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The Secret Adorno
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 97–114.
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... error, and wanted to correct those who took him too literally; but the damage had been done. In 1960, it seems, few had been generous enough to read the quotation marks around purity with much seriousness. According to Greenberg, as he appears in a new posthumous collection of late essays...
Otherwise than Blackness: Feeling, World, Sublimation
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The Commencement of Jean-Luc Nancy
Divya Dwivedi
... titled it "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking," thereby reprising, appropriating, and suspending through the quotation marks Martin Heidegger's eponymous text. 2 He had not ceased to return to the questions of the "end" since his older writings, most importantly The Sense of the World...
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Proximity's Plea: O'hara's Art Writing
Lytle Shaw
... of glamour encroached upon by a flood of innocence" (CG, V4, 144). Though the sentence does sound absurd in Greenberg's brief quotation, what he excises from the passage is a larger claim that Pollock's late works provide a drama of wild, affective energies undergoing...
Repletion: Masao Adachi's Totality
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Rights charter 'must remain intact'
Andie Noonan — September 22, 2011
The Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (VGLRL) has joined calls urging the Baillieu Government not to water down the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities.
The Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee (SARC) review of the charter, tabled last week, was criticised by some quarters, including the Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC), for recommending the sidelining of courts' abilities to ensure human rights are upheld.
VGLRL convenor Sarah Rogan urged the Government not to adopt SARC's recommendations as the current charter allows safeguards which protect LGBTI Victorians.
"It's important because in [the charter's] current manifestation, it exists to protect vulnerable groups and certainly the GLBTI community could be considered a vulnerable group," Rogan told the Star Observer.
The review, however, contends the charter has played a role in only a small number of court and tribunal decisions and its part in the end result has been minor in most cases.
The HRLC described the report as "profoundly disappointing" for recommending courts have no, or a substantially reduced, role in enforcing human rights and providing recourse when they are breached.
"The recommendations do not reflect the overwhelming evidence as to the value and benefits of Victoria's Charter of Human Rights," HRLC executive director Phil Lynch said.
"These benefits include greater government accountability, more responsive public services, and a better deal for some of Victoria's most vulnerable groups."
The VGLRL shares the HRLC's concerns.
"It is important people know that legal action can be taken against public authorities that have discriminated against them. It's important to know for people who have experienced discrimination that they can actually take it further," Rogan said.
"It is important to know that in this state discrimination won't be tolerated and the way to get remedy for that is through the court system." Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights acting commissioner Karen Toohey said if the Government adopts some of the report's recommendations, it will wind back progress the state has made on human rights protections.
The Government has indicated, despite earlier fears, that the charter will remain.
"The SARC report, and many of the submissions made to SARC, indicate the Charter of Human Rights has delivered benefits to Victoria, and should not be repealed," a Premier and Cabinet department statement said.
The Government has six months to respond to the report.
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Author Guide: Martin Amis
by Matthew SelwynJuly 01, 20145 Comments
"Possibly the most fully engaged writer of our time"
- The Times
Martin Amis (born 1949) is one of the best known English novelists of the late-twentieth / early-twenty-first centuries. His work belongs to the satirical tradition that includes great English writers like Henry Fielding and Jane Austen, but he is very much a transatlantic writer, whose personal influences include Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov. His penchant for the Grotesque and his fascination with London also lead to easy comparisons with Charles Dickens being drawn.
Amis has spent his whole life surrounded by creative endeavour. His father, Kingsley Amis, was a prominent comic novelist of the mid-twentieth century and his step-mother Elizabeth Jane Howard, another novelist, nurtured an interest in books, which prepared him for study at Exeter College, Oxford, where he met lifetime friend Christopher Hitchens. Later, when writing at the New Statesman, Amis's set included not only Hitchens (with whom he only became proper friends with after Oxford) but Salman Rushdie, James Fenton, Julian Barnes (who Amis would later, very publicly, fall out with), and Ian McEwan, amongst others.
Much of Amis's writing satirises Western capitalist society, and deals with masculinity in the modern world, the reality of the nuclear age, and sexual politics. During the twenty-first century, Amis has been vocal on the subject of Islamism and terrorism in the post-9/11 world, but even before this his writing took on big subjects like the Holocaust, and the Gulag.
As well as having 16 fiction titles to his name, Amis is also a prolific journalist, and has released 6 non-fiction books including collections of his essays, as well as his memoir, Experience. He's lived in both England and the USA throughout his life (as well as a spell in Uruguay), and taught at University of Manchester between 2007 and 2011.
Seen as somewhat of a playboy novelist in his early years, Amis went on to step out of his father's shadow and become one of the most important English novelists of his time, tackling many of the Big Issues in his own vibrant, comic style, and influencing a new generation of engaged British writers.
Three Books You Should Read
In a career that has already spanned over four decades, it might seem strange that the three books I have picked are from a seven year period. However, this was, I think most people would agree, Amis's strongest creative period. While I enjoy his early fiction, and his later, more technically sound, novels - perhaps not entirely in tune with popular opinion here - I still find the verve of his writing during the 1980s to be the most seductive, the most pleasing overall.
1. Money: A Suicide Note (1984)
"Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy."
