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International Migration, Vol. 56(1) February 2018
The Migration of Culinary Traditions in the Region
"The Migration of Culinary Traditions in the Region" is a book of recipes garnered by IOM staff in Missions across South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The recipes give insight into the rich cultural heritage of each country and are meant to be shared as a way of celebrating the… Read More
International Migration, Vol. 40 (1) 2002
International Migration is a refereed quarterly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of… Read More
International Migration, Vol. 45(1) 2007
Migration Policy Practice (Vol. V, Number 2, April-June 2015)
Migration Policy Practice welcomes the opportunity to publish a selection of some of the most noteworthy papers discussed at the 13th plenary meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration. The meeting examined the realities of the current global protection system and set out to identify gaps… Read More
Migration Initiatives Appeal 2006
The yearly Migration Initiatives (MI) reflects IOM's planned responses to migration needs in a calendar year. It also serves as a tool to engage counterparts in discussions on migration, issues and possible concrete measures and to seek support for our programme priorities.
IOM Gender and Migration News - June 2006
The Working Group on Gender Issues prepares a quarterly Gender Bulletin.
Migration Initiatives 2009 outlines IOM's planned activities for which financial support is needed. The 2009 appeal totals some 870 million US dollars for activities in nearly 400 locations. The appeal covers a range and diversity of projects as varied as migration itself. Labour migration,… Read More
IOM Gender and Migration News - April 2008
The International Organization for Migration Gender Issues Coordination's quarterly Gender and Migration News Bulletin.
Migration Policy Practice (Volume I, Number 2, December 2011 - January 2012)
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Migration Initiatives 2012
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Migration Initiatives 2008 outlines IOM's planned activities for which funding is required in the coming year. Since the publication of last year's edition, new migration challenges have arisen in various areas of IOM operations.
Taking Action against Violence and Discrimination Affecting Migrant Women and Girls
Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive global and systemic forms of human rights violations that exist today. Even though many migrant women do not encounter violence and benefit from migration, for some of the 105 million international migrant women worldwide, violence and… Read More
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"We have no need to totally shut down exports", the Russian vice-premier emphasized.
Russia will export 28 MMT in the crop year 2014-2015, vice-premier Arkady Dvorkovich stated. This is below the average forecasts of the Agriculture Ministry (27.5-30 MMT) and the Economic Development Ministry (32 MMT).


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News | September 21, 2016
Cassini Significant Events 09/14/16 - 09/20/16
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, the Cassini spacecraft took its final optical navigation, or OpNav, image of the mission. The yellow squares identify the positions of known stars, and the yellow half-circle shows where the moon Rhea was expected to be. More ›
Cassini took its final "OpNav" image this week. Optical Navigation employs a unique system to provide data for improving estimates of the spacecraft's orbit, and for tracking the orbital behavior of selected natural satellites. It consists of images that the spacecraft takes and returns via telemetry as digital bits. OpNavs are used relatively infrequently, but they have extraordinary value, as mentioned below under Tuesday's activity. More commonly Navigation uses radiometric data, Doppler and Range from the Deep Space Network (DSN). This is obtained for hours at a time during virtually every scheduled DSN tracking session. The Doppler shift in the continuous radio link between spacecraft and DSN reveals speed. Sending and receiving special tones provides Range, or distance. Both measurements reveal the spacecraft's continuously changing location in the line of sight, but OpNavs address additional dimensions and help increase navigational accuracy.
Wednesday, Sept. 14 (DOY 258)
The Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) made a 90-minute Titan monitoring observation, with the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) and the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) riding along.
ISS continued controlling spacecraft pointing for another nine hours, first to inspect Saturn's thin bright crescent limb for five hours, with VIMS and the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) as riders. The remaining four hours went into a study of Saturn's southern auroral region near the pole, with CIRS, VIMS, and UVIS riding along. Finally today, CIRS led an observation, with VIMS, mapping Saturn in far-infrared wavelengths for 12 hours.
The extraordinary view Cassini had of the majestic planet today is simulated here.
Thursday, Sept. 15 (DOY 259)
Today marks one year before Cassini's enormously productive mission comes to a close with the Grand Finale. The story, and the ticking countdown clock, may be seen here: /news/12939/cassini-begins-epic-final-year-at-saturn .
VIMS spent 13.6 hours making a Saturn global map in the infrared part of the spectrum, at high phase angle, covering the planet from low latitudes up to the polar regions. CIRS rode along.
Today the Cassini project scientist gave a presentation on "Cassini's Science: Past and Future," to the Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) of the Space Studies Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, in Irvine, California. The Planetary Society's "Planetary Radio" also featured an interview with the scientist: http://go.nasa.gov/2d5oesG .
Helping mark the start of Cassini's final year of existence, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day today illustrates how Saturn wanders backwards for a while each year, as do Mars and other planets, across our sky: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160915.html .
Friday, Sept. 16 (DOY 260)
UVIS, CIRS and VIMS jointly observed Saturn's northern aurora for 10.4 hours today.
Saturday, Sept. 17 (DOY 261)
ISS kept its telescopes trained on Saturn's thin, bright F ring for 16 hours today, taking images that the Imaging Science team will use as a movie.
Sunday, Sept. 18 (DOY 262)
ISS, CIRS and VIMS looked back to Jupiter, whose enormous orbital momentum contributed one last increment of gravity-assist boost to Cassini in December 2000, en route to Saturn. Today's 14 hours of photometry and polarimetry will provide a point of comparison for non-Cassini astronomical observations of brown dwarfs and giant extrasolar planets. It is a companion observation to the one that occurred last December.
While observing Jupiter, Cassini coasted through apoapsis, marking the start of its orbit #243 of Saturn. The spacecraft's altitude and speed were similar to those during the Aug. 25 apoapsis passage.
After the Jupiter observation, ISS turned to make a two-minute storm-watch observation on Saturn. Another one took place on Tuesday with VIMS participating; another took place on Saturday at the conclusion of the F ring movie.
Monday, Sept. 19 (DOY 263)
The Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) took advantage of the high altitude near apoapsis to perform a 13-hour observation of exogenous dust, particles originating from outside the Saturn system.
Saturn's F ring appears along the bottom of an image featured today; the broad ring above it is the A ring, with its narrow Keeler gap visible, and the wider Enke gap sporting its own ringlets and tiny moon: /resources/17503 .
Tuesday, Sept. 20 (DOY 264)
CIRS observed Saturn's atmosphere for 12 hours to determine the upper-troposphere and tropopause temperatures while the planet rotated. When this was done, the Navigation team used ISS for 90 minutes to obtain one final set of optical navigation (OpNav) images. Saturn's large icy moon Rhea was the target, with the exposure set to capture the background stars for reference.
Since October 2003, nine months before Cassini's arrival in Saturn orbit, a total of 2,817 OpNav images have been taken. Thirteen years of obtaining and processing optical navigation images have vastly increased our knowledge of the orbits and gravitational interactions of Saturn's eight largest satellites.
Pictures of a natural satellite taken by the spacecraft's camera, with stars in the background, reveal the direction to that satellite at a point in time, and a sequence of such pictures over time produces more accurate estimates of their orbits. Indeed, without such detailed knowledge of orbits and gravitational interactions, Cassini's very low flybys through the plumes of Saturn's small moon Enceladus -- as low as 25 km above the surface of this icy satellite -- would never have been attempted.
The orbits of many of Saturn's moons, which before Cassini had been known to no better than 1,000 kilometers, are now known in some cases to better than 5 km, thanks to having combined OpNavs with radiometric data from the DSN.
Wrapping up the science activities for this week, ISS made a 60-minute observation as part of the satellite orbit campaign to identify small objects near the planet.
A three-day joint meeting the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer team and the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer team began today at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
Solid-state chemistry might be playing a part in the formation of an unusual ice cloud in Titan's atmosphere: /news/12941/nasa-scientists-find-impossible-cloud-on-titan-again .
Cassini's website is featuring a discussion of the mission's major discoveries: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn along with a recap of the mission to date: /news/12938/recap-september-11-16-2016 .
The Deep Space Network communicated with and tracked Cassini seven times this week, using stations in Australia and California. A total of 35 individual commands were uplinked, and about 1,280 megabytes of telemetry data were downlinked and captured at rates as high as 124,426 bits per second.
Wrap up:
Cassini is orbiting Saturn with a period of 12 days in a plane inclined 53.7 degrees from the planet's equatorial plane. The most recent spacecraft tracking and telemetry data were obtained on Sept. 21, using the 70-meter diameter DSN station in Australia. The spacecraft continues to be in an excellent state of health with all of its subsystems operating normally except for the instrument issues described at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/anomalies .
Cassini's path up to mid-day Sept. 20 is illustrated here: http://go.nasa.gov/2cEt6BE .
Milestones spanning the whole orbital tour are listed here: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/tour-dates .
Information on the present position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft may be found on the "Present Position" page at:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/where-is-cassini-now .
This illustration shows Cassini's path up to mid-day Sept. 20, 2016
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NEA Scout will visit an asteroid estimated to be smaller than a school bus – the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a spacecraft.
An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies.
Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies With NASA's Webb
The lander has taken measures to conserve energy; engineers aim to return to normal operations next week.
NASA's InSight Exits Safe Mode
Europa Clipper will need to know its orientation while traveling from Earth to Jupiter and in orbit around Jupiter. To accomplish this, it will use the stars.
Europa Mission Dispatch: Tracking the Stars
Scientists have announced that samples collected by Curiosity are rich in a type of carbon associated with biological processes on Earth.
NASA's Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars
The lazily winding spiral arms of the spectacular galaxy NGC 976 fill the frame of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble Views a Tranquil Galaxy with an Explosive Past

