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'I see women being on Mars just as much as men' Jump to media player At 16, MiMi Aung travelled alone to the US for an education. Now she's a project lead on Nasa's Mars mission.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-50056159/nasa-mars-2020-mission-s-mimi-aung-on-women-in-space
On point: 'I know how powerful representation is' Jump to media player Rising star of English ballet Precious Adams on unwittingly opening up a debate around colourism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-50056158/ballet-star-precious-adams-on-balancing-roles-with-being-a-role-model
'You can make money and preserve the environment' Jump to media player Ugandan farmer Judith Bakirya is going back to basics by planting trees and restoring the land.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/africa/50076703
'The next generation's battle is for truth' Jump to media player Award-winning journalist Maria Ressa on why arrests, rape and death threats won't silence her.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-49485460/maria-ressa-rape-and-death-threats-won-t-silence-me
The world's first artificial womb for humans Jump to media player Doctors in the Netherlands say they are within 10 years of creating a 'second' womb for premature babies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-50056405/the-world-s-first-artificial-womb-for-humans
Nasa Mars 2020 Mission's MiMi Aung on women in space
Next year, Nasa will send a mission to Mars. The woman in charge of making the helicopter that will be sent there – which is set to become the first aircraft to fly on another planet – is MiMi Aung.
At 16, MiMi travelled alone from Myanmar to the US for access to education. She is now one of the lead engineers at Nasa.
We find out what it's like being a woman in space exploration, and why her mum is her biggest inspiration.
BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women each year and shares their stories. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and use #100Women.
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Just a couple of months ago in this post, I mentioned The New York Times' column, "Think Like a Doctor," and guess what? Today's mystery is about a pulsatile tinnitus patient whose underlying cause stumped even some of the best doctors around (not a big surprise to us, right?!). As you'll read, the patient has had extensive testing and some possible causes, such as fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) were ruled out. Apparently, doctors now know the cause, and the question is: can any of you figure it out?
I'm thrilled that our symptom is getting this kind of exposure, and it will be great when this patient's underlying cause is published!
I think a very big hint is that her pulsatile tinnitus is accompanied by pain, since we've done a poll on the question of pain, and only 19% of those pulsatile tinnitus patients polled said they also experience pain.
There are more results for other poll questions we've had over the past few years here. They're not scientific, but they provide some interesting insight into many of our cases.
Do your symptoms match hers? Can you solve this mystery, or suggest further testing? Dr. Sanders, the author of the article, invites readers to post their ideas on The New York Times' site and/or leave a "comment" below or email me at whooshers@gmail.com!
*If anyone here can guess the correct diagnosis, you'll get a free Whooshers.com T-Shirt! leave your guess in the comments section, on my Facebook profile page, or email me if you prefer! One guess per reader please.
UPDATE: The diagnosis was "Hemicrania Continua." Fascinating! Even better: medication, not surgery, solved the underlying cause. No, wait - even better is that her doctor diagnosed her in part because she came across a BLOG POST written BY A PATIENT who suffered the same symptoms and was diagnosed with Hemicrania Continua.
SEE, SHARING OUR STORIES REALLY DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Read more details about the diagnosis here. I'll be adding this underlying cause to our Cured Whooshers page.
For more information on Hemicrania Continua, including a list of common symptoms (which does not include pulsatile tinnitus but now we know it should!), see the Hemicrania Continua Information Page on the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's Web site.
Source: "Think Like a Doctor: An Ice Pick in the Head," Lisa Sanders, MD, The New York Times, January 5, 2012.


Protein glycation and protein folding pathways are the cornerstones of amyloid neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). Biological materials are either recombinant proteins (namely transthyretin and a-synuclein, expressed either in bacteria or yeast), humanized yeast cells (using Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with different glycation phenotypes) or samples of human origin.
Structural characterization has been performed by native mass spectrometry, together with proteomics approaches based on extreme resolution mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS) for individual protein characterization by top-down.
Metabolic fingerprinting is an emerging research line, applied to grapevine, wine and forensics research.
investigating the effects of yeast populations in the process (both conventional and non-conventional yeast), to the characterization and discrimination of different wines.
In forensics, metabolic profilling has been used in projects related to synthetic explosive analysis and biochemical tracing of human fingerprints, jointly developed with PJ - Portuguese Criminal Police. Synthetic explosives, made of over the counter products are the weapons of choice of modern terrorist groups and other criminal organisations. To be able to trace and identify the chemical origin of such explosives, even from post-blast samples is a major challenge, only amenable through extreme resolution mass spectrometry.


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And so, in the light of an incident that could very easily have become a terrible tragedy, the issue of responsible treatment of hazardous waste was given a high priority by Parliament, resulting, weeks later, in Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act (1972).
Image: Chief Inspector Wesley Watkins guarding cyanide drums illegally in a derelict yard used as a childs playground near Nuneaton War.


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Auto Super Shoppe Kapiti (Woodman Automotive) is owned and operated by Owen and Jann Woodman who are dedicated to delivering the highest level of service to customers. The business was established in 1985 and is run with a successful team of highly experienced technicians who have over 114 years of collective experience in the automotive industry.
MTA approved and selected as a top workshop in the area for the Auto Super Shoppe network means customers can rest assured their vehicle is in the best hands. We like to support local and are supporters of Waikanae Rugby Club, Waikanae Community Patrol, Lions Club, Waikanae Boating Club, Blue September and local school activities.
Our automotive services include Car Servicing, Warrant of Fitness, Tyres, Brake Repairs, Cambelts, Car Air-Conditioning, Car Battery, CV Joints, Electrics, Engine Management & Diagnostics and much more. We also carry out wheel alignments and are experts in old English Classic cars. Auto Super Shoppe Kapiti is the local workshop for Waikanae and we also cover all of the Kapiti Coast and beyond.
We offer courtesy cars or a local pickup and delivery service. We welcome online booking enquiries or just call should you need automotive advice, a quote or would like to make a booking. We accept all major credit cards, Q Card, Farmers Card, Farmland Card, Eftpos and cash.


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I always encourage parents to have their children bring in a favorite doll or stuffed animal. After looking into the ears of the doll or stuffed animal, plus the parent's ears and mine, virtually all children, even the tiniest ones, are comfortable having their own ears examined.
I often tell young patients that there are "tiny little puppies in the right ear and little bunnies in the left ear" and I need to count them to make sure they are all there. The kids often smile when I perform the exam. If siblings are present, they often want to see the puppies.
I show children the otoscope and tell them it's a flashlight, letting them hold it and look into it. Then I tell them I'm going to look in their ear with the flashlight and ask, "Which ear do you want me to look at first?" This is great child psychology at work. Kids like to have some control. If you can get them to point to an ear, you just got permission and consent for them to hold still.
I have a patient with peripheral neuropathy and diabetes who is unable to lift his foot to examine it every night before bedtime. He put a 12-inch mirror under his bed, which he can slide out with his foot, use to examine both feet, and slide under the bed again. This works great for people who need to look at their feet daily but don't have the mobility to lift their feet to see the soles.
Doctors regularly advise more exercise for patients whose jobs provide little moderate to vigorous physical activity. That could describe a lot of jobs in physician practices. To encourage more physical activity in your practice, structure group exercise breaks, promote using the stairs instead of the elevator, or place employee parking spaces farther away from the building. Offering 10-minute activity breaks for meetings lasting longer than an hour can also liven things up.
Source: Yancey AK, Sallis RE, Bastani R. Changing physical activity participation for the medical profession. JAMA. 2013; 309( 2): 141– 142.
I am closing my practice. How long do I need to keep patients' medical records?
There is no standardized record retention schedule that all organizations and providers must follow. Laws regarding medical record retention are passed by state legislatures and should be available from your state health department or medical board. You should also be aware of certain federal record retention requirements. For example, HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requires Medicare fee-for-service providers to retain patient records for six years. If you are a Medicare managed care provider, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires that you retain patient records for 10 years.


Researchers at ITMO University developed a new approach for obtaining non-toxic magnetic photonic crystals, expanding their applications from mainly photonics to biomedicine. Nanospheres made with the new method may be used for designing drugs to fight thrombosis and cancer. The results of the research were published in Scientific Reports.
A magnetic photonic crystal (MPC) is basically a complex of nanoparticles that can selectively change its reflectance spectra under the influence of applied magnetic field. Such crystals can be used in photonics for making optical fibers, filters and other applications. While application of such systems holds a high potential, there are some problems concerning the synthesis of MPC. This procedure requires sophisticated equipment, high temperature and pressure as well as highly toxic chemicals.
Scientists from ITMO University along with their colleagues from Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University and N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center suggested an inexpensive and simple method which enables MPC production in mild conditions and without toxic chemicals. The method is based on the controlled destabilization process of magnetic nanoparticles solution resulting in formation of larger nanocrystals. The key feature of the process is that the reagents used for this purposes are known to be non-toxic and are approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and EMA (European Medical Agency) for parenteral administration. The resulting nanocrystals have similar sizes, excellent stability and are able to form periodic structures under the influence of magnetic fields. Such features make it possible to regulate the wavelength of light of reflected by nanocrystals, which may be useful for constructing various sensory, communication and navigation systems.
Owing to their biocompatibility, such nanospheres can also be used in biomedicine for targeted drug delivery. "Unlike its alternatives, our method is suitable for diverse fields rather than just for optics and photonics. Due to mild synthesis conditions we are able to modify our technique in order to incorporate drugs in the structure of nanospheres," explains Andrey Drozdov, researcher at the SCAMT Laboratory in ITMO University. "We are currently working on drugs for thrombosis and breast cancer treatment. Since we avoid using toxic chemicals, such drugs are safe to inject into the body. As soon as they reach the required tissue we can apply magnetic field to separate MNS and release the medicine with precision."
Another advantage of the suggested method is flexibility. Controllable destabilization enables to obtain nanospheres from various materials or their mixtures. "In this research we have used magnetite: iron oxide with strong response to magnetic field. By adding other metal oxides, however, we could achieve hybrid nanospheres with features that were previously inconceivable," says Andrey Drozdov.
"The controllable destabilization route for synthesis of low cytotoxic magnetic nanospheres with photonic response"
Y. I. Andreeva, A. S. Drozdov et al.


