A colleague from Epoch invited me to play in the summer of 2017. We were a foursome with Rob, Anton and Doug. Caddies were Pete and Hass. Rob is a colleague from Epoch. Anton is Swedish and is going Pro; I think he shot an easy 70, typically hitting his drives 320 plus. We played 1 and 4 courses; the set up is four nine holes that you can play in any combination. Quite spectacular. Hilly, tree lined fairways and greens that look as if they should be easy but are not at all. I could not get the speed right, and was told they were running slower than usual. Ended up shooting an 85 (45-39) and birdied the last. My swing was poor until about 15th hole. Not sure why. I think I had a big work out the day before and was stiff, plus I tried to keep up with the youngsters!
The Clubhouse is very nice, and dinner on the porch after excellent: good food and nice views. We were fortunate with the weather which was extremely humid and threatened thunder storms from about 4pm onwards. The sky later was just terrific, as you will see below.
I believe this kid Anton has a real chance of being a good pro; he has some long game, and his short game just needs a small amount of work and then he'll be catching people's attention. Maybe I played with a future Henrik Stenson?
The Clubhouse from course one, ninth fairway.
Looking down 2 and 3 from the terrace during dinner. hard to get tired of this marvelous view.
Looking back up the hill on course 4. Magnificent.
Montclair Golf Club is considered to be the 13th oldest golf Club in the nation with over 125 years of rich, treasured history. Montclair Golf Club founded in 1893, and Rock Spring Club founded in 1925 began a new chapter in their history in January 2016 by merging together to form the only 54 hole, two-property, family oriented, member-owned Country Club in the area. Together, yet each with their individual charm, they have become one under the name of Montclair Golf Club.
The Club has a storied history:The founders initially staked out a course in the Town of Montclair on land now occupied by the "Erwin Park" residential neighborhood. In 1899, the first 18-hole course, designed by Tom Bendelow, was established roughly at the present location of today's first and second nines. A Clubhouse was originally built on a site near the end of today's practice range.
In 1920, the legendary Scottish architect, Donald Ross, was commissioned to design the 27 holes of the first, second and third nines. Two years later, the original Clubhouse was destroyed by fire. A new, larger building was constructed facing Prospect Avenue, which remains as the core building of the current colonial style Clubhouse. By October 1928, the Club had acquired enough land to add a fourth nine, which was designed by another legend, Charles Banks. The original designs have been improved over the years by the work of two of Montclair's most recognized members of the golf community. Robert Trent Jones joined Montclair in 1934 and remained a member until his death. His son, Rees Jones, "The U.S. Open Doctor," learned the game on the Ross and Banks designs and remains a member today.
The members of Montclair take pride in the Club's position in the history of Golf in America and the many members who have contributed to the development of the game. The Club was one of the founding members that joined together to form the Metropolitan Golf Association in 1897. Three MGA presidents -- Isaac "Ike" Grainger, Ken Gordon and Jack Kelsey -- came from the ranks of the Club. Grainger also served as President of the United States Golf Association, as did member Charles Littlefield, making Montclair one of a select group of Clubs with two members having achieved that distinction. Montclair's challenging greens have helped to hone the competitive abilities of many of the area's top players.
In the words of the great Bobby Jones, Montclair is "the longest short course I ever played." It is one of the few Clubs anywhere that can claim to have hosted both the Men's and Women's U.S. Amateur Championships. The Montclair property includes four nine-hole layouts, each beginning and ending at the Clubhouse, and a practice range renovated in 2008 to include target greens.
The Club's facilities also include seven Har-Tru tennis courts, five platform paddle tennis courts and a beautiful swimming pool surrounded by large scenic decks that can accommodate lunch or dinner on the grill. A major renovation of the golf course, pool area and Clubhouse was completed in 2011.
I really enjoyed this experience; I did not play well, yet scored ok ultimately. I believe I could break 80 no problem next time, but the greens here are highly deceptive, and but for my caddie, Pete, i am sure my score was flattered. Many thanks for the invite from my colleague Rob S.


