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Greenlight's Paid Media Performance Director, Shiblu Ahmed, judging at The Drum Search Awards 2020
By Katrina Makins | 13 Feb 2020
We're pleased to announce that our Paid Media Performance Director, Shiblu Ahmed, will be judging at The Drum Search Awards 2020, which are taking place on the 23th April at the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London. The Drum Search Awards recognise the most innovative, creative and effective search campaigns in both the PPC and SEO sectors and celebrate the very best in search marketing.
We're excited to have Shiblu judge at the prestigious awards and are sure his expertise and digital skillset will lend itself perfectly when judging the entries. Shiblu has over a decade of experience both client-side and agency-side, which also includes a stint of running his own online furniture business. With regards to Shiblu's agency-side experience, he's worked with numerous high-profile clients across multiple sectors within large networks, including Omnicom and GroupM. Since joining Greenlight in 2017, Shiblu has worked with some of the agency's largest clients across the retail, finance, and B2B verticals.
Shiblu is looking forward to joining the judging panel at this year's awards. We wish all the participants the very best of luck. You can find more information on the awards here.
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Our Creative Director and Digital Account Director speaking at Festival of Marketing 2019
We're pleased to announce that our Creative Director, Matt Garbutt, and Digital Account Director, Ben Cook-Northrop, will be speaking at this year's Festival of Marketing even
Festival of Marketing 2019: The key takeaways from Greenlight's content session
The Festival of Marketing 2019 concluded on Friday 11th October. The event saw more than 200 speakers deliver over 160 hours of content, covering marketing's hottest topics...
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Our Social Media Account Director speaking at Marketing Week Live 2019
We're proud to announce that our Social Media Account Director, Marin Daley-Hawkins, will be speaking at Marketing Week Live this year, which is...


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package windows

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim"
	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
	"github.com/docker/docker/daemon/execdriver"
)

// defaultContainerNAT is the default name of the container NAT device that is
// preconfigured on the server.
const defaultContainerNAT = "ContainerNAT"

type layer struct {
	ID   string
	Path string
}

type defConfig struct {
	DefFile string
}

type portBinding struct {
	Protocol     string
	InternalPort int
	ExternalPort int
}

type natSettings struct {
	Name         string
	PortBindings []portBinding
}

type networkConnection struct {
	NetworkName string
	// TODO Windows: Add Ip4Address string to this structure when hooked up in
	// docker CLI. This is present in the HCS JSON handler.
	EnableNat bool
	Nat       natSettings
}
type networkSettings struct {
	MacAddress string
}

type device struct {
	DeviceType string
	Connection interface{}
	Settings   interface{}
}

type mappedDir struct {
	HostPath      string
	ContainerPath string
	ReadOnly      bool
}

type containerInit struct {
	SystemType              string      // HCS requires this to be hard-coded to "Container"
	Name                    string      // Name of the container. We use the docker ID.
	Owner                   string      // The management platform that created this container
	IsDummy                 bool        // Used for development purposes.
	VolumePath              string      // Windows volume path for scratch space
	Devices                 []device    // Devices used by the container
	IgnoreFlushesDuringBoot bool        // Optimisation hint for container startup in Windows
	LayerFolderPath         string      // Where the layer folders are located
	Layers                  []layer     // List of storage layers
	ProcessorWeight         int64       `json:",omitempty"` // CPU Shares 0..10000 on Windows; where 0 will be ommited and HCS will default.
	HostName                string      // Hostname
	MappedDirectories       []mappedDir // List of mapped directories (volumes/mounts)
	SandboxPath             string      // Location of unmounted sandbox (used for Hyper-V containers, not Windows Server containers)
	HvPartition             bool        // True if it a Hyper-V Container
}

// defaultOwner is a tag passed to HCS to allow it to differentiate between
// container creator management stacks. We hard code "docker" in the case
// of docker.
const defaultOwner = "docker"

// Run implements the exec driver Driver interface
func (d *Driver) Run(c *execdriver.Command, pipes *execdriver.Pipes, hooks execdriver.Hooks) (execdriver.ExitStatus, error) {

	var (
		term execdriver.Terminal
		err  error
	)

	cu := &containerInit{
		SystemType:              "Container",
		Name:                    c.ID,
		Owner:                   defaultOwner,
		IsDummy:                 dummyMode,
		VolumePath:              c.Rootfs,
		IgnoreFlushesDuringBoot: c.FirstStart,
		LayerFolderPath:         c.LayerFolder,
		ProcessorWeight:         c.Resources.CPUShares,
		HostName:                c.Hostname,
	}

	cu.HvPartition = c.HvPartition

	if cu.HvPartition {
		cu.SandboxPath = filepath.Dir(c.LayerFolder)
	} else {
		cu.VolumePath = c.Rootfs
		cu.LayerFolderPath = c.LayerFolder
	}

	for _, layerPath := range c.LayerPaths {
		_, filename := filepath.Split(layerPath)
		g, err := hcsshim.NameToGuid(filename)
		if err != nil {
			return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, err
		}
		cu.Layers = append(cu.Layers, layer{
			ID:   g.ToString(),
			Path: layerPath,
		})
	}

	// Add the mounts (volumes, bind mounts etc) to the structure
	mds := make([]mappedDir, len(c.Mounts))
	for i, mount := range c.Mounts {
		mds[i] = mappedDir{
			HostPath:      mount.Source,
			ContainerPath: mount.Destination,
			ReadOnly:      !mount.Writable}
	}
	cu.MappedDirectories = mds

	// TODO Windows. At some point, when there is CLI on docker run to
	// enable the IP Address of the container to be passed into docker run,
	// the IP Address needs to be wired through to HCS in the JSON. It
	// would be present in c.Network.Interface.IPAddress. See matching
	// TODO in daemon\container_windows.go, function populateCommand.

	if c.Network.Interface != nil {

		var pbs []portBinding

		// Enumerate through the port bindings specified by the user and convert
		// them into the internal structure matching the JSON blob that can be
		// understood by the HCS.
		for i, v := range c.Network.Interface.PortBindings {
			proto := strings.ToUpper(i.Proto())
			if proto != "TCP" && proto != "UDP" {
				return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, fmt.Errorf("invalid protocol %s", i.Proto())
			}

			if len(v) > 1 {
				return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, fmt.Errorf("Windows does not support more than one host port in NAT settings")
			}

			for _, v2 := range v {
				var (
					iPort, ePort int
					err          error
				)
				if len(v2.HostIP) != 0 {
					return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, fmt.Errorf("Windows does not support host IP addresses in NAT settings")
				}
				if ePort, err = strconv.Atoi(v2.HostPort); err != nil {
					return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, fmt.Errorf("invalid container port %s: %s", v2.HostPort, err)
				}
				if iPort, err = strconv.Atoi(i.Port()); err != nil {
					return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, fmt.Errorf("invalid internal port %s: %s", i.Port(), err)
				}
				if iPort < 0 || iPort > 65535 || ePort < 0 || ePort > 65535 {
					return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, fmt.Errorf("specified NAT port is not in allowed range")
				}
				pbs = append(pbs,
					portBinding{ExternalPort: ePort,
						InternalPort: iPort,
						Protocol:     proto})
			}
		}

		// TODO Windows: TP3 workaround. Allow the user to override the name of
		// the Container NAT device through an environment variable. This will
		// ultimately be a global daemon parameter on Windows, similar to -b
		// for the name of the virtual switch (aka bridge).
		cn := os.Getenv("DOCKER_CONTAINER_NAT")
		if len(cn) == 0 {
			cn = defaultContainerNAT
		}

		dev := device{
			DeviceType: "Network",
			Connection: &networkConnection{
				NetworkName: c.Network.Interface.Bridge,
				// TODO Windows: Fixme, next line. Needs HCS fix.
				EnableNat: false,
				Nat: natSettings{
					Name:         cn,
					PortBindings: pbs,
				},
			},
		}

		if c.Network.Interface.MacAddress != "" {
			windowsStyleMAC := strings.Replace(
				c.Network.Interface.MacAddress, ":", "-", -1)
			dev.Settings = networkSettings{
				MacAddress: windowsStyleMAC,
			}
		}
		cu.Devices = append(cu.Devices, dev)
	} else {
		logrus.Debugln("No network interface")
	}

	configurationb, err := json.Marshal(cu)
	if err != nil {
		return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, err
	}

	configuration := string(configurationb)

