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Randomised, open-label, phase II trial of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin versus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy in advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium
Vito Lorusso, Enrico Crucitta, Nicola Silvestris, G. Rosati, L. Manzione, Mario De Lena
IRCCS Giovanni Paolo II
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the antitumor activity and the safety of paclitaxel combined with gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients affected by advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium (TCC). Eighty-five patients affected by advanced TCC and measurable disease were randomized to receive either paclitaxel at dosage of 70 mg/m2, gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 and cisplatin 35 mg/m2 on days 1 and 8 every 3 weeks (GCP) or gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 on days 1, 8, 15 and cisplatin 70 mg/m2 on day 2 every 4 weeks (GC). All enrolled patients were considered evaluable for response and toxicity (intention to treat). The observed response rate was 43% for GCP and 44% for GC combination, respectively. Median time to treatment failure was 32 weeks for GCP and 26 weeks for GC and overall survival 61 vs 49 weeks, respectively (p-value not significant). Grade 3-4 neutropenia was observed in 49% of patients treated with GCP vs 35% of those treated with GC (P=0.05) and grade 3-4 thrombocytopenia was observed in 36% of GCP treated patients as compared to 2 1% of those treated with GC (P=0.01). Seven patients over 70 years old or with poor PS were removed from the study: 6 patients from GCP group (2 toxic deaths, 2 grade 4 myelotoxicity and 2 grade 3 asthenia) and 1 from GC group was lost to follow-up after the first cycle. The combination of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin is effective in the treatment of TCC. However, the addition of paclitaxel to the combination of gemcitabine plus cisplatin seems to increase toxicity, therefore it seems not suitable for poor PS patients and those over 70 years old. Larger and more powered studies are needed to exactly define the role of paclitaxel in this combination.
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Lorusso, V., Crucitta, E., Silvestris, N., Rosati, G., Manzione, L., & De Lena, M. (2005). Randomised, open-label, phase II trial of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin versus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy in advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium. Oncology Reports, 13(2), 283-287.
Randomised, open-label, phase II trial of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin versus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy in advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium. / Lorusso, Vito; Crucitta, Enrico; Silvestris, Nicola; Rosati, G.; Manzione, L.; De Lena, Mario.
In: Oncology Reports, Vol. 13, No. 2, 02.2005, p. 283-287.
Lorusso, V, Crucitta, E, Silvestris, N, Rosati, G, Manzione, L & De Lena, M 2005, 'Randomised, open-label, phase II trial of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin versus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy in advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium', Oncology Reports, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 283-287.
Lorusso V, Crucitta E, Silvestris N, Rosati G, Manzione L, De Lena M. Randomised, open-label, phase II trial of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin versus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy in advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium. Oncology Reports. 2005 Feb;13(2):283-287.
Lorusso, Vito ; Crucitta, Enrico ; Silvestris, Nicola ; Rosati, G. ; Manzione, L. ; De Lena, Mario. / Randomised, open-label, phase II trial of paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin versus gemcitabine and cisplatin as first-line chemotherapy in advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium. In: Oncology Reports. 2005 ; Vol. 13, No. 2. pp. 283-287.
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1980s African American Education
Amount of Blacks in college
1980: Impressive 718,000
1987: Growing more slowly, 855,000
*1988: Sliding back down to 785,000
*In 1988, the enrollment of black men declined, while it increased for women. There were 179,000 black women in college, then black men.
Percentage of highs school graduates going to college
1960-1970: Males exceeded women
1980's: women overtake men and never lost the lead
Popular concentration in education in the 1980's
1981: business and management were the most popular of all black bachelor's degree recipients. 13,325 blacks earned a bachelor's degree in business and management (40% earned in historically black colleges).
The Black and White Gap
"The average scores of black students have remained well below those of whites, and at age 17, the reading achievement of black students was lower last year than it was in 1988Ð'--a depressing reversal of the gains made over the previous two decades," Michael T. Nettles, the vice chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, said at a press conference held here late last month to release the results. The independent panel oversees National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
In just about every age group and in every subject, the test-score gap between white and African-American students has grown since 1986, reversing a trend in which the discrepancies decreased from the time the exams were first given in 1969, 1971, and 1973. Since the mid-1980s, gaps in several subjects and age groups have grown by statistically significant amounts.
Resegregation occurring again
"Studies finds the causes for resegregation stemming from a number of social and political factors: a series of court rulings beginning in the late 1980s that reversed many of the desegregation orders, the growing isolation of whites in suburban schools, and the increasing segregation
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What's next for Palestine as the ME prepares for politics after Abbas?
As Hamas marks its 10th anniversary of governing the Gaza Strip, here is a brief explainer about the group's rise through chaos.
The prospect of long-lasting peace between Israel and Palestine relies on a piece of land, Gaza. Several wars have been fought to control this tiny strip of land that is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
In 1948, when Israel declared its statehood, many Palestinians were pushed out of their homes from across Palestine. Several sought refuge in Gaza. Ever since, it became the home to a vast majority of the population displaced by constant land grabs that the Israeli state aided to settle tens of thousands of Jewish people fleeing from war.
In 1967, the neighbouring Arab nations launched a war against the settlers. But with the support of the US, the Israeli army occupied additional swathes of land, including Gaza, in just six days.
After years of clashes and negotiations, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and in 2006, Hamas was democratically elected. A year later, in 2007, Hamas took control of the strip from the forces loyal to Fatah.
This did not go well with the Israeli government, for whom Hamas is a "terrorist" organisation. It continues to tighten its grip on Palestinians imposing a blockade via land, sea and air, restricting the access to essential supplies and commodities.
It has been 10 years since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, which it controls it independently.
Hamas are a Palestinian political resistance movement that presents itself as the defender of the people in Gaza, that lies on the east, bordering Egypt. It also has an armed wing called the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades.
The group was elected by Palestinians in 2006, in the Legislative Authority elections defeating Fatah, and took control of Gaza Strip in 2007.
Hamas in Arabic stands for "Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamia," or Islamic Resistance Movement.
How did Hamas enter Palestinian politics?
Founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al Rantisi in 1987, during the Palestinian uprising or Intifada against the Israeli occupation of West Bank and Gaza, Hamas set out as a welfare organisation providing education, setting up of food banks, medical facilities and other basic necessities.
In its formative years, Hamas's leadership was closely associated with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. It didn't pose any military threat to Israel in its initial years; some Israeli politicians even encouraged the group's welfare policies and began to perceive it as an alternative to the Fatah party and its leader, Yasser Arafat, who led an armed resistance movement against Israel.
But when Hamas revealed its founding charter in public in 1988, it called for war against the state of Israel. The group soon became Israel's major foe in the decades-old conflict.
On the other hand, Fatah softened its stance against Israel, shunning violence, turning to participatory democracy and fighting local elections in West Bank.
Initially like Hamas, Fatah also believed in liberating Palestine through armed resistance. But over the decades Fatah's stance and relation with Israel evolved on peaceful terms.
In 1993, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), an umbrella organisation comprised of Fatah, Hamas and several other political outfits, accepted Israel's right to exist and in turn, it was recognised as the legitimate representative of Palestinians.
Thus began the negotiations for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But this did not go well with Hamas. And when Fatah lost its majority in the parliamentary elections to Hamas in 2006, the two groups got further detached.
In May 2011, they signed a reconciliation deal. The differences were partially resolved with both the groups focusing on establishing the state of Palestine.
In April 2014, Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a national government and hold elections, but that did not mature because Israel launched a bombing campaign over Gaza in July 2014.
Hamas, by many western countries, has been classified as a terrorist group over its failure to renounce violence, recognise Israel's right to exist and accept existing interim Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements.
With an aim to improve relations with the West, Gulf Arab states and Egypt, and change of image from a terrorist group to a political movement, Hamas in May this year, came out with a new charter that accepts the idea of a transitional Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital.
It advocates the right of return for refugees and the displaced to their homes from where they were forcibly expelled.
The new document does not recognise the state of Israel and further mentions that the conflict in Palestine is a political one and not religious.
The charter also underlines that now the organisation has no links to the Muslim Brotherhood with which it had close ties during its formative years.
It further states that Hamas is not seeking war with the Jewish people, the enemy is Zionism, the driving force behind the occupation of Palestine and not the Jews.
However, Israel rejected the reported document, claiming it an attempt by Hamas to delude the world that it was becoming a more moderate group.
This new document presents a shift in their policy from the contentious 1988 charter where the goal was to annihilate the state of Israel.
It advocated the use of violence against Jews with the aim of liberating the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
How many wars have Israel and Hamas fought?
Since 2007, Hamas has fought three wars with Israel and has carried out hundreds of armed attacks in Israel and in Israeli-occupied territories since its inception three decades ago.
In 2008, more than 1,000 people, were killed in Gaza, many of them civilians, before a ceasefire was declared. In 2012, during an Israeli operation that lasted for eight days, at least 167 Palestinians and six Israelis lost their lives.
However, the war in 2014 was the deadliest, lasting for about 51 days and reducing Gaza to rubble. More than 2,000 Gazans lost their lives and thousands were wounded.Among them were 66 Israeli soldiers and six civilians also.
In 2016, a UN report stated that an estimated 75,000 Gazans remained displaced and only 17 percent of the 18,000 homes destroyed during the conflict were repaired.
How does the international community view Hamas?
Hamas, that has been in a continuous battle with Israelis ever since it was founded, has never been able to secure a table for itself in the international platforms. The publishing of its new policy document is seen as an effort on the part of Hamas to change its image and a sign of "maturity and political development."
Although media portrayed Hamas's new charter in a positive light, the world is still divided on whether it is a terrorist organisation or a genuine liberation movement.
Among the major powers that consider Hamas as terrorists are Israel, the US, the UK, Saudi, and the UAE. They reproach it for its failure to renounce violence and to recognise Israel's right to exist by accepting an interim Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
But for some of its major supporters – Turkey, Qatar, Russia and Pakistan – it is a genuine resistance movement that challenges the Israeli aggression and keeps the nation's legitimate demand for a separate statehood alive.


