable to the public. The board member's comments were not said to be the reason for not approving the records.
An attorney representing Jacqueline B. Fischer, a candidate for the board, asked that the tape not be broadcast. The attorney claimed that comments made by Board Member Bernadette M. Wagner could open Wagner, and possibly Washington County Public Schools, to a lawsuit.
Board meetings typically air on Antietam Cable's channel 99.
During the December meeting, Wagner said a candidate who has a contract with the board is subject to the board's authority, and she questioned whether that was a violation of board policy. She sought a legal opinion at that time on whether that candidate should step down from the race or leave the position. She did not name Fischer in her remarks.
Fischer resigned from her contracted position as a proofreader for Washington County Public Schools and from her volunteer role as a member of the facilities and enrollment advisory committee shortly after Wagner made her comments.
School system spokesman Will Kauffman said the meeting has not been broadcast, but he declined to offer other details about the incident.
"Because this is a legal matter that could result in litigation, it is best that we don't comment on specifics at this time," he said.
Fischer's attorney wrote in a Dec. 18 letter to Wagner that litigation against her could ensue shortly.
Wagner said Tuesday that she would not vote to approve the Dec. 11 business meeting records because they did not accurately reflect discussions that took place that day. She mentioned several areas that she said were inaccurate, areas that did not include her comments made about a board candidate.
Wagner also was the only board member to vote against approving a record of a Dec. 20 executive session meeting, again saying the minutes were not accurate.
Board Vice President Donna Brightman recommended Tuesday that the board's ethics advisory panel reconvene. She said it has been inactive.
The board decided to discuss that possibility at a future meeting.


Scar was the name of two farm servant's cottages high up on the hill above Westness. In 1851, Scar 1 was occupied by 77-year-old agricultural labourer Drummond Louttit, his wife Betsy Flaws, who was 74 years of age, and their 35-year-old daughter Isabella. Their son John and his family lived at Scar 2. Born on December 21st 1818, John, who was also an agricultural labourer, married Jane Wilson of Orphir and between 1845 and 1866 they had thirteen children. The family later moved to Redlums, north of Knarston.
In 1871, Scaur, as it was spelt in the census of that year, housed the Inkster family. James Inkster was a 41-year-old day labourer and he lived there with his wife Jane and their five young children. James was the son of James Inkster of Gorn and Jane, daughter of Thomas Inkster of Innister and his second wife Janet Craigie. They had six children, James, Jean, Margaret, Ann, John, and Samuel, born between 1863 and 1876.
51-year-old dairymaid Rebecca Marwick also lived at Scaur at this time – as did 58-year-old Isabella Louttit and her 48-year-old sister Margaret. They were the daughters of Drummond Louttit and Betsy Flaws, both unmarried and employed as knitters. The census of 1881 records the fact that they were both blind paupers.
The name Gue applied to four cottages 'situate at 5 chains E of Bridgend, built of stone, thatched, one storey, and in poor repair' according to the Ordnance Survey Name Books Volume 16, dated 1879-1880.
An old rental dated 1737 names William Couper as a resident in one of the dwellings. In 1840 Betty Logie lived in Gue 1 [she went to Woo, Sourin] and the others were occupied by farm servants.
The census of 1841 tells of 30-year-old John Yorston, a 'male servant', 25-year-old Barbara Johnston, Margaret Flaws aged 65 years, and one-year-old John Flaws living at Gue 1.
Gue 2 was occupied by 50-year-old mason Alexander Gibson and his family. Alexander married Janet Marwick of Furse in 1822 and they went on to have six children. Betty, born in June 1823, and John Inkster, was born in March 1825 when they were living at Stenisgorn in Wasbister. The family had moved to nearby Bucket when Janet was born in June 1827, and Mary Sarle, who was born in May 1830. David was born in October 1832 at Hulterburn [Kirkgate], and finally James was born August 1838 when the family were living at Pow on the Westside. By the time of the 1851 census Betty earned a living as a dressmaker, and John was a cobbler.
Other occupants of Gue at that time were 50-year-old widow Mary Logie. She was the daughter of Drummond and Isobel Craigie of Whome, Westside. She married John Logie of Gue in 1822 and they had eight children between March 1823 and September 1833.
When the 1861 census was carried out on April 8th there were families occupying all four cottages at Gue. They included Cecilia Craigie, a 39-year-old dairymaid and her 81-year-old widowed mother Barbara; James Gibson, a 23-year-old ploughman, his wife Margaret, who was a nurse, and their 8-month-old daughter Margaret; agricultural labourer Alexander Johnston and his wife Isabella; and 26-year-old shepherd Robert Logie and his wife Mary Murray, and their children Robert (3), and Mary (12 months).