	// TODO Windows TP5 timeframe. Remove when TP4 is no longer supported.
	// The following a workaround for Windows TP4 which has a networking
	// bug which fairly frequently returns an error. Back off and retry.
	maxAttempts := 1
	if TP4RetryHack {
		maxAttempts = 5
	}
	i := 0
	for i < maxAttempts {
		i++
		err = hcsshim.CreateComputeSystem(c.ID, configuration)
		if err != nil {
			if TP4RetryHack {
				if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `Win32 API call returned error r1=0x800401f3`) && // Invalid class string
					!strings.Contains(err.Error(), `Win32 API call returned error r1=0x80070490`) && // Element not found
					!strings.Contains(err.Error(), `Win32 API call returned error r1=0x80070002`) && // The system cannot find the file specified
					!strings.Contains(err.Error(), `Win32 API call returned error r1=0x800704c6`) && // The network is not present or not started
					!strings.Contains(err.Error(), `Win32 API call returned error r1=0x800700a1`) { // The specified path is invalid
					logrus.Debugln("Failed to create temporary container ", err)
					return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, err
				}
				logrus.Warnf("Invoking Windows TP4 retry hack (%d of %d)", i, maxAttempts-1)
				time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
			}
		} else {
			break
		}
	}

	// Start the container
	logrus.Debugln("Starting container ", c.ID)
	err = hcsshim.StartComputeSystem(c.ID)
	if err != nil {
		logrus.Errorf("Failed to start compute system: %s", err)
		return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, err
	}
	defer func() {
		// Stop the container
		if forceKill {
			logrus.Debugf("Forcibly terminating container %s", c.ID)
			if errno, err := hcsshim.TerminateComputeSystem(c.ID, hcsshim.TimeoutInfinite, "exec-run-defer"); err != nil {
				logrus.Warnf("Ignoring error from TerminateComputeSystem 0x%X %s", errno, err)
			}
		} else {
			logrus.Debugf("Shutting down container %s", c.ID)
			if errno, err := hcsshim.ShutdownComputeSystem(c.ID, hcsshim.TimeoutInfinite, "exec-run-defer"); err != nil {
				if errno != hcsshim.Win32SystemShutdownIsInProgress &&
					errno != hcsshim.Win32SpecifiedPathInvalid &&
					errno != hcsshim.Win32SystemCannotFindThePathSpecified {
					logrus.Warnf("Ignoring error from ShutdownComputeSystem 0x%X %s", errno, err)
				}
			}
		}
	}()

	createProcessParms := hcsshim.CreateProcessParams{
		EmulateConsole:   c.ProcessConfig.Tty,
		WorkingDirectory: c.WorkingDir,
		ConsoleSize:      c.ProcessConfig.ConsoleSize,
	}

	// Configure the environment for the process
	createProcessParms.Environment = setupEnvironmentVariables(c.ProcessConfig.Env)

	createProcessParms.CommandLine, err = createCommandLine(&c.ProcessConfig, c.ArgsEscaped)

	if err != nil {
		return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, err
	}

	// Start the command running in the container.
	pid, stdin, stdout, stderr, _, err := hcsshim.CreateProcessInComputeSystem(c.ID, pipes.Stdin != nil, true, !c.ProcessConfig.Tty, createProcessParms)
	if err != nil {
		logrus.Errorf("CreateProcessInComputeSystem() failed %s", err)
		return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: -1}, err
	}

	// Now that the process has been launched, begin copying data to and from
	// the named pipes for the std handles.
	setupPipes(stdin, stdout, stderr, pipes)

	//Save the PID as we'll need this in Kill()
	logrus.Debugf("PID %d", pid)
	c.ContainerPid = int(pid)

	if c.ProcessConfig.Tty {
		term = NewTtyConsole(c.ID, pid)
	} else {
		term = NewStdConsole()
	}
	c.ProcessConfig.Terminal = term

	// Maintain our list of active containers. We'll need this later for exec
	// and other commands.
	d.Lock()
	d.activeContainers[c.ID] = &activeContainer{
		command: c,
	}
	d.Unlock()

	if hooks.Start != nil {
		// A closed channel for OOM is returned here as it will be
		// non-blocking and return the correct result when read.
		chOOM := make(chan struct{})
		close(chOOM)
		hooks.Start(&c.ProcessConfig, int(pid), chOOM)
	}

	var (
		exitCode int32
		errno    uint32
	)
	exitCode, errno, err = hcsshim.WaitForProcessInComputeSystem(c.ID, pid, hcsshim.TimeoutInfinite)
	if err != nil {
		if errno != hcsshim.Win32PipeHasBeenEnded {
			logrus.Warnf("WaitForProcessInComputeSystem failed (container may have been killed): %s", err)
		}
		// Do NOT return err here as the container would have
		// started, otherwise docker will deadlock. It's perfectly legitimate
		// for WaitForProcessInComputeSystem to fail in situations such
		// as the container being killed on another thread.
		return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: hcsshim.WaitErrExecFailed}, nil
	}

	logrus.Debugf("Exiting Run() exitCode %d id=%s", exitCode, c.ID)
	return execdriver.ExitStatus{ExitCode: int(exitCode)}, nil
}

// SupportsHooks implements the execdriver Driver interface.
// The windows driver does not support the hook mechanism
func (d *Driver) SupportsHooks() bool {
	return false
}

