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What's all this Defense of Melbourne stuff, then, eh?
In the comments to my last post Jeff asked for a little more information on the "Grand Plan" for the Defense of Melbourne.
The DoM is pretty much my major project for this year. It's taking about 80% of my hobby time. The remaining 20% is turned over to little bits and pieces that I will take on as a break from the main project. It's the culmination of more than a decades' general interest in the colonial defences of what was the Colony of Victoria as well as more focussed efforts on over the past three years.
In the past six months I stumbled across some other gentlemen from Canberra who shared my interest in Australias' pre-Federation defense forces and together we have been working toward a fairly large demonstration game for CanCon which takes place in Canberra over the Australia Day long weekend.
The game will involve a Russian Amphibious assault on Fort Nepean, one of the cluster of Fortifications that defended the Heads of Port Phillip Bay, at the north end of which stands the City of Melbourne with seven millions of Sterling in the bank; a tempting prize for any raider!
It's 1887, and Britain and Russia are at War.
Russia has decided to strike a blow at the Prestige of the Empire and has decided that units of her Pacific Fleet will embark troops and raid the coastal cities of Australia.
The local defenders have been listening with rapt attention to news of the War Scare from Home when, of a sudden, the telegraph cable goes silent. It is Easter and the Militia are already enbodied and at their encampment on the Mornington Peninsula when the Russian attack falls!
Can the defences at Point Nepean hold while a relief column rushes to it's aid? Will the Fort's guns be silenced so a Russian Cruiser Squadron may raid up the Bay?
Who can tell?
That's the general idea. We're constructing a three metre by one metre model of the fort, models of a Russian cruiser and torpedo boat, a Victorian Monitor, a gunboat and spar torpedo boat (I want the model boats to be on tea trolleys, circling the main display... we'll see). The Victorians will have 30-40 figures at the fort and another 100 or so marching to it's relief. The Russians will be attacking with Huge amounts of Infantry, Machine Guns, artillery and the obligatory cossacks.
Rules will be The Sword and the Flame.
I think we are aiming pretty high for this game, but we have more than adequate research resources, the figures are pretty well all sourced. We are in the process of scratch-building the warships, and I am in the fortunate position of not having to build the fort - although i'll be providing sundry barracks blocks &c!
Fitz-Badger said...
Sounds interesting and different and fun!
Don't forget to mention the ships on the tea-trolleys.
It helps me boost the concept!
Wow!,
This sounds like quite a project, Greg. I wish that I could be there to see it . . . but I'm a poor swimmer and Canada is a long way away . . . so I'll have to depend upon your photos.
Hopefully your game will inspire others to explore this fascinating period . . . and Australia's part in it.
Oh, there'll be photos... don't you worry!
If I do periodically go quiet this year, this project's the reason why.
Blaze on as this project looks like it will be a great display and fun to have been part of!
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Adobe has just introduced a new product based on Magento 2 – Adobe Commerce Cloud. Consequently, there are three key offerings right now: Magento Open Source, Magento Commerce Cloud, and Adobe Commerce Cloud. And below, we'd like to draw your attention to the brand new edition of our favorite e-commerce platform. With a broad set of features and opportunities, it is targeted to a wide range of merchants from SMB's to global enterprises. So, let's see how Magento 2 is implemented in the form of Adobe Commerce Cloud.
Here at Firebear, we are all intrigued regarding the newest part of the company's Experience Cloud. Since the acquisition of Magento a year ago, it is one of the most significant changes related to the ecosystem. So what is hidden behind the Magento 2 Adobe Commerce Cloud?
The Adobe Commerce Cloud product is a fully managed cloud-based version of our favorite e-commerce system. Furthermore, it is entirely integrated with the rest of Adobe's tools. Thus, you can effortlessly connect your Adobe Commerce Cloud store to Analytics, Marketing, or Advertising Clouds leveraging the top-notch features of the key Adobe products.
Another important announcement is related to multiple more new features, such as Commerce Dashboards and the Amazon marketplace integration. The new level of control over the e-commerce health of your enterprise looks quite intriguing. The feature is designed to track inventory status and key business metrics.
As for the integration which is fully controllable from your Magento admin, it is also great, but we introduced the same opportunity a long time ago along with multiple more integrations.
Adobe Commerce Cloud finally closes the last gap in the company's portfolio. The new product introduces a strong commerce perspective, so its announcement was only a matter of time. Besides, it offers new e-commerce opportunities from the standpoint of data intelligence. Now, Adobe clients can leverage all interactions with their content understanding how their customers behave and what exact conditions they want or try to avoid.
And you don't have to worry about the operational aspects of running the service. Being flexible and scalable enough to satisfy everyone's needs, Adobe Commerce Cloud offers all-you-need-and-want on its platform.
Another feature that we should mention here is the integration with third-party extensions. Despite the rumors that the system will be closed for external modules, Adobe Commerce Cloud is just like the two other offerings: all Magento extensions will work on the Adobe Commerce Cloud.
Consequently, you can freely use the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension with your Adobe Commerce Cloud store integrating the website with all possible external systems – not only Amazon.
Tailored to the needs of both B2C and B2B segments of the market, The new tool satisfies the requirements of multiple brands, sites, and countries. Designed to orchestrate commerce across every channel, the platform provides a highly customizable and scalable end-to-end e-commerce solution. Thus, users of Adobe Commerce cloud get an opportunity to manage, personalize, and optimize the experience they provide across all touchpoints. Let's take a look at the core features of the new Magento iteration.
Perhaps, the most important thing about the Adobe Commerce Cloud is its cloud nature. Thus, anyone can manage an e-commerce website anywhere.
Furthermore, Adobe Commerce Cloud is offered as an Adobe Managed Service. It means that it introduces some extra agility, performance, and security in comparison to Magento 2 Commerce and Open Source. Thus, brands can improve time to market as well as streamline operations.
We've just mentioned that Adobe Commerce Cloud introduced Commerce Dashboards – tools necessary for monitoring key business metrics to make well-informed decisions. With the new feature, you will definitely improve marketing, merchandising, and delivery aspects of your enterprise. Note that all processes run on top of integrated Artificial Intelligence monitoring business health and predicting various events. Thus, optimizing experiences, process efficiencies, and business outcomes have never been so easy and intuitive.
The first step towards omnichannel experience has been made with the Amazon integration which is fully controllable from your admin. But this is a tiny step that is not enough to make the complete interaction with the largest market players possible. In comparison to Improved Import & Export, this is nothing.
But we should mention that the integration with Adobe Experience Manager lets Adobe Commerce Cloud adapts dynamically to the content requirements of external systems. Unified API, data model, components, and store model will help you a lot on your way to being omnichannel. But at the current step, this state can be achieved in combination with the tool mentioned above.
Advanced agility and flexibility are achieved due to the cloud nature of the platform. At the same time, Adobe Commerce Cloud introduces advanced APIs, microservices, and enterprise system integrations and supports headless deployment models. Yes, it means that you can freely leverage the Magento 2 PWA approach to your business!
The core product behind Adobe Commerce Cloud is Magento Commerce Pro. It is aimed at brands that require a unique commerce experience on an aggressive timeline at a superior value. To provide even the most demanding merchants with what they need, Magento Commerce becomes the most flexible and extensible cloud commerce suite on the market. As its user, you can leverage digital commerce, order management, business intelligence, and advanced shipping options out-of-the-box within one backend. Below, we shed light on the product's core features.
Of course, the flexibility of Adobe Commerce Cloud is based on multiple extensions and integrations which are already available in the ecosystem. Thus, you can easily explore and add new payment options, shipping providers, ERP integrations or anything else within just a few clicks and a couple of hundred of bucks as well.
And if the previous feature is common for every Magento 2 product, short time to market is the exact benefit of Adobe Commerce Cloud. This offering introduces the fastest way of running a fully-featured online web store with six-month deployment time.
With Magento Commerce Pro, you get a single product for various business models. Depending on the particular conditions, you can leverage the exact features that you really need. Realize more efficiency in reducing technical overhead with Adobe Commerce Cloud and its ability to embrace any business model.
Starting Adobe Commerce Cloud store is fast, but what about running a successful business on top of the platform? This process is also quick because realizing value from your investment time is even better than in the case of similar solutions. The average deployment time is six months and with 3k+ extensions, you can not only get ROI faster but also lower your total cost of ownership.
Unfortunately, no more information regarding Adobe Commerce Cloud is available at the moment, but we will update the article as soon as new vital facts are revealed. To summarize what we know about the platform, let's name the key benefits of Adobe Commerce Cloud.
Fast Time To Market. We've already mentioned this aspect several times. Perhaps, it is the main benefit of the platform that differs it from already existing offerings. B2C, B2B, and hybrid models are supported and enhanced by multiple integrations provided via the marketplace.
Continuous Innovations. Adobe Commerce Cloud is the most flexible and extensible e-commerce solution. Being based on the opportunities of our favorite platform and its huge ecosystem, it introduces the reliability of a market giant and continuous flow of innovations.
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Top-Notch Engagement. Who is the leader of high-quality content creation? With no doubts, you will answer that it is Adobe. The last year acquisition of Magento scared all of us, but at the same time, we understood that this step would make our favorite platform better especially from the perspective of content creation. Now, you can connect with your customers on every channel delivering the best possible experience in the easiest possible manner!


