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Crawl Space's cover is a rainbow-color explosion—a geometric face on the cover with a screaming mouth and an eye in its forehead. Filled with colorful detail, it looks like the cover of some forgotten psychedelic record album.
It doesn't let up inside. The inside cover pages feature grids of 71 grinning, wide-eyed faces, all drawing with multicolor lines. They appear manic and alarmed. The title page is basically similar—a single somewhat sinister grinning creature staring at the reader, portrayed in intense rainbow colors. Then the first page brings it down to earth—a washer and dryer portrayed in stark black and white, floating in a page of full-bleed black. Then there are several more pages of psychedelic color as two characters start interacting in a densely-drawn environment of pure color. One of the characters, Daisy, seems to be guiding the other, Jeanne-Claude, who is experiencing anxiety. Daisy is guiding Jeanne-Claude on her first trip down the rabbit hole. They drink tea from a little tea-pot-shaped creature (that changes color in each subsequent panel), which causes the hallucinations to intensify.
Then the two rainbow colored people climb out of the washer and dryer back into the ordinary world. Daisy quickly reverts to a black and white being while Jeanne-Claude takes longer. Black and white in Crawl Space symbolizes ordinary reality. Daisy asks Jeanne-Claude not to tell other people about the washer and dryer experience. She is "still trying to fit in. I don't want to be known as the girl with the magical appliances. I just don't want that stuff defining me."
This defines the drama. It has all the earmarks of a cautionary drug story—one teen gets into some heavy duty psychedelic drug, tells a friend about it, and it snowballs from there. It is also like a horror story—teenagers discover something that they shouldn't. The genre of something strange inside the house is a venerable one: The Haunting of Hill House, The Shining, House of Leaves, The Amityville Horror, etc. But the difference between Crawl Space and these stories is that as disturbing as the experience of going into the washer and dryer, it's ultimately pleasurable. Indeed, the problem seems to be that it is addictive.
Needless to say, Jeanne-Claude is unable to keep it secret. Soon Daisy is taking other friends into the washer and dryer. Daisy takes one of the little critters from the washer-dryer world to school. Lots of kids end up going to the washer-dryer world and start vandalizing the environment. Daisy tries to remind visitors to "remain calm and focused" and "behave with positive intentions." But these are teenagers. Eventually there is a big party at Daisy's house when her parents are out of town. The house is trashed as is the washer-dryer environment. One kid remarks to Jeanne-Claude, "I wouldn't go inside if I were you. Some of the older kids had sex in there!" The dryer is laying on its side and Jeanne-Claude observes, "Sick! Somebody threw up in here!" The creatures there have been abused—a gremlin has his neck caught in plastic six pack rings and one of the teapot creatures has been shattered. Many of the creatures become hostile and defensive. Jeanne-Claude finds Daisy, whose identity has almost completely melded with the environment. (I'm writing out something that is portrayed visually in the book.)
The party is busted by the cops. The house has to be cleared by a pest-control firm (which captures all the psychedelic critters) and Daisy is to be sent off to boarding school. But just before the end, Daisy wanders into a culvert and seemingly discovers a new weak spot between planes of existence.
There are interstitial chapters that discuss how these psychedelic planes of existence are normally reserved "highly enlightened beings" but that some of planes are accessible through "weak areas of the was the cosmic fabric was slightly torn." The washer-dryer world appears to be one of these places.
Crawl Space ends up being a bizarre combination of genres. It has the elements of a teen comedy movie (complete with the party that gets out of hand), but also a teen cautionary tale (the kind that used to be the popular YA books before post-apocalyptic adventures became the default YA genre). It has elements of drug narratives like The Doors of Perception and Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and the failed enlightenment story (think Weathercraft by Jim Woodring). And let's not forget the narratives of houses as portals to strange worlds mentioned above. The washer and dryer are analogous to the wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This bizarre mash-up of genres is enough to mark Crawl Space as unique, but I think what readers will remember most about it are the unrelentingly psychedelic graphics. Jacobs' visual imagination has been the cornerstone of all his books, By This You Shall Know Him and Safari Honeymoon, but it really takes over Crawl Space. It is a metaphor for a kind of heightened consciousness. For an art lover like myself, it is a metaphor that rings very true. Visual pleasure from viewing art is both satisfying and dangerous. Dangerous in the sense that it appeals solely to the eye—it is what Marcel Duchamp called "retinal art" when he rejected in favor of art that is philosophical, religious, moral. Jesse Jacobs wants his readers to have it both ways—he supplies the reader with eyeball kicks while warning against their easy pleasures.
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This actually sounds/loos wicked; I have Jesse Jacob's first two (Koyama) books and really, really like them–"eyeball kicks", indeed!


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Most of Clojure programming involves creating, manipulating, and transforming immutable values. However, as soon as your values become more complicated than a simple map or list – like a list of maps of maps – transforming these data structures becomes extremely cumbersome.

Specter is a library (for both Clojure and ClojureScript) for doing these queries and transformations extremely concisely and elegantly. These kinds of manipulations are so common when using Clojure – and so cumbersome without Specter – that Specter is in many ways Clojure's missing piece.

Specter is fully extensible. At its core, its just a protocol for how to navigate within a data structure. By extending this protocol, you can use Specter to navigate any data structure or object you have.

Specter does not sacrifice performance to achieve its elegance. Actually, Specter is faster than the limited facilities Clojure provides for doing nested operations. For example: the Specter equivalent to get-in runs 30% faster than get-in, and the Specter equivalent to update-in runs 5x faster than update-in. In each case the Specter code is equally as convenient.

# Latest Version

The latest release version of Specter is hosted on [Clojars](https://clojars.org):

[![Current Version](https://clojars.org/com.rpl/specter/latest-version.svg)](https://clojars.org/com.rpl/specter)

# Learn Specter

- Introductory blog post: [Functional-navigational programming in Clojure(Script) with Specter](http://nathanmarz.com/blog/functional-navigational-programming-in-clojurescript-with-sp.html)
- Presentation about Specter: [Specter: Clojure's missing piece](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZxkpX5nt8)

Specter's API is contained in a single, well-documented file: [specter.cljx](https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter/blob/master/src/com/rpl/specter.cljx)

# Examples

Here's how to increment all the even values for :a keys in a sequence of maps:

```clojure
user> (transform [ALL :a even?]
              inc
              [{:a 1} {:a 2} {:a 4} {:a 3}])
[{:a 1} {:a 3} {:a 5} {:a 3}]
```

Here's how to retrieve every number divisible by 3 out of a sequence of sequences:
```clojure
user> (select [ALL ALL #(= 0 (mod % 3))]
              [[1 2 3 4] [] [5 3 2 18] [2 4 6] [12]])
[3 3 18 6 12]
```

Here's how to increment the last odd number in a sequence:

```clojure
user> (transform [(filterer odd?) LAST]
              inc
              [2 1 3 6 9 4 8])
[2 1 3 6 10 4 8]
```

Here's how to increment all the odd numbers between indexes 1 (inclusive) and 4 (exclusive):

```clojure
user> (transform [(srange 1 4) ALL odd?] inc [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7])
[0 2 2 4 4 5 6 7]
```

Here's how to replace the subsequence from index 2 to 4 with [-1 -1 -1]:

```clojure
user> (setval (srange 2 4) [-1 -1 -1] [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9])
[0 1 -1 -1 -1 4 5 6 7 8 9]
```

Here's how to concatenate the sequence [:a :b] to every nested sequence of a sequence:

```clojure
user> (setval [ALL END] [:a :b] [[1] '(1 2) [:c]])
[[1 :a :b] (1 2 :a :b) [:c :a :b]]
```

Here's how to get all the numbers out of a map, no matter how they're nested:

```clojure
user> (select (walker number?)
              {2 [1 2 [6 7]] :a 4 :c {:a 1 :d [2 nil]}})
[2 1 2 1 2 6 7 4]
```

Here's now to navigate via non-keyword keys:

```clojure
user> (select [(keypath "a") (keypath "b")]
              {"a" {"b" 10}})
[10]
```