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Pantera: Far Beyond Driven – album review
Dom Walsh
Pantera: Far Beyond Driven – Album Reissue
When Far Beyond Driven was released some twenty years ago, it made history by landing in the American Billboard Chart at number 1. It was historical because it was the first extreme metal album to do so. Does the reissue of this landmark album still stand up? In short; yes.
The album still sounds completely ferocious and fresh. The groove and swagger throughout puts many a band to shame. The opening 1-2 of Strength Beyond Strength and Becoming come at you like a juggernaut. The former has many thrash elements where the latter sees the band having the same intensity through some shrill work from the legendary, and still sadly missed, Dimebag Darrell on guitar. 5 Minutes Alone and its churning, repetitive riff still stands as one of Panteras best moments; it is a really good head banger of a tune. The solo work towards the end of the track, before a return to the same riff ensures that the journey there and back is a good one.
If there is any dispute about 5 Minutes Alone being one of Pantera's greatest moment, there is less debate over I'm Broken. The massive, rolling riff is still utterly joyous 20 years on – a bona-fide Pantera classic.
Alongside classics such as 5 Minutes Alone and I'm Broken, there is Use My Third Arm, which is still a juggernaut of a track. The guitars at the start of the track almost veer into black metal territory. Throes of Rejection's bass led opening is another slab of crushing southern sludge. The bass and drums really drive the track here, with the guitars adding the colour to the canvas. Far Beyond Driven is closed out with a trippy rendition of Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan.
Whilst the album is worthy of revisiting after twenty years, the extra material here is comprised of the band's 1994 show from the Monsters Of Rock festival. The show is a reminder of the incendiary performances that the band would deliver. I never got to see Pantera myself, but from footage I have seen and hearing this release, it really conveys the band's power. The groundbreaking Walk, the epic This Love, and Pantera stalwarts, Mouth For War and Cowboys From Hell are all represented. The live set shows the band in all their glory but it's the bombast from Phil Anselmo that stands out here. Anselmo has garnered legendary status for his performances with Pantera and later, Down. He still packs the same punch 20 years on from here; and this was a time when he was a lot more volatile.
The deluxe reissue of this album is another in a long line of reissues; sometimes it can feel like the music fan is being ripped off with countless lots of 'unheard' material – if you're a fan of Pantera or hard rock this release will tick all the boxes. It contains a fantastic studio album along with a stunning live set that cherry picks from Pantera's other back catalogue work. A worthy addition to the deluxe ranks.
Pantera's Website is here: pantera.com. They can also be found on Facebook and they tweet as @pantera.
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Lori Brewer and I will be hosting an open mic this coming Monday (July 15) at Mustangs Bar and Grill in Nashville.
The actual address is 2504 Dickerson Pike (click for a google map). It's near the Trinity Lane Love's truckstop.
We hosted this event two weeks ago in order to fill in and keep it going. There was a lot of miscommunications and bad information being passed around, and I wasn't able to promote it much, or in advance. I also thought (wrongly) that the day would change after that night. Too loose. Now we know a bit more about what will actually happen.
It's a decent place. Decent amount of people were there last time- a good crowd to play for also.
I run it in a similar way to the City Cafe open mic. Stage is wide open. I'll impose structure only if there's a lot of people there... otherwise you talk to me and I get you on stage. Originals and covers are both acceptable.
Open means open! If you show up I will personally drag you onstage. The event (loosely) goes from 8 to 12. Hope to see you there!


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Launch an accelerator – You know you're going to be disrupted, so what says you're taking this seriously? Paying a vendor to set up an accelerator for you and giving $50k to 10 early-stage startups that are pre-product and pre-traction. Nothing says you're serious about protecting your multi-billion dollar revenue like dropping $500k on 10 startups that your corporation isn't suited to work with.
The subversive aspect of this piece is that each of the 19 things listed are things that companies actually do. If they are done well (not the way they are described in the article), they actually can contribute to an effective innovation system (well, perhaps not the Stage-Gate one).
The key point of this list is that true innovation competency is so much more than the superficial sheen that these activities can convey. It's not the type of activity itself that is the problem, it's whether or not the activity is used to further an underlying system based on real innovative. If these activities have nothing underneath, then they are indeed just theater but if they have a true innovation foundation, then they can add value.


In addition to traditional "talk" therapy, I provide a number of specialty services to help you address concerns, including mood disorders, eating issues, and relationship breakdown. Keep reading to learn more about some of the specialty services I provide at Venture Therapy of Saint Paul. You can also call our team to find out more or schedule a session.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of therapy to help clients learn from negative past experiences and desensitize current distressing triggers to empower them to live more healthy and productive lives. Through EMDR, clients are able to reprocess previous negative events and turn those events into adaptive learning experiences. It is often a more effective approach than traditional talk therapy for people with deep rooted negative beliefs, and an effective form of therapy for people with a variety of concerns, including trauma, depression, phobias, and body image difficulties. I use EMDR to help clients address, overcome, and move beyond negative thought cycles.
We live in a culture that idolizes the "thin ideal." We are bombarded relentlessly with images, messages, and misinformation that to be healthy, beautiful, and desirable is to be thin. The pursuit of weight loss through dieting, extreme forms of exercise, bogus supplements, and "lifestyle changes" (AKA dieting in disguise) is the answer so many of us naturally turn to in attempts to force our bodies to meet this cultural standard of the thin ideal. Unfortunately, this sets you up for pain, obsession about food, rebound weight gain and/or weight cycling, a distorted body image, and fractured relationship with your body. It ruptures the relationship with your body that should come so easily, and should allow you to eat when you're hungry, eat what you're hungry for, and nourish yourself with food, movement, and spirituality.
We were all born intuitive eaters - knowing when we're hungry and when we're full, and what nourishes and pleases us. Watch any toddler and you'll see the pleasure they take in food away from external shaming messages about their food choices. As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, I can help you get back in tune with your body's innate wisdom, and guide you in rediscovering the pleasure, satisfaction, and nourishing qualities to food apart from the myriad of people and programs out there who want to tell you how to eat. Your body knows what and how to eat - you only have to tune in.
I love working with people to develop and maintain meaningful relationships of all kinds, and I have advanced training in a specialized form of treatment – Emotional Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). This form of therapy is based around the simple idea that we are wired for connection, and that damage to our relationships leads to distress. By acknowledging the need for these relationships and reestablishing healthy connection, EFT increases health and happiness in romantic, friendly, familial, and professional relationships.
For many, the challenges encountered following the birth of a child can lead to feelings of depression, inadequacy and isolation. It is important to know that you are not alone. Perinatal mental health therapy can focus on a number of factors to help new mothers and fathers become great parents and raise healthy children. I have training in a variety of perinatal mental health treatment areas and styles, including Maternal Mental Health through Postpartum Support International (PSI) and 2020 Mom, and I am also a trained Postpartum Doula.
HAES® stands for Health At Every Size. It's more than a specialty service – it's a treatment philosophy that I apply to every aspect of my practice and my life. As a HAES® advocate, I incorporate the three basic components of this principle – respect, critical awareness, and compassionate self-care. If you want to learn more about celebrating size diversity, breaking free from the diet mentality, and leading healthier lives at every size, I can't wait to talk to you about HAES®.


