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8 Characters You Will Likely Meet at Your Golf Club
By: Derek Clements | Tue 05 Oct 2021 | Comments
MANY people have either joined a golf club for the first time in the past 15 months or so or have taken the decision to rejoin. All golf clubs are different, of course, but there are some characters you are likely to meet.
I have played this game for more years than I care to remember and my work has taken me to many different parts of the country. As a result, I have been a member of several golf clubs, and my experiences have been pretty mixed.
They all depend upon a hard core of characters. These are just a few of the individuals you may encounter...
THE BAR STEWARD
The man or woman who determines the warmth of your welcome when you enter the clubhouse. What you want is to enter the bar and see him or her already pouring out your drink. What you get, all too often, is a sniffy individual who looks down his or her nose at you. He knows what you want to drink because you always have the same thing. But, as a matter of principle, he won't even lift a glass until you make your order. And he loves it when you order a steak sandwich and he is able to tell you: "Sorry, we've run out of steak."
HANDICAP SECRETARY
One of the most important individuals at the club. So you really don't want to be having a drink with him in the clubhouse and hear him tell you: "You know what Derek? I really don't understand the World Handicap System."
A good club professional can make or break a golf club. When you walk into his shop you want to be greeted with a smile, you want to know that the place is well stocked and you want to know that he isn't going to rip you off. You also hope that if you ever go to him for lessons he knows what he is doing. I went to a nearby local club for a lesson after hearing from a few friends that the pro was the best teacher they had ever come across. The practice ground was across the road and as we walked over, the pro, who was as bald as a coot, told me a couple of jokes. He asked to me to hit a few shots and as I was warming up he reached into his back pocket and turned his back to me. When he turned round he was wearing a tartan cap with ginger hair sticking out. I cracked up. He believed it was important that his pupils felt relaxed and this was his way of achieving it. Genius! And a fabulous teacher, and somebody I still go back to when things go awry.
ASSISTANT PRO
You turn up for a 7am start - the assistant pro is in the shop. You turn up for a 6pm start during the summer - the assistant pro is in the shop. When he turned pro he dreamt of following in the footsteps of Rory McIlroy. The reality is usually very different. Life as an assistant pro is a tough gig. But here's the thing - this is the sport that they love. They are young, they are enthusiastic and, no matter what time of day you come across them in the shop, they ALWAYS greet you with a smile and engage you in conversation.
THE GREENKEEPER
Everybody has an opinion about the head greenkeeper. He is the man (or woman) who dictates the condition of your course. And they are individuals who probably receive more criticism than anybody else at your club. They can be a law unto themselves.
Let me tell you a story…I was playing in a fourball and we came to the par-five third. For the first time in my life I found the green in two. I couldn't be sure, but it looked like my ball had finished about six feet from the hole, giving me a great chance of making an eagle. The three guys I was with all hit their approach shots. There were four balls on the green. From the left, our head greenkeeper appeared, walked onto the green, removed the flag, picked up all four of our golf balls and threw them off the front of the putting surface. With that, he then clambered onto his mower and drove it onto the green. I was incandescent. "Gordon, why did you do that?" I asked. "I have to cut the green," he replied. "Couldn't you have waited until we had putted out?" "No. There's another fourball coming up behind you. I would be here all day." When we finished our round I went to see the secretary to complain. The response? "Well, he does have a job to do Derek." And that was the moment when I realised that a) our secretary was frightened of Gordon, and b) your greenkeeper is the single most important person at your golf club.
This is the old boy who occupies the leather armchair in the corner. He drives a Jaguar or a Mercedes. He wears a blazer, shirt and tie. Always. No matter how sweltering hot it is. Nobody has ever seen him out on the course. He is always there, giving the impression that he is sitting there reading his copy of The Daily Telegraph. In actual fact, he is probably sound asleep. The only time he ever moves is to reach forward for his gin and tonic.
If you are lucky, you have a young-ish, forward thinking individual at the helm, somebody who embraces new technology, ensures that he has the email addresses of each and every one of his members, keeps the club website up to date and relevant to the 21st century. If you are not quite so lucky, the secretary is somebody who should have retired years ago, doesn't know what email, Twitter or Instagram are, spends most of his time out on the course and sees the members as an inconvenience.
Why is it that so many club captains are so set in their ways? I just don't get it. And they are usually the last person on earth that you would actually want to occupy such an important position. What you want is somebody who is adaptable to change. What you usually get is somebody who spends most of their 12 months in office saying something like: "We've always done it this way." And is usually somebody who is part of a clique, who ensures that only his mates are chosen for club matches.
So, how many of Derek's characters do you recognise from your own golf club? Let us know if there are any other types that need to be included!
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Man accused of exposing himself to children at Charlotte bus stops arrested
CMPD identified the man Thursday as 37-year-old Eric Henderson, warning parents as he was still being sought. Officials say Henderson was taken into custody without incident.
By WBTV Web Staff | May 13, 2019 at 5:30 PM EDT - Updated May 17 at 1:36 PM
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A man police say exposed himself at Charlotte-area bus stops has been arrested, CMPD sources confirmed Thursday afternoon.
At least 8 incidents have occurred at or near Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and CATS bus stops between February 1 and May 2, police say, and there is a "strong possibility" they are all connected. Henderson faces charges of felony indecent exposure, misdemeanor indecent exposure and indecent liberties with a child.
#BREAKING: @CMPD has identified the man they say they're looking for in recent indecent exposure cases at Charlotte bus stops. They are looking for Eric Henderson, DOB: 3/10/82.
— Molly Grantham WBTV (@MollyGrantham) May 16, 2019
In all the incidents a man has pulled up to a child who was alone at a bus stop and exposed his genitals or masturbated, officers said at a press conference Monday.
The victims were all females between the ages of 8 and 18 and none were physically harmed or touched. However, police say, the man did try to talk to several of the victims and even offered one money to "watch him."
In at least one case, Henderson was described as being completely nude.
The man, later identified as Henderson, was initially described as a black male between 20 and 30 years old with short hair and a thin build. He was driving a white, older-model 4-door sedan.
According to the Mecklenburg County Jail, Henderson has a prior indecent exposure offense.
The incidents occurred:
May 2, 2:47 p.m. in the 7000 Block of Barcliff Drive
May 2, 12:08 p.m. at the corner of Autumn Ridge Drive and Cypress Pond Drive
April 25, 9:25 a.m. in the 6100 block of Bent Tree Court
April 22, 4:08 p.m. at the corner of N. Pine Street and W. 28th Street
April 18, 1:40 p.m. in the 6500 block of Rumple Road
March 26, 2:03 p.m. in the 4200 block of Carrowmore Place
February 4, 8:17 a.m. in the 1400 block of Marble Street
February 1, 12:49 p.m. in the 1700 block of McAllister Drive
A reward of up to $1,000 was being offered for information on Henderson's whereabouts.
Police are urging parents to talk to their children. Any child who encounters a situation or individual who seems threatening or makes them uncomfortable should get away as fast as they can and get help immediately.
This investigation is active and ongoing. CMPD is continuing to investigate all of these cases to determine whether they are connected..
Anyone with information is asked to Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600 or visit their website.
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Atemstütze () bezeichnet beim Gesang oder beim Spielen eines Blasinstruments die gesteuerte Atemtechnik. Der Begriff wird sehr unterschiedlich verstanden, da die unterschiedlichen Musikinstrumente und die menschliche Stimme verschiedene Atemtechniken erfordern. Generell handelt es sich jedoch immer um eine bewusst muskulär geführte Ausatmungstechnik, die letztlich dazu führt, dass der Ton in der gewünschten Art erklingt. Bei der Atemstütze werden in der Regel mehr Muskelgruppen (Bauch-, Brust- und Rückenmuskulatur) aktiv betätigt als bei der normalen Atmung, und sie ist eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für den korrekten Stimmansatz.

Der Akustiker Fritz Winckel definierte die Stütze (bezogen auf den Gesang) wie folgt:

Atemtechnik
Dem Menschen stehen die beiden nachfolgend beschriebenen Arten der Atmung zur Verfügung: Brustatmung und Bauchatmung. Physiologisch empfiehlt sich die sogenannte Costo-Abdominalatmung, eine Kombination aus Brust- und Bauchatmung.

