Light and Dark at the Salamanca cathedral. Photo by me.
Hello everyone! I'm now back in London after 3 weeks in sunny Spain. It was great being back with the team at Opera Valladolid who always take such good care of us, and also to be working with a really wonderful group of colleagues.
This year's opera was Gounod's Faust. It was actually my second time singing this piece, having toured with it years ago with Swansea City Opera, but singing the smaller role of Wagner. This brings us to Valladolid's offer of the role of Valentin and what it meant for me to sing it. It was one of those contracts that for several reasons went a little bit beyond 'learning a role and performing it', and I thought these were worth sharing.
A bit of context is needed. Or rather... several bits of context.
Off I went my merry way and about 8 years later the G's came and with them came a few tours of Barbiere. Valentin, however, during my Guildhall years, was always pointed to me in the following terms 'It's for the others. You'll mostly do comic roles because *insert impersonation of Avant de quitter ces lieux with a really over-darkened voice* and you're not that type of singer'. A comparison with colleagues from the same year would then be used in a way that sometimes felt demeaning and really didn't make me feel inspired or confident in what I could do.
I've always been against dismissing someone in a certain role because of one's personal preferences with regards to colour of voice. My motto has been: 'If I've got the notes and can make myself heard without hurting myself, then I can sing it. The rest is a matter of wether or not it will be to other people's taste and that's not something I can control'.
That said, the second piece of context that I wanted to give you brings us to dealing with all that emotional luggage as you're about to perform one of those roles that you've always been told you can't do. Before even accepting the role, I did my homework and tried it out a couple of times to make sure I could sing it, so when we went into rehearsals, I knew that although I'd have to pace myself during the process, I could really sing it and make some music with it, not just get the notes out.
However, during production, you always go through ups and downs: some days you just don't wake up very fit and you have a bad day and that's usually alright. However, the experience of having a bad day when you're preparing something with the previous context of 'You'll never be able to sing this' that I've given you, can be something terrifying. Suddenly, that cacophony kicks in uninvited and you're left to deal with that unwanted mental load.
Now, bear in mind that I'm writing this from the comfort of my living room, with 4 performances of the opera behind me that went really really well, so of course that the first thing I will say to you is that: 'Don't be silly, stick to the fact that you've sang that role well countless times before in lessons and other rehearsal sessions and just shut out *The Noise*'. Of course the experience of The Noise when you're opening in a matter of weeks is something completely different and requires a different approach. For me, that approach involves staying active both physically and mentally (go for a run or the gym, and grab yourself a good book), be open with the colleagues you're closest to about the things you're going through, don't hide and try to play invincible when you're at you're vulnerable. The most likely outcome is that you'll actually make the other person feel at ease to share their own concerns as well and you end helping yourself while helping someone else. And how great is that?
Lastly, remember: it's your profession. It's not who you are. It's always worth it asking ourselves the question 'Who am I?' from time to time. If you experience silence immediately after, that's all the proof you need that you're not entirely defined by your profession. Yes, it's an aspect of who we are, but it's not its entirety so find out all the little things that put you in touch with who you really are and that don't involve your profession.
I cannot begin to tell you the good that this exercise of creating separation between who I am on stage and who I am off stage did to me. Suddenly perspective kicks in, the part of your Ego that wants to prove wrong everyone who told you couldn't do it switches off and you feel much more relaxed. The way you approach the momentous task which is going on stage completely changes. I went on stage for the first show trusting again all the work that I had done and knowing that my discipline but above all my perseverance would serve me well.
At the end of the day, it was that same preserverance that had brought me there and the merit of that alone can't be taken away by any kind of 'Noise'.


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'I didn't see anything alarming,' engineer who visited Surfside condo last year recounts
A lot has been made of a 2018 engineering report revealed "major structural damage" in parts of Surfside condo that collapsed one week ago. Industry insider caution why no-one should be jumping to conclusions.
By: WPTV Staff
SURFSIDE, Fla. — While the focus in Surfside, Florida, remains on rescue and recovery, the press for answers into how and why the Champlain Towers South tower collapsed last Thursday is a top priority for local, state and federal experts and investigators. All will play a role in a forensic investigation into the cause of the deadly collapse.
Typical probes also involve reconstructing the building somewhere else to help determine the cause. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava also reiterated her support for a grand jury probe into the tragedy.
Questions linger about whether the disaster resulted from overdue repairs and red flags that engineers may have ignored.
Rescue personnel work at the remains of the Champlain Towers South condo June 25, 2021, in Surfside, Fla.
In newly released documents by the town of Surfside, permits reveal the tower's 13th-floor penthouse addition resulted in a town order to immediately cease construction of it in 1980 because the town attorney, at the time, determined the additional floor violated the town's code. A few days later, the council granted an exception for the additional floor to be constructed in the tower and in one of its sister towers nearby.
But most questions about the building's structural soundness have focused, thus far, on a 2018 inspection report conducted by Morabito Consulting. The condominium's homeowners association hired the firm as part of the building's mandated 40-year certification.
Morabito engineers found "major structural damage" due to drainage issues in the garage and under the pool deck. "Abundant cracking" was also noted in the report. However, nowhere in the report did the findings suggest emergency repairs.
An earlier report of the Champlain Towers South condo uncovered cracking and spalling of concrete columns, beams and walls.
Jason Borden, a structural engineer for O&S Associates, did a walk-through of the building as recently as January 2020. He also didn't notice anything out of the ordinary for the size and age of the 136-unit tower.
"I'm 100% shocked," Borden said. "I think I may be more shocked than most people. I spent about an hour on-site and walked through with the property manager and a resident who pointed out some issues they knew about in the building that they felt needed to be addressed."
Borden explained those issues included stucco deterioration, concrete cracking on balconies and in the parking garage. He did not look at the pool.
"I didn't see anything alarming or that made me feel unsafe in the building or have to do what we've done in the past at other locations," Borden said. "If we see something, we will direct the owner to immediately place shoring or immediately brace the situation to have it resolved and made safe. I didn't see anything that necessitated that action. The fact that this came down in the manner that it did completely blows me away."
This story was originally published by Katie LaGrone on Scripps station WPTV in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Celebrating Women in Science
Posted on February 9, 2018 February 9, 2018 by Sara Klink
By US Environmental Protection Agency [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder that there is still a gender gap in science. Despite the obstacles that women need to overcome, their contributions to field of science have benefited not only their fellow researchers but also their fellow humans. From treatments for diseases to new discoveries that opened up entire fields, women have advanced knowledge across the spectrum of science. Below is a sampling of the achievements of just a few women. What other living female scientist or inventor might you add?
Hate malaria? You can thank Tu Youyou for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, compounds that are used to treat the tropical disease and save numerous lives. Her discovery was so significant, she received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
In 2012, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were two of the authors on a publication that proposed that a system involved in bacterial immunity, CRISPR-Cas9, could be programmed for use in gene editing. This revolutionary discovery has made both women leaders in exploring CRISPR as a tool for genome editing.
Do the number of cells in the adult mammalian brain change over time? Elizabeth Gould has shown that the brain is plastic, both sprouting new neurons as well as changing the shape and size of neural cells, depending on the stimulus. Determining what factors influence these changes can help mitigate brain cell loss and cognitive decline.
Cataracts that cloud the lens of the eye rob people of their sight. Thanks to Patricia Bath who invented a laser-based device, the Laserphaco Probe, cataract treatment became more precise and less painful than previous methods. In fact, her invention was able to restore sight to people who had been blind for decades.
What is the universe made of? Katherine Freese has been working on dark matter and dark energy for most of her career in theoretical astrophysics. Her proposals have resulted in experiments to detect dark matter using the University of Wisconsin–Madison IceCube Neutrino Observatory, and her work on the inflationary theory of the universe has been confirmed by satellite observation.
How can DNA be used for more than just genetic information? Yamuna Krishnan is pushing the boundaries of what DNA can do by creating self-assembling DNA nanodevices that can work inside living cells for use in imaging studies to answer questions about biological systems.
Understanding the inner workings of cellular machinery can take decades. Ada Yonath investigated the function and structure of ribosomes, which are responsible for protein synthesis, producing a high-resolution crystal structure of both ribosomal subunits. She not only introduced a new technique called cryo bio-crystallography during the course of her studies, she was also a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on ribosomes.
Careers, General astrophysicist, chemist, crispr, crystallographer, inventor, medicine, neurobiologist, physicist, women in science
Evaluating the Costs of Endotoxin Testing
Mass Spec Analysis of PTMs Using Minimal Sample Material


