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A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met
Deep in Verdi's opera "Don Carlo," an impassioned solo cello line embroiders a bass aria with a vein of feeling.
On a recent evening, the conductor Carlo Rizzi was leading the work at the Metropolitan Opera. Rizzi isn't demonstrative on the podium; his gestures tend to be controlled, focused, professional. But from a seat at the back of the pit, it was possible to see him, at the end of the aria, smile slightly and blow a subtle kiss down in the direction of the orchestra's principal cello, Rafael Figueroa.
It was an affectionate, familial gesture from a man who has become family at the Met. "Don Carlo," which runs through Saturday, is part of a three-production fall for Rizzi — along with Cherubini's "Medea," the season opener, and Puccini's "Tosca" — that brings his number of performances with the company to more than 250 since his debut in 1993.
"I am not 20 anymore," Rizzi, 62, said in an interview the morning after a "Don Carlo" and before a "Tosca" that evening. "Particularly after the pandemic, I want to enjoy what I'm doing. That's why I'm happy about these three works at the Met. Each one, in a different way, has been rewarding."
Rizzi is among the stars of the Met's not-quite-stars, in company with conductors like Nello Santi (who led some 400 Met performances between 1962 and 2000) and Marco Armiliato (nearly 500 since 1998). These are not famous names, just musicians experienced and respected enough to allow the company's vast repertory factory to function, particularly when it comes to core Italian works like "La Bohème," "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" that must be put on with perilously little rehearsal time.
His name and face familiar to Met regulars — from the side, with his toss of silver hair and chin stubble, he looks a little like Plácido Domingo — Rizzi is the kind of artist who can be entrusted with "Medea," a rarely performed opera that he had never done or even seen, late in the game, in addition to his long-scheduled "Tosca" and "Don Carlo."
"He did three operas at once," said the soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, who sang the title role in "Medea." "Who else can do that? And not just get through them: These were three spectacularly conducted operas. In my opinion, he is one of the best Italian conductors living right now."
Sondra Radvanovsky sang the title role in "Medea," which Rizzi conducted to open the Met's season.Credit…Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
"I find him academic, in a good way," said Michael Fabiano, here singing Cavaradossi in "Tosca" under Rizzi, with Aleksandra Kurzak. "He's very studied and highly informed." Credit…Karen Almond/Met Opera
Yet many descriptions of Rizzi include variations on the apologetic phrase "but in a good way." "It's going to sound pejorative," the tenor Michael Fabiano, who starred in "Tosca," said, "but I find him academic, in a good way. He's very studied and highly informed."
Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, added, "He's considered to be really strong, really solid, really reliable — solid in a good way."
The takeaway is that the soft-spoken Rizzi embodies qualities of patient, unshowy craft and dependability that are often overlooked, sadly old-fashioned and definitely unsexy. But they should not be taken for granted.
"It's underestimated how difficult it is for a conductor to succeed at the Met," Gelb said. "There aren't so many who have the degree of expertise and level of musicality when it comes to Italian repertoire that he has. We're fortunate to have a conductor of his quality willing to come here to do the standard repertory."
Born in 1960 in Milan, Rizzi didn't grow up in a musical family; his father was a chemist and his mother an accountant. But he was shy as a young child, and his parents tried to draw him out with piano lessons; he flourished. (His two siblings ended up with musical careers, too.)
On top of his studies, Rizzi spent many nights watching opera at the Teatro alla Scala. These were Claudio Abbado's years as music director there, and the productions and casts were regularly superb.
"I was a pianist, and at the time I was very good at sight-reading," Rizzi said. "That means that every clarinetist, bassoonist, singer and double bass player was coming to me. And making music together started to become more interesting than just the piano."
He conducted chamber orchestras, and Mozart concertos from the keyboard, and in his late teens began working as a repetiteur — the opera rehearsal assistant position that was the main root of old-school conducting careers.
Rizzi did well in a couple of competitions, and began to find work in regional capitals like Palermo and Trieste. Word spread among singers. He was invited to conduct the Donizetti rarity "Torquato Tasso" at the Buxton Festival in England in 1988; that led to an engagement at the Royal Opera in London, and a broadcast reached Brian McMaster, then the leader of Welsh National Opera, who hired Rizzi as music director in Cardiff.
Matthew Epstein took over for McMaster just as Rizzi was starting his tenure. (Rizzi served in the role from 1992 to 2001, then again, after his successor resigned, from 2004 to 2008.)