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Solving an Undersea Mystery With CT Scans
Using 3-D imaging, researchers have finally discovered how brittle stars—tiny starfish-like creatures—can carry so many babies inside their bodies at once.
Jeffrey L. Rotman / Corbis
Brittle stars, relatives of starfish, have tough exoskeletons and long, slender arms. Most of the 2,000 or so species use the standard, hands-off marine method of reproduction, spewing their eggs and sperm into the water and leaving it at that. But other brittle-star species have evolved a more surprising strategy: They carry their growing young inside themselves, a dozen or more babies packed into sacs inside the parent's body. Depending on the species, this parent might be a female or a hermaphrodite.
It's a mystery that still stumps scientists researching brittle stars: How do the animals squeeze all those offspring—and their many arms—into the same tight space that houses all of their vital organs? "The adult basically looks like it's completely filled with juveniles," says Jannes Landschoff, a graduate student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa who studied brittle stars for his master's thesis. "That's quite a big burden that the mother's carrying around."
Landschoff has dissected plenty of brittle stars for his research, but each time he sliced into one of these animals, he created flawed data by disturbing the miraculous packing job inside. So a few months ago, Landschoff decided to explore an alternative: He got an unprecedented glimpse inside intact brittle stars using microCT scanning, which provides detailed 3-D information without the use of a knife.
CT, or computed tomography, uses x-rays to scan a body in a series of virtual slices. Stacked together, these slices produce a 3-D image, similar to an MRI scan. MicroCT, a technique that's been growing in popularity, takes those pictures at a very high resolution, allowing a detailed look at even a tiny animal. Other researchers have used the technology to look inside various creatures including starfish, but no one had ever used it to peek inside a brooding brittle star.
For their microCT experiment, Landschoff and Charles Griffiths, a zoology professor at the University of Cape Town, chose two brittle-star species native to South Africa. Amphipholis squamata is tiny and hermaphroditic, with a body just a few millimeters wide (not counting its long legs). Ophioderma wahlbergii is a giant by comparison—its body is more than an inch across—and can be either male or female. Although the species are distant relatives, they've both independently evolved to brood their young inside their bodies.
Landschoff put deceased brittle stars of each species in the scanner, first removing their legs and securing the bodies to a hard piece of foam. He notes although these brittle stars were dead, living animals can go through a CT scanner; the scan itself won't harm them. But scans can take a few hours, and any animal that isn't dead needs to be anesthetized to hold perfectly still. Any wiggling will ruin the images.
The high-resolution slices showed, in black and white, the armored limbs of young brittle stars nestled inside their mothers like a tightly packed sock drawer. These slices were stacked together to create 3-D views of the mothers' bodies. Some of the images became an animation that virtually unpacks 13 juvenile O. wahlbergii brittle stars from the body of their mother.
"It looks amazing," Landschoff says. The scans showed that inside the parents, all the babies were positioned upside-down. (For a brittle star, that means the mouth, which is on the underside of the body and doubles as the anus, points up.) The young seemed to have their mouths pressed against the upper walls of their sacs, as if sucking in nutrients from their mothers. This supported a long-standing hypothesis that brittle-star mothers feed their young, in addition to housing them.
The 3-D views of the brittle stars turned out to support Landschoff's observations from his dissections of the animals. But even when they don't provide brand-new information, scans like this can be a useful way to generate public interest for scientific research. "I think the really strong benefit of the method is to use the data, for example, in museums," he says. The images could even be reproduced on a 3-D printer to make a physical model.
MicroCT scanning "is growing rapidly," says Alexander Ziegler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany. Thanks to the high resolution scientists can get from today's microCT scanners, they're using the technology to explore the insides of more animals. It's especially useful for studying the structures inside tiny animals.
Another benefit of using scans to learn about animal anatomy, rather than cutting the animals open, is that scientists can study valuable samples in museum collections without destroying them. Noninvasive scanning can also be a quick and cost-effective way to gather information, Ziegler says, and the digital data can be easily shared.
Landschoff decided to share his full dataset, making all the scans freely available to the public and other scientists. "I only used a very small part of the information that is stored in the images I have," he says. He hopes other scientists will be able to unlock more of that information in their own research. For example, how much of a brooding brittle star's body is usually taken up by its young? In the smaller species that Landschoff studied, the six babies filled a remarkable 25 percent of the mother's body volume. By comparing his images to brittle stars in different parts of the world, other scientists might learn more about how the babies squeeze in among their siblings and the mother's organs.
Sometimes, when you want to understand exactly what's happening in an animal's body, cutting it open just won't do. But there's another fascinating element of brittle-star reproduction that scientists have been able to observe without scans or scalpels: No matter how they manage it, brittle-star babies grow and are born without harming their mothers. At the end of the months-long brooding period, the fully formed young simply crawl out of their mothers through flexible slits and walk away.
A groundbreaking technique could rapidly restore Earth's dwindling coral reef population.
Elizabeth Preston is a writer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has written for Discover Magazine.

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It's the age-old question: does red wine go with virtually every meal? The answer is subjective. There are people who never drink white wine so they would unequivocally answer yes. There are others who believe that the different flavors present in different culinary delights require different wines in order to enhance those flavors.
Most people have a preference and tend to stick with it. People who like whites think that reds are too heavy while those who drink only reds look down at white wine as inferior. It's not true of course, but perception is often reality.
White wines tend to be lighter and some can be fruitier so people naturally think that drinking a Sauvignon Blanc or a Pinot Gris with a salad is the way to go. But red wines, while heavier in flavor, can also be just fine with a salad. Lighter varietals like Pinot Noir or Barbera can be just as perfect with lighter fare as a Chardonnay.
If you're still not entirely sold on reds with everything from fish to chicken to lasagna, consider this: Red wines have more studied health benefits than white wine. Because they're fermented with their skins, they are packed with resveratrol, a powerful antioxidant that can help everything from your skin to your internal organs and even your brain. Resveratrol has been studied for its protective benefits to blood vessels as well as its ability to help eliminate blood clots. It's also effective for inhibiting certain enzymes that can stimulate the growth of cancer cells, and according to some studies may help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Other antioxidants present in red wine include polyphenols that can help reduce blood pressure and lower cholesterol, and flavonoids.
In a study conducted with 2000 adults, researchers found that red wine drinkers appear to be more relaxed than white wine imbibers. Red wine drinkers tend to be happily married while white wine drinkers are happy to be single with 85 percent saying they're not looking for a relationship. Red wine drinkers also enjoy spending more money, which is good because certain red varietals can be quite pricy.
According to a recent report from Mintel, 71 percent of wine drinkers choose reds to drink with just about everything. That's nearly 3 out of 4. Odds are pretty good that if you're a red wine lover, you'll find a way to pop the cork on a red that's compatible with your meal as well as your palette. Cheers!


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Angiographic Cystoid Macular Edema and Outcomes in the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials OPHTHALMOLOGY Shah, N., Maguire, M. G., Martin, D. F., Shaffer, J., Ying, G., Grunwald, J. E., Toth, C. A., Jaffe, G. J., Daniel, E., Comparison Age-Related Macular Deg 2016; 123 (4): 858–64
To describe morphologic and visual outcomes in eyes with angiographic cystoid macular edema (CME) treated with ranibizumab or bevacizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).Prospective cohort study within a randomized clinical trial.A total of 1185 CATT study subjects.Baseline fluorescein angiography (FA) images of all CATT study eyes were evaluated for CME. Grading of other characteristics on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photographic images at baseline and during 2-year follow-up was completed by readers at the CATT Reading Centers. Three groups were created on the basis of baseline CME and intraretinal fluid (IRF) status: (1) CME, (2) IRF without CME, (3) neither CME nor IRF.Visual acuity (VA) and total central retinal thickness (CRT) on OCT at baseline, year 1, and year 2.Among 1131 participants with images of sufficient quality for determining CME and IRF at baseline, 92 (8.1%) had CME, 766 (67.7%) had IRF without CME, and 273 (24.1%) had neither. At baseline, eyes with CME had worse mean VA (letters) than eyes with IRF without CME and eyes with neither CME nor IRF (52 vs. 60 vs. 66 letters, P < 0.001); higher mean total CRT (µm) on OCT (514 vs. 472 vs. 404, P < 0.001); and greater hemorrhage, retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) lesions, and classic choroidal neovascularization (CNV). All groups showed improvement in VA at follow-up; however, the CME group started and ended with the worst VA among the 3 groups. Central retinal thickness, although higher at baseline for the CME group, was similar at 1 and 2 years follow-up for all groups. More eyes with CME (65.3%) developed scarring during 2 years of follow-up compared with eyes with IRF without CME (43.8%) and eyes with neither CME nor IRF (32.5%; P < 0.001).In CATT, eyes with CME had worse baseline and follow-up VA, although all groups showed similar rates of improvement in VA during 2 years of follow-up. Cystoid macular edema seems to be a marker for poorer visual outcomes in nAMD because of underlying baseline retinal dysfunction and subsequent scarring.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.11.030
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Hellweg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG presents at K 2016 its new high performance granulator MDSG 1000/600 BR ("BR" stands for "Brocken", the German word for lumps), which works on the peeling cutting principle and has been constructed for single-stage shredding and granulation of solid start-up blocks and pipes & sheets.
The machine has been designed as a robust welded construction and is fitted with a solid peeling cutting action rotor. It is able to process, in a single stage, heavy start-up lumps as well as pipes and sheets in wall thicknesses of, for example, 500 mm into granulate characterised by its homogeneity and freedom from dust.
The geometry of the blades used enables a cutting principle known as the so-called "peeling cut", combined with limitation of cutting depth, This prevents the rotor blades from cutting too deep into the plastic material to be granulated. Material is simply "peeled off" from lumps, as this prevents rotor blockage and guarantees fast, quiet and energysaving shredding and granulation.
With 1,000 mm working width, the 12-bade U-CUT rotor has 600 mm diameter and it can be sharpened a number of times by regrinding. The rotor is produced from a single solid piece of steel and weighs approx. 4,000 kg. The overall weight of the machine amounts to approx. 11,000 kg.
Depending on the material to be granulated, achievable throughput ranges amount to between 800 and 3,000 kg/h, allowing for 5-20 mm diameter sieve perforation and 75-90 kW installed power rating.
Complete noise protection cabins as well as feeding equipment for sheets and pipes are available as options.
Hellweg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG constructs its own machinery and equipment, especially also for individual custom tasks, for customers in the plastics and recycling industries throughout the world. The production programme consists of standalone and machine-side granulators, edge strip granulators, feeding equipment and film cutters, as well as extraction and dust removal equipment, inclusive of associated accessories.
Hellweg granulators are used by plastic processing companies to compound thermoplastic waste arising from production – especially engineering plastics such as ABS, PE, PA, PA 6, PA 66 GF, PC, PP, PET, PVC, POM, but also TPE and EPS, involving dosing of ground material again with virgin material during runningproduction, or addition of the material in another application at a later stage.
The material to be handled falls into the cutting chamber of the Hellweg granulator via a guiding chute and is repeatedly shredded by cutting between rotating and fixed knives, until it passes an attached sieve as ground material. The sieve extends over the lower half of the grinding chamber and is exchangeable. This enables appropriate sieve perforation to be used for the particle size required.
Visit us at the K show. We are looking forward to welcoming you on our stand (hall 11, stand B39).


