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Ohio State Among Betting Favorites for College Football Rivalry Week
OddsSharkNov 23, 2016, 11:25 PM EST
J.T. Barrett and the Ohio State Buckeyes are hopeful home-field advantage gives them the edge against the Michigan Wolverines' vaunted defense.
With College Football Playoff implications afoot, the Buckeyes are the 6.5-point betting favorite against Michigan at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. Barrett and the Buckeyes, the fifth-highest scoring team in the country, will try to extend a trend of being 9-0 straight-up in home games following consecutive road games.
The line might reflect how the Big Ten rivalry has been lopsided with Ohio State going 11-1 SU in the last 12 meetings. The Buckeyes will need Barrett to be consistent against a Michigan defense which allows only 245 yards per game. The Wolverines have made a QB change to John O'Korn, but that shouldn't detract from their strong rushing attack.
The Penn State Nittany Lions are the 12.5-point favorite against the Michigan State Spartans. The Nittany Lions have made a habit of having slow starts, but QB Trace McSorley's playmaking is an X-factor. Spartans seniors such as MLB Riley Bullough who are in their final career will try not to go out meekly, and MSU is 12-3-1 ATS in their last 16 road games against teams with winning records.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are the 17-point betting favorite against the Auburn Tigers. It could be a low-scoring game since Alabama will try to keep the task simple for freshman QB Jalen Hurts. Auburn has allowed only two opponents to score 20 or more points and can control the clock with RB Kamryn Pettway. With QB Sean White injured, the Tigers might have issues passing. Alabama is 4-1 ATS in the last five editions of the Iron Bowl.
The Florida State Seminoles are the seven-point favorite against the Florida Gators. The visiting team is 5-0 ATS in the state rivals' last five matchups. Caleb Brantley and Florida's defensive line will need to reprise the effort they had last week against LSU to have any hope of shutting down Seminoles RB Dalvin Cook. The Gators are the more offensively challenged team.
The Washington Huskies are favored by six points on the road against the Washington State Cougars in a Friday matchup that will decide the Pac-12 North. The Cougars stack up as a sexy underdog but the Huskies, with CB Kevin King and CB Sidney Jones, present the biggest challenge that the Luke Falk-led Air Raid attack has faced. The Huskies, through RB Myles Gaskin, will probably make a conscious effort to control the clock.
And the Colorado Buffaloes, who are looking to clinch the Pac-12 South, are the 10-point betting favorite against the Utah Utes. Utah is 8-0 ATS in their last eight games against teams with winning records, but workhorse RB Joe Williams is facing a very solid Colorado defense. Colorado QB Sefo Liufau, complemented by RB Phillip Lindsay, also seems to have peaked at the right time.


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@class NSHTTPCookie;
@class NSArray;

namespace net {

class NetLog;

// Observer for changes on |NSHTTPCookieStorge sharedHTTPCookieStorage|.
class CookieNotificationObserver {
 public:
  // Called when any cookie is added, deleted or changed in
  // |NSHTTPCookieStorge sharedHTTPCookieStorage|.
  virtual void OnSystemCookiesChanged() = 0;
};

class CookieStoreIOS;

// The CookieStoreIOS is an implementation of CookieStore relying on
// NSHTTPCookieStorage, ensuring that the cookies are consistent between the
// network stack and NSHTTPCookieStorage. CookieStoreIOS is not thread safe.
//
// CookieStoreIOS is created synchronized with the system cookie store -
// changes are written directly to the system cookie store, then propagated to
// the backing store by OnSystemCookiesChanged, which is called by the system
// store once the change to the system store is written back.
class CookieStoreIOS : public net::CookieStore,
                       public CookieNotificationObserver {
 public:
  // Creates an instance of CookieStoreIOS that is generated from the cookies
  // stored in |cookie_storage|. The CookieStoreIOS uses the |cookie_storage|
  // as its default backend and is initially synchronized with it.
  // Apple does not persist the cookies' creation dates in NSHTTPCookieStorage,
  // so callers should not expect these values to be populated.
  CookieStoreIOS(std::unique_ptr<SystemCookieStore> system_store,
                 NetLog* net_log);

  // Used by ChromeSigninCookieManager/Cronet.
  // TODO(crbug.com/759226): Remove once the migration to use SystemCookieStore
  // is finished.
  CookieStoreIOS(NSHTTPCookieStorage* ns_cookie_store, NetLog* net_log);

  CookieStoreIOS(const CookieStoreIOS&) = delete;
  CookieStoreIOS& operator=(const CookieStoreIOS&) = delete;

  ~CookieStoreIOS() override;

  enum CookiePolicy { ALLOW, BLOCK };

  // Must be called when the state of
  // |NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage| changes.
  // Affects only those CookieStoreIOS instances that are backed by
  // |NSHTTPCookieStorage sharedHTTPCookieStorage|.
  static void NotifySystemCookiesChanged();

  // Only one cookie store may enable metrics.
  void SetMetricsEnabled();

  // Implementation of the net::CookieStore interface.
  void SetCanonicalCookieAsync(
      std::unique_ptr<CanonicalCookie> cookie,
      const GURL& source_url,
      const net::CookieOptions& options,
      SetCookiesCallback callback,
      absl::optional<net::CookieAccessResult> cookie_access_result =
          absl::nullopt) override;
  void GetCookieListWithOptionsAsync(
      const GURL& url,
      const net::CookieOptions& options,
      const net::CookiePartitionKeyCollection& cookie_partition_key_collection,
      GetCookieListCallback callback) override;
  void GetAllCookiesAsync(GetAllCookiesCallback callback) override;
  void DeleteCanonicalCookieAsync(const CanonicalCookie& cookie,
                                  DeleteCallback callback) override;
  void DeleteAllCreatedInTimeRangeAsync(
      const net::CookieDeletionInfo::TimeRange& creation_range,
      DeleteCallback callback) override;
  void DeleteAllMatchingInfoAsync(net::CookieDeletionInfo delete_info,
                                  DeleteCallback callback) override;
  void DeleteSessionCookiesAsync(DeleteCallback callback) override;
  void DeleteMatchingCookiesAsync(DeletePredicate predicate,
                                  DeleteCallback callback) override;
  void FlushStore(base::OnceClosure callback) override;
  CookieChangeDispatcher& GetChangeDispatcher() override;
  void SetCookieableSchemes(const std::vector<std::string>& schemes,
                            SetCookieableSchemesCallback callback) override;

 protected:
  CookieStoreIOS(net::CookieMonster::PersistentCookieStore* persistent_store,
                 std::unique_ptr<SystemCookieStore> system_store,
                 NetLog* net_log);

  // These three functions are used for wrapping user-supplied callbacks given
  // to CookieStoreIOS mutator methods. Given a callback, they return a new
  // callback that invokes UpdateCachesFromCookieMonster() to schedule an
  // asynchronous synchronization of the cookie cache and then calls the
  // original callback.
  SetCookiesCallback WrapSetCallback(SetCookiesCallback callback);
  DeleteCallback WrapDeleteCallback(DeleteCallback callback);
  base::OnceClosure WrapClosure(base::OnceClosure callback);

  bool metrics_enabled() { return metrics_enabled_; }

  net::CookieMonster* cookie_monster() { return cookie_monster_.get(); }

  THREAD_CHECKER(thread_checker_);

 private:
  using CookieChangeCallbackList =
      base::RepeatingCallbackList<void(const CookieChangeInfo&)>;

  class Subscription : public base::LinkNode<Subscription>,
                       public CookieChangeSubscription {
   public:
    explicit Subscription(base::CallbackListSubscription subscription);

    Subscription(const Subscription&) = delete;
    Subscription& operator=(const Subscription&) = delete;

    ~Subscription() override;

    void ResetSubscription();

   private:
    base::CallbackListSubscription subscription_;
  };

  // CookieChangeDispatcher implementation that proxies into IOSCookieStore.
  class CookieChangeDispatcherIOS : public CookieChangeDispatcher {
   public:
    explicit CookieChangeDispatcherIOS(CookieStoreIOS* cookie_store);

    CookieChangeDispatcherIOS(const CookieChangeDispatcherIOS&) = delete;
    CookieChangeDispatcherIOS& operator=(const CookieChangeDispatcherIOS&) =
        delete;

    ~CookieChangeDispatcherIOS() override;

    // net::CookieChangeDispatcher
    [[nodiscard]] std::unique_ptr<CookieChangeSubscription>
    AddCallbackForCookie(
        const GURL& url,
        const std::string& name,
        const absl::optional<net::CookiePartitionKey>& cookie_partition_key,
        CookieChangeCallback callback) override;
    [[nodiscard]] std::unique_ptr<CookieChangeSubscription> AddCallbackForUrl(
        const GURL& url,
        const absl::optional<net::CookiePartitionKey>& cookie_partition_key,
        CookieChangeCallback callback) override;
    [[nodiscard]] std::unique_ptr<CookieChangeSubscription>
    AddCallbackForAllChanges(CookieChangeCallback callback) override;

   private:
    // Instances of this class are always members of CookieStoreIOS, so
    // |cookie_store| is guaranteed to outlive this instance.
    CookieStoreIOS* const cookie_store_;
  };