Here's how to reverse the positions of all even numbers between indexes 4 and 11:

```clojure
user> (transform [(srange 4 11) (filterer even?)]
              reverse
              [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15])
[0 1 2 3 10 5 8 7 6 9 4 11 12 13 14 15]
```

Here's how to decrement every value in a map:

```clojure
user> (transform [ALL LAST]
              dec
              {:a 1 :b 3})
{:b 2 :a 0}
```

Here's how to append [:c :d] to every subsequence that has at least two even numbers:
```clojure
user> (setval [ALL
               (selected? (filterer even?) (view count) #(>= % 2))
               END]
              [:c :d]
              [[1 2 3 4 5 6] [7 0 -1] [8 8] []])
[[1 2 3 4 5 6 :c :d] [7 0 -1] [8 8 :c :d] []]
```

When doing more involved transformations, you often find you lose context when navigating deep within a data structure and need information "up" the data structure to perform the transformation. Specter solves this problem by allowing you to collect values during navigation to use in the transform function. Here's an example which transforms a sequence of maps by adding the value of the :b key to the value of the :a key, but only if the :a key is even:

```clojure
user> (transform [ALL (collect-one :b) :a even?]
              +
              [{:a 1 :b 3} {:a 2 :b -10} {:a 4 :b 10} {:a 3}])
[{:b 3, :a 1} {:b -10, :a -8} {:b 10, :a 14} {:a 3}]
```

The transform function receives as arguments all the collected values followed by the navigated to value. So in this case `+` receives the value of the :b key followed by the value of the :a key, and the transform is performed to :a's value.

The four built-in ways for collecting values are `VAL`, `collect`, `collect-one`, and `putval`. `VAL` just adds whatever element it's currently on to the value list, while `collect` and `collect-one` take in a selector to navigate to the desired value. `collect` works just like `select` by finding a sequence of values, while `collect-one` expects to only navigate to a single value. Finally, `putval` adds an external value into the collected values list.

Here's how to increment the value for :a key by 10:
```clojure
user> (transform [:a (putval 10)]
              +
              {:a 1 :b 3})
{:b 3 :a 11}
```

For every map in a sequence, increment every number in :c's value if :a is even or increment :d if :a is odd:

```clojure
user> (transform [ALL (if-path [:a even?] [:c ALL] :d)]
              inc
              [{:a 2 :c [1 2] :d 4} {:a 4 :c [0 10 -1]} {:a -1 :c [1 1 1] :d 1}])
[{:c [2 3], :d 4, :a 2} {:c [1 11 0], :a 4} {:c [1 1 1], :d 2, :a -1}]
```

You can make `select` and `transform` work much faster by precompiling your selectors using the `comp-paths` function. There's about a 3x speed difference between the following two invocations of transform:

```clojure
(def precompiled (comp-paths ALL :a even?))

(transform [ALL :a even?] inc structure)
(compiled-transform precompiled inc structure)
```

Depending on the details of the selector and the data being transformed, precompiling can sometimes provide more than a 10x speedup.

You can even precompile selectors that require parameters! For example, `keypath` can be used to navigate into a map by any arbitrary key, such as numbers, strings, or your own types. One way to use `keypath` would be to parameterize it at the time you use it, like so:

```clojure
(defn foo [data k]
  (select [(keypath k) ALL odd?] data))
```

It seems difficult to precompile the entire path because it is dependent on the argument `k` of `foo`. Specter gets around this by allowing you to precompile a path without its parameters and bind the parameters to the selector later, like so:

```clojure
(def foo-path (comp-paths keypath ALL odd?))
(defn foo [data k]
  (compiled-select (foo-path k) data))
```

This code will execute extremely efficiently.

When `comp-paths` is used on selectors that require parameters, the result of `comp-paths` will require parameters equal to the sum of the number of parameters required by each selector. It expects to receive those parameters in the order in which the selectors were declared. This feature, called "late-bound parameterization", also works on selectors which themselves take in selector paths, such as `selected?`, `filterer`, and `transformed`.

# Future work
- Integrate Specter with other kinds of data structures, such as graphs
- Make it possible to parallelize selects/transforms
- Any connection to transducers?

# License

Copyright 2015 Red Planet Labs, Inc. Specter is licensed under Apache License v2.0.

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Milford Alder Dr. Ellen Russell Beatty has joined the Boys & Girls Village Board of Directors. (contributed photo)
MILFORD, CT - Boys & Girls Village (BGV) proudly announced today the appointment of Dr. Ellen Russell Beatty to its Board of Directors. This addition brings the total number of BGV Board members to thirteen.
Boys & Girls Village, a Milord-based nonprofit organization, is a statewide leader in providing mental health treatment, permanency planning and educational services to Connecticut's most vulnerable youth and their families. With additional locations in Norwalk, Bridgeport and Waterbury, the organization has been serving the needs of the state's at-risk children and families for over 77 years.
"We welcome Dr. Beatty to the board and look forward to adding her extensive leadership talents to our team," said Kim Shaunesey, Ph.D., President of Boys & Girls Village. "She brings a wealth of experience and expertise that will be instrumental in helping us continue to grow and meet the changing needs of those we serve."
With careers in nursing and higher education, and her experience serving as a three-term Alder for the Milford community, Beatty has a proven track record in both the private and public sector. She has served in many educational, health care and business capacities throughout her career, including Vice President of Academic Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University. Beatty earned her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Education from Columbia University and also holds a Master of Arts degree from New York University.
"I am eager and honored to join hands with board colleagues dedicated to the mission of Boys & Girls Village," said Beatty. "The 77-year history of BGV serving youth and families on their path to successful futures is to be applauded."
Serving more than 800 clients each year, Boys & Girls Village has experienced enormous growth in the last few years, with many areas of new programming, expanding both the breadth and depth of the services it provides to at-risk children and their families. In the coming year BGV will welcome a new Life Skills & Vocational Training Center as a place for youth to explore a variety of vocational opportunities, obtain work experience and entrance into employment and economic self-sufficiency.
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We love herbs because of their scent; if you leave in the cold, they lose flavors. It's best to keep them in a glass with a little water.
Keep them in a cool, but not cold place. Cold potato starch is more likely to turn into sugar. Keep the potatoes in the dark and dry place, remove them from the plastic bag – it will make it faster to rot. It is best to keep it in a paper bag.
Like potatoes, they should be kept cool, but not cold. It can become moldy in the refrigerator.
The moisture content on them may become softer. Like potatoes, they should be kept cool. But do not keep onions with potatoes in one bag- it will rotten faster.
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It thickens in the cold; sediments will appear. Keeping it at room temperature in a dark place is good.
Bread in the refrigerator quickly loses moisture, so it's best to keep it on the shelf. If you buy it so much that you do not eat in four days, you can place the rest in the freezer, but wrap it very well in the food film.
Coffee beans left in the fridge will lose their smell and taste, and also absorb other fragrances. But if you have a lot of coffee beans, you can freeze them in the freezer.
There is no need to place it in the cold; it fits perfectly at room temperature. Honey gets crystallized in the cold temperature.
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As someone who suffers from an inability to predict the past I reluctantly agreed to stare into my crystal cloud again this year. As I prepared my 2014 cloud computing predictions (read the full list of predictions at VMblog.com here) something bittersweet occurred to me. The better cloud computing performs, the more business value it delivers… the less we hear about it. And the evidence suggests that cloud computing truly is performing even beyond the expectations of its proponents. In fact, I haven't heard cloud computing negatively associated with unicorns or rainbows in a very long while, so it appears even some of the skeptics may be open to the idea that cloud computing can drive real business value.
Like our children, cloud computing has graduated from university (perhaps ahead of schedule) and it is ready to go out into the wide world. Like any proud parent, cloud proponents have high expectations that it will continue to over achieve. But we all know that even those who achieve well beyond expectations will likely encounter setbacks and obstacles along the way. We also know that, handled properly, these obstacles will make our child stronger and wiser.
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% FT_REALTIME_SYNCHRONOUS is an example realtime application for
% synchronous (trigger-based) brain-computer interfaces
%
% Use as
%   cmd = ft_realtime_synchronous(cfg)
%
% where cmd is the last processed command and cfg has the following configuration options
%   cfg.bcifun     = the BCI function that is called
%   cfg.trigger    = the trigger values that should be processed (default = 'all')
%   cfg.blocksize  = number, size of the blocks/chuncks that are processed in seconds (default = 1)
%   cfg.offset     = offset relative to the trigger (default = 0)
%   cfg.channel    = cell-array, see FT_CHANNELSELECTION (default = 'all')
%   cfg.bufferdata = whether to start on the 'first or 'last' data that is
%                    available when the function _starts_ (default = 'last')
%   cfg.jumptoeof  = whether to start on the 'first or 'last' data that is
%                    available when the function _starts_ (default = 'last')
%
%   cfg.ostream    = the output stream that is used to send a command via
%                     write_event (default = []
%
% The source of the data is configured as
%   cfg.dataset       = string
% or alternatively to obtain more low-level control as
%   cfg.datafile      = string
%   cfg.headerfile    = string
%   cfg.eventfile     = string
%   cfg.dataformat    = string, default is determined automatic
%   cfg.headerformat  = string, default is determined automatic
%   cfg.eventformat   = string, default is determined automatic
%
% trials that correspond to any of the triggers in the vector cfg.trigger will be
% processed. By default all trigger values will be processed (cfg.trigger =
% 'all') and may be of any type (cfg.type = 'all'). The condition to which a
% data segment belongs is passed to bcifun using cfg.condition.
%
% The bcifun must be of the form
%
%   cmd = bcifun(cfg,data)
%
% where cfg is the configuration passed by this function and data is the
% new data segment. Cmd is the command which is generated by the bcifun.
% This command will be send to an external device via cfg.ostream. Check
% bcifun_latidx for an example.
%
% Some notes about skipping data and catching up with the data stream:
%
% cfg.jumptoeof='yes' causes the realtime function to jump to the end
% when the function _starts_. It causes all data acquired prior to
% starting the RT function to be skipped.
%
% cfg.bufferdata=last causes the realtime function to jump to the last
% available data while _running_. If the RT loop is not fast enough,
% it causes some data to be dropped.
%
% If you want to skip all data that was acquired before you start the
% RT function, but don't want to miss any data that was acquired while
% the realtime function is started, then you should use jumptoeof=yes and
% bufferdata=first. If you want to analyse data from a file, then you
% should use jumptoeof=no and bufferdata=first.
%
% To stop the realtime function, you have to press Ctrl-C