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The Overstory: A Novel
April 3, 2018 / 512 pages / Fiction
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A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity's self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There's something you need to hear."
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More than just an ode to trees, this novel traces the heights and depths of humanity against the backdrop of an American landscape, stretching its wonder across the better part of a century to craft a timeless account of the world around us and within us. Powers is poetic from the first paragraph to the last, all while keeping the spotlight on his characters and their struggles. With each flip of the page, it feels like the next might contain an answer to the puzzle of the universe.
Grade: A+ / bennett_the_ceo / Apr 24, 2020
This is honestly a breathtaking book. It is long & complicated yet readable & beautiful. Certain segments worked really well for me, and other parts didn't land as well. I also didn't love the pacing or the ending. However the writing style is gorgeous, the characters interesting, and the plot more emotionally affecting than it had any right to be. I loved the scientific facts and the many forest settings. The overall message is so important & the author succeeds in making you feel that urgency.
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A fascinating read about the relationships between people and trees. Makes you reconsider the rights of trees.
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This series of posts, written over three months, aim to capture the step by step procedure of our journey to obtaining the Canadian Permanent Residence (PR) through Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) category. I try to cover as-much-details-as-possible-yet-being-precise, in the hope that someone somewhere might find it informative, just the way we benefited from reading a lot of forums, blogs etc, back during our application time and also as a log book for future reference. We will cover the process in three parts - first part will cover the process summary till Invitation to Apply (ITA), second part covers the process of subsequent submission of Application of Permanent Residence, the third part will cover the phase between submission of PR application till getting the PR card and the final part will cover a brief summary of the expenses incurred at all the phases.
First and foremost, the category of our application - Federal Skilled Worker (Express Entry).
Create a log in under CIC and assess the score and eligibility under the Comprehensive Ranking System. A few of the criteria include age (of the primary applicant), educational level (of both primary applicant and spouse), experience level as well as proving language proficiency (English and/or French).
Once the eligibility is ascertained, the previous draws of application give an idea of the points statistics in the past rounds, to understand the chances. To fetch the maximum points, we had to provide all credentials and supporting documents for all three of us.
As part of the language proficiency test, we both appeared for IELTS. The results are valid for two years. (The IELTS results must be valid while receiving the ITA). The results were available in three weeks time. It is important to retain the hardcopy of the results mailed from IELTS, as the number mentioned in this document is needed while filling the application at CIC.
copies of the degree certificates, for the highest education level.
cover letter explaining the documents.
Again, the reference numbers in the WES report (which cites the Canadian equivalent of the highest degree that we have claimed) are required while filling the application page at CIC.
We opted normal post for the results to be sent back to us. This is okay as WES also sends the soft copy of the report via email much ahead. The whole process of us sending the transcripts to getting the ECA report took around two months.
With the IELTS results and the WES results at hand, we created our profile and officially joined the Express Entry pool.
At our time of application, the CRS ranking from the past round of draws were all above 450 and the recent draws were in and around 480-490. We got our Invitation to Apply (ITA) for Permanent Residence in Jan'17. Once we got ITA, we had 90 (update: as of Oct'18 it is 60) days to apply for the Permanent Residence with lot of documents and a pretty long set of checklist, which is personalized by CIC, for each application. Part-2 will cover this checklist and the process of submitting the application for PR.


GERMANTOWN, Md., Oct. 11, 2018 — Orgenesis Inc. (NASDAQ: ORGS), a manufacturer, service provider and developer of advanced cell therapies, today announced that Professor Sarah Ferber, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Orgenesis, will provide they keynote address at the International Conference on Diabetes and Endocrinology on October 15-16, 2018 at the Radisson Narita in Tokyo, Japan.
They keynote address is entitled, "Transdifferentiation and autologous cell replacement therapy for diabetic patients," and will be presented on Monday, October 15, 2018.
About The International Conference on Diabetes and Endocrinology The International Conference on Diabetes and Endocrinology focuses on the latest innovations in all areas of diabetes and endocrinology research, offering a unique opportunity for investigators across the globe to meet, network, and perceive new scientific innovations. The theme of this year's conference is "Endeavoring health care on Diabetes and Endocrinology" which reflects the emerging progress being made in Diabetes research as discoveries in the lab are translated into treatments in an increasingly targeted and precise manner.
About Orgenesis Orgenesis is a vertically-integrated biopharmaceutical company with expertise and unique experience in cell therapy development and support services. Through its Israeli subsidiary, Orgenesis Ltd., Orgenesis is developing technology designed to successfully reprogram human liver cells into glucose-responsive, fully functional, Insulin Producing Cells (IPCs). Orgenesis believes that converting the diabetic patient's own tissue into insulin-producing cells has the potential to overcome the significant issues of donor shortage, cost and exposure to chronic immunosuppressive therapy associated with islet cell transplantation. Through its Masthercell Global subsidiary, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), Orgenesis is able to deliver optimized process industrialization capacities to cell therapy organizations and speed up the arrival of their therapies onto the market. From technology selection to business modeling, GMP manufacturing, process development, and quality management, Masthercell's teams are fully committed to helping their clients fulfill their objective of providing sustainable and affordable therapies to their patients. Masthercell operates in a validated and flexible facility located in the strategic center of Europe within the Walloon healthcare cluster, Biowin. This integrated approach supports the Company's business philosophy of bringing to market significant life-improving medical treatments. For more information, visit www.orgenesis.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve substantial uncertainties and risks and are based upon our current expectations, estimates and projections and reflect our beliefs and assumptions based upon information available to us at the date of this release. We caution readers that forward-looking statements are predictions based on our current expectations about future events. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the success of our reorganized CDMO operations, the success of our partnership with Great Point, our ability to achieve and maintain overall profitability, the sufficiency of working capital to realize our business plans, the development of our transdifferentiation technology as therapeutic treatment for diabetes which could, if successful, be a cure for Type 1 Diabetes; our technology not functioning as expected; our ability to retain key employees; our ability to satisfy the rigorous regulatory requirements for new procedures; our competitors developing better or cheaper alternatives to our products and the risks and uncertainties discussed under the heading "RISK FACTORS" in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2017, and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement for any reason.


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Evangelist Beaten Up For Asking About ''''Hotel Kufuor'''' 1/17/2007
Violence Rocks Peoples Assembly
Evangelist Oppong Daniel, was given a bitter dose of the NPP violence, when he was set upon and badly beaten by some NPP goons for daring to make submissions at the Sunyani Peoples Assembly considered as provocative.
Evangelist Oppong Daniel, was followed by his assailants when he left the hall soon after making his submission.
Speaking to the Lens, the Evangelist said the attack took place in a house not far from the venue, where he had retired after leaving the Peoples Assembly. Unknown to him, the NPP goons had trailed him all the way from the hall.
The assailants including three policemen pounced on the defenseless evangelist and beat him up severely for daring, in their view, to embarrass the president by his submission.
Evangelist Oppong had drawn the attention of the president to some of the cases that clearly border on corruption- particularly, he made references to the Hotel Kufuor case and to Richard Anane's transfer of hundreds of millions to his American girlfriend.
Evangelist Oppong ended his submission by reminding the President that God's curse or blessing of the government will depend on whether he and his officials stay away from corruption.
Earlier on, a worse form was of violence was averted by the swift intervention of security forces present, when NPP supporters went wild following a submission by one Dr Asem Foforo.
Dr Asem Foforo entreated the President to call off the legal harassment of the former first lady. Dr Asem Foforo, who is a known NDC radio caller, in his submission referred to the taped conversations of former NPP Chairman Haruna Esseku that revealed that the president was receiving billions of kickbacks at the castle. He also asked the President to swear that he has never misapplied any state monies since he became president.
But for the swift intervention of some professional policemen present, Dr Asem Foforo would have virtually been lynched by the irate NPP mob. He was whisked to safety by the Police and kept at the police station for sometime. He was left to go after a few hours and advised to sneak out of town to avoid falling into the hands of the NPP supporters.