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Ernst Gronau född 21 augusti 1887 i Meml Tyskland död 10 augusti 1938, tysk skådespelare.

Filmograf i urval
1936 - Annemarie

1927 - Die Selige Exzellenz
1925 - Ein Sommernachtstraum
1922 - Fräulein Julie
1920 - Genuine

Externa länkar

Tyska skådespelare under 1900-talet
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2, including Chinese tourist, killed in Kenya hippo attack
August 12, 2018 by Forimmediaterelease
By TOM ODULA
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – A Chinese tourist died after he was attacked by way of a hippo when he was capturing on the shore of Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley, just hours following a hippo killed an area fisherman in exactly the same area, Kenya's wildlife authority said Sunday.
A second Chinese tourist was injured in the incident Saturday night and received treatment in the neighborhood hospital in Naivasha, 91 kilometers (56 miles) miles southeast of Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service said in a statement.
In exactly the same area, a fisherman was attacked by another hippo several kilometers (miles) from the scene of the initial incident where in fact the Chinese died, a police official said.
"The person was bitten on the chest and his injuries were serious and he died minutes after he was retrieved from the lake," said Rift Valley Head of Criminal investigations Gideon Kibunja.
The deaths taken to six the quantity those who have been killed by hippos around Lake Naivasha up to now this season.
Wildlife service spokesman Paul Udoto said the circumstances aren't clear where the two Chinese were attacked. He said attacks on tourists are rare because they're protected by guides usually.
He said hippos and lone buffalos pose the best danger to humans and there were many attacks where civilians and also rangers have lost their lives.
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Putting Education Reform To The Test
Stories about students and the initiatives designed to improve performance. Are the many education reforms Florida has adopted working?
The Anemic State of High School Physics in Florida
Parents Fight For School Recess
Despite Losing Grant, Choral Group Still Teaching Miami Students To Sing
International Baccalaureate Programs Finding A Home In Florida Middle and Elementary Schools
Merit pay; eliminating tenure; new teacher evaluations -- how are school, district and state policies affecting how educators and their students perform?
Merit Pay
Classroom Contemplations
How Common Core Brought Attention To The Math Education Debate
Essay: How To Teach Brown V. Board To A Class Of All Black Students
More Florida Teachers Rated "Highly Effective"
Florida Teachers Consider 'Civil Disobedience' To Say No To Testing
The dollars and cents of educating students, including stories about state and local budgets, tax credits and school financing.
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Veteran Florida Teachers Wonder If New Bonuses Are Meant For Them
New Florida Teacher Bonus Program Draws Complaints
Florida Teachers Say Deadline To Apply For New Bonuses Is Unfair
Rock Band Offers Miami Students Financial Lesson Based On Personal Experience
Education is big business. These are stories about the parents, politicians, companies, lobbyists and other leaders seeking to impact education decisions.
In Florida And Across The Nation, Common Core Standards Still Standing
Political Correctness Challenges Campus Free Speech
FDLE Closes Hacking Investigation, But Provides Few Answers
New Palm Beach County Schools Chief Wants To Shake Up Florida Education
Florida College Says Education School Rankings Are Inaccurate
June 19, 2013 | 4:00 PM
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Florida State College at Jacksonville is questioning a new national ranking of education schools.
A Florida college rated "substandard" in national rankings of education schools said the rankings were "inaccurate and misleading" and rely too much on information obtained on the Internet.
The National Council on Teacher Quality released a ranking of college and university elementary and secondary education programs Tuesday. Florida State College at Jacksonville was one of five state schools rated "substandard" by NCTQ.
But Tiffany Hunter, Florida State College at Jacksonville dean of education, said the school only has an early childhood education program. Florida has two certifications for early childhood education and elementary education, Hunter said, and the requirements for each are different.
Therefore, the school should not have been included in the evaluation of elementary education programs.
"It seems very apparent that the evaluation was inaccurate and misleading on all levels for our program at FSCJ," Hunter said by email. "There is a division between Early Childhood and Elementary education and it does not appear to be understood by the NCTQ."
NCTQ included early childhood education programs covering kindergarten through third grade and kindergarten through sixth grade teacher training programs in its evaluation of elementary education programs, spokesman Amy MacKown said by email.
But Hunter argued it is inappropriate to combine the two programs into one category.
"Although there is overlap in grade levels, we do not and cannot ever state that we have an elementary education program," Hunter wrote. "When our students graduate from our program, they are not eligible to receive an Elementary Ed certification."
The NCTQ ratings have been highly disputed this week. Many have questioned the methodology, which relies heavily on course catalogs and syllabi. Others noted the rankings do not consider how well graduates actually perform in the classroom.
Stanford University education professor Linda Darling-Hammond questioned the accuracy of the ratings in a piece at The Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog.
NCTQ has countered most of Darling-Hammond's claims on their blog, and says they are gathering feedback on the rankings. They plan to correct or amend the rankings if needed.
"As we have said from the beginning, with 16,000 ratings decisions, it was inevitable that we would make some errors," Arthur McKee wrote on the NCTQ web site. "That's why we set up the Forum process, where we will publicly address all objections to our ratings and make corrections where necessary. Programs such as Stanford's can send us their objections now and we will address them in July on our website."
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Kyle Eliott Korver (* 17. März 1981 in Lakewood, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler, der zuletzt für die Milwaukee Bucks in der NBA spielte. Er ist vor allem als exzellenter Distanzschütze bekannt. Während der NBA-Saison 2009/10 erreichte Korver als Spieler der Utah Jazz eine Dreipunktquote von 53,64 % und stellte damit einen neuen Liga-Rekord auf. In der Saison 2014/15 wurde Korver in ein NBA All-Star-Team gewählt.

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College und Draft
Korver spielte auf der Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska Basketball, bis er in der NBA-Draft 2003 von den New Jersey Nets an 51. Stelle ausgewählt wurde. Die Nets handelten diese Rechte später an die Sixers weiter.

NBA

Bei den Sixers hatte Korver in seinem zweiten Jahr den Durchbruch. Er etablierte sich bei den Sixers als guter Schütze. In der Saison 2006/07 erzielte er 14,4 Punkte kommend von der Bank und führte die Liga mit 91,4 % getroffenen Freiwürfen an.

