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Q: Determinacy of symmetric games Is it consistent that for all ordinals $α$ and $λ$ and infinite regular cardinals $κ$, games on $V_λ$ with game length $κα$ and $\mathrm{OD}(\mathrm{On}^κ)$ payoff that depends only on the set of all sets played (and not by whom and in what order) are determined?
If not, can we get indeterminacy for such games
- of length $ω$ with OD payoff ?
- on ordinals with OD payoff ?
- of length $ω_1$ on ordinals with $\mathrm{OD}(\mathrm{On}^{ω_1})$ payoff (assuming CH if needed) ?
Notes:

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*As is standard, the games are two player perfect information games in which the players take turns (and exactly one player wins at the end).  In the question, every $f∈V_λ^{κα}$ is a valid run of the game, with arbitrary $\mathrm{OD}(\mathrm{On}^κ)$ payoff that depends only on $\mathrm{ran}(f)$.

*Proving consistency of the determinacy is likely beyond current techniques (and for the top question, I suspect the consistency strength is at least that of a proper class of supercompacts), but given the extremely broad class of games, there might be simple examples of undetermined games.

*Given a stationary co-stationary $A⊂ω_1$, the following game is undetermined:  game of length $ω$ on countable ordinals with player I winning iff $\sup(\text{moves})∈A$.

*I require $κ$ to be regular because for singular strong limit $κ$ of uncountable cofinality, a well-ordering of $P(κ)$ is definable from a subset of $κ$, giving a 'trivial' indeterminacy.

*A natural restriction is $α=1$.

*A natural extension is to allow countably many checkpoints $κβ_γ$, and given a run $f$, allow payoff to depend on $\mathrm{ran}(f|κβ_γ)$ for each $γ$, with the intervals between successive checkpoints (counting game start, end, and limits of checkpoints as checkpoints) additively indecomposable and with non-increasing cardinality.

Consequences of the determinacy
Determinacy of the games implies very strong symmetry principles.  For the games of countable (limit) length and payoff $A$,
- player I wins iff all sufficiently closed countable $M⊂V_λ$ are in $A$ (equivalently, $A$ includes a club subset of $P_{ω_1}(V_λ)$)
- player II wins iff none of such $M$ are in $A$.
Thus, the determinacy implies that all sufficiently closed countable $M⊂V_λ$ satisfy the same $\text{Theory}(V_λ,∈,M)$ (which depends on $λ$).  Many things are definable from such $M$, including for every well-ordering $δ∈∪M$ with $\mathrm{cf}(δ)>ω$, a cofinal sequence (which can depend on $M$) of length $\mathrm{cf}(δ)$, and hence for $λ>ω+2$, $ω_2$ disjoint stationary subsets of $ω_2$ of uncountable cofinality, and similarly for larger ordinals.
For uncountable sizes, we have similar correspondences, but with subtleties involving cofinality.  For $|M|=ω_1$, there are exactly four distinct structure types (without the extension), corresponding to game lengths $ω_1, \, ω_1\!+\!ω, \, ω_1ω, \, ω_1ω\!+\!ω$, and one can analogously classify $M$ of higher cardinality.
The determinacy likely has key implications for inner model theory.  Even with moves restricted to ordinals, length $ω$, and OD payoff, it would refute Woodin's HOD Conjecture (assuming, per the conjecture's assumptions, an extendible cardinal).
Extending lengths:  If games in the question on $V_{λ+2}$ (in most cases, $V_{λ+1}$ suffices) with length $κ$ and $\text{OD}(X)$ payoff are determined, then for such games on $V_λ$ with $\text{OD}(X)$ payoff:
- for arbitrary length $κα$, we get a weakening of determinacy: combine played strategies that at each stage $κβ$, give the next $κ$ moves as a function of $\mathrm{ran}(f|κβ)$ where $f$ is the play of the game, and see who wins.
- for game length $α$ with $\mathrm{cf}(α)=κ$ and $∀β<α \; β+|α|κ≤α$, we get full determinacy (take the union of all sets of size $≤|α|$ that were played (in the game of length $κ$) to see who wins).
Supercompactness:  Using the determinacy for games of length $κ$, we get an ordinal definable $κ^+$-complete normal fine $\mathrm{OD}(\mathrm{On}^κ)$-ultrafilter on $P_{κ^+}(V_λ)$.  Thus, $κ^+$ has properties resembling supercompactness.  The resemblance with supercompactness also motivated me in a previous question (Independence through forcing vs generic collapses).


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New research commissioned by Engage Hub, the data-driven customer engagement solutions company, reveals that 'spray and pray' communications strategy is driving consumers into hands of competitors.
In the study, a third of respondents said they were unhappy with the frequency they receive offers or updates from retailers. Nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of UK consumers revealed they receive them from some retailers at least once every day, while 15 per cent said they receive offers even more frequently than that.
As well as receiving too many messages, nearly a quarter of UK consumers (24 per cent) said they unsubscribed from a retailer because the messages they received were irrelevant to them. In fact, 15 per cent said retailers never send them offers or updates that are relevant to them.
This, the research reveals, has a significant impact for retailers given that one in 10 UK consumers (11 per cent) would consider shopping elsewhere if they continued to receive irrelevant communications from a retailer, while 68 per cent would simply unsubscribe.
Commenting on the findings, Simon Brennan, VP Sales Europe at Engage Hub said, "Retailers need to change tact. Poorly targeted, 'spray and pray' style marketing campaigns generate the most spam complaints, and the majority of such communications remain unopened. This not only undermines a retailer's spend on direct marketing ROI but also it also turns customers away as they quickly become disengaged with a brand that doesn't treat them as an individual.
"Modern marketing is increasingly reliant on harnessing real-time data to drive more meaningful, memorable and effective conversations with customers. Retailers, therefore, need to focus on crafting contextual, highly personalised content that draws the customer in, rather than making them hit the delete button or mark it as spam.
The Engage Hub research also found that consumers want more personalised content within the messages they receive from retailers. Nearly half of UK consumers (46 per cent) said they would be more encouraged to click through to purchase if promotional offers were tailored to their likes and dislikes, indicating that there is a level of personal information they are willing to share if asked.
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Nearly a fifth of respondents said they would also be more encouraged to click through to purchase if offers were sent to them via their preferred channel of communication. Yet just 21 per cent said that retailers always deliver offers and promotions to them via their preferred channel of communication.
Email was considered as the channel of choice for the majority of UK consumers (62 per cent), yet nearly one in five (17 per cent) would most like to receive communications from retailers via social media – making this the second most popular channel for UK consumers.
But there are notable differences for some key demographics, and whereas considerably more (68 per cent) aged 65 or older prefer communications over email, those aged between 18 and 24 (50 per cent). Conversely, social media is the preferred communication channel for 26 per cent of that younger age group, and only 11 per cent of those 65+.