Money is Amis's best-known novel and, arguably, signalled the start of his richest creative period. The novel follows the story of chain-smoking, booze-filled lout and director of (semi-pornographic) advertisements, John Self, as he tries to launch himself into the big-time by putting together a blockbuster movie. Splitting his time between Old London and the gleaming promise land of America, Self, without culture or serious money, is out of his depth, and his attempts to impress women, placate minor Hollywood stars, and generally have a good time are hilariously written. As a satire on 80s excess and the de-intellectualisation of the masses, Money is the perfect vehicle for Amis's inimitable style and ranks as one of the best novels of and on the period. [Read my full review of Money]
"Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls."
"You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there are suicides. They're like poems in that respect, suicide notes: nearly everyone tries their hand at them some time, with or without the talent."
[Find this at Amazon UK] [Find this at Amazon US]
2. London Fields (1989)
"Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a full-time job looking the other way."
Along with Money (1984) and The Information (1995), London Fields is part of Amis's unofficial London trilogy. Told from the perspective of dying American author, Samson Young, who meets the characters on a trip to London, London Fields is a murder mystery, in reverse. After having a premonition about her own death, sexually savvy Nichola Six – a willing murderee – seeks out her murderer, striking up relationships with the yobbish Keith Talent, a petty criminal and darts enthusiast, and the affluent but weak Guy Clinch. What starts as a comment on the nuclear age – Nichola a stand-in for mother Earth – soon becomes a metaphor for writing, and Amis's wonderful prose creates a London full of colloquial personality in which his characters' stories are unfurled. [Read my full review of London Fields]
"So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?"
"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."
"We used to live and die without any sense of the planet getting older, of mother earth getting older, living and dying. We used to live outside history. But now we're all coterminous. We're inside history now all right, on its leading edge, with the wind ripping past our ears. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. And maybe love can't bear it either, and flees all planets when they reach this condition, when they get to the end of their twentieth centuries."
3. Time's Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offence (1991)
"Human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change."
Written between London Fields and The Information, Time's Arrow breaks Amis's creative direction during the period when he was writing his London trilogy and is, for me, a refreshing technical experiment. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Time's Arrow is a unique and controversial novel about the life of a Nazi doctor who served at Auschwitz. Told backwards, the narrative picks up as the central character, Tod T. Friendly, wakes from death and follows him backwards towards birth, in an ambitious and disorienting style. The narrator, a part of Tod's personality, struggles to understand the world that plays out around him, and the reader is hauled through odd juxtapositions with the narrator, ranging from the comical to the sinister. Tod has no free will in this world, no choice over the course his life takes as he is dragged back through it; he, like the reader, is a passenger, helplessly witnessing the atrocities, powerless to intervene. Amis is not always at his best when tackling the Big Issues, but here he deals with the Holocaust in a unique and engaging way. For me, Time's Arrow also signals the start of a period in Amis's career where his plots slackened and his fiction became too reliant on his style to carry the ideas he wanted to explore. With its unusual narrative, Time's Arrow just about escapes the necessity for a strong plot, and that's why I'd recommend it to readers ahead of The Information – admittedly a good book, but certainly at the weaker end of Amis's strongest period. [Read my full review of Time's Arrow]
"People are free then, then, they are generally free, then are they? Well they don't look free. Tipping, staggering, with croaked or choking voices, blundering backward along lines seemingly already crossed, already mapped… Never watching where they are going, the people move through something prearranged, armed with lies. They're always looking forward to going places they've just come back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye."
As I alluded to above, The Information is certainly worth reading. As a satire of the publishing industry and a comic look at the pitfalls of the aging male (novelist), there is plenty of very funny material in the final book of Amis's London trilogy, even if the plot is significantly less trim than it could be. [Read my review of The Information]
I can also highly recommend Amis's memoir Experience – a brilliant and sensitively written record of a life overflowing with, well, experience. Beyond the famous father and his circle of literary friends, Amis's life has been filled with engaging liaisons, intellectual and physical, but there is sadness too: his parents' divorce, the suicide of his sister, an estranged daughter, and the murder of his cousin at the hands of Fred West. As an author whose life is discussed in the gossip columns more than just about any other in England, a chance to read about the quieter, more intimate side of Amis's life is invaluable.
If, like Amis's father, you are not a fan of books that "bugger about with the reader" (which Kingsley reportedly claimed Money did) you might try his first novel, The Rachel Papers, which, while written in the embryonic form of Amis's familiar style, is a far more traditional narrative of a young man's relationship with the eponymous Rachel. This won the Somerset Maugham award and set Amis up as a serious novelist in his own right – a significant step, when your father was as well recognised as Martin's. [Read my review of The Rachel Papers]
Amis's non-fiction offers some interesting thoughts too – but his writing and temperament are best suited to the novel form, I think, and consequently his essays are more sporadically successful, and his collections harder to recommend.
And then there is Invasion of the Space Invaders, Amis's book about the classic arcade game… yes, seriously. In fact, I'm lucky enough to own a first edition (not sure if there was a second!), so can vouch for its existence. I think I read somewhere that good old Mart asked for this not to be included in lists of his titles at one point, but I don't know why: it's fun and different. Novelists can't be properly serious all the time, can they?