Im Dezember 2007 wurde Korver zu den Utah Jazz transferiert. Mit den Jazz erreichte er zwischen 2008 und 2010 dreimal die Playoffs in Folge. In der Saison 2009/10 konnte Korver einen Rekord von der Dreipunktelinie erzielen. Er beendete die reguläre Saison mit einem Schnitt von 53,64 %, womit er die höchste Quote aller Spieler erreicht und außerdem einen neuen NBA-Rekord in der Kategorie höchste Drei-Punkte-Trefferquote in einer Saison aufstellte. Bei den Jazz erfüllte Korver überwiegend die Rolle des Scorers von der Bank.

Ab der Saison 2010/11 spielte Korver für die Chicago Bulls, von denen er am 16. Juli 2012 für Kirk Hinrich zu den Atlanta Hawks transferiert wurde.

Bei den Hawks durfte Korver zum ersten Mal seit seiner Zeit bei den Sixers wieder regelmäßig als Starter auflaufen. In der Saison 2013/14 führte er die NBA mit 47,2 % getroffenen Dreipunktwürfen. Im Jahre 2015 wurde Korver in das NBA All-Star Game eingeladen. Er ersetzte den verletzten Dwyane Wade. Er war mit 33 Jahren und 11 Monaten der viertälteste All-Star Debütant der NBA-Geschichte. Mit den Hawks stellte er in der Saison 2014/15 die beste Saisonbilanz in der Eastern Conference auf. Korver hatte mit 49,2 % getroffenen Dreipunktwürfen, worin er wieder die Liga anführte, einen großen Anteil daran. Korver wurde zudem mit dem NBA Sportsmanship Award 2015 für vorbildliches Verhalten ausgezeichnet.

Korver hielt bis zum 25. Februar 2016 den Rekord mit der höchsten Anzahl an getroffenen Dreipunktwürfen in aufeinanderfolgenden Spielen. Bis zum 6. März 2014 hatte er in 127 Spielen in Folge mindestens einen Dreipunktwurf verwandelt. Im Spiel gegen die Portland Trail Blazers endete dieser Rekord, als er keinen seiner fünf Würfe von der Dreierlinie verwandeln konnte. Am 24. Februar 2016 stellte Stephen Curry diesen Rekord ein, um ihn einen Tag später zu brechen.

Am 7. Januar 2017 wurde Korver für Mike Dunleavy Jr., Mo Williams und einem künftigen Erstrunden-Pick zu den Cleveland Cavaliers transferiert.

Nach dem Abgang von LeBron James im Sommer 2018 suchten die Cavaliers im Zuge ihres Neuaufbaus einen Abnehmer für Korver und fanden diesen in den Utah Jazz. Ende November wechselte Korver im Rahmen eines Trades zu seinem ehemaligen Team, für das er von 2007 bis 2010 aktiv war. Im Gegenzug wechselte Alec Burks und künftige Draftpicks zu den Cavaliers.

Nach der aktiven Laufbahn
In der Saison 2021/22 wurde Korver Assistenzcoach für die Spielerentwicklung bei den Brooklyn Nets, die ihn seinerzeit in New Jersey ansässig gedraftet hatten.

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Marion Walmart reopens after scare prompted morning evacuation
Mitch Hooper
After customers were evacuated in the morning, the Walmart in Marion is back and open for business.
Earlier this morning, the Marion County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the Walmart in Marion after suspicious wires were reportedly discovered in a toilet paper holder inside a bathroom. Though the investigation is still on-going, local law enforcement officials and the Columbus Fire Department Bomb Squad have since removed the suspicious device and deemed the store safe for re-entry.
Matt Bayles, Marion County Sheriff, said they are still reviewing video footage inside the store to determine the motive of this incident. Currently, it appears the items inside the toilet paper roll were shoplifted from the store, said Bayles. He added it is unclear whether this was a fake attempt to create a bomb threat, or someone attempting to shoplift and hide the merchandise.
"The Columbus Fire Bomb Squad members came up and they looked at it and said it looked like they had wired it up to look like something real," Bayles said.
He added that no other potentially harmful devices were found in the store during their search.
More:Sales at Marion County gun shops up as people seek security amid pandemic


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Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the establishment of the commission of inquiry into state capture and the processes started by the NPA.
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa . Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/ EWN.
JOHANNESBURG – Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to act with urgency against corruption and state capture.
Ramaphosa is speaking at pre-World Economic Forum breakfast in Sandton, as he prepares to lead Team South Africa in Davos.
Ramaphosa has welcomed the establishment of the commission of inquiry into state capture and the processes started by the NPA.
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The Cypria (;  Kúpria; Latin: Cypria) is a lost epic poem of ancient Greek literature, which has been attributed to Stasinus and was quite well known in classical antiquity and fixed in a received text, but which subsequently was lost to view. It was part of the Epic Cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic hexameter verse. The story of the Cypria comes chronologically at the beginning of the Epic Cycle, and is followed by that of the Iliad; the composition of the two was apparently in the reverse order. The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters.

Date and authorship
The Cypria, in the written form in which it was known in classical Greece, was probably composed in the late seventh century BCE, but there is much uncertainty. The Cyclic Poets, as the translator of Homerica, Hugh G. Evelyn-White noted "were careful not to trespass upon ground already occupied by Homer," one of the reasons for dating the final, literary form of Cypria as post-Homeric, in effect a "prequel". "The author of the Kypria already regarded the Iliad as a text. Any reading of the Kypria will show it preparing for events for (specifically) the Iliad in order to refer back to them, for instance the sale of Lycaon to Lemnos or the kitting out of Achilles with Briseis and Agamemnon with Chryseis". A comparison can be made with the Aethiopis, also lost, but which even in its quoted fragments is more independent of the Iliad as text.

The stories contained in the Cypria, on the other hand, were fixed much earlier than that, and the same problems of dating oral traditions associated with the Homeric epics also apply to the Cypria. Many or all of the stories in the Cypria were known to the composer(s) of the Iliad and Odyssey. The Cypria, in presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, in the received view thus formed a kind of introduction to the Iliad though there is an overlap in events from the death of Palamedes, including the catalogue of Trojan allies. J. Marks observes that "Indeed, the junction would be seamless if the Kypria simply ended with the death of Palamedes."

The title Cypria, associating the epic with Cyprus, demanded some explanation: the epic was said in one ancient tradition to have been given by Homer as a dowry to his son-in-law, a Stasinus of Cyprus mentioned in no other context; there was apparently an allusion to this in a lost Nemean ode by Pindar. Some later writers repeated the story. It did at least serve to explain why the Cypria was attributed by some to Homer and by others to Stasinus. Others, however, ascribed the poem to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of Salamis in Cyprus or to Cyprias of Halicarnassus (see Cyclic Poets).

It is possible that the "Trojan Battle Order" (the list of Trojans and their allies, of Iliad 2.816-876, which forms an appendix to the Catalogue of Ships) is abridged from that in the Cypria, which was known to contain in its final book a list of the Trojan allies.

Manuscript tradition
In current critical editions only about fifty lines survive of the Cypria'''s original text, quoted by others. For the content we are almost entirely dependent on a prose summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the Chrestomathy attributed to an unknown "Proclus" (possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century AD grammarian Eutychius Proclus, or else with an otherwise unknown 5th-century grammarian). Many other passing references give further minor indications of the poem's storyline.

Content
What follows embeds reports of known content of the Cypria in a retelling of the known events leading up to the anger of Achilles.

The poem narrates the origins of the Trojan War and its first events. It begins with the decision of Zeus to relieve the Earth of the burden of population through war, a decision with familiar Mesopotamian parallels. The war of the Seven against Thebes ensues.

The Cypria described the wedding of Peleus and Thetis; in the Judgement of Paris among the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite: Paris awards the prize for beauty to Aphrodite, and as a prize is awarded Helen, wife of Menelaus.