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Q: GitLab broken UI after upgrade from 6.4 to 6.5 Yesterday I've updated GitLab from 6.4.3 to 6.5.1 and ended up with broken UI (see screenshot https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/ca64f23a-ea3d-4ef9-bfb6-d6d7d2123ebe/d58835f794611fd3dd3c84397e7b5576)
I think it has probably something to do with new Bootstrap 3 responsive UI introduced in this version. Is it general problem of 6.5.1 or just my instance? As I noticed demo version http://demo.gitlab.com/ is stil running 6.5.0 and UI seems to be ok.
Thank you very much for any suggestion.

A: The OP kocour concluded in the comments, as in "Graphs lost after upgrading to Gitlab 6.0";

my fault... I just forgot to precompile assest using:

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:clean assets:precompile cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production

Original answer:
Those issues are tracked by issue 6151: "New layout/responsive Issues"

UI in GitLab 6.5.1 doesn't look as polished as in 6.4.3, mostly because of the new version of bootstrap I guess.

*

*Mobile view - project list is inaccessible (issue 6114)

*Padding in alert blocks is not nice, and the top block should be a warning block

*Toggled menu on mobile is really ugly,

I suppose pull requests will soon amend and fix this situation.

A: Executing only
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:clean assets:precompile cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production

not solving issue for me, solved after removing <gitlab_home>/tmp/cache/assets folder prior to execute the command.

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This is a cross posting of my article "Regina Saphier: Experts don't make the future. Dreamers do!" published via LinkedIn on August 7, 2014.
When I challenged you a few weeks ago to think about Unconditional Basic Income (as discussed in one of my blog notes), you responded that UBI equals unemployment in your opinion and that you are not sure the world is ready for that (note: I respectfully disagree, UBI would not cause unemployment and the world is just about to be ready for UBI). It is clear based on your blog on a jobless future that in addition you believe that new technologies also lead to unemployment. So, no matter what we do, the result is more unemployment in your opinion and there is no turning back. I agree. When you now write that people should opt for 20 or 10 hour work weeks you are not far away from the 5 or the zero hour work week (that comes next). In your other blog post you say people should know that experts are getting more and more puzzled by the future and are less and less able to predict what's coming.
There is one tiny problem: Mostly experts have the resources, dreamers usually don't. Experts are usually part of the establishment and like to hold on to their power. Dreamers and idealist are usually outsiders and dislike institutions. Elon Musk is a rare kind of dreamer who is also an expert with self made resources. So, we have to find a way in the future to get more resources to the dreamers who possess or are ready to acquire and build expert level knowledge and find more experts with dreamer qualities.
To quote myself: "Many people sadly assume that if you work you earn an income and that this is the only way and that it is always true. Less people are able to imagine that if you have an income then you will work on things that matter based on your initiative and your diligence (based on inner motivation). We are up against the limitations of human imagination and experiences, NOT against economics. It is not economics that defines us. We are the ones creating and defining economics with our collective imagination." This paragraph was taken from another relevant blog note written by me… basically Part 2 of my above mentioned UBI blog post.
Isn't it possible that sufficiently imaginative people are not very common in the field of economics? Isn't it possible that when you suggest a shorter workweek you are stuck in an old paradigm that is completely outdated and not at all creative in terms of modern thinking? I think if we take David M. Kelley's principles of evoking creativity and combine his transformative methods with social issues and economics related innovation, we will be able to initiate a true paradigm shift.
For new kinds of ideas we need to discover new ways of thinking in a new era. To help you understand how silly it sounds to opt for 10 or 20 hour work weeks in the future: If Coursera or edX asked you to suggest a payment method three years ago during the planning phase (based on your latest article suggesting a drastically shorter workweek) you probably would have suggested that online students in India should pay "only" 25-50% of the tuition fee compared to American on campus students (at Stanford or at Harvard)… and so, would have completely rejected poorer talent in India based on simple personal lack of imagination, effort and courage. As we know that would ruin the entire massive model of these MOOCs, yet that would be the only thing you could come up with. I am sure in retrospect you would not want to take that kind of embarrassment upon yourself. People now have free choices for top level learning, and only exams come with a small fee (and even that can be waived). If this is possible, anything is possible. This is why either free utilities and/or (as I call it) "employment-independent optimal income" might and should be possible too (more and more of the technologies is there to make that possible) and instead of unemployment, it would mean massive open online entrepreneurship and human creativity with no existential pressure.
What we need is a new field of intuitive, compassionate and creative Social and Economic Engineering and Design or SEED, but ideally one that is not related to business, academia, party politics, nor government, rather one that is crowdsourced, that is based on big understanding of Big Data and Social Physics. Show me the numbers, the computer models, show me the online games that could test the hypothesis and trace the hidden, yet key mechanisms of positive social transformation. In EyeWire you can trace neurons, in FoldIt you can optimize proteins (these are serious online science games). I am positive there are serious game design opportunities to trace and optimally "fold" social structures, we just need to create those tools and mindsets on a global scale.
In the US the government was able to drive technological R&D. The same way, the task of the US government right now is to drive social and economic R&D. At the same time private foundations also must engage in financing social experiments that are based on careful, mindful and thoughtful research. The same is true for the EU that is now trying to shake up its economic situation, yet ignores the social elements and the ever present income inequality in eastern, southern, western and northern Europe. One day people are going to look back and think: How were people able to live during those dark ages?
During my twenties I wanted the internet to provide me with information, let me exchange e-mails and chat lines and answer my questions. During my thirties I wanted the internet to connect me with the entire world, let me do research, let me express myself, let me build my online image and presence and provide me with top learning opportunities. During my forties I want the internet to find me the perfect jobs (as long as jobs are available), and provide me with an optimal income, as simple as that, independent of work in the traditional sense (in the future).
Why do people take it for granted that facebook is perfectly welcome to earn money with our data, while we are not getting a penny? Why is it so natural that bloggers with excellent content get nothing while bad journalists earn money? Why can't we track how our ideas pollinate the blogosphere and the mind of researchers and business people? Why is it that designers have to complain about their images being misused instead of having a solution that would make it possible for them to either receive automatic payments for every use or alternatively have their image posted with their work or website as an advertisement? How come the fitting jobs still can't find you based on your extensive online content? How come society still thinks that creative human content writing (that can not yet be beaten by AI) should not be rewarded by the society that benefits from the producers' inner motivation, diligence and hard work? We need more online activities that actually provide all sorts of income. We need to start squeezing more income out of the online sphere for everyone.
Here is an excellent example to tweak your attitudes and thinking regarding hidden value and access: The Bigger or Better Scavenger Hunt. This is a game college students and kids play in the US. The key idea is that you start with a small item, like a chewing gum and keep walking door to door asking for something bigger or better… like a book… or a pen drive… and in a few steps, after a few doors you might end up with a used smartphone. Imagine what you could end up with if you walked across the US… There are huge wasted assets and financial resources all over societies that need to be redistributed fairly in order to permit anyone to live an enlightened life on Earth. And developed societies must start to think about introducing Unconditional Basic Income, because when hundreds of millions of people start their grotesque jobs of 10 hours a week, what are we going to do to keep the middle class alive? And what about poor people who are without jobs already, some of them formerly known as lower or even upper middle class citizens? Everything happens so fast with technological development that we must speed up our social and financial adjustment and for that we need appropriate ideas for testing and we need to start the computer simulations yesterday to introduce the right policies tomorrow. After all, this is a social emergency!
The same way we should not get tired of asking: How are we going to sustain people in an era when human work no longer generates income? When income is a given and people still remain productive in so many ways… That should be a healthier avenue. Picture that! Please state the nature of the social emergency and use your imagination to solve it! Let us do this together.


