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Marte desarmado por Venus y las Gracias es una pintura de Jacques-Louis David, que se conserva en los Museos Reales de Bellas Artes de Bélgica en Bruselas.

Es un lienzo monumental realizado en los últimos años de Jacques-Louis David, durante su exilio, y con él pone fin a una larga carrera artística. Tenía 73 años cuando comenzó esta obra en Bruselas, y tardó tres años en completarlo. En una escena fantástica con un templo que flota entre las nubes, Venus y sus acólitos, las Tres Gracias y Cupido, se aplican en desarmar al dios.

Marte, el dios de la guerra, es despojado de sus armas con complacencia, mientras sucumbe a los encantos de Venus, reflejando una de las imágenes recuperadas en el Renacimiento que muestra a ambos dioses como una pareja ideal.

Este trabajo es un intento impresionante y ambicioso por lograr una síntesis entre el mundo antiguo, el idealismo y el realismo y fue presentado en una exposición privada en París.

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Colecciones de los Museos Reales de Bellas Artes de Bélgica
Pintura mitológica
Pinturas de Venus
Afrodita y Venus en el arte posterior a la Edad Antigua
Cupido en la pintura
Cuadros de Francia de los años 1820
Cuadros de 1824
Francia en 1824
Desnudo (género artístico)
Aves en el arte
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Features Jun 14, 2017
How the New Plaza on Beacon Hill Is a Model for the Future of Seattle
by Charles Mudede
Plaza Roberto Maestas Rafael Soldi
This Saturday, June 17, hundreds of people will be in the new plaza across the street from Beacon Hill Station. They will be the crowd overflowing from the seventh annual Block Party at the Station, which happens on a small street, 16th Avenue South, on the west side of the historic building that houses El Centro de la Raza. The seventh party promises to be bigger and more def than the sixth, which was bigger and more def than the fifth. But the crowds who come for the party should come back when the event is over. Every day at Plaza Roberto Maestas is a block party, the kind that can happen only in an urban center.
The Rapper on the Light Rail
I'm heading south on a Link train. Night is falling on the city as the train rises from the ground and turns to the left on the elevated section of the line that runs into Beacon Hill Tunnel. The lights of the business district fall on the stadiums and manufacturing complexes of Sodo. The man sitting across me in the middle section of the car claims he is one of the top rappers in the 206. I have never heard of him. Where did he come from? He reads my thoughts from the expression on my face. He says: "You don't believe me, huh? Let's get off at the next stop, and I will show you." The train arrives at Beacon Hill Station. An elevator lifts us to ground level. He looks at me and then looks to his right and says: "Let's go there. I will download a beat and rap for you."
We walk to the cafe, the Station, which is closed at this time, 9 p.m., but its wi-fi is still on and available from the sidewalk. "What beat do you want me to rap to?" asks the rapper. I say, "Mobb Deep's 'Shook Ones Part 2.'" It's one of the greatest beats ever produced. It's a 1990s beat, and the young rappers are not accustomed to the hard slam of that old "boom bap." They have evolved during and adapted to the Atlanta "boom-boom" sonic environments. "Shook Ones" will trip the brother up.
But the rapper launches into heady, swirling lines that rhyme, partially rhyme, and don't rhyme at all. And because it all comes out of him so easily, he is able to play his lines like a horn instrument: speeding up, slowing down, going loud, going soft. Yes, this man can rap. But when he sees the 60 bus, he stops his performance and explains he has to bounce and will catch me another time. As I watch him dash across the street, I think to myself: That was the most perfect Station moment.
OAXAQUEÑAS FOOD CART: Food for the people. Rafael Soldi
It was a beautiful birth. On October 11, 1972, activists connected with Seattle's Latino community entered the abandoned Beacon Hill School, claimed it, and began making demands. Their occupation of the building was challenged not only by the system but by the winter, which was unusually cold. For the next three months, protests happened at the building and at City Hall. The mayor at the time was Wes Uhlman. He is famous for entering power at the moment Boeing crashed and its work force was cut in half.
These deep cuts hit the city's entire economy hard. In fact, many of the activists who took over the empty school building came out of a program at South Seattle Community College that was cut due to the budget squeeze. After some resistance, the mayor and the city council decided to lease the property to the activists for a dollar a year. The founding members of the community center were not just Latino, however. It was a rainbow movement formed by the Four Amigos: the black American Larry Gossett, the Asian Bob Santos, the Native American Bernie Whitebear, and, the leader of this episode, Latino Roberto Maestas.
Plaza Roberto Maestas
Miguel Maestas, the current housing and economic development director of El Centro de la Raza, explains that his organization decided to build Plaza Roberto Maestas when, in 2003, it learned that Sound Transit had plans to construct a light rail station on a vacant plot of land across the street from its historic building. The plot on which the subway station would rise is where the South China Restaurant on Beacon Avenue used to be. It had the most diverse bar in the city. The spirit of the Four Amigos has always been strong in this part of town. The transit-oriented project cost $45 million, was designed by the local architecture firm SMR Architects, has 112 rental units for people making from 30 to 80 percent of the area median income (which means if you earn 30 percent of the median income, you pay about $465 for a one-bedroom apartment—a market-rate studio apartment on Beacon Hill costs around $900 to $1,000). On the first day the apartments were made available to the public, more than 1,000 people applied. The 112 units were filled almost immediately. The waiting list is as good as eternal. Maestas calls the situation heartbreaking. There is nearly not enough affordable housing in this city.
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In January 2017, the cafe the Station moved into a space on the southeast corner of the plaza. The cafe, which now serves wine and food, faces the light rail station and its four elevators, which transport transit people to one of the deepest subways in the United States.
Luis Rodriguez, Owner of the Station
I buy a cup of iced tea and meet the owner of the Station, Luis Rodriguez. He has to be one of the most fascinating figures in this city. He is a Mexican American businessman, a Black Lives Matter activist, a supporter of radical leftist politics, and the founder of Seattle's biggest local hiphop festival, the Block Party at the Station, which happens this weekend. He recently moved his business from across the street into Plaza Roberto Maestas. We leave the Station, make a left, pass a bank (Seattle Credit Union), an empty space (which I hear will become a Mexican restaurant), and enter the plaza.
It is 13,000 square feet and open to the public. It can hold 650 people. It has a number of vendors under white tents selling food or fruit or sweet things like cupcakes. At the end of the plaza is the facade of the building that was occupied in the bad winter of 1972, and above it are rows of glass globes hanging from lengths of black wire. They sparkle in the summer light and sway in the breeze. The furniture is concrete slabs. There is also a stage. Luis explains to me that he wanted to have a part of this year's block party, which promises to be the best in its seven-year history, to happen here, but a number of difficulties relating to insurance are preventing this from happening.
Luis also shows me the award-winning artwork—the tile mosaics of Native Americans, the Space Needle, ferries, the volcano, giant leaves, farm workers, flowers, brown bare feet, Latino mothers and children, totem poles, and, of course, the founding fathers of the center, the Four Amigos. For Luis, this art and the diversity of the renters (many are not white) are what distinguishes this development from others and makes it an organic expression of the radical action that happened here in 1972.
Commemorating the First Revelation
It is Saturday. I'm standing in front of a sign that reads Shark Bite Food. On the other side of this sign is an amiable Latino man preparing a plate of ceviche, Peru's gift to the human senses. Shark Bite Food is open only on Fridays and Saturdays in the plaza, which tonight is warm and breezy. The clouds in the sky are fluffy. The sun is setting on the city. A blast of people has just exited the train station's elevators. My order is handed to me. It costs $10 and hits the spot. I eat it sitting on one of the concrete slabs. I look on my phone and learn that the London Bridge is under attack. The usual suspects on Twitter are blaming Islam, saying it is the religion of death. As I leave the plaza, I see women in hijabs carrying food and paper plates to the plaza's community room (which can hold 500 people). They are tranquil in the dusky breeze. I ask one what event they are preparing for, and she tells me: "At the end of the day, we are going to share a meal. It's Ramadan. Do you want to join us?" I explain that I have just eaten, thank her for the invitation, and walk to the station with the same breeziness as the twilight-colored clouds.
Past Related Events
Block Party at The Station
The Station, Sat., June 17 2017
2533 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
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Block Party at the Station Prepares for Its Sixth Annual Celebration of Beacon Hill Culture
by Ana Sofia Knauf

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There's been a fair bit of debate recently about the role of prison in 'radicalising' people who go on to carry out acts of terrorism. The Conversation have just published a piece I wrote looking at the evidence for any relationship between prisons and 'radicalisation'. The answer, as ever with issues of terrorism and political violence, is more complex, and more nuanced than much of the commentary might have us believe.