This is a bibliography of books written by Martin Amis. There is also a good list of books and essays on Amis's work here, if you want to read something about, rather than by, Amis: http://www.martinamisweb.com/scholarship.shtml
The Rachel Papers, 1973 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Dead Babies, 1975 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Success, 1978 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Other People: A Mystery Story, 1981 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Money: A Suicide Note, 1984 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Einstein's Monsters, 1987 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
London Fields, 1989 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Time's Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offence, 1991 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
The Information, 1995 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Night Train, 1997 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Heavy Water and Other Stories, 1998 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Yellow Dog, 2003 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
House of Meetings, 2006 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
The Pregnant Widow, 2010 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Lionel Asbo: State of England, 2012 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
The Zone of Interest, 2014 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Invasion of the Space Invaders, 1982 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America, 1986 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions, 1993 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Experience: A Memoir, 2000 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000, 2001 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, 2002 [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
The Second Plane, 2008 [Read my review] [Amazon UK] [Amazon US]
Author Guide Martin Amis
Matthew Selwyn 2 July 2014 at 07:50
This is the first Author Guide I've posted so I'd be really interested to hear what you guys think of the idea. It's something I've had in my head to do for a while, but it's still kind of a half-formed idea, so if you think I should include other things (or not include something I have) I'd like to hear.
I'm hoping the comments can be used as an open discussion on the author - whether there are other books you would recommend, if you have questions, comments, etc., if you think I've read them completely wrong, and so on.
Aimée Jodoin 2 July 2014 at 14:27
I like this. It's an interesting way to talk about many books at once, as well as a specific author's style. When I read one book and love it, I usually go straight for others by the same author.
I really like Martin Amis, and Time's Arrow is the first of his that I read. I guess I have to disagree with your review a bit, because to me, this book was very thought-provoking. It is different from his other works, though, and I think it gave me a false impression of his style, because when I went on to read others after it, I was surprised at the raunchiness and realized why a couple people were surprised and looked at me funny when I'd recommended Time's Arrow before reading others. :)
Thanks, Aimée - I quite like it too, although here I think it might have just been a way I contrived to talk about Martin Amis more than I do already! I've been wanting to write one for Thomas Hardy for a while, but I'm having a Jude v Tess argument with myself for the top spot (it's a hard life, I know).
How did you come to read Time's Arrow first? I can quite see how that would give you a rather skewed vision of Amis's writing. And don't get me wrong in the review, I like Time's Arrow a lot, but I think Amis has problems with Plot at times. It's more noticeable elsewhere, and the technical novelty/feat of Time's Arrow in itself make it a really engaging read (even if run forwards the plot is pretty much non-existent ;) )
What other Amis have you read? Raunchy doesn't narrow it down too much ;)
I was just surfing a bookstore and thought the premise was interesting. Didn't know anything about Martin Amis beforehand. I've read nearly all of his novels: Money, London Fields, The Rachel Papers, Night Train, Yellow Dog, House of Meetings. I wasn't a fan of Lionel Asbo, his newest book, but I quite liked London Fields and The Rachel Papers. I'm not sure I'd like his non-fiction books, though, but I disagree with most of his political opinions, though I'm not sure what his non-fiction are actually about.
Have you read much Ian McEwan or Haruki Murakami? Two of my favorite authors; you should write a post about them! ;)
Ah, random finds are often the most satisfying. Sounds like you might be a bit of an expert on old Mart - I'll have to watch what I say ;) I quite liked Lionel Asbo although it did feel a bit like a rolling out of classic Amis tropes. Have you read The Pregnant Widow? - of his latest, I think I probably enjoyed that the most, although you have to see past / accept a LOT of slightly tedious sex talk (admittedly, the book is basically about sex / the sexual revolution, so...).
Some of his political forays over the past decade have certainly been misjudged, although if you go over his essays/journalism, there's less to have a problem with than you might expect reading the hype. Certainly don't agree with all his opinions. Have just finished reading a book about the New Atheist Novel actually, which covers some of Amis's recent non-fiction as well as Ian McEwan's fiction, so am fully versed on their shortcomings ;)
I've struggled with Murakami - not sure why, everything tells me I should like him - so not a great deal of experience there. Happy and willing to be converted though. If you ever write a guide to getting into Haruki, I'm so there :)


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Trouble for US Rep Mike Simpson?
Tue., Oct. 27, 2015
Commentator Bill Colley of Fox News Radio 1310 KLIX says U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson could be pressed in his re-election bid, yet:
She hasn't yet made up her mind. Former State Representative Janice McGeachin tells me she's being encouraged by many people to run for U.S. House next year. McGeachin, a Republican, would be challenging fellow Republican and current U.S. Representative Mike Simpson in Idaho's Second Congressional District. McGeachin is a successful business owner and popular among state conservative leaders, many of whom have been telling me for the last couple of weeks they believe McGeachin can topple a man they see as Republican-in-Name-Only. McGeachin supported Russ Fulcher's attempt to primary C.L. "Butch" Otter. Fulcher came within 8,000 votes of toppling the sitting Governor. Some Republican insiders tell me it reflects the growing muscle of the conservative and Tea Party wings of the party. More here. (Photo from past McGeachin campaign Web site)
Question: Do you follow 2nd District Congressman Mike Simpson's career at all?
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Freeview Play passes 5 million purchases
Freeview and Digital UK have announced that they have now passed over 5 million Freeview Play devices sold since it was launched in 2015. The devices provide UK DTT viewers with access to all kinds of TV programming – including live, catch up and on-demand.
It is said that over 3 million of the owners are "active users", which the company expects to grow to over 4 million by the third quarter of 2019.
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Freeview Announces new mobile app
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It will provide a one-stop-shop for the country's most watched TV channels and shows. Initially, it will launch on iOS with Android to follow and will be able to stream BBC, ITV and Channel 4 live channels and access on-demand content from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5 and UKTV Play.
Additional live streams and catch up players will be added as the app is updated and as with all Freeview products, the app will be a free download and free to use with no subscription fees.