  // Interface only used by CookieChangeDispatcherIOS.
  [[nodiscard]] std::unique_ptr<CookieChangeSubscription> AddCallbackForCookie(
      const GURL& url,
      const std::string& name,
      CookieChangeCallback callback);

  // Returns true if the system cookie store policy is
  // |NSHTTPCookieAcceptPolicyAlways|.
  bool SystemCookiesAllowed();
  // Copies the cookies to the backing CookieMonster.
  virtual void WriteToCookieMonster(NSArray* system_cookies);

  // Inherited CookieNotificationObserver methods.
  void OnSystemCookiesChanged() override;

  void DeleteCookiesMatchingInfoAsync(net::CookieDeletionInfo delete_info,
                                      DeleteCallback callback);

  void DeleteCookiesMatchingPredicateAsync(
      const base::RepeatingCallback<bool(const net::CanonicalCookie&)>&
          predicate,
      DeleteCallback callback);

  // Flush to CookieMonster from |cookies|, and run |callback|.
  void FlushStoreFromCookies(base::OnceClosure callback,
                             NSArray<NSHTTPCookie*>* cookies);

  std::unique_ptr<net::CookieMonster> cookie_monster_;
  std::unique_ptr<SystemCookieStore> system_store_;
  bool metrics_enabled_;
  base::CancelableOnceClosure flush_closure_;

  // Cookie notification methods.
  // The cookie cache is updated from both the system store and the
  // CookieStoreIOS' own mutators. Changes when the CookieStoreIOS is
  // synchronized are signalled by the system store; changes when the
  // CookieStoreIOS is not synchronized are signalled by the appropriate
  // mutators on CookieStoreIOS. The cookie cache tracks the system store when
  // the CookieStoreIOS is synchronized and the CookieStore when the
  // CookieStoreIOS is not synchronized.

  // Updates the cookie cache with cookies named |cookie_name| from the current
  // set of |nscookies| that would be sent with a request for |url|.
  // |run_callbacks| Run all callbacks registered for cookie named |name| if
  // CookieCache was changed.
  void UpdateCacheForCookies(const GURL& gurl,
                             const std::string& cookie_name,
                             bool run_callbacks,
                             NSArray<NSHTTPCookie*>* nscookies);

  // Updates the cookie cache with the current set of system cookies named
  // |cookie_name| that would be sent with a request for |url|.
  // |run_callbacks| Run all callbacks registered for cookie named |name| if
  // CookieCache was changed.
  void UpdateCacheForCookieFromSystem(const GURL& gurl,
                                      const std::string& cookie_name,
                                      bool run_callbacks);

  // Runs all callbacks registered for cookies named |name| that would be sent
  // with a request for |url|.
  // All cookies in |cookies| must have the name equal to |name|.
  void RunCallbacksForCookies(const GURL& url,
                              const std::string& name,
                              const std::vector<net::CanonicalCookie>& cookies,
                              net::CookieChangeCause cause);

  // Called by this CookieStoreIOS' internal CookieMonster instance when
  // UpdateCachesFromCookieMonster completes. Updates the cookie cache and runs
  // callbacks if the cache changed.
  void GotCookieListFor(const std::pair<GURL, std::string> key,
                        const net::CookieAccessResultList& cookies,
                        const net::CookieAccessResultList& excluded_cookies);

  // Fetches new values for all (url, name) pairs that have hooks registered,
  // asynchronously invoking callbacks if necessary.
  void UpdateCachesFromCookieMonster();

  // Callback-wrapping:
  // When this CookieStoreIOS object is synchronized with the system store,
  // OnSystemCookiesChanged is responsible for updating the cookie cache (and
  // hence running callbacks).
  //
  // When this CookieStoreIOS object is not synchronized, the various mutator
  // methods (SetCanonicalCookieAsync &c) instead store their state in a
  // CookieMonster object to be written back when the system store synchronizes.
  // To deliver notifications in a timely manner, the mutators have to ensure
  // that hooks get run, but only after the changes have been written back to
  // CookieMonster. To do this, the mutators wrap the user-supplied callback in
  // a callback which schedules an asynchronous task to synchronize the cache
  // and run callbacks, then calls through to the user-specified callback.
  //
  // These three UpdateCachesAfter functions are responsible for scheduling an
  // asynchronous cache update (using UpdateCachesFromCookieMonster()) and
  // calling the provided callback.

  void UpdateCachesAfterSet(SetCookiesCallback callback,
                            net::CookieAccessResult result);
  void UpdateCachesAfterDelete(DeleteCallback callback, uint32_t num_deleted);
  void UpdateCachesAfterClosure(base::OnceClosure callback);

  // Takes an NSArray of NSHTTPCookies as returns a net::CookieList.
  // The returned cookies are ordered by longest path, then earliest
  // creation date.
  net::CookieList CanonicalCookieListFromSystemCookies(NSArray* cookies);

  // Takes an NSArray of NSHTTPCookies as returns a net::CookieAccessResultList.
  // A status of "INCLUDE" is assigned to each cookie.
  // The returned cookies are ordered by longest path, then earliest
  // creation date.
  net::CookieAccessResultList
  CanonicalCookieWithAccessResultListFromSystemCookies(NSArray* cookies);

  // Runs |callback| on CanonicalCookie with status List converted from cookies.
  void RunGetCookieListCallbackOnSystemCookies(GetCookieListCallback callback,
                                               NSArray<NSHTTPCookie*>* cookies);

  // Runs |callback| on CanonicalCookie List converted from cookies.
  void RunGetAllCookiesCallbackOnSystemCookies(GetAllCookiesCallback callback,
                                               NSArray<NSHTTPCookie*>* cookies);

  // Cached values of system cookies. Only cookies which have an observer added
  // with AddCallbackForCookie are kept in this cache.
  std::unique_ptr<CookieCache> cookie_cache_;

  // Callbacks for cookie changes installed by AddCallbackForCookie.
  std::map<std::pair<GURL, std::string>,
           std::unique_ptr<CookieChangeCallbackList>>
      hook_map_;

  base::LinkedList<Subscription> all_subscriptions_;

  CookieChangeDispatcherIOS change_dispatcher_;

  base::WeakPtrFactory<CookieStoreIOS> weak_factory_;
};

}  // namespace net

#endif  // IOS_NET_COOKIES_COOKIE_STORE_IOS_H_

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There were parts of the book that I really wanted to scream NO NO NO at. Except Kelly isn't saying "here's what I propose," he's saying, "here's what I see." Screaming "No!" at a wall of water doesn't stop the flood, building a seawall stops the worst of it. Which might have been a reason for writing and reading this book.
Worth reading. Maybe reading twice.
Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.
Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products.
You may not want to upgrade, but you must because everyone else is. It's an upgrade arms race. I used to upgrade my gear begrudgingly (why upgrade if it still works?) and at the last possible moment. You know how it goes: Upgrade this and suddenly you need to upgrade that, which triggers upgrades everywhere. I would put it off for years because I had the experiences of one "tiny" upgrade of a minor part disrupting my entire working life.
[D]elaying upgrading is even more disruptive. If you neglect ongoing minor upgrades, the change backs up so much that the eventual big upgrade reaches traumatic proportions.
I can confirm this statement.
No matter how long you have been using a tool, endless upgrades make you into a newbie—the new user often seen as clueless. In this era of "becoming," everyone becomes a newbie. Worse, we will be newbies forever. That should keep us humble. That bears repeating. All of us—every one of us—will be endless newbies in the future simply trying to keep up.
Second, because the new technology requires endless upgrades, you will remain in the newbie state. Third, because the cycle of obsolescence is accelerating (the average lifespan of a phone app is a mere 30 days!), you won't have time to master anything before it is displaced, so you will remain in the newbie mode forever. Endless Newbie is the new default for everyone, no matter your age or experience.
We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled. Some people are furious that our hearts are pierced this way by the things we make. They see this ever-neediness as a debasement, a lowering of human nobility, the source of our continual discontentment.
This discontent is the trigger for our ingenuity and growth. We cannot expand our self, and our collective self, without making holes in our heart.
A world without discomfort is utopia. But it is also stagnant.
None of us have to worry about these utopia paradoxes, because utopias never work. Every utopian scenario contains self-corrupting flaws.
The flaw in most dystopian narratives is that they are not sustainable. Shutting down civilization is actually hard.
Nature finds away. Especially when said nature contains people.
The problems of today were caused by yesterday's technological successes, and the technological solutions to today's problems will cause the problems of tomorrow.
The problem with constant becoming (especially in a protopian crawl) is that unceasing change can blind us to its incremental changes. In constant motion we no longer notice the motion.
The disruption ABC could not imagine was that this "internet stuff" enabled the formerly dismissed passive consumers to become active creators.
The total number of web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request, exceeds 60 trillion. That's almost 10,000 pages per person alive.
What we all failed to see was how much of this brave new online world would be manufactured by users, not big institutions.
The audience was a confirmed collective couch potato, as the ABC honchos assumed. Everyone knew writing and reading were dead; music was too much trouble to make when you could sit back and listen; video production was simply out of reach of amateurs in terms of cost and expertise.
One study a few years ago found that only 40 percent of the web is commercially manufactured. The rest is fueled by duty or passion.
In fact, the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. Find something that can be made better by adding online smartness to it.
The list of Xs is endless. The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.
When you type "Easter Bunny" into the image search bar and then click on the most Easter Bunny–looking image, you are teaching the AI what an Easter Bunny looks like.
My prediction: By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.
Cloud computing empowers the law of increasing returns, sometimes called the network effect, which holds that the value of a network increases much faster as it grows bigger. The bigger the network, the more attractive it is to new users, which makes it even bigger and thus more attractive, and so on. A cloud that serves AI will obey the same law. The more people who use an AI, the smarter it gets.
Because of a quirk in our evolutionary history, we are cruising as the only self-conscious species on our planet, leaving us with the incorrect idea that human intelligence is singular.
Imagine we land on an alien planet. How would we measure the level of the intelligences we encounter there? This is an extremely difficult question because we have no real definition of our own intelligence, in part because until now we didn't need one.
Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can't do at all. Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.
Today, many scientific discoveries require hundreds of human minds to solve, but in the near future there may be classes of problems so deep that they require hundreds of different species of minds to solve. This will take us to a cultural edge because it won't be easy to accept the answers from an alien intelligence. We already see that reluctance in our difficulty in approving mathematical proofs done by computer.
We'll spend the next three decades—indeed, perhaps the next century—in a permanent identity crisis, continually asking ourselves what humans are good for. If we aren't unique toolmakers, or artists, or moral ethicists, then what, if anything, makes us special?
The one thing humans can do that robots can't (at least for a long while) is to decide what it is that humans want to do. This is not a trivial semantic trick; our desires are inspired by our previous inventions, making this a circular question.
This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines.
We can't stop massive indiscriminate copying. Not only would that sabotage the engine of wealth if we could, but it would halt the internet itself.
The initial age of computing borrowed from the industrial age. As Marshall McLuhan observed, the first version of a new medium imitates the medium it replaces. The first commercial computers employed the metaphor of the office.
Then, in the second age, along came the web, and very quickly we expected everything the same day.
Our cycle time jumped from batch mode to daily mode. This was a big deal.
Now in the third age, we've moved from daily mode to real time.
In predigital days I bought printed books long before I intended to read them. If I spied an enticing book in a bookstore, I bought it.


