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"The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST" By Benjamin Gutierrez
"The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST"
Benjamin Gutierrez
As the rate of technology continues to accelerate, so too do our lives. We move at increasingly greater speeds and traverse distances in a single day that were once impossible in an entire lifetime. We also don't move at all, as our means of telecommunication have left the physical realm so completely that we can logon, upload, and export ourselves to just about every corner of the world without even having to relocate rooms. We "exist" in an extra dimension—a digital one—that, for lack of a better word, did not used to exist. How this will define our generation surely cannot be understood at present; our record of history will be unprecedented, to say the least.
Beginning today, Friday, September 9, 2016, Brooklyn-based art advocacy and research center Pioneer Works will host "The Present is the Form of All Life: the Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST," an exhibition exploring the shifting cultural attitudes toward preservation, privacy, and time/space perception. Founded in San Francisco in 1968, Ant Farm was an avant-garde architecture, design, and media art group whose mission was to promote alternative thought and the reshaping of public consciousness through site-specific architectural "performances" and media happenings, many of which incorporated, but also subverted, popular American iconography in order to serve as vehicles for cultural introspection.
"Aerosol Arsenal (or Documentation of Aerosol Arsenal)," Ant Farm Collective, 1974 – 78.
Perhaps the most literal of these vehicles was the Media Van, a Chevy-turned-TV-studio-on-wheels that the group traveled in across the US to showcase their work, utilizing a bubble skylight and video recording equipment to document their journey along the way.
For the current exhibition, on view through October 21, 2016 contemporary art collective LST will present "Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule]," an interactive sculpture modeled after the original Media Van. Equipped with a device called "Media HUQQUH," "Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule]" randomly downloads files from smartphones within range of the exhibition to create a virtual time capsule both of and within the physical space of Pioneer Works. Midway through the exhibition's run, "Media HUQQUH" will cease to accept new files, at which time the sculpture will enter playback mode, sharing the collected data on a set of TV screens to the public at Pioneer Works.
LST is comprised of original Ant Farm members Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier. In 2008 they were joined by artist and architect Bruce Tomb for the first iteration of "Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule]," which was created for "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now," a 2008 exhibition at SFMOMA.
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Lara Baladi, the Egyptian-Lebanese artist changing our perception of protest
"Media Van (or Documentation of Media Van)," Ant Farm Collective (Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier, Doug Michels), 1972.
"Time Capsule 1972 – 1984 (or Documentation of Time Capsule 1972 – 1984)," Ant Farm Collective (Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier, Doug Michels), 1972.
"Citizen's Time Capsule (or Documentation of Citizen's Time Capsule)," Ant Farm Collective (Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier, Doug Michels), 1975.
"Media Van v.08 (or set of Discovery)," LST (Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier, Bruce Tomb), 2008.


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At Betabrand we launch several new products a week on a fast-paced, rigorous schedule, so the timing of this project was key. Fortunately we had a number of Bike to Work product launches coming up, which allowed me to create fresh photo assets for the entire Bike to Work Collection, paired with bikes supplied by Torker. Once we had product samples in-house as well as bikes for the shoots, with the help of my team we took on the task of producing and executing several photoshoots in various locations around San Francisco. (Our photo stylist Michelle even stepped in when we had a model cancel, and ended up being featured in a number of the print ads.) The resulting images were then utilized by both teams in both print and web campaigns, expanding the reach of both brands.


"I'd do anything if…" That's exactly what Jonathan Wheeler wants to hear, but there's always a cost. Tickets to the concert of the century? A college education for a child? Saving the life of a loved one? Jonathan Wheeler wants to make it happen, but if the price isn't paid he's prepared to deliver the consequences.
I finally found the time to finish Gifts and Consequences. I'm so glad I did. The book is an amazingly touching story about a man and his devotion to his wife. Throughout the book are different stories of the people that Jonathon is helping (or in some cases doling out consequences to). The author does a fabulous job of capturing the reader with each story.
The book truly broke my heart (I cried many times) but also filled me with hope. I would highly recommend it.
Your post is nice its really heart touching.
Gifts are help to make memories for long time. See the gifts for her and make days more memorable.