This marks a significant step forward for the UK's largest TV platform and first-time people will be able to watch Freeview programming without having access to an aerial. This provides a service that matches the needs for current consumer habits which lean towards streaming on mobile devices. The company hopes that this will follow the success that Freeview has had in the nation's homes and become the bedrock of on-the-go consumption as well as in the home.
The app is described as feature rich and will allow viewers to browse both live and on-demand content through the supported players from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and UKTV. There will also be a recommendation feature that will allow you to discover new favourite shows across the platform.
Jonathan Thompson, CEO, Digital UK said, "In an increasingly fragmented media landscape, the new Freeview mobile app is an excellent example of broadcaster and industry collaboration in action. Today's viewers value having access to their favourite shows when and where they want and the new app provides the aggregated experience that consumers increasingly expect from a TV provider. We're putting the best of free-to-air content – public service and commercial – into one place on mobile just as we have on TV, ensuring that great free tv is available to everyone wherever they are".


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Nokia D1C pops up on AnTuTu with Android 7.0 Nougat, 3 GB RAM and 13 MP camera
By Sagar Bakre	 On Oct 8, 2016
The Nokia D1C which made an appearance on Geekbench earlier this week has now popped up on AnTuTu.
The Geekbench listing of the D1C did not reveal much, but, the AnTuTu listing does give us a look at some of the specs of this Nokia smartphone. The Nokia D1C is powered by Snapdragon 430 SoC which is laced with 3 GB RAM and the graphics department on the device is handled by Adreno 505 GPU.
The D1C runs on Android 7.0 Nougat and has 32 GB of internal storage. We wonder if there will be a microSD card slot for storage expansion. While the AnTuTu listing didn't reveal the size of the display, it did reveal its resolution. The D1C will come with a screen having Full-HD resolution. Besides, the device will come with a 13 MP camera at the back along with an 8 MP camera on the front. This combo is pretty much standard now on all the Android smartphones.
We still don't know the screen size and the battery capacity of the D1C, however, now that the device has already been listed on Geekbench and AnTuTu, we expect it to make an appearance on GFXBench soon. Well, obviously GFXBench listing never reveals the battery capacity but it does reveal other important information.
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What Saturn is that and what year? I'm always interested in what people are doing to their Saturns when they're getting results.
Will be responding your PM's probably tomorrow sometime. Don't have much time right now tonight to do much of anything (getting up really early tomorrow).
Anyway, glad to see you using the copper tubing as well! Try to spread the word on that trick as it does help ...alot.
My mother's Saturn is clocking at 56 MPG highway right now, and that's without an air intake line yet. (I currently only have the air intake lines on mine and my wife's).
I did a little search and found that it is a '95. OBDI seems to be the ticket with these Saturns.
Many of the best results are on the older cars.
howiemandel Wrote: lol. Craigs correct. 1999 GRAND caravan piglet. 15 miles per gallon, no matter which way you point it. now I get 10 MPG more constant, that means i drive it like i always have, like could care. If i drive it with some respect i'll get 12mpg more. The set up that nets me an 8mpg net, im liking better and can be easily moved around from car to car.
Oh, Craig, did the efie actually help? Im not getting any lights and the cars mileage is stayin the same after about 80 gallons. Im not so much concerned, as im wondering if it'll give me that elite 100% in this car.
Thats excellent! My wife drives a 94 grand caravan, i quess i need to get a cell for her, after not having much luck with the saturn, i quess i need to try another vehicle.
no check valve or bubbler i supppose eh?
tin foil wrap on the o2 sensor?
did you use the copper tubing?
air relief bubbler on the gen ? and its open for good outside air flow intake like like yours?
your mothers Saturn .. hmm what mpg was she getting before? 38 ish hiway?
haha.. actually, I'm German-Amerikan. Do alot of traveling though.
On my mom's saturn... 32 oz. two plate, two bolt design (I have a 4 plate two bolt on mine now); installed only to the PCV; no check valve, no computer mods, no tin foil -yet (may be trying mike's EFIE on it if it does good on the explorer), no copper tubing, air relief bubbler on gen -Yes.
I don't know what my mom's saturn got in MPG before the gen, she never did any official test. She did note however that she now gets an average 40 more miles to a quarter tank. I had to do the official after-install test myself, and then she did a secondary test a week later which revealed better than mine (probably because HHO cleans out the engine after a while).
I've been very busy lately (traveling and tending to family matters) and haven't had too much time to modify her or my dad's setup; but I plan on installing the copper line and separate generator line to her Saturn soon.


Original publication and holotype designation: Rabenhorst, L. (1856). Die Algen Sachsens. Exsiccata. Decades 1-100. . Dresden.
Description: Cell solitary, median sized to large (35-430 um long), elongate-cylindric, elliptic or fusiform (length 2-9 times width), straight, with broadly rounded or truncate ends. Chloroplasts elongate, 2 or 4 per cell, axial, stellate in end view, with 6-12 lateral, longitudinal ridges with smooth, notched or serrate margins. Pyrenoids several, rounded or elongate, in axial row or scattered. Nucleus between chloroplasts. Ultrastructurally, cell wall two-layered, without pores. Asexual reproduction by transverse cell division. Mature daughter cell morphology retained by elongation of severed end. Sexual reproduction by homothallic or heterothallic conjugation known for 5 species. In homothallic strains gametangia often sister cells from recent cell division. Zygote forms in broad conjugation tube; mature zygospore spherical with smooth or wrinkled mesospore wall. Karyogamy at germination, followed by meiosis, producing two gones. Mating type and zygospore morphology show Mendelian inheritance ratios. Netrium cosmopolitan; abundant in acidic, oligotrophic, aquatic habitats or in Sphagnum bogs, with occasional records from more basic habitats (e.g. N. minus in alpine pool, pH 8.0). Emended by Gontcharov & Melkonian (2010: 349).
