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Published Aug. 4, 2022
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. --
The current outbreak of monkeypox continues to spread, with more than 6,600 active cases in the United States mostly occurring among gay and bisexual men.
The White House declared on August 4 that monkeypox is a national public health emergency, and Air Force providers at military treatment facilities are ready to provide guidance on the monkeypox vaccine. If not immediately available, shipment of the approved monkeypox vaccine can be available within 24 to 48 hours.
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on vaccines, even if the vaccine is given between four and 14 days of being exposed, the vaccine can still be helpful in reducing the symptoms of monkeypox," said Lt. Col. Sonia Molchan, preventive medicine chief, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency.
If an Airman or Guardian falls within the CDC guidelines for recommended vaccination, the military treatment facility will coordinate that.
The CDC provides tiered risk assessments for exposure. High-risk category includes individuals who have been contacted by their local public health departments, have had close or intimate contact in the past 14 days with an individual with monkeypox, or have had multiple sexual partners in the past 14 days in an area with known monkeypox.
Individuals at high risk also include people who may live in the same household with an infected person, share the same space or touch the same objects, and having close, intimate contact.
Moderate risk situations include exposure to respiratory droplets or attending an indoor event with an infected person where prolonged, close contact could occur.
"The most important things Airmen and Guardians need to know are what monkeypox is, what are their risks, and what to do if they are exposed," said Lt. Col. David Sayers, Chief, Preventive Medicine, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency.
Department of the Air Force senior leaders and the department's LGBTQ+ Initiatives Team are also urging high risk Airmen and Guardians to stay informed.
The LGBTQ+ Initiatives Team, or LIT, was established in 2021 to address issues impacting the community, especially when it comes to identifying potential barriers within existing policies and processes.
"It is critical Airmen and Guardians who fall into a high risk category have access to the care and support they need as we navigate through the current monkeypox outbreak," said Maj. Jonathan Roman, LIT co-lead. "If you fall into the high risk category, then you really should call your health care provider and ask them about your individual risk and your access to a vaccine."
While it is necessary that higher risk Airmen and Guardians know how to keep themselves safe, Roman also stresses the importance of dispelling misconceptions or misinformation that could get in the way of reducing the spread of monkeypox.
"Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection. We know that monkeypox can also spread by handling objects, like clothing or linens, used by someone with a known infection," said Roman. "We urge our members to reach out to their providers to get a clear assessment of potential risk and discuss how to prevent monkeypox infection or get vaccinated."
The World Health Organization cautioned on July 25 against complacency in the rapidly escalating monkeypox outbreak, saying there is no guarantee it will continue to spread within specific communities. However, the LIT is working to ensure members who are higher-risk have access to the necessary information, support and guidance.
"The best way to keep each other safe is to keep each other informed," said Roman. "The LIT has this impressive communication network where members can raise issues and concerns. We have a medical-focused line of effort within the LIT, so we have members who are focused on medical issues and barriers impacting the LGBTQ+ community."
Roman also urges Airmen and Guardians to be aware of their potential risk and how they can advocate for their needs when speaking with a provider.
"If members have any concerns about getting access to the vaccine, they should reach out their provider and their patient advocate at the military treatment facility," said Roman. "Members can also speak with us at the LIT to get additional support and advice."
"This is still an ongoing situation that could change at any time and recommendations may change," said Sayers. "As medics, we will do our best to keep our members informed and do all we can to keep them safe."
More information about the LIT and current conversations with members can be found here.
More information about monkeypox can be found here.
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A high-level Army investigation has found that military intelligence soldiers played a major role in directing and carrying out the abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The report undercut earlier contentions by military officials and the Bush administration that a handful of renegade military police guards were largely to blame.
The report, released at the Pentagon on Wednesday, recommended that the Army punish the top two military intelligence officers at the prison, Col. Thomas M. Pappas and Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, and three other intelligence officers involved in the interrogations at the jail, near Baghdad, saying they bore responsibility for what happened even though they were not directly involved in abusing prisoners.
The inquiry, by Maj. Gen. George R. Fay and Lt. Gen. Anthony R. Jones, also implicated 29 other military intelligence soldiers in at least 44 cases of abuse between July 2003 and February 2004. These soldiers could face disciplinary action ranging from criminal charges to administrative punishments, like reductions in pay and rank. Even lesser penalties can effectively end a military career.
While the involvement of intelligence soldiers, as well as civilian contractors, was reportedly significantly greater than previously disclosed, many of the allegations had been described before, sometimes in less detail.
''There were a few instances when torture was being used,'' General Fay told reporters at Pentagon news conference, in perhaps the harshest characterization of the abuses so far by military authorities.
While investigators said the mistreatment captured in the horrific photographs that first brought the abuses to light did not in most cases involve interrogations, the panel said it had uncovered other abuses that did occur during questioning, or were carried out by military police on orders from interrogators with the aim of extracting information.
The report blamed the abuses on a combination of factors, including a small group of ''morally corrupt'' soldiers and civilian contractors, poor leadership by commanding officers and a failure by military headquarters in Baghdad to recognize the looming disaster.
Coupled with the findings released on Tuesday by a four-member independent panel headed by James R. Schlesinger, a former defense secretary, the Army report reaffirms the suspicion of many critics that culpability extended far beyond a handful of low-level military police personnel, to include military intelligence soldiers in Iraq and up the chain of command in the Persian Gulf to the highest levels in Washington.
''When you put these reports together, the clear message is that the system failed in a widespread manner,'' said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican on the Armed Services Committee.
Moreover, the reports offer revealing new details on the military's failure to prepare adequately for the postwar environment in Iraq, in this case underestimating the ferocity of an Iraqi insurgency that led to violence at Abu Ghraib.
''One of the consequences of not addressing the postwar challenges is that there were not enough troops in Iraq, and many of those were untrained,'' said Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican. The reports have renewed calls by some senior Democrats, including Senator John Kerry, for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign. The Schlesinger panel implicitly blamed Mr. Rumsfeld for contributing to a confusing set of interrogation polices, but its members said he should not resign.
On Wednesday, Mr. Kerry called on Mr. Rumsfeld to step down and urged President Bush to appoint an independent investigation to provide reforms. ''It's not just the little person at the bottom who ought to pay the price of responsibility,'' Mr. Kerry said at a campaign appearance in a Philadelphia union hall.
But senior Republicans have rushed to defend Mr. Rumsfeld and said his resignation would hand a victory to America's enemies.
''I do not find any evidence that Secretary Rumsfeld had actual knowledge of these horrific incidents in the prison system that were the direct result of lack of training, lack of supervision by the immediate command,'' Senator John W. Warner, a Virginia Republican who heads the Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Wednesday.
The report also chastised the top commander in Iraq at the time, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, and his deputy, Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, for not having provided adequate oversight for the detention and interrogation operations at the prison.
''We did not find General Sanchez culpable but we found him responsible for the things that did or did not happen,'' Gen. Paul J. Kern, the senior officer responsible for issuing the report, told reporters.
In addition to the 29 military intelligence soldiers who are alleged either to have committed abuses themselves, ordered military police officers to mistreat detainees or witnessed misconduct but failed to report it, the inquiry found six civilian contractors were involved in abuse or failed to report it.
The report also stated that 11 military police soldiers -- seven of whom have already been charged -- were involved in abuses, and that two Army medics in Iraq failed to report misconduct they had witnessed. The report also states that military intelligence soldiers conspired to keep at least eight Iraqis detained by American forces hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross, a violation of Geneva Conventions.
The report goes beyond any of the other military inquiries into the Abu Ghraib scandal released so far by concluding that military intelligence officers at the prison had a significant involvement in abusing prisoners. Some of the seven military police soldiers who have been charged with abuse have said they were acting at the direction of military intelligence personnel.
''It is clear from the reports that abuse occurred at Abu Ghraib and that abuse, in some cases, was directed, condoned or solicited by members of the 205th M.I. Brigade,'' the report said.
What General Kern called one of the most egregious abuses involved two Army dog handlers who used unmuzzled dogs in a sadistic game to frighten detained Iraqi teenagers to force the youths to urinate or defecate on themselves.
The report said abuses largely fell into two categories: intentional abuses of a violent or sexual nature, and those that occurred through the misinterpretation or misapplication of shifting procedures. By mid-October last year, interrogation policy in Iraq had changed three times in less than 30 days, the report found.
The report, which relied on some 9,000 documents and 170 interviews, is divided into two parts. General Fay examined the role of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which oversaw interrogations at the prison in Tier 1A and 1B, where the security detainees were held.
This portion of the report examined in detail the 44 cases of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib that investigators found. In 16 of the cases, the report found that military intelligence soldiers solicited military police to carry out abuses, while in 11 cases the military intelligence soldiers were directly involved in the misconduct. Some soldiers were involved in more than one more case.
In some instances the two groups colluded, General Fay said, with one interrogator threatening to turn a prisoner over to a military police officer infamous for his beatings if the prisoner did not cooperate.
In his section, General Jones examined the role of senior intelligence officers and commanders above the brigade level, including General Sanchez. Together, the investigators found that 54 military police officers, military intelligence soldiers, medics and civilian contractors bore some degree of responsibility.
The report found that there was a blurring of interrogation techniques used at Guantánamo Bay and in Afghanistan that were applied improperly in Iraq; confusion with Central Intelligence Agency interrogators using different procedures; poorly trained civilian contractors, and a dire shortages of military police, interrogators and linguists.
Abusing detainees with dogs started almost immediately after the animals arrived at Abu Ghraib on Nov. 20, 2003. By then, the report said, prisoner abuse was in full swing, and dogs became just another device, the report said. The dogs were brought to Iraq on recommendation of Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, then head of detention operations at Guantánamo, who said they could be helpful to maintain order. But interrogators at Abu Ghraib said Colonel Pappas approved the use of dogs to exploit prisoners' fears.
Many interrogators and their superiors were poorly trained, the investigation found. ''Most interrogator training that occurred at Abu Ghraib was on-the-job training,'' the report said.


