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Still Learning From the Ancient World
August 1, 2021 / Martina Will, PhD / Arts/Culture, History / No Comments
The "Stonehenge" exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science remains open until September 6. Artifacts, videos, and recreations like this one share the latest insights about this ancient site, which continues to reveal its secrets to archaeologists.
For centuries, people have marveled at a circle of upright stones standing on the Salisbury Plain outside of Wiltshire, England. How did the massive sandstones get there? What purpose did they serve? Who planted them? Spoiler alert: it wasn't aliens.
Andrew Parker, a DMNS educator performer, explains how Stonehenge changed shape over the centuries, as people moved the now-iconic stones. Stonehenge attracts more than 1.5 million visitors each year.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Stonehenge remains one of the most iconic ancient sites, older than the pyramids at Giza or the Mayan temples in Mesoamerica, the site was part of a large network of interconnected ritual sites. Long before ancient people placed the monoliths we associate with Stonehenge, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers camped near the River Avon and erected large posts on the site.
The model in the picture is using an antler pick to dig the circular ditch-and-bank around the stones—the "henge." (Henges feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank.) Stone circles exist throughout Britain and Ireland; Stonehenge's builders shaped the stones and over time added lintels. Construction required complex social organization to ensure that builders had reliable access to resources.
"It was developed over time from people all across the British Isles," affirms Andrew Parker, an educator performer with Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which is home to the exhibit "Stonehenge: Ancient Mysteries and Modern Discoveries" through September 6. "As early as 10,000 years ago, it seems to have been a sacred site for hunter-gatherers. At that time, there was probably a lot of game for them to hunt and there are some really interesting physical features of the landscape."
Archaeologists have found antler picks, pictured, as well as bone and stone tools around Stonehenge.
The megaliths we most associate with Stonehenge are of a local sandstone called "sarsen," which scientists believe came from Marlborough Downs, about 19 miles away moved to the site about 3,000 BCE, these imposing stones endure as silent testament to the ancients' engineering ingenuity. Scientific advances and ongoing archaeological investigations have brought us closer than ever to understanding who built Stonehenge and associated sites in the vicinity.
Wild cattle and pigs, in addition to deer and other game, drew Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to the area, but ancient peoples also associated the site with the sacred. Cyclical freezing and thawing during the Ice Age had created "parallel gullies and ridges that coincidentally aligned with the summer solstice sunrise and winter solstice sunset," according the DMNS exhibit.
Far from being an isolated site on the plain, Stonehenge was part of a larger network of cultural and sacred sites. Its construction and shifting design over the centuries reveal the highly complex social organization and planning required for an undertaking on this scale.
These Mesolithic tools dating from 8000-4000 BCE allowed hunter-gatherers to cut wood, dig for roots, cut plants and meat, and scrape animal hides.
Like most cultural sites, Stonehenge evolved and changed over the centuries. The megaliths we see today are not the first human construction on the site, and incoming peoples added and changed the site for centuries. The DMNS exhibit highlights many of these changes, and includes recent discoveries, informed by the archaeologists who continue to research Stonehenge and associated sites. Mike Parker Pearson, Professor of British Later Prehistory at the Institute of Archeology, University College London, has been directing research on Stonehenge since 2003 and curated this exhibit, produced by the Austrian Museums Partner, in collaboration with English Heritage.
In February 2021, Pearson and his team found that the bluestone circle at Stonehenge had previously been installed in a similar sacred circle at Waun Mawn in Wales before being moved to their current location in the Salissbury Plain. Neolithic migrants from Wales dragged these stones on log sleds about 150 miles to bring them to Stonehenge. Each bluestone weighs one to three tons, and it would have taken 50 people over a long period of time through a series of many, small movements to move a single stone to the Salisbury Plain. "These stones may have represented a connection to their ancestral home in Wales," says Parker.
These are the bones of a man buried with a copper pin, a large dagger and other items around 2400-2200 BCE.
If England is not in your summer travel budget, head to the DMNS to see the original artifacts and learn about the latest research on Stonehenge before the exhibit's final day on September 6. DMNS is open daily. Tickets for this show are available at www.dmns.org or call DMNS at 303-370-6000.
An engineering feat that continues to amaze, the people who built Stonehenge moved sarsens weighing 4-28 tons each, to the ceremonial site from approximately 19 miles away. They then "locked" the stones together using hammerstones and mauls to create mortise-and-tenon joints. The DMNS exhibit includes many examples of tools, including hammerstones from the site.
Front Porch photos by Steve Larson


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A swarm of cicadas that left thousands of insect carcasses across the Vanderbilt University campus in 2011 is leading to transinstitutional research at the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center to develop a surgical planning tool to help restore speech for people with vocal fold paralysis.
Haoxiang Luo, PhD, brought some of those cicadas back to his Computational Flow Physics and Engineering Laboratory and created a model of their wing movements. Luo and his VUMC collaborator, Bernard Rousseau, PhD, MMHC, found similarities in the way the cicada wings moved and the movement of human vocal folds, leading them to wonder how the model might be used to improve surgical techniques for paralyzed vocal folds.
This has culminated in the National Institutes of Health awarding a five-year, $2.4 million research grant to a multidisciplinary Vanderbilt team to design a software tool to help surgeons develop more precise surgery plans for the most common surgical intervention for unilateral vocal fold paralysis, type 1 laryngoplasty.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be accurately diagnosed in young children via remote, telemedicine assessments, a method that could significantly increase access and reduce wait times for autism services.
In a first-of-its-kind study, the researchers compared the accuracy of rapid telemedicine evaluations to in-person evaluations for ASD and found that in most cases, remote evaluators could accurately identify children with ASD with high levels of confidence.
These findings were released March 10 in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders by Zachary Warren, PhD, Amy Nicholson, MA, Anna Pasternak, BASc, Neill Broderick, PhD, Jeffrey Hine, PhD, BCBA-D, and J. Alacia Stainbrook, PhD, BCBA-D.
New research from Vanderbilt suggests that repeated seizures reduce brainstem connectivity, a possible contributor to unexplained neurocognitive problems in epilepsy patients.
The brainstem has been rarely studied in epilepsy because seizures typically originate in the temporal lobe or other areas of the cortex. Noting that people with temporal lobe epilepsy often lose consciousness even though the temporal lobe does not control wakefulness, Dario Englot, MD, PhD, surgical director of epilepsy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said he decided to focus on the region that does control wakefulness — the brainstem. He hypothesized that connectivity disruptions with the brainstem resulting from a history of seizures might play a role in diminished cognitive functions that are not related to the temporal lobe.
The research, published online May 30 in Neurology, is the first to investigate how epilepsy affects the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) — circuitry that is responsible for regulating wakefulness — within the brainstem. Functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that ARAS disruptions occurred, with decreases in circuitry being quantitatively associated with disease severity.