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Leave a comment Posted on 27 November 2021 27 November 2021 by Dr. Benno Meyer-Rochow published by Florian Nock Biology, evolution, Ornithology
Compulsive Hoarding
A disorder with ancient roots?
I think we all know some people who are ever so ready to throw away something they no longer fancy or to discard some item if a newer version is available. But we may also know people, who behave in exactly the opposite way: they never throw away anything but keep and store and guard even things that no longer seem useful. That kind of behaviour can be compared to what is termed "hoarding" and, if compulsive, it is now considered a mental disorder of the "obsessive-compulsive" nature. But is it an atavism, a re-surfacing of an ancient trait with roots in the animal kingdom as suggested by Sandro René Pinto de Sousa Miguel, Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun of Porto Alegre in Brazil, akin to narcolepsy and quadripedalism in humans, which have also been linked to atavisms?
Hoarding, especially of food but occasionally also of material or other items, is certainly common in the animal kingdom and helps individuals survive lean periods. And immediately La Fontaine's famous poem "La cigale et al fourmi" that I had to learn as a pupil during my High School French lesson, comes to mind. Indeed, there are several examples of invertebrates that store or cache food or, in the case of leaf cutter ants, even collect and tend inedible leaves to grow on them edible fungi. Honey bees are so successful (unlike the equally social hornets) and survive the winter, because they prepare and store food for the cold season. Although not usually overwintering, spiders, too, can often be seen in summer to keep numerous wrapped-up insect prey in their orb-webs for later use.
More obvious hoarders are found amongst our feathered friends and some of them behave seemingly intelligently when they attempt to hide food items and then firstly look around to make sure no other bird observes where they hide their treasures. A behaviour such as this has been reported from Corvus corax ravens by the Austrian researchers T. Bugnyar and K. Kotrschal and also the Eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius by the Cambridge University scientists E.W. Legg and N.S. Clayton. North American woodpeckers are less selfish and establish food stores that are accessible to other wood peckers, but whether shrikes like Lanius collurio allow other shrikes to access the insects, and even small mice and lizards, they store on thorns in the open, I do not know. However, policing food stores such as these, which are visible and in the open would be quite a task. Besides, hoarders with multiple caches (to reduce pilferage) run the risk of forgetting some of their troves, and in the case of forgotten and buried seeds, help spreading trees. A special facet of hoarding is that, which is represented by the New Caledonian crow Corvus moneduloides that bends twigs into hooks to extract grubs from wooden trunks with and then hides and hoards these precious tools.
Proverbial hoarders are the hamsters. It has been reported that European hamsters of the species Cricetus cricetus may have many kg of grain (up to 60 kg !) in their nests – and it's all for themselves (and their offspring). Packrats and squirrels, too, are well known hoarders and beavers establish food stores that can be used by anyone of their family. Some of the best-studied mammalian hoarders are shrews, especially a species by the name of Blarina brevicauda from the northeastern region of North America. To survive the winter they collect and cache food items in their burrows that can contain seeds and dry fruit, invertebrates and even small mice. It was this species of shrew that the Brazilian researchers, mentioned above, compared obsessive human hoarding with to suggest that the latter was an atavism going back to ancient evolutionary roots. The problem is, human hoarders more often than once, not just hoard food, but inedibles like coins, stamps, toys, clothes, buttons etc., and some are even known to hoard and guard some really weird and useless things like used underwear, smelly socks, cigarette buds, etc. Do animals do that also? Well, in the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5) such behaviours in humans are now classified as a mental disorder. Maybe it's risky then to mention I collect coins with animals on them.
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Leave a comment Posted on 20 November 2021 20 November 2021 by Dr. Benno Meyer-Rochow published by Florian Nock Biology, Zoology
Giant Fishes of the Rivers
How much longer will we have them?
The vertebrate class of Pisces contains members of two major groups of fishes: the cartilaginous species and the bony fishes. The most massive (if not the longest as well) of all fish are the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus). These two species are peaceful giants, feeding on plankton that they filter out of the ocean water with their comb-like gill rakers. However, in this blog I want to write about giant freshwater and not marine fish. Yes, river fish, for several of them are bigger than the marine bony species (with one exception: the oarfish Regalecus glesne, of which during the 1967 "Walther Herwig" South Atlantic Expedition I caught a glimpse of one 7.30 m long specimen. This midwater species is said to reach a maximal length of 13 m).
What prompted me to write this blog was the sad news that the giant Yangtze River paddlefish Psephurus gladius was officially declared extinct. It thus follows the Yangtze freshwater dolphin Lipotes vexillifer, affectionately called 'the baiji' in Chinese but declared extinct in 2006. In 1970 there were still 25 tons of Yangtze paddlefish caught, but the last individual was probably killed in 2007. Specimens of at least 5 m in length existed. Another Chinese giant with a length of approx. 4 m is the Chinese sturgeon Acipenser sinensis, but it may also soon be gone forever for its population decreased by 98% from 1973-2010. As of this year (2021) all commercial fishing in the Yangtze will be banned for 10 years, but as welcome a measure as this is, it cannot bring back what is lost forever.
Probably the largest with a maximum length of around 7 m of all freshwater giants is the Beluga sturgeon Huso huso of the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Azov. Because of the value of its roe (the famous "Caspian caviar") it is farmed, but the eggs of its also farmed but only 5.5 m long relative, the Huso dauricus, are considered even tastier. In northern Europe adults of the 3 – 4 m long sturgeon Acipenser sturio used to enter rivers to reach their breeding grounds upstream, but one of the few streams where these sturgeons now still breed is the Gironde in France. Recolonisation efforts are in progress elsewhere, but so far with minimal success. A huge surprise for our professor and us students of the Zoology Class at the University of Kiel in 1968 was when an almost 2 m long catfish of the species Silurus glanis was delivered. It had been caught the day before in the small North German freshwater stream known as the Trave. The East Asian Mekong River Pangasianodon gigas catfish and South American species of river catfish are said to reach maximum lengths of 4 m and can become a danger to bathers. Of the other South American freshwater giants the Arapaima gigas with a reported maximum length of 3.4 m and the electric eel Electrophorus electricus with a length of 2.5 m need to be mentioned.
Africa's largest freshwater fish is the Nile perch, but it hardly reaches 2 m. On the other hand there are some quite big bony fishes in the North American Mississippi-Missouri river system. There is the North American paddlefish Polyodon spathula and the fierce-looking alligator gar that can both reach a length of 3 m. Although not in imminent danger of becoming extinct, these two species are considered vulnerable and an analysis of what led to the extinction of the Yangtze River paddlefish may help save the North American species and other freshwater fish giants too. It is believed that the biggest threats to the vulnerable freshwater fish giants (but even smaller species as well) are dams that block the fish's access to upstream spawning grounds, and furthermore overfishing, the use of illegal methods (like electro-fishing, nets with unacceptably small mesh widths, and explosives). Pollution of the river water by chemicals like insecticides, by effluents and other wastes from urban areas, and by fertilizers used in agriculture must not be forgotten. But what is certainly interesting is that rivers compared with the oceanic habitat contained more giant bony fish species than the sea. Any suggestions why?
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Leave a comment Posted on 13 November 2021 13 November 2021 by Dr. Benno Meyer-Rochow published by Florian Nock anatomy, Biology, Marine life
You Don't See Them, but They Sure Are There
The Ears that Fish Have
That fish can hear was documented nearly 100 years ago by Nobel Prize winner Karl v. Frisch, famous for his work on honeybee communication. Freshwater fish of the carp family, like most bony fishes, not only possess swim bladders that allow them to stay buoyant at different depths, but unlike others also possess small bony connections between the fish's inner ear and the swim bladder. The gas in the latter gets compressed in response to sound pressure in the water, starts vibrating, and then transmits the signal via the aforementioned small bones, known as Weberian ossicles, to sensitive hair cells of the inner ear. Sound amplitude (loudness) and frequency (pitch) are important, but even in fish with the best hearing, sounds above 6,000 Hz would be ultrasound to them and in swim bladder-lessfish like the fast mackerel and the tuna but even in the more sluggish Antarctic icefishes only lower frequencies can be detected.
Sounds are longitudinally transmitted waves, whose frequencies and amplitudes may vary. Because of the water's greater density than that of air, sounds are propagated 4.8 times faster in water than in air. In a broad sense sounds are generated by movements or vibrations and in water can be the results of an animal's vocalizations or activities, of sounds created by ice-floes or logs rubbing or bumping against each other, breaking waves, anthropogenically-produced noise like explosions and disturbances created by ships. In order to sense the sounds, fish use ear stones, i.e. so-called otoliths. Bathed in endolymphatic fluid and resting on a pad of receptor cells with sensory hairs, the two major otoliths are located just below the brain in two bony sacs of the inner ear known as the saccule and the utricle. The otoliths are part of the bony vestibule's two regions, i.e. the cochlear portion (for hearing) and the vestibular portion with its semicircular canals (for balance and angular change). Thus, otoliths can be said to be involved in the detection of gravity and linear accelerations and serve as a structure of hearing in fish, so well explained in a recent review by Dr. Tanja Schulz-Mirbach of Munich.
Otoliths are hard, durable structures that consist primarily of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of aragonite.They remain largely unchanged during the digestion in the stomach and gut of a predator. They are thus an excellent structure to estimate a fish's age, because their size increases by periodically laid down alternating opaque and translucent bands that consist of CaCO3 and collagen fibres. As daily increments are regularly added, researchers can correlate the number of layers with the fish's body length and use the tabulated data to identify the fish's age. What makes the study complicated is that the otoliths, not being translucent enough to count the layers, need to be sectioned. Furthermore, although the shapes of the otoliths are species-specific, they can vary in individuals of the same species, depending on the fish's developmental stage and if the fish was actively swimming or passively drifting.
In Antarctic icefish my Polish colleague Ryszard Traczyk and I have recently concluded that the more spherical otoliths of larval specimens and the longish otolith shapes of the adults are the results of the inertia and friction experienced by the otoliths in their endolymphatic fluid when the fish swim: larvae swim less than adult icefish and the latter swim less than mackerel (which possess the most elongate otoliths). It is entirely possible that oscillations of the dense otoliths generate shearing forces that deflect the sensory hairs of the cells they are resting on, when the oscillations are due to disturbances in the water made by nearby prey or the approach of a predator. Responses to such disturbances in the "acoustico-lateralis" vicinity of the fish would then not only be sensed by the lateral line system, but picked up by the fish's otoliths too and sent to the brain via the 8th cranial nerve, often referred to as the vestibulocochlear nerve. So, do fish make some noise and can they hear? Actually only a few produce sounds, but all bony fish can hear. However, there's certainly no need to whisper when you sit in front of your aquarium and watch your colourful aquatic beauties in their 3-dimensional world.
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Its difficult to find somewhere in the UK currently where you don't step out of your front door to see scenes like this. As normally happens when we get any weather that is somewhat out of the ordinary, the country has ground to a halt. Looks great but if you need to get anywhere, forget it.
Panasonic GH2 Olympus 9-18mm and 14-150mm lenses. ISO 160.
Finally, the face of the "Fanboy". I found this on YouTube looking for some examples of video from the Pentax K-5.
I watched this and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. One comment on the K-5.
"If it doesn't autofocus, what good is it to me?" I'm sure that not many of you realised that the K-5 doesn't autofocus!!!
This man is almost in tears at the thought that anyone could prefer a Pentax K-5 over a Nikon D7000. He uses as his evidence for "Nikon D7000 trumps Pentax K-5" two things. Firstly that on the DxO test scores regarding high ISO noise on the two cameras, the Nikon scores 1167 and the Pentax scores 1162. Wow!!!!!! Game set and match to the Nikon. Game Over!!! Consign the Pentax to the bin!!! DxO scores are so reliable aren't they? This is after all a .4% difference!!! Though what these numbers are actually measuring is anybodies guess.
His second piece of evidence is that the Pentax K-5 doesn't autofocus fast enough. He cites as evidence of this that he owned a Pentax K-7 and he couldn't get it to focus on his children. Well having had a K-7 myself and being perfectly able to use auto focus with it, this probably says more about him than the camera. I used it for a wedding, and seemed to remember all my shots were in perfect focus, but hey the guy must know what he's talking about, he's on YouTube!
The pleading desperation of the whole thing is just embarrassing to watch. My reaction to it if I was deciding to buy either a D7000 or a K-5 would probably be to immediately go out and buy the Pentax! on the grounds that D7000 enthusiasts seem to have the I.Q of a gerbil! They don't but this guy does Nikon owners no favours.
This football supporter attitude to camera ownership is sad, dispiriting and bewildering. Camera brands are not sports teams. They are not tribes, gangs, ethnic groups, religious groups or political parties. We should be tolerant of others views and beliefs as a matter of course but this doesn't seem to apply to DSLR's. It used to be said never argue about Politics or Religion, we can now add what brand of camera you own to those.
To say that things like this are pathetic is to state the obvious. But unfortunately it keeps on coming. The internet is truly a wonderful place to get information on anything at all, but its also a repository for ignorance and stupidity and a forum for the self obsessed and deluded. In the scheme of things this is a particularly harmless example, its not as though he's advocating violence or promoting bigoted views, he's just a Nikon fanboy who seems to be totally lacking in any kind of awareness of just how ridiculous the whole thing is.
I know I should just ignore stuff like this, but I can't. It rears its ugly head all over the internet. You look around for information to come to a decision about something you are looking to buy and things like this pop up. About as useful as an ejector seat on a helicopter!