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The shopping center is Brookdale Mall in suburban Minneapolis, and the center's owner retained the mortgage broker after foreclosure of the property and takeover efforts by the lender.
The agreement between the broker and the center's owner was a 90-day contract that gave the broker exclusive rights to find another lender. But prior to signing that agreement, the center's owner had already received a loan commitment from a lender. Complicating matters, the mortgage broker later received a loan "letter of intent" from yet another lender. That deal never closed, however, and the 90-day agreement between the broker and center owner expired, as did the letter of intent with the second lender.
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Ligand Acquires Milestone and Royalty Rights to SB206 from Novan, Inc.
Phase 3 drug candidate targeting molluscum
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announces the acquisition of economic rights to SB206 from Novan, Inc. SB206 is a Phase 3 topical antiviral gel for the treatment of skin infections, including molluscum contagiosum. Ligand will pay $12 million to Novan and in return will be entitled to receive a tiered royalty of 7% to 10%, as well as up to $20 million in regulatory and commercial milestones. Novan is responsible for all expenses to develop or commercialize SB206, and will use 100% of the proceeds from this transaction in the development and pursuit of regulatory approval for SB206.
"This deal enables Ligand to participate in the potential future revenue of a promising Phase 3 stage asset with a potential commercial launch in 2021. The drug candidate targets a condition mostly affecting children and with a significant unmet medical need," said John Higgins, Chief Executive Officer of Ligand. "We believe Novan is a well-capitalized company with an experienced management team. This deal adds an attractive late-stage asset to our growing list of partnered programs that could be approved and launch within the next three years."
About SB206
Novan is developing SB206 as a nitric-oxide-based topical gel for the treatment of viral skin infections, with a current focus on the treatment of molluscum contagiosum, a contagious skin infection caused by the molluscipoxvirus. There are currently no therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of molluscum. Nitric oxide has diverse biological activity within the body, affecting the immune, cardio/pulmonary and neurological systems, and depending on dose and release kinetics, nitric oxide can have agonistic or antagonistic effects. The role and mechanics of nitric oxide have been well researched. Novan's technology platform is the first macromolecular platform to achieve stable, tunable and druggable delivery of nitric oxide. SB206, if approved, could be a topical, at-home, caregiver-applied therapy with a rapid treatment benefit. Novan's issued U.S. and foreign patents and pending U.S. and foreign patent applications, if issued, relating to SB206 are projected to expire between 2026 and 2034.
About Molluscum
Molluscum contagiosum is a contagious skin infection caused by the molluscipoxvirus. Molluscum affects approximately six million people in the U.S. annually. The greatest incidence is in children aged one to 14 years. The average time to resolution is 13 months, and 13% of children experience lesions that may not resolve in 24 months. There is no FDA approved treatment for molluscum, and caregivers are faced with potentially painful in-office, physician-administered treatments or off-label prescriptions with no molluscum indication, no proven clinical efficacy and tolerability issues. As a result of the inadequate treatment paradigm, over 50% of patients diagnosed with molluscum are untreated. The majority of patients that receive treatment undergo procedures with painful effects such as scraping, freezing, burning and blistering, and the remainder are often prescribed products indicated for the treatment of external genital warts.
About Novan
Novan, Inc. is a clinical development-stage biotechnology company focused on leveraging nitric oxide's naturally occurring anti-microbial and immunomodulatory mechanisms of action to treat a range of diseases with significant unmet needs. Novan believes that by deploying nitric oxide in a solid form, on demand and in localized formulations allows the company to potentially improve patient outcomes in a variety of dermatology, women's health and gastrointestinal diseases.
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Ligand is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing or acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies discover and develop medicines. Our business model creates value for stockholders by providing a diversified portfolio of biotech and pharmaceutical product revenue streams that are supported by an efficient and low corporate cost structure. Our goal is to offer investors an opportunity to participate in the promise of the biotech industry in a profitable, diversified and lower-risk business than a typical biotech company. Our business model is based on doing what we do best: drug discovery, early-stage drug development, product reformulation and partnering. We partner with other pharmaceutical companies to leverage what they do best (late-stage development, regulatory management and commercialization) to ultimately generate our revenue. Ligand's Captisol® platform technology is a patent-protected, chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. OmniAb® is a patent-protected transgenic animal platform used in the discovery of fully human mono-and bispecific therapeutic antibodies. Ligand has established multiple alliances, licenses and other business relationships with the world's leading pharmaceutical companies including Amgen, Merck, Pfizer, Gilead, Janssen, Baxter International and Eli Lilly.
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Q: Problems passing a std::vector by reference though virtual functions using pybind11 I have some C++ code being bound to Python via pybind11, and we are having a strange issue with passing std::vector by reference through a virtual method and having the changes to that std::vector persist outside that method.
What we want to do is provide a C++ pure virtual function that accepts a std::vector by reference, so that a Python class that overrides this method can modify that std::vector in place, handing it back to other C++ code.  We are following the pybind11 documentation about making the STL code opaque, but in our test we are finding that the STL vector is properly modified and passed by reference when the STL vector is created in Python, but if we create the std::vector in C++ it is not.
Here is a self-contained example that demonstrates the issue.  First the C++ pybind11 code, where we are creating an abstract base class A with a single pure virtual method A::func which we want to override from Python:
#include "pybind11/pybind11.h"
#include "pybind11/stl_bind.h"
#include "pybind11/stl.h"
#include "pybind11/functional.h"
#include "pybind11/operators.h"

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

namespace py = pybind11;
using namespace pybind11::literals;

PYBIND11_MAKE_OPAQUE(std::vector<int>)

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// The C++ types and functions we're binding
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
struct A {
  virtual void func(std::vector<int>& vec) const = 0;
};

// In this function the std::vector "x" is not modified by the call to a.func(x)
// The difference seems to be that in this function we create the std::vector
// in C++
void consumer(A& a) {
  std::vector<int> x;
  a.func(x);
  std::cerr << "consumer final size: " << x.size() << std::endl;
}

// Whereas here, with the std::vector<int> created in Python and passed in, the
// std::vector "x" is modified by the call to a.func(x).
// The only difference is we create the std::vector in Python and pass it in here.
void another_consumer(A& a, std::vector<int>& x) {
  std::cerr << "another_consumer initial size: " << x.size() << std::endl;
  a.func(x);
  std::cerr << "another_consumer final size  : " << x.size() << std::endl;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Trampoline class for A
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class PYB11TrampolineA: public A {
public:
  using A::A;
  virtual void func(std::vector<int>& vec) const override { PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE(void, A, func, vec); }
};

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Make the module
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PYBIND11_MODULE(example, m) {
  py::bind_vector<std::vector<int>>(m, "vector_of_int");

  {
    py::class_<A, PYB11TrampolineA> obj(m, "A");
    obj.def(py::init<>());
    obj.def("func", (void (A::*)(std::vector<int>&) const) &A::func, "vec"_a);
  }

  m.def("consumer", (void (*)(A&)) &consumer, "a"_a);
  m.def("another_consumer", (void (*)(A&, std::vector<int>&)) &another_consumer, "a"_a, "x"_a);
}

We have also created two C++ standalone functions: consumer and another_consumer, which show examples of trying to pass and modify a std::vector<int> through this interface.  In the case of consumer, this will fail, and it acts as though the argument to A::func is being passed by value.  However, when we create the std::vector<int> in Python and pass it into another_consumer, things proceed as expected and the vector<int> is modified in place by A::func.  Here's the Python code demonstrating the difference (assuming the above C++ is compiled to a module called example:
from example import *

class B(A):
    def __init__(self):
        A.__init__(self)
        return
    def func(self, vec):
        print "B.func START: ", vec
        vec.append(-1)
        print "B.func STOP : ", vec
        return

b = B()
print "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
print "consumer(b) -- This one seems to fail to pass back the modified std::vector<int> from B.func"
consumer(b)
print "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
print "another_consumer(b, x) -- This one works as expected"
x = vector_of_int()
another_consumer(b, x)
print "x : ", x

Executing the Python example results in:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
consumer(b) -- This one seems to fail to pass back the modified std::vector<int> from B.func
B.func START:  vector_of_int[]
B.func STOP :  vector_of_int[-1]
consumer final size: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
another_consumer(b, x) -- This one works as expected
another_consumer initial size: 0
B.func START:  vector_of_int[]
B.func STOP :  vector_of_int[-1]
another_consumer final size  : 1
x :  vector_of_int[-1]

So what are we misunderstanding here?  Why does the first example, the function consumer, fail to have it's local copy of the std::vector modified in place and returned by reference from the Python method B.func?