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At the Forge: Bloglines Web Services
by Reuven M. Lerner
Last month, we looked at ways in which we can gather, or aggregate, content from a number of different Web sites and put together a single summary of the day's news. Although it was amazing to see how much we could accomplish with a little bit of code, the application I presented is merely a toy when compared with actual aggregators. My example application supports only one user, is controlled by a primitive configuration file, doesn't categorize Weblogs into groups, checks for Weblog updates only when we explicitly ask it to do so and doesn't check for or handle errors.
Creating a robust, user-friendly aggregator is beyond the scope of this column, given the attention to technical and design details that would be necessary. But several days before I sat down to write this column, something amazing happened. The free, Web-based Bloglines.com aggregation service, which many people use to keep track of their favorite Weblogs, announced the availability of a Web service API that allows independent developers to create and deploy applications that use the data and applications developed by Bloglines. The publication and availability of the Bloglines API marks the growing popularity of Web services among well-known sites and opens the door to new applications built on the underlying Bloglines infrastructure.
This month, we take a look at the Bloglines API, including the creation of a simple application based on it. The API is brand new as of this writing (early October 2004) and undoubtedly will evolve as more people use it. If Weblogs interest you, and if you still are waiting to see practical uses for Web services, this combination of events might have come just in time.
What Is a Web Service, Anyway?
The basic idea behind Web services is quite simple: the Web's success is due in no small part to the fact that the client and server operating systems are irrelevant. So long as the client and server adhere to the HTTP and HTML specifications, they can communicate seamlessly. Linux has made inroads into the server space precisely for this reason.
Web services take this one step further, saying that computers and not people should be the biggest users of the Web. Although computers exchange information over HTTP, they send and receive data in XML, the markup language or meta-language, that has caught on like wildfire in recent years. If my computer can send XML in the HTTP request it sends to your computer, and your computer then returns XML in its HTTP response, we can exchange information regardless of what languages and operating systems we're using.
The original form of this service, known as XML-RPC, still exists and is great for fast, easy communication. But this idea was extended further, and a variety of data types, error-checking mechanisms and object serialization techniques were introduced that XML-RPC lacked. This extension became known as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). SOAP theoretically can run on top of a variety of protocols, but it most often is sent on top of HTTP.
SOAP is a great solution to many problems, except that it is terribly complex, can be slow and is difficult to implement. And, both XML-RPC and SOAP require that the HTTP request include a well-formed XML request containing the query. One response to this growing complexity is REST (representational state transfer), in which all transactions are initiated by a simple HTTP GET request and all parameters are specified in the URL itself. The response then is an XML document containing the records and fields appropriate to the request. All of the Bloglines API calls are done with REST, although it's hard to say if this reflects the relatively simple queries now provided or if it's a design preference of the developers.
Although Web services probably are taking off behind corporate doors, only a few of the larger Web sites have made their plans and APIs public. The best-known examples are some of the largest and most profitable sites on the Web, including Amazon, eBay and Google. eBay charges for access to its Web services, with annual fees as well as per-transaction costs. By contrast, Amazon and Google have made their APIs freely available to the public, subject to usage restrictions and without making any promises regarding future availability.
In making its API public, Bloglines is indicating its interest in creating the same sort of developer community that Amazon, Google and eBay have created. This move also demonstrates its interest in remaining a leader in the world of Weblog aggregation and applications. Given Google's purchase of Blogger several years ago and the extensive search features that Bloglines is making available with its API, we might be witnessing the beginning of a new type of application or platform battle, with the Google and Bloglines APIs competing for attention.
Presenting the Bloglines API
Bloglines aggregates content from a large number of Weblogs and frequently updated news sources. Bloglines is happy to accept feeds in a variety of formats, including Atom and several versions of RSS. Indeed, Bloglines offers subscribers the choice of which feed to use, if more than one is available. The Bloglines software then archives that content, providing a search interface for interested users. Bloglines provides some relevance features, telling subscribers which additional Weblogs might interest them. Finally, Bloglines lets you look at other users' subscriptions; if you are interested in seeing which Weblogs interest me, you can review my profile and see my subscriptions.
For now at least, much of this functionality remains under wraps, available only through the Bloglines Web site. But three particular pieces of functionality now are available from the Bloglines Web services API:
Notifier: if you are a Bloglines subscriber and want to know when new content has arrived from one or more of the Weblogs to which you subscribe, now you can do it. This is the most established of the Bloglines Web services, and a number of tools for a number of operating systems and windowing toolkits rely on this interface to provide updates.
Sync API: allows you to retrieve information about a particular user's subscriptions, as well as the latest entries from each of those subscriptions. You can think of this as the data underlying the HTML that Bloglines generates for the main Weblog listing it provides.
Blogroll API: presents a way to retrieve and display a particular user's subscription list.
Notifier API
As I wrote above, Bloglines has decided to use REST for all of its Web services APIs. This means every request consists of a single URL, with all of the parameters and their values in the URL. Information is returned in whatever format the server deems appropriate. This stands in sharp contrast to SOAP, which specifies the name and type of each parameter and return value. A minor exception to this rule is that APIs requiring authentication expect the user name and password to arrive in HTTP Basic rather than in the URL itself. In the Bloglines universe, subscribers are identified by their e-mail addresses and user-selected passwords.
The easiest of the APIs to understand and use is the Notifier. To invoke the Notifier, simply go to the URL rpc.bloglines.com/update?user=reuven@lerner.co.il&ver=1. The response, while (incorrectly) tagged by the server as having a MIME type of text/html, contains a plain-text response of the format:
|A|B|
Notifiers can interpret the response as follows:
Normally, A indicates the number of unread Weblog entries in the user's subscription.
If the provided e-mail address is not registered with the system, then A contains -1.
If B isn't empty, it then contains a URL pointing to an upgrade page. The documentation doesn't say much about what it means to have an upgrade page. I assume that such a page is meant for people rather than programs, because it would be impossible or at least quite difficult to identify all of the programs that use the Notifier API and that are in need of an upgrade.
We easily could implement the client side of the Notifier API in any modern high-level language. But at the time of this writing, versions of Bloglines client libraries exist in Perl, Python and Ruby. I use the Perl version (on CPAN as WebService::Bloglines), but you may feel more comfortable rolling your own version, using a different version or both.
Here is a simple command-line program that prints "You have new blogs!" if Bloglines reports that new messages are waiting and "No new blogs" if I already have read everything:
use WebService::Bloglines;
my $username = 'reuven@lerner.co.il';
my $password = 'MYPASS';
my $bloglines = WebService::Bloglines->new(
username => $username,
password => $password);
my $unread_blogs = $bloglines->notify();
if ($unread_blogs)
print "You have '$unread_blogs' new blogs!\n ";
print "No new blogs.\n"
The number returned by $bloglines->notify() is the number of unread postings, not of unread Weblogs. If there are 15 unread messages from five Weblogs, $bloglines->notify() returns 15, not 5. Moreover, the number reflects the state of the internal Bloglines database. That is, if you click on the Keep New check box at the bottom of a Weblog entry, it is included in the count of new messages returned by $bloglines->notify().
If we enter an incorrect user name, our program exits with a fatal error and indicates that we gave it a bad user name. Giving a bad password has no consequences for the Notifier API, because that information is available publicly.
Blogroll API
Another offering from Bloglines, as we mentioned earlier, is the Blogroll API. A blogroll is a list of Weblogs that a particular author finds interesting and often reads. It's likely that if you enjoy reading someone's Weblog, you also would enjoy perusing that person's reading list. In the case of Bloglines, a blogroll simply is a list of subscriptions associated with a particular user.
So far, we have mentioned that someone's Bloglines user name is the same as his or her e-mail address. But this is not completely true—if you choose to use Bloglines for your own private purposes, never sharing information about your subscriptions with other people, you need nothing more than your e-mail address. But if you do want to expose your subscriptions, you must choose a user name with which they can be associated. In my case, my registration e-mail address is reuven@lerner.co.il and my user name is reuven. This distinction wasn't clear to me for the first few months that I used Bloglines, although it seems to be more obviously advertised now.
If a user has established a user name for public consumption and if that user has chosen to share his or her subscriptions, you can get a version of that user's Blogroll that uses HTML and JavaScript as follows: http://www.bloglines.com/public/reuven. If we want to retrieve the blogroll results in HTML, we can do so with the following style of URL: http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=reuven&html=1.
But the whole idea of Web services is to make data machine-readable, such that it can be stored and processed by computers. OPML, the Outline Processor Markup Language, specified by Dave Winer in 2000, is the format used by Bloglines when it exports a list of subscriptions. It is not an official part of the Bloglines Web services specification, but you can retrieve it by going to the following type of URL: http://www.bloglines.com/export?id=reuven.
In all of the above examples, you can and should replace my Bloglines user name with that of the user whose blogroll you want to read. Not every user makes his or her subscription list public, so you may encounter error messages when trying to retrieve them. And once you retrieve the OPML, you need to process it, perhaps using a tool such as the publicly available XML::OPML module from CPAN.
As you can see, the Bloglines API for Web services opens the door to a host of third-party applications. It increasingly is possible to create useful applications that use HTML, XML and HTTP but that are not tied to a Web browser. The Notifier and Blogroll APIs are only the beginning. As we saw earlier, there is also a Sync API that effectively allows developers to create alternative GUIs and applications with the actual content Bloglines retrieves and stores. In my next column, we will look at the Sync API, building some basic applications on top of the Bloglines infrastructure.
Reuven M. Lerner, a longtime Web/database consultant and developer, now is a graduate student in the Learning Sciences program at Northwestern University. His Weblog is at altneuland.lerner.co.il, and you can reach him at reuven@lerner.co.il.
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LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Looks Surprisingly Slick
By Jason O'Connell on May 9, 2016
Last week IGN posted a video showcasing Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Game Director, Jamie Eden, playing through eight minutes of the newest installment to the ever growing Legolization franchise. During the eight-minute video, viewers are treated to sneak peeks at blaster battles and flight sections of the game, but does this peek behind the curtain prove to be all that exciting?
Lego games based off of popular film franchises have been being developed for consoles since 2005. Lego Star Wars, which featured Episodes I-III, proved to be a big hit and since then it has taken a brick-sized shot at multiple franchises. Over the years new gameplay mechanics were introduced and implemented to fit each new franchise that Traveller's Tales tackled and through their travels they have discovered what pieces work best and what pieces are Mega Blocks that don't quite fit well together.
During the gameplay footage we see Eden take control over Poe Dameron during the confrontation between the First Order on Jakku and the game looks smooth as butter from the beginning. During the first few moments of the video we are introduced to the seamless switching off between melee and gun attacks, but what I can't get over are the breathtaking visuals. Everything just looks neat and polished and even in the mist of battle and destruction, the characters and scenery are gorgeous. After a short encounter with some Storm Troopers, Eden takes control of BB-8 who we get to see use a charge mechanic, which look eerily similar to Batman: Arkham Knight's Batmobile power winch. The way the cable attaches to the device and discharges blue electrical beams while displaying an icon on the screen showing where the indicators sweet spot is is all too familiar.
We then enter into the first blaster battle of the game and my god is it amazing. Compared to previous entries in the series, this by far takes the cake, as previously the player would either just kind of stand around stagnantly or run around in circles aimlessly, repeatedly firing their weapon, until the room was clear. This time around there is actually a cover mechanic, which makes the combat sequences a lot more engaging and thus a lot more interesting. The battles themselves even look and feel like a third-person shooter sequence as you crouch down to avoid enemy fire, which is blasting all around you perfectly capturing that Star Wars look and feel. The enemies this time around actively try to avoid your blaster fire instead of standing around in one spot allowing you to rain down shot after shot on them. The AI you encounter will not only actively try to avoid your blaster fire, but they will also try to out-flank you during the blaster battles, providing a whole new challenge when approaching puzzles sections that incorporate blaster battles into the mini brainteaser. With the upgraded AI and combat mechanics, I can't wait to see how Eden has implemented everything that's new with the combat into the lightsaber battles, which hopefully will put a far more intuitive spin on the saber battle portions of the game.
The next section of the video we get a peek at takes us on a high flying ride in the cockpit of a a TIE fighter during Poe and Fin's escape from a Star Destroyer, which brings me to the impressive camera. The last thing I thought I would ever be impressed with in a Lego game is the camera and trust me when I say there's a lot to talk about and love with the camera in this one. Every moment of this video between the ground and space battles just looks and feels cinematic; it's as if there is a little Lego camera man capturing every moment of the action. The way the camera tracks your character around the battlefield is just mesmerizing. The game perfectly captures those movie-like camera angles, making you feel like you're playing a scene taken straight out of the films. If there was anything I could praise more about the newly added features to the game, it's the camera.
During the dogfight section as you fly around the Star Destroyer. It looks and feels more polished and intuitive compared to Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy, as during these space battle sections I tend to lose focus and interest in what I'm doing. The pacing just always felt off to me and the controls felt clunky while preforming simple tasks like turning around or avoiding enemy fire in the small-enclosed parameters you were forced to fly around in. This time around, however, it seems as though the parameters and layouts of these sections have been greatly expanded, as now you can explore more of an expansive area instead of being locked in tiny claustrophobic corner of space. The one thing I wasn't thrilled to see return is the mechanic of collecting special torpedoes from certain enemy fighters in order to destroy a specific object. Although it's not hard to accomplish, this aspect always felt tedious to me. Flying around in general, however, has received a much needed upgrade, as now the player can pull off aerobatic moves with more ease than ever before. All it takes is a simple click of the buttons and once you have mastered the controls you will be able to perform some aesthetically pleasing moves.
Overall, our first look at Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens seems to be taking all the best bits of previous Lego games and mixing those features with up-to-date concepts and ideas. At first I was a little nervous about the game coming out so soon with a single film to explore compared to the first two games, but now after viewing the eight-minute gameplay video, it's hard not to be excited.
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The shortest distance (air line) between London and Moscow is 1,553.93 mi (2,500.81 km).
A theoretical drive (as fancifully calculated by CNN) from London to Alaska via Moscow might cover about 12,978 kilometers (8,064 miles). Relatively isolated even by Alaska standards, no road connects Nome with the rest of the state's road system.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between United Kingdom and Russia is 5,634 km= 3,501 miles. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from United Kingdom to Russia, It takes 6.25 hours to arrive.
Moscow has replaced Tokyo as the world's most expensive city, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting. … With New York as the base city with a score of 100 points, Moscow scores 123.9—nearly three times costlier than Asuncion, which has an index of 43.5.
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Distance from London to Moscow is approximately 2540 kilometers.
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You will need to have a 1968 International Driving Permit (IDP) to drive in Russia. 1949 IDPs previously issued by the UK may no longer be accepted in Russia. … A green card is proof that you have vehicle insurance when driving abroad. You need to carry a green card to drive in Russia.
How do I drive to Russia? Getting to Russia by car from the UK is an epic European adventure. Firstly, you'll need to take your car across the Channel to Calais on either the Eurotunnel from Folkestone or a ferry from Dover.
It is 6059 km from France to Russia. It is approximately 2839 km to drive. … The best way to get from France to Russia is to fly which takes 7h 10m and costs €90 – €320.
Average direct flight time is 7 hours 6 minutes.
The fastest direct flight from London to Russia is 7 hours 6 minutes.
In general, Russia is a cheap country to travel and there are a lot of free walking tours, free museums, interesting monuments, churches to see and visit, comparably cheap food and drinks. You can definitely travel on a budget in Russia and that would cost you around 20€/24$ per day.
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On average, Russians named 66,000 rubles ($1,000) as a decent monthly salary, according to the government's Financial University survey cited by the outlet. The figures ranged from 50,000 rubles in Siberia to 100,000 rubles in Moscow.
A single person estimated monthly costs are 618$ (43,980руб) without rent. Moscow is 55.54% less expensive than New York (without rent).
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Note: Like arcade controllers? Check out my reviews of the Analogue Interactive Arcade Stick and the VF Dash!
Quick Super Nintendo controller history: There are A LOT of controllers for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Of the 'arcade joystick' variety, the most popular is the SNES Advantage, the successor to the NES Advantage. The SNES Advantage has an 'arcade-style' joystick, buttons that are much larger than those on the standard controller, and turbo switches. All in all, the SNES Advantage is a decent alternative to the standard SNES controller, although the biggest complaint critics find with the controller is its awkward button layout and none-too-long cord. Additionally, the SNES Advantage doesn't really 're-create' the arcade experience quite like a real arcade joystick due to its cheaper parts. Enter the C & L Championship Joystick, a joystick that claims (according to an old ad I found online) to have 'true arcade joystick & buttons' and to deliver 'true arcade action.' I'm not sure what year it was released, as there isn't a lot of helpful information about it online, but it was released by a company known as KBM.
The C & L is larger, and yet lighter, than the SNES Advantage.
The Controller: The C & L Joystick is quite large, although not terribly heavy. Comparatively, it isn't quite as heavy as the SNES Advantage, although it's firm enough to stay in place if you're playing with it resting on a coffee table. Its body is made from a very durable and sturdy plastic. The joystick is not the more-typical 'ball' joystick, but rather a rounded handle with a grip surface. In addition to the Start and Select buttons at the top of the controller, there are 6 action buttons: Y, B, and A on the bottom row, and right above them, L, X, and R. The buttons are concave rather than convex (like the buttons on the Analogue Interactive Arcade Stick or VF Dash, for example). The arcade stick is 'clicky' when rotated, and the buttons have a nice 'clicky' feel to them as well – not too loud, but very much what you would experience in the arcade. The cord is 8 feet long – about as good as you can ask for from a SNES controller (without having to buy extensions). It has 4 knubby, rubbery plastic legs on the bottom.
This old ad boasted the advantages of using the C & L Joystick.
Can I open the controller? There are no visible screws anywhere on the C & L Joystick. There is a seam along the middle of the controller, but it seems to be sealed in place. So, can it be opened? It doesn't look like it.
So, where can I find this controller? I have no idea about the production run of this controller. The most information I could find suggested that this controller was expensive when it was initially released around 20 years ago. I found only one on eBay, but I'm sure they pop up there from time to time.
Conclusion: Wow, was I impressed with this controller. The only shortcoming I found was with its weight – I wish it was a bit heavier. This is not to suggest that because it's NOT extremely heavy that it feels cheap – it doesn't, not at all. The control stick and the buttons are perfect and really enhance the experience of gaming on the SNES – it truly does have that 'true arcade action' feel. I played several SNES arcade games using the C & L Joystick (Turtles in Time, Sunset Riders, Knights of the Round, King of Dragons), and it's a far, far better experience than the standard SNES controller or the SNES advantage. The action buttons can really take a beating, and the response time of your character's on-screen actions is quicker when you're using the C & L compared to the regular controllers (my opinion, at least). I think the placement of the buttons is perfect. Unfortunately, I was unable to test the C & L with fighting games like Street Fighter II, but I do know that the layout on this controller is supposed to be ideal for fighters.
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Q: \section* doesn't work with \renewcommand{\section} I'd like to modify the \section command and I'd like to sometimes use \section*, but this doesn't work with amsmath package.
The code below works fine without it, but I often need it:
\documentclass[a4paper,french,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\subsection}{%
    \@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
    {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
    {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
    {\normalfont\large\bfseries}%
    }
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\section{Section 1}

