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Celebrity self-righteousness conceals moral hypocrisy
Anthony Pretto, Editor-in-Chief|December 9, 2022
Jos Mendez
Hypocrisy is prevalent in our world today. Many of us have become completely and utterly numb to it. Throughout the news we watch and the headlines we read, there are lies, deceit, fabrications, and people being taken advantage of. I have seen no more explicit example of this hypocrisy than Kyrie Irving's recent antisemitic incident in the media.
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving made headlines this fall with his assertion that he is "not going to stand down on anything [I] believe in" after the media condemned him for tweeting a link to a documentary titled, "Hebrews to Negroes, Wake up Black America." Many have considered this post to be antisemitic and in terrible taste. The Nets suspended Irving days later for failing to disavow antisemitism, citing a media session in which he was asked "yes or no" whether he held antisemitic beliefs. Irving strongly asserted that he was not and never was antisemitic.
Irving's statements are representative of a broad societal issue faced within the U.S. today. Jewish people have, for centuries, been discriminated against and persecuted predicated on vulgar ethnic stereotypes which hold no merits. Irving is unquestionably wrong for his statements, which appear to encourage the intolerance of a commonly prejudiced group.
Nets owner Joe Tsai issued a statement on Twitter expressing his dissatisfaction is Irving stating, "[I'm] disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of antisemitic disinformation."
Irving has since apologized for his antisemitic episode. This response showed great maturity from Irving, who seems not to be a hateful individual from all accounts. Irving, in his various apologies, comes across as misunderstood rather than abhorrent. After Irving's apology, Tsai took to Twitter, stating, "[Irving] still has work to do [before returning to play]."
The implications of Tsai's statements must not go unrecognized. The paramount issue at hand is not Irving's momentary disillusion. Instead, the real problem is the inability of Tsai to acknowledge the sheer irony of his condemning statements. Tsai remains an unrepentant supporter of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and no one seems to care.
As a known and active supporter of the CCP, Tsai has repeatedly jumped through hoops to ignore and deflect the atrocities committed by the CCP on its people. According to a 2020 Congressional report, Tsai's company, Alibaba, has been used to build an intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency. These technologies have been used widely in the western region of Xinjiang, where the CCP has forced more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities into barbed-wire "re-education" camps. These processes have been described as cultural genocide by the United States, several other countries, and human rights organizations.
Simply put, a billionaire who proclaims zero-tolerance for discrimination happily profits from a region that holds Uyghurs in barbed-wire camps, where they are raped and tortured, per the U.S. Department of State. Yet, Tsai preaches to Kyrie it's "wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity, or religion."
Tsai represents the controversial nature of the NBA-China relationship, which acquires massive revenue for both parties but requires the NBA to do business with a 1984-esque authoritarian government and ignore problems beyond the kind of social justice issues it is fighting at home.
In the United States, Tsai speaks out as an advocate to the underrepresented minorities. He continuously preaches love and acceptance to all. In China, Tsai utilizes Alibaba to partner with companies considered to be leading a "campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention and high-tech surveillance through state-of-the-art racial profiling," according to the U.S. government.
Even after Irving fulfilled the objectives placed upon him by Tsai, he was still met with pushback from the Nets' owner. This type of response from a man of Tsai's robust stature is highly alarming. Moreover, in response to Tsai's suspension of Irving, many of Irving's sponsors promptly left his side. The most prominent of the sponsors to dump Irving is Nike.
"At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism," said Nike in a statement to NPR. "To that end, we've made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately."
Nike is absolutely detestable in their attempt to stand above hate and discrimination. When has Nike ever shown any consideration for ethical issues? Nike, as a corporation, has no right to act as though they are above Kyrie Irving when much of its reported $40 billion annual revenue stream can be attributed to sweatshops and child labor.
As fans, we are responsible for ensuring that owners such as the Brooklyn Nets' Joe Tsai cannot double-dip and utilize hateful practices only where it benefits them. Likewise, as consumers, we must demand that companies manufacturing products in China conduct due diligence and social audits to ensure they are not complicit in forced labor. It is imperative, more so now than any other time, to protect those being used as social scapegoats, and target the much greater evils which loom over us.
Kyrie Irving was unequivocally wrong to promote an antisemitic documentary—this is not up for debate. However, it is essential to recognize the lengths he has gone to prove himself sorry. Rather than tackling the social issue head-on, like Irving, Joe Tsai has gone to absurd lengths to avoid any discussion of his relationship with the CCP. The fact that the majority of mass-media is ignoring Tsai's wrongdoings is alarming, as it is setting a terrible precedent that those with power and money can get away with whatever they please.
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Tighten up your high-low game. One thing that surprised me most about the fashion industry is just how widely accepted it is to wear budget brands, whether you're making a writer's salary or a CEO's. The trick is punching those pieces up with pricier designs so no one can tell the difference. Shopping on both ends of the high-low spectrum lets you indulge your good taste while keeping your wallet intact.
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While still officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere, I feel like most here are starting to feel that summer heat. It is feeling warm down here in Orange County and it's making me realize I am missing some of the warm-weather essentials! I've put together my summer wishlist of items that are either missing from my wardrobe or are in need of an update. I tried to keep things as concise as possible, but this list will totally grow along with the season.
Now that skinny jeans are on their way out, I can fully embrace the wider leg styles and these are 97% cotton and just look super comfortable and lightweight! Plus they're a color of pant I don't have.
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The shade of blue is so fresh yet vibrant and will look lovely with the ochre color of those wide leg pants.
These reminded me of a pair of shoes my mom used to have that I always wanted but my feet were too big. They're a little retro and perfect for summer.
I love that straw bags are up and coming. I'm not a fan that most of them tend to look a little *too* simple for my own personal taste. That's why I love this one by Japanese brand, Cloudy. It has a fun pop of color!
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I'm going on a no-spend month this May, but these are all on my exceptions list lol!
I am sooooo happy that skinny jeans are no longer on trend. I love wide leg trousers!
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DD: As regular readers of Borderland Beat know we do not normally (I don't remember the last time we did) promote commercial or even philanthropic projects. But this one hit a nerve. Helping kids that have suffered and been traumatized because of the extreme violence occurring in parts of their country seems like a worth while project.
This is 12 year old Noemi Álvarez. She hung herself in despair.
T he new #Hearts4Kids T-shirt campaign builds on Enrique's 2015 partnership with Save the Children to provide immediate relief to children after a natural disaster. The new T-shirt campaign will help children who face extremely frightening events and devastating tragedy recover emotionally and thrive for years to come. Eleven dollars ($11) from the sale of each T-shirt will go to Save the Children's Healing and Education through the Arts or HEART program in Mexico.
The #Hearts4Kids T-shirt is available for purchase for $27.50 online at www.enriqueiglesias.com and for $35.00 at all U.S. concert venues on his North American tour this June and September. The T-shirt will range in price at international concert venues. The new T-shirt is inspired from the original design, which was a heart drawn by Enrique Iglesias on his white T-shirt after a drone injured his hand during a concert in 2015. The new T-shirt is a crew neck with a photo of Enrique at that concert and is available in black or red with white lettering and image.
All the Kings Horseman n All the Kings Men, couldnt put Mexico together again. Not even Iglesias or The Pope, or the to little Kids that gave there famous speech.
Well, with that losing attitude, nothing will change indeed.
The reason Mexico will NEVER change is because Mexico NOW consumes ALOT of drugs!
Like many countries that consume drugs. It's not the addicts but government who ruins a country.
Mexicos corruption practices has led its country to what it is today.
Many are unfortunate in this world. With poverty, sickness, and traumatic experiences that puts a burden of living. Glad to see such a charity work go for those children who did not ask to be in such a state.
Let's not forget who we truly are; human beings who are compassionate and humble.
I will definitely donate to a worthy cause. Despite some who may think it's a scam. The conception of giving and making a change in ones life should not be overlooked by deception.
Good deeds will always be rewarded.
A true reward comes from knowing that you made a positive impact for someone in need. That to me is priceless.
I am truly blessed in family, health and career.
@To the readers; I am posting some comments that I would normally delete just to show that all the mean spirited people in the world are not just the sicarios of the cartels. Fortunately I think most if not all of them are the same person. He gives himself away in several ways. I delete his crap every day and he is probably one of those who complains the loudest when his comments aren't posted.
If all the countries were to put aside 2% of their Gross National revenues to fund such programs. Life would be much more beautiful.
It's only the humanitarian thing to do.
I:28 more than 2% is spent by the Rich and the Beautiful in programs for the poor that say "ayudate que Dios te ayudará" or in inglish, "raise yourself by your own bootstraps".
If only God would help.
"If only God would help"
For those scrupulous individuals who prefer to write it off. Rather than truly believe in giving.
4:14 help, and make the accounting public, otherwise, we know what is all about, I seen what happened to St Jude's children's Memorial golf fundrisings, you know?
And don't facking tell me you will report by next fiscal year after the IRS finishes the "audit".
Too many "tax free foundations" are nothing but scams, including the greatest of the biggest billionaires.
Please, post and let people make their own minds up, don't be affraid, nobody will lose one penny over this humble comment.
@5:30PM I posted your "humble comment" to show readers how low some people will stoop to keep other people from trying to help those in real need in Mexico.
I understand help is needed badly, but I don't understand why there should be so much need for help, unless the powerful chose for it to be like that.
It's pretty amusing to read the article before this, " The infamous La Perra released from prison", to this Enrique Iglesias stuff. What a mixed up country. I never heard of a pop star selling t-shirts while a war rages in their homeland.
It has to feel good for a artist born and raised in Mexico to have a Spanish and American artist do their job for them. It's kinda like a dead beat dad allowing the step dad to raise his child. I'm not judging but step up your Mexican artists, government and professional athletes.
Enrique iglesias was born and raised in spain, father Julio is spanish, the mother Isabel Preysler is a socialite from Philipines, the former spanish colony now a US protectorate like mexico, enrique was sent to the US to live in florida for security reasons, it wasn't safe in spain.
Exactly 11:43 Iglesias (born in Spain) is donating money for Mexician children. I was stating that Mexican artists should feel ashamed because a Spanish guy was doing their job for them. By American artist I meant Pitbull but I realized after I reread the article Pitball wasn't involved in donating he was just part of the tour. My mistake sorry. It still doesn't take away my point about Mexican's and their responsibility to take care of Mexico.
Anything south of Texas is the same country in American eyes. All 3rd world.
I agree @10:45. Artists, gov, athletes, cops, marines, president, governors, common folk, etc, etc, etc. EVERYBODY.
Children should not be depending on the charity of others, that is an indictment on society for allowing it.
Mexico's Teleton is famous for subsidizing the extravagant way of life of Emilio Azcarraga Jean who steals the money.
And trying to help, locally too, without making waves or noises.
I don't believe for a second that a 12-year old hung herself. Someone hung her.
Mexico doesn't need charity. Mexico needs a radical Christian Crusade. A holy war.
5:03 religion is what mexico needs the less, Don Vasco de Quiroga used to confort the Indian slaves in Michoacan after the Conquista de Mexico, about 600 years ago.
Clearly religion did not work.
Crusades older than that did not help either.
War is not helping anywhere in the world either, mainly because of the "for profit" component.