Brustatmung

Die Brustatmung erfolgt mit der Zwischenrippenmuskulatur. Kontraktion der äußeren Zwischenrippenmuskeln führt zur Erweiterung, ihre Entspannung zur Einengung des Brustkorbes, Kontraktion der inneren Zwischenrippenmuskeln führt zur Einengung, ihre Entspannung zur Erweiterung des Brustkorbes. Zusätzlich, z. B. bei Erschöpfung, können weitere Brust- und Halsmuskeln zur Atmung eingesetzt werden, so z. B. die Musculi scaleni oder, nach Aufstützen (Fixierung) der Arme, der Musculus serratus anterior.

Bauchatmung

Die Bauchatmung arbeitet auf Grundlage des Zwerchfells, einer Muskelplatte, die Brust- und Bauchraum trennt – und durch deren Anspannung sich die Lunge in Richtung Bauchhöhle ausdehnen kann.

Stützvorgang
Der sorgsamen Pflege der Atemstütze kommt eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Durch sie wird der Luftstrom so verdichtet, dass er den nötigen Innendruck erhält, um als "erregende Kraft" die Stimmlippen zum Widerstand zu veranlassen und sie einwandfrei zur Funktion zu bringen. Die richtige Atemstütze beruht auf einem gelösten Wechselspiel zwischen tiefgestelltem Zwerchfell und leicht gehobener Brustmuskulatur (aus diesem Grunde unterscheidet man auch die Zwerchfellstütze von der Bruststütze). Die normale Ruheatmung stellt eine Kombination aus beiden Atemlagen (Brust- und Bauchatmung) dar, wobei die jeweilige Ausprägung von Geschlecht, Lebensalter, körperlichem Zustand, Konstitution und Gewohnheit abhängt. Bei willkürlicher Tiefatmung wird ein großer Teil des Lungenvolumens ausgeschöpft – beim Sprechen muss jedoch der Luftstrom durch die Artikulation immer wieder unterbrochen werden und dadurch kann die gesamte Luftkapazität nicht unmittelbar genutzt werden.

Häufige Atemfehler und Missverständnisse
Die häufigsten Atemfehler sind
 übermäßiger Einsatz von Ausatemhilfsmuskulatur (zum Beispiel Bauchmuskeln – "Bauchpresse")
 häufiger Gebrauch des exspiratorischen Reservevolumens ("Überziehen" des Ausatembogens)
 zu kurzes beziehungsweise zu flaches Atmen,
 unruhige Atemgebung,
 schlechte Atembalance und
 fehlendes Appoggio (Stütze).

Der Begriff "Stütze" verleitet gegebenenfalls zur Vorstellung von etwas allzu Festem. Deshalb empfiehlt sich der konkretere Begriff "Atemrückhaltekraft" (siehe oben Zitat von Fritz Winckel). Fritz Winckels Definition und auch der Begriff "Atemrückhaltekraft" hingegen beschreiben weniger missverständlich, dass es sich beim Appoggio um ein Dosieren der Ausatmung hauptsächlich mittels der Einatemmuskulatur handelt.

Literatur
 Günther Habermann: Stimme und Sprache. 2. Auflage. Thieme, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-13-556002-3.
 Helmut Martinetz: Die klingende Visitenkarte. Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8398-1.
 Elke Gallenmüller: Die Bedeutung der Atemstütze für Bläser. In: Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin, 11. Jg. (2004), Nr. 3, S. 109 ff. (online; PDF; 152 kB).

