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Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are merging
Theresa Wiegert
View larger. | Andromeda galaxy actual size? Yes. This image truly depicts what the night sky would look like if the Andromeda galaxy – the galaxy next door – were brighter. Original background shot of the moon by Stephen Rahn. Andromeda galaxy image via NASA. Composite photo by Tom Buckley-Houston. The composite showed up on Reddit a few years ago. Not convinced? Here's a similar image via APOD. As the Andromeda-Milky Way merger continues, the Andromeda galaxy will appear bigger – and bigger – in our sky.
Milky Way and Andromeda merger has begun
The Andromeda galaxy, the nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way, isn't noticeable in our night sky, unless you look for it. Under dark skies, however, you can see it without optical aid, but only as a barely visible fuzzy patch of light. But one day, far in the future, Andromeda will be bright in our sky, growing larger and larger … as it gets closer and closer to us. And even though the two galaxies are still 2.5 million light-years apart, the eventual merger of our two galaxies has, in fact, already begun.
View larger. | Here's another composite image showing the true size in our sky of the Andromeda galaxy. This one is from astrophotographers Adam Block and Tim Puckett. It was the Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 1, 2013.
The great extent of galactic halos
The Andromeda galaxy is currently racing toward our Milky Way at a speed of about 70 miles (113 km) per second. With this in mind, our merger will occur five billion years from now. But, in August 2020, the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal published new research revealing that the collision between our galaxies is already underway.
The news about the Andromeda galaxy came from Project AMIGA, which uses the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the deep-space surroundings of the Andromeda galaxy. AMIGA stands for Absorption Map of Ionized Gas in Andromeda. NASA called it:
… the most comprehensive study of a halo surrounding a galaxy.
The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way and other galaxies all sit enshrouded in a large envelope – called a galactic halo – which consists of gas, dust and stray stars. The halos of galaxies are faint, so faint, in fact, that detecting them is not an easy feat. These astronomers measured the size of the halo of the Andromeda galaxy by looking at how much it absorbed light from background quasars. They were surprised to find that the Andromeda galaxy's halo stretches much, much farther beyond its visible boundaries.
Indeed, it extends as far as half the distance to our Milky Way (1.3 million light-years) and even farther in other directions (up to 2 million light-years).
Are the halos touching yet?
So, does this mean the halos of the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are touching?
It turns out that, from our vantage point inside the Milky Way, we cannot easily measure the characteristics of our galaxy's halo. However, because the two galaxies are so similar in size and appearance, scientists assume that the halo of the Milky Way would also be similar.
In other words, it's the faint halos of the galaxies that indeed appear to have started to touch one another. Thus, in a manner of speaking, the collision between our two galaxies has already started.
Visualizing Andromeda's halo in our sky
Observing 43 background quasars, scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to map out the halo of the closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy. The light from these very distant quasars (emission from very bright galaxies fueled by a central supermassive black hole) is absorbed as it travels through the halo. By studying the change in absorption depending on where in the halo you look, scientists not only see the large extent of the halo but also what it consists of. Illustration via NASA/ ESA/ E. Wheatley (Space Telescope Science Institute).
This illustration depicts what the Andromeda galaxy's gaseous halo might look like if it were visible to humans on Earth. At 3 times the size of the Big Dipper, the halo would easily be the biggest feature in the nighttime sky, according to NASA. Recent measurements of the halo show that the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies has already begun. Image via NASA/ ESA/ J. DePasquale and E. Wheatley (STScI)/ Z. Levay.
So what will the Andromeda merger look like?
NASA released the images below in 2012. They are artist's concepts of what someone on Earth might see as the Andromeda galaxy hurtles toward us.
The depictions below are based on painstaking Hubble Space Telescope measurements of the motion of the Andromeda galaxy, with computer modeling of the inevitable collision between the two galaxies. Also, a series of studies published in 2012 showed that – rather than glancing off each other, as merging galaxies sometimes do – our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy will in fact merge to form a single big elliptical, or football-shaped, galaxy.
Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told Discover Magazine in February 2022:
Whether it's fully a head-on collision or more of a glancing blow doesn't really affect the end result.
And that is a new, giant elliptical galaxy.
View larger. | The merger between our Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda.
1st row, left: Present day.
1st row, right: In 2 billion years, the disk of the approaching Andromeda galaxy is noticeably larger.
2nd row, left: In 3.75 billion years, Andromeda fills the field of view.
2nd row, right: In 3.85 billion years, the sky is ablaze with new star formation.
3rd row, left: In 3.9 billion years, star formation continues.
3rd row, right: In 4 billion years, Andromeda is tidally stretched and the Milky Way becomes warped.
4th row, left: In 5.1 billion years, the cores of the Milky Way and Andromeda appear as a pair of bright lobes.
4th row, right: In 7 billion years, the merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy, its bright core dominating the nighttime sky.
Image via NASA/ ESA/ Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI/ T. Hallas/ A. Mellinger.
Another video of the Andromeda merger
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, however, won't be the only ones involved in this merger. As shown in the video below, the other large galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies, that is, M33, aka the Triangulum galaxy, will also play a role.
In the video below, you'll recognize the Triangulum galaxy as the smaller object near the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies. Although the Triangulum galaxy likely won't join the merger, it may, nevertheless, at some point strike our Milky Way while engaged in a great cosmic dance with the two larger galaxies.
What happens to stars and planets when galaxies merge?
Across the universe, galaxies are colliding with each other. Astronomers observe galactic collisions – or their aftermaths – with the aid of powerful telescopes. In some ways, when a galactic merger takes place, the two galaxies are like ghosts; they simply pass through each other. That's because stars inside galaxies are separated by such great distances. Thus the stars themselves typically don't collide when galaxies merge.
That said, the stars in both the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way will be affected by the merger. The Andromeda galaxy contains about a trillion stars. Meanwhile, the Milky Way has about 300 billion stars. Stars from both galaxies will be thrown into new orbits around the newly merged galactic center. For example, according to scientists involved in the 2012 studies:
It is likely the sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy …
And yet, they said,
… our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.
Will humanity see the Andromeda merger?
So, how about life on Earth? Will earthly life survive the merger? Well, the sun will eventually become a red giant in about 7.5 billion years, when it will increase in size and consume the Earth. But even before then, the luminosity, or intrinsic brightness, of the sun will increase. This will happen, ultimately, in a timeline of about four billion years.
As solar radiation reaching the Earth increases, Earth's surface temperature will increase. We may undergo a runaway greenhouse effect, similar to that going on now on the planet next door, Venus. So there's a good change that earthly life won't be around when the merger concludes.
But by that time, maybe some earthly inhabitants will have become space-faring. Perhaps we'll have left Earth, and even our solar system. We may still get the view of Andromeda crashing into the Milky Way, just from a slightly different perspective.
Read more: Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision
Bottom line: The Milky Way and Andromeda merger has already begun. The two spiral galaxies will form one giant elliptical galaxy in 5 billion years.
Source: Project AMIGA: The Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda*
Via Discover Magazine
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Theresa Wiegert is a Swedish-Canadian astronomer with a Ph.D. in astrophysics and a master's in physics. She has loved the sky and everything in it and beyond ever since she was four years old and asked her father about the very bright star she saw one early Christmas morning. Learning it wasn't a star but the planet Venus, she started reading anything astronomy-related she could find. Eventually she ended up as a radio astronomer, researching gas in spiral galaxies. She loves science outreach and teaching, especially showing the night sky to groups of kids (and adults!).


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Juan Manuel Sucre Figarella (1925-1996), was a Venezuelan army Brigadier General who served as Chief of Staff of the Venezuelan Army in the 1970s during the administration of President Rafael Caldera. He is a member of the Sucre family and a direct descendant of Vicente Vitto Luis Ramón de Sucre Pardo y García de Urbaneja, the father of the War of Independence hero Antonio José de Sucre.

Family and early life
Born in Tumeremo, Bolívar state in Venezuela in 1925 he was orphaned at a young age and left to do a lot of the upbringing of his younger siblings Leopoldo, Ines Matilde, Antonio, Jose Francisco and Guillermo. All the siblings would go on to achieve great things in their lifetimes, in the field of politics, arts and medicine.

Military career
General Sucre graduated from the Academia Militar de Venezuela and went on to complete high military degrees in different areas in Brazil's Escola Superior de Guerra and in the United States. General Sucre went on to serve as a part of the United Nations's peacemaking forces (the famous Blue Helmets) in India in the 1960s during conflicts with Pakistan.

General Sucre's military career reached a high point when President Caldera named him Jefe de la Casa Militar (Chief of the Military House) which placed General Sucre at the head of all presidential security needs and procedures. Their relationship was a very close one and they remained very close friends for the rest of their lives, bringing together both families as their wives, Alicia Pietri de Caldera and Gisela Garcia de Sucre, also became great friends. During his time as Chief, Sucre had to deal with sporadic but important guerilla movements all over the nation that threatened the stability of the emerging democratic movement.