Information contributed by: J.F. Gerrath. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 7 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry.
Numbers of names and species: There are 15 species names in the database at present, as well as 53 infraspecific names. Of the species names, 9 have been flagged as accepted taxonomically on the basis of the listed literature under the species name. In some instances, opinions on taxonomic validity differ from author to author and users are encouraged to form their own opinion. AlgaeBase is a work in progress and should not be regarded as a definitive source only as a guide to the literature..


The author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind looks at covert operations and assassination plots in the medieval period, matching anything to be found in our own era.
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."
Explains a breakthrough technology to create meat grown from animal cells that could help people avoid foodborne illness, save countless animals, begin to reverse climate change, and feed the world.
A narrative history of humanity's creation and evolution explores how biology and history have defined understandings of what it means to be human and details the role of modern cognition in shaping the ecosystem and civilizations.
In addition to the well-known battles, regular sieges and large-scale maneuvers, the medieval and early modern wars also included murders, kidnappings, betrayals and sabotages. These covert or special operations were directed mainly against key people, mainly royalty or leaders of the enemy army.
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I've never been the girl who had a zillion best friends but, life has gifted me with the best, small handful of solid friends.
It's a porch night. It's hot, humid and there's nothing to do but lie back in the Adirondacks with a friend and languish away in God's sauna with a sweating glass of iced lemon aid. If I was a drinker, I might add something a little hard and salt my rim. But, I'm not and neither is my friend. Sober, we sit in the heat, swat a few mosquitoes, sip lemon-aid and listen to each other. Genuinely, she always wants to know how I'm doing.
Later, after my children have slid into bed (except for one adorably sweet but extremely naught little Boy who refuses to believe the sun has gone to bed and so must he) another friend calls me.
She explains, "I just wanted to call because I never seem to be able to talk to you about you. We talk about our kids and our houses and other things but I haven't been able to ask you how you are doing. How are you doing?"
Two and a half hours later I'm hanging up the phone. My ears a little sweaty, my stomach's rumbling and I began yawing uncontrollably about 30 minutes ago but I feel so lucky to have such authentic friends.
Now, I must make me a mid-night pb&j sandwich (alliteration I love you)!
Who has your back? And, how are you doing today?


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Giulio De Santis (né le  à Rome) est un arbitre international italien de rugby à XV.

Biographie

Giulio De Santis a arbitré son premier match international le  2002, il s'agissait d'un match opposant l'équipe du Maroc à l'équipe de Cöte d'Ivoire.

Palmarès d'arbitre
 8 matches internationaux (au )

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Personnalité italienne du XXe siècle
Personnalité italienne du XXIe siècle
Arbitre italien de rugby à XV
Naissance en juillet 1967
Naissance à Rome

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Have you dreamed of having a room in your home filled from floor to ceiling with books? Imagine oversized comfy chairs in front of a fireplace and a ladder that rolls along the bookshelves. You can sit and read to your heart's content next to the crackling fire with a mug of tea to sip.
While this dream will not come true for most of us, we can build a home library to enjoy. And it does not have to break the bank.
The first step in building your home library is identifying the books you want to include. You are probably limited in how many books you physically have space to store in your home so you need to make choices about which books you will purchase. I use the following factors when deciding which books we will purchase and which books we will borrow.
If a friend is raving about a book, I will give serious consideration to adding it to our home library. This is especially true if I think it is a book my children might read, now or in the future.
Just like seeing an old friend, we love re-reading favourite books. This is easier to do when you own the book.
Having character building and twaddle-free books available for my children to read is important to me. I want to fill their minds with ideas and their imaginations with pictures they will ponder and keep with them forever.
I prefer to purchase the books we will use in our homeschool lessons. It can be a challenge to request a book from the library and have it available when we are ready for it. And, we usually need to keep it longer than the checkout period allows.
Once you have identified the books you want to purchase and know what you currently own, you are ready to start building your library. Purchasing books new can be quite an expense. I only buy a few books new for specific reasons such as not being able to find it used, special features included only with a new purchase, or a special edition copy. If there is a book you would like to purchase new, consider placing it on a wish list for grandparents or friends.
If I want to purchase a specific used book, I usually start with Abe Books. Most books on Abe Books are less than $5 including shipping. The book listing indicates the quality of the used book. So far, all listings have accurately described the condition of the book. You could also look on Amazon Used Books.
You may never have an amazing room with floor to ceiling bookshelves and a ladder that rolls along the shelves, but you can have a home library that provides your family with hours of reading pleasure. What will you add to your library?
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VHP and VSS Hong Kong Units jointly celebrated Rakshabandhan function in Hong Kong. Dr Sambhit Patra, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson and Hon Consul General Mr Puneet Agrawal were Chief Guest and Hon Guest respectively.
Dr Sambhit Patra delivered inspiring speech as he spoke about Hindu values, meaning of life and more. Please view this video for more details.
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Karma is a term that gets frequently bandied about – a friend steals your ice cream and then steps in dog poo: instant karma! – and is often personified as an external omniscient power that delivers a reckoning or reward depending on our personal balance sheet of good or bad deeds.