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Remote farm in Citrusdal, South Africa growing citrus, deciduous fruits, rooibos, buchu, proteas, chickens, pot-bellied pigs.
Roispresso presentation. Rooibos + Super Foods - Functional Respresso Tea for a moderne lifestyle.
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One of our vegetable farmers from Clanwilliam explains how he farms with the future in mind.
Producing Rooibos at Carmien Rooibos Farm in Citrusdal.
Visit 2 Fair Trade Rooibos tea growing communities in the Cedarburg Wilderness Area, South Africa.
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We've already discussed how NBC newcomer State of Affairs passes the Bechdel test with flying colors (thanks to Katherine Heigl's and Alfre Woodward's White House characters), but that doesn't mean the men of the political drama are to be ignored. Demanding our attention right now is 29-year-old Tommy Savas, whose character, Dash Greer, is part of the Heigl-led team of CIA briefers responsible for delivering the most pressing intelligence to country's most powerful leaders (and tearing up everything else). We chatted on the phone earlier this week about the show, Langley, his side comedy career, and more.
So, tell me how you came to play Dash Greer?
Well, at the time I was working on the TNT show The Last Ship. Funny enough, I had just found out that my character was dying off the show. Perfect timing. I was in L.A. for about two days, and my awesome agent and manager got me an appointment with State of Affairs...and I was lucky enough to get the job.
From Navy SEAL on The Last Ship to CIA briefer on State of Affairs—how are you liking these high-pressure roles?
It's a lot of fun—you get to learn about this world that you normally aren't able to learn about. One of the cool things about coming from The Last Ship and going to State of Affairs is...everybody knows the Navy SEALs are heroes. Everybody knows what the Navy SEALs do. But nobody really knows how important and integral the CIA is to the safety of America. They are very much the unsung heroes.
We've seen the CIA live-tweet your show. What has your interaction with the agency been?
I got to visit Langley, the headquarters of the CIA, and actually talk to some briefers. Luckily enough, two of our producers are actual ex-CIA.
So the briefers actually present a real book of intel each day?
They really do, it's a real thing.
Well, I believe they use iPads now. In future episodes, you will see us with iPads.
Tell us more about your character, Dash. We know him so far as the youngest briefer in CIA history, who really likes three-piece suits.
He's a bit of a savant, so he's a great problem solver. But because he's so young, his age kind of gets in the way as far as inexperience. So you do see him deal with that challenge. On top of that, my favorite part of the character is that he is the one that brings the levity to the group. Even in the most dire situations, he finds a way to make people laugh.
Is he anything like you?
I think of myself as quite an optimist, so even in bad situations, I can try to find those rays of light. I'm also the youngest of four kids, so I was always the little brother and the one who had the most to prove—which is very similar to Dash, he always feels the need to one-up everybody and prove that even though he's young, he still has a value to him.
You're also quite the comedian—I've seen some of your sketches with Reckless Tortuga on YouTube. Do you prefer the drama or the comedy?
I feel like I can connect more with comedy, personally, but I tend to work professionally in drama more. As long as there is a good story to be told, I'm happy to do it, and State of Affairs is a good story. But I like playing Dash because he is the one in this whole group who can be a little looser and be funny.
One of the reasons we love the show is for how it showcases powerful women: Katherine Heigl plays the top briefer, Charlie Tucker, and the president is played by Alfre Woodard. What is it like to work with them?
It's awesome because not only do they portray powerful women, but they are both very powerful women. Working with people like them who have been in the industry for so long and are these juggernauts in the business, it's a learning experience. Just watching them act on set, you learn something.
State of Affairs joins a crowded space of political dramas including Homeland, Scandal, House of Cards. How is State of Affairs different?
The other shows, which are great shows, reside a little bit in fantasy. We try to make the show as real as possible. The events that happen are similar to ones that are happening in the world, and the things that we do are things that the actual CIA does. Also, this dynamic, this story, about the men and women who are the CIA briefers, hasn't been told before.
What is it like on set? Is there ever any briefer drama?
We are all really friends. We hang out every weekend, we all have dinner together every Sunday night. If they could publish the group texts that we all have with each other, it would be hilarious—and we would probably all get in trouble.
Speaking of texts, who is sending Charlie those cryptic messages?
[Laughing] I so can't. But I will tell you this: Every character on the show has a secret and has something they are hiding, and everybody's secret comes to light at some point during the season.
Underneath those vests, there are secrets.
Catch the latest episode of State of Affairs tonight on NBC at 10 P.M.