A: The following is probably unsatisfactory, but it's such an easy "cheat" and gets you going, that I figured I might as well post it. As said in the comment above, the second case works b/c the python proxy object is found to already exist and is thus re-used. You can play that game yourself, by changing the trampoline code to:
class PYB11TrampolineA: public A {
public:
  using A::A;
  virtual void func(std::vector<int>& vec) const override {
    py::object dummy = py::cast(&vec);   // force re-use in the following call
    PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE(void, A, func, vec);
  }
};

and then both consumer functions will work as expected.
EDIT: For that matter, since the problem is in the conversion of arguments handed to the callable (here: B.func), and since that is a Python, not C++, interface, you can alternatively simply pass &vec in the first place:
class PYB11TrampolineA: public A {
public:
  using A::A;
  virtual void func(std::vector<int>& vec) const override {
    PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE(void, A, func, &vec);
  }
};

Internally to pybind11, it amounts to the same thing.
EDIT2: Found the cause. It's in pybind11/2114.h, line 2114: the use of std::forward removes the reference and the motivation appears to be preventing creating python proxies to temporaries. It'd be nice to have a specialization for objects-by-reference.

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The Worcester Division of Public Health (WDPH) has issued a public health advisory concerning an outbreak of Hepatitis A, particularly among those experiencing substance use and/ or homelessness.
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"It is important that we vaccinate as many high-risk individuals as possible in order to achieve heard immunity," said Dr. Michael P. Hirsh, Medical Director for the City of Worcester.
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package buffers

import "sync"
import . "github.com/objecthub/containerkit"
import . "github.com/objecthub/containerkit/sequences"

func SynchronizedBuffer(class BufferClass) BufferClass {
  return &synchronizedBufferClass{class}
}

type synchronizedBufferClass struct {
  class BufferClass
}

func (this *synchronizedBufferClass) Embed(obj Buffer) Buffer {
  res := new(synchronizedBuffer)
  if obj == nil {
    obj = res
  }
  res.obj = obj
  res.class = this
  res.unsync = this.class.Embed(obj)
  res.unsynchronizedBuffer = res.unsync
  return res
}

func (this *synchronizedBufferClass) New(elements ...interface{}) Buffer {
  res := this.Embed(nil)
  res.Append(elements...)
  return res
}

func (this *synchronizedBufferClass) From(coll Container) Buffer {
  res := this.Embed(nil)
  res.AppendFrom(coll)
  return res
}

type unsynchronizedBuffer interface {
  Elements() Iterator
  Take(n int) DependentContainer
  TakeWhile(pred Predicate) DependentContainer
  Drop(n int) DependentContainer
  DropWhile(pred Predicate) DependentContainer
  Filter(pred Predicate) DependentContainer
  Map(f Mapping) DependentContainer
  FlatMap(g Generator) DependentContainer
  Flatten() DependentContainer
  Concat(other Container) DependentContainer
  Combine(f Binop, other Container) DependentContainer
  Zip(other Container) DependentContainer
  Class() BufferClass
  ReadOnly() DependentSequence
  Subsequence(start int, maxSize int) DependentSequence
  MapValues(f Mapping) DependentSequence
  Reverse() DependentSequence
  Join(other Sequence) DependentSequence
  Func() func (int) interface{}
}

type synchronizedBuffer struct {
  obj Buffer
  class BufferClass
  mutex sync.RWMutex
  unsync Buffer
  unsynchronizedBuffer
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Size() int {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Size()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) At(index int) interface{} {
  this.mutex.Lock()
  defer this.mutex.Unlock()
  return this.unsync.At(index)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) First() interface{} {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.First()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Last() interface{} {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Last()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) NextIndexEq(start int, val interface{}) int {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.NextIndexEq(start, val)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) NextIndex(start int, pred func (interface{}) bool) int {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.NextIndex(start, pred)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) NativeMap() map[int] interface{} {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.NativeMap()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Array() []interface{} {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Array()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Append(elem... interface{}) Buffer {
  this.mutex.Lock()
  defer this.mutex.Unlock()
  return this.unsync.Append(elem...)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) AppendFrom(coll Container) Buffer {
  this.mutex.Lock()
  defer this.mutex.Unlock()
  return this.unsync.AppendFrom(coll)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Clear() Buffer {
  this.mutex.Lock()
  defer this.mutex.Unlock()
  return this.unsync.Clear()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Class() BufferClass {
  return this.class
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Copy() Buffer {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Copy()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) IsEmpty() bool {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.IsEmpty()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Exists(pred Predicate) bool {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Exists(pred)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) ForAll(pred Predicate) bool {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.ForAll(pred)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) ForEach(proc Procedure) {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  this.unsync.ForEach(proc)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) FoldLeft(f Binop, z interface{}) interface{} {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.FoldLeft(f, z)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) FoldRight(f Binop, z interface{}) interface{} {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.FoldRight(f, z)
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Force() FiniteContainer {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Force()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) Freeze() FiniteContainer {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.Freeze()
}

func (this *synchronizedBuffer) String() string {
  this.mutex.RLock()
  defer this.mutex.RUnlock()
  return this.unsync.String()
}

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Just four weeks left to enter the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize and win €10,000, or one of the three runner-up prizes of €1,000! You can write on any subject and there
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The Mazari caretaker ministry under Balakh Sher Mazari as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan was sworn into office after the Nawaz government was overthrown on 19 April 1993 by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan. Mazari's tenure as caretaker prime minister ended abruptly on 26 May 1993 when the Supreme Court revoked the presidential order and reinstated Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.

Government formation
On 18 April 1993, president Ghulam Ishaq Khan exercised his extra-constitutional presidential powers, instituted to him through the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, to resolve the power struggle in Pakistan and dismissed the government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif. After dissolving both, the national and the provincial assemblies, Khan appointed Mazari as the caretaker prime minister. The same day, a caretaker cabinet was also sworn into the house.

This was the second time that president Khan had invoked Article 58-2b of the Eighth Amendment to bring down an elected head of government. The charges of corruption and economic mismanagement that Khan levelled against Nawaz Sharif were almost entirely identical to those he had earlier brought against Benazir Bhutto in 1990.

Cabinet

1993
A caretaker cabinet of 22 ministers took an oath on 18 April 1993 under caretaker prime minister Balakh Sher Mazari and the president Ghulam Ishaq Khan. The Mazari caretaker cabinet was "[Pakistan's] most short-lived caretaker cabinet".