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New York's Invisible Climate Migrants
Global warming is causing mass migrations around the world. In New York, it's forcing people from their homes in quieter ways.
By Sophie Kasakove
Tom Steyer's $100 Million Vanity Project
If he really cares about reforming American democracy, he shouldn't blow his money on a doomed presidential bid.
The Meat Mogul's Case For Lab-Grown Beef
"If we can make the meat without the animal, why wouldn't we do that?"
By Amanda Little
The Supreme Court's Covert Plan to Gut the EPA's Powers
The conservative justices signaled they want to limit agencies' ability to regulate. That could have disastrous consequences for the planet.
By Ian Millhiser
We Gotta Pay More Attention to This Boring Guy
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is not nearly as fun to read about as Scott Pruitt was. But he's proving far more effective at screwing the planet.
You Will Have to Make Sacrifices to Save the Planet
We can save millions of lives from climate change, but only if we change our own. Democrats should start acknowledging that.
The Green New Deal Can't Be Anything Like the New Deal
Climate change demands a much more ambitious plan than the Great Depression did. It even requires reversing some of FDR's successes.
By Samuel Miller McDonald
The Enduring Horror of Chernobyl
The new HBO series raises the specter of an uninhabitable continent.
By Rachel Riederer
Climate Deniers Are the Hysterical Alarmists
They, not climate scientists or activists, are stoking fear with exaggerated rhetoric and outright lies.
Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right
By Kim Phillips-Fein
The Planet Is Not on "Fucking Fire"
We don't need to exaggerate the climate crisis. The reality is terrifying enough.
Corporate America Is Terrified of the Green New Deal
There's a reason more big businesses are pushing for a carbon tax—and it's not because they want to fight climate change.
The Audacity of Grief
On the mournful threads connecting Joe Biden's half-century in politics
By George Blaustein
Beto O'Rourke Won't Demonize the Fossil Fuel Industry
The Democratic candidate unveiled an aggressive plan to fight climate change, but how does it stack up against the Green New Deal?
Breaking Up Amazon Won't Solve Its Climate Problem
The tech giant changed how Americans buy stuff. It will have to do so again—whether it wants to or not.
What Green Parties Everywhere Can Learn From a Rare Victory in Canada
In conservative Prince Edward Island, governed by establishment parties for over a hundred years, the Green Party has suddenly become a major player. What changed?
By Rob Csernyik
States Are Using Taxpayer Money to Greenwash Dirty Nuclear Power
New Jersey is the latest state to subsidize aging reactors with credits designated for clean energy.
By Gregg Levine
How Instagram Ruined the Great Outdoors
Social media influencers have helped turn public lands into tourist-infested swamps. And one cantankerous man is fighting back.
By Christopher Ketcham
The Seductive Stupidity of Andrew Wheeler
The EPA chief's latest argument against fighting climate change is astonishingly foolish—but it's exactly what most of us want to hear.
Why Animal Rights Is the Next Frontier for the Left
As the left hardens its commitment to fighting climate change, social injustice, and rampant capitalism, the question of what to do about animals will become inescapable.


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"Black Lightning" Makes Its Series Premiere Tuesday, January 16 on The CW
The series premiere date for "Life Sentence," and the season premiere dates of "The 100," "The Originals" and "iZombie" will be announced later.
[via press release from The CW]
The CW Also Unveils Dates of New Episodes for Each Series Following the Holiday Break
November 16, 2017 (Burbank, CA) - The CW Network's electrifying new superhero BLACK LIGHTNING will make his debut on Tuesday, January 16 (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT), following a new episode of THE FLASH (8:00-9:00pm ET/PT).
As BLACK LIGHTNING begins, Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community. Nine years ago, Pierce was a hero of a different sort. Gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, he used those powers to keep his hometown streets safe as the masked vigilante Black Lightning. However, after too many nights with his life on the line, and seeing the effects of the damage and loss that his alter ego was inflicting on his family, he left his Super Hero days behind and settled into being a principal and a dad. Choosing to help his city without using his superpowers, he watched his daughters Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Anne McClain) grow into strong young women, even though his marriage to their mother, Lynn (Christine Adams), suffered. Almost a decade later, Pierce's crime-fighting days are long behind him... or so he thought. But with crime and corruption spreading like wildfire, and those he cares about in the crosshairs of the menacing local gang The One Hundred, Black Lightning returns - to save not only his family, but also the soul of his community.
Based on the characters from DC, BLACK LIGHTNING is from Berlanti Productions and Akil Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("Arrow," "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," "The Flash," "Supergirl"), Salim Akil & Mara Brock Akil ("Being Mary Jane," "The Game," "Girlfriends") and Sarah Schechter ("Arrow," "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," "The Flash," "Supergirl"). The Black Lightning character was created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden.
As The CW's current series return from the holiday hiatus, VALOR is back with original episodes on Monday, January 1 (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT). CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND returns with new episodes on Friday, January 5 (8:00-9:00pm ET/PT). SUPERGIRL is brand new starting Monday, January 15. RIVERDALE and DYNASTY are back with original episodes Wednesday, January 17. SUPERNATURAL and ARROW will make their January premieres Thursday, January 18. JANE THE VIRGIN comes back with new episodes Friday, January 26 (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT).
DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW will return with new episodes on a new night and time in February.
In season finale news, VALOR wraps its first season on Monday, January 29 (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT). The third season of CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND concludes on Friday, February 16 (8:00-9:00pm ET/PT).
The series premiere date for LIFE SENTENCE, and the season premiere dates of THE 100, THE ORIGINALS and IZOMBIE will be announced later.
Following is The CW's midseason schedule of premieres and return dates. All times ET/PT:
MONDAY, JANUARY 1
8:00-9:00 PM SUPERGIRL (Encore)
9:00-10:00 PM VALOR (New Episode)
8:00-9:00 PM CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM PENN & TELLER: FOOL US (Encore)
MONDAY, JANUARY 15
8:00-9:00 PM SUPERGIRL (New Episode)
8:00-9:00 PM THE FLASH (New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM BLACK LIGHTNING (Series Premiere)
8:00-9:00 PM RIVERDALE (New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM DYNASTY (New Episode)
8:00-9:00 PM SUPERNATURAL (New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ARROW (New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM JANE THE VIRGIN (New Episode)
[november 2017]
· 100, THE (CW)
· ARROW (CW)
· BLACK LIGHTNING (CW)
· CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (CW)
· DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW (CW)
· DYNASTY (CW)
· FLASH, THE (CW)
· IZOMBIE (CW)
· JANE THE VIRGIN (CW)
· LIFE SENTENCE (CW)
· ORIGINALS, THE (CW)
· PENN & TELLER: FOOL US (CW)
· RIVERDALE (CW)
· SUPERGIRL (CW)
· SUPERNATURAL (CW)
· VALOR (CW)


What exactly are "Menehune" & what does Aulani mean? In this episode, we get an "on the ground" review of Disney's Aulani Resort from friend Dave Tupper! Sit back and enjoy this Hawaiian tour from a local resident. Thanks for listening!
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A new asymptotic method is derived for the study of the evolution of weak shocks in several dimension. The method is based on the Generalized Wavefront Expansion derived in . In that paper the propagation of a shock into a known background was studied under the assumption that shock is weak, i.e. Mach Number =1+O(ε), ε ≪ 1, and that the perturbation of the field varies over a length scale O(ε). To the lowest order, the shock surface evolves along the rays associated with the unperturbed state.
An infinite system of compatibility relations was derived for the jump in the field and its normal derivatives along the shock, but no valid criterion was found for a truncation of the system.
Here we show that the infinite hierarchy is equivalent to a single equation that describes the evolution of the shock along the rays. We show that this method gives equivalent results to those obtained by Weakly Nonlinear Geometrical Optics .