Then Paris builds his ships at Aphrodite's suggestion, and Helenus foretells the future to him, and Aphrodite orders Aeneas to sail with him, while Cassandra prophesies the outcome. In Lacedaemon the Trojans are entertained by the sons of Tyndareus, Castor and Polydeuces, and by Menelaus, who then sets sail for Crete, ordering Helen to furnish the guests with all they require. Aphrodite brings Helen and Paris together, and he takes her and her dowry back to his home of Troy with an episode at Sidon, which Paris and his men successfully storm.

In the meantime Castor and Polydeuces, while stealing the cattle of Idas and Lynceus, are caught and killed: Zeus gives them immortality that they share every other day.

Iris informs Menelaus, who returns to plan an expedition against Ilium with his brother Agamemnon. They set out to assemble the former suitors of Helen, who had sworn an oath to defend the rights of whichever one won her hand. Nestor in a digression tells Menelaus how Epopeus was destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus, the story of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, and the story of Theseus and Ariadne. In gathering the leaders, they detect Odysseus' feigned madness.

The assembled leaders offer ill-omened sacrifice at Aulis, where the prophet Calchas warns the Greeks that the war will last ten years. They reach the city of Teuthras in Mysia and sack it in error for Ilium: Telephus comes to the city's rescue and is wounded by Achilles. The fleet scattered by storm, Achilles puts in at Skyros and marries Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes, then heals Telephus, so that he might be their guide to Ilium.

When the Achaeans have been mustered a second time at Aulis, Agamemnon is persuaded by Calchas to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis and obtain safe passage for the ships, after he offends her by killing a stag. Iphigeneia is fetched as though for marriage with Achilles.
Artemis, however, snatches her away, substituting a deer on the altar, and transports her to the land of the Tauri, making her immortal.

Next they sail as far as Tenedos, where while they are feasting, Philoctetes is bitten by a snake and is left behind in Lemnos. Here, too, Achilles quarrels with Agamemnon. A first landing at the Troad is repulsed by the Trojans, and Protesilaus is killed by Hector. Achilles then kills Cycnus, the son of Poseidon, and drives the Trojans back. The Greeks take up their dead and send envoys to the Trojans demanding the surrender of Helen and the treasure. The Trojans refusing, they first attempt an assault upon the city, and then lay waste the country round about.

Achilles desires to see Helen, and Aphrodite and Thetis contrive a meeting between them. The Achaeans next desire to return home, but are restrained by
Achilles, who afterwards drives off the cattle of Aeneas, sacks neighbouring cities, and kills Troilus. Patroclus carries away Lycaon to Lemnos and sells him as a slave, and out of the spoils Achilles receives Briseis as a prize, and Agamemnon Chryseis.
Then follow the death of Palamedes, the plan of Zeus to relieve the Trojans by detaching Achilles from the Hellenic confederacy, and a catalogue of the Trojan allies.

Reception
The Cypria was considered to be a lesser work than Homer's two masterpieces: Aristotle criticised it for its lack of narrative cohesion and focus. It was rather a catalogue of events than a unified story.

Editions
 Online editions (English translation):
 Fragments of the Cypria translated by H.G. Evelyn-White, 1914 (public domain)
 Fragments of complete Epic Cycle translated by H.G. Evelyn-White, 1914; Project Gutenberg edition
 Proclus' summary of the Epic Cycle, omitting the Telegony translated by G. Nagy, 2000
 Print editions (Greek):
 A. Bernabé 1987, Poetarum epicorum Graecorum testimonia et fragmenta pt. 1 (Leipzig)
 M. Davies 1988, Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta (Göttingen)
 Print editions (Greek with English translation):
 M.L. West 2003 (ed., trans.),  Greek Epic Fragments from the seventh to the fifth centuries BC Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA) pp. 64–107  Online

See also
Eris (mythology)
Apple of Discord

Notes

References

F.G. Welcker, Der epische Cyclus, oder Die homerischen Dichter Bonn : E. Weber, 1849-65.
D.B. Monro, Homer's Odyssey, books XIII-XXIV Appendix to his edition of Odyssey, xiii–xxiv. (1901)
Thomas W. Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in Classical Quarterly'' (January 1908, and following issues)

7th-century BC books
7th-century BC poems
Cypriot literature
Epic Cycle
Lost poems
Prequels


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Patthar Ke Sanam (Hindustani: पत्थर के सनम,  "hard-hearted lover"; ) is a 1967 Indian Hindi-language movie. Produced by the Nadiadwalas, the film is directed by Raja Nawathe. It stars Manoj Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz, Pran, Mehmood, Lalita Pawar and Aruna Irani. The movie features many hit songs of the era, composed by the legendary Laxmikant Pyarelal and veteran lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri, such as the ever-haunting Patthar Ke Sanam, rendered in the voice of Mohammad Rafi. The film stood ninth in the Box-Office Top Ten List of 1967.

Plot
The story revolves around two friends, Meena and Taruna. Meena lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widowed dad, Thakur, in a small town in India. Taruna is her assistant as well as her best friend. Meena, while coming to her village from town, meets Rajesh, who teases her. When Meena's father hires a new manager, she learns that he is the same person she met on the train. She, along with Taruna, try to tease Rajesh by pretending to be in love with him. He finds out and pretends that he has fallen in love with both. As a result, both women end up falling in love with him for real, and Thakur is ready to permit Meena to wed him. Meena makes it clear that she wants Rajesh for herself and reminds Taruna that she had been engaged to their manager, Lala Bhagatram, when Taruna was a child. Lala Bhagatram is a very nasty man, who keeps reminding Taruna in public that he will marry as per the childhood promise. Then Rajesh is assaulted by some men and his mother, Shanti, looks after him. When Thakur sees her, he remembers that he had murdered her husband for all the wealth. Shanti hassles with a secret, that Meena is actually her daughter and Rajesh is Thakur's son. She wants them to get married so that she can be the owner of all the wealth again. Shanti begs Taruna to go away from Rajesh or else her plan will fail. Taruna agrees and pretends she doesn't love Rajesh. But Rajesh only loves Taruna and is emotionally hurt. Taruna can't take this anymore and decides to kill herself. Haria - a childish mentally challenged person reveals that she is not dead, but Lala Bhagatram has kept her in captivity. Rajesh goes and fights all the goons including Lala Bhagatram, but is beaten by them. Gauri and Taruna are transferred somewhere else with someone watching them constantly. Gauri's tied hands are freed by Taruna by cleverly avoiding the watchful eyes of the goons. Gauri jumps from the window and informs Rajesh. Rajesh goes and frees Taruna. In this fighting, Meena dies, Lala Bhagatram is killed by Thakur and Thakur is taken in custody. Shanti wants to leave, but Rajesh and Taruna insist that she stay with them. Haria and Gauri marry as well.

Cast
Waheeda Rehman as Taruna
Manoj Kumar as Rajesh
Mumtaz as Meena Thakur
Mehmood as Haria 'Rajendra Kumar'
Lalita Pawar as Shanti
Ramayan Tiwari as Thakur (as Tiwari)
Raj Mehra as Shyamlal
Pran as Lala Bhagatram
Mumtaz Begum as Haria's mother / Thakur's maidservant
Jankidas as Mr. Poojari (as Jankidass)
N.K. Misra as (as the Late N.K. Misra)
Aruna Irani as Gauri
Uma Dutt as Man in purple turban (member of the Panch)
Maqbool (as Muqbool)

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of Patthar Ke Sanam is composed by the duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal with lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The music album was released on vinyl lp by His Master's Voice in 1967, and consisted of 7 songs sung by singers Mukesh, Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.

References

External links

 Cast & Crew Details at bollywoodhungama

1967 films
1960s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Films directed by Raja Nawathe


The coordinator of CCEDU, Crispy Kaheru, said the thugs beat up the guard and took off with his gun. File photo.
The offices of the Citizens Coalition for Electoral Democracy (CCEDU) in Nsambya were this morning raided by unknown armed men. The raid took place in the wee hours of Tuesday morning at about 2.30am.
According to an eye-witness, the armed men disarmed the guard on duty before carrying out their mischief.
In a tweet, Crispy Kaheru the coordinator of CCEDU, wrote. "Our @cceduganda offices in Nsambya were raided by thugs last night! They beat up the guard and took off with his gun. We are yet to assess the level of damage caused!
CCEDU is a broad coalition that brings together over 600 like-minded civil society organizations and over 8,000 individuals to advocate for electoral democracy in Uganda.
This year, many NGOs have been raided by unknown men and some of their accounts frozen by Bank of Uganda over allegations of aiding opposition protests in the country and money laundering.
On Saturday, ActionAid Uganda, a non-governmental organisation, had its accounts unfrozen after nearly three months.
"The leadership of ActionAid Uganda is pleased to inform its partners, supporters and staff that our quest to have our bank accounts unfrozen has been achieved following constructive discussions with some agencies of government," read a statement from ActionAid Uganda, issued Saturday evening.
The organisation, however, says it will continue with its suit before court challenging the seizure of their accounts.


Indra has been awarded an €18 M contract to implement the integrated maritime border surveillance system in Romania. The contract adjudicated by the Romanian Ministry of Finance is to be concluded in 12 months and includes the implementation and start-up of an integrated system for the surveillance of the Black Sea maritime border.
The surveillance system will consist of sensor stations equipped with radar systems and electro-optics vision, a radio-link network and a control and command center. The center, which will be located in Constanza, will integrate all the information collected by the sensor stations to create a common and unified scenario of the Romanian coast to provide alerts to operators about possible threats.
The design of the system is based on the maritime border surveillance system that Indra has implemented in Gran Canaria, Huelva and Almería, and which will also be operative in Murcia and Ibiza. Once it is finished, it will control more than 1,000 km of the coast. The system is also being implemented in Latvia and in Hong-Kong.
Border protection is a critical issue for the European Union, specifically in this region, since many of the countries that have recently joined the EU outline its eastern border. In fact, the contract with Romania represents the third time the system has been exported and the second to an East European country. Currently, Eastern Europe is one of the areas with more projects in the border surveillance market worldwide.


"Those storekeepers who cater to the wants of the small boy are beginning to decorate their show windows with fireworks," observed the June 14, 1887, issue of Lincoln's Daily State Democrat. "Though there has been no official dictum, the impression prevails in these quarters that Mayor [A. J.] Sawyer will follow the precedent of the last fifteen years and permit youthful patriotism to assert itself under the usual restrictions.
"In view of the custom in this city of having elaborate pyrotechnic displays by the union of a number of families or of the inhabitants of a district, some of our dealers in fireworks have in stock elaborate and expensive set pieces. The dealers say there has been from year to year an increase in demand for fireworks of the better class and this year they expect a rushing business. Fireworks are cheaper this year than ever before. And, best of all, the new sorts of fireworks are much safer than the old kind. They are made so there is much less danger to those who do the touching off.
"There are a lot of novelties this season. Roman candles always have been the favorite and this year their popularity is likely to be increased by the introduction of a candle that discharges ruby colored balls that are said to be very pretty. New colored fires are also introduced in a variety of pieces. The latest thing in rockets is made to soar to a great hight and then burst with a great shower of rubies, followed by a cloud of sappheir [sapphire] meteors, and later by a third burst of emeralds. Some rockets are made to leave a trail of gaily colored jewels like the tail of a comet. Another kind are made for noise. Way up in the air they burst, with a loud detonation. They make a great racket.
"Another novelty in set pieces is a little thing that looks like a pill box. When it is touched off it commences to whirl around and throws out a series of sparks, making an excellent imitation of a tiger lily. Chinese rattan bombs are to be introduced here this year. A package of fire cracker powder is wrapped again and again with split-rattan, and when it is set off on a lawn it goes off with a report like a big cannon. In fire crackers resin is now used at the ends so as not to confine the powder better than formerly, and the consequence is that they make more noise."


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NED Condemns Military Coup in Sudan
Published on October 25, 2021 by christineb
A mural painted in Khartoum during the December Revolution reads, "Freedom, Peace, Equality; Protect the Nation." (Photograph by the National Endowment for Democracy)
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) strongly condemns the military coup in Sudan, which took place in the early hours of October 25, 2021. The Endowment is deeply troubled by and rejects the detention of Prime Minister Hamdok and other civilian transitional authorities, excessive use of force against peaceful protestors, and the disruption of the country's communications infrastructure.
"Sudan's historic democratic transition must not be derailed," said NED President & CEO Damon Wilson. "The December Revolution was driven by a powerful grassroots citizen movement opposed to decades of repression, violence, and corruption. NED stands with the peaceful protestors who demand a civilian-led democratic transition in Sudan that respects freedom, peace, and justice."
The National Endowment for Democracy urges the Sudanese military to:
immediately release Prime Minister Hamdok and all detained ministers, government officials, and civilian political and civil society leaders;
respect freedom of speech and assembly;
respect peaceful demonstrations; and
restore communications.
"NED was honored to recognize the civil society groups, leaders, activists, and the Sudanese people who led the December Revolution bringing forward a democratic transition with its 2020 Democracy Award," said Wilson. "NED will continue to support our Sudanese partners, the Sudanese people, and their democratic leaders as they bravely resist this coup and continue their struggle for a legitimate democratic government in Sudan."
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Who could forget the brouhaha nearly a year ago about how NPR was firing Bob Edwards? Yes, that quiet and friendly voice from Morning Edition would be no more. Well now's your chance to own a real piece of radio history! No, it's not Edward R. Murrow's microphone into which he crooned "This…is…London," to the sounds of the Blitz around him. No, it's WAAAYYY more exciting than that.
A disaffected NPR staffer has turned to eBay to sell the National Public Radio jacket Edwards wore on his final staff retreat! Yes, for the low, low price of whatever it's selling for right now, you can own this gen-u-ine piece of Americana. Fishbowl would bid on it ourselves, but we don't think it falls under the "reasonable expenses" outlined in our contract.
This is a Medium fleece jacket presented to and worn by Bob Edwards at what wound up being his final staff retreat among National Public Radio's Morning Edition staff. He decided this jacket was too small for him, so he gave it to me. I'm parting with this new and perfect item because I miss Bob and the memories are too painful.
Fishbowl could make a witty rejoinder here, but would it really make you appreciate this entry anymore? Yea, we didn't think so either.
UPDATE: DCist has an interview with Edwards today. It doesn't mention his jacket.