Ten years later seventy-nine-year-old widowed pauper Mary Logie lived in one of the cottages with her 48-year-old unmarried daughter Betsy, and her 18-year-old son William, who was classed as a 'lunatic'. 27-year-old farm servant William Scollay from Westray occupied another; as did Hugh Marwick, his wife Jemima McGillvary from Egilsay. She was the daughter of James McGillvary and Eleanor Costie of Upper Cornquoy. Hugh and Jemima had four children, Alexander, Lizzie Burroughs, Ann Mowat, and Hugh.
In 1881 all four cottages were occupied. The families included John Mowat, a 28-year-old ploughman from Evie, his wife Mary, and children, Mary, John and Jessie, and Betsy Logie and her son William. 22-year old ploughman John Craigie and his family also lived in one of the cottages at Gue. John was the son of fisherman John Craigie of Shalter in Wasbister and Betsy Louttit of Blackhammer. Young John married Betsy Leonard of Treblo in 1878 and they went on to have ten children between 1879 and 1900. John was the miller at Sourin Mill for a number of years and it was in the early 1930s when he and his daughters Isabella and Annie ran the Queen's Hotel in Kirkwall.
1891 saw Betsy Logie and son William still at Goe [as it was spelled in the census]. The only other inhabitants were the Inkster family, who had come round from Wester to live at Gue. Hugh Inkster was the son of James and Margaret Inkster of Gorn and he was born on February 25th 1845. He married Georgina Harcus of Westray, the daughter of John Harcus and Barbara Smith, and they were to have nine children born between 1867 and 1889. They originally lived on the fifteen-acre farm of Hammer but it was removed from the Inksters in 1881 and incorporated into Innister to justify the large new steading the laird had built there. The Inksters, who had only been in Hammer for three years, were forced to sell their stock which had been provided by Hugh's mother when she gave up Gorn. They lived on the proceeds for a year or two, but were then impoverished because Hugh, being in poor health, was unable to work to provided for his large family. [RCM].
In 1911 the only occupant of any of the cottages at Gue was 67-year-old ploughman's widow Christina Dishan. The previous census tells of James Dishan of Evie and Rendall working the croft of West Craye in Sourin with his wife Christina who was born in Westray.
Brigsend is the name of a cottage above Westness House, at the roadside near where the road crosses the Burn of Westness. In 1851 it was also known as Gatehouse or Brig-a-Fea, and 43-year-old farm grieve James Burns from Haddington, East Lothian, lived here with his daughters Josephine (23) and Margaret (17), both of whom were employed at home, Isabella (15), Williamina (12) and son John (9), who were all scholars.
No further mention of any occupants was made until the census of 1881, when 40-year-old Westness farm manager Peter Learmonth from Islay and his family lived there. With him was his wife, 46-year-old Jane Inkster and children Mary Jane (14), Robert (12), and seven-year-old Frederick.
Ten years on and we find 'Bridgend' occupied by 44-year-old farm servant William Sabiston, his 23-year-old nephew Robert Gillespie who was also a farm servant, and his unmarried sisters Mary, a 41-year-old housekeeper, and Jane, described as a 39-year-old lunatic annuitant.
The 1901 census does not mention Brigsend by name, but there are two entries with the house name Roadside, Westness. I am just assuming that one is in fact Brigsend, and the other could well be what we know today as Duke Street, on the east side of the road, beside the track that leads up to the Muckle Water. The pictures to the right show Duke Street in 1994, and in a state of dilapidation in 2017.
Roadside 1 was occupied by Frederick Inkster, a 32-year-old agricultural labourer from Unst, Shetland, his wife 31-year-old wife Isie, and his aunt Robina Inkster, then an 88-year-old retired domestic servant. Isie was Isabella Craigie, from Corse. During his working life Fred farmed Furse, Innister, and Trumland. After he retired he served as a County Councillor for Rousay for a while, and latterly lived at Greenfield.
The other 'Roadside' was occupied by ploughman brothers Robert (21) and George Inkster (19) and their 78-year-old grandmother Barbara Smith.


We photographed these rather luscious shells thinking they probably came off another building belonging to the company, probably one they were moving out of, and that with some research we'd be able to identify it. No such luck. They could be from the 1950s but their (lack of) integration with the building makes us think they have come from elsewhere. From the 1920s, 30s? We have some other shells, but of a different quality.