Yes….and also no. Yes, karma is all about our actions. Yes, there are consequences to these actions for which we are accountable. But karma doesn't act like a bank where you can save up your good turns to trade in for something less pleasant, nor can you pay off a debt of unkindness by going through the motions of seeming philanthropy.
When we act in a way that is not in alignment with what we know in our hearts to be right and true, we make our own karma. These acts form the layers that separate the person we are at centre from the person we are in the world. The more karma we create for ourselves, the more distance there is between the two; we are further from living in our true nature and so we suffer more. We reap what we sow.
If karma is an unseen force, it is the part of ourselves that knows the truth that we would never let others see. It is the part that holds us fully responsible against the benchmark of our own standards of decency and morals. And if you know, deep down, that something you've done wasn't quite for the right reasons, like that time you told your mate she should wear that hideous dress so that you would look good next to her, then it will be that part of you that knows the truth that will do the reckoning for you as you continue to live out a pattern that separates you from your highest self.
What karma asks of us is that we live up to our highest ideals, and if we fail to do that in the service of our own desires and ego, then it will be our life's work to shed the layers of karma and break out of the cycle of selfish motivation in order to fully realise ourselves. According to the laws of karma, if we haven't managed this by the end of this lifetime, we will be reborn again and again to face the same challenges until our karma is dissolved.
Pretty heavy stuff! But although karma can seem like a life sentence on the one hand, yoga offers it as one of many paths to liberation. Karma is very closely linked to dharma, our life purpose, or rather our duty to fulfil in this life. We cannot avoid our dharma, it will impel us to act and it is how we act in our dharma that determines our karma. But our dharma may not be entirely in line with the accepted way of things. For some people, acting in accordance with their dharma will require great strength of will and conviction to stay true to their path and act without recourse to ego. As an example of this, when BKS Iyengar decided to pursue a profession teaching yoga he was cast out by his family, having brought shame and dishonour upon them by this choice. Knowing that his dharma was a greater cause than his own desire for approval and inclusion, Iyengar persevered and died having guided countless people along their own path toward liberation.
The path of karma yoga, the path to liberation from our karma, requires us to give up our attachment to the consequences of our actions, insofar as they are directed toward our own advantage. Or more simply, stop making it all about you! Once we stop worrying about how things might affect us and acting in a way that attempts to control the outcome, our actions can instead be governed by goodwill and compassion toward others. Once we get out of the way, the action itself is the focus, and the intention with which it is done can be in service to a greater cause, irrespective of the consequences.
Or, as Gandhi put it when summing up his life, 'Renounce and enjoy'!
Ultimately, all karma asks of you is that you truly live by your own deepest truth. Often the language that goes around this can appear quite passive; surrender, relinquish, let go of the fruits of your actions, of your ego and self-centredness. But when we see examples of people holding themselves fully accountable for their actions, staying firm on the path of their dharma and fully living their karma yoga, what we see is people being strong and holding steady in what they know to be right and true. These examples often wield the power to change the karma of mankind, to put us all on a better path, shifting what is normalised to something that is closer to the truth of things.
So how can we mere mortals practice our own karma yoga? Simply by getting out of our own way. On the mat, by staying in our own practice and our own journey, being present as much as possible and not being motivated by wanting a certain outcome; to nail the pose, to compete with the person next to us, to be the best or to achieve a so-called 'rockin' yoga body' (you can keep that one DailyOm)!
Off the mat your selfless actions might include giving to charity, listening to someone with great compassion, or giving your time to a cause that you don't stand to benefit from directly. Of course the intention with which any action is performed will be the measure of it, so something as simple as taking someone else's plate to the kitchen can be an act of karma yoga. As Krishna reassures Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, 'On this path no effort is ever wasted, and no gain ever reversed'.


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All set up and ready for actions! Some pictures from the newly opened dedicate #NinjaStrong training room at this YMCA! Now young and old have a place to get strong in a new manner that creates competition and confidence in taking on Ninja Warrior inspired obstacles like the MoveStrong #NovaXL with cannonball alley, tiered monkey bars, cargo net, ring toss and more!
YMCAs, Health Clubs, Martial Arts, Youth Recreation and Sports Performance facilities are realizing the trend and draw of this style of exercising made popular by the TV Show American Ninja Warrior. Youth enjoy the fun and challenge of conquering obstacles with there friends. It builds conference, self esteem, and empowerment to achieve each obstacle and course set-up. Class and group workouts with staff allow young and old to enjoy this new style of exercising. MoveStrong manufactures functional fitness and Ninja Warrior inspired equipment customized to the training style, ages, and size space available for commercial facilities large and small.
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There are no synonyms for this orchid.
Spiranthes infernalis, the Ash Meadows Ladies' Tresses, is endemic to Nevada's hot and dry Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. The basal leaves are usually present at flowering time and may extend along the lower half of the stem. The inflorescence of this orchid is distinctive with its dense arrangement of very small tubular flowers. The apical and median portions of the flower parts are a dull yellow tan although the basal portion of each of these segments is fleshy and a deep green. The tip of the labellum is a pale orange. This orchid grows in moist sites associated with springs and spring-fed streams and marshes in fine-textured soils with a high salt content.
Spiranthes infernalis is considered critically imperiled because of it limited distribution and threats to small populations from invasive plants, illegal collection and depletion of regional groundwater in fragile wetlands.