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Leta 1497 je postal tudi škof Toulona, naslednje leto pa še nadškof Reimsa, leta 1507 škof Nimesa in nadškof Narbonneja. Med letoma 1511 in 1513 je bil izobčen iz Cerkve; leta 1513 je nato odstopil kot škof Saint-Maloja.

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Chris Lang	in Nicaragua, UK	| 13 December 2016
Response from EcoPlanet Bamboo: Chris Lang is a "pseudo 'writer' and ex conman"
The EcoPlanet Bamboo story took a strange turn last week when EcoPlanet Bamboo responded to the posts on REDD-Monitor about the company's investment scheme in "bamboo bonds". First we'll look at the story so far, followed by EcoPlanet Bamboo's ad hominem response.
I've written three posts about EcoPlanet Bamboo. The company runs bamboo plantations in Nicaragua, South Africa and Ghana. A UK company called EcoPlanet Bamboo (UK) Ltd sold "bamboo bonds", with a promise of a "a 500% return on investment over a 15 year period". Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
The bonds were sold to retail investors by a range of companies, including Property Frontiers, Knight Emerald, and Grosvenor Park Intelligent Investments.
People investing in the bond paid their money to Citadel Trustees, a company that has appeared several times on REDD-Monitor. The Daily Mail's Tony Hetherington wrote about Citadel Trustees in 2012, and again in 2015. The company has since been renamed Highpoint Trustees. The company's website has not been available for two weeks, and REDD-Monitor has been informed that the company is going into liquidation.
One of investments that Citadel Trustees got involved with is Global Forestry Investments, that raised money from retail investors for its teak tree plantations in Brazil, offering returns of 10-20% per year. In 2015, the Serious Fraud Office launched an investigation into Global Forestry Investments.
Here are links to the three posts on REDD-Monitor about EcoPlanet Bamboo:
EcoPlanet Bamboo's response
On 9 December 2016, someone calling themselves "A concerned investor" left a comment on REDD-Monitor:
It is funny how Troy Wiseman, tries to discredit your website on Ecoplanet Bamboo's Facebook page, as if the evidence you are presenting in your blogs are not overwhelming enough. Evidence that is supported with company reports, videos and newsletters.
So, I looked up EcoPlanet Bamboo's Facebook page, where I found this (the graphic is a particularly nice touch):
The Facebook post linked to a website: www.bamboobond.co.uk. The website was registered on 5 November 2016 in the name of Ecoplanet Group, by a UK individual who gave EcoPlanet Bamboo's address in Barrington, Illinois, USA.
The website includes a page about REDD-Monitor full of made up facts.
While www.bamboobond.co.uk makes no attempt to correct any specific mistakes in REDD-Monitor's posts about EcoPlanet Bamboo, here's what EcoPlanet Bamboo got wrong about me:
"Chris Lang, a UK citizen with a criminal background"
True, I am a UK citizen. And I have been arrested on demonstrations against destructive logging and imports of unsustainable tropical timber to the UK. In the early 1990s, I protested against the UK government's proposed road construction plans, and was arrested several times during protests trying to stop the destruction of Twyford Down. If any of that gives me a "criminal background", then it's one that I'm proud of.
"has spent almost a decade building a niche for himself through blindly attacking forest based projects and industries"
Actually, I've spent more than two decades writing about forests, indigenous peoples, and destructive forest projects. My articles, reports and book chapters are collected here. None of this work involved "blindly attacking" anything.
"no tangible professional experience or expertise within any of the industries or arenas he has chosen to write about"
Apparently an MSc in Forestry from Oxford University doesn't count. Oh well.
"Chris Lang's first target was the global pulp industry, although after a series of successful law suits against, him this line of attack stopped in 2012"
I have written lots about the problems created by the pulp and paper industry globally, with a particular focus on the social and environmental impacts of industrial tree plantations. However, I have never faced a law suit from any of the companies I've written about.
"backed by a team of poorly paid SEO workers in India and Bangladesh"
I have never hired anyone to work on search engine optimisation in India, Bangladesh, or anywhere else.
REDD-Monitor "has become somewhat of a joke in legitimate forest circles"
EcoPlanet Bamboo must have an interesting definition of "legitimate forest circles". Unless they are talking about Forest Trends, of course, which in 2014 wrote up a gushing interview with Troy Wiseman, EcoPlanet Bamboo's CEO and co-founder (and shortly afterwards reposted an opinion piece by Wiseman). Forest Trends promotes carbon trading, whereas I argue that trading the carbon stored in forests would address neither climate change nor the ongoing destruction of the world's forests.
"Indonesia provides the perfect location for this pseudo 'writer', able to escape from defamation, fraud and other legal suits resulting from his mode of operation"
Indonesia has pretty nasty defamation laws. I've never faced any legal suits (apart from when the UK government tried to sue me and more than 70 other anti-road protesters at Twyford Down for £1 million – the government lost).
"Much information on Chris Lang's dubious past as well as the fraudulent nature of the REDD Monitor site are widely available":
I have written a series of posts on REDD-Monitor about investment scams offered by boiler rooms mainly operating out of London. Shortly after I wrote about the Capital Alternatives network of scam companies, a series of anonymous posts appeared on the internet falsely claiming that I was running an investment scam. I do not run any investment schemes, or provide advice on where people should invest their money.
"More recently Chris Lang has begun additional sites, including 'Illegal Deforestation Monitor' only this time keeping himself confidential"
I was not involved in setting up the website Illegal Deforestation Monitor, and have written nothing on the website. Obviously looking up the "About" page was too much effort for EcoPlanet Bamboo.
"In October 2016 Chris Lang decided to target EcoPlanet Bamboo with a series of poorly researched and badly patched together articles attempting to discredit the company and indicate that shareholders had been 'bamboozled'":
If there are any factual errors in anything I've written about EcoPlanet Bamboo, I would be happy to correct the articles. In fact, my main sources of information were letters from EcoPlanet Bamboo, Highpoint Trustees, and The Eco Resources Fund, which are reproduced in full in the posts on REDD-Monitor.
"In addition Chris Lang and his team at REDD Monitor made a number of direct blackmail threats"
I have never threatened anyone with blackmail. There is no REDD-Monitor "team".
"EcoPlanet Bamboo has had no direct contact or interaction with Chris Lang or REDD Monitor"
True. Which leaves an interesting question: How am I supposed to have threatened blackmail without having contacted EcoPlanet Bamboo?
The page about REDD-Monitor on www.bamboobond.co.uk ends with three anonymous quotations:
Robert Hii
Thanks for the chuckle. Keep up the great work exposing these scams.
Catherine V. Howard
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, ad hominem attacks are the last resort of scoundrels. If the fraudsters trying to smear your reputation had any facts to defend their actions against your investigative reporting, they would have presented them in a reasoned argument. Since they have none, they are lashing out with pathetic name calling. By shining sunlight on their maneuvers this way, you may be able to dry up the scum and mildew.
Keep on with your excellent journalism, Chris, it's refreshing to see investigations like yours that serve vital public interests.
Bruce Rodgers
Great rebutal.
Concerned Investor
Chris I have just read the content on the Bamboobond website, It does bend the truth somewhat. Bond holders did not 'Vote' to sell their bonds, we had no choice and were given an ultimatum. Troy Wiseman had already negotiated the deal to sell our investment to the Eco Resources Fund. The fact that a majority of 75% was required is a new revelation. The majority would not have voted to sell if there had indeed been an option not to, hence only one person out of 282 people actually voted 'no'.
We do not have shares in the fund as stated, they are held by EcoPlanet UK not individual Bond holders.
More dodgy descriptions:
'Step 3 The sale terms', were on a first come first served basis, we did not 'choose' an option as described, nor did we ever know what position we were in the queue for receiving our money back.
'Step 5 Bonds exchanged for ERF shares January 2014'. I am not aware that any shares were exchanged until the end of the redemption period in Dec 2015. Bond holders did not agree to such an exchange it was not part of the redemption contract. Citadel/Highpoint allege this was illegal and asked us to vote as to whether we should instruct them to start legal proceedings against EcoPlanet UK.
Step 6 -'Citadel continues to hold Fund shares owned by the 135 remaining individuals' – Not true, Citadel refused to hold the shares, they are held by EcoPlanet Bamboo.
'EcoPlanet Bamboo has no involvement in or management of the Eco Resources Fund' – again how can they say this when EcoPlanet bamboo is a major shareholder in the ERF. Troy Wiseman himself does have direct interests in the fund.
'EcoPlanet Bamboo was not the administrator of the bamboo bond, nor responsible for management of the bondholders'. Again a very dubious statement. Ecoplanet Bamboo UK is the Bond Issuer and still is, they are solely responsible for ongoing administration and communication with the bond holders. ERF have no knowledge of or involvement with individual bond holders.Property Frontiers have not been informed who has not had their money back so they cannot say who is still an affected Bondholder.
'EcoPlanet Bamboo is a non operating holding company'. I would love to know how such a holding company can pay its one director Troy Wiseman a very very substantial dividend according to accounts filed with Company's House
And so on, enough said…….
Carry on the good work Chris Lang
One thing low-life scum conmen hate being told about themselves is they're low-life scrum conmen.
They live their life as a complete lie alongside lying for a living, so when somebody reminds them of the actual truth they simply cannot handle it and often lash out with semi-drunken posts and all round rambling of nonsense.
Well done Chris, thanks for all the work you do exposing the scammers, I think you've probably saved lots of innocent victims from paying money to these sorts of dreadful and very immoral people.
Troy Wiseman: The Bernie Madoff of Timber
Hey Troy Madoff, if you are making profits as you allude to in your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACCzXScS_A&feature=youtu.be&t=1684
Why haven't you serviced your debt to investors?
Jeremy Sweet
me thinks they do protest too much ! Interesting that they focus on character assassination and not on addressing the issues raised by you. This is typical of the defensive response of many organisations when they lack good arguments for a rebuttle . Best wishes
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Attendees will also be able to discover "Rendez-vous by French Wink" pop-up store and do their holiday shopping a la Française before and after the screening. French Wink, a New York based brick-and-click concept store aims at refreshing New Yorkers view of what genuine Holidays feels like. They will do so through an exclusively French based pop-up store, open for one week in Soho [25 Greene st] from December 11 to 17. Like an art exhibition, French Wink curated participating brands to paint the picture of modern France, where the past gets reinvented to suits the needs of modern customer, without losing its soul. The voyage through France gathers the best gifts for men, women and child all together.
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This screening is the first pop up event of the new film series Uptown Flicks curated by Adeline Monzier and co-organized by Marie Gentine. Uptown Films features a monthly series in Harlem of top recent French films and documentaries followed by a drink to mingle and share reactions as well as kids series and pop up screenings in NYC.