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New President Gloria Arroyo inherits a weak economy and the need for reforms.
By Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
For Vivian Yuchengco, director of a brokerage firm here, business had been so blah under now-ousted President Joseph Estrada that she thought of closing her doors.
Many firms did close up shop. "We've been dead for two years. I was almost going to stop trading because … it was almost not worth it," groans Ms. Yuchengco, who is also a governor of the Philippine Stock Exchange.
This week, the "open for business" sign is back on the door of the Philippines. But the financial house Mr. Estrada left behind appears so troubled and racked with debt that new President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo may find the job of luring back foreign investment almost as difficult as it was for brokers like Yuchengco.
Last year, the peso fell by 20 percent and the stock market fell 30 percent, making this one of Asia's worst-performing economies. But besides beaten markets and the refusal of the International Monetary Fund to give Manila one more centavos until the political crisis is resolved, Estrada's legacy socks the Philippines with a deficit of 139 billion pesos ($2.85 billion). That is compared with the 16 billion-peso deficit the country had when he became president in 1998.
With not much exaggeration, many here say that perhaps half of that went directly into the pocket of Estrada and a few shady business associates.
Just as Mrs. Arroyo had begun trying to restore economic confidence, concerns here grew that Estrada and his clique would try to make off with the booty unchecked. A few key business figures connected with Estrada have already fled the country. The Bureau of Internal Revenue here issued an order barring a branch of Citibank from allowing withdrawals in the name of Estrada, or his wife, and some 21 other friends and family members. Officials also froze accounts in the names of pseudonyms Estrada allegedly used in a sloppy effort to hide his ill-gotten wealth.
The deficit had mushroomed, observers here say, because Estrada's administration did such an abominable job of tax collection. Estrada's business buddies were allowed to smuggle goods. "Logs, rice, sugar, chicken, drugs, you name it," says Yuchengco, a sort of spokeswoman for reformists in the business community.
Rodolfo V. Cruz, the president of HK Securities, estimates that the informal economy, a free-for-all not subject to taxing or regulation, is about one-third the size of the official economy.
Business leaders complain that Estrada wore down revenues because he slowed the process of privatizing state-run industries. And doubtful investors were chased away by a stock-manipulation scandal in which Estrada personally intervened in the share-price fluctuations of a gambling firm run by a friend.
As the trading floor begins to buzz back to life this week for the first time in months - the market rallied 18 percent Monday - the stock exchange president says things must change. "You might say that Mr. Estrada's behavior has given us a wake-up call and showed more of a need for transparency," says Ramon Garcia.
Better surveillance, he says, will be accompanied by better enforcement in other sectors. The Central Bank governor wants to introduce laws to thwart money laundering: almost no regulation of money flows in and out of the country make this one of the world's favored destinations for recycling questionable cash.
But Arroyo's repair work could force her to make some moves that will be unpopular with some in the business community, which helped the sitting vice president replace Estrada. Big business, which generally supports Arroyo, has benefited from lax tax collection.
Arroyo will also have to open up the Philippines to foreign investors: Protectionist policies make doing business here without a local partner nearly impossible. "Like it or not, we've got to open our economy a little more," says Guillermo Luz, executive director of the Makati Business Club. "We've got to get people accepting the idea of being part of the global arena."
The Philippines, which for a developing nation boasts a highly literate population with strong English language skills, is already attracting high-tech companies. Cheap, competent labor remains one of the best resources the country has to offer. In an interview last month, Arroyo said she wanted to capitalize on those assets to build up the Philippines as a hub for information technology.
Others say that Arroyo should concentrate on the fact that this is still a heavily agricultural country - about 25 percent of domestic product comes from farming. Economists say production is far below what it could be, and that the agricultural sector is enmeshed in problems that have helped keep so many Filipinos in provincial areas in poverty.
Yet the most pressing problem Arroyo inherits is a trash crisis. Garbage is piled up around Manila, landfills are packed to overflowing, and provincial officials have been unwilling to accept the capital's rubbish.
Says Ray David, the vice chairman of the Export and Industry Bank, "Gloria should focus on the basics first, like our waste-disposal program," he says, referring to the president by her first name, as most people here do. "The thing we must do is amend the Clean Air Act, which banned incinerators under the theory that all incinerators were bad."
Clean-up duty begins now.
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Philippines chief justice ousted by senators
Power of the Catholic Church slipping in Philippines

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After the announcement of Thomas Cook about the possible sale of the airline, the tour operator's shares jumped 13% in price. Just under half of its airline seats are used by the tour operator's own customers, with the remainder sold to rivals and the public. "We will provide an update on this process in due course".
'As a result, we are today announcing a strategic review of our Group Airline. We now operate a fleet of 103 aircraft, of which a quarter serve long-haul destinations.
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"There isn't a need for anyone to rush in and buy 103 aircraft from Thomas Cook unless it wants access to specific markets and in that case, the primary focus would be on slots", Nuala McMahon, analyst at Goodbody, said.
Its underlying loss from operations in the three months to the end of December expanded to £60 million.
Although the airline is largely profitable - with earnings before tax and financing costs at £129 million for 2018 - it was losing money in the final quarter of a year ago.
In contrast, Thomas Cook's airline is largely profitable. Credit Suisse Group lowered their price objective on shares of Thomas Cook Group from GBX 140 ($1.83) to GBX 108 ($1.41) and set an outperform rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 15th. The Group Airline continued to perform well, delivering a seasonal underlying loss in line with a strong comparative period past year.
A good run of warm weather over the summer period meant fewer people booked overseas holidays while high hotel prices in the Canary Islands hit demand in this area.
The oldest travel company in the world, Thomas Cook was hurt by a heatwave that gripped northern Europe a year ago and deterred holiday makers from booking lucrative last minute deals. Capacity reductions led to a 4% rise in prices.
Despite the operating losses, the tour operator performed well previous year, earning £6 per passenger in profit.
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La Elección presidencial de Alemania de 2012 se realizó el 18 de marzo de 2012 con la reunión de la  15.ª Asamblea Federal en el edificio del Reichstag en Berlín.

En la elección, Joachim Gauck sacó la primera votación convirtiéndose en el undécimo Presidente de la República Federal de Alemania.

Antecedentes
El 17 de febrero de 2012, el 10° Presidente de Alemania, Christian Wulff renunció de su cargo. Entre las causas de la renuncia estaban diversos casos de corrupción que salieron al conocimiento público. Wulff había llegado al poder después de que su predecesor Horst Köhler había renunciado por causas similares. Cabe destacar que la renuncia de un presidente en Alemania es de efecto inmediato, sin posibilidad alguna que el parlamento pueda retractar la iniciativa.

De acuerdo con el artículo 54 párrafo 4 de la Ley Fundamental para la República Federal de Alemania, se convoca a la Asamblea Federal para que elija a un nuevo presidente de la república a más tardar 30 días después de la renuncia.

El Parlamento Regional del Sarre tuvo que elegir sus electores a pesar de haber terminado la legislatura de conformidad con su constitución estatal. De manera similar, el Parlamento Regional de Renania del Norte-Westfalia, se disolvió el 14 de marzo poniendo fin a la legislatura también a ese momento, sin embargo, sus respectivos electores ya habían sido elegidos por dicho parlamento, el 28 de febrero.