In February 1974, the last year of Caldera's presidency, Sucre was named Chief of Staff of the Army, the highest office in the Venezuelan Army. He remained in the post till April 1975. As Carlos Andrés Pérez, a member of Caldera's COPEI's main rival, Accion Democratica, took the office of President, he replaced Sucre Figarella with Manuel Bereciartu.

Post-Military Life
After achieving the highest office in his career, General Sucre decided to retire soon after his replacement was put in place. He served as President of Seguros Horizontes, a branch of the Army in charge of providing insurance to officers and others. Later he would serve as President of the supermarket chain Cada and as Vice President of Operations and Security for Banco del Orinoco until the time of his death in 1996.

Personal life
Sucre married Gisela García Gruber, a first cousin of diplomat Juan Garcia Gruber, in the 1940s, and fathered eight children. He was a devout Catholic and a member of the Salesian Order of the Roman Catholic Church. He died due to pancreas cancer on August 26, 1996.

President Caldera would perhaps best sum up his life with his phrase uttered to Sucre Figarella in the 1970s when he said, "General Sucre, you are the General Sucre of the 20th Century", meaning that he was the natural heir to the great Venezuelan hero - and his relative - General Antonio José de Sucre

See also

List of Venezuelans

References

People from Bolívar (state)
1925 births
1996 deaths
Venezuelan soldiers

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Peter, sorry Lord Mandelson. He's a determined guy. He's putting a bill in the Lords to part-privatise the Post Office. So once again the unelected chamber is putting one over the commons with plenty of Labour's elected members hopping, including deputy leader Harriet Harman and the Health Secretary, Alan Johnso9n, former leader of the post office workers' union.
This entry was posted in Big bucks, National on February 26, 2009 by John.
Clips of Obama's first address to Congress shows him translating his abilities as an orator into his new role. Although the chips are down he exudes confidence and determination to deal with pressing issues. Education and health care get an honourable mention and this appears to go down well with those assembled.
The promise to close down the adventure in Iraq was a relief, but U.S. foreign policy continues as before in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So once again there's the promise of change belied by flashbacks to Bush and before, an imperialism which seeks to dominate and impose U.S. values across the globe.
It remains to be seen what response the U.S. will make, or indeed is making, to the emerging socialist states of Latin America. While Gitmo is closed in Cuba, presumably the U.S. will hand on to the base like glue. What will happen to the sanctions imposed on Cuba and the falsely imprisoned Cuba Five?
This entry was posted in International, MIddle East, United States on February 25, 2009 by John.
As David Miliband paraphrasing Alastair Campbell might have put it "we don't do torture". Campbell's comment "we don't do God" might have referred to himself, but turned out not to be true of TB who if he didn't certainly does now. He turned up in his Holier-than-Thou role to the prayer breakfast at the White House with Obama.
When Obama announced change we thought he meant it, but the continued denial of right to trial for terror suspects makes it harder to spot the difference in New America. Now we learn – no surprise I'm sorry to say – that British agents have been complicit in torture of British subjects in Pakistan. The murky role played relating to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is also emerging slowly through the mist with ever increasing efforts of governments, regrettably including Obama, to keep the lid on.
This entry was posted in Justice, National on February 22, 2009 by John.
The President of Guatamala was in Cuba to see aspects of the technical and scientific developments there. He spoke of the value of the co-operation between the Latin American states which were making significant progress in improving health and education.
This entry was posted in International, Latin America and Caribbean on February 19, 2009 by John.
Not a day goes by without a missing million or two. After Madoff made off more went missing in Iraq, and now it seems Afghanistan where prestidigitation seems to have made money intended for a hospital vanish into thin air. Yesterday's big story has spilled over. Not only did the money disappear but so did Sir Allen Whatshisname. Tried to use a credit card to pay for an air ticket out of the U.S. Meanwhile back at the ranch(es) – in Antigua, Venezuela and Lords Cricket Ground panic set in with punters queuing for their money.
So much money has gone offshore that the banks say we need to print more. Blimey I thought that was the problem in the first place. We all thought that it was backed up by something tangible like gold reserves, but hey it's only paper. In Zimbabwe though they can't get enough paper to print their currency as it devalues exponentially by the day. You need U.S. dollars or Rand to get by, something that most of the population can't access.
This entry was posted in Big bucks, International on February 19, 2009 by John.
Silently lurking in the depths of the Atlantic, silently they stalk. Are they looking for Osama here? Two atomic subs laden with small arms (enough nuclear arsenal for over 1,000 Hiroshimas), one French, one British, collide.
All this going on is supposed to be top secret, but when incidents like this happen then we get to know about how we are being kept safe. Safe from what. Dunno how these arms could be triggered but suppose there had been an explosion, what exactly could have been the consequences? Would Britain have been detached from its anchorage offshore Europe and transported to become another American state?
This entry was posted in International, On another planet on February 17, 2009 by John.
Come and show your support for Gaza on this amazing night! (what better way to spend your friday…) Salaams all…..Over 1000 Gazan people are dead and thousands more injured. Although there has been a ceasefire, the siege still continues. The people of Gaza are in desperate need of our support. We can't just forget about them, because the rockets are not being fired and the attacks have stopped.These people need our help more than ever to rebuild their lives. just because we don't see Gaza in the news anymore, it doesn't mean we should forget. We can't forget. Come along to our event where we will be talking about ways you can get active and stop the people of Gaza going through this again. Also, give money to those innocent children who have had not only their homes destroyed but had their lives ruined due to having their parents killed. The people of Gaza need your help now more then ever. Give aid to heal the wounds and take action to stop the wounds in the first place. Event Details Date: Friday 20th February 2009 Time: 6.30-10pm Venue: Regent Park Road Small Heath Birmingham, B10 0QP Agenda for the Night!! – Live phone link to Gaza – Auction – Bazaar – Confirmed Guests speakers and Entertainment are: Ken O'Keefe Lauren Boothe Abdullah Rolle Maryam, Spoken word artist – Full course meal!! And much more!!! BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! You can buy tickets by using the following options: a) By phone – Call the secure hotline 0870 7605594 option 6 and speak to one of our senior ticket advisors. b) By Email: email info@mpacuk.org providing us with below details: – Your name – Address – Email address – Telephone number – Number of tickets required-specifying adult or child Once you have sent your request, you will recieve an email will on how to obtain your tickets.
This entry was posted in Birmingham, UK, International, MIddle East on February 16, 2009 by John.
After Bernie Madoff made off with an extraordinary amount we now learn that cash intended for the reconstruction of Iraq has vanished into a black hole. No one knows what has happened to it. At the same time Obama is talking billions to bail out the banks with Brown in the UK making similar proposals.
There is a problem throwing money around as I found out when I was on Birmingham City Council with responsibility for transport in the city. There was quite a lot of money on offer for various schemes. The problem was the capacity to be able to deal sensibly with large amounts suddenly coming on tap. The idea that Obama had was that there would be many schemes that had been shelved in the past. They need doing yes, but first you have to make sure that there is adequate means of translating schemes into purposeful value for money projects. The fear expressed by some is that the money will be squandered.
Clearly the other problem in the free, unfettered world that is global Capitalism even with regulation supposedly in place ways and means will be found to make a quick buck or two, well running into millions and billions. The word trillion now crops up so we are talking about unimaginable amounts – squillions in fact.
What are the banks deciding to do with the money? Well one of the things a banker can't do without is a massive bonus rain or shine. Doesn't matter that huge losses have resulted from your risk taking – with other people's money – you still come up smelling of roses. As far as the public is concerned the stench is not of the rose but the rotting stench of corruption by those who have the means of control. Who in the political parties is there to challenge? Who can because all of them supported the system unconditionally and now only propose the very minimum of reform and control.
This entry was posted in Big bucks, International on February 16, 2009 by John.
This is Bolivia under Evo Morales, while peasant farmers are no better off materially they feel differently: that they are the equals of anyone in society. However the rich and former political elite don't share that view.
Fidel Castro met with the elected socialist leader of Chile, Michelle Bachelet. This is another country with a long history of exploitation and interference from imperialist powers which has turned a corner for the majority of oppressed indigenous people. Education, literacy, health care has been achieved from the nationalisation of oil and other valuable commodities hitherto syphoned off for the benefits of the international Capitalists.
This entry was posted in International, Latin America and Caribbean on February 16, 2009 by John.
Mikey died on 7th September 2003, in Handsworth, Birmingham, UK. He had been arrested outside his mother's house in the Lozells area of the city.
• Again, it is an easy scenario to 'sell' to the reading public given gun related incidents in the area in the months prior to Mikey's death. Would this ploy have been adopted if the police were called to an incident of similar nature in a more affluent area of the city?
• I'm unclear whether the police have ever confirmed whether prescribed procedure was followed by the officers who claimed to have see a 'possible' gun (for all the deadly consequences that could have implied); and I don't believe that in such situations that it is standard practise to drive a car at some one suspected of having one.
• There has always been dispute about the issue of battening and how many times Mikey was struck, but it has always been our position that use of batons was not justified as Mikey did not pose a major physical threat.
• It is our understanding that West Midlands stations are now strongly advised not to have secondary audio equipment where CCTV is in operation, but I don't believe this to be mandatory (Joyce may have a view on that)!
• Personally I feel that if the police medic felt qualified enough to ascertain that the injuries sustained by Mikey outside Aunties house did not warrant hospital treatment, how then did he fail to notice Mikey's deteriorating condition at Thornhill Road and therefore failing to get timely assistance that may have saved his life.
many thanks to all supporters!
This entry was posted in Equality, Justice, National on February 14, 2009 by John.