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The Title of Hwang Jung Eum's New Drama Faces Controversy Before It Even Airs
The title is being criticized for belittling men.
The popular actress, Hwang Jung Eum is starring in a new drama alongside Yoon Hyun Min, but the title of it is already facing controversy online before it has even started airing.
The romantic comedy, which is set to premiere in coming July, is about a woman who takes on an anti-marriage perspective due to a certain guy that she dealt with three times over in her past lives.
But two weeks ahead of its premiere, the title of the drama was criticized for belittling men.
The title is translated into English as "To All Guys Who Loved Me", but in Korean, a more direct translation would be "Guys are all the same."
According to the dictionary, it is an expression used when comparing two or more people and there isn't much of a difference. But the expression is often used in a belittling tone in everyday settings.
For that reason, netizens are criticizing the drama for belittling men and questioning how people would've reacted if the title was "Girls are all the same" instead.
In response to the controversy, a KBS representative clarified,
We had no intention of belittling men.
– KBS Representative.
In an interview with Star News, the representative explained,
The expression is commonly used in everyday life, and straightforward expressions have been more often used as titles these days. We went with the title in order to leave a stronger impression in viewers.
– KBS Representative
The drama is set to air on KBS2 on July 6.


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POPULATION EXPLOSION
December 25, 1973 by Phyllis Schlafly
The Christmas season is a time for children — and also a time to explode the myth of the alleged population explosion. Our birthrate today is only two children per family. We have already reached Zero Population Growth, and the birth rate is still falling. All over the country, hospitals have drastically reduced the size of their maternity wards or closed them down entirely. All those grade schools, which we built at such expense a few years ago, have declining enrollments. We face a future of becoming a nation of old people, instead of a country which has the vigor and dynamism of youth.
This month the U.S. Census Bureau reported that, for the first time in census history. New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois lost population. Don't mean that they just lost their rank in comparison to western and southern states; I mean that New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois each have fewer people this year than they did last year.
Somehow, a whole generation has been victimized into believing that people are pollution and that it's patriotic not to have children. It is a good thing that such anti-children propaganda was not rampant in the early days of our country. If our ancestors hadn't been hardy parents who had large families, America would still be a weak, little nation of a few million people huddled along the Atlantic coast.
Amitai Etzoni, Professor of sociology at Columbia University, in a recent study on population concluded: "We have been conditioned by years of intensive campaigns to view population growth as a source of many evils, including crowding, tough competition over ever scarcer resources, war, low standards of living, and so on. But as with most propagandistic campaigns, the fight for smaller families has looked away from the less attractive facets of the goal."
Among the "less attractive facets," Professor Etzoni lists an aging population making heavier demands for assistance to the elderly on a smaller number of producers; a contracting, declining economy, with more disputes over dividing the wealth because there is less to divide; and increased ethnic and racial strains. He calls attention to the fact that "if there will be fewer young producers and more older consumers, there will be less to go around."
The business magazine named VISION recently conducted a poll to find out which is "The Most Livable Nation in Europe," and guess which won. The Netherlands TM the most densely populated country in the world, which has 802 people to the square mile. The United States, on the other hand, has only 55 people to the square mile.
Two other countries which are almost as densely populated as the Netherlands are Belgium and Japan TM and they are also very prosperous. These three countries lack mineral wealth, but they are rich in a more important resource, namely, hard-working people. Their prosperity offers a striking contrast to India which has only half the population density, and China, which has only one-fourth the population density of the Netherlands.
The population-explosion mythmakers are spreading a big lie, they are promoting national decline, and they are depriving their victims of the glorious fun of children at Christmas.
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PRESS RELEASE: Liferay Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer
Bay Area executive adds finance, legal, consulting expertise to enterprise portal leader's management team.
LOS ANGELES--(PRWeb)--Liferay, Inc., provider of the world's leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today that Scott Tachiki, a seasoned financial executive, has joined the company's leadership team as Chief Financial Officer.
Tachiki brings about 20 years of business experience in management, corporate law and accounting. Before joining Liferay, he served as Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer at 4D Global Partners, a consumer electronics sales and marketing company based in Northern California.
"Scott's impressive background in both law and finance makes him a great fit for his new role at Liferay," said Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung. "We welcome him to our team and look forward to his contributions in the financial and contractual management of Liferay's rapid global growth through its subsidiaries, partner networks and OEM business."
Tachiki's hire follows Liferay's strong financial performance in the first half of 2011. The portal provider reported a 50 percent growth in revenue over the same period last year in its core business. Liferay has enjoyed such double-digit revenue growth for several years along with annual increases in profits since its founding.
"I'm excited to join an executive team at Liferay that has been so smart and financially savvy with its operations," said Tachiki. "I am impressed by the team's dedication to solid strategic growth, its devotion to Liferay's employees and customers and its commitment to positively impacting the world as a core priority of the company."
Tachiki specialized in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance as an attorney at the law firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. A Certified Public Accountant, Tachiki previously worked at Deloitte & Touche specializing in the financial services industry.
As Vice President of Business Development at LearningGate.com, a web-based grade book for teachers, he managed operations and successfully structured, negotiated and closed the sale of the company. Tachiki received his law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley and his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.
For more information on Liferay's new CFO, please visit http://www.liferay.com/about-us/leadership/stachiki.