El 17° Bundestag alemán es el primer Bundestag que participa en dos convenciones federales. Los parlamentos regionales de Baviera, Hesse y Baja Sajonia tuvieron que elegir en una misma legislatura sus electores para tres elecciones presidenciales.

Candidatos

Joachim Gauck

Joachim Gauck, Teólogo y activista por los derechos civiles, fue proclamado candidato el 19 de febrero de 2012 con el apoyo de la Unión Demócrata Cristiana, la Unión Social Cristiana de Baviera, el Partido Socialdemócrata de Alemania, el Partido Democrático Liberal y la Alianza 90/Los Verdes. Posteriormente, la Asociación de Votantes del Schleswig Meridional y los Votantes Libres anunciaron su apoyo a Gauck.

Gauck ya fue candidato en la Elección presidencial de Alemania de 2010, donde fue apoyado por los Socialdemócratas y los Verdes y también recibió apoyo de los Electores Libres y el consentimiento del SWW, pero perdió en la tercera vuelta frente a Christian Wulff, quien ganó con los partidos de centroderecha (CDU, CSU y FDP).

La Coalición por Gauck tenía la representación de 1.111 electores de un total de 1.240 mujeres y hombres elegidos. Joachim Gauck finalmente fue elegido con 991 votos válidos.

Beate Klarsfeld

Periodista y activista, Beate Klarsfeld es una famosa 'cazadora' de criminales de guerra nacionalsocialistas que escaparon tras la II Guerra Mundial. Junto a su marido, Serge Klarsfeld, realizó numerosas campañas de búsqueda, acoso, desprestigio y denuncia contra ex-nazis que no habían sido condenados por sus crímenes, tanto en Europa como en países de América del Sur, logrando que posteriormente fueran "cazados" (apresados), juzgados y condenados. Ha denunciado también la pasada militancia nazi de otros importantes políticos y funcionarios europeos.

Fue elegida el 27 de febrero de 2012 por el Comité Ejecutivo del partido La Izquierda, que fue representado con 124 personas en la Asamblea Federal, designados por unanimidad como candidatos.

Olaf Rose

Olaf Rose, historiador militar y autor de escritos revisionistas, profesor de extrema derecha y exmiembro de la Junta Federal del neonazi Partido Nacionaldemócrata de Alemania, fue nominado por su partido, que fue representado en la Asamblea Federal con tres personas para la elección del 5 de marzo de 2012.

Candidaturas fallidas
El Partido Pirata de Alemania consideró nominar a un candidato, pero no lo hicieron antes de la elección.

Composición de la Asamblea federal
En la siguiente tabla se muestra la distribución de la 15.ª Asamblea:

Resultados

La votación comenzó en la tarde a las 14:24 del 18 de marzo de 2012, Gauck aceptó su elección. Fue elegido en primera vuelta con 991 votos de la Asamblea federal. El presidente del Bundestag, Norbert Lammert anunció públicamente el resultado. En reacción, Gauck exclamó: "Que hermoso domingo.",
refiriéndose al aniversario el 18 de marzo de 1990 cuando la Alemania oriental realizó sus primeras elecciones libres en su historia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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Elecciones en Alemania de 2012

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Q: Variance of $3$-dimensional vectors I am currently optimizing some code and thus, I want to replace an inefficient OpenCV function, which calculates a covariance matrix. The thing is, that I only need the trace of this covariance matrix, as such, I only need the variance, if I am not mistaken.
Well, my main problem is, that each element has an x, y and z coordinate and thus, 3 dimensions. So, my data looks like:
[x_1, y_1, z_1], [x_2, y_2, z_2], ... [x_n, y_n, z_n]
How can I calculate the variance of this 3D data in general - and how could I optimize it to run as fast as possible?
Thanks in advance!

A: Generally the variance of a random vector $X\in\mathbb R^m$ is
$$
\Sigma = \operatorname{var}(X) = \operatorname{E}( (X-\mu)(X-\mu)^T) \in\mathbb R^{m\times m}\quad\text{where } \mu=\operatorname{E}(X)\in\mathbb R^m.
$$
Thus $\Sigma$ is a symmetric non-negative-definite matrix.  Feller's book calls this the variance; some others call it the "covariance matrix" since its entries are the covariances between components of $X$.  Some of its properties are similar to those of variances of scalar-valued random variables; for example if $A\in\mathbb R^{\ell\times m}$ so that $AX$ is an $\ell\times 1$ random column vector, then $\operatorname{var}(AX) = A\Sigma A^T\in\mathbb R^{\ell\times\ell}$.
You're talking about estimating $\Sigma$ based on a sample of size $n$, with $m=3$. Regarding your data points as column vectors $\begin{bmatrix} x_k \\ y_k \\ z_k \end{bmatrix}$, for $k=1,\ldots,n$, we can let $\begin{bmatrix} \bar x \\ \bar y \\ \bar z \end{bmatrix}$ and then look at the matrix
$$
M = \begin{bmatrix} \ldots, & x_k - \bar x, & \ldots \\ \ldots, & y_k - \bar y, & \ldots \\ \ldots, & z_k - \bar z, & \ldots \end{bmatrix} \in \mathbb R^{3\times n}.
$$
Then
$$
S = \frac 1 n M M^T \in \mathbb R^{3\times 3}
$$
is the maximum-likelihood estimator of $\Sigma$ if the $3\times 1$ column vectors are from a $3$-dimensional normal distribution. The matrix
$$
\tilde S = \frac 1 {n-1} M M^T \in \mathbb R^{3\times 3}
$$
is an unbiased estimator of $\Sigma$ under far weaker assumptions.

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10 Things That Inspire Stephen Chapman
by As told to Jennifer Friesen February 26, 2016 April 4, 2019
The florist shares why Adele, Hawaiian islands and Calvin Klein's Eternity aftershave inspire him.
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Over his 42-year career, florist Stephen Chapman has never lost his love of beauty. "It could be anything," he says with a grin. "It could be a garden, it could be the morning sun beside the road – it could even be my meal."
With a keen eye for quality and a penchant for classic, English design, Chapman's love of beauty in all its incarnations is obvious as soon as you step foot inside his Inglewood shop, Blooms on 9th, located inside Inglewood Beauty Bar.
Cruising around the Hawaiian Islands
You sort of get a glimpse of the way grand travel used to be. And every morning you wake up and it's a whole new scene, with all the different kinds of flora and fauna and the textures and fragrances.
Vases by Constance Spry
Constance Spry was a brilliant designer – she was sort of England's version of Martha Stewart from the 1920s to the 1960s. Her designs are very fluid and organic. Just feeling like you're holding a piece of history is inspiring.
Fortnum & Mason in London
It's the one and only, and it's been around forever. Everything they do, everything they touch, is perfect. It's just the ultimate retail store, and they have a confectionary counter that would make you cry.
I think she's brilliant; there's so much emotion in her voice – she's gritty, she's earthy and she's real. I just love her music. You're almost not even listening to the lyrics, but to the notes.
Brooks Brothers button-down shirts
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1 This is the record of the descendants of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;
he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and named them "man."
Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.
Adam lived eight hundred years after the birth of Seth, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.
When Seth was one hundred and five years old, he became the father of Enosh.
Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after the birth of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Seth was nine hundred and twelve years; then he died.
When Enosh was ninety years old, he became the father of Kenan.
Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after the birth of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Enosh was nine hundred and five years; then he died.
When Kenan was seventy years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.
Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after the birth of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Kenan was nine hundred and ten years; then he died.
When Mahalalel was sixty-five years old, he became the father of Jared.
Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after the birth of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Mahalalel was eight hundred and ninety-five years; then he died.
When Jared was one hundred and sixty-two years old, he became the father of Enoch.
Jared lived eight hundred years after the birth of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Jared was nine hundred and sixty-two years; then he died.
When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Enoch lived three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Enoch was three hundred and sixty-five years.
2 Then Enoch walked with God, and he was no longer here, for God took him.
When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he became the father of Lamech.
Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after the birth of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died.
When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son
3 and named him Noah, saying, "Out of the very ground that the LORD has put under a curse, this one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands."
Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after the birth of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.
The whole lifetime of Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years; then he died.
When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 [1-32] Although this chapter, with its highly schematic form, belongs to the relatively late "Priestly document," it is based on very ancient traditions. Together with Genesis 11:10-26, its primary purpose is to bridge the genealogical gap between Adam and Abraham. Adam's line is traced through Seth, but several names in the series are the same as, or similar to, certain names in Cain's line (Genesis 4:17-19). The long lifespans attributed to these ten antediluvian patriarchs have a symbolic rather than a historical value. Babylonian tradition also recorded ten kings with fantastically high ages who reigned successively before the flood.
2 [24] In place of the usual formula, Then he died, the change to Enoch walked with God clearly implies that he did not die, but like Elijah (2 Kings 2:11, 12) was taken alive to God's abode.
3 [29] There is a similarity in sound between the Hebrew word noah, "Noah," and the verbal phrase yenahamenu, "he will bring us relief"; this latter refers both to the curse put on the soil because of the fall of man (Genesis 3:17-19) and to Noah's success in agriculture, especially in raising grapes for wine (Genesis 9:20-21).