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Blazers make their move in the offseason
Postedby Alex Moore
Summer can be a tense time of year for Portland basketball diehards when the Blazers miss the playoffs, as the fan base is left to speculate on an uncertain future during the free agency/summer league stretch. When the team spirals down from playoff contention with a 13-game losing streak as it did to close out the season in April, the months leading up to October become even more uneasy.
Thomas Robinson was active on the boards as he made his debut with the Blazers in the Summer League. Photo © Sean Meagher/Oregonlive.com
Blazers owner Paul Allen and general manager Neil Olshey have had plenty of issues to address over the last few weeks. Portland struggled to find their rhythm last season, with periods of inspired play undone by the overall inexperience of the roster. The Blazers' bench was also among the worst in the league in 2012–13, putting even more pressure on lone All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge and Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard.
Fans have held out hope for years that the franchise will be able to land the marquee free agent that will make the difference in Portland, and it looks like they will have to wait another year after the organization was unable to lure any of the summer's biggest names. Instead, Olshey concentrated on adding some much-needed role players to the roster. The Blazers upgraded considerably in that regard, bringing in three-point threat Dorell Wright, last year's No. 5 pick Thomas Robinson, rookie lottery selection C.J. McCollum and veteran point guard Earl Watson.
But Portland's most important pickup came in the low post when the team acquired center Robin Lopez through a trade with the New Orleans Hornets. The Blazers have been in need of a strong presence in the paint for a long time now, someone who can provide consistent interior defense and control the boards. Lopez will be expected to give Portland the inside help they have lacked in recent years and should complement Aldridge nicely.
The majority of Portland's bench went on to compete in the NBA's Summer League in Las Vegas, a two-week event that gives teams the opportunity to try out different roster combinations before the season begins. The Summer League provides a venue for unsigned players to showcase their talent and allows players already under contract to build chemistry with their teammates.
Portland's lineup finished 1-5, but Blazer fans were treated to solid performances by McCollum and Robinson. Robinson demonstrated his ability on the glass, posting the league's third-best rebounding average with nearly 13 per game, while McCollum shined on offense, coming in second among all scorers with 21 points per game.
It was a summer of pleasant surprises for the Blazers, but now comes the really difficult part: Portland will have to figure out whether all these new parts add up to a playoff team.
Thorns foiled down the stretch by Chicago
Jeter shakes off the rust
Block Talk
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How America went broke
South Dakota governor signs abortion ban
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Joe Random says:
Hey guy, you got the wrong brother. Robin Lopez came to Portland from New Orleans Pelicans (formally the Hornets), and his twin brother Brook Lopez, still plays for the Brooklyn Nets. Pretty obvious you didnt look into this fact to hard.
Where in the article does it say Brook sir? Maybe you should read the article, it wouldn't be that hard.

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The Canada unemployment rate was 5.6% in 2018 and was the lowest for the nation after 1976. The leading province in Canada for net employment gains in 2018 was Ontario. The number of employed people in Ontario province increased by 78,000 plus during 2018. This was in full-time jobs.
The rate of unemployment in Ontario decreased by 0.2% points to reach 5.4%. This was the second-lowest rate among the Canadian provinces, as quoted by the CIC News.
The province in Canada that witnessed the lowest rate of unemployment in 2018 was British Columbia with 4.4%. The numbers of individuals employed in the province increased by 44,000 in 2018. Majority of them were employed in full-time jobs. The rate of growth of employment in BC with 1.8% was twice the national average said Statistics Canada.
The national average for the growth of employment was also surpassed by Saskatchewan in 2018. The numbers of individuals employed in the province increased by 11,000 with a rate of growth at 1.9%. The rate of unemployment in the province also decreased by 0.9% to reach 5.6%. This was equal to the Canada unemployment rate in 2018 with 5.6%.
At the national level, employment increased by 163,000 in 2018 with a rate of growth at 0.9%. The increase was entirely propelled by gains in full-time jobs, said Statistics Canada.
The employment gains were observed almost completely in the service sectors said Statistics Canada. The employment gains were led by the Healthcare and Social Assistance sector with 74,000. It was followed with 59,000 by the Building, Business, and Other Support Services.


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Q: C When division, MSB get set I'm working on a memory address based problem and I found this is very confusing (Below algorithm is mainly calculate the address difference between "Value" and "nv_var.EEStart"):
    ValueI = (int*)(Value);     // ValueI is int*
    EP = (int)(&nv_var.EEStart);            // EP is int
    E = (long)(EP);                         // E is long
    V = (long)(ValueI);                     // V is long
    adr = (V - E) / 2L;                     // adr is long
    printf("Current V: %.8x\n", V);
    printf("Current E: %.8x\n", E);
    printf("V-E    is: %.8x\n", (V - E));
    printf("V-E/2L is: %.8x\n", (V - E) / 2L);
    printf("address is %.8x\n", adr);

Then I got the following output:
Current V: 00439488
Current E: 004391e0
V-E    is: 000002a8
V-E/2L is: 80000154
address is 80000154
Modbuss address:-2147474308

What confused me is my V-E is actually the expected result, but when I divide this number by 2, the result should be 0x00000154, but I got 0x80000154. I'm using gcc compiler without any extra flag, and  the expected result should be 0x154.
I can improve it easily by masking off the MSB, but I just wondering why this will happen.
Thanks for all the help.

A: Your program has potential and actual undefined behavior all over the place, but the core problem is likely in part of the code you're not showing: the types of E and V. I suspect they're long. At least (V-E)/2L has type long (or wider), and when you pass that as the argument for a %x format specifier, you get undefined behavior. What's likely happening is that V-E has nonzero bits above bit 31, and your system's implementation of printf (or argument-passing ABI) masks off all the bits outside the size of unsigned int when printing/reading an argument for %x. But after dividing by 2, a nonzero bit 32 has been shifted down to bit 31 and shows in the (UB) printf output.