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It's a new year and time to renew my resolution to continue exercising at least 4 -5 times per week. As 2017 came to a close a new research study was published that shows high intensity interval training (HIIT) delays Parkinson's progression. As Daniel Corcos, one of the lead authors of the study states "If you have Parkinson's disease and you want to delay the progression of your symptoms, you should exercise three times a week with your heart rate between 80 and 85 percent maximum. It is that simple." If you query Google for High Intensity Exercise and Parkinson's you will find an abundance of articles about this study, here is the link to one of them from Science Daily.
While the need to exercise for PD patients has been shown in many studies, this was one of the first to be conducted for 6 months instead of 12 weeks. The participants were divided into three groups, HIIT exercise, moderate exercise and no exercise. All scored about 20 on a PD scale of 0 – 108 before the study. When scored after the 6 months The HIIT group showed no change while the moderate group got worse by 1.5 points and the no exercise group worsened by 3 points or about a 15% change.
Although the primary exercise used during this study was the treadmill, Kathy, our Parkinson's cycling instructor immediately figured that we can step up our cycling program to include high intensity intervals and start raising our aerobic fitness level. So, even though many of us thought we were doing high intensity training already (well at least I did), she started pushing us to reach the 80 – 85% heart rate after Thanksgiving. Almost every workout has incorporated HIIT and I am already starting to see a change in just 6 weeks. The first few sessions I found I had to lower the gear to finish the workout. But each time I felt I was getting stronger and this week I was able to increase instead of decrease the gear and still maintain the required 80 – 90 RPM. I am happy with that progress and I am noticing a reduction in my symptoms after exercise including not feeling 'off' a half hour or so before it's time to take my medicines on the day of exercise.
But I wondered what is happening to my aerobic fitness? Then I discovered that my Fitbit app is keeping track of my cardio fitness! The app determined my heart rate zones and then uses those zones and my resting heart rate to compute a cardio fitness score. As you can see in this screen shot on the left, Fitbit has determined that, for me, a heart rate greater than 126 is my peak zone and my cardio zone is 104 – 125. The peak range is approximately 80% of my maximum heart rate so anything above that would be considered high intensity exercise.
The app also graphs my heart rate for the entire day so I can tell from that graph how long I was in the peak zone. The screen shot on the left is for 1/2/18 which includes a cycling class.
So I was in the 'zone' for 9 minutes during the class which corresponds to intervals where we pushed up to 85 or 90 RPM for short periods.
And here are screen shots showing my cardio fitness as computed by Fitbit on November 16, 2017 and January 2, 2018. So, in theory, I've already improved my Cardio Fitness by a point since we started the HIIT. But just as important is that fact that either score is considered excellent by Fitbit where the average score for men over 60 is 27.2 – 31.0.
Between cycling twice a week, playing tennis 2 -3 times a week and the Dance for PD class I am staying fit, slowing the progression of my Parkinson's and having fun. We will revisit my cardiac score in a month or so to see if the trend continues or maybe I'm maxed out!
So my New Year's resolution this year is the same as last year, keep exercising and keep fighting PD. By the way, if you are interested in Pedaling for Parkinson's, check out this video from the Sarasota YMCA website of one of Kathy's classes and watch us having fun doing intervals!


Jose Mourinho handed Kevin De Bruyne his Chelsea competitive debut, and the Belgian duly shone with an impressive assist.
Kevin De Bruyne shone for Chelsea in their 2-0 victory over Hull City on Sunday, which was the Belgian international's first competitive game for the club.
De Bruyne signed for the Blues in the summer transfer window of 2012, but spent last season on loan at Werder Bremen, where he demonstrated he was ready to step up to the first team at Stamford Bridge.
Jose Mourinho has clearly been impressed, for he picked the 22 year-old to start the match in the attacking triumvirate behind Fernando Torres ahead of Juan Mata, Andre Schurrle and Victor Moses, and De Bruyne set up the first goal for Oscar.
De Bruyne posted his delight about his first game on social network Instagram.


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Kielberger György (Veszprém, 1809 körül – 1874 után) orvosdoktor, a pestvárosi közkórház másodorvosa, gazdasági szakíró.

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Veszprémi származású. 1846-ban lett a pesti orvosegylet rendes tagja; később Tótfaluban (Tahi), Vác mellett telepedett le és különösen kertészettel és szőlőszettel foglalkozott. A pesti kertészeti magánegyletnek is munkás tagja volt.

Cikkeket írt nagyobbrészt a szőlőmívelésről a Falusi Gazdában (1862-68), a Kertészgazdában (1865-66., 1868., 1872), a Gazdasági Közlönyben (1869), a Falusi Gazda Naptárába (1872. Szőlőlugasmívelés) és a Borászati Lapokba (1874. Kerti szőlőszet és a tömeges bortermelés.)

Munkája

 Dissertatio inaug. medico-pathologica. Contagium. Budae, 1838

Források

További információk

 Dörnyei Sándor: Régi magyar orvosdoktori értekezések 1772-1849. I. köt. Bp., Borda Antikvárium, 1998.; II. köt. 2002.