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How does Kirito come back to life when he's fighting Heathcliff?
I was rewatching Sword Art Online and I notice that Heathcliff KILLS him and yet, he is able to come back and finish off Heathcliff, how is this so?
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Jonco98Jonco98
Logically, there is a delay in between the death flag being detected and the NerveGear frying the brain, which is explain by how a Revival Item (Divine Stone of Returning Soul) can be used within 10 seconds of a player's death.
However, as for how Kirito, whose HP was 0 but was still able to affect Heathcliff, was explained by Kayaba Akihiko when he congratulated Kirito for doing something that went beyond the system by using the power of the human will. This concept is reasserted when Kayaba appears before Kirito in ALO and reminds Kirito about how he acknowledged this.
It's more of an anomaly rather than any sort of plot hole. In essence, Kirito shouldn't have been able to do anything when his HP reached 0, but he was still determined to end the game because Asuna believed he would end the game for her sake. That determination allowed him to transcend SAO's rules.
nhahtdh
Memor-XMemor-X
I believe fridge logic dictates that the NerveGear doesn't start doing damage to a person until at least after 10 seconds of a player being dead. It may even be longer--- as this isn't explored from outside the game. In the terms of physiology, the easiest way for the NerveGear to kill someone is simply to shutdown their heart. This would lead to a user's death. Indeed, thinking about it for a few seconds, this is the likely cause of death. User dies in hardcore, gets "dumped" from the game, but not logged out properly. Thus, the gear doesn't "unhook" from the nervous system, just shuts down.
– StarPilot
Kirito didn't come back to life. The whole "You are dead" and then scattering to pieces, and then coming back to life was the anime's dramatization. It was never like that. It was simply there to say that Kirito's mind had accepted death. However, Kirito had not died in real life yet, and he had a sudden burst of will and resolution to live, by which he then altered the game's so called "rules". This is not a bug, it is simply because the virtual world they lived in was, well, virtual. In a way, it's simply an image projected by the brain, and is supported by a system. Because he had a strong resolution, he was able to defeat the game's rules just in time to defeat Heathcliff.
However, this is not the end of it all. Asuna's died way before this happened. To explain why she was able to survive: Heathcliff had turned off the system's mechanism of killing a person in real life by frying the brain upon in-game death, which was an in-game module, right before the duel started. Thus, even though Asuna had died in-game, she was not killed in real life because Kayaba had disabled the module that fries the brain. The area they were in at the end was neither an imagination, a dream, nor any kind of afterlife. It was a special area Kayaba created in order to talk to Kirito after the duel. Whether he had won or not, Kirito would meet Kayaba in that area
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What Kayaba turned off is not the brain microwave. It was his Game Master protection where his HP would not fall below 50%. The reason why Asuna didn't die despite her HP reaching 0 is because Kayaba promised Kirito of Asuna's safety, that is, he will prevent her from committing suicide. Covering Kirito from attack counts as a suicidal move.
– 絢瀬絵里
Kirito need to live on was great enough to where he could mentally hack the game sort of so he delayed the deleting proses long enough for him to kill Kayaba. Also because of Kayaba being defeated, he did not have to hold on any longer he was already safe. Also to correct what another said, Asuna did not die because the creator of Alfhiem Online spent a long time gathering her very essence and sending her to his game before the Nervegear fried her and was under his control.
Human's will overcoming the limitation of the system is the theme in the final battle of Aincard and Alfheim arcs. And Kayaba seems to be a person who would keep his promise: anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19159/…
– nhahtdh
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So it's about time we (finally) deprecated music ID-request questions
What happened to the Resurrection Item?
How did Asuna and Kirito survive?
Why did Akihiko Kayaba make death permanent in Sword Art Online?
What are the PVP rules in the Sword Art Online MMORPGs?
Why does Kirito end up in the forest when he first enters Alfheim?
After what episode was each Sword Art Offline episode expected to be viewed?
What is causing Kirito's eyes to change colour?
Did the writer of Sword Art Online do a research on guns when writing Gun Gale Online?
Where is Yui stored in SAO II?
How much of the light novels does the anime Sword Art Online covers (so far)?
How did Kirito regrow his hand in episode 10?
How did Heathcliff manipulate Kirito and Asuna back to the battlefield?
What happened to Kirito's healing every 10 sec when he battled Heathcliff?

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Mairbek Taisumov will attempt to earn his fifth straight win inside the Octagon when he faces Nik Lentz at UFC 203.
Perhaps Junior dos Santos has a little more left in the tank than some feared.
Beneil Dariush will lock horns with Mairbek Taisumov at UFC Fight Night in Boston on Jan. 17.


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Q: What is the father dying of in The Road? In Cormac McCarthy's novel (and subsequent film adaptation), the Father/Man is slowly dying throughout the whole story. He eventually degrades to a point where he's coughing up large volumes of blood. He then (arguably) dies from exhaustion and/or some kind of respiratory failure.
I'm interested in why.
In the movie, there are only a few statements he makes/narrates that hint at the possible cause, but they are (intentionally) vague and leave you guessing.
There seems to be a strong leading theory that the cause of the apocalypse is a major natural disaster, such as the eruption of a supervolcano due to the continuous earthquakes and gradual death of plantlife. Either way (even if you subscribe to the nuclear war theory or some other theory) if the supervolcano theory were true, perhaps the cause of his illness is some kind of breathing/pulmonary injury brought about from him breathing in particulate matter from the eruption. But then, if that were the case, you'd figure his son would be affected as well.
I'm wondering if there's more info in the book that explains what his ailments are? Or something that I missed in the movie?

A: TL;DR There is no answer provided in either book or film, so we can only make an educated guess.
In the script, the Man says several interesting/telling things, such as:

Every day is a lie. But I am slowly dying. That is not a lie. I am trying to prepare him for the day when I am gone.

There's also scene descriptions such as:

The MAN just stands in the middle of the lawn COUGHING his guts up in the dark rain - again the phlemy wet cough. He bends over, sweating, listening, knowing it's the sound of fluid on the lungs.

And perhaps, most telling:

The MAN stops and rests on the trolley and the BOY pulls on a few more feet then stops and looks back as the MAN COUGHS for a long painful moment. He takes the bloodstained surgical mask from his face, his breath foggy in the cold, he wrings out the blood and saliva, puts his head between his knees and coughs until he can cough no more, gasping for breathe, bloody drool unspooling from his lips into the sand like scarlet twine while the BOY watches, weeping silently.

