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The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest Coming Live to IMAX Theaters
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The Video Game Industry's Leading Events Set to Dazzle Fans with Game Reveals, Cinematic Trailers, Musical Performances and More, All Live In IMAX
NEW YORK – May 5, 2022 – IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today announced that starting this summer, the cinematic thrill of the world's biggest and best video games are set to arrive in IMAX theaters for the first time when Summer Game Fest Live!, the game industry's mid-year digital fan celebration, and The Game Awards, the video game industry's annual year-end awards show, air live in IMAX theaters in the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom.
IMAX's partnership will begin with Summer Game Fest Live!, set to air live on June 9 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET from Los Angeles. It will be followed by The Game Awards 2022 in December, live from Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Tickets will go on sale for Summer Game Fest on May 12th at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET.
The 9th annual The Game Awards will celebrate the best games of the year, while also previewing the future of the medium with spectacular world premieres and new announcements. Now the gaming community can gather for the shared experience of blockbuster gameplay reveals, next-generation trailers and surprise new game announcements, hosted by Geoff Keighley and broadcast live in IMAX, the world's highest quality and most immersive cinema format. IMAX will be broadcasting this event across the Company's LIVE network, which is currently in over 50 markets in the United States.
"Video games are the most powerful, immersive and spectacular form of entertainment in the world, so it's only natural to bring them to fans in IMAX, the world's most immersive cinema format," said Geoff Keighley, producer, The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest.
"We are thrilled to be a part of these rapidly growing events," said Megan Colligan, President, IMAX Entertainment and Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp. "The two video game events are a part of IMAX's continued efforts to diversify its content portfolio with more live and interactive events and we are looking forward to being a part of them for years to come."
About Summer Game Fest
SUMMER GAME FEST is a fan-first celebration of the future of video games, headlined by an extensive roster of digital events from the world's top game developers and platforms. Last year's Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live event featured the world gameplay debut of ELDEN RING by fromSoftware, the announcements of DEATH STRANDING: DIRECTOR'S CUT on PlayStation 5 with Hideo Kojima and TINY TINA's WONDERLANDS from Take Two, as well as appearances by Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Goldblum, and Giancarlo Esposito, plus performances by Weezer and Japanese Breakfast.
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Stories are everywhere: on our shelves, on our screens, and in our conversations. They compose the shows we stream and the ads we tolerate, the news we read and the news we share. As Jonathan Safran Foer wrote, "We live in a world made up more of story than stuff." We make sense of and share our lives through stories.
The power and pervasiveness of narrative is so exciting to me and something I've thought a lot about during the past two years in library school. As I bid farewell to hacking library school, narrative power is the final 'story' that I want to share.
In libraries and archives, stories often feature quite explicitly. Our shelves and electronic resources include narratives of every kind, and storytelling is a familiar feature in any library that offers children's programming. But story in libraries—and story anywhere—can be much bigger than those examples. Thanks to countless conversations with colleagues, friends, advisors, and even a few strangers, I've been thinking about how integral good storytelling is to teaching, to marketing, to advocacy, and even to getting a job. Explaining a tricky concept to someone else? Tell a story that puts the concept in context. Marketing or advocating for library services to your stakeholders? Tell a story about why they matter. Writing a cover letter? Tell a story about you, drawing your experiences together.
But why stories? you might ask. What can stories do?
Stories are engaging. Research in cognitive psychology has suggested that stories are inherently absorbing and interesting, largely because readers and listeners make inferences and problem-solve in order to understand them.
Stories aid comprehension and memory. They include familiar structures, sequencing, and repetitive vocabulary, which guide attention and support comprehension. Furthermore, narrative structures are built on cause and effect relationships. When reading or listening to a story, people make connections based on causality and this focus aids memory.
Stories encourage empathy. Good stories engage us in imagination and empathy, inviting us to see ourselves in their characters. In this way, stories help people to connect personally to the concepts involved.
Stories contextualize information. Finally, they help us to make sense of information by demonstrating the significance or application of various ideas.
In the information professions, we can draw on stories in so many ways—from explaining and sharing ideas to making spaces for the narratives of others. In other words, we can be both tellers and listeners as we interact with patrons, share services, and curate materials. I see that as such a meaningful role. The chance to share and listen and to build community through that process is one of the parts of working in libraries that I love most. It is also what I have appreciated most about Hack Library School. I'm so grateful to this community of story sharers and listeners.
My story as a library school student is rapidly drawing to a close. Despite the inevitable sadness, nostalgia, and anxiety that that ending entails, I am excited about the chapters to come.
How do you see the role of stories in libraries? In life? What's your 'story' equivalent—what inspires you?
Andrews, D. H., Hull, T. D., & DeMeester, K. (2010). Storytelling as an instructional method: research perspectives. Rotterdam; Boston: Sense Publishers.
Brock, T., Green, M. C., & Strange, J. J. (2002). Narrative impact: social and cognitive foundations. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates.
Egan, K., & McEwan, H. (1995). Narrative in teaching, learning, and research. New York: Teachers College Press.
Willingham, D. T. (2004). The privileged status of story. American Educator, 28(2), 43–45; 51–53.