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There is nothing worse than digging out some old boxes of treasured items and finding out that some time down the line, water has gotten in somewhere and ruined the whole box. This can be even worse when you find that the box was full of old photographs which are now faded, cracked and bleached by being steeped in water.
Fortunately there are photo touch up experts out there who can repair even this kind of damage. As long as there is still some semblance of the photos image still visible through the damage they should be able to create a brand new photograph for you.
It can be mortifying when you go to pick up a treasured photograph and catching it on something pull a tear straight across it. Additionally you might find that an older photo that has been crumpled or kept in someone's pocket will have formed cracks.
While you might be tempted to tear up the photo in a rage as a result of this, DON'T! This is not a lost cause. In fact this is one of the most common repair jobs for photo touch up experts. By utilising the shades and definite lines either side of the crack they can piece together the two parts to create a like now image.
Some older pictures are simply of a far lower quality due to being significantly older. It stands to reason that this would be more common in older photos. They didn't have the enhanced focus mega pixel cameras way back when. Other photos will simply have faded due to being kept in bright light or through natural deterioration.
As a result, this can make some elements of the picture somewhat difficult to make out. However, this is not a lost cause to a photo repair expert. Whether it's a colour or black and white photo an expert should be able to put a bit more detail into the image utilising shading enhancements to ensure that the image is crisper and that the vital elements stand out.
Unfortunately this isn't witchcraft or wizardry so some forms of repair simply aren't possible. When a photo is taken and there are obvious issues like blurring or obscuring due to the flash, there is little that can be done.
This is simply because there isn't the image available to repair. That part of the photo was never captured so anything added in this place would simply be made up. This is a case of either cropping the photo or accepting that it's unfortunately a lost cause.
Steven Roecamb has conducted some photo touch up on his own damaged pictures. However, he knows that a more skilled professional is required for severely damaged photos.
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3/03/2007 · The workflow triggered off of a list where the list item had a JobReqID column which represented a unique job that a fictional company was interviewing for... There was also a SiteAdmin column (of type Person) which was to be read by the workflow and used to designate the new site collection's administrator. Here is the code I had in my workflow's code activity.... i want to create sharepoint 2007 workflow with E-mail notificationin sharepoint Designer . my Workflow Scenario is : Step-1 employer send document for approval to manager .
Would you not create an approvers group in addition to the contributors group, to approve items submitted by contributors? You can add in an approval group to the workflow participants in the workflow settings.
Nintex Workflow and SharePoint 2007 Dear all, I have designed an InfoPath 2007 form and in the form there is a drop down list box with 5 names of ICT. I'll cover the following topics in the code samples below: SharePoint 2010InfoPath 2007, SharePoint, BizTalk, Silverlight, and Scenario.
27/08/2008 · Hey Greg, Yeah you are right. I could as well create a user control and add it to the sharepoint site as a webpart. I actually need a text box and a button and when a user enters some value and click the button, it should bring up all the information from the database and populate a table that I have on that page.
In SharePoint Designer 2007, declarative workflows were based on the identity of the user who initiated the workflow. This could be a problem if you wanted to access some unauthorized resources. Workflows that are generated in VS 2010, on the other hand, run in full trust mode by using the identity of the application pool user.
In this article, we walk you through creating a SharePoint Workflow with the Approval workflow template. Similar detailed information on creating a workflow with the other three templates is included in Chapter 5, " Working with Workflow" from our book, Beginning SharePoint Development: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wrox, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-12449-9).