African Lion Safaris - Where Can You Find Them?
It seems like for the majority of us, nature is second priority. Our alternatives are dominated by options that most concentrate on mortar and concrete walls, technologies that make our activities more leisurely and other modes of life that offer much of the identical thing.
Well, good thing the're still wildlife and nature reserves that might once in some time take us from the contemporary life we are living.
In Africa, with the alternate of life and death amid the animals and their environment and the dance of existence between the components of nature, death and living are two strongly connected practical elements that make nature more proportionate.
African lion safari is one of such element. Lions are included in the big five constituents of the wild together with the revered buffalo, leopard, rhinoceros and the mighty elephant. Nature aside, game is the central attraction in the wilderness of Africa. By merely watching the prey being hunted by the merciless lions, that would mean witnessing how nature maintains its equilibrium. Which itself is a very elaborate and delicate method.
Apparently, African lion safaris seem to be the passport for total adventure. They offer travelers the chance of seeing wild animals interplay with the ecosystems. Majestic animals that constitute the circle of life. You may catch glimpses of how broad range of animals, of birds and of living species compete for survival. You may either do this while riding an open safari vehicle or through other means of voyaging the safaris.
To say the most obvious, African lion safaris are located in their natural habitats which include areas such as South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia. Meanwhile, most national parks supply sights of African lion safaris. These parks include world revered spots in the same way as the Kruger National Park, Chobe National Park, Pilanesburg National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Masai Mara National Reserve, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Samburu National Reserve and Lake Manyara National Park to mention some of many others.
Truly, the role lions play in the savannas, woods, wildlife and safaris are not only great to witness but also a noble contribution to the workings of life and nature.


While blockchain has only sprung to mainstream attention in recent months, actual activity across the various blockchain protocols has remained relatively low. However, they are already creaking under the pressure, with networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum regularly suffering from slow transactions and high fees.
While different groups have proposed a variety of solutions to scale the networks, there is one underlying flaw; blockchain simply can't scale to the levels required if it is to act as the backbone of the financial system, let alone the multitude of wider use cases it is currently attempting to tackle. If it can't scale to meet this anticipated demand then the unspoken truth is that the technology is unfit for its purpose.
Blockchain's overriding achievement is that it solves the issue of how to guarantee trust between two unrelated parties without the need for a centralized third party. This was what it was designed to do. Blockchain does not, however, have a magic bullet when it came to processing transactions.
PayPal can handle around 200 transactions per second (tps). VISA considers itself able to process 56,000 tps, although average daily loads are closer to 2,000. Bitcoin is capable of ~7 tps, Ethereum 15-20 (less if it is tokens rather than ETH being transferred). This puts the networks well below the mere replication of one payment processor's output, leaving the dream of mass adoption (which will require not just tens but hundreds of thousands of tps) well out of reach.
There are some blockchains which have claimed to reach into the tens of thousands of tps – but these are without exception private tests on optimized and ideally located hardware, a setup unrepresentative of real-world scenarios where you do not have control over the processing power of nodes or their location.
It is important to understand why the protocols are so slow. It is not because that is their inherent limitation (for instance, Bitcoin's theoretical limit and performance on private chains, although still well below VISA's peak capabilities, is far higher); the constraint is as a result of a deliberate design choice – to prioritize a decentralized network. Every node processes each and every transaction, keeping a record of the entire blockchain. These transactions form blocks, these blocks are processed to become part of the new chain and nodes then utilise this as their local copy of the global state to stay in sync with the overall network.
As transaction volumes increase, the size of each block increases too, meaning that it takes longer for nodes to receive the information. Over time, this causes consistency issues, as some nodes are more up to date than others. This can then cause invalid blocks to be produced, an issue that becomes crucial during times of high loads, as nodes download and discard successive blocks.
This is the trade-off that comes as a result of blockchain and decentralization. It brings about a trilemma between decentralization, security, and scalability. You can have two – but not all three.
Does the network remain decentralized?
Does the network remain secure?
Will it allow, or at least prepare, the network to scale to levels required for mass adoption?
One of the more publicised attempts at scaling surrounds the block size debate which ultimately led to the Bitcoin hard fork of Bitcoin Cash in August 2017. Simply put, by increasing the block size you are able to process more transactions in the same timeframe.
Bitcoin has been at the heart of a battle over block sizes, but if we are looking to prepare for a future in which blockchain is at the heart of 'Web 3.0,' then these debates are irrelevant. An average transaction size of 500 bytes with 2,000 tps would lead to 1GB block sizes. There is no feasible block size that can process the amount of information that will be needed without running into the same problem; at a certain point block sizes become too large to maintain a decentralized network.
As block sizes increase, the higher the requirements (storage, processing power, bandwidth) become. This then leads to the risk of centralization as fewer and fewer nodes are able to participate. Furthermore, the network can only move as fast as all constituent nodes. – when blocks get past a certain size, it takes too long for it to move through all nodes on the network. This then leads to a backlog of blocks, and the system grinds to a halt.
Increasing block sizes will increase the feasible tps, but only to a limit - a limit that will be met sooner rather than later. It is therefore imperative that other solutions are found.
Sharding separates the overall blockchain into different shards, with these respective parts spread across different nodes. The easiest way to visualize it is splitting one island into hundred different islands. Each of the islands must still conform to the same rules as before – but they are only responsible for governing their small island, rather than the previous larger unified one.
Sharding introduces benefits when it comes to scaling, namely that it is far less intensive to process 1/100th of the blockchain than it is to process the entire chain. It also brings in a new set of problems. One is that the issue of double spend changes, as there are a number of chains operating simultaneously that must be reconciled in order to avoid a bad actor spending the same asset twice.
Therefore, sharding requires the creation of a network with the same level of security as before, despite nodes now processing a much smaller set of transactions. All child chains must still have complete transparency over the wider network. Nodes still have to agree on all the transactions being processed but they now have to trust other nodes given the network is split up.
As the network is sharded, the computational power required to attack each child chain is reduced significantly, increasing the chances of a 51% attack. The switch to Proof of Stake from Proof of Work is designed to aid with sharding and thus scaling, but this will likely to lead to pooled groups and the same issue as miner centralisation.
Crucially, this also has to be achieved without introducing any form of preferential or dominant 'master' nodes which increases centralisation on the network. There are a number of different proposals for sharding but this tradeoff has thus far proved impossible to reconcile with the scalability.
Offchain state channels are a means through which certain blockchain interactions are no longer conducted on the blockchain but rather are conducted 'offline'. This works by essentially allowing two (or more) participants to lock a part of the blockchain state as a 'state channel'. These participants can still make changes/transactions between themselves to the state channel in the same manner as usual and then, once they have concluded business, the participants submit the state channel back to the blockchain. The blockchain then updates with the new data and the state is unlocked.
This allows for faster transactions (as they are off the blockchain it does not require the same processing power for verification) and for lower fees (as transactions bar the first and last were off blockchain). The Lightning Network is an example of this. Unfortunately this solution again falls down in maintaining a decentralised network, as it is vulnerable to economic censorship. Whereas with a normal blockchain transaction any miner can process your transaction in a block (and thus there can be no censorship) Lightning Network relies on being able to route payments through censorship-free hubs. If no Lightning Network hub hasve a channel with the anonymous hub you wish to transact with, then you are not able to make the payment. Through this, the hubs are able to restrict the routing of your transaction, running counter to the decentralised ethos of blockchain.
For blockchains to become widely adopted public networks they need to be able to scale without sacrificing the guiding principle of decentralisation.
The problem blockchain has is that adding more nodes will, as explained, end up slowing down the network. Scaling vertically is also a nonstarter, as it will reduce the number of nodes processing and thus lead to centralisation. There is no blockchain project that has solved this issue.
All of the current workarounds are capable of working – but they cannot deliver the levels of scaling needed, without centralisation, for blockchain to be the backbone of a future economy. They are temporary fixes to patch up a system creaking under the load before anyone is even using it, bandages to patch up a soldier that has not yet left for war.
Blockchain remains an amazing technological development. But the simple – albeit hard to hear - answer to solve the scaling issue is to remove the blockchain ledger structure. Start anew and design an architecture and consensus algorithm that support partitioning/sharding, which are centralisation resistant and capable of processing transactions in parallel without falling victim to double spending.
The alternative is to continue down a path along which it will be impossible to reach the desired destination.