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Innovative approach cuts risk to pipeline owners, operators and the environment
Published by Nicholas Woodroof, Assistant Editor
World Pipelines, Monday, 03 December 2018 11:00
Pipelines are the most economical and safest way to transport mineral oils, gases and other products. Every day millions of tonnes of liquids and gases are delivered through overland and on-site pipelines.
As mass transport facilities, often over long distances, pipelines must fulfil strict requirements for safety, availability and environmental protection – and for good reason. According to US DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), about 11 462 pipeline incidents occurred from 1997 to 2016 in the US alone.
Leaks in pipelines must be detected and located as quickly as possible. Traditionally, operators have achieved this using conventional systems that monitor critical pipeline parameters without any safety functionality. Now, pipeline safety and profitability can be significantly boosted by the world's first hybrid solution from HIMA, comprising an SIL3 safety controller and a leak detection and localisation system.
The risks and possible consequences of pipeline leaks
Leaks form a considerable safety risk. Product outflows of liquids or gases might endanger the aquatic environment, might be harmful to health or flammable. Initiating countermeasures quickly in the event of a leak is essential for minimising the resulting damage.
Apart from the risk to people, the environment and reputation, pipeline leaks can lead to considerable financial losses (Figure 1) due to the value of the leaking product. These losses relate directly to the time taken to detect a leak. Yet, in many cases the clean-up expenses and fines are much costlier. In addition, insurance companies can factor the leak detection technology into their policies or refuse coverage if a suitable system is lacking.
Why conventional leak detection systems are inadequate
The four biggest leak detection system challenges facing pipeline operators are excessive false alarms, failure to detect leaks, lack of leak localisation, and costly or complicated maintenance. Conventional systems are generally prone to measurement errors and are dependent on sensor positioning. It is not usually possible to determine the nature of the leak, and configuration is often difficult.
Leak detection becomes reliable with a new hybrid solution
Download HIMA's whitepaper "Smart Pipeline Management" to find out how you can minimise false alarms and reduce losses and liability risks, while fulfilling safety and cybersecurity requirements with a new hybrid pipeline management solution.
The new FlexSILon PMC pipeline management solution is the first to combine leak detection with emergency shutdown. It not only protects the facilities concerned but also manages and controls safety-related processes (Figure 2). This integrated hybrid solution comprises a SIL3 safety system and a leak detection and localisation system.
Flow rate monitoring is embedded in the SIL3-capable HIMax safety hardware, with pressure and temperature data transmitted to the control centre for visualisation via HIMA's SafeEthernet protocol. The HIMax systems are also interconnected over SafeEthernet, so each system knows the state of the overall pipeline. If a leak occurs, the HIMax controller automatically adjusts the flow, and shuts down the pipeline immediately in an emergency. This way the system can prevent or significantly reduce damage.
The safety controller is based on HIMA's XMR technology, which combines SIL3 safety hardware and software with a scalable, fault-tolerant architecture to avoid false alarms.
An important part of FlexSILon PMC is the FLOWorX software for leak detection and localisation. Pipeline flow rates, pressures and temperatures remain constantly visible to operators, and anomalies are reliably recognised. Along with the main functions of leak detection and localisation, the software supports batch and gauge tracking as well as data archiving and analysis. The system also accommodates pressure and temperature correction calculations.
Operators can also flexibly adapt the detection algorithms to their specific needs. Unlimited changes, modifications, extensions, improvements and even prescribed verification tests during ongoing system operation according to the SIL3 standard are possible. The system can be integrated into virtually every automation environment through open interfaces. Components from other suppliers can also be integrated. Along with the automation components necessary for gas and liquid pipeline management, control and monitoring, the package includes customer support and service.
Download our whitepaper "Smart Pipeline Management" to learn about the new approach to pipeline management that combines leak detection with an SIL 3 safety control system. As a result, you can minimise false alarms and reduce losses and liability risks, while fulfilling safety and cybersecurity requirements.
Author: Sergej Arent, Director Applications, HIMA
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/special-reports/03122018/innovative-approach-cuts-risk-to-pipeline-owners-operators-and-the-environment/
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Review: THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL at East West Players
East West Players tops off a mini season of scares
by Evan Henerson Nov. 30, 2022
The calendar - and the world of retail - may indicate that we're past Thanksgiving and charging headlong into the Yuletide, but our mini season of spookiness appears not quite ready to give up the ghost between the eeks and jumps of 2:22 A GHOST STORY concluding its run this weekend at the Ahmanson Theatre and the L.A. premiere of THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL at East West Players. Forget the mistletoe and the holiday cheer. It's difficult to make merry when you're seeing dead people and you don't want to.
As my colleague has already weighed in on 2:22, I'll wrestle with the frights of PARANORMAL, to my mind the more interesting play as well as the more chilling experience. Prince Gomolvilas's tale of a pair of aspiring sibling ghostbusters is actually a shrewd rumination on cultural identity and the processing of grief that also happens to contain - in director Jeff Liu's solid production - some first-rate scares. The story and production must serve each other, of course, but a goosebump-filled round of applause to scenic designer John Iacovelli, lighting designer Brian Gale, sound designer Da Xu and especially illusionist Ian O'Conner for so strategically turning the David Henry Hwang Theatre into a house of horrors for the two hour duration of Gomolvilas's play. It spoils little to reveal that there is a ghost in THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL and, thanks to the aforementioned technical team, this phantom has quite a playground in which to practice its poltergeist-ing.
The title brothers are a rather unconventional pairing. Fast-talking Max (played by David Huynh) first presents as a snake-oil salesman, the kind of guy who rattles on empathetically (and perhaps not so honestly) about ghostly encounters from his own past to a would-be client and then smoothly pulls out the credit card reader to seal the deal. His older brother, Visarut (Roy Vongtama), doesn't always approve of his kid bro's techniques, but Visarut is the one who has dealt more closely with after-life encounters; he's a believer. So he's content to let Max handle most of the live client interaction.
The brothers' business isn't exactly thriving. Max has returned to the family home somewhere in the Midwest to take care of both his alcoholic brother and their sick mother, Tasanee (Emily Kuroda). Business is slow, expenses are plentiful and money is tight. To Max, any new client is a lifeline ripe for bilking.
His current target is a middle-aged African American husband and wife, Felix (Jasper Howard) and Delia (Tamika Simpkins). Since moving into their home after being forced to leave their home following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Delia has been experiencing paranormal activity in her apartment including glimpses of a young Asian woman. Although Felix has not been experiencing any of this, he agrees to hire Max and Visarut, at no small expense, with the expectation that they will either find and get rid of the ghost or prove it doesn't exist and thereby restore his wife's peace of mind. It's specifically because the ghost is Asian that Max and Visarut are enlisted. "This is our niche," Max assures Felix. "Nobody else in the Midwest does what we do."
Although their backgrounds are different, Delia and Felix and the ghost-busting brothers share feelings of displacement. Tasanee and Visarut both immigrated from Thailand when mom was in her 30s and Visarut was 13. U.S.-born Max will learn the consequences of experiencing life as a stranger in a strange land, both in terms of his own family and how feelings of estrangement can blend into the afterlife. As watchers of ghost tales know, in stories of this nature spirits often make their presence known because they have unresolved business and can't move on to the next place until someone in the community of the living figures out the problem and solves it. There is a solution to the haunting of Delia and the Brothers Paranormal, Felix and Delia can figure it out.
When we are not being creeped out by expertly-staged ghostly encounters coming at us from every corner of the stage, Gomolvilas and Liu treat us to interactions between characters who are well-drawn and believable. The warmth shared between Simpkins's Delia and Howard's Felix is as touching as it is palpable. Contrast this devotion with the uneasy family dynamics of Max and Visarut who are working through some baggage. When he is tete-a-tete with the brother he is still trying to understand, Huynh's slickness falls away and he presents in Max a young man trying to put his family back together. Vongtama, an Ichabod Crane-like foil to Huynh, si quietly affecting as the broken Visarut. And appearing in her 46th performance for East West Players, Emily Kuroda deftly lands every laugh and threatens to make off with every scene in which she appears.
THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL concludes with a two-character scene that feels too pat and therefore a bit of a clunker. Up until then, Gomolvilas has created a play that is a rare blend of frights and smarts. Leave it to the ghosts to make you think about problems plaguing the living.
THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL continues through December 11.
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03.30.2017 Featured Story
Mother gives talk at PBMC about surviving colon cancer while pregnant
By Nicole Smith
Donna Farley was 28 weeks pregnant with her third child in 2013, when she noticed that something was different this time — and not in a good way.
Ms. Farley was experiencing abdominal pain that worsened as the baby grew. So the Mattituck resident visited her doctor and a sonogram revealed good news: Her baby was fine.
But the pain continued, escalating to the point that she ended up in the emergency room at NYU Langone Hospital in Manhattan, where doctors ordered a colonoscopy. Because her pregnancy was so advanced, the procedure had to be done with an epidural.
That's when she got the devastating diagnosis: At 42 years old, she had stage 4 colon cancer.
"It's really not common for someone to have colon cancer and be pregnant," Ms. Farley said, adding that the five-year survival rate for someone with stage 4 colon cancer is only 11 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. "I was old to be pregnant and young to have colon cancer, so I really didn't know what to do."
People are encouraged to begin getting colonoscopies at age 50 to screen for colorectal cancers, putting Ms. Farley at nearly a decade younger. Nearly 90 percent of all cases diagnosed are in people over 50, according to the ACS.
People born in 1990 have twice the risk of colon cancer and four times the risk of rectal cancer compared to someone born in 1950 at a comparable age, The New York Times reported.
But a new study from the American Cancer Society, published Feb. 28, has shown that colorectal cancer rates are increasing for every generation born after 1950.
"It's becoming more and more frequent and common in young people," said Dr. Eyad Ali of Twin Forks Gastroenterology in Hampton Bays. "We have no idea why."
Rectal cancers are rising faster than other cancers of the large intestine or colon, and the ACS predicts about 13,500 new cases in Americans under 50 and over 95,500 cases of colon cancer and 40,000 cases of rectal cancer in all age groups this year, according to The New York Times.
Colon and rectal cancers are the second most common found in the United States and are shown to be caused by diets including lots of high-fat foods and red meats, as well as by genetics, obesity and smoking. Eating foods high in fiber can help prevent the disease, Dr. Ali said.
To accelerate the cancer treatment, Ms. Farley delivered her son early, at 34 weeks, via caesarean section. That same day, she underwent surgery to remove the cancer in her colon. She said it was the first time doctors at NYU Langone had ever done those procedures together.
"I think it was mostly shock," Ms. Farley's husband, Todd, said of learning about her cancer. "When she's pregnant you're looking to a big event, something really positive — another life. That diagnosis was immediately life-threatening; it was the complete opposite. It's hard to wrap one's head around. Instead of life, you're looking at death."
Ms. Farley's pregnancy limited the number of scans and tests that could be safely performed. At the time of her son's birth, she and her doctors didn't know the cancer had already spread to her lymph nodes and liver.
Initially diagnosed over Memorial Day weekend in 2013, she has undergone seven surgeries and numerous chemotherapy treatments in the past three years. While she was in and out of hospitals and treatments, her husband cared for the couple's children -— Gabriel, now 3, and two older sons, ages 7 and 18.
In July, Ms. Farley said, she received the good news that the treatments had worked and her scans showed "no evidence of disease."
"When she said recently she was conceivably disease-free it was the first time I breathed in 3 1/2 years," Mr. Farley said. "My wife is a tough as nails New Yorker to begin with. She's unflappable and this whole experience just epitomized that."
Grateful for the care she received from numerous physicians at NYU Langone and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, as well as Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, Ms. Farley is now advocating for awareness of colorectal cancers and for lowering the recommended initial screening age from 50 to 40 years old.
During March, designated Colon Cancer Awareness Month, Ms. Farley attended an event at PBMC, where she spoke about the importance of getting screened.
"It's not that big a deal," she said. "People have this notion that you suffer through this prep and that it's painful — there's a lot of anticipatory anxiety. So I like to speak with people and say there are easy preps now, it's not the old stuff anymore. You don't have to drink a gallon of something awful. It's a quick and easy procedure."
Ms. Farley and Dr. Ali both urge people to visit their doctors if they notice any red flags, such as unintentional weight loss, a change in bowel habits or blood in their stool.
"Just trust your instincts," she said. "If you really think something is wrong, no matter your age, make sure you trust your instincts and trust your health care provider."
Photo: Donna Farley of Mattituck was 28 weeks pregnant with her son Gabriel, now 3, when she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. She credits her youngest son for saving her life, saying it's unlikely she would have been diagnosed had she not been pregnant at the time. (Credit: Nicole Smith)
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CITY COUNCIL HOLDS FIRST-EVER REMOTE MEETING, APPROVES $85 MILLION EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO HELP FIGHT CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
In Cherelle Parker, Council News, Darrell L. Clarke, News by PHL Council April 2, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, April 2, 2020 — City Council held a historic remote meeting today and voted to give final approval to an emergency $85 Million appropriation to help the city contain and mitigate the Coronavirus outbreak across Philadelphia.
The emergency appropriation measure, Bill 200258, was requested by the Kenney administration to fund an array of operations and initiatives essential to fighting the outbreak in Philadelphia. More information on the bill can be found here.
"These are extraordinary times," said Council President Darrell L. Clarke (5th District). "The crisis we are facing brought on by the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. Every part of our economy is going to feel the impact of these months of sheltering-in-place. Just as the stimulus plan at the federal level is believed to be the first of many steps on a long road to our nation's recovery, what Council voted on today is just the beginning of what we will need to do to help our residents, small businesses, and other organizations rebuild after this pandemic."
"Intergovernmental cooperation, coordination, and strategic planning are of the utmost importance to our citizenry during these unprecedented times," said Council's Majority Leader, Cherelle Parker (9th District). "I'm proud to note that that our City Council is working in a unified manner with our Federal and State Government leaders. This is the only way that we will maximize the efficient use of the scarce resources available to save the people and businesses in our city from economic calamity."
On March 13, the city issued a Declaration of Emergency relating to Coronavirus COVID-19 in Philadelphia. On March 16, Mayor Kenney ordered a halt to all nonessential city government operations, and ordered City Hall closed to the public. Those orders remain in effect as the outbreak continues to spread citywide. As of Wednesday, the City Department or Public Health reported 1,675 positive cases of Coronavirus in Philadelphia, with 15 deaths.
Councilmembers participated in Thursday's Meeting remotely, with the assistance of City Council's Information Technology department. The Council used existing Microsoft Teams technology to hold the remote session. The press and public were able to watch the session on Xfinity Ch. 64, Verizon Ch. 40 and livestreamed at www.PHLCouncil.com/watch.
Because of the pandemic, public comment for Thursday's session was adjusted to meet with social distancing recommendations from the Health Department, while still allowing the public to weigh in on the emergency appropriation bill.
The emergency appropriation measure, Bill 200258, was the only bill considered by Council on Thursday. Public comment was limited to this bill.
For more information on public comment, go to: http://phlcouncil.com/offering-public-comment-at-council-sessions-temp
City Council is exploring holding subsequent meetings and hearings remotely during the pandemic, particularly as they pertain to the city's proposed FY 2020-21 budget. Further information about subsequent meetings will be released as soon as it becomes available.
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In the past few years, there have been debates whether the real estate sector in Kenya is in a bubble. Some of the factors that support this argument are; a sudden upsurge in property prices, an unprecedented demand for property, and a rise in vacant houses and office spaces.
However, a study by Strathmore Business School found no sufficient evidence to support a property bubble in Kenya. According to the study findings, the property boom in Kenya is in line with the country's economic growth. Factors that have driven the expansion in the real estate industry include; the growing middle class population, sustained economic growth at an average rate of 5.2 percent for the past five years, and increased infrastructural development.
Despite the rapid growth in the real estate sector, mortgage uptake in the country is quite low. As at 2015, Kenya was estimate to have only 24,458 mortgage loans in a country with more than 40 million residents. The study by Strathmore Business School attributes the slow growth in the mortgage market to unaffordable houses, high costs associated with mortgages, low income levels, and lack of understanding about mortgages.
Researchers at Strathmore advised participants in the real estate sector to act cautiously considering that the property bubble could develop over time. They also called upon lawmakers to make policies that will prevent a real estate bubble such as the Capital Gains Tax which tames property prices.