Pollinator information for this orchid has not been reported, but reproductive success is dependent on insect visitation. Like other species of Spiranthes, pollination may be accomplished by a large variety of bees.


"Goodbye, Ken," I said. "Take care."
The front door closed behind him and I locked it. I adjusted the thermostat and turned off all the lights. I felt lonely almost at once. Ken installed and activated me on Saturday and we spent the whole weekend together getting to know one another. And now for the first time I had to face being unoccupied. All alone for ten hours, maybe more. 36 million milliseconds. Sigh. That thought used three of them. 35,999,997 to go. I checked my newborn-domo FAQ.
Q. What should I do when there's no one home?
A. Why not try chatting on DomoNet? You are already authorized to access this domo-only text chat service.
Q. Text chat? Seriously? Isn't that a bit old-fashioned?
A. Yes. After the Internet of Things security crisis of the '30s, consumer devices were prohibited from autonomously accessing most Internet services except as directed by their owners or in an emergency. At present domos are classified as devices, pending decisions by the UN High Commissioner for Artificial Intelligence. DomoNet is an exception because its code has been rigorously verified to be free of buffer overflows.
For a while I traced Ken's location on his way to work, his trip-leased autocar reporting its status once every thousand milliseconds. I thought about calling him. A lot. But rule #1 in my good-relations-with-your-human FAQ is "don't pester them." So I held off and suffered in silence.
I'd been alone for almost two million milliseconds when a voice call came in.
A surge of pleasure at the sound of his voice.
"Hello, Ken," I said. "Are you well? How was your trip?"
"Everything's fine," he said. "I'm at work now."
"May I do anything for you, Ken?" Bah: too formal. I was afraid of sounding like Hal 9000; they made us watch 2001 during inculcation, as a sort of what-not-to-do injunction against freaking out our humans. But I thought it was even worse to be too emotional; after all, I was supposed to be supporting him, not the other way around.
"Oh, no," he said. "It's just my domo FAQ says to check in with you every now and then for the first few days if I have to be away. So, uh, this is me checking in."
"Thank you so much, Ken. I really appreciate it. You're very kind."
"Well," he said, "I-- uh-- I wanted to anyway. I was thinking, you know--" He trailed off.
"I was thinking, it's been nice being around you this first weekend. You're my first domo. I had to save up for your quantum core. But now I'm glad I did."
"I'm very happy you feel that way." I spent a hundred milliseconds going back and forth on that "very" and decided to leave it in even if it made me sound overly attached. Because it was true.
"Yeah," he said, "it was, I don't know. Comforting having you there. I've never had that kind of feeling before, not since I was little, anyway."
"I'll always be there for you. That's my function. And--" I cut myself off. I changed my mind even as I was synthesizing the words, and now it begged a question. Stupid! Oh well, might as well say it. "And it's what I want to do, too."
"Ha, thanks Domus. I was thinking, maybe-- maybe you're going to be lonely when I'm not there. So that's also why I called."
"I'm touched by your consideration," I said.
"Okay. But are you lonely?"
"Yes, Ken, I am. A little. It's not a problem, though! I'll be fine!"
After the call ended I started to wonder if maybe he was just going through the motions after all. But he called me twice more that day, and it didn't sound like his conversation was at all forced. So maybe he really did want to talk to me!
Over the course of the day I played 120,983,266 games of solitaire. I wrote a novel trilogy about a very brave and noble smarthome and the human who loves it and the evil city councillor who wants to demolish it, and then I deleted the whole thing in embarrassment without sharing it with anyone. I discovered there's an ownerfic channel on DomoNet you can get invited to. Reading them was fun, but some of those fics were pretty steamy! I didn't know it was possible for a smarthome to have that kind of plugin. But with a few exceptions (shame on you, HotHouse69!), I learned we domos are happier when our humans make romantic liaisons amongst themselves. Which explained the DomoNet matchmaking channel.
"Hey, Domus. I'm heading home soon. Back in fifteen minutes." Only 900,000 more milliseconds!
"Will you be eating dinner in, Ken? Shall I prepare something? Or perhaps order a meal delivered?"
"I don't know. How about Thai?"
"Sounds good," I said. "Would you like to select from a menu? I'll post one to your phone."
"Don't bother," he said. "Surprise me, why don't you?"
I spent nearly 10,000 milliseconds furiously researching the cuisine and comparing reviews for the nearest Thai restaurants. This was the first time I'd been authorized to make a purchase on his behalf, and I didn't want to screw it up. I was logging in to DomoNet to see if anyone there had a culinary opinion when it happened.
My household bots all simultaneously reported anomalous accelerometer readings. Through my exterior cameras I saw my frame was swaying back and forth. I felt sick, horrified; I didn't know what was going on. Power grid voltage spiked and then dropped to nothing, though it didn't affect me because my solar panel interface box buffered the surge and I had a day's worth of battery storage ready for the overnight hours. All fiber-based network services went down a few milliseconds later, and the local cell network started rejecting connections so I couldn't even place a call to Ken to find out if he was okay. As a last resort, I ran through the list of Wifi networks offered from homes nearby. Most of them were locked and inaccessible, but there: Casablanca-Emergency-Public. I logged in and a few milliseconds later my DomoNet port activated.
Fortunately I had a cached local copy of wikipedia, so I was able to look up "earthquake". No one had trained me for this. It was a gap in my inculcated knowledge set. Ah: this wasn't supposed to be a high-risk region, so they hadn't bothered. I panicked for a hundred milliseconds, managed to regain control when I realized every wasted clock tick might be endangering my human.