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Angry Hong Myung-bo, "Amano is the worst Japanese player I know"
Ulsan Hyundai manager Hong Myung-bo was furious. This is because Jun Amano (Jeonbuk Hyundai), whom he coached until last season, did not keep his promise.
Defending champion Ulsan was convened at the clubhouse in Dong-gu, Ulsan on the 3rd and started training in preparation for the 2023 season. Three new foreign players, Kim Young-kwon, Kim Tae-hwan, and Cho Hyun-woo, who participated in the 2022 Qatar World Cup on the 9th, joined to form a complete team.
At 1:30 pm on the 11th, I met coach Hong Myung-bo at the clubhouse in Dong-gu, Ulsan. "I started training last week. The players have been building up their bodies well during the break. This is the first training session with all the players after I took office. It's not 100% right now, but I'm satisfied with the players' training attitude and physical condition."
There are some changes from last season. Joo Min-gyu, one of the best strikers in the K-League 1, made a comeback to Ulsan from Jeju United. He had midfielder Boyanich from the Swedish national team, striker Rubiksson, and midfielder Kim Min-hyeok from Seongnam FC.
Coach Hong Myung-bo said, "Existing players need to help new players adapt quickly. Joo Min-gyu has been in Ulsan before, so there is no big problem. I also experienced overseas performances, but foreign players are from a different culture, so I have to communicate often and give them the comfort of being at home. Finding comfort will have a positive impact on your performance."
Ulsan broke up with Amano Jun, a Japanese national team midfielder who struggled in the second line until last season. It was originally planned to accompany them. However, Amano suddenly wore Ulsan's rival Jeonbuk uniform.
Director Hong Myung-bo was furious and said, "(Lee) Dong-jun went to Jeonbuk because it was an unavoidable situation. However, Amano is hated by the people of our country the most… He chose that way. He talked to the club and the team a long time ago to extend the lease if possible. He said he was OK too." 토토사이트
"After the season, I went back to Japan, but then I moved to Jeonbuk. Amano did that to me. He said 'money is not important to him'. As a result, he went to Jeonbuk for money. He lied," he said. "The worst Japanese player I know. I've met a lot of Japanese players so far, and among them, this is the worst. If you want to go to another team to challenge or if there is a reason, it is right to let them go, but that was not the situation."
Lastly, coach Hong Myung-bo said, "It means that we do not respect Ulsan. Even the Japanese coach (Seigo Ikeda) was disappointed. There is no power leak due to Amano's departure. An alternative has been prepared," he expressed confidence.


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The Tiny Photographs of Judy Fiskin
In the Ant's house, the dew is a flood.
A well-known children's story tells of a miniature family that lives in a regular-sized house, unbeknown to its regular-sized occupants. The diminutive parents and their wee offspring survive by "borrowing" – a button to use as a platter for a pilfered morsel of food, a thimble for a barrel in which to haul things around, a matchbox for a little girl's tiny surrogate bed.
Mary Norton's The Borrowers is not exactly hard-hitting – everybody is basically happy, the manufactured crisis is resolved by the closing pages and we all learn a valuable lesson. But it is also powerfully vertiginous, the text wildly and repeatedly distorting any sense of scale. Positioned as viewers of a deviant reality, we identify alternately with the tiny family, who perceive the world as monstrously huge and fraught with danger, and with the oblivious, "real"-world hosts, who fail to perceive the "borrowers" as anything but faint flecks on their already oversaturated visual fields.
Judy Fiskin makes tiny photographs, no more than a few inches square, which play with and against habitual modes of identification and perception. Fiskin's images do so – like Mary Norton's story – by directly engaging the body. To enter the miniscule worlds the photographs offer – postage-stamp-sized houses, chairs, floral arrangements and craft-show tableaux, each stationed at the center of a field of white – we must shrink into miniature phantasms of our normal selves (little people who fit into little chairs and live in little houses), or imaginatively expand those things so that they match up with our less fantastic corporeal forms. It sounds like high adventure, but there's nothing Swiftian or Rabelaisian about it. This is neither Gulliver among the Lilliputians, nor Gargantua bestriding the world. If anything, Fiskin's images are Nortonian – powerfully domestic, enjoying intimate status with their subjects, tangled up with the telling detail.
There is something profoundly Los Angeles about Fiskin's photographs, even when they document a trip to New York or Victorian houses spread out along the Jersey shore. She captures L.A.'s benighted landscape to ironic perfection in the 1982 series, Dingbat, which records subtle variations among legions of box-like apartment buildings. The Dingbats (all at least slightly off-kilter) fall into such Fiskin-designed categories of "Japanese Roofs," "Side Stairways" and "Geometric Facades." The deadpan array neatly suggests the vanity of attempting to conceal no-design design with weirdly non-indigenous adornments. But this is not what makes these images intensely familiar; it is rather the sense of longing built into Fiskin's work as a whole – a longing so strong that it drowns out the irony.
Fiskin conjures the yearning for permanence when we're otherwise used to seeing the world through the window of a speeding car, in a blur, a haze, each form a momentary blip on a fast-changing screen. Fiskin describes her images as stand-ins for possessions. But they are less about possession than a particular vision endemic to Los Angeles car culture – fragmented, careless and quick. Eminently legible and neatly framed with the black edges of the negatives from which they were printed, the photographs represent the desire to reverse that vision, to slow the world down and render it comprehensible, to see it from a pedestrian's eye-view at an unhurried pace.
Fiskin has been working in series since 1974, selecting a subject – Dingbat, Stucco, San Bernardino, Long Beach, Furniture – and ostensibly assembling, classifying and cataloguing specimens. But her scientificity – like that of a generation of conceptual chroniclers which includes Ed "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" Ruscha and Douglas "Photographing Everyone Alive" Huebler – is a ruse, a formal strategy designed to reveal the randomness, rather than the order, behind every self-proclaimed system. Fiskin's choices are not uniform, but as uniformly idiosyncratic as the white apartment house with the Chinese lattice-work screen projecting from its side, or the Victorian chaise uncovered in a corner of a dusty European museum.
Overstuffed and gilt-edged, that chaise joins several heavily carved Neo-Baroque chests and lavish Rococo cabinets to compose the 1988 Portraits of Furniture. Photographed in museum period rooms and display aisles, the series gently interrogates the aesthetics of presentation. While Louise Lawler similarly photographs works of art in their natural settings (corporate lobbies, collectors living rooms, museums), Fiskin is more interested in aesthetics than politics, less attentive to the ways the work of art validates a socio-economic class than in how it pictures that class to and for itself. For Fiskin, it's a matter of taste. Is this too gaudy? Is that elegant enough? Is this awkward? Is that just right? What, in sum, is the "correct" taste, and whom do we allow to define it for us?
Portraits of Furniture demonstrates that what has been consecrated by the institutional apparatus as "high" art plays equally well as low comedy. One photograph depicts a modest two-drawer wooden chest with curved legs alongside a towering double chest topped by an elaborate pedestal and perched upon delicate ball-and-claw feet. Together, they read as the Mutt and Jeff of Sotheby Parke Bernet, a poignant but conspicuously mismatched duo.
Fiskin is attracted to aesthetic "mistakes," to the ways in which cultivation and discernment unwittingly sabotage themselves. Such mistakes occur in the realm of high art as well as in the less vaunted realm of the popular. In 1984, Fiskin hit the flower show circuit and documented floral arrangements – Oriental-style with single meandering stalks, sparse bunches of posies trapped in wrought-iron birdcages and clusters of tables, each proudly boasting its own potted cactus. One of the more telling images depicts several tubular blossoms arranged in a tall ceramic pot embellished with a madly grimacing face. Displayed against a carpeted stretch of wall, the whole – intended to exude refinement, delicacy and grace – resembles nothing so much as an anthropomorphized vacuum cleaner complete with cord and attachments.
Fiskin's little pictures are funny, but they aren't about humor. Nor are they elitist, although at times they may appear condescending. They discombobulate the viewer, shaking up the confidently haphazard way we read images, especially art images. Fiskin began her career as an art historian, spending countless hours in darkened rooms poring over thousands of tiny slides which necessarily distort the works they depict. Slides pretend to simulate the work of art; in fact, they numb you to it. Slides are the Great Equalizer, (mis)representing massive frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, monumental architecture and precious mosaics in the same small, square format. They deceive regarding scale, while they falsify color and suppress detail. Fiskin plays out this triple distortion, erasing all intermediate hues so that her images read as pure white against deep black. They are recast not as slices of reality (the documentary photographer's traditional pretense), but as mnemonic triggers: a dark curve here, a sharp line there-and they near-magically solicit recollection.
I look at one of Fiskin's latest photographs, from the series Some Art, and I'm back in the N.Y.U. basement, memorizing slides for an ancient art exam. The image is particularly powerful – a detail from a Roman sarcophagus? a Greek frieze? I can't quite remember. The scene depicts a seated man – young, strong, distanced – with an older, bearded supplicant kneeling at his feet. At the edge of the frame stand three proud horses, waiting as if for some epochal decision. The carving is exquisite – the musculature, the expressions, the way the men's knees just barely touch, as if appeasement is imminent. And then it comes to me: it is the scene from the Iliad in which Priam kisses the hand of Achilles, begging him to return Hector's body. This is the moment when Achilles finally finds his humanity. But the image isn't taken from a Roman sarcophagus or from a Greek frieze. Judy Fiskin's photograph is a close-up view of a Wedgewood platter.
The knowledge is amusing, embarrassing and confusing. What we accept as a natural hierarchy – classical sculpture ranks higher than Sunday paintings, etched glass lamps, embroidered doilies, metal animal reliefs and Wedgewood platters, the subjects of her most recent series – is suddenly and irrevocably thrown into question. How can something merit serious attention if you can pick it up at a department store? How can it not merit serious attention if it is owned by a museum? Fiskin's quietly disquieting work does not deny our ability to make distinctions between Wedgewood and Phidias, The Borrowers and Gulliver' s Travels, but playfully embraces all of these and more in her tight focus.
– Susan Kandel