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Dr. John Berardi: Change Maker, Adapting Your Goals with Age & Why The Future Belongs to the Generalist
Dr. John Berardi returns to the show—we're talking about how to manage health and fitness during different stages of life, why the future belongs to the generalist (not the specialist), and tons more.
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5 Simple Characters Ruined By Awful Attempts At Backstories
TV Doctors: What Would They Have Done During This?
Daniel Dockery ·
When you've struck gold with a simple, engaging character, you start the balancing act of keeping them interesting while not changing too much of what people originally liked about them. And this rarely works out because 99 percent of all ideas are bad, and too often, those are the ideas that burst through your mental flood gates and come leaking out of you. So every once in a while, someone will invent a character that is ultra awesome, and then the creator will think, "This needs more." And ruin the whole fucking thing. For instance...
Rob Zombie Could Not Stop Giving Michael Myers A Backstory
When Rob Zombie decided to remake the slasher movie classic Halloween, he did away with the simple origin story of "Boy kills person. Boy escapes mental institution. Boy kills waaaay more people." In its place, he decided that bullying and a terrible home life were the reasons that Michael Myers should start drastically lowering the census count of Illinois. And I don't have a problem with this. Around the time this movie came out, we were up to our poorly trimmed facial hair in bad horror remakes. Compared to the remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Fog, Rob Zombie's Halloween is a boner pill of cinematic redemption.
And then Rob Zombie made a Halloween 2 (or "H2" as some of the early posters read, in an attempt to fill the acronym-shaped void in horror that only the Halloween 2 marketing department was aware of), and he gave Michael Myers even more motivation. This time, Myers was being driven to kill by his ghost mom, who had returned from the dead to tell him to go do stuff with "rivers of blood" and other things that make you want to smother the script in its sleep. But again, I don't have a huge problem with it. Halloween 2 is bizarre, daring, and stupid, and I would take bizarre, daring, and stupid over anything that the Halloween series produced in the entirety of the 90s.
"Hey guys. 1994 here. Just makin' sure that we're still good."
AND THEN, Rob Zombie made a special version of his fourth solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe 2, which you don't need to listen to the first Hellbilly Deluxe to not enjoy. And on that album, he gave us even more backstory for Michael Myers, with a song called "Michael." It's an industrial metal song tune from the point of view of Michael Myers, 'cause Rob Zombie gonna Rob Zombie, and hoo, boy, is it terrible.
I don't want to say that the universe doesn't need a song where Rob Zombie groans the internal monologue of a murderer from a horror movie that he remade, because I can't see the future. I don't know what "Michael" has to offer future generations, and if it's meant to be the point in time that humanity eventually looks back on and says "Yeah, that's where shit started to turn," I don't want to wish it away. However, if we're talking about whether the character of Michael Myers specifically needs it, I feel like I can pretty definitely say that no, Michael Myers does not benefit from "I dream pitch black. Sleep of misery."
Now, in Rob Zombie's Halloween movies, Michael Myers only says one word: "DIE!", which he yells as he's stabbing someone. That's fitting. If I were a seven-foot-tall, unkillable redneck, that's probably what I'd go with as well. But it's odd that Michael Myers' thoughts are emo band first drafts. "Pain inside my head. The hell I'm forced to live." I don't know, man. Bullets don't hurt you, your dead mom is back to hang out, and you obviously enjoy your hobbies. I'm not quite sure that I buy that you're so unhappy. Maybe instead of "DIE!" you should've gone with something like "Taking Back Sunday's early work really spoke to me."
That's a man with a lot of opinions about post-2003 Brand New.
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Boba Fett Has Apparently Read Corinthians
Boba Fett is the template for how you create a mysterious character that people can get behind. He barely says anything, you don't know about his real motivations other than the fact that he digs money and not dying, and when he gets beaten, it's due to a fluke. He had his wrist laser thing pointed at Luke, but blind ass Han Solo hit him in the backpack with a spear. If it hadn't been for that mishap, Boba would've been tossing people left and right like it was a Tatooine Royal Rumble. I wrote so much fan fiction about Boba Fett in middle school that I'm surprised that I'm still not repeating sixth grade.
My interest in Boba Fett actually led me to start buying any Star Wars novel that had his mask on it, thus leading me to buy Star Wars novels in general, thus leading me to have a very limited friend group at scout camp. And the piece de resistance of these novels was Tales of the Bounty Hunters, which had all of the bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back on the cover, including a Dengar that wishes he could be anywhere else.
"Please, stop. I do not wish to Star Wars anymore."
As it turns out, all Boba Fett needed was a few more seconds of lingering screen time in the original trilogy, because the Fett found in Tales refuses to shut the fuck up. He doesn't not shut the fuck up at Jar Jar Binks levels, but compared to his 28 words of dialogue in the movies, him abruptly asking a guy in the middle of a bounty hunt "Does your conscience ever bother you?" is jarring. Tales feels like it was written to appease the one parent in the 1983 audience of Return of the Jedi who asked "WHO'S HE?!?" when Fett came on screen.
IS THAT DARK VADEN?
It all comes to a head when we finally see what Princess Leia was doing after she got caught by Jabba the Hutt, but before she strangled Jabba to death. Turns out, she was given to Fett as a gift to have sex with, which is a nice answer to the question "What could possibly ruin the magic of Star Wars?" Boba Fett refuses to touch her, though, as he and Leia agree that rape is bad. And good for him. He may talk too much, but at least he's not the literal worst. But before that, he says "Sex between those not married is immoral." You know, just in case Sunday School teachers needed some kind of affirmation from a fictional space mercenary.
Why add that? Boba Fett nods in Return of the Jedi. That's all we get as to hints of his personality in that movie, and now, it's revealed that he can't get two sentences deep into a conversation with an enemy without outlining his Judeo-Christian values. He couldn't leave that one inside the old brain space? Why not just tell her that you shouldn't covet your neighbor's possessions while you're at it, Boba? Oh, you basically do? You dive into a screaming rant about hating Han Solo because Han Solo was a smuggler? Oh shit! That definitely sounds like the Boba Fett I know. Quiet, composed, dangerous, and deeply committed to yelling the Ten Commandments at strangers.
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No Fictional Character Has Been Ruined More Than WWE's Kane
Imagine, for a second, that it's 1997. You're watching the Undertaker -- an undead wizard whose special power is flipping someone upside down and then tripping -- fight Shawn Michaels, whose special power around that time period is cocaine. For months, though, you've been warned about the incoming danger of the Undertaker's long-lost brother, Kane, who was supposedly killed in a fire. And, then, suddenly, Kane shows up, dressed in red pajamas with biceps that are larger than most 1997 computer monitors. Kane flips Undertaker upside down and trips, and boom. You've never been more excited about anything in your life.
In pro wrestling, doing someone's finishing move on them is equivalent to murdering a loved one.
And now, for a second, imagine that it's 2017, and you've watched Kane go through a love triangle,
...go through a story where he was accused of sexually assaulting a corpse,
...has his mask removed to prove that he's not really scarred,
...go through a wedding/pregnancy storyline where it's hinted that he sexually assaulted a real person,
...has to face an imposter Kane,
...has to go through anger management,
...and finally starts walking around in business attire and being the henchman of seemingly anyone who asks.
I get it. Characters grow and change. Most of pro wrestling's most famous performers evolved in questionable, baffling strokes. But Kane hasn't so much evolved as he's simply been plugged into things that would be better suited for other wrestlers. He's a giant that can shoot fire out of the ring posts. There's a ton of stuff that you can do with that. Any storyline that needs some monster character for an underdog to overcome would benefit from having Kane there. But there are a bunch of other steroid acrobats that would do much better in roles that have them being sad because someone that used to kiss them is now kissing someone else.
Keeping up the mystique of a character over 20 years is nearly impossible, so you need to make some adjustments. It's just hard to hear "OH MY GOD, IT'S THE BIG RED MACHINE KANE. WHAT HELL WILL HE DELIVER? HOW CAN ANYONE STOP HIM?" without thinking "Well, you could just break up with him. That seems to do the trick."
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Badass Pokemon Mewtwo Had His Motivation Killed Off
A lot of Pokemon have the backstory of "It's a Pokemon. There. Now catch all of them." But not Mewtwo. Mewtwo was invented by scientists in a lab. And when they were raising him, they mistreated him, because a grand theme of Pokemon is "Science is bad, unless you're doing it." Mewtwo would eventually escape and in the games, he sits by himself in the depths of a dungeon, waiting for somebody to try and fuck with him. And in the anime, he rebels against humans and tries to destroy the world until Pikachu and Ash convince him that that wouldn't be so great.
It's a simple story: Man-made monster learns that annihilating man won't solve anything. It's also a story that's so vague that one could easily pad it out with useless stuff. "What's that you say?" the Anime Genre asked. "Pad it out with useless stuff? GLAD TO."
"Have it involve a friendship with a child? WELL, IF YOU SAY SO."
And so the origin story was expanded to give Mewtwo some childhood friends, including a human clone that he communicated telepathically with. See, the human clone was made from the deceased daughter of the lead scientist on the Mewtwo project, which is a special, vicious kind of unnecessary.
Mewtwo is enraged at humans because he doesn't understand them. All they've given him is pain, and now they're all like "Please, don't burn us alive." Bullshit. Enjoy your inescapable inferno. But giving him a kid pal that teaches him about the value of happiness kind of undermines the whole thing. His whole "Humans are a race that should be eradicated" argument falls flat when his imprinting was done with the kindest human ever. My dog is going to hate vacuum cleaners until I can go back in time to his birth and say "Elmer, meet your new brother, Loud Hell Machine From The Closet."