"Let's be honest: Carlo, with his name, is going to be used around the world mostly for the Italian repertory," Epstein said. "But in Wales he did 'Elektra'; he did 'Rosenkavalier'; he did 'Peter Grimes' and 'The Rake's Progress.' He's a superb theater conductor, in the smallest of small groups of people who really work in the theater."
His Met debut was in "La Bohème," which he has since done more than 60 times with the company. He led a new "Lucia di Lammermoor" in 1998, a new "Il Trovatore" in 2000 and two new stagings of "Norma," in 2001 and, starring Radvanovsky, on opening night in 2017. "Medea" was his third time opening a Met season.
Yet he remains under the radar in New York. His work this fall has been like his Met career in general: nothing fancy, nothing fussy, just clear, compelling readings. "It's not anything new or different, just the idea of being musically aware with every dramatic beat," said the tenor Russell Thomas, who sang the title role in "Don Carlo." "This is maybe my fourth production, and I never had anybody go into that much detail."
Under Rizzi, "Don Carlo" was sober and weighty.Credit…Ken Howard/Met Opera
Rizzi's "Medea" had the formality of Gluck, who influenced Cherubini, mixed with hints of the tumultuous "Sturm und Drang" movement to come. "Tosca" was colorful and propulsive; "Don Carlo," sober and weighty.
"The way they play 'Medea' is not the way they play 'Tosca,'" he said. "The flexibility is one of the great things about this orchestra."
Among Rizzi's upcoming projects is to record orchestral suites he has drawn from "Madama Butterfly" and "Tosca." In future seasons at the Met, he's slated to return for, yes, Puccini and Verdi — including more "Bohème" and a revival of "Un Ballo in Maschera."
"I really feel, since we did the 'Norma' opening night to now, he's a much different person," Radvanovsky said. "He's more relaxed; I feel he's more comfortable in his baton skill, his skill with the orchestra. His musical language has really relaxed and grown."
Rizzi said: "I don't want to sound like an old sage, but I'm always in development. I learn more about conducting every day." Perhaps unexpectedly, given that he is best known for leading the most familiar works in the repertory, in 2019 he became the artistic director of Opera Rara, a London-based company devoted to underperformed titles.
"Carlo is incredibly knowledgeable, musicologically and dramaturgically," Epstein said. "That's why this Opera Rara thing is good for him. But he should be the music director of an opera house in Italy. It's silly he hasn't. And he should have had a go in this country as music director in one of the main houses. He's not the ordinary Italian conductor — he's just not. He's better."
Fabiano, the tenor, locates in Rizzi "the spirit of these older conductors — Votto, Fausto Cleva, Gavazzeni — who had an inherent knowledge of the repertory and knew deeply the needs of the singer. An understanding of what singers need, and the deep care for the letter of the music, the construction of the music, makes for a very terrific maestro."
And while Rizzi is not the most breathlessly marketed baton, Donald Palumbo, the Met's chorus master, put it simply: "For me, he's a star."
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In 2018, internet crooks tried to steal money or data from more than half (52 per cent) of Dutch SMEs. The scale of the problem was revealed by the National Cybersecurity Awareness Survey 2018, whose results were published in October as part of the Alert Online campaign. Although SMEs are increasingly aware of the growing risk, many don't yet have appropriate security measures in place. SIDN has therefore teamed up with IT security specialists Guardian360 to offer support to the SME sector.
SIDN and Guardian360 are both committed to making the internet more secure. Guardian360 provides monitoring and scanning services for corporate networks and web applications. By maintaining a constant watch, the company enables clients to stop hacks and data breaches, and reduce their vulnerability to cyber attacks. SIDN is responsible for one of the world's most secure internet domains. To maintain and enhance the security of the .nl domain, SIDN develops new services and invests in abuse prevention. The organisation also works to promote security awareness amongst internet users, especially in the business community.
"In the SME sector, on-line security doesn't always get the attention it deserves. That's very understandable, because smaller businesses often lack the time, know-how or financial resources to take action. They're increasingly aware that they're vulnerable, but they don't necessarily know exactly how or where, or what they should do about it. In the media, hacking and data breaches are portrayed as serious but unavoidable risks that inevitably cause enormous damage. However, we believe that a lot can be done to mitigate both the risk and the impact. So we'll be working with SIDN to develop a new proposition aimed at helping SMEs do just that, which will obviously benefit internet users as well. Together, we'll be exploring the options over the next few months," explains Jan Martijn Broekhof, Guardian360's CEO.