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Impressive new clubrooms for Craigieburn BC
This is what $1.8 million in funding can build – a sensational set of new clubrooms for Craigieburn Bowling Club that will become an important community hub for the northern Melbourne community.
The club, which has more than 100 members in one of Australia's fastest growing regions, believes it can boom as a result of the investment by Hume City Council in its impressive clubrooms, which opened in mid-February.
Hume Mayor, Councillor Helen Patsikatheodorou, says the council is proud to support what it calls a "thriving community organisation".
"Hume City Council has invested $1.8 million in a terrific building to support a bowling club that offers so much to our community," she says.
"Craigieburn Bowling Club was established in 1983 and initially utilised builders' huts as clubrooms, and the club has grown tremendously in recent years.
"Volunteers give many hours to nurture the club so that people can participate in a recreational sport and meet new friends.
"The people of Craigieburn Bowling Club are some of the finest you'll meet, and Hume City Council is so proud to support this thriving community organisation."
The new centre was officially opened in mid-February, with Bowls Victoria Chief Executive Graeme Bridge among those in attendance.
It includes a social room that may be used for a variety of purposes, such as carpet bowls, seniors' activities, club functions, and community get-togethers.
A members' room connects to the social room via a retractable wall, and currently presents a number of dart boards that are used by the Craigieburn Darts Club.
The development includes a kitchen and bar area, as well as two verandas that allow people to watch the bowling greens in comfort.
The bowls club provided all the furnishings and equipment for the new clubroom, and funded a top-quality catering oven, as well as building the garden setting around the rooms.
The clubroom was designed by Croxon Ramsay and constructed through Ireland Brown Construction.
Hume City Council will host regular physical activities at the clubroom, to assist residents in senior years to keep fit.
The Craigieburn Bowling Club is located at 245 Craigieburn Road, Craigieburn.

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PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Precision Spine, Inc. announced today that it recently received 510(k) clearance of its AccuFit® Lateral Plating System.
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The AccuFit Plate represents a significant addition to the Precision Spine lateral product portfolio and joins the recently introduced MD Vue™Lateral Access Retractor. The AccuFit Plate is designed to provide optimal stabilization with a low profile, titanium plating system that features four points of fixation for enhanced biomechanical rigidity and load sharing. AccuFit features five sizes that are matched to the heights of Precision's ShurFit® LLIF Interbody cages. The system also includes insertion instrumentation to ensure proper anatomical plate alignment with minimal retraction.
"As a system that utilizes a lateral approach, AccuFit helps bring about a full range of operative and postoperative benefits designed to optimize patient outcomes," said Andrew Cappuccino, MD, who worked closely with Precision Spine design engineers in the development of the system.
The AccuFit Lateral Plate System consists of non-sterile, single use rigid plates that attach to the lateral portion of the vertebral body of the thoracolumbar spine (T1-L5) by means of bone screws of varying sizes and lengths. The system is indicated for use via a lateral or anterolateral surgical approach, above the bifurcation of the great vessels in the treatment of thoracic and thoracolumbar (T1-L5) spine instability, or via the anterior surgical approach, below the bifurcation of the great vessels in the treatment of lumbar and lumbarsacral (L1-S1) spine instability. The system is intended as a temporary fixation device until fusion is achieved.
Precision Spine, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Parsippany, NJ with manufacturing facilities in Pearl, MS. Precision Spine is dedicated to providing innovative, quality spine products that are made in the USA and designed to help treat serious orthopedic medical conditions in a cost effective manner. For more information, visit www.precisionspineinc.com.


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The following map illustrates where patients obtain their hospital care when they seek care in Kansas. In 40 of the 105 Kansas counties, over 50 percent of the residents remained within their county for hospital care.
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The patient migration to surrounding states for inpatient services showed a slight decrease from 25,123 in 2016 to 24,908 in 2017. The in-migration from Missouri increased from 25,053 in 2016 to 26,666 in 2017.


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Tea native joins sheriff's office
Garrett Welsh grew up in a law enforcement household and recently joined the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.
Welsh, who grew up in Tea and graduated from Tea Area High School in 2014 and now lives in Sioux Falls, noted that his father was a state trooper and a captain for the area. He saw the benefits that law enforcement has as a career and community.
"You see that involvement of that long-term effects and that stuff. Not just writing people tickets and stopping people, but it's really having some good community involvement just keeping everybody safe," he said.
Welsh joined the National Guard when he was an 18-year-old senior. He spent six years with them in the military police unit in Sioux Falls. He also started a business degree at South Dakota State University. He is continuing his education part time in Sioux Falls.
Before coming to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, he was with the state highway patrol. He started with the sheriff's office Feb. 2. He continues with his field training and riding with different experienced officers.
Welsh decided to apply in the sheriff's office because he knew some of the officers in the department and thought he would throw his hat in the ring.
"As I kept going through the interview process, more and more I felt like this is the right place for me to be," Welsh said. "It's a growing department and I just really enjoy their philosophy in the way they do things, but also the leadership they have there."