Atmung
Stimmbildung
Gesangstechnik
Spieltechnik (Blasinstrumente)
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Solving a Rubik's Cube tests key mind skills – memory and visual thinking and sometimes challenges in life can be overcome.
It took Ernõ Rubik more than a month to solve his namesake puzzle the first time. Today, competitive cuber's can best the classic brain teaser in less than five seconds, and casual players can do it in minutes. Their not-so-secret weapon is math. More specifically: algorithms. Devising or memorizing sequences of moves that accomplish a particular goal—for instance, swapping two corners—is key to cracking your Rubik's Cube. When game designers start stacking more layers onto a standard 3-by-3-by-3-square cuboid, it doesn't change those algorithms much; it just makes the solve mega-tedious. But changing other variables like rotation angles and block depths creates puzzles for many skill levels and breaking points.
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to solve a Rubik's Cube. That's just over 43 quintillion for the less numerically minded. But don't try to figure them all out – at a rate of one turn per second, it would take you 1.4 trillion years to make your way through all the configurations!
'When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself. Erno Ribik.'
What's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything? In Douglas Adams' science fiction spoof 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', the answer was 42; the hardest part turned out to be finding the real question. I find it very appropriate that Adams joked about 42 because mathematics has played a striking role in our growing understanding of the universe.
The idea that everything is, in some sense, mathematical goes back at least to the Pythagoreans of ancient Greece and has spawned centuries of discussion among physicists and philosophers. In the 17th century, Galileo famously stated that our universe is a "grand book" written in the language of mathematics. More recently, the Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner argued in the 1960s that "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences" demanded an explanation.
Soon, we'll explore a really extreme explanation. However, first we need to clear up exactly what we're trying to explain. Isn't math all about numbers? You can probably spot a few numbers here and there but these are just symbols invented and printed by people, so they can hardly be said to reflect our universe being mathematical in any deep way.
When you look around you, do you see any geometric patterns or shapes? Here again, human-made designs like the rectangular shape of a book or a magazine don't count. But try throwing a pebble, and watch the beautiful shape that nature makes for its trajectory.
The trajectories of anything you throw have the same shape, called an upside-down parabola. When we observe how things move around in orbits in space, we discover another recurring shape: the ellipse. Moreover, these two shapes are related: The tip of a very elongated ellipse is shaped almost exactly like a parabola. So, in fact, all of these trajectories are simply parts of ellipses.
We humans have gradually discovered many additional recurring shapes and patterns in nature, involving not only motion and gravity, but also electricity, magnetism, light, heat, chemistry, radioactivity and subatomic particles. These patterns are summarized by what we call our laws of physics. Just like the shape of an ellipse, all these laws can be described using mathematical equations.
Equations aren't the only hints of mathematics that are built into nature: There are also numbers. As opposed to human creations like the page numbers in this magazine, I'm now talking about numbers that are basic properties of our physical reality.
For example, how many pencils can you arrange so that they're all perpendicular (at 90 degrees) to each other? The answer is 3, by placing them along the three edges emanating from a corner of your room. Where did that number 3 come sailing in from? We call this number the dimensionality of our space, but why are there three dimensions rather than four or two or 42?
There's something very mathematical about our universe, and the more carefully we look, the more math we seem to find. So, what do we make of all these hints of mathematics in our physical world?
Let's look at mathematics in a wider context:
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2. "Computation is different from mathematics." Math mostly isn't computable ( = unsolvable). But matter computes (it always knows what to do).
3. For Bach, physics is about "finding an algorithm that can reproduce" the data. He calls this computationalism, but "algomorphism" better emphasizes algorithmic structure.
4. Algorithms are detailed instructions, recipes that specify every ingredient and processing step. Beyond Bach's desire for computability, algorithms can better express critical properties of sequence and conditionality.
5. The algebraic equation language (AEL) that physicists are trained to love has key limitations (classic case "the 3 body problem").
6. Deeper consequences lurk in AEL's grammar. X + Y = Y + X, but cart before horse ≠ horse before cart. Sequences often matter (in life, even if not in AEL syntax).
7. Some seek only AEL. Sabine Hossenfelder challenges anyone "to write down any equation … that allows … free will." Perhaps AEL can't paint the needed picture?
8. Freeman Dyson says "the reduction of other sciences to physics does not work." Living cells aren't best viewed just "as a collection of atoms."
9. Your bag of atoms, to be you, takes mind-bogglingly complex processes, orchestrating trillions of ingredient atoms (= massively sequential, utterly algorithmic, not algebraic).
10. Biology also needs algorithmic logic because life unavoidably involves choosing (like choosing what to avoid to avoid being eaten). Algorithms provide a language naturally fit to describe choosing. AEL can't easily express rules like, "If predator, then run; otherwise graze."
11. Natural selection is itself a meta-algorithm. Likewise economics (~productivity selection) is deeply algorithmic (sadly its modelers mainly write AEL).
12. The universe abounds with algorithms in action. Physics has mostly painted AEL-suited pictures. But life expresses richer logic in its empirical patterns.
13. Choosing is key (as is choosing the right language). Even non-living systems — e.g., computers — embody choosing logic.
14. Babies, of necessity great causality detectors, distinguish two pattern types — physicsy things (=unchoosing) from what's living (=exhibits "contingency patterns").
15. What if systems could be described by a "choosing quotient," CQ, that works sorta like electric charge. Things with electric charge (net charge > 0) do things that things without it don't. Perhaps CQ > 0 systems can use energy to respond differently than physics' CQ=0 systems?
16. Causation itself could be pictured as that which enables transitions between algorithmically computable states.
17. AEL can't usefully paint all empirical patterns. Algorithms provide a richer palette.
The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, which states that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure, to answer this question….we need to take a closer look at mathematics. To a modern logician, a mathematical structure is precisely this: a set of abstract entities with relations between them. This is in stark contrast to the way most of us first perceive mathematics — either as a sadistic form of punishment or as a bag of tricks for manipulating numbers.
Modern mathematics is the formal study of structures that can be defined in a purely abstract way, without any human baggage. Think of mathematical symbols as mere labels without intrinsic meaning. It doesn't matter whether you write "two plus two equals four," "2 + 2 = 4".
The notation used to denote the entities and the relations is irrelevant; the only properties of integers are those embodied by the relations between them.
In summary, there are two key points to take away: The External Reality Hypothesis implies that a "theory of everything" (a complete description of our external physical reality) has no baggage, and something that has a complete baggage-free description is precisely a mathematical structure.
The bottom line is that if you believe in an external reality independent of humans, then you must also believe that our physical reality is a mathematical structure. Everything in our world is purely mathematical — including you.
As Erno Rubik once said:
"If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things."
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From biotechnology and digital media to sustainable energy and cloud computing, almost everything today is somehow affected—and sometimes entirely reshaped—by scientific and technological advances.
As a society, we have come to take the fruits of science for granted, such as our use of computers, our access to running water and electricity, and our dependence on various forms of transportation and communication. But all such benefits follow from the discoveries and inventions of scientists as they pursue deep insights into the workings of nature and its materials.
Some scientists are enormously influential as culture critics or public intellectuals. In this respect, figures like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss, or Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould a generation back, come to mind.
Biochemists study the structure, composition, chemical processes and chemical reactions in living organisms. They analyse the chemical reactions in the cells and tissues of living things, study the expression of genes, and research on the effects of food, medicine and other substances on living tissues. Biochemistry is an interdisciplinary field and encompasses elements of molecular biology, molecular genetics, microbiology, and organic and inorganic chemistry. Pure research in biochemistry is conducted to further human knowledge of the subject while applied research is conducted to solve practical problems.
The work of biochemists is applicable to a variety of fields like medicine, food science, agriculture and industry. In human and veterinary medicine, biochemists analyze drug function and mechanism, and help in the development of new drugs. Biochemists engaged in agriculture and food science determine the chemical composition of foods to explore different sources of nutritious food, and study the effects of herbicides and other chemicals on crop plants. They use advanced tools and techniques like radioactive isotopes, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, electron microscopes and specialized software to perform experiments.
When I was younger, I remember studying the work of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and microbiologist who developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is also credited with the invention of the technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process named "pasteurisation" after him.
One of the pioneers in the field of microbiology, Pasteur, along with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch, is regarded as one of the three main founders of bacteriology. Born as the son of a tanner who had served in the Napoleonic Wars, Louis grew up listening to his father's patriotic tales which instilled in him a deep love for his country. As a young boy he loved to draw and paint, but his parents wanted him to focus on his studies. He was an average student who even failed in his first attempt to clear the entrance test for École Normale Supérieur though he eventually went on complete his doctorate.
In his career as a chemist he disproved many of the long-held erroneous "scientific" beliefs such as the concept of spontaneous generation. He received international acclaim for developing the first vaccination against rabies and for his seminal work in the field of germ theory. Although much renowned for his ground-breaking scientific works, Pasteur's life has also been the subject of several controversies.
You have to feel nostalgic when you start to think of some of the greatest discoveries ever created, and just maybe without these genius biochemists we may not even have the revolutionary world that exists today, here are some of those great discoveries:
1. Galileo Galilei (1564 to 1642)
Legend has it that in order to test how gravity worked, Galileo dropped two balls, a heavy one and a light one, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that they landed at the same time. Historians doubt this – because his actual experiment was much better.
The Italian carved a groove down the centre of a board about 20 feet long and 10 inches wide. Then he propped it at an angle and timed how quickly the balls rolled down the track. What he discovered was that the distance the ball travels is proportional to the square of the time that has elapsed. But how, in an age before clocks, could Galileo measure this so precisely? He probably used music. Along the ball's path, he placed cat-gut frets, like those on a lute. As the rolling ball clicked against the frets, Galileo sang a tune, using the upbeats to time the motion and discover a new law.
2. William Harvey (1578 to 1657)
Galen had taught that the body contains two separate vascular systems: a blue "vegetative" fluid, the elixir of nourishment and growth, coursed through the veins, while a bright red "vital" fluid travelled through the arteries, activating the muscles and stimulating motion. Invisible spirits, or "pneuma", caused the fluids to slosh back and forth like the tides. The heart just went along for the ride, expanding and contracting like a bellows.
Harvey was dubious. Cutting open a snake, he used a forceps to pinch the main vein, or vena cava, just before it entered the heart. The space downstream from the obstruction emptied of blood, while the heart grew paler and smaller, as though it were about to die. When Harvey released the grip, the heart refilled and sprung back to life. Pinching the heart's main artery had the opposite effect: the space between heart and forceps became gorged with blood, inflating like a balloon. It was the heart, not invisible spirits, that was the driving motor, pushing red blood to the extremities of the body, where it passed into the bluish veins and returned to the heart for rejuvenation. There was one kind of blood and it moved in a circle: it circulated.
3. Isaac Newton (1642 to 1727)
In Newton's day, Europe's great scientists believed that white light was pure and fundamental. When it bounced off a coloured object or passed through a tinted liquid or glass, it became stained somehow with colour – whatever "colour" was. Newton, holed up in a dark room at his family farm in Woolsthorpe, turned the idea on its head. He cut a hole in his window shutter and held a prism in the path of the sun, spreading the light into an oblong spectrum.
Then he funnelled the spectrum through a second prism. White again. Finally, he allowed the colours to pass, one by one, through the second prism. Starting at the red end and progressing toward the blue, each colour was bent a little more by the glass. Light, Newton had discovered, "consists of rayes differently refrangible". It was white that was the mongrel – not just another colour, but a combination of them all, a "heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rayes".
4. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743 to 1794)
In the 18th century, the conventional wisdom was that things burned because they contained something called phlogiston. Set a piece of wood on fire and it exuded this mysterious essence, leaving behind a pile of ash. Wood, it logically followed, was composed of phlogiston and ash.
Likewise, heating a metal under an intense flame left a whitish brittle substance, or calx. Metal was thus composed of phlogiston and calx. But Lavoisier was troubled by one thing: with the phlogiston expelled, the calx was heavier than the original metal. How could phlogiston weigh less than zero? By cooking mercury in a flask, he showed that, as the calx formed, something was sucked from the surrounding air. He isolated the gas and lit a taper, noting that it burned "with a dazzling splendour". Calx was not metal without phlogiston, but metal combined with what Lavoisier would name oxygen. Left behind in the flask was a gas that extinguished flames – what we now call nitrogen. Fire and rust produced similar reactions. Lavoisier had discovered the nature of oxidation – and the chemical composition of the air.
5. Luigi Galvani (1737 to 1798)
One day in Bologna, Galvani was startled to see a dismembered frog's leg twitch when an assistant cranked a static electricity generator on the far side of the laboratory. The same effect occurred during lightning storms. Even more remarkably, Galvani found, the frog's leg would move, seemingly of its own accord, as it hung from a hook, even in the clearest weather. He concluded that some kind of animal electricity was involved. His compatriot Alessandro Volta was just as sure that the electricity was non-biological, produced by the touching of two different metals: the frog's leg had hung on a brass hook from an iron rail.
Though neither man could quite see it, they were dancing around a single truth. Volta confirmed that electricity can indeed come from two metals – he had invented the battery. But Galvani went on to show that there is also electricity in the body.
Taking a dissected frog, he nudged a severed nerve against another using a probe made of glass. No metal was involved, but when nerve touched nerve, the muscle contracted, as surely as if someone had closed a switch.
6. Michael Faraday (1791 to 1867)
In his youth, Faraday had performed a suite of experiments showing the linkage between electricity and magnetism, inventing, along the way, the electric motor and the dynamo. But by the time he was 53, he had fallen into a deep depression.
Maybe it was a barrage of flirtatious correspondence from Lady Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Byron, that snapped him out of his funk: whatever the cause, he decided to push the unification a step further, and show that electricity and magnetism are related to light.
Using an Argand oil lamp, Faraday projected polarised light through a block of glass, alongside of which sat a powerful electromagnet. Holding a polarising filter, called a Nicol prism, to his eye, he rotated it until the light was extinguished. Then he switched on the current. The image of the flame suddenly reappeared. He turned the magnet off and the flame disappeared. The magnetic field, he realised, was twisting the light beam – and if the polarity of the field was reversed, the light beam rotated the other way. Faraday had unified two more forces, demonstrating that light was actually a form of electromagnetism.
7. James Joule (1818 to 1889)
Lavoisier had done away with phlogiston, but before his death he had introduced the idea of caloric, his name for an invisible substance – a "subtle fluid" – said to be the carrier of heat.
Put a metal poker in a fire, he argued, and the caloric will rise up the shaft until you can feel the warmth in the handle. According to this theory, the reason something gets hot when you rub it is because you abrade the surface and let some caloric out.
But why, no matter how long you rubbed, did the heat keep coming? Either there was an infinite supply of caloric in every object or, as Joule suspected, heat was something else altogether. With a rigging of pulleys and weights, he spun a paddle wheel inside a vessel of water and carefully measured the change in temperature. The motion of the paddle made the water warmer, and the relationship was precise: raising one pound of the liquid by one degree took 772 foot-pounds of work. Joule had discovered that heat was not a thing. It was a form of motion.
8. A A Michelson (1852 to 1931)
For a Navy man such as Michelson, it was unthinkable that the Earth could be adrift in the infinitude with no landmarks to measure by. So he set out to prove the existence of the aether, the fixed backdrop of the universe and the substance in which our planet swam as it moved through space. In his apparatus, two beams of light travelled in perpendicular directions. The beam moving upstream – with the earth's orbit – should, he predicted, be slowed by the wind of the aether, while the other beam should be less effected. By comparing their velocities with an interferometer, Michelson would calculate the motion of the Earth against the heavens. But something was wrong: the speed of the two beams was the same. With help from Edward Morley, Michelson made the measurements much more precisely. Still there was not a hint of aether. In fact, the experiment was a beautiful failure.
As Einstein went on to show, there can be no fixed space or even fixed time. As we move through the universe, our measuring sticks shrink and stretch, our clocks run slower and faster – all to preserve the one true standard, which is not the aether, but the speed of light.
9. Ivan Pavlov (1849 to 1936)
Contrary to legend, Pavlov hardly ever used bells in his experiments with salivating dogs. His animals were more discriminating. In his "Tower of Silence", sealed from distractions, he and his assistants conditioned the animals to distinguish between objects rotating clockwise or counter-clockwise, between a circle and an ellipse, even between subtle shades of gray.
But for his most remarkable experiment, he used music. First, a dog was trained to salivate when it heard an ascending scale, but not a descending one. But what, Pavlov wondered, would happen if the animal listened to the other combinations of the same notes? The melodies were played and the spittle collected. Through simple conditioning, the dog had categorised the music it heard into two groups, depending on whether the pitches were predominantly rising or falling. The mind had lost a bit of its mystery, Pavlov had shown how learning was a matter of creatures forming new connections in a living machine.
10. Robert Millikan (1868 to 1953)
By bending a cathode ray with an electrical field, Cambridge scholar J?J Thomson had shown electricity to be a form of matter, and measured the ratio of its charge to its mass. It followed that electricity was made of particles, but to clinch the case someone needed to isolate and measure one.
In Millikan's laboratory in Chicago, two round brass plates, the top one with a hole drilled through the centre, were mounted on a stand and illuminated from the side by a bright light. Then the plates were connected to a 1,000-volt battery. With a perfume atomiser, Millikan sprayed a mist of oil above the apparatus and watched through a telescope as some of the droplets – they looked like little stars – fell into the area between the plates. As he tweaked the voltage, he watched as some drops were pushed slowly upward while others were pulled down. Their passage through the atomiser had ionised them, giving the drops negative or positive charges. By timing their movement with a stopwatch, Millikan showed that charge, like pocket change, came in discrete quantities. He had found the electron.
Biochemistry is fast developing into an extremely important subject. Forming the basis of a great deal of research, its study can make for a successful career offering more alternatives than many other streams of science.
Its applications are of vital significance to the fields of medicine, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, microbiology, veterinary, agricultural and dairy sciences.
Biochemists study the structure and function of enzymes, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and their metabolic processes, molecular basis of the action of genes, etc. Biochemical engineering harnesses the knowledge of living organisms and systems to create safe and efficient processes. Mainly concerned with biological changes, it is an essential input in the production of pharmaceuticals, foodstuff and waste treatment.
There is an increasing demand for biochemists involved in biochemical genetic research all over the world, especially for those with a specialisation in cell biology, genetics, proteomics, developmental chemistry, organic and medical chemistry, biochemical methods and research. Openings for biochemists exist in R & D in scientific departments in industry, public sector laboratories, universities and hospitals.
It is clear the world needs more biochemists for evolution and revolutionary creations of innovation across its applications.
As Donald J. Cram, American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, once said:
"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds."