CAD models are programmed in OPEN CASCADE with different levels of detail, which are then, using high performance computing, meshed and imported in OpenFOAM to calculate fluid flow around the given object.
The usual procedure to simulate the fluid flow around the body is to take the CAD model, mesh it and run the CFD simulation. After analysing the results from the simulation, new design solutions are proposed. The model is changed according to the new solutions, meshed again and CFD simulation is run. After several iterations of CAD modelling, meshing and CFD simulations, final design is achieved.
Simulations of Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (the theory of quarks and gluons) are used to study properties of strongly interacting matter and can, e.g., be used to calculate properties of the quark-gluon plasma, a phase of matter that existed a few milliseconds after the Big Bang (at temperatures larger than a trillion degrees Celsius). Such simulations take up a large fraction of the available supercomputing resources worldwide.
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Modern multi- and many-core hardware architectures provide a huge amount of floating point operations (FLOPs). However, CPU and GPU FLOPs cannot be harvested in the same manner. While the CPU is designed to minimize the latency of of a stream of individual operations, the GPU tries to maximize the throughput. At this stage, the code developer is faced with a decision to exhibit more parallelism of the algorithm to support the GPU execution path or optimize the code further for the CPU.
Objective of this project is to create interactive game inspired by movie "Innerspace". In first stage 3D virtual model of human body from Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance (MR) images will be created. This model will be than imported into the game engine (Unity 3D). This engine will be customized, control system allowing player to move through 3D human body will be implemented. Outcome of this project could be used not only for propagation of HPC among general public but it could be also developed into more sophisticated system which could be later used for educational purposes of medical students.
In this project, we will investigate how link prediction algorithms benefit from parallel computing in Apache Hadoop ecosystem. We will implement parallelized methodology for link prediction algorithms using MapReduce model. We will examine two types of topological features, namely neighbourhood based (e.g., common neighbors, Jaccard coefficient, Adamic/Adar coefficient) and random walk based (e.g., Katz, rooted PageRank, SimRank). We will assess the performance and validity of MapReduce implementation on several large-scale co-occurrence based biomedical networks. In addition, we will explore influence of network properties on the performance of link prediction by varying network parameters (size, density, degree distribution, clustering coefficient, etc.). Finally, we will provide a prototype application for visualization of predicted links in MEDLINE co-occurrence network.
Main objective of this project is to create platform for visualization of real motion of human body based on motion capture technology. First 3D virtual model of human skeleton will be created. This model will be moving based on real human motion obtained through motion capture technology. First model will be created manually using polygons. Second more sophisticated model will be generated based on Computed Tomography (CT) images. Outcome of this project could be used not only for promotion of HPC among general public but it could be also developed into more sophisticated system which could be later used by physicians for home treatment of patients with movement problems.
An important part of HPC is understanding how optimisation carried out on application codes influences performance. Recently focus has shifted towards energy efficiency in the onset of "green" HPC clusters. At ICHEC we our continuously pushing the boundaries towards this goal. Our recent endeavour involves developing a special prototype system that can measure power consumption of different many-core technologies (e.g. GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi co-processors, FPGAs) used by many HPC applications. To make this prototype accessible to a wider audience this project will aim to build a performance analytics dashboard that potential developers can use to submit and/or analyse their applications using a variety of metrics such as power consumption and performance. The dashboard could also be extended to suit a larger compute cluster and to monitor further information about application behaviours.
There are many simulation codes that model the flow of fluids under different environments at a variety of scales. A relative simple model consists of the so-called "shallow water equations", where the horizontal length scale is great than the vertical length scale. While simple, these equations have been used to simulate both small-scale and large-scale fluid flow; from water in a bathtub to waves in the ocean.
The kinase PI3Ka is involved in fundamental cellular processes such as cell proliferation and differentiation. PI3Ka is frequently mutated in human malignancies. One of the most common mutations is located in exon 9 (E545K), where a glutamic acid is replaced by lysine. The E545K mutation results in an amino acid of opposite charge, where the glutamic acid (negative charge) is replaced by lysine (positive charge). It has been recently proposed that in this oncogenic charge-reversal mutation, the interactions of the protein catalytic subunit with the protein regulatory subunit are abrogated, resulting in loss of regulation and constitutive PI3Ka activation, which can lead to oncogenesis. To test the mechanism of protein overactivation, MD simulations will be used here to examine conformational changes differing among the WT and mutant as they occur in microsecond simulations.
Virtual screening is a computational technique used in drug discovery to search libraries of small molecules in order to identify those compounds, which are most likely to bind to a drug target, typically a protein. A protein family is a group of evolutionarily-related proteins. When screening for drug candidates to identify inhibitors for a specific protein, the inhibitor should be very specific for the protein of interest and should not inhibit other proteins within the protein family. For example the Activin-Like Kinases (ALK1-7) or the PI3K isoforms (PI3K alpha, beta, gamma, delta) have a high homology but perform different functions. Therefore, we would like our candidate drug to be selective for the protein of interest and not for other homologs or isoforms of the protein family, because inhibiting other members of the protein family may lead to undesirable side effects.
We have just completed the building of Wee Archie, a mini supercomputer that represents ARCHER, the UK national supercomputer hosted by us in Edinburgh. Wee Archie is comprised of 18 Raspberry Pis (8 control cores and 64 computation cores) housed in a custom constructed casing with all the wires and networking hardware required for it to work and providing a minimum of set up time. The idea behind this is so it can be easily taken to outreach events where the public can gain an understanding of what a supercomputer is comprised of, illustration of parallelism and through examples of real world problems run on these machines how HPC is, without them knowing, central to their everyday lives. The hardware itself is complete, but more applications and demonstrations are needed for running on the machine in order to have the impact that we want.
Reanalysis (i.e. multi-decadal simulations with data assimilation) of the biogeochemical state of the Mediterranean Sea are an important tool to study the nutrient and carbon cycles characterizing the Mediterranean, considered as a "hot spot" for climate change (Lazzari et al., JMS 135, 2014; Giorgi, GRL 33, 2006).
Due to the lack of sufficient in-situ observational data and the length of the simulations carried out with OGSTM-BFM model, necessary to resolve the proper time scales, researchers have to tune the model setup and particularly the boundary conditions (BCs), to which the model is very sensitive.
The starting point of this work is the numerical study of a particular class of solutions of the 3d incompressible Navier-Stokes equations suggested by the theoretical work of Li and Sinai who proved the existence of a blow up for complex-valued solutions with suitable initial data.
The main aim of this project is to extend the course by parallelising the example applications within it. This would primarily be done using MPI and the mpi4py Python package, although other ways of introducing parallelisation will also be considered. By ensuring the application codes can run on ARCHER, the UK's National Supercomputing service, the student will gain experience using a large HPC facility such as ARCHER.
Apache Spark: Bridge between HPC and Big Data?
Student is expected to cooperate on implementation and performance testing of simple quantum chemistry method(s), such as Hartee-Fock/DFT or the Second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory using Apache Spark, general-purpose engine for large-scale data processing (alternative to Hadoop/MapReduce). Despite the fact that Spark runs on top of JVM (Java Virtual Machine), thus can hardly match the FPO performance of Fortran/C(++) programs compiled to native machine code, it has many desirable features of (distributed) parallel application: fault-tolerance, node-aware distributed storage, caching or automated memory management. Yet we are curious, how far we can push the performance of Spark application by, e.g. substituting critical parts with compiled native code or by using efficient BLAS-like libraries.
In calculations of nanotubes prevail methods based on a one-dimensional translational symmetry using a huge unit cell. A pseudo two-dimensional approach, when the inherent helical symmetry of general chirality nanotubes is exploited, has been limited to simple approximate model Hamiltonians. Currently, we are developing a new unique code for fully ab initio calculations of nanotubes that explicitly uses the helical symmetry properties. Implementation is based on a formulation in two-dimensional reciprocal space where one dimension is continuous whereas the second one is discrete. Independent particle quantum chemistry methods, such as Hartee-Fock and/or DFT or simple post Hartree-Fock MP2 are used to calculate the band structures.
This project will involve optimising lattice Quantum Chromodynamics codes, which currently run on PRACE Tier-0 and other European Peta-scale supercomputers. The specific optimisation targeted involves using mixed precision, i.e. combined half, single and double precision arithmetic in the iterative solvers currently employed. The student will implement the set of extra functions required in an existing code, and run the code, check for correctness, tune the parameters of the solver and analyse the improvement in the performance.


This story has been around for a while but received new life with the release of a 2015 book, now translated from the original German, on the subject of epidemic-level drug use in Nazi Germany. Here's the New York Times review of "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich".
Few eras fascinate historians more than the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and the World War that served as its centerpiece. The book's thesis is that this remarkable story may not have emerged without rampant drug abuse. In particular, two extraordinarily popular prescribed drugs: Pervitin, an amphetamine, and Eukodal, an opioid painkiller.
The kamikaze pilots of Japan also consumed quantities of amphetamine drugs to boost their courage, and I've read the same about suicide bombers used by modern terrorist organizations. Would it surprise you to know that not so long ago, before drug testing became an issue in baseball, that some trainers set out bowls of amphetamine pills, called 'greenies', in Major League locker rooms?
Eukodal is oxycodone. Evidence suggests that Hitler was a regular user, along with cocaine and amphetamines. That's not uncommon; heavy users of stimulants often incorporate drugs such as heroin and morphine into their use pattern. It's a way of lessening the toxicity, agitation, and insomnia associated with longterm use of stimulants. Problem is the user then becomes dependent on the opioids, suffers painful withdrawal in their absence, dramatically increases the dose, and is unable to stop.
Instead of one serious drug problem, he now has two.
In Hitler's case, all this was under the direction of his personal physician. That's not so different from any number of celebrities who've died of accidental overdose in the years since the War ended. Most of them had personal physicians, who provided the drugs that eventually helped kill them.
Critics of the recent book argue that the author overstates the importance of drug use in the rise and fall of Nazi Germany; they see other factors as more important. I'm not a historian, so I'll stay out of that discussion. I do think that some poor soul whose brain is thoroughly soaked in diverse toxins, on a continuing basis, is liable to do practically anything.
And the rest of us will probably not like the results.