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MUSC sets new record as state's biomedical research leader with more than $276.5 million in funding
The Medical University of South Carolina has broken its own record as the state's leader in garnering extramural funding for biomedical research. MUSC set a new high-water mark in FY2018, bringing in more than $276.5 million. The previous MUSC record for annual biomedical research funding was more than $259 million, set in FY2016.
"Being the state's leader in biomedical research funding year after year is a significant accomplishment, and we applaud the passion and expertise of our dedicated scientists and their teams," said David J. Cole, M.D., FACS, MUSC president. "Even so, reaching another record-breaking number is not an end in itself. The true impact of MUSC research is reflected in how we translate discoveries into new modalities of care and life-changing therapeutics. Research is a dynamic force that fuels how we fulfill our mission to lead health innovation for the lives we touch," he added.
Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D., vice president for Research, called the accomplishment outstanding, especially during a period when being awarded research grant funding has become more intensely competitive than ever before. No other publicly assisted academic institution in South Carolina consistently garners near $250 million in research funding year after year.
MUSC research focuses on a wide variety of areas including cancer, community health, drug discovery, health disparities, inflammation and fibrosis, neuroscience, oral health, and stroke and spinal cord injury.
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FY2018 recorded a 1,230 awards for an overall extramural funding total of $276,388,341. This new record-high funding level at MUSC represented a 26 million dollar increase over last year's total.
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"Justice League Action" Episode Review – S01E39 "The Brain Buster"
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Superman Homepage reviewer Marc Lax reviews episodes from the "Justice League Action" Animated Series, airing on Cartoon Network.
Check out his review of the 39th episode of Season 1 in a mysterious creature abducts Batman, Mr. Terrific, Lex Luthor, Calculator, and Brain to put them to the test to discover the smartest among them.
Originally Aired: October 7, 2017 (U.S.)
Written by Geoffrey Thorne and John Semper
Directed by Doug Murphy
Kevin Conroy as Batman (voice)
Hannibal Buress as Mister Terrific (voice)
Ely Henry as Calculator (voice)
James Woods as Lex Luthor (voice)
Oliver Vaquer as Mr. Mind (voice)
Jim Ward as The Brain (voice)
Rating – 3 (out of 5): At a maximum security prison a giant robot breaks through security and finds Lex in his cell playing holographic chess. Lex doesn't seem to care what the robot wants and casually leaves with him. But not before pocketing the weapon he used to create the holograms. Meanwhile The Brain and Calculator are kidnapped as well. At the Watchtower Batman and Mr. Terrific are trying to piece together who might have taken the three villains when the same robot crashes the Watchtower and proceeds to attack the two heroes. Mr. Terrific uses his T Spheres to try and find out what is happening and winds up stranded on a desolate planet with Lex, The Brain and Calculator. Batman soon follows. It seems a mysterious being who appears as a giant pair of glasses wants to pit the smartest humans on Earth against each other and see which will survive his deadly traps. First using a car chase where the "contestants" use a colorful sphere to activate the cars. The last one to cross the finish line losses and is taken out of the game for good. Batman and Mr. Terrific use their ingenuity to win while Lex uses his tech to come in third. Behind him is Calculator who runs The Brain off the track making him the first to be eliminated. He's quickly taken off the board and placed in a floating red cube. The others are then presented with floating disks. The object is to follow the path to two floating red disks. Seems fairly easy but the red disks keep changing along the paths. Our heroes figure out the pattern and Batman is the first to win. Calculator becomes the next casualty while Mr. Terrific makes a misstep and becomes the next loser. Leaving Lex to win beside Batman. Lex and Batman now have to play one last game to determine the "winner".
This is a somewhat clever plot pitting some of the greatest minds of the DC Universe against each other. Though I never felt Calculator was such an ingenious villain the others are worthy opponents. As it's mentioned several times during the episode, Mr. Terrific IS the third smartest person in the world. Batman of course is a brilliant detective and scientist and is usually the smartest man in the room, although Lex is an intellectual genius so it's a toss up I suppose. The Brain… well he's a brain so he's got that going for him. As I've said there is some cleverness to this episode but the villain's main objective falls flat. Basically it's the brilliant mad scientist just trying to be even more brilliant. But it's still entertaining watching our heroes and villains get to the endgame.
Lex and Batman's final challenge is a giant chess game which of course has Lex boasting that he's never lost a game. But with all that boasting he uses his weapon to cheat and wins the game. Batman is then taken out and given his own floating red cube along with the others to watch the final confrontation between Lex and our mysterious villain. And who is this giant pair of glasses who's causing all this trouble? Mr. Mind of course! That green wormy villain who has given SHAZAM (Captain Marvel) a lot of problems throughout the years. After having his robot subdue Lex Mr. Mind's plan is to leave his small worm of a body and take Lex's, which would also increase Mind's intellect. What Mr. Mind and Lex didn't figure on is that Batman and Mr. Terrific had a plan all along. Using his T Sphere tech Mr. Terrific figured out how to escape his red cube prison. Batman knew that Terrific had some kind of plan and was playing Lex until the plan was put in motion. Batman lost on purpose and was released from his prison by Terrific. The heroes then get a jump on the villains and of course win the day. Sounds a bit more confusing than it actually is.
A decent episode. It was nice to see Mr. Mind who's always been an intriguing villain and I like the way Mr. Terrific has been portrayed. Batman and Lex being the last two to fight was pretty obvious but it's fun watching Lex be outsmarted. A good use of all these characters and I enjoyed their interactions. This show does know how to mix it up.
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Emily Machnow (Suecia, 1 de septiembre de 1897-23 de noviembre de 1974) fue una nadadora sueca especializada en pruebas de estilo libre, donde consiguió ser medallista de bronce olímpica en 1920 en los 4 x 100 metros.

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En los Juegos Olímpicos de Amberes 1920 ganó la medalla de bronce en los relevos de 4 x 100 metros estilo libre, con un tiempo 5:43.6 segundos), tras Estados Unidos (oro) y Reino Unido (plata); sus compañeras de equipo fueron las nadadoras: Aina Berg, Jane Gylling y Carin Nilsson.