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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Doctor Lee Jong-wook, 61, has died after doctors performed brain surgery on him to relieve a blood clot.
"I am sorry to tell you that Dr Lee Jong-wook, director-general of the WHO, died this morning. [This is a] very sad bit of news" and Lee "was an exceptional person and an exceptional director-general. Under his leadership, the WHO has been strengthened and has been able to give an effective response to world (health) problems," said Elena Salgado, Spain's Health Minister in a statement during the organization's 192-nation annual assembly held in Geneva. The panel observed two minutes of silence to honor Lee.
Lee was rushed to Cantonal Hospital in Geneva when he felt sick on Saturday. He became sick while he was at an official meeting. Doctors then determined that he had a blood clot in his brain and operated on Lee immediately.
"He had been in hospital since Saturday afternoon, where he underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain (a subdural hematoma). He remained in intensive care. At 07:43 this morning, he was declared dead," said a statement by the WHO on its website.
"All of the staff of the World Health Organization extend their most sincere condolences to Dr Lee's family. The sudden loss of our leader, colleague and friend, is devastating," continued the statement.
"The world has lost a great man today. LEE Jong-wook was a man of conviction and passion. He was a strong voice for the right of every man, woman and child to health prevention and care, and advocated on behalf of the very poorest people," said Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General.
Lee became head of the WHO in 2003 and leaves behind his son, wife and two brothers.
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The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is set to welcome two new members to its senior leadership team in early 2022.
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Currently heading up marketing at Stratford-upon-Avon's Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, David Wright has joined the Trust this month, taking on the role of sales and marketing director.
He will drive forward the Trust's marketing strategy across the 10 sites, which includes the world renowned Iron Bridge and Blists Hill Victorian Town living museum.
Mr Wright said: "I'm so excited to take on a new challenge with the team at The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust after eight wonderful years in Stratford. I'm very much looking forward to exploring the Trust's 10 sites and can't wait to get started."
Nick Booth, will step into the role of collections and learning director at the Trust. He has worked as a curator at University College London , and most recently as head of collections at the SS Great Britain from where he joins the team at Ironbridge.
Mr Booth said: "I'm delighted to accept this wonderful position at such a hugely historically important site. With a huge passion for archaeology and industrial history, this is very much a post I am looking forward to fulfilling."
Chief executive of the trust, Nick Ralls, said: "We are delighted to be welcoming both David and Nick to the team in early 2022 in what is a hugely exciting development for The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
"Both Nick and David will be key members of the senior management team and we're very much looking forward to having them contribute to the vision of Ironbridge in a post-2020 cultural landscape."
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Leaked report warns BIS move to London could increase costs
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Fri 22nd Apr 2016, 11.00
A leaked government report has warned that plans to close the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' (BIS) office in Sheffield and move it to London could cost rather than save money.
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The document marked "official sensitive", which has been shown to FE Week, stated that while potential savings through rent, rates and maintenance, rail travel, and hotel stays stood at £1.5m, the additional London salary costs could run to £1.6m per annum.
This means that the plans, which sector leaders say would cause an "FE brain drain" if up to 240 people with specialist knowledge of skills training lose their jobs, would result in a net loss of £100,000 for the department.
It comes after the chairs of the BIS and Public Accounts Committees (PAC) urged Martin Donnelly, Permanent Secretary at BIS, to provide proof of government claims that the Sheffield closure would result in savings.
Iain Wright, chair of the BIS Committee, and Meg Hillier, who leads the PAC, asked for information on the department's estimate of the costs of closure in Sheffield and transfer of posts to London.
Their letter sent on April 20 also stated that information previously provided by Mr Donnelly, relating to the reorganisation of the department, had been "wholly unsatisfactory" with answers in oral evidence "obfuscatory, if not misleading".
Meg Hillier
Mr Donnelly responded with a letter of his own that explained: "The proposal to move policy roles to London forms part of a wider strategic case to enable us to deliver £350m of savings and be more effective in delivering ministerial priorities.
"They were not formed on the basis of any individual business case for a single location and our consultation is continuing."
Lois Austin, the PCS full-time official for BIS covering the Sheffield office, told FE Week in March that widespread opposition to the plans had forced BIS to delay its consultation on them by two months.
She said: "They told us back when all this was first announced [in January] that the consultation should be completed by the start of March.
"But we've now been told that it will be May 2, which shows how shaken up they are by the scale of opposition to this."
Sheffield Central MP Paul Blomfield lodged a parliamentary question to BIS requesting information on the annual cost per employee of rent, rates and maintenance for its office at St Paul's Place, Sheffield, and Victoria Street, London.
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The response, which he shared with FE Week and we asked BIS to comment on, indicated the London office was far more expensive.
It stated: "The annual cost per employee at St Paul's Place is £3,190 and at Victoria Street is £9,750."
A BIS spokesperson told FE Week: "We do not comment on leaked documents.
"We have a responsibility to the taxpayer to ensure as much of the department's funding as possible is focused on front line services.
"We have deliberately set ourselves challenging savings targets consistent with the spending review and we will continue to explore options in detail before making decisions."
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I gather that there is something of a meltdown within BIS. The notion of shifting 250 jobs from Sheffield to London always seemed a little eccentric.
This latest statement from BIS that it is part of a £350m savings drive is once again "obfuscatory if not misleading". Overall BIS may be saving money, but this part of the package creates costs rather than reducing them (as one might expect: you don't relocate from South Yorkshire to SW1 as a cost cutting measure.)
Meanwhile vacancies from a recent voluntary redundancy exercise aren't being filled because there aren't enough good staff to go round in London, and all kinds of things are slipping.
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Who was Bassel Khartabil? • What happened? • Who supported Bassel?
Bassel Khartabil in June 2010. Photo by Joi Ito.
Who was Bassel Khartabil?
Bassel Khartabil was a Palestinian-Syrian open source software developer and Wikipedia volunteer.
He was an early and frequent, if anonymous, editor on the Arabic Wikipedia. He also contributed to Mozilla Firefox, and built and led the Creative Commons Syria project; his work on the adoption of Arabic-language Creative Commons licences has been described as "pivotal."
Bassel was a widely recognised as a leading figure among the developing internet community in Syria, and was a recipient of the 2013 Digital Freedom Award presented annually by the non-profit Index on Censorship. In 2012, he was also named by the Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top Global Thinkers for "insisting, against all odds, on a peaceful Syrian revolution."
What happened to Bassel?
Bassel was arrested by Syrian military intelligence forces on 15 March 2012. Since that time, he has been held in prison without trial or charge, and has suffered severe torture and mistreatment at the hands of the Syrian prison personnel, including an 8-month period of solitary confinement.
En diciembre de 2012, Bassel fue acusado por la fiscalía militar. Durante esta breve audiencia, a Bassel no se le permitió formular su defensa y tampoco tuvo acceso a una representación legal. Posteriormente, fue ingresado en la prisión de Adra, en las afueras de Damasco, a la espera de un juicio.
On 3 October 2015, Bassel was moved from his civilian cell at Adra Prison to an undisclosed location, and has not been heard of since. In November, unconfirmed reports have surfaced from his family that he might have been sentenced to death by a secret Military Field Court, without right of appeal. In August 2017, it was revealed that Khartabil had been executed by the Syrian regime shortly after his disappearance in 2015.
Who supported Bassel?
In April 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for Bassel's immediate release from prison, and described his continued detention as "arbitrary." The Group has further specified that Bassel's imprisonment constituted a violation of Articles 9, 14 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, noting that the Syrian government failed to provide "any information that would indicate that Mr. Khartabil's peaceful non-violent activity constituted a threat to national security or public order."
Subsequently, over 30 human rights organisations (including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Index on Censorship, and the Gulf Center for Human Rights) signed an open letter urging the Syrian government to reveal Bassel's whereabouts and reunite him with his family. The Board of Directors of Creative Commons also approved a resolution calling for Bassel's release, and the MIT Media Lab offered Bassel a position of research scientist at the Center for Civic Media to work on projects to make Syria's history available to the world.
Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation hosting Wikipedia, also supported Bassel's release. In addition to informing the press about Bassel's situation, the Foundation has spoken about it publicly at events and on social media. In March 2014, it hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Bassel's honour, and has remained in direct contact with his family.
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There are Wikipedia articles about Bassel in over 15 languages, including English, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, and others. (All are linked from his Wikidata item.)
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Football is a physical game, one that demands peak fitness from every player that takes the field. Even large linemen require excellent cardiovascular endurance to maintain a competitive edge play after play. If you've never played before, or you haven't played in a while, getting back to that peak fitness level may seem daunting. To get into shape for football, you'll need to develop strength, build endurance and establish a base level of agility. A full-body combination of cardio, strength training and football-focused drills will prepare you for the rigors of a complete football season.
Cardiovascular endurance is one of the most important types of fitness necessary for success on the football field. The game requires strength and speed, but the difference between success and failure is the ability to perform consistently at a high level. To develop cardiovascular health run windsprints, go on long-distance runs of 3 miles or more, and perform intervals. For football interval training, run straight for 100 yards, turn and run back 90 yards, turn and run 80 yards and so on until you hit 50 yards. Stop, rest for a couple of minutes then perform the interval exercise again. Cycling and jogging will also help build cardiovascular fitness.
The types of free-weight exercises you perform will depend on your position, but you can achieve a general level of strength through sets of several exercises. Bench presses are the standard upper-body exercise for football. Several sets of bench presses, along with biceps curls, clean-and-jerks, military presses, lat pulldowns, squats and deadlifts will help you establish functional total-body strength that directly translates to most aspects of football. In the months leading up to the season, work out with weights at least three or four times each week.
Drill yourself to develop agility. Footwork is a crucial football skill, and the players that can place their feet exactly where they need to be will have a huge advantage on the field. Simple drills include running laterals, which is basically just running side to side as fast as you can, then shifting immediately to the other direction. Run backward, run up and down stairs, jump rope and do ladder drills at least four times each week.
The physical demands of football are intense, especially when played at the high-school level and beyond. Consult a physician and get a complete physical before undertaking a preparatory football training regimen. Avoid over-training, especially with free weights, but also with drills and cardiovascular exercise. Schedule at least one complete day of rest each week and refrain from performing the same weight-training exercises on consecutive days. If you've never played any sport or trained for any other athletic activity, give yourself plenty of time to get into shape before the start of the season.
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La stazione meteorologica di Alatri è la stazione meteorologica di riferimento relativa alla località di Alatri.

Coordinate geografiche
La stazione meteorologica è situata nell'Italia centrale, nel Lazio, in provincia di Frosinone, nel comune di Alatri, a 502 metri s.l.m. e alle coordinate geografiche .

Dati climatologici
Secondo i dati medi del trentennio 1961-1990, la temperatura media del mese più freddo, gennaio, si attesta a +5,6 °C, mentre quella del mese più caldo, agosto, è di +23,2 °C .