What if winning the Army's contest to design a new armored fighting vehicle was as simple as uploading your CAD files and other specifications to the U.S. Military, which would then have the capability to build your proposed vehicle - and all the other competing designs - in a generic fabrication facility?
If that sounds crazy, it's because everything the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency proposes is deliberately out-there, from powered exoskeletons and synthetic blood, to robot insects and a flying submarine.
And DARPA has the budget to make these things happen, if they're even possible on a short enough time horizon: Americans are 4% of the world's population and half of its military spending, and DARPA alone has a research budget of $3.2 billion.
The specific goals of the iFAB program are to rapidly design and configure manufacturing capabilities to support the fabrication of a wide array of infantry fighting vehicle models and variants. Parallel efforts titled vehicleforge.mil and Fast Adaptable Next-Generation Ground Combat Vehicle (FANG) seek to develop the infrastructure for and conduct a series of design challenges (termed Adaptive Make Challenges) intended to precipitate open source design for a prototype of the Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV).
You read that right - the Army wants to open source the construction of its next-generation armored combat vehicle, the one that will replace its current workhorse, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
If this sounds at all familiar, it's because companies like Local Motors are already trying to make this happen for everyday vehicles - custom design and custom manufacturing all made possible through what used to be called rapid prototyping and is now just making stuff in a big hurry.
The difference is that DARPA doesn't want to end up with just a bunch of kit cars - or in this case, kit tanks. DARPA wants to literally reinvent manufacturing - not just so they can build new vehicles more easily, but because they have a not-so-secret ambition to revive America's manufacturing base.
The iFAB end vision–to be developed in the second phase of the program which will be solicited under a separate BAA at the conclusion of the present effort–is that of a facility which can fabricate and assemble the winning FANG designs, verified and supplied in a comprehensive metalanguage representation with META/META-II tools.
Not everyone agrees that this is kind of manufacturing is a realistic goal - DARPA has a history of bringing on science fiction authors and futurists to help it brainstorm new ideas, and it's possible they were a little too high on a particular article from Wired when they wrote this document. But that's the point of DARPA - they fund things that no one else would, and eventually, that technology trickles down to the civilian sector.