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"It wouldn't happen to me": Privacy concerns and perspectives following the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Joanne Hinds*, Emma J Williams, Adam N Joinson
In March 2018, news of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal made headlines around the world. By inappropriately collecting data from approximately 87 million users' Facebook profiles, the data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica, created psychographically tailored advertisements that allegedly aimed to influence people's voting preferences in the 2016 US presidential election. In the aftermath of this incident, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with 30 participants based at a UK university, discussing their understanding of online privacy and how they manage it in the wake of the scandal. We analysed this data using an inductive (i.e. 'bottom-up') thematic analysis approach. Contrary to many opinions reported in the news, the respondents in our sample did not delete their accounts, frantically change their privacy settings, or even express that much concern. As a result, individuals often consider themselves immune to psychographically tailored advertisements, and lack understanding of how automated approaches and algorithms work in relation to their (and their networks') personal data. We discuss our findings in relation to wider related research (e.g. crisis fatigue, networked privacy, Protection Motivation Theory) and discuss directions for future research.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102498
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abstract = "In March 2018, news of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal made headlines around the world. By inappropriately collecting data from approximately 87 million users{\textquoteright} Facebook profiles, the data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica, created psychographically tailored advertisements that allegedly aimed to influence people's voting preferences in the 2016 US presidential election. In the aftermath of this incident, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with 30 participants based at a UK university, discussing their understanding of online privacy and how they manage it in the wake of the scandal. We analysed this data using an inductive (i.e. {\textquoteleft}bottom-up{\textquoteright}) thematic analysis approach. Contrary to many opinions reported in the news, the respondents in our sample did not delete their accounts, frantically change their privacy settings, or even express that much concern. As a result, individuals often consider themselves immune to psychographically tailored advertisements, and lack understanding of how automated approaches and algorithms work in relation to their (and their networks{\textquoteright}) personal data. We discuss our findings in relation to wider related research (e.g. crisis fatigue, networked privacy, Protection Motivation Theory) and discuss directions for future research.",
keywords = "Facebook, cybersecurity, targeted advertising, data breach, privacy fatigue, networked privacy",
author = "Joanne Hinds and Williams, {Emma J} and Joinson, {Adam N}",
doi = "10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102498",
journal = "International Journal of Human-Computer Studies",
publisher = "Academic Press",
Hinds, J, Williams, EJ & Joinson, AN 2020, '"It wouldn't happen to me": Privacy concerns and perspectives following the Cambridge Analytica scandal', International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 143, 102498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102498
"It wouldn't happen to me" : Privacy concerns and perspectives following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. / Hinds, Joanne; Williams, Emma J; Joinson, Adam N.
In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 143, 102498, 01.11.2020.
T1 - "It wouldn't happen to me"
T2 - Privacy concerns and perspectives following the Cambridge Analytica scandal
AU - Hinds, Joanne
AU - Williams, Emma J
AU - Joinson, Adam N
N2 - In March 2018, news of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal made headlines around the world. By inappropriately collecting data from approximately 87 million users' Facebook profiles, the data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica, created psychographically tailored advertisements that allegedly aimed to influence people's voting preferences in the 2016 US presidential election. In the aftermath of this incident, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with 30 participants based at a UK university, discussing their understanding of online privacy and how they manage it in the wake of the scandal. We analysed this data using an inductive (i.e. 'bottom-up') thematic analysis approach. Contrary to many opinions reported in the news, the respondents in our sample did not delete their accounts, frantically change their privacy settings, or even express that much concern. As a result, individuals often consider themselves immune to psychographically tailored advertisements, and lack understanding of how automated approaches and algorithms work in relation to their (and their networks') personal data. We discuss our findings in relation to wider related research (e.g. crisis fatigue, networked privacy, Protection Motivation Theory) and discuss directions for future research.
AB - In March 2018, news of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal made headlines around the world. By inappropriately collecting data from approximately 87 million users' Facebook profiles, the data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica, created psychographically tailored advertisements that allegedly aimed to influence people's voting preferences in the 2016 US presidential election. In the aftermath of this incident, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with 30 participants based at a UK university, discussing their understanding of online privacy and how they manage it in the wake of the scandal. We analysed this data using an inductive (i.e. 'bottom-up') thematic analysis approach. Contrary to many opinions reported in the news, the respondents in our sample did not delete their accounts, frantically change their privacy settings, or even express that much concern. As a result, individuals often consider themselves immune to psychographically tailored advertisements, and lack understanding of how automated approaches and algorithms work in relation to their (and their networks') personal data. We discuss our findings in relation to wider related research (e.g. crisis fatigue, networked privacy, Protection Motivation Theory) and discuss directions for future research.
KW - Facebook
KW - cybersecurity
KW - targeted advertising
KW - data breach
KW - privacy fatigue
KW - networked privacy
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102498
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102498
JO - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Hinds J, Williams EJ, Joinson AN. "It wouldn't happen to me": Privacy concerns and perspectives following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 2020 Nov 1;143. 102498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102498