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What's Happening with the Buffalo News?
Elmer Ploetz
/ May. 30, 2018 7am EST
What the hell is happening with the Buffalo News?
That's a question I've heard a lot over the past month. I haven't worked there in nearly 10 years, but I've got friends who are still in the business and I keep an eye on industry trends, so I'll try to parse it out as best I can.
For years the News looked like the safest bet in regional journalism (sizable metropolitan dailies that aren't the New York Times or Washington Post). The paper, thanks to its ownership by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Company, wasn't burdened with the debt that had turned countless newspapers into money pits in the last 20 years. Its market penetration remained among the nation's highest for a long time.
Even the News's late move into the digital world didn't hurt it too badly. It was able to avoid some of the mistakes other papers had made.
The News had also gone deeply into the printing business to make up for some of the ad revenue it had lost in recent years. It prints the regional edition of the New York Times and a number of other local publications (Pennysavers, college newspapers, etc.)
But the perfect storm striking newspapers specifically and print publications in general didn't skip the News. Every time a department store goes out of business (think Bon-Ton, for example), it can mean as much as a million dollars in lost advertising in a year. Those Sunday inserts don't come cheap. And multiply it by all of the other businesses that have folded.
Meanwhile, Craig's List has claimed the classified ad market, car dealers are increasingly relying on their websites, and Google is claiming increasing percentages of the overall ad market.
So when Trump's tariffs on Canadian paper hit the fan (affecting not only the print edition of the News but its printing business), the paper became more vulnerable than it had been at any time since the closing of the Courier Express in 1982.
For a long stretch during the 1990s, the News was making more than $50 million a year in pre-tax profit. Over the last few years I had heard from News employees that the expectation was $10 million a year in profits (I'm not sure if that was pre- or post-tax). With that was an understanding with the union that the News would have no layoffs unless the paper found itself in serious straits (at least that was the understanding when I worked there). What constituted serious straits was a bit nebulous.
But when the News lost $1.8 million in the first quarter of 2018 (the paper's first quarterly loss in 40-plus years), management clearly saw it as a state of emergency. Hence the email sent from editor-in-chief Mike Connelly to the staff on May 7. The result is a lot of buy-outs, but from what I've heard not really optional buy-outs. The impression I've gotten is that it's "take a buy-out or else."
Well, the outlook isn't good. Editor Connelly has said since he came to the News in 2012 that he wants to make the News a "digital-first" publication. His hires have overwhelmingly been digitally oriented. He has no love of unions, either, and is known for his abrasive—even vindictive—nature. Employees are ready for a rough ride.
▪ One of the worst possibilities is cutting back on daily print editions. That's what has happened in Syracuse, Cleveland, New Orleans, and other cities with Advance Publications newspapers. Their home delivery has been reduced to three days a week. People in Lockport and Niagara Falls have already seen their Tuesday print editions done away with. It could happen here, particularly with rising paper prices, paper shortages, and low advertising sales for some days of the week.
▪ Earlier deadlines and fewer reporters mean that local government meeting coverage, frequently the source of accountability reporting, is going to take a hit. It already has seen serious reductions over the past decade, with the region's hinterlands getting scant coverage.
▪ Other beats are likely to disappear. High school and local college sports may take a hit. Medical/health coverage is likely to decrease, given the buy-out of the paper's main health reporter.
▪ What was the Friday lifestyle section is going to be squeezed into the existing Sunday life section and the Monday money section is being squeezed into the Sunday business section.
Whatever the effects, it's not likely to make a better Buffalo News. There will be fewer people putting it together, and people tend to not to do more with less; they do less.
The sports situation
Many of the problems afflicting the Buffalo News are predictable, given the media economic climate. But what's happening in the sports section isn't.
Something smells bad.
Columnists Jerry Sullivan and Bucky Gleason and Sabres reporter John Vogl are all taking buyouts. One of the inside editors has been moved to a news staff reporter position. So what does that all mean?
It should be understood that Sullivan and Gleason weren't looking for buyouts. They other two moves weren't being sought by the employees either.
Sullivan and Gleason were being removed from their columnist positions and were offered buyouts. They took them.
The reason being given was that their columns were too negative.
In his tweet announcing he was leaving, Sullivan said, "They felt my voice was becoming bad for business."
I've accepted a buyout today after the News took away my column. They felt my voice was becoming bad for business. It's been a privilege to cover Buffalo sports for 29 years. I wrote for the readers, who deserved a fair, objective and passionate perspective, even when it stung.
— Jerry Sullivan (@ByJerrySullivan) May 29, 2018
Yet Sully and Bucky, as they have come to be known to readers and viewers, have been among the News's most recognizable "brands" over the past decade or more (in Sully's case, 29 years).
After a Bills game, in particular, the audience may not have agreed with them, but it wanted to know what they thought.
That's why the News put them behind microphones and in front of cameras, eventually landing them on WGRZ-TV. The understanding in media today is that creating that kind of brand is what works. Those are the people who the audience know.
It doesn't matter how good most print reporters are, their pictures don't run with their stories. Most people have no idea what they look like; when they leave, most people don't notice.
But the columnists are the ones whose photos look you in the face every morning in your paper or on your tablet or phone. They're the ones putting the events of the day into perspective, whether you agree with that perspective or not.
Through most of this millennium Bucky and Sully have been the voice of the fans in a city frustrated by impotent professional sports franchises. Negativity also happened to be honesty.
So why would the News push two of their most recognizable assets out the door?
There are no skeletons in the closet. I've known both for roughly 30 years and the only thing they might be guilty of is an excessive passion for sports—something they share with a lot of Western New Yorkers.
That leaves a couple of choices.
Either the leadership at 1 News Plaza really is that stupid.
Or perhaps pressure was coming from someplace like One Buffalo, where they seem to be a bit twitchy about criticism. And if the News, which has been making an increasing amount of its income from printing, was to pick up, say, printing of Buffalo Sabres game programs or Buffalo Bills materials…well, that would be good for business, right?
Neither answer is a good one.
Meanwhile, I wonder if The Athletic is recruiting anybody to cover Buffalo? I think the News may have just given them a gift.
Elmer Ploetz is an associate professor at SUNY Fredonia, where he has taught journalism since 2008. He worked as a reporter and copy editor in sports and news at the Buffalo News from 1985 to 2008.


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Археология данных () — реконструкция и дешифровка данных с носителей информации, которые вышли из употребления или были повреждены в результате природной или техногенной катастрофы. Также к археологии данных относится процесс дешифровки информации, записанной в устаревшем формате данных.

Вышедшие из употребления форматы данных и устаревшие носители
Методы археологии данных чаще всего применяются для восстановления научной и финансовой информации. В частности, значительная часть астрономической информации до сих пор хранится на физически и морально устаревших носителях. Коммерческие организации обязаны хранить финансовую информацию многие годы; однако ранние финансовые записи часто становятся недоступными для использования из-за смены форматов и поколений носителей информации.

Термин «data archaeology» был впервые использован в 1993 году в описании проекта Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project (GODAR). Целью проекта была реконструкция данных со спутника Nimbus 2, работавшего в 60-х годах XX века. Реконструкция этих данных позволила получить уникальную информацию об изменениях климата Арктики того времени.

Другим крупным «археологическим» проектом стал Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). Специалисты NASA использовали методы археологии данных для спасения астрономической информации со старинной компьютерной ленты, созданной в середине прошлого века.

Носители, повреждённые в результате катастрофы

Методы археологии данных были использованы при ликвидации последствий урагана Мэрилин в 1996 году. Так, National Archives and Records Administration в содружестве с Национальной медиа-лабораторией США (National Media Lab) произвели успешное восстановление информации с жестких дисков, повреждённых морской водой и песком.

Методы
Археология данных использует многие из общих методов восстановления информации, но не сводится к ним. Это связано с тем, что в рамках археологии данных недостаточно просто восстановить информацию, нужно сделать её понимаемой.

Важным фактором в процессе извлечения информации является соотношение важности информации и затрат на её извлечение; при неограниченных ресурсах информация может быть извлечена и дешифрована почти с любого носителя.