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2 Note from the Director As we give SuperCash! a little glory this month, we look back on the 26 years the game has been in existence. In 1991, a six number game was created using a matrix of 36 numbers which had a jackpot prize amount of $250,000. Fast forward to year 2005 when SuperCash! receives a facelift, not only with the logo but also with numbers drawn. It increased from 36 to 39 numbers and the jackpot jumped to $350,000. Plus, a DOUBLER feature was added for every nightly draw. All this for only a buck, WHAT A DEAL! Since the start of SuperCash! we have had 627 jackpot winners of $250,000 and almost 200 jackpot winners of $350,000. That is over $71.6 Million paid out to our Lucky Lottery players! June 2017 Cindy Polzin Lottery Director 2 And don't forget you can earn a retailer incentive of $7,000 if your store sells a winning $350,000 ticket! This month, I challenge you and your employees to ASK FOR THE SALE for SuperCash! Let your customers know that for only $1, they get TWO plays. Learn more about SuperCash! below. Choose 6 different numbers from 1 through 39. Minimum play is two panels for $1. $350,000 Top Prize A Chance to Double Select Prizes Place your wagers by using the SUPERCASH! playslip which is available where lotto games are sold. Mark the QUICK PICK "QP" box to choose numbers the easy way - let the computer pick them randomly. Choose your draws: Each set of 2 plays costs $1 for each drawing. Play SuperCash! up to 7 days in advance at one time. Receive valid ticket and sign the back. DOUBLER FEATURE: You can double your prize with SuperCash!. Every night when the winning numbers are drawn, the Lottery will conduct a DOUBLER drawing. If the Lottery draws a DOUBLER, all prizes, excluding the top prize, will double. Best of all, this DOUBLER is a bonus to you. It does not cost extra.
3 June Tomahawk BP 1329 N 4th St. Tomahawk, WI Meet owner Frank Sus, Manager Jim Charles and associate Mary Bernarde when you visit. This month we make our way up north to Tomahawk in Lincoln County. According to the Tomahawk Historical Society, the city was literally carved out of the wilderness. It was officially founded in 1886 by William H. Bradley when logging camps, sawmills and a dam were built. Homes, stores, other businesses and railroad service soon followed. Today, Tomahawk has transitioned to become an area with many diverse businesses and a strong tourism industry. Our Lottery Retailer of the Month, Tomahawk BP, is in business to take care of the local community and the tourists. Though recently under new ownership, manager Jim Charles has been in place over twenty years and other employees have been with the store years. With all this experience, Jim and his team have steadily grown the business and they have a reputation for treating customers like family. Jim compares the locals to the meat and potatoes of the business and the tourists to the gravy! With a restaurant and carwash connected to the BP store, this location is a busy place. As the store business has grown, so has the Lottery business. They carry seventeen facings of instant scratch tickets with Crossword being the most popular. Recent winners include $1,000 from Supercash and $1,000 from the latest Raffle. It's a great time of the year for a Northwoods getaway! If you make it to Tomahawk, stop by Tomahawk BP for some great Northwoods hospitality!
5 Conversion Corner New Training Available Lottery Learning Link A new module has been added to Lottery Learning Link for the software changes that occurred with the conversion download on May 14, June All Lottery retailers should take course number six (6): Getting to know the GT1200. You may now take retailer training online. LLL is Retailer Training available all the time in your web browser. Terminal simulations, audio, video, and real-world scenarios give you the full training experience, delivered at your own pace. Once a person you authorize has completed the training program online, your store can print a certificate. AND, you or anyone you permit may sign in and take the course as often as you wish. LOGIN ONLINE! EASY ACCESS TO LOTTERY RETAILER TRAINING 24/7! To access via a PC (preferred method), just visit: and follow the instructions to take the courses! Go to: Enter your Lottery Retailer Number in the Username / Retailer # box Enter Password: welcome Click Login Download the free Smartphone Apps: Android = Photon Browser ios = Puffin Browser If you have any questions, please call our Hotline at , twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Important Contract Reminders POSTING CASHING LIMITS: Consistent with your contract, you are asked (when reasonable) to pay all winning tickets up to $599. If your store has a TICKET CASHING POLICY for paying out less than $599, please post this information for players. Winners tend to tell friends where they won and will spend some or all of their winnings in your store. EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS: The contract, in Section 2.0, states: (11) Retailer shall use all equipment required by the lottery. The contract also states that this equipment is not to be removed, defaced, or used for purposes other than those established by the Lottery. Lottery equipment includes: GT1200 Terminal, Ultra Printer, Lottoview, and Ticket Checker. The Lottoview displays transaction information, validation amounts, winning numbers, amber/silver alerts, game-specific messages and real-time jackpot amounts for the players so it is important to have the Lottoview facing the players.
6 June One lucky Megabucks player matched all six numbers in the Saturday, April 29 drawing to win the $3.5 million top prize. Saturday's winning Megabucks numbers were 5, 19, 26, 35, 40 and 41. The player purchased their winning ticket at Port Of Call Liquor at 918 West Boulevard in Racine. Retailers receive a 2% incentive of the winning ticket amount up to $100,000. The winner has 180 days from the drawing to claim their prize in person at the Lottery's Madison office. Megabucks is Wisconsin's very own lotto game. Drawings take place every Wednesday and Saturday night. Currently the Megabucks jackpot is estimated at $1 million. HOW TO PLAY 1. Choose six (6) different numbers from 1 to 49. You will receive two plays for $1. 2. You must purchase your ticket by 9 p.m. on Wednesday or Saturday to be included in that night's drawing. 3. Sign your ticket and check it as soon as possible. 4. EZ Match is an add-on to the Megabucks game for an additional $1, go to wilottery.com for more details on how to play! Congratulations to the retailers who have sold a winning Badger 5 ticket! When you sell a winning ticket, not only does the winner benefit but the retailer does too, with the retailer winning ticket incentive. Congratulations to some of our retailers celebrating their retailer win! Nationwide 2017 Winner Tally $1 Million Winners: 62 $2 Million Winners: 12 (Thru May 13 draw) Jackpot Winners: 3 Hoosier Lottery February 22 $435.3 Million Speedway in Fond du Lac sold a $27,000 Badger 5 winner to Susan Hoodie. Wisconsin Lottery March 22 $155.2 Million Arizonia Lottery April 1 $60 Million Happy House Liquor in Beloit sold a 13,000 Badger 5 winner to Patricia Goodwin. Cowley's Piggly Wiggly in Edgerton sold a $13,000 Badger 5 ticket to Kathleen Green.
7 Scratch-offs Odds are You ll Like Em June #676 TOP PRIZE $1,000 Overall odds of winning: 1:4.0 Prize payout: 59.0% Win up to 9 times! #629 TOP PRIZE $200 Overall odds of winning: 1:3.9 Prize payout: 59.0% Win up to 5 Times! #682 TOP PRIZE $9,000 Overall odds of winning: 1:3.9 Prize payout: 62.0% Cherry Bonus multiplies prizes up to 3 Times! #669 TOP PRIZE $200,000 Overall odds of winning: 1:3.3 Prize payout: 74.0% Loaded with $50 & $100 prizes! #677 TOP PRIZE $30,000 Overall odds of winning: 1:3.8 Prize payout: 63.0% Extra Spin with 5 Bonus Numbers!
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A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is $100,000 MEGA BINGO. The play style is bingo.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is LUCKY NO. 7. The play style is key number match.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is 50X SUPER TICKET. The play style is multiple games.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is $100 MILLION TEXAS RICHES. The play style is key number match.
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A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is WILD 7 s. The play style is key number match.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is $50 OR $100!. The play style is key number match.
1. DEFINITIONS 1.1 In these Rules (formerly known as or referred to as the Betting Rules): Backer means any person who places a Bet. For the avoidance of doubt, the definition of Backer includes a Participant.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is MAD MONEY. The play style is key number match.
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A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is NUMBERS GAME. The play style is key symbol match.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is CLASSY CASH. The play style is key number match.
Q. Will I be able to change to Combo plan if I am still within contract?
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A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is RICH. The play style is key number match.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is COWBOYS. The play style is key number match.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is $200,000 DOUBLE PAYDAY. The play style is multiple games.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is $500 FRENZY. The play style is key number match.
A. The name of Scratch Ticket Game No is ULTIMATE 7 s. The play style is key number match.
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Choosing the right school for your child is a complicated decision. Here are six reasons why Seoul International School (SIS) may be the best fit for your child.
Seoul International School is a K-12 private academic institution. Admission to SIS is a selective process based on a variety of criteria, including, but not limited to, academic achievement and commitment to personal growth.
Seoul International School is K – 12 school with three levels, Elementary (K-5), Middle (6-8), and High School (9-12). It is a highly academic institution whose purpose is to provide students with a highly challenging, rigorous and engaging American curriculum.
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BARONE, Mauro; COGLIANDRO, Annalisa; PERSICHETTI, Paolo and DI STEFANO, Nicola. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON CASE REPORTS AND ANALYSIS OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH COSMETIC RHINOPLASTY. pers.bioét. [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.1, pp.77-85. ISSN 2027-5382. http://dx.doi.org/10.5294/PEBI.2016.20.1.8.
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Why Are D.C. Commissions Voting for Cleaner Tech (and Against Leaf Blowers)? Here They Explain in Their Own Words. — Quiet Clean D.C.
Why Are D.C. Commissions Voting for Cleaner Tech (and Against Leaf Blowers)? Here They Explain in Their Own Words.
As mentioned last month, five of Washington D.C.'s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, the branch of government just below the City Council, have endorsed a bill sponsored by D.C. Council Member Mary Cheh to phase out the use of hyper-polluting, dangerously noisy, technologically obsolete gas-powered leafblowers in the District. You can read the text of Mary Cheh's proposed bill here.
ANC 6D, in Southwest DC, including the Navy Yards. PDF here, text shown below.
Congratulations, respect, and thanks to all District residents and supporters from elsewhere who have brought the measure to this point. The next move is up to the D.C. City Council to hold hearings on the measure and move ahead with it. On an issue with surprisingly significant environmental and public-health ramifications, it is encouraging to see local-level engagement moving forward.