References

1993 establishments in Pakistan

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Chrysler Turbine – a Car That Disregarded Traditions
Aivaras Grigelevičius
A few moments is enough to name a manufacturer that continuously invested in innovation and modern technology. In front of every company, there would be Mercedes-Benz with a few Italian and French brands behind it. And then, we would suggest focusing on Chrysler. Once an independent producer, Chrysler was one of the brightest stars in the industry. Want to hear some supporting facts? It is our pleasure.
Chrysler was the first company to use compression-ignition engines in production. Chrysler also was the first manufacturer to use reusable oil tanks, and first to install coolant temperature sensors, and first to cover the car's body with protection against corrosion. All of this is just a small part of Chrysler engineering innovations.
Still, if we would have to choose the most essential and fascinating innovation, we would choose the Chrysler Turbine - a unique project that had to cause a little revolution.
Chrysler Turbine
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The engine fueled with any petrol
Chrysler Turbine is the first and most likely the only serious project that aimed to begin serial production of cars with jet engines. An idea of a vehicle equipped with a gas turbine has been bothering Chrysler executives for years. First experiments with jet engines began back in the 40s. However, World War II forced Chrysler engineers to focus on other projects and the concept of the car with a gas engine was put to a drawer.
Chrysler specialists managed to return to the project only when World War II ended. Rapidly growing economy resulted in lots of money flowing into the company's account. So, when the time came to distribute the annual budget, Chrysler executives blew the dust off of an old project. Happy to get another shot at it, they instructed their engineers to create a fully functioning prototype.
You see, the Americans worked on the idea of a gas-driven car not only to outmatch their competition. The most significant benefit a gas engine brought to the table was that it could use any fuel. Petrol, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel - it could utilise anything that burns.
Chrysler Turbine experiments
The motor created by Chrysler engineers was powerful. It could reach 130 HP and 576 Nm torque, but it was not its most impressive indicator. Idle speed could reach 18,000 rotations/min, and by pressing on accelerator stronger, it could get to 60,000 rotations/min mark.
When presenting this rocket, Chrysler told that the gas turbine, compared to internal combustion engines, requires fewer exploitation costs. Moreover, the car is more enduring and easily starts even at low temperatures. Chrysler stated that a motor called A-831 could be started even at -29°C.
But, like all new technology, the gas engine has its flaws. First one is that it was cumbersome. Because of this reason, the Chrysler Turbine prototype would reach 100 km/h in around 12 seconds despite heavy engine rotations. And the second flaw is that it was costly to make. Even though Chrysler never revealed their expenses, you can be sure that the production of the engine by itself was more expensive than a whole compact class car. Back in a day, Chrysler planned to sell Turbine for around $50,000. If we were to account for inflation and other factors, today it would cost about $400,000.
Perhaps the biggest problem of this engine was the community's reaction. Wanting to find all the weaknesses of a jet engine, Chrysler made 50 units of this car, gave them to volunteers and asked to use it as if those vehicles were theirs.
During the program that took three years to finish, these cars accumulated 1,600,000 kilometres. That allowed Chrysler engineers to figure out what are the main flaws of the gas turbine. Most of the volunteers complained about a loud and lengthy process of turning the engine on. Others underlined poor dynamic properties and high fuel consumption.
After the program ended, Chrysler realised that it is not worth further investments. At the same moment, the decision was made to destroy almost all the Chrysler Turbine. The company kept two models, and seven more can be seen in various museums and private collections.
When the company's executives decided to cancel the development of a jet engine, a small group of engineers continued to experiment with it.
Later on, Chrysler presented an improved version of Lycoming jet engine. The result was Honeywell ATG1500 aggregate, reaching 1,500 HP and 3,728 Nm torque.
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Łowisko – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie podkarpackim, w powiecie rzeszowskim, w gminie Kamień.

W latach 1954-1961 wieś należała i była siedzibą władz gromady Łowisko, po jej zniesieniu w gromadzie Kamień. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa rzeszowskiego.

Miejscowość jest siedzibą parafii św. Ignacego Antiocheńskiego i św. Maksymiliana Kolbe, należącej do dekanatu Sokołów Małopolski, diecezji rzeszowskiej.

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A Verdict Reached in the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Case
By Joe Hyde, Jun 1, 2022
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — Johnny Depp was not in the courtroom but Amber Heard was there when the verdict was announced at 2 p.m. central time.
The jury found that Heard did defame Depp in an editorial Heard authored, answering all questions about the op-ed titled, "I spoke out against domestic violence and that has to change," (read it in the Washington Post here) affirmatively in favor of Depp. The jury awarded $15 million to Depp.
Depp was awarded compensatory damages of $10 million and $5 million in punitive damages. The judge reduced Depp's punitive damages to a statutory limit of $350,000.
The jury found some of Heard's counterclaims unfounded but some of Heard's counterclaims were valid, according to the jury.
The jury awarded Heard $2 million and no punitive damages.
The net amount awarded to Johnny Depp was
Subtracting Heard's award from Depp's total, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star leaves the trial with $8.35 million.
Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for $50 million for defamation in a Virginia court. Depp's complaint stemmed from a 2016 op-ed Heard purportedly wrote that she suffered abuse in a previous relationship. Heard did not name Depp but Depp claimed the op-ed was interpreted as being about him and he suffered economic consequences from Heard's op-ed.
Heard filed a $100 million counter-claim against Depp, claiming he made abuse hoax claims.
At 2 p.m. central time, the jury returned to the courtroom in Fairfax County, Virginia after three days of deliberations. The jury was sent back into deliberations after the judge determined that the jury did not annotate the damages on the verdict worksheet.
Depp was among the world's biggest movie stars in 2012 and was the world's highest-paid actor. He is best known for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Walt Disney Studios' "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
Heard is an actress known for her role at Mera (a princess of an Atlantean kingdom) in the DC Extended Universe franchise's superhero film Justice League. She reprised the role in 2018 in "Aquaman."
Depp and Heard were married from 2015 until 2016.
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For fans of the timeless RPG, Final Fantasy IV, you'll be delighted to understand that the direct follow up, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, is now available on Steam. Prepare for some traditional questing on your PC. There will certainly be chocobos.A lot of folks aren't even knowledgeable about that Square Enix made a follow-up to among the very first games in the Final Fantasy series, mainly due to the fact that its a decently recent video game. While FFIV initially hit the marketplace way back in 1991, The After Years didn't come around till 2008, initially releasing as a mobile video game in Japan and ultimately making its way West.
It's been a long period of time coming, but The After Years has actually lastly made its method (legally) to PC, available beginning today on Steam for $15.99. You can likewise get hold of a package including both the initial game and this more recent follow-up for $22.99.
In today's statement, Square Enix mentions that this PC version of The After Years has actually undergone a 3D remodeling, including a new opening motion picture and Steam Accomplishments for excellent step. For fans of the initial video game who have not yet gotten their hands on this follow up, you can anticipate the story to pick up nearly twenty years following the occasions of Final Fantasy IV, capturing up with cherished characters from the original while concurrently presenting a brand new cast.
"The kid born of King Cecil and Queen Rosa of Baron has actually turned into a boy," checks out the official statement. "Prince Ceodore has gotten in the airship fleet known as the Red Wings, excited to meet the desires required of his blood and station.".
For Ceodore, a brand-new moon has actually appeared in the night sky, bringing with it a horde of monsters and bad guys aplenty. It looks like Ceodore will certainly need to measure up to his papa's tradition in this new experience, as the world is, of course, when again in requirement of saving.
The After Years boasts 10 playable stories to resolve, along with the now-popular active time battle system. That's the exact same system that's popped up in more recent games like Final Fantasy: Record Keeper for mobile.
The phase of the moon will certainly have an influence on fights, as will certainly your capability to band party members' abilities together to produce more powerful attacks.
If you're looking for some timeless RPG gameplay with a few more modern twists, you can get FFIV: The After Years starting today. Otherwise, it's not like anybody's precisely harming for new Final Fantasy material. Type-0 introduced just recently, which also came with the special playable demonstration for upcoming Final Fantasy XIV. Yet another HD-ified version of Final Fantasy X and X-2 introduced today, with a significant expansion for Final Fantasy XIV anticipated next month. Yep, it's a hectic time to be a Final Fantasy fan.