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import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import com.openbravo.basic.BasicException;

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1) Move the wiki. Basically everyone voted for this.
2)Protest. Alot of people protested, but the wiki people are too thickheaded.
3)accept it. Literally nobody voted for this!
Zatch Bell! Wiki is a FANDOM Comics Community.


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Seattle Mariners' Domingo Santana, center, celebrates with teammate catcher Omar Narvaez (22) at home after hitting a grand slam off Oakland Athletics starter Mike Fiers in the third inning of Game 1 of their Major League opening series baseball game at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Left is Athletics catcher Nick Hundley. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)
Seattle Sidelines
POLL: What's your approach to the 2019 Mariners season?
Are you on board with following a rebuilding team, or are you going to sit this one out?
by Nick Patterson
Monday, March 25, 2019 9:10am
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Don't look now, but the Seattle Mariners are on top of all of Major League Baseball.
OK, so that's because the Mariners and the Oakland A's are the only teams that have played games that counted so far, with Seattle sweeping the two games the teams played in Japan last week. But still, given the expectations for this season, that's a better start than anyone anticipated.
This is the season of the dreaded "step back," as Mariners executives like to put it. In layman's terms, this is the season Seattle finally committed to rebuilding.
For 17 years the Mariners have been stuck in a rut of mediocrity. Seattle hasn't made the playoffs since 2001, giving the Mariners the longest active postseason drought of any team in the country's major professional sports leagues. Last year looked like the year the drought would come to an end, but the Mariners fell short despite winning 89 games. With a team that overachieved based on run differential and a roster populated largely by older players on the downside of their careers, the Mariners decided it was finally time to start from the ground up.
A big chunk of the players who comprised the core of last year's team are gone. Closer Edwin Diaz and second baseman Robinson Cano were traded to the New York Mets. Ace pitcher James Paxton was shipped off to the New York Yankees. Shortstop Jean Segura was sent to Philadelphia, while catcher Mike Zunino was flipped to Tampa Bay. And designated hitter Nelson Cruz was allowed to walk as a free agent, signing with Minnesota. Only four of the 10 players who were in Seattle's starting lineup for the 2018 season opener were in the lineup for the 2019 opener, and one of those players was Ichiro Suzuki, who played just 15 games before moving into the front office last season, then officially retired after the games in Japan this season.
Seattle's roster is largely a collection if players cobbled together just to make it through the season in one piece. The hope is that the prospects acquired in the offseason trades — players like pitchers Justus Sheffield and Justin Dunn, shortstop J.P. Crawford and outfielder Jarred Kelenic, who are starting the season in the minor leagues — will help the Mariners emerge as a healthy and competitive franchise within a couple of years.
But those players aren't going to be much help this season. Most predictions and projections have the Mariners winning in the range of 75 games and finishing fourth in the AL West, and those are the type of numbers and position Seattle fans are all too familiar with. But while this year's team isn't expected to be very good, there at least appears to be a long-term plan in place.
Seattle has its home opener Thursday against the Boston Red Sox. So with the season beginning in earnest this week, what's your mindset about the 2019 Mariners? Let us know here:
What is your attitude toward the Seattle Mariners' rebuilding 2019 season?
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A Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation to Heal the Cycle of Violence
In 1992, Virginia Swain, Founder and Director, Institute for Global Leadership, went to the United Nations to study the reasons the Persian Gulf Resolution passed in the Security Council. After two years of study, she began a Master's Degree Independent Study through Lesley University to explore the theory and practice of coexistence — a minimum standard for a world safe for difference. She was also interested in developing a deeper standard — reconciliation, by creating a Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation — to contain the anger, fear, and other emotions that lead to a breakdown of communications and to address deep-rooted, intractable disputes.
Her thesis project was conceived and implemented as a nonviolent response for the Persian Gulf Resolution to develop political will among members of the United Nations Community and provide a new kind of leadership. It was her hope that Reconciliation Leaders could contribute to Chapter V1 of the Charter so the United Nations and the international community could become a true peacemaking body, dedicated to serve its followers, the world's peoples, by using pacific resolution of disputes.
A Way to Address the Cycle of Violence
A safe, sacred place is created where people can coexist, begin to trust themselves and each other, and become conscious of unconscious behavior. The need comes from an understanding of the shadow or unconscious part of each person and situation where we express our limitations without our awareness. Reconciliation Leaders share resources and power, withdraw projections of the unconscious, and dissipate emotional reactions in such a way that the outcome of the meeting is owned by everyone present.
There is an untapped potential in emotional and spiritual energy that can be released for good. A piece of beautiful Swedish glass, in memory of Dag Hammarskjold, is used for participants to take turns in speaking as a vehicle where the emotions can be held to contain their turbulence in a way that is not alienating to the other. The only one who can speak is the holder of the Swedish glass. Reconciliation Leaders let go of their need to control the outcome and lightly guide the process so that participants have an experience of owning unconscious emotions. "I" statements are used (rather than blameful statements), so that participants own their experiences without projecting them on the others.
Virginia Swain wrote in 1996:
"Reconciliation Leadership addresses dominators and victims in people and systems that allow people to share their gifts in safety, without being invalidated or denigrated. It is a respectful, fully participatory model, allowing a shared vision and mission to emerge. Prescriptive processes are given up; being an expert evolves into having expertise; blaming and evading accountability evolve into interpersonal competence and personal responsibility; reacting evolves into responding."
Reconciliation Leaders provide an intervention in the cycle of violence and help provide a way for the victim to mourn, express grief and accept loss (outer circle). Participants share power by addressing the victim/perpetrator cycle of violence in people and systems by creating ground rules as a way to re-humanize the enemy, be accountable for unconscious inner conflicts and allow people to share their gifts in safety (without being invalidated or denigrated), in a respectful, fully participatory process. The process allows a shared vision to emerge. People have new choices to forgive and negotiate solutions.
When high levels of emotion cause people to raise their voices, scream at, strike and even kill one another, skilled Reconciliation Leaders provide a useful way for participants to begin healing from alienating experiences, withdraw their projections and build relationships across divisions. Participants create ground rules for themselves that are primarily monitored by facilitators, but also by participants. A common experience brings people together naturally where emotions are contained and released.
Conflict competency
There is a need for conflict competency: first to clarify what is believed and valued when it comes to conflict, second to stimulate thinking about how conflicts in one's life have been managed, and third to see that resolving conflict in a positive manner will strengthen all relationships as a conflict management system for community, institutional, national and global settings.
There is a need to learn the impact of cultural differences (including gender, ethnicity and race) on the dispute resolution process. Because the effectiveness of various conflict management strategies are influenced by cultural considerations and differences, we need to examine the various models for training leaders to intervene in disputes where cultural differences are a factor.
Reconciliation Leaders serve their followers by facilitating others through their transformations in a deeply respectful "I-thou" relationship, rather than one of control and manipulation.
Created by a Nobel nominee and Dartmouth College sociologist, the late Dr. Elise Boulding's Conflict Management Continuum is enhanced by Reconciliation Leaders working toward the penultimate part of her continuum, "union." Boulding's view is that we live in a society that places a high value on dealing with conflict as something that has to be won. The goal is to vanquish the adversary, or at the least successful, to threaten (deter) the adversary. Yet we all know there are other ways of dealing with conflicts. These ways of managing conflict may be thought of as ranging on a conflict continuum.
Reconciliation Leaders help move conflict from the war of extermination to integration and union, from violence to nonviolence, from destructive to integrative behavior, from left to right. Limited war, deterrence, and threat are all on the violent side of the continuum. Noncompliance, arbitration, mediation, and negotiation lie in a violence-neutral, middle region. Reconciliation, active cooperation, and integration/union lie on the positive, nonviolent side.
The components of accountability, forgiveness and reconciliation are essential to the leadership needed for the United Nation's International Decade of a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010), which was proposed by all living Nobel Peace Laureates and began in March 2001 in the United Nations. Otherwise the world will repeat the suffering and horrors of this century's wars, ethnic conflict and the use of force as a response to terrorism. The best of our humanity is desperately needed now. The figure below shows the Public Peace Process (Saunders) integrated with the Personal Peace Process (Swain) for a Sacred Container to reconcile the cycle of violence.
Peace through reconciliation
Since 1992, Virginia Swain has committed her consulting practice resources to design and implement a new social development model in a Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation to develop political will, the will of the people, at its core. There have been dozens of implementations, always in a political context of collaborative changemaking and peaceful evolution to advance the common good. The conceptual framework for this model comes from Swain's corporate experience in human resources and decades of experience as an organizational development consultant (using models that also apply to national and global challenges), vocational counselor and integrative leadership coach and trainer.
Virginia Swain designed Celebration of the Children of the World: A Model for Building Global Community (CCW) for her master's thesis project. CCW was designed to build on the momentum of 40,000 people from 185 countries assembling at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED or Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. At a vigil of all the world's religions at the Global Forum, a parallel conference to UNCED builton a profound experience of the union that Boulding uses as her penultimate stage in the Conflict Management Continuum during the all-night vigil worshiping with thousands in their own traditions. The Dalai Lama brought them all together in five minutes of the deepest silence Swain had ever experienced. At the end of the silence, a sound arose out of one person and grew — so that the sounds of 40,000 people present grew such that the sounds became one sound. They sang and danced for joy at meeting one another anew. Strangers became joyful co-celebrants as they danced the day away.
Even though there was no dispute in Rio at the Earth Summit, Swain was struck by the potential for such communities to transform disputes through celebration. She began conceptualizing a reconciliation leadership intervention at the United Nations much like what she had found at the Vigil in Rio as one of nine key characteristics or competencies of this leadership style. Fifty celebration artists and a steering committee produced the Celebration of the Children of the World event after six months of preparation, by having a vigil and performances by children. To do that, Swain used the celebration model to build a holding environment for the steering committee to contain the emotions, presence and purpose to bring the various components of the UN community together as a soul force for building global community. They realized they could hold the space intentionally for the members of the United Nations community in the event itself — international civil servants, state and non-governmental actors. In the steering committee, people were able to let go and find their common humanity — especially useful for post-conflict peacebuilding.
On the eve of the Celebration of the Children of the World event there was a dispute between two of the steering committee members and one of the mutually-agreed-upon ground rules was that "we wouldn't run away from conflict, but rather be a listening presence for the other no matter how hard it was." Because of the successful enactment of that ground rule, one of the parties to the dispute was able to tell the second disputant that the experience was a positive and life-changing example for her on how to work through interpersonal conflict successfully.
In the times that it is not appropriate to celebrate, a ritual that would commemorate the need to mourn or express another emotional stage of growth would be available, A Global Liturgy.
Figures (below):
A. Victimhood and Aggression: Psychological Dynamics, The Center for Strategic and International Studies shows two circles: the inner circle shows the cycle of victimhood while the outer circle shows the cycle of healing when an intervention takes place. Reprinted with permission.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) states:
Reconciliation, according to Martin Luther King, is the final, large and difficult step in peacemaking, essential if we are to move into beloved community. If we fail to nurture a reconciling spirit that listens, forgives and persists, our protests can become harsh and shrill as we move from one struggle to the next with deepening anger and frustration. Rightly enraged at the vast scope of injustice, suffering, greed and exploitation in the world, we are tempted to externalize evil as "out there," forgetting our own complicity, our own shadow (unconscious) side — our own need of redemption. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writing in The Gulag Archipelago of his experiences in Soviet prison camps, observed that the line separating good and evil passes not through states nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart and through all human hearts. The enemy, the oppressor, the hurtful person, the "other," is (with his victim) a part of the whole human family. The cycle of evil and suffering can be broken when we open ourselves to the grace that enables forgiveness and, ultimately, reconciliation to take place. To say this does not mask the real conflict involved in struggling against injustice and oppression, but it reminds us that — at every stage — the peacemaker seeks to overcome evil with good, using means that are consistent with the aim being sought.
The challenge to peacemakers to overcome evil by good (by developing the work and upgrading skills to provide resources, tools and processes for Reconciliation Leaders) is essential so that that mediation and reconciliation services can be provided for the United Nation's International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010).
Since 1992, Virginia Swain committed her consulting practice resources to design and implement a new social development model in a Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation to develop political will, the will of the people, at its core. There have been dozens of implementations, always in a political context of collaborative changemaking and peaceful evolution to advance the common good. The conceptual framework for this model comes from Swain's corporate experience in human resources and decades of experience as an organizational development consultant (using models that also apply to national and global challenges), vocational counselor and integrative leadership coach and trainer.
Virginia Swain designed Celebration of the Children of the World: A Model for Building Global Community (CCW) for her master's thesis project. CCW was designed to build on the momentum of 40,000 people from 185 countries assembling at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED or Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. At a vigil of all the world's religions at the Global Forum, a parallel conference to UNCED, building on a profound experience of the union that Boulding uses as her penultimate stage in the Conflict Management Continuum during the all-night vigil worshiping with thousands in our own traditions. The Dalai Lama brought us all together in five minutes of the deepest silence Swain had ever experienced. At the end of the silence, a sound arose out of one person and grew — so that the sounds of 40,000 people present grew such that the sounds became one sound. We sang and danced for joy at meeting one another anew. Strangers became joyful co-celebrants as we danced the day away.
Even though there was no dispute in Rio at the Earth Summit, Swain was struck by the potential for such communities to transform disputes through celebration. She began conceptualizing a reconciliation leadership intervention at the United Nations much like what she had found at the Vigil in Rio as one of nine key characteristics or competencies of this leadership style. Fifty celebration artists and a steering committee produced the Celebration of the Children of the World event after six months of preparation, by having a vigil and performances by children. To do that, Swain used the celebration model to build a holding environment for the steering committee to contain the emotions, presence and purpose to bring the various components of the UN community together as a soul force for building global community. They realized they could hold the space intentionally for the members of the United Nations community in the event itself — international civil servants, state and non-governmental actors. In the steering committee, people were able to let go and find their common humanity- especially useful for post-conflict peacebuilding.
On the eve of the Celebration of the Children of the World event there was a dispute between two of the steering committee members and one of the mutually-agreed upon ground rules was that "we wouldn't run away from conflict, but rather be a listening presence for the other no matter how hard it was". Because of the successful enactment of that ground rule, one of the parties to the dispute was able to tell the second disputant that the experience was a positive and life-changing example for her on how to work through interpersonal conflict successfully.
The Celebration of Children of the World is a new model for building global community (Lesley University Masters Thesis Project, 1993). The model was inspired by a vigil of the world's religions at the Earth Summit in June 1992, in Brazil, where people of sovereign nations came together for a celebratory experience of one human family, brother and sisterhood. Celebration helps people accept the sufferings of everyday life by allowing them to relax and let go. Celebration expresses the true meaning of community as they unite their hearts through a moment of wonder. The joy of the body and the senses are linked to the joy of the Spirit. Former Secretary-General de Cuellar says there is no more beautiful profession on earth than to unite humans. Celebration allows an experience of unity and empowerment by bringing people together for an experience of joy.