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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine reveals cancer diagnosis
Updated / Tuesday, 18 Jun 2019 07:55
Dave Mustaine: "I'm so thankful for my whole team - family, doctors, band members, trainers, and more. I'll keep everyone posted."
US trash metal act Megadeth have cancelled most of their remaining shows for 2019 after the band's guitarist and vocalist Dave Mustaine revealed he has been diagnosed with throat cancer.
The band will now only play October's Megacruise, a three-day festival on a cruise liner with a line-up that also features Anthrax and Testament.
57-year-old Mustaine, who founded Megadeth in 1983 after he was kicked out of Metallica, posted the news on his Instagram page.
"I've been diagnosed with throat cancer. It's clearly something to be respected and faced head on - but I've faced obstacles before," he wrote.
"I'm working closely with my doctors, and we've mapped out a treatment plan which they feel has a 90% success rate. Treatment has already begun."
The singer added that the band will continue to work on their follow-up to the successful album, Dystopia, the title track of which won a Grammy for best metal performance in 2017.
Mustaine formed Megadeth in 1983 after he was fired from Metallica
"Meanwhile, Kiko [Loureiro], David [Ellefson], Dirk [Verbeuren] and I are in the studio, working on the follow up to Dystopia - which I can't wait for everyone to hear," Mustaine said.
"I'm so thankful for my whole team - family, doctors, band members, trainers, and more. I'll keep everyone posted."
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2122 Pyatiletka eller 1971 XB är en asteroid i huvudbältet som upptäcktes den 14 december 1971 av den ryska astronomen Tamara Smirnova vid Krims astrofysiska observatorium på Krim. Den har fått sitt namn efter Sovjetunionens femårsplaner på Krim.

Asteroiden har en diameter på ungefär 11 kilometer.

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In July 2017, Capitol Acquisition Corp. III merged with Cision, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.4 billion. Cision is a leading media communication technology and analytics company that enables marketers and communicators to effectively manage their earned media programs in coordination with paid and owned channels to drive business impact.
Cision's merger with Capitol III enabled it to pay down debt and refinance its capital structure, resulting in approximately $60 million of annual interest savings, and provided the financial flexibility and public listing to pursue its organic growth and M&A strategy. Cision's common stock is traded on the NYSE under the symbol "CISN".
Mark D. Ein serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Cision and L. Dyson Dryden serves as a Director.


There is a television series called Building Ireland, about "Ireland's building and engineering heritage". A series of six programmes will begin on Friday 30 September 2016 at 8.30pm on RTÉ One, which is a television station.
The third programme, on 14 October, covers Ardnacrusha and the sixth, on 4 November, is entitled "Galway's Corrib Canal" and covers canals in Galway and, I believe, may have some material about the Cong Canal.
Here is a PDF describing the series.
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Home > News > Iconic Spotlight : Ursula Andress, by Terry O'Neill
Iconic Spotlight : Ursula Andress, by Terry O'Neill
In 1966, Terry O'Neill was on set during the filming of The Blue Max , a World War I action-drama starring James Mason, George Peppard and Ursula Andress. Andress skyrocketed to fame in 1962 with her memorable performance as Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No . "I don't think there's a man alive who doesn't remember Ursula Andress coming into frame in that white bikini in Dr. No ," laughs O'Neill. "That single moment is most certainly seared into my memory."
"I started to do film-set photography in the mid-1960s. Up until that point, I was mainly known for taking photos of musicians such as The Beatles, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones. Don't get me wrong, I loved taking those photos. I wanted to be a musician myself, so music-based photography was a very natural fit. But I knew that if I was going to have a lasting career as a photographer, I needed to diversify. "I'll get into the role of a set photographer later on in this book, but these shots are most memorable because of how free she was. In 1966, an actress in a big budget film did not take her top off. And if she did, well, the film was subjected to censorship and that meant no audience. People forget that the Hays Code (the ridiculous Hollywood censorship restrictions) was still very much in place.
But it was brave filmmakers and brave actors, like Ursula, who broke the code. In many ways, I suppose, these images from this film are revolutionary." Many of the stills Terry shot were never seen. "These were never used at the time. It was one thing to do this on film, it was quite another to do this for a printed magazine or newspaper—and that's who were using the photos I was taking. I took the photos because I knew what she was doing was important, from a film-history point of view. Times were changing and she was one of the actors who was making an impact. I don't think she's recognised nearly enough for the impact she had. "Clearly, she's a beautiful woman. But besides her helping take down the censorship code in Hollywood, she was also a very gifted comedienne.
"I was lucky enough to take a lot of on-set photography for the James Bond films. When Casino Royale started to roll, I knew I had to be there for that filming." Casino Royale was the 1967 spy spoof with an all-star cast, including Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, David Niven and Orson Welles. The poster for the film featured a scantily clad Andress. "That set was a roller coaster. Everywhere you looked, there was a star. Sellers and I were good friends and he was cast as the 'James Bond' character, Evelyn Tremble. Ursula—who was already viewed as the most memorable Bond beauty —was Vesper Lynd. What I love about this roulette table shot is that it's a frozen moment in a hectic take. Money flying, bottles smashed—but in this photo, it's pure serenity."