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It's the dawn of the living data and information growth is out of control; companies are ending up with Terabytes or Petabytes of information. Successful organisations run and are dependent on information.
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30/10/2013 11:02am GMT | Updated January 23, 2014
It's the dawn of the living data and information growth is out of control; companies are ending up with Terabytes or Petabytes of information. Successful organisations run and are dependent on information. However, information is only valuable to an organisation if you know where it is, what's in it, and what is shareable. If you don't know what you have and where it is stored, there could be evil lurking within, waiting to rear its ugly head. If you watch scary movies, you will know that getting rid of the antagonist can be a notoriously difficult task, often ending badly for many. If companies don't want to meet a sticky end, then they must attempt to exorcise the demons in their data.
With the growth of information, many companies do not know what is lurking within. Estimates suggest that 80% to 90% of all information is being considered as 'dark data' - data that is being collated, processed and stored but not being used because organisations have no idea what's in it. Organisations employee people to create, digest and manage information, heavily relying on them to make decisions on what should be kept, where and for how long. Yet, 75% of data today is generated and controlled by individuals with no responsibility for the overall data management strategy, according to IDC. Inevitably, no employee proactively manages information and they end up saving it where it is convenient. This means data is spread across a variety of disparate repositories and platforms. Because of this, many companies find it difficult to ascertain exactly what information they have and where it is stored.
The problem with not knowing what you have is that you could potentially have some really valuable information sitting idly on your systems. However, it is also a great place for unwanted data gremlins to hide, with unknown and unmanaged information carrying legal risk and costs associated with it. Imagine your organisation is faced with an eDiscovery request. What would happen if you didn't find all relevant data and it was later discovered you didn't turn over some information that could have helped the other side's case? The Judge can overturn an already decided case, issue an adverse inference and assign penalties, for example.
Another example of where dark data has caused havoc is in the recent case where NHS Surrey was fine £200,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office. It was fined because patient records were found on a second hand computer bought through an online auction site. An employee has clearly saved files on their hard drive when they were not supposed to. In most cases, this practice is ineffective and causes what many refer to as "underground archiving", the act of individuals keeping everything in their unmanaged local archives. These underground archives effectively hide the information from everyone else in the organisation, leaving them open to potentially monstrous fines.
Creating Your Own Demons
Exorcising 'evil' data isn't as easy as just deleting it. This in turn creates its own risks and companies can bring their own demons to life. In fact, companies fear deleting data as they could be inadvertently deleting evidence and the inability to furnish data requested as part of a legal or regulatory matter. Other reasons include not having defined policies for managing and disposing of electronic information and adversely, organisations having defined retention policies to actually keep all data indefinitely (usually because of the fear of spoliation).
However, on average only 1% of organisational data is subject to litigation hold, 5% is subject to regulatory retention and 25% has some business value, according to a survey conducted by the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Counsel in 2012. This means that approximately 69% of an organisations data store has no business value and could be disposed of without legal, regulatory or business consequences. So why fear deleting data?
Organisations not disposing of information in a systematic process boils down to poor information governance with no process in place to determine what information to keep and what to dispose of. This leaves them open to creating their own demons through retention policies that could come back to haunt them.
A well know example of a company that created its own demons through its retention policy is Arthur Andersen. It's sudden retention policy activity caused unintended consequences during the Enron case. The Arthur Andersen partner famously sent an email message to employees working on the Enron account, reminding them to "comply with the firm's documentation and retention policy". The Andersen partner never ordered the destruction or shredding of evidence but because it anticipated future litigation was highly likely, the implication in her email was to "get rid of suspect stuff". The timing of the email message was also suspect in that just 21 minutes separated Ms. Temple's e-mail message, to Andersen employees on the Enron account, about the importance of complying with the firm's document retention policy from an entry in a record of her current projects, in which she wrote that she was working on a case involving potential violations of federal securities laws.
This email was the beginning of the end for Arthur Andersen, which ceased to exist shortly after the case concluded. The firm was charged with and found guilty of obstruction of justice for shredding the thousands of documents and deleting emails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron. Less than 1 year after that email was sent, Arthur Andersen surrendered its CPA license on August 31, 2002, and 85,000 employees lost their jobs.
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Businesses must shed light on their dark data; just because its contents aren't immediately apparent, doesn't mean it's not dangerous and - just like in the movies - the villain of the piece might not be the obvious candidate. Most companies try to manage data but are not doing a good enough job, leaving themselves open to all kinds of ghastly problems that they want to avoid. Companies do not want to be haunted by their data or their actions and must implement a true information governance process, including a truly defensible disposal capability.
In these instances, an information governance process would have been capturing, indexing, applying retention policies, protecting content on litigation hold and disposing of content beyond the retention schedule and not on legal hold. A documented and approved process which is consistently followed and has proper safeguards goes a long way in preventing the evil within to rise up and threaten the business.
Businesses must move away from manual, employee-based information governance to automated information retention and management, with truly accurate and consistent meaning-based predictive information governance. To successfully automate this process, auto-categorisation applications must have the ability to conceptually understand the meaning in unstructured content so that only content meeting your information governance policies, regardless of language, is kept and stored correctly.
Through the use of technology that understands information in context, business can harness the expertise of all members of staff to uncover relationships otherwise hidden in big data, such as those between people, locations and companies without an in-depth understanding of how the technology works. This avoids the need to build a team of specialists to go through the information, map it out and find the relationships. Instead experts within the company can teach the technology to focus on what matters to the business.
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How is speech affected?
How is breathing affected?
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How can music therapy help?
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Music therapy is clinical, evidence-based use of music to accomplish individual non-musical goals. Music therapy has been found beneficial for psychological wellbeing (Davies et al., 2016) and for decreasing perception of physical symptoms of the disease, increasing communication and improving quality of life (Raglio et al., 2016) of people with ALS. Music listening may have a beneficial effect on heart rate, respiratory rate, and anxiety in mechanically ventilated patients (Bradt et al., 2010).
Benefits of music therapy for PALS and CALS:
psychological support and counseling
relaxation and sleep facilitation
self-expression (verbal or nonverbal)
mood enhancement
moderate physical exercise
support for making decisions
support for adjustment to the disease
relationship closure
enhancing family dynamics
Music therapy may look and sound like:
instrumental or vocal improvisation
singing songs
playing simple music instruments
listening to live or recorded music
discussing favorite music
creating play lists
music-supported visualizations
exercising to music
dancing to music
music-evoked reminiscing
vocal or breathing exercises
drawing to music
Who can practice music therapy?
Music therapy is an allied health profession, like physical therapy or speech therapy. Music therapists hold a degree in music therapy; in most countries, they also have to be board certified or licensed to practice. Music therapists have theoretical and practical knowledge of music, human psychology and physiology, and work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide individualized, evidence-based treatment for every clinical situation. Volunteers, caregivers and patients cannot practice music therapy, but can be trained in therapeutic applications of music for particular, simpler purposes.
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Neurologic music therapy to sustain vital functions
Since the 1990ies, neurologic music therapy has been used worldwide in rehabilitation of stroke and TBI survivors to improve their gait, gross and fine motor skills, balance, speech, swallowing, and emotional regulation. The success of this treatment is rooted in neuroplasticity and in the fact that music shares neural pathways with other vital processes (such as speech production or movement). These findings inform our ongoing research on the effect of neurologic music therapy protocol on bulbar and respiratory functions of people living with ALS.
Safe and effective set of exercises for PALS
As a certified music therapist and an international advisor for ALS Foundation "Live Now", I have been responsible for developing music therapy program for people affected by ALS and their caregivers in Russia. In collaboration with the multidisciplinary team at ALS Centre Moscow, the treatment protocol addressing physical, emotional and cognitive needs of PALS was developed. I trained and currently supervise two music therapists who provide home-based services for ALS patients and their families. Previously we also trained two groups of "musicians-visitors" (2015) and "expressive arts volunteers" (2016), who currently work in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, providing psychological support and opportunities for self-expression to PALS and CALS. This work was done pro bono.
Currently I am undertaking full time clinical research on the effect of music therapy exercises on breathing, speech and swallowing of people with ALS / MND. The ultimate goal of this research is to create a set of safe and effective music therapy exercises to maintain and prolong vitals functions in people with ALS and to improve their quality of life. This research requires additional expenses which, unfortunately, I am unable to cover myself. Please kindly consider contributing to or sponsoring this work to make music therapy treatment available for ALS / MND patients around the world. I will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and I will consider teaching opportunities in the USA and internationally.
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The town of Rathdrum stands in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains. Ancient tradition maintains that Rathdrum was once the site of a hill fort, strategically placed to control the gateway to the mountains and the river crossings. Rath Dromadh translates as 'Ráth on the Ridge'. The origins of town are from the medieval period. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries Rathdrum was an important centre for the woollen trade, particularly flannel, based on sheep farming in the locality and spinning and weaving as cottage industries. Rathdrum used to be a market town, with two breweries and a flour mill. The transport links to the town were improved in the 19th century with the construction of a coach road, while in the mid-19th century the railway arrived. Today the town is undergoing major transformation with a big increase in commercial and residential development.
Masterful example of Victorian civil engineering, the railway viaduct spans the Avonmore River and forms a dramatic landmark in the townscape of Rathdrum. The Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway reached Rathdrum in 1861. In 1861, the station serving the train from Wicklow was located at Kilcommon. On completion of the viaduct in Rathdrum, the line to Avoca was opened on 18 July 1863, with the present Rathdrum station taking over from Kilcommon.
The park was created by Rathdrum Development Association in memory of Charles Stewart Parnell in 1991. The 5.5 acre site was hired by the Church as glebe land with old gardens. In Parnell's day there was a viewing platform called the Round House located in the centre. Several monuments were erected recently in the park, among the most important are Parnell's bronze statue overlooking the park and a deer which commemorates the 400th anniversary of Wicklow.
This five-arch bridge was constructed by a County Wicklow bridge builder, John Braddel of Carnew in 1754. The bridge was remodelled and strengthened several times over the past 250 years.
Milling of flour commenced in the 1750s when William Tomlinson obtained a lease on the mill. In 1837 the mill was taken over by James Comerford. He was a creative flour miller and the Comerford family continued to produce flour until the mid 1950s.
Evolved throughout the 18th and 19th century, mostly as a cluster of small dwellings serving the mill workers. There is a distance of more than 200 metres between the Lower Town and Main Street.
The church, built in the 1860s, is located majestically overlooking the river and valley. Famous architect J.J. McCarthy designed the church largely in Gothic revival style while incorporating certain features inspired by the monastic city of Glendalough.
It was the first purpose-built post-Reformation Catholic Church in Rathdrum. Up to 1988 a convent of nuns was situated beside the church. The old convent building was accidently burned in 1988.
Market Square has long been a focal point of the town since as early as 1720. The width of the Square allowed horse transport to pull in and park for livery. Most premises in the Square and the Main Street have archways leading to yards outback, attesting to the time when the horse was essential.
In 1824 there were two hotels at the Square and the town was a recognised place from which to savour the ruins of Glendalough or the solitude of Glenmalure.
The Square has long served as a place for political meetings. Parnell made his first speech here. Tradition claims that he addressed the crowd from the top of a beer barrel. The Square has been the setting for many films including Michael Collins, Durango and Love Divided.
The street follows the road from the 17th century and retains a very 'old world charm'. The houses are of typically Irish market town façade. Granite abounds in the street landscape and this durable stone forms most doorsteps. Ornamental rain gutters set into the footpath assert the neat workmanship of Wicklow stone-wrights.
On location in Ireland, the making of Michael Collins was amajor news event in the summer of 1995. Posters went up on lampposts all over Dublin for unpaid extras to volunteer for the big crowd scenes. The response was tremendous with trousands of people turning up to relive the history of their country.
In the town of Rathdrum nearly everybody became involved in the film in one way or another. The scene where Michael Collins addressed a large crowd took place in the square in front of The Railway Bar. This scene simulated an actual public meeting of nationalists who listened to a public appeal by The Big Man in favour of a war-ending treaty with Great Britain in Granard in 1922.
Upstairs in the pub 'The Woolpack' the love scene between Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts was shot. Rathdrum's Market Square was carefully transformed by filmmakers to suit the period while hundreds of Wicklow men dressed in attire of the 1920s. The ambush in which Michael Collins was fatally wounded, which originally took place in Beal na Blath in West Cork, was re-enacted in the Hollywood Valley.
Twelve fairs were held annually on the Fair Green. Cattle, pigs, horses, fowl and especially sheep were bought and sold there. In due course humble buildings sprang up around the Green where several small artisans, i.e. Saddler, Cobbler, Blacksmith and Tinsmith, plied their trade to the visiting farmers.
'The Flannel Hall' was known as the 'County Wicklow Woollen Exchange'. The hall was erected in 1793 and merchants and dealers of wool and flannel exhibited and traded here. During the rebellion of 1798, the building was taken over as a military barracks and headquarters of Rathdrum Yeomanry Corps. A part of the building was used by the Roman Catholic Church from 1803-1860. It was also used as a Court House. In 1890 a large part of the Flannel Hall was destroyed by fire. All that now remains of the building is a much-modified east wing. Today the hall is known as the Rathdrum Development Association (R.D.A.) Hall.
Charles Stewart Parnell was born at Avondale on the 27th June 1846. In 1875 he was elected M.P. in the British House of Commons and he worked tirelessly to achieve Home Rule for Ireland. With his untimely death in 1891 at the young age of 45 Ireland lost the one man who could probably have delivered this for his native country. In his short life time he became known as the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland'.
This neoclassical house was designed by James Wyatt and built by Samuel Hayes in 1779. It was the birthplace and home of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), one of the greatest political leaders of Irish history. The museum is now a museum to his memory; open daily March-October (11am-6pm) and on Bank Holidays.
A magnificent forest park with an extensive collection of trees and shrubs from around the world surrounds the house. Six walks of various lengths run through the park. The forest park played an important part in the development of forestry in Ireland. It is home to common woodland animals including red squirrel, badger, hedgehog, stoat, fox and deer. Rabbit and hare are occasionally seen. The park is rich in bird life with over 90 species recorded here.