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Alzheimer Awareness Month targets stigma around disease
January is Alzheimer Awareness Month, and this year the aim is to change attitudes toward the disease, and to end stigma.
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Lisa Glanville, left, is the daughter of and caregiver for her mother Ollie, who has dementia.	Arlen Redekop / PNG
One of the biggest stigmas around dementia is that you're going to develop the disease if you grow old, according to seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie.
For January's Alzheimer Awareness Month, Mackenzie said the biggest stereotype she wants to break down is the belief that the majority of British Columbians 85 and older have dementia. They don't.
"If you look at age 85 and over, 20 per cent do have a diagnosis of dementia — but four out of five don't," Mackenzie said Monday.
When it comes to nursing homes, most people might think that every resident has dementia or Alzheimer's. In fact, about 35 per cent don't and two-thirds have only mild cognitive impairment, she said.
Mackenzie said dementia is a spectrum. Someone who is diagnosed with dementia may be fully competent in some areas but not in others. In some cases, a person may never go on to develop full dementia.
"It's a journey," she said.
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In B.C. in 2018 about 70,000 people were living with dementia. By 2033, that's expected to increase to almost 120,000.
Experts don't believe the rate of dementia is changing. Instead, the numbers are increasing because there are more older people living longer than ever before.
The aim of this year's Alzheimer Awareness Month is to eliminate the stigma around the disease by changing attitudes. Events culminate on Jan. 31 with a two-hour open house starting at 3 p.m. at the Alzheimer Society of B.C.'s Resource Centre, 301 — 828 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver.
Lisa Glanville and her mother Ollie enjoy a walk in the Vancouver sunshine. Arlen Redekop / PNG
One family dealing with the affects of dementia is that of Lisa Glanville and her mother Ollie, 82.
Glanville said her mother worked for years as the property manager of Vancouver apartment buildings she owned after her husband died. She also worked as a bartender at the Billy Bishop Legion in Kitsilano.
Glanville said she's seen stigma directed against her mother when she went to an estate planner and explored options for nursing homes. She was told that it didn't matter because her mother's dementia meant she wouldn't remember anything.
Glanville said the most challenging times for her was before her mother was officially diagnosed. When she found out that her grandfather died of Alzheimer's, she wondered if her mother had it. Initially, her mother passed tests measuring her cognitive abilities.
But Glanville noticed that things were starting to go awry. One day, she discovered that her mother's online accounts were locked because someone had unsuccessfully tried to access them.
On another occasion, her mother showed her a cup with five of her molars in it. She'd never told her daughter she had any problem with her teeth.
"I thought: 'Whoa, what is going on here?'" Glanville said.
The clincher was a visit to the dentist.
"The receptionist said to me after my mom went in. 'Can I give you some advice?'. I said 'sure.' 'Have you got enduring power of attorney yet for her Alzheimer's?'"
Since Glanville is an only child, her mother's well being become her responsibility. As part of her efforts to seek help, she started attending monthly Alzheimer caregivers support group meetings at the Alzheimer Society of B.C.
"The validation is incredible," she said.
Morgan Donahue, support and education coordinator at the Alzheimer Society of B.C.'s Vancouver Resource Centre, said she believes that there is a lot of shame associated with a diagnosis of dementia.
She said the stigma can even discourage people from getting a diagnosis or even telling people they have been diagnosed.
In a survey by the Alzheimer Society in 2018, one in five Canadians said they would feel ashamed or embarrassed if they had dementia; one in five admitted to using derogatory or stigmatizing language about dementia.
"I've heard so many family members say they wish their family member had cancer because there is so much more of an understanding and acceptance of cancer than this disease," Donahue said.
An early diagnosis can mean the person is displaying few, if any, symptoms at first.
"This disease is often so invisible, as with other mental health challenges."
kevingriffin@postmedia.com
Alzheimer's Awareness Month is aiming to address stigma around Alzheimer's and dementia. Arlen Redekop / PNG
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TGIF for real. This week has been rough and I feel like I've barely gotten anything done at work or at home. Actually I've gotten nothing done at home other than finish the first season of Grace and Frankie on Netflix and start season 2.
1 – If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen that Barley is spending a minimum of 10 days in a cone and a diaper.
She had a minor surgery on Tuesday and now we're in recovery mode. We were supposed to bring her home on Tuesday evening but when they tried to get her out of the crate at the vet she busted her incision and had to stay the night. She's starting to adapt to the cone but still bumps it or gets stuck sometimes. We're dog sitting this weekend so that should be interesting. I'm hoping she'll be out of this in 10 days but our vet stressed that 10 is the absolute minimum so it could be longer. We'll find out next Friday at her 10 day check up.
2 – I recently starting listening to my iPod again which hasn't been updated since 2009 or something ridiculous like that and have rediscovered my love of Dashboard Confessional. I've been listening basically nonstop in my car and on Spotify at work. Kyle never got into them much which makes me question our entire relationship.
3 – It's supposed to snow this weekend which would be fine except for the fact that we're supposed to go see Old Dominion tomorrow night which I've been looking forward to. If it does snow, the city will likely pretty much shut down (welcome to the south, y'all) which will mean the snow has ruined plans for 2 years in a row. Last year I was supposed to spend a weekend in Charlotte to see Wicked with my best friend but we ended up snowed in so I took my anger out on the parquet floors in our foyer. I doubt we'll be equally productive this weekend.
4 – Why are things so expensive? I'm kind of in love with this mirror from west elm but I have a hard time paying over $400 for a mirror even though this one is huge and probably worth the price. It would look great over the cabinet we picked out for the foyer though.
5- I recently bought one of these glass infuser bottles and I'm kind of obsessed with it. Right now I'm drinking cucumber lemon water but I think I'm also going to try strawberry water. Ohhh maybe strawberry basil. If you like flavored water, I definitely recommend it. I used to drink a lot of water but have gotten really slack the last few months. I think this water bottle will help (when I remember to take it to work).
Hope everyone has a great weekend! If we are snowing in, I might try to get started on one of our projects but it's also possible that I'll just read or watch Netflix all weekend. Kyle has been sick this week and I feel like I might just need another weekend of doing nothing so we'll see.


