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How to Structure a Strong Narrative
Posted on January 12, 2017	by Lorena Goldsmith
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Following on from the post on the action-consequence principle in building a strong narrative plot, in this post I'll illustrate how to build a narrative mini-arc, by using one of the greatest examples of accomplished narrative structure, Ken Follett's masterpiece, The Pillars of the Earth.
According to the action-consequence principle, every event in a story has to be either the cause or the effect of another event. Events can't take place randomly, in the shape Character X did Action A, then he did B, then C and so on. A story is stronger when events are arranged in such a way that Character X does Action A either because of a previous Action Z or in order for a later Action B to become possible.
This might sound confusing, so I'll use an example.
Towards the end of Chapter 9 in Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, there is a battle scene of crucial significance in the story: Lord William Hamleigh's army attacks the small village of Kingsbridge causing devastating harm and human damage.
It is essential that Kingsbridge villagers find out about the imminent attack before it occurs.
However, they don't just happen to find out about it by chance. The episode is masterfully built using the technique of the narrative mini-arc and forms part of the larger structure of the story arc.
The mini-arc starts with a reflection scene from Tom Builder, one of the main characters, in which he looks back over the last few years, what he had achieved, how he had overcome the loss of his wife, found love again and how content he now was with his life, especially for having his little son, Jonathan, around every day.
This short episode of reflection brings the reader into the first action scene of this mini-arc: Tom seeks out Jonathan to take him out to a fair in the village. Note that even the small detail of bringing the child into the scene is not random. The author could have chosen to say, 'Mid-morning, Tom sought out Jonathan to go out to a fair in the village,' but why tell when you can show?
At the fair, during a rather gruesome bear-baiting scene, Jonathan gets lost. Tom starts looking for him and spots him high up on the scaffolding of the cathedral they are building. He climbs the scaffolding and in a painstakingly slow and tense scene, he brings the little boy down safely.
And then, while climbing down the scaffolding, Tom notices the approaching army. 'There was a cloud of dust on the road leading to Kingsbridge, about half a mile away. After a moment, he realised he was looking at a large troop of men on horseback, approaching the town at a smart trot.' (The Pillars of the Earth, Macmillan, 2009, p. 484).
From here on, we are thrown into a fierce action scene that lasts for the rest of the chapter.
Note how the author builds momentum through a series of action-consequence episodes to bring us to the climax of this mini-arc, which is the battle scene. The battle scene is a major event in so far that it acts as the cause that sets in motion a series of consequence-events, which all form part of the overall story arc.
After reading The Pillars of the Earth, one could easily liken storytelling and page-turning narratives to the construction of a cathedral: brick by brick, wall by wall, arc by arc.
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Alternative Right, Anti-Fascism
Richard Spencer Gets Banned on SoundCloud
May 30, 2017 antifascistfront	4 Comments
The podcast created the Alt Right.
The conversational nature of the podcasts have allowed them to take the canon of white supremacist philosophy, from the Conservative Revolution to the French New Right to "Race Realism," and make it easily understood. Richard Spencer, the founder of the Alt Right and the person behind the National Policy Institute and the Radix Journal, was on the front line of this with his original podcast Vanguard Radio. He had on guests like Jared Taylor and even Pat Buchanan, and starting at AlternativeRight.com he has churned out hundreds of episodes on everything from immigration scandals to film analysis. He ported his original Vanguard Radio podcast over to the Radix Journal in the form of the Radix Journal Podcast, then merging with other media projects to form AltRight.com.
His ability to do this, however, has been halted as his hosting, SoundCloud, has finally booted him. After a "tweetstorm" from Alternet contributor Alex Kotch, SoundCloud responded and took down his podcast library. This is an important and useful tactic for antifascists as going after their media communication is critical for severing their ability to recruit and organize. We have gone after many Alt Right podcasts in the past, helping to get podcasts like The Daily Shoah and Fash the Nation removed from SoundCloud. Spencer has already had his podcast removed from iTunes due to pressure, and so has most of the Alt Right podcasts (Counter Currents Radio archive is still available on iTunes, however.).
As it stands, the Radix Journal is basically a ghost town. It has been all but formally abandoned, and now with their podcast feed severed there is even less reason for people to visit there. This is an incredible turn of events as the most popular Alt Right media outlets are being destroyed. This method of community pressure needs to be continued for other podcasts held by SoundCloud and distrubited by places like Stitcher. Right now, Kulture Kampf and others are still on SoundCloud, and the Red Ice Radio feed is still available on Stitcher. The advantage we have is the Terms of Service of these platforms preclude this type of content, so we can easily push them to remove them through mass community comments.
This is how it can work: First, figure out the podcast in question. Then single it out and promote the SoundCloud or other platform's customer service lines, whether by phone, email, or social media. Then do mass contact asking it to be taken down, and give examples of the offensive content (which is incredibly easy to find). This can take them down one at a time, and will easily sever their most popular platforms.
Spencer will likely find some type of hosting that will be free from pressure and where he will continue to be able to keep his podcasts running. What that lacks, though, is a mass audience social networking component that he gets by using well known services. This is what has allowed the Alt Right to gain an audience quickly, because they use the same platforms as some of the biggest media names in the U.S. Once that is gone they will only be able to reach their core audience, and their ability to recruit will be destroyed.
Let's keep this trend going.
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Anti-Fascism, Internet Racism, White Nationalism
Sound of Violence: Fascists Are Now Broadcasting
February 26, 2016 antifascistfront	9 Comments
by Brandon Berg
The capacity of popular media to affect social change is undeniable. One needn't look further than the oft-cited correlation between the popularity of CBS's Will and Grace and the country's attitude toward gay rights for confirmation. The fact is, progressive writers in Hollywood and New York have, for decades, have been actively working towards the era of tolerance, not to mention organizers and activists. Recall the response of Richard Nixon, perhaps America's most openly fascistic president, to the inclusion of a gay relationship in a 1970s-era episode of All in the Family, captured for posterity in one of his own secret recordings. The upshot of this has been the continued isolation felt by the fascists, racists and homophobes who can no longer find mainstream media content fitting their own perverse worldviews. A notable development in the last year undoubtedly connected to this reality has been the birth of an entire cottage industry producing gut-churning right-wing content for web-bound fascists.
Interestingly, it would seem that the main way in which this new phenomenon is expressed is through a whole plethora of podcasts available for free download. Virtually every large fascist site has some sort of audio content: Pseudo-intellectual "Radix Journal" produces a podcast seemingly dedicated entirely to film and cultural critique. Daily Stormer maintains a site with regularly scheduled broadcasts, unsubtly entitled "Radio Aryan" (which includes a rather suspicious looking "Aryan Bootlegs" section). Counter-Currents Publishing does interviews with foreign fascist intellectuals, often attempting to create a more "high brow" appearance. Anti-Fascist News has covered the increasing popularity of the crude "Daily Shoah" podcast produced by The Right Stuff.biz, and that same site has apparently enlarged their audio production immensely, now featuring numerous different podcasts with different hosts releasing each day of the week.
One might ask why exactly, in a world of Vlogs and easy video production, the fascistic right-wing has essentially reverted to 1930s era tactics of scheduled radio broadcasts to get their message out. It likely has to do with a desire for anonymity on the parts of both the producers and the listeners. Unlike a YouTube video, it's very easy to conceal one's identity if they can remain, for all intents and purposes, a disembodied voice. It is seemingly very common for the hosts of these podcasts to go by pseudonyms continuously, referring to each other by names that are either simply bizarre or blatantly offensive(everything from Mike Enoch to Reactionary Tree). It is also fairly clear that a downloaded .mp3 file offers a far greater chance to hide your disgusting, socially unacceptable views than a YouTube video of SS men marching to death metal. It can be listened to discretely on an iPod without the risk of anyone looking over their shoulder.