% Copyright (C) 2010, Marcel van Gerven, Robert Oostenveld
%
% This file is part of FieldTrip, see http://www.ru.nl/neuroimaging/fieldtrip
% for the documentation and details.
%
%    FieldTrip is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
%    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
%    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
%    (at your option) any later version.
%
%    FieldTrip is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
%    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
%    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
%    GNU General Public License for more details.
%
%    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
%    along with FieldTrip. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
%
% $Id: ft_realtime_synchronous.m 7123 2012-12-06 21:21:38Z roboos $

% set the default configuration options
if ~isfield(cfg, 'bcifun'),         cfg.bcifun = @bcifun_latidx; end % example function computes lateralization index
if ~isfield(cfg, 'trigger'),        cfg.trigger = 'all';         end % trigger values to process
if ~isfield(cfg, 'type'),           cfg.type = 'all';            end % trigger type to process
if ~isfield(cfg, 'nsamples'),       cfg.nsamples = inf;          end % number of samples to process
if ~isfield(cfg, 'blocksize'),      cfg.blocksize = 1;           end % in seconds
if ~isfield(cfg, 'offset'),         cfg.offset = 0;              end % in seconds
if ~isfield(cfg, 'channel'),        cfg.channel = 'all';         end % processed channels
if ~isfield(cfg, 'bufferdata'),     cfg.bufferdata = 'last';     end % first or last
if ~isfield(cfg, 'jumptoeof'),      cfg.jumptoeof = 'yes';       end % jump to end of file at initialization
if ~isfield(cfg, 'dataformat'),     cfg.dataformat = [];         end % default is detected automatically
if ~isfield(cfg, 'headerformat'),   cfg.headerformat = [];       end % default is detected automatically
if ~isfield(cfg, 'eventformat'),    cfg.eventformat = [];        end % default is detected automatically
if ~isfield(cfg, 'dataset') && ~isfield(cfg, 'header') && ~isfield(cfg, 'datafile')
  cfg.dataset = 'buffer://localhost:1972';
end
if ~isfield(cfg, 'ostream'),        cfg.ostream = [];            end % no output by default

% translate dataset into datafile+headerfile
cfg = ft_checkconfig(cfg, 'dataset2files', 'yes');
cfg = ft_checkconfig(cfg, 'required', {'datafile' 'headerfile'});

% ensure that the persistent variables related to caching are cleared
clear ft_read_header
% start by reading the header from the realtime buffer
hdr = ft_read_header(cfg.headerfile, 'headerformat', cfg.headerformat, 'cache', true, 'retry', true);

% define a subset of channels for reading
cfg.channel = ft_channelselection(cfg.channel, hdr.label);
chanindx    = match_str(hdr.label, cfg.channel);
nchan       = length(chanindx);
if nchan==0, error('no channels were selected'); end

% determine the size of blocks to process
blocksize = round(cfg.blocksize * hdr.Fs);
offset    = round(cfg.offset*hdr.Fs);

if strcmp(cfg.jumptoeof, 'yes')
  prevSample = hdr.nSamples * hdr.nTrials;
else
  prevSample  = 0;
end

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% this is the general BCI loop where realtime incoming data is handled
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
cfg.count = 0; % current segment; can be used in bcifun
minsample = 0; % only consider events that are later than the data processed sofar
while cfg.count < cfg.nsamples

  % determine number of samples available in buffer
  hdr = ft_read_header(cfg.headerfile, 'headerformat', cfg.headerformat, 'cache', true);

  % read new events
  event = ft_read_event(cfg.dataset, 'minsample', minsample+1);

  if ~isempty(event)
    fprintf('found %d events\n',length(event));
  end

  for j=1:length(event)

     bprocess = (strcmp(cfg.type,'all') | strcmp(event(j).type,cfg.type)) & ...
                (strcmp(cfg.trigger,'all') | ismember(event(j).value,cfg.trigger));

     if bprocess % catched a trigger of interest

       cfg.condition = event(j).value;

       % we do not consider samples < 1
       begsample = max(1,event(j).sample + offset);
       endsample = max(1,begsample + blocksize);

       % keep reading until we acquired enough samples
       while hdr.nSamples<endsample
         hdr = ft_read_header(cfg.headerfile, 'headerformat', cfg.headerformat,'cache', true);
       end

       % remember up to where the data was read
       minsample = endsample;
       cfg.count = cfg.count + 1;
       fprintf('processing segment %d from sample %d to %d, trigger = %d\n', cfg.count, begsample, endsample, cfg.condition);

       % read data segment from buffer
       dat = double(ft_read_data(cfg.datafile, 'header', hdr, 'dataformat', cfg.dataformat, 'begsample', begsample,...
         'endsample', endsample, 'chanindx', chanindx, 'checkboundary', false));

       %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
       % from here onward it is specific to the display of the data
       %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

       % put the data in a fieldtrip-like raw structure
       data.trial{1} = dat;
       data.time{1}  = offset2time(0, hdr.Fs, endsample-begsample+1);
       data.label    = hdr.label(chanindx);
       data.hdr      = hdr;
       data.fsample  = hdr.Fs;
       data.grad     = [];

       % apply BCI function
       cmd = cfg.bcifun(cfg,data);

       if ~isempty(cfg.ostream)

         fprintf('writing command %s to %s\n',num2str(cmd),cfg.ostream);