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Scientific First: Optogenetics Captures Neuronal Transmission in Live Mammalian Brain
Neurons, the cells of the nervous system, communicate by transmitting chemical signals to each other through junctions called synapses. This "synaptic transmission" is critical for the brain and the spinal cord to quickly process the huge amount of incoming stimuli and generate outgoing signals. However, studying synaptic transmission in living animals is very difficult, and researchers have to use artificial conditions that don't capture the real-life environment of neurons. Now, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) scientists in Switzerland have observed and measured synaptic transmission in a live animal for the first time, using a new approach that combines genetics with the physics of light. Their breakthrough work was published online on December 24, 2014 in an open-access artic le in Neuron. Drs. Aurélie Pala and Carl Petersen at EPFL's Brain Mind Institute used a novel technique called "optogenetics" that has been making significant inroads in the field of neuroscience in the past ten years. This method uses light to precisely control the activity of specific neurons in living, even moving, animals in real time. Such precision is critical in being able to study the hundreds of different neuron types, and understand higher brain functions such as thought, behavior, language, memory - or even mental disorders. Optogenetics works by inserting the gene of a light-sensitive protein into live neurons, from a single cell to an entire family of cells. The genetically modified neurons then produce the light-sensitive protein, which positions itself on the outside of the cell, on the membrane. There, it acts as an electrical channel - something like a gate. When light is shone on the neuron, the channel opens up and allows electrical ions to flow into the cell, a bit like a battery being charged by a solar cell.
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Primary Investigator: Barrett, Lisa
Organization: Northeastern University
Project Title: Fundamental Subcortical Mechanisms of Affective Processing
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Tupac and Notorious B.I.G: A Kenyan Millenial's Perspective
Posted on June 30, 2018 by Chia Kayanda
"Why do you even give a fuck about two American rappers who died the year you were born? Si you write a piece on Lil Pump?"
A friend's little brother, born after 2000, posed this question to me.
When I was a child growing up, Tupac and Notorious BIG were constantly referenced in the Friday Pulse, my older brother and his older friends had near fist fights on who was a better mc. I'd watch Poetic Justice with my sister and Channel O would bump either 'Juicy' or 'Changes' on every throwback countdown.
If this is indeed a quarter life crisis- insisting that everything from my childhood has to mean something, let's start with my brother's gangsta rap music.
Esketit then.
The word going round when I first heard about this East Coast/West Coast beef was that Biggie killed Tupac and then Tupac's mom killed Biggie. I think the houseboy told me this version, and then he taught me how to bend my fingers to make the Crips gang sign.
"Bloods wanakuchinja kama mbuzi. Crips watakutafuna kama Krackles."
-Edwin the houseboy.
As hard as I know Afeni Shakur was, I mean, she was a black panther – it doesn't get any more consciously hardcore than that.
But even at 6, that sounded a little far-fetched.
Turns out, no one really knows who the perpetrators in both murders were. A cold case.
Moreover, turns out their beef was primarily the result of a series of misunderstandings and colliding male egos.
'Pac and Big met somewhere in '93 and were boys for the most part- they smoked weed, ogled machine guns and shared meals. Who knows, maybe if they'd hugged it out over Henessy and a bowl of Green, Pac would be on his 12th Studio Album. Biggie would be getting a BET lifetime achievement award, and they'd both be accorded the same reverence as the likes of Dre, Snoop and Nas.
Instead, these raging bulls taunted each other.
After Tupac was shot 5 times at the Quad Recording Studio lobby, Biggie dropped 'Who Shot Ya?', poking the injured bear like a bored cackling witch. Now, I'm not gonna speak with certainty as to whether or not Biggie ordered the hit on Pac, but seeing an open window- he couldn't pass up an opportunity to throw shots.
"East Coast, motherfucker (Who shot ya?)
West Coast, motherfuckers
West Coast, motherfuckers, hah!"
'Pac took this track as confirmation that Bad Boy were the ones who sent the hitters his way, telling Vibe magazine in one interview that "it came out too fast…".
In retaliation, Pac takes a picture with Faith Evans in the club, Big's girl at the time, and uses that as his below-the-belt ammo, claiming that they smashed.
That's why I fucked your bitch you fat motherfucker
Let's put this in context now.
I asked an African American friend who lived in New York and was attending a HBU at the time about this because by virtue of age and race, he was present in the geographical and social context of that whole drama. It didn't shake his life, not even a jiggle.
In his words, "The East Coast and West Coast are so far away, you can say 'Fuck the East Coast' from L.A and then what? Who's going to fly from New York to find you and shoot you?"
This is an entire continent y'all
Somewhere in Dandora. A bunch of young men are paying close attention. Kalamashaka is comprised of three members: Johnny Vigeti, Kama and Oteraw.
It started out as as imitations of American Mc's in terms of their rugged flow and punchlinez kibao lyrical style.
The same way hip hop started as a social reflection of what's happening in the ghetto, Kenyan hip hop became a reflection of life in the slums. English switched out for sheng. Dandora becomes Brooklyn. Police harassment stays the same.
Rev. Timothy Njoya is wilding on the streets and in church, raging against the Nyayo machine. Moi is president again, going on his 19th year. Political tension sizzles like a wet fish on hot tarmac. K-shaka drops 'Tafsiri hii'. Kenyan hip hop begins.
Tafsiri hii, maisha kule D ni mazii ninalia nikitumia M.I.C
Tafsiri hii, ingawa tuko chini bado tunatumaini. Sikiza kwa makini
As Tedd Josiah said in the documentary Hip Hop Colony, "the hip hop beats met the Swahili lyrics."
Matatu culture is rising strong. Ogopa Deejays are dominating the club scene, dropping hit after party hit and setting the tone for the new millennium.
The street prestige that came from associating with Ogopa Deejays is similar to the pride that came with rolling with either the Death Row or Bad Boy Records. The parties, the liquor, the girls- the staple of both.
A young man from South C wants to be a part of this. He finds himself in a room with Kenya's reigning producer, Tedd Josiah, this is his chance. Tedd listens to the boy rhyme and then kicks him out of the studio. Who does this kid called E-sir think he is? The Swahili Tupac?
And just like his American predecessors before him, E-sir dies at his prime leaving behind his footprint on Kenyan hip-hop that can never be wiped; that can never fade.
Basically, if it wasn't for Bad Boy and Death Row we wouldn't have had Kalamashaka or E-sir, all of whom still stand in history as part of Kenya's greatest emcees. We wouldn't have Octopizzo, we wouldn't have Camp Mulla or Khaligraph and his New York accent.
At least, we wouldn't have them in the way that we have them/ have had them.
You see, it all comes full circle. Dunia ni Duara. It was all a dream.
Bad Boy Records beef Death Row Records E-Sir east coast gangsta rap Kalamashaka music notorious big Ogopa Deejays rap beef tupac west coast
Care For Me: Saba
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Q: Short circuit evaluation of a statement with ++ operator in C I have executed the following code in Code::Blocks 10.05 on Windows 7.
int a=0,b=0,c;
c=a++&&b++;
printf("\na=%d\nb=%d\nc=%d\n\n",a,b,c);

The output I obtained is given below,
a=1
b=0
c=0

This makes perfect sense because of short circuit evaluation.
The expression a++ is post increment and 0 is returned to the logical and (&&). Hence the part b++ is not evaluated since both 0 && 0 and
0 && 1 evaluates to 0.
But here arises my doubt. The precedence value of operators clearly states that ++ is having higher precedence over &&. So my understanding was like this, both a++ and b++ are evaluated and then && only checks the result of expression a++ to come to a decision. But this has not happened only a++ is evaluated here.
What is the reason for this behavior? Does && being a sequence point has something to do with this behavior? If so why we say that && is having lower precedence than ++?

A: There are two concepts here - order of precedence and order of evaluation. Order of precedence will have an impact only if an expression (or sub-expression) is evaluated.
In general, the order of evaluation is not sequenced. Given an operator, its operands can be evaluated in any order. The arguments of a function can be evaluated in any order.
From the C++ Standard:

1.9 Program execution
15 Except where noted, evaluations of operands of individual operators and of subexpressions of individual expressions are unsequenced.

and

8.3.6 Default arguments
9 Default arguments are evaluated each time the function is called. The order of evaluation of function arguments is unspecified.

For the logical AND operator, &&, the C++11 standard says:

5.14 Logical AND operator
1 The && operator groups left-to-right. The operands are both contextually converted to type bool (Clause 4). The result is true if both operands are true and false otherwise. Unlike &, && guarantees left-to-right evaluation: the second operand is not evaluated if the first operand is false.

Similar exception is specified for the logical OR operator, ||.
Since b++ is not evaluated due to short circuiting of the expression because of && operator, the order of precedence of the operators has no significance in this particular case.

A: You are confused about precedence and order of evaluation.
Precedence defines how the operators are grouped, i.e
c = a++ && b++;

is equivalent to:
c = ((a++) && (b++));

Order of evaluation defines how the expression is evaluated, the short circuit of && means a++ is evaluated first, if it's zero, the end; if it's not zero, b++ is then evaluated.

As another example:
c = (a++) + (b++);

Is a++ evaluated before b++? The answer is we don't know. Most operators don't define the order of evaluation. && is one of the few operators that do define. (The rest are ||, , and ?:)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Klingelfuss (* 24. Mai 1859 in Hamm; † 21. Juni 1932 in Basel; heimatberechtigt in Basel) war ein Schweizer Physiker.