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After the first two weeks of production, the Canadian co-producer asked the Argentinian director " How do you feel about the challenges of shooting in 3D?" . The director answered " What challenges?" . He said he felt like he was shooting a 2D movie, only with a bigger camera!
The CC3D rig allowed us to shoot wide with 16mm lenses and go swap into normal or inverted mode depending on the demands of the shot. However, the weight of the Alexa Plus combined with the Angénieux 16-42 zoom and Preston 3-motor system made the system so heavy (28lbs per camera) and pushed the weight far back on the vertical camera plate that there was a bit of flexing during tilts. This vertical offset can be fixed in stereo grading process, but it showed the weight limits of the CC3D rigs. With the Alexa Standard and the Zeiss primes, the rig performed much better.
We also used the Red Epics for steadicam shots. To swap the B-rig from Alexas to Red Epics was very quick, and we shot with both setups in the same day.
Producer : Large Screen Cinema Corp.
This shoot was a real challenge from a technical standpoint. At many times, we had two F65 3D rigs rolling simultaneously. One rig was mostly Steadicam, which presented it's own challenges, particularly regarding weight and power. One thing we discovered pushing the Sony F65 to it's voltage limits, was that the SR-R4 recorder attached to the camera would shut down before the actual camera, leading to a condition where you think the camera is still on, but it's actually not recording anything… To remedy this problem we had someone look at both video outputs to confirm the " record light" . We also kept a tight watch on the voltage below 11.7 volts.
The other 3D rig was setup in what we called " Studio Mode" : to be mounted on cranes, sticks, dollies, etc. We learned from our Jerusalem experience… and got more powerful remote heads and tested them in LA with the full rig. The rig was successfully flow on the Scorpio and Edge heads in difficult situations.
One of my challenges on this job was to deal with the large amount of data produced by two F65 3D units. To rise to the challenge, I built a mega computer that I called the Synchro Station that was custom built for simultaneous transfers and intense GPU-based transcoding required by the F65-RAW MXF files.
For this leg of the shoot we decided to shoot with the Sony F65 in a 3D configuration. The F65 benefits from an 8K sensor with 4K green pixels which creates stunningly sharp images, truly visible on high-detail landscape shots. In addition to it's low-light capability, this made the F65 a great tool for this large-format 3D project.
This was the first major project to use the F65 in a 3D configuration, as featured in Film and Digital Times.
This was the live-action filming portion of Dragons 3D. We used the CC3D-Gen2 for flexibility and rapid lens changes.
It was fun to light and frame such a detailed 3D set and work with great actors.
Logistically, this was one of the most challenging shoots I've been on. We has to hand carry the 3D camera system through the narrow, winding and crowded streets of holiday-time old-city Jerusalem. Most of the shots were on steadicam, and some were on crane.
This was my first time working with the CC3D GEN-2 rig. It's 12 pounds lighter than the GEN-1, has wireless remote option, steadicam balance option, on-board controller and manual adjustment controls. It's solid, fast and precise and was the right tool for the job.
A green-screen shoot illustrating dragon myths as they are understood in different cultures. We did some really interesting shots, it's amazing what you can do with green-screen trickery!
It was my first time working the Red Epics, overall a positive experience. The resolution and light sensitivity of this camera are truly stunning. I also worked with a new 3D rig called the CC3D (from Converging Concepts, the makers of the Gemini 3D Vistavision camera). It was a solid and precise rig that helped keep us on a tight schedule.
Shooting the US Open of Surfing with veteran surf DPs Ron Condon and Mike Prikett. We followed Billabongs women's surf team, more specifically Courtney Conlogue, as she prepares, competes and has fun surfing the waves in Southern California.
It was fun to work with portable and rugged camera systems like the Sony TD10 and the GoPro systems. I setup several 3D timelapse shots with the GoPros as we shot with the Panasonic and the Sony. Ron built a nice underwater housing for the TD10, making a small and nimble 3D surf camera… we got some amazing 3D footage!
Producer : National Film Board of Canada ñ French Animation Dept.
Fun and experimentally creative project that produced completely novel and compelling 3D infra-red dance imagery. A truly unique cinematic experience only possible to produce through an agency like the National Film Board of Canada. Cameras capturing heat instead of light produced many challenges including having to create a heat emitting alignment chart!
Even for someone used to working with experimental camera systems, this project was definitely one of the most challenging. We had 110mm IA (inter-axial) ñ and we couldn't use a mirror rig because the cameras record heat, not light. There is no way to separate the heat 50-50 like in a mirror rig without creating a whole bunch of diffusion.
As a stereographer, the 110mm IA was particularly challenging considering the project was to be projected on a theatrical screen. Instead of adjusting the camera system, I had to determine the max range of depth according to the closest subject. The big advantage I had was that we could not see the background. So the furthest object in the scene was the furthest subject.
On this leg of the project, we went to Reno, Nevada, to shoot search and rescue operations involving Chinook Helicopters. I set a highly configurable and modular SI2K 3D system where we could hard-mount the cameras on the dash board pointing towards the pilots. At 72mm IA, the subject distances were pretty close, but the background was close too so we managed to get the 3D to work.
There were some CMOS rolling shutter ìwaveî in the image because of the helicopter vibrations being transmitted to cameras. We tried to isolate the vibration with some dampening and it really helped with image integrity.
I also setup the camera in over-the-shoulder mode and shot run-and-gun documentary style footage.
Producer : National Film Board of Canada ñ English Animation Dept.
A dynamic dance film directed by my Mouvement Perpétuel friends Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer. The choreography was created by Christal Pite. We shot on green screen and Fred Casia did an amazing job compositing the backgrounds created by Theodore Ushev.
We got some amazing aerial footage of the Niagara region and Toronto Skyline.
Coming mostly from a documentary and independent film background, it was exciting to work on such a grandiose production. They closed down a part of downtown Chicago and filled it with burning cars and debris.
Very fun contract, assisting veteran Formula One cameraman Nicola Basso with the SI2K systems and establishing good shooting distances for powerful stereography. An incredible and close up experience in the extremely loud world of elite car racing.
Exciting project shooting in the extreme conditions of the Canadian Arctic. It's in these types of condition that I can really test the gear. Funny things happen to cables, LCD screens, tape and fingers when they get cold. I was completely under-dressed for this shoot ñ after the first day of shooting, the production lent me a full snowmobile suit. It was a lifesaver.
Fun time filming inside a Qantas Airbus A380 at LAX Airport. We had 4 hours a day to shoot in and around the Airbus before it would need to be prepped for it's trip back to Sydney. I have to admit, the 1st class bathroom on that aircraft are really nice!
I did a couple trips to Haiti after the earthquake for the film Rescue 3D. The first was to film the evacuation of American citizens on board C-17 cargo aircraft. The second time we filmed food distribution and various medical operations. During a food distribution operation, I started walking away from the main action so I could get a shot of the convoy leaving. I setup beside a destroyed house, and an old man came towards me and asked me if I could help rebuild his house. It was heartbreaking.
On this leg of the shoot, we were a reduced crew filming C-17 supply operations, conversion of cargo aircraft to flying hospital, and flying wounded soldiers back to Washington. It is a sobering experience to see soldiers give so much of their life for their country.
We put the SI2K 3D through it's first real shoot. And it was quite a learning experience. We had many issues…. heat, lenses, data integrity, user functionality and post processing. But in the end, we proved the system could work, and started to find solutions to make it work better.
This was the second month-long shoot in Tahiti. It was much smoother than our first shoot from a tech point of view. I also got to take the Gemini 3D cam for one day to shoot some B-roll for the film. I was happy to see quite a few shots made it to the final edit!
Our first shoot on this project. Very difficult and demanding. On top of getting sea-sick while shooting all day on the waves, the camera had a serious breakdowns that required me to fly back to Marty's MSM shop in Idaho, and then back to Tahiti, all in 24 hours! Marty had built an underwater housing for the camera, specifically for this project. It was simple, easy to use and gave us amazing underwater footage.
We got to film the Boeing 787's first flight in Seattle. It was a big crew, we had 3 3D cameras – the IMAX Solido 3D, the Gemini 3D Vistavision and the SI2K 3D.
A fun cross country shooting star aircraft of the aviation world. Training operations with the Harrier jet near Yuma AZ, a working Super Constellation aircraft at the Airline History Museum of Kansas City and design, testing and manufacturing operations of the Boeing 787 in Seattle.
Our first shoot on this project. And the first big shoot for the Gemini 3D Vistavision Camera. In Paris, we were working with only one mag, by the time we got to Seattle, I had 2 mags to work with. We went to film the Airbus A380 at the Paris Airshow and design and testing of the Boeing 787 in Seattle.
It was fun to see the Gemini 3D camera working in a non-documentary environment. One day we shot over 30,000′ of film! But at 16perfs per image (2x 8perf 35mm), it does go up very quickly.