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Tanner De Witt supports the Christina Noble Children's Foundation at the 2016 CNCF Ladies Long Lunch
Tanner De Witt continues to support the Christina Noble Children's Foundation. Partners Kim Boreham and Pamela Mak hosted a table at the 6th Annual CNCF Rugby Sevens Ladies Long Lunch, a unique event that is designed to be genuinely fun and all for a powerful cause. The goal of this yearly event is to raise money for children living in extreme poverty in Vietnam and Mongolia. This year the lunch took place on Friday 8 April 2016 at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Members Stand in Happy Valley. Activities during the event and the lunch itself raised close to HK$1.3 million. The foundation announced that this amount is enough to support 440 children's healthcare, education and nutrition for over one year. Fundraising and charity is a vital part of our firm's spirit and you can find out more about other activities here.
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Partners Kim Boreham and Pamela Mak with guests
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The Nigerian Painter Behind 'Africa's Mona Lisa'
By Parker Diakite
Earlier this year, a painting by the late Nigerian master painter and sculptor Ben Enwonwu sold for $1.4 million at an auction in London.
The painting, titled "Christine," is a portrait of Christine Davis, an American hairstylist who moved to Lagos, Nigeria with her British husband where she met and established a friendship with Enwonwu.
Just before that, another work by Enwonwu of an Ife princess Tutu dubbed "Africa's Mona Lisa," sold for $1.2 million in 2018.
It's considered a national masterpiece.
"This particular painting 'Tutu,' the print, hung on every wall, of every middle-class family in eastern Nigeria when I was growing up," Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told the BBC in 2013.
So, who is the man behind this work of art?
Born in Onitsha in 1917 to a sculptor father and a successful businessman mother, Enwonwu had a natural gift for art.
At the young age of 17, Enwonwu enrolled in Government College, Ibadan, where he studied fine art under the supervision of art tutor Kenneth C. Murray.
Murray was an English archaeologist and teacher, known to be Nigeria's first surveyor of antiquities in what is now known as The Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
After his time at Government College, Enwonwu studied at Goldsmiths and Oxford before completing postgraduate work in social anthropology at the London School of Economics fueled by his encounters with racism in London, as reported in the BBC.
In 1956, Enonwu became the first African artist to produce an official portrait of the European monarch when he was asked to sculpt an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
And while the Queen publicly endorsed the sculpture, Enwonwu received some backlash in the British art world for "Africanising" the Queen after he took creative liberty with the Queen's lips to make them fuller.
The Ben Enwonwu Foundation, founded by Enwonwu's son Oliver, told the BBC that he "is credited with inventing a Nigerian national aesthetic by fusing indigenous traditions with Western techniques and modes of representation."
Enwonwu died in Lagos at the age of 77 in 1994.
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It's a great week for airfare sales! Aer Lingus has just announced it's international spring sale and there will be low-cost fares from North America to Europe. Travelers can expect to find flights starting at $466 round-trip departing from the East Coast, $569 departing from Midwest, and $619 from the West Coast for travel dates […]
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London is globally known for its vibrant street art scene complete with electrifying underground tunnels, spray-painted walls, and graffiti skateparks featuring abstracts, portraits, cartoons, and more. Here are six neighborhoods where you can experience London's street art. Shoreditch All over Shoreditch is a creative hub packed with art galleries, cafes, graffiti walls, and more. I […]
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The agreement provides that MSCG will supply crude oil, market refined products internationally and conduct risk management activities for the refining system (which has a capacity of approximately 400,000 barrels per day). A further provision of the agreement is that INEOS will second a core team of employees to Morgan Stanley to support these commercial activities.
INEOS is the world's third largest chemicals company: a leading manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. Comprising 18 businesses, with a production network spanning 73 manufacturing facilities in 18 countries, the company produces more than 30 million tonnes of petrochemicals and 20 million tons per annum of crude oil refined products (fuels). INEOS employs 16,600 people and has sales of around $38 billion.
INEOS Refining is one of Europe's leading independent crude oil refiners. With two particularly advantaged refineries it processes more than 410,000 barrels of crude oil per day, to produce in the region of 20 million tonnes of fuels per annum. The business employs around 1,000 people and has a turnover of around $10 billion each year. Its refineries are based at Lavera (France) and Grangemouth (Scotland). Lavéra is located on the coast of the Mediterranean crude oil trading basin, next to the port of Marseille and adjacent crude oil terminal and linked by pipeline to the hinterlands of France, Switzerland and Southern Germany. Grangemouth is located on the Firth of Forth and benefits by having direct access to crude oil and gas from the North Sea via the Forties Pipeline System (FPS), with additional crude oil import capability and fuel export facility at the Finnart Ocean Terminal on the west coast of Scotland.


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Starting January 3, anyone entering the concert will be required to show proof of full vaccination. Final dose of vaccination must be received no less than 14 days prior to the event. We will accept a hard copy of your vaccination card, a printed photocopy or a digital image on your phone, and must match your Government-issued ID. Masks are currently required to be worn by everyone inside the venue in accordance with current City of Chicago guidelines.
To classify Chris Duarte simply as a Blues Man is an understatement. In his own words, "rockin' blues" or "punk blues" describes him best. "Ferocious blues" also fits. Legend has it that Chris will play so hard that his fingers bleed in a set. The legend is true. Photos attest.
Chris Duarte is a road warrior playing more than 150 dates a year. As well, Chris has headlined major festivals and clubs throughout the US, Canada and Europe.
Chris is a savant, a sorcerer of tone, a master at channeling the spirits and sounds of great musicians of our past, while remaining completely recognizable in his own sound. He has shared his stage with many of the greatest musicians of our time as well as the multitude of "young lions" and local musicians he meets on the road. From his many years as a side man in Austin, he easily changes roles from front to side, graciously allowing all to share the conversation of the jam.
Chris Duarte's music is ever changing. In many interviews, he has said "Music must evolve." His own early offerings often become magical journeys into changing tempo and jazzy interludes before returning to their core. With such a vast catalog of recordings, there are no two shows alike. Every set list is different, and each song may be offered distinctly, based on the feel of a show and the audience. For those reasons, loyal fans often return to a Chris Duarte show again and again, and always walk away awed and satisfied to have witnessed such a legendary, but humble guitarist.
The Chris Duarte Group emerged on the scene out of Austin, Texas in the early 90's and gained notoriety after wowing a packed room of industry insiders at the South X Southwest convention. In the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughan's passing, Duarte quickly gained a National reputation as young man imbued with a playing style comparable at times to the late guitarist. After fielding interest from a number of labels, Duarte signed to Silvertone Records and his debut album "Texas Sugar/Strat Magik" reportedly sold in excess of 100,000 units in the United States, no small feat for a blues/rock guitarist. This coupled with Duarte's strong commitment to touring, was the impetus for Chris' winning the "Best New Talent" in Guitar Player's 1995 Reader's Poll. He also finished fourth in the magazine's "Best Blues Guitarist" category that year behind legends Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and B.B. King.
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Many out there on the web and in books will feed you buckets of psychobabble in attempt to tell you what a cult is.
We can go to the scriptures for the definition of a cult.
Galatians 1:6-9 - I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.