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And in a while, we can introduce you to your other brother, Dog That Looks A Lot Like A Pigeon
And then Mewtwo gets his memory halfway erased, but the audience doesn't, which removes all of the stakes from the story. You're supposed to worry about whether or not Mewtwo will change. Now, you realize that all it will take is a couple of conversations about friendship and he'll be back on Team Don't Kill Us again.
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Just Leave The Joker Alone, Guys
I read the novel adaptation for The Dark Knight movie, and they include an expansion of the scene where the Joker is standing on the street, waiting to be picked up for his big bank heist. He sees a lady and imagines pushing her in front of a car, but then... he gives her a hundred-dollar bill. So crazy, am I right? What will he do next? Think about something else and then not do it? That would be chaos!
What kooky things will this jokester not do next?
But that's been part of the problem with the Joker since the 70s. The day that writers learned that they could just throw character attributes and history at the Joker with no worries because they could say that it was a whacky Joker lie later was the day that the Joker became the comic medium's most misused character. The Batman movies don't usually fall prey to this, because they have a mission to put a bow on the story. Heath Ledger tells stories about his scars, but they're not there to give us things to disprove later. They add to his character as a lunatic that likes to watch people squirm in his presence. Even if Ledger had survived, we'd never be subjected to a scene in The Dark Knight Rises where Batman says "Nope, that never happened. Read your files, and you know what? You're a big ol' liar. That's what you are."
But comics and video games can't stop adding more and more to the dude's backstory. In Batman: Arkham Origins, you're tricked into thinking that Joker won't even be in the game before, surprise, he's the main villain! And he's secretly been the main villain the whole time! All of these other villains don't even matter anymore, because now we get to sit through another Joker origin retelling. It was so great to play the inventive, unique Arkham Asylum and Arkham City games, so that I could eventually play through a story that's been tired since it was inflicted upon Jack Nicholson.
Thought you were going to get a new look at the Batman mythos? Tricked you again!
I don't believe that the Joker is better when he's origin-less. The Dark Knight was one interpretation of the character. But when I read something like Batman: Endgame, where it's hinted that the Joker has existed for hundreds and hundreds of years, and that he's suddenly not the reaction to Batman's war on crime, or that there's multiple Jokers roaming the earth, it becomes tiresome. In The Killing Joke comic, the Joker says that he prefers his backstory to be "multiple choice," but it's gone from a fun mystery to a nightmare's idea of a fan theory.
Most Batman characters have gone through numerous origins. Batman's first origin tale basically told us that he cried, looked at a test tube, worked on his back muscles and then started fighting crime.
The bat thing was just as important as the test-tube thing.
But since a guy once wrote the Joker as having a few different possibilities for his origin, we now can't stop going back to it. And there are so many better stories to tell than once again covering how Clownman got his clown powers. For example, how has he affected the sales of purple suits in Gotham? There's gotta be some kind of economic backlash. C'mon, comics people. Give the readers what they want.
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It's Spring Break! You know what that means! Hot coeds getting loose on the beaches of Cancun and becoming imperiled in all classic beach slasher ways: Man-eating shark, school of piranhas, James Franco with dreadlocks. There are so many films about vacations gone wrong, it's a chore to wonder if there's even such a thing as a movie vacation gone right. Amity Island and Camp Crystal Lake are out. So what does that leave? The ship from Wall-E? Hawaii with the Brady Bunch? A road trip with famous curmudgeon Chevy Chase? On this month's live podcast Jack O'Brien and the Cracked staff are joined by some special guest comedians to figure out what would be the best vacation to take in a fictional universe.
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Kate Middleton Shares New Photos of Prince George to Celebrate His 7th Birthday
He looks just like Prince William in one of the photos. ❤
Kensington Palace has shared two new images of Prince George for the young royal's seventh birthday.
Prince George appears in the new set of photos dressed in casual attire. In one snap, the young prince wears a camouflage print t-shirt while in the other he dons a more preppy olive colored polo shirt.
Prince George is growing up!
Kensington Palace released two new photos of the prince to the public today in honor of the young royal's seventh birthday. In the new images, Prince George is shown donning more casual attire, wearing a camouflage t-shirt in one photo and a more preppy olive-hued polo in the other as he smiles for the camera. The portraits were taken earlier this month by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.
The public has seen a bit less of the eldest Cambridge child in recent months as he abided by stay-at-home orders with his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and two younger siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince George. Kate Middleton however, has provided insight into how life at home has been since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how George and his siblings are adapting to more time under the same roof.
In addition to adjusting to lockdown, Prince George and his sister Princess Charlotte have made a few surprise appearances alongside their parents for volunteer work in recent weeks. Most recently, both George and Charlotte came along with Prince William and Duchess Catherine to help deliver food to isolated individuals near their Norfolk, Sandringham home.
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A Celtic Halloween
When you say folk music in America, the first thing that comes to most people's mind is Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and music that's a mixture of politics and sweet ballads. Folk music in Britain? Try some of the dark stuff. You want to know how to cheat the Fairy Queen? Kill a monster or two? Go crazy? Be killed by a werefox? Try old British folk songs.
Back in 1969, a British group called Fairport Convention issued their fourth album, called "Liege and Lief". It's been credited as the beginning of the "British folk rock" movement, and in 2006 it was voted "Most Influential Folk Album of All Time". I love this album, because it's chock full of traditional British and Celtic folk material, done with an edge and a steel guitar. And the amazing vocals of Sandy Denny. Let's just say it makes for a good, alternative Halloween sound track.
My personal favorite on Liege & Lief is Reynardine. Listen to it here:
"Your beauty so enticed me
I could not pass it by
So it's with my gun I'll guard you
All on the mountains high."
"And if by chance you should look for me
Perhaps you'll not me find
For I'll be in my castle
Inquire for Reynardine."
Sun and dark, she followed him
His teeth did brightly shine
And he led her above mountains
Did that sly old Reynardine
And, to prove that fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you, try this (fairly obscure) movie by Neil Jordan, "In the Company of Wolves", starring Angela Lansbury as Granny, who tells her granddaughter Rosaleen stories about werewolves, wolves, innocent girls, dangerous strangers, and full moons... (See the trailer below:)
Back to Fairport Convention and the eerie "Crazy Man Michael":
Pair that with Francis Ford Coppola's "Dementia 13", set in an Irish castle, and you'll probably check under the bed at night. And lock all the doors. Maybe burn a little sage...
Of course, sometimes they aren't crazy. In "Grabbers", directed by Jon Wright, a small rural Irish village is taken over by monstrous sea creatures who love the typical Irish day: constant rain and drizzle. The creatures are killing off as many people as they possibly can, as gruesomely as possible. But they have one weakness – alcohol. If you're drunk, they can't kill you. So, the whole village takes to steady drinking... Laughs, gore, and terror, what more can you ask for?
BTW, all the photos above are from "Scarfolk, England's creepiest fake town,". A big shout out to AtlasObscura.com for a great article. Check out, also:
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Finally, two things: first of all from Pink Floyd, a wonderful song that is, perhaps, the Addams Family lullaby, "Careful with that Axe, Eugene":
And for a last video, check out Michael Mann's 1983 movie, "The Keep". It is World War II in German-occupied Romania. Nazi soldiers have been sent to garrison a mysterious fortress, but a nightmarish discovery is soon made. The Keep was not built to keep anything out. The massive structure was, in fact built to keep something in...
Labels: Celts, conventions, Eve Fisher, folklore, Halloween, horror, monsters, werewolves
The St. Patrick's Day Crime Blotter, and a Whole Lot of Blarney***
by Paul D. Marks
In honor of my post falling on St. Patrick's Day and in keeping with the crime nature of this blog, I thought I should pay homage to the day with the St. Patrick's Day Crime Blotter.
Everybody knows the famous—infamous—St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. So one might think St. Patrick got short shrift. I mean in a world where "my massacre is bigger than your massacre" is important stuff, one might think St. Paddy and St. Val would come to blows over who has the better holiday and, of course, who has a more impressive spot on the crime blotter.
After all, See's Candy makes marshmallow-shaped hearts for Valentine's Day, but what do they do for St. Patrick's Day? A handful of chocolates in green boxes and green tinfoil and chocolate "potatoes". Major slight. Which reminds me of the line from the Ernst Lubitsch classic To Be or Not to Be, where Colonel Ehrhardt (Sig Ruman) says, "They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck, and the Fuhrer is going to end up as a piece of cheese!"
Well, the chocolate potato is like the cheese, especially compared to marshmallow hearts. Where the herring fits in I'm not quite sure.
So, let's take a little quiz:
Alex, I'll take St. Paddy's Day deaths for $100, please.
Who was the first St. Patrick's Day death?
Uh, that's a tough one, let me think. St. Patrick.
Right you are. That's why the holiday is observed on the date of his death, March 17th.
Now, let's see. It seems St. Val's Day is in the lead what with the Massacre named after him, and seven murders from shotgun, pistol and Tommy gun blasts, the latter most likely emerging from Stradivarius violin cases.
So, it looks like St. Val is ahead in the Crime Blotter Race. But the fact is that St. Pat's day can compete with St. Valentine's Day. First, a couple minor examples:
On March 17, 1921, mafia hood Albert Anastasia was convicted of murdering George Turino, a longshoreman. They'd quarreled. And I guess you don't quarrel with one of the founding members of Murder, Inc. Due to a legal technicality, Anastasia was given a retrial in 1922, and because four of the original prosecution witnesses had somehow magically disappeared, Anastasia's sentence was overturned. The question is, were they given anesthesia by Anastasia before their disappearing acts? Like I said, I guess it doesn't pay to quarrel with one of the founders of Murder, Inc.
March 17, 1996, the play Getting Away with Murder, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth opened. March 31, 1996: the Broadway production of the play closes after seventeen performances— one day for each day of March leading up to St. Pat's day. Maybe not a record, but not bad. Even Sondheim couldn't get away with this one.
And there's a couple more pretty gruesome events that occurred on March 17th in history that my wife asked me to excise in the name of good taste, but if you look up Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. The Night Stalker, Rachel Manger Hudson and Uganda on this date you'll get an idea.
The St. Patrick's Day Massacre
Now here's the Kicker—St. Pat does have a massacre named in his honor. Bet you didn't know that, did'ja?
St. Patrick: "I'll see your St. Valentine's Day Massacre and raise you one St. Pat's Day Massacre."
St. Valentine: "Ha."
But let's see.
March 16, 1926: Chicago gangster Jean Arnaud is having a St. Patrick's Day party at his sister-in-law's apartment. (Even though it's the day before, it counts for St. Pat's Day since it is in honor of that holiday and is, indeed, known as the St. Patrick's Day Massacre.) Rival hood Alphonse "Scarface" Lambert wants to off Arnaud and his peeps. The party starts around 4:30pm and Scarface has several teams of gunmen hit the party by 5pm. Besides the in-house teams, sniper teams are on the buildings across the street. Scarface really wants this dude dead and gone. The whole attack takes less than ten minutes. There are no survivors, and the death count is never officially known, as some of the people who attended the party are never found.
A cop on the scene describes it as a "human slaughterhouse." And you thought your last party bombed.
All of the shooters, Scarface, and everyone involved in the crime escaped. No prosecutions follow.
And even with all that blood and gore, Scarface didn't get what he wanted as one of Arnaud's lieutenant's took up the reigns of Arnaud's crime family and then finked Scarface out to the cops. Equilibrium was restored and all was right with the world of crime again.
But for some reason St. Patrick's Day gets the short shrift on this Massacre, which occurred before the more famous St. Val's. So you see, it's sort of like Betamax vs. VHS, and maybe the "best" massacre is forgotten. But, as we now know, St. Val ain't got nothin' on St. Pat in the Crime Blotter Department.
***Disclaimer: No already-dead people were hurt in the making of this article. Nor is its intention to cast aspersions on them or make light of their fate, or on the fate of the guilty, or innocent. Nor to cast aspersions on Thompson submachine guns, Betamax players, St. Patrick or his day, St. Val or his day, Irish people, Irish men, Irish women, Irish girls, Irish boys, Ireland, Jill Ireland, Kathy Ireland, John Ireland, Irish holidays, James Joyce, Ulysses, William Butler Yeats, J.M. Synge, Bono, Enya, Celtic Women (in general and the singing group), Danny Boy, my friend Denise, leprechauns, the blarney stone, blarney, the color green in all its variations, the Emerald Isle, Alphonse "Scarface" Lambert, Jean Arnaud, Stephen Sondheim, George Furth, Murder, Inc., the years 1921, 1926, 1929, 1996 (or any other years), chocolate potatoes, Alex Trebek, Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, the Daily Double, Ernst Lubitsch, Sig Ruman, Col. Ehrhardt, Bismark, Napoleon, herrings, cheese, the massacree at Alice's Restaurant, massacres in specific and massacres in general, and the specific massacres mentioned in this piece, but not limited only to those mentioned by name, Jack Webb or R.A. Cinader. No names have been changed to protect the guilty or innocent. Jack Webb had nothing to do with the writing of this article.
And yes, murder is bad, I get that. This article is satire—Gallows Humor—as such it closes Saturday night. But, we also know, Saturday's alright for fighting.
Just one more thing, is it too late to buy stock in Murder, Inc.?
Oh, and Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. Please pass the green beer.
And from the Department of BSP: I'm happy and honored to announce that my story, "Howling at the Moon," came in at #7 in the Ellery Queen Readers Award Poll. And that fellow Sleuthsayer David Dean has three—Three!—stories in the top ten. Way to go, David.
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Labels: Celts, Chicago, gangsters, Jack Webb, massacres, scarface, St. Patrick, tommy guns, Valentine's Day, women
A Quarrelsome Lot...
As I said before, we're in process of moving, and I am currently off-line until the 1st. So I thought share with you some notes from a cruise my husband and I took in 2005. It was called "Voyage of the Vikings" and we took it specifically because it took us to Norway via Greenland and Iceland. How else, we figured, would we get there? And let me tell you, both were spectacular. So much so that I was disappointed in Norway.
Nuuk, Greenland
Nobody warned us about Greenland – how beautiful, how spectacular it was. Stark mountains, with no trees, little runnels of snow in the crevices. We went ashore and walked through the town and up a mountain – the rock was bare, grey, rough, lichen-patched, and in between the rocks was moss, so thick it sprang underfoot. The view was breathtaking – one of the few times I wished I had a camera (in fact I bought one when I got back on ship), especially one mountain that was twin-peaked, and rippling between the peaks was a great curtain of granite. I could swear I've seen it before, and probably have, in a photo or another lifetime. I wish I could have done more hiking – the rock was so firm and rough underfoot, easy to cling to, and then the lichen… But we only had until noon to explore.
Nuuk, with Whale
A very nice Danish man took us, for free, on a tour of the town. Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, about 14,000 population, mostly in cinderblock apartments, many of which have a view of the sea. It would be a hard place to live in, but also a hard place to leave, too, if you were from there. So much space, so much hiking and fishing and hunting, all in amazing privacy and, undoubtedly, intimacy, at the top of the world.
Prince Christian Sound, Greenland
And then there was Prince Christian Sound, a fjord along the southwestern coast of Greenland – miles and miles of sharp-tipped mountains, tipped with arrows and points and flames of rock, hundreds of feet high, thin waterfalls falling down from crumbling blue glaciers. Ice-bergs, white, carved in curves, with neon blue cracks, floated in the water. The whole thing took about 4-6 hours to go through. At one point there was a fishing village, of maybe 20 houses, tucked into one of the mini-fjords rivuleting off the main fjord. So isolated: to live there would be like living on another planet.
Gullfoss, Iceland
Iceland was amazing, too, and I really hope to go back there some day. We went on the "Golden Circle" tour, which was all day. Saw the geysers – Geiser itself, which rarely spouts after an earthquake in the 90's, and its sister, which spouts every few minutes. Geiser is THE geyser, from which we get the name. Then to Gullfoss, the Golden Falls – a spectacular glacier-melt waterfall that sent up tremendous veils and clouds of mist, thick as smoke, that fed a huge carpet of thick wet green moss. And there's a permanent rainbow – sometimes two – arcing over that green moss, shimmering in the spray. Iceland's a fairly dry country (especially when compared to Ireland), and you could tell how dry it is by how rich the moss, grass, ferns, and flowers were along the run and spray of Gullfoss, compared to the brown dry hillocks all around – old lava flows, cooled and crumbling to earth under the deceptive cover of moss and lichen.
Thingfeller (but it really doesn't do it justice)
We also went to Thingvellir National Park; and that landscape was all sweeping mountains, much like western Montana or Wyoming, only drier, barer, darker, sterner. Snow patches in the heights and, in the distance, a great glacier that stretched for miles between two mountain peaks. At first you thought it was clouds, but no cloud stays so white, so flat, so still, so perfectly held between two peaks. And Thingvellir itself – well, it's pretty obvious why the old Icelanders met there to do their lawgiving. Great black basalt blocks stacked into pillars, in a long curved natural amphitheater (following one of the major geologic fault lines of the earth, between the European and American plates). And from Thingvellir you look up at these pillars, and then out, away, at a blue, blue, blue lake, and the long sweep from valley to the tall dark mountains on all sides. It would take a lot of something – honor, pride, hubris, holiness, justice, certainty – to speak out from there, but if you could summon your voice, I think you'd be listened to.
The old Icelanders were a quarrelsome lot – most humans are – full of blood feuds and exiles and sudden death. So, in truth, was old Ireland, but it gets less play. For one thing, the Icelanders wrote theirs down in the sagas, like Burnt Njal, which had their fanciful aspects, but were mostly fairly accurate accounts of who, what, where, how, and why. Njal was a farmer who, with his wife, really was burnt to death, and his farmstead (not the house, of course) still exists. The entire tale has no superheroes, and only a little sorcery, and even less deus ex machina. (It's very good - but get the modern translation, which captures the dry wit. "Is he home?" "I don't know, but his axe certainly is," he replied, falling down dead.)
What's interesting is that the Irish have a lot of the same blood as the Icelanders, but in Ireland, the old stories have been transmogrified into myth to a point where it's almost impossible to disentangle truth from hero-worship. Cuchulain – who undoubtedly lived as a strong, young warrior of great renown in his own day – was turned into a demi-god of war in epic poems like the Cattle Raid of Cooley, and then transformed even further into Sir Gawain in the original Arthurian Tales, and transformed again, until today old Ireland is thought of as a gentle land of bards and poets, saints and maidens, as opposed to old Iceland, that grim and warring place.
Yet the grimness and fierceness of old Ireland can be seen in the tales of the early Christian Irish monks, with their tremendous asceticism, standing in icy water up to their armpits as they recited the whole Psalter, the war St. Columba started (over a book of the Gospels!) in which hundreds were killed, in the self-imposed exiles to forbidding rocks like Skellig Michael, in St. Bridget, "who never washed her face or her hands."
The Celt is the Celt is the Celt. But it's all in the telling. Isn't it always?
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by David Dean