These factors have led to a renaissance in racist and fascist podcast production. As mentioned before, the racist blog The Right Stuff now has multiple podcasts releasing new episodes daily, all hosted on their Radio.therightstuff site. Many of them appear to be giving a regional perspective on news item of interest to racists. They have different podcasts featuring hosts from the American South, Scandinavia and Britain among others. These mainly consist of the various hosts bemoaning the increased tolerance and multiculturalism of their native lands, and calling, in vague terms, for the physical removal of Syrian refugees and other "undesirables". Others seem to have more obscure and esoteric interests. "KulturKampf" (note the German fetishism) seems to exist solely to discuss Plato's Republic. "The Fatherland" (there it is again) relates the experience of fascist fathers trying to raise their children in a world without a Hitlerjugend to enroll them in. One of their most recent additions in "Fash Course World History", a show not related to the history of fashion but rather Fascism. Here they spin common right-wing straw men, re-hashing historical events with a white nationalist perspective, often revealing that they lack even a basic understanding of most of Western history. At first listen the show sounds something like an NPR program, with the hosts speaking in the characteristic calm tone and without the Opie and Anthony-style drops and sound effects now a hallmark of other fascist podcasts. The half-dozen hosts, evidently academics seeking a form of expression for their own bigotry, then launch into a critique of Nietzschean ideology. They praise the controversial philosopher for introducing the ideals that would eventually contribute in some way to he rational for the holocaust, but attacking him for his "materialist" philosophy, evidently viewed among elements of the far-right as having damaged the theocratic power of religious institutions.
Though these people have little money, institutional support, credibility or recognition, it's clear that they have both a growing number of covert participants and a lot of time on their hands. See a young white man on the subway with downcast eyes and headphones in his ears? He could well be listening approvingly to a podcast on the anti-Semitic pogroms of Imperial Russia. With this we are given tools to monitor how this movement has changed, how it is adapting to new conditions, and use this to develop an anti-fascist movement that is versatile enough to continue to dismantle any ground they gain.
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Alternative Right, Internet Racism, White Nationalism
The Shudder Effect: iTunes, Twitter, and Web Hosting Drop White Nationalists
The last couple of weeks have seen a surge of "removals" for white nationalist voices from various platforms, social networks, and hosting sites. Part of this is perceived as special treatment of these voices on places like Twitter, which has now said that it will be changing its feed function to work on an algorithm similar to how Facebook functions. Currently, Twitter just shows you the tweets in the order in which they appear. Facebook, on the other hand, shows people things in their feed on an algorithm that is "intended" to show them things that they prefer. This may or may not work, and as people running Facebook pages may note that it is hard to get people to view your content without paid advertisements. Twitter has been more open, but many people assume that this new function may target certain voices.
While there is not evidence that white nationalists are the reason for the Twitter changes, or that their functional changes are intended to target them, they are putting two and two together since Twitter continues to ban them for abusive behavior. Much of this comes from The Right Stuff crowd who enjoys "trolling" people, which basically consists of digital harassment. This is their idea of political engagement since they think it will get their memes into the mainstream, and, with things like Cuckservative, they were right. Their reach has not been much beyond that, and this abusive behavior has seen popular white nationalist Twitter accounts like Charles Johnson and Andrews Anglin deleted(which led to the silly #FreeAnglin hashtag).
The bigger news is that iTunes has sort of followed the example led by Soundcloud and has taken down the extended reach of The Right Stuff/The Daily Shoah and the Radix Journal Podcast. Recently, Soundcloud dropped the Daily Shoah because of their violent racialism and slurs, forcing them first to Archive.org and then to another place to host their growing line of podcasts. Now, iTunes disrupted the feed, making it impossible to find them through a regular search. This caused a problem in their iTunes feed as their programs like Rebel Yell were mislabeled. Richard Spencer created a video(and podcast that was distributed on iTunes, ironically), discussing how this "new digital censorship" could make them look as though they "simply don't exist."
The Daily Shoah saw a more direct type of interference beyond just their iTunes disruption as their famous forums got taken down by the hosting. The forums are often the more exaggerated version of the podcast itself, it is where the fans use all manor of racial slurs and indulge in their self-referential jargon. Here, they began discussing a woman who had been posting pictures of her two daughters with her two adopted black sons. Of course, they immediately began discussing how this put the two girls at risk, that it was "sexually provocative," and that she was exploiting them. They then went on to harass and insult her on social media, insulting her sons and referring to them with some of the most disgusting racial language you could imagine. She then went on social media and rounded up people who found this behavior appalling and had an email campaign to the hosting service to tell them about the violation of their terms of service, mainly that it was being used to organize racist attacks. After filing all of these complaints, they eventually revoked TRS's agreement and shut down the forums.
We have had our own relationship with the forums ourselves as we consistently find the website discussed there and often get boosts of traffic when they link to us(and it drives up our place in Google search results significantly.). The forum content was always available through Google search results, something Mike Enoch tried to block yet was not very consistent with. The new forums that they are in the process of creating promises to not be available through Google since they are using some very private, off-shore hosting(it sounds like some shady Bitcoin job). We maintained forum accounts before, and we will on this new one as well. Now they will be using "nginx," but they are not quite up and ready to go yet.
While we applaud the efforts by every day people to challenge and shut down this racism, there is some potentials here that we are more dubious about. If the voices can be completely shut down to them, our voices could be just as easily, so we need to keep this understanding in mind when developing strategy. What is mainly getting them shut down is their vile racialism, something that is so roundly appalling that most platforms do not want to even take part. Continuing to create a multi-faceted anti-racist movement, that both targets these types of voices and develops anti-racist perspectives in the culture are crucial. If platforms become too responsive then there is potential for censorship on all fronts, so this should be taken serious when thinking about what methods should be used to achieve a "no platform" effect. We stand with many places like Google becoming public utilities that are accountable to the people, both because it protects our voice, and it would actually leave the fascists up to some type of oversight. They may decrease the ability to do simple platform pressure campaigns, but it could open up other avenues for counter organizing.
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Entrepreneur Found Calling, Now Calling on Others
Sandy, Oregon Woman Opens Oasis Senior Advisors with Help from the SBDC and FranNet
As many people do, Breanna Nickila geared her education toward a career in corporate America. After starting on her MBA, however, she began to realize her life might point in another direction, as the allure of business ownership and the struggle to find a quality job in eastern Portland created a new opportunity. Ultimately, her path landed her as one of the newest franchisees with Oasis Senior Advisors, a senior care advising company.
Nickila, a graduate of Portland State University, initially delayed her leap into the entrepreneurial world as she stayed at home for 11 years to raise her daughter. What she realized is that corporate life had changed and that her true calling was that of a business owner.
"I never really wanted to go the corporate route," said Nickila. "My Dad owned his own business and he was very adamant that I get an education to enable me to use my mind to advance in the business world. Working around his office as a young girl, I saw the relationships he developed and that really stuck with me."
Starting her research, Nickila found a niche that seemed to be missing in her community – that of a drive-thru coffee shop. She quickly realized the expense of such a venture, but she engaged the services of the Gresham, Oregon Small Business Development Center (SBDC) to help her understand any funding opportunities available. Nickila met with Kedma Ough of the Gresham SBDC, who advised her of her options – and offered one other piece of advice.
"Kedma asked me if I was willing to slow down," explained Nickila. "I knew what I wanted, but I also knew I had to make the right decision. Kedma told me about FranNet and how they can help me with additional research to explore other business options."
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Nickila soon after met with Blair Nicol, owner of FranNet-Pacific Northwest, where she was "blown away by the meeting," as Nickila described. "It was really an 'aha' moment for me, as I knew I didn't have a lot of experience and that was scary. But I felt I was in really good hands with Blair."
FranNet's Nicol works with would-be entrepreneurs to aid in their search for a franchise business, and sort through the abundance of information available and steps necessary to open a business. Working through Nicol, Nickila took a personal franchise assessment (PFA), a sort of personality test of her business acumen. The assessment looks at a person from many facets, including focusing on their behavior profile, risk tolerance and financial background. These attributes are combined with what FranNet has learned in the marketplace over the 25 years it's been in business to identify franchises in which Nickila would do well.
Having never considered franchising, Nickila said that Nicol presented her with three different franchises to consider based on her unique profile. She saw the opportunity with Oasis Senior Advisors and began her due diligence.
"The more I learned about Oasis, the more excited I became. From the marketing support to the opportunity to support seniors and their families in need, it was a really great fit for me," said Nickila. "The placement and advising process is so professional, and it allows me to get to know my community very intimately."
She was able to use her 401-k to fund her new business, which allowed her to keep her overhead down by not taking on the extra burden of a conventional loan. What some people might see as a risk in going into business for themselves, she finds herself more secure knowing that her hard work will pay off.
