There is a cut and paste Facebook post that has gone viral saying that there is some sort of algorithm conspiracy to keep you from seeing all of your friends precious memes and cat videos. Just to be clear, in DOES NOT WORK.
Ok I wondered where everybody had been! This is good to know: It's ridiculous to have 100's of friends and only 25 are allowed to see my post. I ignored this post earlier, becaus It WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed. I'm seeing posts from people I haven't seen in years. Here's how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed. Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. Therefore, Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go to your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste. This will bypass the system. If you are reading this message, do me a favor and leave me a quick comment...a "hello," a sticker, whatever you want, so you will appear in my newsfeed‼.It WORKS!!
The website That'sNonsense.com explained it further: "The messages are all complete nonsense. The important details are these… there is no upper limit on how many friends can appear on your newsfeed. Those you rarely interact with are less likely to appear on your newsfeed, and those you interact with regularly are more likely to appear. There are also a number of other factors that come into play. This has always been the case since the early days of Facebook. Facebook doesn't "choose" your friends for you, it does not place any limit on how many friends appear on your newsfeed, and does not have a 'new algorithm'."
Again it does NOT work. If you are really concerned about certain friends getting your messages maybe go ahead a give them a phone call?


Silver Sparrow Designs: what a fabulous trip!
and the path that led to the beach.
"jumping the waves" was the favorite beach activity.
i think he was some kind of heron.
and i was, of course, so very inspired by the amazing, foreign, gifts of the seascape.
it was simply wonderful. the ocean always brings me such clarity. i can sit there and all of a sudden things make so much sense to me. because it was my birthday, and because he's fabulous, glenn allowed me wonderful, long, solo walks on the beach. nothing else in this world brings me the peace that walking on the beach does. it was amazing. we have vowed to return to this spot every summer until we die.
we camped at a KOA in needles, california on the way home.
wow, what a exciting trip of beauty and calmness. I'm envious ! I miss the west beaches, the east beaches are sooo cold ! It looks like you had a lovely time and everyone enjoyed them selves. Happy Birthday !!
Kristi--Looks like a wonderful trip....and Happy Birthday!...you captured some fabulous images!


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Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann
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Awards: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2011)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (NY)
Author: Charles C. Mann
Release date: August 9, 2011
Genres: history, science, anthropology, historical, economics, environment
From the author of 1491 — the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas — a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description — all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.
Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically.
As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City — where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted — the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars.
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Wishing namaste to Nepal
I could feel dust and sand in every breath. Tents were set up in every empty lot, filled with people who had lost their homes. Nepal was devastated after the earthquake. In a few hours, my mask had turned yellow and my eyes were blurry. In the aftermath of the destructive earthquake, the "land of the gods" became a land of victims trapped under piles of rocks while refugees were in tents.
What the earthquake victims need most desperately are waterproof clothes, warm blankets, fresh water and food. They have no place to live until their houses are restored. The situation in the mountain villages away from the capital of Kathmandu is even worse. Many of the villages are not accessible as the roads leading to them were destroyed. Some villages do not have phones, and it was hard to understand the scope of the damage. Local authorities are concerned as they will need more relief supplies in June when the rainy season begins.
International relief organizations are helping residents in mountain villages, where assistance from the Nepalese government is not available. On May 3, World Vision workers walked for more than an hour on the mountain trail from Bhaktapur and delivered 200 blankets to four remote villages at an altitude of 2,000 meters.
The 24-year-old Bimala Pariyar of Saraswatistan thanked the workers for the blanket and said, "I had wrapped my three-year-old daughter in clothes and had her sleep on my belly. Thanks to the blanket, she can stay warm at night."
Seven children's shelters were set up.
A 13-year-old called Sujata said, "That tent is my house, and my friends live in the next tent. My school shut down, but I am fortunate to have friends around."
As of May 5, the total death toll from the earthquake has risen to 7,250, with more than 14,000 people injured. There are 109 foreign nationals missing. "It will take 10 years to reconstruct the city," World Vision Korea's Yang Ho-seung said.
Nevertheless, some have a business interest in the disaster. As relief goods are exempt from taxes, some merchants have been caught bringing in industrial products without paying tariffs.
In addition, the Nepalese government is being criticized for interfering with civilian organization relief activities. More than 30,000 groups are operating there and many of them lack expertise, which could undermine the rescue operation.
Nevertheless, the only way to overcome the disaster is an international alliance. The United Nations, the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and Unicef are helping the affected areas, providing supplies and medical help. Online activists around the world created a map of earthquake damages and are raising funds. With help from around the world, Nepal will be restored slowly.
The Nepalese say "Namaste" as a greeting, which means "I bow to the divinity in you." We say "Namaste" to Nepal.
*The author is a national news writer of the JoongAng Ilbo. JoongAng Ilbo, May 6, Page 33
by CHAE YOON-KYUNG
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Remember how in college, you had your prerequisite major courses — like accounting 101 or microbiology — and then you had your okay-to-sleep-through electives? Well, for a long time, face masks were kind of like the latter. They were the "Introduction to French Wines" in your everyday skin-care schedule, in that they were fun and served you some purpose, but they weren't exactly necessary. Then everything changed when the K-beauty wave hit the states. Suddenly, there was a treasure trove of mask innovations that made them more useful than ever.
At the forefront of the movement was Peach & Lily, a company that puts the most cutting-edge products from Asia in the hands of U.S. consumers. And now, the beauty brand is making its offerings more accessible than ever. It just launched a specially-curated Mask Bar in Barneys retail stores that features cool, never-before-seen formulations that are surprisingly affordable. You've got pill-shaped water-jelly masks, fizzing masks, masks for men, dry paper masks, and so many more.
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Яковченко — українське прізвище, утворене від  імені Яків (зменшені форми — Яцик, Яцко, Яць).

Носії
 Яковченко Іван Юхимович (*1913 — †1979) — радянський військовик, Герой Радянського Союзу
 Яковченко Микола Федорович (*1900 — †1974) — український актор театру та кіно, народний артист УРСР
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 Яковченко Юнона Миколаївна (*1937 — †1980) — українська кіноакторка, донька Миколи Яковченка

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Nine Great New Dark Shadows Character Posters
March 21, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment
It's not too long now until Dark Shadows hits cinemas on May 11th. A trailer and a poster arrived a couple of days ago, and now nine rather cool character posters have debuted, which are incredibly brightly coloured to give it the late-60s/early-70s vibe the film is going for (which is the era the supernatural soap it's based on aired on US TV).
In the film, Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who was turned into a vampire by a witch (Eva Green) in the 18th Century and then buried alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to old home, Collinwood Manor, to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath also star.
ACTORS: Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloe Moretz, Gulliver McGrath DIRECTORS: Tim Burton FILMS: Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows Trailer
It's odd that it's taken so long, but a trailer for Dark Shadows is finally here. Based on a 1960s supernatural US soap opera, the film reunites Tim Burton and Johnny Depp for a film that from this trailer looks like it'll be deliberately silly but fun, and it seem like it'll be the most Burton-looking movie we've seen in a while, with plenty of gothic flourishes. In the film, Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who was turned into a vampire by a witch in the 18th Century and then buried alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to old home, Collinwood Manor, to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath also star. The film's out May 11th.


