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A levee saves one town but threatens others
Daniel Cusick, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Wednesday, August 8, 2018
A levee prevented floodwater from pouring into a section of Valley Park, Mo., on Dec. 31, 2015. Jeff Roberson/Associated Press
VALLEY PARK, Mo. — Can one town's solution to flooding be another town's nemesis?
The question goes to the heart of a long-running debate in suburban St. Louis, where a half-dozen communities along the lower Meramec River are grappling with the worst back-to-back floods in recent memory.
One of the towns, Valley Park, has a high earthen levee protecting its downtown from rising water. It stayed dry during the epic Meramec floods of 2016 and 2017. The other towns have no levees, and twice they were inundated to the rooftops.
Now, as the rebuilding of homes and businesses winds down, a debate over the future of flood risk — and how to defend against it — is stewing along the Meramec, just as it is on other rivers across the country.
What is the best way to protect vulnerable communities from severe flooding when the rivers themselves are undergoing dramatic changes? And if one river community takes steps to reduce its flood risk, does it have a responsibility to make sure its solutions doesn't negatively affect downstream neighbors?
Nowhere is that discussion more relevant than on the Meramec, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in Missouri and the site of some of the worst river flooding in the United States over the last 25 years.
Along its 220-mile path to the Mississippi, the Meramec drains 4,000 square miles of land from the Ozark highlands to the St. Louis suburbs. It takes on water from forests, farms, industrial sites, and commercial and residential developments. And like many American rivers, it has a checkered health history born of logging, farm runoff, industrial discharges and other ills associated with human development, particularly in its lower basin.
Perhaps no symbol of human fouling of the lower Meramec lies just upstream and across the river from Valley Park, where the Peerless Park Landfill sprawls across part of the historic floodway, forming a terraced mini-mountain on the site of what used to be a drive-in theater. Environmentalists contend that the landfill itself has altered the Meramec's flood profile.
On most days of the year, the Meramec flows lazily to its confluence, drawing recreational boaters, tube riders and fishermen who catch bass and catfish from its brown-tinted water.
But twice in less than two years — just before New Year's Day 2016 and again in May 2017 — the rain-swelled Meramec rose out of its banks and inundated riverside communities. Among them were the postcard towns of Eureka and Pacific, lying upstream, and the more urbanized suburbs of Fenton and Arnold, which anchor the lower reaches of the Meramec before it joins the Mississippi.
Valley Park took a major hit from both storms. Its primary access from all directions — Interstate 44 running east-west and State Highway 141 running north-south — were completely submerged in floodwaters during the two events. The town was stranded from emergency personnel and utility crews.
Valley Park city attorney Tim Engelmeyer remembers standing atop the town's levee as the river crested in 2017, thinking he was watching the second of two biblical floods in just 16 months and wondering if, after more than 125 years of existence, Valley Park would finally succumb to the big one.
"What I saw out there was a ridiculously high level of water, like nothing I'd ever looked at before," Engelmeyer recalled. "It was bad, and it was horrible for every community on this river."
46 feet of water, 5 deaths
Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News; Snazzy maps/© 2018 Google (base map)
Yet while Valley Park takes comfort in the fact that its levee has twice held back historic flooding, other communities up and down the Meramec's muddy banks face very different risks.
"I was here for the floods of the early '80s and the '90s," said Joe Maurath, a 40-year resident and alderman of the city of Fenton, just downstream from Valley Park. "And it's just at a point now where what we're seeing is unprecedented. The back-to-back floods [of 2016 and 2017] were unparalleled compared to what we've seen in the past."
Agencies charged with investigating flood disasters agree.
A report by the U.S. Geological Survey summarizing the 2017 event revealed that the flooding resulted in five deaths in Missouri, while 53 counties were declared federal disaster areas by the Trump administration. At four flood gauges along the Meramec, the river broke century-old streamflow and peak stage records, including a whopping 46.1-foot crest at Eureka, Mo., more than 27 feet above flood stage.
In the following months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid out $62 million in National Flood Insurance Program claims to Missourians affected by the 2017 floods, while an additional $18 million in low-interest loans and grants was awarded to homeowners, renters and businesses caught in harm's way.
Those kinds of statistics undergird a growing belief among many here that the Meramec is a more dangerous river than it used to be, even though it has experienced major flood events dating to the early 20th century, including a landmark flood in 1982.
"It's overwhelming," Fenton resident Sue Haskins told the Army Corps of Engineers at a public meeting last November. "I have a small business out of my home. ... We never had water for 25 years, and all of a sudden, we got water."
While state and federal officials have identified numerous factors driving the Meramec's worsening flood profile — including increased rainfall intensity across the region due to climate change, the conversion of historic floodplains into impervious surfaces and backflow flooding from the Mississippi River during high water phases — other observers see a culprit at the river's edge: the Valley Park levee.
Completed in 2005 at a cost of $50 million, the levee is for some a source of consternation. It has helped to drive a wedge between flood control agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the communities the corps has pledged to protect from floods.
That's because floodwater that would normally flow to the outer reaches of the floodplain — including downtown Valley Park — is being displaced and redistributed to other areas. That can raise water levels on nearby properties.
Robert Criss is among the most outspoken scientists on these risks. He's a professor in Washington University in St. Louis' Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a national expert on river hydrogeology. In an interview at his campus office in St. Louis, Criss accused government agencies, including the Army Corps, of downplaying the substantial role that levees and other human-built structures play in flooding events.
"Don't let anyone tell you these big floods are about climate change," he said. "It's all about the constriction of rivers."
Criss acknowledged that on small to midsized rivers like the Meramec, a heavy rainfall can lead to flash flooding. But such floods usually rise and fall quickly, he said. The main reason that communities on the Meramec are experiencing more destructive floods, he said, is that levee district boards and other oversight agencies keep approving projects that channel the water with new control structures.
"The game is that if you build a big levee and you declare to everyone that it protects against a 100-year flood, then you can allow all kinds of new development to happen behind it," said Criss.
"The problem is you're not only walling off the river from people, you're also walling it off from its natural floodplain," he added. "It's a no-brainer that all of that water is going to be shunted somewhere else, and where it's going is to communities up and downstream."
'Nobody is surprised anymore'
Floodwater was pumped over the Valley Park levee into the Meramec River on Dec. 31, 2015. Patrick Evenson/Missouri Air National Guard/Flickr
Not everyone sees it that way. Valley Park city officials and federal river managers, notably the Army Corps of Engineers, refute those claims. They say analyses of peak flow data on the Meramec, including during the two most recent floods, indicate that the Valley Park levee is not a factor behind worsening flood conditions.
"This levee did not cause all of this destruction up and down the river," Engelmeyer, the city attorney, said. "A biblical flood did."
Don Duncan, assistant chief of engineering and construction for the Army Corps' St. Louis District office, also pushed back on the notion that Valley Park's levee contributed to the severe flooding.
"I'm sure you're aware that anytime there's a flood, someone wants to point a finger at why water got inside their home or business," Duncan said. "After the last two Meramec floods, people latched on to the Valley Park levee and ran with it. They liked the fact that they had a scapegoat to point to."
But flooded neighbors and academics aren't the only ones making the case about levees. The St. Louis-based Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, which represents environmental, recreational and hunting interests throughout the Mississippi and Missouri basins, has also taken a tough line on levees. The group points to environmental and economic concerns.
David Stokes, the alliance's executive director, said that since the Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993, communities up and down the watershed have proposed an unprecedented number of new levees, often spurred by the promise of new development and associated tax revenue.
"There has been a lot of argument back and forth about it, but we generally subscribe to the view of the scientists who have done a lot of work in this area," Stokes said. "The bottom line is when you combine [levee building and floodplain development] with climate change and you get a couple of these horrendous rainstorms over a particular basin like the Meramec, nobody is surprised anymore by what's happening out there."
Gerald Galloway, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Maryland and a retired Army brigadier general who spent decades analyzing the Mississippi River Basin for the Army Corps and other agencies, acknowledged that the pace of levee building has increased in Missouri and river communities across the country.
So, too, he said, have the debates over the impacts of those structures in places like the Meramec.
Galloway said he places a high degree of trust in the Army Corps' analyses of river flows. But he acknowledged that some of the thorniest questions about flooding can only be answered with more comprehensive study of river basins.
"Every year, the analysis gets better, our information inputs get better and we learn more and more about what's happening out there," he said. "But frankly, this is the type of debate that can go on and on and on."
Here's his bottom line: "If you live on a river and your property is in a floodplain of some kind, you're eventually going to get wet."
Even so, federal, state and local agencies are not standing still on the Meramec.
The U.S. Geological Survey, in conjunction with the Army Corps, FEMA, the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and others, recently produced a new set of digital flood inundation maps spanning 16.7 miles of the Lower Meramec Basin, including Valley Park and Fenton.
The simulations incorporate data from the New Year's 2016 flood and should provide critical insights as river communities get more serious about disaster planning and flood mitigation.
USGS has also initiated a second analysis, still in the planning phases, to determine how land-use change and development over the last 80 years have altered the conveyance of water through the lower part of the basin.
"The big story we're trying to tell is what's happened over time," said Paul Rydlund, surface water program manager at the USGS Missouri Water Science Center in Rolla. "We know anecdotally there has been a lot change in the basin since the early 1900s. Our target is looking at how all of that development has changed the way water moves through the floodway."
Meanwhile, the corps is working closely with Meramec communities to identify new strategies for getting people and properties out of harm's way. One of these approaches involves drafting a new floodplain management plan for the lower basin to help guide land-use planning and development.
Matt Jones of the Army Corps St. Louis District's plan formulation section said a key focus of the new Meramec management plan will be on non-structural solutions to reduce flood risk, such as elevating homes, buying out high-risk properties, and working with municipalities to toughen zoning regulations and building codes.
"It's a way for us to really go to each community to tailor solutions and see what's in their best interest," he said.
Residents are waiting for answers.
Jeff Haase, who has lived on a hilltop subdivision near Arnold since 1993 and who walks regularly in the Meramec River bottom, said he has watched the river change over the last decade as more strip malls and subdivisions have been wedged into the floodplain. It has exacerbated stormwater runoff that has been a problem for years, he said.
"If I were to ballpark it," Haase said, "I'd say a hard rain flows down this hill at about 50 percent higher volume than it did when we came 25 years ago. All of this used to be farmland, and it was wooded over. Now, more and more of the higher areas are being developed. It's OK for people on the high ground, but it's not good for everybody else."
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We didn't get much of a run from Minella Bliss at Southwell on Thursday as he only made it as far as the third fence before coming a cropper.
There'll have been plenty of discarded betting slips as our 4/1 advised selection was sent off as the 9/4 joint favourite, validating my belief that he was over priced. As it was, he was going along nicely, but didn't seem to get high enough at fence three, it looked like his knees went through the top of it and down he and jockey Ben Poste came.
Thankfully they were both unscathed by the incident, but we're still shy a winner or two this week, something I aim to rectify in Friday's…
1.20 Doncaster:
Where Saeed bin Suroor gives a handicap/nursery debut to the 2yr old colt Best Example, who comes here stepping up in both trip and class from his win over 7 furlongs in a Class 4 maiden at Musselburgh 26 days ago and he's priced at 9/2 BOG to follow up today.
The yard has an excellent record with their juveniles…
Since 2009, Saeed bin Suroor has trained 224 winners from the 780 two year olds sent to the track with this 28.7% strike rate producing a modest but handy 89.2pts profit at an ROI of 11.4% from blind backing and in nurseries that record is 19/68 (27.9% SR) for 18.4pts (+27.1% ROI)
Saeed's two year olds who were sent off at 9/1 or shorter won 216 of 688 (31.4% SR) races producing 120.1pts profit (+17.5% ROI) , with the sub-5/1 runners performing best with 192 winners from 498 (38.6% SR) generating an excellent 103.8pts profit at an ROI of 20.9%.
And these sub 5/1 two yr olds have a superb record here at Doncaster winning 10 of 21 (47.6% SR) races for 13.30pts (+63.3% ROI).
Today is Best Example's handicap debut…
Saeed bin Suroor's handicap debutants on the Flat have a record of 39 wins from 184 races (21.2% SR) with the 13.2 pts profit coming in at an ROI of 7.2% and from this we derive the following…
Two year olds : 8/31 (25.8% SR) for 2.9pts (+9.4% ROI)
Class 3 : 9/42 (21.4% SR) for 18.7pts (+44.5% ROI)
In October : 4/20 (20% SR) for 8.9pts (+44.6% ROI)
Over 1 mile : 12/49 (24.5% SR) for 28.4pts (+57.9% ROI)
Up In Trip by up to 1.5f : 14/37 (37.8% SR) for 35.7pts (+96.6% ROI)
Up In Class : 21/99 (21.2% SR) for 12.8pts (+12.9% ROI)
And those stepping up to Class 3 : 7/31 (22.6% SR) for 21.1pts (+68.2% ROI)
In addition to the proliferation of facts and figures above, we should consider the blistering recent form of the yard, who have had 21 winners from 72 runners in the past month (29.2% SR) and although Best Example steps up in trip today, he was staying on well when winning by the best part of three lengths last time out, suggesting that he'll definitely want further in future.
It has to be added, though, that an opening handicap mark of 81 makes this far from a gimme and this has been recognised by the trainer who has elected to put a 5lb (Kevin Stott) on board to make our runner that little bit more competitive at the weights.
And the presence of the claimer doesn't put me off either, as Kevin's proving to be no mug and is in really good nick himself with 6 wins from 28 (21.4% SR) in the last four weeks and this will be his fifth ride for Saeed bin Suroor and he hasn't let the trainer in the past. A defeat by just a neck on board Romance Story at Wolverhampton a fortnight ago is the only blot on a sequence reading 1211 in his four starts for the yard.
I think that the opening mark of 81 is partially responsible for what looks a fairly generous price here and so I have no qualms about placing a 1pt win bet on Best Example at 9/2 BOG with Paddy Power, but to see the rest of the market…
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‹‹ Alibi V.24 No.41 • Oct 8-14, 2015 ››
He Named Me Malala
Documentary exalts, humanizes teenage activist
He Named Me Malala (2015)
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Malala, being Malala
If you're looking for inspirational, modern-day uplift, you could do worse than the remarkable true-life story of Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's documentary He Named Me Malala relates Malala's well-known tale of speaking out against the Taliban and getting shot in the head for her troubles and combines it with images of the unstoppable young lady using her sudden fame to promote schooling around the globe. It's a simple film with a bald-faced agenda, turning the past into a fairy tale of good vs. evil and the present into a heart-tugging promo video for education. Although it avoids a deeper geopolitical analysis of the factors that led to Malala's tragedy and triumph, it's a wonderfully emotional story smartly crafted for kids and adults.
Given the other films on his resume (Al Gore's 2006 environmental tract An Inconvenient Truth and 2010's public education excoriation Waiting for "Superman"), it's not at all surprising to see Guggenheim champing at the bit to tell Malala's story. He does so in bits and pieces, spreading it out across the length of the film. Interestingly, Guggenheim has chosen to express the flashback sequences in a rough, oil stick painting-style of animation. It ties in nicely with the overall "theme" of the film, which is related to the origin of Malala's name—a central Asian legend about a girl whose voice inspired Afghan warriors to rise up against their British oppressors. It's a lovely technique, but it does have the unfortunate side effect of lessening the seriousness of what happened in 2012. Given that the filmmakers are probably aiming at a family audience, it's wise to avoid the grisliest details about Malala's shooting. However, the distance the cartoon images impart make the story—occasionally—seem less like modern history and more like a distant work of fantasy. Sadly, it's not. Unlike An Inconvenient Truth, however, there's no debating the facts in the case. Unless you're in favor of shooting 15-year-old girls in the head, there's not a lot of controversy to the topic at hand.
It's probably also a good thing that the film doesn't dwell too much on the past. Driven, perhaps, by Malala's assertion that she has "not one proton" of anger toward her attackers, Guggenheim spends more time showing what she has accomplished with her second lease on life after fleeing her home country for asylum in England. Where He Named Me Malala excels is in giving us a glimpse at the young lady behind the headlines. It's refreshing—a relief, even—to find the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, UN-addressing, "Daily Show"-guesting activist acting like an ordinary teenage girl. At home she fights with her little brothers, Googles pictures of Brad Pitt online and worries if the other kids at school like her.
The film also finds time to tell the story of the whole Yousafzai family—from her parents' first meeting to her father's building of a school in Pakistan's rural Swat Valley. Malala grew up in that school, and it's her lifelong passion for learning that fuels the film's narrative thrust. As Malala—still a devoted Muslim—talks about the Taliban's charismatic appearance, its slow erosion of personal freedoms and its eventual banning of education for women in Pakistan, it's easy to realize the simple truth of the matter. This really isn't a question of religion. These monsters aren't interested in spirituality; they're interested in power. And their techniques—from demonizing education to burning books—are the techniques of petty dictators since time immemorial. Seeing Malala visit young refugees fleeing war-torn Syria or lending her support to families whose daughters were kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria, you realize the problems of rural Pakistan are simply mirrors for the problems of the world.
There are moments when Guggenheim trips over a darker, more serious narrative: Malala's reticence to talk about her shooting, her almost pitying thoughts on her own mother's lack of education, the nagging question of her beloved father's culpability in Malala's growth as an outspoken activist. But the man behind the camera never asks more than once. And with such a well-spoken subject in front of the camera, the lack of journalistic depth rarely feels like an oversight. Still in her teens, Malala is a remarkable young lady. It's hardly surprising that the film wants to admire and honor her. Her story is astonishing. Her cause is inspiring. Her words are uplifting. To know the most terrifying thing the Taliban can imagine is a 15-year-old schoolgirl speaking her mind is to realize the utter weakness of the group's ideology.
Evil gets a lot of airtime these days. All you have to do is turn on the evening news to realize that. But He Named Me Malala reminds us how much better and stronger good is than evil—even when it's wrapped in the package of a seemingly ordinary teenage girl.
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Clayton, Shuttleworth & Company built their first portable steam engine in 1845 and, in 1849, their first threshing machine. They built steam engines for other manufacturers as well as themselves. The number of people employed by the company expanded rapidly from 100 men in 1848 to 520 men and 80 boys in 1854, it was by this time the biggest manufacturer of portable steam engines in the world. Their threshing machines were being sold throughout Europe, in 1857 they claimed that they had sold 2,400 threshing machines.
The company exhibited at the Great Exhibition, at Crystal Palace, of 1851.
By 1862 the firm employed 940 men.
The firm became a limited company in 1901 and Alfred Shuttleworth, son of the founder became chairman.
A subsidiary, Clayton Wagons Ltd, was formed in 1917 to produce railway wagons and steam lorries in a new factory, the Abbey Works. Clayton Wagons produced the Dewandre servo from 1926, and demand was so great that a new company was formed, Clayton Dewandre.
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The inquiries have come from all sorts of people from various backgrounds and, interestingly I started to realize that a great many of the inquiries were coming from people who do not have ADHD. I was a little alarmed when I realized that, but after some consideration and researching the books on the topic, concentrating, focusing are tremendous issues for a lot of people, not limited to those of us with ADHD. Ultimately, the bottom line is that the average person in today's society is stretched way too thin. There are so many demands on any single individual at any given time, whether they are taking action at any specific moment or not, the demands are there – mentally, emotionally and physically. Such constant stress can have detrimental effects on the body.
Unfortunately, the trend of 'borrowing' medication from friends, neighbors and associates with ADHD shouldn't be too much of a surprise. However, it is illegal and it is dangerous! No one should take medication that is not specifically prescribed for them, period. The risks far out way any other consideration, what's more is that medication which works for someone with ADHD probably will not work for someone without ADHD. If you get a buzz or reaction from borrowing, odds are, it isn't a good thing. Okay, this is a far bigger issue than this blog post.
If it is control of your concentration, focus you want, there are ways to get it, but as I state in my latest (free) eBook 8 Steps How To Super Focus At Will, there are no gimmicks and tricks that will help you achieve lasting focus! There just isn't. Medication for the person with ADHD is usually only good for a few years, dosages usually must be raised and from time to time new medication will need to be introduced, switched etc… there is no magic pill for ADHD; however, there is medication that helps for a time, for some people longer than others. If you have ADHD, seek out a professional, medication may be an option for you. Even if medication works for you, I know the steps I have provided in my eBook are still vital for harnessing one's potential.
Please keep in mind that my experiences with medication are limited and one should never take for granted any information about medication which is not given by a trained medical professional (usually a specialist). I do not take ADHD medication and my experience learning to control my focus is entirely without the assistance of medication.
What works for people with ADHD, concerning non-medicated self-help, also works for people without ADHD. Some believe that the way we are setting up educational structures for people with ADHD would benefit our educational system, as a whole. I tend to agree.
I would very much like to hear back from you concerning my latest eBook, both from people who do have ADHD and who do not have ADHD. You can feel free to email me, please use the word 'focus' in the subject line.
These are not the usual type of steps you may have considered and that may be the issue for many of us. I know it was for me.
Next post: So many ideas! What to do with them?