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Painted this mural in Detroit. It was crazy to be in a city that so strongly resembles many of my recent paintings.
The guy who lived here had some very big dogs, which he had to prevent people from coming into his warehouse.
As I was leaving, the dogs came out into the yard, the largest one went straight over to the fire hydrant I had just painted and urinated on it.
Now I have steady stream of requests to paint objects for dogs to piss on.


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"Those who trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever" (Psalm 125:1).
Here We Stand: What is the Lutheran Church Really?
Visit our Organ Concert Series page under the Music tab for more information.
Every Sunday at 9 a.m. Zion hosts the "Wausau Lutheran Hour" on WSAU 550 AM and 95.1 and 99.9 FM. You may listen live by clicking on the Listen Now link at wsau.com.
Through this outreach, Central Wisconsin has enjoyed hearing the Word of God for 82 years.
Zion does NOT cancel worship services for inclement weather. You are encouraged to exercise your judgment in choosing whether or not to travel.


Slaughter Beach, Dog (Jake of Modern Baseball) has just announced their new record Birdie coming out 27th October on Big Scary Monsters and Lame-O Records. Slaughter Beach, Dog are now premiering their first single from the record "Gold and Green" via Stereogum. Pre-orders for Birdie are available via Big Scary Monsters.
Slaughter Beach, Dog have also announced a headlining tour this fall with support from Shannen Moser. Jake will also be playing solo in the UK for the first time this September. A full list of dates can be found below, and tickets can be found here. Slaughter Beach, Dog also recently released the Motorcycle.jpg EP, which can be heard in full via Lame-O Records.
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Become Environmentally Friendly When You Paint!
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The Buddha Board is a must-buy!
With Earth Day right around the corner – it's time to demonstrate your support for protecting our environment. One easy way to stay environmentally friendly is paying attention to your daily activities so that you are re-using and recycling whatever you can, such as opting to reusable water bottles. But here is something you may not have known – you can conserve even when you paint or draw.
I love this product and the fact that you don't need to use paper when you paint really impressed me when I tried out the Buddha Board! I may not be an artist but I enjoyed painting with this and it was relaxing to watch my paintings magically disappear. If youb paint lightly the painting will disappear more quickly!
The Buddha Board is a mess-free temporary painting board that is environmentally friendly, and requires no ink, no paint, and no chemicals. Simply add water to your brush and paint on the surface – and your creation will come to life in bold design. As the water slowly evaporates, your art magically disappears leaving you with a brand new canvas each time and endless creative options.
Doodling with Buddha Board will help reduce your stress. Journal of the American Art Therapy Association reports that people who doodle or perform any free-form art end up with much reduced Cortisol – or stress hormones. Now, how cool is that?! It's also great for children! One thing I really like about the Buddha Board is that it is great for all ages!
Buddha Board comes in three different forms: The original Buddha Board, 5" Mini Buddha Board, and the Enso – the enhanced version of the Mini Board. All versions are extremely portable and come with a water tray and brush. Pictured above is the original Buddha Board.
It retails for $14.95-34.95 and is available with various sellers including Amazon.
Self Disclosure: I received free samples to facilitate this post. Top image was also provided. No other compensation was received to post.


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'Welcome to the Seduction Club': FULL Miniseries is now available on Star+!
Lisa Marie Presley's daughter thrills netizens by posting old photo to honor her mother
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Speed 2's original plan became a divisive Morgan Freeman action movie
Before Speed 2: Cruise Control killed off the franchise, the first film's screenwriter pitched a sequel that later became a Morgan Freeman action film.
The original concept for speed 2 was turned into a forgotten action movie starring Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater. Speed was released in 1994 and was the latest in a line of action films that applied the Hard to kill formula for a single location. In this case, the story involved a bus that couldn't go below a certain speed or it would explode. Speed it became a surprise hit, which cemented Keanu Reeves' stardom and also acted as Sandra Bullock's breakthrough. Despite not having a sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control – that Keanu passed away – arrived in 1997; it was met with terrible reviews and was a box office failure.
The most ridiculed element of speed 2 it was his backdrop, which was used at the insistence of director Jan de Bont. speed of original writer Graham Yost later recalled separate script his original sequence speech. Entitled the flood, this saw Keanu and Bullock's characters go on vacation in the Midwest – only to be involved in a robbery in a flooded city. When this was rejected, it was rewritten as Heavy rainwhere Slater's character is hunted by Freeman's thieves in a flooded city so they can recover some hidden money. Heavy rain is an almost forgotten fun action movie, but you can see the seeds of speed 2 start.
The other rejected speed sequences
One reason the flood was rejected was its lack of connection to Keanu Reeves' first film – namely, the fact that the speed itself was absent. Yost – who didn't end up working Speed 2 — prepared two other potential ideas. The first was titled High speed and was set on an airplane. According to Yost, it involved "… another bad guy and you can't drop below 10,000 feet, and you're running out of fuel and heading for the Andes🇧🇷 High speed much reused the design of the original, but it may have been rejected as passenger 57 Have already done Hard to kill on a plane.
Yost's second pitch also took the franchise to the water, but Maximum speed sounds much louder than cruise control🇧🇷 Says the writer:Full Speed was transporting munitions left over from the Vietnam War on a boat in the Pacific Ocean and they hit a storm. But they discover that it has phosphorus and if the water hits it, it will explode.🇧🇷 This alternative concept was Speed mixed with The Wages of Fearand while it was difficult to fit the characters of Keanu or Sandra, it could have been a suspenseful action thriller.
Speed 3 with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock will happen?
After your return with John WickKeanu has returned to many of his most famous franchises, including Bill & Ted and The Matrix films. He walked away from one Speed return, just like Bullock, who destroyed cruise control many times in the following decades. According to Yost, he and the producers met with Keanu in early 2010 to evaluate a potential Speed 3, but the actor was quite uninterested. For Yost, there was a sense that Speed 2 it really killed interest in future movies and that it was probably best not to come back.
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Tonight on "Inside the NFL" : Broncos' Historically Explosive
Inside the NFL, Intern Files, Kevin Joyce, Teams
Posted: October 2nd, 2013
The 2013 Denver Broncos have scored more points through the first four games of the season than any other team since the AFL-NFL merger, with 179, an average of nearly 45 points per game. They trail only the 1966 Dallas Cowboys in all of NFL history, who scored 183 points in their first four contests. Peyton Manning is playing the best football of his career, with 16 touchdowns through four games, the most through any stretch of that length in NFL history. With a favorable schedule ahead (although a tough 3-game stretch looms where Denver will have to play Kansas City, New England and then Kansas City again), many are now speculating whether the Broncos can run the table and go 16-0.
"Inside the NFL" continues tonight with a more expert analysis from JB, Cris and Phil as they break down the past week's games and the league's hot-button issues, and highlights of every game of the past week, including the Broncos' 52-20 demolishing of Chip Kelly's new-look Eagles.
You can get all this and more, tonight at 9/8c on "Inside the NFL," only on Showtime.
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Cottage accommodation from historical bed and breakfasts to self-contained holiday cottages.
There are some lovely holiday cottages throughout the Tasman and Nelson regions. So, if you like your accommodation to have character and charm, book one of these self-contained cottages for your accommodation at the top of New Zealand's South Island.
Situated within easy walking distance from the Abel Tasman National Park, restaurants, shop, water taxi, sea kayaking, ailing and mountain biking operators.
We offer fine 4 star accommodation, self contained, private and all with wonderful ocean views. Please visit our website for more information.
Offers a peaceful, country alternative to a city motel and is just 15 minutes drive from the beginning of the Abel Tasman Coastal Track.
Or the Riwaka Ritz, a renovated one bedroom cottage that is a different style of accommodation to the newer units.
It has tea and toast facilities, bathroom with shower, and a small private courtyard with hill and countryside views.
Dehra Doon Chalets and Holiday Home offers quiet, relaxing, peaceful Nelson self-catering accommodation in a private rural setting.
Self-contained holiday chalets and holiday home in Riwaka, between Nelson & New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park. Minutes from Riwaka, Motueka and Kaiteriteri. Lovely self-contained accommodation. Also spacious holiday home - great base to explore the Abel Tasman, Motueka and the Nelson and Tasman regions.
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Young Named a Candidate for 2012 Bob Cousy Award
CLEMSON, SC – Clemson senior Andre Young was one of 60 players included on the 2012 Bob Cousy Award Watch List released Monday. The honor is presented annually to the nation's top collegiate point guard. Last season, Connecticut's Kemba Walker was the recipient of the award.
Through games of Sunday, Dec. 18, Young actually leads the NCAA with a 4.4 assist-to-turnover ratio. He has 31 assists and only seven turnovers in 34 minutes per game for the 5-4 Tigers. Young is also Clemson's leading scorer at 14.6 points per game. He is coming off a 15-point outing on Saturday against Winthrop.
Young has scored 942 points in his career and is first among active ACC players with 147 steals and third with 276 assists. He needs just six made three-point goals to reach 200 for his career, which would make him only the sixth player in Clemson history to accomplish such a feat. Young is also third in Clemson history with a career 2.14 assist-to-turnover ratio.


