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Transforming Rare and Endangered Ismaili Texts Into Accessible Digital Resources: Projects at British Library and Princeton University Library
This is the first in a two-part series on projects that are underway to preserve and digitize Ismaili texts that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. We begin the short series with initiatives undertaken by Endangered Archives Programme with respect to rare Ismaili and other Central Asian texts at Semyonov's Memorial Library in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where the material is "becoming progressively worse because of inadequate care."
Our second part will focus on documents from Badakhshan in Tajikistan and Afghanistan dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries that relate to Ismaili Imams, Nasir Khusraw and others, as well as property documents. They are being digitized through a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, with the support of Princeton University Library.
Endangered Archives Programme: Preserving Endangered Archives on Ismailism and Central Asian Cultural Heritage at Semyonov's Library in Tajikistan
NOTE: The material published in this post is taken from the website of Endangered Archives Programme. We would like to credit the British Library Board for the copyright material; it is reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
The Endangered Archives Programme captures forgotten and still not written histories, often suppressed or marginalised. It gives voice to the voiceless: it opens a dialogue with global humanity's multiple pasts. It is a library of history still waiting to be written. — Lisbet Rausing, Co-founder of the Programme
INTRODUCTION TO THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND THE ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAM
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and gives access to the world's most comprehensive research collection. It provides information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities. The Library has a collection of over 170 million items includes artefacts from every age of written civilisation. The Library keeps the nation's archive of printed and digital publications, adding around three million new items to its collection every year.
The British Library administers the Endangered Archive Program (EAP), whose key objective since 2004 has been to facilitate the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration, and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. The British Library is responsible for managing and monitoring the research grant scheme, and ensuring the material digitised through the programme is consistently catalogued and discoverable online.
Archive types digitised so far through EAP include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, audio recordings running into more than 10 million images as well as 35,000 sound tracks. The continually expanding online collection is available freely through local archival partners, the EAP website and it is discoverable via the British Library catalogue, for research, inspiration and enjoyment. Generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, has enabled the British Library to provide grants to more than 400 projects in 90 countries worldwide, in over 100 languages and scripts.
One such very important project relates to the preservation of rare collection of materials on the Ismailis at Semyonov's Memorial Library in Tajikistan.
PROFESSOR SEMYONOV AND THE STATE OF HIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN DUSHANBE
While travelling across Near East and Central Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Professor Semyonov and other Russian Oriental scholars collected valuable materials about the history and culture of the Ismaili people and, therefore, made a significant contribution to the study of Islamic philosophy, theology, and anthropology. The Ismaili people were not well known to many researchers and wider audiences and continue to be often misunderstood both in terms of their religious tenets and historical background.
Semyonov's Library has not received sufficient funding to modernize its facilities….A large number of materials are in exceptionally vulnerable conditions and in danger of perishing if not digitised and properly cared for
The rare collections at Semyonov's Memorial Library, which has been operating since 1958, sheds light on the rich culture and history of the Ismaili people, including their early stages of development in the pre-industrial periods, and provides invaluable materials for scholars and students of Ismailism, Islam, and Muslim cultures.
Physical conditions of the materials differ according to their age but overall, the physical condition of the whole collection of Semyonov's Library is becoming progressively worse because of inadequate care.
Since the independence of Tajikistan from the Soviet Union in 1991, Semyonov's Library has not received sufficient funding to modernize its facilities (e.g. to change window frames to prevent accumulation of dust and dirt inside the building). Manuscript cleaning and treatment technologies are outdated. None of the materials at the library have been properly digitised; the staff scanned some materials using regular office scanners, but the scanned copies are of poor quality. Moreover, some manuscripts have been badly eaten by insects and are damaged around the edges because the library cannot afford to buy special insect repellents.
In addition to insufficient government funding, less attention was paid to the rare collections at Semyonov's Library by donor agencies despite the fact that the collections are an important cultural, historical, and intellectual heritage. Manuscripts located at the library are mainly from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. Newsletters, periodicals, and other publications are from the early 20th century. A large number of materials are in exceptionally vulnerable conditions and in danger of perishing if not digitised and properly cared for.
In 2014, a grant was given to Dr Sunatullo Jonboboev to investigate the potential to digitise the endangered archives at Semyonov's Memorial Library for a future major project. This was in alignment with the University of Central Asia's mission to help the different peoples of Central Asia to preserve and draw upon their rich cultural traditions and heritages as assets for the future.
PROJECT OUTCOME
An outcome of this project was that the University of Central Asia and Semyonov's Memorial Library within the Institute of History and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, signed an agreement to work together to preserve the endangered archives of the library.