I can run .CHM files normally by themselves from outside of GLB, but when clicking F1 from GLB to read the helpfile I have to double click the actual command I want to read, as it brings up "This program cannot display the webpage" error.
Is this not what others have been talking about?
I should put a wget job on that downloads the online help to a local form and distribute that. Would save me lots of work.
Not in the first post, no, but several of us have reported this issue here.
Didn't think I was going mad!
You're lucky I don't know you well enough to say something cute like "you can't go to where you already are!". Very lucky. I'm probably even luckier.
Seconded. We could also probably find it easier to submit updates/corrections then too.
CHM are compressed HTML files. Even there are programs for decompressing the HTML files.


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Sports|Scramble to Save Big 12; Nebraska Said to Be Leaving
Scramble to Save Big 12; Nebraska Said to Be Leaving
Nebraska could leave the Big 12 for the Big Ten by Friday, and Colorado may join the Pac-10, which could add more teams and cause a big conference realignment.
By Pete Thamel
Officials from Texas and Texas A&M will meet Thursday morning in Austin in a last-ditch effort to save the Big 12 Conference. The regents, presidents and athletic officials from the universities are scheduled to meet with the hope of figuring out how to keep the conference together now that the departures of Nebraska and Colorado appear imminent.
Two Big 12 athletic directors, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss the topic publicly, said that Nebraska was expected to join the Big Ten Conference when its board of regents meets Friday. The agenda of that meeting was amended to include conference realignment.
Nebraska's departure would leave the Big 12 in a fragile state. League powerhouses like Texas and Oklahoma have reiterated that they would prefer to stay together. But the loss of Nebraska to the Big Ten and perhaps Colorado to the Pacific-10 would leave the conference vulnerable.
In a telephone interview Wednesday evening, Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe said there was "nothing official" to report on Nebraska. He said there had been a lot of misinformation throughout the months of rumblings of conference realignment and said there was a will within the conference to remain together.
"I think there's a strong, strong interest to ensure that the Big 12 exists, regardless of any kind of possible departures," Beebe said.
He added that the conference would not rule out carrying on without a conference football title game; N.C.A.A. rules require 12 members for such a game.
"It would be one less obstacle to getting into the national championship," Beebe said. "I think television value would still be there. I'm not talking about any specific school that would be departing. It would still be an extremely strong conference and player in the national landscape."
The Big Ten declined to confirm if it had issued an invitation to Nebraska. The Big 12 issued the Cornhuskers a deadline of Friday to essentially declare their interest in staying in the conference. That deadline and the imminent threat of the Pac-10's expanding to 16 teams has seemingly made the colleges involved hurry.
"Everyone is picking up the pace," the Ohio State president, E. Gordon Gee, said in a telephone interview Wednesday evening. "We can't sit there in uncertainty."
He added, "There's no sense to how this ultimately will be resolved."
Nebraska had emerged as the linchpin of the future of the Big 12, and now it appears gone. Colorado's potential move to the Pac-10 would not cause frantic meetings, because its value as a member in football is limited compared with that of Nebraska.
If Nebraska departs as expected on Friday, that would force the remaining teams in the Big 12 to decide their next steps. The Pac-10 is expected to invite Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Colorado and Texas Tech to its league. With those invitations yet to be issued, the remaining teams in the Big 12 are scrambling to see if they can salvage their league.
"I think people realize that there's something still viable, whether it remains at 11 or 10 or we look to expand back to 12 to keep this going," a third Big 12 athletic director said. "We have a lot of equity and prestige and competitive balance."
Beebe said that he was doing everything he could to save the league.
"It's certainly been the most challenging time of my career," he said. "Whatever occurs, and hopefully it will be a good result, I will have wanted to have left it all on the field. There's no stone left unturned or bullet in the chamber. I'm doing everything that I can."


7PM MONDAY, JULY 9 Lawrence M. Krauss: A Universe from Nothing The Colbert Report Fresh off his appearance on The Colbert Report, internationally-known theoretical physicist and ASU professor Lawrence M. Krauss presents A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing.
One of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern science is addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing, with surprising and fascinating results. He details these mind-bending new theories, suggesting that they show that not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With his characteristic wry humor, Krauss also takes us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it's going to end. "Forget Jesus," Krauss has argued, "the stars died so you could be born." As Richard Dawkins has described it: This could potentially be the most important scientific book with implications for supernaturalism since Darwin.
Lawrence M. Krauss is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
Lawrence M. Krauss is composed of 10 names. You can examine and separate out names.


MLK has a tradition of excellence in athletics. From undefeated basketball seasons to outstanding track and football teams, MLK Middle School offers its students the opportunity to learn teamwork and skills through extracurricular athletics. However, ask any coach on staff and they will be quick to point out MLK features student athletes on its teams. Academics always come first at MLK Middle school!


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The village of Marsden, on the edge of the Pennine moors in West Yorkshire, has two attractive packhorse bridges: one in the centre, by the church; the other a noted beauty spot at Eastergate, a mile or so up the River Colne.
From the latter a track, the old packhorse road, climbs steeply uphill towards Buckstones on the present A640, and continued to Rochdale. Surviving documents show that this long, straggling path was much used by local carriers in the 18th century, and maintained by the Marsden-in-Huddersfield Township.
By the late 19th century, however, with the decline of the trade to Rochdale and the development of other forms of transport, the old packhorse route had become little used and had fallen into neglect. This suited, and played into the hands of, the Lord of the Manor, who resented the effect that passing traffic had on his grouse and was hoping to close the moors. His gamekeepers were instructed to deter members of the public and threaten "trespassers" with prosecution.
In 1906 the local Urban District Council, continuing the role of the township highways surveyor, carried out repairs, and matters came to a head. The Lord of the Manor, Sir Joseph Radcliffe, sued the Council claiming there was no right of way over the moor.
The case was held at Leeds in April 1908. The Council produced 33 elderly witnesses (the oldest was 92) who recalled using the track as children – ie before the important date of 1835. The judge concluded that the Lord of the Manor had failed to prove that there was no right of way, but also that the Council had exceeded their rights in the improvements they had carried out. Accordingly the costs of the case were split between the plaintiff and the defendants.
Among the improvements were 9 stones, carved with the words "P H ROAD", set up at intervals along the track – a number of which still survive. These were described by the judge as a "technical trespass", but did no harm, and might actually help walkers to stick to the path.
Sources: LB Whitehead: Bygone Marsden (c 1942); www.marsdenhistory.co.uk/misc/ph_road_trial.html RWH / January 2012.
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Pellita catalonica is een soort in de taxonomische indeling van de Amoebozoa. Deze micro-organismen hebben geen vaste vorm en hebben schijnvoetjes. Met deze schijnvoetjes kunnen ze voortbewegen en zich voeden. Het organisme komt uit het geslacht Pellita en behoort tot de familie Pellitidae. Pellita catalonica werd in 2005 ontdekt door Smirnov & Kudryavtsev.

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First Named Storm Forms in Atlantic 3 Weeks Before Hurricane Season
Published Wed, May 9 200711:01 AM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT
Subtropical Storm Andrea formed off the southeastern U.S. coast, more than three weeks before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters said.
The year's first named storm had top sustained winds near 45 mph (72 kph) and was centered about 140 miles (220 km) southeast of Savannah, Ga., at 11:00 a.m. New York time, the National Hurricane Center said.
Subtropical systems are hybrid weather formations that are usually weaker than hurricanes and tropical storms. They share characteristics of tropical systems, which get their power from warm ocean waters at their centers, and more typical bad weather that forms when warm and cold fronts collide.


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Nellie is too cute, and look at her, walking all over the place in her adorable sandals! I do regret that with two boys, shoe shopping won't ever be as fun as if I'd had a girl…oh well! Yay for summer!
You got all six kids in the frame, which was a feat in and of itself.
Oh my God you have the cutest child ever! Those curls!


I very recently bought a new firearm, a Gen 3 Glock 19 to be exact. The Glock 19 is my replacement for my SCCY CPX 2 that I used to conceal carry. Now that you know there very short back story, I will talk about the holster.
What Squared Away Customs does.
"High quality custom made Kydex holsters, mag pouches and sheaths for all types of carry. 100% made in the USA."
KYDEX is a line of thermoplastic acrylic-polyvinyl chloride materials. It has a wide variety of applications, including for firearm holsters and sheaths for knives.
Everything Squared Away Customs does is completely custom made, much like there name implies. You can choose from many colors of Kydex, and rivet colors. I chose black Kydex, with Blood Red Rivets for some flair.
My holster came gift wrapped.
This is what is under the pretty paper, minus the Glock 19.
Now for the pros and cons.
Concealability is very good. It is basically not visible on my body, I am wearing a very thin Old Navy shirt.
The holster is extremely comfortable, so comfortable I have taken a few naps wearing it. Drawing from holster feels good, and the angle is very natural too grab my Glock 19.
The first and most noticeable con for me is removing the holster from my person at the end of the day. The clip design on my holster is very hard to slide over my waist band and belt. There is no real good way to grab it to remove it, it is still do able but it is difficult. It is also impossible to pull the clip over my belt with the gun in the holster. You can slide the belt out of the loop but I find that to be inconvenient. It seems like just a week after I received my holster Squared Away Customs Solved this problem by changing the design of the belt clip.
New Squared Away Customs Clip.
The new clip appears too have 2 nice reliefs in it that probably takes a lot of the stiffness out of it. There also appears to be a nice place to put your fingers to pull up on the clip.
I wish there was more definition on the kydex around the trigger guard. Like the picture below.
I find there would be more retention in the holster, if all the holsters they produced held onto the gun around the trigger guard. The holster above looks like the perfect holster to me, with the new clip and the retention around the trigger guard, sadly it is not mine.
Now for the finish of the holster, initially it appears to have a really good finish but I have a eye for detail verging on extremely nit-picky.
There is 2 spots on the whole holster that I noticed a tool markings.
Paint has been removed on the rivets.
Marked from sanding or a dremel.
I would have preferred the trigger guard more defined like I said above and also more material covering it.
I find the muzzle of my Glock 19 protrudes longer than I would have normally liked.
My final thoughts on the holster.
The Squared Away Customs IWB holster is very comfortable and functions as it should. The holster could be better in my opinion, and it looks like mine just missed some improvements in design by just one week. I paid $60.95 including shipping for my custom holster. I am satisfied with the holster, and it does its job. My words may be a little blunt, but I found the holster a little lacking in the finest details. If I had to give it a rating out of 10, I would give this holster a 7. I do highly recommend Squared Away Customs, for all your retention needs.
You can contact Squared Away Custom through there facebook page Squared Away Customs.