The 89th annual Academy Awards are fast approaching, and as we love to do, HuffPost is taking a look back at a past Oscar ceremony.
The year was 1987. "Platoon" took home the award for Best Picture, while Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin won the night's top acting honors for their work in the films "The Color of Money" and "Children of a Lesser God," respectively.
The red carpet was as star-studded as you'd imagine. Everyone from Bette Davis to Tom Hanks to then-couple Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey was in attendance, leaving us with some pretty great photographic memories.
The 89th annual Academy Awards air Feb. 26 on ABC.
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Q: How does eMail encryption work? I have been going over YouTube watching videos on eMail encryption and everyone seems to explain it from a different perspective. Some do it for a CompTIA exam while others just provide a primer.
Here is what I understood:

Step1: You compose an email that you want to send. Without encryption, it will be simple ASCII text that will be visible to anyone along the way.
Step2: You generate a digital signature to make sure  that nobody gets to re-transmit your email and claim it was you. Digital Signature is generated using Sender's private key which is usually a hash of the password and is then combined with the original message to form one long hash string. These signatures are one-time-use-only and a new one is calculated for every email.
Step 3: You encrypt the compose of your email using Receiver's public key so that the only person who can read it is the intended receiver using their private key
Step 4: When you hit the send the email, what is transmitted now is gibberish to everyone apart from the intended receiver who will decrypt is using their private key
And there are various ways to do it like PEM, PGP, etc.

Correct me where I am wrong or refine where necessary.

A: With email encryption there are two possible options (over-simplified):

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*End to End encryption

*Point to Point encryption (eg TLS)

When to use each really depends on the purpose of encrypting the email. Do you want to prevent someone eavesdropping while your mail is being sent or to you want to ensure that only the intended recipient can read the email?
Point to Point
If you want to prevent someone on your network from eavesdropping than you would want to consider encrypting the transport. What this means is that the contents and the headers of the email still remain in plain-text, but the transmission between your mail software and your mail server are encrypted.
The mail server will likely store the plain-text email ready to be forwarded to the next mail sever in line for delivery. How this is done depends on the configuration of the mail server and the protocols available between it and the next mail server. It may be sent in plain text, over an un-encrypted channel.
The key to know here is that the email will be plain-text between you can all the intermediate mail servers that may handle the email.
End to End
If you want to prevent anyone other than the intended recipient than you want end-to-end encryption as you've described in your question.
This form of encryption is where you and the recipient agree on way that you will be securely communicating and use this method to perform the encryption and decryption. In your question you've described a PKI (public key infrastructure, asymmetrical encryption) way, but there is nothing preventing you from also using a pre-shared key and using symmetrical encryption.
There are a few plugins, such as PGP & GPG, that allow you to encrypt, sign, verify & decrypt email that has been sent using PKI methods.
Your scenario
You are essentially correct in your scenario.

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*Compose an email in your favourite email client.

*Sign the email using your private key, this will add a digital signature block to the email.

*Retrieve the recipient's public key using a number of methods:

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*Key server

*Copy on local disk

*Downloaded from a website

*etc

*Encrypt the contents of the email with the recipient's public key

*When you hit send, the contents that was encrypted is now unknown to all that the email passes through. The sender, headers, recipient and other fields will still be available to someone eavesdropping over the wire, unless point-to-point encryption is employed as well. The mail server will always have a "plain-text" copy of this information as it needs it to be able to deliver the email.

A: Encryption and signing are two separate things. You can send a signed email that is not encrypted, and you can send an encrypted email that isn't signed.
For the most part, you are correct. But the entire email is not 'gibberish', only the contents. The header remains unaffected, with the exception that the content-type may change.