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Q: how to create a VM's snapshot using libvirt? I am trying to create a snapshot of active/idle virtual machine on KVM hypervisor using the following code:
It looks like the xmlDesc doesnt have enough information to create a snapshot of neither running nor idle virtual machine or maybe something different ?
Do I have to modify the xml dump before passing to the method ?
or some separate destination img file is needed for the snapshot ?
Does anybody have any idea how to resolve the issue ?
package org.vmclient;

import org.libvirt.Connect;
import org.libvirt.Domain;
import org.libvirt.DomainInfo;
import org.libvirt.DomainSnapshot;
import org.libvirt.LibvirtException;

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    // create and initialize variables
    Connect connect = null;
    Domain domain = null;
    int numberOfSnaps;
    DomainSnapshot domainSnapshot;

    /*
     * do NOT change! Create a connection
     */
    try {
        connect = new Connect("qemu:///system");
    } catch (LibvirtException e) {
        System.out.println("exception caught:" + e);
        System.out.println(e.getError());
    }

    /*
     * Perform an activity
     */
    try {
        //create a snapshot
        domain = connect.domainLookupByName("Ubuntu");
        /*
        DomainInfo di = new DomainInfo();
        di = domain.getInfo();
        System.out.println(di);
        */
        numberOfSnaps = domain.snapshotNum();
        System.out.println(numberOfSnaps);

        //1. get xmlDesc of current machine
        String xmlDesc = domain.getXMLDesc(0);
        //2. check if xmlDesc isnt empty
        System.out.println(xmlDesc);

        //3. pass xmlDesc to create a snapshot of the machine
        //try {
            domainSnapshot = domain.snapshotCreateXML(xmlDesc);
        //}catch(LibvirtException e){
            //System.out.println(e.getMessage());

        //}
        System.out.println("working ??");
        //4. check if snap was created

        numberOfSnaps = domain.snapshotNum();
        System.out.println(numberOfSnaps);

    } catch (LibvirtException e) {
        System.out.println("exception caught:" + e);
        System.out.println(e.getError());
    }
}//end main
}//end Test.java

An error message:
libvir: Domain Snapshot error : XML error: domainsnapshot
exception caught:org.libvirt.LibvirtException: XML error: domainsnapshot
level:VIR_ERR_ERROR
code:VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR
domain:VIR_FROM_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT
hasConn:false
hasDom:false
hasNet:false
message:XML error: domainsnapshot
str1:XML error: %s
str2:domainsnapshot
str3:null
int1:-1
int2:-1

A: xml file wrong,
getXMLDesc(int flags)
Provides an XML description of the domain.
you should create the snapshot xml by yourself, not generate automaticlly.

A: To create a snapshot you will need to pass the XML described in this documentation: libvirt: Snapshot XML format. The root tag is domainsnapshot and then define at least name and description.

A: you should pass a snapshot XML to the function snapshotCreateXML, not the domain's XML.
try the following:
snapshotXML = "<domainsnapshot><name>my-snapshot</name></domainsnapshot>";
domainSnapshot = domain.snapshotCreateXML(snapshotXML);


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Acquisì breve notorietà durante la guerra civile spagnola con lo pseudonimo di Emilio Kléber, presentato come uno dei massimi comandanti delle Brigate Internazionali.

Biografia
Manfred Stern nacque nel villaggio di Voloka, Bucovina, Austria-Ungheria (oggi sito nel distretto di Hlyboka, oblast' di Černivci, Ucraina) nel 1896, da famiglia ebraica, il secondo di dodici figli. Arruolatosi come paramedico nell'esercito austro-ungarico durante la Prima guerra mondiale, fu fatto prigioniero dai russi e detenuto in un campo nei pressi di Krasnojarsk, in Siberia. Liberato dopo la Rivoluzione d'ottobre, si arruolò nell'Armata rossa e prese parte alle ostilità della guerra civile russa in Estremo Oriente contro l'ammiraglio Kolčak e in Mongolia contro il barone Ungern von Sternberg. Si iscrisse al Partito comunista russo e nel 1921 fu eletto deputato per l'Assemblea costituente dell'effimera Repubblica dell'Estremo Oriente, uno Stato cuscinetto costituito dai bolscevichi per separare la Russia dalle forze giapponesi presenti sul continente asiatico.

Alla fine della guerra civile ritornò a Mosca ed entrò nell'Accademia militare Frunze. Parallelamente iniziò a lavorare come istruttore militare nell'ambito dell'Internazionale Comunista. Nel 1923 fu inviato in Germania con il nome di Lazar Stern per partecipare alla fallita insurrezione di Amburgo del mese di ottobre come consigliere dell'apparato politico-militare del Partito comunista di Germania. Diplomatosi nel 1924 entrò a far parte del dipartimento di intelligence militare dell'Armata rossa, il GRU.

Nel 1929 fu inviato a New York come rezident (capo missione) del GRU negli Stati Uniti. Sotto lo pseudonimo Mark Zilbert creò una rete di contatti diretta al furto di segreti militari, ottenendo però solo pochi successi.

Nel 1932 lasciò l'America per recarsi in Cina. A Shanghai si occupò dell'ufficio clandestino del Comintern, sito nel quartiere internazionale, da dove manteneva contatti via radio con l'Esercito rosso guidato da Mao Zedong. I collegamenti furono completamente interrotti nell'autunno 1934, quando l'edificio fu perquisito dalla polizia cinese, poco prima dell'inizio della Lunga Marcia. Ritornò in Russia nel 1935 e lì lavorò per un breve periodo per Otto Kuusinen presso il Segretariato del Comitato esecutivo del Comintern.

Il 15 settembre 1936 arrivò in Spagna, inizialmente come consigliere militare presso lo Stato maggiore della Repubblica spagnola e poi, dalla fine di ottobre, come comandante delle Brigate Internazionali, unità volontarie formate da cittadini stranieri che erano state organizzate dal Comintern a sostegno della fazione repubblicana. Stern prese lo pseudonimo di Emilio Kléber, dal nome del generale napoleonico Jean-Baptiste Kléber, e una falsa identità come presunto cittadino austriaco naturalizzato canadese. L'inattesa vittoria repubblicana nella battaglia di Madrid, a cui Stern partecipò come comandante dell'XI Brigata Internazionale, in un momento in cui la capitale era già stata abbandonata dalle massime autorità del governo e la situazione militare sembrava gravissima, rese "il generale Kléber" famoso in tutto il mondo. La propaganda sovietica, in parte aiutata dai corrispondenti occidentali, esaltò la sua figura presentando Kléber come "il salvatore di Madrid", e occultò il ruolo avuto da altri ufficiali sovietici come Vladimir Gorev o Jan Karlovič Berzin, che erano a capo del contingente sovietico in Spagna e avevano diretto effettivamente l'azione difensiva. Stern fu rimosso dal fronte di Madrid nel gennaio 1937, probabilmente per la gelosia nei suoi confronti del presidente del Consiglio Francisco Largo Caballero e degli ufficiali spagnoli José Miaja e Vicente Rojo, ma in ogni caso con l'approvazione o l'acquiescenza di Gorev e del Partito comunista di Spagna. Largo Caballero gli offrì un ruolo minore sul fronte di Malaga, che Stern rifiutò. Nell'estate del 1937 fu assegnato al comando della neo-costituita 45ª Divisione, composta principalmente da volontari internazionali, ma fu sostituito in questo ruolo da Hans Kahle dopo che la divisione aveva subito gravissime perdite nel corso dell'offensiva d'Aragona.

Richiamato in Unione Sovietica, Stern cadde vittima delle grandi purghe. Nel maggio 1939 il Collegio militare della Corte suprema dell'URSS lo condannò a quindici anni di lavori forzati con l'accusa di essere una spia di Franco e un agente trockista. Nonostante la fama di cui aveva goduto negli anni immediatamente precedenti, ogni menzione del suo nome fu censurata nella storiografia sovietica della guerra di Spagna.

Fu rilasciato per pochi mesi nel 1947, ma poi arrestato nuovamente. Morì di sfinimento in un gulag nell'oblast' di Irkutsk, il 18 febbraio 1954. Fu riabilitato nel 1965, con la pubblicazione di un articolo sulla rivista Sovetskaja Bukovina che rivelò finalmente all'estero la sua identità e il suo destino.

Il fratello Wolf (1897-1961) è stato maggiore dell'Armata rossa e direttore dell'Istituto di storia militare tedesca a Potsdam. Il fratello Leo (1901-1982) è stato uno degli storici più importanti della Repubblica democratica tedesca e rettore dell'Università "Martin Lutero" di Halle-Wittenberg. Entrambi furono volontari nelle Brigate Internazionali.

Note

Persone della guerra civile spagnola

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Presbytery-Wide Women's Retreat, Nov 9-10 hosted at Walnut Creek PCA (600 W Johnstown Rd Gahanna, OH). Courtney Doctor, author of "From Garden to Glory" Bible Study) will be speaking from the Gospel of John on being united to Christ and living in unity with one another. She will speak on Friday at 7pm and again Saturday at 9am & 10:30am. The retreat will end at noon.


This paper presents a model in which safe assets are systemic because they are the medium of exchange for risky assets. Like commodity money, these assets are costly to produce and have some intrinsic value, resulting in (a) non-neutrality and (b) overproduction. Quantitatively, the welfare consequences of these inefficiencies depend on the costs of producing safe assets, which can be inferred from the equilibrium value of the liquidity premium. When the model is calibrated to plausible liquidity premia the resulting inefficiencies are not large.


We are thrilled to announce that the Cogora Insight and Market Access team were the recipients of this year's Best New Investigator Research Poster Presentation Award at ISPOR's 21st Annual European Congress in Barcelona.
The award recognises the scientific merit of poster presentations as only the top 10% of accepted research abstracts, based on peer review scoring, are eligible for the award. To be selected as the best of the top 10% in this category is a particularly impressive achievement for the team given the calibre of the other entries.
Cogora's Senior Insight and Market Access Analyst, Ejike Nwokoro, attended ISPOR to present the winning poster and to judge several other research contributions in turn.
The poster provided a retrospective review of the reimbursement decisions made by the Commission d'Evaluation des Médicaments at Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) in 2017 and the underlying rationale for medicinal products with insufficient actual medical benefit.
If you missed us at ISPOR, you can access the full poster online or contact the Insight and Market Access team for more information.
ISPOR is the world's leading educational and scientific organisation for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) and their applications for healthcare decision-makers. Each year, ISPOR organises a European conference to highlight the latest research and publications in the sector.
Cogora: Market Access provides our clients with strategy and evidence-generation solutions that maximise the return-on-investment for products throughout their lifecycle. For more information on how we can support you please contact our Market Access team.