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Getting Lost in Venice
I have always loved the unknown corners of Venice. Those forgotten canals and half hidden alleys seem to have an irresistible pull; however much I might try to resist I am inexplicably drawn to explore.
It is on these unexpected detours that I have discovered some of the loveliest yet mostly forgotten corners of Venice. Join me then on a visual journey down the alleyways of Venice.
Before I get to the photos I'd like to make a suggestion; if you are visiting Venice then do yourself a favor by wandering off the well worn main thoroughfares. Get lost in the maze of alleys and follow those little canals. I can promise you discoveries you'll not forget and memories to last a lifetime.
Often times you'll be alone too - just you and the beauty of Venice. The masses follow the same tired routes, where all they really see are the heads of the tourists in front of them.
Last, but not least, if you need a hotel in Venice you'll find the most highly rated ones here.
Crumbling houses seem to be sinking into the canal as you watch. Crumbling they may be but sometimes these houses are amongst the most picturesque sights in Venice. They seem to capture the very essence of the city.
Walk from the train station towards the Rialto Bridge and you are swept along in a tide of humanity. Suddenly, on your left as you cross a small bridge, you'll spot a sign in Hebrew pointing the way to the Sinagoghe ( Synagogue in English), which is located in the Venice Ghetto. Follow the signs and soon you are a world away from the Venice most tourists see. You can find out more about this wonderful corner of Venice here.
Everybody knows about Burano and Murano but there's another island, just a bridge away from Venice, that nobody ever visits. This photo was taken in July and, apart from a few locals, there was not a single tourist.
Taken in the Dorsoduro Sestriere of Venice, a "suburb" of Venice that is far off the main tourist routes.
The Trattoria Vedova in Cannaregio, which I include in my Venice and Veneto restaurant guide. They offer really great local dishes and fresh seafood at prices which are amazing for Venice. Their meatballs are legendary too - reputed to be the best in Venice. They are good but my mother's meatballs are better.
More of the Cannaregio Sestriere, not far from the Venice train station and the fabulous Ghetto section. The ghetto really has to be on your list of sights to see - rated by Time Magazine as one of the world's most important places - it is historically important but also a part of Venice where "real life" Venetians go about their business and where there are more locals than tourists.
Another almost Byzantine alley. The style of the doors and windows reflect the cosmopolitan history of Venice and the strong influence the Ottoman Empire had on the city.
Washday in Venice means hanging out your washing wherever you can. You aren't allowed to hang it out front, over the public walkways, so it hangs out over the back canals or next to your gondola :-)
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Classic Movies People Still Don't Understand
By Matthew Jackson/Nov. 6, 2018 12:39 pm EST
Sometimes, a film doesn't necessarily need to make perfect sense to be a classic. Some of the most complex, baffling, and even infuriating films ever made have still ascended to become unassailable masterpieces. These films succeed with viewers despite confusing them, in part because they're visually stunning, well-performed, well-written, or all three.
There's something else at work in your brain, though, when you come across a film that you know is well made but that you also can't quite seem to understand. When a film just absolutely begs to be seen as a compelling work of art, you can be driven to return to it over and over again, even if you're not entirely sure what's happening. Those rewatches just spawn more theories about their meanings, and the cycle repeats. That's often how a good film becomes a classic one.
In that spirit, here are a few films that made it to classic status even if some viewers still don't quite understand them.
No Country for Old Men is a largely straightforward exercise in storytelling involving a hitman (Javier Bardem), a lawman (Tommy Lee Jones), and an opportunist (Josh Brolin) all playing a deadly game in the middle of a violent Cormac McCarthy tale. It's usually quite easy to understand who's side everyone's on, what the conflict is, and where the clashes are headed, so for nearly the entire runtime of the film, it feels like you're watching a brutal crime drama play out to some thrilling resolution.
The confusing part for most viewers only arrives in the very last scene, when Jones' Sheriff Bell is sitting at his kitchen table, describing a pair of dreams to his wife. Bell is retired, Anton Chigurh (Bardem) is apparently free, and Llewelyn Moss (Brolin) is dead. We expect the natural rhythm of this kind of story to give us something more, but instead we get a man simply pondering the inner workings of his brain for a moment before the screen cuts to black. If you were one of the people saying "Huh?" when the lights came up in the theater, you definitely weren't alone.
Another relatively direct movie in terms of plot, The Will Be Blood is about a man's drive to conquer the world of oil speculation. We follow Daniel Plainview's (Daniel Day-Lewis) quest for dominance throughout his life, see the risks he's willing to take and the sacrifices he's willing to make, and we even see that he's prepared to debase himself in an act of public humiliation if it means winning in the long term. Where viewers tend to get confused is not in what happens, but why, and that's particularly true of the final scene, when Daniel gets his revenge on Eli (Paul Dano) by revealing that Eli's attempt at one final land deal is worthless.
The "I drink your milkshake" scene is famous not just for that memorable exchange of dialogue, but for its abrupt conclusion, as Daniel declares "I'm finished" after having murdered Eli with a bowling pin. It leaves a lot of viewers scratching their heads, but if you look at it juxtaposed with Daniel's earlier baptism by Eli, it becomes an operatic, violent reverse baptism, and Daniel's decree of "I'm finished" just puts an exclamation point on the religious metaphor.
Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic is arguably the most famously confusing film ever made, and fans have spent decades debating its ambiguous but beautiful ending. Is Bowman's rebirth as a starchild some kind of symbol for the evolution of humanity through technology? Is he transcending into some new level of existence? Is the cycle of humanity itself reborn in those final moments, sending us back to the time of apes with bones? Everyone seems to have their own interpretation.
Earlier this year, an audio clip surfaced purporting to be Kubrick's own explanation for the ending, and it's well worth a listen. Even with that context direct from the filmmaker, though, there's still so much to absorb in 2001 that it often feels like a story we'll never truly grasp. Indeed, that's one of the things that makes it a classic for the ages. Yes, Kubrick's beautiful depiction of space is captivating, and the film's score is iconic, but we keep coming back to 2001 in part because it still holds a certain mystery that few other films can.
If you were a teenager in the early 2000s, there's a very good chance you developed an obsession with Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly's breakthrough film about a teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is pulled into a world of violence, time travel, and sinister bunny rabbits. It's easy to see why it garnered such a following. The film has a great cast, a great soundtrack, an inviting retro setting, and of course a plot that rewards continuous rewatching and interpretation.
Even now, it's hard for many viewers to completely grasp everything that's happening in the film. It's obvious that time travel has a role to play, and that it all hinges in some way on that jet engine making its way into Donnie's bedroom. Beyond that, certain things are left murkier than others, and that's just the way Kelly wanted it. Reflecting on the film years after its release, he celebrated both the fans who want to dissect the film over and over again and the fans who simply want the emotional experience of watching it once. There's no wrong way to watch Donnie Darko, but if you watch it once, you might not be able to stop.
Memento is a mystery, and mystery fans are used to seeing details that seemingly don't tie together, only to learn at the end how they all make sense as part of the same whodunit narrative. In the hands of director Christopher Nolan, though, the mystery format gets a few key twists. The film's main character and chief detective (Guy Pearce) suffers from short term memory loss, so we get the clues through things like tattoos and Polaroid photos, and Nolan plays with the notion of how memory works to present the entire film out of sequence.
It's that non-sequential storytelling that tends to confuse most viewers, because even if it does deliver all the pieces by the end, you don't necessarily know what order they go in. To remedy this, the film's DVD release featured an option to watch Memento in chronological order, but even with that in mind, there's something so strange about the film that it still feels like you can't quite piece it all together.
Many film fans might argue that Mulholland Drive has no place on this list, as it's actually considered one of the more accessible films in the David Lynch canon. It's certainly easier to penetrate than things like Eraserhead and Inland Empire. But because the film has a reputation as one of Lynch's easier-to-digest works (not to mention one of his most visually stunning), viewers who aren't necessarily used to Lynch's particular bag of surreal tricks tend to gravitate toward it. Anyone who has no idea what they're in for may well walk away scratching their heads. Therefore, Mulholland Drive just might have confused more Lynch viewers per capita than anything else in his filmography short of Twin Peaks.
So, why is it so confusing? Well, all the usual Lynchian tricks are there. Different storylines that sometimes don't seem to relate to one another at all come and go, the plot progresses with a strange dream logic that doesn't pause to explain itself, and the mundane is fused with the bizarre in such a way that you're never really sure if what you're seeing is supposed to be "real" in the world of the film. As it turns out, if you're really looking for the solution to Mulholland Drive, "dream logic" is the answer. Or you could just absorb it as an emotional experience from which you can draw your own meaning. It's up to you.
Darren Aronofsky's directorial debut is a film about obsession. Specifically, it's about the obsession with order in the universe and how mathematics just might be able to show us the answer to every single mystery. To that end, it's an intense, dark, often frantic film about just how far one man might go to prove that he's right.
A man obsessed with math is complex enough for a lot of viewers, but throw in the added complications of Max (Sean Gullette) being paranoid, hallucinatory, and on the very edge of sanity for most of the film's runtime, and it's hard to blame the guy for putting a drill in the side of his head by the end. Aronofsky's film is deliberately difficult to understand, often because his protagonist doesn't know what's real and what isn't. In that way, it often feels like something more about the emotional state of obsession rather than the actual object of the obsession itself, and sometimes that just adds to the confusion.
Writer Charlie Kaufman's screenplays have never had a reputation for being particularly easy to grasp, as any fan of Synecdoche, New York will tell you. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has a bit of an advantage in this department, because we are always aware that the film is playing with the nature of memory, a naturally malleable and often unreliable concept. Even if we don't always follow it, we can still be entertained and moved as we watch what happens when Joel (Jim Carrey) decides to erase his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) from his memory via an experimental scientific process.
As the film journeys through Joel's mind, and he fights to preserve some memory of Clementine by stashing her away in his childhood, it's clear that his emotional journey has shifted. What's less clear is exactly how the memory removal process works, how much of Clementine he saved, and what exactly remains of them in each other by the end of the film. The good news, though, is that Eternal Sunshine is much more of an emotional journey than a plot-driven one, so even if you don't completely follow the memories, you can follow the feeling. The way that whimsical director Michel Gondry brings Kaufman's bittersweet story to life earns it a spot on our list of movies that are practically flawless.
Terry Gilliam doesn't have quite the same reputation for confusing narratives as David Lynch, but his films have also never been exactly straightforward, and 12 Monkeys is a key example of that. It's a time travel story, so right away there are various elements that some viewers will find difficult to follow. Throw in Gilliam's unique storytelling style and the fact that even the main character is forgetting how time travel works in his particular universe, though, and things can get really murky.
One of the central conceits of the film is that James Cole (Bruce Willis) can travel back in time, but he can't alter the past in any way, so the virus that's going to be released on humanity will arrive no matter what he does. The thing is, once he arrives in the past, he's inevitably drawn into a fight that he can't win no matter how much he tries, and then to make things more complex he realizes that he has a memory of his own older self being killed. Does that make his death in the past inevitable too? It's a complex series of questions, and the best way to navigate it may just be to watch the film more than once.