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A model of a Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) displayed at the Association of the United States Army Aviation Symposium and Exposition. Image courtesy of C. Todd Lopez.
Ron Dillon, contracting officer at USAMSDC / ARSTRAT, signs the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicles (LEMV) agreement with Northrop Grumman. Image courtesy of Mr. Mike Leon Howard (SMDC/ARSTRAT).
The LEMV successfully completed its first flight on 7 August 2012. The airship remained airborne for more than 90 minutes after it took off from the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
"The LEMV's design is based on the HAV304, a hybrid vehicle designed by HAV. The hull of LEMV will be made of laminated fabric."
"The hybrid air vehicle is capable of providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for land forces."
It incorporates internal catenary system for holding a payload module. The aerodynamic shape of the hull delivers up to 40% of lifting for the vehicle.


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    ConnectedToInstance = Connect to the instance '{0}\\{1}'.
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07/2012 - ICS: Whose business really?
Do you remember…? November 2010, CONEX organised its ICS conference, an information day dedicated to bringing light to the regulatory and technical issues surrounding this new and unavoidable EU regulation.
Well before its application, whereas improvisation seemed to be the general trend, Alban GRUSON, company CEO, announced: "Carriers will very certainly play a central role is the management of ENS declarations in the framework of the new ICS regulation. But it would be a mistake to rely blindly on the solution they may propose without giving oneself the means to know, to understand and to judge…"
After more than a year of experience,it is clear that the carrier really does transmit the ENS messages on behalf of its clients. Not having at its disposal a certain number of data elements judged confidential by the clients in question, the carrier transmits a 'master ENS' simply indicating the wording CONSOLIDATION or GROUPAGE. In these conditions, it is very difficult for the Customs Authorities to estimate the level of risk according to the ICS-imposed criteria.
So there we are… The various Member States including France have received an order from the European Commission (TAXUD) to no longer accept ENS declarations based on masters and which include the wording "groupage" or "consolidation"…
But implementing such a rule is not so easy.
Discussions are open as this decision raises numerous questions about the diffusion of confidential information, the possible setting up of an authorised third party declarant and so on. In the end, it is a question for which the debate remains: "who will send the ENS?"
Are we heading towards a European re-mix of the American 'DUAL FILING', compliant with the "Safe Framework of Standards*"?
* Standard adopted by the WCO aiming to secure and facilitate global trade.
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Ethella Hardin Drane, 69, of Byhalia, died April 5, 2019, at her home. She was a member of Union Valley MB Church in Byhalia, a graduate of Henry High School and a retired clerical worker with the Town of Byhalia.
Visitation will be held on April 12, from 2-7 p.m. at J.F. Brittenum and Son Funeral Home; and on April 13 from 10-10:55 a.m. at Union Valley MB Church. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Rev. Joe Richmond will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
She leaves her husband, Shirley Robert Drane of Memphis, Tenn.; two daughters, Tara Smith of Olive Branch, Tamela Jones of Holly Springs; two sons, Timothy Smith and Thomas Smith, both of Byhalia; six sisters, Vinella Harper of Byhalia, Annie Tunstall and Annie T. Dean, both of Memphis, Lillion Wheeler and Maggie Shipp, both of Byhalia, Assie Sims of Olive Branch; 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by three brothers, Robert Hardin, Jerry Hardin, and John Hardin Jr.


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Six Bay Area Art Shows to See in 2020
Sarah Hotchkiss
Ron Nagle, 'The Bad Clown,' 2003. (Courtesy of the artist and BAMPFA)
2020 sounds like a year from science fiction.
If we're taking our cues from Hollywood, this is a year in which we can expect machine-augmented humans battling aliens, interdimensional sea monsters and other humans (Edge of Tomorrow, Pacific Rim and Reel Steel, respectively). It's also the temporal setting of A Quiet Place, which puts two cinematic predictions in the alien invasion bucket, so make of that what you will.
Speculative fiction aside, what I know for sure is that local art spaces have big plans for 2020, some of which are quickly approaching in the months ahead.
Rashaad Newsome, Installation view of 'To Be Real' at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 2019. (Courtesy of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture)
Rashaad Newsome, 'To Be Real'
Jan. 10–Feb. 23
SFAI Main Gallery, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
The preview for Rashaad Newsome's upcoming exhibition actually came to town months ago, in the small screening room of an institution miles away from Fort Mason. The videos STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE! and ICON, both still on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora, are electrifying mergers of digital animation, spoken audio clips and pulsing beats. To Be Real showcases Newsome's work in other media, including collage, sculpture and an "AI work." The exhibition draws from a variety of sources—black and queer culture, the internet, advertising—and promises to reflect on "the radical futurity of emerging identities." Also! Special performances of Newsome's piece Running, featuring live vocalists and samples from well-known singers, add a musical dimension to the satellite programming of the approaching Untitled and FOG art fairs.
Ron Nagle, 'Handsome Drifter,' 2015. (Courtesy of the artist and BAMPFA)
Ron Nagle, 'Handsome Drifter'
Jan. 15–June 14
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
The question here isn't how many of Ron Nagle's exquisitely crafted, small-scale sculptures can fit within BAMPFA's galleries (so many!), but how many Nagle sculptures one human brain can handle. Each of his pieces—a combination, in recent years, of ceramics and other materials—exists as a perfectly considered balance of glossy and textured, organic and rigid, sensuous and silly. Parts of Nagle's sculptures "look like" a number of things, but nothing so much as alien objects shaped by a wonderfully strange and pun-obsessed mind (please see his titles). Plan your visit wisely, you may need time to recover from an overload of aesthetic pleasure afterwards.
Stephen Kaltenbach, 'OPEN AFTER MY DEATH,' 1970. (Courtesy of the artist)
Stephen Kaltenbach, 'The Beginning and the End'
Jan. 26–May 10
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
Stephen Kaltenbach is a trickster. The artist behind multiple identities, with many modes of making, he's the author of a long con that is his own art historical legacy. If you haven't heard of him, here's a possible reason: This will be his first solo museum exhibition in the United States in nearly 40 years. Once a promising artist in the New York conceptual scene of the 1960s, Kaltenbach "dropped out," moved back to California (he studied at UC Davis) and began making work in a very different vein: psychedelic paintings, populist public art, classical-tinged sculpture. But all of this was part of a larger, lifelong project to play with the reception and interpretation of authorship. In a talk given at San Francisco Art Institute in 2011, Kaltenbach explained the strangeness of watching one of his adopted identities develop as an artist—the work had gotten to a place where he was starting to like it.
Jean Shin, Detail of 'Pause,' installation in progress in artist's studio. (Courtesy of the artist)
Jean Shin, 'Pause'
Feb. 6–May 24
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
We can't escape technology (especially here in the Bay Area), and artists have long been grappling with its applications and effects. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' ongoing exhibition The Body Electric highlights both historic and contemporary works that address physical technologies, while the artists in the de Young's upcoming Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI look at the invisible algorithms that govern our lives. Across town, in a new commission for the Asian Art Museum, New York artist Jean Shin's Pause assembles an installation from discarded e-waste (cell phones, smartphones, laptops and cables) to evoke the contemplative space of a garden retreat. Through abundance, she makes the environmental and psychic realities of technological progress tangible.
Preproduction image made by director Sally Potter to help secure funding for the film 'Orlando,' spring 1988. (Courtesy the artist)
'Orlando'
Feb. 7–May 2
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Not all celebrities should dabble in curation, but if anyone can helm an exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando, it would be Tilda Swinton, who starred in Sally Potter's adaptation of the book. Orlando, as a refresher, is the story of a poet who lives for centuries (without aging) and shifts gender along the way. Swinton's selections address gender fluidity, reject limitations on portraiture and embody the perspective of longevity. This staging of the exhibition will include photographs from the McEvoy Family Collection in addition to pieces commissioned and chosen for the original show at the Aperture Foundation in New York. Will Swinton herself attend the opening? There's one way to find out.
Kira Dominguez Hultgren, 'Arose,' 2019. (Courtesy the artist and San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles)
Kira Dominguez Hultgren, 'I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism'
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose
Using two Punjabi phulkaris embroidered by a relative around 1925 as a starting point, Bay Area artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren traces themes of colonialism, contemporary exoticism and craft. Her woven work, large-scale and vibrant, incorporates a variety of textures and materials, including climbing rope, wool, Indian cotton and Chinese silk. If you can't wait until March to see her work in person, her solo show at Eleanor Harwood Gallery opens Jan. 11.