\subsection*{Introduction}
\lipsum[2]

\section{subsection 1}
\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

with amsmath,when I use \subsection*{my subsec title}, it prints the subsec number and then a star where the "my subsec title" should be. And this title doesn't show up.
Thanks for any clue to sort it out

A: The code posted is missing a couple of % but in most uses that won't affect the output (unless you load amsmath which changes the behaviour of white space around \@ifnextchar).
By default it does define the * form to give unnumbered subsections.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\makeatletter
\subsection*{aaa}
aaa

\renewcommand{\subsection}{
    \@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
    {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
    {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
    {\normalfont\large\bfseries}
    }

\subsection*{bbb}
bbb

\renewcommand{\subsection}{%
    \@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
    {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
    {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
    {\normalfont\large\bfseries}%
    }

\subsection*{bbb}
bbb

\end{document}

As always if you have code that isn't working, post a complete document as here, that shows the problem.
If you add
\usepackage{amsmath}

Then you will see instead

Showing the issue is as mentioned originally your missing % the version in the question doesn't work, but the following redefinition works as intended.

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Polskie Radio Program I, known also as PR1 or radiowa Jedynka is a radio channel broadcast by the Polish public broadcaster, Polskie Radio. It is dedicated to information and easy listening music. Program I began test transmissions on 1 February 1925, and began regular transmissions on 18 April 1926 (as Polskie Radio Warszawa), one year after Polskie Radio was founded.

Some of its broadcasts have decades-old traditions and are quite famous, such as Matysiakowie, W Jezioranach.

See also
Eastern Bloc information dissemination

References

External links
Polskie Radio Program I - official website

Polskie Radio
1926 establishments in Poland
Radio stations established in 1926

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Sing Fuels Is A Five-time Enterprise 50 Award Winner
Sing Fuels Recognized Amongst The Fast Growing Companies For The 5th Consecutive Year With Enterprise 50 Award, says Sign Fuels.
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Singapore-based global energy company Sing Fuels was honoured for the 5th consecutive year amongst the fastest-growing companies in Singapore with the Enterprise 50 Award.
The prestigious award recognises companies that have grown rapidly and contributed to the economic development of Singapore. This year, it especially recognized companies who had taken bold steps in being adaptable and reinventing their strategies in a sustainable way amidst an uncertain business landscape.
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"Marine energy company Sing Fuels has diversified its portfolio by creating a disruptive digital arm, and by embracing technology to bring trust, transparency, efficiency and sustainability into its traditional marine fuels business. It has advanced such efforts by digitalising end-to-end systems and by adopting a back-to-back transaction model to reduce risks surrounding commodity prices, currency and delivery. The company has also remained agile by moving into niche markets and by quickly scaling its operations in response to changing market sentiment. It is also working with partners to advance CleanTech and green energy solutions for the shipping industry and port infrastructure. It has also further expanded into other petroleum products like lubricants, base oils and invested in other sustainable energy spaces. As a result, the company's revenue and gross profits in 2022 rose 50% on pre-pandemic levels," highlighted the progress that Sing Fuels has made in the opening speech at the Award ceremony.
The award comes as a testament to the strong progress Sing Fuels has made over the past several years, transforming itself from a pure bunkering trader and moving towards being a global energy company. Sing Fuels celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year.
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Trump Just Issued a Warning to President Xi on Trade
Ismael Spencer | Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Regulators threatened "necessary countermeasures" in response to Trump's increase in tariffs Friday on $200 billion of Chinese imports.
The White House and US Trade Representative's office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Congressman Warren Davidson sought to impose sanctions on China on Sunday for walking away from good faith negotiations. "Maybe something will happen". The tariffs will be imposed on some of the goods listed on a previous retaliation list from 2018.
According to the Chinese Finance Ministry, 25, 20, and 10 percent import duties for different groups of U.S. goods will come into effect on 1 June.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 470 points to start Monday trading, as traders reacted to an increasingly aggressive U.S. China's yuan currency fell to its lowest level since December and oil futures slumped.
Wei Jianguo, a former vice-minister at the Ministry of Commerce who handled foreign trade, told the South China Morning Post that China was prepared for a long trade war.
Vice Premier Liu He, China's top economic adviser, sought to defend the changes in talks with senior US officials in Washington on Thursday and Friday, arguing that China could accomplish the policy changes through decrees issued by its State Council, or cabinet, sources familiar with the talks said. The U.S. and other trading partners say such efforts violate Beijing's free-trade commitments.
Beijing wanted to delete prior commitments that Chinese laws would be changed to enact new policies on issues from intellectual property protection to forced technology transfers. However, the trade talks suffered a major setback last week when China proposed extensive revisions to a draft agreement.
Larry Kudlow, the chairman of the president's National Economic Council, conceded Sunday in a TV interview that tariff costs are generally passed through in the form of higher prices for customers.
The "points" are a reference to the percentage increase in tariffs on Chinese goods, from 4 per cent to 25 per cent, compared to a more modest tariff hike the Chinese have recently enforced in the other direction. And it could shave Chinese growth to around 5%.
The Trump administration has said that more details are coming this week regarding the preparations for slapping tariffs on an additional $267 billion worth of Chinese shipments, a move which would effectively see all imports from the country subjected to the punitive duties. "Remember, they broke the deal with us and tried to renegotiate", Trump said justifying his decision to impose a hefty tax on Chinese products.
"The selloff is a reflection that trade talks are in worse shape than people were expecting", said Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird in Milwaukee.
The announcement followed an increase of US duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25% from 10% in the increasingly bitter dispute.
China on Monday raised tariffs on hundreds of USA goods, retaliating against the Trump administration last week more than doubling tariffs on Chinese imports. "But they have to react".
Trump has repeatedly framed the tariffs as primarily hurting China.
But actually it's American businesses that will pay the tariffs, and in many cases, pass the expense on to their American customers.
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December 19, 2018 at 4:15 pm.
It has been refreshing to see the mainstream media report on a new story showing the high criminality and purposeful abuse of this corporation at the hands of their talc product. It appears for the moment that Johnson & Johnson is involved in a continuous merry-go-round of lawsuits and settlements for their cancer-causing talc. Events have been unfolding over the recent years signaling trouble at J&J with an quickening over the last few weeks as mainstream media has again decided to report on uncomfortable facts concerning J&J. A new Reuters investigation on December 14 again opened the floodgates to well-deserved bad press and profit losses for J&J. Reuters writes:
"A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company's raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.
The documents also depict successful efforts to influence U.S. regulators' plans to limit asbestos in cosmetic talc products and scientific research on the health effects of talc."
J&J's damning documents and statements reported by Reuters only add to the corporation's tainted public discovery. Last year, documents uncovered during a court case in St. Louis in which the corporation was ordered pay over $110.5 million to a Virginia woman who developed ovarian cancer after decades of using its talcum powder.
Jim Onder, the attorney for a plaintiff in another $55 million St. Louis J&J settlement case stated:
"The evidence is real clear that Johnson & Johnson has known about the dangers associated with talcum powder for over 30 years," Onder said. "Instead of giving a warning, what they did was targeted the groups most at risk for developing ovarian cancer," specifically marketing to overweight women, blacks and Hispanics."
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Reports are being written of multiple J&J's production facilities are experiencing visits from regulatory bodes over their talc powder. Reuters India writes:
"Indian drug authorities visited some of Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N) facilities on Wednesday and took "tests and samples" of its talcum powder, the company said in a statement.
The visits came as regulators in India launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report last Friday that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.
The company told Reuters in a statement that the facilities were visited by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) and some state-based food and drug administrations (FDAs)."
J&J said on Monday it planned to buy back up to $5 billion of its stock, after $40 billion was wiped from its market value following the Reuters report.
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Francisca de Paula Pomar y Prunell, más conocida como Francisca Pomar de Maristany, (Buenos Aires, 1889 - Barcelona, 1975) fue una soprano ligera argentina.

Biografía
Nació con una voz privilegiada, pero sus padres no le permitieron hacer una carrera profesional como cantante de ópera. Desarrolló su afición haciendo papeles de soprano ligera en zarzuelas de aficionados, especialmente en el teatro que tenía el pintor Aurelio Tolosa Alsina en su casa de la calle Torrente de las Flores, en el barrio de La Salud, de Barcelona, entonces un lugar de veraneo,  donde se reunía lo más granado de la sociedad barcelonesa de principios del siglo XX.

Conoció a su futuro esposo, Alejandro Maristany y Guasch, haciendo zarzuela de aficionados (Alejandro, que también tenía buena voz, hacía el papel de galán, y Francisca el de protagonista femenina). Se casaron en Barcelona en 1909. En 1929, cuando Francisca tenía 40 años (edad, en aquella época, muy elevada para una soprano ligera) y era madre de tres hijos, su marido quiso grabar, privadamente, su voz con la Orquesta del Gran Teatro del Liceo de Barcelona, dirigida por el maestro Concordio Gelabert, para que, cuando fuesen mayores, sus hijos pudiesen recordar la voz de su madre cantando ópera. Las grabaciones fueron las siguientes:
Ah! non credea, de la ópera La sonnambula de Vincenzo Bellini:
Vissi d'arte de Tosca de Giacomo Puccini;
Siccome un di de Los pescadores de perlas de Georges Bizet:
Amami, de Luigi Denza:
A Granada, de Fermín María Álvarez:

Aunque los originales de 1929 están en discos de piedra grabados y editados en los, entonces, recientemente inaugurados estudios de La Voz de su Amo en Barcelona, las nuevas tecnologías han permitido recuperar el sonido original. Algunas de estas grabaciones han sido emitidas por Radio Nacional de España, y otras emisoras de radio, en sus programas de música clásica.