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Q: add an image to given coordinates on a PDF page How can I add an image to given coordinates (x,y) on a PDF page, using IronPdf?
Using the samples, I managed easily to add a "stamp", but that is placed in the center of the page.
I would need to be able to pass (x,y) as parameters when adding the image to each page, and I find this info nowhere in the class documentation.
var stamper = new IronPdf.Editing.ImageStamper(Image);
pdf.ApplyStamp(stamper, pageNumber);

See code above that adds the image in the page center.

A: You can set HorizontalOffset and VerticalOffset by IronPdf.Editing.Length .
I wrote sample code as below, hope it helps:
var pdf = new PdfDocument("./test.pdf");
ImageStamper logoImageStamper = new ImageStamper("[YOUR IMAGE PATH]/cat.jpg");
logoImageStamper.HorizontalOffset = new Length(300, MeasurementUnit.Pixel);
logoImageStamper.VerticalOffset = new Length(-500, MeasurementUnit.Pixel);
pdf.ApplyStamp(logoImageStamper);
pdf.SaveAs("test_new.pdf");

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BAYERN 3-1 REAL MADRID | ZIDANE
Real Madrid: Zidane: "If Bale leaves tomorrow, great..."
The coach explained that Gareth Bale is one of the blacklisted players: "It's nothing personal. The club is negotiating with those who have to leave".
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Zinedine Zidane attended the media after Real Madrid's 3-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the team's first outing of the pre-season. There was one noticeable absentee in the match - Gareth Bale, who was mysteriously left out of the squad.
Bale snubbed
Gareth Bale left out of the list: "He wasn't called up because the club is dealing with his transfer elsewhere and that's why he didn't play. We'll see what happens with him over the next few days".
Is Bale's departure imminent? "I'm not going to start talking about that; we'll see. If it's all resolved tomorrow, then that would be even better. Let's hope it can be resolved quickly for everyone's sake - for him too. The club is negotiating with another club where he could end up playing and that's the situation as things stand".
Takefusa Kubo's debut: "It was his first game for us; obviously we're not happy about losing the game but overall there were some good things about our game. For us it's normal, we have to build up rhythm and I'm happy with how everyone performed".
Gareth Bale trains with the Real Madrid squad in HoustonJAVIER GANDULDIARIO AS
First outing of the summer
Positive sensations: "Yes, the first 10 minutes were difficult for us but after that we played well, we were able to pass our way out from the back… We struggled to find the net in the first half and in the second half, we completely changed the team as for some players, it was the first time they'd played together. It's normal that we experienced difficulties in defence".
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Madrid seeking a new club for Bale
A while ago, you claimed that Gareth Bale was not for sale then last season, you stopped playing him. And now you are sending him a clear message. Have you had a a personal problem with Bale or is it a sport-related issue? "It's nothing personal. The moment arrives when you have to do what needs to be done. I have to make decisions and we need to change things. We'll see what happens. It's not personal".
Has the message regarding Bale changed? "Look, you all know the situation. And it's going to change. I don't whether it will be in 24 hours' time or 48 hours, the situation is going to change and that's the best outcome for everyone".
Have you personally asked the club to find an outlet for Bale? "I'm the coach and the one who talks to the club and we have to take decisions. It's the coach who decides when a player has to leave - or the player himself. He knows the situation and we'll see how it all turns out".
Madrid have spent a lot of money on new signings but the starting XI was the same as last year plus Hazard… "We are still in the phase of preparing for the new campaign - one team played the first half, another played the second and we'll change it around in the next game. For me, it doesn't matter which players started".
James: "I'm not going to say anything, he's not with us here, I'm only concerned about the players who are here with us right now".
Bale left out of Real Madrid's squad against Bayern Munich
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MOUNI ROY IN DABANGG 3?
By Shivank Arora On Dec 26, 2017
Mouni Roy who is known for her role as Naagin in the television industry is one of the hotshot favourite of bhaijaan, Salman Khan. Salman Khan who is fond of Mouni and have said several times that Mouni is one of her favourite actress and she can make it big on the silver screen as well. And now, If trade sources are to be believed, the telly actor is likely to feature in 'Dabangg 3'.
Those in the know say that Sonakshi Sinha, who featured in the first two outings in 2010 and 2012, will be part of the action flick, but Mouni will have a stellar role. If true, Mouni will be the new Dabangg girl of B-Town.
Well, if the rumor is true, then that's a great news for Mouni and her well wishers.
Stay tuned to Bollyy for more updates on Bollywood and Television.
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We are moving to bigger and better hardware. In the transition, I will install the latest version of php (4.3.1 right now) on the new server. I believe I am using 4.1 currently. Are there any issues I should be aware of with the latest version of php, vB 2.2.9 and mySQL 4.0.12? Thanks!
4.3.2 RC1 is already out .
I'm using 4.3.2 RC1 without any problems.
Can someone help with an upgrade?
I'm on 4.2.2 now. I have 4.3.1 sitting on the server. I can get 4.3.2 RC1 if necessary. It was installed with RPM so I have the new RPM.
it hashes ####### for like 5 seconds, stops, and goes back to the prompt. No errors, no install. Help?
Hm, while I can't say i've ever installed apache or php from rpm, maybe give uninstalling the old php rpm, then installing the new one?
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Thanks Turns out it wasn't an RPM install to begin with.. so a kind vb.com'er helped me learn to make and install it from source.
Is there a resource that puts the instructions in simple terms? I have a dedicated server with Ventures Online if that helps at all.
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I found some posts on their message boards about this. Sounds like it can be risky doing this?
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It was a breeze for me. No problems at all.
Overgrow, I wouldn't use the RPM, considering the Linux ability it is indeed much safer (and personally easier) using the basic binary; configuring, making, and installing like normal. Should be problemless. If not, contact the PHP group and let them know.
Been running a test server with 4.3.1 on it without any issues.