Использование тех или иных методов главным образом зависит от типа носителя. К примеру, для археологии данных, размещенных на магнитной ленте, на подготовительном этапе могут применяться реабсорбция покрытия ленты, нанесение на ленту специальной смазки, применение специальных методов очистки ленты.

Существуют специализированные организации, использующие методы археологии данных для восстановления информации с устаревших или повреждённых носителей, среди крупнейших — National Media Lab USA и Storelab Data Recovery.

Концепция Цифровой тёмный век

Цифровой тёмный век — сценарий возможного будущего, при котором многие исторические цифровые документы и мультимедиа будут фактически утеряны, так как никто не сможет их открыть. Несовместимое оборудование и операционные системы, утерянные кодеки и вышедшие из употребления форматы данных сделают невозможным доступ ко многим файлам XX—XXI веков.

Археология данных в искусстве
 В фильме «Искусственный разум» Стивена Спилберга высокоразвитая раса гуманоидов реконструирует информацию, сохранившуюся в древнем дефектном роботе, для воссоздания обстановки, в которой он существовал.
 Главный герой романа «Глубина в небе» использует методы археологии данных для получения контроля над программным обеспечением, писавшимся несколько столетий.
 В аниме «Бледный кокон» люди будущего занимаются восстановлением различных данных о прошлом Земли из цифровых архивов.

См. также
 Восстановление данных
 Архив Интернета
 Археология медиа

Примечания

Литература
 World Wide Words: Data Archaeology
 O'Donnell, James Joseph. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyperspace Harvard University Press, 1998.
 Ross, Seamus and Gow, Ann. «Digital Archaeology: Rescuing Neglected and Damaged Data Resources» Library Information Technology Centre, 1999.

Информационная безопасность
Запоминающие устройства
Восстановление данных


Air cell A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
Air cell A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects.
Water cell A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. n.
A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. n.
Any small cavity, or hollow place. n.
The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. n.
A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. n.
One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. n.
To place or inclose in a cell. v. t.


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Below are two exemplar pieces of Supervised Writing. One appears in full on the page and the other can be downloaded. They can of course be read simply as an essay written under timed conditions. Indeed, when your students complete their SW, you may decide to provide them with an internal mark - whether or not they end up being the actual written response that informs the final choice of essay topic.


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1. Geometry: Two-Dimensional; straight lines, circles and conic sections, Three-Dimensional; straight lines and spheres.
2. Algebra: Set theory, Relations, Mappings and its applications, Permutations and Combinations.
3. Calculus: Limits, Continuity and Differentiability, Rolle's and Mean value theorems, Differentiation, Partial Differentiation, Maxima and Minima of functions of one and two variable. Successive differentiation. Integration by using substitution, partial fraction and by parts, Definite integral and its properties, Applications of definite integral to evaluate length and area of simple plane curves.
4. Vector Analysis: Scalar and vector products of two , three and four vectors and their applications.
5. Statistics, Probability and Linear Programming : Measures of Central tendency, Dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis. Correlation and Regression. Basic concepts of probability, Conditional probability, Baye's theorem, Discrete and continuous distributions (Binomial, Poisson, and Normal distributions), Fundamentals of linear programming problems, Graphical solution, Simplex method and its variants.
6. Matrices: Types of matrices rank of a matrix, solution of system of linear equations, Cayley Hamilton theorem, Inverse of a matrix, Determinant and its properties.
7. Numerical Analysis: Differential equations of first order and their solutions, Linear differential equations of first and higher order with constant coefficients.
o Basics of C Programming and Operating Systems : Computer programming in C : data types, loop and control statements, functions. Fundamentals of operating systems: multiprogramming, multitasking, Multiprocessing and time sharing systems.
o Networking and Internet : Categories of Computer Network, Network topologies, Network media, Concepts of LAN, MAN and WAN, Search Engines, Basic internet applications.


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I've been honing my craft as a stand-up comedian for seven years. My deep, raw, and humorous perspective comes from years of searching for my identity within race, culture, and fatherhood.


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Rome, 44BC - Julius Caesar holds office almost as a queen. Her comrade and confidant Brutus joins the rebellion, believing her friend too ambitious, but is it truly for the better of Rome? When daggers are drawn on the Ides Of March, who is the true dictator?
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Home Auto Others It's Wedding Bells for Cricketer Ishant Sharma! Announces Wedding Date on 9th December
It's Wedding Bells for Cricketer Ishant Sharma! Announces Wedding Date on 9th December
According to the latest news pouring in, cricketer Ishant Sharma is all set to tie the knot with Pratima Singh, who is the former captain of the Indian women's basketball team. This news was received well by the fans of the cricketer and they are all very happy for the couple who are getting married this December 2016. According to a source, the engagement ceremony was held on June 19 and the marriage is expected to be on December 9. Ishant Sharma, is a well-known fast bowler, who is currently not in the Indian Cricket Team playing against Zimbabwe. However, he last played in IPL 2016 from Rising Pune Supergiants.
Cricketer Ishant Sharma Announces His Wedding Date
About the Lucky Bride-to-Be
Pratima Singh is a known basketball player in the Indian Woman Basketball Team, who started her career in 2003 Ishant Sharma's Fiancée's family is known as a Basket Family of India. Apparently, there is a reason behind this, which is that all her other four sisters also play Basketball, representing India. Pratima Singh hails from Uttar Pradesh and her eldest sister Priyanka is NIH coach. Divya Singh is Junior Indian team's coach and Prashnti and Aakanksha Singh also play for Indian Basketball team. Pratima Singh the former captain of the Indian women's basketball team, and she has represented the Indian Basketball team at various International events including Asian Games.
The couple exchanged their rings in front of family members and loved ones at Delhi's Uppal Orchid Hotel. Rohit Sharma, congratulated the couple and engaged in a friendly banter with Ishan Sharma with a tweet that goes like "Welcome to the club, congratulations you two. Lekin aaj ke din toh baal katva leta bhai."
About the Adorable couple
Ishan Sharma and Pratima Singh both knew each other for quite a long time and when their families wanted them to settle down the couple agreed that it was the right time to do so. Apparently, they kept their relationship a secret from the eyes of media and their engagement was a surprise for everyone. Even though we did not have any updates about the marriage date Ishant Sharma and Pratima Singh are known to be tying the knot on 9th December 2016. We from our team at Fabnewz wish the couple a very happy and prosperous married life. For more updates about this stay hooked to Fabnewz!
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Leica Microsystems has announced the launch of Leica DMD108, network solution for pathologists that integrates microscope, camera, and PC in one compact system.
Besides diagnostic image quality and documentation, presentation and data exchange facilities, the user is given a dimension of freedom.
The Leica DMD108 combines the benefits of digital imaging with manual sample navigation to speed the pathologist's daily work routine without individual steps having to be changed.
The Leica DMD108 is designed to provide particularly convenient conditions for observing and analyzing samples without viewing through an eyepiece.
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An additional monitor or a highresolution beamer can be connected for training and discussion purposes. Images can also be directly emailed to consult colleagues that are not linked to the network.