This past weekend, we took a trip to visit Siem Reap in Cambodia. It was two short flights from Penang, and yet an entire world away. We were pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed our time there.
We were surprised at how prevalent USD were in Siem Reap. Prices are all in USD. If you go to a bank machine, and it detects that you have a foreign card – you will receive USD. The only way that we could actually get cash from the bank machine though, was to use the "Fast Cash" option. When you pay in USD though, your change (cents) will be paid in Cambodian Riel.
The primary tourist draw of Siem Reap is the Angkor region, which is made up of a number of ruins of temples from the Khmer kingdoms. The temples of Angkor are undergoing restoration. In this picture, the statue on the left has undergone restoration – while the one on the right has not. As you can see, the difference is significant.
Angkor actually means "Capital City" in Khmer. The Angkor region is made up of several different "Capital City" sites from different kings that were built over the course of several centuries. We visited three different sites over two days.
We saw many monks in their beautiful saffron robes while we were at Angkor Wat.
The next site that we visited was Angkor Thom, which includes the Bayon Temple.
Of the three sites that we visited, Angkor Thom had the most "city" feel to it, which was a neat thing to experience. It is hard to look at the carvings in these sites and not feel absolutely humbled by the work that went into them.
Finally, we visited Ta Prohm which you may remember from the Tomb Raider movie.
The ruins and the trees here have a symbiotic relationship. You can't remove the buildings without hurting the tree – and you can't remove the trees without hurting the buildings.
Because these are tourist sites, there are many (MANY) tourist shops just outside of them… and more than a few vendors who will approach you to buy souvenirs.
We took a lot of photos while we were touring the temples, and we'll put up another post that is just temple photos.
I think that one of our favourite things about South East Asia has been the night markets. The electric mix of food, music, art, shopping and more food make them such a neat thing to experience.
Siem Reap has a fairly large night market area with plenty of stalls for buying souvenirs from Cambodia.
We weren't familiar with Khmer food before, and we were pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed it. We tried different dishes during our visit, but had an all out Khmer Food Feast on our last night in Siem Reap. We ate our fill of Beef Loc Lac, Amok, Khmer Curry and Fried Cashew Nuts.
We stayed at La Residence Blanc D'Angkor while we were in Siem Reap. The staff were wonderful, and the grounds of the hotel were absolutely gorgeous. I particularly loved the outdoor pond/patio area (so much so that I think that I will need to re-create it again in the future).
As much as we enjoyed our time in Siem Reap, it is VERY touristy there. So, it was a nice place to go for a short trip, but it is not a place that I have any desire to stay for any length of time.


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Lighter in tone and shot in vivid colors, though failing to provide a similar intellectual satisfaction to the audience as the first film in the franchise did, Glass Onion is the second installment in the Knives Out saga that began in 2019 when Rian Johnson wrote and directed a modern whodunit with a spin, winning the hearts of the genre's devotees and setting an example for other filmmakers who aspire to revive this, more or less outmoded, movie type. Johnson's film can be seen as another addition to the recent "anti-capitalist" trend in movieland, in the same vein to past year's productions such as the irreverent Menu by Mark Mylod and the Triangle of Sadness by the Swedish director Ruben Östlund. This latest vogue in cinema aims to expose the corruption and banality that is teeming among the most privileged echelons of Western societies in a manner that feels closer to a black comedy rather than a socially-aware production intending to illustrate the malfeasance within those cycles. If Knives Out thematically dealt with the perils and callowness of inherited wealth, the second part turns its full attention to the hypocrisy and backstabbing in the world of the nouveau riche. The characters' vocations are telling enough: social media influencers, leveraged politicians, crony scientists, and tech entrepreneurs with a vastly inflated ego swirl around the screen and often make the audience laugh with their insincerity and duplicity.
Daniel Craig reprises the role of supersleuth Benoit Blanc, an odd personage whom we all loved in the first film. The character owes its special fictional actuality to the fruitful collaboration between director, Rian Johnson, and actor, Daniel Craig. Bob Ducsay, the film's editor and a longtime associate of Johnson, says about Blanc: "I love Benoit and I love Daniel's interpretation of ... I mean, he created the character with Rian's words" (for Ducsay's full interview click here). Blanc is an idiosyncratic gumshoe whose frequently goofy behavior can be easily misinterpreted as naivete, or even plain idiocy, and he can be perceived as a character that stands right in the middle between Agatha Christie's notorious Hercule Poirot and Pink Panther's hilarious Inspector Clouseau, though Johnson's creation feigns obliviousness in order to achieve a greater goal. Nevertheless, the effect remains comical and the audience is bound to laugh with the protagonist's reactions in several parts of the story. The movie also casts several heavy names in the movie industry such as Edward Norton and Kate Hudson while it also features fresh talents with Janelle Monáe, a musician, recording artist, and model getting for the first time in her career the chance to illustrate her skills as a comedian in a "double" role and I won't get into details about that as it would spoil a major part of the plot.
The story is divided into three main parts (beginning/setting, midsection/reverse, final part/solution), with the second one being the most critical as it compels the audience to proceed to a full reset and re-evaluate the story and the characters as presented theretofore. It is a bold decision by the director and screenwriter to insert such a momentous upending in the plot and that is one of the most important elements separating Glass Onion from its predecessor. The story's structure consists of puzzles within puzzles with the titular "Glass Onion" being the dominating image/metaphor defining the film's tone, replacing that of the halo of knives, an icon so prominent in Knives Out. The multi-layered "onion" manifests itself on-screen in two sizes: one microscopic and one macroscopic. The former precedes the latter as it is in the beginning of the movie that we watch as tech-billionaire Miles Bron (E. Norton) sends a wacky invitation to his friends in the form of a puzzle box that contains several more puzzles along the way. Production designer Rick Heinrichs says about that box: "It opens and reveals itself (...) but it only gives up its mysteries as you figure it out. Like the mystery that's going on in the film it's ever-opening and ever-changing" (for the full interview click here). Heinrichs is the man who designed the onion-shaped cupola that was placed, through VFX, on top of the Aman's Resort Villa in Porto Heli, Greece. He says about his creation: "There was something so cool and architectural about it, that it became part of the design. You really see the layers of depth in the dome".
The story begins when a group of friends receive the aforementioned weird invitation by their billionaire tech entrepreneur friend Miles Bron, a man who excels at challenging the wits of others as the odd proposal clearly illustrates. They all welcome the possibility for a vacation weekend at Bron's private island resort in Greece. Benoit Blanc, who is struggling with the lack of mind-stimulating cases during the period of the first Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, also receives the mystery box and arrives in Greece where he meets the motley group of Bron's friends, whom he calls "the Disruptors", a terms of the host's making which vaguely refers to a group of people who have the potential to capsize the existing status quo in several different fields of social, political, and scientific life in a worldwide scope. Bron's intention is to play a game that involves his own fake "death" with the guests assuming the role of the detective, trying to solve the mystery on the course of the weekend. Sadly for Bron, Blanc solves the riddle from the get go, leaving the tech mogul dumbfounded as well as severely irritated. However, as I am sure you can all imagine, a real murder is about to take place in the secluded resort and Blanc will be, once again, the man who is going to save the day and reveal the identity of the culprit, in the final part where he delivers a Poirot-like explanation of the murdered to the gathered audience.
The main flaw of the story is that the villain is easy to identify even from the beginning and the reasoning that explains the whos and whys of the murder come across as rather vapid. It is a far weaker story than that featured in the first film and that is the prevalent assessment in the vast majority of the film's online reviews. In the conclusion of her review which was published on December 23, 2022 on rogerebert.com, Christy Lemire writes: "Ultimately, though, the giant glass onion that rests atop Miles' mansion becomes an all-too-apt metaphor for the movie as a whole. Sparkling but empty" (for the full review click here). While it may be too harsh a judgement, Lemire's denouement points out the simple and indisputable fact that Glass Onion is definitely not the sharpest filmic whodunit ever made. In fact, its story and plot are average, however the other qualities of the productions deem watching the movie an easy and enjoyable task. Cinematographer Steve Yeldin takes full advantage of the sun-drenched Greek scenery, offering a brighter photography than expected for a film of this particular genre. Costume designer Jenny Eagan adds further quirkiness to the characters with her apt attire choices while the sound design by Josh Gould is spot-on. Janelle Monáe, who in her short spanned career so far has delivered exemplary performances, and Kate Hudson steal the show as far as performances are concerned, with Daniel Craig solidly leading the cast as he did in Knives Out. Even though this one is not as unmissable as its precursor was, it still remains an entertaining choice for crime fiction aficionados. Recommended, on the condition that you will watch it without setting your expectations too high.
Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr.
Netflix (presents) T-Street