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How to Watch the 2019 Home Run Derby
By Philip Michaels 2019-07-08T19:21:37Z
Here's how to live stream baseball's top sluggers as they swing for the fences
Eight of baseball's top sluggers will be swinging for the fences tonight (July 8) as part of the All-Star Game festivities at Cleveland's Progressive Field. Major League Baseball's 2019 Home Run Derby figures to be one of the highlights of the All-Star break, with the made-for-TV event often eclipsing the All-Star Game itself.
Houston's Alex Bregman competed in the Home Run Derby last year, and he's back at tonight's installment in Cleveland. (Image credit: Patrick Smith/Getty)
With baseballs flying over the fence at a prodigious clip, you're not going to want to miss a moment of the Home Run Derby. And thanks to streaming services and VPNs, you don't have to, even if you're nowhere near a TV set to watch this baseball showcase.
Here's how to watch the 2019 Home Run Derby, along with a rundown of the services that can help you tune in to the big event.
When is the 2019 Home Run Derby on?
The Home Run Derby starts at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on July 8. ESPN has the exclusive broadcast rights, so you'll need to tune into the cable channel if you want to watch this annual parade of dingers.
ESPN2 is picking up a simulcast of ESPN's coverage, though the ESPN2 broadcast will be more stat-focused than the main telecast. (ESPN tried this approach last year during the MLB playoffs, and it proved to be a popular option among statistically-inclined baseball fans.)
Canadian baseball fans can tune into Sportsnet to watch the Home Run Derby.
How do I use a VPN to watch the 2019 Home Run Derby?
If you're outside North America when baseball's All-Stars are trying to give the ball a ride tonight, don't worry. A virtual private network (VPN) can help you catch the Home Run Derby. With a VPN, you can make it appear as if you're online in the country of your choosing, allowing you to stream programs just like you would back home.
We've tested many services to find the best VPN, and we recommend ExpressVPN. Its superb speeds and excellent customer service meets the needs of most users, though you have other options if you're looking for a good VPN service.
Here are our top VPN options if you need a service to watch the Home Run Derby.
ExpressVPN: Buying a month of ExpressVPN costs $12.95, though if you need a VPN beyond tonight's Home Run Derby, signing up for a year brings the cost down to $6.77 a month. Our favorite VPN also comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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NordVPN: Cheap and secure, NordVPN is just $2.99/month for a three-year contract, while a month of service costs $11.95. NordVPN uses 2048-bit encryption, and makes it easy to use streaming services.
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How can I live stream the 2019 Home Run Derby?
Because the Home Run Derby airs on ESPN, it's easy enough to watch live, even if you're not in front of a TV. The ESPN website will carry the broadcast, or you can watch the Home Run Derby on ESPN's mobile app (Android, iOS) — just select the Watch tab and you'll get a list of live programming, including the Home Run Derby.
There's a catch, though: ESPN will require you to sign in with the log-in credentials for your cable or satellite TV provider to live stream the Home Run Derby. In other words, this isn't an option for people who've cancelled their cable subscription.
You can't even use ESPN+, the $5-a-month streaming service ESPN created to bring some live sports to cord cutters. The Home Run Derby broadcast won't be shown on ESPN+.
How can I stream the 2019 Home Derby without a cable subscription?
So how can you watch the Home Run Derby if you've dropped cable? Your best bet would be to turn to a streaming service that includes ESPN among its channels. That means you'll want to avoid FuboTV, a sports-focused streaming service that hasn't added ESPN yet. Fortunately, you've got plenty of options among services that do feature ESPN and ESPN2 among their basic offerings.
DirecTV Now: This streaming service's entry-level package costs $50, and it includes both ESPN channels. As an added bonus, you also get HBO with DirecTV Now.
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Hulu + Live TV: Hulu's $45-a-month package includes ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN News along with 60 other channels. A cloud DVR lets you record programs if you'd prefer to watch the Home Run Derby later.
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PlayStation Vue: Bad news if you're a new customer to PlayStation Vue — the service raised its rates by $5 a month last week. (The rate hike goes into effect for current customers at the end of July.) That means the entry-level Access package, which includes ESPN and ESPN2, now costs $50 a month.
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Sling TV: The Orange package on Sling TV includes both ESPN and ESPN2. Even better, a current promotion cuts the monthly cost of Sling TV by 40%, letting you subscribe the Orange tier for $15 a month. If you're shopping for a service that includes Fox as well as ESPN (since Fox carries tomorrow's All-Star Game), be wary of Sling TV, as it only offers local channels in a few select markets.
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YouTube TV: YouTube's live TV service costs $50 a month and includes ESPN's offerings among its 70-plus channels. YouTube's service also includes a cloud DVR feature for recording programs to watch later.
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Who's participating in the 2019 Home Run Derby?
Eight sluggers from around Major League Baseball will compete against one another to smack the most dingers. The 2019 Home Run Derby participants include:
Matt Chapman of the Oakland Athletics (replacing the injured Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers)
Vlad Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays
Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros
Joc Pederson of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Pete Alonso of the New York Mets
Carlos Santana of the Cleveland Indians
Josh Bell of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Robert Acuna Jr. of the Atlanta Braves
What format does the 2019 Home Run Derby use?
After years of using a multi-round format that made the competition go on for hours (and resulting in some pooped sluggers), MLB switched to a head-to-head format in 2015, and the Home Run Derby has improved dramatically as a result. The eight participants will square off head-to-head, with four minutes to knock as many baseballs out of the park as possible. The winner advances to the next round, until there's just one home run king left standing.
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Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his multiple award-winning ELIJAH OF BUXTON.Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real? In a tale brimming with intrigue and adventure, Christopher Paul Curtis returns to the vibrant world he brought to life in Elijah of Buxton. Here is another novel that will break your heart -- and expand it, too.
Christopher Paul Curtis. (2014). The Madman of Piney Woods. Unabridged Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.
Christopher Paul Curtis. 2014. The Madman of Piney Woods. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.
Christopher Paul Curtis, The Madman of Piney Woods. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2014.
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bioText: Christopher Paul Curtis was awarded both a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor for his debut book THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM and won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his second book, BUD, NOT BUDDY. Mr. Curtis is also the author of the Golden Kite Award-winning BUCKING THE SARGE, as well as MR. CHICKEE'S FUNNY MONEY, MR. CHICKEE'S MESSY MISSION, and ELIJAH OF BUXTON.


The ERC AD 222 module transmits 2 bi-directional audio channels, 2 multiprotocol bi-directional data and one closure contact over multimode or singlemode optical fiber.
The data channels are fully independent; setting for RS 232, RS 422 or RS 485 4 and 2 wire is done on the board by dip-switches. As an option audio isolation transformer can be added.
The ERC 17-SA is also a solution to power one module ERC AD 222.


I've referred a few times on this site to a lobbying organisation called Media Lens. Media Lens purports to be a watchdog detecting bias in the press and broadcasting media. It is in reality a shrill group of malcontents who exploit the patience of practising journalists. Journalism is a public medium and its practitioners should certainly be prepared to expound their professional methods. The practice of Media Lens, however, is - in the description by Andrew Marr, the BBC's former political editor - pernicious and anti-journalistic. I explained why and how in this post a few months ago.
I described the methods of Media Lens as including "unprofessional and often comically inept exegesis". More recently I came across a near-perfect example of this type of thing, and wrote a post about it here. One of the editors of Media Lens, David Cromwell, had written to the film critic of The Independent - yes, a film critic - taking the poor man to task for not commenting, in an article about the film Flags of Our Fathers, on "the propagandistic basis for western leaders' claim of 'half-a-million' allied lives being saved by dropping atomic bombs on Japan".
Cromwell is not a historian, but, according to his organisation's web site, a "researcher in ocean circulation". His dogmatic assertions on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki evinced no acquaintance with the historiography of the Pacific War. He even got wrong the name of his own principal cited source (about whom I shall have more to say in a moment). In the circumstances, I thought it constructive to write to the film critic, David Thomson, to assure him that Cromwell's assertions were not to be taken seriously, let alone believed. The text of my letter, including citations to recent scholarly literature debunking Cromwell's assertions may be found in the post I have linked to. I copied it to Cromwell, so he would know not only the extent of his factual errors but also the inaptness of his criticisms of Thomson. Media Lens's customary technique (as I have found when replying to emails I had assumed came from genuine inquirers) is to post on its web site private emails from journalists without first asking permission, and I was curious whether Cromwell would do so with my letter. Prudently, he didn't.
Sorry to take so long in getting back to you on this, but I've been traveling and just getting to my pile of correspondence.
Of course you will always find scholars with different points of view on this, because no one can say conclusively 1) how many Americans would have died in an invasion of Japan (all guesses) or 2) how soon the Japanese would have surrendered without the dropping of the bombs.
But I don't think anyone has successfully refuted Alperovitz. To say that Truman "based his decision" on the estimate of a million casulties is naive. The "million casualties" claim was after the fact, as a justification for that horrific act. It was a number pulled out of the air. Truman's mind was made up no matter what number of casualties would be involved. As General Groves himself said, Truman was like "a litle boy on a toboggan, already going downhill" no way to stop the momentum. Certainly, a lower estimate would not have changed Trumans' mind.
At most one can argue that the bombs speeded the end of the war by weeks or months. In Japan, the Emperor was supreme, and he clearly wanted to arrange surrender terms, hence the dispatch of an envoy to Moscow.
It is often said that given the Japanese ferocious defense of Iwa Jima and Okinawa they would have continued the war except for the bomb. But if they were such fanatics why would even the bomb have caused them to surrender. After all, they endured 100,000 dead in Tokyo and still fought on.
Iwo Jima is an interesting episode. Two years ago in the Journal of Military History, an army captain who had done extensive research on that battle concluded it was unnecessary, another example of the momentum of war leading to needless death.
There is no moral argument which to me is all-powerful. Even if the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war sooner did that justify killing several hundred thousand innocent people? Would the defenders of the bombing agree to kill 100,000 American or English children in order to shorten the war? If the answer is no, it means that Japanese children do not deserve to live as our children do. If the answer is no, one must use the word "racism" to describe the conclusion that the bombs should have been dropped.
Howard Zinn is a grand old man of the American far Left. I have only once posted a comment on this blog about him; in it I stated that "trying to reason with Professor Zinn is a near-textbook case of futility". How prophetic that was.
Zinn's best-known work is a polemical history of the United States. His scholarly contributions to the study of the Pacific War amount, so far as I am aware, to zero. (This tract, which you can read in a few minutes, contains the name 'Hiroshima' in the title but is not a work of scholarly inquiry into the conclusion of the Pacific War.) It was unfair of Cromwell to appeal to Zinn for assistance when, as I shall demonstrate, Zinn is not up to providing it. But Zinn replied, and is therefore a legitimate target.
You will note that in his message, Zinn does not even attempt to deal with the sources that I cited. Judging by the internal evidence of his message, and nothing else, I have to conclude that Zinn has never heard of that material, still less read it. I say that principally because of Zinn's assertion that "I don't think anyone has successfully refuted Alperovitz".
Gar Alperovitz is the principal populariser (though not the originator) of the theory that the A-bomb was an instrument of "atomic diplomacy". Truman dropped the bomb not to defeat Japan - which on this reading had already indicated a willingness to surrender - but to intimidate the Soviet Union. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, in Alperovitz's view, not the concluding acts of the Pacific War but the initial acts of the Cold War.
It is technically true in one very restricted sense that no one has refuted this thesis. There is no direct evidence in support of Alperovitz's claim. There is not a single statement in the documentary record made by a US diplomat to a Soviet counterpart in 1945-6 to the effect that "you'd better not cross us, because we have the bomb". Given this paucity of evidence, Alperovitz turned his thesis into something unfalsifiable. In the words of the historian Robert H. Ferrell, who is widely regarded as the pre-eminent authority on President Truman (Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists, 2006, p. 20): "Alperovitz was reduced to relying on the powers of psychology: possession of the bomb, he declared, influenced American officials more than they knew or said."
Whatever else this is, it's not diplomatic history. Alperovitz presented a thesis, and - being unable to prove it with any documentary evidence – refashioned it to be impervious to the canons of evidence. If that were all, then Alperovitz would be merely a trivial figure. But unfortunately, it is worse than this. Historians have pointed to the fact that Alperovitz's use of source material is unscholarly. Ferrell, in the work cited, gives a sobering example (p. 21, and expounded at length in the accompanying footnote) of Alperovitz's taking a quotation from General George Marshall and then "trimm[ing] the quotation so as to give it a quite different meaning from what Marshall intended".
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Super Robot Wars series official Twitter account revealed recently, that the PC version of Super Robot Wars V will launch via Steam on October 3. Additionally, the Switch version of the game is available to pre-load right now. This new version includes all 20 DLC scenarios previously released for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita versions.
Super Robot Wars V is a tactical role-playing game developed by B.B. Studio and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. The game was released in Japan and Asian territories on February 23, 2017, as part of the 25th anniversary of the Super Robot Wars series. It is the first mainstream Super Robot Wars game to receive an Asian-English release.
Super Robot Wars V launches for Nintendo Switch and PC on October 3.
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Tag: book recs
YES Admin	on 23rd March 2020
"It's easy to think that nobody could really arrange the world like clockwork."
Ever since I read 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street' in 2016, I counted the days until the sequel's release. 'The Lost Future of Pepperharrow' does not disappoint.
The book begins three years after the previous book. In Japan, war with Russia looms, and there are reports of hauntings and electrical storms. When Thaniel and Mori travel out to Tokyo, things only get stranger.
Caught between figures from Mori's past, Thaniel grows increasingly uneasy. Then Mori vanishes, and it falls to Thaniel to find him before the entire country comes under threat.
I adored this book beyond measure. As a sequel, I couldn't have asked for more. Pulley's elaborate plotting returns in full force. The story has higher stakes than 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street', but the same emotional heart. Thaniel and Mori's relationship grows more complex. The side characters are also beautifully drawn.
Because the story is so intricate, it requires your full attention. However, it resolves itself beautifully at the end. I already can't wait to re-read it!
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, romance, lgbt
YES Admin	on 2nd March 2020
"He held the watch a moment longer before setting it on the wooden chair by the bed, the one that served as a table for collars and cufflinks. The gold caught the ember-light and shone the colour of a human voice."
'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is one of the best books I have ever read. I am currently reading it for the fourth time!
Set in 1884, the story follows Nathaniel Steepleton, a telegraphist for the Home Office. One night, he returns to his flat and finds a golden watch on his pillow. Six months later, the watch saves him from a bomb. Nathaniel seeks answers from the watch's creator – Keita Mori, a mysterious, lonely Japanese nobleman.
Meanwhile, Oxford student Grace Carrow is trying to finish her research before her mother can force her to marry. As Grace and Mori's storylines interlink, Nathaniel must choose between warring loyalties and futures.
'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is a charming novel which blends history and politics with fantasy and science-fiction. All of the characters are breathtakingly real. Keita Mori is my favourite character of all time, and his relationship with Nathaniel is wonderful.
I liked this book even more when I read it a second time, because it has so many tiny moments of foreshadowing. The story's complexity made it slightly confusing the first time around, but I still adored it. It also taught me lots about the Meiji era in Japan.
I recommend this book to anybody who likes subtle fantasy and character-driven stories. The sequel is just as good – I will review it soon!
Genres: historical fiction, fantasy, mystery, sci-fi, romance, lgbt
Book Review: 'Uprooted' by Naomi Novik
YES Admin	on 20th February 2020
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that's not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he's still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that grateful."
I recently read this book for the second time and it is just as brilliant as I remember. The novel follows Agnieszka, a young woman who lives at the border of a magical, malevolent Wood. She and the other villagers are reliant on an immortal wizard – the Dragon – to protect them from it.
But his protection has a price. Every ten years, the Dragon takes a girl from the valley to serve him in his tower. For all of Agnieszka's life, she has believed that he will take her best friend.
Yet when the day comes, he picks Agnieszka.
'Uprooted' is an immersive story that combines high fantasy with politics, romance and Polish folklore. The writing is beautiful and highly inventive. Novik makes the threat of the Wood feel real, building the tension all the way to the end.
Agnieszka is a compelling protagonist and the Dragon is complex but likeable. However, apart from a few exceptions, the side characters are quite forgettable. Kasia, Agnieszka's best friend, is particularly underdeveloped.
Nevertheless, Uprooted is one of my favourite books. It is full of mystery, magic and horror. I recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy!
Genres: high fantasy, romance, adult, young adult, standalone, fairytale


Hey so im having problems unscrewing the bolts that hold the cooler to the motherboard. Flipped the motherboard over and attempted to unscrew the bolts that hold the cooler in place but the screws that the bolts are attached to are just spinning so nothing is getting unscrewed. I tried using my finger, and pliers to stop the rotation but that didn't work. Why are the screws so rounded and ungrabbable? Did they think no one would ever remove the cooler? Am I doing something wrong? Any help at all would be awesome.
Nice attachment but can you share specs you have ?