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The 2013 Lehigh Valley Steelhawks season was the third season as a professional indoor football franchise and their first in the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL). One of 7 teams competing in the PIFL for the 2013 season.

The team played their home games under head coach Chris Thompson at the Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Steelhawks earned a 7-5 record, placing tied for 2nd in the league, qualifying for the playoffs. They were defeated in the Semifinals, 40-44 by the Richmond Raiders.

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The Exploding Heads also explore some interesting Mo Salah statue lookalikes and look at some curious goal celebrations over the Premier League weekend.
Relive the top strikes from Week 11 of the 2018-19 Premier League season, which include an emotional winner from Leicester's Demarai Gray.
Gab Marcotti reveals his best XI from the 11th round of Premier League action, which leaves Craig Burley and Brian McBride asking questions.
As strong as the Premier League's "Big Six" are, they all have areas they need to improve. But what if each club was allowed to pick a player from a rival to fill their biggest weakness? Without taking transfer fees or personal considerations into account, here's who they might choose.
Given that this Arsenal team is a work in progress under new manager Unai Emery, it's admirable how well they're doing. That said, their fans would be forgiven for closing their eyes and gripping their seats whenever the ball nears Shkodran Mustafi, or when Sokratis Papastathopoulos has to chase a pass over the top.
Van Dijk seems ideal. He has done a similar job at Liverpool since arriving there in January, sealing up Jurgen Klopp's backline like a bank vault. He'd be the best central defender Arsenal have had since Sol Campbell's peak, and they went a whole season unbeaten with him in the side.
Alvaro Morata's recent form is encouraging and Olivier Giroud is a fine team player, but there is still a sense that Chelsea lack a real finisher up front. It arguably remains a source of rancour that former boss Antonio Conte ushered Diego Costa out of the door, as a replacement for him represents their greatest need.
It's difficult to split the two, but Kane is five years younger so Chelsea's attack would be set for years to come.
Tottenham's Harry Kane would get the goals that Chelsea need.
The one thing they don't really have is a lock-picking midfielder, something close to Philippe Coutinho, a man who can find holes in ostensibly tight defences. Adam Lallana is close to that but injury-prone, while Naby Keita has only shown flickers in his relatively limited time at Anfield so far.
But one of United's big flaws is how imbalanced their attack is. They have three forwards — Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Alexis Sanchez — who are most comfortable on the left, but they don't have anyone who naturally plays on the right. Juan Mata is the latest fill-in, but he isn't dynamic enough to start there.
Sterling is though. While it's nigh on impossible to imagine him switching from the blue side of Manchester to the red, any combination of United's strikeforce looks significantly better if you include Sterling.
Manchester City's Raheem Sterling would certainly inject some life into the United attack.
Finding weaknesses in the City team is like trying to find flaws in a priceless diamond. You can contort yourself into logical knots trying to suggest they need another central midfielder, or that if Leroy Sane's form declines then a left-winger would be handy, while the 32-year-old David Silva is not going to be around forever.
But realistically their only vague problem is at left-back, where Benjamin Mendy can be erratic and the alternatives aren't specialists. Granted, this is not exactly a gaping hole in the side, but certainly an area where they could improve.
Over the last season or so Robertson has been the best left-back in the Premier League, emerging from Hull City's relegation to play in a Champions League final inside a year. He has solved Liverpool's problem position and would do so for City too.
There are a few areas of Tottenham's team that could do with some help. Eric Dier has looked shaky, they're a different team without Eriksen, and they must be at least concerned by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris's decision-making this season. But their weakest area is right-back, where Kieran Trippier's form has disappeared and any game in which Serge Aurier appears is an adventure.
What they could do with is someone reliable to shore up that flank but also offer a bit of zip going forward. Azpilicueta isn't the sexiest name in world football, but he fulfils those criteria: good in defence, good going forward, good for the team, good for a bit of versatility.
It might seem a little obtuse to pick a relatively unspectacular right-back when you have a hypothetical selection of the best players in the Premier League, but that's where Tottenham's biggest gap is and he would plug it.


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One of the most in-demand (and well-respected) hard rock drummers remains journeyman Tommy Aldridge. Born August 15, 1950, in Jackson, MS, Aldridge was entirely self-taught, inspired by such groundbreaking '60s rock outfits as Cream, the Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix. By the early '70s, Aldridge had joined up with up-and-coming Southern rockers Black Oak Arkansas, playing on a total of nine albums from 1972 through 1976 and touring the U.S. nonstop. It was also around this time that Aldridge developed the double-bass drumming technique that would soon be copied by countless other drummers (especially those in thrash metal bands come the 1980s). From there, Aldridge signed on with Canadian blues-rock guitarist Pat Travers, appearing on five albums from 1978 through 1981, before accepting a slot in Ozzy Osbourne's band. The group included legendary guitarist Randy Rhoads, and is often pointed to as one of the finest metal lineup's ever, which, unfortunately, released only a single studio album, 1981's Diary of a Madman, before Rhoads' tragic death in March of 1982 (a live album from the 1981/1982 tour, titled Tribute, would be issued posthumously in 1987).
Although Aldridge appeared on a few more hit albums with the Osbourne band (1982's live Speak of the Devil and 1983's Bark at the Moon), Rhoads' death was hard to overcome and Aldridge left the group. The mid-'80s saw the drummer lend his talents to recordings by Gary Moore (1984's Dirty Fingers) and a project titled M.A.R.S. (1986's Project: Driver). But his next major project was just around the corner; David Coverdale was looking to completely overhaul the lineup of his band Whitesnake and Aldridge was offered a slot, which he promptly accepted. Although Aldridge didn't play on the group's mega-hit self-titled 1987 release, he was part of the all-star touring band (which included Aldridge's former Osbourne mate Rudy Sarzo on bass, former Dio guitarist Vivian Campbell, and guitarist Adrian Vandenberg, in addition to Coverdale). Aldridge got his shot to record with Whitesnake on 1989's Slip of the Tongue, which failed to repeat its predecessor's success, however, resulting in the group quietly breaking up a year later. Ever since, Aldridge has kept playing with others, having both toured and recorded live albums with a revamped version of Thin Lizzy (2000's One Night Only) and Ted Nugent (2001's Full Bluntal Nugity). ~ Greg Prato, Rovi
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Iconic drummer Tommy Aldridge (Whitesnake) steals the show at Remo Drummer Night
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Влади́мир Арка́дьевич Саве́льев (1947, Чита — 1998) — российский , учёный-американист, , .

Образование
Окончил исторический факультет МГУ в 1970 году и аспирантуру Института США и Канады АН СССР в 1973 году;  (1988).

Научная и дипломатическая деятельность
В 1973—1990 гг. работал в Институте США и Канады АН СССР. Специалист по проблемам внутренней и внешней политики США, проблемам функционирования Конгресса США.

С 1990 года работал в МИД СССР, затем в МИД России, в котором возглавлял Департамент по связям с субъектами Федерации, парламентом и общественно-политическими организациями. В 1993—1997 гг. — заместитель постоянного представителя России при Европейских Сообществах. В 1993 году указом Президента России ему был присвоен дипломатический ранг Чрезвычайного и Полномочного Посланника 2-го класса.