Before we begin I have a very important announcement: We here at SleuthSayers love our readers, so we are going to offer a special treat. We authors are going to give away copies of our books (or similar goodies), one a month, starting now, and continuing until we run out of gifts or readers. This month's prize will be a paperback edition of my book, "The Thirteenth Child", signed by yours truly. All you have to do is email us at Velma(at)secretary(dot)net by midnight, November 3. The winner will be selected at random. Please put the word "Contest" in the subject line. Best of luck...and now back to our regularly scheduled blog.
Halloween has always been one of my favorite days on the calendar. It falls during one of the most beautiful times of the year, involves costumes, the chance of being frightened (and hopefully nothing more), running around at night, and at the end, actual rewards--candy! What's not to like? Of course, some of those enticements are more meaningful when you're a kid, but I guess the spooky charm of it all has never lost its appeal to me--or my wife, for that matter.
When I was a boy growing up in Georgia, I thought it was the next best thing to Christmas. During that long-ago time and in that far-away place, we kids were allowed to pretty much roam at will for blocks in every direction during the daylight hours. It was generally understood that grown-ups would keep an eye on you wherever you went, and certainly report to your parents any code-of-conduct violations they observed. At least this was what we believed and trusted in at the time. But even with this almost unfettered freedom, we seldom ventured beyond our own neighborhood. I think we had a "Beyond this be dragons," philosophy as children. Halloween night, however, all this changed, if only for a few brief hours.
Donning masks, that today would be laughably simple and unfrightening, we gathered into packs with our friends, snatched paper grocery sacks, or old pillow cases, from our moms' hands, and tore off into the darkness--even if it fell on a school night! Besides being a genuinely scary sensation, this roaming through the night, it was also a race with consequences. Every other kid in the known world was trying to get the last of the candy at the next house along your way! An intolerable possibility! When we would begin our scavenging, porch lights winked like a vast constellation across the city, but within a scant few hours, those same lights began to vanish, one by one, returning the world to its previous drab and unmagical state--they had run out of candy. Intolerable, indeed.
This inevitable consequence would force us to race from house-to-house, and eventually to leave our neighborhood for parts unknown. There was no need to discuss our direction of travel, as only one direction made true sense--east. To go west was to cross Hamilton Road and venture into a vast shanty town of mill-workers and their very tough kids. As these same kids were running roughshod over our own neighborhood, their sheer numbers and determination an unstoppable force, Gothic in both number and consequence--we flew east ahead of them. A neighborhood called "Winchester" was our bountiful target. I think they viewed us kids from "Lester's Meadows" in the same fearful light we did the trolls from "Bealwood"--Beal as in Beelzebub. But no matter, we were swift and artful, and returned to our homes laden with booty!
Dumping all the goodies onto the floor we would sort through the takings, setting aside treats that did not suit our particular palate. Then, using these as barter, we would engage in furious trading sessions--you would have thought we were young Wall Street brokers--hard-nosed and keenly avaricious. It was a great night!
This was all vastly different from the true origins of All Hallows, or its earlier incarnation of Samhain. Samhain was an observance by the ancient Celts of Gaul and Britain commemorating the loss of the sun with the coming winter and celebrating its eventual return in the spring. Perhaps because of that descending darkness, this was also the night that the dead returned to walk among the living. Encounters with the dead were not generally considered a good thing, as it could signify that your own time amongst the living was at an end. As if this was not a frightening enough situation, the Celtic priests (Druids as they were called), made this a night of human sacrifice, piling prisoners-of war, criminals, and other undesirables, into a wicker framework designed to resemble a giant man, and setting them ablaze. By the light of this titanic, and gruesome, torch, everyone feasted and danced the night away. I often suspected the kids from Bealwood had similar plans for me and my friends. Even Julius Caesar, not known as a squeamish man, was affronted by this practice, which apparently he witnessed during his invasion of Britain in 54 BC. In a righteous fury he had thousands put to the sword--much better; more civilized certainly. When one pines for "the good old days" one should be specific...and careful.
With the coming of Christianity, and the adoption of the cross by various Irish, Scottish, and British (not to be confused with English) kings, things began to change--but not quickly. Old habits die hard as they say, and the Celtic belief that Halloween was a night when the spirits of the dead walked amongst the living, just would not die a natural death. Not wishing to alienate these new Christians, the Holy Roman Church did something smart--they just co-opted the occasion. Making the day after Samhain a church feast (Holy Day) to celebrate the unknown saints--All Saints (as opposed to a specific saint), the evening prior became All Hallows Eve, or in the vernacular of the day, Hallow e'en.
"It Is Dawn; We Go"
It only took a millennium or so, for the terror of Samhain to be tamed into the costumed trick-or-treating we know today. Treats were often left to propitiate wandering spirits, as well as ancient gods and monsters, and certainly my friends and I were often labeled little monsters even when out of costume. Failure to play by the appropriate rules would lead to tricks being practiced on the un-believers. A just arrangement, in my opinion. Costumes of demons and ghosts incorporated some of the darker elements of the earlier pagan practice; being also useful in avoiding identification as regards the aforementioned tricks, and therefore practical, as well.
So, from dark and bloody beginnings, children now cavort through the evening in the service of their sweet-tooth, their costumes giving them a sense of anonymity, and therefore, freedom, even as their parents trail mere paces behind ( a concession to a different, and once again, darker time). The night is filled with laughter, and not screams, or at least not ones as fearful as Caesar must have heard issuing from within the wicker man. The dark side is held at bay, even on the eve of its commemoration, and I, for one, am not sorry. Happy Halloween!
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Labels: American Culture, Celts, Childhood, Druids, Halloween, Traditions
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Patrick Sanders Aug 10, 2018
Answering fintech's multiple-choice question: Build, buy or partner?
If your head is spinning from the rapid growth of fintech and how it's overhauling the financial services industry from the inside out, you're not alone. But in case you think it's time to take a breather, guess again: The changes are just getting started.
Fintech investment in the financial services industry is projected to reach $100 billion by 2021, if not sooner, as financial institutions sprint full-speed to incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotic process automation into their businesses. It's mostly meant to offer customers a smooth digital experience; perfect secure, speedy payment systems; crunch data; offer personalized self-service banking options—and hopefully figure out what to do with blockchain besides talk about it.
But while everyone from boardrooms to the front line tries to figure out the best way to incorporate fintech, financial institutions also have another decision. They must determine whether it makes more sense to build out their own systems, buy a service, or partner with a company already developing the hottest emerging technology. Hence the industry buzzphrase du jour: "Buy, build or partner?"
To learn more about what smart banks need to know—and how to act on it—we spoke with three speakers to be featured at BAI Beacon, taking place Oct. 9-11 in Orlando, Florida: John Epperson, Purva Sule and Sahil Arora. At the conference, Epperson will speak on the topic: "Who Will Regulate Fintech?" and Sule and Arora will take part in the discussion: "Build, Buy or Partner … What's Best When it Comes to Fintech."
The three-headed question everyone asks
So who's interested in build, buy or partner? "Just about every one of my financial institution clients, and those range from global financial institutions all the way down to community-sized banking organizations," says Epperson, a principal at Crowe LLP in Chicago. "All are asking, 'How do I take advantage of the transformation and the technology that's accelerating in the financial services area?'"
Indeed, a very good question. Once you've identified a need and have settled on a fintech solution, then there are plenty of variables to weigh before an institution picks one of those three paths. But as you might've guessed, there is no cookie-cutter solution (not one that you could build, buy or partner anyway).
"We assess build, buy and partner on parameters such as total cost of ownership, time to execute and quality of customer experience," says Sule, director and senior relationship manager at BMO Financial Group.
And while the biggest names in the sector are more prone to build or buy their own fintech solutions—simply because they have more capital and cash flow for research and development—many financial institutions of all sizes either consider one-on-one partnerships or participate in a consortium of organizations to offer fintech solutions for their customers.
"Partnerships can result in a 'better together' solution for both the fintech and the financial institution," Sule says. "The fintech brings cutting-edge customer experience, speed to market and an agile approach to keep up with changing customer needs. The bank brings the brand, customer base, balance sheet and regulatory framework."
But choosing the right partner can be tricky.
"There are a lot of tenants to successful partnerships, but among the handful that we see as critical, or mission critical even in a partnership, is an alignment of culture," Epperson says. So even if the fintech has an impressive track record, banks must ask whether friction will result when forces team.
"We know that in this partnership there's a wide spectrum of risk," Epperson points out. "On one side of that spectrum we have bankers who are typically wary of risk. And on the other side you have fintech companies that are very accustomed to taking risk. I think there's a requirement for the movement of both sides."
If the fintech and financial institution have common values and would make similar decisions in unknown situations, a partnership has a greater chance of success, Epperson says. Once you've entered into that arrangement, both sides must understand what constitutes success, and what acceptable failure and risk look like.
Milestones, standards and better beta