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Q: Often used LINQ returned from method I have 1 LINQ which used so much. I try create the method which return this LINQ like:
    public static System.Linq.Expressions.Expression<Func<MyEntity, bool>> GetFilteredEntity() {
        return x => true/*Some condition*/;
    }

    public static Func<MyEntity, bool> GetFilteredEntity() {
        return x => true/*Some condition*/;
    }

And use this like
    db.MyEntities.Where(GetFilteredEntity());

is successfull, But! I need use it like
    db.ParentEntities.Where(entity => entity.MyEntities.Where(GetFilteredEntity()));

This code compiled too, but every time when i use it, i got the Error:
System.InvalidOperationException: There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first.

,even:
db.ParentEntities.Where(entity => entity.MyEntities.Where(GetFilteredEntity())).ToList();

throw this Exception too.
But,
db.ParentEntities.Where(entity => entity.MyEntities.Where(x => true/*Some condition*/))

still works fine!
So why it happend, and have some way to get round this?
Final working code
public static Expression<Func<MyEntity, bool>> GetFilteredEntity() {
 return x => true/*Some condition*/;
        }
and
var expression = GetFilteredEntity();
db.ParentEntities.Where(entity => entity.MyEntities.AsQueryable().Where(expression ));
Also .AsQueryable() thanks to Passing func as parameter in Linq to Entities and 'Internal .NET Framework Data Provider error 1025' error

A: In your first example the function is called and translated into an expression before it is even sent to the query provider.  In the next two examples the function call is embedded within an expression that is sent to the query provider, and that query provider doesn't know what to do with that function call, so it just throws an exception.  When you embed the actual expression in another expression, there is no function call to confuse the query provider.
As for a solution, just pull out the function call into a variable.  The query provider is smart enough to see that you used a closed over variable, and will pull out its value.  For a function call it's just not sure if it should evaluate it or try to translate it into something that should be done on the DB's end.  Trying to do some of both would just be very confusing and hard to work with, both for the query provider, and for people using it.  To simplify matters, function calls with expressions are never executed prior to sending the query.  As for a closed over variable, there is no other way that it could be treated, so there isn't any other behavior to confuse it with.
var expression = GetFilteredEntity();
db.ParentEntities.Where(entity => entity.MyEntities.Where(expression ));

A: Looks like LazyLoading might be the culprit, have you tried popping the ToList() on the parameters?
db.ParentEntities.Where(entity => entity.MyEntities.Where(GetFilteredEntity()).ToList());

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Q: Perfect Forwarding not working in C++ I am trying to understand the concept of forwarding in C++ and wrote below code to understand this functionality on variadic templates.
#include<utility>
#include<string>
#include<tuple>
#include<sstream>

template<typename... Args> struct Helper_Class
{
    std::tuple<Args...> argTuple;
    Helper_Class(Args&&... args):
                    argTuple(std::make_tuple(std::forward<Args>(args)...))
    {}
};

template<typename... Args>  std::ostream&
operator<< ( std::ostream& os,Helper_Class<Args...> obj)
{
    return os;
}

template<typename...Args>
Helper_Class< Args...>
Print(Args&&... args)
{
    return Helper_Class<Args...>(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}

template <typename... Ts>
void test( Ts &&...params) {
    std::stringstream s;
    s <<Print(std::forward<Ts>(params)...);
}

int main()
{
    test(1,2,"foo", 'x');
}

However, while executing the code I am getting below error:
error: no matching function for call to 'std::tuple<int, int, const char (&)[4], char>::tuple(std::tuple<int, int, const char*, char>)'
      argTuple(std::make_tuple(std::forward<Args>(args)...))

What I am not understanding is if I am trying to do perfect forwarding (means types should not change between function calls) why is it trying to change the type?
Please excuse if this is very basic as I am learning this concept for very first time.
Update 1:
Continuation question posted on:Question

A: template <typename... Ts>
void test( Ts &&...params) {
    std::stringstream s;
    s <<Print(std::forward<Ts>(params)...);
}

You're going to start here. The template parameters to Print will come out of std::forward. As such, they will already be forwarded lvalue/rvalue references, et al. That's what you are going to shove here, as parameters to the Print template.
Then:
template<typename...Args>
Helper_Class< Args...>
Print(Args&&... args)

This is now going to forward Args... to Helper_Class, which will use those types to try to declare a tuple containing lvalue references, rvalue references, et al. That's not going to work very well.
You need to decay these suckers:
template<typename...Args>
Helper_Class< typename std::decay<Args>::type...>
Print(Args&&... args)
{
    return Helper_Class<typename std::decay<Args>::type...>(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}

Or, let's use C++14 to clean up some visual clutter...
template<typename...Args>
auto Print(Args&&... args)
{
    return Helper_Class<typename std::decay<Args>::type...>(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}

This now compiled for me, with gcc 6.2.1.
P.S. This is not exactly "basic"...


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Man fatally shot inside car in Santa Ana
A man was fatally shot inside his car while driving in Santa Ana on Thursday.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A homicide investigation is underway in Santa Ana, where a driver was fatally shot.
Santa Ana police received a call around 5:18 a.m. Thursday about a crash involving a car and a bicycle in the 3000 block of West 5th Street.
Responding officers found a man in his late 20s to his early 30s dead from a gunshot wound in a large truck. They also found a homeless woman who owned the bicycle and managed to avoid getting hit by the vehicle.
"She gets off the bike just in time. He takes the bike, drags the bike approximately 40 to 60 feet, where he comes to rest," said Cpl. Anthony Bertagna with Santa Ana police
The woman told officers that the truck had been swerving all over the road before it hit the 5th Street bridge and nearly hit her. She was not injured.
The truck was eventually towed away from the scene. Its driver-side rear window was seen shattered.
Police are now trying to figure out who shot the man and where. Bertagna said investigators are looking into whether road rage could have been a factor. There is also gang activity in the area, but at this point in the investigation, police do not believe the victim is a part of it.
Bertagna said the victim didn't appear to be a gang member, but authorities are investigating whether he may have had a confrontation with gang members or if it was a random shooting.
If you have relevant information about this case, you're asked to call the Santa Ana Police Department's homicide detectives at (714) 245-8390 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS.
SANTA ANA ORANGE COUNTY SEARCH DEADLY SHOOTING FATAL SHOOTING HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION BICYCLE MAN SHOT MAN KILLED


The youth edition of Journeys in the Spirit (number 19) provides a range of ideas to use with 12–18 year olds in a Quaker context.
What is the military? What are military values?
When do we encounter (see/meet) the military?
How did Quakers feel about the military in the past, and what did they do about it?
How do we feel about the military now?