Политическая деятельность
В сентябре 1990 года на конференции инициативной группы был избран членом центрального комитета Конституционно-демократической партии (Партии народной свободы), которую возглавлял народный депутат РФ Михаил Астафьев. В 1991 на съезде партии вновь был избран членом её ЦК.

Труды
 США: сенат и политика. М.. 1976.
 Никифоров А. С., Золотухин В. П., Савельев В. А., Васихан В. А. Государственный строй США/ Отв. ред. А. С. Никифоров. — М., 1976.
 США: кризис законодательной власти. М., 1986.
 Капитолий США: прошлое и настоящее. М., 1989.

Литература
Иванян Э. А. Энциклопедия российско-американских отношений. XVIII-XX века. — Москва: Международные отношения, 2001. — 696 с. — ISBN 5-7133-1045-0.

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Stata Center lawsuit amicably resolved
Joint statement issued today
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The following is a joint statement from MIT, Frank O. Gehry & Associates and Skanska USA Building Inc.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frank O. Gehry & Associates and Skanska USA Building Inc. are pleased to report that they have amicably resolved a lawsuit regarding the Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences at MIT.
The Stata Center was designed by Frank Gehry as a space that champions collaborative research and discovery at MIT and embodies MIT's intellectual adventurousness and creative spirit. "MIT is enormously proud of Frank's design and our ongoing relationship with him," said Professor Rodney Brooks of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a major occupant of the Stata Center. "The building has had a huge impact on campus life, fulfilling the many missions we brought to Frank at the outset of the design process. It provides highly functional and extraordinarily pleasant spaces for creative interaction."
Mr. Gehry said, "I am pleased that we have come to a constructive resolution on this matter. I am gratified to see students and faculty using the building the way it was intended to be used. This is the most important thing to me — that the building works for those who use it on a daily basis."
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Home Lead Story Microsoft Unifies Key Ms-Office Apps For Android Users Across The Globe
Microsoft Unifies Key Ms-Office Apps For Android Users Across The Globe
It is also not known if Microsoft is planning to roll out a similar unified experience for iOS users
It is also not known if Microsoft is planning to roll out a similar unified experience for iOS users. Pixabay
Microsoft has made its unified Office experience combining the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps available for Android users worldwide.
Now these key apps are available independently as well as in a unified form.
Earlier the unified experience designed for mobile users was available only to Office Insiders as a preview, and Microsoft had only started testing it with a small group of users, Thurrott.com reported on Monday, adding that the company was releasing the app for everyone this week.
The app allows users to instantly create PDFs from photos or Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, easily transfer files between their phone and computer or share instantly with nearby mobile devices, sign PDFs using finger, quickly jot down ideas and notes with Sticky Notes and scan QR codes to open links, among others.
Microsoft has made its unified Office experience combining the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps available for Android users worldwide. Wikimedia Commons
The Office app can be downloaded for free and in-app purchases in India can range from Rs 420-Rs 590 per item. "Anyone can download the Office app for free and start using it right away. Access and save documents to the cloud by connecting with a Microsoft Account (for OneDrive or SharePoint) or by connecting to a third-party cloud storage provider," according to Microsoft.
"Logging in with a personal, work, or school Microsoft Account connected to an Office 365 subscription will unlock premium features within the app," it added. According to a report in Android Police, the new Office app does not work too well with tablet devices yet.
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It is also not known if Microsoft is planning to roll out a similar unified experience for iOS users. (IANS)
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As usual around this time of year, countless new books are about to hit the shelves, and most of this week's highlights deal with new literature.
Events: At RiverRun Bookstore, bestselling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts) will be signing copies of his latest graphic novel, Locke & Key: Head Games sometime later this month. Call between now and September 24th to reserve your copy.
The $2 deal at Chop Suey Books this week features The Nanny Diaries, the New York Times Bestseller by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus, two former nannies. This entertaining novel follows the story of Nan and how she deals with the ridiculous demands of a Park Avenue mother.
Sherrie Flick and Ladette Randolph will be visiting Porter Square Books on September 24th to read from their new novels, Reconsidering Happiness and Sandhills Ballad. The store will also now be featuring a monthly new sci-fi/fantasy author. September's author is Mark Del Franco, author of the Connor Gray trilogy and recently, Skin Deep. Read more about Mark Del Franco here.
New Literature: On October 13th, Anita Silvey's heartwarming new book Everything I Need to Know I Learned in a Children's Book is due out in bookstores. Silvey interviews 100 people, including actors, writers, musicians, and athletes, on their favorite children's book and how it influenced their lives (via Newtonville Books).
This week was particularly exciting in the literary world, with several events over the long weekend and a few more still coming up. A few new bookstore blogs (and even a library blog) have also been added to the Indie 100 blogroll, including Book Passage, Kepler's Books, The Henry Miller Library, and Green Apple Books! Welcome!
Events: This weekend's Decatur Book Festival was a huge success. Marc participated in two different panels, and A Cappella Books displayed some of their rarest books, hosted a few book signings, and had a huge sale for the weekend.
Bestselling author Michelle Moran's newest book Cleopatra's Daughter will be released on September 15th, coinciding with a literary treasure hunt at 60 different independent bookstores, including Book Passage.
Prizes include signed copies of the new books and Cleopatra-related goodies. Each bookstore will have its own clue, so keep checking Moran's blog if you're interested in participating.
Of course Chop Suey Books has another $2 of the week sale: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the first in the popular Precious Romatswe series by Alexander McCall Smith. This is a quick and fun read about a female detective in Botswana. The informative descriptions of life in Botswana and memorable characters are what make this book a truly intriguing read.
New Literature: Green Apple Books blogs about some great books for boys that will keep even the least literary of children entertained by stories about giant robots, loveable pups, and of course, magical adventures.
Ru Freedman's A Disobedient Girl, a novel about an unhappy and rebellious Sri Lankan servant, is reviewed at TheRumpus.net, recommended by Newtonville Books Blog. Ru Freedmen will be visiting Newtonville Books at Sunday, September 13th.
Odyssey Books Blog discusses the wide variety of great young adult books that most adults are missing out on and recommends two: one, a futuristic sci-fi in which 24 teens are chosen to fight to the death for entertainment on reality tv, and another written from the point of view of a comatose seventeen-year-old girl who must choose to stay on earth alone or move on to be with her family. These two excellent books show how young adult can tackle serious themes, sometimes more successfully than novels for adults.
Other: Titcomb's Bookshop was featured on C-SPAN2 on Book TV this Saturday. Lawrence McDonald and Patrick Robinson discussed their book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers at the store. If you missed it, you can watch the clip online here.
Powell's Books interviews Barbara Epler, publisher and editor-in-chief at New Directions Publishing, one of the most successful and long-lasting publishing companies, about the past, present, and future of the company.
#58/!!!PIT STOP!!! THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY !!!PIT STOP!!!
I'm a huge Henry Miller fan. In fact, he's partly the reason I ditched college when I was nineteen and took off to live and tramp around Europe. The quality of his writing that I liked best was that he knew how to fashion language in a way that reached ecstasy. He just let it rip, and as a reult his best work had a depth and pathos that made ART. And I really appreciate him as the artist. Getting to visit this spot has always been a dream of mine.
I figured I'd make it my West Coast pit stop. When I visited and discovered that it's also a curated book store, I figured I'd add it as #58.
Until recently, the archives of Henry Miller were actually in this building. While I'm sure they were perfectly fine, I was glad to hear they had been moved recently to California State University of Monterey Bay where they are being digitized.
Besides the book store, this two-acre spread features film festivals, weekly open-mic nights, concerts, and can be rented out for weddings.
As a place, I imagine Big Sur ain't what it used to be, and probably hasn't been for a while. Sure, it's laid back and it's pretty, but it's also crowded — Central Park crowded — with people coming down from SF and up from LA. Not a bad thing and worth seeing, of course, but the Oregon coast is just as lovely and seems like it could be a little less crowded. Just FYI. On the other hand, I did go on a 3-hour hike and only saw a couple of other people the entire time.
Do you know Capitola Book Cafe? It's a destination stop in greater San Jose. Really. I only had thirty minutes in the area making my way down the coast and this is the store I stopped in. I know there are other great stores in the area and I would have loved to have seen them, but I was catching a ride with a touring writer, and she had to be further down the coast later that night, and Capitola was just so passionate, I had to see the store for myself.
Capitola Books is thirty years old. They service a lot of students from UC Santa Cruz. They have 5,000 square feet of curated books. The Cafe portion of Capitola is rented out to an established, local coffee house chain.
It's in a strip mall, but the mall is packed and people seem to slip in and out of the store seamlessly. The customers are loyal and the store is as much a venue as it is a bookstore.
I couldn't tell you a thing about San Jose other than it's about ninety minutes south of SF. I hear the beach is close by.
About an hour south of San Francisco near Palo Alto and Stanford University is the upscale town of Menlo Park.
Menlo Park is home to the much beloved Kepler's Books. How beloved? Well, the owners once tried to close Kepler's Books, only to find that local residents weren't happy with that decision and worked together to get it to reopen.
So it did. And at 10,000 square feet, Kepler's is a very large book store. They have 320 book clubs and coordinate a lot of author events throughout the year. The store has been in existence for 54 years, and at least on the evening when I was there seemed to have a steady clip of customers. Their location in a shopping center next to a couple of popular restaurants almost ensures that people will browse.
A great resource if you're in Palo Alto or Menlo Park.


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Smart Locks Used by Airbnb Get Bricked by Software Update
Rhett Jones
GIF Source: Lockstate
There are many reasons not to buy a smart lock, but high on the list is the risk of getting remotely locked out of your shit. For hundreds of customers using Lockstate's smart locks, that potentiality became a reality last week—with some Airbnb users getting screwed the hardest.
Are Smart Locks Secure, or Just Dumb?
Keys have been around for hundreds, if not, thousands of years. We've all used them. We generally…
Lockstate CEO Nolan Mondrow wrote a letter to customers who were affected by the screw up on August 8th. He explained that "a software update was sent to your [6000i] lock, it failed to reconnect to our web service making a remote fix impossible." The automatic update that was pushed out over the WiFi-connected locks bricked about eight percent of the devices it was sent to according to Mondrow.
When your smart lock is busted, it's not just a matter of calling the locksmith and stopping by Home Depot to pick up a new one. Lockstate offered a replacement by mail for customers who sent in the back portion of the lock for reformatting within 5-7 days. Customers who wanted a replacement without sending their own lock first face a 14-18 day wait time. The company told Threatpost that about 500 customers lost their locks and a free year of access to its portal service was being offered as a mea culpa.
For individual customers, this may not have been a huge issue—both keyed and keypad entry are available on the smart locks. But for businesses, this was likely a huge pain in the ass. Airbnb recommends the smart lock as part of its Host Assist program. A property owner can rent out their space and just give the code to a renter from wherever they happen to be. The bricked locks apparently left some renters angry:
LockState told Threatpost that "200 Airbnb customers were impacted." Gizmodo contacted Airbnb for comment and a spokesperson claimed that the company doesn't have a tally of how many total hosts had issues, but "less than five" had contacted them about it. Airbnb confirmed the number of hosts using the lock as being around 200 people and said, "this issue has been 100-percent resolved."
If reactions on Twitter are any indication, it would seem that the figure might be an exaggeration. An Airbnb host named Ruffin Provost told TechCrunch that he found the company's response to be lacking:
The company initially told me they had no extra locks to send me for a replacement and I'd have to wait up to 20 days. After word started getting around late Friday about all this, the marketing director left me a message that they had now gotten some extra locks somehow. But I had already sent back parts of both my locks."
Provost says he'll now have to sell his two new locks after receiving his fixed locks. He asked why the company hadn't been more proactive getting out detailed information for replacements, and he says that someone from Lockstate told him, "Sometimes the best way is to reach out to them in mass through a vehicle like Twitter. But I've got to sell new locks as well."
Right, advertising that your smart locks get bricked by software updates really isn't the most enticing selling point. Just remember, it could always be worse. The software update could've just left everyone's house unlocked for god knows how long before they noticed.
[Lockstate via Threatpost]
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Welcome to the glorious future of everything.
This is gonna be your car next.
Though as someone who's done this before, they are really f@#$ing stupid to not have a failsafe bootloader that can load new firmware images when your new firmware is completely toast. And this isn't cutting edge tech - we were doing it 20+ years ago. Your phone can do it. But I guess that's just typical for Internet of Shitty Things.


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Guitar Legends at The Novo Salute Veterans And First Responders
Posted on December 6, 2018 by Ivor Levene
Sammy Hagar and Robby Krieger at The Novo, L.A. Live, Sunday, December 2, 2018.
What do Billy Gibbons, Laurence Juber, Orianthi, Emily Estefan, Sammy Hagar, Robby Krieger, Joe Bonamassa, Sammy Hagar, Dave Navarro, Vernon Reid, Don Felder, and Stephen Stills have in common? Well, they all know their way around the old fretboard, but more pertinently, they were all in attendance last Sunday night at The Novo where they live-to-tape performed in a fund-raiser for various mental and brain wellness charities that serve first responders and veterans.
Playing to a packed house of about 2,000 fans, the show on Sunday, December 2, 2018, had a very intimate feel to it, as do most shows there. The Novo is part of the L.A. Live complex, which includes The Microsoft Theater, Staples Center, and The Grammy Museum and Theater. The venue is known for its acoustics and was a perfect setting for the show, which was a great and eclectic collection of guitarists covering many different genres.
Particularly well suited to the venue was Laurence Juber, the man known as "Paul McCartney's Guitarist", the man can do things with an acoustic guitar that have to be heard to be appreciated. For The Doors fan in you, Krieger played "Roadhouse Blues" with Sammy Hagar on vocals and Joe Bonamassa on lead guitar. Dave Navarro, Orianthi, and Robby Krieger joined together for "Back Door Man", and Krieger performed a rousing version of "Light My Fire". Emily Estefan performed "Black Magic Woman", Billy Gibbons not only performed "Sharp Dressed Man" but he also lived the part, dressed in all his glittery finery. Stephen Stills did "Love The One You're With", Don Felder did "Heartache Tonight", "Hotel California", and was joined by Gibbons on "Pride and Joy."
The finale had everyone present on stage, a-la The Rock Hall jam, performing "Low Rider". It's great to have all this talent under one roof, there was something for everyone. How could there not be with that kind of a line-up?
If you missed the telecast or the live stream, stay tuned, it might get re-broadcast, and while you're there, you could make a donation. More information can be obtained at www.americasalutesyou.org
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At first I thought, Why is Gil Grissom from CSI singing with Robbie Krieger?
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13 terrorists to die, confirms Pakistani army chief
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Islamabad, March 16: Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence for another 13 "hardcore terrorists" who were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism. The convicts, who belonged to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, were tried by military courts, an army statement said.
A convict, Irfanullah, was behind the killing of 10 foreign tourists in the country's northern areas in 2013. The other convicts were involved in attacks at the airport in northwestern Swat valley, destruction of schools, attacks on armed forces, law enforcement agencies and civilians, said a statement from the army's Inter-Services Intelligence.
The statement said all convicts confessed to their crimes. The army courts were set up after the terrorist attack on an army school in December 2014 for the speedy trial of terrorism accused. (IANS)
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On Tuesday, gold continues to grow in price due to the expectations that the Federal Reserve will slow down the growth of the key rate. The rate has reached the highs recorded in May last year.
February futures have grown by 0.4% to $ 1,308 per ounce. The price has been increasing for 3 consecutive sessions.
The Fed meeting will end on Wednesday. The market agrees that the rate will remain at the same level amounting to 2.25 – 2.5%.
Jerome Powell is also expected to report on a slowdown of the growth rate. The Fed predicts that this year the rate will increase twice. Despite this, experts do not expect changes until the end of 2019.
Oanda in its analysis emphasizes that the oil rate is supported by the concerns about the global economic slowdown.
Following the gold price, silver has risen too. The increase has amounted to 0.7%, at the moment the precious metal is being traded for $ 15.8 per ounce.


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I am generating a PDM from an LDM using transformations. I want to include a transformation which splits one table into two tables. For this, I would like to use the horizontal partitioning (Tools --> Denormalization --> Horizontal Partitioning). So far, I haven't found a way to call this function using a transformation (VBScript). Does anyone know how to do this?
Moreover, I'd like to create simple views from my tables using Tools --> Create view. Here I run into the same problem: I can't call this function using a script.
I spent a lot of time looking in the metamodel objects help but I can't seem to find how to do it, can anybody help me?
there is IMHO no way how you can call the Create View function through scripting, you will have to write it again for yourself.
Regarding the horizontal partitioning, you can do that during post-generation transformation, but again, there is no one simple function to do that all, you will have to write it by yourself. For that you will need to create HorizontalPartitioning object, setup few of its attributes and also create TransformationSource object. See attached screenshot. The only thing I wasn`t bothering with, is creating newly partitioned tables with everything from their parent. I just created two empty tables (A and B) with no columns in them. So you will have to add/copy the columns from original table.


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Pixel Perfect: 'Uncharted: The Lost Legacy' Comes Alive with it's Visuals
Ricky Fernandes da Conceição
Editor's Note: Images below contain spoilers for Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Naughty Dog has an impressive track record for producing some of the best video games over the past decade and is responsible for some of PlayStation's most visually striking experiences. From the survival horror of The Last of Us to the breathtaking Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, the Santa Monica based developer shows no signs of slowing down with its latest release, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Originally intended as a downloadable expansion to Uncharted 4, The Lost Legacy was later expanded and promoted to a standalone release at a reduced cost. It's shorter than the other entries in the series (taking eight hours or so to finish), but it's also a fully developed, satisfying adventure packed with the exciting action and memorable characters we've come to expect from an Uncharted game. Sure, it's a formulaic adventure without apology, giving anyone who's played the original four games a distinct sense of déjà vu, but that doesn't mean it isn't compelling. Yes, every shootout and every set-piece in Lost Legacy seem directly lifted from a previous game, but thankfully, Naughty Dog has a rare ability to turn a by-the-numbers summer blockbuster with seemingly cookie-cutter sequences into something majestic. It's as stirring an epic as Hollywood has ever produced and without a doubt, one of the best things about Lost Legacy is its visuals.
The plot is pretty sparse. Chloe and Nadine set out to find a lost city and a mythical treasure known as the Tusk of Ganesh: a sacred artifact of a lost Hindu people. Along the way, they face many obstacles – both emotional and physical – and the biggest threat is a local warlord, Asav, who won't stop at anything to get what he wants. Naturally, everyone has ulterior motives beyond mere greed when hunting for the treasure, but it's still a treasure hunt nevertheless. What makes this adventure come alive beyond its somewhat cliché set-up, however, is its location.
Despite the familiarity, Lost Legacy does still navigate uncharted territory and this time the globe-trotting adventure takes us to India's Western Ghats with its high hills, deep valleys, massive waterfalls, mountain grasslands, dense rain forest, and gorgeous Hindu ruins. Uncharted games have always looked good, but the latest installment is often breathtaking and within the boundless purview of visual splendor, Lost Legacy unravels an adventure worthy of a big screen adaptation by the legendary David Lean.
Right from the first chapter entitled "The Insurgency", you'll be struck by the game's sheer beauty. The early moments of Lost Legacy do a great job of setting the stage as Chloe and Nadine make their way through a war-torn city accented by glaring neon signs and bright, warm colors. It's a dark, mysterious place, where danger lurks around every corner and the ladies mostly move in shadow through the claustrophobic streets while avoiding the attention of patrolling soldiers.
From there it doesn't take long before the duo venture across the Western Ghats, which run parallel to India's long and picturesque Western peninsula. The Ghats is not only extremely scenic but also provide the best ambiance for any of the Uncharted games, not to mention a refreshing change of scenery. Just do a quick Google search and you'll learn that the area is one of the world's ten "Hottest biodiversity hotspots" and has over 7,402 species of flowering plants, 1,814 species of non-flowering plants, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species, 179 amphibian species, 6,000 insects species and 290 freshwater fish species. Needless to say, there's a lot to discover and stretching 1,600km along India's west coast, the Ghats is also home to tigers, leopards, the elusive black panther and the world's largest population of wild Asian elephants. Naughty Dog knows this, of course, and even included a side quest in which Chloe and Nadine must rescue a baby elephant trapped beneath some rubble – arguably the most touching and original scene in the entire game, punctuated with the hilarious photo Nadine takes of Chloe posing next to the herd.
The biggest change between The Lost Legacy and previous games in the series lies in the Western Ghats. Touted by Naughty Dog as the biggest single level the team has ever built for an Uncharted game, the Ghats find the studio flirting with open-world gameplay giving players the freedom to tackle multiple objectives across a large map. For the most part, it's successful, conveying the illusion of choice and a sizeable area of rivers, ruins, ancient temples, flooded catacombs, mountains, and mud-filled valleys to explore. But it's the attention to detail that really impressed me when comparing the game's visuals to real-life photographs I found online. In an interview with Gamasutra, art director Tate Mosesian spoke about how the game's memorable structures, locales, artifacts, and obstacles are the result of carefully studying real-world referents. Obviously, they took liberties in changing and inventing certain things, but the long tedious process and hard work paid off in spades – and even after four games, the designers still found a few ways to make the climbing, puzzle-solving and action moments feel fresh.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is peppered with iconic moments including the game's finale which deserves a special shout out for how thrilling it is. It's as well-written and entertaining as ever, but between the parkour-inspired movement, stealth attacks, on-rails action set-pieces, and environmental puzzle-solving, the game would be nothing without its art direction. After all, it's the environments for the most part that make the adventure a challenge, not the A.I.-controlled goons standing in your way.
Here are a few screenshots from some of my favourite moments in the game.
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Beautifully framed, this image shows how the art directors make good use of filling up the background, middleground, and foreground of each frame. I particularly love how the developers positioned every character in this shot, keeping the camera fixed behind Chloe, who remains dead center while waking down the narrow corridor. Naughty Dog is fond of low angles, usually keeping the camera shot eye-level to the main character in the scene.
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Beautiful expanded cape cod with room to spread out in flow-through living room, large dinning room, eat-in kitchen and spacious porch. Enjoy hot cocoa in front of the gas fireplace in the living room in winter, or dine or lounge in the screened porch in summer with grilled burgers from the built-in gas grill. Take coffee in the breakfast nook next to window looking out on corner of trees. Private backyard screened by mature trees and plants. Four bedrooms, two full baths, fenced in yard and perennial gardens. Living room has built in bookcases and cabinets around bay window.