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The List: Megan Bradbury and Lauren Frankel
Published on May 22, 2015 September 24, 2015 by Emily Midorikawa5 Comments
Like many of the writer friends we've profiled so far, this month's guest bloggers Lauren Frankel and Megan Bradbury enjoy tracking each other's literary progress. But they gave this idea their own twist, thanks to something they call The List.
Image by Rosalind Hobley.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that without Megan I wouldn't be a published writer. Who knows? I might not have a six month old son, either.
Let me explain. Megan and I met on the UEA Creative Writing course some years ago. She was young but fiercely serious, with a great laugh and strong opinions. When other students trashed my writing, she would jump to my defence.
After we left UEA, I doubted that I would ever finish a novel. I was slow as molasses – a procrastinator and a perfectionist to boot. When you're trying to write your first book, nobody cares whether you finish it or not. You don't have an editor giving you praise, deadlines, or a bollocking.
Megan and I kept in touch, and hearing about my writer's despair, she invited me to send her a list of my goals each week by e-mail. She and her friend had been sharing theirs, celebrating one another's large (and small) achievements. Up until then, I hadn't dared to give myself weekly targets. I thought it would be too depressing to see myself failing to reach them over and over. But I agreed to try it.
Each week, Megan, her friend Kirsten and I would share by e-mail what we'd achieved in the previous week and what we planned for the current one. Soon other writers were joining us in the e-mail 'achievement' chain, which meant that four people now cared how my work was going. As I reviewed their weekly goals and accomplishments, I felt spurred on to aim higher – and also to think more about the long term, a thing which had terrified me previously.
With Megan's encouragement and the help of my 'list' friends, I finally managed to finish my novel. To rewrite it again and again when I wanted to give up.
Image used with the kind permission of Crown Publishing.
And as for the baby… well. I never put having a kid on my shared 'to do' list. But I made a private list. And he was on it.
In the autumn of 2011, my partner and I drove 560 miles from Edinburgh to Penzance. We were moving to Cornwall to live with relatives who had offered us a room rent-free for a year – we would now be able to write full-time without distraction.
I was excited but also scared. We had given up our jobs and our home. We had travelled across the country with no plan other than to write.
As we drove into Penzance I visualised myself in twelve months' time, driving back along the coast with nothing to show for my year – no money, no job, and no novel.
I spoke to my friend, the poet, editor and copy-writer Kirsten Irving, and together we came up with the List.
The idea behind the List is very simple. Every Sunday we write a list of things we plan to do in the week ahead, and when that week is over we review what we did (or didn't do).
The List can include anything:
Write a chapter of the novel
Take shoes to be re-heeled
Drive mother-in-law to Morrisons
By including non-writing activities, the list makes the act of writing seem less precious. Most importantly, it shows what I have achieved in weeks when I feel I have done nothing. I may feel I have not written well, but I can see I have improved my running times or read an excellent book.
When I first met Lauren, I knew we'd be friends. She always gave superb editorial advice and could be relied upon to recommend interesting books. She made me feel my writing was special. A few years ago, when she mentioned she needed more support with her writing, I told her about the List and asked if she wanted to join.
I've been exchanging lists with friends every week now for four years. My fellow Listers pick me up and dust me down every Sunday. They are there for me when things go wrong.
I recently completed my first novel and it's due to be published in the summer of next year. I know I couldn't have written it without them.
Megan Bradbury's debut novel Everyone is Watching will be published by Picador in summer 2016.
Lauren Frankel's debut Hyacinth Girls, published by Crown, came out this month.
Categories Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, Guest posts•Tags Everyone is Watching, female friendship, Hyacinth Girls, Lauren Frankel, Lists, literary friendship, Megan Bradbury, writing
Growing Mature Together
Published on May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 by emmaclairesweeney13 Comments
Emily and I have sometimes envied Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby their shared university years. If we could defy time and pal up with just one of the pairs of writers that we've profiled on this site, I'm pretty sure that we'd both pick these friends: two women who 'didn't exactly grow up together' but 'grew mature together' and considered that 'the next best thing'.
Unlike them, we met after separate and rather different undergraduate experiences: Emily partying hard in London while I pored over books in Cambridge.
In the best possible way, co-running Something Rhymed feels akin to studying together. We now spend hours on end searching the stacks at Senate House Library, and we regularly exchange bulging folders of notes. We've created for ourselves a second stab at studenthood – this time together and with a curriculum of our own.
This month I've relished the chance to re-read the poetry of Marianne Moore, which I'd first come across as an undergrad. We toyed at first with profiling Moore's friendship with fellow modernist Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle, who she met in 1905 when they were both studying at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. But we ended up becoming even more fascinated by a bond that began in 1934 when the middle-aged Moore took final-year undergraduate, Elizabeth Bishop, under her wing.
Both Emily and I have benefited from the wisdom of women writers older and more experienced than us and, as with Moore and Bishop, these mentorships have sometimes blossomed into friendships. Now that we teach ourselves, we've had the chance in our own small way to continue this intergenerational sisterhood.
Without ever really discussing it, we must have both come to the conclusion that – in the widest sense – the best students are also teachers; the best teachers, forever students. We each tend to enrol in one writing course per year – sometimes together, sometimes separately – to remind ourselves what it feels like to sit at the other side of the desk. And yet we were surprised (and heartened) to learn that a poet of Moore's stature had taken this same approach.
Inspired by Moore, this month I've been attending Berko Writers' screenwriting course, taught by Abigail Webber, formerly a commissioning editor and now a script consultant. I have written poetry, fiction and non-fiction over the years, taking my first steps into all of these forms as if entering familiar rooms. But screenwriting has always felt like a closed door – and one on which I felt nervous even to knock. My heart pounded so loudly during the first session at Berko Writers that I promised myself never to underestimate the courage it might take for one of my own students to step into my class.
The course has opened up that locked door, and screenplays no longer feel to me like a forbidden wing in literature's house. Emily's acting background and her storyteller's skill lead me to suspect that she might one day turn her hand to scripts and that I might get to share with her the tips that I've recently gleaned.
Emily's storytelling skill and lyricism were recognised last night at the awards ceremony for the prestigious Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2015. Emily's shortlisting opened up for her – and for me as her guest – the usually closed doors of the dining hall at this Cambridge College. Here we had the chance to chat over dinner with its president, Professor Janet Todd – a feminist heroine of ours. In the hall at Lucy Cavendish, among its students and fellows, I enjoyed the great privilege of cheering on my friend as she was announced the winner. As I sat there, watching her receive her prize, it dawned on me that this shared moment of celebration more than made up for our separate university years. Growing mature together is, in fact, the very best thing.
Emily Midorikawa is announced the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2015
Categories Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore•Tags Abigail Webber, Berko Writers, Bryn Mawr College, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Midorikawa, Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle, Janet Todd, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2015, Marianne Moore, mentors, screenwriting, Senate House Library, Sisterhood, Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Buying Ballet Shoes as a Grown-up
Published on May 8, 2015 May 8, 2015 by Emily Midorikawa4 Comments
One of the struggles Emma Claire and I face when we compose our profiles on each month's literary pair is how to condense many years of friendship into just a few hundred words. Interesting episodes and key details about each woman's personality often have to go by the wayside for the short-form writing we do here on Something Rhymed.
Marianne Moore's commitment to lifelong learning, well into old age, was an aspect of her life that almost failed to make the cut. Moore's enthusiasm for dance and even creative writing classes, though intriguing, didn't seem to be quite relevant enough to her friendship with fellow poet Elizabeth Bishop.
But when we thought of the great affection with which Bishop had written about this aspect of Moore's character, we decided it was something we wanted to explore through our writing this month.
The subject of adult education had, in fact, been floating around my mind ever since February's Something Rhymed challenge, when I took Emma Claire to see a gallery exhibition about the Russian ballet The Bolt.
This image is in the public domain.
Ballet has been a love of mine for many years, and – having previously had lessons from the ages of four to eighteen – I took it up again as a hobby a few years ago. Like Emma Claire's morning yoga sessions, it is an activity that hovers around the fringes our friendship. I've occasionally met her before or after an evening at the studio, and have mentioned class to her in passing, but a lack of shared vocabulary means I'd never thought to talk of it in detail, thinking it would be boring for her.
That trip to the gallery made me rethink my reticence, though – its costumes, rehearsal photographs and choreographer's notes sparking questions from Em, not just about the exhibition itself, but also my own long-held fascination with this dance form. I was soon recalling the elderly babysitter, Mrs Tomlinson, who had enchanted my imagination at four-years-old with her crayon drawings of the Nutcracker's Sugar Plum Fairy and the sad story of Swan Lake. I told Em of my childhood (highly unrealistic) dream of becoming a professional dancer, and also the rewarding but humbling experience of returning to ballet as an adult after such a long hiatus.
An idea for a story about dancing had pushed me to take the plunge and buy a new pair of ballet shoes. I'd wanted to immerse myself in that world again, because I wanted to write about it.
But taking class has, in fact, enriched my life in other unpredicted ways. It's a part of the week to which I now always look forward. An hour-and-a-half of ballet makes for a wonderful way to change gears after several hours at my desk. The concentration required to try to master the steps empties my mind of any work-related stresses, and afterwards I feel refreshed and more enthusiastic about whatever I have to do tomorrow.
Being an initially extremely rusty student has also helped me in my work as a teacher. The experience of being unable to remember where to place my arms, and finding my feet no longer seem to work as they used to, has served as a great reminder of how daunting it might be for one of my adult writing students, who finds themself sitting in a classroom again after many years out in the world of work.
Though it's unlikely we'll ever find ourselves standing together at the barre, I'd been wondering, since our visit to the Bolt exhibition, about other ways in which Emma Claire and I might enjoy ballet again together. Then I heard about the Royal Ballet's new production Woolf Works – based on the writing of Virginia Woolf – which opens in London this month.
Emma Claire and I have just bought tickets, and I'm excited to go and see a performance with her for the first time. Not only should it give me the chance to share with her something more of my love of ballet, but the subject matter will surely open up new conversations about one of Em's own great passions, the writing of Virginia Woolf.
Categories Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore•Tags adult education, ballet, Elizabeth Bishop, female friends, Marianne Moore, Virginia Woolf, Woolf Works, writing friendship
Published on May 1, 2015 April 21, 2015 by emmaclairesweeney2 Comments
Elizabeth Bishop was in dire need of maternal affection. At five years old, she'd witnessed her own mother committed to an asylum: the last glimpse Bishop ever got of her.
In the mid-1930s, as a shy, bushy-haired student at the all-women's Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, Bishop devoured many poems by the older modernist writer Marianne Moore. Later, she'd wonder whether she would ever have become a poet if it hadn't been for reading the likes of 'Marriage' and 'Peter'.
Elizabeth Bishop. Image used with kind permission from the Elizabeth Bishop Society.
Moore was perhaps ready to adopt a literary daughter. Her own mother rarely left her side, watching while she wrote or busying herself in the adjacent room, ready to cast her sharp editorial eye over each new poem. During the last three decades of Mrs Moore's life, the pair even shared a bed.
Moore may have had a surfeit of maternal attention, but she could connect with Bishop's parental loss. During Moore's infancy, her father had cut off his right hand in a fit of delusion and had then been committed to an asylum. She could not recollect a single memory of him.
When Moore was approached by an old childhood friend, now the librarian at Vassar College, she reluctantly agreed to meeting the twenty-three-year-old Bishop. The young woman rushed from Grand Central Station, relieved to have just about made it on time to their meeting place beneath the imposing lion statues that flank the New York Public Library. Moore, who wore two wrist watches, was already waiting for her. She cut a quaint old-fashioned figure, her rust-pink hair braided around her head, her man's polo shirt two sizes too large.
Marianne Moore in 1935. Creative Commons License.
Despite Bishop's nerves and Moore's reservations, the pair hit it off immediately. The older writer soon placed her protégée's work in an anthology, writing an insightful preface to the new poems. But there was always a familial aspect to their friendship as well as a literary connection: they would take trips to the circus and the cinema and to children's talks at the Natural History Museum. And, however early Bishop showed up, she would always find Moore there ready and waiting.
Soon, Bishop was invited to the narrow over-crowded apartment that Moore shared with her mother in Brooklyn – the unlikely but popular meeting place for Moore's coterie of fellow high-modernist friends, among them H.D., T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.
Elizabeth Bishop is standing on the right and Marianne Moore is sitting beside her. Other writers include the likes of W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal. Image used with kind permission of the New York Times.
Unlike Moore and her mother – who impersonated each other to the extent that it was difficult to tell where one ended and the other began – Bishop retained her separate identity. Six years into their friendship, she sent her mentor her latest poem 'Roosters'. Moore and her mother objected to what they considered Bishop's vulgarity – particularly her reference to a 'water-closet'! Staying up until the early hours of the morning, the mother-daughter duo rewrote the younger woman's poem, removing everything that had affronted them. Although Bishop incorporated some of the changes, she retained her lavatorial images. And the friendship survived undented.
In her old age, Moore soared to an extraordinary level of superstardom: appearing on the Tonight Show, featured on the cover of Esquire, inundated by fans who showed up at her door. But in her memoir of her friend, Bishop lovingly recalls how the elderly Moore continued to attend creative writing classes as a student (sometimes to the tutor's horror!) and even enrolled in a dance school, where she learnt to tango.
This month, we will follow in Moore's footsteps by embracing lifelong learning.
Categories Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore•Tags Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, Esquire, Ezra Pound, female literary friendship, Gore Vidal, Grand Central Station, H.D., Hilda Doolittle, literary daughter, literary mother, Marriage, Mrs Moore, New York Public Library, Peter, Roosters, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Tonight Show, Vassar College, W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams


Puri Jagan's complaint on distributors of Loafer is not new to us. Now, here is an update that. Though the director withdrew his complaint on the distributors, Kali Sudheer was unhappy about it. He felt that the complaint is an insult to his character, and he said that he will file a criminal defamation case in the High Court against him. A leading news daily has reported the same in favour of the distributor throwing the director in poor light which irked the director who came up with tweets on the issue.
"Thanks to No1 newspaper for today's article. End of the day its me who make movies nonstop n ppl like Sudheer wud just create issues nonstop. No wonder, Ppl always throw stones at trees bearing fruits. And Some ppl even try to axe it. WHAT A LOVELY WORLD!!" Puri Jagannadh tweeted a while ago.
Let's see what's going to happen now in this case.


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Two artists we obsess over, Florence and the Machine and Blood Orange, came together to create the best single released today. Daytrotter just dropped this "Never Let Me Go" remix by Dev Hynes, who's actually written for Florence and her band in the past. Enjoy the download below and check out some other Florence remixes while you're here.


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Yes I finished the book and to be honest, I'm a little disappointed with the way the ending was done. I felt it was very abrupt.
I understand that Robin Hobb loves open-ended closings but I felt the book was suddenly cut short. Some how I expected the conclusion to be more dramatic.
I believe I enjoyed Dragon Keeper more compared to Dragon Haven. I felt a lot of details of the travel were cut short in Dragon Haven, different from the kind of literary embellishments I've come to expect from journeys undertaken in Assassin's Quest, Fool's Fate and that from Soldier Son series.
Regardless I'm going to re-read both books and see if my impression changes.
Yea the ending was a lil.. non thrilling. Abrupt.
I'd say it's because she's going to, more or less, continue on the story on, or at least what happened next to the new area thats been discovered in her next book. And she probably didn't think it'd fit with the adventure that was already taking place.
So I guess, don't really think of it as an ending, rather a setting for the next epic adventure .
I felt the ending was satisfying, but the way Rapskal and Heeby found Tarman was a bit surprising. It seemed almost too convenient. I liked it nonetheless, and it felt like the kind of ending to transition to the next story.
Also, does anyone think the Kelsingra group will meet anyone from the Six Duchies? It will only be a matter of time before they discover the black transport stones. Thymara and Alise's spotting of a buck seems to foreshadow some sort of contact between the Rain Wilds and Six Duchies.
Doesn't it require the ability to use the skill to be able to use the pillars?
(Aug-08-2010, 05:04 AM (UTC))redchild Wrote: I felt the ending was satisfying, but the way Rapskal and Heeby found Tarman was a bit surprising. It seemed almost too convenient.
That actually was the only Robin Hobb book ending that I saw 100% coming. Knew that they'd live to tell the tale and then be flying and finding.
I was a bit disappointed about that actually.
(Aug-08-2010, 11:36 AM (UTC))joost Wrote: Doesn't it require the ability to use the skill to be able to use the pillars?
Pretty sure so yes. Or at least, I think I remember that the less experienced you are with the skill the worse it's effects are when using those pillars.
So if someone with no skill training was actually able to use a pillar they'd die or become mindless.
(Aug-08-2010, 11:46 AM (UTC))Liquid Ice Wrote: That actually was the only Robin Hobb book ending that I saw 100% coming. Knew that they'd live to tell the tale and then be flying and finding.
I suppose there is dramatic irony from the get-go. We already know that Fitz and Verity had visited Kelsingra, so we already knew the city exists. It was just a manner of time before the Tarman expedition found it.
It seems everyone has some Skill ability in them, seeing as they can communicate with dragons. Though it's more latent power than anything, as they don't seem to have much experience using it consciously, so I suppose it could be dangerous for them to use it.
However, I also remember Fitz using the pillar when he was still struggling from Elfbark withdrawal, so I don't think one has to be at the level of a Skill master to use it. But there is also the time in Fool's Fate where Fitz was trapped in some sort of netherworld because he didn't have the reserves or something. I'll need to look that up.
I wonder if dragons can use the stone pillars the same way the humans can. If they form a close enough bond with their keepers, would that be enough for them to travel through the pillars safely?
(Aug-08-2010, 11:31 PM (UTC))redchild Wrote: It seems everyone has some Skill ability in them, seeing as they can communicate with dragons. Though it's more latent power than anything, as they don't seem to have much experience using it consciously, so I suppose it could be dangerous for them to use it.
Well not everyone can communicate with dragons. Sedric for example. And the dragons said that was because he was "stuiped". Or something around them lines. Though from what I've gathered alot of people can. Or at least hear them.
And also one thing that really bugged me is Fitz seemed to have little trouble using portals but when he met... whats his name? ("The black man" that was like The Fool). He made a big deal about it saying things around the lines of "You should use them as little as possible" and he also was amazed when Fitz told how many times he had used them.
So I'd say either Fitz is special in his powers or it was kinda something the Author thought of late.