As it was two years ago, also this year, the Ash Wednesday ceremony which is the starting day of the 'Great Fasting Period' or Lenten period was held in İskenderun Catholic Church and led by the Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, Monsignor Paolo Bizzeti. This year, the Easter Sunday will be celebrated separately in the Orthodox and Catholic communities. Mgr Bizzeti blessed the congregation by pouring ashes into the heads of the faithful.
During the mass, Bishop Monsignor Paolo Bizzeti preached about the meaning of ashes. He said: "There are two meanings of ash spreading on the believers. The first one reminds us the Old Testament that God created the humankind through the ash or dust and at the same time the human body will become dust. The purpose of this ceremony is to help humankind to become humble. People, especially the rich and powerful, forget the humility and forget that we are responsible for a billion people who are hungry and needy. This ceremony helps us to become conscious of this.
The second meaning of the ash comes from the New Testament. It is the destiny of man. He comes from the earth and will turn to the earth. The fear of punishment, prepares the man to accept Jesus Christ. Although this is not enough… Because the man has to repent in a real sense. For this reason, the priest says that at the ash distribution: 'Repent and believe in Gospel', so believe in the Good News. This is the Good News: The Father God wants to love us and He does not use the crime against us as a weapon. In this case, Christians do not have to sit in the ash. For God is merciful and has ceased to punish us. For this reason, St. Paul strongly reminds us this: 'Make Peace with God!' God has decided to become our friend and ally. He wanted to make peace with us. It is up to us to accept this and embrace Him.
With this ceremony, the Catholics of Iskenderun began their fasting for 40 days until Easter. The Church community will fast since the Ash Wednesday to the day od Christ Jesus' crucifixion. Fasting on other days is at the initiative of the community! The 40-day fasting is held to remember the 40 days Jesus Christ spent in prayer and fasting in the desert before He started his service.


Even when Dave Pell isn't writing NextDraft — the best newsletter in the world — he still rocks out. The satirical element Pell adds to the day's events has become a lost artform.
This is far and away the funniest thing I've read in a while. Maybe someone should pull up their socks and realize the truth in his writings.