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Marcos Vinicios Lopes Moura (born 23 February 2001), known as Marcos Vinicios or Sorriso, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Red Bull Bragantino

Club career

Juventude
Born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Sorriso joined Juventude's youth setup in 2017, from ABC. He was promoted to the main squad for the 2021 campaign, and made his senior debut on 1 March of that year, coming on as a late substitute for Yago in a 0–1 Campeonato Gaúcho away loss against Internacional.

On 5 March 2021, Sorriso renewed his contract with Ju for three seasons. He scored his first senior goal on 1 April, netting the game's only goal in a 1–0 home success over Aimoré.

Sorriso made his Série A debut on 29 May 2021, replacing Chico in a 2–2 away draw against Cuiabá.

Red Bull Bragantino
On 21 January 2022, Red Bull Bragantino announced the signing of Sorriso, on a five-year contract.

Career statistics

References

External links
EC Juventude profile

2001 births
Living people
People from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Brazilian footballers
Association football forwards
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Esporte Clube Juventude players
Red Bull Bragantino players
Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Norte


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"It Was Never Meant to Be This Way (Piano Version)"
By Larry Fitzmaurice
Canadian producer CFCF has an EP, The River, out now digitally and on vinyl via RVNG. You've already heard the remix of EP track "It Was Never Meant to Be This Way" from Games, and now you can check out this stately piano version of the cut.
Revisit the Games remix:
Check out fellow EP cut "Before and After Light", while you're at it:
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TAO is happy to announce that it was once again chosen for the PISA studies (Program for International Students Assessment) of the OECD.
Indeed, TAO has participated in those studies since 2009 and still will in 2015 with a growing role. Those studies take place every 3 years. So far, 60 countries were assessed representing 90% of the world economy. In each country, among 4,500 and 50,000 students take the tests.
Rather than evaluating what they learn, PISA focuses on assessing how 15 year old students are capable of using their knowledge. These studies are meant to measure how they are prepared to face real life challenges.