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namespace ios {

namespace {

scoped_ptr<KeyedService> BuildInMemoryURLIndex(web::BrowserState* context) {
  ios::ChromeBrowserState* browser_state =
      ios::ChromeBrowserState::FromBrowserState(context);

  SchemeSet schemes_to_whilelist;
  schemes_to_whilelist.insert(kChromeUIScheme);

  // Do not force creation of the HistoryService if saving history is disabled.
  scoped_ptr<InMemoryURLIndex> in_memory_url_index(new InMemoryURLIndex(
      ios::BookmarkModelFactory::GetForBrowserState(browser_state),
      ios::HistoryServiceFactory::GetForBrowserState(
          browser_state, ServiceAccessType::IMPLICIT_ACCESS),
      web::WebThread::GetBlockingPool(), browser_state->GetStatePath(),
      browser_state->GetPrefs()->GetString(prefs::kAcceptLanguages),
      schemes_to_whilelist));
  in_memory_url_index->Init();
  return std::move(in_memory_url_index);
}

}  // namespace

// static
InMemoryURLIndex* InMemoryURLIndexFactory::GetForBrowserState(
    ios::ChromeBrowserState* browser_state) {
  return static_cast<InMemoryURLIndex*>(
      GetInstance()->GetServiceForBrowserState(browser_state, true));
}

// static
InMemoryURLIndexFactory* InMemoryURLIndexFactory::GetInstance() {
  return base::Singleton<InMemoryURLIndexFactory>::get();
}

InMemoryURLIndexFactory::InMemoryURLIndexFactory()
    : BrowserStateKeyedServiceFactory(
          "InMemoryURLIndex",
          BrowserStateDependencyManager::GetInstance()) {
  DependsOn(ios::BookmarkModelFactory::GetInstance());
  DependsOn(ios::HistoryServiceFactory::GetInstance());
}

InMemoryURLIndexFactory::~InMemoryURLIndexFactory() {}

// static
BrowserStateKeyedServiceFactory::TestingFactoryFunction
InMemoryURLIndexFactory::GetDefaultFactory() {
  return &BuildInMemoryURLIndex;
}

scoped_ptr<KeyedService> InMemoryURLIndexFactory::BuildServiceInstanceFor(
    web::BrowserState* context) const {
  return BuildInMemoryURLIndex(context);
}

web::BrowserState* InMemoryURLIndexFactory::GetBrowserStateToUse(
    web::BrowserState* context) const {
  return GetBrowserStateRedirectedInIncognito(context);
}

bool InMemoryURLIndexFactory::ServiceIsNULLWhileTesting() const {
  return true;
}

}  // namespace ios

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Q: Display Autocomplete list based on a Cell Range I'm trying to do an Excel Add-In and I would like that, in a worksheet that I'm creating, I could select a cell (or a range of cell) that, once you start typing on it (or them), a dropdown-like with possible matches for the typed characters.
Is this possible to do it programmatically?
The closest that I got to achieve this is through the Validation object of the Cell, but a dropdown-like list of options is not displayed just, as you could imagine, I get to display a message indicating that the text is not valid.
As always, thanks in advance!


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Making Sound • 2017 • episode "1/2" • Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
Category: Physics
At the Palace of Westminster, Helen teams up with scientists from the University of Leicester to carry out state-of-the-art measurements using lasers to reveal how the most famous bell in the world - Big Ben - vibrates to create pressure waves in the air at particular frequencies. This is how Big Ben produces its distinct sound. It's the first time that these laser measurements have been done on Big Ben. At the summit of Stromboli, one of Europe's most active volcanoes, Helen and volcanologist Dr Jeffrey Johnson use a special microphone to record the extraordinary deep tone produced by the volcano as it explodes. Finally, at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, Helen meets a scientist who has discovered evidence of sound waves in space, created by a giant black hole. These sounds are one million billion times lower than the limit of human hearing
Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics • 2017 • 2 episodes •
Making Sound
Using Sound
Visiting a hidden location buried beneath the hills of Scotland, Helen experiences some of the most extreme acoustics in the world. Here she learns just how much information can be carried by sound. She discovers how sound has driven the evolution of truly incredible biological systems and complex relationships between creatures that exploit sound for hunting - and escaping from predators. Helen demonstrates how sound waves diffract (bend around objects) and in doing so help us sense danger and locate it. Helen explains how we are not limited to passively detecting sound waves; we can also use them to actively probe the world.
How to Become a Superhero
Imagine turning yourself into a crime fighting super hero just like Batman or Iron man. Dr Michio Kaku designs a suit that would give the wearer the super powers of a comic book super hero. Take that bad guys!
S1E10 • Physics of the Impossible • 2009 • Physics
Double Slit Experiment
The double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena.
The Higgs Field, explained
One of the most significant scientific discoveries of the early 21st century is surely the Higgs boson, but the boson and the Higgs Field that allows for that magic particle are extremely difficult to grasp. Don Lincoln outlines an analogy (originally conceived by David Miller) that all of us can appreciate, starring a large dinner party, a raucous group of physicists, and Peter Higgs himself.
TED-Ed • Physics
Horizon • Physics
Particles Unknown - Neutrinos: Ghosts of the Universe
Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are the universe's most common yet most elusive and baffling particle. NOVA joins an international team of neutrino hunters whose discoveries may change our understanding of how the universe works.
NOVA PBS • 2021 • Physics
The Matter of Antimatter Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence
You exist. You shouldn't. Stars and galaxies and planets exist. They shouldn't. The nascent universe contained equal parts matter and antimatter that should have instantly obliterated each other, turning the Big Bang into the Big Fizzle. And yet, here we are: flesh, blood, stars, moons, sky. Why? Come join us as we dive deep down the rabbit hole of solving the mystery of the missing antimatter.
World Science Festival • 2018 • Physics

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This past month we held our Annual Membership Banquet at the Hotel Washington. We presented several awards to honor our members who have done the most to further economic development. In addition, our marketing manager attended an expo in Anaheim, CA and contacted companies that are looking to expand. In addition, we have been reaching out to our members with the purpose of showcasing their products and services. We look forward to finding ways to serve you, our members, and help bring greater development to our community.
We are excited to welcome Northwestern Logistics, a transportation company, to our area. They moved here this last month and are looking to grow and expand their business.
In February we held our annual banquet and presented the 2017 Gail and Carolyn Shaw Industry Award to J. Vander Stoep, a lifetime member of the community who has worked tirelessly to resolve flooding issues in Lewis County. Johnny Garcia was presented with the Russ Mohney Recreation Resource Stewardship Award for his role in bringing the Herald Observatory to life. The Golden Shovel Award was given to the Port of Chehalis in recognition of the Port having the largest amount of annual transactions in the history of the organization.
Chief executive officer of the port, Randy Mueller, said the work that has been accomplished thus far has been a team effort. He thanked the many different groups of people who have come together to help bring these projects to Chehalis.
Matt Matayoshi also recognized former EDC board member and Chronicle Publisher Christine Fossett for the work she has done with the EDC. Fossett recently stepped down from the board. Christine said she enjoyed serving on the EDC board and is looking forward to the work that will come in the future.
The banquet was a great evening full of awards and the opportunity for the organization's membership to connect. We are looking forward to the future successes that will be announced in 2017.
Our marketing consultant, Site Location Partnership, attended the Advanced Manufacturing Expo, in Anaheim from February 7th – 9th. The show was attend by 48,700 individuals that represent medical devices, plastic, packaging, and sensor manufacturing. Benjamin Baria, Marketing/BRE Manager, participated in this show. During this event, we connected with 157 prospects from the show. Out of the initial contacts, 15 expressed interest in expanding their operations and 1 expressed interest in Washington State.
Luke Moerke worked for Moerke & Sons before he left to get his degree in Mechanical Engineering. After a few years of working in Tacoma he returned to Lewis County and started his own business. Exodus Engineering is an engineering consultant firm that deals primarily with light frame residential and commercial buildings, retaining walls, and metal building foundations. In the beginning, it was just Luke who maintained a very busy work schedule but now he has grown his company to three full-time employees plus one part-time office administrator.
Tom & Jude Guyer started the company in 1984. T.J. Guyer primarily manages residential properties with a limited portfolio of small office spaces and commercial spaces. The company currently has over 1,700 properties from Vancouver all the way to Lakewood. In fact, in our area they turn over 20-30 houses a month. Several years ago, Tom Guyer was looking to retire and connected with longtime friend, Fred Lofgren, to take over the company. In 2010, Fred came on as a partner until 2013 when Tom exited the company and Fred took over.
SA Tech is a manufacturer of proprietary fatigue decreasing mats, floors, and insoles. They have been in business for over a decade in Lewis County and are currently undergoing an expansion. They have cleared a 10,000-sq. ft. pad and they are awaiting a weather window to begin pouring the concrete foundation. In addition to the expansion they have completed several necessary upgrades to their water/sewer lines. We expect to hear good results on their expansion soon.