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The series of BIBE Conferences was found in 2000 and BIBE is the first leading Conference of its kind in IEEE/Internationally inspiring others to follow its path. The 22nd annual IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering aims at building synergy between Bioinformatics and Bioengineering/Biomedical, two complementary disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of research and development in complex medical and biological systems, agriculture, environment, public health, drug design. Research and development in these two areas are impacting the science and technology in fields such as medicine, food production, forensics, etc. by advancing fundamental concepts in molecular biology, by helping us understand living organisms at multiple levels, by developing innovative implants and bio-prosthetics, and by improving tools and techniques for the detection, prevention and treatment of diseases. The BIBE series provides a common platform for the cross fertilization of ideas, and for shaping knowledge and scientific achievements by bridging these two very important and complementary disciplines into an interactive and attractive forum. Keeping this objective in mind, BIBE solicits original contributions in the following non exclusive lists of areas:
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Alexandra B. Shalom
Olivia R. King
Health Care Law Today
Impossible or Laudable: The Proposed Massachusetts Primary and Behavioral Health Care Spending Requirement
As previously discussed, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker introduced a bill, the Act to Improve Health Care by Investing in Value on October 18, 2019. This legislation is designed to enhance primary care and behavioral health services while maintaining cost growth. Baker highlighted that investing in primary and behavioral health care is critical because of the worsening shortage of primary care and the increasingly challenging nature of addiction and behavioral health issues.
In order to incentivize investment in primary and behavioral health care, the proposed bill requires providers and payers to increase spending by 30% in these two areas over the next three years.
How Does the Bill Require Investment in Primary and Behavioral Health Care?
The bill requires the Health Policy Commission (the "HPC") to establish an aggregate primary and behavioral health care target that providers and insurers must meet. Until 2022, the target is a 30% increase above aggregate baseline expenditures. The HPC has the option to modify the target starting in 2023.
Can Providers and Insurers Spend More to Meet the 30% Requirement?
No. Providers must spend 30% more on primary and behavioral health care while maintaining total health care costs. This may seem like an impossible goal for providers. Marylou Sudders, the Massachusetts' Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, contends that such spending is achievable because the legislation also requires insurers to spend 30% more on primary and behavioral health care. Although many patients would welcome the increased access to primary and behavioral health care services, providers should be concerned that the proposal does not provide sufficient guidance on how to make such a drastic change to their current models. For example, many providers have already made substantial commitments in behavioral health or primary care, while others have not. The proposal appears to treat both providers equally, with no recognition of the existing services and level of investment in the market.
What Happens If Providers and Insurers Can't Meet the 30% Spending Requirement?
If the bill passes as-is, beginning in 2023, the HPC may require those providers and insurers that do not meet the 30% requirement to file and implement a performance improvement plan (PIP) identifying strategies to increase primary and behavioral health care expenditures. If a PIP is required, providers and insurers would have 45 days to submit a PIP or file an application for waiver or extension. However, if an entity fails to file or implement a performance improvement plan, the entity could be subject to civil penalties between $500,000 and $1,000,000.
The law also requires the HPC to publish an annual report comparing cost trends with the target and to hold public hearings to examine the Commonwealth and health care entities' performance in meeting the target.
The 30% requirement for providers and insurers is by far the most publicized element of Baker's proposal and deservedly so given the magnitude of the requirement, the significant changes providers and insurers would need to make if the law passes, and the seemingly impossible nature of the task. It may be reasonable to encourage certain providers to improve access to care in their communities, but a blunt, across-the-board mandate is probably not the way to accomplish it. We see the proposal as positive in opening the discussion about the need for increased services in certain areas, particularly behavioral health, and in recognizing that the payers will need to do their part in contributing to any solution.
In addition to the 30% requirement, the law would impose restrictions on facility fees and out-of-network billing, increase coverage of telehealth and behavioral health services, and implement drug pricing provisions, all of which Foley will cover in separate Health Care Law Today posts.
Click HERE to read about the Proposed Facility Fee Ban.
© 2023 Foley & Lardner LLPNational Law Review, Volume IX, Number 351
Alexandra (Allie) Shalom is an associate and health care business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, and a member of the firm's Health Care Practice Group.
Allie's practice focuses on counseling clients in the health care, pharmacy, and medical device industries with respect to a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters. Her experience includes advising clients on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement; internal investigations; managed care and value based payment arrangements; self-disclosures; federal and state fraud and abuse compliance; and state licensure issues. She also...
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Olivia King is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Health Care Industry Team.
Olivia was selected for the inaugural Mayo-Foley Health Law Fellowship, consisting of summer internships with the Mayo Clinic Legal Department in Rochester, Minnesota (2017), and Foley (2018).While at the Mayo Clinic, Olivia researched and prepared memorandum on state and federal medical prescribing and licensure requirements with analysis of potential implications on telemedicine initiatives and state mental health ombudsman reporting...
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I would reopen this. The reasons for closing are kind of absurd (consider a similar statement: we don't use annotations in our contrib packages, so we should ex the QuerySet.annotate method: huh?).
Aside form that, it simplifies application code: verbose_name and verbose_name_plural are collapsed into just verbose_name.
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Q: java http client for file upload to sharepoint using kerberos authentication Need standalone Java program that facilitate uploading files to Sharepoint using KERBEROS authentication.
We have sharepoint server which is upgraded to 2010 version and is configured with Kerberos authentication. Earlier sharepoint version was using NTLM authentication for which I have javaq client program to upload files from local system. Since sharepoint got upgraded with Kerberos authentication, I need to modify current NTLM versioned java program to use Kerberos. I got code snippet for authentication and connectivity which is working fine. I am able to read Sharepoint URL and download a specific file though java program. Now I am trying upload file to Sharepoint but not getting the required java classes and jar files to be used for this.
I had Kerberos configuration setup using SPNEGO API to connect sharepoint.
Conf files:
krb5.conf
login.conf
API used to Kerberos Auth:
spnego-r7.jar
Connectivity:
Following code I am using for connectivity and File download which is perfectly working.
spnego = new SpnegoHttpURLConnection("spnego-client", <<sharepoint_user>>, <<sharepoint_password>>);

//New Lines added to omit SSL Handshake exception
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers(){
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certific ate[] certs, String authType){
//No need to implement.
}
public void checkServerTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certific ate[] certs, String authType){
//No need to implement.
}
}
};
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.g etSocketFactory());
spnego.connect(new URL(spLocation));
System.out.println("spnego.getResponseCode():: "+spnego.getResponseCode());
if(spnego.getResponseCode() >= 200) {
log.debug("Authentication Successful");
}

File Read/Download:
java.io.BufferedInputStream in = new java.io.BufferedInputStream( spnego.getInputStream());
java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(outputFile);
java.io.BufferedOutputStream bout = new BufferedOutputStream(fos,1024);
byte[] data = new byte[1024];
int x=0;
System.out.println("4" + outputFile.length());
while((x=in.read(data,0,1024))>=0) {
bout.write(data,0,x);
}
bout.close();
in.close();

could you advise how to upload files to Sharepoint folder using java code. I searched many forums for hours but not getting exact code for File upload. Your advice on this much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: Finally after 10 days of research and search through many blogs, I got solution for my problem. I hope this helps someone needy:
UPLOAD MULTIPLE FILES TO SHAREPOINT (KERBEROS AUTHENTICated):
    System.setProperty("java.security.krb5.conf", workareaFolder+"/"+props.getProperty("kerberos.conf.file"));
    System.setProperty( "java.security.auth.login.config", workareaFolder+"/"+props.getProperty("jass.conf.file"));
    System.setProperty( "javax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly", "false");

    krb5MechOid    = new Oid("1.2.840.113554.1.2.2");
    spnegoMechOid  = new Oid("1.3.6.1.5.5.2");

      shost= targetSPN.toLowerCase();
      if (shost.startsWith("http/") || shost.startsWith("cifs/") )  {
          shost = shost.substring(5);
      }
      else  {
          log.debug("Entered invalid SPN.  Must begin with HTTP/ or CIFS/");
          System.exit(-1);
      }
      this.checkSPNHostname(shost);

    //login to the KDC using JAAS login module
    this.subject = login(username, password);

    log.debug(this.subject);

    SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");

    // set up a TrustManager that trusts everything
    sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
                public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                        return null;
                }
                public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                                String authType) {
                }
                public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                                String authType) {
                }
    } }, new SecureRandom());

    Scheme httpScheme80 = new  Scheme("http", 80,  PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory());
    SSLSocketFactory sf = new SSLSocketFactory(sslContext,SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
    Scheme httpsScheme = new  Scheme("https", 443, sf);

    SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
    schemeRegistry.register(httpsScheme);
    schemeRegistry.register(httpScheme80);

    // Create Connection Manager instance for use by Httpclient
    cm = new SingleClientConnManager(schemeRegistry);
    HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
    params.setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.PROTOCOL_VERSION, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);

    httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(cm,params);
    httpclient.setRedirectStrategy(new DefaultRedirectStrategy());

    File[] listOfFiles = folder.listFiles(new FileFilter() {
                                                public boolean accept(File f) {
                                                    if (f.isFile()) {
                                                        return true;
                                                    }
                                                    return false;
                                                }
                                            });
    String[] url = new String[listOfFiles.length];
    String spTargetFolder = new String();

    totalFilesInReportsFolder = listOfFiles.length;

    for (int i = 0; i < totalFilesInReportsFolder; i++) {
        uploadFileName = listOfFiles[i].getName();
        log.info("\nFile: "+uploadFileName);

        spTargetFolder = this.getSPFolder(uploadFileName);
        spDestinationFolderURL = sharedDocumentsRoot + instanceFolder + "/" + spTargetFolder + "/" + uploadFileName;
        //log.info("Destination URL : " + spDestinationFolderURL);

        httpPut = new HttpPut(new URI(sharedDocumentsRoot + instanceFolder + "/" + spTargetFolder + "/" + uploadFileName));
        httpPut.getParams().setParameter("http.protocol.handle-redirects",true);
        InputStreamEntity inputStreamEntity = new InputStreamEntity(new FileInputStream(listOfFiles[i]), listOfFiles[i].length());
        httpPut.setEntity(inputStreamEntity);
        // Get the service ticket for targetSPN and set it in HttpPut Authorization header
        this.serviceTicket= initiateSecurityContext( targetSPN );
        encodedBytes  = org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64(this.serviceTicket);
        encoded =   new String(encodedBytes);
        httpPut.addHeader("Authorization", "Negotiate " + encoded);

        httpResponse = null;

        try {
             log.info("Uploading File... ");
             log.debug("Executing httpPut request: " + httpPut.getRequestLine());
             httpResponse = httpclient.execute(httpPut);
             log.debug("After Post - Status code:" +httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
             BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpResponse.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));
             StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
             String sResponse;
             while ((sResponse = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                 s = s.append(sResponse);
             }

             if (httpResponse.getStatusLine() != null && httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                 log.info("Response Code received: "+ httpResponse.getStatusLine() +" [200 - CREATE / OVERWRITE]");
                 log.info("File Sucessfully uploaded to Sharepoint location: "+spDestinationFolderURL );
                 uploadSuccessCount++;
             } else {
                 log.error("Error while uploading file to sharepoint");
                 if (httpResponse.getStatusLine() != null && httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_CREATED){
                     log.error("Response code: "+httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
                     log.error("Response Text:" + s);
                 }
                 uploadFailCount++;
             }

             log.debug("----------------------------------------");
             log.debug("Response StatusLine: "+ httpResponse.getStatusLine());
             log.debug("----------------------------------------");
             log.debug("Return Code : " + httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
             log.debug("----------------------------------------");