The consensus of estimates surrounding the price potential of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was nowhere near the mark and the final result of $450.3 million left a lot of dropped jaws. As the instigator of the concept of a "Museum Industry® revolutionizing the economic model of the Art Market", it is natural that Artprice, acutely aware of the intensifying interaction between the Art Market and the world of finance, should comment on this latest result.
Artprice – the world leader in art market services, solicited by hundreds of media organisations around world for the quality of its information about the Art Market – hereby wishes to explain that the price paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi is in fact the culmination of a perfectly logical and sober price construction process that has nothing to do with flights of emotion or reckless risk-taking.
thierry Ehrmann founder and CEO of Artprice: "If you look carefully at each of our press releases on the AMF's (France's Financial Market's Authority) approved website and our studies of the Museum Industry® (whose economic model Artprice fully conceptualised in 2005), you will see that our econometrics and statistics department has been preparing the Art market for this price for years. As reported by AOF press agency, Artprice predicted that Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi would fetch as much as $450 to 500 million.
In fact, Artprice has been the only organisation to repeatedly predict in studies (AMF reference document) that the global Fine Art auction record will inexorably head towards the billion dollar level, after a pause at the $500 million level. We have now reached the halfway stage with Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi.
We have discussed this price evolution since February 2015. We are now almost halfway there and it seems inevitable that our forecast will be confirmed by 2020." Meanwhile the enormous gap that has appeared between Pablo Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger ($179.4 million in 2015) and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi ($450.3 million) will no doubt diminish progressively over the coming months.
Indeed, Christie's idea of integrating Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi into a Contemporary Art instead of a traditional Old Masters sale was a stroke of genius reflecting their understanding that the Contemporary Art market now has very close ties with the financial sector and the banking sector.
Artprice has been the global leader in Art Market information for 20 years and possesses the most comprehensive art market information bank in the world. With its databases and its longstanding partnership with Artron (China's powerful State-sponsored Art Market Information group) Artprice developed the innovative concept of a Museum Industry®. Nowadays this concept is universally accepted and taught everyday throughout the world, and its validity is regularly confirmed by the Art Market's evolution.
Faced with a negative interest-rate environment and seeing the Art Market's excellent resistance to the worst financial and economic crises of the past 17 years, lots of investments funds and wealth managers are directing big money towards the Museum Industry® at the heart of the Art Market.
In short, top-bracket investment funds and wealth managers have found a level of profitability in the Art Market that has become increasingly difficult to generate elsewhere, and they are reassured by the Art Market's maturity, efficiency and liquidity.
With its decision-support tool that functions much like Bloomberg's financial trading screens, Artprice is now selling "Artprice Screen®" to financial institutions and banks throughout the world. The figures speak for themselves: in 2005, financial institutions and banks represented 7,000 of Artprice's client accounts and these were essentially Private Banking and Family Office accounts.
Today we have more than 36,000 major accounts, including ordinary deposit banks, who have adopted Artprice's screens in their IT systems. This undoubtedly represents a revolution for the Art Market.
Our current sales projections concerning subscriptions to "Artprice Screen®" from the financial and banking sector suggest a massive increase in Artprice's turnover.
Our current sales projections concerning subscriptions to "Artprice Screen®" from the financial and banking sector suggest a massive increase in Artprice's turnover. Artprice is the only player on the financialised Art Market, and its proprietary R&D and intellectual property rights give it a perfectly legal monopoly resulting from years of innovation, research and development. Our state-awarded BPI status (for "innovative" companies) reflects this effort.
Museums are increasingly monumental... with grand and spectacular architecture. The latest to open was the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, designed by famous architect Jean Nouvel.
Conversely, the economy of live performances is governed by a very different logic. According to Baumol and Bowen's analysis, the performing arts suffer from a substantial productivity disadvantage: to put on a play by Molière in 1664 you needed two hours and twelve actors. In 2017, it stall takes two hours and twelve actors: i.e. no productivity gain over more than three centuries.
The Museum Industry® is based on a fundamental data: the transformation of the role of the museum. In the past, museums developed in the spirit of French "enlightenment" where the primary function was to confiscate artworks from the aristocrats and the church and show them to the people (such was the will of Napoléon Bonaparte...). Today French sociologists refers to this model as having generated a particular museum malady... the curator's migraine.
No longer content with providing homes for the dusty treasures of bygone empires, the new museum concept offers a dynamic response to the public's free time in spaces where spectacular collections rub shoulders with all types of mass media expressions, real and virtual artworks and rewarding cultural activities... an exciting and often interactive spatial experience. These new spaces attract millions of visitors on every continent.
Artprice was the first to coin the phrase "Museum Industry®". Indeed a museum, freed from its State-imposed constraint state of "preservation for posterity", can now be regarded as an industry, particularly from an investment point of view. Generally speaking, the design, construction and development of a museum's collection requires heavy investment over an 8 to 10-year period.
These considerations are undoubtedly at the root of the logic that prompted the buyer (and his pool of investors) to acquire Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. They also underpin Christie's extraordinary audacity last week... an audacity that has given the auction house a very substantial advantage over its rival Sotheby's. Indeed, according to a reliable source, the latter is planning a rapid and equally stunning commercial response to Christie's feat by offering the Art Market another priceless and historic piece.
Although the price paid for the da Vinci work may seem excessive to some, this impression recedes when put into perspective with other figures and the tangible economic reasoning underlying today's global Art Market.
In terms of perspective... it is interesting to note that stock exchanges around the world traded 780 million euros on Altice shares alone last week.
The price paid for da Vinci's work was apparently roughly equivalent to cost of a new Airbus A380. But consider the maintenance costs of an aircraft throughout its working life and its limited lifespan... only to end up in an airplane cemetery, abandoned. Such a comparison is therefore both irrelevant and ridiculous.
Leonardo da Vinci's painting, on the other hand, is eternal and will not require a huge budget to maintain. Moreover it will probably grow in value over the years. The millions of visitors it will attract will generate a financial cash flow and it is very likely to generate all kinds of 'derivative' incomes whether exhibited in its usual place or toured around the world (a strategy increasingly employed by museums).
This is the kind of clear-sighted logic that today motivates investors, with clearly defined ROI schedule. The acquisition is therefore everything but an irrational act. It is a highly organized investment in the medium to long term; in accounting terms (IFRS / IAS), it's a tangible asset generating a free cash flow.
thierry Ehrmann: "Artprice's added value stems from its ownership of the world's most extensive database of listed artists (700,000 artists) with the highest number of auction results (126 million, from 1700 to the present day). This information, combined with our market indicators and econometric tools developed over many years, enables us to anticipate the price constructions of artists... as we did before this latest historic sale.
The sum paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi has propelled the Art Market into a new era quite simply by reflecting the reality of a new scale now being used to calculate the value of artworks. After raising the auction record so much higher, it is inevitable that existing auction prices for many prestigious artists will have to the revised upwards. We may soon see a Basquiat work reach more than $200 million... in short, everything is now possible after this latest auction record of 15 November 2017.
In 2018, Artprice, creator of the Museum Industry® concept since 1999, is planning to launch the world's largest Fine Art Museum Databank.
Artprice has thirty DNSs on Museums, including the world's best generic DNSs since 1996, that generate a large volume of activity. It is worth remembering that Artprice is perfectly familiar with the Museum world and its modus operandi since its headquarters are located within the famous Organ Museum of Contemporary Art which manages La Demeure du Chaos (Abode of Chaos dixit The New York Times).
Artprice will allow its Museum customers for its database to benefit from the its 4.5 million highly-qualified members. Artprice's numerous patents and intellectual property rights give it an undisputed world leader position in the Museum Industry® and a substantial head-start.