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I just wrote "The End" on the first draft of my work in progress, HUNTING GROUND.
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Prepare ½ cup of tuna from the can. Break it with a fork to make fine pieces.
Finely chop 6 sesame leaves (¼ cup), ½ cup of an onion, and ½ Tbsp of hot pepper.
Combine the tuna, chopped vegetables, 2 eggs, and 3 pinches of salt.
In a generously oiled and heated pan, place a spoonful of the mixture and make a round shape.
Fry them until both sides of the pancakes become golden brown on medium-high.
which can tuna are you using water or oil?
I used can tuna in sunflower oil..but you can use both water and oil..
Hehe.. thanks 🙂 I'm happy you liked it. Try other recipes too… and i will love to see your Korean food pictures too.
Hi Aeri! I tried this one, and it was really great! I didn't find sesame leaves so I used Petchay (Chinese white cabbage) instead.
I posted a picture of what I came up with on my blog and linked back to your website for the recipe.
You don't need any kind of 가루 mix for this? The egg is enough to hold it together?
I think I'll try this. Mahalo!
this looks great! just a question, instead of perilla leaves is there another subsititute if i can't find those leaves?
Another winner! Not only is it a winner because it tastes great, but because there's no flour (I can't have four) and so both my husband and I can enjoy this together. Thank you.
I made this today for my family and they loved it!
aha..another way to use perilla leaves. my girl will love this….cos you have tuna in this recipe!!
Can we also use the Red Sesame leaf (perilla), or only the green one? I have both in my garden.
one question though…do you drain the water/oil from the tuna first?
haha.. Oh Em Gee… I like that..
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Nikola will pay $125 million to settle SEC fraud charges
Kris Holt
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Electric vehicle company Nikola will pay $125 million to settle civil charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission of defrauding investors. The company was accused of misleading investors about its in-house production capabilities, technological advancements, reservations and orders, hydrogen production and more.
The SEC accused founder and former CEO Trevor Milton of undertaking "a public relations campaign aimed at inflating and maintaining Nikola's stock price" through tweets and media appearances before the company had made a commercial product. It said that the company also misled investors by "misrepresenting or omitting material facts" about the hydrogen station at its headquarters, how long it would take to refuel its concept vehicles, the source and cost of power for planned hydrogen production and the risks and benefits of a mooted partnership with a major automaker.
"As the order finds, Nikola Corporation is responsible both for Milton's allegedly misleading statements and for other alleged deceptions, all of which falsely portrayed the true state of the company's business and technology," SEC enforcement director Gurbir S. Grewal said in a statement.
Although Nikola did not admit to or deny the SEC's charges of securities law violations, it agreed to some voluntary undertakings, to pay the penalty and to cease and desist from "future violations of the charged provisions." It will cooperate with ongoing litigation and investigation too.
"We are pleased to bring this chapter to a close as the company has now resolved all government investigations," Nikola said in a statement. "We will continue to execute on our strategy and vision to deliver on our business plan, including delivering trucks to customers, expanding our manufacturing facilities and our sales and service network, and building out our hydrogen infrastructure ecosystem including hydrogen production, distribution and dispensing stations." The company also said it was seeking reimbursement from Milton "for costs and damages in connection with the government and regulatory investigations."
Nikola became a publicly traded company in June 2020 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, which enables companies to bypass the usual process of going public. That September, reports suggested the SEC was looking into Nikola's claims about its electric trucks. Milton, who had stepped down as CEO just before the company went public, resigned as executive chairman a few days after news emerged about the probe.
A grand jury indicted Milton on fraud charges in July 2021. He was accused of lying to investors about "nearly all aspects of the business" to increase Nikola's share price. He denied the charges and is free on bail pending a trial that's scheduled for April.
Meanwhile, Nikola delivered its first electric trucks to customers last week.


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Roman Wittig
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Departments of Primatology & Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
e-mail: wittig@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Director, Taï Chimpanzee Project, Côte d'Ivoire
Co-Initiator of the Evolution of Brain Connectivity Project
Member of DFG Researcher Unit: Sociality and Health in Primates (SoHaPi)
Symposium: 40 years of Research at the Taï Chimpanzee Project (29 - 31 May 2019 at MPI EVA, Leipzig, Germany)
Symposium: Brain and Behavioural Evolution in Primates (25 - 29 Sep 2019 at the Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy)
Together with my co-PI Dr. Catherine Crockford and my research group, I investigate the costs and benefits of group living and close social bonds in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and other non-human primates, in particular bonobos (Pan paniscus), chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) and sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys). We examine the underpinning hormonal mechanisms and cognitive adaptations that lead to higher net-benefits and how this translates into life history. We want to understand how individuals benefit from close social bonds and how these bonds affect cooperation, prosocial behaviour and theory of mind.
The ultimate goal of our research is to better understand the evolution of human social organization, cooperation, cognition, culture and communication within an ecological framework by investigating the roots of these adaptations in humans' closest living relatives.
Follow our research on twitter: @TaiChimpProject
Comparative approach
To reach our goal we compare chimpanzees with other primates on six different levels:
Comparing between four neighboring groups in chimpanzees (Taï, Côte d'Ivoire)
Comparing between two neighboring groups in bonobos (Kokolopori, DRC)
Comparing between the chimpanzee subspecies (in collaboration: P.t.v. Taï Chimpanzee Project, P.t.t. Loango Ape Project, Gabon, P.t.s. Budongo Conservation Field Station and Ngogo Chimpanzee Project, both Uganda).
Comparing between Pan species (in collaboration: P.t. Budongo, Goualougo, Loango, Ngogo, Taï; P.p. Kokolopori, Lomako, LuiKotale)
Comparing between Pan and Homo (in collaboration: MPI EVA Department for Human Behavioral Ecology and Department for Human Evolution)
Comparing between Hominini (Homo + Pan) and other old world monkeys (e.g. sooty mangabey and chacma baboon)
Innovative methods
We are using field experiments to probe the animal mind (Zuberbühler & Wittig 2011) and established a wide range of experimental techniques with chimpanzees:
Playback experiments: simulating group member communication (e.g. Wittig, Crockford et al. 2007a,b, 2014; Crockford, Wittig et al. 2015) and violation of expectation paradigms (Crockford, Wittig et al. 2007), with one and two speakers (Crockford, Wittig, et al. 2007), and also with drumming simulations (Wittig, Crockford et al. 2016).
Object presentation: presenting snake models (Crockford, Wittig et al. 2012, 2017) to a variety of species.
Multimodal experiments: combining object presentations with playback stimuli to manipulate the social environment (Crockford, Wittig et al. 2017).
We use non-invasive methods to investigate hormone patterns and have developed methods to relate urinary hormone levels to specific interactions:
Oxytocin and glucocorticoid levels in urine and feces: Hormone analysis from non-invasive samples (Crockford, Wittig et al. 2008, 2013; Wittig, Crockford et al. 2008, 2014)
Event sampling: Relating urinary cortisol (Wittig, Crockford et al. 2015, 2016) and oxytocin levels to specific behaviors (Crockford, Wittig et al. 2013; Wittig, Crcokford et al. 2014; Samuni et al. 2017, 2018, Preis et al. 2018).
We are habituating a fourth neighboring group in Tai and follow all of them every day, collecting focal animal behavior, group composition data, feeding data, vocalizations, GPS track logs and health data.