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The general strategy adopted by most present-day competitive bodybuilders is to make muscle gains for most of the year (known as the "off-season") and, approximately 12–14 weeks from competition, lose a maximum of body fat (referred to as "cutting") while preserving as much muscular mass as possible. The bulking phase entails remaining in a net positive energy balance (calorie surplus). The amount of a surplus in which a person remains is based on the person's goals, as a bigger surplus and longer bulking phase will create more fat tissue. The surplus of calories relative to one's energy balance will ensure that muscles remain in a state of anabolism.
Overtraining occurs when a bodybuilder has trained to the point where his workload exceeds his recovery capacity. There are many reasons why overtraining occurs, including lack of adequate nutrition, lack of recovery time between workouts, insufficient sleep, and training at a high intensity for too long (a lack of splitting apart workouts). Training at a high intensity too frequently also stimulates the central nervous system (CNS) and can result in a hyperadrenergic state that interferes with sleep patterns.[52] To avoid overtraining, intense frequent training must be met with at least an equal amount of purposeful recovery. Timely provision of carbohydrates, proteins, and various micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, even nutritional supplements are acutely critical. A mental disorder, informally called "bigorexia" (by analogy with anorexia), may account for overtraining in some individuals. Sufferers feel as if they are never big enough or muscular enough, which forces them to overtrain in order to try and reach their goal physique.[53] https://www.pinterest.com/NewBeginningsToHealth/
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Recently a Harvard Divinity School scholar, Karen L. King, published a paper, provocatively entitled, ?The Gospel of Jesus? Wife,? on a 4th century 1 ½ by 3 inch Coptic papyrus scrap that, she argues, contains the phrase, ?Jesus said to them, ?My wife. . . .?? Indeed, she announced her research in the Vatican?s front yard at a Coptic Studies conference at the Catholic Church?s Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome. [The papyrus is roughly rectangular, torn on all four sides, so that each line of text is incomplete; 33 words spread across 14 incomplete lines.] Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times correctly observes that the title of her paper was ?attention-getting . . . as if it had equal weight to other, lengthier texts that are known as the Gospels.? She has submitted the paper to the Harvard Theological Review (scheduled to be published in January 2013), which asked three scholars to review it. According to Goodstein, two questioned its authenticity, but they had seen only low-resolution photographs of the fragment and one of the two questioned the grammar, translation and interpretation. Further, the ink on the papyrus has not been submitted for a spectrum analysis, which would confirm that the ink?s chemistry is compatible with inks from antiquity. [King has promised to do so in the very near future.] In addition, as King admits, if authentic, the fragment was written 350 years after Jesus? death, burial and resurrection and does not prove that Jesus was married. Adding to the controversy of this fragment is that its owner, who collects Greek, Coptic and Arabic papyri, is not willing to be identified either by name, nationality or location. Further, when, where and how the fragment was discovered is not known. Dr. King received the fragment from the owner in 2011. Written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that uses Greek letters, the fragment is in the opinion of several scholars who have seen it, not a forgery. [King believes that the fragment was originally written in Greek and then translated into Coptic.] Others are not so sure. What should we make of this papyrus scrap? Does it provide evidence that Jesus did indeed have a wife? How should we think about this provocative thesis? King is not necessarily arguing categorically for this thesis, but, with the provocative title of her paper, the suggestion is clear. Several thoughts.
First, who is Karen King? Karen L. King is the Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard, the oldest endowed chair in the United States and one of the most prestigious chairs in religious studies. [The divinity school at Harvard was established in 1816 and has become one of the more controversial divinity schools in the US, promoting scholarship that challenges historical, biblical Christianity, among many other things.] Along with Princeton?s Elaine Pagels, among others, King has been on the forefront of challenging the history of biblical Christianity. They have written that ?the traditional history of Christianity is written almost solely from the viewpoint of the side that won, which was remarkably successful in silencing or distorting other voices, destroying their writings, and suppressing any who disagreed with them as dangerous and obstinate ?heretics.?? Both Pagels and King reject biblical Christianity and have championed heterodoxy over orthodoxy. In a recent article in The Smithsonian, King is described as representing a ?scholarship [that] has been kind of a sustained critique of what she calls the ?master story? of Christianity: a narrative that casts the canonical texts of the New Testament as divine revelation that passed through Jesus in ?an unbroken chain? to the apostles and their successors?church fathers, ministers, priests and bishops who carried these truths into the present day. According to this ?myth of origins,? as she called it, followers of Jesus who accepted the New Testament?chiefly the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, written roughly between AD 65 and AD 95, or at least 35 years after Jesus? death?were true Christians. Followers of Jesus inspired by noncanonical gospels were heretics hornswoggled by the devil.? King?s 2003 book, The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, argued, among other things, that Mary was the very model of apostleship. King sees the Coptic fragment as fresh evidence of the diversity of voices in early Christianity. Despite her provocative title about the Coptic fragment, King suggests that ?This new gospel doesn?t prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about sexuality and marriage.? If Jesus was married, King does not argue that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
Second, what does all this mean? Certainly the way the national press has handled King?s announcement, theologian Albert Mohler?s comments that this is ?sensationalism as scholarship? seems appropriate. This small fragment does not prove Jesus was married at all. If it is indeed proven to be authentic and the spectrum analysis of the ink confirms this, this fragment probably says more about Gnosticism than it does biblical Christianity. King and Pagels look very enthusiastically upon the Gnostic texts, which, since the Nag Hammadi discovery, have come down to us from the ancient world. [In 1945, 52 ancient texts were discovered near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt. The texts are Gnostic texts, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and the Secret Revelation of John, among many others.] These texts have been used by Pagels and King to make the case that there was an alternative version of Christianity that indicated a great deal more diversity in the early centuries of Christianity. Those movements promoted the superiority of female leadership over men, in some cases, and that the moral prohibitions concerning sexuality, especially homosexuality, were part of this forced orthodoxy of the 4th century through emperor Constantine. In most of these Gnostic texts, Jesus was human, not divine, and Christianity was not a message of ?salvation through faith in a divine Jesus who saves sinners through the atonement He accomplished in His death and resurrection.? Correctly, Mohler concludes that ?Those arguing for the superiority of the Gnostic texts deny the divine inspiration of the New Testament and prefer the heterodox teachings of the Gnostic heretics. Hauntingly, the worldview of the ancient Gnostics is very similar, in many respects, to various worldviews and spiritualties around us today.? The Gnostic texts were all written by anonymous authors sometimes centuries after Jesus? death, burial and resurrection. Yet, King and others are asking us to trust the veracity of these texts over against the four Gospels, all of which were written in the 1st century; in the case of Mark, only two or three decades after the events of Jesus? life. The entire thesis of King about an ?alternative? Christianity of the first three centuries that was suppressed by the power of Constantine is arguably controversial. But she is unwilling to admit that the argument of these centuries was really about heretical teachings. As it was in the first three centuries, this is a debate about heresy versus orthodoxy, truth versus error.