Pete did promos for this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live" with host JONAH HILL and musical guest MAGGIE ROGERS. In one of them, Pete asks Maggie to MARRY him, and she says no. He replies, quote, "0 for 3."
She Tweeted, quote, "For somebody who claims to hate relevancy u sure love clinging to it huh? Thank u, next."


Fixed-duration contracts (FDCs) are in the sights of Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun, who yesterday urged Prime Minister Hun Sen to outlaw their use in the garment and footwear industries.
Chhun said the cancellation of such contracts would provide better conditions and job security across the two industries.
"I want the prime minister to distribute a circular letter," he said.
In a speech on December 12, the prime minister said many workers wanted permanent employment rather than FDCs and urged employers to improve conditions relating to contracts.
Companies can place workers on fixed-duration contracts of up to six months each for no longer than two years.
Unions say FDCs rob workers of benefits and security, while employers argue they are necessary to attract those who also do seasonal agricultural work.
Chhun said employers often "sacked" known strikers when their short-term contracts finished.
"I think the garment and shoe industries must be made to stop using these altogether," he said.


We have spent the past few years trying to become more in tune to our community around us. Several initiatives have been started in an effort to become more relevant to our community and its needs. One of those initiatives will take place this Saturday morning at our Apple Corps café. The Cambridge Farmer's Market Harvest Festival is an annual event that we have been a part of for the past few years. Our Hospitality Committee provides cupcakes and all the icing and decorations you can think of, for children to come in and create their own individual masterpiece. If you have a child, grandchild, or know a child that would like to participate, come on down to Ainslie Hall between 9:00 and 11:30. There are other events going on at the market, and all downtown stores are stocking treats for visiting children. If you arrive at 10:30, you will have the added bonus of listening to some scary music played on our organ by our own Rick McFadden. There will also be a bit of an artisan market in Ainslie Hall too. Sounds like a great way to spend the morning.
All of this comes after our dinner and concert on Friday evening. The dinner is pretty much sold out, but there are lots of tickets available for the concert. At $15 each, it is a bargain to hear world renowned musician, Ian Sadler, accompany Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus". It promises to be a wonderful evening. Thanks to the organizing committee who put it all together and have worked hard these past few months to make it a success.
Sunday will be the last day to support the Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank's Thanksgiving Food Drive. Their most needed items are: · Small jars of peanut butter · Pasta · Pasta sauce · Canned fruit · Canned fish · Juice · Cereal · Pet food Thank you to those who have already placed their donations in the shopping cart.
I have a new idea to throw out there. Since winter is a bit of a dull, dark time, I am wondering if there is any interest in starting a dinner 'club', for lack of a better word. Social isolation and loneliness are significant challenges in our society, and are often worse in winter with bad weather and less light. If you would like to have a casual dinner one night a week among friends and fellow Wesley members, please let me know. We would need a host home each time. I kind of see it working that the host would make the main course, and those who were attending that night would each bring something; an appetizer, a vegetable, a salad, a loaf of bread, a dessert, a bottle of wine etc. Casual is the name of the game, and you would attend as you are able or as you desired. This program would be open to everyone. The groups would not be too large, being dependent on the size of the host's dining table. It is not meant to replace Soup and Share, or any of our other lunches or dinners, but to provide an option during the winter months. Anyway, if you have an interest, let me know. If there is interest, we can get started soon.
It may seem like a long way off, but Randy and I have found a date for our Wesley Family Christmas Dinner. It will be Sunday December 17. Stephanie will have tickets in the office soon. The price will be the same as last year; $10 per person, with children 12 and under free. We are lining up a visit from a very special someone, and if you would like to contribute to the gifts that he might bring, please speak to Stephanie. This is a lovely way to get into the Christmas spirit. Hope you can make it.
And finally, I want to say a special thank you to the gardening fairies who have done a super job of cutting back the plants and bushes around the church and cleaning up the flower beds. It looks great! There are so many unsung heroes around our church who very quietly go about doing good. We appreciate all of you. Without you, Wesley would not be the wonderful faith community that it is.


Here is the life-sized historic photo of Mr. Slaughter on Main Street in Old Bisbee, Arizona, where he is on display this month, as part of the Cochise County History On The Move centennial project. My son is keeping him company on the bench to the left..
John Slaughter was born and raised in Texas, and was a Texas Ranger before relocating to Arizona in 1877. He carried a sawed-off shotgun which he called "the equalizer", and is credited for bringing much law and order to the wild Arizona Territory. He was the 4th Cochise County Sheriff, beginning with his election in 1886.
Mr. Slaughter was also a rancher on his beautiful San Bernardino Ranch near Douglas, Az. (iti s now a historical landmark, and we have enjoyed visiting it several times) He was also key in establishing the community of Douglas.


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Dies ist eine Liste der Werke von Theophrast ().
Der griechische Philosoph Theophrast von der Insel Lesbos (geb. um 371 v. Chr. in Eresos; gest. um 287 v. Chr.) war ein Schüler von Aristoteles und dessen Nachfolger als Leiter der peripatetischen Schule.

Diese Liste ist diejenige, die Diogenes Laertios im Fünften Buch seiner Leben und Meinungen berühmter Philosophen angibt. Die Tradition schreibt Theophrast etwa 220 Titel zu. Auch sein Testament ist überliefert.

Eine Gesamtausgabe des noch Vorhandenen von seinen Schriften (Theophrasti Eresii opera quae supersunt omnia) besorgte Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (Leipzig 1854–62, 3 Bde., und in 2. Aufl. Paris 1866, 1 Bd.).

Zu Theophrasts bekannten Werken zählen das verlorene Buch Meinungen der Physiker (Physikon doxai) und insbesondere die Charaktere.

Die folgende Liste (nach Diogenes Laertius, Buch V) erhebt keinen Anspruch auf Aktualität oder Vollständigkeit:

Liste

 1. Erste Analytik. 2 B.
 2. Zweite Analytik. 7 B.
 3. Analytik der Schlüsse. 1 B.
 4. Auszug aus der Analytik. 1 B.
 5. Von hergeleiteten Sätzen. 2 B.
 6. Theorie der Streit- oder Trugschlüsse. (2 B.)
 7. Über Wahrnehmungen. 1 B.
 8. Gegen Anaxagoras. 1 B.
 9. Von der Lehre des Anaxagoras. 1 B.
 10. Von der Lehre des Anaximenes. 1 B.
 11. Von der Lehre des Archelaos. 1 B.
 12. Über Salz, Natron und Alaun. 1 B.
 13. Über die Versteinerungen.
 14. Von den unteilbaren Linien. 1 B.
 15. Vorlesungen. 2 B.
 16. Von den Winden. 1 B.
 17. Unterschiede der Tugenden. 1 B.
 18. Vom Königtum. 1 B.
 19. Von der Königserziehung. 1 B.
 20. Von den Lebensweisen. 3 B.
 21. Vom Alter. 1 B.
 22. Von der Astronomie des Demokrit. 1 B.
 23. Von Luft- und Himmelserscheinungen. 1 B.
 24. Von den Bildern. 1 B.
 25. Von Säften, Farben und Fleisch. 1 B.
 26. Von der Weltordnung. 1 B.
 27. Von den Menschen. 1 B.
 28 Sammlung von Sprüchen des Diogenes. 1 B.
 29. Definitionen. 3 B.
 30. Liebesbuch. 1 B.
 31. Ein anderes Buch von der Liebe. 1 B.
 32. Von der Glückseligkeit. 1 B.
 33. Von den Begriffen (Ideen?). 2 B.
 34. Von der Epilepsie. 1 B.
 35. Vom Enthusiasmus. 1 B.
 36. Über Empedokles. 1 B.
 37. Über dialektische Schlüsse. 18 B.
 38. Einwendungen. 3 B.
 39. Von der Freiwilligkeit. 1 B.
 40. Auszug aus Piatons Staat. 2 B.
 41. Von der Stimmverschiedenheit gleichartiger Tiere.
 42. Von dem, was in gedrängten Massen erscheint. 1 B.
 43. Von bissigen und schlagenden Tieren. 1 B.
 44. Von den sogenannten neidischen Tieren. 1 B.
 45. Von den auf dem Trockenen bleibenden Tieren. 1 B.
 46. Von den ihre Farbe ändernden Tieren. 1 B.
 47. Von den sich versteckenden Tieren. 1 B.
 48. Von den Tieren. 7 B.
 49. Von der Lust nach Aristoteles. 1 B.
 50. Ein anderes von der Lust. 1 B.
 51. Thesen. 24 B.
 52. Vom Warmen und Kalten. 1 B.
 53. Von Schwindel und Verfinsterungen. 1 B.
 54. Vom Schweiße. 1 B.
 55. Von Bejahung und Verneinung. 1 B.
 56. Kalisthenes oder von der Trauer. 1 B.
 57. Von der Ermüdung. 1 B.
 58. Von der Bewegung. 3 B.
 59. Von den Steinen. 1 B.
 60. Von der Pest. 1 B.
 61. Von der Ohnmacht. 1 B.
 62. Megarikus. 1 B.
 63. Von der Melancholie. 1 B.
 64. Von den Metallen. 2 B.
 65. Vom Honig. 1 B.
 66. Sammlung der Sprüche Metrodors. 1 B.
 67. Erwägungen über Lufterscheinungen. 2 B.
 68. Von der Trunkenheit. 1 B.
 69. Gesetze nach alphabetischer Folge. 24 B.
 70. Auszug aus den Gesetzen. 10 B.
 71. Zu den Definitionen. 1 B.
 72. Von den Gerüchen. 1 B.
 73. Von Wein und Öl. ...
 74. Die ersten Vordersätze. 18 B.
 75. Gesetzgeber. 3 B.
 76. Von Staatsverfassungen. 6 B.
 77. Von dem politisch Zeitgemäßen. 4 B.
 78. Vom politischen Herkommen. 4 B.
 79. Vom besten Staat. 1 B.
 80. Sammlung von Problemen. 5 B.
 81. Von Sprichwörtern. 1 B.
 82. Vom Starrwerden und Schmelzen. 1 B.
 83. Vom Feuer. 2 B.
 84. Vom Atmen. 1 B.
 85. Von der Gliederlähmung. 1 B.
 86. Vom Ersticken. 1 B.
 87. Vom Irrsinn. 1 B.
 88. Von den Leidenschaften. 1 B.
 89. Von den Zeichen. 1 B.
 90. Von den Trugschlüssen. 2 B.
 91. Von der Auflösung der Schlüsse. 1 B.
 92. Topika. 2 B.
 93. Von der Strafe. 2 B.
 94. Von den Haaren. 1 B.
 95. Von der Tyrannis. 1 B.
 96. Vom Wasser. 3 B.
 97. Von Schlaf und Träumen. 1 B.
 98. Von der Freundschaft. 3 B.
 99. Von der Ehrliebe. 2 B.
 100. Von der Natur. 3 B.
 101. Physik. 18 B.
 102. Auszug aus der Physik. 2 B.
 103. Physik. 8 B.
 104. Gegen die Physiker. 1 B.
 105. Pflanzenforschungen. 10 B.
 106. Von der Entstehung der Pflanzen. 8 B.
 107. Von den Säften. 5 B.
 108. Von der falschen Lust. 1 B.
 109. Von der Seele eine These

Erster Anhang.

 110. Von den kunstlosen Beweisen. 1 B.
 111. Von den einfachen Zweifelf allen. 1 B.
 112. Harmonielehre. 1 B.
 113. Von der Tugend. 1 B.
 114. Stützpunkte oder Widersprüche. 1 B.
 115. Von der Verneinung. 1 B.
 116. Von der Meinung. 1 B.
 117. Vom Lächerlichen. 1 B.
 118. Abendbetrachtungen. 2 B.
 119. Einteilungen. 2 B.
 120. Von den Unterschieden. 1 B.
 121. Von den Rechtswidrigkeiten. 1 B.
 122. Von der Verleumdung. 1 B.
 123. Vom Lobe. 1 B.
 124. Von der Erfahrung. 1 B.
 125. Briefe. 3 B.
 126. Von den von selbst entstehenden Tieren. 1 B.
 127. Von der Absonderung. 1 B.
 128. Lob der Götter. 1 B.
 129. Von Festfeiern. 1 B.
 130. Vom Glück. 1 B.
 131. Von Enthymemen. 1 B.
 132. Von Erfindungen. 2 B.
 133. Ethische Lehrvorträge. 1 B.
 134. Ethische Oharakterzeichnungen. 1 B.
 135. Vom Lärmgetümmel. 1 B.
 136. Von der Geschichtsforschung. 1 B.
 137. Von Beurteilung der Schlüsse. 1 B.
 138. Von der Schmeichelei. 1 B.
 139. Vom Meere. 1 B.
 140. An Kassander vom Königtum. 1 B.
 141. Von der Komödie. 1 B.
 142. Von den Versmaßen. 1 B.
 143. Von der Darstellungsweise. 4 B.
 144. Sammlung vtm Lehrsätzen. 1 B.
 145. Auflösungen. 1 B.
 146. Von der Musik. 3 B.
 147. Von den Lufterscheinungen. 1 B.
 148. Megakles. 1 B.
 149. Von den Gesetzen. 1 B.
 150. Von Gesetzesübertretungen. 1 B.
 151. Sammlung Xenokratischer Lehren. 1 B.
 152. Vom Umgang. 1 B.
 153. Vom Eid. 1 B.
 154. Regeln der Rhetorik. 1 B.
 155. Vom Reichtum. 1 B.
 156. Von der Dichtkunst. 1 B.
 157. Politische, ethische, physische, erotische Probleme. 1 B.
 158. Von den Einleitungen. 1 B.
 159. Problemensammlung. 1 B.
 160. Von den physischen Problemen. 1 B.
 161. Vom Beispiel. 1 B.
 162. Von der Themastellung und der Erzählung
 163. Von der Dichtkunst, ein weiteres. 1 B.
 164. Von den Weisen. 1 B.
 165. Vom Rat. 1 B.
 166. Von Solöcismen 1 B.
 167. Von der Redekunst. 1 B.
 168. Von den rhetorischen Künsten.
 169. Von dem schauspielerischen Vortrag. 1 B.
 170. Aristotelische und Theophrastische Denkschriften.
 171. Physische Meinungen. 16 B.
 172. Auszug aus den physischen Meinungen. 1 B.
 173. Von der Anmut. 1 B.
 174. Ethische Charakterzeichnungen. (Zahl fehlt.)
 175. Vom Falschen und Wahren. 1 B.

Zweiter Anhang.

 176. Forschungen über die Gottheit. 6 B.
 177. Von den Göttern. 3 B.
 178. Geometrische Forschungen. 4B.
 179. Auszug aus des Aristoteles Tiergeschichte. 6 B.
 180. Schlußfolgen. 2 B.
 181. Thesen. 3 B.
 182. Vom Königtum. 2 B.
 183. Von den Ursachen. 1 B.
 184. Über Demokrit. 1 B.
 185. Von der Verleumdung. 1 B.
 186. Von der Entstehung. 1 B.
 187. Von der Klugheit und dem Charakter der Tiere. 1 B.
 188. Von der Bewegung. 2 B.
 189. Vom Sehen. 2 B.
 190. Zu den Definitionen. 2 B.
 191. Von dem Gegebensein. 1 B.
 192. Vom Größeren und Kleineren. 1 B.
 193. Von den Musikern. 1 B.
 194. Von der göttlichen Glückseligkeit an die Akademiker.
 195. Der Ermahner. 1 B.
 196. Uber die beste Staatsverfassung. 1 B.
 197. Denkschriften. 1 B.
 198. Über den sizilischen Krater. 1 B.
 199. Vom Zugegebenen. 1 B.
 200. Von den physischen Problemen. 1 B.
 201. Von den Arten des Wissens. 1 B.
 202. Vom Lügner. 3 B.
 203. Vorhalle der Topik. 1 B.