         % send command
         evt.type = 'uint';
         evt.offset = [];
         evt.duration = [];
         evt.sample = abs(data.time{1}(1)*hdr.Fs);
         evt.timestamp = data.time{1}(1);
         evt.value = cmd;

         ft_write_event(cfg.ostream,evt);

       else
         fprintf('generated command %s\n',num2str(cmd));
       end

       cfg.count = cfg.count +  1;

       if cfg.count == cfg.nsamples
         break;
       end

     end % trigger of interest
  end % if event
end % while true


… minutes later Captain Thomas F Mantell was dead!
On 7th January 1948, residents of Maysville, Owensboro and Irvington, Kentucky started reporting a UFO to their police. The police reported this to the Military officials at Godman Air Force Base (close to Louisville). The ATC tower at Goodman AFB checked with other installations and discovered that there were no official or unofficial flights in the area. They started scanning the sky and at 1:45pm they too saw the UFO. They immediately recognised that it was not a weather balloon or aircraft that they recognised. It was large, silvery, somewhat cone-shaped with a red base. At 2:20 PM a flight of four F-51D aircraft approached Godman en-route from Marietta AFB to Standiford AFB. The flight, led by Captain Mantell, was requested by the Godman tower to investigate the object. What happened next is still very much open for debate but the planes set off to intercept the object. One aircraft broke off from the investigation due to low fuel levels.
According to the official story, Mantell pulled ahead of his two wingmen who were forced to turn back due to a lack of high altitude oxygen equipment. At 14,000 feet Mantell reported, "The object is directly ahead of me and above me now, moving at about half my speed." Around 3:15 some of the tower crew thought they heard Mantell say, "It appears to be a metallic object or possible reflections of sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size. I'm still climbing, the object is above and ahead of me moving at my speed or faster. I'm trying to close for a better look." Further communications at 03:17 were garbled although some listeners claim they heard Mantell say: My God, I see people in this thing.
After this point contact was lost and it seems that the Mustang suddenly went into a steep dive and, after partially breaking up during the descent, it crashed into the field of a farm some five miles South of Franklin, Kentucky. Mantell's body was removed from the aircraft wreckage by fire fighters and taken to the mortuary by ambulance.
The newspapers and media printed sensational stories involving aliens, death rays and radiation – all of which were denied by the Air Force and other government officials. The official story was that everyone had mistaken the planet Venus for a UFO and Mantell had taken his aircraft to an unsafe height beyond 25,000ft and had passed out from lack of oxygen. Case closed!?
The Mantell Incident – Plane Crash.
But what about the UFO?
Back in 1948 researchers were severely restricted by two factors: A) Authorities were general believed and trusted B) There was no internet to allow for rapid information gathering and cross-referencing. It's not surprising then that when the media were told the UFO was just the planet Venus they – by and large – meekly accepted this answer.
FACT: The UFO could not have been Venus!
At the time of the incident, Venus was indeed roughly in the correct location. However, the planet simply didn't reflect enough light at this time of the year to be mistaken for anything like what the witnesses described. Venus would have been just another a pinprick of light in the sky. This 'Venus' phenomenon has never again been witnessed in the region even though more than six decades have passed. In addition, Dr. Hyneck who wrote the original report actually stated later that he did not believe the UFO was Venus.
Perhaps the authorities realised that the Venus explanation was somewhat weak and later suggested it was a weather balloon. For some time after this statement there was confusion with some spokespersons still sticking to the Venus version of events. In the end, people seemed to broadly accept that it was one or the other.
After many years had passed, a secret project known as Skyhook came to light. This involved using large, roughly cone-shaped, balloons to send monitoring equipment high into the atmosphere. Superficially this sounded like the solution and – once again – case closed.
FACT: The chances that the Mantell UFO was a Skyhook balloon are remote!
The witnesses at Godman Tower, many of whom were senior military personal and studied the object through powerful binoculars, clearly stated that the object was NOT a balloon.
The object changed colour and had a red base. The skyhook balloons had neither of these attributes.
No record has ever been located that a Skyhook balloon was launched anywhere near where the event took place.
While Skyhook balloons are very large they are also extremely elongated making then quite narrow and hard to see at a distance. To create the effect described by witnesses would mean that every person viewed the 'balloon' from precisely the same angle and altitude. The chances of this happening are minuscule.
In addition, astronomical records indicated that Venus was only 33 degrees above the horizon at the time of the incident and not the 45 degrees associated with the phenomenon.
FACT: Sundogs … not likely!
Professor Donald Menzel offered the suggestion that the phenomenon was a parhelion effect more commonly known as a sundog. These occur when sunlight is reflected off ice crystals high in the atmosphere. As with the Skyhook balloon, this would mean that ever person that observed the UFO would have had to view it from exactly the same angle. This did not happen. In addition, as Mantell's plane changed height and viewpoint it would have become immediately obvious that he was chasing a sundog. This did not happen either. Sundogs … not likely!
Skyhook balloon and launch ship.
Dramatic example of a sundog – one of the most impressive for colours.
A single lenticular cloud in the typical saucer-shape that has triggered many UFO reports.
FACT: It was not a lenticular cloud!
There has been extensive speculation that the UFO sighted by the personal of Godman Tower was actually a lenticular cloud and weather reports indicate that there were clouds in the sky. However, both the pilots and the ground personnel would have recognised a lenticular cloud. In addition, The UFO described by witnesses bears little if any resemblance to this well-known weather phenomenon.
So … If the aerial phenomenon seen by so many witnesses was not Venus, a balloon, a cloud or even a sundog then what was it?
S0 WHAT WAS THE MANTELL UFO / UAP*?
An Alien Ship of Some Kind?
This is by far the most popular proposal. The theory goes that aliens and their spaceships have been monitoring activity on planet Earth for quite some time. Their ships – observation stations – are invisible to both sight and radar thanks to highly sophisticated but temperamental technology. This is not as farfetched as it may sound. However, from time-to-time, their technology fails (as all technology does) and their craft becomes visible. It is these technical failures that account for many of the UFO sightings witnessed every year. It is proposed that this is what happened in the Mantell case. Captain Mantell did see an alien spacecraft and tried to reach it but it was at too high an altitude causing him to pass out from lack of oxygen and lose his life in the ensuing plane crash.
The Mantell Incident – Was there a real Alien UFO?
Many researchers of the Mantell UFO Incident believe that the object was an advanced type of military aircraft – the details of which have never been released. In particular, they suggest that it may have been a form of high altitude airship based on a circular version of the 1945 K-class blimps and German WWI Zeppelins. Some have even speculated that these were to be aerial forts permanently aloft and designed to intercept incoming enemy bombers including future nuclear bombers. It is worth noting that the first Russian nuclear test explosion took place on the 29th August 1949 – the year after the Mantel Incident.
One suggestion is that a portal through time briefly existed over the region and the witnesses were able to see future aircraft. Worth mentioning but not likely.
A Weapons Test – Project Harp?
Since conspiracy theories started appearing on the internet there has been speculation that the USA has been developing a way to control the weather and use it as a weapon. In 1990 the US government funded the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). This was said to be jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The most prominent instrument at the HAARP Station is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. Some investigators believe that HAARP is a cover for a weather weapon programme. They also suggest that this research has been active since NAZI scientists were relocated to the US as part of Operation Paperclip. They have further suggested that the phenomenon witnessed as part of the Mantell Incident was actually a weather control experiment.