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(UPDATED) Federal authorities arrest six men in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Conspiracy to overthrow the state government
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Federal authorities have arrested six men in connection with what they say was a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).
The conspiracy was a described by the FBI as a plot to violently overthrow the state government in Michigan, WITI-TV reported. The investigation into this conspiracy involved multiple informants and undercover FBI agents.
Documents filed in court Thursday allege that six men — Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta — plotted to kidnap the governor.
According to the FBI, Croft, Fox, and about 13 other men met in Dublin, Ohio, on June 6 to form a self-sufficient society that would be based on the U.S. Bill of Rights. They allegedly discussed plans to achieve this aim violently.
"Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," an FBI agent wrote in the court affidavit. "The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message."
Fox allegedly reached out to a Michigan-based militia group to recruit men to attack the state Capitol building and take hostages, including the governor.
"Fox said he needed '200 men' to storm the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, and take hostages, including the Governor. Fox explained they would try the Governor of Michigan for 'treason,' and he said they would execute the plan before the November 2020 elections," the FBI said.
NBC News reported that the involvement of that militia in the plot to kidnap the governor "appears to be minimal as the group charged today allegedly discussed keeping the broader militia out of their plan."
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According to the FBI, it learned of the plan through confidential sources and undercover agents over several months who attended militia group meetings. The FBI said the militia group would hold field training exercises on private property in remote areas of Michigan, where they would engage in firearm training and tactical drills.
At one point, the FBI said the group had a meeting in Grand Rapids in the basement of a shop that was accessed through a trap door hidden under a rug on the main floor. At that business, the FBI said they discussed the plan for the Capitol and planned to use "Molotov cocktails" to destroy police cars.
The FBI said Fox called Whitmer a "tyrant b****" and asked the group to be linked with other systems and asked for ideas of what they can do.
The militia group also met in Ohio and Wisconsin, the FBI reported, and on July 11 in Wisconsin, Croft and another member tried to make an improvised explosive device using black powder, balloons, a fuse, and BBs for shrapnel.
The FBI said they have recordings of conversations discussing plans to attack a Michigan State Police facility and to shoot up Whitmer's vacation home. In one of these recordings, Fox allegedly said the best plan was to "kidnap her outside her vacation home."
"Snatch and grab, man. Grab the f***in' governor. Just grab the bitch. Because at that point, we do that, dude — it's over," Fox allegedly said, according to the FBI.
The FBI said in late August the alleged conspirators took pictures and video of Whitmer's vacation home and researched how far the police were from its location. A few weeks later in mid-September, the group allegedly created and detonated an IED surrounded by human silhouette targets and planned to put a similar device under an overpass to divert police while they kidnapped the governor.
The FBI said Fox told one of their sources he had purchased an 800,000-volt taser to use in the kidnapping. In conversation with an undercover officer, the group determined it would cost about $4,000 to get the explosives they allegedly intended to use for the IED and made plans to raise the funds over the next few weeks.
Videos have emerged of one of the arrested individuals, Brandon Caserta, making anti-government statements in front of an anarchist flag. The Detroit News reports that Caserta published videos to TikTok with the caption "#anarchy."
Additionally, video producer Robby Starbuck tweeted several of Caserta's videos showing he is an anarchist, not a right-wing ideologue.
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While trains are no longer as widely used as they once were, the abandoned railway lines that traverse our country have recently become popular places in communities. These historic treasures showcase the natural beauty of America's countryside and some are being preserved. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy has made great progress in raising awareness about these railways and leads the movement to have them restored for community use.
There are currently more than 1,000 trails in the US that operate on railway lines that have fallen out of use. At the moment, there are 523 miles of these trails in the nation, and RTC has expressed a commitment to create even more trails for active Americans to enjoy. If there is interest in building a trail in your community, consider contacting RTC advocates, the Federal Railway Administration, or the Association of American Railroads.
To search for trails sponsored by the Rails to Trails Conservancy, visit TrailLink.com. From this database, you can search for RTC trails by name or location, making it easy to find a beautifully restored trail near you.
Our closest rail trail is in Palmyra, Virginia. It's not a long one, but the path is level and high above the Rivanna River. There are areas where you are embraced with high rocks and then other areas where you can look down steep forests. Beautiful and peaceful! Any time we have visitors, it's one of the places on the itinerary. View my photo album of this rail trail (click the arrows at the top to continue photo viewing).


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Its mission was to support the commercialization of renewable energy technologies by supplying a testing location and associated services not normally available elsewhere. The program's particular focus was waste-to-energy and fuels technologies, biomethane production and gas cleaning technologies.
The RETC managed over $30 million in Federal and State contracts related to energy, environmental or manufacturing technologies. It validated more than 180 processes and products for energy efficiency and environmental impact. It had three gasifiers with air permits in operation, along with multiple support technologies.
Additionally, it assisted renewable energy companies in obtaining more than $35 million in State and Federal grants related to the results of its RETC testing program.


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National tennis group reveals plans for $6 million complex
Robert Beatty— August 8, 2013
FORT LAUDERDALE – The 98-year-old American Tennis Association (ATA) capped a 20-year search for a permanent home Aug.1, unveiling plans for a $6 million training center and complex to be constructed on Sistrunk Boulevard, the historic black corridor of Fort Lauderdale.
The ATA unveiled artist's renderings of the complex during a reception at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, part of its activities during its 96th annual National Tennis Championships played in the city.
ATA President Franklyn Scott said no other location was considered as the site for the complex.
"This area has always been the most receptive," said Scott, an oral surgeon from Philadelphia. "The South Florida community embodies what we are all about."
Albert Tucker, vice president of multicultural business development for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, welcomed the decision.
"I had the incredible opportunity to bring the vision together," Tucker said. "It's a beautiful rendering for a beautiful facility."
Bob Blatcher, a tennis coach from Wilmington, Del. and a 50-year ATA member, said the complex – due to be open in 2014 – will help black junior tennis players compete with other athletes who have year-round training.
"Juniors will learn to be top-notch players," Blatcher said. "Our kids need high-performance training and coaching."
The complex will be available to ATA members and the public.
"This is going to be pretty outstanding, not just for the ATA but for the sport of tennis, not just for African Americans but for the sport of tennis," said D.A. Abrams, chief diversity and inclusion officer for the
United States Tennis Association (USTA).
Government officials in attendance at the unveiling included Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness and Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Bobby Dubose.
"I am looking forward for the facility to be located in District 9 to create more jobs," Holness said.
The new state-of-the-art complex will have office space, an area for exhibits, one center court with stands on each sideline and a set of six courts on each side of center court.
Terrell Washington, project architect for The Hall Group in Miami, said that the renderings were a collaborative effort between the ATA and the USTA.
Tennis star Venus Williams and her designing firm, V*Starr Interiors, will work with the USTA to design the interior of the tennis complex.
*UNVEILING THE PLAN: Franklyn Scott, president of the American Tennis Association, speaks at the unveiling of the renderings of a tennis complex proposed for the Sistrunk Corridor during a reception at the Broward County Convention Center on Aug. 1. MALCOLM SHIELDS/ FOR THE SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES.
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Q: Django-CKeditor broken on Heroku My django website is hosted on Heroku (with static files on AWS S3) and the ckeditor recently stopped working on my admin pages.
If I check the console, I can see this error :
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Boston public schools lately announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so. Why? Because the Peters projection accurately shows unique countries' relative sizes. Although it distorts countries' shapes, this thoroughfare of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
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Paddington Bear may have ditched marmalade sandwiches for Marmite but a school in Wales has banned the spread because it contains too much salt.
The pupils have been eating the yeast based spread on toast at the village school's breakfast club since the start of term.
But health conscious officials now claim Marmite is outside of guidelines for levels of salt and say the children must stick to marmalade instead.
Parents of children at Pontrhydfendigaid primary school in Cardiganshire, West Wales, say the school is sending out mixed messages.
One mother said: "It seems strange they can serve the toast with jam and marmalade which are full of sugar but not Marmite.
"It is the nanny state going too far - generations of my family have grown up on Marmite. It's ridiculous. We have it at home all the time. My kids love it."
Marmite has increasingly been aimed at children, with its "Love It Or Hate It" slogan used alongside Paddington Bear in a new series of adverts.
But the school claims the spread is outside of Welsh Assembly Government guidelines.
A spokesman said: "Breakfast clubs are intended to improve the health and concentration of children. But anything served must be healthy and nutritionally balanced. Marmite is not included on the list of items as it does include a high level of salt."
A spokesperson for Unilever who have make Marmite said: "It is disappointing the council is not including Marmite in its items for breakfast clubs. It is not harmful, and only a small amount is required to make toast tasty for children."