"Even my kids have noticed how much more of a 'take charge' person I am," quipped Nickila. "Thanks to Blair and Kedma for pointing me in the right direction. I'm so glad they had this process in place – it was essentially down to a science that I was able to follow and believe in."
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Hoeltl, Andrea, Brandtweiner, Roman, Bates, Romana, Berger, Tania. 2020. The Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Urban Informal Settlements in Ethiopia. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. 15 (3), 287-294.
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title = {The Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Urban Informal Settlements in Ethiopia},
author = {Andrea Hoeltl and Roman Brandtweiner and Romana Bates and Tania Berger},
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journal = {International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning},
abstract = {Ethiopia is challenged by a strong development progress. Currently the major issues in Ethiopia, as a least developed country with a rapid urbanisation, include a high level of income inequality, lack of formal employment opportunities, deeply rooted poverty, tenure insecurity, poor infrastructure, and limited access to electricity and energy. The Erasmus+ Project "Social Inclusion and Energy Management for Informal Urban Settlements", enables European and Ethiopian universities to develop new university courses integrating the aspects of sustainability for future professionals in the field of architecture, urban planning but also social sciences. The paper investigates the respective situation in Ethiopia, and demonstrates the interactions of six selected Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations highly linked with this topic. These six Sustainable Development Goals were identified in a participative process, involving different stakeholders like government officials, urban planners or informal settlers by interviews, focus groups, workshops and conferences. The focus is on SDG1 "No Poverty", SDG3 "Good Health and Well-being", SDG7 "Affordable and Clean Energy", SDG11 "Sustainable Cities and Communities", SDG13 "Climate Action" and SDG15 "Life on Land". In the context of Ethiopian cities, energy production and distribution have been highly centralised under state entities and the scope for exploring local/business driven and decentralised energy systems has been limited. Transitions can be implemented towards sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, if collective identification and structuring of issues along with collective envisioning of the future, and the interactions and trade-offs of different goals are taken into consideration.},
Ethiopia is challenged by a strong development progress. Currently the major issues in Ethiopia, as a least developed country with a rapid urbanisation, include a high level of income inequality, lack of formal employment opportunities, deeply rooted poverty, tenure insecurity, poor infrastructure, and limited access to electricity and energy. The Erasmus+ Project "Social Inclusion and Energy Management for Informal Urban Settlements", enables European and Ethiopian universities to develop new university courses integrating the aspects of sustainability for future professionals in the field of architecture, urban planning but also social sciences. The paper investigates the respective situation in Ethiopia, and demonstrates the interactions of six selected Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations highly linked with this topic. These six Sustainable Development Goals were identified in a participative process, involving different stakeholders like government officials, urban planners or informal settlers by interviews, focus groups, workshops and conferences. The focus is on SDG1 "No Poverty", SDG3 "Good Health and Well-being", SDG7 "Affordable and Clean Energy", SDG11 "Sustainable Cities and Communities", SDG13 "Climate Action" and SDG15 "Life on Land". In the context of Ethiopian cities, energy production and distribution have been highly centralised under state entities and the scope for exploring local/business driven and decentralised energy systems has been limited. Transitions can be implemented towards sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, if collective identification and structuring of issues along with collective envisioning of the future, and the interactions and trade-offs of different goals are taken into consideration.
International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning
The Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of Urban Informal Settlements in Ethiopia
http://www.iieta.org/journals/ijsdp/paper/10.18280/ijsdp.150304
https://doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.150304
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Brandtweiner, Roman (Details)
Bates, Romana (Danube University Krems, Austria)
Berger, Tania (Danube University Krems, Austria)
Hoeltl, Andrea (Danube University Krems, Austria)
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Dying: Reborn is a Horror-game for the developed by Nekcom and published by Oasis Games.
The Reincarnation of a Sinner: Acquired all trophies.
Now, do you know everything?: Acquired all memos.
I Want to Play a Game with You: Completed Section 1.
But You Never Helped Her: Completed Section 2.
Because This is Not Mathew's Fault: Completed Section 3.
I Will Always Remember This Day: Completed Section 4.
It is Time to Face Your Mistakes: Completed Section 5.
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Mathew, a true Detective.: Unlocked all of the password puzzles.
Mother's Favorite Melody: Used the piano to play the correct melody in Section 1.
Like my little puzzle?: Opened all the lockers at the front desk in Section 2.
Do Not Hesitate to Eat: Opened the bar refrigerator in Section 3.
Very Good, You Opened It: Opened the kitchen coffer in Section 4.
Maybe I Should Give You a Trophy?: Recovered the broken trophy in Section 5.
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When we were moving off to New Zealand, one of our primary concerns was food. Will we still have rice on our table, or change our diet to breads and potatoes? How about our bagoong and toyo and suka? Banana ketchup? A Filipino home, no matter where it is, won't be the same without these.
So imagine our delight at knowing that a couple of Asian stores are near us. "Asian Store" is an all-encompassing term for these shops that sell food items that are, um, Asian. For the stores we have here, one is owned by Chinese, and the other from India or thereabouts. The latter store understandably sells an abundance of spices as well. And a couple of racks for Filipino goodies!
Of course, these are now imported goods and so we buy these at a premium. A small can of sardines in tomato sauce, for example, costs $0.90. That's approximately P30.00. A bowl of instant noodles sell for $2.10, or about P68.00. Yep, imagine us mentally converting from New Zealand dollars to Philippine Pesos and imagine the faces we make. But still, there's nothing like a good can of sardines from our country after you have tasted their sardines here. Not that their sardines taste bad; think Century tuna in oil with no tuna taste; even a sprinkling of salt does not make a difference. It might be the type used in sandwiches? I wonder if there is a preparation to be made first with it, or perhaps we are just accustomed to strong flavors? But I digress.
Aside from the bagoong, toyo, suka (their vinegar here tastes different as well), they also have our potato chips and sweets on stock! And where the Filipino food are, the Filipinos are there. We have actually met a couple of Filipino families in the area so far and we end up chatting about life in general while the kids stay in the play area outside.
Thank goodness for life's simple pleasures. Now what I want to see is such a shop being run by a Filipino! Now there's an idea!
Jo-Lo is attending Kindy starting 3rd November!
Kindy, or Kindergarten, is the stepping stone to formal education here in New Zealand. Going to school is mandatory for kids aged 5 and above. Education here til Year 8 (that's high school for us) is free in government-subsidized institutions, though there may be some donations that may be asked for school upkeep. Everything else is provided for. In Jo-Lo's case, all we did was bring along his passport for his "enrollment". Kids aged 3 can start schooling, so they are better equipped with social skills and get acquainted with a classroom atmosphere. Wonderful, isn't it?
He is slowly but surely gaining ground in graduating from his baby talk to phrases we readily understand. A couple of days back we were at Countdown and stocking up on biscuits. We have chosen a few packets when Jo-Lo suddenly blurted out, "Cookie Bear please!" It's a brand which even my wife and I love; the Hundreds and Thousands cookies remind us of Jack n' Jill Pretzels. So Cookie Bear went home with us. For cookies, juice, cereals... Jo-Lo's getting preferences and at the same time he now eats whatever we serve on the table; it was a challenge before in Baguio.
Jo-Lo's really adapting quite well here in New Zealand. And he's growing even faster.
On the day we visited the Botanic Gardens, we also went to a couple more places at Wellington. Yup, it was a busy day for us as we maximized on the weather's sunny disposition.
Our first stop is the Parliamentary Building, an impressive structure that features a neo-classical architecture. Right beside it is the Beehive, so named because of its shape. It is the executive wing of the parliamentary complex. As such the place is abuzz with news and views; a fitting name the Beehive is indeed.
After the botanic Gardens, we made our way to the Civic Center. The central library is located here. I've heard that the library houses an extensive collection of books and multimedia. I would like to see this for myself one of these days.
Finally, we made our way to the Te Papa Musesum which is right across the Civic Center. This is our second time to the Museum, actually. But the photos were accidentally deleted, so I was not able to post about our previous trip.
Entrance to the Te Papa is free. There are some areas where you need to pay, but the majority of the sections are open to the public. It's not just a place with dioramas, bones and artifacts. There's a lot of interactivity in the museum. Kids will definitely have a lot of fun there. In fact, we found it difficult to make Jo-Lo leave the museum.