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A minor in creative writing provides the opportunity to study the tradition and craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in writing workshops and modern literature classes. In writing workshop classes, students critique and revise their creative work and study modern literature from a writer's perspective. The minor prepares students to write creative work independently and to understand their work in the context of contemporary literary practices.
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Study of twentieth-century British, American, Continental, and Latin American poetry. 3 hours seminar. (003543)
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British, Continental, and American drama from Ibsen to the present. Topics vary from semester to semester. 3 hours seminar. (003549)
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You'll see a water gauging station in the middle of the bridge. This was part of a flood control project built by the Army Corps of Engineers in response to the 1967 flood that devastated Fairbanks.
This unique bridge spans 110-foot over Moore Creek Gorge. Named for Captain William Moore, a pilot, prospector, packer, trader and riverboat captain. He played an important role in the founding of Skagway and helped pioneer the route over White Pass. Captain Moore was one of the first people to realize the potential for a railroad over the pass.
It's not just floods and avalanches that shut down remote roads in Alaska. In this case, a bridge was heavily damaged by a rogue trucker with an over weight load! According to local legend, after nearly destroying the bridge, the (alleged) culprit drove away and was never seen again.
Surprise! This bridge over the Susitna River appears without warning, so if you want to stop and see this huge drainage, slow down and pull off the road at either end. Alaskans call it the Big Su. We fish it, paddle it, and snow machine its frozen braids. Bush pilots even navigate by this river.
For many, crossing the Kuskulana Bridge is the most nerve-racking part of their drive down McCarthy Road. Mentally prepare yourself to drive across this old single-lane railroad bridge 238 feet above the raging Kuskulana River! The Kuskulana bridge was built during the winter of 1910. You will see for yourself what a remarkable achievement this was.
This 1255-foot-long bridge has reserved its place in history by being America's first cable-stayed girder spanned bridge. Today, it connects Sitka, on Baranof Island, to the town's airport, which is on Japonski Island. Finished in 1972, it was named after a former mayor of Sitka.
A popular place for viewing wintering Emperor Geese.
Arctic grayling, northern pike and dolly varden are common in the Ogilvie River.
William Ogilvie was a prominent Canadian land surveyor who began working in the Yukon in the summer of 1887. His first task was to determine the location of the boundary between Canada and Alaska at the Yukon River.
Alaska has a fascinating archeology. The fossilized remains of many species of pre-glacial Alaskan mammals have been discovered here. These fossils are on display at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks as well as the museum in Central.
Pelican Creek Bridge is just a few minutes from Pelican's harbor. This is a great place for viewing salmon that are headed upstream to spawning sites. Check it out in July and August for the best viewing opportunities.
At Milepost 67 Taylor Highway you will find the Chicken Creek Bridge. This is the site of a dredge that was operated by the Fairbanks Exploration Company from 1959 until 1965. In an average run of the dredge, it was operating 24 hours a day for 2 weeks. At it's peak, one run would bring in $40,000 in gold.
Watch for cattle as you drive through open range. You can admire the views from the bridge, or take the trail up Sharatin Cirque & Mountain and explore flowery slopes and signs of wildlife, including Mountain Goats, Pipits, and Ptarmigan.
This bridge, connecting downtown Juneau with Douglas Island, was built in 1981, though the original bridge dates to 1935. Today you can walk, bike, or drive across this bridge for a very scenic view.
Sheer cuts along river bank reveal a heavy volcanic ash layer from the eruption of 1912.
The mountain range to the right is Devil's Prongs and Barometer Mountain is to the left.


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The Predators have activated Dan Hamhuis (undisclosed) from IR.
Hamhuis has missed the last nine games, but will draw back into the Predators lineup on Thursday. Hamhuis, who has just one assist in seven games this season, will replace P.K. Subban in Arizona.
The Predators have placed Dan Hamhuis (undisclosed) on IR.
Hamhuis suffered and undisclosed injury vs. the Sharks on Tuesday, leaving the game after playing just 5:13 TOI. With Hamhuis on IR, Anthony Bitetto will likely play on Thursday and Rocco Grimaldi has been called up to take his roster spot.
Hamhuis is expected to be back in the Predators lineup on Thursday.
Hamhuis will be a healthy scratch on Saturday.
The Predators signed Dan Hamhuis to a two-year deal worth $2.5M ($1.25M AAV).
Hamhuis (groin) will not play on Thursday in Nashville.
Hamhuis missed Tuesday's game vs. the Red Wings and will miss his second straight game on Thursday. With Hamhuis sidelined, Julius Honka will remain in the Stars lineup. Consider him as day-to-day.
Hamhuis (groin) will not play on Tuesday.
Hamhuis suffered a groin injury in the Stars' loss on Saturday and he will not be available for tonight's game vs. the Red Wings. With Hamhuis sidelined, Julius Honka will draw into the lineup for his first game of the season. Consider Hamhuis as day-to-day.
Hamhuis (groin) will be a game-time decision on Tuesday.
Hamhuis left Saturday's game after playing just 13:38 TOI and it looks like he could be in danger of missing tomorrow's contest vs. Detroit. If Hamhuis doesn't play, Juluis Honka could draw into the lineup for the first time this season.
Hamhuis will be a healthy scratch on Monday.
Hamhuis has picked up just five assists in 21 games in his first season with the Stars. He has been held pointless in his last six games and played a season-low 16:03 TOI on Friday. He will serve as a healthy scratch for the second time this season, which means Patrik Nemeth will draw back into the lineup.
The Stars have signed Dan Hamhuis for a two-year deal worth $7.5 million ($3.75M AAV).
Hamhuis, 33, was heavily rumoured to the Stars at last season's trade deadline, but he really wanted to stay in Vancouver and finish out the season. He had 13 points (3G / 10A) in 58 games with the Canucks and now lands in Dallas after all. The big loser in this signing is the Canucks, who lose him for nothing. The Stars lost both Kris Russell and Jason Demers in free agency, so Hamhuis comes in and fills that second-pairing defenseman void.
Hamhuis (face) will return to the Canucks lineup on Saturday.
Hamhuis (face) is still one month away from returning.
Hamhuis has been out of the lineup since December 9th because of facial fractures and he will miss at least one more month. Don't expect to see Hamhuis back on the Canucks' blueline until mid-February.
Hamhuis (face) has been placed on IR; out indefinitely.
Hamhuis was taken to hospital after being hit in the face by a slap shot in Wednesday's game vs. the Rangers.
Hamhuis was hit right near the mouth by a Dan Boyle slapshot and immediately left the ice and was taken to hospital. He was held at the hospital overnight and will likely miss an extended period of time.
Hamhuis (undisclosed) will return to the Canucks lineup on Monday.
Hamhuis missed the last three games with a lower-body injury, but will be back in on Monday vs. the Flyers. He has two assists and a plus-1 rating in eight games.
Hamhuis (undisclosed) will not travel on the Canucks' upcoming two-game road-trip.
Hamhuis (leg) will return to the Canucks lineup on Friday.
Hamhuis missed the last 22 games with a knee injury that he suffered on November 20th. Hamhuis will replace either Frank Corrado or Yannick Weber in the lineup. He has six assists and a minus-5 rating in 20 games this season.
Hamhuis (leg) plans to return to the lineup on Friday vs. the Hurricanes.
Hamhuis has been sidelined with a leg injury since November 20th and will miss another game tonight in Philadelphia, but he said that the plan calls for him to be back in the lineup in Carolina on Friday.
Hamhuis (leg) will not return on Tuesday; should play on road-trip.
Hamhuis still is not ready for game action, but should return to the lineup at some point during their upcoming five-game road trip.
Hamhuis (leg) returned to Canucks' practice on Thursday.
Hamhuis had been doing some light workouts by himself, but took part in the Canucks optional morning skate today. Hamhuis has been sidelined since November 20th and isn't expected to be back until late-January.


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Q: Etymology of "sh**hole" What is the etymology of shithole? Did it originate from A) the orifice through which excrement is passed, or B) the hole in the ground intended for the disposal of such excrement?
(This is a serious question for professional research. You don't want to know the details.)

A: Why wouldn't it be both? It seems like an obvious production from two easily-combined words, and the meaning, if it even matters, would be obvious in context.
Edit: The Corpus of Contemporary American English shows 73 uses of it, every time referring to a place, never once referring to an anus. So it would seem that the more common use of the word, and probably the original coining, refer to the hole-in-the-ground sense.

A: The OED's earliest citation for shithole is from the seventeenth century, and it's given as 'coarse slang' for 'the rectum or anus'. The earliest citation for shithole meaning 'a toilet; a latrine' is only from 1947.