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atoms, iot, Mozilla
Conductive Contracts
Complete the circuit by stamping it. Your contract will be digitally authorized using conductive ink, Indian stamp paper, and your thumbprint.
This project considers whether paper contracts would benefit from digital features. Possible use cases include: verifying the signatures in the contract or notifying a database that the contract has been completed.
In India, it's common to draw up a contract using stamp paper. This paper is watermarked and has various monetary denominations. To obtain our stamp paper, we went to the courthouse, where a legal clerk logged our transaction in a ledger and wrote the contract on a typewriter.
A traditional form of signature in India is the thumbprint. This technique is often used when the signatory cannot write their name. It is also biometric data, which is commonly used as a form of identification.
We designed a circuit that would light up when the contract was signed by both parties and then stamped by the notary. Ideally, this would be created using conductive ink. We were unable to obtain it during the Caravan, so we made an artistic rendering of a circuit instead.
We also crafted a notary stamp, which was inspired by the tradition of customized stamps used in many businesses and ministries throughout India.
To take this project further, we imagine talking with the courthouses and members of the judicial system to ask whether these kinds of interactions would add value to their practice. If so, one could readily create a circuit design that could be printed directly on the stamp paper.
—Michelle Thorne (@thornet) and Shashank Sriram
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The New York Mets have announced how the organization plans to honor the iconic Tom Seaver, who was revealed earlier this season to have been diagnosed with dementia and as a result is retiring from public life.
First, the Mets will be permanently changing the address of Citi Field to Tom Seaver, although exact details will be announced at a later date, according to an SNY report.
Further, plans are expected to be announced in June related to the unveiling of a statue of Seaver at the team's home ballpark, Mets chief revenue officer Lou DePaoli announced, per Newsday.
The Mets organization's official statement earlier this month on the Seaver news, as said by COO Jeff Wilpon, indicated the team was "planning to honor" Seaver in "special ways," as the icon will not attend the 50th anniversary celebration commemorating the 1969 World Series-winning team.
A statue — which previously was suggested via petition from a Mets fan — along with a renaming of Citi Field's address obviously would accomplish those stated goals.


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Over the Weekend 11/23/20: Black Panther 2 Sets Production Date, Stranger Things Casting and More News
November 23, 2020 08:26	| By Edward Douglas
Welcome back, and we hope everyone had a great weekend!
We don't know about you, our readers, but here at Below the Line, we'll be thankful on Thursday that production has resumed with strict COVID protocols despite the number COVID infections going up and up everywhere in the United States and abroad as things begin shutting down again.
Black Panther (Marvel Studios)
The best news from late last week was that Marvel Studios — the studio that's helped keep the box office alive for 12 years despite not having any movies in 2020 — is already making plans to start production on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther 2 in July 2021. This is despite the tragic death of star Chadwick Boseman earlier this year that forced Marvel Studios to cancel the planned the sequel's planned March start date. The production is scheduled for a six-month shoot in Atlanta, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett are all scheduled to return, and they'll reportedly be joined by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta (Narcos: Mexico). Although as per usual, the role he's playing is being kept hush-hush, he will presumably be the film's antagonist, and one can probably place bets that Wright and Nyong'o might fill in for the absence of Boseman as the title character.
Over the past few months, Deadline has been doing a series called Reopening Hollywood, covering similar territory as Below the Line's "Back to Work" series (with better access). It added a few interesting stories including one on Friday that takes an inside look at how one television series has been affected by California's COVID protocols. There's another piece on Allen Hughes and how the pandemic lockdown "enriched" his FX documentary series Outlaw, about Tupac and Afeni Shukar. Some more helpful information in there for those still waiting to return to production.
Deadpool (20th Century Studios)
Any worries about how COVID might be affecting development and production seem to be unfounded as Walt Disney Pictures announced progress on two projects based on former Fox (now 20th Century Studios) franchise, both R-rated projects presumably, so not for its Disney+ streamer. Late last week, it was announced that Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) will be directing the next attempt at reviving the Predator franchise with a script being written by Patrick Aison (Jack Ryan, Treadstone). Not only that but 20th Century has hired sisters Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molynex-Loeglin (Bob's Burgers) to pen a third Deadpool movie for the hugely-successful Ryan Reynolds superhero franchise based on the popular Marvel anti-hero. Reynolds, who had been involved with writing the previous Deadpool 2, was involved with picking the writers for the third movie with hopes that Marvel Studios and head Kevin Feige may be involved with shepherding Marvel's mutants into its new Disney home.
Lots of casting news and other new project announcements were reported on the later side last week, again bolstering the idea that Hollywood is continuing to develop new projects even as theaters remain shuttered in two of the United States' major movie capitols. To be fair, some of the projects will be for Netflix, as Tyler Perry, Melanie Lynskey and Ron Perlman will be joining Writer/Director Adam McKay's Don't Look Up for the streamer. They're joining the impressive cast of Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep, making us think that this might be a future awards contender for the streamer. The eclectic cast also includes pop star Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Matthew Perry from Friends, and Tomer Sisley, and it centers on two scientists (played by Lawrence and DiCaprio) who discover there's a meteor heading to earth so they go on a media tour to warn the world. McKay is no stranger to the awards circuit from his recent films, The Big Short and Vice, although this premise sounds far more comedic.
Netflix's popular premier show Stranger Things, has added three regular cast members for Season 4, Jamie Campbell Bower, Eduardo Franco and Joseph Quinn, as well as a number of recurring cast members, including genre legend Robert Englund, best known for playing Freddy Krueger in Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street horror franchise. Englund's character might not diverge too far from that iconic horror role, as he will be playing play Victor Creel, "a disturbed and intimidating man who is imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for a gruesome murder in the 1950s." Other new cast members include Sherman Augustus, Mason Dye, Nikola Djuricko and Tom Wlaschiha. That fourth season has already resumed production, continuing the storyline from Season 3 which has David Harbour's character imprisoned in a Russian jail.
Although unconfirmed at this writing, there have been murmurs that actor Joaquin Phoenix might lead Beau is Afraid, the third horror film from auteur Ari Aster (Midsommar, Hereditary), which would be based on Aster's 2011 short, Beau, which you can watch below. Phoenix also will be producing a Jonah Hill-directed doc on mental health for Netflix.
Universal Pictures clearly were fans of Sony's 21 Jump Street and its sequel, 22 Jump Street, as it has hired Channing Tatum, Phil Lord and Chris Miller to develop an unidentified monster movie based on one of its classic Universal Monsters that has led to this year's hit The Invisible Man, directed by Leigh Whannell. There are a few other unrelated projects in development, including one from Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters). This new project, reported by Deadline's Justin Kroll, will be a "modern-day tongue-in-cheek thriller" based on an original idea and treatment by Tatum's Magic Mike production partner Reid Carolin, who will be among the producers along with Lord and Miller, Tatum and Peter Kiernan. It will be interesting to see if Universal can create a steady run of movies based on monsters like Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man and others, after several failed attempts over the past decade.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is giving a rare look into its film archive with its Hollywood Home Movies: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive event, which will be available via streaming on Oscars.Org. The footage includes info about:
Director Dorothy Arzner – the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America – boating with her friend Billie Burke
Gilbert Roland's 16mm home movies in early Kodachrome
A party at the home of Dolores Del Rio and Cedric Gibbons
A road trip with cinematographer James Wong Howe
Director Henry Koster leaving Europe as the Nazis come to power
Behind the scenes with Loretta Young, Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester
Nat King Cole at a movie premiere
Ida Lupino directing a female cast led by Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills in The Trouble with Angels
Plus Constance Bennett, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, William Haines, Gypsy Rose Lee, Satchel Paige and more.
The program is presented by the Academy's Senior Vice President, Preservation and Foundation Programs Randy Haberkamp, its Film Archive's Special Collections Curator Lynne Kirste with special guests Bob Koster, Hayley Mills, Musician Michael Mortilla and Writer-Director Gregory Nava.
There isn't a lot to say about the theatrical box office from the weekend as movie theaters continue to shut down over COVID spikes. Universal and Blumhouse's horror-comedy Freaky, starring Vince Vaughn, remained atop the box office with a measly $1.2 million, down 66% from its opening weekend, as 415 theaters in which it was playing were closed. Other returning movies took similar tumbles as they lost theaters, and the only two new wide releases, the Jackie Chan action film Vanguard from Gravitas Centures and the historical drama The Last Vermeer from TriStar Pictures failed to generate much interest with neither bringing in more than $300 per theater.
There will be no End of Week Production Notes this Friday, but we'll be back next Monday with any important news that took place over the extended holiday weekend.