Dritter Anhang.

 204. An Aischylos. 1 B.
 205. Geschichte der Astronomie. 6 B.
 206. Arithmetische Forschungen. (Zahl fehlt.)
 207. Von der Vermehrung. 1 B.
 208. Akicharus. 1 B.
 209. Über Gerichtsreden. 1 B.
 210. Von der Verleumdung. 1 B.
 211. Die Briefe an (?) Astykreon, Phanias, Nikanor.
 212. Von der Frömmigkeit. 1 B.
 213. Euias. 1 B.
 214. Vom günstigen Zeitpunkt. 2 B.
 215. Von eigenen Reden (?). 1 B.
 216. Über Kindererziehung. 1 B.
 217. Ein anderes verschiedenes. 1 B.
 218. Über Bildung oder über Tugenden oder über Besonnenheit. 1 B.
 219. Der Ermahner. 1 B.
 220. Von den Zahlen. 1 B.
 221. Erklärungen zu der Darstellung der Schlüsse. 1 B.
 222. Vom Himmelsgebäude. 1 B.
 223. Politische Fragen. 2 B.
 224. Von der Natur. 1 B.
 225. Von den Früchten. Von Tieren.

Siehe auch
 Lykeion

Literatur
 Diogenes Laertius: Leben und Meinungen berühmter Philosophen. Buch I–X. Aus dem Griechischen übersetzt von Otto Apelt. Zwei Bände (Philosophische Bibliothek, Band 53/54). Meiner, Leipzig 1921 (enthält einen wichtigen Anmerkungsteil mit textkritischen und sachlichen Erläuterungen sowie Register. Digitalisate im Internet Archive:  ).
 H. Usener: Analecta Theophrastea. Leipzig 1858

Einzelnachweise und Fußnoten

Liste (literarische Werke)
Griechische Philosophie
Liste (Philosophie)
Literatur (Griechisch)

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Q: Is $f=0$ in $L^1$ if it were $0$ if it were in $L^2$? Let $f \in L^1([0,1])$ such that
$$\int_0^1 f(x) \exp(2 \pi i n x) dx=0$$
for all $n \in \mathbb Z$. Does this imply $f=0$?
If we would additionally know that $f \in L^2([0,1])$ this would be obvious since the functions $\exp(2 \pi i n x)$ are a Hilbert basis of the Hilbert space $L^2$. But since we only know $f \in L^1([0,1])$ I'm not sure anymore.

A: The easiest way to do this is the way Lebesgue did it a long time ago; one first shows the result for continuous functions (eg using the $L^2$ arguments or Feijer theorem - both may be actually post-Lebesgue and there are direct proofs too).
Then consider $F(x)=\int_{0}^xf(t)dt$; by general theory $F$ is absolutely continuous (hence differentiable ae) and $F'=f$ ae.
But $F(1)=F(0)=0$ by the hypothesis with $n=0$ and then for $|n| \ge 1$, integrating by parts one has
$\int_0^1 F(x) \exp(2 \pi i n x) dx=(F(1)-F(0))/(2\pi in)-\frac{1}{2\pi i n}\int_0^1 f(x) \exp(2 \pi i n x) dx=0$, so if $A=\int_0^1F(x)dx$ one has by the above result for continuous functions that $F(x)-A=0$ and by differentiating one gets that $f(x)=0$ ae

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A Podcast for Self-Proclaimed Food Nerds
By Jill Layton March 5, 2019
Image Credit: America's Test Kitchen
There's so much more to food than what's on our plates. Proof is new a podcast from America's Test Kitchen. It's for foodies—the people who love food and the backstories that go along with it. Based on science and sociology, Proof is all about what we eat and the reasons why.
Host Bridget Lancaster takes a deep dive into food trends, obsessions, and the backstories around food and drinks. It's the under-told stories, like where cravings come from, who invented deep fried Oreos, why celery was once so in vogue, and how BeanBoozled Jelly Beans get their questionable flavors.
The podcast doesn't offer recipes, and it's not about celebrity chefs and what they like to eat. It's all about the history and mysteries of food and beverages. It's funny, smart, and everything you didn't know you wanted to know.
Kickstarter's New Podcast Will Inspire You to Dream Big
The New 'Frozen 2' Trailer Is Here, and It's Full of Magic
Wait, Is Everything Cake?
The 'UglyDolls' Trailer Looks Ridiculously Adorable
This Talking Robot Answers Your Kids' Questions So You Don't Have To
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Jadval-e Ghureh-ye Nareh Gah (, also Romanized as Jadval-e Ghūreh-ye Nareh Gāh; also known as Jadval-e Ghūreh-ye Bālā and Jadval-e Ghūreh-ye 'Olyā) is a village in Sarrud-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 76, in 14 families.
Jadval-e Ghureh-ye Mehrian (, also Romanized as Jadval-e Ghūreh-ye Mehrīān; also known as Jadval Ghūreh) is a village in Sarrud-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 216, in 48 families.
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Xivry-Circourt est une commune française située dans le département de Meurthe-et-Moselle en région Grand Est.

Géographie

Urbanisme

Typologie
Xivry-Circourt est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (94 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (94,6 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (47,4 %), prairies (46,6 %), zones urbanisées (3,1 %), eaux continentales (2,3 %), forêts (0,6 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie

Histoire
La commune actuelle a été créée en 1809, par la fusion des communes de Xivry-le-Franc et de Circourt.
 En 1817, Xivry-le-Franc, village de l'ancienne province du Barrois sur la Pienne. À cette époque il y avait 299 habitants répartis dans 47 maisons.
 En 1817, Circourt, village de l'ancienne province du Barrois sur la Pienne. À cette époque il y avait 272 habitants répartis dans 60 maisons.

Politique et administration

Les maires successifs de Xivry-Circourt (Xivry-le-Franc et Circourt), depuis 1795, sont mentionnés sur le site de Michel Canton ()

Population et société

Démographie

Manifestations culturelles et festivités
Xivry-Circourt a initié les deux premières éditions du festival de musique Vache de blues en 2001 et 2002.

Économie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 Église paroissiale Saint-Symphorien, cimetière ; calvaire ; monument sépulcral construite au , détruite début  quart , dont il subsiste un fragment de remplage gothique déposé près de la morgue, reconstruite à partir de 1880.
 Chapelle à Circourt  (propriété privée).
 Calvaire dit croix Welferding, érigé en  aux frais de Florimont Welferding, de Circourt ; seuls les deux derniers chiffres de la date (.. 06) sont lisibles, mais le monument funéraire de ce personnage, décédé en 1809, permet de dater le calvaire de 1806.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Johann(es) Vervaux, né à Xivry-le-Franc, confesseur à la cour de Bavière (1586-1661).
 Nicolas Bousmard, évêque de Verdun de 1576 à 1584, né en 1512 à Xivry-le-Franc (successeur de l'évêque Nicolas Psaulme, mort à Verdun le ).
 Le jeton de Nicolas Bousmard, datant de 1584 en cuivre jaune, montre sur une face le buste de Nicolas Boysmard, vu de trois quarts à gauche et sur l'autre face, l'écu de Nicolas Boysmard, sur une crosse de pal. Il est fils de Jean Bousmard (ou Boussemard). Jean Bousmard fut mayeur de Circourt, ensuite avocat au bailliage de Saint-Mihiel, puis lieutenant particulier, et pendant 14 ans lieutenant-général au bailliage d'Apremont. Il fut anobli en 1564. Sa mère fut Alix Collinet de la Malmaison, famille d'Anjou installée en Lorraine et dont l'homme lige fut François Collinet de la Malmaison dont la noblesse de son père, Jean Collinet de la Malmaison, fut confirmée le .