        } catch (Exception exp) {
            log.error("Exception while uploading report \""+uploadFileName+"\" to Share point="+exp);
            exp.printStackTrace();
        }
    }


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(b. 1955) Holds a degree in civil engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Was CEO of Siemens Norway from 2004 until 2014. Prior to that he held various executive positions at Siemens and ABB, both in Norway and internationally. Dyb is also the Deputy Chair of Veidekke ASA.
(b. 1959) MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). CEO of Fish Pool ASA since 2005. His previous experience includes positions at Bergen Energi AS, Hallvard Lerøy AS, Sties Termotransport AS, Norg-Cargo Bergenske AS og Statoil AS. From 1990-1994 he also worked as a lecturer on different subjects at the Norwegian School of Management BI.
(b. 1959) Holds a Master of Science from UMIST, Manchester, UK and has conducted supplementary studies in law and business. He has international management experience from Equinorl, ABB, Lærdal Medical AS and Skangas. Today, Osmundsen holds the position of Managing Director at Lyse Fiber, a company within the Lyse Telecom Group, and is a board member at the Skanem Group.
(b. 1988) Master of Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Business Process Management Consultant at DNB Bank ASA from 2017. Previous experience as Business Controller in Energi Norge/NHO. Member of Familiy Business Norway's Next Gen Committee. Board Director of the GC Rieber Funds from 2008 – 2012.


I just got this via email. I love infinity scarves!
Hi yarnmama! This one's really pretty! It's my first time to hear of an "Infinity scarf" and I would like to try out this pattern some time.
Here is a link to an infinity scarf - I made mine from all one color because I was using yarn that I had originally purchased for a sweater. I'm looking forward to wearing it as it won't fall off like a triangular shaped shawl.


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Les Miserables | February 22nd – March 3rd
The Little Theatre On The Square in Sullivan, Illinois announces tickets are now on sale for its 2013 Spring production of Les Miserables. This production, sponsored by MidState Tank in Sullivan, runs February 22 – March 3, 2013.
Les Miserables author Victor Hugo assured us more than 150 years ago: "To love another person is to see the face of God." Les Miserables, the musical based on Hugo's novel, opened on Broadway in 1986 and continues to tells its tale of love, grace, mercy, and redemption.
Winner of eight Tony awards, including best musical and best original score, Les Miserables is one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. It is the story of Jean Valjean, who after serving 19 years in jail breaks parole to begin a new life. He is relentlessly tracked by police inspector Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a variety of characters are swept up in a revolution in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.
New York director Kelly Shook returns to the Little Theatre for Les Miserables and is excited to begin work with her talented cast of twenty-nine actors from New York, Chicago and Central Illinois. Therese Kincade of Charleston is featured as Madame Thenardier, Oliver Adamson of Mowequa as Gavroche, Piper Countryman of Mattoon as young Cosette, and Anna Zaccari of Effingham as young Eponine.
Last seen in TLOTLS Christmas Show: Home for the Holidays, Sean Zimmerman will return as Javert, Karla Shook as Fantine, Ruthie Stevens as Eponine, and Tim Quartier as Marius. New to the Little Theatre is David Foley, Jr. as Jean Valjean. An onstage fifteen piece orchestra will be conducted by Artistic and Musical director Joshua Zecher-Ross.
Les Miserables is a spectacle with incredible voices and music guaranteed to take your breath away. Adult tickets are $37.50 and Senior/Children tickets are $35.40. Tickets can be purchased by calling The Little Theatre box office at 217-728-7375.
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The first Gothia Cup China was held from 13th to 19th, August 2016 in Shenyang, China. This tournament is possible thanks to the great facilities, tremendous support and efforts from Shenyang municipal government and citizen. The 3rd edition of Gothia Cup China is planned to held from 12th – 18th,August, 2018 in Chengyang district Qingdao, China.
Gothia Cup was first held in 1975. Over a million players from a total of 143 countries have participated in the tournament. In 2007, FIFA named it the "World Youth Cup". Read more about Gothia Cup here.
Gothia Cup China aims to create a meeting place for the youths of the world no matter religion, color or nationality.
Gothia Cup China shall continue to be the world's leading youth football tournament by offering the best quality on the market in everything we do.
Gothia Cup China shall be a meeting place for the youth in China and in the world where friendship, sharing and understanding is created.


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C Ronaldo helps Portugal win
TAG Heuer September 11, 2018
The Choice from C Ronaldo : TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer 02
In the second round of the World Cup group stage, C Ronaldo still gives high performance. The worse Portugal play, the better C Ronaldo can show.
The Portuguese team lacks of defensiveness, the midfield shorts of offensive and defensive conversions. Due to the shortage of neat offensive game making the every attack very painful. But fortunately the team has C Ronaldo — a beast of Portugal and he can help the team win the game which have no hope to win. He used his header to help Portugal lead four minutes after the start of the game.He carried with the team and made every effort to win the Portuguese team. After the match, Ronaldo was again praised by the international media.
Spain's "Marca" played the title of "C Ronaldo is still the most decisive figure in the World Cup" and praised C Ronaldo for playing a decisive role. Almost at the same time, "Aspen" praised C Ronaldo as "Prince Luzhniki" and said that the Real Madrid star has scored 4 goals. He helped Portugal win a difficult victory. Although Morocco performed well, it was the first one to be eliminated.
Catalonia's "Daily Sports News" even played the "Portugal is C Ronaldo + 10 other people" headline, pointing out C Ronaldo's position within the Portuguese national team. C Ronaldo scored a goal soon after the start of the match to help Portugal win. Although Morocco played well, it paid the price for wasting the opportunity.
The king of the football world, C Ronaldo is passionate and outstanding at the stadium. While, he is full of love outside the game and is a full-fledged life experiencer.
As a TAG Heuer brand ambassador, Ronaldo often wears TAG Heuer watch.
On the 6th of this month, he met with a sick child to wear a TAG Heuer Gallant Tourbillon watch.
Let's talk about C Ronaldo's choice: the Calibre Heuer 02 watch.
High-end movement – Calibre Heuer 02
This movement is derived from the classic Calera series of self-winding chronographs that is self-developed and manufactured by TAG Heuer, integrating 168 components. Premium watchmaking standard device including column wheel and vertical coupling clutch. This modern, accurate and reliable mechanical movement is stylish, accurate, a single barrel providing 75 hours of power reserve. Through the hollow dial and the sapphire crystal case back, the state of the art of high-end mechanical devices can be seen at a glance.
This TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer 02 Chronograph watch is a return to the truth, the black dial uses a classic 3-6-9 chronograph layout taking with a 1963 prototype. The minute and hour counters are located at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock respectively. Small seconds hand is set at 6 o'clock and a calendar window is added at 4:30 o'clock.
polished case with the rotating bezel joined by the black polished aluminum 12 hours scale or bidirectional is low-key and luxury.
The result of the race is very significant, but the process is the most exciting of a race.
Just for a watch, the appearance is undoubtedly the first impression, but the internal structure is the key to winning word of mouth and standing foothold. TAG Heuer, like C Ronaldo, makes the world worship.
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