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How What You Eat May Affect Your Brain Size
By Alice Park
May 16, 2018 4:00 PM EDT
Can your diet affect your brain? A new study published in Neurology suggests that people who eat healthy diets may have larger brain volumes.
Meike Vernooij, a professor in epidemiology and radiology at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and her colleagues wanted to see how diet might impact the brain. They asked more than 4,000 older people in the Netherlands (average age: 66) about what they ate and analyzed brain scans over 10 years.
People who ate healthier diets resembling the Mediterranean diet — rich in fruits, vegetables and healthy fats from sources like fish, and low in red meat — showed larger total brain volume. They also had more grey and white matter, which is a way of measuring the amount of nerve density in the brain. The area of the brain that's responsible for processing memories, called the hippocampus, was also larger in people who ate healthier diets.
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Vernooij and her team also analyzed the effect of individual foods and nutrients, and found that no single component of the diet was responsible for the apparent benefit. The combined effect of eating more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, dairy and fish seemed to contribute to larger brain volume.
The researchers also found that people who drank fewer sugar-sweetened beverages like sodas also had larger brain volumes.
While the study did not delve into whether diet could change brain volumes or affect brain function, Vernooij and Pauline Croll, a co-author on the paper and a PhD student in epidemiology and radiology at Erasmus, believe the findings could lead to new research on how diet could affect brain disorders. "I do think these results open up a lot of opportunities," says Croll. "It's already known that a healthy diet is associated with better brain health, and that it is protective against neurodegeneration. But to truly say that a good diet can lower the risk of dementia, we need larger studies and [longer] follow up."
The team hopes to continue their work and look at whether changes in diet can possibly affect brain volumes and potentially increase volumes to slow or reverse cognitive decline.
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While I was trekking across the country, the folks at GIJoeCon.com were busy getting photos uploaded for the 2015 G.I. Joe Convention.
While I tried my hardest to get pictures posted of Hasbro reveals, etc… I didn't have a whole lot of time to get images of the contests or the scores of fantastic cosplayers throughout the weekend.
Thankfully, GIJoeCon.com picked up my slack. Check out their great photo album on GIJoeCon.com!
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Q: Per-environment config in create-react-native-app I have an app that I created using create-react-native-app. I'm trying to use react-native-config to manage config variables that differ between dev and production.
This requires the following steps, which depend on Xcode. Is there any way to do this without ejecting my project?
Go to your project -> Build Settings -> All
* Set Preprocess Info.plist File to Yes
* Set Info.plist Preprocessor Prefix File to ${BUILD_DIR}/GeneratedInfoPlistDotEnv.h
* Set Info.plist Other Preprocessor Flags to -traditional


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A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
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DistributorUniversal Pictures
Release DateOct 28, 2005 - Dec 15, 2005
GenresComedy Drama Romance
In Release70 days/10 weeks
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Restaurants make contributions to the Richard Murphy Hospice Foundation and 2021 Gala
Each year the Richard Murphy Hospice Foundation receives countless donations from local restaurants and businesses that greatly aid the Hospice House's efforts to care for its patients.
Communication student Tristan Ellis has been utilizing his skills and interests to reach out to restaurants in Tangipahoa Parish and surrounding areas for this year's Gala. His efforts have so far gained for the Gala donations and/or participation from about seven restaurants, with more to come.
This past week, Ellis received confirmation from Cena, Sarita's Grill and Cantina, Superking Seafood, Tacos & Beer, and Olive Garden.
Southeastern's Communication 466 Special Events Planning course has allowed students to work in their areas of interest and expertise for planning the Gala.
"I wanted to work with restaurants for the hands-on event planning experience, as well as the networking opportunities," said Ellis. "It's definitely challenged me to be a more social person."
They have stepped out of their comfort zones, adapted to constant changes, and gained valuable communication skills and experience in the process of assisting the foundation with the event.
"My favorite part has been meeting so many new people and it's been very rewarding, feeling like I'm contributing to a good cause," he added.
As of now, nearly thirty restaurants have confirmed a donation or participation of some kind to help with this year's Gala.
"It has been extremely helpful to have Tristan reaching out to the restaurants for the Hospice Gala event," said Melinda Milton, Restaurant Committee Chair for the 2021 Gala. "The SLU students have brought such a fresh point of view to the event. We appreciate the hard work and the energy which we believe will contribute to the best Gala event we have ever had for Richard Murphy Hospice."


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Bitcoin NewsCryptocurrency
Why Bitcoin's (BTC) future is vertical and crypto should give up going horizontal
By Gary McFarlane
Instead of concentrating on building the vertical second layer on top of the bitcoin network, the industry has been obsessed with developing competing base layers on a horizontal plane in the shape of new blockchains, often at great expense and with relatively little to show for it.
That, at any rate, is the contention of Ryan Radloff, the chief executive and co-founder of CoinShares.
2/ Last 3 years our industry has been focused on growing horizontally (not vertically) by creating new "base layer" networks to build on & compete with #bitcoin, mainly because of bitcoin's flaws:
-Not fast enough
-Not programable enough
-etc…
— Ryan Radloff ⚡ (@RyanRadloff) February 10, 2019
And there is one technology in particular that is witnessing accelerated adoption, achieved not by inventing a "better" blockchain but simply by building on top of what already exists: it's the Lightning Network.
Nodes matter and bitcoin is still on top by a mile
As of 10 February, the node counts of leading blockchains had bitcoin in first place with 10,336, Ethereum in second place on 7,574 and coming up fast, Lightning is in third place with a tally of 6,088.
Some way behind, in fourth, fifth and sixth place are Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ripple on 1,869, 1,589 and 1,047, respectively.
At the time of writing the Lightning node count has risen to 6,293, seeing a 14.6% increase in the past 30 days, according to Lightning data site 1ML. Network capacity has jumped 30% in that same period to $2,506,102 (691.01 BTC) and the number of channels stands at 26,990.
Going vertical with Bitcoin as new dapps launch but inactivity grows
OK, we can have an argument about bitcoin's listening (full nodes) and non-listening nodes (SPV) that don't have their ports open and similar issues to take account of on the other networks, but you get the idea. Bitcoin is by far the most decentralised network, although there is the consideration of the "political" control of those nodes, given the pockets of mining control concentration that ASICs brought to the world. Perhaps we should say bitcoin is the densest (and most secure) network.
Radloff argues that for the past three years the industry has been fixated on horizontal development by creating new "base layers" with a "'crypto Keynesian' type spending model – raising a ton of capital & spending it on projects to promote network growth, hoping the spending would stimulate coin velocity & user growth… Now data is showing that isn't working."
Although not mentioned by Radloff, it might be noted here that a recent research on Ethereum by LongHash found that 10% of the dapps "running" on its blockchain were inactive.
Other data at State of the Dapps report in January revealed that 17% of all dapps were inactive, despite the new apps chart still trending higher.
Radloff compares EOS and Tron to the bitcoin network in somewhat disparaging terms, bemoaning the fact that they "still can't achieve the same network size or node count success as bitcoin or even more embarrassing, bitcoins [sic] second layer – lightning network".
He maintains that the approach of EOS and Tron is akin to governments implementing Keynesian-inspired public spending to manage aggregate demand in an economy with the aim of stimulating economic growth.
The development of the Lightning Network, by contrast, according to Radloff, has proceeded along the lines of "minimalist 'boot strap' funding". And in so doing it is proving through example that there's a different way ahead that isn't just cheaper but arguably more successful.
However, critics of Lightning say its system of pre-funded channels that have to be opened between transacting parties will ultimately make it difficult to grow the network and ultimately an unsuitable solution for payments at scale.
Does Cash and pizza prove the point?
Which brings us to a couple of news items on the Lightning front that perhaps go some way towards illustrating Radloff's point.
First, Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of both Twitter and Square, who said "it's not an 'if', it's a 'when'" for Lightning Network integration in the Cash app, as reported earier this week by EWN.
Dorsey is what might be considered a bitcoin maximalist in altcoin circles, given that he has rebuffed all pleas to support top altcoins in Cash.
In December last year Cash was the most downloaded app in the finance section of the Google Play app store. And on 8 December it was the No.1 most downloaded app in the Apple app store. No wonder people are jumping up and down about Dorsey bringing Lightning to the app.
Now consider the launch of Lightning Pizza by the folks behind the crypto payment app Fold.
As the name suggests, the new service enables consumers to buy pizza from Domino's Pizza with bitcoin. A Cheese Pizza, a Pepperoni Pizza and a Classic Garden Salad purchased from from the New York store on 181 Church Street, costs 523101 satoshis ($18.58). LN.Pizza users get a 5% reduction.
Altcoin winter
The reader should be aware that Radloff's comments came a few days before news emerged that CoinShares' XBT Provider subsidiary was shelving plans to launch a crypto basket tracker fund.
The group already has two successful products in the crypto space – the Bitcoin and Ethereum exchanged traded note (ETN) trackers.
An ETN is constructed as a debt security and provides the owner with exposure to the underlying asset. Although similar in appearance, ETNs are not exchanged traded funds, despite trading on a stock market. The confusion on that score led to the XBT Provider products being suspended in the US by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bitcoin Tracker One and Ethereum Tracker One are both listed on the Swedish stock exchange.
In a Bloomberg report on 13 February Laurent Kssis, the chief executive of XBT Provider, explained the reasoning behind the cancelling of the crypto basket fund as down to the company having an insufficient understanding of the situation with hard forks affecting blockchains.
"It's important to ask how the community is responding to the split and who's going to support one asset versus the other. If we get it wrong, these assets will drop and if they're part of the basket we can't go back because it's in the final term-sheet," said Kssis.
Given the mess surrounding the Bitcoin Cash hard fork that saw the creation of Bitcoin SV, which is still the subject of much controversy as seen in Jimmy Song's recent accusation that it is a "scam", the doubts about a fund tracking a basket of cryptoassets at this point could be sound, although that may not be the whole story.
With a number of projects in danger of running out of funds as the crypto winter drags on, XBT Provider may be cooling on altcoins, with the exception of Ethereum, hence Radloff's love of all things bitcoin.
Lightning 'Pass The Torch' game lights the way
On a seemingly more frivolous note is the progress of the Lightning Pass The Torch game on Twitter, where crypto luminaries 'pass the torch' by receiving a Lightning transaction and then adding 10,000 satoshi and passing on the torch, relay like, to someone else in the crypto community.
It was recently in the hands of Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of Binance, who in turn has past it to Justin Sun of Tron who has now entrusted the imaginary flame to the safe-keeping of Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift. Attempts to get Elon Musk onboard have so far failed. Dorsey and Elizabeth Stark have previously been torch bearers.
If nothing else, the torch game is raising the profile of the Lightning Network on crypto twitter if not the rest of the internet.
Lightning has seen a number development teams building rival implementations, with Elizabeth Stark's Lightning Labs arguably leading the way. Dorsey is an investor in the company.
Back with Radloff, how does he see Lightning and other second-layer efforts playing out over the next few years? Vertical expansion of course.
7/ so I predict the theme of the next 3 years won't be horizontal expansion, but vertical expansion on top of #bitcoin
To provide a bit of context on how Radloff's thoughts have been evolving, back in December 2017 he saw a marketplace of competing coins as a positive "Darwinian" struggle.
Maybe that struggle has played out and the "Bitcoin 2.0" he speaks of in the 2017 CNBC interview turns out to be Lightning and other second-layer tech yet to come, not Ethereum, EOS, Cardano etc…
Cryptocurrency story much bigger than bitcoin now: CoinShares from CNBC.
Bitcoin (BTC) General News lightning network
Gary McFarlane
Gary is a cryptocurrency analyst at interactive investor, the UK's second-largest stockbroker. He has been writing professionally about cryptocurrency since 2013, when he initiated bitcoin coverage at Money Observer, one of the UK's most respected investment magazines. Gary writes for EWN in a personal capacity and his contributions should not be taken as investment advice.