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Chinese Official in Tibet Calls for Swift Trial of Alleged Lhasa Rioters
November 01, 2009 2:39 PM update November 01, 2009 2:40 PM
China's top law and order official in Tibet has called on judges in the remote region to swiftly try and judge Tibetans accused of involvement in recent rare anti-government unrest.
According to a report Friday in the official Tibet Daily, Baima Chilin told judges in Tibet that they have the confidence of the Communist party and urged them to use evidence to reveal the truth about the unrest. He also told judges to use the weapon of the law to attack its enemies and punish those who have committed crimes to protect the public and maintain stability.
Baima Chilin's remarks come as another top official in Tibet has promised that more than 1,000 people, who were allegedly involved in the unrest, will face prosecution before May 1, the day that foreign tourists will be permitted to return to the Tibetan capital.
Chinese authorities in Tibet say 800 people have been arrested since the March 14 unrest, while another 280 people have turned themselves in to take advantage of a police offer of leniency.
Questions and accounts of how March's peaceful protests in Tibet turned violent vary widely.
Chinese authorities say about 20 people died in the Lhasa violence, and place all of the blame on Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Tibet's government in exile rejects that figure. It says some 140 people have died in the unrest in Tibet and other areas as the unrest spread.
The India-based Tibetan government in exile Thursday reported fresh protests in a Tibetan area of Sichuan province this week and details of other recent protests in Qinghai province.
Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.
Dalai Lama's Envoy Calls on US Lawmakers to Make 'Urgent' Visit to Tibet
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Mark A. Potesta is Gentherm's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer reporting to Phil Eyler.
Mark leads Gentherm's technology strategy to deliver unique and innovative thermal solutions across a broad range of applications in both automotive and medical markets. He also provides functional leadership for the Company's electronics, Battery Thermal Management (BTM), and advanced engineering teams.
Mark comes to Gentherm from Panasonic Automotive Systems where he was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and CTO. At Panasonic he led research and development for some of the most complex electronic systems for automotive including extensive software. He was responsible for the engineering of infotainment systems, audio systems, heads-up displays, and styled switches for global automakers including FCA, Ford, General Motors, Honda and Toyota. Prior to Panasonic, he had an extensive career at Delphi where he held positions of increasing responsibility in Engineering as well as Business Unit leadership for Electrical and Electronic Architectures. As an Executive Engineering Director, Mark delivered tremendous value through innovation to customers in North America leveraging his unique vehicle integration and electrical architecture capabilities. As a Customer Business Unit Director and as the Managing Director for the Global Electrical Center Product Business Unit, Mark had full P&L responsibility and grew the businesses with global automakers including Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Tesla and Volkswagen through innovation while expanding margins. He began his career at General Motors where he held progressive engineering positions.
Mark holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, from Youngstown State University.


An upsurge in mass demonstrations and rebellions across the United States portends much for developments in 2015. The federal government and ruling class have not seriously addressed the underlying factors associated with the rise in police killings and other racist incidents.
The profound disconnect between the ruling Democratic and Republican parties and the African-American masses was starkly revealed last year when voter turnouts were low, while tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the streets against police terrorism and the racist criminal justice system.
These militant protests and urban rebellions were not planned by the mainstream Civil Rights organizations, but grew out of the objective conditions facing tens of millions of oppressed people.
Entering 2015, we see that right-wing ideology dominates the political superstructure of the U.S. Completely ignored are the growing demands by millions for decent wages, adequate housing, quality education, an end to police abuses and the cessation of military hostilities abroad.
The Democratic Party, which appeals to the workers and oppressed during election years seeking their votes, is not advancing any concrete programs to alleviate the suffering and impoverishment of growing numbers of people. Unemployment, underemployment and poverty rates remain extremely high. The decline in the labor participation rate conceals the real magnitude of the problem.
Such statistics illustrate that despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, fundamental issues of jobs and income remain unresolved. The refusal of the federal government and the corporate elite to enact any national jobs program means that these unemployment figures will continue at the same rate or become even more disparate between African Americans and whites.
Consequently, it is not surprising that African Americans are expressing mass opposition to the status quo. Historically, it has been this oppressed nation in North America that has led the way in all significant democratic and working-class movements.
A "white backlash" against the demonstrations demanding justice for Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and other victims of racist police violence is already in evidence. Police organizations, backed up by politicians, are decrying any public sympathy expressed toward African-American and other oppressed people who are being gunned down in the streets by the cops.
These developments are taking place 50 years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference went to Selma, Ala., to escalate an existing struggle for voting rights. Since 1965, many African Americans have been elected to public office and have entered job categories from which they had been previously excluded.
However, the fundamental contradictions between the majority of African Americans and the capitalist ruling class remain. Most African Americans have been negatively impacted by the economic system's restructuring over the last several decades.
The housing crisis and the deterioration of the public sector, including in municipal affairs and education, have disproportionately robbed jobs, incomes, homes and essential services from tens of millions of the oppressed living in cities and suburbs.
Ferguson, Mo., where the rebellions and mass demonstrations erupted in response to the police killing of Michael Brown on Aug. 9, represents a microcosm of African-American life in the U.S.
As voting rights are besieged in many states, the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down the enforcement provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights bill. The U.S. Congress has yet to take any meaningful action to restore access to the basic right to vote, which is ostensibly a byproduct of any bourgeois democracy.
Malcolm X said on Jan. 7, 1965, in a speech before the Militant Labor Forum in New York, that 1965 would be one of the bloodiest years on the racial front in U.S. history. His life was taken on Feb. 21. Then on March 7, "Bloody Sunday," state and local police attacked hundreds of Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, after they left Selma on their way to Montgomery, the Alabama state capital. The Watts Rebellion began on Aug. 11. Also, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, the original Black Panther Party, was founded in Alabama, in the aftermath of the Selma-to-Montgomery march.
Independent political action by the African-American masses must lead to new organizational forms and alliances. As a system, capitalism has run its course. Therefore, a major political movement aiming for national liberation and socialist reconstruction is required.


The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu edition is the second Ubuntu Phone to be commercially released. It features an 8 core CPU and costs less than $300.
The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition will make its debut at Mobile World Congress early next month.
If you manage to snag an Ubuntu Phone in one of the online flash sales due to take place from this week you'll no doubt be looking for something to keep your device protected.


JINZU… A name that resonates in an endless echo.
The term refers to an ancestral Japanese enameling technique.
In the backstage of JINZU, one can discover two beautiful, passionate and complementary Belgian personalities: Eloïse BONEHILL, a ceramicist, but also an esthete with a clairvoyant soul, and Tanguy SAPART, an entrepreneur with an inquiring mind and the passion to hit the road with other people.
JINZU, it is a beautiful story, a moving human adventure.
During a journey in the middle of rural Spain, Eloïse and Tanguy fall under the spell of a local cooperative, a small textile factory, lost at the base of the mountains. This incredible encounter induced love at first sight for this traditional set of skills that the craftsman and his team endeavor to perpetuate through time. Days were spent discussing, breathing the place, feeling the stuff, contemplating the deep colors of the cotton thread, following the back-and-forth motion of the hands manipulating the shuttle… then the idea grew and became more precise. JINZU shall highlight these unique textile pieces which aesthetic and authentic values vibrate in harmony with the ceramic creations of Eloïse.
JINZU is delighted to be able to sustain the local economy of a European country like Spain, a region that was shaken up by the financial crisis, but that goes on with its creative activities with passion and humanity, drawing its strength from solidarity.
JINZU cares about ecology. It is the reason for which the items it proposes are all crafted with natural and/or recycled raw materials.
JINZU wants to work respectfully with the craftsmen and ensure that the greatest value is attached to their expertise.
JINZU … unique objects … a little extra touch of soul.
JINZU is a selection of European unique handmade objects that possess this little extra touch of soul, of character, of authenticity and poetry.
The carpets, pillows and pouffes are products from the center of Spain that are handmade through the use of mechanical weaving looms. No sophisticated design here, but inspired craftsmen who randomly and intuitively spin the spindle and the recycled and colored cotton chenilles, to ultimately obtain weavings, textures and subtle tonalities, like small abstract paintings. One thinks of Rothko.
… a 100% Belgian ceramic.
The ceramic items proposed by JINZU are shaped with an artisanal wheel in the Brussels workshop of Eloïse BONEHILL. As a professional ceramicist who was formed by the best academies and masters, Eloïse creates a usage-oriented ceramic essentially oriented towards tableware: teapots, bowls, plates, dishes and trays. A proper gesture giving birth to uncluttered forms and lines. The mastering of cooking, of enameling thanks to natural oxides and the subtlety of taints and textures that result from this process create items endowed with a rare sensuality.
The ceramic production of Eloïse BONEHILL has been, for years, distributed in beautiful shops in Northern Europe.
The JINZU collection will expand through time, travel and meetings.


There's no denying that content marketing, which has gained significant traction over the last five years, is becoming increasingly important to businesses across all industries.
Marketers have found that investing in owned media (e.g., corporate website, blog, or microsite) is crucial to a company's long-term success in content marketing.
One type of owned media—the blog—is among the top 5 content marketing tactics used by B2B marketers, according to a recent study by MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.
But what does it take to launch and sustain a successful business blog?
At Curata, we conducted a survey of 428 marketers to answer that question. Our analysis focused on the best-practices and tactics of bloggers with 10,000+ month visitors, identified as the "10K Club."
Careful assessment of that group—including interviews and survey data analysis—revealed that the following six attributes have been crucial to the success of the 10K Club.
It is critical that a company's CMO recognize the importance of content marketing to drive pipeline growth.
Michael Gerard is the CMO at curation and content marketing solution Curata, where he is responsible for marketing strategy and related activities. He has over 25 years of marketing and sales experience.