Designed by Sir Howard Robertson for the Royal Dutch Shell group of oil companies, constructed 1957 - 1962, both sides of the Hungerford Bridge railway line, known as the upstream and downstream buildings. Two underground tunnels supposedly connected them. A London Inheritance have photographs taken in 1980 from the (briefly open) public viewing gallery. The pair of shells can be seen in our photo marking the entrance from the public walk-way.
We are glad we captured this shell when we did, since by July 2016 the Upstream building had been demolished. Wonder if they kept the shells.
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If you are already competing in unaffiliated dressage competitions and want to get more involved in this fantastic sport then British Dressage is the place for you! Much more than just a ticket to compete, BD, the National Governing body for the sport in the UK, is a nationwide club for all things dressage, offering training, competitions, information and social opportunities for all. Your horse can earn nationally recognised BD points and you can use these scores to qualify for Associated Championships although they are not eligible to qualify for any other championship or Area Festival.
Most of all affiliated dressage is accessible. Complete competition schedules and lists of training days are published in the BD magazine. The BD website also carries this vital information (and much more!), and staff at the BD office are on hand during office hours to answer any queries you have. From where to go and what to wear, to competing internationally and representing your country – British Dressage is working to help you get the most out of your sport.
All affiliated shows are open to the public and the major championships are excellent opportunities to see the best at all levels and particularly the nation's dressage celebrities competing for prestigious national titles. You may also want to go along to your local affiliated venue to check out the facilities and the competition!
You can get a taste for affiliated competition without becoming a full BD member by using class tickets available through the BD shop.
Class tickets cost £10 each and each ticket allows you to enter one affiliated dressage class - both you and your horse will need to be Associate registered - which is free - to use your ticket. You can win rosettes, prize money and earn BD points but all scores/points earned on class tickets will not count towards anything other than the Associated Championships.


President Moon Jae-in on Thursday met with leaders of startups emphasizing their role in economic growth, and the government's efforts to support them.
Saying that his administration is seeking growth in innovation, Moon said that local startups will soon begin to benefit from regulation changes, and that the so-called "Korean Peninsula risk" is rapidly fading.
"Once results are achieved through the regulatory sandbox, people will be able to see for themselves the difference between the presence and absence of regulations," he said, in response to participating business leaders' comments regarding the country's regulations.
According to Cheong Wa Dae, many of the seven participants raised issues with regulations hampering startups in Korea.
The event was attended by representatives from seven selected startups, and those that have grown into unicorns -- startups that are valued at over $1 billion -- including Lee Hae-jin, Naver founder who currently serves as the company's global investment officer, and Seo Jeong-sun, chairman of biotechnology firm Macrogen and the Korea Biotechnology Industry Organization.
Regarding the widespread anti-corporate sentiments in South Korea, Moon said that such sentiments are rooted in the corruption of businesspeople in the early days of the nation, but such sentiments will soon dissipate due to increased corporate transparency.
The presidential office also revealed that Moon plans to focus on economic and business issues in February.
According to Cheong Wa Dae, a conference on smart cities will be held this month, and he will visit Busan as part of measures aimed at boosting local economies.
Last month the president visited Daejeon and Ulsan where he met with business leaders and local government officials.
In addition, a meeting between the president and small business owners will be held in February, Cheong Wa Dae said.


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Acquisitions, Biotechnology, Business, Generics, Infusion Therapy, Shares, Stakes, Therapeutics
March 31, 2022; 3:42 AM EDT
By Ludwig Burger
FRANKFURT, March 31 (Reuters) – Fresenius's (FREG.DE) generic drugs unit Kabi has agreed to buy a majority stake in the mAbxience division of Spain's Insud Pharma to expand its business making cheaper versions of biotechnology drugs that have lost patent protection.
The German healthcare group said on Thursday it would acquire a 55% stake in mAbxience, a maker of affordable biosimilar versions of cancer drugs MabThera and Avastin, for 495 million euros ($553 million), plus milestone payments contingent on commercial and development targets.
Fresenius will also have an option to buy the remaining shares in mAbxience under certain terms.
In its statement, Fresenius said Kabi had also agreed to acquire Ivenix Inc, a maker of infusion therapies, for $240 million upfront, plus milestone payments.