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'Warzone' player explores upcoming Caldera map with camera bug
A sneaky spectator bug allowed one player to explore Caldera
By Andy Brown
Call Of Duty: Warzone. Image credit: Activision
A Warzone player has used a spectator cam bug to preview what looks like Caldera, the next map to come to the battle royale.
READ MORE: Sexual harassment claims, lawsuits, and several high profile departures – what's going on with Activision Blizzard?
Taking to Twitter (thanks, VGC), Call Of Duty content creator Jgod shared a clip of him using a spectator cam bug – which allows players to take the camera well outside the bounds of a map and explore the surrounding area. Jgod used this bug to take a look outside of the newest Call Of Duty: Vanguard map, Shipment.
Was able to use a spectator cam on shipment to see if we can get a sneak peak of Caldera. What do you think? #vanguard pic.twitter.com/CnCgcidtkP
— James – JGOD (@JGODYT) November 20, 2021
While the environment and surrounding buildings are very low quality, the clip seems to reveal a first glimpse at what Caldera will look like. Outside of Shipment, there is a military camp that is surrounded by a small coastal town and towering mountains. Across the water, there's a plethora of battleships and what looks to be more industrial docks.
A lot of the scenery seems to line up with the first glimpse of Caldera that players got at the start of November, suggesting that out-of-bounds Shipment does indeed include Caldera.
Unfortunately, fans will need to wait a bit longer to jump into the map. On November 19, it was announced that both the Caldera map and Call Of Duty: Vanguard season one would be delayed by one week. Vanguard owners will now be able to jump into Caldera on December 8, while open access begins on December 9.
In other news, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has reportedly said he will "consider leaving" the company if he cannot fix concerns of sexual misconduct "with speed". Kotick also reportedly apologised for his handling of recent sexual harassment allegations, and said he was ashamed of some of the incidents that occurred under his watch.
Last week, a report alleged that Kotick has been aware of sexual misconduct within Activision Blizzard since 2018.


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module Sprangular::OrderCheckoutDecorator
  def self.prepended(klass)
    klass.state_machine.after_transition to: :complete, do: :persist_addresses
  end

  def update_from_params(params, permitted_params, request_env = {})
    success = false
    @updating_params = params
    run_callbacks :updating_from_params do
      attributes = @updating_params[:order] ? @updating_params[:order].permit(permitted_params).delete_if { |k,v| v.nil? } : {}

      # Set existing card after setting permitted parameters because
      # rails would slice parameters containg ruby objects, apparently
      existing_card_id = @updating_params[:order] ? @updating_params[:order][:existing_card] : nil

      if existing_card_id.present?
        credit_card = ::Spree::CreditCard.find existing_card_id
        if credit_card.user_id != self.user_id || credit_card.user_id.blank?
          raise ::Spree::Core::GatewayError.new Spree.t(:invalid_credit_card)
        end

        credit_card.verification_value = params[:cvc_confirm] if params[:cvc_confirm].present?

        attributes[:payments_attributes].first[:source] = credit_card
        attributes[:payments_attributes].first[:payment_method_id] = credit_card.payment_method_id
        attributes[:payments_attributes].first.delete :source_attributes
      end

      if attributes[:payments_attributes]
        attributes[:payments_attributes].first[:request_env] = request_env
      end

      if attributes[:payments_attributes] && attributes[:payments_attributes].first[:source_attributes].nil? && existing_card_id.nil?
        # don't allow payments to be created until we're ready to confirm
        attributes.delete :payments_attributes
      end

      # Adds Sprangular support to resuse an address
      if attributes[:bill_address_attributes]
        existing_billing_address = attributes[:bill_address_attributes][:id]

        if existing_billing_address.present?
          bill_address = ::Spree::Address.find(existing_billing_address)
          self.bill_address = bill_address
          attributes.delete :bill_address_attributes
        end

        existing_shipping_address = attributes[:ship_address_attributes][:id]

        if existing_shipping_address.present?
          ship_address = ::Spree::Address.find(existing_shipping_address)
          self.ship_address = ship_address
          attributes.delete :ship_address_attributes
        end
      end

      success = self.update_attributes(attributes)
      set_shipments_cost if self.shipments.any?
    end

    @updating_params = nil
    success
  end

  # override the default method here to prevent invalid payments from being created
  def assign_default_credit_card
    true
  end

protected

  def persist_addresses
    return unless user

    persist_address(:bill_address)
    persist_address(:ship_address)
  end

  def persist_address(address_type)
    address = self.send(address_type).dup
    address.user = user

    already_exists = user.addresses.reload.any?(&address.method(:same_as?))

    address.save unless already_exists
  end
end

Spree::Order.send(:prepend, Sprangular::OrderCheckoutDecorator)