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Chicago Man Charged for Jamming Fellow Commuters' Cellphones
Posted: Mar 10, 2016 7:58 PM CST
CHICAGO (CBS NEWS)--A Chicago man was charged Tuesday with using an illegal cellphone-jamming device while riding the CTA, according to CBS Chicago.
Wearing a ball cap and casual business attire, Dennis Nicholl, a 63-year-old certified public accountant, was charged with a felony for using the signal-jamming gadget. The station reported that wasn't the first time he was caught, either, and numerous complaints about the dropped calls had already raised suspicions.
Rider Keegan Goudie said the device "stuck out like a sore thumb" to the extent that he and his brother blogged about it on thesixthirty.com after spotting it on the Red Line.
"He seemed to be up to no good," Chas said. "It seemed like this device was something he shouldn't have his hands on."
Cellphone jammers are sold online for anywhere between $30 and $300, according to the station. Federal law prohibits anyone from selling, buying or operating the devices, which block cell reception, as well as police radios and emergency calls.
For months, Chicago Police investigated complaints about dropped calls on the Red Line before a 911 caller flagged police about Nicholl. Undercover officers arrested him on a CTA platform Tuesday and he was charged with a felony.
"He had no malicious intent to really hurt anybody," said his attorney, Charles Lauer.
Lauer said Nicholl was just annoyed by all the people on their cell phones and used the jammer to get a little peace and quiet.
Perhaps. But according to the FCC, people who use cellphone jammers can face prison time and significant fines: $16,000 for each violation or as high as $112,000 for using the device only once.
Nicholl left jail Wednesday night after making bond, the station reports.
Goudie said the capability was troubling in "in terms of security and terrorist threats in any major city..."


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Q: $(window).focus() runs twice for each focus I'm not sure why this happens and I would love to get an explanation.
Using jquery's focus method I bind to the window focus event.
This is a working example (copy paste into a html file and open in a browser. Doesn't work in jsfiddle or jsbin, for some reason)
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <p1>Here:</p1>

Why

When the browser regains focus the function runs twice and 'focus` is printed into the console twice.
Any idea why this happens?
The end goal, btw, is to stop a timer from running whenever the user leaves the browser to an app or another tab.
UPDATE
Running on the latest (dev) version of chrome. I'll test it on firefox and write if it's different there.
UPDATE 2
Interesting fact - Doesn't happen on firefox. Maybe its a bug with chrome.

A: I had this same problem. My fix for this was using lodash's debounce() function (https://lodash.com/docs/#debounce). This was my fix:
var debouncedFocus = _.debounce(() => {
  console.log('focussed');
}, 250, {leading: true, trailing: false});

$(window).on('focus', debouncedFocus);

A: live() has been deprecated. Use on() instead.
$(window).on("focus", function(){ alert("focus!"); });

You could try using the live() function.
 $(window).live("focus", function(){ alert("focus!"); });

A: Maybe load() is called twice? You can register these events without .load(). Try this:

A: Which browser ? Seems to run fine for me.
As a precaution, you can use a javascript variable to make it run only once.

A: If you're simultaneously using Underscore, you can use the _.debounce() method to clamp down repeated events to a single event.


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History is on the Seahawks' side Sunday against the Lions
By Wilson Conn Dec 29, 2021, 12:33pm PST
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Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
While the Seahawks are possibly trending towards a humiliating loss against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, history does give Seahawks fans a reason to be optimistic this Sunday.
Since 2000, the Seahawks are 6-1 against Detroit, with the lone loss coming on the road, 28-24, in Russell Wilson's rookie year. The Seahawks are also 7-2 all time at home against Detroit, with the most recent loss being in 1999 with Jon Kitna under center. The other loss was in the Seahawks' inaugural season. Detroit is the only NFC team to never win at Seattle's current stadium, Lumen Field.
While this great record certainly has something to do with the Lions' pitiful tendency for losing seasons and generally bad teams, that doesn't mean this year's 2-12-1 squad should be counted out on Sunday. Receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown has had a breakout year, and will present a challenge for a beleaguered secondary that yielded significant yardage to a decrepit Bears offense last week. Head Coach Dan Campbell always has his team fired up, and there is certainly no quit in them, meaning they will take over if the Seahawks give them the same opportunity they gave to the Bears last week. Jared Goff will also look to continue his streak of success against the 'Hawks, assuming his oblique heals.
With all of that said, the Seahawks have won their last two matchups over Detroit by an average of 17 points, and both of those squads were significantly more talented than this year's Lions. I expect history to repeat itself this weekend, regardless of just how dire things have gotten for the Seahawks.