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Where to Stream Hacksaw Ridge?
War movies are thrilling to watch as they depict the bravery of the people who risk their lives to protect their county. 'Hacksaw Ridge' is a biographical war drama film directed by Mel Gibson. It is based on the 2004 documentary titled 'The Conscientious Objector'. As the title of the documentary suggests, the film is based on the life of an individual who objected to the military's rules based on his faith.
Basically, we are introduced to Desmond Doss and his experiences during World War II. Doss was an American pacifist combat medic. However, since he was a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, he refused to carry any kind of firearm. Being a part of the greatest war the world has seen, without a firearm, seems kind of strange; but Doss stood apart due to his acts of courage. In fact, he became the first conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor, for service above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Okinawa. Upon release, 'Hacksaw Ridge' received critical and commercial success, which must make you wonder where you can see the film. We are here to tell you, but before that, let us walk you through the plot of 'Hacksaw Ridge'.
What is Hacksaw Ridge About?
'Hacksaw Ridge' starts by showing Desmond Doss at a young age in the 1920s, in rural Virginia. He almost kills his little brother, Hal, while roughhousing. The event, combined with his Seventh-day Adventist upbringing, reinforces Desmond's belief in the commandment that 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'. Years later, when Desmond takes an injured man to a hospital, he meets a nurse named Dorothy Schutte. The two begin a romance and Desmond reveals his interest in medicine to her.
After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Doss enlists as a combat medic. This upsets his father, who himself is a veteran of World War I. Nonetheless, Doss goes, but before that, he asks Dorothy's hand in marriage and she accepts. Doss is placed in training under Sergeant Howell's command. Although he excels physically, he still becomes an outcast among the soldiers due to his refusal to handle firearms or train on Saturdays. Howell along with Captain Glover attempt to have him discharged for psychiatric reasons, but are overruled since religious beliefs are not considered to be mental illness. Subsequently, Doss is put through grueling training to get him to leave. One night his fellow soldiers beat him up as well, but the man continues training, refusing to identify the perpetrators.
Once Doss completes his training, he is released on leave during which time he intends to marry Dorothy. However, he is arrested on the charges of refusing to carry a firearm. While his court-martial is taking place, Doss goes against the suggestions to plead guilty, refusing to compromise on his religious beliefs. He receives some help from his father, who carries a letter from his former training officer, who is now a brigadier general. The letter states that Doss' pacifism is protected under the US Constitution. As a result, Doss is released and is free to marry Dorothy.
Doss finally gets to witness the action as he is made part of the 77th Infantry Division and asked to relieve the 96th Infantry Division, whose job is to secure the Maeda Escarpment (Hacksaw Ridge) in the Battle of Okinawa. During the initial battles, there are heavy losses on both sides, but Doss manages to save quite a few lives, including that of Smitty, a fellow soldier. He earns the man's respect and also reveals to him that his unwillingness to carry firearms stems from the fact that he almost shot his father when he had threatened his mother with a gun. The next morning, the Japanese hit back and the Americans are in trouble.
However, Doss is not one to give up and shows immense courage, saving the lives of several soldiers. The Americans are all impressed by Doss and his captain tells him that they plan to take back the ridge on Saturday and need Doss fighting alongside them. The attack is held off till Doss completes his prayers and when it does take place, the Americans ultimately win the battle. Doss is injured by a grenade but survives. At the end of the film, we see archival photos and footage of Doss winning the Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman. It is revealed that he remained married to Dorothy and passed away in 2006 at the age of 87.
Is Hacksaw Ridge on Netflix?
Netflix has a fantastic collection of films and television shows which sets it apart as a premier content provider. Unfortunately, 'Hacksaw Ridge' is not on Netflix but you can check out 'Beasts of No Nation', a wonderful film that depicts the gritty reality of child soldiers and the actual cost of a war in some countries.
Is Hacksaw Ridge on Hulu?
Hulu has an amazing collection of films and television shows and the platform just keeps making smart additions all the time, in order to stay ahead of the competitors. Though 'Hacksaw Ridge' is not on Hulu, you can check out 'Grave of the Fireflies'. Admittedly, it is a very different kind of war movie. It gives the perspective of how civilian life is disrupted during the war, and is a touching tale that takes place during World War II.
Is Hacksaw Ridge on Amazon Prime?
Amazon Prime has an enviable collection of films and television shows that can perhaps only be bested by Netflix. Though 'Hacksaw Ridge' is not available to Prime subscribers as is, you can rent or buy and watch the movie on the platform. The SD and HD versions cost $3.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy. Unless you're bent on keeping the movie in your library, we recommend renting. Check it out here.
Where Can I Stream Hacksaw Ridge Online?
No subscriptions to the major platforms? No worries. You can still stream 'Hacksaw Ridge' online. Head over to YouTube, Vudu or FandangoNow. It costs $3.99 to rent the HD version and $12.99 or $13.99 to buy the SD or HD version on YouTube. On FandangoNow, all versions cost $3.99 to rent and $13.99 to buy, including the Ultra HD version. On Vudu, all the versions cost $3.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy. Obviously, we recommend heading over to Vudu.
Where Can I Watch Hacksaw Ridge Online For Free?
Sorry freeloaders, but there is no way to stream 'Hacksaw Ridge' for free using legal means. You have to wait until it arrives on one of the platforms that has trial periods. However, we would like to urge our readers to pay for all the art that they consume.
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Q: How to prevent a for loop from adding the same element in Python? I have a variable, representing a chessboard filled with random chess pieces. The variable consists of a list of 8 lists,each containing 8 positions filled with either " " (empty position) or a specific chess piece (e.g. "♞"):
chessboard = [
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ','♞','♞',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ','♔',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' '],
[' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ']
]