July 11, 2016 0 comments on "Choose The Right Critical Illness Plan"
Do you need extra insurance for life-threatening critical illnesses when you already have a mediclaim? Most of us would feel that it's not needed and why should they clutter their portfolio?
May be your health insurance plan is good enough to cover you against illnesses, but what if you are diagnosed with a critical illness that requires specialised care? Mediclaim or health insurance plans generally have a limit or a cap on hospitalisation costs, doctors' fees, intensive care unit, medicinal costs and, thus, may not cover the entire costs incurred for the treatment? So if your bill is more than the limit specified, you may end up burning a hole in your pocket.
Since the treatment involved in curing critical illness like cancer, heart disease, kidney failure, etc. can extend anywhere between one month to a year, you may have to take a sabbatical leave. This may lead to a loss of income for that period of time. The financial burden could be far more than what your mediclaim would cover. A critical illness insurance plan can help you overcome these shortcomings.
While your mediclaim covers hospitalisation, a critical illness insurance plan covers major critical illnesses by paying a lump sum amount on the diagnosis of serious illnesses pre -listed in the policy document.
The lump sum amount received can be used for various purposes such as to pay for expensive and advanced treatments, cover for loss of income due to a critical illness or pay EMIs/debts.
Both health plan and critical illness insurance plan provide benefits in different ways. A critical illness plan can complement your mediclaim.
The purpose of a critical illness insurance plan is paying for expensive treatments, covering for loss of income. Critical illness insurance is also cheaper than mediclaim. For instance, mediclaim for a 30-year-old healthy male, non-smoker with a sum insured of Rs 5 lakh can cost around Rs 8,000 a year. A critical illness policy with the sum assured of Rs 15 lakhs for the same person can be around Rs 2,651 a year.
This is because your mediclaim covers a wide range of health related risks and is therefore expensive than a critical illness insurance plan that covers specific illnesses. A combination of mediclaim and critical illness insurance plan can provide a balance between pricing and coverage.
Below are some points that can be considered while buying a critical illness policy.
The number of illnesses covered: Critical illness insurance plan provides fixed benefit. The policyholder receives the full sum assured irrespective of the hospitalisation or the cost of treatment. However, the number of critical illnesses covered varies. For example, plans provided by Aegon and HDFC life only cover Cancer whereas some plans from Edelweiss Tokio Life cover multiple critical illnesses like cancer, kidney failure, heart disease, etc.
The sum assured you need: It will be easier to decide how much protection you need, if you know the benefits of the product. Factors like treatments costs, income loss and future financial liabilities will have to be considered by you. You can decide on the amount needed once you have considered all the above factors. Also it is important to consider your existing cover under your mediclaim policy. Some companies do provide sum assured as high as Rs 1 crore at reasonable premium amount.
The premium amount: While you may be looking for a critical illness plans that cover major critical illnesses and provide higher sum assured, it is also important to consider a plan that is reasonable and offers you a good premium amount. Some plans like Edelweiss Tokio Life – CritiCare+ do provide a 5% discount on online purchase.
A Standalone critical illness plan or a rider – what should you choose?
While a critical illness plan can be bought as a standalone policy, critical illness riders are typically clubbed with life insurance plans.
Standalone plans offer more flexibility in selecting the sum assured and also provides larger covers. The sum assured under a rider usually as a limit which is the same as the base policy. For example, if you have a term plan with a sum assured of Rs 20 lakhs and you opt for a critical illness rider along with it, your sum assured for the rider can't be more than Rs 20 lakhs.
The other advantage of a standalone critical illness plan is that it is not mandatory to renew your term insurance plan if you want to keep only the critical illness insurance cover. But if you opt for a rider you have to continue with your term plan because it is clubbed with your term plan.
Buying a critical illness insurance plan is an important decision, it is recommended that you analyse your needs and then choose the right critical illness plan.


People's feelings about the safety and quality have been evolving, expanding from "fear" (relating to personal and financial well-being) to a wider range of concerns. Some of this change is generational, and important to consider when a company is making long-term plans as they relate to supply quality management. At the same time, people's attitudes toward businesses have changed as well.
The number of times people have been harmed by breakdowns in quality has made consumers more cautious, especially when some incidents have been so egregious, they've resulted in lengthy prison sentences for top management in one industry and a wake-up call across all of manufacturing.
When it comes to food, this fear is very personal and alarming. Food for infants, where people have a right to expect special care, is now fraught. Infant formulas were found, in the last few years, to be contaminated by toxic bacteria in one case, and the industrial chemical melamine cyanuric acid in others.
As recently as a few days ago, the New York Times carried this headline: Traces of Controversial Herbicide Are Found in Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.* A boycott seems to be gaining momentum.
Even pets have been affected.
This nuance related to size is important. When there are breakdowns in the supply chain leading to dangerous results, they often happen in a smaller company in the supply chain, but are associated with the "Big Business" (i.e., "Big Brand") at the end of the supply chain. The Ben & Jerry's problem was not "caused" by Ben & Jerry's. They are at the end of a chain of suppliers, milk/cream producers of various sizes, who will never be mentioned by name.
Where we can identify 'fear' as a concern for one's personal or financial safety (encompassing family and others to whom we feel close), young people have added "care" to their scope of concerns.
According to Nielsen, **** younger people are moving beyond personal concerns and fears when making their purchasing decisions; the attitude is about "caring." These consequences often have no effect on their personal safety or comfort, although that effect is sometimes a by-product of the decision based on their wider concerns.
One of the most stunning results from the contaminated pet food was that the tests were funded by ordinary people – 240 pet owners who put together a fund of $15,705 to test lots of pet food. People are becoming more proactive, rather than trusting companies to do the right thing.
What this tells us is that people are looking beyond the marketing messages, for evidence of a company's behavior backing up its claims, and that the company is in alignment with their values, not just their tastes.
Ben & Jerry's did not discover the herbicide. It was, once again, consumers. Ronnie Cummins, a founder of the Organic Consumers Association, said the amount of glyphosate found in Ben & Jerry's ice cream would not violate any regulations: "Not everyone agrees with the acceptable levels governments have set. And, anyway, would you want to be eating this stuff at all?" According to Scientific Reports, rats who consumed very low doses of glyphosate each day showed early signs of fatty liver disease within three months, which worsened over time. The amount was equivalent to a daily child's portion of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream.
Whether or not company scientists agree with the research, there is no question that consumers are very concerned, and distrust companies enough to spend money to conduct their own tests.
Given the expanded scope of concerns, companies may do well to ask themselves: what is the most reliable and transparent evidence we can offer to back our commitments to quality and wider environmental/social concerns?
Demanding personal signatures from suppliers with every lot (rather than relying on occasional audits) proving adherence to environmental, sustainability, and social standards as well as basic quality, i.e., compliance with required specifications.
The good news is that systems exist to enable this management and are relatively inexpensive and easy to implement. They are Software as a Service solutions, requiring no new software inside the company.
These are words to the wise across manufacturing especially where products and their supply chains directly impact customers' well-being. Visit www.gsqa.com to learn more about managing material variability across industries and acceptable quality at each checkpoint in your supply chain for quality assurance that lowers incident and defect rates, provides for supply visibility and spec-driven material performance.
As the Vice President Operations of a major natural resource supplier stated when deciding in favor of automating COA management with GSQA®: the COA documentation is as important as the product itself.


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Pocahontas Project 2020
The Pocahontas Project
Inspired by the events and positive energy surrounding the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Pocahontas' funeral in Gravesend, England on March 21, 1617, the Pocahontas Project is now a collaborative effort between the County of Gloucester Virginia, the Gloucester Historical Society, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe, Henricus Historical Park and Replenish Richmond. Employing a set of programs, conversations, events, artistic interpretations, intellectual investigations and cultural intersections, the Project intends to inspire folks in Virginia, England and around the world through the life, legend and legacy of the woman most famously known as Pocahontas. While not shying away from the painful aspects and repercussions of her life and the ultimate English settlement of America, the Project intends to establish Pocahontas globally as an iconic spiritual symbol of Hope and Purpose. The Project also intends to present and promote the history and culture of Virginia's Indian Tribes, with special attention to the eight Virginia Tribes that were aligned or allied with Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas.
The Pocahontas Project produced several educational and community activities in 2019 and has exciting plans for 2020. Check back to the website soon for more details about events scheduled for March 2020 and plans for the Pocahontas Celebration to be held in Gloucester November 7- 8 (activities will also be held in conjunction with First Friday on November 6th.
To See the VA Currents filming of the 2019 Pocahontas Festival, Click Here
**Please Note the Pocahontas Festival portion of the program starts at 11:38
Werowocomoco was Powhatan's tribal headquarters and according to legend where Pocahontas saved John Smith's life. Click here for more information and to view a video about Werowocomoco, "A Powhatan Place of Power" from the National Park Service.
See the new developments at Machicomoco, a Future Virginia State Park, due to open in 2020 will include interpretative information on Virginia Indians who lived along the rivers.
Photo credit: AESVA.com
An outstanding symposium co-hosted by the Virginia Museum of History and Culture and American Evolution, the organization coordinating commemoration 400th anniversary of events that took place in 1619 was held in November 2018. The program, "Pocahontas: Her Life, Legend and Legacy," was recorded on CSPAN and includes exceptional panel discussions on the life of Pocahontas, Pocahontas and Christianity and Pocahontas as a Cross Cultural Ambassador. View each session here: Session 1, Session 2, and Session 3.
Don't forget to check out the Gloucester County Visitor Center's Werowocomoco Exhibit. This exhibit opened as a temporary exhibit in April of 2017 and will be formally re-opened in the coming months with additional amenities and artifacts.
Pocahontas Project
Pocahontas Celebration
Descendant's Initiative
Pocahontas Film Festival
From Reel to Real Indians Event
Get Involved/Donate