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Preventing dropouts among pregnant, parenting students Programs work to ensure education for young people amid big challenges
During her sophomore year of high school, Leslie Belmontes found out she was pregnant.
Not feeling like she could continue at her traditional high school, Northglenn High, Belmontes transferred to New American School in Thornton for her junior year. She thought the non-traditional school would be a better choice for her to continue her education while she prepared to become a mother.
But after giving birth to her son, Aaron, during winter break, a lack of support from school staff, babysitting needs and additional medical attention for her son, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome and a heart murmur, made Belmontes feel that she couldn't go to school anymore.
She became part of the 90 percent of pregnant and parenting teens to drop out of school, according to the National Dropout Prevention Center.


The time flies like a bird. It has been in 1987, as Martin Pott, at that time a member of the sales force of a manufacturer of hand saws, took his decision to found an own company – and to manufacture the worlds best power tool accessory saw blades in the world. Born in Remscheid, the cradle of the German tooling industry, his life brought him to Trier; exactly it was Remscheid, a small village at the Mosel river, close to the German border. In 1996 the factory of MPS Sägen has been established, since that time many good saw blades left this place to be used by professional worker and industries.
All over the time the focus has ben put on the production line – from the start the factory has been equipped with very modern machines, used only highest quality raw materials, and hired highly skilled and qualified workers. Innovative and patented production technologies are the basement for a high acceptance and appreciation from the end user and power tool manufacturer, who enjoys to use the solutions from MPS.
Within 30 years a company was grown, which is supplying its products all over the world – to customer, who ask for it. Besides the usual quality, it is the innovative items that MPS regularly brings into the market, developed and designed on feedback we receive from the end-user.
Today we would like to thank all our partners for the successful cooperation within the past years, and we are looking for a great mutual future, full of new and interesting saw blades from MPS!


The month flew by. Spring green has ripened to the greens of summer: the oak leaves thickening, the ornamental conifers push bushy tufts of soft, balsam scented needles. The red, pink, yellow and creamy white roses, tea scented or musky or spicy.
Greetings from my Northern California family. Here we are at cousin Michele's house in Livermore having a reunion.
From China, Fenghui has shared a beautiful selfie with cherry blossoms. Feng has been attending Poetry Club at Tsinghua.
Stephen Wu from Hainan has sent a new picture from one of the hundreds of gorgeous waterfalls on this ancient volcanic island south of mainland China.
This September the China Penjing artists Association, Guangdong Penjing Association,and Dongguan City Government are sponsoring a major regional penjing competition and exhibit to promote LingNan penjing and penjing culture exchange.
An award winning tree from last year's competition.
More than 100 million people are expected to visit; most of them are mainland Chinese, some from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, Thailand, Europe, the USA, Australia, Viet Nam and Mexico.
Entries are submitted into regional categories: LingNan area including Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Hainan provinces and Hong Kong and Macau. Trees are competing for Mr.Penjing Award, First, Second and Third place awards.
interview penjing masters. Master CHEN's Penjing Plantation World's Largest Bonsai Market. It was at Master CHEN's plantation, sharing hot pot and toasting with plum wine, that the idea first emerged to conduct a tour inviting Western visitors to Chinese bonsai or penjing. And specifically, to LingNan style penjing as practiced in this Southern region of China.
We will visit China at the time of the annual Penjing Exhibition in September at the Int'l Exhibition Center in Dongguan, Guangdong. Tour includes six cities: Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan City, Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Quangzhou. Penjing gardens at every city, meet Chinese bonsai masters and tour world's largest bonsai market.
We will sample and experience cultural traditions of Taoist medicinal massage, Anmo, tea and cuisine, martial arts Kung Fu as well as contemporary music and dance performances.
Alan Feng and I have been crunching the numbers for a 12-day trip, balancing tour values with economy. We are trying to balance 60% Chinese bonsai with 40% other cultural sites and experiences. The Itinerary has a comprehensive list of things to do in the six cities. Send me a request for more info and I will forward you the Itinerary and Fact Sheet.
Since I closed and sold the Window Box Bonsai Accents & Art Gallery in 2011, I have enjoyed my remaining trees at home. This year, the Dunsmuir Garden Club had their annual flower show at the SAM (Siskiyou Art Museum) during Dogwood Daze. My satsuki azalea "Goko" was starting to show bloom that day. Now, more than a week later, you can see the full flowering.


Sen. Joe Lieberman's presidential campaign has won the backing of fellow Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who announced two weeks ago that he would not make his own run for the White House.
Dodd and Lieberman scheduled a joint news conference Monday and will announce the endorsement, according to the Lieberman campaign.
Dodd announced March 3 he would stay out of the presidential race to remain in the Senate and battle President Bush's agenda.
Lieberman, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, is one of nine Democrats vying for the presidential nomination next year.


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I have been the bad guy. I hated the bad guy.. (Nominative vs Accusative)
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But I am curious as to why sein/to be uses the nominative (right??) in the following:
"I have been/was the bad guy (in every film I acted in)" = NOM
"I hated the bad guy (in every film I've seen)" = AKK
Why is it that "be" doesn't "do the same" as any other verb?
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I can't find any instance of "to be" in this sentence.
And what do other verbs "do" that "be" doesn't?
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Standard Italian
English has almost completely lost declensions. These were (and still are in many languages, including German) a way to show the function of nouns, adjectives and pronouns in a sentence. Now, nominative is the 'case' of the subject, accusative the one of the direct object.
After ''to be'', nouns, pronouns and adjectives - as predicates - still refer to the subject, and must be in the nominative, whereas after transitive verbs you find the object, which must be in the accusative.
An example in English (with pronouns): Who is it that hates me? vs. whom do I hate?
I hope that my explanation is comprehensible to you.


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Reading the paper by Max Tegmark ["Why does deep and cheap learning work so well"](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.08225.pdf) is illuminating.

# The abstract:

The abstract of this paper already gives a very good introduction of the ideas presented. The main problem is tackled is why are neural networks working so well in reducing complexity? The answer is that random patterns in the universe are not really *random* but some kind of structures are always present. It is exactly on this phenomenon that neural networks are based.
For example physics is based on a number of conservation laws, symmetries and locality, which are all the essential ingredients that define, even in the presence of non-deterministic noise, how our universe works.