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Getty	Marvin Bagley is in the discussion to be top pick in the 2018 NBA Draft.
No topic is debated more among NBA fans than the pros and cons of "super teams". The assumption is teams in bigger markets clear cap space, and lure marquee free agents away from smaller markets. To be clear, this does happen, but this is not how the Warriors built one of the best organizations in the NBA. Golden State's success is a product of the NBA draft, and it is the same way we have seen winning NBA franchises be built for decades.
When fans complain about super teams, what we're really asking is for NBA GM's to build better teams. With the exception of the 2016 addition of Kevin Durant, the core of the Warriors all came through the draft. Steph Curry was drafted No. 7 in the 2009 draft, Klay Thompson No. 11 in the 2011 draft and selecting Draymond Green in the second round (No. 35 overall) of the 2012 draft.
Why were all three of those picks so successful? The reasons are worth a separate article, but the biggest thing the Warriors were able to do is identify talent that was undervalued by the rest of the league. For Curry, teams questioned his size, Thompson had off-court challenges and Green was a position-less big man with weight concerns. In economic terms, the Warriors capitalized on market inefficiencies the same way any other team could have done.
The draft is about calculated risk as none of these players were sure things on draft night, but the Warriors took a chance on the right players. Golden State's case study even proves there is margin for error as they selected Baylor big man Ekpe Udoh over players like Paul George and Gordon Hayward in the 2010 draft.
Identifying skill is the easy part, but picking players who will continue to stay motivated after receiving an NBA contract, as well as players who will mesh with a team's current roster is far from an exact science. There is a reason there are not a lot of teams like the Warriors in the NBA, and that is it is very difficult to get the draft right year after year. However, Golden State shows it is possible, and the teams with long-term staying power will do just that. The Warriors have been able to pair elite level drafting with other smart personnel decisions like hiring Steve Kerr and using free agency to sign the right players (Kevin Durant and Andre Iguodala).
What does any of this have to do with the 2018 NBA Draft? To have success in the NBA, a team has to get the draft right, maybe not every time, but most times. The Celtics, Kings, Lakers, Sixers and others are seeing a return this season for what looks to be prudent drafting over the last few seasons.
Fans are already looking ahead to next summer's draft but teams have been evaluating the prospects we are about to discuss for years. It is too early for these projections to be set in stone, but the race for the 2018 No. 1 pick centers around three players. For me, Real Madrid point guard Luka Doncic, Duke forward Marvin Bagley and Missouri forward Michael Porter start the season a tier above the rest of the group. While Doncic has been playing against professional competition in Europe, things will really get interesting for Bagley and Porter once we have college basketball tape to evaluate.
Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter @JonDAdams with any NBA draft or basketball related questions. Leave us a comment on what prospects you are most excited to watch this season.
Here's a look at the preseason edition of my top 10 2018 NBA Draft prospects.
It's difficult to watch Doncic, and not get extremely excited. After watching his highlights, you'll be amazed at all Doncic is able to do as a 6'8″ and 228 pound point guard. When watching clips of a player, it is difficult to get a feel for their size, and the same is true for Doncic who plays like a 6'2″ point guard.
Doncic has enough scoring ability to be a number one option on a team. He has a filthy step-back jumper, the best I have seen from a prospect in years. Doncic has great range, and can punish teams from behind the three-point line. Despite his ability to score, there are other attributes that are even more impressive.
Two things that come across any time you watch Doncic are court vision and his handles. He's always looking to get his teammates involved, and his offensive ability makes penetration a real asset for Doncic as the defensive attention allows him to kick it out to wide-open teammates.
During the college basketball season, it is going to be easy to get caught up in the hype for Porter and Bagley. Rightfully so, both players are elite level talents, but Doncic has the potential to be better than either player. His performance in the Eurobasket tournament cemented his status as the top prospect heading into the season. Months ago, draft analyst Chad Ford detailed how good Doncic already is along with his potential to be so much more.
He is quite simply the most heralded international prospect I've ever scouted. At age 17 [now 18] he is already starting and averaging eight points a game in the best league in Europe.
He's a highly skilled wing with an elite basketball IQ, the ability to score from everywhere on the floor, superior court vision and solid athleticism. He plays like a veteran already. Some teams worry a bit about his lack of elite explosiveness and lateral quickness — and that's the only reason he isn't topping our board at the moment.
The scouts who know Europe best say he's a once-in-a-decade prospect.
There will be questions about Doncic. As Ode to Oden's Sean Derenthal points out, there is an athleticism gap between what he will face in the NBA, and what he is facing in Europe. Doncic will have to prove he can defend NBA points guards.
The Cameron Crazies finally got to see Bagley in a Duke uniform as Duke hosted its Countdown to Craziness. Bagley has become an internet sensation with countless mixtapes and highlights including catching lob passes from NBA players like James Harden in the Drew League.
Bagley was missing from our initial 2018 draft coverage, but re-classified from the 2018 class so he could play college ball this season. Bagley is a big man that can run the floor, block shots, and his athleticism is apparent with how agile he is in the air.
Bagley's jumper is already developed, and he has no problem using his dribble to get to the basket. While he has good handles for a big man, at times, he does not look as comfortable as you would like to see. Bagley has potential to play both the three and the four in the NBA.
Being a top NBA prospect is more than mixtape dunks and playing against NBA players in summer league games with little defense. I look forward to seeing how Bagley can perform for Duke against a difficult ACC schedule. This year's Duke team is loaded with NBA prospects with Wendell Carter, Trevon Duval and Gary Trent Jr. joining Bagley on the Blue Devils squad.
Prepare for a year-long conversation on Porter vs. Bagley. We are unlikely to see them square off in college given Porter will play in the SEC, and Bagley is in the ACC. The only exception would be if both teams battle in the NCAA tournament. While Porter can play both forward positions, he looks most comfortable on the perimeter at small forward.
Porter is 6'10", 214 pounds with a freakish 7'0″ wingspan. It is difficult to get a feel for exactly how good he is as most of his high school footage is against competition much less physically gifted than Porter. Porter does have great size, but needs to get stronger as he continues to face bigger and better players in college.
At times, he gets loose with his dribbling which can lead to turnovers. What you're getting with Porter is a forward with great hops, shot blocking ability and solid shooting. Porter uses his athleticism to his advantage to get to the basket. There's a reason many believe Porter could be the top pick in the draft, but I want to see how he does against players who are more similar to his frame.
Right now, I think Bagley and Doncic are above his skill level. The gap is not insurmountable, and a great season at Missouri could put him back atop my board.
One of the difficulties in projecting college freshman at this point in the process is the huge gap between elite high school prospects and their competition. Ayton impressed in Arizona's scrimmage to kick off the college basketball season. While it is not necessarily predictive, it is good to see Ayton is performing well against better competition, even if it is a scrimmage.
Ayton can carve out an NBA role from Day 1. As long as he brings the effort, his ability to run the floor, block shots and score off putbacks means he can contribute right away. Look what is happening with Jordan Bell in Golden State. Bell is older and more physically developed, but what makes him effective could be similar to how Ayton starts off in the league.
NBA scouts are going to want to see Ayton's ability to hit jumpers. Ayton showed it at times in high school, and it will be interesting to see if the Arizona offense will allow him to pop out. We have seen college coaches are sometimes hesitant for their big men to play on the perimeter. It is something Ayton can showcase in pre-draft workouts if he does not get the opportunity to show his shooting ability in college.
The role of centers and power forwards in the NBA is evolving. It is hard to see the floor as a big man if you are not able to shoot. One of the exciting things about this draft class is some of the natural comparisons for players at the same position who are at a similar level of play. Ayton is going to be compared to Texas freshman Mo Bamba. Both project to be top ten draft picks in 2018, and their competition could bring out the best in each player as it did in high school.
There is not a player on this list I am more excited about than Sexton. Alabama has long been a football powerhouse, but Sexton could have the Bama faithful yelling "Roll Tide" long into March. Sexton reminds me of De'Aaron Fox, but not for his style of play. Though they have two very different games, Sexton has the same swagger and competitiveness Fox showed at Kentucky.
What can you expect from Sexton on the court? As his winning performance in the McDonald's All-American Slam Dunk contest showed, Sexton can jump out of the gym. His teammates at Alabama better keep their head on a swivel as he has the ability to get his teammates the ball, when they least expect it.
Sexton is 6'3″ and 175 pounds, so like many players on this list, he could afford to get stronger. In addition to all the positive traits I've outlined, where Sexton really shines is his ability to score. Sexton is relentless at attacking the basket, but also can pull up from three to keep defenses honest. If you can only watch one player on this list, Sexton is the player to start with.
Knox has all the tools to develop into an offensive player that is impossible to defend in the NBA. Knox is a forward who does his best work on the perimeter. He is 6'9″ with a 7′ wingspan in the same build as a player like Otto Porter. Knox comes into Kentucky with handles and a jumper making it interesting to watch how John Calapari uses him.
According to TampaBay.com, Knox had offers to play professionally in China for a year, but opted to head to Lexington to play under Coach Cal. Wildcats fans should not expect to see him past this season if all goes as planned.
Bamba is a big man that looks very comfortable on the perimeter. This is not a big man that needs to develop a jumper in college, as he is entering Austin with a jumper intact. My biggest question about Bamba heading into the college basketball season is whether he can be the kind of offensive player that a team can pass the ball to in the post, and let him go to work.
My sense is Bamba is going to start out by getting most of his points off jump shots and putbacks. Bamba brings a lot of athleticism to the table which helps him block shots, rebound and run the floor. He will need to get stronger over the next year, but at 7'0″ he has the frame to put on weight. ESPN lists Bamba at just 216 pounds, but he has a crazy 7'9″ wingspan to go with his slender body type.
We would be remiss not to mention Bamba's brother, Ibrahim Johnson, accusations that Bamba accepted improper gifts during the recruiting process. CBS Sports Gary Parrish provides context to Johnson's claims.
To me, Walker enters the season as the most underrated NBA prospect in the country. Walker tore his meniscus during the summer, but the Miami Herald reported Walker is expected to be ready for the season opener. It is a good time to be a Hurricanes fan, and not just for football reasons. Walker will join Bruce Brown to give Miami offensive firepower, and plenty of reasons for NBA draft nerds to watch Miami basketball this season.
Walker shined at both the McDonald's All-American game as well as the Jordan Brand Classic. At 6'4″, Walker is slightly undersized to be an NBA shooting guard, but has enough handles that he could split time at both the one and two. Walker is a scorer who is best with the ball in his hands, and specifically when he is on the attack. Walker can also shoot the ball from outside, and scouts will be looking to see how he is able to get his teammates involved now that he is on a Miami team with plenty of talent.
Bridges had an opportunity to be a late lottery pick last season, but opted to return to East Lansing for his sophomore season. Basketball is an unfortunate place where players often get downgraded for being anything but a freshman in the NBA draft. Make no mistake, Bridges has plenty of potential, but he will also have the advantage of entering the NBA a bit more polished with two years of college basketball experience.
A good starting place for Bridges is to watch him play against Kansas in the NCAA tournament where he matched up against Josh Jackson, who ended up being a top five pick in the draft. Bridges held his own with 28 points and eight rebounds. Bridges shined during his freshman season averaging 16.9 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.5 blocks. Bridges shot 38.9 percent from behind the three-point line, and NBA teams will want to see that number bumped up to over 40 percent this season.
Bridges does a great job getting to the basket, but needs to work on finishing opportunities in traffic. Bridges won't need to bulk up at the next level, but there are questions as to whether his ideal playing weight could be a little lower that the 230 pounds he played at last season.
The biggest challenge Bridges will face next summer is not what he puts on tape this season, as it seems unlikely Bridges would not take a step forward given his strong first season. The challenge is Bridges will be compared against the upside, real or imagined, of freshman players who will not go through a second college basketball season of being dissected by NBA decision makers.
If it has not become clear, Duke is going to be must-watch television this season for NBA draftniks with four freshman phenoms who have pro potential. Duval loves getting into the teeth of the defense and kicking it out to teammates for an open shot. Duval is 6'3″, but has a 6'9″ wingspan allowing him to disrupt passing lanes that leads to steals and fastbreak opportunities.
Duval's propensity for making highlight reel passes can lead to problems as ESPN's Jonathan Givony details.
…He [Trevon Duval] has an elite first step, plays above the rim regularly, and changes speeds powerfully to make a living inside the paint. Duval is nearly unstoppable in the open floor and has significant potential defensively due to his physical tools. He shows flashes of unselfishness and vision as a passer, but he's a poor decision-maker, preferring the flashy highlight-reel play over the substantive one too often.
There is still plenty to like about Duval, and he has a real shot to move up draft boards if he can take advantage of being the playmaker on a Blue Devil's team full of NBA talent.
Marvin Bagley, Michael Porter Jr. and Luka Doncic headline a 2018 group of prospects that could make the draft full of talent. Learn more about the top players.