I would like to collect the information of each individual piece in a list:
pieces = []
for row in chessboard:
        for piece in row:
            if piece != " ":
                pieces.append((piece, row.index(piece), chessboard.index(row)))

The above for loop ALMOST works. It has one problem. If there are multiple identical pieces in the same row, it adds the coordinates of the first iterated piece:
[('♞', 5, 2), ('♞', 5, 2), ('♔', 2, 5)]

The second knight should be in position 6,2. Can anybody suggest a workaround?

A: Using a list comprehension:
out = [(item, j, i) for i,row in enumerate(chessboard)
                    for j,item in enumerate(row) if item != ' ']

or numpy.where:
import numpy as np

a = np.array(chessboard)
i,j = np.where(a!=' ')
out = list(zip(a[i,j], j, i))

output:
[('♞', 5, 2), ('♞', 6, 2), ('♔', 2, 5)]

A: Loop over enumerate(row) and enumerate(row), and if the cell isn't ' ' then add the indices to your list. This is also more efficient, as your solution loops across each row multiple times - once to get across the row, and once each time it wants to find the index of a piece.

A: enumerate the rows and columns.
pieces = []
for i, row in enumerate(chessboard):
        for j, piece in enumerate(row):
            if piece != " ":
                pieces.append((piece, i, j))

A: There are already some good answers to this question, but I find that numpy may be a good choice for this question:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> board = np.array(chessboard)
>>> board
array([[' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '♞', '♞', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', '♔', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
       [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ']], dtype='<U1')
>>> i, j = (board != ' ').nonzero()
>>> list(zip(board[i, j], j, i))
[('♞', 4, 2), ('♞', 5, 2), ('♔', 2, 5)]

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nibbled is a [Gopher][] daemon.

This is yet another COVID 19 project, reviving an old project I'd intended on starting when I first started using Go in anger.

[Gopher]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436
[Gopher URI scheme]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4266
[GopherII]: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-matavka-gopher-ii-03.txt
[Gophernicus]: https://github.com/gophernicus/gophernicus/
[gophermap]: https://github.com/gophernicus/gophernicus/blob/master/README.gophermap
[goth]: https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goth
[Gemini]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