 Georges Courteline, romancier et dramaturge français du  (né Georges Moinaux en 1858- décédé en 1929). Courteline est l'arrière-petit-fils de Jean Moineau, cocher et marchand forain, né à Xivry-Circourt le  et mort à Chartres le .
 James Martin (l'abbé), alias "Jehan de Lorraine"; né le 20/02/1910 à Xivry-Circourt et mort à Hirson le 27/06/1993 ; curé de Landouzy-la-Ville (Aisne) ; auteur-compositeur-interprète de chansons ; lauréat du premier prix du Concours de la bonne Chanson en 1947. Il œuvra avec le musicien Jean Fragerolle mais essentiellement avec le poète-paysan autodidacte Gaston Chandivert : "Chansons d'hier et de toujours", "Rondes et Chansons"... (Sources -entre autres- : Archives historiques de l'Évêché de Soissons).

Héraldique, logotype et devise

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Xivry-Circourt, Un village lorrain occupé - Tome I : L'invasion d' et le début de l'occupation,
 Xivry-Circourt, Un village Lorrain occupé - Tome II : 1915, le temps des illusions,

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de Meurthe-et-Moselle

Liens externes

 Histoire de Xivry-Circourt au Pays-Haut lorrain

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Commune en Meurthe-et-Moselle
Ville décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918


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Home » Discover the Many Fantastic Attractions in Scotland » National Parks and Nature Reserves in Scotland » Monach Islands – A National Nature Reserve
Monach Islands – A National Nature Reserve
The Monach Islands are located just to the west of North Uist. This group of islands is also known as Heisker, and it was said that they were once connected to North Uist. Legend states that a storm of great proportions swept the connecting sandbank back into the ocean, thereby leaving the small islands to the mercy of the great Atlantic Ocean. The once inhabited islands are no longer home to humans, and have been deserted since 1948. The islands are made up of Deasker Island, Stockay Island, Shillay Island, Ceann Iar Island, Shivinish Island and Ceann Ear Island. Ceann Ear Island was home to a nunnery, and in 1864 a lighthouse was constructed on the island and was run by monks. This lighthouse was later abandoned in 1943 and was replaced by an unmanned light. The Shivinish Island, Ceann Iar and Ceann Ear islands are connected at low tide by a sandbar.
In 1966, the Monach Islands were declared a National Nature Reserve,
the once human population of about 130, has been replaced by a grey
population of approximately 10 000 individuals. The beautiful untouched
beaches, rocky ledges and endless dunes also attract Eider Ducks,
Terns,
Shelducks and Waders to the islands to breed and mate. Not even the
force storms that batter the islands can deter the wide variety of
birds,
such as Black Guillemots that strangely enough prefer
stormy islands to the more protected ones.
Approximately 100 different bird species have been recorded to
the islands, although only 31 of these species have been confirmed to
the islands for breeding purposes. The islands have managed to recover
vegetation that was depleted during the time that the islands were
inhabited
by humans, as livestock overgrazed the natural vegetation, and it has
many years to rectify the damage. Machair has also started to grow in
where it was once depleted, and dung from the seals and their pups
assist as
fertilizer to the islands. The Heisker Islands are accessible by a
that is located on Shillay Island, and tour boats often stop at the
en route to their destinations.
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Annunziata Graziano, South Portland: Learning how to be a Mainer
When I was young, I realized that I had a lot of friends whose parents were from Maine. And most of the time, their grandparents and great-grandparents had also been born and raised in Maine.
My family was not like this.
Annunziata Graziano is a marketing designer for a Maine-based company. She's originally from Readfield and loves to golf, practice yoga and travel.
Both of my parents had moved to Maine for work and for its beauty. It had always just been the three of us in Maine. I didn't have any aunts down the street, and there was never a Sunday dinner at grandma's house. I always heard people saying, "Your parents weren't born here, you're not a real Mainer."
Growing up, it made me wonder: What did being a "real Mainer" really mean? I couldn't flip through the pages of an old Maranacook yearbook and find my mom's smiling face. I couldn't hear stories about my dad running through the pews of our church as a child. But I was born here. Didn't that have to mean something?
I spent my childhood doing "Maine" things. I learned the "Sixteen Counties Song" in music class, I went to regular bean suppers in our church basement, I begged my mom to let me wear shorts as soon as it hit 50 degrees, I tried Moxie while floating on a pontoon boat in the middle of a lake, and I ate my fair share of red hot dogs.
When college came and I moved to Georgia, I wore my Bean boots proudly – even showing them off in one of my senior photos. When new friends would ask where I was from, I was quick to tell them my entire life history and how I was from the best state in the entire country.
But as I grew older, graduated college and moved back to Maine, I came to realize that having a camp in Millinocket doesn't make you a Mainer. Neither does having an uncle who's a lobsterman, or a cousin who ran into Stephen King once at Hannaford.
A true Mainer is hardworking, kind, quick-witted and caring – someone you can always call for help. My parents taught me these traits, but it was teachers, camp counselors and members of my church family who instilled them in me through their everyday actions.
Now that I'm making a life for myself in Maine, I hope to exemplify these traits daily, because I know that having each of them under my belt is what will make me a real Mainer.
No matter where I go in life, I will always be proud to wear my name tag of Bean boots and flannel, and to tell each person I meet, "I'm a Mainer."
A real mainer, meetinghouse
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and Cambridge, Mass., USA – August 26, 2014 – Vaxxas, a biotechnology company commercializing a novel vaccine delivery platform, has been named a 2015 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Vaxxas is one of 24 emerging technology companies from around the world and across all industries recognized for their potential to transform the future of business and society.
Vaxxas is developing the Nanopatch™, a novel vaccine delivery platform designed to enable more efficient, effective, and safer vaccination than needle and syringe. The Nanopatch™ achieves these benefits by directly targeting delivery of vaccine components to the abundant immunological cells immediately below the surface of the skin, resulting in robust immune system activation at much lower doses than required by needle injection. Vaccines delivered by the Nanopatch™ platform have the potential to provide vastly improved immune protection at significantly lower cost. Furthermore, when vaccines are dry-coated onto the proprietary Nanopatch™, they have thermostable properties, which means that the billions of dollars needed to maintain the cold-chain may someday be reinvested toward more pressing priorities in global health systems. Vaxxas is pursuing strategic plans to both license its technology to global pharmaceutical companies as well as advance vaccine candidates on its own.
Each year the World Economic Forum chooses a select number of Technology Pioneers from hundreds of applicants. Candidate companies are nominated by Members, constituents and collaborators of the World Economic Forum, and by the public. A selection committee, comprised of top technology and innovation experts, academics and venture capitalists, reviews all applications before making its recommendation to the World Economic Forum.
Vaxxas is a privately-held biotechnology company focused on enhancing the performance of existing and next-generation vaccines with its proprietary Nanopatch™ technology platform. Vaxxas' Nanopatch contains an ultra-high density array of very short projections – invisible to the naked eye – that are dry-coated with vaccine. Application of the Nanopatch to the skin is pain free and rapidly delivers the vaccine to the abundant immune cell population immediately below the skin surface. In a wide range of preclinical studies Nanopatch delivery of vaccine achieves equivalent protective immunity as the needle and syringe – but with as little as 1/100th of the dose. It has also been shown that Vaxxas' proprietary dry-coating technology can eliminate the need for vaccine refrigeration during storage and transportation – removing the resource burden of maintaining the "cold chain." Leveraging both the potent immunogenic response and thermostability, Vaxxas is applying its technology to improve the performance of vaccines, with initial applications targeting infectious disease and oncology. The company has its first announced pharmaceutical company collaboration with Merck.


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Taken at the annual car show in Old Town Monrovia.
I like the effect. Sort of like looking into a diorama.
I like it, too. It's crispy.
I like the TS effect... And this is such a perfect subject as it really looks like toy cars now.