According to the Mayo Clinic, there is a small laundry list of conditions that cite "coughing up blood" as a primary symptom.
Seeing that we are provided with no evidence of the Man having any genetic malformations (cystic fibrosis, etc.), nor having suffered any acute event that would have brought on symptoms rapidly, nor being a smoker of any kind, nor having skin sores or fever, nor having blue lips or fingernails, nor experiencing episodes of dizziness, then the two remaining ailments on the Mayo Clinic's list are:

*

*COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease); and

*Lung cancer

Both seem plausible, although I feel like the McCarthy would have tipped the hat toward lung cancer with a reference or two to smoking (as he did numerous times with the missing thumbs and commune references). So if I had to choose between the two, and not knowing anything about medicine, I might go with COPD.
Valorum also mentions silicosis which would tie into the supervolcano theory quite nicely, however you'd think other characters (and certainly the Boy) would have similar symptoms. The Man also doesn't appear to have other symptoms of silicosis, such as blue skin/lips, etc.
Therefore, as my overly-drawn-out and overly-thought-out answer concludes, unless Cormac McCarthy himself comes on these boards and tells me otherwise, or until a qualified medical professional can rule it out, I'm going with COPD.

A: I think he had lung cancer, when they were in the bunker, he smokes a cigarette with great relief. This implies that he may have been a smoker before the apocalypse and that in the terrible conditions without medical attention, he died from a long progression of lung cancer. The leg wound have further deteriorated his immune system.

A: Basically he dies from blood loss following an arrow wound:
In the book:

In a town inland, the man is shot in the leg with an arrow. He loses blood and, after several days, realizes he will soon die.

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In the film:

As they pass through a ruined town, the man is shot in the leg with an arrow. He kills his ambusher with a flare gun he found on the ship and finds the archer's female companion in the same room. The man thinks the archer and woman were following them, but she says it was the other way around. He leaves her weeping over the body. Weakened, the man and boy abandon their cart and most of their possessions. The man's condition deteriorates and eventually he dies.

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It doesn't matter if you're in the Midwest or sunny Austin Texas, as the colder winter temps creep in, (even the heat from our Small Batch Pineapple Ancho Chile rinds won't warm you up), your mind begins to wander to warm vacation destinations.
Now, being the responsible person you are, you have that noble desire to give back to those in need. Have you considered a "volunteer vacation"? Around since the '90's, volunteer vacations have been gaining in popularity with many different opportunities to help communities in need.
You love getting way to a beach getaway and relaxing, but what if you could make a difference while enjoying the beautiful scenery? Do your research and pick the destination that best suits your giving style: environment, wildlife or community.
Remember, with all the benefits that are gained from giving back; you ultimately need to enjoy yourself and make it a memorable vacation that will last years.


Fire Emblem Warriors will come out in North America day and date with the previously-announced European release.
Today Nintendo announced the release date of Fire Emblem Warriors in North America, and it's exactly the same as in Europe.
The game will be released on October 20th, and will have a dedicated limited edition for Nintendo Switch.
It will include three CDs, a dual-sided poster, and a set of 25 character cars, plus the game, obviously.
One side of the poster will be in English, while the other will be in Japanese, and the whole package will cost $79.99.
Fire Emblem Warriors is coming for Switch and 3DS, and you can check out a mockup of the edition below.
If you want to see more of the Nintendo Switch version of the game, you can also enjoy a new trailer, new screenshots, another recent trailer showing Cordelia in action, one showing Robin using her magic, a video showcasing the bond system, which was also showcased with screenshots. A few days ago, we also got some spiffy gameplay showing the latest members of the cast in action.
Of course, you should not forget to read our hands-on preview from E3 2017.


One of the beauties of being a pianist is that we are blessed with a breadth of beautiful repertoire that spans centuries. Another blessing is that because of the richness of the repertoire and the nature of the instrument, pianists are quite self-sufficient and don't rely on other musicians to realize a piece of music. This is naturally different to the reality of most other instrumentalists, who often require a pianist to partner with onstage.
"We are not really playing piano music… we are performing orchestral music on the piano."
The simultaneous blessing and curse of being a pianist is that because the piano is a self sufficient instrument, pianists are required to process a high degree of complexity in their music. While we thankfully don't have to deal with issues of intonation, we deal instead with balancing melody, countermelody, voicing, (and different dynamics for each voice), harmony, effects, architecture, structure, etc. So when we learn and perform a Beethoven Sonata, for example, we are not really playing piano music. Instead we are performing orchestral music on the piano. The same could be argued for all composers.
How do we bring out the different parts of the music and "sound like an orchestra"? The first and foremost is to analyze, be aware of what the composer is presenting, and then prioritize. What is the main melodic line? Where is the counterpoint? If the composer repeats the section verbatim, shouldn't I bring out something different on the repeat?
How do I play in a way to show the listener the voice-leading of the various lines? An obvious solution is via dynamics; that is, playing one line louder or softer than the other. Another way is via articulation. One line might be legato, and the other detached.
Both of these tools are examples of "voicing", which simply means the action of bringing out various lines or "voices" simultaneously.
"One must study at least three or four works to understand that composer's style"
Being a successful pianist, and transitioning to being a real musician requires making these musical decisions, and this only comes with years of study and experience with the various composers. I would estimate that one must study at least three or four works of a composer before he/she begins to draw parallels, find patterns, and then begins to understand that composer's "language" or "style".
And the processes a pianist experiences in understanding the music are very similar to those a conductor would face. In orchestral music, different instruments are assigned different voices. It is the conductor's responsibility to study a score, analyze it, and go through all of the same processes a pianist would, and then communicate these musical ideas to the various "soloists" or instrument groups in the orchestra. The advantage of having an orchestra as your instrument, of course, is the contrasting textures and timbres of the various instruments. Pianists, therefore, essentially, have to imitate these various colors of the orchestra, or even the human voice, if the music is vocally inspired.


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Q: How to create an Android Live Wallpaper with Delphi XE5? Is it possible to create an Android Live Wallpaper (LWP) using Delphi XE5 (with Android development add-on of course)?
It is fairly easy to develop a simple app for Android with Delphi XE5, but I could not find any info on how to make a LWP. Does anyone have any pointers?
Thanks!

A: I don't think you'll find anything. Not yet a while, anyway.
Delphi's Android support is quite new and is targeted essentially at business apps.
Whilst it is feasible to do do other things, most of the interesting things involve a lot of cumbersome chicanery to, say, add a splash screen or launch other installed activities and get results.
I daresay similar amounts of effort could be put towards setting up a live wallpaper, but there is no info on how to do so with Delphi as yet.
Interestingly, it's the first time I've seen live wallpaper mentioned as a desired target for Delphi. Mostly it's services and broadcast receivers (which are also eminently feasible, but again markedly involved).


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Q: ORA-00900 on delete statement I'm trying to use DELETE FROM with an IN clause and a subquery to delete rows given by a query on another table that is 1-to-1 with the table I am deleting from, but Oracle 11g2 barfs an utterly unhelpful ORA-00900 error at me, as in the following SQL fiddle:
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/93171/1
For those who can't get at SQLfiddle, the schema/initial load I'm using is (I'm using varchar instead of varchar2 for test portability, the "wild" data uses varchar2 instead):
create table obj (id integer primary key, data varchar(100));
create table meta(id integer primary key, imported char(1));

insert into obj (id, data) values (1, 'foo');
insert into obj (id, data) values (2, 'bar');
insert into obj (id, data) values (3, 'baz');
insert into obj (id, data) values (4, 'blurf');
insert into obj (id, data) values (5, 'hurf');
insert into meta (id, imported) values (1, 'T');
insert into meta (id, imported) values (2, 'F');
insert into meta (id, imported) values (3, 'T');
insert into meta (id, imported) values (4, 'F');
insert into meta (id, imported) values (5, 'F');

and the statements I'm trying to run are:
delete from obj where obj.id in (select meta.id from meta where meta.imported = 'F');
select * from obj full outer join meta on obj.id = meta.id;

(The select ... full outer join runs by itself, and the error still happens if I still comment it out, so it's not the source of the ORA-00900.)
P.S. this statement is valid SQL, too -- neither SQL Server 2014  nor PostgreSQL 9.3 have an issue with the fiddle, and it works in a local copy of SQLite 3.8.8.3 as well once the full outer join is switched for an inner join.

A: Maybe you need a left join in union with  left join by reversing the table and take only null values
select * from obj left join meta on obj.id = meta.id
union all
select * from meta left join obj  on obj.id = meta.id
where obj.id is null

A: This is indeed an issue in SQLFiddle -- the ORA-00900 does not occur when I run that form of delete statement against the actual database I'm working with.
Why the about page doesn't document this more clearly, I do not know...