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Best Saints: Top 12 teams of 2017
NFL.com's draft preview series features the best of the best from around the league, with each team highlighted on its own page.
Each week, we'll provide an overview of each team, as well as an inside look at its best player and its most talented player.
The Saints have been a perennial contender in the NFC for a decade, and have been one of the league's top offenses since the 2006 season.
They've scored at least 10 touchdowns in each of their first four seasons, and were the league leader in total offense during that span.
The Saints also rank third in total defense, according to Football Outsiders, and their scoring defense ranks fifth in the league.
They have one of NFL's most balanced lines in terms of size, and will rely on the power of Brees' arm and running game to create mismatches.
New Orleans also has a solid defense, and is a great fit for quarterback Drew Brees.
He has shown his ability to run the ball well in the past, and could benefit from playing with more help at linebacker and at the safety positions.
The Dolphins have had success playing a pass-heavy offense since joining the league in 2013.
They rank third-to-last in the NFL in yards per game, and quarterback Ryan Tannehill has developed into a franchise quarterback, completing 67.7 percent of his passes this season.
The Dolphins also rank second in total touchdowns, and fourth in total interceptions.
Miami has struggled to score consistently against the pass in recent years, but the Dolphins will be able to improve this season with Brees and Ryan TanNEARLY HAVE SEEN THE SEAHAWKS WIN THEIR LAST TWO PICKSOFFING ROUNDS (Tannehill has completed 67.5 percent of passes this year).
The Dolphins are also the only team in the entire NFL to allow an average of just 3.7 points per game.
In 2018, the Dolphins finished 7-9-1, but were ranked ninth in the AFC in total yards.
They finished seventh in total points, tied for eighth in scoring, and tied for 13th in total passing yards.
The defense finished sixth in scoring defense, which ranks ninth in overall pass defense, 11th in scoring allowed, and 12th in rushing defense.
The Falcons have made a big improvement in recent seasons, winning nine of their last 10 games, and finishing with a 9-7 record.
They are ranked second in the division in scoring and defense, third in passing offense, and first in rushing offense.
The Falcons are also fifth in points allowed, but have allowed the fewest points in the last six seasons.
Atlanta has a great young defense, led by safety Desmond Trufant, and linebacker Deion Jones, who was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Week.
The secondary has had a lot of success this season, ranking third in pass defense.
Atlanta has a lot to be proud of.
Injuries have hurt the defense badly in recent weeks, but they have a lot more talent to work with than they did in 2017.
The new defensive coordinator, Matt Ryan, has made some major improvements this season to a unit that has not won more than seven games in a season since 2007.
Atlanta is also better on offense, which has scored at an elite level.
The Panthers are currently No. 2 in the standings in points per play.
The Rams were ranked sixth in the Super Bowl standings before their Week 17 bye.
After being knocked out of the playoffs by the Patriots in Week 8, they have been able to win six straight games to finish the regular season.
Quarterback Sam Bradford has thrown for 3,383 yards, 24 touchdowns, seven interceptions and a 59.1 quarterback rating, and ranks first in the National Football League in passing yards per attempt.
He is the only quarterback in the modern era to throw for 3-5, 3,000 yards, 3-4,000, 4,000 or more yards and has completed 62 percent of the passes.
Bradford is also second in passing touchdowns and fifth in passing efficiency.
The Cardinals were one of many teams that made a run at the NFC title in 2018.
They won eight of their final 10 games and finished with a 6-9 record.
QB Carson Palmer had a great rookie season, completing 69.1 percent of throws and ranking second in touchdowns with 32.
Palmer is one of just two quarterbacks in NFL history to throw at least 1,000 passes and have two or more TD passes.
Palmer has also completed 62.3 percent of attempts this season and ranks second in touchdown passes with 32 and fourth with 24.
Palmer will be without his best receiver, Larry Fitzgerald, for the remainder of the season.
The Bears have been an elite defense for years.
The Bears ranked second-to, third-most in yards allowed per game this season behind only the Seahawks, and finished second in scoring.
They also finished sixth, with a 2-11 record, and are ranked fourth in points
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Music Reviews | By Casey Hicks
Dinosaur Jr.: I Bet on Sky
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky (Jagjaguwar) With lineup changes, control issues and a lengthy hiatus, Dinosaur Jr. is well-versed in friction. Thankfully, these days the only roughness is in the band's signature, unpolished sound. The original lineup is back to deliver the band's tenth studio album. J. Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph have managed to sound as fresh as they did more than twenty years ago when they were first starting out. Their alternative sound combines distortion and feedback with a solid beat and deft guitar solos. Mascis and Barlow's subdued, melodic vocal delivery ties together the beauty and chaos of the music, giving it a solid anchor. Mascis' riffs are intricate, lending a sense of barely contained control to songs like "I Know It Oh So Well" and the sprawling, moving closer "See It On Your Side." Modern anxiety, waiting, loneliness: these themes appear throughout the record, and the plaintive tones through the lyrics demonstrate why Dinosaur Jr. can still maintain an audience that still just wants to rock. The two songs Barlow penned, the wonderfully distorted "Rude" and guitar-laden "Recognition," are my favorites and a sign that the band continues to work brilliantly since their reunion. Musicians who are only as old as the band is ought to take note of these veterans and their loud, confident resurgence.
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From the first days of FXStreet back in 2000 until today, our website and company have expanded in size, content, services and languages. We are now around 30 people in the Barcelona office. Outside of Barcelona and all around the world, approximately 30 collaborators work with us as news editors, trading session leaders, advisers, translators and content assistants. FXStreet is a website visited by over 1 million users nowadays, traders who look for insightful information to make the best decisions in their daily activities.
The FXStreet success story begins in Barcelona, back in 2000, in a man's mind who, in the first years of his professional career, was working in an emerging and promising market, Forex, producing information for a Spanish website. He lived in a country where, especially in those days, FX trading was practically unknown, but he gave birth to an adventurous project: creating an international FX website in English, the first of its kind, with information and tools for currencies traders.
His name is Francesc Riverola. He puts the idea together with his partners and companions – Miriam Pinatell (his wife) and Sergi Fernández – and the three of them build the prehistorical version of FXStreet. Miriam is the web designer, Francesc is in charge of advertisement and content and Setxi is the web developer. They are still the partners ("socios") of the company nowadays.
Let's review the main milestones of our history.
The Early Years: 2000 – 2003
The FXStreet story begins in Barcelona, back in 2000, in a man's mind who, in the first years of his professional career, was working in an emerging and promising market, Forex, producing information for a Spanish website. He lived in a country where, specially in those days, FX trading was practically unknown -it's still the case-, but he gave birth to an adventurous project: creating an international FX website in English, the first of its kind, with information and tools for currencies traders.
The first version of the website already has some of the most popular sections that it contains nowadays: Charts, News and Quotes (Rates in the current version). The web segment for FX brokers is also there, in its primitive form, as well as some of the content you can also find in today's site, like reports from banks and brokers.
The Family Grows: 2003 – 2004
In 2003, the company hires its first employee.
They all move to an office in Barcelona's "Gracia" neighbourhood and more people join the team. The first website staff is made of 7 workers.
The website changes its format and updates its design, structure and content; the Spanish and Chinese versions are launched.
The 2005 Expansion
That year we launch sections of the website that today are very well known and broadly used as the "Q&A Sessions" – now webinars – or the "Upcoming Economic Events" – now Economic Calendar. We also refresh the design and content structure of the Spanish and Chinese versions of FXStreet.
At the end of 2005 we create the Premium Service, the exclusive content website offering Reuters news, Premium webinars, banks reports and charting software. Nowadays, this website does not exist anymore. The only part that has survived from that service are the Premium webinars.
2006: The Year of Living Dangerously
During the summer of 2006, the 2.0 version of our website is released. We spend the first half of the year rethinking the whole web structure. In those days we create the subhomes structure with new sections as Fundamental, Technical and Live (that all disappeared in July 2013).
In 2006, we move to a new office, the one where we still are today, in Carrer Portaferrisa, near Las Ramblas, in the very center of the Catalan capital. The team grows and counts around 20 people back then.
2007 – 2010: The Consolidation Years
In 2007, the "Currencies-at-a-Glance" tool is launched: Technical studies for more than 50 Currency Pairs, with Timeframes from 1 minutes to 1 week for supports, resistances, Trend Index… This tool is now part of our Technical Studies.
The first International Traders Conference ("ITC") is organized in Barcelona in October 2007, with guest speakers and traders from around the world. Between 2007 and 2012, we host 5 editions of this event.
At the beginning of 2009, a big step is taken: we decide to create our own feed of news, in real-time, 24 hours, dedicated to Forex only. At that time, these news are produced in English, Spanish and Chinese. In July of that year, our first B2B Product is launched: the Forex News Feed is offered to third party companies. It will be followed by the Economic Calendar, and along the years, a series of other white-label products.
The Real Time Economic Calendar is renewed and improved in 2009: more data from more countries (12 back then), real time alerts, new design, etc.
Later that year, we start the languages expansion with the Japanese website. Throughout 2009 we open the French and Russian versions and in April, 2010 the Arabic and Indonesian sites. Nowadays, our website exists in 17 languages.
In 2010, the Learning Center comes to life. It's a self-learning program that provides a strong knowledge of Forex and helps traders develop trading strategies.
2010 – 2014: Adapt or die
In December 2010, our website is getting a new layout: cleaner design and improved readability. The left menus are moved to the top of the pages, darker text and more spacing, new navigation scheme…
We also release the first version of our Currencies Forecast Poll. First as a still image, then in 2011 it becomes a table whose data are saved for historical record.
In February 2011, we initiate our "Forex Best Awards" that highlights the best analysis and contributors on our website during the previous year, awards that still exist nowadays. In January 2012, FXStreet names its "Forex Person of the Year" for the first time. This title is now given every year to a person or a team of people and a project that might not have been in the big headlines but that positively contributed to make the Forex world better, more respected and more transparent.
In September 2012, our company experiences a profound change in its structure: Carolina May (previously Head of Marketing and Member of the Board of Directors) is named CEO of the company. Francesc Riverola assumes the role of President. In the next months, other internal changes affect the team and organization in order to redynamize the company and better face the challenges of a sector that is more competitive than in the past.
New free services and tools are created on our website in 2013: the Live Analysis Room, hosted by Dale Pinkert; the "Current Trading Positions" table or the FXBeat news and commentary feed led by Jamie Coleman, to name the most important ones.
In terms of social events, FXStreet hosts its first "Forex MeetUp" in the Barcelona office in February 2013. Other cities have followed since then: London and New York first, then many more cities in the world: Sydney, Los Angeles, Toronto,…
At the beginning of 2014, FXStreet sees its logo renewed to reflect the changes in our company, make our brand evolve and create a stronger cohesion between our sites in all the languages.
2014 – 2016: Creating the New FXstreet – Version 3.0
In February 2014, after long brainstormings about how FXStreet should evolve, we came to the conclusion that our website needed a profound reset by using a completely new backend and frontend structure: we needed to be more flexible and our systems were not offering this necessary freedom for our team to innovate, run continuous tests and swiftly adapt to new challenges. That would be the 3.0 version of FXStreet. It took several months to define all players' needs, survey users, explore solutions and prioritize opportunities.. and then create it all from zero and in-house. The final switch to the new website took place in May 2016.
The new website is accessible from all screen sizes and devices. By providing a faster and mobile-optimized experience, FXStreet meets the needs of its growing mobile audience. The new look and feel of FXStreet is guided by an emphasis on visuals and presents a clearer, more elegant and engaging blend of images, video and text. Thanks to a streamlined menu and navigation, it's easier for readers to find the content they are looking for, with less clicks. FXStreet has simplified its Rates and Charts section: users can access all the technical information and rates for each currency pair at a glance, on one page. Video and live coverages also get more relevance through a modernized and more user-friendly streaming Live Video channel.
Time doesn't stop…
Our company history is short, but at the same time long, in a so quickly evolving environment as internet. To follow our evolution and what will be history tomorrow, you can read our Corporate blog, where we publish news and information abour what our company and website are up to.
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Jim M. says:
Big thanks to all the team at FX Street for all your hard work and achievements so far. It is a remarkable effort and deserves great praise.
As a private investor and trader who is still quite new to the industry I have found the website a wonderful place to get up to date news and updates about what is happening in the forex markets and important feedback from other traders about their experiences and knowledge.
Over recent years I have tried so hard to find something which can offer me the best place to seek out valuable insights about the markets and no joking, I have visited many different websites.
However without doubt,FX Street is by far the best and most user friendly place for any trader to get a second opinion before placing a trade or may be a hot tip about what might happen next or possibly, offer a word of warning about something which could go badly wrong.
FX Street is the best out there. Long may you enjoy your work and continue to provide the excellent service we have enjoyed in recent years.
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Q: FFMPEG progress CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE ... ffmpeg: has text relocations I want to cut and merge the videos.I used FFMPEG. I have implemented this library https://github.com/WritingMinds/ffmpeg-android-java.
When i tested in android 8.0(Oreao) version. I got this issue " CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE ... ffmpeg: has text relocations". I found they opened issue for that...https://github.com/WritingMinds/ffmpeg-android-java/issues/141...is that any library that support all devices.
Please anyone help me.

A: This is a "known problem" and concerns x86 (not Arm). This problem is present in other libraries too which are based on FFMpeg. Here are some links where you can read about it:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4928
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191235