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Cole offers update on Man Utd return for 'legendary' Ibrahimovic
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic remains on course to return for Manchester United "next year", according to Andy Cole, who considers the Swede to be "legendary".
The enigmatic 36-year-old striker has been out of action since April, when he suffered knee ligament damage in a Europa League clash with Anderlecht.
He was forced under the knife after suffering an untimely injury, with a long rehabilitation process bringing him back to this point.
His hard work has impressed United enough to earn him a new short-term contract, with it suggested that he could be back in contention for Jose Mourinho at some point before the end of 2017.
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Cole, though, believes a comeback will be held until the New Year.
The former Red Devils striker, who recently spent time with Ibrahimovic in the gym, told The Sun on the progress being made by the experienced frontman: "Really good. Back next year, I think, so he's done well really.
"He'll get games because he's got so much quality. And he's brilliant in the dressing room. I love Zlatan. He tells you how it is. He's legendary."
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Ibrahimovic was United's go-to striker in 2016-17, but they have since invested £75 million in Romelu Lukaku.
The Belgian has hit the ground running, netting seven times in seven league games to help Mourinho's side make an unbeaten start.
Cole believes the 24-year-old will be given time in which to enhance his game even further, but has also warned that he is now at a club where he can be easily replaced if his form drops off.
The 1999 Treble winner said on the pressure of being a goal-getter at United: "I had to keep United at the top. Now Romelu has to get them there but that buys you a bit of time.
"If I didn't cut it, I'd be on the bench. Mind you, if Romelu doesn't, United can go out and buy a new striker."
Pressed on whether he is surprised at the impact made by Lukaku, Cole added: "No. He'd done it in the Premier League for the past five seasons. He was always going to score goals."
Lukaku will be looking to add to his impressive haul on Saturday when United return to action with a trip to Liverpool.
He did nurse a knock during the international break, but was able to figure for Belgium in their final 2018 World Cup qualifier and is considered to be ready for domestic duty at Anfield.


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How to get rid of junk the tenant left behind
housing, landlord/tenant
December 22, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver
Eric and Cindy have never met, but they both have an identical legal problem and contacted You and the Law the same day. Just how do you legally deal with property that has been left behind when a tenant — or even former spouse — moves out and refuses to take the stuff away?
"My roommate — who was my subtenant — moved out months ago and left his enormous speakers and turntable. He hasn't come back to either pay what he owes or remove these things," Eric wrote.
"I don't know where he lives, but believe he is working at the same place," he added.
While Eric is only concerned with his former roommate's stereo, Cindy has much larger mess on her hands:
"Our garage is filled with my former husband's rusty shop tools, bins filled with junk, boxes of books, you name it, the pack-rat collected it and now refuses to remove this worthless stuff from my property, even though our divorce settlement required him to!
"He hasn't come by in over a year, even though I have repeatedly begged him to take all his stuff away. It is clear that he has no intention of doing so. My lawyer wants $3,500 to go back to court, but I do not have that money, and I do not see the point as there is already a court order in effect. What can I do?"
Possible abandonment
We ran these facts by attorney Heidi Palutke of the California Apartment Association, who gave us a basic outline of what a landlord can do when faced with property left behind, and possibly under the right fact situation, someone in Cindy's situation as well.
Due to space limitations, we can only provide this general description of the procedures required to follow, and therefore online research or consultation with an attorney is absolutely necessary.
Notice of abandoned personal property
"There is a fairly simple procedure for dealing with these common situations when tenants move out leaving behind personal property, but it is important it is to follow the law precisely and take steps to prevent the tenant from claiming that the landlord committed theft.
"The first step is to send a Notice of Abandoned Personal Property to the tenant and anyone else who you believe owns the property and list everything that you find.
"The more detailed you are, the greater your protection from being sued by the tenant. It is a very good idea to video this process, showing the condition of the rental unit and items which you have found. You may remove the items from the premises and store them elsewhere," Palutke notes.
"The notice must advise: 1) Where the property may be claimed; 2) The date, allowing at least 18 days after delivery or mailing, and; 3) That storage costs must be paid before the property is returned, unless claimed within two days of vacating the dwelling.
"The notice must be sent to any address where the tenant would be expected to receive it, including a work address, and you must include one of these statements:
A) If you fail to reclaim the property, it will be sold at a public sale, as provided by California Civil Code Section 1988.
B) Because the property is believed to be worth less than $700, it may be kept, sold or destroyed if you fail to reclaim it within the time indicated.
No holding hostage for payment
"Even if you have a judgment for rent against the tenant, an owner cannot demand payment in exchange for return of their possessions. So, while you can't hold their property hostage, if they do not make a timely claim of property worth less than $700, then they lose it and it is yours to keep, or to dispose of in any manner," Palutke added.
"It is important to establish the value of what was left behind and where property exceeds $700 in value, public sales are typically handled by an auction company. Expenses incurred would be reimbursed out of the sale proceeds and the balance is paid to the county, Palutke concluded.
In our legal opinion, as between Eric and Cindy, it is clear that she has a far more complicated problem. Abandonment clearly applies to Eric, but not directly to Cindy. To succeed, she would need to establish a reasonable belief that her ex has no intention at all in recovering his property — and if law enforcement will not take possession of the items — she has no other option.
We suggest that a demand Letter from an attorney first be sent to Cindy's former husband or lawyer, advising that steps will taken to declare the property abandoned.
That might be enough to get her creep of an ex-husband to get moving.
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This week's theme is books I've read because of blogs or Youtube. It was easy for me to come up with this list because there are actually quite a few books that I have read and loved because of book blogging. Y'all are the best! Enjoy!
The Penderwicks Series by Jeanne Birdsall // Thank you to the Read Aloud Revival and Sarah Emsley for this recommendation! I'm loving them and finally getting close to getting the last 2 books from the library!
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeymoon // Thank you to Jackie for this recommendation. It was a surprising read for me–outside my usual genres but poignant and fascinating.
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer // This is one of the first books I read because of a blogging recommendation. I can't remember who recommended it but thank you! Love this entire series!
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay // This is one of my favorite recommendations from Carrie (who always recommends my new favorite book in historical and contemporary romance)! I love all the clever literary allusions in this one and it has led me to read all of Katherine's books. They are amazing!
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin // I think someone recommended this on a TTT post about books to read if you love books about books. Which is super nerdy and totally my kind of thing! Thank you, whoever you are! Loved this quirky, endearing story about the power of books and of love.
What are some of your favorite blogger recommended reads?
I still need to read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. I also read Jackie's review and know how much she loved it.
I was not a big fan of Cinder… It was just "meh" for me. Not sure I'll continue. Everyone else seems to love it though.
Elanor Oliphant is definitely outside my usual genres. But it's gorgeously written and endearing despite it's intensity and sometimes rather dark moments. A really intriguing read!
And I am totally on the Lunar Chronicles bandwagon! Haha. Loved all the books! Sorry to hear it wasn't your favorite.
Me too. There are so many great books in the world. It's always better to enjoy them with a friend.
I also enjoyed Dear Mr. Knightley. It is my favorite book by the author.
I have Lizzy and Jane but have not read it yet.
Nice! I hope you can read it soon!
Is it bad that I don't remember where I hear about books? I did read VE Schwab's books because of bloggers. I was looking for fantasy books for people who don't like fantasy, and those were recommended to me. The blogosphere was right. I don't really like fantasy, but I like the Shades of Magic books.
That's awesome! I can totally relate to getting inspiration at the bookstore–I still do that on occasion. Don't you love when someone recommends a book to you and it's everything you hoped it would be? That's my favorite!
Me too!! The Lunar Chronicles are so clever and amazing!
I keep hearing about that book too! You'll have to tell me what you think!


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The Fisherman was out on the lake as always catching the species of trout that only lived in this body of water. The waves were only a couple of inches without any white caps and the sun was shining bright and clear, which was unusual for this time of year. It was about 20 degrees Celsius and just a beautiful fall day to be out fishing. The Fisherman appreciated the weather but he would have been out all day anyway. He was floating on a pristine lake in Armenia, Lake Sevan to be exact, and today he was being disturbed.
Frequently now the capitalist bombers passed over a couple of times a week but they were so high and there was nothing to bomb here, that it was only the noise they made that was out of the ordinary. He had gotten used to them as had the fish he was certain.
He was floating just a mile off the coast from the old monastery when he heard the first of what was to be hundreds of trucks. The monastery had been closed for many decades but the buildings were still upright and strong. The ghosts of the warrior monks who defended the land for centuries keep most away.
These trucks were of a newer model and different make than the few he has seen in his life and they were full of soldiers; soldiers of the Red Army who looked to be on their way to a major battle and not just an excursion into the hinterlands of the USSR. This would be an unusual invasion route into the Turkish lands he mused. I guess if you want to catch an enemy unaware you do the unusual. Yet here they were and he was sure that they would try and catch his fish.
Lake Sevan was 78 km long and 58 wide and he had rowed every inch of it. He had heard that it was 95 meters deep as well placing it as one of the largest lakes in the world and it was located 1900 meters high surrounded by mountains. All in all it was one of the most beautiful places on earth but the Fisherman knew no other so to him it was just home. He fished to live and lived to fish, selling his catch to another who came to him in a powerboat and bought what he could not eat. Most of the time he was paid in kind and that is what he preferred. Salt, thread, cloth, line, hooks, all things he needed to survive and to keep his boat afloat and his small sail patched. He was being taken advantage of by the men in the power boat but he did not care of even knew this was the case.
He probably did not even own the land his shack was on but no one knew who did so by default he did. If you found an empty piece of land, you lived there and it was then it was yours until you died and someone else came along. Men like him did not have families. He did come from a family he recalled but was on his own since the age of 10. A fire or pillaging band of bandits had taken his family as far as he could remember which was not much about that time. A modern clinical diagnosis would be "repressed memory" and be concerned. He just never thought about it and lived to fish instead.
What was happening on shore became annoying as well as alarming. The trucks were disgorging hundreds of soldiers near the Monastery. I suppose it was a natural draw for someone not from the area. That was the annoying part. The alarming part was that other trucks were headed for his hut. Most of what he owned was in the boat with him including all he needed to survive but he remembered he left his good knife, extra fishing line, his winter store of fish and the painting in there. It would set him back a full moons worth of extra fish to replace them by trading with the men in the powerboat and who knew when he would be able to catch enough to replace his winter stores.
The book was where he found it wrapped in cloth and wedged very safely between two boulders. No one would find it and if they did it was not very appealing. That's partially why he just kept it hidden. He could not read and the few illustrations were of the "Ascending Jesus" and were not very well done in his mind. He had seen a photograph once and was much impressed with that but not with this admittedly old book full of scribbles and squiggly lines and bad hand drawn pictures that didn't even look as real as the photograph he had seen when the men in the powerboat had shown it to him.
He hated to fish on the ice. He has seen too many fall in when you were too hungry in the spring to take precautions on the thin ice. He had seen too many mistakes made by relatively smart men.
He could only assume that the soldiers were on their way to fight the Turks. There was certainly nothing else to fight here. He did not know who he pitied more, the soldiers who were about to die in a foreign land or himself who would go hungry this winter. Luckily he knew of another hut that he could claim. Its occupant had died the last moon. He had already staked a claim on it using the tried and true methods of the area but it was on the other side and farther away from his favorite fishing spot. He would have to spend twice the amount of energy getting there and back and during the winter the lake did not always freeze all the way over so he might have to go to his other less fertile fishing spots.
He began to curse the soldiers. Maybe if he killed a couple over the next few nights they would leave. No… they would try and hunt him down. They would not succeed but that would make him use up much needed supplies and who knows they just might get in a lucky shot and wound him. He was not afraid of dying but he was afraid of being shot and waiting to die while in pain.
No he would have to bide his time and wait to see what they did or were going to do here. His hope was that they were just passing through on their way to fight the Turk.
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Zhukov was intrigued with the idea of invading the Turk, the Ottoman Empire, the former scourge of the south and the peoples who had terrified many generations of Russian children. He was going to avenge the Byzantine empire and once again bring Constantinople into the sphere of civilization once again.
Individually the Turk was a formidable fighter but collectively he was a disaster. He expected to eliminate the Amerikosi airfields that were being used in Turkey to be over-run in as little as 45 days once the assault started. Constantinople's walls would be no impediment to a modern army as they had been for thousands of years first to keep out the Mongol, then the Turk and finally the west.
The art of war had progressed too far for the old walls to withstand a 122mm shell or a 46 ton tank. The Soviet soldier was the undisputed master of city warfare so he expected little trouble in first by-passing and then eliminating any resistance there. With the Turk no longer in control of the Bosphorus or collectively the Turkish straits and the Black Sea fleet could start to harass the British and Yankee boats that have so far plagued his plans. That Sergo character had promised to unleash his missiles if a worthy target presented itself and he had more conventional weapons ready to fight the B-29, Shooting Star and RAF Meteor. It was some kind of new jet that would bring superiority to the VVS over the skies of the battlefield.
He just wanted the pesky boats gone. He had seen the devastation they had created near Le Havre and now had to take detours to bring his forces to bear on the Turk. He had to stay a good 30 miles from the shore of the various seas in the area for fear of intervention by the naval forces of the imperialist pigs.
The irony of Sergo not using the missiles on the ships was that the guidance system was initially designed to target ships. His fear of an unexploded warhead falling into the hands of NATO was somewhat warranted but not enough to allow the Western navies the unfettered freedom they possessed currently. That would have to be addressed especially when his forces got closer to the Levant and the Suez. Sergo's missiles would have to be used for what they were designed for.
As he stared at the line of tank transports and train loads of forces crawling along the mountain roads from his command car in his armored train he suddenly turned and his aide quickly came to his side knowing that something was about to occur that meant his life was about to change. He knew his Marshal very well and the twitching of the jaw always meant something significant was about to happen.
Zhukov spoke in the low rumble that was his trademark for beginning an important statement. It forced you to get closer even knowing that the volume and pitch that frequently came would physically force you to take a step back. But that initial beginning made you lean in close knowing what was to come and what was to follow. It was an effective technique that had never failed Zhukov nor failed to frustrate and intimidate his subordinates.
The aide knew by now that the first few sentences were more of a stalling tactic while the Marshal collected his thoughts for verbal communication. Kind of like clearing your throat or a platitude filled welcoming statement about how pleased he was to be in your company. Zhukov did not use platitudes so he unconsciously used the technique he had developed over the many years of commanding men, commanding them to give their very lives for an idea and in sometimes great numbers.
Finally the essence of the order came to the fore and the aide did not need to lean in to hear it.
"Bring Konstantine to me. He is the one who has been working on masking the true nature of the Stalin's Fire missile's guidance system."
"Of course comrade."