We show how the success of deep learning could depend not only on mathematics but also on physics: although well-known mathematical theorems guarantee that neural networks can approximate arbitrary functions well, the class of functions of practical interest can frequently be approximated through *cheap learning* with exponentially fewer parameters than generic ones.
We explore how properties frequently encountered in physics such as symmetry, locality, compositionality, and polynomial log-probability translate into exceptionally simple neural networks.
We further argue that when the statistical process generating the data is of a certain hierarchical form prevalent in physics and machine-learning, a deep neural network can be more efficient than a shallow one.
We formalize these claims using information theory and discuss the relation to the renormalization group.
We prove various *no-flattening theorems* showing when efficient linear deep networks cannot be accurately approximated by shallow ones without efficiency loss; for example, we show that $n$ variables cannot be multiplied using fewer than 2 neurons in a single hidden layer.

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| Physics                   | ML                                |
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| Hamiltonian $H$           | Surprisal $-\log p$               |
| Simple $H$                | Cheap learning                    |
| Quadratic $H$             | Gaussian $p$                      |
| Locality                  | Sparsity                          |
| Translation symmetric $H$ | Convolutional netw.               |
| Spin                      | Bit                               |
| Free energy difference    | KL-divergence                     |
| Effective theory          | Nearly lossles data distillation  |
| Irrelevant operator       | Noise                             |
| Relevant operator         | Feature                           |

In order to facilitate a comparison between the formalism used in computer science, mathematical probability and statistical physics, here I try to develop a small table where all the terms are translated in the two perspectives.
And we continue with the link between statistical physics and Bayesian theory, here in a small table (we set $k_B=1$)

| Physical perspective                                                        | Statistical perspective                                                                                |
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| Potential $\phi(\theta)$                                                    | Negative log-joint $\phi( \theta ) = - \log p(y, \theta \| m)$                                         |
| Boltzmann distribution $q(\theta)=\frac{1}{Z} \exp{-\beta \phi(\theta)}$    | Posterior distribution. $q(\theta)=\frac{1}{Z}\exp{-\log p(y,\theta \|m)}=\frac{1}{Z} p(y,\theta\|m)$  |
| Partition function $Z=\int \exp{-\beta \phi(\theta)}$                       | Model evidence $Z=\int p(y,\theta \| m)$                                                               |
| Internal energy $U=\int q(\theta) \phi(\theta) d\theta$                     | Expected log-joint $U=\int p(\theta \| y,m) \log p(y,\theta \|m) d\theta$                              |
| Entropy $S=-\int q(\theta) \log q(\theta) d\theta $                         | Shannon Entropy $S_{shannon} = -\int q(\theta) \log q(theta) d\theta$                                  |


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America Dreams American Movies: Film, Culture, and the Popular Imagination (Paperback)
By Marianna Torgovnick (Editor)
America Dreams American Movies: Film, Culture, and the Popular Imagination offers undergraduates in diverse areas of study an overview of how American cinema reflects the history of the United States. Rich in insight into groundbreaking artists, directors, and films that have stood the test of time, the book also offers practical advice on viewing and writing about film, and even on how students can create their own movies.
The text is organized into four units. The first covers basics including genres and terminology. The second introduces classic films, film stars, and the studio system, through World War II. Unit Three discusses post-war cinema, its connections to American society, and its notable auteurs. The final unit examines contemporary film-making, the rise of technology, and digital media. Each unit includes learning objectives, key terms, and pre-reading questions.
America Dreams American Movies is ideal for introductory film courses for both majors and non-majors in the discipline. Its nuanced exploration of the contexts in which films are made and viewed makes it an exciting supplemental text for courses in American studies and culture.
Marianna Torgovnick earned her undergraduate degree at New York University and her Ph.D. at Columbia University. A Fulbright lecturer and Guggenheim fellow, Dr. Torgovnick splits her time between teaching at Duke University in North Carolina, where she is a professor, and New York City, where she runs the Duke in New York Arts and Media program. An observer and critic of contemporary culture, Dr. Torgovnick is the author of The War Complex: World War II in Our Time, Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives, The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel, and several other books.
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Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Publication Date: December 15th, 2017


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BRM P201 — шасси команды British Racing Motors в «Формуле-1», использовавшееся с  по  годы. Это последний автомобиль, принёсший BRM очки в «Формуле-1».

British Racing Motors начали использовать BRM P201 с сезона 1974 Формулы-1 в качестве замены устаревающему BRM P160. Первый опыт — ЮАР, третий этап сезона — выдался успешным: Жан-Пьер Бельтуаз, стартовав 11-м, финишировал вторым. Бельтуаз продолжил выступать на BRM P201 до конца сезона, заняв пятое место на Гран-при Бельгии. Однако это были единственные очки, набранные на BRM P201, несмотря на то, что, начиная с Гран-при Швеции (седьмой гонки сезона), автомобиль использовался и другими пилотами BRM — Франсуа Миго, Анри Пескароло и Крисом Эймоном, примкнувшим к команде в двух последних гонках. В Кубке Конструкторов British Racing Motors стали седьмыми, набрав 10 очков. Жан-Пьер Бельтуаз занял 13-е место в чемпионате пилотов, будучи единственным пилотом BRM, набиравшим очки.