Leben und Werk
Klingelfuss war der Sohn des Johann, Herstellers von Wasserwaagen in Aarau, und der Maria, geborene Wieseler. Als Autodidakt leistete er bahnbrechende Arbeit auf dem Gebiet der Elektrotechnik für Anwendungen in der Medizin. 1883 heiratete Klingelfuss Maria Scheffer von Bielefeld. Ab 1896 wandte er sich der Röntgentechnik zu, und seine Funkeninduktoren für Röntgenstrahlen waren weltweit gefragt. 1910 verlieh die Universität Basel Klingelfuss den Ehrendoktor, und sein Name ist am Ehrenmal der Radiologie aufgeführt.

Klingelfuss starb an den Folgen von Strahlenkrebs. Seine letzte Ruhestätte fand er auf dem Friedhof Wolfgottesacker in Basel.

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Physiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Erfinder
Ehrendoktor der Universität Basel
Schweizer
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Gestorben 1932
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Albuquerque, NM- Facing pressure from a new ruling by the Public Regulation Commission, Lyft announced that it will be closing down operations in New Mexico resulting in a loss of transportation options and jobs. During the past legislative session, Representative Monica Youngblood, of Albuquerque, sponsored a bill that would have allowed ride-sharing companies such as Lyft and Uber to operate legally in New Mexico.
"Republicans and Democrats came together behind a solution to keep ride-sharing companies afloat in New Mexico, but unfortunately several Senate Democrats blocked the bill from coming to the Senate floor for a vote," said Pat Garrett, spokesman for the Republican Party of New Mexico.
HB 272 would have laid out regulations and standards for ride-sharing companies allowing them to legally operate in New Mexico. The bill passed the State House on March 12th with a bipartisan 56-8 vote. Later in the session, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to prevent the bill from ever coming to the Senate floor for a full vote.
Senator Majority Leader Michael Sanchez is not only a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, his own brother lobbied against the bill on behalf of the taxi cab companies— who strongly opposed expanding ride-sharing programs like Uber and Lyft.
"Keeping and producing more decent-paying jobs is an important issue to many people, yet we saw political tactics in the New Mexico State Senate block real progress on this issue," Garrett concluded.


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A clean and modern sink that will fit in my bathroom for $30? Yes please. It was a bit of an impulse buy, but I loved it. I brought it home and placed it in the garage until it was time to install the vanity. A few weeks went by and we tiled and tiled and admittedly put the project on pause a few times. Soon I realized we would need to get a vanity. I measured the width of the sink and placed an order with Home Depot for this vanity for $128.
I wanted patiently for a text from Home Depot to arrive to tell me I could come pick up my new vanity. As soon as I got it, I got Alex into the Sentra and we excitedly made our way to the store. We picked up the vanity (and some new house keys) and almost couldn't get it into the car. As soon as we got home, I had to take it out and put the hardware on. Then I just HAD to put the sink on "for a dry run." Guess what I didn't measure? The depth of the sink. It's about 3 inches too short. I could have cried. I really thought the bathroom purchases were done.
Today is the day decisions are made. We already tried HOBO for a different sink, but they don't carry any sinks in that size in white. Because they hate me, I'm sure of it. Tonight we try out the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. If we don't find anything there then I am buying a generic white sink from Home Depot and calling it a day.
When I first saw my powder room more than 2 years ago, I was disgusted. There was grime, old wallpaper, ugly laminate tile (not that all laminate tile is ugly, but this particular one was) and the most amazing and shocking faux marble sink I've ever seen. Even in a house with 4 other people I seemed to be the only one motivated to rid our house of its arguably most ugly eyesore. When my aunt offered to help me redo the bathroom as a gift, I was over the moon thrilled. She really knows what she is doing. She and her siblings completely rebuilt a house for my great aunt and uncle. So she came over one day, handed me a hammer, and told me to get to smashing.
After one of the most liberating smash sessions I've ever had, we went to a local chain called HOBO (aka Home Owners Bargain Outlet) to find some tile. They sell short lots so everything is a good price, but what they have is what they have and other HOBOs don't carry the exact same thing. She found the most glorious wall tile I've ever seen in real life. I love it so much I could hug it. Sometimes I go into the bathroom just to look at it. I chose the floor tile and I was a little worried that other people wouldn't see how they went together like I did. We kept going full steam ahead while I inwardly doubted my choice. Then my aunt showed up with two little cups of grout and finished up the floor tile. That was when I knew for certain I had made the right decision and everyone agreed. It just works together. I was audibly relieved.
Still riding the high of completing the floor, I decided that it was time to install the toilet that had been sitting in my garage for 2-3 months. Removing a toilet is easy as pie and I'd been told installing one was just as easy. So Alex and I hauled that porcelain beauty into the house and unboxed it. Never in my life have I been so happy to see a toilet. It came with instructions that, although poorly written (hose no include, anyone?), guided us through the rather easy process. The most complicated process was probably getting the bowl in place and making sure the wax ring was sealed properly. We slid the bolts along the groove in the blue ring in the floor. These should guide the toilet into the right position. We also placed the wax ring on the bottom of the bowl and pressed it firmly on so it would stick when we turned the toilet over.
This is probably the most accurate depiction of the grout color.
I was really apprehensive about this because there is no way to tell if you did the wax ring correctly before you have completely assembled the toilet. Once the bowl was bolted to the floor, I did pour some water in to see if it leaked out anywhere, but it just stayed in the bowl. You are also supposed to do this so "sewer gasses" don't leak up into your home. The rest was cake. We followed the directions and we were all ready to hook up the water and test it out when this happened.
It claimed that you needed "no tools" and promised "no leaks" and it made good on one promise. I did use a wrench to tighten the bottom nut, but so far there have been no leaks. I am not sure why, but I have been shamelessly telling people that I installed a toilet when they innocently ask me what I did this weekend. I'm sure all they think they'll hear is errands or family stuff. I can't help myself. I almost whipped out my phone to show them pictures of my beautiful toilet. I didn't show them, but I'm going to show you. I'm in love.
I recently finished laying the floor tile in the powder room and I even learned how to grout! (My aunt has been guiding me through this entire project so I'm also working on her schedule) Taking pictures of the smallest room in the house is really hard so bear with me.
All the floor tiles in place!
I know it's hard to see the difference in the pictures because the grout color seems so dark. This was taken while the grout was still wet and since it's mostly dry now it has lightened up. In real life, it matches the gray tones in the wall tile perfectly and ties the wall and the floor together. Grouting wasn't as difficult to do as I had thought. I imagined mixing up grout from a bag and having to subjectively guess what the consistency of peanut butter is. It was a messy job and the size of the room didn't help, but with my aunt's guiding hand, I got the grout in.
Tonight Alex and I will be installing the toilet together which is like the blind leading the blurry, but pay that no mind! We have been without a toilet on the first floor for too long. Installing a toilet is supposed to be really simple so I am sure with a little Youtubing and calling my dad we will be able to manage.
I'm feeling really confident with the choices I've made so far (vanity and sink are already picked out), but I'm not sure where to go with the paint color. I think a dark, moody greige would give it the look I want, but it's such a tiny room with no natural light that I am afraid to go too dark. We shall see. I just want you all to rest with the notion that I won't have to scale a flight of stairs just to visit the loo anymore.