Do South Africans blame U.S. for hostage's death in raid?
(CNN) Under the cover of darkness 40 special operations forces tried to storm a compound in a remote part of Yemen Friday where American Luke Somers and South African Pierre Korkie were being held.
The relief group Gift of the Givers, which was helping secure Korkie's release, had recently informed his wife that "the waiting is almost over." She went to bed Friday night thinking her husband would be on his way home, only to woke up the next morning to the news that he had been killed. She had been a hostage as well.
Some South Africans upset with the U.S. government for what happened, says Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman, chairman of Gift of the Givers. Sooliman, a friend of Korkie's, had negotiated his release of Korkie before the rescue operation was attempted.
"There's a lot of anger against the U.S. government, and there's a lot of understanding on the other side, too. So there's mixed comments, and mixed thoughts on the process," he said.
For more of our interview with Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman, check out the video above.


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(REPORT) — Donald Trump's selection of Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy has prompted many Democrats to question Perry's qualifications for the position. While he governed a state rich in fossil fuels and wind energy, Perry has far less experience than President Obama's two energy secretaries, both physicists, in the department's primary work, such as tending the nuclear-weapons stockpile, handling nuclear waste and carrying out advanced scientific research. That's not to mention, of course, that Perry four years ago called for doing away with the entire department.
This being Texas, it was not surprising that many of the leading beneficiaries of the taxpayer funds were in the energy industry. Citgo got $5 million from the Enterprise Fund when it moved to the state from Tulsa in 2004, even though it made clear that it had strategic reasons to move there regardless of the incentive. Chevron got $12 million in 2013 after agreeing to build a 50-story office tower in downtown Houston 2014 a building that three years later remained unbuilt.
The address listed on its tax forms is the address of the Fort Bend Economic Development Council, inside the Fluor tower. I arrived there late one Friday morning and asked for the Texas Energy Center. The secretary said: "Oh, it's not here. It's across the street. But there's nothing there now. Jeff handles it here." Jeff Wiley, the council's president, would be out playing golf the rest of the day, she said. I went to the building across the street and asked for directions from an aide in the office of DeLay's successor, which happened to be in the same building. She had not heard of the Texas Energy Center. But then I found its former haunt, a small vacant office space upstairs with a sign on an interior wall 2014 the only mark of the center's brief existence.
Later, I got Wiley on the phone. There has never been any $20 million investment, he said. The center survives only on paper, sustained by Wiley, who, for a cut of the $3.6 million, has filed the center's tax forms and kept a tally of the jobs that have been "created" by the state's money at local energy companies. I asked him how this worked 2014 how, for instance, was the Texas Energy Center responsible for the 600 jobs attributed to EMS Pipeline Services, a company spun off from the rubble of Enron? Wiley said he would have to check the paperwork to see what had been reported to the state. He called back and said that the man who helped launch EMS had been one of the few people originally on staff at the Texas Energy Center, which Wiley said justified claiming the 600 jobs for the barely existing center.
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After the foundations of a 13th-century church were found within the complex, the Cultural Heritage Protection Office actioned a project to restore it in the form of a church museum. Ethnic Albanian groups, with DUI at the forefront, claimed the site contained an older Illyrian structure, and that by virtue of their claimed Illyrian ancestry, the site should be theirs. The dispute revolved around competing claims to the area as being either Christian or Muslim and Macedonian or Albanian.
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by Peter Jacobi
"Giulio Cesare" is being staged at IU's Musical Arts Center, with performances this Friday and Saturday.
The current Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater production of George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare" is an achievement, not perfection, mind you, but effective, interesting to watch, and definitely worthwhile to listen to.
There are always issues when performing what we refer to as Early Music, that created from the Baroque period and back. Here are a few, generally speaking and/or pertaining to the local presentation. Please remember that an entire field of study (including at IU's Historical Performance Institute) has grown around how musicians of today should read and use the scores from that period, which often tend to be less informative than those from later on that offer more instructive clues.
This production's music director and conductor, Gary Thor Wedow, reminds us that Handel wrote four hours of music for "Giulio Cesare," which the maestro wisely considered too much for most in a modern audience. He did some pruning, and folks this past weekend, save the scholars and the experts, are not likely to have missed the cuts. Plenty remains in a version that reaches the finish line just short of three hours from the start, with the insertion of one intermission.
There is the matter of the orchestra and its instrumentation. Does one use in a full-scale opera house like the MAC an ensemble of period instruments or of instruments usually heard from a pit orchestra? Maestro Wedow, a specialist in preparing Baroque works, chose not IU's Baroque Orchestra but the Chamber Orchestra. Consequently, that probably pleased some in the audience, displeased others, and made no difference to still others. But a choice it was, with marked artistic results. The Chamber Orchestra and its maestro deserve plaudits for music firmly and affectionately played.
Choice of singers is a major concern. I don't mean one soprano versus another, or one tenor versus another. For instance, in the past, I've heard male and female voices sing the role of Julius Caesar, even males with different high voices: a male soprano and a countertenor (and there are differences). Actually, the role, as were several others, was written for an alto castrato. Well, there aren't any more of those or shouldn't be.
Maestro Wedow and colleagues chose a basso for the opening night cast and a female mezzo-soprano for the Saturday. The result was dramatically different. In terms of vocal quality, both choices — bass Rivers Hawkins and mezzo-soprano Grace Skinner — brought strength to their portrayals, he a greater vocal power and authority, she the greater vocal flexibility. Bu the entire soundscape changed from one night to the next.
And just where does all this happen, the story, based somewhat on history, of Caesar visiting Egypt and meeting Cleopatra? Well, that meeting happened in ancient Egypt, 48-47 B.C. The IU production's designer, Allen Moyer, gives us an Egyptian background, sometimes using two of the Great Pyramids, at others the Sphynx (from different angles to suggest the action has moved). There also are interiors cleverly created by roll-ons and walls and ceiling that shift up and down.
In terms of historic period, I've seen the story unfolding at Chicago's Lyric Opera in modern colonial times early in the 20th century. The IU production chosen by set designer Moyer and stage director Robin Guarino selected the 18th century during Napoleon's French campaign in Egypt and close to Handel's lifetime. I was not bothered by the shift, in that the sets and Linda Pisano's costuming and Julie Duro's evocative lighting made the pictures one observed so striking.
Add to these matters, a physical issue for one of the cast members. As the printed program states: "Due to an injury, Gretchen Krupp will sing the role of Cornelia from off-stage during her designated performances while Yujia Chen performs the role on stage." Mezzo-soprano Krupp on Friday did her sitting on the edge of the orchestra pit while fellow mezzo Chen acted and mimed the role; on Saturday, Chen took over her assigned role entirely. They both were excellent as the grieving widow of the would-be Egyptian ruler Pompey, murdered by Cleopatra's evil brother Tolomeo, the usurping King of Egypt.
The production's two sopranos selected to portray Cleopatra, Ahyoung Jeong on opening night and Virginia Mims the next, were outstanding in handling music of utmost difficulty, often fiendishly rapid and jumpy and reaching for the stratosphere. They also theatrically attuned themselves to the character and what happens to her: an assured flirt as co-ruler (with her brother Tolomeo) in act 1, as a despairing woman with seeming lost power given two gorgeously sad arias by the composer in act 2, and as a triumphant woman of power in the final act, a ruler finally granted the power of a queen by a magnanimous and admiring Caesar, power with no more possible interference from her nasty brother.
The nasty brother received his due just before opera's end by knife thrust. But before the knife cut to the quick, the role had been villainously portrayed by male soprano Elijah McCormack on Friday and countertenor Hunter Patrick Shaner on Saturday. In a movie house, we might have hissed the pair of them.
The important role of Sesto, son of the slain Pompey, was given to a pair of impressive mezzos, Gabriela Fagen and Emily Warren. And the remaining cast members added their energies to the enterprise, making the whole a success, very difficult to achieve but definitely accomplished.
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68 years after we became a republic, India is poised to become the fifth largest economy according to a study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Recently, at the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the country's strengths and concerns, which garnered attention from his contemporaries reinstating India's growing influence. As India rises steadily on the path of becoming a global power, our actions hold tremendous possibilities both for our people and the world in general. This presents us with both the opportunity and mandate to envision an India we aspire to create and the world order we wish to shape.
India's rise is an opportunity to reimagine an India in consonance with our highest civilisational ideals: joy, sustainable prosperity, responsible freedom, ethical upliftment, peace and mutual respect and swarajya. These ideals, when they influence our foreign policy, have the potential to shape a plural global order. As potential leaders and shapers of tomorrow, the current global environment calls on us to envision an inclusive global order and then strive to make it a reality. This comes in the context of China's increasingly expansionist agenda which sees globalisation as international connectivity for capitalist pursuits. On the other hand, the weakening of the liberal international order, most glaringly visible in Brexit and US protectionism, hints towards waves of anti-globalisation. With the international order in a state of flux, India needs a dream, an overarching vision to bring coherence to our actions, to act as a balancer between the policies of the East and the West and thereby connect with individuals, nations and regions for achieving collective and sustained prosperity.
Amidst this churn, India's foreign policy approach has been undergoing a paradigm shift with economic and strategic relations gaining significant cultural undertones. The new approach is reflected in the foreign policy pillars of Panchamrit – Samman (dignity and honour), Samvaad(engagement and dialogue), Samriddhi(Shared Prosperity), Suraksha (regional and global security) and Sanskriti evam Sabhyata(culture and civilisational linkages). Panchamrit has begun to influence our international outreach. This has found place in our global engagements through the 'Neighbourhood First' and 'Act East' approach, as evidenced by Prime Minister Modi inviting the heads of all SAARC countries to his swearing-in ceremony in 2014 and more recently, his counterparts in the ASEAN for India's Republic Day in January 2018.