Over the course of the project, the team developed an electronic catalogue for the library, which comprises of 8611 library holdings — valuable books, manuscripts, guides, dictionaries, encyclopaedias on Central Asian cultures and languages, articles and monographs. From the total holdings of the library, 396 books are in Arabic and Persian; 112 manuscripts; 284 lithograph; 413 books in English; French and German. The holdings in Russian, 7802 items, have been also catalogued, which consist of 6021 reference books, dictionaries and brochures; and 1781 journals. The team also organised the library's holdings, re-shelving, labelling, cleaning and in addition partly repaired 2170 books.
It has become possible, for the first time, to develop an electronic catalogue for the full collection of the library, many of which are rare and valuable books and manuscripts, due to the support of the project. The catalogue is divided into three separate catalogues: in Russian, Persian and English. The links to the PDF catalogue files are provided below:
(1) Catalogue translated from Persian and Tajik (PDF document 613KB); and
(2) Russian catalogue (PDF document 7,871KB)
Date posted: September 14, 2021.
Next: Badakhshan Collection, Princeton University Library.
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Posted By: Malik Merchant, Editor	Category: Ismaili Studies	Tags: Brrtish Library, Central Asia, Endangered Archives, Tajikistan
Awesome and Rare Collection of Ismaili Ginans with Music at the British Library
1935-1955: Truly Inspiring Recordings of Ab Teri Mohabat, Marna Hai Re Jarur, Ho Jire Mara Hansa, Satgur Miliya Mune Aaj and Bhajan
By MALIK MERCHANT
(Material compiled from the British Library, Endangered Archives Project)
A Young India gramaphone record. Photo: The British Library, Endangered Archives.
Simerg has come across an extremely rare collection of ginans that were recorded on 78-rpm shellac gramophone records in Mumbai, India between 1935-1955. The ginans accompanied by music are part of a huge collection of almost 1427 original film, music, classical music, folk music, publicity and educational material that have so far been digitized by the British Library in London, England as part of their Endangered Archives project. A 24 month grant of £21,300 (sterling pounds) for this project was awarded to an independent researcher, Dr. Suresh Chandvankar, in 2008.
During 1930-55, the British and German record manufacturing companies were well established and had a major share of disc manufacturing in India. The 'Young India' record label was an 'indigenous' effort at record production by 'The National Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd. Bombay' and during the twenty year period produced 10,000 titles on hundreds of 78-rpm shellac gramophone records in Mumbai. Mainly amateur and upcoming artists were recorded under the 'Young India' label. The company ceased to function in 1955 so these recordings were never reissued on audio tapes and CDs. Hence, the British Library felt it important and relevant to preserve these invaluable recordings and the associated documents.
Clockwise from top left: A Young India disk; Young India sign; a collector; and a collection of Young India record. Photos: British Library, Endangered Archives.
The repertoire covered music from different regions of India and sung in many different languages. During the long tenure of over twenty years, Indian citizens witnessed several important events such as the movement and struggle for freedom, Indian Independence in 1947, World War II and the beginning of the romantic period of independent India. This was also reflected in the records produced. Thus, there are speeches of great leaders, ballads, skits and dialogues on a number of subjects depicting changing social and political situations.
In late 1948, the 'National Gramophone Record' factory at Wadala was experiencing both technical and financial problems which severely curtailed its production capacity. The situation worsened slowly and by late 1955, the factory had closed down with stocks left over at the factory sold off at greatly reduced prices to a number of agencies. With time, the records and catalogues were either destroyed or scrapped. Slowly, all the material related to this company began to disappear.
It is estimated that over 1,000 records are available in the private collections of record collectors, located in Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata, and are only available on 78-rpm breakable shellac discs. In addition, over 100 catalogues, booklets and record sleeves are held by private collectors and it is possible to collect or borrow them for this project. These have never been sold commercially, with the result that very few copies have survived to the present.
Through the British Library project endangered archival material pertaining to 'Young India' record label will be restored, digitised and thus preserved for posterity.
The project succeeded in locating and digitising over 725 discs (1450 songs) of the 'Young India' record label. A large number of catalogues and advertising material was located at many places and more than 1,000 digital images have been taken of documents and disc labels. This will form a very valuable reference source for researchers in the future.
Here are the links to the recitation of Ginans performed by numerous individuals including Master Jumma, Rama, Kumari, and Rahemali.
(Note: Once you are on the British Library page when you have clicked on a Ginan link below, remain on that page and click under Related Items to listen to other Ginans – you need not use the back arrow to return to this page for links to other recordings).
Two recordings of Ab Teri Mohabat
http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Young-India-record-label-collection/025M-CEAP190X7X07-003ZV0
http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Young-India-record-label-collection/025M-CEAP190X7X07-004ZV0 (completes verses missing in the previous recording)
Two recordings of Marna Hai re Jarur
Two recordings of Ho Jire mara Hansa
Recording of Satgur miliya mune aaj
Recording of Bhajan, Aavo Sultan Raj (possibly of Ismaili origin)
Date posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 03:45 am
Last updated: September 24, 2017, 03:51 am) – Correction: In the first version of this post it was incorrectly mentioned on the title and elsewhere in the article that the archives are at the British Museum. The Endangered Archives Project is an initiative of the British Library and not the British Museum. We apologize for this oversight.
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Posted By: Malik Merchant, Editor	Category: Ginans and Qasida, Literary Readings from Ismaili History	Tags: British Library, Endangered Archives, Ismaili ginans


A child psychologist offers advice for attention seeking behavior.
A child that wants attention will get it by some means. This is usually done in a positive way. They do a drawing or perform a play but by offering an adult the best of what they have to offer they seek and hopefully get some attention. In general children who are well adjusted tend to need attention on a little and not very often basis. As long as attention is given when needed, which is usually the case things run smoothly. However, some children seem to have an insatiable desire for attention. They get positive attention galore yet they want more. They misbehave and quickly realize that certain behaviors can't be ignored by adults and engage in them. The class teacher will tell you they spend vast quantities of their time with the child yet it is never enough. The child if observed in class will be engaging in a whole host of activities all of which appear geared toward getting attention. It would be nothing noteworthy for children like this to have the teacher intervene with them every 2-3 minutes.
Often parents and teachers are confused. They will tell the psychologist that the child gets lots of attention, much more than any other member of the class, something that is supported by observation. The important thing to remember with humans, in such cases, is that we are never dealing with concrete realities. What we are dealing with is perceptions. If is rather convenient to see the child's thinking in terms of there being a black box through which all thinking must pass. The black box contains one simple instruction that is, "I do not get enough attention". If we take on board this simple assumption we can now see why the child will behave in an attention seeking way for, instance after being taken out for a wonderful day out and absolutely showered with attention they come home and do something totally silly that guarantees more attention, albeit negative. So what to do?
The following intervention is extraordinarily powerful. It works just about every time and the only reason it fails is because the adult stops. Children never tire of this intervention. The intervention takes about ten minutes each day and is focused on the child's perceptual system.
Tell the child that they will be getting a special time each day.
Then each day tell them that special time will start in 2 minutes.
Tell the child that special time will start now.
Tell the child that special time will end in 2 minutes.
Tell the child that special time will end now.
You have therefore told the child four times that they are getting special time.
During special time the child may choose to do anything that is reasonable. They may want to watch a video with you or make a cake (use a ready made mix) for instance. Do not teach. Simply watch the child, helping if they request it, never offer. The adult watches the child and every so often sums up what the child is doing with praise for the skills shown. For instance I love the way you cuddle me. I love the way you are mixing that cake mix. This shows that the adult is paying attention. The analogy usually used is bathing the child in a warm bath of positive attention.
Do not under any circumstances take away the special time as a sanction.
Even if the child has had an awful day, do special time.
Tim Francis has been involved in the education of children for over two decades. He has worked in a number of settings: mainstream schools, units specializing in attendance issues, as part of a specialist behavior management team. Currently employed as an educational psychologist for the London Borough of Bromley in the UK, Tim has Bachelors degrees in education and in psychology and a Masters degree in educational psychology.


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A Peek Into the Future
A few months ago I made a post about my opinion on certain Pixar movie decisions. In said post, I shared a link that includes the future movie Disney movie projects (Pixar, Disney Channel..etc). I decided to take a look at the website yesterday, and discovered some interesting new additions to the list. Some sound interesting and exciting, and some I'm a little apprehensive about.
1) Swiss Family Robinson (2012): According to the website, the idea of remaking the original Swiss Family Robinson film from 1960 has been up in the air since 2004. Apparently it has been confirmed in 2009 that a remake is going to be created, with Will Smith, his wife Jada, and their three kids will be the main characters. The estimated release date was to be 2012, but there apparently hasn't been any production at the moment. This could just be a rumor, beings that it takes a few years for a movie to be made. There has been no information on the IMDB website, so either this is just a rumor, or they're pushing production to a later date.
2) The Hill (2013): I previously wrote about this movie in March. The Hill will be modeled off of Disney's infamous Matterhorn Bobsleds ride. A group of mountain climbers will try and scale the massive mountain, but only finds themselves in the midst of a giant and dangerous yeti. More detail in my previous post. Before when I wrote about it I couldn't find any more information on official websites such as IMDB, but it seems that now The Hill has it's own official page! Not much information on the page since the movie is still under development, but it's nice to have confirmation that the movie is under production!
3) MacFarland (2013): On both the Disney movie list website and IMDB it says that this movie is about, "A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders." I'm curious on what town it is, since I live in California. Probably nowhere near me though. I'm assuming this is going to be like other heartwarming sports movies such as Glory Road.
4) Magic Kingdom (2013): Once again I mentioned this movie at the end of my post about The Hill, but at the time I was not able to retrieve very much information about it. Now it has been confirmed that the movie will be based off of the Kingdom Keepers books where the Disney theme parks come alive at night! How exciting is that? It has been compared to Night at the Museum, which are two movies I quite enjoyed. One of the big questions I have...why have I not heard of these books before today???
5) Tink (2013): There isn't much information on this movie either, but it has been said that Elizabeth Banks (who I have recently grown to love) will play a real life Tinkerbell. Maybe it will be a live action twist on Tinkerbell's life as depicted in the recent animated films? Only time will tell.
6) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo (2013?): No, unfortunately this does not have to do with Finding Nemo...haha but apparently both Disney and Fox have decided to work on a remake film adaption to the famous book. Much like Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror this year, it will be a race to see who creates the movie first. However, the Disney version does not have a completed script at the moment. David Fincher will be directing the movie.
7) Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013): Finally a movie with lots of information! The official IMDB page confirms that this movie will be a prequel to the legendary Wizard of Oz. It will be about how the wizard came to be the great and powerful ruler of Oz. The handsome James Franco will play Oz, Mila Kunis is Theodora (the Wicked Witch of the West), Rachel Weisz as Evanora (Wicked Witch of the East), and Michelle Williams will be Glinda. I'm personally very excited for this.
8) The Lone Ranger (2013): I'm excited for this one!!! Honestly right now it's because of the actors in it. Johnny Depp (as Tonto), Helena Bonham Carter, and Armie Hammer (as the Lone Ranger) will be the three main characters in the remake of the original Lone Ranger TV series. The difference between the movie and the TV series is that Tonto won't be as much of a sidekick, but more of a main character. Since it's Johnny Depp playing Tonto, I expected no less. It would be weird to have him play a minor character...just my opinion.
9) Monsters University (2013): Yes, a prequel to Monsters Inc. is being created and will release in June 2013. The original cast will be a part of the story before Mike, Sulley, and Randall were a part of Monsters Incoporated, otherwise known as their college years. This is really all I know about it, and I'm curious to see how it turns out. I'm keeping an open mind since I quite enjoyed the original movie, and it's been a significant amount of time (11 years!!) since the original came out.
10) National Treasure 3 (2014): I don't think I need to explain this much...another Nicholas Cage movie with explosions, historical references, quick assumptions from minimal amounts of clues...alright I'm being a bit harsh. I actually liked National Treasure. The second one held it's own too. But a third one? Okay...kind of getting predictable. The rumored treasures are: the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth. They should probably avoid Fountain of Youth since that was the goal for Pirates: On Stranger Tides.
11) Jungle Cruise (2014): I guess Disney really wants to keep making movies out of the rides. I have no complaints, since I'm a huge fan of basically all of the rides. However, I hope they don't go too far and start overdoing it. Pirates was a huge success, but does anyone remember The Haunted Mansion? Not necessarily a box office hit. Jungle Cruise is apparently about a group of explorers (of course) cruising through a dangerous jungle in search for some kind of special cure. The movie list website mentions that Tim Allen and Tom Hanks are going to be starring in it...but I'm not sure how reliable that is because I would find that a huge coincidence since they're the voices of Buzz and Woody, the infamous duo. Speaking of Buzz and Woody....
12) Toy Story 4 (2015?): Yep. You heard me. They have announced that Toy Story 4 is going to be created. I have mixed feelings about this. I absolutely loved the trilogy...Buzz and Woody were my imaginary friends when I was really little. The second one might be my favorite. However, I feel like a fourth movie could be overdoing it. Who knows, they've been able to shock us with Toy Story 3 and create a treasured film, but I'm not sure what they'll do with the fourth one besides keep going with the toys' lives after Andy went to college. I thought they ended the third one perfectly to conclude the trilogy, but I guess they have something great to continue with. We'll have to see.
One thing I'm confused with is that Planes isn't on this list. I saw the trailer on Youtube yesterday, and it says that it's supposed to come out in 2013. Sounds like it might as well be a third Cars. Planes? Really? What's next...trains? Boats? Lawn mowers? Not too many people are digging the idea according to the comments on the video.
What's your opinion? It'll be interesting to see which movies succeed and which movies are just rumors.
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Labels: Monsters University, News, Toy Story, Updates
P.T. June 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Great rundown of everything that's to come (or rumored to come!). I'm SO excited about the Matterhorn and Jungle Cruise movies but hope it's more like Pirates of the Caribbean than Haunted Mansion.
Sara June 18, 2012 at 3:52 PM
I really hope they're like Pirates too!
Molly the Disney Freak June 19, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Ugh, what's with the remake of SFR? Really, that's an incredible film. Why Disney? Why!!!
And I hate it when people mess with Oz.
Sara June 19, 2012 at 12:35 PM
Yeah there's quite a few movies here that I'm just thinking....why?!
I don't think I've seen the original SFR, but it doesn't seem necessary to remake such a classic.
I'm curious about the Oz movie. They seem to have a good strong number of actors so it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Molly the Disney Freak June 19, 2012 at 3:15 PM
And with the Smiths? The people in the original story weren't African American, and I'm not being racist or anything, but I just don't get it.
I think you inspired me to do a post myself. Aka a rant :D
Because I've got a lot to say.
I have to say: not surprised about National Treasure 3. I knew it would happen after seeing the sequel. That whole certain page in the book of presidents.
And wouldn't it be great if The Jungle Cruise featured a cameo by John Lasseter?
Haha I can't really complain about the Smiths because I'm in love with Will...but I do get what you mean :)
Rants are fun! Totally go for it! :D This was a little rant for me too, just not totally dedicated as a "rant."
That would be awesome if there was a cameo! Surprise cameos are always so much fun :)
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Like a Virgin may refer to:

Music
 Like a Virgin, a 1984 album by Madonna
 Like a Virgin, a 2004 EP by These Arms Are Snakes and Harkonen

 "Like a Virgin", a 1984 song by Madonna
 "Like a Virgin", a 1991 song by MC Lyte from the album Act Like You Know

Film and Television
 Like a Virgin (film), 2006
 "Like a Virgin" (Veronica Mars), 2004
 "Like a Virgin", a 1990 episode from the television series Roseanne
 "Like a Virgin", a 1994 episode from the television series Family Matters
 "Like a Virgin", a 1997 episode from the television series Ellen
 "Like a Virgin", a 1999 episode from the television series Dawson's Creek
 "Like a Virgin", a 2001 episode from the television series Grounded for Life
 "Like a Virgin", a 2005 episode from the television series The War at Home
 "Like a Virgin", a 2006 episode from the television series Las Vegas
 "Like a Virgin", a 2007 episode from the television series Dante's Cove
 "Like a Virgin", a 2007 episode from the television series Instant Star
 "Like a Virgin", a 2011 episode from the television series Supernatural
 "Like a Virgin", a 2011 episode from the television series Winners & Losers

Literature
 Like a Virgin (book), a 2012 book by Aarathi Prasad exploring virgin birth
  Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School, a book by Richard Branson

See also
 "Like a Virgin Sacrificed", a song from Glory, Glamour and Gold by Army of Lovers
 "Plange quasi virgo" (Lament Like a Virgin), Tenebrae responsory

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European club football
European roundup: Lionel Messi breaks Pelé's record for goals at a single club
Messi scores 644th Barcelona goal in win over Real Valladolid
Juventus lose 3-0 as Atlético go three points clear at top
Lionel Messi made it 3-0 against Real Valladolid and had a hand in all three of Barcelona's goals. Photograph: César Manso/AFP/Getty Images
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Lionel Messi became the all-time top scorer for a single football club after scoring his 644th goal for Barcelona during their La Liga match against Real Valladolid, surpassing Pelé's record goal haul for the Brazilian side Santos.
The 33-year-old Argentinian, who matched Pelé's record of 643 goals with a strike against Valencia on Saturday, scored to make it 3-0 to Barça at Valladolid, running in behind to meet a pass from the teenager Pedri and slotting the ball into the far bottom corner.
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The goal capped a brilliant individual and team display, with Messi setting up the opening goal for Clément Lenglet and he also had a hand in Barça's second goal, laying on a pass for Sergiño Dest who crossed for Martin Braithwaite to score in the 35th minute.
The La Liga leaders Atlético Madrid moved three points clear with a 2-0 win at third-placed Real Sociedad thanks to second-half goals from Mario Hermoso and Marcos Llorente.
Atléti, who recorded their 300th win in 499 games in all competitions under the manager Diego Simeone, broke the deadlock early in the second half when the defender Hermoso headed in Yannick Carrasco's floated free-kick.
Atlético Madrid's Marcos Llorente (centre) celebrates with Luis Suárez after scoring the second goal. Photograph: Juan Herrero/EPA
The Madrid side, without their record signing João Félix who stayed in the team hotel after feeling ill, added to their lead with a vicious strike from Llorente after a lay-off from Luis Suárez.
Sociedad welcomed back their playmaker David Silva from injury but did not manage a shot on target until the Atlético keeper Jan Oblak tipped a Martín Merquelanz free-kick around the post late on.
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Juventus endured their first Serie A defeat of the season, losing 3-0 at home against lowly Fiorentina after having Juan Cuadrado sent off after 18 minutes.
Dusan Vlahovic stunned the Turin side by putting the visitors ahead in the third minute before Cuadrado was shown a straight red card for a dangerous tackle on Gaetano Castrovilli.
The Juve defence, shaky throughout the match, handed Fiorentina a second when Alex Sandro put through his own goal in the 76th minute and five minutes later Martin Caceres scored their third after Leonardo Bonucci lost possession.
Cristiano Ronaldo looks down after Alex Sandro's own goal left 10-man Juventus facing an uphill struggle against Fiorentina. Photograph: Massimo Pinca/Reuters
The defeat capped a bad day for Juventus. Earlier on Tuesday, Napoli won their appeal against the decision to hand them a 3-0 defeat and one-point deduction for failing to play their league match against the Serie A champions.
The Italian Olympic Committee confirmed that its guarantee board, the highest tribunal in Italian sport, had accepted Napoli's appeal and ordered that the match against Juventus be replayed.
The decision on Tuesday and and defeat left Juve level on 24 points with Napoli and Roma.
Title races hot up in Milan and Madrid, plus sorry Schalke
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The Italian Serie B side Chievo have said their Nigerian player Joel Obi was the victim of a racist insult from a player with Pisa, who denied the accusation.
Chievo said in a statement that Obi was "the object of an infamous and disgraceful phrase that has nothing to do with the most basic values of sport, ethics and respect", alleging that Pisa player Michele Marconi used the phrase "the slave revolt" towards Obi in the first half of the 2-2 draw. "Chievo regrets that a phrase heard by most on the pitch was not followed by any disciplinary action: neither by the referee, nor the assistant or fourth official, nor the federation delegate," the club said.
Pisa said the club "distanced itself" from Chievo's statement, saying the alleged insult was not detected by match officials or the microphones around the pitch. "Moreover, our player confirmed that he had not addressed any insults to the opposing player, let alone racially motivated ones."
Obi has spent most of his career in Italy, playing for Internazionale, Parma and Torino as well as the Nigeria national team.


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Hubert Dietmar Woidke (Naundorf bei Forst, 1961. október 22. –) német agrármérnök, politikus, 2013 óta Brandenburg tartomány miniszterelnöke, 2019-től 2020-ig a Bundesrat elnöke (SPD).

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Dietmar Woidke 1961-ben született a Cottbus kerületben fekvő, azóta Forst városához csatolt Naundorfban, édesapja lakatos, édesanyja könyvelő volt. Bátyjával a család farmján nőtt fel. 1980-ban érettségizett, ezután másfél éves sorkatonai szolgálatot teljesített Cottbusban, majd 1982-ben a berlini Humboldt Egyetem Mezőgazdasági Karának hallgatója lett, ahol 1987-ben mezőgazdaság és állattenyésztés/táplálkozásélettan szakon szerzett agrármérnök diplomát. A diploma megszerzését követően a Humboldt Egyetem Táplálkozásélettani Intézetének tudományos munkatársa, majd 1990-ben a Sano-Mineralfutter GmbH takarmánygyártó cég tudományos részlegének vezetője lett. 1992 és 1994 között Spree-Neiße járás Környezetvédelmi és Mezőgazdasági Hivatalának vezetője volt, ezalatt 1993-ban az agrártudományok területén egyetemi doktori címet szerzett.

1993-ban Németország Szociáldemokrata Pártjának tagja lett, és a párt jelöltjeként 1994-ben beválasztották Brandenburg tartomány parlamentjébe, ahol azóta is képviselő. 2004 és 2009 között Brandenburg tartomány vidékfejlesztési, környezet- és fogyasztóvédelmi minisztere, majd 2009-től 2010-ig pártja frakcióvezetője volt a tartományi parlamentben. 2010 és 2013 között Brandenburg tartomány belügyminisztere volt, majd 2013 augusztusában a tartomány miniszterelnökévé választották, tisztségében a 2014-es és a 2019-es választásokon is megerősítették. 2014 és 2022 között a német-lengyel társadalmi és határmenti együttműködés koordinátora volt. 2018-ban a Bundesrat második alelnöke, 2019-ben elnöke, majd 2020-ban első alelnöke lett.

Woidke evangélikus vallású, nős, egy gyermek édesapja. Családjával Forstban élnek.

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68-Year-Old Serial Killer Finally Caught After 20-Year Killing Spree
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When you think of your granny, what comes to mind? Kind, caring, the one who gives us morning snacks and most specially the one who always gives us those cheek grabbing encouragement in life.But, what we definitely wouldn't picture is a serial killer granny! This 68 year-old Russian pensioner named, Tamara Samsonova (Тамара Самсонова) could become one of the most prolific serial killers in Russian history. Dubbed as "Granny the Ripper", she kept a diary in three different languages, revealing she murdered 10 people and hacked their bodies apart during 20-year reign of terror. However, the final nail in the coffin for the pensioner was being caught on CCTV.
She was arrested after the headless body of a woman she was supposedly 'caring for' was found near a local pond. The evil grandmother came into the spotlight when her tenant went missing. The CCTV footage quickly revealed an older lady leaving the apartment building with a heavy plastic bag, wearing a blue raincoat.
When Tamara Samsonova was arrested, she quickly confessed killing her neighbor. The motive, according to her – unwashed dishes and being afraid the victim would drive her out of her own apartment. To take matters into her own hands, she poisoned the tenant with sleeping pills.
The investigators don't believe the death was from an overdose of sleeping pills, most likely the poor woman bled to death while Samsonova was dismembering her body.
Not only that, she confessed of her beheadings and general chopping up of people which has led police in Russia to go back through old, unsolved cases to see if they can find a link.
One of which may be of interest to them in particular is the fact that her husband disappeared back in 2005 and has not since been found, either dead or alive.
Who would have thought that innocent face could be a murderer!
Good thing she's behind bars now! And it seems that she's happy with it!
What is currently known about Tamara Samsonova…
After her arrest, she told police she was a former actress and a graduate of the Vaganov ballet academy, but later admitted to her real Soviet-era past as a floor lady monitoring guests at one of the city's leading hotels.
Tamara Samsonova lived in an ordinary residential area of St. Petersburg. She is being suspected in series of murders of his tenants, friends, and perhaps her husband.
The fate of her husband is unknown. The man was last seen in 2005 and is missing ever since.
The diary, written in three languages - Russian, English and German, describes in detail how to kill people. There is also a very specific and detailed description of killing and dismembering a man with tattoos in 2003. It turned out that 12 years ago, the described man rented a room from the pensioner.
After dismembering her victims and putting the parts in plastic bags, she also left cryptic symbols from astrology books on her victims bodies.
There are rumors and speculations the bodies could have been used for some sort of magic rituals.
Oh, and this video of her blowing a kiss to camera whilst in custody is also bloody creepy. Gosh! I think this granny is one of the most messed up serial killers of all time!
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Der Peugeot Typ 126 ist ein frühes Automodell des französischen Automobilherstellers Peugeot, von dem 1910 im Werk Audincourt 350 Exemplare produziert wurden. Ein erhaltenes Fahrzeug ist im Louwman Museum in Den Haag ausgestellt.

Die Fahrzeuge besaßen einen Vierzylinder-Viertaktmotor, der vorne angeordnet war und über Kardan die Hinterräder antrieb. Der Motor leistete aus 2212 cm³ Hubraum 12 PS. Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit betrug 55 km/h.

Bei einem Radstand von 299,5 cm betrug die Spurbreite 128 cm. Die Karosserieform Torpedo bot Platz für vier Personen.

Literatur
 Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Alle Peugeot Automobile 1890–1990. Motorbuch-Verlag. Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-613-01351-7

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Hubble and SOFIA Take a Close Look at Comet 46P
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By Rob Garner, NASA December 23, 2018
Hubble captured this view of comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 13, 2018. Credits: NASA, ESA, D. Bodewits (Auburn University) and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)
As the brilliant comet 46P/Wirtanen streaked across the sky, NASA telescopes caught it on camera from multiple angles.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 13, when the comet was 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. In this visible-light image, the comet's nucleus is hidden in the center of a fuzzy glow from the comet's coma. The coma is a cloud of gas and dust that the comet has ejected during its pass through the inner solar system due to heating from the Sun. To make this composite image, the color blue was applied to high-resolution grayscale exposures acquired from the spacecraft's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument.
The inner part of a comet's coma is normally not accessible from Earth. The close flyby of comet 46P/Wirtanen allowed astronomers to study it in detail. They combined the unique capabilities of Hubble, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to study how gases are released from the nucleus, what the comet's ices are composed of, and how gas in the coma is chemically altered by sunlight and solar radiation.
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, took this image of the comet on Dec. 16 and 17 when the aircraft was flying at 40,000 feet:
SOFIA took this image of comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 16 and 17, 2018. Credits: NASA/SOFIA
Comets and asteroids may be the source of Earth's water. SOFIA is studying the chemical fingerprints of different types of hydrogen in the comet's water, which will help us learn about the origins and history of water in the solar system — including Earth's oceans.
The SOFIA image was taken with the telescope's visible-light guide camera, using an orange filter to indicate the intensity of light relative to other objects. SOFIA's observations using infrared light to study the comet's water are now under analysis.
Comet 46P/Wirtanen made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 16, when it passed just over 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from our planet, about 30 times farther away than the Moon. Although its close approach is valuable for making science observations from Earth, and it is the brightest comet of 2018, 46P/Wirtanen is only barely visible to the unaided eye even where the sky is very dark. It is best viewed through binoculars or a telescope.
Backyard observers can currently find the comet near the constellation Taurus though with the challenge of added light from the Moon, but it will continue to be viewable in the weeks to come. Finder charts and other information are available at the Comet Wirtanen Observing Campaign website.
Comet 46P/Wirtanen orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years, much quicker than the 75-year orbit of the more famous comet Halley. Most of its passes through the inner solar system are much farther from Earth, making this year's display particularly notable.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C.
SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 106-inch-diameter telescope. It is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center, DLR. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the SOFIA program, science and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, and the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) at the University of Stuttgart. The aircraft is maintained and operated from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Hangar 703, in Palmdale, California.
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My biggest takeaway from the second Offline Camp in Santa Margarita, CA — plus toast!
During the midday session of the second day of the camp, I joined a session to talk about design patterns to express the states of being offline, syncing, etc.
What are we talking about when we talk about being "offline"? Here's an example. Imagine you're on a flight that is about to take off. You visit a web page on your phone — a newspaper site for instance — and as you're reading, the cabin crew asks you to put your phone into airplane mode. You do this and continue reading your article. The plane takes off and you soon finish your article. You click the next article link at the bottom of the page. What happens? Does the next article load? Are you interrupted with a page that tells you can't load that resource because you are now offline?
Well, if the web site developers have implemented offline patterns that pre-load articles and cached them to your device while you still had a network connection on the ground, then you'll happily navigate to the next article even though you're in the air and offline.
Back at the session, my primary concern was contributing to the work to ensure that the group didn't end up with a purely visual pattern proposal. I wanted the concepts to have a firm semantic foundation that can be expressed in non-visual media as well. From the discussion, we developed 3 concepts that identify areas of semantic relevance for offline experiences.
Freshness refers to the age of information that is stored on your device. If you visited the newspaper website in our example above, cached some articles and then turn off the network, then those articles will begin to "age" in a sense. Until you turn your network back on and the website can query for new articles or updates to cached articles, your information will become stale. Freshness is relative to the type of information. A newspaper article might become stale after a few hours if the story is currently developing. A Wikipedia article, by contrast, might remain fresh for weeks or months.
Designers should express freshness, relative to their content types, in the UI. This might be accomplished through indications of last updated time or last synced time.
The concept of reach describes you're ability to fetch information to your device. You might reach into a connected external hard drive, or a local LAN network; you might reach into a peer-to-peer or a private virtual network. Most often, we're reaching out to the internet for information. If the source of information retrieval and the source's reachable status are critical to user decision making, then those states should be surfaced to the user.
Several icons have emerged to express this state, such as the cloud with an arrow pointing up into it (an example of reaching into the cloud). In terms of semantics, I proposed the states of: reachable, unreachable, unknown.
We spent a lot of time exploring metaphors to describe the anxiety of not knowing if something you're writing online has saved. Did it save to my computer locally? Did you save to an online location? If I refresh the tab, will my text disappear? Do I need to press a save button or does save happen automatically?
We had a difficult time coming up with the term assurance. We explored metaphors of correspondence — sending letters through the mail without knowing if they have arrived; gossip — the pressure one feels to tell a secret and the moment of joy one experiences when the secret is divulge; storage and hoarding — the anxiety one feels when wealth or valuables have accumulated in one place and the dread of disaster and loss builds.
Ultimately, we decided that the anxiety of loss and release is resolved through assurance that one's property is safe and delivered. Today, we tend to express assurance through words like synced or saved. Saved is a well known concept and a good one to reuse. In the future, when content might live in multiple places, across distributed networks and at different version points, we will need a richer language to produce a sense of assurance in our users. We did not develop iconography or terms to express this idea beyond synced or saved.
The last design issue we discussed is how to express the ability of a site to cache a site offline and the progress of this activity. We came up with the progress toast pattern. A toast is a notification that rises from the bottom of the screen…like a slice of toast in a toaster! By combining the toast unit with a progress bar, we can express the ability of a site to cache itself offline and the progress of this activity.
A simple illustration of a progress toast notification. The left-side depicts a collapsed toast that indicates 50% progress in cacheing the site offline. The right side depicts an expanded toast. In the expanded area, there is an explanation of what offline access provides and a link to settings.
Activating the toast bar expands it, providing a space to explain the operation and perhaps link to settings that allow a user to control the offline experience. The contents of the toast will depend on the specific needs of the application.
As you are designing your website or web application and thinking about how it will behave under spotty or unavailable network conditions, try framing the problem in terms of freshness, reach, and assurance. How will you express to your users that the content is up to date, safe and available across their network?
And don't forget the (progress) toast!


Several years ago, a friend had written a fiction manuscript which had an amazing voice. I couldn't wait for her to market it. She sent the ms. out a few times to editors and received standard rejections until finally she got a nibble.
"You need to show more than tell in these chapters," suggested the editor. "But your writing is good." She went on to give more of a detailed critique of what the writer could do to improve the beginning of the story.
My friend, instead of being elated that she received A PERSONAL REJECTION (aka SUCCESS IS COMING!), she felt dejected. How could the editor not love each and every word of her book? This must mean she was a failure as a writer.
She put the manuscript back into a drawer.
"Why don't you work on that book again?" I suggested to her recently.
My friend nodded slowly; a light flickered in her eyes.
1. Write about a time you missed an opportunity or thought you had.
2. Create a poem titled, Missed Opportunities.
3. Sometimes we choose to say no to an opportunity that we think isn't right for us. This opens the door for something better. Who knows? My friend may have more maturity now to handle the rewrite and will come up with a better draft. Write a piece (any form or genre) about another door opening to a more desirable turn of events.