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IDS 1999/006: Impact of the Economic Crisis in Basic Education: A Study in Ten Rural Districts in Indonesia
High priority has been given to educational development in Indonesia particularly with respect to universal basic education. Significant progress has been made over the past decade. However, the 1997-98 financial and economic crisis has recently interrupted this progress. This crisis also has impacted many countries in the region. It was noted that this crisis occurred at a time when crop harvests were in failure having been affected by the El Nino cycle.
The study aims to assist educational planners and schools in their attempts to provide educational services in an uncertain future. The main objective of the study is to measure the impact of the current economic crisis on primary and junior secondary schools in both semi urban and rural areas. More specifically, it measures:
- the effect of the economic crisis on the enrollment at primary (MI and SD) and junior secondary (SLTP and MTs) levels
- the effect of the economic crisis on the drop-out rates at primary and junior secondary levels
- the effect of economic crisis on school finance
Since this study is basically a repeat study, most of the schools sampled are those used in a previous cohort study. Two rural districts (kabupten) were chosen from each of the following provinces: West Java, NTB, NTT, South Sulawesi and South Kalimantan. Within the district, one semi-urban sub-district and two rural sub-districts were chosen. 374 schools were surveyed in total: 277 primary schools and 97 junior secondary schools. After four months, 93 schools were randomly selected for a follow-up study: 62 primary schools and 31 junior secondary schools.
A questionnaire was distributed to administrators regarding student enrollment, drop outs and mobility. Focus group discussions were held with parents, teachers and principals concerning the current economic crisis.
Primary school enrollment seems to be sensitive towards the economic crisis, with a small 0.6% decrease in enrollment for the academic year 1998/1999. Enrollment in the 1998/199 school year is still higher than that in 1995/1996. The 1998/1999 enrollment should have increased by about 1.2% had the crisis not occurred. No significant difference was found in the enrollment at the junior secondary level. Both semi urban and rural primary schools demonstrate a similar pattern in the enrollment trend for the last two years. For junior secondary schools, enrollment in rural schools increased whereas the enrollment in semi urban schools declined.
With respect to grade level in primary school, a decrease in enrollment was found for Grades IV, V and VI. The decrease in enrollment may relate to the reduction of parent net purchasing power. For poor families, students of grade IV and above are regarded as old enough to help their parents work and they are already literate and numerate. In regard to grade I, overall student enrollment was steady, which was mostly contributed by a big increase in South Sulawesi. This region was affected positively by the crisis due to the increased value of their agricultural products. The policy to extend the registration date in 1998/1999 school year has significantly increased enrollment in Grade 1 (4.30%) and somewhat in junior secondary schools (0.94%).
Over the periods of 1995/1996 to 1997/1998 school year, no changes existed in the drop-out rate in primary schools and a slight increase was found at the junior secondary level. Overall, the number of absences in both primary and secondary schools is relatively low (only about 0.50%). This shows that the number of potential drop outs will most likely not be high for this year. However, the estimates of mobility seem high.
In primary schools, the crisis has impacts on a decline in the school budget in real value of public and private schools. During the crisis (1997/1998 - 1998/1999), parent contributions tend to increase whereas government subsidy tends to decrease. A tendency is that the poorer the student, the higher the percentage of parents' contribution. During the crisis years, the monthly fees in real value (adjusted for inflation) tend to decline whereas in nominal value (not adjusted for inflation), these fees have increased except for private junior secondary schools. Among those sample schools being promised to receive block grants, 20% of the primary schools and 15% of the junior secondary schools have not received the grants as of December 1998.
The extension of registration date has proven to be a valuable policy to increase the enrollment during difficult economic and political situations. It needs to be continued in the coming years.
Although the magnitude of the impact was not as severe as people have predicted, the provision of scholarships is needed to prevent further negative impact on student enrollment. These scholarships should be prioritized for those poor students already enrolled in school and for those who are academically talented but unable to continue to junior secondary schools, especially in semi-urban areas.
The development of a new system to more accurately calculate the number of drop outs is needed. A follow-up survey in the same sample schools is needed to examine further impact of the crisis as well.
Education - Other
UNESCO, UNDP, Ministry of Education and Culture