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News » Emma Stone and Michael Keaton in Birdman trailer
Movies News / Jon Galt
Published: June 16 2014 19:22
Emma Stone and Michael Keaton in Birdman trailer
The movie Birdman is released later in the year
Emma Stone and Michael Keaton star in the film
The new Birdman trailer has now been released
While the majority of the talk that we get about Emma Stone tends to focus on her role as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man movie franchise, or her relationship with her co-star Andrew Garfield, Emma does also have plenty of other projects coming out over the next few years. Next up for Stone is the movie Birdman, which sees the actress playing the daughter of Michael Keaton, with the new Birdman trailer out now and available below.
Emma Stone stars in the movie
No doubt a lot of you already know a fair amount about the Birdman movie, but for those of you who are not too familiar with it, it has been officially described as, "A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory."
As well as starring Emma Stone and Michael Keaton, the Birdman cast also includes some other impressive Hollywood names, including the likes of Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Ryan. Birdman is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, based on the screenplay that he helped to develop along with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo.
Michael Keaton is also in the film
Birdman will open on October 17 in the US, before then going on to hit the big screen in the UK on January 2, 2015. While we still have plenty of time to wait, before the movie finally gets its big release, why not take a few minutes to sit back, relax and check out Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and co. in the new Birdman trailer, below.
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Pathologist says he is privy to 'privileged information' in Brendan Creato case
Dr. Pete Speth, a controversial ex-medical examiner, penned a curious letter to the editor about case
By Kevin C. Shelly
Brendan Creato Case Legal
Credits/Speth: LinkedIn; Fuschino: Thom Carroll, PhillyVoice
A letter written by forensic pathologist Dr. Pete Speth, left, which says he had "access to privileged information" in the Brendan Creato case, has drawn interest from attorney Richard J. Fuschino Jr., right, who represents the father of the dead boy.
A letter written by a controversial former medical examiner stating he has "had access to privileged information" regarding the unresolved death of Brendan Creato has a lawyer for the child's father questioning how Dr. Pete Speth came to know those details.
The lawyer also wonders why Speth's letter, published Nov. 9 in the South Jersey Times, alludes to the possibility of the "apprehension of a suspect" in a case that has yet to be publicly declared a homicide by the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.
"It may be inappropriate if he was called in for a review," said Richard J. Fuschino Jr., lawyer for David "DJ" Creato.
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DJ Creato is the father of the child found dead in the woods of Cooper River Park on the morning of Oct. 13 – a death still without a public explanation.
The toddler was last seen alive the night before at an apartment that he shared with his dad, about a half a mile away.
"I think it is really curious after essentially calling out (Camden County Medical Examiner Gerald "Buck") Feigin in a previous story that Speth is now, on his own, writing a letter saying 'stand down,'" and trust the system to play out, said Fuschino.
He also questioned Speth's motivation for making public comments in a case the prosecutor's office has officially tried to keep a lid on.
A spokesman for county prosecutor Mary E. Colalillo did not respond to requests for comment about Speth's letter.
"Is he trying to curry favor?" asked Fuschino of Speth. "Does he have some reason to change his tune or aid the prosecutor in seeking a suspect?
"I really have to wonder what is so privileged, private and secret that they can share that information with him, but not my client or the public," he added.
Noting the Camden County prosecutor has had nearly nothing to say about the case – to the public or to his client – Fuschino added, "I have real concerns and reservations about dangling someone out there, saying 'rely on me vouching for them.'"
"The letter speaks about possibly apprehending a suspect. If he knows there is a suspect, it would be inappropriate if he knew that, especially with his history," said Fuschino.
Dr. Zhongxe Hua, a pathologist and doctorate in biochemistry who is a professor and consulting pathologist in New York, said consulting other medical colleagues to discuss pathology issues raised at autopsy is fairly standard.
"Reaching out and consulting outside pathologists is good and a reasonable approach, especially when the inside people have limited experience," said Hua. "Further, a new set of eyes always can be more helpful. "
But Hua, who has worked as an medical examiner in northern New Jersey, said wider discussions that include scene notes from law enforcement and specialized reports present a whole other issue when it comes to the ethics and guidelines of sharing information.
Those disclosures would require a "proper foundation" for a discussion with someone not directly involved in an investigation, such as Speth, in Hua's opinion.
Speth said the source of the privileged information discussed the investigation with him, however, that person trusts Speth not to disclose the information, or to identify him.
'ON THE SCIENCE, NOTHING ELSE'
Speth's letter, which was published the same day a secret grand jury was set to take testimony in the case, reads:
"The public has questioned the professionalism and thoroughness of the autopsy and associated investigation into the sad death of Brendan Creato, the 3-year-old boy whose body was found last month in Cooper River Park in Haddon Township."
"There has also been criticism of a lack of information coming from official sources and the time it is taking to find answers.
"As a triple board-certified forensic pathologist who had access to privileged information regarding the case, I want to assure the public of the following:
"The autopsy and postmortem examinations performed by Dr. Gerald Feigin and additional consultants were thorough.
"Very often, autopsies do not provide answers as to the cause of death even when performed with the highest degree of proficiency — such cases rely on the associated scene investigation and other elements of the investigation.
"From what I know, all of this has been conducted in an exemplary fashion. There are often facts about an investigation that cannot and should not be shared with the public while the investigation is being conducted.
"Premature release of such information could interfere with the ultimate apprehension of a suspect if, in fact, a case turns out to be something other than a natural or accidental death.
"The public must be aware of this, respect it, and be patient.
"I realize that it is very difficult to sit and wait for answers in an untimely and tragic death such as this, but I hope that my comments may allay some of the mistrust that currently exists."
His comments in the letter appear to contradict an Oct. 22 interview he gave to PhillyVoice.
In that story, he questioned Feigin's work ethic, noting the medical examiner had told him autopsies should not take "more than 20 minutes."
Speth also said then, "I don't think for one moment you should think anything is natural" about Creato's disappearance and death.
Speth defended the letter to the editor and his motivation during an interview Thursday.
But he declined to discuss details about what he'd been told, who had told him, and exactly what he was told.
"I was contacted by someone to pick my brain about certain aspects," of the investigation, said Speth, who currently works as a forensic consultant, primarily in legal cases.
He declined to say if the person who reached out to him is officially part of the investigation, which has involved the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, Haddon Township Police, the county medical examiner, the state medical examiner, and a third medical examiner whose name and position has not been disclosed.
He also declined to discuss the context of why he was asked, or who asked him.
Speth said he was asked for opinions "on the science, nothing else."
He said his assurances to the public that the investigation was being handled correctly were not, per se, about Feigin, but of the overall forensics review, "plus the totality of the investigation," including input from two additional medical examiners.
He said he did not mean to imply there is a suspect or that any particular cause of death had been identified.