Te Papa currently features Our Space, a multimedia section where visitors learn about New Zealand and its people in a visually engaging way. We visited The Map, where a satellite photo of New Zealand is on the floor. Stepping on particular sections will invoke video clips and photos about that place.
The Wall, on the other hand, is a digital graffiti wall of sorts. You can place photos, videos, words on it. Nearby are kiosks with video cameras where you can have your 2 minutes of fame, so to speak. Then this file is uploaded to the wall. Using remote control wands, you can move the images about, resize, write on the wall, even duplicate your images. Cool stuff.
I would like to go back, for a blog post, to that wonderful island of Camiguin and its equally wonderful water attractions which we visited last March.
We took a dip in a hot spring, and then in a cold spring. Though the temperatures varied widely, the fun was all the same.
In our first night in the island, we immediately planned for a night out, and so right after hauling our packs into our resort cottages, we made our way to the van which brought us to Ardent Hot Springs.
I will always remember that time because it was the night of the Earth Hour initiative where the world was turning off their lights for one hour. We had a lone lightbulb for the entire party in the open hut turned on and we no longer asked for additional light.
Soon enough we were taking dips in the pool overflowing with warm, relaxing water. It was wonderful, just submerging yourself neck-deep in the water and thinking of nothing else but the fun you're having with friends.
In our day trip, we dropped by another of Camiguin's water attraction: the Sto Nino Cold Water Spring. We were literally just going to take a peep, take photos from outside, then move on. But the entrance fee was so cheap we decided to enter and have our photos taken from inside. But hey... the water looked so inviting, so... why not spare a few minutes and take a real quick dip? So dip we did. And they weren't kidding when they said cold springs! You eventually become accustomed (numbed?) with the cold but wading out of the water made it even colder! So stay in the pool we did, for about half an hour or so.
One of the first things we learned about living in New Zealand is their rubbish collection. Rubbish is more commonly known in our country as garbage. So if you're having a conversation and you hear them declare that what you're saying is a load of rubbish, it's not a compliment. Bwahuhuhu!
For an orderly rubbish collection, you need two things: a council bag and a kiwi bin. Council bags are huge, yellow plastic bags where you place your non-recyclables in. It costs around $9.00 for 5 pieces, and can be bought at grocery stores (ask for it at the counter). You are allowed to load up to 15kg per bag. More guidelines are printed on the bag itself.
Next is the kiwi bin. If you're renting a flat, your landlord should give you one. But if it's not available, you can buy this for $10 at the Library. It's a green, plastic container into which you place your recyclables such as paper and bottles (plastic and glass).
There is a schedule for rubbish collection; you need to ask about this from your landlord, neighbor, or from information centers such as the library. In our case, it's on Mondays at around 8:30AM. We bring out our rubbish after 5:30PM on Sunday. The collection team for general rubbish collection is different from the recyclables team.
For houses that generate a lot of rubbish, you need a bigger bin. This type is collected on Tuesdays in our area.
I believe that this method of rubbish segregation works because you have a visual of where to put your recyclables and non-recyclables. And since collection is once a week, people are motivated to dispose properly of their refuse or else they'd have a smelly kitchen or backyard.
Supporting the rubbish collection scheme are campaigns to make your own compost out of biodegradable stuff from the kitchen. Some gardening stores even offer tutorials and you can buy your supplies from them to start and sustain a worm farm of a compost heap.
The council bag and kiwi bin concept may not work in our country, but we can still follow a similar theme in garbage segregation and actively support backyard composting.
Oct 16 update: I learned that you do not need to buy a kiwi bin for your recyclables. A clear plastic bag will do, and they will collect it. I haven't seen a lot of transparent plastic bags, though. I wonder if the more popular white ones will do.
Guess where we're off to?
The first time I heard of the melamine scandal involving milk from China, I turned a quizzical eye to my wife and asked, "isn't it melamine is used for plastic tableware? What's it doing in milk?" The tableware came to mind immediately because we have some melaware (a tag used for such products) back in Baguio. Learning that some milk products were tainted with melamine and have made babies ill was disconcerting. An even higher cause for concern is that Sanlu - which manufactured the powdered milk products - is partly owned by a New Zea;and company. It is alarming because New Zealand has strict policies about having the natural ecosystem here disrupted by rogue organisms such as stray seeds, insects in wooden products, or animals and animal products. But, although this melamine scare happened outside New Zealand shores, its partnership with Sanlu certainly hit the country in general as well. And many here are concerned about the effects of such news.
Melamine was being added to the milk to artificially boost the product's protein level. In my research, I learned that Melamine in a small dose is relatively harmless. But ingested for extended periods of time can render it toxic, and the babies have been fed on this for 3 - 6 months.
More importantly, the innocents who are affected by this are unimaginable.
One thing I admire about New Zealand is their literacy drive. Suburbs in and around Wellington have Libraries. The Library we go to is at Johnsonville. They have quite a collection of books and magazines. I like lounging about and reading Popular Science and Time Magazine. As for the books... you can borrow as many as you like and these stay with you for a month! Whoa. You can also borrow back-issues of magazines for a week. They also have DVDs that you can rent. It's $0.50 for kid's and young adult's, and $2.00 for other DVDs. And they're not your documentaries either. You can rent popular movies and Disney cartoons.
There are also internet terminals where you can browse for half an hour for free. The sites are restricted to government and library resources though. But you can also check the job website Seek.
So how do you avail of the Library Services? Simple. Approach their friendly librarian and ask for a library card. They will require you to fill-up a form, 2 valid IDs (we used our passport and driver's license), and proof of billing (we used our tenancy agreement form). And voila! You get your library card. Only it's not the library card we are accustomed to, where we write down the names of the books we borrow. It's a sort of ID card with a magnetic stripe and barcode at the back. See the cards above? Even Jo-Lo has one!
The library is kid-friendly, with bean bags, an assortment of beginner's books, and some toys. And they have book reading sessions every Tuesdays at 10:30AM.
They have a machine that you can use to check out the books yourself. Simply align the bar code scanner with your ID and scan the books out. Really nice.
We make it a point to drop by the Library whenever we are in town. We have borrowed an assortment of comic books, fiction, New Zealand information, cookbooks... you name it!
You can also return the books in another library. There is a charge for the transfer , however.
Friendly staff, nice collection of books, cozy atmosphere. You can truly get immersed in the world of books.
I heard that the Wellington City Library is an even more amazing sight, where you can listen to music and watch movies in the library itself. Hope we can check it out soon as well.
A bright Wednesday morning saw us walking along the Wellington City thoroughfares, our casual get-up a stark contrast from the dark coats of suits of the office workers bustling about. We were on our way to the Botanic Gardens to see the blooming tulips as it signals the end of winter.
The Wellington Botanic Garden features 25 hectares of unique landscape, protected native forest, conifers, specialised plant collections, colourful floral displays, and views over Wellington city.
It is classified as a Garden of National Significance by the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture and is an Historic Places Trust Heritage Area.
Cable car tracks on the foreground, with a majestic view of Wellington beyond.
We visited a souvenir shop /museum nearby which showcased a cable car over a hundred years old!
Lots of people were up and about as it was the 2-week break from school.
Sure, I have seen tulips back in Manila, but they were always in small bunches or in flower arrangements in shops. The tulips in the Botanic Garden was amazing! Delicate colors of yellows and reds and even two-toned ones!
A short while later we were taking a leisurely walk to a path through lush vegetation with trees and flowers.
A pond was soon sighted to our right, with ducks swimming lazily about. We loitered for a bit, and enjoyed seeing other birds taking a bath in the flowing stream nearby.
The kids squealed with delight at the next bend. Jo-Lo did too as he saw the huge playground spread before us.
We had an awesome time at the Botanic Garden. I would like to come back again and see its other attractions such as the Planetarium and collection of cacti. Many thanks to Debbie and sons Diego and Miguel for the wonderful trip!
More photos at the Kaleidoscope World.
We were busy doing our laundry and cleaning up last Sunday morning when we heard a tap on the door. Bill and his wonderful daughter was outside! They were an hour early, we thought. They have invited us for lunch and were to fetch us by 12 noon.
When we remarked that they were early, we were reminded that it's DST on that day, and that we were to adjust our watches one hour in advance! We forgot! DST, or Daylight Savings Time, will last til April next year.
So we dropped everything we were doing and got dressed up in a jiffy. A quick drive later, we were introduced to the happy family and had a wonderful lunch. Their place boasts of a wonderful view of the open spaces and hills yonder. It turned out that just across their street is a nature preserve and nature walk! We simply have to see it.
So that afternoon, we crossed the street found ourselves in a wonderful stroll.
We didn't see Hobbits nor Elves wandering about though, but there were a couple of joggers about. It's a manageable 30-minute walk from our place to this park; we may go have a visit again one of these days.