A group of photographers in Charlotte asked if I would like to present a flash photography workshop there. We arranged a really nice venue – The Getty Center, in Rock Hill, SC – and settled on a date, July 25th (Sat). Everything in place for this, the first workshop away from NJ / NY since the workshop in Amsterdam two years ago.
With two models, and a relatively small group of 8 people – just how I prefer the workshop size, we could cover the photography workshop syllabus in a relaxed tempo, and be sure everyone had the opportunity to shoot and learn. With the focus on balancing flash with ambient light, we spent time on off-camera flash, as well as best techniques with bounce flash.
Thank you to everyone who attended, and our two models, Courtney and Madi. And an especially big thank you to Jeni B for making this happen.
In the evening we worked with on-camera bounce flash in the lobby area of the venue. Those old mailboxes make an interesting background.
Bouncing flash off those mailboxes was a bit of a challenge – occasionally there would be an unpredictable hot spot … yet, the results were really good for such an unusual bounce surface. Of course, the white balance had to be tweaked to get around the color cast introduced by the bounce surface.
Here is a pull-back shot to show the environment, and the surface to the left of the camera that was used to bounce the flash off. The BFT was necessary to get directional bounce flash for this portrait of our one model, Madi.
An example from the setup shown in the behind-the-scenes photo right at the top. The lighting gear used in the workshop, allows for 4 speedlights with different configurations (or doubled up.) This is the result the relatively small softbox gives.
Feedback about this workshop: Making the dream happen.
Just curious what your flash power was in the photos that you bounced the flash off of the mailboxes. ETTL…..FEC?? Or did you choose Manual flash?
Neil, great stuff as always. I often find that the relatively slow sync speed of 1/180 on my Canon 6D to be limiting when mixing flash and ambient. Sometimes I'll cheat the sync and shoot at 1/200. Aside from that, are there any other work-arounds or is this a case of "it is what it is"?
There are no work-arounds to the limit of maximum flash sync speed. You could play with the hyper-sync option that some radio triggers allow, but this is a work-around without huge impact.
That said, the lower max sync speed of the Canon 6D has a slight implication in terms of action stopping … but not hugely so in terms of flash range. Read this article where a maximum sync speed of 1/200 is compared to 1/250. It's the same incremental change going from the 5D mark 3 to the Canon 6D. Not as huge a concern as many try to make out.
Neil, do you sometimes set the WB for the surface you're bouncing off (with expo disc) before shooting?
Johan … that would be ideal for an easier post-processing workflow, but it isn't all that practical to do so at an event where you move around … and hence the WB changes as you bounce your flash off various surfaces.
Neil, thank you so much for taking the time and effort to teach the work shop in Rock Hill, SC. Having been in a class with you before, I knew I was in for treat and I was not disappointed. I was happy to have techniques reinforced and to learn new ones. I appreciate your concise and to the point style without your being like a used car salesman pushing products.
Feedback about the workshop: Making the dream happen.
I always appreciate these tutorials, Neil. I love these articles.


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Q: Java : PDF page preview error, expected xref I am trying to create a preview for PDF files which are created by Ballasamic Mockups. Around 50% of the time, I am not getting a preview and getting xref missing error. What am I doing wrong?
Error log :
com.sun.pdfview.PDFParseException: Expected 'xref' at start of table
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.readTrailer(PDFFile.java:974)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.parseFile(PDFFile.java:1175)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.<init>(PDFFile.java:126)
at com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile.<init>(PDFFile.java:102)

Code :
private byte[] onlyCreatePdfPreview(String path, int attachId) {
    try {
        File file = new File(path);
        RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r");
        FileChannel channel = raf.getChannel();
        ByteBuffer buf = channel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, channel.size());

        PDFFile pdffile = new com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile(buf);
        PDFPage page = pdffile.getPage(0);
        Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0,
            (int) page.getBBox().getWidth(),
            (int) page.getBBox().getHeight());
        java.awt.Image img = page.getImage(
            rect.width, rect.height, //width & height
            rect, // clip rect
            null, // null for the ImageObserver
            true, // fill background with white
            true  // block until drawing is done
        );

        BufferedImage buffered = toBufferedImage(img);
        buffered = Scalr.resize(buffered, Scalr.Method.ULTRA_QUALITY, 400, 250);
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        ImageIO.write(buffered, "png", baos);
        baos.flush();
        return baos.toByteArray();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

What am I doing wrong? Thank you.
Final Working code
      try {
            String pdfPath = zipLocation + String.valueOf(new BigInteger(130, random).toString(32));
            PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(path);
            PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(reader,new FileOutputStream(pdfPath));
            pdfStamper.getWriter().setPdfVersion(PdfWriter.PDF_VERSION_1_4);
            pdfStamper.close();
            reader.close();
     RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(pdfPath, "r");
            FileChannel channel = raf.getChannel();
            ByteBuffer buf = channel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, channel.size());
             PDFFile pdffile = new com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile(buf);
                PDFPage page = pdffile.getPage(0);
                Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0,
                        (int) page.getBBox().getWidth(),
                        (int) page.getBBox().getHeight());
                java.awt.Image img = page.getImage(
                        rect.width, rect.height, //width & height
                        rect, // clip rect
                        null, // null for the ImageObserver
                        true, // fill background with white
                        true  // block until drawing is done
                );

                BufferedImage buffered = toBufferedImage(img);
                buffered = Scalr.resize(buffered, Scalr.Method.ULTRA_QUALITY, 400, 250);
            ByteArrayOutputStream  baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                ImageIO.write(buffered, "png", baos);
                baos.flush();
         return baos.toByteArray();
}//catch block

A: (This answer collects information from comments to the question which eventually led to a solution.)
Apparently com.sun.pdfview.PDFFile expects the cross references to start with xref. But this expectation only makes sense for PDFs following a PDF Reference up to revision 3 (version 1.4) published November 2001; PDFs following a later Reference or even the ISO 32000 standard (part 1 or 2) have the choice of using a cross reference stream (starting with an object number) instead of a cross reference table (starting with xref).
Thus, one should switch to using software following newer specifications than some more than 15 years old version or one has to convert one's PDFs to follow the old specifications, at least on the surface.
One can convert manually (e.g. using Adobe Acrobat) or automatized (e.g. using iText). (These examples software products really are only examples, other products can also be used for this task.)
If using a current iText 5 version, the conversion looks like this:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(SOURCE);
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, DEST);
stamper.getWriter().setPdfVersion(PdfWriter.PDF_VERSION_1_4);
stamper.close();
reader.close();

And one has to take care that if SOURCE is a file name or a random access file, DEST must not be a file output stream to the same file. Otherwise the original file is truncated before the PdfStamper had a chance to copy it all to its output.


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Odocoileus virginianus collected from mid-Missouri, November 2014 and 2016 hunting seasons
Published: 8 February 2021| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/jnkytyg7fn.1
Rob'yn Johnston
See Johnston, Lyman, and Cowgill (in prep) for further details. Metapodia from 64 white-tailed deer were obtained from wild-shot individuals during the first weekend of the central Missouri firearm hunting seasons, November 2014 and 2016.
Carcass weight to the nearest pound was obtained from each deer carcass minus distal limb elements, viscera, hide, and head. Sex was recorded at time of butchery as male, female, or lacking head upon delivery but assumed male (NHM). Fusion was recorded to estimate ontogenetic categories following Purdue (1983a): unfused epiphyses (<20 months for females, <17-23 months for males), fused epiphyses with visible growth plate (20-29 months for females, and 23-29 months for males), and fused epiphyses with no remaining growth plate (29+ months for males and females). Linear skeletal measurements (MC/MTDW, MC/MTPW, MC/MTPD, and MC/MTPAR) taken following Purdue (1983b). Cross-sectional geometry was derived from midshaft sections and processed using ImageJ and MomentMacro (Ruff 2006). cuberoot_Hamerstrom_CamburnWt represents the cube root of the full live body weight calculated from the dressed body weight following Hammerstrom and Camburn (1950). Sample sizes vary between metacarpals and metatarsals because some epiphyses were damaged during disarticulation and processing, and fewer forelimbs than hindlimbs were available due to trophy skinning techniques. Citations: Hamerstrom, F.N., Camburn, F.L., 1950. Weight relationships in the George Reserve deer herd. J. Mammal. 31:5-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1375470. Purdue, JR. 1983a. Epiphyseal closure in white-tailed deer. J. Wildlife Manage. 47:1207-1213. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3808195. Purdue, JR. 1983b. Methods of determining sex and body size in prehistoric samples of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 76:351–357. Ruff, CB. 2006. Moment macro for NIH Image and Image J. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/fae/mmacro.htm eds Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
University of Missouri Columbia College of Arts and Science
Archeology, Animal Body Mass, Zooarchaeology, Biological Anthropology