В сезоне 1975 Формулы-1 все пилоты BRM — Франсуа Миго, Анри Пескароло, Жан-Пьер Бельтуаз и Крис Эймон — покинули команду. Команда приняла участие лишь в 11 из 14 гонок сезона и всякий раз выставляла на них лишь одного пилота. В первых двух гонках сезона — Гран-при Аргентины и Бразилии — это был Майк Уайлдс, а в остальных девяти этапах, в которых BRM принимали участие, за команду ездил Боб Эванс. Ни одному из них не удалось набрать очков, а на Гран-при Монако Боб Эванс даже не прошёл квалификацию. В остальных гонках пилоты BRM стартовали с 20-го места и ниже.

В  единственным стартом British Racing Motors было Гран-при Бразилии. Выступавший на BRM P201 Ян Эшли стартовал 21-м и проехал лишь два круга, сойдя с трассы из-за дефекта маслонасоса.

Сезон 1977 Формулы-1 стал последним для команды British Racing Motors. В этом году основным автомобилем команды был BRM P207. Последней гонкой с участием BRM P201 стал второй этап сезона 1977, в котором Ларри Перкинс за рулём BRM P201 финишировал 15-м.

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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
NIH GUIDE, Volume 24, Number 5, February 10, 1995
Information Science/Systems
The Division of Cancer Etiology of the National Cancer Institute
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invite
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utilization of geographic information systems (GIS) and related
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statistical approaches for elucidating the geographic relationship
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cancer and other chronic diseases.  Interdisciplinary studies
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environmental health scientists, medical geographers and computer
specialists are particularly encouraged.
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laboratory and clinical investigations relating to the cause,
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Senior Air Force officials last week said they are confident the service would be able to go to war Jan. 1, 2000, after a critical Year 2000 exercise that involved dozens of the service's aircraft and key command and control systems revealed no major system failures.
The Y2K Flag exercise conducted last week at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., tested all critical systems needed by the Air Force to be able to go to war. In addition to command and control centers, the test involved fighter jets, such as the F-15 and F-16, as well as the full gamut of intelligence and reconnaissance aircraft.
"We'll be flying and fighting in January 2000 for sure," said Brig. Gen. Gary Ambrose, director of the Air Force Y2K Office. "We tested the whole [architecture] from sensor to shooter, [with only] minor failures and nuisance-like problems."
For example, some display systems experienced minor hiccups during the leap-year date change, requiring operators to manually reset the systems. However, no major command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) systems went blank or stopped operating, and critical information continued to flow, he said.
The Y2K Flag exercise was developed and carried out much like the Air Force's standard Red Flag series of exercises. Red Flag exercises, which are conducted up to six times each year, provide realistic combat training for pilots and C3I operators and can involve up to 100 aircraft, 300 aircrew members and more than 1,000 support people.
The portion of the exercise at Eglin Air Force Base focused on testing the Air Force's airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems, such as the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System. The AWACS is considered a mission-critical platform for the Air Force because of its role in identifying and directing fighter jets to enemy targets from more than 200 miles away.
"From a data-sharing [and] ISR standpoint, this is probably the most robust test we've done to date," Ambrose said.
Lt. Col. Willie Nunn, a member of the 605th Test Squadron specializing in AWACS testing and evaluation, said the AWACS aircraft continue to use 1970s- vintage computer systems and, surprisingly, experienced "no major" Year 2000 glitches. "With AWACS, we're talking about very early technology," Nunn said. "With these types of older systems, there are very few clock changes involved in the processing," he said.
Nunn said all of the AWACS' computer systems, which control programs ranging from mission planning to aircraft navigation, were tested for all major Year 2000-related date changes, including Sept. 9, 1999, and Jan. 1, Feb. 29 and March 1 in 2000. No major failures were recorded.
However, the 32 AWACS aircraft operated by the Air Force are scheduled to receive upgrades to most of their onboard computers that control the planes' radar and communications suites.
While the delivery of the upgraded systems is contingent upon future Defense budgets, one of the enhanced AWACS will be flown and tested for Year 2000 bugs during the upcoming Joint Expeditionary Aerospace Force Experiment 1999 exercise, Nunn said. JEFX 99 is expected to be "the granddaddy of Y2K testing," he said.
Tim Bass, president and chief executive officer of security consulting firm The Silk Road Group Ltd., who has consulted with the Air Force on many security issues, said the largest risk involving the Year 2000 date change is the effects of "malicious code insertion" during remediation efforts, in which people fixing a program introduce a virus or other code that causes harm.


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El Coronel y Doctor Antonio José Cañas (San Vicente, Intendencia de San Salvador, Reino de Guatemala, 26 de octubre de 1785 - Hacienda Jocomontique, actual Nueva Granada, El Salvador, 24 de febrero de 1844) fue un político, abogado y militar salvadoreño, que se desempeñó en dos ocasiones como jefe de Estado de El Salvador (1839, 1840), en calidad de Consejero de Estado, cuando el país formaba parte de la Federación Centroamericana, y como ministro de Hacienda y Guerra de El Salvador (1838-1839) (1842).

Biografía
Nació en Zacatecoluca el 26 de octubre de 1785 en el seno de una familia terrateniente criolla. Sus padres eran Pablo Cañas y Luisa de Villacorta. Era pariente del prócer José Simeón Cañas. Estudió en la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, donde obtuvo el grado de Doctor en Derecho Civil.

Poco después de ser proclamada la Independencia de Centroamérica, fue elegido miembro de la Junta Provincial de la Intendencia de San Salvador, en noviembre de 1821. En 1822, como diputado del Congreso Provincial, se opuso a la anexión de los territorios del Istmo al Imperio Mexicano de Agustín de Iturbide. Al ser invadido El Salvador en 1823 por las fuerzas del general mexicano Vicente Filísola, Cañas fue nombrado 2.º Comandante de las Armas Defensoras del Estado. Junto con el general Manuel José Arce, condujo la resistencia de las tropas salvadoreñas. En esta gesta alcanzó el grado de Coronel.

En julio de 1823, fue elegido diputado al Congreso Constituyente de las Provincias Unidas del Centro de América, donde se distinguió como orador.

En febrero de 1824, antes de que concluyera su período legislativo, fue designado por el Congreso como Ministro Plenipotenciario ante el gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América. Partió del puerto de Omoa, Honduras y en el junio de 1824 llegó, junto a su secretario Fernando Valero, a Newport como pasajero del brig "Mary". Llegó a la ciudad de Washington D.C. en el 31 de diciembre de 1824, donde se hospedó en la casa de un señor Scott. En el 5 de diciembre de 1825, Antonio José Cañas y el Secretario de Estado Henry Clay firmaron la Convención general de paz, amistad, comercio y navegación entre la Federación de Centro América y los Estados Unidos de América, el convenio fue ratificado por el presidente de los Estados Unidos, John Quincy Adams, en el 28 de octubre de 1826. En el 9 de septiembre de 1826, el señor P. P. de Cagigao llegó como pasajero de la goleta Francés a Savannah, Georgia, con un despacho para Antonio José Cañas que había sido nombrado ministro.

En 1826 regresó a El Salvador. Ese mismo año asumió como Ministro de Estado del Gobierno de la Federación que encabezaba, el general Arce. Ocupó ese cargo hasta 1829. Fue diputado al Congreso del Estado de El Salvador, en representación del departamento de San Vicente, (1830-1832). Apoyó al gobierno del jefe de Estado de El Salvador, el conservador José María Cornejo en su confrontación con el presidente federal, el liberal Francisco Morazán. Al ser derrotados los conservadores, el Dr. Cañas fue encarcelado en Guatemala y luego enviado a al exilio en México donde vivió hasta 1836.

A su regreso a El Salvador, en mayo de 1838 fue nombrado por el jefe de Estado, Timoteo Menéndez, como ministro general del Gobierno. Promovió la división del Ministerio General en cuatro despachos administrativos, quedando él, al frente de las carteras de Hacienda y Guerra. El 23 de mayo de 1839, asumió el Mando Supremo del Estado, en calidad de Consejero de Estado. El 11 de julio de ese año entregó la Jefatura del Estado al general Morazán. El 7 de abril de 1840, reasumió como Consejero de Estado, la dirección del poder ejecutivo, desempeñando estas funciones hasta el 20 de septiembre de 1840. Fue sucedido en el gobierno, por Norberto Ramírez.

El 16 de febrero de 1841, por iniciativa suya y del presbítero católico Narciso Monterrey, fue aprobado el Decreto Legislativo de Fundación de la Universidad de El Salvador por la Asamblea Constituyente reunida en ese entonces, ya que ambos personajes formaron parte de ella en calidad de diputados en ese mismo año.

Supremo Delegado de la Confederación de Centroamérica
Después se retiró brevemente a la vida privada, pero en 1842 fue elegido Senador. Ese mismo año fue designado como Ministro de Guerra y Hacienda en el gobierno de José Escolástico Marín y desempeñó su último cargo público como delegado salvadoreño en la Conferencia de Chinandega desde el 11 de marzo, donde los representantes de Honduras, Nicaragua y El Salvador trataron infructuosamente de restablecer la Unión de Centroamérica mediante la creación de la llamada Confederación de Centroamérica de la cual fue designado en el cargo de Supremo Delegado pero sin poder efectivo.

Muerte
En su hacienda de Jocomontique, donde estaba retirado, murió el Dr. Cañas, en el 24 de febrero de 1844.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Gobernantes de El Salvador
Militares de El Salvador
Alumnado de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Coroneles


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Sunday Sermon for March 25, 2018, Palm Sunday, Year B
Readings: Mk 11:1-10; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1-15:47
As we celebrate Palm Sunday we begin with a Gospel reading recounting our Lord's entrance into Jerusalem to the joyful shouts of the people proclaiming Him to be the Son of David, that is, the Messiah. Our Lord had preached and worked many miracles over the course of three Passovers (between two and three years), but the raising of Lazarus from the dead seems to have convinced the people from the area of Bethany that Jesus was, indeed, the Promised One. As our Lord came down the Mount of Olives from Bethany to Jerusalem, the people were singing His praises.
The raising of Lazarus also seems to have convinced another group of people that Jesus needed to be eliminated. Rather than looking upon Him as the Anointed One, they chose to look at Him as a scourge, as someone who was dangerous to the status quo. The Gospel for Mass, the Passion of our Lord, presents Jesus in Jerusalem, again with people shouting, but this time for His crucifixion. The only shouts of joy came when He was sentenced to death. As our Lord walked with a Cross on His shoulders from the Antonia Fortress to Golgotha (600-650 yards), the people were mocking Him.
These two Gospels not only form a set of bookends for this horrific turn of events, but they also tend to garner the focus of our thoughts and words during the Mass. With this in mind, I would like to fill in a few of the details that took place between these events (there is space for only a few). I think this is important because when we say our Lord was crucified, while being absolutely true, it glosses over the prolonged agony our Lord suffered due to our sins.
In the Garden, St. Luke tells us clots of blood were falling from our Lord like sweat. The word in Greek is thromboi, clots, not drops. This is from a rare condition called hematadrosis. The bursting of the capillaries beneath the skin causes the blood to intermingle with the sweat. Not only does this cause clotting of the blood all over the skin, but it causes the skin to be excessively sensitive to the touch. Even the smallest amount of pressure is extremely painful. In this condition He was roughed up pretty badly by the cohort that came to arrest Him.
The betrayal by Judas and the abandonment by His Apostles must have caused a fair amount of anguish, but not as much as when St. Peter denied Him three times. This was during His trial at the home of the High Priest where the very men chosen to serve God now stood in judgment of God, found Him worthy of death, and led Him off to the Romans to kill Him. God was betrayed by His priests.
When the people called for His death, our Lord was handed over to be scourged. The Jews allowed only 39 lashes, but the Romans had no such limitation. From the Shroud of Turin it appears our Lord was scourged with two whips and a bundle of flexible rods. A Roman flagrum, the scourge used by the Romans, was made of either three or seven stands of leather with balls of stone, glass or steel fastened to the end of each strand. It appears two flagri were used; one had two balls on each strand and one had three on each. The body on the shroud shows 196 marks from the lashes and 372 bloodstains from both kinds of scourging (flagri and rods); there are 213 wounds on His back, and 159 on His front side.
When the soldiers crucified Him, the nails would have been put through the wrist, not through the hand as we usually see it. There is nothing in the hand that could hold the weight of the body and the nails would tear out from between the fingers. When the nails were put into the wrists they would have hit the median nerve causing pain that normally causes a person to pass out; there is no evidence our Lord allowed Himself this respite from the agony. The nail was put through the feet was to keep the person alive longer. The wrists could hold the weight of the body, but the person would die in minutes of asphyxia. With every muscle in His body cramping, our Lord had to pull up on His wrists and push up on the nail in His feet to breathe. Couple this with severe dehydration causing the pulling apart of most of His joints, His shredded flesh, and thorns, not like a wreath, but like a cap, pushing into His skull, and you realize our beautiful crucifixes with gold bodies fail to convey the full horror of what happened in the Passion.
Sunday Sermon for July 29, 2018, the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Sunday Sermon for December 22, 2013, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A
Sunday Sermon for November 24, 2013, the Solemnity of Christ the King, Year C