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How an Old Market Square Became the New "It" Spot
By Mayré Rivero Bueno on January 26, 2017 No Comments / 4866 views
Old Market Square, by Gustafson Porter, in Nottingham, England. In 2004, the Development Department of Nottingham, England, organized an international competition for the re-design of the Old Market Square. The winners were Gustafson Porter and Bowman, and the design was so clever that the Old Market Square of Nottingham became the nerve center of the city's social and cultural life. The square holds a strategic location within the city and is connected with spacious avenues and streets that create quick routes across the compact center. Those avenues and streets are filled with relevant places for citizens and visitors, such as restaurants, libraries, hotels, banks, department stores, and tram stops.
Old Market Square. Photo courtesy of Gustafson Porter
Old Market Square
In its new role as social catalyst, the square is now home to many community events. During the summer, it transforms into the Riviera Beach, an urban beach setting with bars and different attractions. During the winter, the space becomes the Christmas Winter Wonderland, where people can enjoy skating at an ice rink. Throughout the year, visitors can browse farmers markets to easily buy local products.
The square has become an important landmark and node for Nottingham's citizens. It is the second-largest square in the United Kingdom, after London's Trafalgar Square. Nottingham's square is also one of the oldest in the country, with 800 years of history. "The project has been well received by the citizens of Nottingham and is well used both in attending events but also using the seating areas to relax and meet. Previous issues associated with antisocial behavior have effectively disappeared with the new design," said City Council representative Steve Hunt.
Why Re-design?
The idea to re-design the square came out of the city's need to stage cultural and civic events. The previous 1929 design by architect T.C. Howitt — who was also responsible for the design of the contiguous Council House Building — was poorly lighted and created a not-so-welcoming atmosphere, especially during the night. Through various studies, it was determined that 78 percent of pedestrians crossing the square avoided the center of the space, due to the many steps and low walls. The only group that enthusiastically used the space was skateboarders.
So when the city's Development Department organized the competition, its members knew what they wanted in the square and had very specific requests for the competition's participants. The proposed design had to encourage 24-hour use, integrate street furniture, attract pedestrians, allow access for all, use high-quality materials, create water features, enable perimeter use, and — most importantly — provide a flexible performance space. Summing up, the place had to be innovative and attractive; it needed to be a place for the people.
The landscape architects used the natural topography of the original medieval square to guide the design. The different levels of the square played a protagonist's role in the final result and in the way that the space is now enjoyed. The topography was used as a natural drainage system, with soft, gradual level changes — which also happened to work well for wheelchair users. The 4,400-square-meter water feature contains a reflecting pool, a 1.8-meter-deep waterfall, rills, 53 jets, and a scrim aligned in four terraces. The water can be turned off and the space used as a stage or viewing area when required. Even with the water turned on, the terraces provide seating and contemplation spaces.
The terraces each have a different color — gray, black, white, and beige — to delineate the level changes. They are made of granite blocks, the predominant material used in the entire square because it provides durability. The colors also aim to reflect the color palette of the surrounding building facades. Planters aligned with box hedges have been placed on the north side, creating intimate spaces that facilitate passive recreation and provide more seating places. This space is the green brushstroke of the design. A frontier between the Long Row and the square is made with a line of Ginkgo Biloba trees; these trees reach 50 to 80 feet or more in height, with a spread of about 30 to 40 feet. The fan-shaped leaves turn a golden-yellow tone during the fall.
The box hedges are full of thousands of colorful flower bulbs and perennials, and there are hundreds of shrubs. Toward the south and west, on the South Parade, stand Pin Oak trees that reach 75 feet tall with a 40-foot spread. Their leaves turn bright red-brown during the fall. All of this unites and generates a composition of colors and shapes that transform constantly through the different seasons. The new Old Market Square of Nottingham is a place for the community, thanks to a well thought out design. Gustafson Porter was able to revitalize a place that was dead and bring it back to life. The square is now an important landmark and node for the citizens, who can now actually enjoy it as the center of social and cultural life in the city. This project is one of the most tangible demonstrations of why good quality public spaces are vital in making a city livable. So, do you agree on the relevance of public spaces for a city's quality of life?
Full Project Credits For Town Centre of Meilen:
Project Name: Old Market Square Landscape Architecture: Gustafson Porter Client: Nottingham City Council Gustafson Porter Project Team: Neil Porter, Nilesh Patel, Dominik Bueckers, Ines Marcelino, Kinna Stallard, Pauline Weiringa Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Ltd Quantity Surveyors: Davis Langdon LLP Lighting Designer: Speirs & Major Associates Pedestrian Study: Space Syntax Ltd Conservation Consultant: Jules Renfrew Associates Main Contractor: Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd Water Feature Specialist: OCMIS Ltd Commencement and completion: 18 months (October 2005 to March 2007) Total Project Value: £ 8.8 million
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Mayré Rivero Bueno, is a Colombian architect, currently working as an architect in Barranquilla, COL with a particular interest in gender sensitive Urban Planning and City Development research and design.
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What is Pilates? Pilates is a series of nonimpact exercises that both lengthen and strengthen muscles, improving flexibility, strength, balance and coordination. Joseph Pilates, founder of the "Pilates Method", was born in Germany in 1880. As a child, he struggled with rickets, asthma, and rheumatic fever. In his determination to become stronger, he developed a conditioning regime that would later become known as Pilates. During WWI, Joseph was trained as a nurse and designed exercises using springs and straps from hospital beds to help disabled and immobilized patients regain strength and movement. Joseph Pilates emigrated to the U.S. in 1926 and opened his first Pilates studio in New York City, catering to dancers, athletes and actors. His methods later spread into fitness studios and rehab centers worldwide.
How can Pilates help me? Pilates exercises are helpful in preventing and rehabilitating from injuries such as low back pain due to the emphasis on improving posture and increasing flexibility. Lim EC, et al. (2011) Effects of Pilates-based exercises on pain and disability in individuals with persistent nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther Feb; 41(2):70-80. Athletes interested in improving core strength and flexibility can benefit. The exercises can also be easily modified for older adults and those who are deconditioned ("chair Pilates"). Standing Pilates exercises area excellent for improving balance. For those with osteoporosis, Pilates is a gentle weight-bearing form of exercise that can help prevent fractures, improve posture, and promote bone growth.
Why should I do Pilates with a physical therapist? Your physical therapist who is trained in Pilates for rehabilitation, will help you focus on proper form and technique and can easily modify the exercises for you to prevent strain on weak or injured areas. Physical therapists are specialists in movement analysis, injury prevention and postural alignment.


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Peter Li
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University. Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia
Peter Li born in Nanjing, China, raised and educated in the United States, Peter Li received his B.A. from the University of Washington (1958) and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Civilization from the University of Chicago (1972). He was Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and formerly Director of the Committee on Asian Studies at Rutgers University before his retirement in 2003. In 1985 he was the Chairman of the Sixth East Coast Asian American Education Conference resulting in UNDERSTANDING ASIAN AMERICANS (Neal-Schuman, 1990). In 1989 the Pro-democracy movement and its subsequently suppression drew him to compile THE ANATOMY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE (Transaction 1991). From 1991-1992 he was the Central Region Coordinator of the New Jersey Multicultural Studies Project. In 1994-1995 he received a Rutgers University Dialogues Grant to research "Multiculturalism Beyond Political Correctness." In 1996-97 he was the recipient of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Fellowship for a critical study of the modern Chinese writer, Lao She (1899-1966): "The Life and Times of Lao She: Culture, Art and Politics." From 1997-2002 he was editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal, EAST ASIA: An International Quarterly focusing on cross-cultural and transnational issues in Asia. Some of his more recent works include, JAPANESE WAR CRIMES: The Search for Justice (Transaction Publishers, 2003), "The Nanking Holocaust: Tragedy, Trauma and Reconciliation," "War and Modernity in Chinese Military Fiction," and "Hirohito: The Unrepentant Emperor." In 1994 he began teaching a course on the Asia Pacific War 1931-1945 titled "War and Remembrance: Legacies of the Asia Pacific War" until his retirement in 2003. He is the founding president of NJ-ALPHA (New Jersey Alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia). And since 2003 he has been an active participant in seeking redress for the victims of the Japanese atrocities during World War II.
Assoc. Professor of Asian Studies
1972 - 2003 31 years
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)East Asian Language and Civilizations
Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice
Transaction 2003
While the Nazi German regime has been prototypical, the actions of the Japanese military regime have been receiving increasing prominence and attention. This collection of essays undertakes the critical task of addressing some of the miltifaceted and complex issues of Japanese war crimes and redress.


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There are many of these types of businesses across the country, but many do their business different ways than others. Some will only allow minor loans from about one hundred to five hundred dollars. Some may give loans all the way up to two thousand dollars. The amount of money you are able to borrow relies on the regulations of the company and the sum of money you make per month. It is seriously vital to read and understand all the rules that concern to the loan that you are going to get. You do not ever want to discover any unexpected problems when you pay back your loan and this should always be avoided if you just read before you sign.
If you live in well populated areas, then it is likely there could be several check advance or payday companies in the area to pick from. It may be a different story if you reside in an out of the way place. When you do reside in rural area, then you could wish to contemplate looking up an online business for a loan. They will conduct business generally the way as a firm that you can really walk into. When you have met the requirements for the loan site, then they may deposit the funds you borrow straight into your checking account and some times that same day. You can not get much more convenient than that.
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Q: Reading Registry String Values into List I have a registry key location that appears as the following:

I'm looking for C# code that will allow me to enumerate all REG_SZ values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Test\Windows Update\Exceptions so that I can add them to a list. I have found examples of how to read a specific value (the RegistryKey.GetValue method) when you know the explicit path, but in this case I will need to read in all values under the "Exceptions" key without knowing what the value names will be.