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Weekly Update: November 8, 2019
Nothing new to report, other than an update on the email that was circulated last week to all legislators about the beach seine situation in Dare County.
I've spoken to the fisherman who got the ticket as well as another fisherman who participates in that fishery. Of course, the others are very concerned that the actions of one could jeopardize all. There are only about 6 crews that participate in the beach seine fishery. The incident involved not cleaning up the beach after legally harvesting the catch. The fisherman was very apologetic when I talked to him and said it would never happen again. In addition to a fine by the National Park Service for the violation, he could lose his beach driving permit, but not sure if that will happen or not. Obviously, it's a very visible fishery and usually gets a lot of attention by the public, most of who are fascinated by it and enjoy watching. One of the fishermen told me he uses it as a teaching moment and explains what they do and why they do it.
This is a perfect example of why all of us need to be aware of our actions and be sensitive to public opinion, both real and perceived.
ASMFC
As noted last week, the ASMFC voted to deem Virginia out of compliance for menhaden. Omega wasn't happy about the vote. The opinion I'm writing here is just that: my opinion. NCFA's Board will address it at the December Board meeting. As for me, I think Omega has every reason to fight it. I think most commercial fishermen who have followed the ASMFC process over the years will support them as well, not because of menhaden but because of the ASMFC process. For years, NCFA has opined that our state should not cave to the non-compliance threat IF the science is on our side. In the case of menhaden, it's about as clear as any that the ASMFC acted more for political concerns than scientific.
The action last week is a result of Virginia's menhaden fishery surpassing a cap on harvest in the Chesapeake Bay. Heck, the ASMFC's own Technical Committee didn't agree with that provision as one of its members stated "The TC stands by its original recommendations that there has not appeared to be any biological benefit to the Chesapeake Bay reduction cap since it was implemented".
The ASMFC can only recommend to the US Secretary of Commerce with advice and counsel from NOAA and NMFS. Omega has stated whatever the Secretary's decision is, they will adhere to it.
Some confuse this issue as the bait guys think Omega could do a better job regarding fishing in the Bay. That may be, but that's a conversation that should be made with Omega. The fishery management plan measures are supposed to be predicated on science. However, in this case it's all politics.
For the Secretary to hold Virginia non-compliant for this fishery, he must make as a finding of FACT, that what they did would harm that fishery. Based on the science, I can't see how in anyone's wildest imagination, that he can do that.
So, what does that mean for the fishermen of North Carolina? In my opinion looking at the big picture, it's to North Carolina's interest to hold the ASMFC's feet to the fire regarding process. If these decisions are to be made politically rather than scientifically, we're all toast.
Personally, I applaud Omega!
MEDIA ADVISORY: Division of Marine Fisheries announces scoping period on southern flounder
MOREHEAD CITY – The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries will hold a public scoping period Dec. 4-18 to solicit public comments on potential management strategies for an upcoming amendment to the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan.
The primary management strategy for Amendment 3 is long-term sustainable harvest in the southern flounder fishery. The South Atlantic Southern Flounder Stock Assessment update (containing data through 2017) indicated the stock is overfished and overfishing is occurring.
Fisheries stakeholders can provide in-person comments at two scoping meetings that will be held:
Dec. 9 at 6 p.m.
N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries
Central District Office
5285 Highway 70 West, Morehead City Dec. 17 at 6 p.m.
Dare County Government Complex
Commissioners Meeting Room
954 Marshall C. Collins Dr., Manteo
Beginning Dec. 4, comments can also be submitted through the division's website with an online form or by mail. A news release will be issued closer to the scoping period providing details on how the public can participate.
A scoping document outlining the potential management strategies can be found on the Southern Flounder Amendment Information Page.
North Carolina Fisheries
3rd Annual Maritime Angels Fundraiser Kicked Off November 1, 2019
Clothing & Toy donations can be dropped off at any of the Following Locations: Gift cards are encouraged for older children (Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.)
Gift cards can be mailed to:
NCFA- Maritime Angels -PO Box 86, Morehead City, NC 28557
Beaufort Inlet Seafood, Beaufort, NC NCFA Office, Morehead City, NC
Core Sound Museum Store, Morehead City,
NC Core Sound Museum, Harkers Island, NC
Blackburn Brothers 19929 NC Hwy 210 Rocky Point, NC
Fulcher's Point Pride Seafood, Oriental, NC
Fulcher's Seafood, Alliance, NC
Pamlico Packing Company, Grantsboro, NC
Paradise Shores Seafood, Merritt, NC
B&J Seafood, James City, NC
Wanchese Fish Company, Wanchese, NC
O'Neal's Sea Harvest, Wanchese, NC
Willie R. Ethridge Seafood, Wanchese, NC
Or you can donate on our website https://ncfish.org/donate/
Donation Deadline: December 18th to allow for delivery


Home / Pest Control Tips / Traveling this summer? Stay bed bug aware.
Traveling this summer? Stay bed bug aware.
Many people hit the road during the summer, traveling to far-flung destinations for vacations. Whether you're headed to the beach or the mountains, another country or staying at home here in the U.S., be sure to stay bed bug aware.
Bed bugs are hitchhiking pests that can infest five-star hotels, budget motels, hostels, homes, and everything in between. While bed bugs don't spread disease, they can inflict itchy welts when they bite.
Many people often ask: can you see bed bugs? You can! Adult bed bugs are approximately 1/4-inch long by 1/8-inch wide – they are often compared to the size of an apple seed. They are reddish brown in color, but may appear to be more red just after feeding. Young bed bugs, or nymphs, are visible but hard to see. They can be as small as 1/32-inch.
You don't want to bring bed bugs home from vacation with you – or take them from a hotel to a friend or relative's house – so we encourage you to take these steps to stay bed bug-free.
Place your luggage on non-upholstered furniture away from the bed, such as a desk. If using a luggage rack, inspect it for bed bugs.
Pull back the corners of bedding on the bed and check the mattress and box spring for bed bugs. Pay special attention to seams, where bed bugs like to hide. If you notice black marks on the mattress, that could be an indication of a problem.
Inspect the night stand for signs of bed bugs.
If you believe your hotel room has bed bugs, alert the front desk and ask for a different room – preferably one that is not a neighboring room or directly above or below the room with the bed bugs.
Immediately inspect your suitcase for bed bugs when you return home. Don't forget the seams and edges.
Place all your clothing from the baggage in the clothes dryer for 15 minutes on high heat, even if you didn't wear them.This can kill any bed bugs that may have snuck into your luggage.
If you think you may have brought some unwanted visitors home with you because you have seen the signs of a bed bug infestation, don't wait another minute! Contact Ehrlich Pest Control today!
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Drug That Reverses Opioid Overdoses Now Easier to Get at Local Pharmacies
Written by Matt Schneiderman on November 8, 2017
Walgreens joins CVS in providing Narcan nasal spray without a doctor's prescription at its pharmacies.
When you wander down the aisles at a Walgreens store these days, you can grab some cough syrup, paper towels, or a bag of candy.
While you're there, you can also pick up a nasal spray used to reverse opioid overdoses.
Walgreens recently announced that all its pharmacies would stock Narcan, an inhalant form of the drug naloxone.
Most states don't require a doctor's prescription to buy Narcan, so this improves the chances that the life-saving drug may be available when it is crucially necessary.
Walgreens joins CVS Pharmacy, which this summer increased access to Narcan for its customers.
Phil Caruso, Walgreens media relations representative, told Healthline that the announcement is part of the company's efforts to make it easier for people to obtain the drug.
"For an opioid overdose victim's family member or caregiver, having the medicine on hand could make the difference," Caruso said. "We hope it's the first step on the road to recovery."
Buying Narcan is not as simple as buying aspirin, however.
Narcan is a prescription drug, so it's not available over the counter.
Nonetheless, 49 states and the District of Columbia have enabled workarounds such as statewide standing prescription orders from doctors and allowing pharmacists to prescribe.
"Narcan is a behind-the-counter drug," Thom Duddy, executive director of communications for Narcan manufacturer Adapt Pharma, told Healthline. "In most states, you can go to the pharmacy and buy Narcan without an individualized prescription. As with getting a flu shot, there is a prescription attached, but you don't need someone to write a prescription for you to buy it."
In California, for instance, the pharmacist on duty can prescribe Narcan to anyone who requests the drug.
Dispensing pharmacists are required to provide instructions to individuals who purchase Narcan, including how to recognize an overdose, steps for administering the drug, and calling 911.
A recent purchase of a two-dose kit at a CVS Pharmacy in Foster City, California, took about 20 minutes to complete. The buyer's healthcare insurance covered all but a $25 co-pay.
Who buys Narcan
According to Duddy, early market reports indicate that a typical purchaser of Narcan is someone who cares for someone with a risky high-dose opioid prescription.
But as the opioid epidemic continues to claim victims, access to naloxone is becoming more mainstream.
"There are three populations that should have access to naloxone," Dr. Scott Weiner, MPH, director of the Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, told Healthline. "One, active users of illicit opioids, either injecting or taking pills not prescribed to them, acquired illegally, or by diversion. Two, family members of people using drugs like that. And three, people using opioids as prescribed, but on a high dose — 50 mg or more of morphine or its equivalent."
According to a study done in Massachusetts, naloxone is 93 percent effective in reversing an opioid overdose.
However, Weiner recently coauthored a report estimating that 1 in 10 of those who are saved from death in this manner suffer a drug-related death within a year.
Nevertheless, communities with access to Narcan have fewer overdose deaths than those with limited access to the drug.
"The more people that have it the better," Weiner said. "If you're in an area with a high incidence of overdose, you may be a candidate to have it."
What to do when someone overdoses
An opioid overdose causes respiratory arrest, where the victim's breathing slows or stops.
They can become somnolent, even blue, and can quickly die.
Naloxone inhibits the effects of the opioid, effectively blocking the opioid from acting on the brain's receptors and thus reversing the overdose.
Administering Narcan involves confirming that the overdose victim is unresponsive, assembling a simple atomizing device, spraying a puff of the drug into each nostril, and then calling 911.
Medical attention is necessary, although overdose victims sometimes refuse to be taken to the hospital.
According to Dr. Michael R. Brumage, MPH, FACP, executive director and health officer of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department in West Virginia, an overdose victim may wake up and not realize they had been close to death.
"A lot of people don't like being brought out of their high," Brumage told Healthline. "They don't even know they've overdosed. They just know that someone's taken them out of their euphoria. They immediately go into withdrawal. Sometimes they get combative."
A trip to the hospital, though, can be a teachable moment for the opioid abuser and could lead to treatment and recovery.
Buprenorphine and methadone, drugs that prevent withdrawals and block cravings, can be effective at keeping addicts off opioids.
"We need to get them into treatment so they can live the long and healthy life they deserve," Weiner said. "You can't recover someone if they're dead."
"I am alive because of Narcan," Mike-Alison Burke of Florida, told Healthline. "Heroin was not my drug of choice, but one day I decided to snort some to take the edge off. I woke up being wheeled out of my hotel room and into the meat wagon. It was my first and hopefully last O.D. I'm completely clean now."
There are calls to allow naloxone to become an over-the-counter medication and further widen the market for people who can buy it.
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The death of the singer Prince and a governor's veto have put a national spotlight on the drug naloxone.
In two Ohio communities, officials have proposed different plans that would reduce the efforts by emergency responders to revive people who have…
Experts say this new opioid cocktail is a combination of three drugs, each individually more powerful than heroin.


Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is still not retiring. According to the Associated Press, Ryan told his Republican colleagues he has no intention of stepping down as Speaker of the House nor leave Congress after next year's election, despite a report in Politico that said otherwise.
That's according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia. Republicans responded with applause and a standing ovation.
RightWisconsin reported last week that there was no foundation to the Politico story, and the other media reporting Ryan's retirement were merely quoting the Politico story. We now return our readers to the annual watch of Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) who is also not retiring.


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Q: dynamically specify select columns linq Using linq, I'm trying to implement the following logic-
Iqueryable.Select(q=> new {
    if a then q.field1,q.field2,q.field3
    else if b then q.field1, q.field4
    else q.field5,q.field6,q.field7,q.field8
});

Any ideas for the best way to do this?

A: You could certainly encapsulate this into a method that returns dynamic, although you lose your type safety and always with dynamic, a bit of performance.
public dynamic DynamicSelect(Expression<Func<Address, dynamic>> query)
{
    return Addresses.Select(query).Take(1).ToList();
}

You can then call it and retrieve data from it like so:
var result = DynamicSelect(q => new {q.Id, q.AddressLine1});
Console.WriteLine(result[0].Id);

When using DbSets, you can even take this a step further and genericize it:
public dynamic DynamicSelect<TEntity>(Expression<Func<TEntity, dynamic>> query)
{
    return context.DbSet<TEntity>.Select(query).Take(1).ToList();
}

Personally I'd ask yourself if this type of flexibility is really necessary.  You're killing your type safety for a marginal increase in "flexibility".

A: I think you can try something like this
        IQueryable query;
        if (a)
            query.Select(q=> new {q.field1,q.field2,q.field3});
        else if (b)
            query.Select(q=> new {q.field1, q.field4});
        else
            .Select(q=> new {q.field5,q.field6,q.field7,q.field8});


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ece4co games
By Jay | October 15, 2004
(5 votes) *Average rating will show after 20 votes
Platform: Flash, Shockwave
Categories: browser, flash, free, game, japanese, linux, mac, neko, original, rating-g, shockwave, windows, yishii
Comments (13) | Views (5,317)
From Japan, Yoshio Ishii designs Shockwave and Flash games, and publishes them all on his website ece4co.vis.ne.jp. Many of his games feature a cat ("neko" in Japanese) and are rather plain looking, using just two shades of aqua green to draw all the graphics for each of his "neko" games. Ito-Neko is his latest, and like the others before it, Ishii proves that designing a game that is fun to play does not require fancy-shmancy graphics. Using the mouse, click and drag to draw a wire to catch the falling neko before it lands into the water below. By manipulating the drawn wire, bounce the neko around to collect the jewels that increase your score. Click.
Upon closer inspection of Ishii's site reveals many other marvelous games he has designed, yet does not display them as prominently as his "neko" series of games. Take for instance Cell Blast. This game is a beautiful shoot-em-up with a distinctly old-school style graphic design. Using the mouse, click to fire while avoiding all the enemies and their weapons. There is no score in this game, just try to survive the entire stage. And if you finish, check out Cell Blast Stage 2. These are my favorites of all the games he has made. Click.
Another gorgeous game design is this psychedelic shooter called Rayspline. Most probably an experimental concept game as deduced from the "ver. 0.1" indicated on the opening title screen, Rayspline features beautiful particle effects set in motion against a captivating soundtrack. Together these elements create a very engaging experience, even if only an experimental one. An elaborate stage select screen between stages allows you to chart your own course through the game's many levels. The only downside is that once the game is over, there is no restart button... the game must be reloaded in the browser. A minor inconvenience for such a magnificent creation. Click.
As I mentioned before, most of Ishii's games are developed in Director, though he has created some in Flash. This Flash game is also a shooter and is played by wielding what looks like a Mahjongg tile (Update: actually, they are Shogi tiles - thanks Grant0 for pointing this out). All of the enemies are Shogi tiles as well and feature unique patterns of movement and attack that make this game so much fun to play. It sounds a bit strange, yet it works extremely well. Click.
Update: Yoshio Ishii's games are back online and available to play(!) Be sure to check out his site for links to many other exceptional games he has created.
grant0 • December 20, 2004 12:31 PM
Very good games. Rayspline especially has amazing graphics. The shooter with the tiles are not Mahjong tiles. They are in fact from Shogi, the ancient game of Japanese chess. I think that the one that you are is a king, because the top is the word for "king" but it has something under it. Anyone speak better Japanese than me?
David • December 23, 2004 5:13 PM
The symbol beneath it means general - you can see it on one of the 'kings' in Chinese chess
tom • April 28, 2005 9:52 PM
is neko a copy of toby or the opposite?
jay • April 28, 2005 11:13 PM
Tom - those games were all created by the same person: Yoshio Ishii.
Barb18 • July 19, 2005 3:15 PM
Cell Blast and CB2 are no longer available, Jay. The rest of your games are fabulous.
Thanks, Barb
flyzerodive • July 24, 2005 4:42 PM
rayspline is very similar to a game that was on dreamcast many years ago, rez. i heard something about rez being ported to ps2 sometime ago as well. if you liked rayspline, rez is definitely worth taking a look at.
Tjay • December 9, 2005 5:46 PM
Hey, Jay! I don't know if it generates a flag in here or not letting you know if there is a new post, but I thought I would let you know that there is still hope for at least Rayspline. I cannot find an original website, but I know that another game site, MoFunZone.com has a working version of Rayspline. Maybe they would be willing to share?
jay • December 9, 2005 5:55 PM
Hi Tjay - yes, I receive an email for every comment posted to the site(!) That's a lot of emails, believe me. =) It helps me keep tabs on things. ;)
As far as MoFunZone, if they have a copy of the game my guess is it's an illegal copy. Thanks for the tip, though. Cheers!
Mordecai • December 18, 2006 1:24 AM
So I guess none of these games work anymore? :(
Thomas • December 18, 2006 1:30 AM
I believe, just the URLs have changed. Instead of /shockwave8, try /shockwave.
jay • December 18, 2006 1:31 AM
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Mordecai, as I just rechecked Ishii-san's site and have discovered that many of these games are once again available. I'll work on updating the entry with the correct links.
AJ • April 3, 2007 9:36 AM
I Love Rayspine!
The plain opponents are Circle and Line.
Circle-The weak spot is the center star
Line-The weak spot is the head star.
After the plain opponents have been eliminated, a boss appears.
These are Spiral, Dna, Carousel, Worm, Box and Core Star.
Spiral-Doesn't need a strategy at all! Weak spot is the core star.
Dna-Take out the spiraling stars of this boss, then focus on the center star. Weak spot is the core star.
Carousel-Facing this guy head-to-head means BIG Trouble.
But try to learn his pattern and focus on attacking his core. Weak spot is the core star.
Worm-This guy doesn't fire most of the time. But remember. HE'S A LINE! Weak spot is the head (he is a line, after all).
Box-This is the fourth of the five bosses, so be careful! Weak spot is the center star, which is covered in four layers of tough stars.
Core Star-This is the last boss, so be careful! Do not be distracted by the star trail! Weak spot is itself (It's a core star).
AJ • April 18, 2007 12:54 AM
On Raoh, you play as an osho which means "reining king".
I think the final boss is a gyokusho which means "challenging king" beacause if the king is captured, that player loses.
Gyokushos are rare in We Love Katamari.


To become a smart handicapper one has to know what will be the handicappers win winning percentage horse racing tips. This starts with grasping the fundamentals of horse racing betting and then increasing your knowledge by reading every bit of data you can get your hands on! With the amount of free horse racing betting tools available online at different sites on the internet along with the betting systems that you can download, it is now easy for a serious punter to formulate his own handicapping horse betting system bonus betting.
Factors such as speed, the jockeys winning percentage, as well as the trainers winning percentage are important for you to compute your own personal system and make a wise selection. Thorograph performance figures and form ratings are deduced by using information like the form of the horse, past performances, trainer angles and moves, jockey, track speed, ground loss/saved. Post position etc. Betting tools such as a Calculator also can be downloaded for automated selections and working out your returns.
It is usually wiser to evaluate the system you have worked out on paper first to enable you to observe how it performs. This gives an advantage of "tweaking" it any which way to make it work for you. Professional handicappers win because they are expert at picking winners that happen to be profitable in the long run.
As mentioned before, factors such as class is important, which can be determined by dividing the horses total winnings throughout the year by the number of races they have run, or by dividing the horses total earnings with the number of starts. The class horse will have the top winnings per start. The very best speed or fastest time of the horse that is recorded in the last race as well as the consistency on the horse together with trainer and jockeys winning percentage are generally taken into account by smart handicappers, before setting the odds.
The reason why some bettors cant find a way to get used to handicapping and lose each time is because they don't have the proper attitude and focus while betting. Having a positive attitude is definitely the first key towards success and victory. The capability to recognise when you should stop betting and refocus on the facts is critical. One more reason to fail is failing to monitor your hard earned money. Betting just for fun is out if you wish to become a professional handicapper that knows how to see the longshot or outsider and really benefit from placing good bets. Start acting like a professional and make notes that you could gain knowledge from continued.
Systematic handicappers win winning percentage horse racing tools provide you with information and expert advice that you can take advantage of to increase your chances of winning on the racetrack consistently. Careful handicapping that is done in accordance with a systematic system or method will eliminate random and careless wagers.


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New York times 20th century in review.
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