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Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
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Continuing right after where the previous instalment left us (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Rey finally discovers Luke Skywalker and begins to question him about her unknown abilities. Meanwhile, the Resistance (which includes Leia, Finn, Poe etc) are under heavy attack as the First Order closes on the Resistance once and for all.
As many fans are aware, the pacing and story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been said to be very similar to Star Wars: A New Hope. Interesting enough, Star Wars: The Last Jedi has a much more unpredictable approach in regards to its plot and characters. During the entire duration of The Last Jedi, I felt this change was respectful to all previous instalments, and didn't just copy or emulate another Star Wars film.
The Last Jedi is directed by Rian Johnson (Best known for directing films such as Looper and Brick) and this is actually Rian's first time directing a Star Wars film. Rian does bring many positive things to the film. One major strong point was to see the existing characters we loved from The Force Awakens return and grow to the next level. Another strong point is the action sequences, which are also rather enjoyable and stunning to see. I can't imagine anyone complaining about seeing the ships in the air or witnessing the amazing and fun light sabre battles that occur throughout the film. The film's action, effects and soundtrack are also top notch (which I would personally demand from any Star Wars film!).
As the Star Wars universe grows bigger, The Last Jedi thankfully gives fans some answers as well as some more questions and new characters. And it is within some of these areas that some issues brew and where long time fans around the world (including myself) can be disappointed. As new supporting characters are introduced, I found it very hard for most of them (or perhaps all of them) to be likeable. Other than the main cast and crew, I found any new characters pointless to the film's main plot. These new characters also take up space on the film's runtime and create side plots that could have been enjoyed more if some editing was done the final cut. For me personally, this was my biggest issue with the film. The Last Jedi has a great story to tell but it suffers due to these small issues.
While the previous film, The Force Awakens, has been claimed to feel like a copy of A New Hope, its pacing was fast and the film always felt like something exciting was just around the corner. The ending also left viewers wanting to have more. The Last Jedi's pacing does differ from the previous film and scenes are slowed right down. The film also becomes sidetracked with side plots just when the main plot was picking up.
Overall The Last Jedi has many positive things to speak about. The director has made many brave choices in regards to plot. The film looks and sound amazing, as well as staying true to the galaxy we all love. We can talk about the overall plot and minor elements within the film's story, but in the end I can truly respect what director Rian Jonhson has made here. He has made some bold choices in order to keep the Star Wars franchise feeling different and fresh. Certain minor plot details can be questionable, but in the end, as Star Wars fans we did demand something different and not just what could have been a copy of "The Empire Strikes Back". Even with all these benefits, I'm proud to admit that I enjoyed the previous instalment "The Force Awakens" more.
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This series follows the Dutton Family, owners of the well-known ranch called "Yellowstone". John Dutton, the father of the family and owner of the ranch, are supported in his every move by his children, Jamie (Wes Bentley), Beth (Kelly Reilly) & Kayce (Luke...
Drive (2011) – OUT NOW ON BLURAY & DVD!
A mysterious man (Ryan Gosling) works as a stunt driver for many major Hollywood films. When a movie needs a car to crash into a wall or perhaps do a flip over, this is the man who is called in to do the job. When he is not working on a movie set, the...
A Dark Place | Steel Country (2018) – OUT NOW DVD!
Set in a town in Western Pennsylvania, A Dark Place follows a man named Donald (Andrew Scott). Donald gets up every day and drives a large garbage truck collecting trash, taking notice of the people in his daily routine. One day Donald notices that a young boy...
Paydirt (2020) – OUT NOW ON DVD!
After a DEA bust goes terribly and the lives of police officers are lost, criminal Damian Brooks (Luke Goss) ends up in jail, and the man in charge of the arrest, Sheriff Tucker (Val Kilmer), is stood down from his job. But after six years in prison, Damian is...
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) – OUT NOW ON BLURAY!
Morris Brummel (George Segal) is a single man who still lives with his mother. Morris is also a police detective. One day while Morris is enjoying a home-cooked meal he receives a phone call to attend an apartment building immediately and investigate the murder...
Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) – OUT NOW ON BLURAY!
Sean (Andy Garcia) is a new and upcoming lawyer working for the District Attorney in the city of Manhattan. Sean's life takes a significant turn when his father (who is a police officer) is gunned down and badly wounded during a stake-out. Given the family...
Playing With Fire (2019) – OUT NOW ON BLURAY & DVD!
The film immediately introduces watchers to a team of smokejumpers who are also known as elite group firefighters. The group consists of Captain Jake (John Cena), Mark (Keegan-Michael Key), Rodrigo (John Leguizamo) & a giant man who never speaks named Axe (Tyler...
Fatima (2020) – OUT NOW ON DVD!
The film opens with the introduction of Professor Nichols (Harvey Keitel) who is writing a book about the topic of religion. He's been travelling around the world, interviewing people who have had personal religious experiences. To complete his novel, the...
A Man Called Sledge (1970) – OUT NOW ON DVD!
Set in the Old West, the film follows a man named Sledge. Sledge is an outlaw and a skilled gunfighter who spends many days roaming the land in search of gold and treasure. Sledge is also in love with a woman, but he has always set the hunt for vast riches as a higher...
The Current War (2020) OUT NOW ON BLURAY & DVD!
The Current War follows the lives of three men who changed the world forever by introducing electrical inventions. The men I am referring to are Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) & Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult). In case...
The Standoff At Sparrow Creek (2018) – OUT NOW ON DVD!
Gannon (James Badge Dale) is a former cop-turned-militia man. After Gannon spends an afternoon hunting, he soon hears gunfire and explosions nearby. He then receives a phone call telling him to meet up with his fellow crew at a nearby warehouse. It's revealed during...
Friday The 13th (1980) – AVAILABLE ON BLURAY & DVD!
A small group of counsellors decide to attempt to reopen a campsite known as Crystal Lake. But little does this group know that once upon a time a tragic event occurred at this location. Many members within the community call Crystal Lake a cursed area and say...
Les Misérables (2019) – NOW AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL!
Inspired by the Paris Riots which occurred in 2005, a police officer named Stephane (Damien Bonnard) moves to Montfermeil due to personal reasons. He is the newest member to join the Anti-Crime Squad. Montfermeil is where the author Victor Hugo set his well-known...
Capone (2020) – OUT NOW ON BLURAY & DVD
Al Capone (Tom Hardy) has just finished serving a ten-year prison sentence for his crimes. Released from prison, he returns home to his wife and family. Capone is now 47 years old and the police are keeping an eye on his activities for the remainder of his...
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