A: RegistryKey.GetValueNames() should give you the list you are looking for. You can then iterate through the returned names, and call RegistryKey.GetValue(string) to get each's value. For example:
foreach(valueName in exceptions.GetValueNames())
    myList.Add(String.Format("{0} is {1}", valueName, exceptions.GetValue(valueName)));


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Chapel St fatal crash: Dive squad, crane recover car from water, police investigation underway
The car is recovered from the water on Chapel St this morning. Photo / Sandra Conchie
Sandra Conchie
Multimedia journalist
A car has been recovered from the water following a fatal crash on Chapel St.
About 20 people dived into Tauranga Harbour in a desperate rescue attempt after a car plunged into the water and began sinking on Wednesday evening.
Police confirmed a 65-year-old local woman died at the scene.
The police dive squad and a crane were involved in the retrieval of the vehicle on Thursday morning.
One lane of Chapel St was partially closed for a time.
The three-vehicle crash happened at the traffic lights at the turnoff into the shops with one vehicle becoming submerged.
Police investigation underway
A police spokeswoman said police were working with CCTV operators and members of the public to establish the events leading up to the crash.
"Early indications are that three vehicles were involved in the collision. It's understood the vehicle in the water had two occupants, a second vehicle had another two occupants, and a third vehicle had one occupant.
"Police Serious Crash Analysts are still in the early stages of the investigation. The exact cause is yet to be determined," the spokeswoman said.
Police acknowledged those members of the public who helped at the scene and would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash. Information can be provided to police via 105, quoting file number 211208/1665.
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"It went down real fast"
Witness Errol Hodgson told the Bay of Plenty Times he was driving home from work when he saw two vehicles crash at the Chapel St lights then a third, an SUV, come "out of nowhere".
"The SUV went up over the island and straight over the edge [into the water].
"It went down real fast.
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"I stopped here [about 20m away] and ran over there. The rear window was disappearing.
"The windows must have been down because it went down so fast, it was ridiculous."
A crane was used in the recovery. Photo / Sandra Conchie
He said a man got out of the sinking car himself.
"They tried to get the other person out. They were there a long time. The car kept moving down there because of the currents. It's still there.
"There were people running everywhere."
Kran Radford and Rem Mangakahia were also driving home when they saw the commotion.
Mangakahia said: "We saw everybody started to run so we parked up, we wondered if we should help. Everyone was running and diving in ...
"They were trying to get dive bottles and stuff from the [hunting] and fishing shop to help.
"They did pull out a lady. They put her on some sort of floating board and carried her [out]."
Radford said there were about 20 people in the water, including children, so they did not get in.
Another witness estimated the person was trapped in the car for 15 to 20 minutes.
A crane was used in the recovery. Photo / George Novak
A worker in the area said she heard a "big bang" and people started running outside.
By the time she got outside, she saw a vehicle was in the water near the traffic lights.
"Police were trying to rescue someone ... I could see people swimming, trying to get someone out [of the vehicle]."
"I could hear someone crying."
Flowers left at the scene of a fatal crash on Chapel St. Photo / Sandra Conchie
Another witness said a person from Rebel Sport, located across the road, supplied goggles to help people see through the murky water.
A retail worker was on Takitumu Dr warning motorists that they could not access Chapel St because of the accident.
He said a car went into the water with people in it and about 20 other people dived in to try to rescue them.
A St John Ambulance spokeswoman said one patient in a moderate condition and two patients in a minor condition were treated at the scene.
Police said an investigation into the circumstances of the crash was ongoing.
- Additional reporting by Kiri Gillespie and Samantha Motion
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I'm back. Big country. Looking forward to the new party! Can somebody wake me up?
"I'm currently standing on rubble where City Hall once stood. It appears as if the entire city has been hewn into a disarray after the 2 day riot. However, there are signs of rebuilding. Despite allegations that she ran an illegal Casino, Keitalia has spear headed much of the city's reconstruction. "We'll come back from this. My only concern are the reports of a minor radioactive spill. We don't know how many have been affected so far." This is I. Ben Looted reporting from City Hall."
The 24 hour Hiatus has begun. And if you're wondering why the IP address is the same as Damanor's that would probably be because I'm currently at his house.
Repeal rules 11, 13, 14, 17, 21, 22, 26, and 29.
Call for nominations (24 hours immediately following the passage of this proposal) and subsequent elections (24 hours immediately following the nomination period) for the next Emperor. The nominee with the most votes after the 24 hour election period becomes Emperor. In the event of a tie, a run-off election shall occur during the 24 hour period immediately following the initial election.
Self-failed by Wittgenstein, -5 to Wittgenstein, +1 to Damanor 6 pm 20 Feb.
While destruction reigns across the city, a new person slips into the chaos with great plans for the future of BlogNomic.
"A Riot fills the streets today as the Mob overthrows City Hall. The first act of the Mob: Close down the Police Station and fire all the Policeman. Banks close in fear of being robbed. Hooch consumption sky rockets. When we asked Keitalia what she thought of all this, she replied: "It doesn't bother me much. The Casino will remain open for the rest of this Dynasty." Will this Chaos ever end? Will there be some return to order? This is Robin Banks signing off."
The following law rules have been repealed: 12, 15-16, 18-20, 23-25, 27 and 28.
Royce has been declared Idle for not voting.
Quorum drops to 9, and the required 75% for a riot drops to 12.75 votes, rounded up to 13.
Interestingly enough, this could be considered a riot proposal because it's a post with the word "riot" in the title. Except that we're already rioting.
We now have 48 hours to determine who the next ruler will be. Everybody can donate your status freely to everyone else, and the person with the highest status after that time will be the next ruler of BlogNomic.
Any People (or equivalent terms for BlogNomic players, if we're in a new Dynasty by now) who failed to cast a vote on this Proposal shall be set Idle.
Should 48 hours pass without a 75% majority being reached, the riot will be considered passed, if 75% or more of actual votes on the RIOT post have been for.
Since theres no way to fail a riot, this can be passed before the riot can resolve, and allow us to have our riot!!
Eh, I don't know if it's just me, but this Dynasty seems to be exploding into lots of slow, complicated rules, without having much of a day-to-day game going on (you can visit the Bordello for free Status, or gamble at the Casino for money that can't be spent, and that's been about it) - we're just adding huge clauses and details to rules that nobody's really using, voting and administration has been slowing down, and I can feel the dust beginning to settle.
The ruleset could be heavily overhauled to wake the game up, but I'm beginning to wonder whether we're heading into an overcomplicated dead end, whether the time would be better spent on a fresh new Dynasty.
So is anybody up for a Riot? I'm willing to take a vote for the next Dynasty's Emperor and give them my dominant Status - put a nomination next to your FOR vote.
Riot begins 7:16 pm on February 18, recorded by Damanor.
Players are invited by the casino manager to place as much money as they wish on any one dice result. They must have enough money to cover their bet. Three dice are then thrown by the casino manager once betting is closed. If your number appears on one die only, you get your money back plus the same amount. If two dice show your number, you get your money back plus twice the amount you bid. If your number appears on all three dice, you get your money back plus three times the amount. Of course if the number is not on any of the dice, the casino gets your money.
To make this clearer with an example, suppose that you bet 1 dollar on No. 6. If one die shows a 6, you get your dollar back plus another dollar. If two dice show 6, you get back your dollar plus two dollars. If three dice show 6, you get your dollar back plus three dollars.
For the above calculations, if the Arrested Person names oneself as the Defense Lawyer, the Defense Lawyer's status is considered one half the Arrested Person's status. Likewise, if the Arresting Cop names oneself as the Prosecuting Lawyer, the Prosecuting Lawyer's status is considered.one half of the Arresting Cop's status.
Enacted by Keitalia 18th Feb; +10 to Glaisne, +2 to Keitalia.
Transfer $1000 from Cayvie to Wittgenstein.
Enacted by Keitalia, 18th Feb 3:38 GMT +2 to Glaisne, +1 to Keitalia.
They may not stay in the Bordello for longer than 24 hours, and may not visit it more than once every 5 days except for the purposes of making a Bust.
Failed by Keitalia, 18th Feb -5 to SatyrEyes, +1 to Keitalia.
A new Person is at large in the city.