Kevin C. Shelly
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marshiyanmisuta
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Silktree said:
The movie specifically retcons out the line where Ash declared that he'd become a Pokemon Master (right after watching TV).
AU Ash first brings up his goal in the conversation where the group discuss Ho-Oh and Ash's encounter with it.
When he loses to Cross, his main concern is Ho-Oh.
Just checked it, he still announces his intention to be a Pokémon Master right before Spearow's attack. So, no, it still had nothing to do with Ho-Oh.
What's the alternative, anyway? That the original Ash had a secret encounter before the show even started?
This seems the most likely explanation. They always retcon his past to add new info, like his friendship with Gary and his encounter with Serena.
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Lucifer Angel
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What do people want in Galar's represantation of the female character? Someone who does showcases/contests, someone who gym battles, or something new? I for one would like to see them do gym battles
Lucifer Angel said:
Some goal that includes pokémon battles.
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BugCatcherinVF
I dont think that anybody is worried that there will be no girls in Pokemon, there might even be plenty! but that they wont be treated with equality.
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Hidden Mew
I'd love for the return of Contests as unlikely as that would be. That was such a great way to give the female leads something proactive to do while also providing some variety in the battles. I still feel like the anime lost something important once Contests were removed, even though it was understandable given that they weren't featured in the games anymore. Although, as long as it does involve Pokemon battling to some degree, then I'd be fine with something new.
Showcases were just a poor man's Contest appeal just minus anything that made them interesting or challenging, so I hope that those never appear again. As cool as a female trainer taking on Gym battles sounds on paper, I just can't see them doing that with Ash already doing that.
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KenzeyEevee
You will only shine if you are yourself!
Isn't it stated in other words that Ash will definitely will become a Pokémon master instead of my dream is to become a Pokémon master?
Rockapheller
Trainer since late 90's
I would actually prefer something untried before, since we are at it. Maybe the female lead could explore in Galar region to get experience of discovering nature and Pokémon, in order some day to become a scientist. A nerdy personality with the tendency of overanalyzing everything which can be a helpful qualification for Ash and Gou. It would also give the audience a chance to get to know more about the Pokémon species. She could be explaining what are really interesting about those Pokémon, like those random books in Pokémon games which give players random small notes about the Pokémon world.
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Grass Type Gardenia
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Rockapheller said:
I do like the idea of a musician since she'll probably get Grookey as her starter.
However the series so far looks as if it'll only going to have Ash and Gou based on the poster showing them in Johto, Unova and Alola.
But then there's the calendar. Only 5 days to go and already I'm concerned of what's to happen. I truly do not want Galar to be the only Region to not have a female companion. Yet, Galar is the only Region to not have an O in it's name.
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BugCatcherinVF said:
More girls would watch if there was a female co-protagonist, these are things that influence each other.
Yeah, so far only Dawn was treated as a co-protagonist. All of the others were just sidekicks (May (kinda), Iris, Bonnie, Lillie, Mallow, and Lana), characters with their own goals in mind (Serena) or were just background material (Misty).
I'm all for a female protagonist that does more but for that, the producers need to give them a chance. Misty was planned to have a bigger, deeper backstory, but the producers just said, that she only has to be sweet eye candy for male viewers. BTW. This information I got from Serebii, so I'm not 100% sure if this is true, but it would explain a lot.
The producers just have to get away from the usual template for female characters, only then there might be a chance to finally get a female character that is for once different in terms of design, role or personality.
Tomboyish Mermaid said:
Yeah, so far only Daen was treated as a co-protagonist. All of the others were just sidekicks (May (kinda), Iris, Bonnie, Lillie, Mallow, and Lana), characters with their own goals in mind (Serena) or were just background material (Misty).
Which is why they're probably have Gou to be a role model for boys. It worked in other shows in the past, so what makes it anyway different for Pokemon to go down that path.
It's like they're tired of having female companions and are instead trying something new with a Male Companion. Not just that, but have them a duo of boys. Gen 8 is like some sort of reset for the formula, like Galar is the only region that doesn't have an O, the Leagues are made bigger and more focus, some of the original crew in the anime and games either retired or passed on, and... I do not know if this is culturally related, but it seems like a sort of way to promote the Reiwa Era in Japan, since Gen 1 to 7 were in the Hanshi Era.
Grass Type Gardenia said:
Which is why they're probably have Gou to be a role model for boys. It worked in other shows in the past, so what makes it anyway differe
Then what is Satoshi, chopped liver?
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Panky..
Gen 8 is like some sort of reset for the formula, like Galar is the only region that doesn't have an O
You're looking too deep into things while wearing a tinfoil hat.
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Panky.. said:
I know, I just wish Gen 8 would hold a candle like the originals have, but I know those days are over since most of the original people that worked with Pokemon are no longer working, either retired, moved on or passed on. Plus the mobile market had thrown a spanner in the spinoff works since Go.
Silktree
martianmister said:
It was a single event. Even if Ho-Oh hadn't appeared quite yet, it strengthened Ash's declaration ("you're on the right track"), which in the movie hadn't been made before that event.
The Gary flashback was a gag as they were watching a manga counterpart of Ash himself; I wouldn't take it seriously when their friendship was never discussed (plus, sitting next to someone isn't necessarily a sign of friendship). His encounter with Serena was completely inconsequential to his backstory, to the point that he forgot about it.
Beatsy Ray
like Galar is the only region that doesn't have an O...
Unova is Isshu in Japan, so that connection doesn't really check out.
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I do not know if this is culturally related, but it seems like a sort of way to promote the Reiwa Era in Japan, since Gen 1 to 7 were in the Hanshi Era.
Please, explain this to me, because I have no clue what does eras mean.
The Japanese emperors have an era dedicated to them when they rule Japan. Since April this year, the Heisei Emperor (Heisei Era: 1989-2019) had abdicated the throne, and is succeeded by the Reiwa Emperor to start the Reiwa Era.
I'd like to know how many children you remember from your own childhood, especially ones you only met at one time during some event.
I am not the one who compared such an encounter to a goal-changing event.
ehh123
So Shōji Yonemura is doing the head writing, huh? He done some work PreCure, including series composition on Smile.
Poke Trey
21 years...... Still here!
ehh123 said:
He's also done quite a bit of Kamen Rider and just like Atsuhiro Tomioka, has been writing for Pokemon since the Indigo League days. Heck, he even wrote 1 of my favorite recent movies I Choose You! I think he'd perfect to be the next head writer.


Many Thanks Simon for "Star Trek Beyond" which you co-wrote and starred. The movie embodies the spirit of Gene Roddenberry, Leonard Nimoy and it honors your friend and colleague Anton Yelchin.
I just came from opening night (USA) of ST Beyond, and I must say, Simon, you've done it again! I absolutely LOVED every second! What an amazing masterpiece! Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us! As always, Simon, I love you!
Was gonna write a eulogy in analytical praise of your script but feck it.
Nailed it Simon. Made me feel I was sitting in front of my tv 45 years ago.