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Embracing The Future Of Entertainment – Outlook India
India's media and entertainment industries have always been an important part of our national story. As a young nation born in an era where film and radio were in their infancy, we have seen our triumphs and tribulations reflected in the mass media from the very start. These industries have also become important contributors to Indian economic prosperity. In recognition of their importance, the Union government officially designated audio-visual services as one of 12 'champion service sectors' in 2018.
The sector is witnessing change at breakneck speed – developments in technology, notably the internet and over the top (OTT) content have indelibly changed the creation, distribution and consumption of content. The growing OTT ecosystem offers flexibility to creators and consumers, expands choice, and lowers distribution and search costs. Other developments such as strides in artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality, are opening up new possibilities in entertainment, creating entirely new categories of products. In its response to these changes, India could potentially propel the sector to new heights and make the country a global leader in entertainment.
To frame a suitable response, it is important to imagine what the future of entertainment will be. How will storytelling, which is at the heart of entertainment, change with developments in technology?
While stories take many forms – from the oral epics of ancient bards to slick modern video games – their narration and consumption form a central pillar of human existence. Storytelling has evolved with technology, with the flexibility of oral tales yielding to the standardization of print. Today we are on the cusp of another transformation: from linear storytelling in the printed word, television and film, to a more dynamic and non-linear mode. Artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality offer new and immersive ways for people to engage with stories. In the future that emerges from current trends, entertainment will become a more dynamic, non-linear and immersive process, highly personalized to fit consumer desires and needs.
The country has three innate strengths we must leverage. Its cultural heritage is ancient and diverse and remains underrepresented on the world stage. It is also well suited to the non-
linear entertainment of the future, as it contains many traditions of oral storytelling that yield multiple threads from a common recognisable narrative. Third, India is one of the world's largest consumers of data, with thriving creative industries. Our creators are prolific in terms of output but lag behind in commercializing their works to generate greater economic value. To achieve this, India can learn from the experience of countries like South Korea, which has emerged as a global entertainment hub.
Certain transformations are urgently required to achieve this outcome. We need to promote creative freedom, which can be done through industry-led standards, as is the practice in countries around the world. This will require active and continued engagement by the industry, as well as recognition and support from the state. Second, we must focus on building our hardware capabilities. The bundling of content with devices is already ubiquitous. And finally, we need to move to a principles-based approach to regulation, which would ensure consistency of purpose across the expanding range of technologies in the media ecosystem.
This excerpt is from the report "Embracing Nonlinearity: The Future of India's Entertainment Industry", authored by Shekhar Kapur, a renowned filmmaker and President Film and television institute of India, and Vani Tripathi, an actor and producer and, board member Central board of film certification. The report will be published by the Esya Centre, a New Delhi based think-tank in December 2020. (Views expressed are personal, and do not necessarily reflect that of Outlook magazine.)
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Russell is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located in the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum, close to the western lunar limb. As a result, it appears oblong-shaped due to foreshortening.

The south-southwestern rim of Russell overlaps the larger rim of the lava-flooded crater Struve, and together the two crater rims form a figure-8 outline with a wide gap where they are joined. To the east of Russell is Briggs, and to the southeast, adjacent to Struve, is the lava-flooded remains of a crater called Eddington.

The rim of Russell is heavily worn and irregular in form, with multiple crater impacts overlying the wall. The largest of these is Briggs A on the eastern rim. To the north of Russell are the flooded remnants of several smaller craters. Russell's lava-flooded floor is flat and level with the surrounding mare. It lacks a central peak.

In the past this crater was sometimes designated as Otto Struve A, or just assumed to be part of the larger Struve. The crater Eddington to the southeast has also been designated as Otto Struve A on old lunar maps.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Russell.

See also
 1762 Russell, asteroid
 Russell (Martian crater)

References

Impact craters on the Moon


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Q: Ruby on Rails - Custom routing for review resource with index / show page and pagination I'm stuck on a very tricky issue involving Rails 3 routes, and not good enough with routes to figure this one out on my own. I have a "Reviews" resource with only a "Show" and "Index" action. I am using the Friendly ID gem for slugged IDs, and I also have a nested comments resource, which allows people to comment on reviews.
resources :reviews, :only => [:index, :show] do
  resources :comments, :only => [:new, :create]
end

So my paths thus far for the index page is simply 'reviews,' and something like 'reviews/the-matrix' for the show action. Simple enough so far.
Now first off, I hit a snag of sorts with the main index page. I have the will_paginate gem on the index page, and I am caching the page. Problem is, caching won't work when the path is something like /reviews?page=2, rather I need the path to be /reviews/2/ when going through pagination, so I added in the following above the previous review resource to make this work.
match 'reviews(/:page)' => 'reviews#index', :constraints => { :page => /[0-9]/ }

Why the constraint? Because my 'Show' resource route doesn't work because the above line - without the number constraint - ends up being a "catch-all" that interferes with the 'Show' route. Since the ID of the show action is always going to be words, while paginated pages on the index always has a number, this is why I did it this way.
But here's the thing, I don't want the 'Show' route to be simply 'reviews/the-matrix.' See, all reviews are categorized by type of thing being reviewed, so really I would like the 'Show' path to be something like 'reviews/movies/the-matrix,' or 'reviews/books/lord-of-the-rings.'
I would rather use the original reviews 'Show' path for additional category index pages, like 'reviews/books.' (Another reason for the constraint above.) But I am going to save that for another SO question, as I don't want to make this question too complicated.
So back to the previous question. Normally I imagine the above could be solved by a simple 'match' route (with route globbing?), except we have those nested comments in the Reviews resource. How do I go about making the 'Show' pages like the above, while retaining the Comments nested resource on Reviews?

A: No sweat (if this is what you mean).
match 'reviews(/:page)' => 'reviews#index', :constraints => {:page => /[0-9]+/}
match 'reviews/comments/:id' => 'comments#my_action', :constraints => {:id => /[0-9]+/}
match 'reviews/:path' => 'reviews#show', :constraints => {:path => /.+/}

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*Adding the constraint to the third instruction will allow you to use / in your :path. (It's true: using no constraints at all will not allow foo/bar to match this pattern.) (Alternative to the regex /.+/, you might wish /[a-zA-Z/]+/, but it shouldn't matter since the earlier paths already catch everything that shouldn't be a #show.)

*Order matters. Keep these three in the order that they appear.

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David Cameron is to chair a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee on Monday to assess the response to the floods in north-west England.
Emergency services remain stretched as they call on extra resources to cope with floods caused by Storm Desmond during the weekend. Strong winds and heavy rain tore through Britain and a major incident was declared in Cumbria, the worst affected county. At least 60,000 homes were left without power and many are now lacking clean water.
As the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, called on the government to provide additional funding for flood repairs, the prime minister pledged that the government would do all it could to help those affected by the floods.
In a statement, he said: "The thoughts of the whole country will be with the people in Cumbria and the north-west who have suffered so terribly from the devastating storms this weekend. The government is doing everything it can to help those who have seen their homes flooded – and to try and prevent further damage.
In a letter to the prime minister, Farron said the government must back up its commitment to the "northern powerhouse" by providing support to homeowners and businesses affected by the flooding.
The Lib Dem leader, whose Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency has been badly hit by the floods, wrote: "That rhetoric [on the northern powerhouse] must now be backed up by action – it is essential that areas in Cumbria which have been hit by flooding are now given the resources they need to rebuild.


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The prestigious annual event is sponsored by the Mpumalanga Department of Sport and Recreation and will showcase the best aspects of Mbombela's sights and scenery, tourism and hospitality.
Once again, the championship event will cater for all the road cycling categories, incorporating the Elite men and women, U23 men, junior men and women, masters men and women, Para-cycling, tandems and schools. Although competing along the same routes, each category will race within their required distances. Please note that scholars will race in their age groups (U10, U12, U14) and will be awarded age group trophies and specially-made cycling jerseys, but will not be awarded an SA title.
Online entries are open, click here to enter. Entries for the Time Trial close on Sunday 11 January 2015 at 23:00, while the road race entries will close on Sunday 25 January 2015 at 23:00. No late entries will be accepted.
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