The aide thought to himself, that was not what I expected. What is that old fox up to now? He was never bored in this position. The marshal's other aide had made it through the war against the Nazis only to be killed by a stray bullet from an unknown source while standing next to Zhukov while he was touring the newly captured city of Berlin. He was in the right or wrong place at the right or wrong time depending on your point of view and had been ordered to step in and be the marshal's aide. Luckily he was a natural and Zhukov had no complaints that he knew of.
He quickly walked the length of the train and entered what had easily become the most disorganized mess anyone had ever seen that was the command car of the undisputed master of maskirovka. A man no one ever heard of or knew existed.
The master of deception had his back to the door and did not turn around when the compartment was bathed in sunlight and cold air.
"Close the door and what do you want?" He muttered without even turning around. "Marshal Zhukov will see you now comrade. I will lead you to him."
Konstantin slowly turned and without hesitation or argument and literally dropped what he was working on, thus causing a metallic crashing noise which filled the compartment and immediately started to move towards the front of the train. The aide did not look to see what was dropped but was once again struck by the empty eye sockets and the emaciated face of this master of deception. The man was obviously totally blind yet was able to function at an incredibly high level of proficiency as long as he was in the train or confined area. One tour around any area feeling with his feet and hands and it was ingrained in his memory. Unless something was moved by someone else, he could move with alarming speed that belied his blindness.
Found abandoned on the steps of a hospital in Moscow he was born without eyes and his anophthalmia was very acute. He barely even had eye sockets. Zhukov's aid had the duty of researching the past of anyone who came in contact with the Marshal. In his research he had found that Konstantin was amazing from birth in his ability to use his other senses to overcome what would be a crippling deformity to others. Possibly his lack of sight made it easier for him to fool others who had relied so heavily on sight. Whatever the cause he was indeed a master of maskirovka and responsible for many of the decisions Zhukov had made in this realm of smoke and mirrors.
As usual Konstantin led the way barely feeling his path. Everyone knew when he was coming and made way by clearing a course through their space for his transverse. You never wanted to be the cause of accidentally inflicting harm on this man.
They reached Marshal Zhukov in less time than it took the aide to originally traverse the length of the train. Konstantin did not stop and all knew that he was not to be stopped. They marched right up to the marshal and then waited to be addressed. The marshal was busy with another matter but immediately stopped the conversation and greeted Konstantin warmly. This always surprised the aide and made him a little jealous. But then again he had never saved Zhukov's life or the lives of hundreds of thousands of soviet soldiers either. As Zhukov hugged Konstantin
the aide could tell that he was averse to this particular kind of greeting and he thought, maybe that is why Zhukov does this to him.
As usual Zhukov started out speaking in his rumbling bass voice to draw Konstantin in but Konstantin did not fall for the bait as usual. They had been through many a challenge together and knew each other's ways only too well. Finally the Marshal came to the point after articulating it in his mind.
"Konstantin old friend, what has been done to mask the true nature of the Stalin's Fire missile guidance system?"
"Comrade Zhukov, we have done any number of things per Sergo's orders and a few of our suggestions have been used as well. We have "provided" the NATO intelligence service with a number of opportunities to avail themselves of dummy units. So far they have only retrieved 2 out of twelve presented to them. The rest have gone unnoticed where they have remained so as to not increase suspicion.
Of the two actually reaching the NATO scientific staff both would have appeared to be guided by the German Fritz X system or the FuG 230 system. We are sure the NATO scientists have received and tested these units. We know they are still baffled and are unsure as to why their jamming techniques have not worked so far when they obviously have worked in the past. The only possible flaw in this plan is that it does defy physics so they will eventually discern that it must be a ruse. It has bought us valuable time to strengthen other weapons and strategies.
Zhukov moves to the center of the rail car and crosses his arms.
"The time is coming where we will need Stalin's Fire to rain down on NATOs boats. It is coming soon. It will mean the difference between winning the war and defeat. NATO is free to roam the oceans and strike at us where they will. We now have the means to stop this. We now have the weapon we need to sweep the oceans clean of capitalist war machines and fill the void with our own. Mark my words Konstantin the time is coming and coming quickly. We will need Sergo's acquiescence on this matter in order to convince Comrade Stalin and the STAVKA. Stalin's Fire must be used and soon and that is where your special talents come in Konstantin. You must come up with the ultimate maskirovka just in case the a warhead falls into NATO's lap like the enigma machine or the so called Battle of the Beams. We have to make them believe that when the real solution does present itself to them that they reject it out of hand."
"It is pretty unbelievable in reality so that maybe not as hard as you think. At this point we do not want to even get them thinking down the same path as the real solution. Possibly something like the enigma machine or some rudimentary computation device to throw them once again off the obvious path that they have ignored could be used. We will give them so many clues that they will not know which ones are pertinent.
Sergo is so concerned that they will discover the truth yet he will not tell anyone how to defeat the system he is using. He claims it is very simple but no one else seems to know what he
is thinking and how to effectively counter it. We do have to plan on there being someone in what remains of the capitalist world who can think like Sergo. It would be foolish for us to think otherwise.
So far it has been a common fault of the Amerikosi who seem to think that they have invented everything and no one else can match their accomplishments. It is to our advantage to keep them thinking this way."
"Da, you are correct Konstantin. We must keep using the power of maskirovka for a few more months until we are totally caught up to the Amerikosi and Limeys. Their sense of superiority is a great advantage to us because it blinds them to the real possibilities of a communist system. It is to our advantage to keep them thinking we are the blunt, dumb instrument of Stalin who only know the hammer and sickle and couldn't possibly equal them in the sciences. The longer they believe that trope, the longer the time we have to defeat them.
"When we finally are "allowed" to use the system for its original purpose, we will not have to worry about the NATO boats anymore. There is no reason that the system cannot be placed on the German V2 rocket as well. At a distance of 320 km it will far out range those guns that have kept us from the coasts. They will no longer be able to supply islands like Britain or bring their tanks from across the seas. What good will their factories be if they cannot land machines or provide the fuel to run them. If we stop their navies we will stop them from invading the motherland and our new jets will meet them in the skies. We just needed the time to breath after our destruction of the Nazi pigs. We are now ready to once again defend ourselves.
First we have to push the Amerikosi farther away from our oil fields, further away from our homes, further away from our families. Maybe then they will leave us alone. We need to conquer the Turk and then drive them out of the Mediterranean. We need to close both ends of that sea. We need to destroy the Suez Canal and take Gibraltar from the British but first we need to take the airfields from the Turks and expand the perimeter. Then our planes must keep us safe while we rebuild once again."
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Wanting to run or work for a startup is a common goal nowadays. New companies are launched all the time, led by founders who hope to move quickly and grow fast. But as we all know, not all are successful. Why is this? Why do some succeed and others fail? Brittany Perez, who leads the account management team at Copper, is familiar with these questions. She left a comfortable position at a well-known company (Intuit) to work at Copper, and since joining the team, they've grown from 28 employees to hundreds, and have raised just under $100M in venture backing.
Wanting to run or work for a startup is a common goal nowadays. New companies are launched all the time, led by founders who hope to move quickly and grow fast. But as we all know, not all are successful. Why is this? Why do some succeed and others fail?
Brittany Perez, who leads the account management team at Copper, is familiar with these questions. She left a comfortable position at a well-known company (Intuit) to work at Copper, and since joining the team, they've grown from 28 employees to hundreds, and have raised just under $100M in venture backing.
In this episode, Brittany discusses: why she decided to leave Intuit for the risky startup space and take a chance on Copper; the difficulties female sales representatives must face in a heavily male-dominated space; and what made her fall in love with Copper after using Salesforce for most of her career.