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Art and Creative Writing: Create a mind map!
Although there are many mind-map templates available, the best idea map is hand doodled.
Click on graphic at left to enlarge.
Sandra Scofield tells us: "Every scene has a pulse. Some vibrancy in the story makes the scene live on the page and makes it matter to the reader. . . . Sometimes the pulse is subtle and sometimes it beats like a tom-tom, but it is always present in a scene. Look for it, dig for it, massage it . . . Without it, your scene is a whimper" (The Scene Book 17).
Beautiful creative writing can become ugly if the grammar is painfully wrong. Good grammar is important.
We all love Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty.
Her game "Grammar Pop" can be incorporated into the classroom.
"Mignon Fogarty is the founder of Quick and Dirty Tips and is known for her Grammar Girl website, podcast, and games.
Wrong! They can actually be quite short. In a run-on sentence, independent clauses are squished together without the help of punctuation or a conjunction. If you write "I am short he is tall," as one sentence without a semicolon, colon, or dash between the two independent clauses, it's a run-on sentence even though it only has six words.
Wrong! "Irregardless" is a bad word and a word you shouldn't use, but it is a word. "Floogetyflop" isn't a word—I just made it up and you have no idea what it means. "Irregardless," on the other hand, is in almost every dictionary labeled as nonstandard. You shouldn't use it if you want to be taken seriously, but it has gained wide enough use to qualify as a word.
Wrong! It's a style choice. For example, in the phrase "Kansas's statute," you can put just an apostrophe at the end of "Kansas" or you can put an apostrophe "s" at the end of "Kansas." Both ways are acceptable.
Wrong! Passive voice is when you don't name the person who's responsible for the action. An example is the sentence "Mistakes were made," because it doesn't say who made the mistakes. If you don't know who is responsible for an action, passive voice can be the best choice.
Wrong! "E.g." means "for example," and "i.e." means roughly "in other words." You use "e.g." to provide a list of incomplete examples, and you use "i.e." to provide a complete clarifying list or statement.
Wrong! You use "a" before words that start with consonant sounds and "an" before words that start with vowel sounds. So, you'd write that someone has an MBA instead of a MBA, because even though "MBA" starts with "m," which is a consonant, it starts with the sound of the vowel "e"–MBA.
Wrong! "Am" is a linking verb and linking verbs should be modified by adjectives such as "good." Because "well" can also act as an adjective, it's also fine to answer "I'm well," but some grammarians believe "I'm well" should be used to talk about your health and not your general disposition.
9. You shouldn't split infinitives.
10. You shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition.
Wrong! You shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition when the sentence would mean the same thing if you left off the preposition. That means "Where are you at?" is wrong because "Where are you?" means the same thing. But there are many sentences where the final preposition is part of a phrasal verb or is necessary to keep from making stuffy, stilted sentences: "I'm going to throw up," "Let's kiss and make up," and "What are you waiting for" are just a few examples.
Let's take advantage of the fact that kids love their electronics!
Similar ideas can be presented to young authors with the help of graphic organizers.
Click on graphic organizers to enlarge.
Just as our lives are shaped by the decisions we make, so are our stories.
Now, go organize your story!
Write a short story that includes a secret message.
Why do I always wonder if I have spoken correctly after using "who" or "whom" . . . it shouldn't be that difficult.
Make snowflakes from wagon-wheel macaroni, white paint and glitter.
Pinecones with egg white wash and sugar sprinkles.
This neat snow-globe project requires clear plastic plates.
Add a snowstorm to your creative writing today.
To celebrate Robert Burn's Day today you may wish to make Selkirk Bannock.
go write a story which takes place in Scotland.
Perhaps in this Scottish Tower House.
Song of the Sea: Coming to select theaters soon!
REVIEW: A quieter kind of kids movie, Oscar-nominated "Song of the Sea" casts a delicate spell.
With most kid-targeted animation these days making full use of 3-D effects, CGI and other technology, the hand-drawn, 2-D "Song of the Sea" is a throwback — one well worth seeing on a big screen.
Saoirse is a 6-year-old Irish girl with a seriously mystical ability. She's the last of the selkies, women who, according to Celtic legend, become seals in the water but can transform into humans on land. Her mother disappeared when she was an infant, leaving her lighthouse-keeper father (voiced by Brendan Gleeson) heartbroken and brother Ben, now 10, blaming his sister for Mummy's flight.
Their grandmother (voiced by Fionnula Flanagan) takes them to live with her in the city, leaving behind Dad and beloved sheepdog Cú. Ben hatches a plan to get the siblings back to the lighthouse, setting off a chain of adventures — palling around with seals and fairies, escaping from evil pursuers including a scary owl witch. Along the way they learn to depend on and love each other.
Blending that magical something present in all the best illustrated children's books with spellbinding music by composer Bruno Coulais and the Irish folk band Kila, the film is a sweetly rendered reminder that sometimes tradition can keep up with high-tech, given director and co-writer Tomm Moore's imagination and his empath's knack for tapping into the often-elusive world of children. Watercolor-effect backgrounds are like a soothing eyewash of a contrast to the sharply delineated frenzy of the average Pixar release, and an overall gentle sensibility is an antidote to ever-present snark.
Watch for this animated film coming to a theater near you soon.
A big thank you to the Cartoon Saloon!
January 25th marks the annual celebration of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns.
25 January 2015 is Sunday night, so there's still time to plan a fun event.
Maybe not haggis, but how about this?
Now, nibble on an oatmeal cookie.
then write your own poem.
The U.S.G.S. site has a map showing recent earthquake activity around the world.
Now, go write a short story that includes rocks.