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Tag Archives: Super Bowl
by swhartley | Wednesday, February 20, 2019 · 7:17 am
53rd Super Bowl (2019)
The Super Bowl has become one of the premier venues for marketers. The thrills, the chills, the excitement and surprises – and that's just the advertisements! At a cost of $5 million for 30 seconds of air time, the Super Bowl is also the most expensive advertising placement of any event or show. Add the costs of designing and producing ads, plus the integration into other marketing tactics, and a company can easily spend upwards of $6 million at a single event.
Love them or hate them, Super Bowl advertisements have become a talking point during and after the game. It's a big stage, and can also be a big risk. This year it had an audience of 98.2 million viewers and a 41.1 U.S. household rating in 49.3 million homes. While still large, this was the lowest viewing in 10 years. However, days later we are still watching ads, arguing about them, and measuring results.
Watch the ads – which ad is your favorite?
Bring up one of the Web sites that have all the Super Bowl ads: https://www.ispot.tv/events/2019-super-bowl-commercials
Divide students into teams. Have each team select a Super Bowl ad to analyze and present in class.
What is the target market, key message, and offer from the ad?
How does the ad integrate with a company's other advertisements?
Are the messages integrated with a company's Web site and social media?
As a class, after each commercial have students assign one to five stars for the advertisements. Which advertisement won the class vote?
Source: Ad Week, CBS, iSpot.tv, Nielsen, other news sources
Tagged as advertising, branding, entertainment, marketing, promotion, sports, Super Bowl, television
by swhartley | Tuesday, February 20, 2018 · 6:49 am
Super Bowl 2018 Advertising
With hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide, the Super Bowl has become one of the premier venues for marketers. The thrills, the chills, the laughter, the tears – and that's just the advertisements! At a cost of $5 million for 30 seconds of air time, the Super Bowl is also the most expensive advertising placement of any event or show. Add the costs of designing and producing ads, plus the integration into other marketing tactics, and a company can easily spend upwards of $6 million at a single event.
Love them or hate them, Super Bowl advertisements have become a talking point during and after the game. It's a big stage, and can also be a big risk. With an audience of 103 million viewers, the 52nd Super Bowl is one of the most watched TV program in U.S. history. And, days later, we are still watching ads, arguing about them, and measuring results.
Bring up one of the Web sites that have all the Super Bowl ads: http://admeter.usatoday.com/results/2018
Divide the students into teams. Have each team select a Super Bowl ad to analyze and present in class.
Source: Ad Age Daily, Brandchannel.com, USA Today, other news sources
Tagged as advertising, branding, marketing, promotion, sports, Super Bowl, television
by swhartley | Friday, April 14, 2017 · 7:00 am
A Year after Super Bowl Ad: Death Wish Coffee
In the 2016 Super Bowl, small business Death Wish Coffee beat out 15,000 other small businesses to win a 30-second Super Bowl commercial, funded by Intuit QuickBooks. Before the commercial, the company had days where it sold low amounts of coffee each day from its Web site and New York coffee shop. What would happen to the business after the Super Bowl?
Before the Super Bowl, the company's Web site had a resting count of approximately 500 visitors. By the time the ad finished running, there were more than 147,000 unique visitors on its Web site, and almost all were from mobile devices. And, during the Super Bowl game time, Death Wish Coffee sold more than $250,000 of coffee.
Today, the company is doing great and is still growing by leaps and bounds. In 2015, Death Wish Coffee had approximately $3 million in revenue, and their estimate for 2016 was an optimistic $10 million in revenue. But of course, that was BEFORE the Super Bowl ad. By the time last year ended, Death Wish Coffee revenue had doubled its estimates to $20 million!
"Super Bowl commercials work!"
Discuss the risks and benefits of advertising at the Super Bowl.
Show the Ad Age's recent interview with the company: http://adage.com/article/special-section-super-bowl/death-coffee-s-year-long-super-bowl-high/308371/?utm_source=daily_email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage&ttl=1490741042&utm_visit=226837
For backstory about how this ad was developed, show the video "Anatomy of an Ad": http://adage.com/videos/a-super-bowl-death-wish-part-3/493 (Note: There are three videos in total that explain the process of developing the commercial. Students will find these behind-the-scenes interesting.)
View the company's Web site: http://www.deathwishcoffee.com/.
Discuss why this ad and company have been so successful.
Source: Ad Age Daily
Tagged as advertising, beverages, promotion, sports, Super Bowl, television


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VideoScript 2.2, a real-time image and video processing language for Mac OS and Mac OS X, is now available from VideoScript, a company that does custom digital video and imaging solutions.
You can automatically analyze video and images with this freeware scripting language. A simple script can resize an entire directory of image files or detect movement from a camera, track objects, perform image enhancement, generate movies and more, according to Tim Molteno, lead developer at VideoScript. VideoScript's ability to track multiple objects with sub-pixel accuracy is widely used for the scientific analysis of video data, he added.
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Q: Question on Excel document level deployment We have a VSTO excel document level project. The excel document created as part of this project has a worksheet (named Start Sheet) which has some winforms controls (like button, checkbox etc) and there are many other worksheets which mainly contains data. We
deploy this solution using Windows Installer to client's machines. The excel version is excel 2007 and VSTO 2010.
Whenever our solution is deployed on client's machines, the clients usually customize the excel document on their machine. Like they will add some new worksheets apart from the ones we have added. They also install some addins like PI to bring in data to these worksheets. Now we usually have enhancement request from our clients and most of these enhancements
are adding new sheets to the excel document. Almost 99% of the requests are adding a new sheet. The code behind each sheet is some business logic which is mainly triggered by the winform controls on Start sheet.
Now every time, they install a enhanced version of the solution, they end up getting a new excel document and then they have to customize it again (like adding some sheets, writing macros etc), which is lot of work for them. This is a huge problem for us these days
as our clients do not like it at all.
Is there a way that they can deploy the new versions of solution and still keep their excel document customizations unchanged ? My experience with VSTO is not much and help will be much appreciated.

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Usually you would do this by creating an Excel Addin (XLA, XLL, COM or Automation Addin).

A: Another option would be to have an upgrade routine that during installation copies their old document, replaces it with the new, and then traverses the old copy for new sheets and what not to bring over.


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it took me forever to find a decent print of this beautiful film. here now my first recreated background from the 1939 released animated feature GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, directed by DAVE FLEISCHER and produced by his brother MAX FLEISCHER in miami, florida.
the CONTENT LIST is now complemented, all posts until today in alphabetical order. you find the ALPHABETICAL CONTENT LIST on the right side of this page, pretty much at the lower end. in case you see an interesting POST-TITLE, you can find it through the SEARCH function. it might be a bit easier than to scroll through all 992 posts.


I'm quite proud of the PRCA today.
A couple of staff members, Julie Jutten and Kent Sturman, were preparing for an annual trek from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Casper, Wyo., to take in the College National Finals Rodeo. They're doing more than visiting.
According to Cindy Schonholtz, she and Jutten visited Wednesday about the pending need for hay in the Colorado Springs area for all the horses that had been evacuated from the wildfires in the area. They were proactive and put a PRCA Trailer to use; they are going to retrieve hay from Wyoming, take it back to Colorado Springs and help feed hundreds of displaced horses.
Susan Kanode, the media director for the college finals, jumped on board. She put out news around Casper that anyone wishing to donate could leave hay at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds.
My hope is that the PRCA trailer won't be enough to haul all the donated hay and that someone is willing to haul the remaining donations as part of their donation to the cause.
As of 11 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, the Black Forest fire has destroyed 360 homes and more than 10,000 acres. Nearly 10,000 people have been forced to flee the area near Colorado Springs.