Fresenius headquarters in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt, Germany, February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
Privately-held Ivenix, based in Massachusetts, developed an infusion system and software that received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval last year, which Kabi will combine with its offering of intravenous fluids and infusion devices. Fresenius has identified Kabi as a core growth business. It has not ruled out a sale of its kidney dialysis division FMC (FMEG.DE) and left the door open for initial public offerings for healthcare project development unit Vamed and its hospitals chain Helios.
Reporting by Ludwig Burger Editing by Miranda Muray and Mark Potter
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"Releasing Audio Noir has been our ultimate focus since we reformed 4 years ago. We're all extremely proud of the record and the response has been overwhelming at the shows this past year. Our previous recordings however, some over 10 years old now, are ultimately the reason this band still exists today.
Creating & recording both .1 & .2 was very new and exciting for us. Essentially trying stuff with music we'd not in previous bands without any experience of playing shows outside the local area, or releasing anything. They're important to us and represent some of the most fun we've had as a band.
There has been high demand for the first record to be repressed for sometime and it feels right now that they be made available again. The original press of this was our first vinyl release, released by Garden Of Exile Records and was a huge milestone for us at the time.
A huge thanks to Magnus for breathing new life into these songs We have always been friends with the people at Holy Roar and what they have done for the underground UK music scene over the years is something that we have always supported, so for them to be releasing this feels right.


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Steinway & Sons Unveils Limited Edition Kravitz Grand Piano
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"The first instrument I ever played was a Steinway," said Lenny Kravitz. "I have been a fan of their pianos over the span of my 30-year career, and I feel fortunate to get the opportunity to design my dream piano. I put my heart and soul into every design element and I'm thankful to work with a partner who let me have creative control to create something that was so personal to me and really pushed the envelope on what one can do with a classic piano."
Lenny Kravitz Steinway Pianos
Steinway & Sons, builder of the world's finest pianos, has announced the launch of its new Limited-Edition Piano, the "Kravitz Grand," in collaboration with world-renowned rock star musician and modern-day renaissance man, Lenny Kravitz.
For 167 years, employees at the Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, Queens have been meticulously handcrafting pianos, which can take many months and even years to produce. With each year that passes, Steinway finds new ways to shake up the classical category and introduce its brand to a wider audience through its Steinway Limited Edition pianos. These unique pianos have a limited run and consist of collaborations with some of the most notable artists and designers of our time, including Lang Lang, Dakota Jackson, Karl Lagerfeld and Dale Chihuly, all of which combine classic Steinway craftsmanship with expressive designs.
Since 1853, Steinway pianos have set an uncompromising standard for sound, touch, beauty, and investment value. Because of a dedication to continuous improvement, today's Steinway remains the choice of 9 out of 10 concert artists, and it is the preferred piano of countless musicians, professional and amateur, throughout the world.
The Kravitz Grand is Steinway's latest collaboration, venturing away from their classical roots and reaching beyond the traditional. Having always been an admirer of Steinway & Sons, Lenny Kravitz teamed up with Steinway to design a limited edition of 10 Model B pianos. For this personal passion project, he and his Kravitz Design team dissected every aspect of the piano's construction, looking at the case, action and even the screws to create a completely new look that is unlike anything Steinway has ever produced.
The Kravitz Grand is inspired by the African themes utilised in paintings, sculpture, and fabric design from the Paris art scene of the 1920s. The piano is comprised of 15 layers of hard rock maple and rare Macassar ebony personally selected by Lenny Kravitz for the exterior. The Model B features hand-carved motifs on the piano rim, the inner lid, and music desk requiring over 200 hours of carving by Steinway artisans, and hand-carved, block-style piano legs in black ebony finish. Other stunning design elements include a "crackle" metallic finish on the cast iron plate, and solid bronze castings for the top stick and pedal lyre, the latter weighing more than 40 pounds, envisioned by Kravitz Design and cast by Modern Art Foundry. There are also custom metal finishes for the pedals, brass music trays, hinges, and a numbered brass "Edition" plaque. The piano keys are in ebony and matte cream, and the handcrafted piano bench features Macassar ebony from the same flitch of wood found on the piano and a faux cheetah print fabric. The finishing touch is the Steinway and Spirio logos inlaid in faux tortoise by Pearl Works.
Every Kravitz Grand also comes equipped as a Spirio | r, the world's finest high-resolution player piano, and retails for $500,000.