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/*                                                                      *\
** Squants                                                              **
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** Scala Quantities and Units of Measure Library and DSL                **
** (c) 2013-2014, Gary Keorkunian                                       **
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\*                                                                      */

package squants.photo

import org.scalatest.{ Matchers, FlatSpec }
import scala.language.postfixOps
import squants.space.SquareMeters
import squants.QuantityStringParseException

/**
 * @author  garyKeorkunian
 * @since   0.1
 *
 */
class LuminanceSpec extends FlatSpec with Matchers {

  behavior of "Luminance and its Units of Measure"

  it should "create values using UOM factories" in {
    CandelasPerSquareMeter(1).toCandelasPerSquareMeters should be(1)
  }

  it should "create values from properly formatted Strings" in {
    Luminance("10.22 cd/m²").get should be(CandelasPerSquareMeter(10.22))
    Luminance("10.45 zz").failed.get should be(QuantityStringParseException("Unable to parse Luminance", "10.45 zz"))
    Luminance("zz cd/m²").failed.get should be(QuantityStringParseException("Unable to parse Luminance", "zz cd/m²"))
  }

  it should "properly convert to all supported Units of Measure" in {
    val x = CandelasPerSquareMeter(1)
    x.toCandelasPerSquareMeters should be(1)
  }

  it should "return properly formatted strings for all supported Units of Measure" in {
    CandelasPerSquareMeter(1).toString should be("1.0 cd/m²")
  }

  it should "return LuminousIntensity when multiplied by Area" in {
    CandelasPerSquareMeter(1) * SquareMeters(1) should be(Candelas(1))
  }

  behavior of "LuminanceConversions"

  it should "provide aliases for single unit values" in {
    import LuminanceConversions._

    candelaPerSquareMeter should be(CandelasPerSquareMeter(1))
  }

  it should "provide implicit conversion from Double" in {
    import LuminanceConversions._

    val d = 10d
    d.candelasPerSquareMeter should be(CandelasPerSquareMeter(d))
  }

  it should "provide Numeric support" in {
    import LuminanceConversions.LuminanceNumeric

    val ls = List(CandelasPerSquareMeter(100), CandelasPerSquareMeter(10))
    ls.sum should be(CandelasPerSquareMeter(110))
  }
}

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Attaching Broken Branches
My distant cousins have been great at helping me reconnect with a family that my ancestors had let slip away. A phone call a couple of years ago helped make the connection to the Zuver family. I can only speculate on what family differences caused a gap so large that descendants wouldn't know a grandmother's maiden name. The split between the West's and Zuver's seemed to have begun before the death of Jacob West. The gap widened after his death and the move of Mary Zuver West, my great-great grandmother, back to the Butler area. Rumors and speculation circulated amongst the two branches, each accusing the other of hidden wealth and favoritism. It wasn't too long before communication ceased completely between the families.
A distant cousin sent photos from the Fairview cemetery of our mutual Zuver ancestors and gave me permission to post them on my blog. Arthur James Zuver, 1896-1940 was his grandfather and my 1st cousin three times removed. Our mutual direct relation would be George Emery Zuver, grandfather of his Arthur James Zuver, whose headstone photo has also been included. Although there is a stone for Grace K Zuver, 1902-1990, Arthur James' sister, she is not buried in Fairview cemetery. She is buried in Fort Pierce, FL with her two other brothers, Harvey and Fred Zuver.
Many of the Zuver's were buried in Fairview cemetery, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania including Brownlee Zuver, son of William, grandson of George, Civil War veteran, which I have written about previously. Thomas Zuver's family, my great-great grandmother's Mary Zuver's brother, is buried here.
Thomas was the son of George, his family suffered through a horrifying fire that would kill 5 of his children, injure himself, his wife, Nellie C Ives and their surviving children. The children that perished, Emery, Roland, Martha M, and Lettie, Nellie R. are buried in Fairview Cemetery in unmarked graves.
The story about the fire would be included in newspapers across the nation:
The Washington Post, (Washington, D.C.), 1907 > November > 22
Five Perish in Fire
Two Others of Family Injured; One Probably Fatally.
Dog in House Gives Alarm
Father Rescues Wife and Baby and Falls Unconscious
Soon After Tragedy in Zuver Home Near Titusville, Pa., News Comes of Death of Mrs. Zuver's Mother in Indiana – Boy Sees Flames Leaping Around His Little Sisters, and Is Unable to Go to Their Rescue.
Titusville, Pa., Nov 21 – Awakened by the barking of his dog early today, Thomas W Zuver, an oil-producer living east of here, found his house in flames. With difficulty he saved his wife and their baby. Two sons escaped from the second story, but were badlly injured. Five children were burned to death. The dead:
Emery Zuver, aged twelve
Roland Zuver, aged eleven
Martha M Zuver, aged nine
Lettie J Zuver, aged seven
Nellie R Zuver, aged five
The injured:
Nelson Zuver, aged sixteen; burned about the hands and face; will recover.
Awakened by His Dog
The fire is supposed to have originated in the floor, beneath an overheated gas range. When Zuver, awakened by the dog, sprang from his bed, the flames filled the sitting room. He forced the window sash out, calling to his wife to bring the baby.
Climbing to the porch roof, Zuver met one of the older boys coming through a window. The boy fell senseless on the roof and dropped to the ground. Flames prevented Zuver from re-entering the window, and he dropped unconscious from the roof.
Saw Sisters in Flames
Wilbur, another son, attempted to save his little brothers, but failed. Looking through the hallway, he saw his three little sisters sleeping as the flames lapped up the bedclothes about them. Wilbur jumped from the window, and in the yard found his mother and the baby partly overcome by smoke.
Soon after the fire, a telegram was received from Van Buren, Ind., announcing the death of Mrs. Zuver's mother, Mrs Martha Ives. The latter's body will reach here Friday, and funeral services for the six dead will be held at Pleasantville Saturday.
Four years later Thomas would pass away:
New Castle News, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, July 12, 1911
Grief Proves Fatal
Butler, Pa. – His health shattered by shock and grief occasioned by the loss of five children and his home by fire when a gas explosion occurred at his home near Leasureville n(Pleasantville?) four years ago, T. W. Zuver, aged 53 died at Clintonville.


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Miss America Eliminates Swimsuit Competition: 'We Are No Longer a Pageant'
"We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance," Gretchen Carlson said of the Miss America competition
Stephanie Petit
Stephanie Petit is a Royals Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE.
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Published on June 5, 2018 09:50 AM
Miss America is saying bye-bye to bikinis.
Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Miss America Organization, announced Tuesday that the organization is making major changes to the contest, including scrapping the swimsuit portion.
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"We are no longer a pageant. We are a competition," Carlson said on Good Morning America. "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance. That's huge. And that means we will no longer have a swimsuit competition."
She added that they are also "revamping" the evening gown portion, instead asking contestants to use their clothes to express their personal style.
Carlson, 51, said they want their more inclusive competition to inspire more women.
"We've heard from a lot of young women who say, 'We'd love to be a part of your program but we don't want to be out there in high heels and a swimsuit,' so guess what, you don't have to do that anymore," she said. "Who doesn't want to be empowered, learn leadership skills and pay for college and be able to show the world who you are as a person from the inside of your soul? That's what we're judging them on."
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The current Miss America, Cara Mund of North Dakota, shared a graphic of a bathing suit disappearing on her official Twitter page.
"We're changing out of our swimsuits and into a whole new era," she wrote, adding the hashtags #byebyebikini and #MissAmerica2019.
The former Fox News host and author of Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back said in April that in her new role as chairwoman of the Miss America, she's "working diligently to make changes to the organization."
When asked if the swimsuit competition would be removed, Carlson said it was a possibility.
"I would not have agreed to bring my movement to the organization unless we would turn it into a 100 percent empowerment and leadership organization," Carlson told the crowd at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston. "We have more elephants in the room: I have a board, and we vote on things. So just be confident that I wouldn't put my name and face on an organization unless I knew it was gonna be 100 percent empowerment and leadership."
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Carlson, who reached a $20 million settlement in her sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes in 2016, said that while she never expected to be in charge of the competition, she knew it was something she needed to be a part of.
"This was a call of duty for me. I never envisioned I'd be running this organization, nor did I ask to," Carlson said "We need to improve the messaging."
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Wednesday's preps: Osborn reaches PSL baseball final
Osborn advanced for the second straight season to the championship game.
Wednesday's preps: Osborn reaches PSL baseball final Osborn advanced for the second straight season to the championship game. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/2rMFkjI
Kevin Moore, Special to The Detroit News Published 10:18 p.m. ET May 16, 2018
Detroit Osborn defeated Detroit Central, 10-0, in a Detroit Public School League Division II baseball semifinal at The Corner Ballpark on Wednesday.
Osborn advanced for the second straight season to the championship game, which will be played at 2 p.m. Monday at Comerica Park.
Last year Osborn lost to Detroit Edison 8-4 in a hard-fought championship game. This year, Osborn has a shot at redemption.
Osborn wasted no time jumping to an early lead, and Isaiah Watts made it stand up.
Watts pitched a complete game, giving up three hits and striking out five. Central could not find a way to get Watts out of his groove.
Teionta Waters led Osborn's offense, going 1-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs. He'll be looking to repeat his strong performance in last season's championship game, in which he went 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
The PSL Division I championship game will follow the Osborn/Mumford game on Monday.
Birmingham Groves 11, North Farmington 3: Twelve players had a hit for Groves, led by George Cutler and Chaise Ford, who were each 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Ryan Laub (17-8) was the winning pitcher. Blake Maddalena was 3-for-4 for North Farmington (12-13).
Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett 8, Detroit Catholic Central 1: Logan King was 2-for-3 with a three-run home run and scored two runs, Kellen Banaszewski was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and Nick Post was 2-for-3 with two RBIs for Liggett (21-2). Detroit Catholic Central is 15-11.
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Dearborn 5-0, Belleville 3-3
Detroit Mumford 10, Detroit Denby 3
Utica Ford 8, Grosse Pointe North 2
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Пауль Мольденгавер (; 11 февраля 1766, Гамбург Германия — 22 августа 1827, Киль Германия) — немецкий .

Биография
Пауль Мольденгавер родился в семье богослова . Первоначально Пауль Мольденгавер решил пойти по стопам своего отца, став богословом, и учился богословию в Кильском университете до 1783 года. В том же году переезжает в Данию и поступает на курс богословия в Копенгагенском университете, но в процессе учёбы ему очень понравилась тяга к естественным наукам и он решил сменить факультет. По окончании Копенгагенского университета, Пауль возвращается в Киль, где устраивается на работу в Кильский университет в качестве профессора, одновременно с этим занимал должность директора школы плодоводства в Киле.

Пауль Мольденгавер скончался в Киле и был похоронен на парковом кладбище Айххоф.

Вклад в науку

Основные научные работы посвящены анатомии растений.

Первым описал строение растений, выделяющих млечный сок.

Избранные научные труды
 Tentamen in historiam plantarum Theophrasti. Hamburgi: Sumtibus Benjamin Gottl. Hoffmann, 1791.
 Beyträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen. XII, 335 S., VI Bl.: Ill.; 4 Kiel: Gedruckt in der Königlichen Schulbuchdruckerey durch C.L. Wäser, 1812.

Список использованной литературы
 1941 — Очерки по истории ботаники (ч.1).
 1984 — Биологи. Биографический справочник

Похороненные на парковом кладбище Айххоф

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Ferrari victorious in GTE Pro at Le Mans
by David | posted in: Homepage, Le Mans, LMGTE-Am, LMGTE-Pro, Race | 0
The #51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 of James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Daniel Serra was victorious in the GTE Pro class at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans. Porsche wrapped up second and third in class, while Keating Motorsports prevailed for Ford in GTE Am.
The #51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 won the GTE Pro class at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans
The GTE Pro class battle was one of the most fascinating at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, the race was marred by a series of unfortunate safety-car deployments that split the field up. With most of the cars incredibly evenly matched, it was almost impossible for lost time to be recovered on pace unless cars ahead suffered mechanical issues.
A group of around 10 cars set the pace at the front of the field in the early stages of the race. Among them were a gaggle of Ford GTs, the pair of factory Corvettes, the quartet of Porsches and the pair of AF Corse Ferraris. The Aston Martin Vantage V8s quickly fell down the field as their strategy of double-stinting tyres failed to pay off, with too much performance being lost at the end of their second stints.
Big accidents for Corvette and Aston Martin
The first major incident of the race impacted the GTE Pro battle, with the #64 Corvette Racing C7.R driven by Marcel Fässler had a major accident in the Porsche Curves following contact with the #88 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR. The damage to the front end was severe, leading to on-the-spot retirement and a trip to the medical centre for Fässler.
The #95 Aston Martin also crashed heavily, this time at Indianapolis in the darkness. Driver Marco Sorensen lost the rear end and careered into the tyre barriers. The Dane was given a checkover in the circuit medical centre but was later released without issue.
Gradually the field was whittled down as the race progressed, but artificial splits were created for various safety car incidents. The first major split came after ten hours of the race, when Egor Orudzhev crashed his #17 SMP Racing BR01 in the Porsche Curves. This gave the #51 AF Corse car and the #92 Porsche 911 RSR of Laurens Vanthoor, Kévin Estre and Michael Christensen a 90-second lead of the rest of the class field.
Safety cars split up field
The class battle remained tight throughout the GTE Pro race
It appeared to be a straight Ferrari-Porsche fight for the remainder of the race, but disaster struck the #92 car in the early hours of Sunday morning. A crack was discovered on the exhaust, forcing the team to conduct extensive repairs in the garage.
Another safety car brought the #63 Corvette back into contention, but it had to pit during a brief safety car midway through Sunday morning, whereas the #51 on an out-of-sync pit strategy didn't. This put the Corvette back one safety car behind and gave the #51 AF Corse 488 an advantage that it would not relinquish.
AF Corse celebrated their class victory at Le Mans since 2014, while Daniel Serra finished on the top step of the podium for the second time in three appearances. Maiden class wins at Le Mans for James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi handed the Ferrari pair second in the GT Drivers' Championship.
The #91 Porsche 911 RSR recovered from early safety-car-related setbacks to finish second, but drivers Richard Lietz and Gianmaria Bruni, while third went to the IMSA-run #93 Porsche 911 RSR of Nicky Tandy, Patrick Pilet and Earl Bamber. The GT Drivers' Title also went to Porsche, with Kévin Estre and Michael Christensen managing to finish the race and score the single point they required to secure the championship.
Keating Motorsports celebrates GTE Am success
The #85 Keating Motorsports Ford GT won on its first appearance for the team
There was a surprise in GTE Am with a class win for the #85 Keating Motorsports Ford GT on the team's maiden appearance racing the Blue Oval. A clever strategy, aided by safety car splits, in the early stages of the Le Mans 24 Hours gave the crew a significant advantage that they maintained throughout the night.
Pro drivers Jeroen Bleekemolen and Felipe Fraga took on most of the legwork in the first few hours. This ensured that the #85 was the quickest car in the GTE Am while other teams cycled through their bronze-rated amateur drivers in order to complete minimum driver times of six hours per driver.
Team owner and driver Ben Keating took over driving duties on Sunday morning and quickly found a quick and consistent pace in the Ford. A penalty for wheelspin in the pitlane brought the Ford GT back to within touching distance of the second-placed #56 Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR. However Bleekemolen's final stint was quick enough to hold off the Porsche to secure a memorable win.
Second place for the Perfetti/Bergmeister/Lindsey-driven #56 Porsche wrapped up the GTE Am titles for the drivers and Project 1 in their maiden FIA WEC season. Third position went to the #84 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 of Jeff Segal, Wei Lu and Rodrigo Baptista.
The first 6 hours of the race
The battle continues at midnight
What happened on sunday
The results of the LMP classes
Images © WEC-Magazin (Walter Schruff / Ton Kerdijk)
24 Hours of Le Mans, AF Corse, Ferrari, Le Mans, le mans 24 hours


With the student population in Manchester growing all the time, there are a huge number of options when it comes to student accommodation.
Although Spirit Studios do not manage any student accommodation, there are houses available exclusively to our students through JB Properties, which are within easy walking distance of Spirit Studios. Places in these houses fill up extremely quickly, so we advise that you contact them and book your place as soon as you can.
Alternatively, there are a number of private student halls, self-contained student flats and house-shares, which can be found all around Manchester. Whether it's the city centre, the main student areas of Fallowfield, Hulme and Rusholme, or slightly further out in Chorlton, you'll have no trouble finding a place you feel at home while you study.


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Between being holed up in the hospital and the Thanksgiving break, I got more than a little behind. That's why today I'm writing about a single that was released on November 12th by Toronto-based band Newsmen. A lot of times I'll just let something like this slip by and just tweet something about it with a link, but I wanted to do a real post about this one because I really dig the A side of this single. I don't really know much about the band other than two of the guys are brothers-all I really need to know is "Can they play?" and with "Grand Tracadie" they've answered a resounding yes.
The song kicks off with a chorus of echoing voices singing "When the old die and I understand" before launching into the first verse. It's a perfect, attention-grabbing start that feels like it could have been recorded by some unknown late-70's garage band strung out on the Stones and Big Star records. The lead guitar plucks along and you can feel every note in the center of your brain while the bass line swims along your ear canal like Mark Spitz going for the gold (in keeping with the 70's theme). Towards the end of the song that guitar that had been feeling it's way through just explodes into a fuzzy whirlwind that rises above everything else and a battle ensues as the vocalist tries to sing over the noise.
The B-side, "Covehead," is not quite at the same level as "Grand Tracadie," but it's not bad. I actually think the vocal performance on this one is a bit better. The harmonies are great, and the verses are sung a bit more clear. I really like the final line of the "Covehead," which gets repeated twice: "Explain the past, that element boiling us in our skeletons. It's melting down my hands." The delivery is perfect. If the whole song had been like that, it may have been even better than the A-side.
You can pick up a copy of this release on Bandcamp for the low, low price of whatever you feel like paying. While you're there you can also pick up a copy of their EP Wild History, which came out at the beginning of the year. I don't see any live dates listed, but I assume if you live around the Toronto area you will probably have an opportunity to see them play at some point. Check out the Newsmen's Facebook page and Like them to get any updates about shows or upcoming releases. It sounds like they plan on keeping pretty busy in the new year, so we shouldn't have to wait long for more music!


I am a theorist of photography with a particular interest in Freudian psychoanalysis. I teach modules on two courses: Photography BA (Hons) and Photography MA. My debut monograph on photo-theory Lacan at the Scene was published (with a foreword by Slavoj Zizek) by the MIT Press (Cambridge, Mass.) in 2009. I am also a photographer, with books including Point and Shoot (Hatje-Cantz) and The Cult of the Street (Tsingou Gallery). I live with my wife and daughter in West London.


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In our
[first blog post](https://gvisor.dev/blog/2019/11/18/gvisor-security-basics-part-1/),
we covered some secure design principles and how they guided the architecture of
gVisor as a whole. In this post, we will cover how these principles guided the
networking architecture of gVisor, and the tradeoffs involved. In particular, we
will cover how these principles culminated in two networking modes, how they
work, and the properties of each.

## gVisor's security architecture in the context of networking

Linux networking is complicated. The TCP protocol is over 40 years old, and has
been repeatedly extended over the years to keep up with the rapid pace of
network infrastructure improvements, all while maintaining compatibility. On top
of that, Linux networking has a fairly large API surface. Linux supports
[over 150 options](https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/960f6a975b7e44c0efe8fd38c66b02017c4fe137/pkg/sentry/strace/socket.go#L476-L644)
for the most common socket types alone. In fact, the net subsystem is one of the
largest and fastest growing in Linux at approximately 1.1 million lines of code.
For comparison, that is several times the size of the entire gVisor codebase.

At the same time, networking is increasingly important. The cloud era is
arguably about making everything a network service, and in order to make that
work, the interconnect performance is critical. Adding networking support to
gVisor was difficult, not just due to the inherent complexity, but also because
it has the potential to significantly weaken gVisor's security model.

As outlined in the previous blog post, gVisor's
[secure design principles](https://gvisor.dev/blog/2019/11/18/gvisor-security-basics-part-1/#design-principles)
are:

1.  Defense in Depth: each component of the software stack trusts each other
    component as little as possible.
1.  Least Privilege: each software component has only the permissions it needs
    to function, and no more.
1.  Attack Surface Reduction: limit the surface area of the host exposed to the
    sandbox.
1.  Secure by Default: the default choice for a user should be safe.

gVisor manifests these principles as a multi-layered system. An application
running in the sandbox interacts with the Sentry, a userspace kernel, which
mediates all interactions with the Host OS and beyond. The Sentry is written in
pure Go with minimal unsafe code, making it less vulnerable to buffer overflows
and related memory bugs that can lead to a variety of compromises including code
injection. It emulates Linux using only a minimal and audited set of Host OS
syscalls that limit the Host OS's attack surface exposed to the Sentry itself.
The syscall restrictions are enforced by running the Sentry with seccomp
filters, which enforce that the Sentry can only use the expected set of
syscalls. The Sentry runs as an unprivileged user and in namespaces, which,
along with the seccomp filters, ensure that the Sentry is run with the Least
Privilege required.

gVisor's multi-layered design provides Defense in Depth. The Sentry, which does
not trust the application because it may attack the Sentry and try to bypass it,
is the first layer. The sandbox that the Sentry runs in is the second layer. If
the Sentry were compromised, the attacker would still be in a highly restrictive
sandbox which they must also break out of in order to compromise the Host OS.

To enable networking functionality while preserving gVisor's security
properties, we implemented a
[userspace network stack](https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/pkg/tcpip)
in the Sentry, which we creatively named Netstack. Netstack is also written in
Go, not only to avoid unsafe code in the network stack itself, but also to avoid
a complicated and unsafe Foreign Function Interface. Having its own integrated
network stack allows the Sentry to implement networking operations using up to
three Host OS syscalls to read and write packets. These syscalls allow a very
minimal set of operations which are already allowed (either through the same or
a similar syscall). Moreover, because packets typically come from off-host (e.g.
the internet), the Host OS's packet processing code has received a lot of
scrutiny, hopefully resulting in a high degree of hardening.

![Figure 1](/assets/images/2020-04-02-networking-security-figure1.png "Network and gVisor.")

## Writing a network stack

Netstack was written from scratch specifically for gVisor. Because Netstack was
designed and implemented to be modular, flexible and self-contained, there are
now several more projects using Netstack in creative and exciting ways. As we
discussed, a custom network stack has enabled a variety of security-related
goals which would not have been possible any other way. This came at a cost
though. Network stacks are complex and writing a new one comes with many
challenges, mostly related to application compatibility and performance.

Compatibility issues typically come in two forms: missing features, and features
with behavior that differs from Linux (usually due to bugs). Both of these are
inevitable in an implementation of a complex system spanning many quickly
evolving and ambiguous standards. However, we have invested heavily in this
area, and the vast majority of applications have no issues using Netstack. For
example,
[we now support setting 34 different socket options](https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/815df2959a76e4a19f5882e40402b9bbca9e70be/pkg/sentry/socket/netstack/netstack.go#L830-L1764)
versus
[only 7 in our initial git commit](https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/d02b74a5dcfed4bfc8f2f8e545bca4d2afabb296/pkg/sentry/socket/epsocket/epsocket.go#L445-L702).
We are continuing to make good progress in this area.

Performance issues typically come from TCP behavior and packet processing speed.
To improve our TCP behavior, we are working on implementing the full set of TCP
RFCs. There are many RFCs which are significant to performance (e.g.
[RACK](https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-rack-03.html) and
[BBR](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cardwell-iccrg-bbr-congestion-control-00))
that we have yet to implement. This mostly affects TCP performance with
non-ideal network conditions (e.g. cross continent connections). Faster packet
processing mostly improves TCP performance when network conditions are very good
(e.g. within a datacenter). Our primary strategy here is to reduce interactions
with the Go runtime, specifically the garbage collector (GC) and scheduler. We
are currently optimizing buffer management to reduce the amount of garbage,
which will lower the GC cost. To reduce scheduler interactions, we are
re-architecting the TCP implementation to use fewer goroutines. Performance
today is good enough for most applications and we are making steady
improvements. For example, since May of 2019, we have improved the Netstack
runsc
[iperf3 download benchmark](https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/test/benchmarks/network)
score by roughly 15% and upload score by around 10,000X. Current numbers are
about 17 Gbps download and about 8 Gbps upload versus about 42 Gbps and 43 Gbps
for native (Linux) respectively.

## An alternative

We also offer an alternative network mode: passthrough. This name can be
misleading as syscalls are never passed through from the app to the Host OS.
Instead, the passthrough mode implements networking in gVisor using the Host
OS's network stack. (This mode is called
[hostinet](https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/pkg/sentry/socket/hostinet)
in the codebase.) Passthrough mode can improve performance for some use cases as
the Host OS's network stack has had an enormous number of person-years poured
into making it highly performant. However, there is a rather large downside to
using passthrough mode: it weakens gVisor's security model by increasing the
Host OS's Attack Surface. This is because using the Host OS's network stack
requires the Sentry to use the Host OS's
[Berkeley socket interface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets). The
Berkeley socket interface is a much larger API surface than the packet interface
that our network stack uses. When passthrough mode is in use, the Sentry is
allowed to use
[15 additional syscalls](https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/b1576e533223e98ebe4bd1b82b04e3dcda8c4bf1/runsc/boot/filter/config.go#L312-L517).
Further, this set of syscalls includes some that allow the Sentry to create file
descriptors, something that
[we don't normally allow](https://gvisor.dev/blog/2019/11/18/gvisor-security-basics-part-1/#sentry-host-os-interface)
as it opens up classes of file-based attacks.

There are some networking features that we can't implement on top of syscalls
that we feel are safe (most notably those behind
[ioctl](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl.2.html)) and therefore are
not supported. Because of this, we actually support fewer networking features in
passthrough mode than we do in Netstack, reducing application compatibility.
That's right: using our networking stack provides better overall application
compatibility than using our passthrough mode.

That said, gVisor with passthrough networking still provides a high level of
isolation. Applications cannot specify host syscall arguments directly, and the
sentry's seccomp policy restricts its syscall use significantly more than a
general purpose seccomp policy.

## Secure by Default

The goal of the Secure by Default principle is to make it easy to securely
sandbox containers. Of course, disabling network access entirely is the most
secure option, but that is not practical for most applications. To make gVisor
Secure by Default, we have made Netstack the default networking mode in gVisor
as we believe that it provides significantly better isolation. For this reason
we strongly caution users from changing the default unless Netstack flat out
won't work for them. The passthrough mode option is still provided, but we want
users to make an informed decision when selecting it.

Another way in which gVisor makes it easy to securely sandbox containers is by
allowing applications to run unmodified, with no special configuration needed.
In order to do this, gVisor needs to support all of the features and syscalls
that applications use. Neither seccomp nor gVisor's passthrough mode can do this
as applications commonly use syscalls which are too dangerous to be included in
a secure policy. Even if this dream isn't fully realized today, gVisor's
architecture with Netstack makes this possible.

## Give Netstack a Try

If you haven't already, try running a workload in gVisor with Netstack. You can
find instructions on how to get started in our
[Quick Start](/docs/user_guide/quick_start/docker/). We want to hear about both
your successes and any issues you encounter. We welcome your contributions,
whether that be verbal feedback or code contributions, via our
[Gitter channel](https://gitter.im/gvisor/community),
[email list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gvisor-users),
[issue tracker](https://gvisor.dev/issue/new), and
[Github repository](https://github.com/google/gvisor). Feel free to express
interest in an [open issue](https://gvisor.dev/issue/), or reach out if you
aren't sure where to start.


First, consider this – In the 90 year history of the Academy Awards, no women have ever been nominated for Best Cinematography. True, there are very few that have wedged their way into the techie boys club, but their small numbers don't mean lesser quality or command of the medium.
Past standouts would include Lisa Rinzler (Pollock), Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Maryse Alberti (The Wrestler), Amy Vincent (Eve's Bayou), and Mandy Walker (Australia) – all visually stunning films, but no attention given.
Even most female directors select male DPs, for the most part, which becomes a real head-scratcher the longer that continues. Two major films in 2017 that were directed by women, Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) and Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow), were lensed by men. Exceptions were directors Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats) and Dee Rees (Mudbound) – both of which were exquisitely shot by Helene Louvart and Rachel Morrison, respectively.
Cinematographer Rachel Morrison made a big splash with Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station in 2013, then again the next two years with Daniel Barnz Cake and Rick Famuyiwa's Dope. This year, she topped most of her peers, male and female, with her stunning work for Dee Rees Jim Crow era epic, Mudbound, nabbing the New York Film Critics Circle for Best Cinematographer and nominated by both the LA Online Film Critics and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association, along with a Critic's Choice nomination, the results of which will be revealed next week. This is the closest a woman has gotten to being nominated for an Oscar in that impenetrable fortress of a category.
In the meantime, is there a more qualified cinematographer to land a position among the top five at this year's Oscars? Nope. There isn't.


Tis the season for some much needed TLC. But how can you ever show your skin some much needed TLC if you don't know the kind of TLC it deserves? Being your body's largest organ, it is important to know the specifics in good skin care for your own personal skin health. "Using cleansers and treatments that are too harsh, even if they are recommended for excessive oiliness, may send the signal to your skin that more oil is actually needed. Conversely, applying moisturizers that are too thick or heavy can result in decreased natural oil production, resulting in even drier skin". It is always a good thing to take the steps to learn your skins specific needs (Tsai par 1).
"Cleanse your face thoroughly with a mild cleanser and gently pat dry. Leave skin bare (and do not apply any additional moisturizers, serums or treatments). After 30 minutes, examine your cheeks, chin, nose, and forehead for any shine. After another 30 minutes, evaluate whether your skin feels parched, especially if you smile or make any other facial expressions. If your skin feels tight, your skin is likely to dry. If there is noticeable shine on your nose and forehead, your skin is most likely normal/combination. If there is shine on your cheeks in addition to your forehead and nose, you most likely have oily skin" (par 3).
"This method is much faster and often an excellent differentiator between oily and dry skin types. Gently pat a blotting paper on the different areas of your face. Hold the sheet up to the light to determine how much oil is visible. If the sheet picked up little to no oil, you most likely have dry skin. If the blotting sheet reveals oil from the forehead and nose areas, your skin is a normal/combination. Finally, if the blotting paper is saturated with oil, it is extremely likely that you have oily skin" (par 4).
Skincare is not something to just 'wing'. If you had never tried one of the above methods, you may have mistaken the type of skincare routine you need. Just ask Renee Rouleau, our favorite celebrity esthetician! She explains that many make three common mistakes when trying to determine their skin type.
Mistake #1: Only focusing on one or two of your skin's needs, instead of looking at the big picture. "People can get hyper-focused on just one or two things going on with their skin, instead of focusing on ALL of their skin's needs" (Rouleau par 2).
Mistake #2: Not understanding the difference between dry skin and dehydrated skin. " Dry skin means there is little to no oil being produced and the skin can appear rough and flaky. Therefore, oil-based products are needed to replenish the skin's moisture levels so it can look soft, smooth and supple…. When the skin is dehydrated, it means the skin is lacking water in the skin….For dehydrated skin, you want to use lighter, water-based products with humectants to restore the water content within the skin's cells" (Rouleau par 3).
Mistake #3: Misunderstanding the true meaning of sensitive skin. According to Rouleau, if your skin gets red, hot and flushed from showers, exercise and even from skincare products, if your skin can get a rash or irritation even when gentle products are used, or if you have been diagnosed with a condition called rosacea, you have sensitive skin. Otherwise, you don't! (Rouleau par 4).
Because our skin constantly changes over time, it's important to have your Bellagena estheticians help you continue to pick the products that are right for your specific skin care needs. Stay "balanced and beautiful"!