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For the last couple of days I've been thinking about this… so here goes. When you do crafts or art, you should be having fun, not trying to do perfection. There is no such of a thing. So get over it. If you're happy with it, you are a success.
I don't recommend asking for critiques. They're going to tell you how THEY would do it. Do you want to do your art or theirs? Stop and think about it. Do you really want yours to look like theirs? If that's the case, ya shoulda just bought one of theirs. LOL Remember, this is my opinion… it's worth what you paid for it.
My Mother taught me fear of failure. I had to get it right first time out. So I didn't try. My husband gave me the gift of you can throw it away and do another one. LOL That was the best present I have ever gotten from anyone. If I truly don't like it, I can throw it away. No big deal. I did not fail. It was a learning curve. I can not do my very best each and every time. No one can. And that's OK.
This one needs doodles, I think. Gesso and medium over the B&W photos give it a different look. I think I'll work on this one tonight. Hope I can show it to you tomorrow.
Warning: Do not give your Chihuahua a T-bone steak bone. This is very serious stuff. He or she could have… might have… a serious mental break with their normal personality. Yes, you read it right. They have a drastic personality change. They can become a crazed, obsessed, vicious, aggressive 5 lb. Attack Dog. Hair raises up, teeth appear to be larger, eyes glaze over, a low guttural growl coming from somewhere deep inside. Scary, very scary. Yes, their ears do appear larger. We are not sure what causes the smell… that will take further research.
We are also not sure if the size of the steak bone has any effect. But are guessing it could be any kind of steak bone, not just a T-bone. Further studies will be forth coming. Also… with the eyes glazing… one eye tends to cross. Only observe this symptom from a distance.
The good news is… when the bone is removed, taken away, the personality change reverses almost instantly. They may appear to be a little depressed. (It would be advisable to wait at least 10 to 20 minutes before consoling in any way.) They will once more become that sweet, funny, barking little Chihuahua that you love and adore. Hopefully. If not… seek a dog therapist as soon as humanly possible…. for the health of your ankles.


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Norway attack shows dangers from Islamophobia and the far right
On July 21, following a devastating bomb attack on government offices in Oslo, a gunman attacked the annual summer camp of the AUF, youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party. After initial police estimates of more than 90 dead, the death toll has been officially reduced to 76.
The media frenzy in the immediate aftermath of the killings reveals a lot. The media immediately started to speculate about the attack being the work of Muslim terrorists. One "expert" even claimed that the attack was the work of a terrorist group, Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or "Helpers of the Global Jihad." The problem is that the group doesn't seem to exist, except in the imagination of the so-called expert. Fox News, CNN and other mass media outlets hosted a parade of terrorism "experts" to talk about the "fact" that this was an example of Islamic terrorism, and when reports began to filter in that the attacker was a blond Norwegian, the experts scoffed.
Media outlets seemed unable to explain that the attack was carried out by a right-wing, anti-immigrant, Islamophobe, Anders Behring Breivik. Many media sources have shifted to referring to Breivik as a lone madman, ignoring the political context of the attacks. Breivik has been revealed to have ties to the semi-fascist English Defense League and is an admirer of the Tea Party and Islamophobic bloggers in the United States, like Pam Gellar and David Horowitz.
Breivik's attack on the AUF was not a random act. His rampage was aimed at what the far right sees as a "Marxist multiculturalism" that is facilitating the takeover of Europe by Muslims. While many rightists in Europe and the U.S. have been careful to distance themselves from the violence of this attack, many have made excuses for Breivik's hate. Pat Buchanan, a U.S.-based white nationalist and populist, said that Breivik "may have been right." Glen Beck likened the AUF summer camp to a "Hitler youth rally"—as if this somehow excused the slaughter.
In the period since 9/11, the mass media and imperialist governments have whipped up a frenzy of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim fervor. In Western Europe, where the number of Muslim immigrants has increased in recent years, the far right has taken up the issue of Islam and the notion that Muslims are a threat to Western Civilization.
This racist and Islamophobic scapegoating has spread to the U.S. as well. The official policy of the U.S. government is tolerance of different cultures and religions, but the reality has been preemptive prosecutions and frame-ups of Muslims. The cases of the Albany Two, the Newburgh Four, and the Fort Dix Five are examples of such frame-up prosecutions, which rely on the testimony of paid informants and, in some cases, on "secret" evidence.
In 2010, the anti-Muslim frenzy reached a boiling point in the United States around the issue of Cordoba House, the Islamic cultural center planned for Lower Manhattan. The ultra-right Tea party and right-wing blogger Pamela Geller and her organization Stop Islamization of America went on a campaign to paint the building of Cordoba House as some sort of conspiracy by radical Muslims. Fox News and the right-wing media took up the drum beat. Cordoba House was framed as a "9/11 Victory Mosque" and a "monument to the 9/11 hijackers." Hate crimes against mosques and Muslims increased.
Some mainstream politicians and media defended the Islamic center, but often in timid terms and very often questioning the "sensitivity" of building the center within several blocks of the site of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack in Manhattan. Howard Dean—the so-called liberal—called Cordoba House an affront.
Breivik's right-wing, pro-Israel politics point to an evolution in the European and U.S. far right. The new populist far right tends to be "pro-Israel" and seeks alliances with right-wing Zionists. Islam is seen as the primary opponent of the West. Anti-Semitism, once a central feature of European far-right politics, has not disappeared, but it has faded to the background.
Writing in the Fourth International on-line journal, International Viewpoint, Enzo Traverso has these observations about the new populist far right in Europe: "The decline of the fascist tradition is giving way to the rise of a far right of a new kind, whose ideology takes on board the changes of the twenty-first century … the abandonment of the cult of the state in favor of a vision of the neo-liberal world centered on the criticism of the Welfare State, the tax revolt, economic deregulation and the valorization of individual freedoms, opposed to any official interference…"
What are the lessons we should draw from the Norway attack? The labor movement and all socialist and progressive forces must unequivocally and uncompromisingly oppose Islamophobia and racism, and it must actively defend the democratic rights of Muslims and immigrants. We cannot rely on cops or the capitalist state to defend us from fascist and right-wing attacks. Only mass mobilizations, working-class political independence, and collective self-defense offer real protection against the far right.
The growth of anti-immigrant vigilante groups (Minutemen, etc.) and the ultra-right Tea Party means that this is not just a European danger. Recently, Tea Party supporters broke up a picnic in a public park attended by members of the liberal group, Move-On. These types of goon-squad tactics and the rhetoric by Tea Party politicians about "Second Amendment" solutions point to an increasing impatient and volatile right wing.
> The article above was written by John Leslie, and first appeared in the August 2011 print edition of Socialist Action newspaper.
COVID-19 Is the Real Insurrection
By James Fortin January 10, 2021 Over the past days the major media has talked incessantly about the Trump-directed mob violence in the Capitol Building,
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Spitfire ride won by great grandad Jim Sudds, 74, from Sheppey
By John Nurden
jnurden@thekmgroup.co.uk
A great-grandfather is on cloud nine after scooping a £5,000 ride in a Second World War Spitfire.
Jim Sudds, 74, was at home on the Isle of Sheppey when presenter Christian Williams, who hosts a show on competition website BOTB, called to tell him he had bagged a Spitfire Experience to fly in one of the last remaining aircraft.
Sheppey pensioner Jim Sudds, 74, won a £5k Spitfire Experience
A stunned Mr Sudds replied: "Oh, that's fantastic. I used to build plastic model kits of planes when I was a nipper and living in London. We'd put bangers in the cockpits and throw them off the balcony!"
He paid 35p to enter the luxury lifestyle competition and correctly identified Porsche as being the one car in a line-up not made in Britain.
He said: "Having worked in the motor trade from the age of 15 as a mechanic, driver, workshop manager and fleet manager until I retired I should have got it right!"
The flight of a lifetime offered to take him soaring above the white cliffs of Dover to relive history aboard one of the only 53 Spitfire air-worthy models left in the world.
But the grandfather of six and great grandfather of three has since decided to take the cash instead.
He admitted: "On reflection, I thought doing loop the loops and barrel rolls at my age might not be such a good thing. You can fall out of those aircraft, you know. With Christmas coming up and heating bills rising I have decided to take the money. It will come in very handy. We're going to treat ourselves to a new carpet."
Mr Sudds lives in Prince Charles Avenue, Minster, with his second wife Jan. She has four children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Jim said: "She spotted the competition and suggested I enter because she knew I'd always wanted to fly in a Spitfire. So I bought £7 of tickets but I never thought I'd be picked. It's the first time I've ever won anything!"
BOTB hands over the keys to two new luxury cars every week as well as a lifestyle prize.
Other winners have bagged £15,000 cash, a holiday to Las Vegas and a gaming tech bundle.
BOTB presenter Christian Williams called up great grandad James Sudds, 74, from Sheerness to tell him he had won a £5,000 Spitfire Experience
The company, listed on the stock market, was founded by William Hindmarch in 1999 and has given away more than £44million-worth of vehicles so far.
Presenter Christian, who surprises winners every week, said he was thrilled to give Jim the good news.
He said: "What an amazing prize James has played for. To fly in one of the last remaining Spitfires in the world is a truly fantastic experience. I'm super excited for him!"
To hear Jim's reaction click here
Human Interest Isle of Sheppey Quirky John Nurden