Recently someone posted a reply to a comment I made on October first 2011 in which I indicated that the OPERA results, which suggested that neutrinos can travel at the speed of light, were in agreement with prediction I made in 2010 in my Introduction to Quantum-Geometry Dynamics.
An even stronger argument against QGD's prediction of superluminal neutrinos is the recently released Icarus results which provides strong evidence that neutrinos travel at the speed of light. The Icarus group arrived at this conclusion after studying the data for seven neutrinos detected in November 2011.
Though it is true that the Icarus results refutes the Opera results, they support the Opera group's initial conclusion that neutrinos travelled at superluminal speed. Hence, the Icarus are in agreement with QGD's predictions (and so does Opera's data after being corrected to take systematic errors in consideration).
You may ask yourself: How can the Icarus results support the possibility of superluminal neutrinos when they clearly indicate that neutrinos travel at the speed of light?
First, it's important to know that QGD didn't predict that neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of light. What QGD actually predicted is that the relative speed of neutrinos can exceed the speed of light. To understand the nuance we need to discuss the QGD's model of space.
QGD suggest that space is quantum-geometrical and emergent. In other words, according to QGD, space is generated by the repulsion force between preons(-); one of only two fundamental particles admitted by the model. Unlike the model of continuous space implied by all physics theory, quantum-geometrical space has structure. Particles at the fundamental scale of reality move by leaping between 'quanta' of space (see opening chapters of Introduction to Quantum-Geometry Dynamics).
Using the quantum-geometrical model of space, QGD defines two kinds of speed. The first, which we call absolute speed, is the fundamental speed; the speed at which an object moves within the quantum-geometrical space. The second type of speed, which is the speed that all physics experiments measure, is the speed of an object relative to another object or relative speed. Experiments such at the Icarus can only measure the relative speed of neutrinos. That speed corresponds the speed of neutrinos relative to their target at the Gran Sasso laboratories (for detail explanation see this article).
The Icarus results (download their paper here) shows that they calculated the speed of 7 neutrinos. Their data indicates that three neutrinos travelled at speed lower than the speed of light, one neutrino travelled at the speed of light and three neutrinos travelled at faster than the speed of light. The slowest neutrino arrive 18 nanoseconds later than light would have along the distance that separated their source from their target. The fastest neutrinos arrived 19 nanosecond faster.
Now, according to the model of neutrinos that is consistent with quantum-geometrical space, neutrinos can only travel at the speed of light. According to the model, the speed of neutrinos, like that of photons, is independent of their energy.
Considering that the speed of neutrinos is the speed of light and after taking into account the actual margins of error of the measurements, it follows that the variations relative speeds of the seven neutrinos observed by the Icarus group is consistent with the variations in the relative speeds attributable to the motion of the Earth along the axis that connects the source of the neutrinos at CERN with their target in Gran Sasso (this is explained in detail a previous article).
The variations found in the relative speed of neutrinos in experiments such as the Opera and the Icarus, are much more revealing than it appears. Not only do they provide a different way to evaluate the speed of light (given a large enough sample, the average of the relative speeds of neutrinos approaches the speed of light), but they provide a means to indirectly measure the absolute speed of the Earth.
In conclusion, though it is true the Icarus data refute the neutrinos speed measurements of the Opera experiment, the variations in the relative speed of neutrinos between the two experiments are consistent which each other and consistent with QGD's predictions.
If a group of neutrinos are detected in a short time interval, even if detected by different experiments, they will be found to have the same relative speed. If confirmed, this prediction would support the QGD interpretation that the difference between the speed of light and the relative speed of neutrinos is attributable to absolute motion of the Earth along the axis that connects the source of neutrinos at CERN and their target at Grand Sassol; the variations in the relative speeds neutrinos being themselves caused by the motion in quantum-geometrical space of the axis between CERN and Grand Sasso.


4 Bedrooms – A charming, sophisticatedly decorated vacation villa in Antigua, surrounded by a beautiful landscaped garden, in front of the bay. The property is comprised of three Caribbean-style living quarters, each separate and private, interconnected with walkways.
Brown's Bay is located on the east coast of Antigua, near to NonSuch Bay Resort with its lovely beach and restaurant called "The Bay". Half Moon Bay, considered the best beach of Antigua, is located at few minute drive from the villa. The east coast of Antigua is charming as it boasts amazing natural sceneries since it is less inhabited and developed than other locations on island. The area is ideally suited for a peaceful vacation in the Caribbean.
Secluded retreat in a natural setting, at the edge of the beach.
Set on a private 3 acres of beachfront land, this holiday home offers an excellent base to enjoy Antigua and to withdraw from the busy world - everything is just a pleasure at sigh inside this tranquil estate. A beautiful, well-maintained landscaped garden surrounds the villa, and children can safely play on its extensive ground. The view of the Atlantic Ocean and the bay are wonderful, and they instill a sense of calm and tranquility. The view of the Atlantic Ocean and the bay are wonderful, and they instil a sense of calm and tranquillity. The property comprises three Caribbean-style living cottages interconnected by a series of natural stone paved walkways. The central cottage includes the common areas: kitchen, dining and living room, and the veranda. The two cottages at the opposite sides of the central quarter have two bedrooms each.
The villa includes: four bedrooms, four bathrooms, guest bathroom, living room, internal and external dining room, kitchen, TV room, outdoor lounge areas, lounge chairs, pizza oven, custom made Antiguan style BBQ.
The villa has four elegant bedrooms with access on the veranda and the garden, and comfortably accommodate six adults and two children. All bedrooms are spacious and nicely decorated, with ceiling fan, offering views of the sea.
The first quarter also includes a living area with Cable TV, DVDs player, Nintendo Wii, and numerous books.
The spacious and well-designed kitchen is fully equipped with stainless steel appliances and the island in the middle adds extra cooking space and storage cabinets. The living and dining room are set in a well-decorated room furnished with gorgeous furniture. Crafted wooden doors open on the patio with banquet-styled dining area where to admire wonderful view of the Caribbean Sea; the perfect backdrop for dinners alfresco.
The property is fully-fenced and it is entered via electric gate. It borders a tranquil bay with its own dock and private beach, furnished with sun loungers and beach umbrellas. Two kayaks and paddles are also available.
A 28-foot Bowen Marine 300hp motorboat is available for chartering with its own captain. It is perfect for sea based trips and tours, and is an excellent craft for daylong boating adventures. Enjoy your own catch-of-the-day on a fishing trip, have a BBQ on Green Island, or explore the natural anchorages and tiny offshore islands beyond Brown's Bay.
Both 110V and 220V 60 Hz are available.
A lovely beach is located a few steps away from the property, here you can swim and relax in an almost private bay. Near the property there is the NonSuch Bay Resort with amenities such as restaurant, little supermarket, sandy beach with water sports to entertain children. The area offers a constant breeze ideal to sail.
Within ten-minute drive you reach Half Moon Bay, considered the most beautiful beach of Antigua, and within twenty minute drive you will be at Long Bay, a stunning beach with calm waters excellent for snorkelling since a reef is located near the beach.
The nearest restaurant is located on a bluff overlooking the sea at NonSuch Bay Resort. Harmony Hall Restaurant and Art Gallery is at about five minute from the villa, it offers a wonderful settings and a delicious menu.
Brown's Bay is located on the south-east coast of Antigua, near to the NonSuch Bay Resort. Nonsuch Bay comprises 40 acres of lush garden, offers breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean and Green Island, an offshore island accessible with a short boat ride. The area offers residents and guests alike an authentic Antiguan experience within this very elegant setting. Here are available numerous beach activities such as watersports, kitesurf, sailing, make it the ideal location for the fun of the little ones. Restaurants and small shop are also found in the resort, along with swimming pools and spa services.


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The Film and Digital Media Fellowship is available to Film and Digital Media majors in their junior and senior years who are in good academic standing and are affiliated with Porter College. The fellowship is made available to these students every fall, winter, and spring quarter. These funds are intended to support students with creative and research projects in which they are currently involved. For instance, a student who is enrolled in a film production class in the fall quarter may apply for the fellowship at the beginning of fall quarter to assist with the project to be finished by the end of fall quarter.
Students may use these funds to support their current projects such as a film they are creating, archival research at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or the Museum of Radio and Television Broadcasting or research at another site, creating a film festival, attending film festivals, or supporting the completion of applications for graduate school while still at UCSC.
Call for applications will be announced in first few weeks of fall, winter and spring quarters. Please check your weekly newsletter email from the undergraduate adviser for information about this fellowship.
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SCTV is UCSC'S own student-run television station, and an innovative resource available to the students of the UCSC community. SCTV28 includes programming like "On The Spot" and "Bananna Slug News." The organization meets weekly and there are a variety of ways students can participate. Tune-in to Channel 28 on-campus! SCTV is your television station at UC Santa Cruz. https://sctv.ucsc.edu/
Film Production Coalition
FPC is a student organization that offers the campus community hands-on film production experience, and gives students the opportunity to collaborate on student films. Visit the FPC website or facebook page for more information.
Anonymous Resources for Reporting Wrong-Doing
UC Hotline 1-800-403-4744 or via an anonymous form
UCSC Police Department Anonymous Tip Line 831-459-3847 or online form (not confidential)
Confidential Help: Sexual Violence, Harrassment, Assault resources
Sexual Violence Prevention and Response: safe.ucsc.edu
UCSC Women's Center online resource guide (including off-campus resources): womenscenter.ucsc.edu
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Confidential Help: Medical and Counceling
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) 831-459-2628
Campus and College: Resources and Academic Assistance
College Administrative Officer (CAO)
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Slug Support Program deanofstudents@ucsc.edu 831-459-4446
Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion diversity@ucsc.edu
Hate/Bias Policy and reporting 831-459-1738
Title IX/Sexual Assault & Harrassment Office 831-459-2462
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ICANN is responsible for the coordination of the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers and, in particular, ensuring its stable and secure operation. ICANN maintains policies and specifications for registrars and registrants to abide by.
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer -- a name or a number. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination, we wouldn't have one global Internet.
In more technical terms, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) coordinates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, which are key technical services critical to the continued operations of the Internet's underlying address book, the Domain Name System (DNS). The IANA functions include: (1) the coordination of the assignment of technical protocol parameters including the management of the address and routing parameter area (ARPA) top-level domain; (2) the administration of certain responsibilities associated with Internet DNS root zone management such as generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domains; (3) the allocation of Internet numbering resources; and (4) other services. ICANN performs the IANA functions under a U.S. Government contract.
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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { injectIntl } from 'react-intl';
import isEqual from 'lodash/isequal';

// Internal dependencies
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import { isRequestingPostsForQuery, getPostsForQuery, getTotalPagesForQuery } from 'wordpress-query-posts/lib/selectors';

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import Pagination from 'components/pagination/archive';
import Placeholder from 'components/placeholder';

class Term extends Component {
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When I insert text, and there's a remaining space below, I wish I could adjust images to fit in that column.
Image captions currently break my layouts, so that would be nice if there was options to set caption inside (top/bottom), outside. For the most detail-oriented, nested blocks (like a full text block inside an image) would work like a charm.
When you increase the showcase of an image I can see those spaces (theme based colored) and that would be even amazing if I could put some image related text right there!
About images is more related to some freedom to adjust the size (like dragging those white borders horizontal or vertically, or dragging the image itself so that I can create those theme based colored spaces).
Thanks for the suggestion! Why do you want to adjust the space between different items? Did you think it was too spread out or too close together? Which items weren't properly spaced? Was it for aesthetic reasons or for something else? Let us know in the comments!
I'd like to be able to easily add a visual link to be able to visit a website - either a screenshot of the site itself, or a live version of the website embedded into the Sway - kind of like you can do with a YouTube video only visiting a website instead.
Thanks for the feedback! We have it on our radar.
If a Sway could be created in a group / within SharePoint, co-workers would be able to access it and they Sway would continue to exist even if the creator were to leave the organisation.
I really like the Send to Sway add-in function in OneNote. However, when using company Office365 account, I can't sign in to Sway through this add-in. It seems it only supports personal account for this function. Hope it can also work for working or school account!
I have created a Sway in a sway however when scrolling through the Sway when we get to the point of the embedded Sway showing it takes some time to load. I would expect this to be a smooth transition without having a delay which reduces the impact of the message in the presentation. Surely the embedded sway would be aware that it is included and be visible at the same time as the rest of the Sway content.
It also did not work well with my autoplay setting as I had to reduce this to allow for the Sway in a sway to play - again this is not practical as we want the rest of the presentation to run quicker than the sway in a sway - if it would be possible to determine different speeds per section that would be a better fit for my presentation.
I am giving up on Sway due to a problem with text formatting on photo labels and text boxes. For the past couple days my text is entered from the right and scrolls to the left. It ends up looking like the attached sample. I suspect there's a bug in the coding. I am guessing you have given up on Sway. You are wasting my time. I must now redo the project with Adobe Spark Page.
The text editor on a card is kludgy, buggy, and weird if you add bullets, so it's easier to put one bulleted entry per card if you want to created a bulleted list.
This trick doesn't work as well with numbered lists. Each new card starts its list at one. If there are multiple numbered card entries in a row, the numbers should carry on from the previous.
Alternatively, you could fix the text editor for cards so that it handles bullets correctly.
Microsoft really needs to go back to the drawing board on Sway. While I love its potential, my students are asking to use Adobe Spark instead. Their reasoning is that Sway is clunky and unintuitive. Spark is very fluid and simple to use. As I have stated in other product posts, Microsoft needs to move away from a legacy backend, like SharePoint. My 20 somethings say they love the potential of the Microsoft product line, but they choose tools like Evernote, Spark, Trello, and G-Suite because they are super fast and fluid to use.
I would like to see the ability to add multiple owners who have full control of the Sway and its settings.
This would be in addition to the collaborative functionality available via the edit link. A co-owner would be able to modify Sway settings and properties.
Our business Brisbane Catholic Education is currently looking at creating a completely digital onboarding (new hire or internal transfers) experience. As a part of this process we were envisioning individual schools to have a brief unique video or Sway (default design/style) that provides a basic introduction and background to new employees. Due to currency being a factor when creating digital presentations we were hoping to automate the updating of this Sway based on a database (API).
It would be great if Sway had the ability to create an automated Sway based on data pulled from an API - (series of photos and text fields)?
Most of the time, I am designing images and then bring them into SWAY. The current UI is - delete image, add image, click on new image, reformat focus of image - this requires a lot of repetitive clicking.
Is it possible to simply drag a new image onto of the existing image ( replace image YES / NO) and have the new image inherent all of the previous conditions?
I teach SWAY to high school students. I showed them a tutorial today from your website to find out the canvas looks nothing like that anymore. Please update your tutorials with your new releases.
I need to add backround music to my Sway.
Can you please add support for Google's My Maps embedding.
You support normal Google Maps, but I have created my own maps, and I want to present them with Sway.
Microsoft owns Lynda. Please allow videos from Lynda to be embedded in Sway!
In past builds we could sign in to personal and business accounts to create our Sways. As a heavy user, I was dismayed when this was over-simplified and I have to completely sign out and re-sign in to switch accounts.
Also, I'm often signed out of my work account automatically by the app.


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Correction / Complaints
Visual Manipulation
Video Manipulation
Trolls/ Fake accounts
Materials by Students
Reaserches
Propaganda in films
Disinfo Digest
"Primetime" covers satire of a raped fish as real news
On January 14, 2018, the news agency "Primetime" published the material entitled "The man raped a fish: the fish did not say no, and it was completely naked." According to Primetime, a fisherman who raped a fish in Florida, was accused of zoophilia and was fined $ 5,000. The article is provided with the link to www.8satire.com.
The story of a fisherman raping a fish is satire and no trustworthy. The source provided in the article is a satire and humor website. Nor the title of the publication, neither the text makes it clear that the information is satire. Thus, the readers are given an impression as if the case of zoophilia actually happened in Florida.
1. The story of a raped fish is made up by satire website of 8satire.
The story of a fisherman from Florida, raping a fish was published by the satire website of 8satire on January 8, 2018. In the "About Us" section, the website declares that their content is satirically and humorously made up stories.
2. Presenting Satire as a Real Story
Presenting satirical invented stories as real ones is one of the propaganda methods. Using this method propagandistic and tabloid outlets try to demonstrate that the developments described in these stories, such as zoophilia and necrophilia, are the rule of life typical for western societies.
Myth Detector has been reporting on this issue earlier.
Geworld's photo manipulations and disinformation about the rape of mummy and a wax figurine
Disinformation on an alleged attempt of Jimmy Olsen to rape an alligator
Geworld Spreads Disinformation by St. Petersburg Troll Factory about Goat Raped by Migrant
Elmeddin Mamedov
Regional Network of Media Literacy Lab
Popular Myths
Conspiracy about American Senators Kidnapping a 3-Year-Old in Portugal
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Successful pop songwriter John McLoughlin has written hits for bands including Five, Liberty X and Blue - and also tutored for the BBC's Fame Academy. In October 2004, he decided to use his experience to nurture fresh, upcoming musical talent.
John was one of five industry professionals who gave up their time to coach finalists in a charity talent show at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).
'I had a really great day coaching young musicians - I gave career advice to new bands and think they took in what I had to say,' he says.
Music charity Youth Music hosted the cruelty-free talent show, filmed by the Community Channel's 'First Up'. The event relied on people like John volunteering their time and invaluable knowledge.
'The music industry is one of the strangest and hardest to succeed in, so it feels really good to be able to pass on my experience to others', says John, who also regularly takes time out to mentor musicians at his studio in Glasgow.


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Karl Brand (* 10. Oktober 1897 in Schwemlingen; † 28. Februar 1978 in Merzig) war ein deutscher Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus und Kommunalpolitiker der KPD.

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Karl Brand wuchs als Sohn eines Fabrikarbeiters in Schwemlingen auf, wo er die katholische Volksschule besuchte. Anschließend wurde er Metzgergeselle in Mettlach. Im Ersten Weltkrieg diente er an der Front, danach verdiente er seinen Lebensunterhalt als Krankenpfleger. Nachdem er 1921 seine Frau Maria Brand (geborene Holzhauser) ehelichte, wechselte er an die Dillinger Hütte. Dort wurde er 1929 entlassen. Kurz darauf schloss er sich der KPD an und wurde erster Vorsitzender in Merzig, das zu dieser Zeit noch zum Saargebiet gehörte. 1932 wurde er in den Merziger Kreis- und Stadtrat gewählt. 1935 fand der Volksentscheid über den Verbleib des Saargebietes statt. In diesem sogenannten Abstimmungskampf engagierte er sich gegen die Deutsche Front, die sich dafür einsetzte, dass das Saargebiet zum Deutschen Reich gehören sollte. Über 90 % der Bevölkerung stimmte für die Rückkehr ins Deutsche Reich. Nach der Angliederung des Saargebiets an das Deutsche Reich emigrierte er nach Frankreich.

Im Exil organisierte er den Flugblattschmuggel des "Sturmtrupp Engels" unter der Leitung von Max Bärwolf, einer Nachfolgeorganisation des Roten Frontkämpferbundes. Nach Beginn des Krieges 1939 wurde Brand von den französischen Behörden interniert. Zwar gelang ihm die Flucht, doch erpressten die französischen Behörden Brand, indem sie die Lebensmittelzuteilung an seine Frau und deren Kinder sperrten, die sich im südlichen Teil Frankreichs aufhielten. Brand stellte sich zusammen mit seinem Sohn Phillipp den deutschen Behörden. 1941 wurde er verhaftet. Nach einem kurzen Aufenthalt im Zuchthaus Zweibrücken wurde er bis Kriegsende im Konzentrationslager-System des Deutschen Reiches festgehalten.  Er war interniert in Buchenwald, Natzweiler-Struthof und zuletzt in Dachau, wo er 1945 von US-amerikanischen Truppen schließlich befreit wurde.

Brand wirkte anschließend in der Jugendförderung von Merzig mit und war im Vereinsvorstand der Sportvereinigung Merzig. Von 1956 bis 1960 hatte er einen Sitz im Merziger Stadtrat.

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In the past month I have made a few trips to the BX Cidery. The tasting room is located in a brand new shop at the edge of the orchard, and the fermentation vessels are housed in the back room. Each time I arrived, I was greeted by a friendly face and the offer of doing a tasting. At $2, a tasting is an absolute bargain, and half the money goes to a rotating local charity. Often paired with local cheeses, the ciders on offer vary with the season. So far I have tried 4 different ones. Each cider has a name that relates to the local history of the BX Ranch/Stagecoach and comes with a story and some tasting notes. I highly recommend a visit and a tasting at the cidery for locals and to those of you passing through the area.
The Prospector: The most English of their ciders, it makes for a great aperitif with its tartness and dryness.
The Hostler: Made predominantly with common eating apples (Macintosh, Gala etc.) this refreshing "cocktail" cider is good on its own, or when used as a base for other drinks.
The Bandit: Essentially the Hostler with local cherry juice blended in at the bottling stage, this interesting cider prompted me to take down proper tasting notes at home over a fuller glass.
The Crackwhip: Another variation of the Hostler, this one has been dry hopped with organic Chinook, Centennial, and Cascade hops from Lillooet to add a refreshing hint of hop flavour without turning it into some sort of IPA/Cider monstrosity. Very good. Get it while you can!
My second tasting at the cidery was undertaken as a means to show off our local products to my visiting friend from Newfoundland. I knew that James would enjoy the beautiful scenery of the BX region, and find the ciders a refreshing drink after playing tennis in the hot Okanagan sun. After a tasting of all of the above, we purchased several bottles and headed home to fully inspect the contents. We recorded detailed tasting notes for one of them.
Appearance: similar colour to a rosee, soft head of small bubbles, some minor sediment on the bottom.
Nose: reminiscent of a dry white wine, with hints of cherries and sweet apples.
Palate: a nice tart cherry flavour envelopes the tongue, minor carbonation and apple taste throughout the mouth.
Finish: clear cherry juice flavour followed by a hint of dry apple cider.
A glimpse of exciting ciders to come?
I forgot to mention the Meadery at Planet Bee!


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Q: When does an autogenerated UUID Id get generated with spring data JPA and hibernate? Suppose you have a class with the following UUID primary key:
import javax.persistence.*;
import org.hibernate.annotations.GenericGenerator;

@Entity
public class MyEntity {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(generator = "UUID")
    @GenericGenerator(name = "UUID", strategy = "org.hibernate.id.UUIDGenerator")
    private UUID id;

   // other fields and constructor omitted for brevity
}

When you create a new MyEntity(), the id property is null. That's something I'm used to when the database is responsible for generating the id. In those cases, you must save the entity first before the id is populated. In this case the underlying database is a postgres database with id column type UUID, but the application should be able to generate the Id.
Is there a reason it wouldn't generate automatically and immediately?
Reference: https://thorben-janssen.com/generate-uuids-primary-keys-hibernate/

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Ned med Vaabnene! / Lay Down Your Arms!
CENTO ANNI FA / A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
CAPITOLO 1: GIÙ LE ARMI! IL PACIFISMO E LA GUERRA 1914-1918
CHAPTER 1: LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS! PACIFISM AND WAR 1914-1918
Mariann Lewinsky (Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2014, catalogue and website): "This chapter, dedicated to the War of 1914-1918, consists of four anti-war films, plus Addio Giovinezza!, remade in 1918 in commemoration of the author and film director Nino Oxilia, killed in the war at the age of 28."
""Religion is no justification for the stake, nor patriotism for mass murder, nor science for the torture of animals." This quote by Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914; Nobel Peace Prize 1905) is a message from the progressive 19th century. Her novel Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!, 1889) was translated into twenty-seven languages, and Suttner became a leading figure of the international peace movement, fighting for disarmament and the establishment of International Courts of Arbitration."
"The pacifists' aim was – then, as now – that conflicts be resolved through negotiations, so wars would no longer occur. The occupation of Libya by Italy in 1911-1912 was the first war to be covered systematically by the cinema, with Cines producing blueprints for propaganda documentaries and dramas that have since been remade countless times."
"(If I were granted three wishes, one of them would be the total ban of the colonialist rescue plot from cultural production, starting with Cabiria.) For films and newsreels from the the so-called
"Great War", consult the hundreds of hours now accessible on the European Film Gateway website. If you want to learn what really happened, try autobiographies." Mariann Lewinsky (Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2014, catalogue and website)
[Giù le armi!]. DK 1914. D: Holger-Madsen. Based on the novel by Bertha von Suttner (1889). SC: C. Th. Dreyer. DP: Marius Clausen. C: Philip Bech (Grev von Althaus), Augusta Blad (Martha), Johanne Fritz-Petersen (Rosa), Alf Blütecher (Arno von Dotzky), Olaf Fønss (Fr. von Tilling). P: Nordisk Films Kompagni. [2K?] DCP. 65'. B&w. From: Det Danske Filminstitutt.
The novel was translated into Finnish as Aseet pois by Alli Nissinen (Helsinki: Otava, 1895).
Presented by Mariann Lewinsky. Grand piano: Maud Nelissen.
Viewed at Cinema Lumière - Sala Mastroianni, with e-subtitles in Italian and English (Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato), 29 June 2014
Madeleine Bernstorff: "The Danish anti-war film Ned med Vaabnene! was to be premiered at the Third International Peace Conference in Vienna in September 1914. Nordisk had acquired the rights to Suttner's bestseller, and Carl Th. Dreyer wrote the script for director Holger-Madsen."
"The film's prologue, showing Suttner at her desk in Vienna, was shot in April 1914, shortly before her death that June. Ned med Vaabnene! depicts an officer's family and the growing consciousness of the protagonist, Martha von Althaus, for the pacifist cause; it presents impressive war scenes and tableaux of wounded soldiers. As predicted by Suttner, the film was banned in several countries by
the censors. In Germany it was only released during the November Revolution of 1918-19, when for two short months some distributors sympathized with the strong anti-war sentiments of the Revolution and handled such topics, with the slogan "new films for new times"." (Madeleine Bernstorff, Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2014, catalogue and website).
AA: We cinephiles are proud of the many anti-war films made by high profile artists, and there is a special status of pride for the major anti-war features made even before WWI started. Alfred Machin's Maudite soit la guerre (1914) is one of them, and Ned med Vaabnene! is another.
The priceless Bertha Suttner vignette is seen first: the formidable lady working in her study, a few months before her death, and before the start of the world war. The "dramatis personae" credit sequence is charming, with further vignettes of the leading players in character, at their little routines, and with children at play.
Soon the borderline between play and reality starts to blur. The little son is celebrating his birthday party dressed as a drummer boy, equipped with toy guns. Later on there is a more alarming scene where the little boy "plays war" with the family dog, harassing it cruelly. The family is military, the father Arno von Dotzky is a soldier, there is a war, and soon the father is no more. The country is unnamed, but it might be Austria. The action is undated, but there are contemporary cars. The shooting locations might include Copenhagen and Denmark more generally.
Martha, who has become a pacifist (she pointedly refuses to toast yet another war), remarries after four years, yet again with an officer, Friedrich von Tilling. In the new war Friedrich is severely wounded, but after thrilling experiences he returns safely home.
The tragedy does not end there. A cholera epidemic, another consequence of the war, breaks out and enters the family house. First, the maid, then the sister Rosa perish. Rosa's fiancé is despaired. The final declaration of the military family, now turned pacifist: down with weapons!
The story is told mainly in the early cinema mode with long takes, long shots, and deep focus. There are fluent pans and tracking shots (including forward and backward tracking shots), three-shots and medium shots.
The sense of composition is strong and memorable: the Red Cross barn being blown up by the enemy, the long takes of the dozens of wounded soldiers, the shot from the top of the moving train the roof of which is full of wounded ones, and the final tableau of the pacifist handshake.
This is an epic film in which the scenes of war and its aftermath convey its horror convincingly. We see the infantry, the cavalry, and the artillery in action.
The performances are largely restrained, but towards the end I paid attention to moments of overacting. Holger-Madsen was a talented director, but there are also clumsy aspects in this film.
One can appreciate the fine definition of light of the cinematographer Marius Clausen in this screening. The source material has often been good, with occasional instances of damage in the source. The speed feels natural, and the DCP has been produced well.
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Pyaasa / The Thirsty One
Other Men's Women
Vorstadtvarieté / Suburban Cabaret
The Exploits of Elaine, Episode 6: The Vampyre and...
Awara / The Vagabond (1951)
The Man I Love (William A. Wellman, 1929)
You Never Know Women
Peter von Bagh: William Wellman, between Silent an...
Morgen beginnt das Leben / Life Begins Tomorrow
Joachim Schätz: Werner Hochbaum. A Man Between (Il...
Bharat mata / Mother India
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Il cavaliere misterioso / The Mysterious Knight
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Den enfaldige mördaren / The Simple-Minded Murdere...
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Remembering Gerry Goffin (1939-2014)
La Paresse / Sloth
Sodankylä morning discussion: Aki Kaurismäki and P...
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Corpo celeste (in the presence of Alice Rohrwacher...
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Sodankylä morning discussion: Alain Bergala with P...
Grigris
Nachalo / The Beginning
Apeiron (in the presence of Maria Ruotsala)
Mannen från Mallorca / The Man from Majorca
Meidän poikamme / [Our Sons] (KAVI 2K DCP, 2014, o...


Run to the waypoint on your map. You've got plenty of time.
Stay on the ground, it's easier than the rooftops. There are too many guards on the rooftops when you are in a hurry.
Eventually you will see the guy who you need to deliver the note to.
Wedding Bells are Ringing should now be synched.


"I'm not sure I'm old enough," he joked at the awards dinner podium.
That's our CFO. eBay Inc. Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards, produced in partnership with San Francisco Business Times.
Swan attended the ninth annual awards dinner last week, where winning CFOs were honored in six categories.
Eight previous CFO of the Year award winners also attended the dinner.
This year's event raised over $467,000 for Larkin Street Youth Services, which helps get homeless young people off the streets.
The other 2014 CFO of the Year award winners included Deepak Ahuja from Tesla Motors and Garfield Byrd from the Wikimedia Foundation.


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Q: Let the ringed space $(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$ be an affine variety. Must $\mathcal{O}_X$ be the structure sheaf? We say that for a topological space $X$, $\mathcal{O}_X$ is a pre-sheaf if for all open $U\subseteq X$, $\mathcal{O}_X(U)$ is a ring, $\mathcal{O}_X(\varnothing)=0$, and if we have defined $\forall\ U\subseteq V$ the restriction homomorphisms $\rho_{V,U}:\mathcal{O}_X(V)\to\mathcal{O}_X(U)$ s.t. $\rho_{U,U}=\mathrm{id}$, $U\subseteq V\subseteq W\implies \rho_{W,U}=\rho_{V,U}\circ\rho_{W,V}$. For convenience, given $f\in V$, we write $\rho_{V,U}(f)=f|_U$.
$\mathcal{O}_X$ is called a sheaf if whenever $U\subseteq X$ is open, $\{U_i\}_i$ is an open cover for $U$, and $f_i\in\mathcal{O}_X(U_i)\ \forall\ i$ s.t. $f_i|_{U_i\cap U_j}=f_j|_{U_i\cap U_j}\ \forall\ i,j$, then $\exists!\ f\in U$ s.t. $f|_{U_i}=f_i\ \forall\ i$.
This defines the pair $(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$, which we call a ringed space.
If $X\subseteq\mathbb{A}^n_k$ is an affine variety, then $\mathcal{O}_X$ is said to be the structure sheaf when $\mathcal{O}_X(U)$ is the set of $k$-valued regular functions on $U$. It can be shown that this defines a sheaf, with the restriction map.
More generally, given any irreducible topological space $X$, and any sheaf $\mathcal{O}_X$ of $k$-valued functions s.t. $X$ is homeomorphic to some (irreducible) affine variety in $\mathbb{A}^n_k$, we say that the ringed space $(X,\mathcal{O}_X)$ is an affine variety.
My question is, why do we do this? It seems to me that we could simply define $\mathcal{O}_X(U)=0\ \forall\ U$, i.e. $f\in\mathcal{O}_X(U)\implies f(u)=0\ \forall\ u\in U$, defined on any affine variety $X\subseteq\mathbb{A}^n_k$. We could also define $\mathcal{O}_X(U)=k^U\ \forall\ U$, which would be similarly meaningless. Does $\mathcal{O}_X$ have any meaning as a structure sheaf in this generalized context?

A: This is not the standard definition of "affine variety".  The standard definition would require not just that $X$ is homeomorphic to an affine variety in $\mathbb{A}^n_k$ but that it is isomorphic to an affine variety $Y$ in $\mathbb{A}^n_k$ as a ringed space.  That is, there is a homeomorphism $f:X\to Y$ such that the induced map of sheaves of rings $f^*\mathcal{O}_Y\to\mathcal{O}_X$ is an isomorphism.
Indeed, your definition allows many exotic things that no one normally considers to be "affine varieties".  Besides the examples you named, note also that any irreducible projective curve is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{A}^1$, and so every such curve would be considered "affine" by this definition.


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Author:Oscar M. Kartoschinsky
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"Germany and the Russian Markets", in The Russian Review, Volume 1, No. 1, February 1916.
"Shakespeare in Russia", in The Russian Review, Volume 1, No. 3, April 1916.
"The Automobile Industry in Russia", in The Russian Review, Volume 1, No. 5, June 1916.
"Russia and the World", in The Russian Review, Volume 2, No. 3, September 1916.
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1924.
The author died in 1933, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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Q: How to check the version of our software from a browser? We have a legacy software package made for native Windows. I'm writing a system to automate installing updates. One of the options is for the client to visit a web page, and from that web page, check for updates to their installation. There are two ways of identifying the software version: either reading a particular EXE file and looking at its file version, or reading the registry for our software (actually the third way is reading from their SQL Server database but that's obviously out of the question). Either of these methods would work, but I have no idea how to do it from javascript in a browser.
I'm sure there is some security, but I have seen other systems do this, so I'm sure it's possible. In general, the web page can check the client's computer for existence of certain software, and if it exists, check for the version. How can I do this from Javascript?

A: In MaVRoSCy's comment above: "only in IE this is possible with some ActiveX help, except if you run a dedicated local server just to serve this functionality". This actually fits perfectly, because each client computer already has a Windows Service running in the background at all times.
A simple HTTP server can be added into this client service listening on a universal non-common port number such as 16580. This HTTP server can handle requests like /currentversion which  returns the current application version.
The javascript on the web page (hosted elsewhere but viewed on that client's browser) calls http://127.0.0.1:16580/currentversion to obtain the latest version.

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One of the options is for the client to visit a web page, and from that web page, check for updates to their installation

Bad idea and wrong methodology

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*Checker|Updater have to be embedded into app

*Checker have to (on start|on demand|whatever)

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*identify build of local app (any usable way)

*Get && parse external permanent URL with data of Latest Existing Build (at least version and URL of Build)

*Inform, if needed, about new version and|or download|update core, if requested by user|configuration


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The almost gone but never forgotten Soundcloud is the prime contestant for the most diverse music library. With over 100 million user created tracks, there is nothing you can't find on Soundcloud. The whopping 200 million active users per month definitely gives Soundcloud the biggest creative user base. If you are a lover of EDM and indie music, Soundcloud is the way to go. Music artists even post their sets from concerts and festivals so you can relive it all over again. The best part is that it's free, for the most part. If you can't handle the advertisements, you can pay a low fee of $5 a month and $10 a month for even more songs available.