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"Nostalghia" (1983), of course.
Have you ever wondered what nostalgia was made of?
Take a little bit of "nostos" from Ancient Greek [meaning "to return home"], add a whole lot of "algos" [pain, suffering] and here we have a sad and beatuiful thing: the yearning to be home and the pain of not being there, the bittersweet fragments of a moment that will never happen again.
"I'm fed up with all your beauties"
This is one of the opening lines of the movie. After travelling across the entire Italy, Andrei refuses to go into a church and see the painting that he was there for. This is the quintessence of the movie. In front of some of the most aesthetically and spiritually rich regions in the world, Andrei can't hear the sirens' song, he's blind to all their charms. He doesn't want to be there, so beauty is just irrelevant. Immune to the outer attractions, he dives into his own malaise and thoughts. The whole world around him is dim and broken, just like himself.
Triple homesickness
The movie totally lives up to its name. If there's something that Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia" extrudes through all its frames and dialogues, it's homesickness. Spatial and temporal homesickness, embedded at three different levels across the movie:
The main character's homesickness: Andrei Gorchakov is a Russian poet travelling across Tuscany to research the life of a 18th century Russian composer. His journey is sequenced with visions of his home, wife, kid, mother, dog and other flashes that basically blind him to the surrounding beauties and temptations. His beautiful Italian translator looking like a Botticelli angel of modern times and even the unique Piero della Francesca's painting of pregnant Mary leave Andrei impassive.
The in absentia character's homesickness: Maxim Beryozovsky, the 18th century Ukrainian composer that met fame in Italy, but was yearning for his home and lover. Drained of inspiration and unable to write music anymore in Italy, he returns home, which eventually leads to his decay and suicide. This story is more an alibi as the movie soon starts to follow other threads, but Beryozovsky's homesickness sets the general frame.
The director's homesickness: in 1982, the year that "Nostalghia" was shot, Andrei Tarkovsky had already been away from home for several months. Away from a soviet regime hostile to his ideas, but in the meantime away from his dear family and home, Tarkovsky's travel around Europe bordered on self-exile. Whether he knew it or not by that time, he would never again return to Russia. This feeling of estrangement is so strong that his vision of Tuscany is distorted, sore and somber. Just like Andrei-the-character, Andrei-the-director cannot connect with Tuscany's solar beauties. Tarkovsky's Tuscany is rotten and foggy, hopeless, the scene of a slowly infiltrating apocalypse.
Bagno Vignoni, Province of Siena
"Nostalghia" action moves around two central spots: the Bagno Vignoni village and the San Galgano cathedral. Other scenes have been filmed at different abbeys (Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Abbazia di Sant'Antimo) and towns in the Province of Siena. Tarkovsky himself stayed at a hotel in Bagno Vignoni. Jonathan Glancey's article helped me spot some of the "Nostalghia" shooting locations and track Tarkovsky's journey.
At the time tho movie was filmed, fall-winter 1982, Bagno Vignoni was offering a decaying romanesque setup. Brought to fame by St. Catherine of Siena, who supposedly bathed in the thermal springs on her way to sainthood, this has been a main pilgrimage stop on Via Francigena for ages.
Today the village is totally renovated and fit for the tourists who want to have some Tuscan cold cuts or a slice of pizza with a view on the thermal pond. An expensive slice of pizza. Posh and pretty, the present-day Bagno Vignoni has nothing to do with Tarkovsky's 1982 mystical hamlet. If the movie was shot today, it would surely grow into a romantic thriller and surely Andrei would be less indifferent to Eugenia's charms…
Abbazia di San Galgano, Chiusdino, Province of Siena
San Galgano is still San Galgano and it's been like this for many centuries. Built by Saint Galgano in the 12th century on the valley of the Merse river, between Chiusdino and Monticiano, the abbey was in the beginning a wealthy ally of the Republic of Siena. Not properly protected by the Republic, despoiled and steadily impoverished after the 14th century, the abbey struggled to survive during the following centuries. The coup de grâce came in 1786, when the campanile, the abbey's bell, fell during a storm, taking with it the entire roof.
All saints broke loose and no one saw them ever again…
Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Asciano, Province of Siena
Pienza, Province of Siena
Abbazia di Sant'Antimo, Montalcino, Province of Siena
Jonathan Glancey's article (rather detective investigation) about the movie's locations on Independent.co.uk
Article about the candle scene in the Bagno Vignoni pool on Filmmakermagazine.com
More about Tarkovsky's symbols used in "Nostalghia" on Popmatters.com
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Knock, knock. Who's There? It's The Viper
April 10, 2017 Ryan Jerving
Middle school denizens of the Northern territory of District 95, Lake of Zurich, United State of Illinois: The Viper comes in peace but he comes with washtub, jug, and, probably a cümbüş (don't ask) in hand. Beyond that date, there be monsters. But fear not: we're just that good.
I'm looking forward to my second annual virtual residence with the LZOrk-ers for your Spring 2017 concert. Mr. Broach and I have some fun and challenging music planned for all y'all, and I hope you'll challenge us right back.
Here's a glimpse at what we'll be doing. And if you'd like a deeper dig into just what this Viperity is all about, you can read here about what last year's students (which includes some of you!) asked about what to expect and what I wrote back, in a post called "What Does The Viper Say?"
"Just That Good"
The Intermezzo Orchestra will be working with a little trash-talking piece I wrote as the type of thing that should take five minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. (Like Othello!) It's about as simple as it gets — a twelve-bar blues in a ragtime/stride style — and our work with it should be a good example of the way most non-classical musicians learn and develop new music.
You'll have a written template for the melody. But, truth be told, most of the "information" to be transmitted about this tune and its style is something you'll have to learn by ear: you'll hear me play the melody and "figure out how it goes" by playing it back and then memorizing it.
We'll also try to work out ways, as a group, to produce bass lines and other accompanying parts and to introduce some development to this basic theme — including, if all goes as planned, a little "concerto mini-grosso" band-within-a-band bit for two washtub basses and jug. Whatever we end up doing, our performance will be a unique arrangement and orchestration of the piece — something that's never been played quite the same way before, and won't ever be played the same way again.
Here's a "scratch track" version of the song as recorded by the group that Mr. Broach and I perform in together, The Viper & His Famous Orchestra. A scratch track is a rough-and-ready reference recording that a composer or a group makes in rehearsal — basically, so they can come back later and remind themselves what they figured out. This is faster than we'll do it, but you'll hear how this song works as a kind of conversation between all the performers.
https://viperblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/rehearsal-take-of-just-that-good.m4a
"The Monsters Are Coming"
With the Chamber Orchestra, we'll be working on a piece that has been described as "the worst song ever written" (it was described that way by me!) and one that, when performed before an audience of children, produced cries of "Liar!" (I had to explain to those kids that sometimes the truth hurts).
This is an example — or maybe even a parody of — a style of music that composers like Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass developed in the second half of the Twentieth Century under the rubric of "minimalism" (though, as we'll talk about, their work echoed some parallel developments happening in popular music as well). The idea is that we take some super-basic piece of melodic material…
…and see just how little we can do with it and still end up with something that sounds like something that actually sounds like something!
The development might not be melodic — indeed, with this piece, the refusal to move away from the basic theme is really the joke — but instead might be in terms of the dynamics, or the sonority of the particular mix of instruments, or bowing/plucking techniques, or playing the melody backward ("retrograde"), upside-down ("inversion"), or, for the truly brave of heart, backwards AND upside-down ("retrograde inversion"), etc., and we will work this out in our rehearsals.
Truth is, even prior to the last century, there was a tradition of this kind of thing, whether we're talking about monks chanting, or Indian ragas or Turkish taksims, or Beethoven's meditation on a minor-third interval with a short-short-short-long rhythm in his 5th Symphony. But, trust me, Lake Zurich ain't heard nothin' like we're going to lay on them with this.
Here's a three-person version as performed by The Viper, Mr. Broach, and our colleague, Rob Henn. Now think of what we can do with a full orchestra!
The Monsters Are Coming, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, July 2016
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Exploring India and France's rich scientific history
'Science Beyond Borders' – a travelling exhibition – showcases the story of India, France across three centuries in the fields of science and technology
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Vikram Sarabhai (left) and Jacques Blamont, the first scientific and technical director of the French space agency, in Thumba. (CNES/1972)
By Nitin Sreedhar
Did you know that India and France's collaboration in the space sector goes as far back as 1963? Dr Vikram Sarabhai, regarded as the father of the Indian space programme, met Jacques Blamont, the first scientific and technical director of the French space agency Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES; National Centre for Space Studies) a year back during a conference in Washington DC. CNES would then go on to support the Indian Space Research Organisation's nascent sounding rocket programme.
This and many other interesting bits of shared scientific history between the two nations are part of a new traveling exhibition – 'Science Beyond Borders: Connecting the dots between India & France'. Part of the ongoing fourth edition of Bonjour India – a cultural, educational and social initiative – this exhibition looks at the joint Indo-French efforts in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Also read: A deep dive into the rich foliage of Arunachal Pradesh
The exhibition opened in New Delhi at India Habitat Centre's Visual Arts Gallery on 12 April and will be on display till 22 April. It will then travel to four cities – Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad – across May to September.
'Science Beyond Borders' focuses on multiple areas of collaboration between the two countries: mathematics, medicine, nuclear science, biodiversity, aviation, physics, visual analytics, locomotives, astronomy, cartography and more. Instead of relying heavily on technical details, the exhibition – a mix of audio visual content, text and archival photographs – sheds more light on some of the pioneering Indian and French scientists, academicians, entrepreneurs and institutions that worked together.
Some of the most interesting exhibits include the ones on French colonial medicine in India, the dawn of Indo-French aviation way back in Lucknow, in 1785, and how India and France have been engaged in cosmic ray research since the 1950s. For example, who would know that French Centaure rockets, which were used for upper atmospheric research, became an essential part of the Indo-French space research efforts in Thumba? There are similar interesting snippets strewn across the fields of biodiversity and physics as well.
The exhibition – a mix of audio visual content, text and archival photographs – is on display in Delhi till 22 April. (Nitin Sreedhar)
Speaking at the opening of the exhibition, Dr Nicolas Gherardi, deputy counsellor for education, science and culture, Embassy of France, and country deputy director, French Institute in India said the curation process was a long effort that involved a team of scientists working in India and France and science historians.
"It was a very long process. The idea started more than a year ago. At first, we started from an online blog. But after a few months, we saw there was a lot of material that could go beyond the blog. We wanted to do something bigger. That's when the team came together," says Gherardi. "The process involved a lot of archival work. I'd say we had the raw material but it had to be simplified."
Didier Raboisson, attache for scientific and academic cooperation, French Institute in India, is also part of the curation team and said one of the most complex parts of the curatorial process was to "simplify the science" and make it accessible to everyone.
Gherardi says the exhibition will appeal to everyone in the general public. At first, it was aimed at just students and scientists. But the rich content and archival information at hand led the team to make the exhibition "less scientific" and make it more about "the history of science" to discuss the people to people interactions that began several centuries ago.
'Science Beyond Borders' is on display in New Delhi and open to the public from 13 April till 22 April 2022, 11 am to 8 pm.
Also read: A new science exhibition explores the human mind
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