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Manchester City's 4-2 victory over Fulham saw us land both of our betting tips last weekend, as we won our 12th betting tip from the last 16 selections in the Premier League.
Sportingly Better picks out the best Premiership betting tips this weekend, as Norwich host Manchester United.
Manchester United fought from two goals down to pick up a vital victory at the KC Stadium, as the Red Devils won their third game in a row.
Injuries continue to creep into David Moyes' side, with Rafael the latest casualty. The Brazilian right back joins Robin Van Persie, Marouane Fellaini, Nani, Phil Jones, Michael Carrick on the injury list and with Antonio Valencia suspended, the Scottish manager will have to carefully shuffle his pack.
Manchester United have not lost in any of their last 10 matches away from home in all competitions, form that has seen the Red Devils go undefeated on the road for over three months now.
Wayne Rooney continues to enjoy rejuvenated form for his old manager and with club captain Nemanja Vidic and Robin Van Persie both expected to return from injury in the near future, the Premier League champions may continue to close the gap at the top of the table.
Hosts Norwich suffered their first defeat in three games last time out, as Fulham triumphed at Carrow Road.
The Canaries have still yet to get going this season, but summer signing Gary Hooper has at least found some form in front of goal.
Norwich have beaten Manchester United on two of the three occasions they have hosted them in the Premier League, but a crunch match against Crystal Palace on New Year's Day could serve as a distraction to Chris Hughton's side this time around.
Only Fulham have conceded more goals than Norwich this season and with Manchester United having scored at least twice in their last six away games in the Premier League, expect plenty of entertainment at Carrow Road today.


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Tag: Mark Gatiss
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
December 28, 2010 / Ross Ruediger
Leave it to Steven Moffat to take the annual "Doctor Who" Christmas special tradition and finally get it right. Given how adept the man is at penning this series at this point, this should probably come as no surprise, and yet, for me at least, it did. I'd learned over the years to set my expectations very low for these holiday outings due to Russell T. Davies' mind-numbingly action-oriented yearly offerings. I do love Davies, but his Christmas stories always ranked pretty low for me, or rather I cut him and his holiday specials an immense amount of slack, as in interviews he was always going on about how most of the audience is drunk anyway, and are basically looking for mindless fare on Christmas night. So that was his approach and it worked well as far as the U.K. viewing figures were concerned it seems.
To be fair, they got better as they went along, with only the bloated disaster yarn, "Voyage of the Damned," bucking that trend, although last year's episode was barely even a Christmas tale, being the first half of "The End of Time" and all. More than anything else, though, what was most disappointing about Davies' Christmas outings is how none of them ever became holiday traditions for me as a "Doctor Who" fan, which is pretty amazing since there were four to choose from. Indeed, the best Christmas tale the series had unveiled prior to this past Saturday night was Season One's "The Unquiet Dead," penned by Mark Gatiss, which of course wasn't even a holiday special. As you'll no doubt remember, "The Unquiet Dead" detailed the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) meeting Charles Dickens (Simon Callow) right before Christmas in 1869 Cardiff, and here we are, well over five years later, returning to Dickens once again, and once again we discover that Dickens and "Doctor Who" make for a potent combination.
At its start, "A Christmas Carol" alarmingly resembles a Davies-era holiday adventure, with a giant spaceship plummeting through the atmosphere towards the ground below. Honestly, I was scared at this point – not over the potential fate of Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill), but that I was being set up for "Voyage of the Damned II." But the story quickly shifts gears into far more character driven territory, as we move onto the surface below and meet the cantankerous Kazran Sardick, played by the great Michael Gambon. Most people equate Gambon with Dumbledore these days, and with good reason, because it's the role he's been seen in more than any other. Myself? I first became acquainted with the man 20 years ago via Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover," in which he played the thoroughly despicable Albert Spica alongside Helen Mirren. His performance in that film is so perfect, playing such an awful man, that to this day it's the role I still associate him with the most, and it was cool to see him return to that shouting, obnoxious type of character. It's interesting to note the decision to give neither Gambon nor the other high profile guest star, Katherine Jenkins, billing in the opening credits, while Gillan and Darvill – neither of whom have an enormous amount of screen time during the hour – are credited at the top.
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A Chat with Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss ("Sherlock")
October 23, 2010 / Will Harris
The characters of Sherlock Holmes and his trusty associate Dr. John Watson have been interpreted every which way but loose since their original inception in 1887, courtesy of Arthur Conan Doyle, and with Guy Ritchie's take on the Holmes mythos having only just hit theaters last year, it would seem to be a bit premature to put Baker Street's most famous detective onto the small screen as well…but, then, "Sherlock" – premiering here in the States as part of PBS's "Masterpiece" on Sunday, Oct. 24, bears precious little resemblance to Robert Downey, Jr.'s big-screen adventure. This is a modern-day look at the characters and their mythology, and for those who might be skeptical that they can successfully survive such a transformation, I believe you'll be pleasantly surprised. I've only seen a portion of the first episode ("A Study in Pink") thus far, but it was more than enough to sell me on tuning in on the 24th. Mind you, I also had the advantage of sitting down with the series' executive producers, Steven Moffat and Mark Gattis, whose enthusiasm for the project proved decidedly contagious.
Bullz-Eye: Steven, you and I met in passing a few years ago at the "Jekyll" panel…a show which I loved, by the way…
Steven Moffat: Oh, thank you. Oh, good!
BE: …and, Mark, I didn't realize it at the time, but I now know that you made an appearance in that series.
Mark Gatiss: That's right!
BE: So, Steven, what do you enjoy about the challenge of contemporizing British icons? I mean, you can argue that Dr. Jekyll is an icon of sorts, but then you've got Doctor Who, and now Sherlock Holmes.
SM: Well, being honest, for me, there isn't really…it looks like there's a narrative through that, that I'm trolling for things, but I'm really, really not. "Jekyll" was a totally different experience to this, the one big difference being that it was a sequel set in the modern day. And, really, it looks as if I've just been doing that, but, really, seriously, it wasn't that. This is a completely different experience, and the challenge of this…well, they're just joys, aren't they?
MG: It's true, yeah.
SM: There are so many things that…well, once having started talking about this, we realized it was going to work, because he can still be coming home from Afghanistan, a flat share is what we now call sharing rooms, we've gone back to sending telegrams by sending texts…it's just perfect.
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Steven Moffat discusses 2010 "Doctor Who" Christmas special…but not very much
August 4, 2010 / Will Harris
Given that the annual "Doctor Who" Christmas special is still several months out, I knew full well that Steven Moffat wouldn't be willing to offer up much in the way of information about what we could expect to see come December, but since I'd been fortunate enough to sit down with him – along with Mark Gatiss – in connection with their work on "Sherlock" (which comes to PBS in October), I couldn't very well miss the chance to ask about it, anyway.
I started off with a non-specific question, asking how Michael Gambon had found his way into the "Who"-niverse.
"We sent him a script, asked him to do it, and he said, 'Yes,'" said Moffat. "Simple as that."
Had Gambon been a fan of the show?
"I don't know," he admitted. "I didn't get the impression that he was a fan of 'Doctor Who,' except insofar as everyone in Britain is at the moment, but it's really…with these guys, send them a good part and there's a really stonking chance they'll do it. I mean, if it's a good script…and you think it is…they're being offered prime-time on Christmas day, really, so there's a real chance you can get anyone for that. But it's very exciting. He's brilliant. Of course he's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. What a voice."
The time had come to make the jump and ask something specific, so I wondered aloud if the teaser line at the end of season finale about the Orient Express in space would indeed come to pass come this Christmas.
"Who knows?" replied Moffat, stonefaced.
I told him he was a terrible person…which caused the stone face to break into a laugh.
"You wouldn't really want to know," he said. "I can tell. Also, what you have to keep in mind that I genuinely lie. I do. I actively lie to people about what's going to happen in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not officially employed with the BBC. I can say any old thing I like. Even if I told you something, there's no guarantee that it's true. Disinformation and the white noise of nonsense is how we get through this!"
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Doctor Who 5.3: Victory of the Daleks
May 1, 2010 / Ross Ruediger
"Daleks. I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorize the universe for the rest of time."
Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor, following yet another skirmish with the cockroaches from Skaro, uttered the above quote near the end of his reign as the Time Lord. If he'd known then that he'd still be dealing with them in his Eleventh incarnation, he may well have decided to forego his impending regeneration, and just gone ahead and called it a millennium. Many "Doctor Who" fans would likely have sympathized with him had he done so. Having been writing these recaps for five years now, I am exhausted by Daleks as well. What else is there for me to say about them that I haven't already said, or hasn't been said by countless others time and again? And yet here I am, once again backed into a corner by some angry pepperpots demanding that I find something fresh to say on the subject. Of course, if the series can't be bothered to do so, I don't really see why I should, either.
Surprisingly, "Victory of the Daleks," written by Mark Gatiss, is drenched in promise at its start. Surprising not only because all ground concerning the Daleks seems so thoroughly trod at this point, but also because the last thing Gatiss wrote for the series, "The Idiot's Lantern," was a forgettable misfire. The idea of subservient, benevolent Daleks isn't a new one. It was first explored in Patrick Troughton's first story "The Power of the Daleks," but since that serial was junked by the BBC ages ago, only the most hardcore of fans are going to care about this. For all intents and purposes the idea is new, or at least new to us. And the show has a field day with the notion for about ten minutes. Professor Bracewell's (Bill Paterson) Ironsides are going to win the war against the Nazis, and they'll serve you tea as well. Just the notion that the Daleks will become this story's Inglourious Basterds is a fun one, since the Nazis are what the Daleks were based on in the first place. With "Victory of the Daleks," on some obscure meta level, the entire concept of the Daleks has seemingly come full circle.
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Q: Chromatic number and vertex covering number For any graph $G=(V,E)$ let $\tau(G)$ be the minimum cardinality of a vertex cover of $G$. Let $\chi(G)$ denote the chromatic number of $G$.
Is there a graph $G$ with $\tau(G) < \chi(G) - 1$?