"What does it mean to be 17 in 2017?" That is the question the most recent issue of Harvard Design Magazine, Seventeen, seeks to explore by looking into teenagehood and its relation to the spatial imagination.
Re-launched in 2014, Harvard Design Magazine, goes beyond the typical boundaries of the design disciplines to open up the discourse on architecture, landscape and urban planning. For this edition of the Archinect's recurring series, Screen/Print, we are sharing an expert from their current issue.
In the selected interview, "The Not-Me Creation," landscape architect and professor at GSD, Danielle Choi, speaks with architect, artist and professor of preservation at GSAPP Jorge Otero-Pailos. Otero-Pailos is the founder and editor of the preservation publication, "Future Anterior," previously featured in the Screen/Print series. Last year we spoke with him about experimental preservation and architectural authorship in our weekly podcast.
In the following interview between Choi and Otero-Pailos, the two discuss adolescence and the important role objects, and their preservation, play during that time of transition. They go on to talk about societies' relationship to buildings and to time passing, as well as his ongoing series "The Ethics of Dust," in which he uses preservation latex to capture traces of pollution accumulated on buildings over time.
Danielle Choi talks to Jorge Otero-Pailos about teddy bears, transitions and experimental preservation.
Danielle Choi: You call yourself an experimental preservationist. What exactly does that mean?
Jorge Otero-Pailos: Experimental preservationists share a common interest in using existing historic objects, buildings, landscapes to think differently about the future. That is quite different from traditional historic preservation, where the object of heritage is understood as stable. Experimental preservationists look carefully at how heritage objects are constructed in the present and then find new purposes for them.
Danielle Choi: In your 2016 book Experimental Preservation, you convene discussions around artistic and architectural work that ranges from discourse to unbuilt proposals to realized urban interventions. All of the work presented offers a critique of traditional preservation, but it is also a new form of cultural production. There seems to be deep optimism and joy in this kind of making.
Jorge Otero-Pailos: Absolutely—there is a new sense of the capacity of preservationists to impact the world. Preservationists work with a mode of creativity that is not about formgiving, but about form-taking and guiding attention. The kinds of objects that they propose can't be singular and subjective creations. They are what I would call, borrowing from pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, "not-me creations," which are objects created collectively through interactions among specific people or interests.
The process of preservation engages in social dialogue about objects: What is real and what is not? How do we understand our environment? What do we care about? In experimental preservation, practitioners are willing to unpack these protocols. This practice is not necessarily associated with the purpose of traditional preservation, which is to uphold national identities—in other words, to serve the state directly or indirectly.
You're seeing many more contentious types of preservation projects that question the authority or structures of governmentality. The work suggests the different ways in which we gather as communities. After all, these monuments, historic sites, landscapes—they are for all of us. Philosopher Michel Serres talks about soccer balls in this way: if you don't have a ball, you don't have a game. Experimental preservationists work with objects to see what kinds of games—serious games—can be played to describe how we interact as a society.
Danielle Choi: I want to talk more about Winnicott's idea of the not-me creation and how multiple creative agents contribute to preservation in the public realm. How do you distinguish between collective, casual inhabitation of a place, as opposed to more direct and intentional creative interventions?
Jorge Otero-Pailos: A not-me creation is always created collectively. It suggests that we might interact through objects and ask one another questions like, "Do you like this monument, or not?" We might learn from one another in the process. That sounds very abstract, but let me give an example from psychoanalysis and Winnicott's work with children.
Children use not-me creations. The teddy bear or the blankie are ways to deal with the anxiety of not knowing the future. Children have a difficult time telling the difference between dreams and reality. When they go to sleep, they don't know if they'll wake up again or if their parents will be there. The way the child deals with this is to choose an object, usually a soft object, and to act as if that object is vitally important. They behave toward that object in a very strange way, right?
We deploy objects as a way to raise fundamental questions about what's important to us.
If you follow Winnicott's thinking, what they're trying to do is ask their parents a question that they cannot articulate: Is this object real? If the parents behave toward this object as if it's real and vitally important to the child, then the child will find comfort in that object. For example, if a child leaves the teddy bear at a friend's house, and the child starts throwing a tantrum, you turn around and get the bear. That's your way of answering the child's question. We use objects throughout our lives to ask one another questions about reality. In teenagehood, we latch on to different objects. We might suddenly dress in a different way, form attachments to certain music, acting as if that is who we are.
When we choose an object, we're actually trying to engage society. That's what the very radical proposition of experimental preservation is: we deploy objects as a way to raise fundamental questions about what's important to us.
Danielle Choi: The kinds of objects we use to probe reality as children are intimate vessels of communication with our parents. As teenagers, we use objects to broadcast our affiliations and alliances in the world. Can you elaborate on this distinction?
Jorge Otero-Pailos: Fundamentally, the world is run by middle-aged people. Because they're in power, those people create a world that other middle-aged people might be interested in.
Teenagehood is embarrassing to most people. As a teenager, you're negotiating a material world that rejects the previous one you inhabited—the world of your parents or caregivers. You begin to choose objects that are recognizable to your peers and yet still function in the previous world. Your parents have an opinion about these objects—hopefully, a negative opinion, right? That piercing, for example, or that skirt that's just not acceptable. Objects are very powerful in helping us transition in life.
5Pointz, Long Island City, New York, 2011.
Danielle Choi: Discussing teenage expression makes me think of 5Pointz in Long Island City, Queens, which was a prominent site for graffiti for many years. It was a highly visible example of graffiti artists claiming a kind of right to the city, but when the building was finally up for redevelopment, advocates for the arts (unsuccessfully) appealed to traditional modes of preservation. In a more rarefied example, you've noted Gordon Matta-Clark as a pioneer of experimental preservation. These two examples are related in the sense of inventing a public realm through some form of creative destruction. What is the role of creative destruction in the practice of experimental preservation?
Jorge Otero-Pailos: This question goes to the heart of the way in which we behave toward objects. What do not-me creations really do? They serve us through transitions by providing experiential continuity. They must smell the same, feel the same, and look the same before and after the transition. In other words, we transition, we change, but they don't.
For example, it's important that you never wash the teddy bear, because then the child will not recognize its particular smell. The object has to provide experiential continuity. As a teenager, you might be wearing the same jacket for three, four years. As part of this process, we mistreat the object tremendously. As we insist on its endurance as a vessel for experiential continuity, we deny that object a certain kind of care, such as mending or cleaning. You're actually destroying the object and allowing it to enter into an expedited decay. Preservation is certainly not the more forgiving way that we behave toward other objects. What is left after all that punishment, all those attempts to destroy it? It's what we think of as the object itself.
There is a powerful critique of preservation to be unpacked within the notion of fetishism, because heritage should help us transition from one stage of culture into another. But when we hang on to an object beyond what should be a transitional period, then we are still stuck, and we become fetishistic toward that object.
As I'm talking to you, I'm looking out the window, and there is a student walking by with a T-shirt with the number 17 on it.
Jorge Otero-Pailos, The Ethics of Dust: Alumix. Bolzano, Italy, 2008.
Danielle Choi: Really? Amazing! . . . On this idea of transition and destruction—the 2016 issue of the conservation journal Change Over Time, devoted to landscape preservation and climate change, implicitly presents the essence of a place as defined at a single moment in time by an original author. Once this idea of experiential continuity is seriously threatened, we feel a sense of loss and begin to think of landscapes as if they were discrete objects.
One of the paradoxes of landscape preservation is that some of these materials and phenomena-—moisture, soil, microbes, vegetation, wind—are the constituent elements of dynamic forms in the landscape, but they are also forces of degradation and change.
Your ongoing installation-based project The Ethics of Dust touches upon related environmental phenomena: How do you maintain integrity over time? How far can an act of experimental preservation stray from the original artifact? How much autonomy does the not-me creation have?
Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust casts are made in the act of cleaning monuments. The dust that is sitting on the surface of monuments is transferred onto a sheet of conservation latex, which then becomes an independent object for consideration. For a lot of people, the dust is extrinsic to the architecture because it is deposited from the atmosphere. For me, the dust belongs to the building.
Dust registers the history of the building. I'm trying to call into question the notion that architecture can be distinctly separated from the atmosphere, because you cannot have all these buildings without producing pollution. The coal and petrol consumed in order to make building materials, to produce energy used to assemble these materials, and to heat buildings—all that Marx would call a "constitutive externality"—that's all up in the sky.
What we call the weather wasn't really invented until the mid-to-late 19th century. Preservationists like the chemist Robert Angus Smith, member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, discovered that the mortar of buildings was decaying too fast in Manchester. He investigated the causes, realized that there was sulfuric acid in the rainwater, and called it "acid rain." That's when we began to talk about chemical climatology. So, at the very time that people were trying to figure out weather patterns, we were also beginning to understand that the weather is human-made.
Buildings are the best sensors that we have for long-term environmental change. The Ethics of Dust is a call to the discipline to look at buildings as millennial sensors, centennial sensors. Each work is very particular; each one is a different attempt at understanding, at rendering the atmosphere intelligible in its historical depth. I want to expose the atmosphere as something sedimented over time onto buildings.
Jorge Otero-Pailos cleaning the wall of Alumix Factory, Bolzano, Italy, 2008.
Danielle Choi: Data collection as an experimental preservationist practice opens a lot of potential in landscape. The spread of the emerald ash borer throughout the American Midwest, or the fate of the American chestnut tree—these are tragedies that we think of as happening to constructed landscapes, rather than related to intertwined forces of urbanization and commerce. We need to understand and demonstrate this information in a way that is not merely reactionary, but can be generative, or even poetic.
Jorge Otero-Pailos: There was a lot of collaboration between arborists and preservationists in the 19th century. As Robert Angus Smith was looking at mortar, others were looking at the loss of vitality in plants under extremely polluted conditions. Landscape brings an understanding of life's relationship to the atmosphere that is core to our current moment of transition. We're being presented with this image that the future has leaped over the present. But we are actually engaged in a past-determined future, and we don't have the options to imagine it in a frictionless way.
Our societies still believe that all we have to do is invest more in technology.
We don't know what kind of object would help make our transition constructive and edifying, rather than eliciting a sense of loss. Today, we know a very different reality than at the beginning of industrialization, where modernity could shape the future through technological innovation. But for the most part, our societies still believe that all we have to do is invest more in technology.
Danielle Choi: There's a sense that we can turn the ship around, but we don't have to make deep structural changes to the map or the territory.
Jorge Otero-Pailos: We have to be very careful with the types of illusions and delusions that we involve ourselves in. We don't have the institutional capacity to manage the environment at the scale of what we're facing.
We're disassembling the reach of many institutions, and at the same time, talking about managing the seas, the atmosphere, all species' survival. We have managed life by reducing it to the least common denominator of survival: chicken, beef, and pork, out of all animals; lettuce, tomato, and cucumber, out of all vegetables.
The not-me creation begins with an illusion of omnipotence. When the child is hungry and gets fed, it feels omnipotent. When we pick up a salad at restaurant, we have that sense of omnipotence. We don't depend on the world; we create it with our money. Our ability to manage the world is based on an underlying sense of delusional omnipotence. The not-me creation gently frustrates that delusion.
In teenage years, you're sort of immortal, and at the same time, you're weak and can't participate in democratic life by voting. You can't legally drink, but you can get wasted and function the next day. You're helped along the way by certain objects that frustrate the illusion of omnipotence, and by your 20s, you realize that you're mortal and that there are some constraints in reality.
Preservation is a way of choosing not-me creations, putting them forth as potential objects of transition, and seeing whether they serve a purpose. It might be for a day. It might be for 50 years. It might be for 17 years.
Jorge Otero-Pailos works at the intersection of art, architecture, and preservation. He is director and professor of historic preservation at Columbia University. His work has been commissioned and exhibited by major museums, foundations, and biennials, notably, the Artangel Trust, the 53rd Venice Art Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Louis Vuitton Museum's La Galerie, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is author of Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern (2010), founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, and coeditor of Experimental Preservation (2016).
Danielle Choi is assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her current research concerns civil waterworks and the public realm and the politics of landscape preservation in living environments.