"It's important to begin discussing with your financial institution clients what specific milestones they hope to achieve during that beta or POC period," says Arora, senior ventures associate of fintech and insurtech for Plug and Play, a New York-based innovation platform. "That's probably where the most focused eye is in tracking progress during that testing period—and really before the testing period begins. It's important to spend some time talking about what it means to be successful."
Keeping the institution's standards are important, even in a beta testing environment, Sule says.
"The performance of these partnerships is evaluated exactly the same as with other investments: hard metrics on cost, growth, revenues, customer experience or other outcomes the team was supposed to achieve," she says. "There is no free pass for innovation or partnerships: Without accountability for results, it will be hard for the partnership's strategy to earn credibility within the organization."
Whether you build, buy or partner, a successful project will be greatly appreciated by customers. But if the project doesn't work, Epperson says it's important to know when to pull the plug.
"With an investment in a fintech or a technology, a lot of times we'll see that we're spinning our wheels for the better part of several years and haven't achieved our objectives—yet we have such a big investment that we continue to pour our money and dollars into that," Epperson says. "So beyond defined outcomes and what you want to accomplish, there's thinking about when and how you're going to exit."
He adds: "There will be failures with all of the things that are new and as much as defining the success factors and outcomes are important, so is defining what an exit strategy is and where we're going to move on to something new and different."
Of course, "something different" can come at the start, too, when the build, buy or partner question heralds a bank's new, unprecedented high-tech journey. Remember as you go that success may not lie in a singular answer, and could hinge not so much on the choice you make as the way you execute it. Build, buy or partner? That hinges on yet one more introductory question: Are you really, truly ready?
Based in Maryland, Patrick Sanders is an assistant managing editor for U.S. News & World Report and formerly worked as an editor for The Associated Press and at newspapers in West Virginia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
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Before Content Marketing World closed with an appearance by actor Mark Hamill, best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars series, the sessions at the conference delved into a number of content marketing topics, ranging from the use of humor to Snapchat and from video to SEO. In the end, however, most sessions were devoted to answering one of two questions:
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The "Why" Drives the "What" of Your Content
Michael Jr. delivered one of the funniest keynote speeches you're ever going to hear. It helps that he's a comedian. In one sequence of jokes, he described his daughter's hamster being snatched by a bird of prey. I'll paraphrase the series of punch lines Michael Jr. delivered after that setup: Yeah, your hamster is going hang gliding... The bird will drop him off when he's done at the pet store... Your hamster might look a little different. Despite the jokes, Michael Jr.'s keynote was also full of serious wisdom for marketers. Michael Jr. encouraged marketers to embrace purpose-driven marketing, and he made the case that the "why" will determine the "what" of your content. He illustrated his point with a YouTube video of one of his performances, where he was interacting with his audience. In the video, Michael Jr. was talking back and forth with a fan named E. Daryl Duff, who happened to be a music instructor at a military school. He asked Duff to sing, and the musc instructor delivered a lesson: an excellent, if reserved, version of "Amazing Grace." Then Michael Jr. asked Duff to sing the song as if he had lived a hard life. In this version of the song, Duff delivered a fiery performance that clearly wowed the audience members around him, one of whom jumped out his seat to hug the singer. With the "why" provided by Michael Jr., Duff knew "what" to perform — and he genuinely impacted the audience on an emotional level. Michael Jr. said that what's all content should strive to do: move the audience to action.
How Improv Classes Can Aid Your Content Marketing
Michael Jr. wasn't the only comic in the house at Content Marketging World. The master of B2B marketing comedy, Tim Washer, is on a mission to kill the traditional corporate talking head video. In his session "How to Use Improv Techniques to Improve Your Storytelling," Washer shares his experiences on bringing a much needed comic relief to the stuffy world of B2B marketing. Washer was tasked with interviewing CIOs and he decided to do something that would truly stand out. He wanted to take his interviewees out of the boardroom setting and into a fresh and fun space. The result is "Fast Innovation, Slow Waiter", a remarkable video where he flawlessly blends humor with corporate storytelling. His best advice? Go find an improv theater in your city and take a class or hire someone for help. And if you're planning to make comedic video, Washer also recommends finding a good comedy editor, because the video cuts are all about timing.
Good Marketers Do the Unthinkable
As marketers, we live in a world where everyone else is telling us how to do our jobs. We refer to these as best practices. However, Jay Acunzo, Vice President of NextView Ventures, said that great marketers do the unthinkable. "Good marketers follow best practices. Great marketers craft their own," he said. We must stop looking for those best practices and start doing the unthinkable.
We can start by asking ourselves: Are we making stories people can't resist or just making stories we want people to share? Are we actually actively marketing what we firmly believe or are we constantly reacting to the trend? Do we know what our customers really need, or do we just assume it? "When you make the leap, you stop playing in the market and start shaping it," Acunzo said. The bottom line: You can't build something big by doing it the same way as everyone else.
Promoting Content with Native Ads
Marketers are finding it increasingly challenging to attract readers to the content they create. "If you build it, they won't come," said Jesper Laursen, who is CEO of the Native Advertising Institute and was a member of a panel discussing native advertising at Content Marketing World. The panel explored how native advertising is fast becoming a popular means of promoting content. While there are several native advertising formats, the panel focused its discussion on in-feed native advertising, such as the kind featured on Buzzfeed, LinkedIn, and mobile news sites. Often used to promote content, such as white papers and webinars, native ads go hand-in-hand with content, the panelists agreed. "Content is in the DNA of native advertising," said panelist Andrew Goldman, who is Global Partner Lead, Agency Holding Companies, at LinkedIn. He added that marketers are using native advertising to promote content beyond the organic reach they get on social platforms. With native, marketers can place their content in the feed to reach a larger but extremely targeted audience. The next wave of native advertising is programmatic native, which enables marketers to create modular native ads — which are then broken down to their components of headline, visual, copy, logo, virtually reassembled at hyperspeed, and then placed in feeds across the Internet. Panelist Mortiz Loew, Senior Vice President of Sales, TripleLift, said, "Native is simple, it's easy, it's safe. No one died from native advertising."
The Power of Tenacity
One of the first things Mark Hamill did on stage was acknowledge that maybe it was odd that he was a featured speaker at Content Marketing World. He noted that Michael Brenner, CEO of the Marketing Insider Group, had said as much in a blog post titled, "WTF Does Mark Hamill Know About Content Marketing?" This blog post was actually quite positive about Hamill and his relationship to content marketing, because Brenner connected the archetypical hero's journey that Luke Skywalker experiences in "Star Wars" to the stories marketers should be telling about their customers and prospects. On top of that, while on the Content Marketing World stage, Hamill proved to have at least two pieces of useful advice for marketers. First, he counseled keeping at it. "Sometimes I think tenacity is more important or at least as important as talent," he said. Second, he extolled the value of noting the work of exceptional content marketers and seeing how it can be melded into your own content. "I'm not advocating going out and stealing other people's ideas," he said. "When we do that in show business, it's called an homage.
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Our first year of "dual students" at the University of Applied Science (HAW) in Hamburg started on 1 September 2018. Tobias Schmegel, formerly an IT trainee in application development, is beginning his studies of Applied IT in pre-course math. The practice stages will be overseen by Dr. Lahde. Maren Heitmann, technical product designer, and Alexander Sänger, industrial mechanic, are starting their studies of mechanical engineering with the focus on development and design. Due to construction work on campus, lectures in mechanical engineering will begin at the end of September. Until then our students will go through the practical phase related to their studies, organized by their mentor Mr. Klee, in Product Technologies and the test laboratory. We wish them all a good start at university and lots of success in their studies!


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December 16, 2016 —
The Faculty of Education hosted high-school Indigenous post-secondary club members in December creating an awareness and excitement about opportunities in advanced education.
For years, the faculty hosted students, engaging in culturally relevant teaching activities, meeting academic advisors as well as the dean of the faculty.
Indigenous post-secondary clubs currently operate in the three collegiate high schools, including Fort Richmond, Maples and St. James. Meeting about once a month during the school year, club activities consist of team-building exercises, guest speakers, cultural teachings, and field trips that include two to three days on campus.
At each school, a guidance counsellor or teacher co-ordinates the club with staff from the Aboriginal Student Recruitment Office at the University of Manitoba.
Since September 2014, the Faculty of Education has provided teacher candidates with placements in schools with an Indigenous post-secondary club, where they assist teachers and staff with club activities.
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Now that he has been named Canada Research Chair in queer, community, and diversity education, Robert Mizzi, associate professor at U of M's Faculty of Education, aims to confront issues like these and make positive cultural changes in organizations nationwide.
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