Happy Friday Wyrdos! This week as we take a peek at the Other Side we find ourselves eye to eye with the Barbed Crawler. Let's take a look at them!
At the bottom of the Gibbering Hordes food chain lie the Crawlers. The second most common species (if they can be called a distinct species, given their penchant for mutation) are the Barbed Crawlers. In Malifaux's oceans, these creatures swam in the shallows, launching toxic barbs from their bodies to kill their prey. Now they roam the lands and seas of Earth, looking for food and new lairs to lay their eggs.
On the table, Barbed Crawlers are one of the Gibbering Hordes' only ranged units. Barbed Crawlers serve as a cheap source of ranged attacks and, when needed, cannon fodder. Their barbs aren't very dangerous, but the automatic application of Pinned Tokens can assist in whittling down enemy forces. When in Glory, their barbs gain a number of very useful Triggers that allow them to fill multiple battlefield roles.
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Margaret Burbidge Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrophysics
Fellowship Overview
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, KICP
3 letters of recommendation
Margaret Burbidge Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrophysics, 2022
The University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics is pleased to invite applications for the Margaret Burbidge Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrophysics (with the University Rank of Postdoctoral Scholar) to begin in the fall of 2022. The Margaret Burbidge Prize Fellow will be appointed to renewable one-year terms, for up to three years. The Prize Fellowship seeks entrepreneurial individuals who will actively pursue bold and creative ideas. It carries an annual salary of $70,000, and annual research expense fund of $15,000.
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to pursue new and innovative research utilizing abundant resources available at the University of Chicago. Research in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics is defined by three broad themes - the universe beyond our Milky Way galaxy, the extreme Universe, and the Universe where we live. These themes are linked through the science, instruments, techniques, and faculty involved in each area, and bound by crosscutting activities that are as important and distinctive to our department as the science themes themselves - computational astrophysics, instrument development, and a multi-messenger approach to exploring and studying the Universe.
Members of the Chicago community enjoy guaranteed access to the Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, proprietary access to high-performance computing resources and data from the Dark Energy Survey, and are actively involved in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), South Pole Telescope (SPT), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The University of Chicago is a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope and department members are also involved in the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, Fermilab, and Argonne National Laboratory. More details can be found at the Department website.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are core components of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Students, postdocs, and faculty are working together to build a culture within the department where under-represented groups can thrive. Information about the community values can be found at the department website https://astrophysics.uchicago.edu/diversityinclusion/.
To apply for a Margaret Burbidge Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrophysics, please complete the online Application form. Requested information includes email contact information for 3 references who can independently write a letter of support for the applicant. Supplemental materials (Cover Letter; Curriculum Vitae; Research Statement; List of Publications) should be submitted as PDF files on the application form (each up to 10MB).
If you have any questions, please contact margaretburbidgeprize2022@astro.uchicago.edu.
The position will remain open until filled; however applicants are strongly encouraged to submit application by November 1, 2021 and ensure that 3 letters of recommendation are received by November 18, 2021. Review of applications will begin November 22, 2021. The position is expected to begin in the Fall of 2022.
We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University's Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.
The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.
Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-1032 or email equalopportunityuchicago.edu with their request.
UChicago is an EOE/Vet/Disability Employer
E. Margaret Burbidge
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
KICP
UChicago


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Frances – 'Grow'
That one in every two young women (16-21) has experienced controlling behaviour in a relationship?
That almost one in three young people struggle to define the line between a caring action and a controlling one?
That more than third of young people would not know where to turn for support?*
Refuge wanted to change that. In March 2017, Refuge teamed up with 23-year-old, BRIT-nominated singer-songwriter Frances and Universal Music UK to release a music video with a message for young women: you are not alone.
Watch and share the video
The aim of the animated video is to ensure women who experience domestic violence realise they are not alone and that Refuge can support them. The film depicts a woman going about her daily life, except that due to the abuse she is experiencing, she becomes visibly more isolated and alone. One day, she meets a character representing Refuge, who recognises and understands what she is going through and supports her to escape the abuse and rebuild her life. At the end of the video, Refuge tells viewers: "When the world can't see what you're going through, Refuge can", and directs them to Refuge's website.
Interview with Melanie
The video's female character is based on Melanie Clarke. Melanie is a real-life Refuge client who benefited from the charity's expert support following more than decade of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her ex-partner, whom she met when she was 14. Here she tells Reuters TV why she got involved.
Interview with Frances
Frances' single 'Grow' is a moving ballad about supporting a friend. Named one of BBC Music's 'Sounds of 2016' and nominated for the 'Critics Choice' Award at the BRITs, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Frances is one of the country's most talented young musicians – here, she explains why she wanted 'Grow' to support Refuge.
Reaching young people
The campaign secured widespread coverage, including in key publications for young people like Teen Vogue. Read the full press release here.
*Statistics from Refuge and Avon's 'Define the Line' study, March 2017
16 Days: 16 Women
Define the Line
#SafetyInANumber
#givethemrefuge
My money, my life
1 in 4 women
#KnowHerName
Don't cover it up
Care or control?
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Q: Mathieu equation and instabilities Consider the Mathieu equation
$$
\tag 1 y'' + (A -2q\cos(2t))y = 0,
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How does it provide instabilities for small $q << 1, A > q$? I don't understand this because as the result of adiabaticity Eq. $(1)$ admits WKB solution
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y = \sum_{\pm}c_{\pm}\frac{\text{exp}\left(\pm i\int dt \omega (t)\right)}{\sqrt{\omega}}, \quad \omega^{2} \equiv A -2q\cos (2t) > 0,
$$
which doesn't provide exponential growth. The queston arises because I don't understand how instabilities arise for preheating stage.

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