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require "telnet_patched.rb"

class ElTelnet
	def initialize()
		@telnet = Net::Telnet_Patched::new(
			"Host"       => $config.opt["host"],
			"Port"       => $config.opt["port"],
			"Binmode"    => $config.opt["binmode"],
			"Output_log" => $config.opt["output_log"],
			"Dump_log"   => $config.opt["dump_log"],
			"Prompt"     => $config.opt["prompt"],
			"Telnetmode" => $config.opt["telnetmode"],
			"Timeout"    => $config.opt["timeout"],
			"Waittime"   => $config.opt["waittime"]
		)
	end

	def send_and_rec(string)
		@telnet.write(string)

		begin
			recv = @telnet.waitfor("String" => "")
		rescue Exception => e
            # puts e.backtrace.join('\n')
			print "Hrm, had to swallow an error because we timed out waiting for data.\n"
			recv = " "
        end

		return recv
	end

	def login()
		# Wait for our first prompt
		resp = @telnet.waitfor("String" => "=>")

		# Send the login command
		print "Got our prompt\n"

		resp = send_and_rec("l")

		print "Logging in...\n"

		# If resp contains "Username" then continue
		if (resp.include? "Please enter your username.")

			print "Sending username\n"
			resp = send_and_rec($config.opt["name"] + "\n")

			# If all is good, enter the password
			if (resp.include? "Please enter your password.")

				print "Sending password\n"
				resp = send_and_rec($config.opt["pass"] + "\n")

				# If we succeeded, return true
				if (resp.include? "Logged in as:")
					print "Logged in successfully!\n"
					return true
				else
					print "Bad login credentials. Please check the username/password and try again.\n"
				end
			end
		end

		# If we got this far, something failed, and we couldn't log in.
		print "Couldn't log in to Nethack server.\n"
		return false
	end

	def startgame()
		resp = send_and_rec("p")

		if (resp.include? "Shall I pick a character's race, role, gender and alignment for you?")
			resp = send_and_rec("y")

			if (resp.include? "Pick a role for your character")
				resp = send_and_rec($config.opt["role"])
			end

			if (resp.include? "Pick the race of your")
				resp = send_and_rec($config.opt["race"])
			end

			if (resp.include? "Pick the gender of your")
				resp = send_and_rec($config.opt["gender"])
			end

			if (resp.include? "Pick the alignment of your")
				resp = send_and_rec($config.opt["align"])
			end