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Oxyteninae is a subfamily of the family Saturniidae, until recently classified as a separate family, Oxytenidae. Its members are mostly from Central and South America.

Genera
This subfamily contains the following genera:
Oxytenis
Homoeopteryx
Therinia

Syns:
Asthenidia
Eusyssaura
Lycabis
Teratopteris

References

Saturniidae

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Home » Health News » How to live longer: Best drink to increase life expectancy and how much to drink
How to live longer: Best drink to increase life expectancy and how much to drink
When it comes to adding on the years to one's life, there is no magic pill or sure-bet remedy to increasing life expectancy. Eating a healthy well-balanced diet, avoiding tobacco smoking and not abusing alcohol are well-known tips to having a healthy life but new research has revealed that drinking coffee has been proven to help one live longer. According to studies, coffee is one of the healthiest beverages on the planet and could even extend one's life.
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Coffee contains hundreds of different compounds, some of which offer important health benefits.
Many of these compounds found in coffee are antioxidants which protect against oxidate stress in the body caused by damaging free radicals.
In fact, oxidation is believed to be one of the mechanisms behind ageing and common, serious conditions including most cancers and heart disease.
Scientists have identified approximately 1,000 antioxidants in coffee beans and hundreds more develop during the roasting process.
Antioxidants fight inflammation, an underlying cause of many chronic conditions, including arthritis, atherosclerosis and many types of cancer.
Coffee neutralises free radicals, which occur naturally as part of everyday metabolic functions but which can cause oxidative stress that leads to chronic disease.
What the studies say
Several studies show that regular coffee intake is linked to a lower risk of dying from various serious diseases.
In a study with The New England Journal of Medicine, the association between coffee consumption and the risk of death was investigated.
The study involved 229,119 men and 173,141 women aged between 50 to 71 years of age.
The study observed that those who drank the most coffee were significantly less likely to have died during the 12-12 year study period.
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The discovery laid in the amount of coffee consumed per day and noted that those who drank four to five cups per day seemed to be at the sweet spot.
At this quantity, men and women had a 12 percent and 16 percent reduced risk of early death respectively.
The study also noted that drinking more that six cups a day provided no additional health benefits.
However, even moderate coffee consumption of just one cup per day was associated with a five to six percent lowered risk of early death, showing that even a little bit is enough to have an effect.
The study found that looking into particular causes of death, researchers found that coffee drinkers were less likely to die from infections, injuries, accidents, respiratory disease, diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
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Simsim (), known to the Crusaders as Semsem, was a Palestinian village, located  northeast of Gaza. It was depopulated just prior to the outbreak of 1948 Arab-Israeli war. On 12 May 1948, pre-state Israeli forces expelled the villagers, along with those of the neighboring village of Najd.

History
Simsim contained two archaeological sites known locally as ar-Ras and Sha'fat al-Mughur (the latter of which contained a Roman cemetery).  Byzantine ceramics have been found here. The village was known as Semsem to the Crusaders.

Ottoman period
Simsim was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and by 1596 it was  part of  the nahiya (subdistrict) of Gaza under the liwa' (district) of Sanjak of Gaza,  and it had  20 Muslim households, an estimated  population of 110. They  paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley and fruit trees, as well as on goats and beehives; a total of 6,800 Akçe. 14/24 of the revenue went to a Waqf.

In 1838, Simsim  was noted   as was a Muslim village  in the Gaza District.

In A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine (1858), Josias Leslie Porter describes the village as standing "amidst a little grove of trees, about a 1/4 mile north of the road."
In June 1863 Victor Guérin found the village to contains five hundred inhabitants. Surrounded by trees, the village had tobacco and sesame plantations. A oualy, dedicated to Neby Danyal,  was internally decorated with two ancient columns.  An Ottoman village list of about 1870 indicated 69 houses and a population of 119, though  the population count included only men.

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Simsim as being surrounded by gardens. It had a well, a pool, and an olive grove that was planted to the north.

Karl Baedeker and his travelling companions writing in 1894 are more specific, noting that the village is located in an olive grove and that tobacco and sesame are the principal crops grown there.

British Mandate of Palestine period
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Semsem had a population of 760 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in  the 1931 census, when Sumsum had a population of 855 Muslims in 195 houses.

In 1942, the kibbutz of Gvar'am was established on land traditionally belonging to the village.

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Sumsum consisted of  1,290 Muslims and 70 Jews, while  the total land area was 16,797 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of  240 dunams  were used  citrus and bananas, 252 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 15,582 for cereals, while 44 dunams were built-up areas.

1948 war and after
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the villagers of Simsim, together with the surrounding villages, were driven out by  soldiers from the Negev Brigade on 12–13 May 1948 as part of Operation Barak. In Simsim the occupying troops found only a handful of old people. They blew up five houses and warned that if the village's weapons were not handed over the following day, they would blow up the rest.  But the inhabitants repeatedly returned to the village, either to resettle or to cultivate crops. At the end of May, a Negev Brigade unit, with orders to expel "the Arabs from Sumsum and Burayr and burn their granaries and fields", swept through the villages, encountering resistance in Sumsum, and killed "5" (or, according to another report, "20") and blew up granaries and a well. The Israeli troops returned to Simsim yet again, on 9 or 10 June 1948, again burning houses and skirmishing with Arabs.

Or HaNer, established in 1957,  lie less than one km south of the village site, on land formerly belonging to Najd, Gaza.

In 1992, the village site was described: "The village has been obliterated and can only be  recognised from the cypress and sycamore trees that still remain. A  pile of stones that may be the debris of a village building is visible. The site is fenced in and serves as a pasture. The land in the vicinity are cultivated by Israeli farmers."

People from Simsim
Jamil Majdalawi

References

Bibliography

Baedeker, K., A. Socin and Immanuel Benzinger (1894). Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers. Harvard University.

Porter, J.L.,  (1858). A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine. Harvard University.

External links
Welcome To Simsim
Simsim, Zochrot
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 20:   IAA, Wikimedia commons
Simsim from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Tour to Simsim Yoav Bachar, 28.3.09, Zochrot

District of Gaza
Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War