Learn how to make a spooky pumpkin 3D typography in Photoshop for the upcoming Halloween celebration. We'll use a 3D text mockup just to make things easier. You can use the same 3D text mockup to create other creepy text effects like zombie, blood, ghost and so on. All you have to do is to change the colors and adjust the layer styles. Add some Halloween symbols around the pumpkin text and you have a cool Photoshop text effect.
Start with a simple black gradient background layer. Download this Halloween pumpkin text effect mockup with an easy to edit 3D look. The Pumpkin text style can be modified to you liking. For example you can change the colors, light direction, font and of course the text.
Open the PSD file and simply double click on the Pumpkin Style smart object to open it. Inside you will find another smart object called "add your text inside" that you have to open. And another "add your text inside" that you have to open. Finally you can modify the text or add your own. You can also use a vector shape.
For this text effect I used the free Halloween font Creepsville ; you have to download and install font in Photoshop or you can use any font type you like.
Add this Wooden Cross stock image into your PSD file and place it like in the image. Because this is a PNG file cutout file, you don't have to waste time removing the background.
Call this layer Shadow Effect. Duplicate the Shadow Effect two times. Name the first copy Wooden Cross layer and the second copy, Gradient Effect layer.
Let's start with the Wooden Cross layer, by adding these layer styles.
Let's work with the Shadow Effect layer. Set the Fill of the layer to 0% and the Opacity to 57% ; add a Color Overlay layer style.
To create the cast shadow effect you have to use the Distort Tool and try to make a realistic shadow. You can find this tool on the Edit>Transform menu. Also add a Gaussian Blur(Filter>Blur menu) effect of around 3 pixels.
Right click on the Gradient Effect layer and choose Create Clipping Mask. Set the Fill to 0% and add a Gradient Overlay with these settings. Position the gradient in the center of the cross using the drag and drop method.
Now add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer. Click on the Clip to layer button to make sure this adjustment only applies to the Wooden Cross layer.
You can use one of these grass brushes to add highlights to the grass area like shown in the image. Create a new layer and use the color white to draw the grass; set the blend mode to Overlay.
I have also added a text on the Wooden Cross. Use any font you like and pick one of these amazing letterpress styles to create the engrave wood effect.
Let's add another Halloween symbol a scary black cat. In Ancient Celtic religions cats taught to be reincarnated souls of humans, and that they were able to see the future. It was also taught that witches could turn into cats.
Use this black cat stock image and use a Selection Tool to remove the background.
Call this layer Black Cat and add an Inner Shadow and a Gradient Overlay layer styles.
Add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer just for this layer.
Select the Black Cat layer and its adjustments and convert them into a smart object(right click to Create Smart Object). Add an Inner Shadow layer style to the new created smart object.
Create a new layer and call it Cat Shadow. Pick the Brush Tool and with a soft round brush paint the shadow effect. Use the color black with different opacity levels.
Let's add one or two Jack O'Lantern using this carved pumpkin stock image. Remove the background and place the pumpkin like in the image.
To blend the pumpkin with the rest of the stock images, I will add a Color Balance adjustment just for this layer.
Add some lighting and shading effects using these layer styles for the Pumpkin Layer.
Add some grass in a new layer above the Pumpkin Layer. And don't forget to add a Drop Shhadow style for the grass layer to make the image as realistic as you can.
You can add a second pumpkin; don't forget the cast shadow effects.
Let's add a little magic to the image and give the feeling that the pumpkins are under a spell. Use this abstract light texture. Set the blend mode to Screen and use a soft round brush to erase the edges of the image, to give it a nice round shape. Add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment just for the Abstract Light Texture layer.
We'll now add another light sparkle effect using this firework stock image. Copy the texture in a new layer and set the blend mode to Screen. Use a layer mask for this texture layer and paint with black color inside the mask. That way you can erase certain areas in a nondestructive way, meaning that the original image remains intact.
Also add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment just for the Fireworks Texture layer. If you want to add even more sparkle you can add this fire sparks stock image, with Screen as blend mode. You have to resize the image, rotate and place it in the right spot.
Duplicate the Wooden Cross layer and place it in fron of the image like shown in the preview. Resize the image to 130% and add a Gaussian Blur effect; set the Radius to 2.5 pixels. Also add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment just for this layer.
For the final touches you can add some lightning effects using one of these lightning textures and brushes. Set the blend mode to Screen and use a Brightness/Contrast adjustment to make the light brighter.
2 comment(s) for "Make a Spooky Halloween Pumpkin Text Effect in Photoshop"
hey there, i am facing a lot of problems in this digital art. I have done my bachelors in fine arts therefore my focus was mainly on brushes canvases and colors. So, I am fairly new to this digital thing .
Though I became aware of many things with these tutorials, but I am not sure if I am actually learning something. I can't repeat them on my own, i am not sure when to use these techniques. Further , there were many tuts i couldn't even complete because i couldn't get through a particular step. i get stuck there only.
can u suggest something ?
Yes, I can suggest to start with simple easy to follow Photoshop tutorials. Maybe you should try video Photoshop tutorials as well. And if a step seems really difficult to do, search similar Photoshop techniques on Google and maybe you find a tutorial that explains the technique better.
The key is to persevere!


I can´t name this image, so how about you help me out here. I figure the guy on the left is explaining something to the guy on the right, but what is he saying…?
What do you think? How would you caption this?


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The 3 Muses (Eliza, Kjersten and Lucy Danzig) have charmed audiences coast to coast with their tight three part sister harmonies and their distinct personalities. They have opened for many notable acts including; Jerry Douglas and the Earls of Leicester, The Duhks and the Shook Twins. The Muses perform regularly with their parent's (Peter & Mary Danzig) folkgrass duo, Otter Creek. They are featured on several tracks of Otter Creek's most recent album The Fiddle Preacher which climbed to #16 on the Folk Charts. The Muses first E.P. is scheduled to be released at the beginning of June 2016.
Existing comfortably in the tension between tradition and the musical frontier, Run Boy Run's all-acoustic format blends bluegrass, folk and the old timey American vernacular with touches of classical and jazz. Their music is rooted in the traditional music of the Appalachian South, but is also definitively present in the 21st century.
The group quickly won an enthusiastic following through their high-energy live performances at festivals around the country. The band expanded its reputation with their self-released first album, 2011's I Built This Heart, which won an impressive amount of attention for a D.I.Y. release.
This World Oft Can Be, Della Mae's second album and Rounder debut, shows that like the Avett Brothers, Lumineers, and Punch Brothers, these five multitalented young women are respectful of American musical tradition, but not restricted by it, combining centuries' worth of musical influences with an emotionally tough, undeniably modern songwriting sensibility.
In addition to playing festivals and clubs throughout the United States, Della Mae recently expanded the scale of its touring efforts after participating in the U.S. State Department's American Music Abroad program. Selected as cultural ambassadors, the band spent 43 days traveling in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, where they collaborated with local musicians, taught educational programs for children, and played concerts for local audiences.
"It's been a life-changing experience for us, individually and as a band," Ludiker says of the tour. "A cool thing about playing music in Central Asian countries is in the lack of distinction their audience places between musical genres. We found that if music is played with feeling, all people connected to it. They find themselves smiling and relating without even understanding the language."
Indeed, Della Mae demonstrates how effectively music builds bridges and transcends artificially constructed borders, whether they're national or genre-based. Ludiker concludes: "All five ladies are individually driven, and we are working towards the same goal. This band definitely feels like a calling, a labor of love."
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Existing in the tension between tradition and frontier, Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest winner and Prairie Home Companion guest, Run Boy Run, truly exceeds the sum of its parts as touches of classical, jazz, and folk express themselves through the old-time core of the band's unique sound.
Wayward Molly is Jani Gamble, Allison Ottley, Nicki Singleton and Mona Stevens. The three vocalists were thrown together for a one time performance in 2009, and although they come from varied musical backgrounds, they blended so well and had such a blast that they decided to give it another go.
Drawing on an eclectic mix of folk, Celtic, and whatever else they feel like, they are currently performing in local venues. Wayward Molly recently had their "coming out" concert in March 2012 to a packed house and two standing ovations while raising funds for the American Cancer Society.


Michael Wheaton talks driverless cars, research as inspiration, and the promise and dangers of technology.
Work read & discussed: "I Robot, Driver" (short fiction).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael Wheaton teaches Composition at Valencia College. He holds an MFA from Pacific University. His work appears in Fantastic Floridas, Diagram, and the Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology.