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Loading an icon from a file (Win32)
I'm always perturbed by how difficult it is to load an icon in Win32 at times. So many HICON/HANDLE and whatnot special data members and folks on forums doing strange stuff. Here's a snippet of code that just loads a simple icon file and displays it as your executable icon. I'm sure there is a more correct/newer/snazzier way to do this – but this works fine for me…
LPCTSTR iconPathName= L"../MyIcon.ico";
UINT icon_flags = LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_DEFAULTSIZE;
HANDLE hIcon = LoadImage(hInstance, iconPathName, IMAGE_ICON, 0, 0, icon_flags);
// set up RegisterClass struct
wcex.style = CS_OWNDC | CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
wcex.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
wcex.cbClsExtra = 0;
wcex.cbWndExtra = 0;
wcex.hInstance = hInstance;
wcex.hIcon = (HICON) hIcon;
wcex.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
wcex.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
wcex.lpszMenuName = NULL;
wcex.lpszClassName = m_AppTitle.c_str();
// register the window class
return RegisterClassEx(&wcex);
The Spy Who Loved Me – Ian Flemming
Shesh! Book reviews galore. Looks like I've been having too many boring drives home. Anyway, on to a new book: one of Ian Flemming's James Bond stories.
This one is "The Spy Who Loved Me". It was another short read at 6 discs, or about 5 days of commuting. If you've never had the honor, you should really read one of Ian Flemming's Bond books. The first thing you'll note is that the movies have just about nothing to do with the stories they are named after. Sure, there is a character named James Bond who is a spy; a damsel in distress, some evil characters, but that's where things depart.
In this case, we have the story of a young French Canadian who is working her way across country doing odd jobs as she goes to pay the way. As our story starts, she is working at a vacation motel at the end of it's season. On the last night, some unsavory gentlemen appear as does James Bond (by pure chance). Bond's debonair manner and gunplay ensue as he and our night clerk try to figure out and foil our villains' evil plot without getting killed. Being a short book, all the adventure really takes place at this one motel There's no evil mastermind plotting to destroy the world or counterespionage intrigue. Just a great little compact story of an adventuresome night spent at a motel.
And for that, it's a great little story. Sure, it's a bit dated with the girls being called dolls and whatnot, but it's still a pretty good story overall. Unlike a number of other Bond books, this one doesn't have as much blatant bigotry you'll find in some of Fleming's other novels. Instead, you get a good little story with some tight action sequences and a good finish. I enjoyed it.
While nothing earth-shattering will happen here, but it's still an enjoyable little pulpy adventure. I give it a B.
John Carter of Mars – Book 1 – The Princess of Mars
It appears yet another book is being made into a movie. This time it's the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I just finished book 1 of this 6 part series – A Princess of Mars.
First off, some interesting tidbits about Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs had a very difficult early go in life despite his promising start. He was born to a prosperous family in 1875. He served in the 7th Calvary in WW I but never saw action due to a heart problem. After his discharge, however, he worked at all sorts of odd and very low-paying jobs such as railroad policeman, office manager, and even pencil sharpener wholesaler. None of these endeavors were successful and he and his small family lived in near poverty for many years. At 35, he wrote the Mars series for All-Stories magazine. This started his writing career and lead to a great number of works including the most famous, the Tarzan series.
But back to the book. This was a quick audiobook 'read' coming in at only 6 discs, or 6 hours, of listening. The first thing that will strike you is the tone. You can tell this was written in turn of the 1900's language and style. The men speak more like English gentlemen and the 'science' part of the sci-fi is problematic and dated to say the least. Still, he does get a number of things partly right – which is pretty good considering what was known of other planets at the time.
Our hero, John Carter, is transported to Mars via an encounter in a mystical cave. Once there, he has the strength of 20 men and can leap great distances with little effort due to the low gravity of Mars. He encounters the warlike green men of Mars and earns a place with them through combat. During his adventures with the green men, he meets the captured humanoid princess Dejah Thoris. His attempts to win her hand and save both her and her city Helium from various armies leads to epic battles and adventures.
The battles and fights certainly portray the signs of Burroughs' times. There are clear echos of white man vs Indian/'savage tribe' attitudes, battles that themselves would be considered brutal and morally questionable by today's standards. But that does not terribly detract from the story. In fact, if anything, it add something Burroughs never expected: historical insight. In many ways, Burroughs' writing echos the prevailing attitudes towards indigenous peoples and what was considered the height of culture and understanding of his days. It's a good reminder to always have a healthy dose of skepticism as to our own perceived 'we know much better and are so much more sophisticated' attitudes and political/social agendas. In some ways, his world is much more civilized such as in the case of the duel-like rules of personal combat. In others, such as reasons for battle and killing every last man of your enemy, appear barbaric.
Still, with so much story to tell in such a short time – the writing is anything but eloquent. One person has (mostly correctly) said it reads a lot like an adventure written towards teenage boys. Sure, you can get some dialog exchanges that are simplistic to a point of being almost comical. The sci-fi part is clearly dated and wrong in many ways. This isn't intellectual reading. But is it a good story and worth the read? Yep!
It's a ride at a carnival. The set pieces and characters are mostly painted walls, and the dangers only as real as you imagine them to be; but that doesn't make it any less fun. It's an escape from the mundane into the somewhat ridiculous and far-flung. It's just good fun when you can see beyond the shortcomings and enjoy it for what it is. A crazy romp to another planet where a southern gentleman meets and falls in love with the most beautiful woman he's ever met with a pet monster as a bosom friend while swash-buckling his way through epic battles.
Overall, I give it a solid B and I'm looking forward to the movie version as there should be some great opportunities for crazy creatures and epic battles.
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Just finished the third and final book of the Hunger Games trilogy. In this final installment, Katniss is with the rebels and they are in a war to defeat the Capitol. The stakes are high as she fights along with the other rebels in a winner-take-all war. There's not much I can say beyond that without giving out some serious spoilers. So here they come. Skip if you don't want to know anything.
<Spoilers>
I have a lot of criticism for this book.
First off, people drop like flies. Previous victors are killed off in rapid-fire succession like red-shirts on a Star Trek episode and very little is given to these losses other than passing sentiment. Peeta is brutally brainwashed by Snow into wanting to kill Katniss. This powerful story element was mostly flubbed by Collins and it quickly reverts to the tired love triangle theme that just continues to go nowhere for 90% of even this book. Finally, the killing of her sister Prim has to be one of the most pointless, even sadistic, story elements from a writer I've run across in years. The very fact Prim was where she was *ahead* of the front lines, and that the whole point of the death was to take Gale out of the love-triangle equation by means of some of the most feeble logic I've ever heard made me throw my hands up in frustration at Collins.
As a core theme, the love triangle, just gets completely flubbed with cheap moves. I'd hoped something good would come of it and see our characters bloom into something rich and heartwarming despite the surrounding destruction. Mostly I just wanted to smack the three of them and Collins' poor handling. Despite each of their flaws, I wanted to hear Peeta or Gale have an epiphany and confess their love for her in some heartfelt and real expression of their inner self. Katniss could have done likewise or actually *chose* one of them. But instead of this, Collins merely makes Gale out to be a monster (on trumped up charges none-the-less) and Katniss ends up with Peeta kind of by default even though Peeta sees clearly that Katniss never really loved him. Even this 'resolution' you don't find out until the tacked-on epilogue. And the reason she's with Peeta? The best answer you get is because she 'owes' him more as he did more for her earlier. Really? That's why you marry someone? And that's what you do with a story element going on for 3 books?
For those that at least enjoyed Haymitch's presence: this staple, interesting and ever-working in the background character in the first books is barely even present in this one. Felt he was completely under-utilized.
Turning the Capitol into deathtraps, and having custom-bred dogs that whisper Katniss name felt like overdone and feeble attempts to recapture the interesting Hunger Games theme – but mostly didn't work and it was too little, too late.
The storytelling itself was disjointed and spotty. Big gaps of time with hard landings left some of the story hard to follow and further exaserbated the feelings of disconnectedness with the characters.
Finally, Katniss. She suffers badly from PTSD effects through most of the book, several times getting drugged into oblivion so she can just hang on. She does take on the role of the Mockingjay – but that role never really goes anywhere and Collins absolutely blows a great opportunity to make that a much more powerful symbol. Instead, all it turns into is a propaganda piece that Katniss herself isn't very interested in. But the big failing in my opinion is that Katniss doesn't seem to grow as a person. There are a few attempts to protest morally questionable activities like the bombing of the nut in district 2, but that doesn't go anywhere. In fact, she shows quite the opposite of character and growth when she votes to throw the children of the Capitol's leaders into one last Hunger Games (run by the rebels of all things) with no real discussion of the morality given. It gets like 3 pages – bang – she votes to throw these innocent kids into the arena and nothing more is said. Then, about 10 pages later, she coolly assassinates Coin without much of a second thought. Overall, we're left with a burned-out, war-scarred character that hasn't shown any particular growth or hope. I was left caring very little for her when I could have been there with her all along if she'd shown even one tenth the character, struggle, or growth you'd see with Frodo or other person in a titanic struggle like this. It could maybe have been made a bit better with her at least started to find some sort of healing or hope at the end – but even that we don't get. I don't need a fairytale ending – but there should be some sign of hope, change, or healing.
I don't know if I would qualify this book as a teen book. It's got some pretty rough story lines and themes: PTSD, mental and physical abuse, drugged states to get through personal crises, many morally questionable activities (that don't get questioned) and plenty of death and destruction. While these topics can be appropriate for teens if consequences and characters struggle to make right choices, but you get little of that. I didn't find the way they were handled to be very productive or geared towards helping teen readers understand these topics.
There are some good points. There is an interesting and clever bit about the power struggle between President Coin, President Snow and Katniss, but it just doesn't make up for the other problems.
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So, I had a lot more criticism of this book than good things to say and would even hesitate to call it teen-appropriate. While it was a decent attempt to bring the elements to a close – the writing and story just fell apart in too many ways. I was hoping for a lot out of this book – but it left me disappointed. If you saw the story cracks in book 2, then those cracks are absolute canyons in this book. You should probably read it to finish the trilogy since it's only 10 audio discs (600 minutes); but don't go into it expecting a very good story. You just aren't left feeling very connected or concerned about Katniss or most of the other characters (that manage to still be alive) by the end. I was just glad this train-ride was over. Sadly, the journey started so well in book 1 has turned into a destination to which I never want to go back. Even as I sit here writing this I am thinking of ways in which this book could have been better. Sigh.
I give this book a D+ rating. It finished everything up; but left numerous problems with the morality of their choices, the plot, and the largely unsatisfying ending to the characters.
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
Finished book 2 of the Hunger Games trilogy over the holidays. I'll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum; but some details will come out.
<short plot summary with spoilers – so don't read if you don't want any idea of what happens>
So, this book takes off right after the end of the first book. Katniss and Peeta are taking their victory tours around the different districts and then return home. All throughout the districts, unrest is beginning to grow and they see Katniss as something of a touchstone or symbol for this rebellion despite the fact that she's not trying to appear or play into these ideas. She returns home to her district and begins life in the victors village. Meanwhile, every 25 years, the Capitol unveils another Hunger games called the 'quarter quell'. This being the 75th year since the rebellion, so it's a quell year and quell years have special rules. This year, the combatants in the arena don't come from tributes – but from the roster of previous victors. This means that Katniss has to come back to the arena. She does so, and the ending sees a dramatic end to the games that results in disruption of them and the survivors being yanked from them either by the capitol or the rebel forces.
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I found this book an organic continuation of the previous book. Style and voice were nearly identical. So, if you liked the first one, you'll like this one too – maybe more so. I did find that the Hunger games that occurs in this episode to be unique in its challenges and style. Very creative and imaginative – and maybe even better than the first one really. But don't expect any differences in how it's told or develops from a story reading or style of character point of view. It will feel just like reading the first one.
If I had any gripes at this point – it would be about Katniss character development. I had hope we'd get more answers after the first book and become more emotionally attached to her as she struggles with this adult-making decisions. Instead, I found myself becoming increasingly bored/frustrated/irritated with her at times. She waffles continually between her feelings for Peeta and Gale, between obeying the Capitol to joining the rebellion, about what she was even doing with the berries in the arena, about ….every major plot point. In the end, she doesn't even choose/make decisive or clear decisions on most of these really important points in this book. In the ones she does choose, it feels more like a decision between what externally looks better to downright 'flip of the coin' type of deciding than anything else. I just wasn't convinced by the logic behind the choices she made or believed the inner dialog as she worked it out. She questions her own motivations so much at times that it doesn't sound like any choice is made at all. There were times that it seemed kind of obvious why she had made certain decisions – but she just wouldn't admit them to herself. And the author didn't either. Maybe this is what being a teenage girl is about; but it makes for some tedious reading and makes her appear to be a much less 'likeable' character who is making a real stand for something or growing markedly to adulthood by having to mature through them. Maybe someone could enlighten me, but maybe this is just because the book is suffering from 'middle-trilogy book' syndrome in which you want to keep things going, but make sure you have enough for the last book.
Overall, I'd give the book a solid C+/B- for being a good, quick read and having good arena scenes. At 9 discs, it made for about a week and a half of commute-time listening.
I've already started on the final book, Mockingjay – and we'll see where that goes.
Sony MDR-V6 headphone replacement ear pads
After 5+ years of using these continually award-winning $120 headphones, the covering on the ear pads we're starting to flake off and leave little black flakes around. A common problem. At under $7/each – and designed for easy replacement – getting replacement earpads was considerably cheaper than getting a new set of headphones. Finding replacement pads, however, was somewhat difficult. People had 3rd party pads, but the last replacement set I bought previously didn't last much more than a year. I went to Sony's store, but didn't have much luck finding them on their parts site. Anyway, jumped on chat and got the skinny:
https://servicesales.sel.sony.com/ecom/accessories/web/productSearch.do
Once you're there, please choose any of the items below (remote, adapter, etc). Then it will lead you to a new page and on the upper right hand there is a search box in which you can enter a search by part number. Enter the part number and on the drop down menu, please choose "part number".
Sony part number: 211566803
MDR-V6 headphone replacement ear pads – 211566803
They'll show up as super-generic: PAD, EAR, but should be what you need. Or at least I hope, since I just ordered them. 🙂


Protrope (pro-tro'-pe): A call to action, often by using threats or promises.
Brooks, rivers, streams of life. Some are dark. Some are light. Some are fast. Some are slow. Some make lakes in craters and carve out glens. Some deliver canyons and valleys and fens.
Without flowing water there may be no time, as thirst breaks our hearts, shrinks up our bellies, and tears up our minds.
I swear if we don't love and preserve the waters moving down, and over, and across the land, green will disappear under a death shroud of brown, and everything will die, and there won't be a sound.
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Floating stuctures
Why it's time to allow building in floodzones...
Kabina's research findings demonstrate that 10,000 sustainable and desirable new homes could be built in Thames Valley flood zones and, by virtue of their unique design, save HM Treasury £200m in flood management expenditure
See the layered map with research findings at www.kabinamap.com
Kabina has issued its new research project in the form of a multi-layered map to demonstrate the great potential for new secure homes in the Thames Valley.
Guy Lane, co-founder: "Towns in England are invariably by the coast of by rivers. This means that there is typically flood land within those towns. Such land should be used to create the new homes the country needs rather than having developers create sterile dormitories in the Green Belt and between the towns. Our research shows that across five district boroughs in the Thames Valley there is huge scope to help meet new housing targets by locating developments within existing towns and infrastructure. Everyone seems to accept that the technology for flood-adaptive homes is perfectly acceptable so it's now high time for the Government to amend its policies to allow responsible development in floodland."
Picture below:
Kabina-type homes designed for the Thames Valley:
Neil Cheston, Co-founder and MD: "Kabina has designed a system for new flood-secure homes based on Dutch example and adapted for the UK landscape. The technology is simple and straightforward. Sites can be developed to allow for a a positive contribution to flood management and the 10,000 new homes we envisage could save HM Treasury £200m in investment in flood management".
Guy Lane
Co-founder and Marketing Director
guy.lane@kabina.co
www.kabina.co
Kabina Ltd
13 Hawley Crescent
NW1 8NP
Kabina is a registered trademark.
Editor's notes:
Neil Cheston and Guy Lane founded Kabina, a UK company, to work with water not against it. Our ethos is to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits through intelligent innovation. Kabina's essence is 'Of our time'.
Kabina's diverse and expert team includes acknowledged naval architects; real estate professionals; urban planners; offsite housing manufacturers; and environmental specialists.
Kabina® is responding to well-documented and accelerating trends: climate change; unprecedented weather events and their consequences; and the need to build new homes for the UK's fast-growing population.
Ends/
Thames Valley floodzone research
Kabina has issued its new research project in the form of a multi-layered map.
Liverpool floating community moves a step further
Kabina is advising Peel Land and Property Group on its Liverpool Waters development.
Calls for more support for start-ups
Guy Lane spoke at McBrides' Finance and Business Breakfast on the challenges of being a start-up.
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LASER World of PHOTONICS INDIA will be held at the Bengaluru International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) from September 26 to 28, 2018. The aim of the trade fair is to bring innovation, trends and knowledge together on a single platform and to connect buyers from various applying industries with suppliers of the most suitable technical solutions.
This year at the show, trade visitors can expect to meet over 160 exhibitors who will be showcasing various low-to-high-power fiber lasers, cutting-edge laser and optical technologies as well as components and complete laser systems. More than 8,000 trade visitors from all over India are expected to attend the trade fair which will also be featuring an Additive Manufacturing Pavilion and Summit, Machine Vision Pavilion and the fourth Buyer Seller Forum, where top buyers looking for specific technologies or solutions network with exhibitors face-to-face.
Leading companies exhibiting at the LASER World of PHOTONICS INDIA 2018 will include Advanced Photonics, Coherent Laser India, Forbes & Company, IPG Photonics, Kirti Lasers, Meera Laser Solutions, Sahajanand Laser Technology Limited (SLTL), Scantech Laser, Suresh Indu Lasers and TRUMPF India among many other key industry players.
Further, the trade fair presents the second edition of the Additive Manufacturing Pavilion, a dedicated special exhibition area that will be showcasing laser-based processes and systems for additive manufacturing in industrial applications. The visitors will gain a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art in 3D printing, latest technological advances and their applications for the Indian market. Additive manufacturing is proving to be great enabling technology for various industries with major impact seen in automotive, aerospace, electronics and medical.
For the first time, an international conference on Smart Manufacturing with LASERS will bring together researchers, technology leaders and industry users under one roof which will help the industry to improve the quality of products and to reduce the manufacturing process costs by working smartly with lasers. Attendees will learn from the leaders in manufacturing on how to move from 'intention' to 'action' and about the cutting-edge technologies in manufacturing. The conference will also feature case studies from the industry. It will take place on September 27, 2018.
The Buyer-Seller Forum, which has been a huge success in the previous editions, will be held in the exhibition hall for the fourth time. The Buyer-Seller Forum facilitates the direct and targeted contact between exhibitors and buyers from domestic and international markets through prescheduled meetings to discuss business and to form potential strategic partnerships.
The 3D Manufacturing Summit complements the Additive Manufacturing Pavilion and features panel discussions on the latest issues and business models in the industry. The discussions will also include varied topics like the Key Trends of Additive Manufacturing in 2018, the Road Map towards implementation of Additive Manufacturing, the future effects of Additive Manufacturing on Traditional Manufacturing, Latest innovations in production through adoption of Metal Printing, etc.
"The Indian market is open for new opportunities and accepting the latest technologies such as lasers and photonics available in the market. We are confident that LASER World of PHOTONICS INDIA will unlock the massive market opportunity for the laser and optical industry in India." concluded Singh.


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The history of Somaliland, a country in the eastern Horn of Africa bordered by the Gulf of Aden, and the East African land mass, begins with human habitation tens of thousands of years ago. It includes the civilizations of Punt, the Ottomans, and colonial influences from Europe and the Middle East.

Prehistory

Somaliland has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic. During the Stone Age, the Doian and Hargeisan cultures flourished. The oldest evidence of burial customs in the Horn of Africa comes from cemeteries in Somalia dating back to the 4th millennium BC. The stone implements from the Jalelo site in the north were also characterized in 1909 as important artefacts demonstrating the archaeological universality during the Paleolithic between the East and the West.

According to linguists, the first Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic period from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley, or the Near East. Other scholars propose that the Afro-Asiatic family developed in situ in the Horn, with its speakers subsequently dispersing from there.

The Laas Geel complex on the outskirts of Hargeisa in northwestern Somaliland dates back around 5,000 years, and has rock art depicting both wild animals and decorated cows. Other cave paintings are found in the northern Dhambalin region, which feature one of the earliest known depictions of a hunter on horseback. The rock art is in the distinctive Ethiopian-Arabian style, dated to 1000 to 3000 BCE. Additionally, between the towns of Las Khorey and El Ayo in eastern Somaliland lies Karinhegane, the site of numerous cave paintings of real and mythical animals. Each painting has an inscription below it, which collectively have been estimated to be around 2,500 years old.

Antiquity

Land of Punt

Most scholars locate the ancient Land of Punt in the Horn of Africa between present-day Opone in Somaliland, Somalia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. This is based in part on the fact that the products of Punt, as depicted on the Queen Hatshepsut murals at Deir el-Bahri, were abundantly found in the region but were less common or sometimes absent in the Arabian peninsula. These products included gold and aromatic resins such as myrrh, and ebony; the wild animals depicted in Punt include giraffes, baboons, hippopotami, and leopards. Says Richard Pankhurst : "[Punt] has been identified with territory on both the Arabian and the Horn of Africa coasts. Consideration of the articles which the Egyptians obtained from Punt, notably gold and ivory, suggests, however, that these were primarily of African origin. ... This leads us to suppose that the term Punt probably applied more to African than Arabian territory." The inhabitants of Punt procured myrrh, spices, gold, ebony, short-horned cattle, ivory and frankincense which was coveted by the Ancient Egyptians. An Ancient Egyptian expedition sent to Punt by the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut is recorded on the temple reliefs at Deir el-Bahari, during the reign of the Puntite King Parahu and Queen Ati.

Periplus
In the Classical era, the city states of Malao (Berbera) and Mundus ([Xiis/Heis) [See original map] prospered, and were deeply involved in the spice trade, selling myrrh and frankincense to The Romans and Egyptians Somaliland and Puntland became known as hubs for spices mainly cinnamon and the cities grew wealthy from it the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea tells us that the northern Somaliland and Puntland regions of modern-day Somalia were independent and competed with Aksum for trade.

Early Islamic states

With the introduction of Islam in the 7th century in what are now the Afar-inhabited parts of Eritrea and Djibouti, the region began to assume a political character independent of Ethiopia.  Three Islamic sultanates were founded in and around the area named Shewa (a Semitic-speaking sultanate in eastern Ethiopia, modern Shewa province and ruled by the Mahzumi dynasty, related to Muslim Amharas and Argobbas), Ifat (another Semitic-speaking sultanate located in eastern Ethiopia in what is now eastern Shewa) and Adal and Mora (Gadabursi Clan, Somali, and Harari vassal sultanate of Ifat by 1288, centered on Dakkar and later Harar, with Zeila as its main port and second city, in eastern Ethiopia and in Somaliland's Awdal region; Mora was located in what is now the southern Afar Region of Ethiopia and was subservient to Adal).

At least by the reign of Emperor Amda Seyon I (r. 1314-1344) (and possibly as early as during the reign of Yekuno Amlak or Yagbe'u Seyon), these regions came under Ethiopian suzerainty. During the two centuries that it was under Ethiopian control, intermittent warfare broke out between Ifat (which the other sultanates were under, excepting Shewa, which had been incorporated into Ethiopia) and Ethiopia. In 1403 or 1415 (under Emperor Dawit I or Emperor Yeshaq I, respectively), a revolt of Ifat was put down during which the Walashma ruler, Sa'ad ad-Din II, was captured and executed in Zeila, which was sacked. After the war, the reigning king had his minstrels compose a song praising his victory, which contains the first written record of the word "Somali". Upon the return of Sa'ad ad-Din II's sons a few years later, the dynasty took the new title of "king of Adal," instead of the formerly dominant region, Ifat.

The area remained under Ethiopian control for another century or so. However, starting around 1527 under the charismatic leadership of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (Gurey in Somali, Gragn in Amharic, both meaning "left-handed"), Adal revolted and invaded medieval Ethiopia. Regrouped Muslim armies with Ottoman support and arms marched into Ethiopia employing scorched earth tactics and slaughtered any Ethiopian that refused to convert from Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity to Islam. Moreover, hundreds of churches were destroyed during the invasion, and an estimated 80% of the manuscripts in the country were destroyed in the process. Adal's use of firearms, still only rarely used in Ethiopia, allowed the conquest of well over half of Ethiopia, reaching as far north as Tigray. The complete conquest of Ethiopia was averted by the timely arrival of a Portuguese expedition led by Cristovão da Gama, son of the famed navigator Vasco da Gama. The Portuguese had been in the area earlier in early 16th centuries (in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John), and although a diplomatic mission from Portugal, led by Rodrigo de Lima, had failed to improve relations between the countries, they responded to the Ethiopian pleas for help and sent a military expedition to their fellow Christians. a Portuguese fleet under the command of Estêvão da Gama was sent from India and arrived at Massawa in February 1541. Here he received an ambassador from the Emperor beseeching him to send help against the Muslims, and in July following a force of 400 musketeers, under the command of Christovão da Gama, younger brother of the admiral, marched into the interior, and being joined by Ethiopian troops they were at first successful against the Somalis but they were subsequently defeated at the Battle of Wofla (28 August 1542), and their commander captured and executed. On February 21, 1543, however, a joint Portuguese-Ethiopian force defeated the Somali-Ottoman army at the Battle of Wayna Daga, in which al-Ghazi was killed and the war won.

Ahmed al-Ghazi's widow married Nur ibn Mujahid in return for his promise to avenge Ahmed's death, who succeeded Imam Ahmad, and continued hostilities against his northern adversaries until he killed the Ethiopian Emperor in his second invasion of Ethiopia, Emir Nur died in 1567. The Portuguese, meanwhile, tried to conquer Mogadishu but according to Duarta Barbosa never succeeded in taking it. The Sultanate of Adal disintegrated into small independent states, many of which were ruled by Somali chiefs.

British Somaliland

The British Somaliland protectorate was initially ruled from British India (though later on by the Foreign Office and Colonial Office), and was to play the role of increasing the British Empire's control of the vital Bab-el-Mandeb strait which provided security to the Suez Canal and safety for the Empire's vital naval routes through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Resentment against the British authorities grew: Britain was seen as excessively profiting from the thriving coastal trading and farming occurring in the territory. Beginning in 1899, religious scholar Mohammed Abdullah Hassan began a campaign to wage a holy war. Hassan raised an army united through the Islamic faith and established the Dervish State, fighting Ethiopian, British, and Italian forces, at first with conventional methods but switching to guerilla tactics after the first clash with the British. The British launched four early expeditions against him, with the last one in 1904 ending in an indecisive British victory. A peace agreement was reached in 1905, and lasted for three years. British forces withdrew to the coast in 1909. In 1912 they raised a camel constabulary to defend the protectorate, but the Dervishes destroyed this in 1914. In the First World War the new Ethiopian Emperor Iyasu V reversed the policy of his predecessor, Menelik II, and aided the Dervishes, supplying them with weapons and financial aid. Germany sent Emil Kirsch, a mechanic, to assist the Dervish Forces as an armourer at Taleh from 1916–1917, and encouraged Ethiopia to aid the Dervishes while promising to recognise any territorial gains made by either of them. The Ottoman Empire sent a letter to Hassan in 1917 assuring him of support and naming him "Emir of the Somali nation". At the height of his power, Hassan led 6000 troops, and by November 1918 the British administration in Somaliland was spending its entire budget trying to stop Dervish activity. The Dervish state fell in February 1920 after a British campaign led by aerial bombing.

Sporadic uprisings were to occur for decades afterwards, however on a much reduced scale with improved British infrastructural spending and a more benign, less paternalistic set of public policy.

During the East African Campaign of WWII, the protectorate was occupied by Italy in August 1940, but recaptured by the British in summer 1941. Some Italian guerrilla fighting (Amedeo Guillet) lasted until  1942.

The conquest of British Somaliland was Italy's only victory (without the cooperation of German troops) in WWII against the Allies.

State of Somaliland

In 1947, the entire budget for the administration of the British Somaliland protectorate was only £213,139.

In May 1960, the British Government stated that it would be prepared to grant independence to the then Somaliland protectorate. The Legislative Council of British Somaliland passed a resolution in April 1960 requesting independence. The legislative councils of the territory agreed to this proposal.

In April 1960, leaders of the two territories met in Mogadishu and agreed to form a unitary state. An elected president was to be head of state. Full executive powers would be held by a prime minister answerable to an elected National Assembly of 123 members representing the two territories.

On 26 June 1960, the British Somaliland protectorate gained independence as the State of Somaliland before uniting five days later with the Trust Territory of Somalia to form the Somali Republic (Somalia) on 1 July 1960.

The legislature appointed the speaker Hagi Bashir Ismail Yousuf as first President of the Somali National Assembly and, the same day, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar become President of the Somali Republic.

Separatism

At the second national meeting of the Burao grand conference on May 18, the Somali National Movement Central Committee, with the support of a meeting of elders representing the major clans in the Northern Regions, declared the restoration of the Republic of Somaliland in the territory of the former British Somaliland protectorate and formed a government for the self-declared state. This followed the collapse of the central government in Somalia in the Somali Civil War. However, the region's self-declared independence remains unrecognized by any country or international organization.

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Hour photo / Erik Trautmann Brien McMahon High School sophmore and member of the school's Center for Youth Leadership, Giovanna Rodriguez, attends the press conference designating February as Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month at Stamford Government Center Thursday. The program was hosted by Stamford Youth Services Bureau and Center for Youth Leadership.
STAMFORD — At the bustling Stamford Government Center lobby Thursday, Giovanna Rodriguez of Norwalk helped raise awareness for Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month among dozens of other high school students.
A freshman at Brien McMahon High School, Rodriguez stood among her peers from Stamford High School, the Academy of Information Technology & Engineering and Westhill High School at the press conference. They held up picket signs stating "I'm stronger than your fist," or "Have you discovered why you were born" while the Mayor David Martin proclaimed February as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.
"I know people who have been in violent relationships," Rodriguez said shortly after the Thursday event.
Rodriguez spoke for the nine percent Connecticut teens who suffered from physical dating violence and 17 percent who experienced emotional violence in 2014, according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Liisa Balazs, a sophomore at Stamford High School, serves on the executive committee of the Mayor's Youth Leadership Council. The youth activism group has recruited more than 300 members, half from Stamford High School.
Martin encouraged more teens to speak up against violence in relationships.
"We had the same press conference a year ago, and there're twice as many students this year than there were last year," Martin said, "And this year we have representatives from the state legislature who have worked on this issue, we have the police here, …so you're making progress.
Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling and state Reps. William Tong and Caroline Simmons also spoke at the event.


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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors say rapper A$AP Rocky has been detained for a suspected attack on an unknown person in downtown Stockholm.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority says the investigation was "at an initial stage" and should be decided by midday Saturday, whether A$AP Rocky — real name Rakim Mayers — should be formally arrested. His three body guards are suspected of lesser degrees of assault under Swedish law.
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Oxford United Women make their longest trip of the season this weekend as they face Durham away from home on Sunday (12pm), looking to continue their positive start to the season. The U's won their FA Women's Super League 2 opener at home to Watford last week and manager Les Taylor is hopeful of carrying the momentum gained into this weekend.
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A sickness bug swept through the United ranks in the build-up to the Watford opener, ruling out last season's top scorer Lauren Allison and defensive stalwart Amy Chivers. Fortunately, the U's have suffered no such disruption this week, as both return to the side looking to make their first league appearances of the season. Laura Nichol remains sidelined with a toe injury, but is expected to be fit for next weekend's home match with Yeovil.


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Editorial: Failing health care workers, who deserve only our gratitude
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Aug. 25, 2021 Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 9:47 a.m.
A woman receives an infusion of antibodies to battle COVID-19 in January. Once again, health care workers are on the ropes. We can help them by masking up and getting vaccinated.
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Dr. Jendi Haug of Children's Hospital is among those who have selflessly cared for the sick in this pandemic. Ease their burden: Get vaccinated and mask up.
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San Antonio's health care workers again face a COVID-19 surge. Mask up, get vaccinated and do your part to stop the spread and lift health care workers.
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Correction: An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly spelled the name of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.
Even before this delta chapter of the pandemic, we were grateful to health care workers. They have courageously and selflessly cared for the sick and dying while risking their own lives. Their burden in this crisis is unmatched, and they deserve gratitude and support.
That also means an apology. We have failed health care workers. This latest surge is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." And thank goodness we have vaccines. Just imagine the hospitalization numbers without any protection from the delta variant.
Doctors, nurses and emergency medical workers are arguably more stressed now than at any point in the pandemic. That burden is made heavier by this simple reality: It didn't have to reach this level of crisis — again. Rampant misinformation has fueled distrust of vaccines and masks, science-based tools proven to help mitigate this deadly virus.
In Sunday's Express-News, reporter Marina Starleaf Riker, who has extensively covered the COVID battle, chronicled a harrowing night in the emergency department of Children's Hospital of San Antonio, where Dr. Jendi Haug said there is a shortage of nurses due to burnout and more lucrative travel nursing jobs.
Health care workers deserve support from all leaders. Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week the state would deploy more medical personnel and open more COVID-19 antibody infusion centers. It is reactive, too little and too late, and hypocritical given his stance on mask and vaccine mandates.
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older. For those who have waited for this to get vaccinated, the time is now. As President Joe Biden said Monday, "Vaccination is free. It's easy, it's safe, and it's effective. And it's convenient."
The onus is on all of us to do our part. It's no burden to get vaccinated and wear a mask. But it is a burden to care for COVID-19 patients. Our health care workers need and deserve our help.


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Guti: "I would vote for Casillas even for Real Madrid coach"
The Almeria got its second consecutive victory in this 2020. The Andalusian team continues to progress with José María Gutiérrez to team leaders and he has attended the media after the meeting before the Oviedo, in which he debuted Lunin With not too much fortune.
In The Game of the COPE chain, the technician talked about the famous meeting between the Sheikh of Almeria and Zinedine Zidane: "Zidane was delighted to see the sheikh and I spoke with him. "For his part, he confessed that he has only coincided" three times with the sheikh "and also" in three different countries. "" I have not been to his house, "he confessed.
On the controversy between 'Guti' or José María Gutiérrez, the coach commented that "most people" still call him Guti and that he does not get angry, but makes it clear that he is "José María Gutiérrez".
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The former soccer player also talked about the topic of the moment: the possible candidacy of Iker Casillas to president of the RFEF:"If Casillas presented himself to the Federation, he would vote for him, even for Madrid coach he would vote for him." And then he went on to comment on how he sees the Real Madrid: "I look spectacular this season."
However, he himself does not think about reaching the bench Santiago Bernabeu. "I'm a coach of Almeria and the only thing that worries me is to face Real Madrid next year." José María Gutiérrez only thinks about the promotion to the category of Spanish football. In the furthest future it will be seen.


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US artists, NMU to present musical
By Herald Correspondent - 18 June 2019
Amanda Kosi and Seth Clarke star in 'South Pacific'
Young artists from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, will collaborate with singers from Nelson Mandela University to create an evening of entertainment from the golden age of musicals from Thursday to Sunday June 20 to 23 at the Savoy Theatre.
The two groups will perform Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic production, South Pacific.
Set in the South Pacific Islands near the end of World War 2, the show was chosen for its historical, educational and social lessons at a time of great world stress and commitment.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Score, is considered one of the greatest Broadway musicals and the only musical production to have won all four Tony Awards for acting.
It tells the story of an American nurse, Ensign Nellie Forbush, stationed at a US Naval base on a French island in the South Pacific during the war.
She falls in love with an expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children and his past relationship with his now deceased Polynesian wife.
A second romance concerns a US Marine lieutenant who falls in love with a Polynesian girl.
The issues of racial prejudice and intermarriage are candidly explored through the musical, which was first performed in 1949.
The collaborative efforts between Southern Methodist University (SMU) and NMU began in 2001, when professor Barbara Hill Moore came to Port Elizabeth to identify an exceptional singer wishing to study in the US through her colleague, Lionel van Zyl.
Hill Moore worked with Lucretia Geswindt Sikwebu, a student of Van Zyl's, and, in 2002, offered Sikwebu a full bursary for two years of study in Dallas.
Hill Moore has worked with singers and faculties throughout SA, and arranged full bursaries for scores of SA singers.
In 2005, she brought 22 singers to SA for a collaborative concert version of Porgy and Bess.
In May 2018, she brought 35 singers, dancers and instrumentalists from the US and SA to stage the opera Wading Home.
South Pacific is directed by Roger Riggle from Washington DC, with stage management led by the SMU's Chanda Price and Savoy Theatre technicians.
The company includes 30 singers and dancers.
Hill Moore will produce the show and conduct a five-piece instrumental ensemble.
South Pacific will be staged with a double cast at 7.30pm on Thursday and Friday, and 3pm on Saturday and Sunday.
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We already have an OpenFirmware boot loader and other kernel support code, but it needs more work to actually boot Haiku. There might also be endianness issues in our code.
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boot status as of hrev34931. Patch by Andres in #5193 does get us a bit further. Here vm tracing in vm/vm.cpp is on.
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Some other stuff to fix would include unguarded inlined asm, arch-dependant kernel stuff, and probably some network issues with addresses and port numbers. Some graphics card drivers might also need some work to be usable (some cards map big-endian versions of hw registers at different addresses).
Note qemu includes a ppc emulator, so you shouldn't need real hw to test.
(made OF device iteration a bit more flexible on the way -- the search can be restricted to subtree). Furthermore we really enter the kernel... (Yay! :-) ... and crash in the first dprintf() (in the atomic_set() called by acquire_spinlock()). kprintf() works, though.
Kernel no longer loads, locks up at kernel entry like it did at hrev32480 (see first screenshot). There seems to have been a regression between hrev35516 and hrev36388.
Verified that the generated PowerPC Haiku kernel does not have and Undefined symbols.
Last time this happened there was an unimplemented virtual method in the VM code. If you could bisect which revision introduced the regression that may help pinpoint which method it is.
Should I continue trying other revisions? Or am I stuffed due to using an eMac?
Ok, it turns out that this error above is when it's trying to dprintf from the kernel _start. If I change these to printf (and then include <stdio.h>) it fails when relocating the elfs... if I include <boot/platform/generic/text_console.h> instead of <stdio.h> then it relocates... but still causes the above error.
kallista, you had the same error in comment 2... I haven't had a chance to try kprintf instead, I will do this tomorrow. Any idea what causes this? I imagine there is no printf defined for the kernel in ppc arch at this point? printf works from the openfirmware code though.
Meanwhile, the error above with #SRR at 0x1000000 is just the stack popping back. I had to comment out this in arch_start_kernel.S to be able to use '.registers' once the kernel had returned to the ofw prompt.
Further investigation indicates that changeset hrev35977 causes the lockup. Seems the memset fails miserably on the ringbuffer for the syslog.
Meanwhile, my errors above were due to attempting printfs before the platform/arch init was done.
Investigations will continue tomorrow as to what exactly might be the cause; but create_ring_buffer_etc() on line 134 of kernel/utils/ring_buffer.cpp seems to be the lock. I am running on 256mb of RAM? Could I have run out?
No, the OpenFirmware code in the boot loader is just ignorant of the debug syslog feature and doesn't unset kernel_args::keep_debug_output_buffer while not allocating a debug_output either. I added an extra check in hrev36748. That should fix the issue (the feature won't work, of course).
Oh, BTW, this ticket is not supposed to be a pool for all PPC port related issues or regressions. Maintaining a status overview of the missing features is fine, but for all other stuff please open separate tickets. Otherwise this ticket will really get unusable eventually.
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She Sings, She Dances, She Walks Faster Than You: What a 90-Year Dynamo Can Teach You About Retirement
On Jan. 1, 2011, 10,000 Baby Boomers began turning 65 every day. And that is predicted to continue every day until the end of 2030.
Doris Becker crossed that milestone—a birthday in which many people make the transition from work to retirement—25 years ago. She's now thriving at 90 years of age—and wonders how she "ever had time to work."
Yet she says she's seen many smart and active people struggle to find direction and meaning when their careers come to a close. So what's her secret?
There are actually many factors that contribute to her successful retirement. But before we explore that, it's worth asking…
Who is Doris Becker?
Doris Becker was born on April 29, 1925—just nine days after her former employer Erie Insurance was founded.
Perhaps the nearly shared birthday was a sign, because 31 years later she began working as a personal lines endorser at Erie Insurance.
"I raised my three children before I came to ERIE," Doris says. "I decided to enter the workforce because they were older and I wanted to make money for our family. I was hired on Aug. 28, 1958. I was excited to work there and not that nervous; at the time, there were only 212 employees." (Today, there are nearly 5,000.)
That decision proved to be the right one: Over the years, Doris formed many happy memories, made countless friends and held a variety of positions at ERIE.
So of course it was bittersweet when she retired as a commercial underwriter in 1990. But it was also a launch pad into a new life that has kept her happily busy for a quarter century and counting.
Ready to learn how this newly minted nonagenarian (definition: someone between 90 and 100 years old) keeps the pep in her step? Then read on.
Doris's top tips for a successful retirement
Discover your passions before you retire. "You have to stay busy!" urges Doris. "I tell people who are about to retire to find something you like and get involved before you retire. Then you know where to spend your time when you do retire."
Doris was lucky enough to have a pastime she was passionate about well before her final day at Erie Insurance. At age 10, she developed a love of the theater and acting. To date, she's been in dozens of musicals and plays—and she's not slowing down anytime soon. In addition to appearing in roles at her local playhouse, Doris also serves on the organization's board of directors and volunteers at the box office.Pursuing something you enjoy gives meaning to your Golden Years—and it can also help you live longer. Research published in the journal Psychological Science shows that having a sense of purpose helps you live longer no matter what your age.
Good genes matter—but still go to the doctor. "Of course good genes help—many of my relatives lived into their late 90s," admits Doris. But that doesn't mean you get a pass when it comes to your recommended annual checkups.
Doris stays on top of her appointments, even when she has nothing to bring to her doctor's attention. But as the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure—so make sure to visit your doctor on a regular basis to get a handle on any issues early on.
Stay involved in your former career or workplace. Doris remains connected to her former employer as the retiree representative on the Erie Insurance Group Employees Activities Association. In this role, she has a say in the kinds of activities and events company employees and retirees can take advantage of.
Today, every new Erie Insurance Employee gets to meet Doris. That's because she also gives walking tours of ERIE's Home Office to new employees and other special visitors. (It's not uncommon to see people half her age struggle to keep pace with her during the two-hour tour.) She enjoys getting to know new Employees—and seeing how the workplace continues to evolve."Women were mostly clerks and secretaries in my day," she explains. "That said, a lot of women did do well for themselves in the Underwriting Department. But it was still different back then. I look around now and see so many women in senior leadership positions—I think it's great!"
See if your former employer has any roles you can fill on a volunteer basis—or consider using your skills to fill a hole in your community. For instance, former teachers make great volunteer tutors while former businessmen and women are valuable mentors to entrepreneurs working through a startup incubator or similar organization.
Work your brain. "You have to challenge your mind," says Doris, who regularly does crossword puzzles and Sudoku in addition to creating intricate crocheted and knitted pieces. Research shows she has the right idea: Findings suggest these kinds of engaging activities help stave off memory diseases.
Stay connected to the people in your life. Doris has three children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Whether it's a toddler or a full-grown child, Doris loves spending time with all of them.
And she may get more than enjoyment from these interactions: One study shows that social connections can help improve your odds of survival by 50 percent.
Use Doris' advice to enjoy a longer, happier and healthier retirement. And stay tuned for more, as she's on record for saying she plans to make it to 100!
Another important aspect of retirement is financial security. Erie Insurance has a variety of products to help you achieve a secure retirement. Talk to an Erie Insurance Agent to learn more.
Read the full story from Erie Insurance: "She Sings, She Dances, She Walks Faster Than You: What a 90-Year Dynamo Can Teach You About Retirement"


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Q: Trigamma identity $\psi_1\left(\frac{11}{12}\right)-\psi_1\left(\frac{5}{12}\right)=4\sqrt 3 \pi^2-80G$ Regarding this integral: Integral $\int_0^1 \frac{\sqrt x \ln x} {x^2 - x+1}dx$ The following conjecture comes: $$\psi_1\left(\frac{11}{12}\right)-\psi_1\left(\frac{5}{12}\right)=4\sqrt 3 \pi^2-80G$$ Where $G$ is Catalan's constant. How can we show this? Wolfram-alpha agrees on this: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=trigamma(11%2F12)-trigamma(5%2F12)%3D4sqrt3pi%5E2-80Catalan

A: $$\psi_1(z)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac1{(z+n)^2}.$$
Consider the series
$$S_1=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(\frac1{(12k+1)^2}
+\frac1{(12k+5)^2}-\frac1{(12k+7)^2}-\frac1{(12k+11)^2}\right)$$
and
$$S_2=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(\frac1{(12k+1)^2}
-\frac1{(12k+5)^2}-\frac1{(12k+7)^2}+\frac1{(12k+11)^2}\right).$$
Then
$$\psi_1(5/12)-\psi_1(11/12)=\frac{12^2(S_1-S_2)}2.$$
The first series is
$$S_1=\left(1+\frac1{3^2}\right)\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(\frac1{(4k+1)^2}-\frac1{(4k+3)^2}\right),$$
a rational multiple of Catalan's constant.
The second series is $L(\chi,2)$ where $\chi$ is the even Dirichlet
character of conductor $12$. This can be evaluated using the
functional equation of Dirichlet's L-functions (see for instance
Washington's book on cyclotomic fields) or else via the infinite
series for $\cot^2$.

A: \begin{align}
\psi_1(\tfrac{11}{12})
-\psi_1(\tfrac{5}{12})
&=4\sqrt 3 \pi^2-80G
\tag{1}\label{1}
.
\end{align}
The constant $G$ - Catalan's constant
has known to appear in relations
\begin{align}
\psi_1(\tfrac14)&=\pi^2+8G
,\\
\psi_1(\tfrac34)&=\pi^2-8G
,
\end{align}
so we can try to start from $\psi_1(\tfrac14)$.
Applying triplication identity
\begin{align}
9\psi_1(3x) &=
\psi_1(x)
+\psi_1(x+\tfrac13)
+\psi_1(x+\tfrac23)
\tag{2}\label{2}
\end{align}
to $\psi_1(\tfrac14)=\psi_1(3\cdot\tfrac1{12})$,
we get
\begin{align}
9\psi_1(\tfrac14)
&=
\psi_1(\tfrac1{12})
+\psi_1(\tfrac5{12})
+\psi_1(\tfrac34)
,\\
\psi_1(\tfrac1{12})
+\psi_1(\tfrac5{12})
&=9\psi_1(\tfrac14)-\psi_1(\tfrac34)
\\
&=10\psi_1(\tfrac14)-(\psi_1(\tfrac14)+\psi_1(\tfrac34))
\\
&=10\psi_1(\tfrac14)-2\pi^2
\\
&=10(\pi^2+8G)-2\pi^2
\\
\psi_1(\tfrac1{12})
+\psi_1(\tfrac5{12})
&=8\pi^2+80G
,
\end{align}
and we are almost there.
Now, applying the identity
\begin{align}
\psi_1(1-x)&=
\frac{\pi^2}{\sin(\pi x)^2}
-\psi_1(x)
\end{align}
to $\psi_1(\tfrac1{12})=\psi_1(1-\tfrac{11}{12})$,
we get
\begin{align}
\psi_1(\tfrac1{12})
&=\frac{\pi^2}{\sin(\tfrac\pi{12})^2}
-\psi_1(\tfrac{11}{12})
,\\
&=8\pi^2+4\sqrt3\pi^2
-\psi_1(\tfrac{11}{12})
,
\end{align}
and \eqref{1} follows.

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Posted bywarrenwatchedamovie September 4, 2022 August 28, 2022 Posted inRobin HoodTags:Action, Adventure, Drama
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
June 14, 1991 (US)
Robin of Locksley fights against the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham as an outlaw.
I think it goes without saying that Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a certified classic and was so shortly after its release. It touched a chord with audiences and still does to this day. While not perfect, it managed to overcome its issues and achieve greatness.
This film has action and drama and romance and even a touch of the derring-do style escapes of older Robin Hood adventure films. This is not only a crowd pleasing film but a quality bit of moviemaking as well. It changed up the story to make it fresh yet somehow managed to not make what they ended up with feel like a complete bastardization.
The major issue with this film-and it's one that was pointed out when the movie was in theaters-is that Kevin Costner barely speaks with a British accent in his role of Robin of Locksley. It comes and goes unevenly during the course of a scene and generally during the film. One has to wonder why they didn't just skip him trying to use one altogether but then again Christian Slater as Will Scarlet probably would've had to drop his as well.
There are a great deal of non-English actors in a film about an English folk hero. We have Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Michael McShane, Michael Wincott, and quite a few others I am sure sporting English accents that are not British. That just bugs me. Not from a culturally appropriate standpoint. It just feels fake when too many of them are in a scene together. You lose that authentic sound. Anywho…
That aside this is a well-crafted drama that slowly builds its story to an inevitable conclusion. It's how one person comes back changed from war and he cannot make amends with his father whom he was basically seeking to escape by joining the Crusades. Robin is a former jerk who has seen too much conflict and comes back a changed individual. During the course of the film he has to get past the jerky image others have of him as well as learn to forgive himself in some fashion for not being a better son to his father (Brian Blessed). The reason for the rift? Robin spent years angry with his father because he dared to attempt to find love again after the death of Robin's mother.
Will Scarlet dislikes Robin from the start and that is explained as Will being the bastard child of Robin's father. That may work in modern sensibilities, but I have a little trouble believing that might've worked during Medieval times. It was a very different social structure back then and I'm not sure illegitimate children at the minimum could have remained in the area in which they were born. I would presume the family would be forced to leave town. Then again this is a work of fiction and I'm hyper analyzing that plot element.
Morgan Freeman does a fine job in the part of Azeem, a new character to the mythology, but I do wish they had gone a little more into why he was in prison at the start of the film. We heard it was over a woman, but the exact details never seem to really come to light. It just sounded like it could have been an interesting story and might've served to frame the character as a parallel to Robin.
Costner as Robin Hood and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Lady Marian (never used 'Maid' near as I could tell) have real chemistry and pull off a feeling of genuine attraction. Robin is framed as knowing her from childhood and being the type of kid that would dip her pigtails in an inkwell. For her part she for some reason she is still willing to give him a look. WHY?! He tormented you as a kid! Yet their screen chemistry makes you forget about that bit even though it is kinda important.
Marian is not necessarily a damsel in distress waiting to be rescued but rather a strong individual who when she is in the court is generally constrained by the rules of the situation. She can take care of herself and give as good as she gets.
Alan Rickman is a glorious jerk in his version of the Sheriff of Nottingham and often steals the show. He chews up every scene with his mustache twirling evil. His sheriff has a plot to get in line to the throne by marrying Marian and thus becoming de facto royalty. Interesting plan but kind of forgotten as you're just entranced by Rickman's performance on screen as well as the action and general acting.
In this version of the story the Sheriff consults a sorceress named Mortianna (Geraldine McEwan) who spouts a few vague prophecies which more or less allude to the end of the film. Her character could've gone been gone from the movie and it wouldn't of affected things too much. Why does this story need any level of magic powers?
The finale is rather epic and rousing. Robin has to save some townsfolk and save the day and this is an exciting cap to a well-crafted film. I'm not saying the movie is perfect, but it is well done. I personally liked how Friar Tuck (Michael McShane) dealt with the corrupt Bishop of Hereford (Harold Innocent). It's fitting and creative.
Kevin Costner's fluctuating accent aside, the performances are all great. Robin Hood is cocky and self-assured. Marian is charming yet not a pushover for Robin's affections. Alan Rickman, the great actor that he was, is all snarling evil. The characters are entertaining and the dialogue is well written and the script is steady paced from start to finish.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a classic bit of filmmaking. While not perfect, it is very entertaining and the film as a whole overcomes any of its flaws. This is most certainly recommended viewing!
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What can big business learn from SMEs and entrepreneurs?
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How can big business foster innovation in the workplace?
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Overview
The Total 90 Laser III version is the most complex of the line of boots. It features five red silicone pads that are designed to improve the strike zone, as well as TPU fins that are designed to enhance touch and control.

In September 2011, Nike revealed the latest incarnation of their signature power/accuracy boots; the Nike T90 Laser IV. This latest incarnation did away with the silicon pods and TPU rubber fins of the Laser III, and introduced 'strips' of hard rubber to the forefoot which shift and bend with the movements of the foot - with Nike coining the name 'Adaptive Shield' for this new technology. The Laser IV also features TPU swerve fins to generate friction and ball spin, and a Power Zone that improves strength and accuracy when striking the ball.

With the launch of the Nike T90 Laser IV, Nike were also keen to re-invent the silo for the modern striker. As such, the boot's weight was decreased by 20% to around  (in a US size 9 boot), and the Laser IV's silhouette and shape were slimmed down from the wide-fitting Laser III.

Launched in two colourways, White/Black/Total Orange and Black/Silver/Yellow, the Nike T90 Laser IV hit the pitch early when Wesley Sneijder wore them in Inter Milan's clash with Palermo at the start of the 2011-12 Serie A season.

The boot's official on-pitch debut was on 18 September 2011, when Wayne Rooney wore them in Manchester United's Premier League match against Chelsea.

See also
 Nike Tiempo range, Nike 'Touch' boot
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 *
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 *
 * @since 2.8.0
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