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Rumpler C.IV
Reconnaissance Biplane / Light Bomber Aircraft
The Rumpler C.IV found value with several world air forces for its time with production handled by both Rumpler and Pfalz during World War 1.
ORIGIN: Imperial Germany
MANUFACTURER(S): Rumpler Flugzeugwerke / Pfalz Flugzeugwerke - Imperial Germany
PRODUCTION: 650
OPERATORS: Belgium (post-war); Imperial Germany; Switzerland; Ottoman Empire (Turkey); Yugoslavia (post-war)
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Unless otherwise noted the presented statistics below pertain to the Rumpler C.IV model. Common measurements, and their respective conversions, are shown when possible.
POWER: 1 x Mercedes D.IVa water-cooled inline engine developing 260 horsepower.
WIDTH / SPAN
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1 x 7.92mm LMG 08/15 machine gun in fixed, forward-firing mounting synchronized to fire through the spinning propeller blades.
1 x Parabellum MG14 machine gun on trainable (ring) mounting at rear cockpit position.
Up to 220lb of externally-held, conventional drop stores.
Variants / Models
• C.IV - Base Military Designation
• Pfalz C.I - Rumpler C.IVs produced by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke.
• 6B-2 - Single-Seat Floatplane Fighter for German Navy; fitted with Mercedes D.III series engine of 160 horsepower.
Detailing the development and operational history of the Rumpler C.IV Reconnaissance Biplane / Light Bomber Aircraft. Entry last updated on 11/2/2016. Authored by Dan Alex. Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com.
Taking the C.III two-seat reconnaissance biplane of 1916 as a starting point, Rumpler Flugzeugwerke engineers developed an improved form of 1917 that became the Rumpler C.IV to fulfill the same over-battlefield role. Design was led by Dr. Edmund Rumpler and the primary operator became the German Empire though the Ottoman Air Force also relied on the type during the war years and post-war operators became Belgium, Switzerland and Yugoslavia.
Compared to the C.III, the C.IV was given a new Mercedes C.IVa engine and revised tail surfaces. This gave the modified aircraft good speed and an excellent service ceiling while at the same time providing the needed endurance for reconnaissance sorties. Its value to the Germans was such that it survived the whole of the war in its given role despite more modern offerings on hand. In practice there were few Allied warplanes that could intercept the C.IV which gave Rumpler aircrews a considerable advantage.
The aircraft was given a conventional biplane wings (over and under) with parallel struts creating a twin-bay arrangement. The engine, driving a two-bladed wooden propeller at the nose, was seated at the forward section of the aircraft just ahead of the pilot. The pilot sat under the upper wing mainplane with the observer / rear gunner in a cockpit just aft of the pilot. Both crewman were given open-air cockpits which meant environmental temperatures at high altitude could reach as low as -50C (-58F). Couple this with missions lasting between four and six hours and one can imagine the hardships endured by these flying men. The undercarriage was of a "tail-dragger" arrangement with the main legs wheeled. The tail unit sported a small-area, rounded vertical fin and low-set horizontal planes.
Performance from the Mercedes D.IVa water-cooled inline piston engine (260 horsepower) included a maximum speed of 107 miles per hour and a service ceiling of 21,000 feet.
Armament centered on 1 x 7.92mm LMG 08/15 machine gun in a fixed, forward-firing position over the nose, synchronized to fire through the spinning propeller blade and operated by the pilot. The rear gunner managed a 7.92mm Parabellum MG14 on a trainable (ring) mounting to help protect the aircraft's vulnerable "six" from trailing threats. In addition to the gun armament, the airframe was also cleared to carry 220lb of conventional drop stores allowing the biplane to take on Targets of Opportunity (ToO).
Early production models were fielded with large spinners at the propeller hub. This physical feature was deleted in later arrivals which improved drag qualities some and furthered performance even more. Manufacture was by both Rumpler and competitor Pfalz to which the latter variant was designated as "Pfalz C.I" (later "Rumpler C.IV (Pfal)") and carried different ailerons. Some 300 examples were produced by Pfalz for the war effort.
Beyond its service over the Western Front, the Rumpler C.IV series was deployed over the Italian Front and in the Middle East for its part in the war. The Rumpler 6B-2 was a floatplane (detailed elsewhere on this site) offshoot of the land-based C.IV series.
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Protomartyr, Kim Gordon, and the Paste Punk List - "I Hate Radio" Music News 1/13/2017
Celebrate the Feast of the Holy Protomartyr by listening to the band Protomartyr, hear a Kim Gordon "interrogation," and explore Paste Magazine's best punk of the 2000's list.
Curated music news for 1/13/2017 Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!
"I Hate Radio" Music NewsJoshua B. Hoe January 12, 2017 Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band: A Memoir, Men Kill Fox, #Spotify, Protomartyr, The Agent Intellect, Jason P. Woodbury, Tuscon Weekly, garage psych, noise pop, indie punk, punk, noise rock, preverb, lo-fi, nu gaze, dance punk, post-punk, post-hardcore, No Wave, no wave, experimental noise rock, alternative rock, drone, indie rock, space rock, folk punk, freak folk, Paste Magazine, hardly ArtComment
My Best Albums of 2016: The Gold Medals: 10-1
Here it is, 100's of hours of work, and a whole year of listening to albums has led to these final ten albums.
My Top Ten Albums of 2016 (and a special tribute)
Best Of 2016Joshua B. Hoe December 8, 2016 glam rock, art rock, permanent wave, protopunk, rock, singer-songwriter, mellow gold, new wave, classic rock, dance rock, David Bowie, Blackstar, Columbia Records, straight edge, hardcore, fury, Fury, Paramount, Triple B Records, australian alternative rock, deep australian indie, Camp Cope, Poison City Records, folk-punk, indie-punk, folk punk, alternative emo, Jeff Rosenstock, Worry., The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, preverb, brooklyn indie, Mitski, Puberty 2, Dead Oceans, Your Best American Girl, St. Vincent, Lucy Dacus, No Burden, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Nonagon Infinity, ATO Records, Courtney Barnett, Talking Heads, DEVO, garage psych, post punk, post-punk, Preoccupations, Flemish Eye Records, Jagjaguwar, Joy Division, noise pop, neo-psychedelic, nu gaze, indie rock, dream pop, experimental rock, noise rock, dance punk, Savages, Adore Life, Matador, Matador Records, escape room, alternative hip hop, underground hip hop, detroit hip hop, Danny Brown, Atrocity Exhibition, Kanye West, Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Denial, Will Toldeo, Spotify, #SpotifyComment
My Interview with Chvad SB of Controlled Bleeding
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During the interview we talk about DEVO, Ministry, being the new member of an old band, and creating movie soundtracks.
InterviewsJoshua B. Hoe September 26, 2016 Chvad SB, Controlled Bleeding, Paul Lemos, Tony Meola, Mike Bazini, Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps, Soldier Girl Driving, Spotify, #Spotify, Bandcamp, Neu!, Can, Captain Beefheart, Foetus, Einsturzende Neubauten, Coil, Ramones, Henry Cow, The Boredoms, Swans, Strategies Against Architecture, DEVO, Devo, New Traditionalists, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO, The Residents, The Damned, TSOL, The Dickies, Ministry, Jesus Built Me Hotrod, The Land of Rape and Honey, Gerald Casale, Jihad Jerry, Adventures of the Smart Patrol, Devo 2.0, Oh No! It's DEVO, Brian McBride, Brian Eno, Trent Reznor, Danny Elfman, GUT, Elias, The Qualia, Cotillion Knives, Crickets Were The Compass Comments