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Q: Configuring *all* JSHint settings in WebStorm IDE After a somewhat comprehensive evaluation of IDEs for use in front end development, WebStorm leads the pack I think.
The one missing piece is that we can't configure JSHint the way we need to. The WebStorm preferences GUI provides some options, but not the full set. The GUI only lets you configure 15 of the 30 or so actual available options.
This is a problem because we don't want to change our coding practices just because an IDE doesn't let us configure linting the way we want.
Is there a hacky way to go in and adjust the JSHint library behind the scenes for WebStorm?

A: You can configure all the options you'd like in a .jshintrc file located in the root directory of your project. This will be a project-wide setting.
From https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/webhelp/jshint.html:

Use config files
Select this check box to have the code verified according to the settings from a configuration file. A configuration file is a JSON file with the extension .jshintrc that specifies which JSHint options should be enabled or disabled. WebStorm will look for a .jshintrc file in the working directory. If the search fails, WebStorm will search in the parent folder, then again in the parent folder. The process is repeated until WebStorm finds a .jshintrc or reaches the project root. To have WebStorm still run verification in this case, specify the default configuration file to use.

I've been using this for a while and it works great. Plus you can commit it to your repo and ensure the entire team follows the same code style. Also a great place to add globals.

A: I'm not aware of any hacky way to do it, but you can vote for the existing feature request.

A: There's a per-file solution that works, but is not ideal. Would prefer an IDE or project-wide fix/hack.
Set JSHint options at the top of your file:
/*jshint laxcomma:true, asi:true */


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My husband knows what a big fan I am of Carla Hall, so as a surprise he bought tickets for us to attend the Pop-up restaurant experience to promote the opening of her new restaurant in NYC. It was held at a restaurant called, "Root & Bone" located at 200 East 3rd Street in New York. For the event the restaurant's chefs and Carla Hall's chefs combined their menus and gave diners a sampling of their favorites. It was an interesting mix of, what I would call "Old-southern style food, meets modern southern food." Carla's menu was more old-fashioned southern food, including corn bread served with sorghum and hot fried chicken.
By the way, I love sorghum! Who would have thought such a "northern" girl could enjoy such a southern favorite. To me sorghum is like a really deep flavored honey, yummy!
My favorite item on the menu was the ice cream sandwiches! They were tiny, homemade chocolate cookies filled with ice cream. They were tiny bites and the cookie was just the right softness for an ice cream sandwich- perfection! My husband favorite was the banana pudding – a traditional banana pudding served in a tiny mason jar. What a great idea! Both of us really enjoyed the deviled eggs also, such a delicious surprise to someone who isn't a huge fan of deviled eggs. Some of the eggs were topped with bacon!! Need I say more…. the other ones were made with pickled eggs.
Each course was paired with a southern cocktail. It was an interesting twist on wine/food pairing that I'm used to. Each cocktail was so different and complimented the food delightfully.
The icing on the cake of the evening was meeting Carla. She's as warm and friendly as she is on TV, she even autographed her new cookbook for me.


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The U.S. Navy's Improbable Rise to Power
Floating Force
From the very first, when it punched well above its weight in the Revolution, America's seagoing military has enjoyed an almost unblemished rate of innovative success.
James A. Warren
Updated Aug. 20, 2019 11:11AM ET / Published Apr. 02, 2016 12:01AM ET
BEAST INSIDE
The United States Navy is paradoxically the most traditional and innovative of America's armed services. It is also by far and away the most diverse in terms of missions and capabilities. In addition to its fleet of cutting-edge surface ships and submarines, the Navy possesses its own ground force—the Marines—and an air force, both land and carrier-based, which has greater strike capability than the air forces of most developed nations. The Navy's supercarrier battle groups function as mobile military cities, extending American power and influence across the entire globe.
Because the Navy bears primary responsibility for guaranteeing freedom of the seas, and because it invariably finds itself at the center of the international community's response to geopolitical crisis, violent and otherwise, it could very well be said that the U.S. Navy is a world institution as well as an American one.
The purpose of Craig L. Symonds's The U.S. Navy: A Concise History, is to explain in broad strokes how this enormously powerful and complex institution came to be what it is today, and to describe its myriad contributions to the nation's wars, as well as to American foreign policy. With admirable economy, Symonds traces the sea service's evolution from its origins in the Revolution as a scrappy, ad hoc force punching well above its weight against the mighty Royal Navy—with more than a little help from the French Navy—up through the War of 1812, where its record was a mixed bag of startling successes on the Great Lakes and in the great frigate duals (e.g., the USS Constitution vs. the HMS Guerriere) on the open ocean, and outright defeat on the east coast, where American gun boats proved no match for British ships of the line as they landed forces and sacked Washington.