			if (resp.include? "--More--")
				print "Successfully started a game!\n";
				resp = send_and_rec("     ");
			end
		end
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Preprint essd-2021-358
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-358
The MONARCH high-resolution reanalysis of desert dust aerosol over Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe (2007–2016)
Enza Di Tomaso1, Jerónimo Escribano1, Sara Basart1, Paul Ginoux2, Francesca Macchia1, Francesca Barnaba3, Francesco Benincasa1, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière1, Arnau Buñuel1, Miguel Castrillo1, Emilio Cuevas4, Paola Formenti5, María Gonçalves1,6, Oriol Jorba1, Martina Klose1,7, Lucia Mona8, Gilbert Montané1, Michail Mytilinaios8, Vincenzo Obiso1,9, Miriam Olid1, Nick Schutgens10, Athanasios Votsis11,12, Ernest Werner13, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando1,14 Enza Di Tomaso et al. Enza Di Tomaso1, Jerónimo Escribano1, Sara Basart1, Paul Ginoux2, Francesca Macchia1, Francesca Barnaba3, Francesco Benincasa1, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière1, Arnau Buñuel1, Miguel Castrillo1, Emilio Cuevas4, Paola Formenti5, María Gonçalves1,6, Oriol Jorba1, Martina Klose1,7, Lucia Mona8, Gilbert Montané1, Michail Mytilinaios8, Vincenzo Obiso1,9, Miriam Olid1, Nick Schutgens10, Athanasios Votsis11,12, Ernest Werner13, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando1,14
1Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
2Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, USA
3Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (CNR-ISAC), Italy
4Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, AEMET, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
5LISA, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est-Créteil, Université de Paris, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), Créteil, France
6Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Department of Project and Construction Engineering, Terrassa, Spain
7Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
8Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), Italy
9NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York, NY, USA
10Department of Earth Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11University of Twente, Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (BMS-CSTM), the Netherlands
12Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Weather and Climate Change Impact Research, Finland
13State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Spain
14ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
Received: 19 Oct 2021 – Discussion started: 28 Oct 2021
Abstract. One of the challenges in studying desert dust aerosol along with its numerous interactions and impacts is the paucity of direct in-situ measurements, particularly in the areas most affected by dust storms. Satellites typically provide columnintegrated aerosol measurements, but observationally-constrained continuous 3D dust fields are needed to assess dust variability, climate effects and impacts upon a variety of socio-economic sectors. Here, we present a high resolution regional reanalysis data set of desert dust aerosols that covers Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe along with the Mediterranean sea and parts of Central Asia, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans between 2007 and 2016. The horizontal resolution is 0.1° latitude × 0.1° longitude, and the temporal resolution is 3 hours. The reanalysis was produced using Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF) data assimilation in the Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) developed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The assimilated data are coarse-mode dust optical depth retrieved from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Deep Blue Level 2 products. The reanalysis data set consists of upper air (dust mass concentrations and extinction coefficient), surface (dust deposition and solar irradiance fields, among them) and total column (e.g., dust optical depth and load) variables. Some dust variables, such as concentrations and wet and dry deposition, are expressed for a binned size distribution that ranges from 0.2 to 20 μm in particle diameter. Both analysis and first-guess (analysis-initialized simulation) fields are available for the variables that are diagnosed from the state vector. A set of ensemble statistics is archived for each output variable, namely the ensemble mean, standard deviation, maximum and median. The spatial and temporal distribution of the dust fields follows well-known dust cycle features controlled by seasonal changes in meteorology and vegetation cover. The analysis is statistically closer to the assimilated retrievals than the first-guess, which proves the consistency of the data assimilation method. Independent evaluation using AERONET dust-filtered optical depth retrievals indicates that the reanalysis data set is highly accurate (mean bias = −0.05, RMSE = 0.12, r = 0.81 when compared to retrievals from the spectral de-convolution algorithm on a 3-hourly basis). Verification statistics are broadly homogeneous in space and time with regional differences that can be partly attributed to model limitations (e.g., poor representation of small-scale emission processes), presence of aerosols other than dust in the observations used in the evaluation, and differences in the number of observations among seasons. Such a reliable high-resolution historical record of atmospheric desert dust will allow a better quantification of dust impacts upon key sectors of society and economy, including health, solar energy production and transportation. The reanalysis data set (Di Tomaso et al., 2021) is distributed via a Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Service (THREDDS) at BSC and freely available at http://hdl.handle.net/21.12146/c6d4a608-5de3-47f6-a004-67cb1d498d98.
How to cite. Di Tomaso, E., Escribano, J., Basart, S., Ginoux, P., Macchia, F., Barnaba, F., Benincasa, F., Bretonnière, P.-A., Buñuel, A., Castrillo, M., Cuevas, E., Formenti, P., Gonçalves, M., Jorba, O., Klose, M., Mona, L., Montané, G., Mytilinaios, M., Obiso, V., Olid, M., Schutgens, N., Votsis, A., Werner, E., and Pérez García-Pando, C.: The MONARCH high-resolution reanalysis of desert dust aerosol over Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe (2007–2016), Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-358, in review, 2021.
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RC1: 'Comment on essd-2021-358', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Nov 2021
The MONARCH high-resolution reanalysis of desert dust aerosol over Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe (2007-2016)
The manuscript describes a data set of assimilated dust aerosol concentrations and optical properties. The data covers an area including Europe, North Africa, and Middle East, at a resolution of 0.1x0.1 degrees. The time period is 2007-2016, and data is available every 3 hour. Simulations were done using the MONARCH atmospheric model. AOD observations of MODIS were assimilated using an ensemble approach (LETKF), the product consists of ensemble mean, std.dev., maximum, and median.
The production of the data set is extensively described. Some extra clarification could be made (see SPECIFIC COMMENTS below), but in general the assimilation procedure is described sufficiently detailed to understand what has been done, including the generation of the ensemble, calibration, data selection, error statistics used, and assimilation sequence. Where necessary references are present where details could be found. With this the paper could serve as a reference for studies that actually use the data set, as indicated in section 7.
With some minor clarifications the manuscript could be published in this journal.
The manuscript describes a validation of the data set in terms of AOD (or specific, DOD, Dust Optical Depth). This is also the quantity that is assimilated, and it therefore makes sense to use this as first validation. For a data set related to dust, it would however be useful to have also an idea on the dust concentrations themselves, and how accurate these are. The only dust-related results are shown in Figure 4, but no comparison with observations has been made. Will there be a validation of the dust concentrations included in the follow-up papers mentioned in Section 7? It would be useful to have that clearly mentioned. Also, some remarks could be made already on the dust concentrations themselves and how they are changed by the analysis.
For example, what is the impact of the calibration described in Section 6.1 on the dust load in the ensemble members? If my interpretation is correct, the calibration factors for the dust emissions range from 0.004 for the K14 emission scheme, to 2.65 for the MB95 scheme. This is a huge difference; does it mean that the K14 scheme by default has a huge over-estimation? After calibration, do the ensemble members have dust concentrations that are more or less in the same range?
The adjustment of the dust concentrations depends strongly on how DOD is calculated, thus on the optical properties and the radiance computations. Is there any idea on how accurate these computations are? With incorrect optical properties computed, the dust concentrations might require unrealistic perturbations to obtain the correct DOD's. The meteorological data is also relevant for this computation I guess; since this comes in the ensemble from two different models (MERRA2 and ERA-Interim), is there a clear difference seen between the DOD's computed for different meteo?
Some clarification on the ensemble generation would be useful. Section 3 describes that a 12-member ensemble is used, with each member choosing one-of-two meteo sets, one-of-three emission schemes, and a random value for (among others) the friction threshold; is that indeed what is done? I guess that each member then keeps it's choice for meteo and emission scheme, but are the emission parameters changing in time or per grid cell?
SPECIFIC COMMENTS
Lines 145-146: What does a Frequency-of-Occurrence of 0.20 mean? That in 20% of the days dust is observed over a location?
Line 230: What is meant with a time slot centered around 12 UTC? Aren't more MODIS orbits assimilated then, with different time slots?
The analysis weights in Eq. (2) might provide some information on a preference of the analysis for certain ensemble members, for example the members with a specific emission scheme. Is that indeed possible, and has some information been deduced from them?
Section 6 describes that an observation screening is applied. Is it kept which fraction of the observations has been rejected, and whether that is especially in certain regions?
Table 6: What is exactly done for "DOD-mixed2"? How could AE be <0.75 and >1.2 ?
Line 492: The "DOD-mixed2" leads to more zero values; should that be visible in Figure 10 then as a a higher density?
Line 502. Is the change in statistics associated with changed conditions? Or could it be related to a degradation of the data?
Line 510: Which complexity of the topography is relevant here?
SPELL AND GRAMMAR
Line 78: chemical formula should not in math mode
Line 79: "additionally"
Lines 197, 199: shouldn't it be: 'friction velocity "for" wind velocity' ?
Subsection 6.1: shouldn't this be a section?
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-358-RC1
RC2: 'Comment on essd-2021-358', Julie Letertre-Danczak, 24 Feb 2022
This article on the data set of reanalysis from MONARCH over Nothern Africa, Middle East and Europe for 2007-2016 is well documented.
The explanation of the data set is rich of information and the metadata are clear.
However I have few comments on the data set:
Some confusion are made on between Modis Collection 6 and collection 6.1 (some clarifications are needed).
In the table 1 which is the overview of the experiment that has generated the data is missing the data assimilation window (it is mentionned at the earliest in section 5, adding it in the table will be beneficial).
The dust bins description is referred but again a table making an easy finding of the information will be helpful for someone who would like to use the data.
The organisation of the sections should be revisited (the section 6 should come directly after section 3 as it is more details on the model.
2 more general comments:
1) The output of this experiment should be compared to a denial experiment where no data assimilation will be performed to understand why the emission scheme is over producing (issue with the scheme and the climatology behind? scheme loaded with dust transport? ...) That will be interesting to conduct maybe for an other article.
2) The comparison with an independent set of data: Modis is evaluated against AERONET, so if your system is converging toward your data by your data assimilation, it seems logical that it will also converge toward AERONET even if it is not a guarantee. I would suggest that you add another independant det of data in the evaluation process for the eventual article that I have suggested before (lidar, dry deposition measurement, ...).
The bibliography has not been checked.
Final comment:
This article on the description of a dataset correspond to the criteria expected for a data journal.
AC1: 'Comment on essd-2021-358', Enza Di Tomaso, 09 Apr 2022
The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-358/essd-2021-358-AC1-supplement.pdf
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-358-AC1
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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Enza Di Tomaso on behalf of the Authors (09 Apr 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Apr 2022) by Nellie Elguindi
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (21 Apr 2022)
Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection
GENERAL REMARS ON REVISED MANUSCRIPT
The manuscript has been revised following the questions raised by the reviewers. The response of the author to the reviewers questions are extensive, and clarify various aspects of how the data set that is described in the paper has been created. Although not necessary, it might be useful to include some of these clarifications also in the manuscript; even if in some cases the original text is providing all information already, it sometimes requires multiple readings to fully understand what has been done, and extra clarification might be worthwhile for users.
The quality of the described data set will be further validated in articles that are currently in preparation (Mytilinaios 2022a, 2022b). It is therefore acceptable that the current manuscript does not include an in-depth validation of for example dust concentrations, but instead clearly points forward to upcoming papers for this.
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 May 2022) by Nellie Elguindi
Dear Dr. Di Tomaso,
Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript. We are pleased to accept it for publication after the following minor technical correction is made,
With my best regards,
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MONARCH high-resolution reanalysis data set of desert dust aerosol over Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe Di Tomaso, E., Escribano, J., Basart, S., Macchia, F., Benincasa, F., Bretonnière, P.-A., Buñuel, A., Castrillo, M., Gonçalves, M., Jorba, O., Klose, M., Montané, G., Olid, M., Pérez García-Pando, C. http://hdl.handle.net/21.12146/c6d4a608-5de3-47f6-a004-67cb1d498d98
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Assimilating spaceborne lidar dust extinction can improve dust forecasts J. Escribano et al. 10.5194/acp-22-535-2022
MONARCH reanalysis of desert dust aerosols extends the existing observational-based information for mineral dust monitoring by providing 3-hourly upper air, surface and total column key geophysical variables of the dust cycle over Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe, at a 0.1° horizontal resolution, from 2007 to 2016. This work provides evidence of the high accuracy of this data set and its suitability for air quality/health and climate service applications.
MONARCH reanalysis of desert dust aerosols extends the existing observational-based information...