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Photos: SpaceX's Falcon 9 Reusable Rocket Test & Dragon Cargo Launch
By Space.com Staff
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket are seen in the horizontal position ahead of a planned Jan. 10, 2015 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX's Dragon & Reusable Rocket
SpaceX will attempt the first-ever ocean platform landing of reusable rocket stage during the Jan. 6, 2015 launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo ship. See photos from the mission here.
Liftoff!
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Jan. 10, 2014, sending the company's unmanned Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station for NASA. Read the full story here.
SpaceX Dragon in Orbit: CRS-5
SpaceX's fifth Dragon cargo ship for NASA separates from its Falcon 9 rocket after successfully launching into orbit on Jan. 10, 2014. The spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station with supplies on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Read the full story here.
SpaceX's Epic Fly-back Booster Rocket Landing Explained
By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist
In a first for space flight, SpaceX will attempt to fly its Falcon 9 booster rocket to a safe landing aboard an offshore platform. See the full infographic here.
SpaceX's Drone Spaceport Ship
Elon Musk/SpaceX
On Jan. 5, 2015, SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted this photo of the "autonomous spaceport drone ship" that will serve as a rocket landing platform in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX will try to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on the ship on Jan. 6, 2015.
SpaceX CRS-5 Logo
SpaceX (via blogs.nasa.gov)
SpaceX's CRS-5 mission is scheduled to launch on Jan. 6, 2014, from Cape Canaveral Air Forcce Station in Florida.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Fins
Four hypersonic grid fins on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will assist in precision landing.
SpaceX's 'Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship'
SpaceX's "autonomous spaceport drone ship" measures 300 by 170 feet (91 by 52 meters) with its "wings" extended.
T-60 to Launch
SpaceX (via Twitter as @SpaceX)
On Jan. 6, 2015, SpaceX tweeted this photo of their Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, 60 minutes before the scheduled launch of the CRS-5 mission to the International Space Station.
International Space Station Flies Overhead Before SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch
Bob Jacobs (via Twitter as @bnjacobs)
On the morning of Jan. 6, 2015, NASA's long range cameras caught the International Space Station flying overhead shortly before the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 on the Launch Pad
On Jan 6, 2015, SpaceX tweeted this photo of its Falcon 9 rocket awaiting immiment launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to the International Space Station.
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Recap of LinuxCon China and Xen Project's Growth in the Region
By Lars KurthJuly 25, 2017March 4th, 2019Events
It's been a very busy month or so for the Xen Project. During mid-June, I was lucky to attend and speak at LinuxCon + ContainerCon China held in Beijing. There I spoke on the topic of securing embedded systems with the hypervisor and live patching, virtual machine introspection and vulnerability management alongside my colleague Cheng Zhang of Citrix.
Open source has grown tremendously in China over the last few years, with Xen Project technology being a key enabler for cloud computing. Most recently, the Xen Project announced Huawei joining the Project's advisory board. Huawei is one of a growing number of Chinese companies leveraging and contributing to the Xen Project's software. Other organizations include Alibaba, Fujitsu (China), Intel (China), Tencent, Inspur, and more.
The Xen Project hypervisor currently powers Alibaba Cloud, which is growing at a massive rate with incredible potential.
Many ask why is this growth happening in China and why now? There are many different reasons, but I think the main point is: As key technologies are increasingly built collaboratively, more and more Chinese companies are using open source to leapfrog competitors. By joining Linux Foundation projects, in-country organizations are helping to drive further growth and development.
Collaboration in China and at the Conference
Contributions with the Xen Project have greatly expanded over the last few years, especially in contributions and membership coming from China. In our latest release, Xen Project 4.9, we had 25% more contributors to the core hypervisor, and an increase of 17% of contributions coming from the hypervisor, tests, and other components. We received several contributions from individuals based in China as well as Fujitsu (China), Huawei Technologies, and Intel (China).
We are generally seeing more companies (in China and beyond) participating in the project with an eye toward automotive, embedded, security, and native-cloud computing.
During the conference, I was able to meet up with community members from Alibaba, Huawei, Hyper_, Intel and others.. Key highlights and conversations for me included:
In the last year, we have seen very rapid adoption of Xen Project based products in government (e.g. China State Grid), industry (e.g. CTCI), telecoms (e.g. China Mobile), banking/financial (e.g. ICBC, People's Insurance Company of China) and are starting to see adoption in High Performance Computing. One surprising factor that is leading to rapid adoption of open source in China is that many industries are required to perform code audits on software with the aim of strengthening cybersecurity, which gives open source software a significant edge.
I had lots of discussions on the "ins and outs" of Virtual Machine Introspection, after I highlighted that VMI defeated WannaCry/EternalBlue a priori mentioned in my live patching, virtual machine introspection and vulnerability management talk. As I learned most WannaCry victims were based in China including a number of companies such as the China National Petroleum Corporation, which led to 20% of petrol stations across the mainland going offline.
Live Patching, and its potential limitations and the complexities of how to build and validate them, were also high on the list of discussions which came up several times.
Another highlight was a discussion around the proposed Shared coprocessor framework for Xen, whose design is currently being finalized and will support sharing of GPUs, DSPs, FPGs and security once the prototype has been completed and upstreamed. I had originally assumed that co-processor sharing was mainly of interested either in embedded or for niche cloud use-cases, but was surprised to learn that there may be much more market pull than anticipated.
I'm looking forward for continued collaboration and innovation in this region.
AnnouncementsEventsXen Summit
Xen Developer and Design Summit: A Year of Fuzzing with Xen
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After the show I immediately started Lisa Lillien's diet. So far it's not difficult at all. In fact, it is amazing because I am able to eat large portions and the recipes are really easy to make. I start off every day with a hot cup of water with lemon and Hungry Girl oatmeal. I make sure to have plenty of veggies on hand for snacks until lunch, which is usually a salad or a lean green shake. For dinner, my favorite is a Hungry Girl pasta. I have also been drinking tons of water during the day. My skin looks amazing; I have the Beyoncé glow going on.
The hardest part so far has been the meal prep. I previously was not a disciplined or organized person, and I lived a very unhealthy life. Meal prep can get frustrating the first couple of times, but it is necessary for success. I have the hang of it now, and I feel better because I just reach in the fridge and I know exactly what I am going to eat. I don't even want fast food anymore. I like the ability to control exactly what I eat and the ingredients. Before I go to the grocery store, I make a list and go in with a plan. I stick to the outer aisles of the grocery store and I am able to get in and out in 30 minutes because I have a list and I stick to it. Every time I start to crave a fish sandwich, onion ring or ice cream I think about how that food will make me feel. As soon as I get home, I rinse all my veggies and separate them for the week or freeze them depending on what they are. I love freezing cucumbers, grapes and berries. I now control what goes into my body and it feels really good to be so organized and living a healthy life.
My workout routine so far consists of circuit training with friends throughout the week. We train in the neighborhood, on the track and in the gym. By doing a cardio circuit I never get bored because it is constantly changing and it's actually fun! I use my workouts as a time to be social with my friends. We also encourage each other, which is a big help. The first day of exercising was the hardest day ever! I went too hard and got a charley horse in my leg, which was a reality check that I was not hydrating enough. I was so mad at myself, but my friends encouraged me and told me that it will get easier every day. I am so happy I have friends who support my healthy lifestyle change. I rested the next day and then got right back to working out again. I feel so much better about living an active life. Right now I do 45 minutes of cardio circuit training five days a week. So far I am down six pounds and I feel amazing. I am so thankful for Dr. Oz and Lisa Lillien for believing in me, and helping me every step of the way.
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The 15 Best NBA 2K Games Ranked by Metacritic
Monday morning Polygon utilized the Xbox One game to Nba 2k22 Mt search for unskippable advertisements. They didn't appear in MyCareer, MyTeam or any of the Play Now matchups. This could only be affecting certain versions or regions, or that 2K Sports already nixed the ads over the weekend furor. For clarification we contacted 2K representatives.
Stevivor declared that the ads were available on NBA 2K21's PC version as well as PlayStation 4 version. The year prior to Halloween, NBA 2K20 started featuring unskippable commercials. They were announced in NBA 2K19 during the summer, shortly after the game's launch. Both provoked backlash which swiftly was able to dissipate.
In-game advertisements -- and not just fictitious billboards or real-life sponsorships -- is not new. Madden NFL 10 began with it on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. They also put in advertising for pregame games for Snickers in the past decade.
EA Sports introduced unskippable advertisements into UFC 4 (and 2018's UFC 3) in September. The UFC 4 launch was on August 4th, on Xbox One and Windows PC. EA later apologized to users and removed the ads. The company acknowledged that in-game advertisements were "not new to the UFC franchise," but said its inclusion "should be communicated to players before the game began."
There's no question that the best basketball gaming franchise is NBA 2K. It was a good debut with NBA 2K. This made it a potential threat to EA Sports' NBA Live. 2K beat Live so often in the past that EA needed to cancel games and then restart their series. It's fascinating to see what happened when NBA 2K was its best. There's over 20 years of games. Using the ratings found on Metacritic, these installments received the highest marks in the time of 2k22 mt buy the franchise because it's among the top NBA 2K games, ranked.
GameMS has the most reliable NBA 2K22 MT
Pacers ultimate ranking: Pacers rout Thunder 152-95
You can do a lot in NBA 2K22
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In many urban markets across the United States, ridesharing services are gaining popularity against traditional taxicab companies. Ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft use the driver's own personal vehicle to shuttle passengers to their locations. Taxicab drivers use company cars to transport riders. Many of these taxi companies, concerned about the competition that ridesharing services bring to the table, have claimed that passengers using ridesharing services are not protected in the event of an accident.
The difference between ridesharing services and traditional taxicabs is largely due to their setup. Taxicabs are run in a more individual manner, where the drivers act as independent contractors who work long hours. Ridesharing services operate more like a commercial carrier where the drivers are more regulated by the parent organization.
Personal insurance policies often will not accept a claim if the driver was acting for profit when the accident or injury occurred. This does not mean that passengers using ridesharing services are doing so at their own risk. These ridesharing services use a concept called excess coverage to protect their riders, which means that the company carries a policy above what the personal driver's insurance may cover. Uber, Lyft, and other parent companies will cover any damages that the driver's personal insurance does not cover.
In fact, ridesharing services provide extensive coverage for their riders. While insurance companies for drivers generally require coverage of $10,000 to $25,000 per person per accident, taxicab companies mandate $250,000 to $500,000. Lyft insures drivers up to one million dollars' worth of damages. Further, Lyft and Uber will also provide coverage for passengers injured in accidents completely caused by another driver or if their driver was involved in an accident with an uninsured motorist. Taxicabs do not offer this type of coverage for their riders.
While taxicab companies have been threatened by the popularity of ridesharing companies in major cities, ridesharing services may fit the needs of riders better than traditional taxicabs. In terms of safety, ridesharing services completely cover their passengers in the event of an accident in ways that taxi companies do not.


Bringing The Sword is a drawing by Robert Watson which was uploaded on July 25th, 2016.
This is a random creative piece that I had fun with. Created by me, Robert N. Watson Jr./Ram Judah Israel.
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