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Nokia to supply Push to Talk to Fujian MCC in China
WEBWIRE – Thursday, January 12, 2006
Espoo, Finland - Fujian Mobile Communications of China has chosen Nokia's Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC) platform to provide a new, instant communication service to enterprises in Fujian province, and plans to later expand the service to consumers.
The deal underlines Nokia's strength in the dynamic Chinese mobile market, as well as its leadership in Push to Talk technology. To date Nokia has over 45 PoC references globally.
In addition to the PoC platform, the contract includes Systems Integration (SI) services to Fujian MCC's provisioning and billing platforms. Nokia SI services integrate complex service platforms and related IT systems to work as a one seamless entity in the customer environment.
"We are pleased to continue our good cooperation with Fujian MCC and support them in getting the most out of their network resources," says James Lin, Vice President, Networks, Nokia China. "The Nokia PoC service attracts new subscribers, and can help operators increase their average revenue per user."
Nokia's PoC solution offers a direct one-to-one and one-to-many voice communication service in cellular networks. The 'always on' connection offers a direct and convenient voice connection with the press of a button. Nokia's end-to-end PoC solution will be compliant with the OMA standard. The Nokia PoC solution is compatible with the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) as standardized in 3GPP.
Nokia has been the main GSM network supplier of Fujian MCC since 1995. Over the years, Fujian MCC has been piloting many new mobile services including China's first GPRS commercial trial network and China's first mobile multimedia service trial network using Nokia mobile solutions.
About Fujian MCC
Fujian Mobile Communications Corporation Ltd. is one of the wholly owned subsidiaries of China Mobile (HK) Limited and was listed in Hong Kong and New York Stock Exchanges in 1999. The operator serves Fujian province in east China with over 7.5 million mobile subscribers.
About Nokia
Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (ASX: NWS) has released a reasonable set of results for the second quarter, particularly considering the difficult operating environment faced by many of its business units. Perhaps the market was expecting the results to be weaker as the shares have shot higher.
Having split from the film and entertainment business Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (ASX: FOX) in June 2013, the stand alone news and information company reported a 4% decline in revenues from US$2.32 billion to US$2.24 billion. The decline in revenues was blamed on lower advertising revenues but was partially offset by the consolidation of Fox Sports Australia into the accounts following the acquisition of outside interests.
The stand-out division for the group was Digital Real Estate Services which encompasses the firm's investment in REA Group Limited (ASX: REA). The division reported 18% growth in revenues in the second quarter.
At the earnings level, the Digital Real Estate and Book Publishing segments both contributed strongly to the result, offsetting declining earnings from the News and Information Services segment. Overall, adjusted earnings per share were flat at US31 cents per share compared to the previous corresponding period.
For investors in the Australian media sector - News Corp's News and Information Services segment is an important harbinger for judging how competitors APN News and Media Limited (ASX: APN) and Fairfax Media Limited (ASX: FXJ) are tracking. With News Corp reporting a 7% decline (adjusted for currency) in its Australian Newspapers revenue and describing the Australian advertising market as weak - the outlook for local peers when they report is not great.
The market certainly appeared pleased (or perhaps relieved) with News Corp's results, sending the stock up over 8% in early morning trade. The stock has now risen from lows around $14.50, when it first separated from Fox, to its current price of $18.65.
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and these from The Colloquy of Monos and Una called to me with their flower and nature imagery. Harry Clarke (1889-1931) is perhaps more widely known for his stained glass work. Whether working with glass or with paper for his book illustrations, I wonder at the sources of his creative vision. I'm not always sure why I am inspired to do something but it sure is fun to take time to explore the possibilities. And to talk with other artists about their influences.
I can't talk with Mr. Clarke but I am lucky enough to have access to a number of artists in my local community. Stay tuned for future updates about artists and their inspirations.
May be a stretch, but the third photo almost reminds me of Prince, w/doves flying!
Beautiful, would make a "great adult coloring book".
It's cool to see how aligned these are with stained glass. You can just imagine each defined space filled with a translucent piece of brilliant color.


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Antenatal care policy in high-income countries with a universal health system: A scoping review
Soares Goncalves, A., Maria Ferreira, I., Pestana-Santos, M. , McCourt, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-4765-5795 & Paula Prata, A.
(2022). Antenatal care policy in high-income countries with a universal health system: A scoping review. Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare, 32, 100717. doi: 10.1016/j.srhc.2022.100717
The availability, effectiveness, and access to antenatal care are directly linked with good maternal and neonatal outcomes, making antenatal care an important determinant in health. But to be effective, care must always be appropriate, not excessive, not insufficient. Perinatal outcomes vary within and between countries, raising questions about practices, the use of best evidence in clinical decisions and the existence of clear and updated guidance. Through a scoping review methodology, this study aimed to map the available antenatal care policies for low-risk pregnant women in high-income countries with a universal health system, financed by the government through tax payments. Following searches on the main databases and grey literature, the authors identified and analysed ten antenatal care policies using a previously piloted datachart: Australia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Some policies were over 10 years old, some recommendations did not present a rationale or context, others were outdated, or were simply different approaches in the absence of strong evidence. Whilst some recommendations were ubiquitous, others differed either in the recommendation provided, the timing, or the frequency. Similarly, we found wide variation in the methods/strategy used to support the recommendations provided. These results confirm that best evidence is not always assimilated into policies and clinical guidance. Further research crossing these differences with perinatal outcomes and evaluation of cost could be valuable to optimise guidance on antenatal care. Similarly, some aspects of care need further rigorous studies to obtain evidence of higher quality to inform recommendations.
© 2022. This article has been published by Elsevier in Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
High-income countries, Health policy, Pregnancy, Antenatal care, Scoping review
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Soares Goncalves, A.
Maria Ferreira, I.
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McCourt, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-4765-5795
Paula Prata, A.
Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare
21 February 2022 Accepted
3 March 2022 Published Online