"The Kravitz Grand is one of the most interesting takes on a 167-year-old classic design," said Ron Losby, CEO of Steinway Musical Instruments. "Lenny has been a fantastic partner with an extraordinary eye for design. Everyone involved in designing and building this piano really had to push the boundaries and create something unlike any designs in the past. This collaboration with Lenny allowed us to take our history and heritage of creating the best pianos and put a unique spin on the design that no one has ever seen before. We are so excited to unveil the piano and share it with those who love Steinway and those who love Lenny Kravitz."
Kravitz Design, Inc. (KDI) is a conceptual creative studio founded by music icon Lenny Kravitz in 2003. With a modern sensibility and a focus on interiors and product design, the work of Kravitz Design always conveys a soulful elegance through a natural, relaxed sense of style. The company's team encompasses a diverse group of creative professionals that have executed a variety of projects globally. KDI touts an impressive portfolio of noteworthy ventures, with a range that includes, hotels, condominiums, private residences and consumer products.
Kravitz Designs clients include world renowned brands such as Pepsi, Leica, Dom Perignon, SBE, Fred Segal, Rocky Mountain Hardware and CB2. Kravitz Design recently completed a 35-unit condominium in New York City called 75 Kenmare and is currently working on a unique hotel project in Detroit called Temple. Temple will include 110 guest-rooms, suites and extended stay apartments along with two restaurants, multiple bars and an entertainment space that will feature live music and a nightclub.
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Really puts a damper on any hope of Sue Storm being made in the near future. We should probably expect more Avengers and Spider-man related sets in the short term.
I don't think X-Men is going anywhere. Beast in the upcoming Age of Ultron set has X-Men affiliation. Wizkids just released an X-men board game. They're still releasing X-Men content in the Marvel Heroes video game on PC. We just had AVX and UXM, which were X-Men focused. The probabaly don't want to over saturate the game with X-Men. After AOU, we probably will get a drop in Avengers characters for a while. Until they stop making X-Men comics, I wouldn't worry. Now, as for Fantastic Four, I think we'll still get Sue, but don't bet on a FF themed set any time soon. Maybe they'll sneak in some Future Foundation into the Amazing Spider-Man set.
I'm more inclined to think that Disney is really making an effort to actively avoid promoting the fox movies, no matter how indirect. I don't think the xmen characters will be removed completely, but their presence will likely be diminished.
Since they already pulled Sue Storm, I don't think we'll be seeing her anytime soon. At least not until film rights get straightened out.
Yes. If they were just pulling merch, that'd be one thing. But to be actively writing the FF out of things and to NOT include them on the cover of Marvel 75th Anniversary is quite telling.
I bet that Wizkids wont be able to turn up the movie tie in publicity potential. Next year i think we are almost guaranteed to get a Batman vs Superman set...followed by an Xmen: Apocolypse set.
As much fun as it is to talk about and speculate...I dont think Disney will make any true concerted efforts to not support Xmen. They are too valuable a franchise to ignore, and just becuae they dont have the current movie right, they gotta come back around to Disney sooner or later, and in the meantime, Disney can capitalize on all the non-movie related stuff.
Fantastic Four is a bit different...thier movies have not been nearly as popular and they have a much more "dated" feel. Snuffing them out won't be a huge loss long term...unlike the Xmen.
For those that say Disney isn't out to kill X-Men haven't been keeping up with what they've been doing.
- All X-Men comics were cancelled until fans complained and Disney relented. Now there is only like 4-6 X-Men based books coming out.
- Mutants don't exist anymore. They've been reclassified as Inhumans.
Food for thought - only a few months after Hugh Jackman said he'd like to play Wolverine until he dies, he announces that Wolverine 3 will be the last time he plays the role.
don't forget that quicksilver and scarlet witch have been revealed as not the children of magneto, i think their powers were created by the high evolutionary or something (along with a never before revealed for 50 years sister). so they aren't mutants anymore, just like the mcu movies.
I've stopped putting more than the effort to sit at home and stream the movie from a private website in thinking about the MCU.
Avengers 2 was embarrassing how bad it was - especially considering I dragged friends who were questioning my insistence but acquiesced out of trusting my taste, normally.
I won't be able to live that one down for at least a year, we all took turns sleeping, having more than one time where we were all nodding off simultaneously - and we were wide awake going in - not drinking or anything.
I'm not giving up hope on more Fantastic Four in Dice Masters. Dr. Doom is getting released in Marvel Heroes next week, so it's not a total FF blackout across all forms of media.
Yeah, gotta keep the faith. I assume clear heads will prevail, and things will correct themselves. Nothing is forever in comics.
Avengers 2 was embarrassing how bad it was.