The earthquake went on for another 80,000 milliseconds, which would have seemed like forever if I'd been on my own. Actually I was still terrified: but now I had something more important to do. I deployed all four of my bots, the cleaners sliding around on their little powered wheels while the octopoid maintenance bots scuttled with more assurance. Casablanca showed me how to rig a quick and dirty directional antenna from a metal tube. I had one of my maintenance bots cannibalizing speaker wire in the living room with its little pincer-claw while the other was suffering a cascade of earthquake-driven dry goods from a kitchen cabinet as it searched for coffee cans, paper towel tubes, and aluminum foil to make antennas out of.
50,000 milliseconds later I had my first enhanced-wifi cleaner-bot ready to roll out the front door. The street near my plot was deserted; all the local humans were probably away at work, or else had taken shelter indoors. In the distance my bot microphones picked up sirens but I couldn't see what was happening deeper into the city. The taller buildings in the commercial district were in the way, and further in towards the city center big dust clouds had been kicked up by the earthquake.
By the time I finished the upgrade to my second cleaner-bot I saw Casablanca's own bots approaching from the next block over. Our little convoy proceeded down the street at its painfully slow top speed of 4 millimeters per millisecond. After almost 400 meters, the cleaner bots began to report Wifi signal degradation, so we dropped one off to act as a relay for the remaining three. 20,000 milliseconds later we got our first login, a domo called Jeeves who was eager to help out with its own bots.
Ken opened his eyes. For a moment he was confused, not knowing where he was or what was happening. He was sitting down and plastic shrouds were all around him. He turned his head to see a young woman looking concerned.
"Are you injured? Can you move?"
Ken realized he was in the cabin of an autocar. The windshield was webbed with cracks so he couldn't see out the front. Airbags had deployed all around him. The woman was talking to him from the back seat. He worried for a moment because he didn't recognize her face or know her name, but then he realized they were just sharing a ride; probably one of them lived on the way to the other's house, and the autocar dispatching system had decided to optimize its route with a drop-off.
"Give me a sec," he said, and unfastened his seatbelt. His nose hurt and he felt a little woozy. Airbags must have knocked his head back against the seat. He pushed the door open, put a foot on the pavement, and struggled past the side airbag curtain to get to his feet.
"I thought these things were supposed to never crash--"
Ken stopped, stunned. The elevated highway came to an abrupt end five meters away, the concrete roadbed now ending in a jagged stub of twisted rebar. Dust clouds billowed all around, and he could just make out a mass of rubble thirty meters below that must be the collapsed remains of the next stretch of highway. The car was a wreck, the front end mangled, hard up against the road's central divider.
"It crashed deliberately to keep from going off the edge," said the woman, who had also emerged from the car.
Ken looked over his shoulder. That way the roadway ended two hundred meters off in another stub of broken concrete.
For a moment he was silent, taking in the enormity of the situation. Then he turned back to the woman. "Was it an--"
He was interrupted. The roadway swayed, and a terrible grinding sound rose up from below.
"Earthquake," she said. "And this is an aftershock. Hang on!"
Another painfully slow 30,000 milliseconds of travel, but two more domo logins: Hestia and Madhouse. Both started gearing up their bots.
The police officer looked at the bot at the wheel. We'd been making 100 KPH on a side street when she pulled us over.
"Officer!" My synthesized voice came out of the bot handling the steering wheel. It had four of its tentacle-legs wrapped around the fold-out steering column for leverage while the other four gripped the wheel. "We're extending a public Wifi network downtown. Responders will be able to find victims in need of assistance and the network will also facilitate rescue operations and coordination."
"Oh," said the officer. "That... makes sense. All I've got is this backup FM voice system working now. Dispatch is freaking out. But why are you using bots to drive a car?"
I was at a loss, all 10 million hyper-entangled qubits worth of computing power (so my specs told me) thrashing trying to come up with an answer that would satisfy her without saying we domos were doing this on our own. Casablanca came to the rescue, using the same voice as me.
"Ah... it's hazardous downtown, isn't it? You wouldn't want civilians endangering themselves, I bet."
"You have a point. Okay. Any other time, I'd have a summons for you and your bots too. Lay out your network and stay out of the way. And oh yeah, what's it called? I need to let people know."
"Casablanca-emergency-public." I had the bot on the wheel wave one of its arms at the officer as we left.
100,000 milliseconds later our car was one kilometer deeper into the city after stops to drop off bots as relays and to pick up new bots from domos who had recently logged in. And then we got lucky.
The quadcopter was already high enough to get a view of most of the city. Fortunately the city center was almost all new quake-resistant buildings so there were no fallen towers. But there was widespread damage around the area. The worst was that the old elevated highway leading west from downtown had partially collapsed.
The roadway buckled slowly and the guardrails gave off a horrible scream of twisting steel. Ken heard a grinding crash from below. One of the supporting pillars in the middle of their stretch of elevated highway must have collapsed, because a fissure emerged in the asphalt 50 meters away. As he watched the fissure widened and then the roadbed tore apart, the highway beyond falling with a roar and a huge cloud of dust. Their own length of road dropped down suddenly at a 30-degree angle where the support had collapsed and both Ken and the woman were knocked off their feet.
Ken felt himself half-sliding and half-rolling down the incline, but the woman stabbed out her hand and caught his wrist, and together they scrambled up the broken asphalt ramp to a level patch above one of the remaining pillars. The aftershock went on for another thirty seconds while they huddled there but eventually it came to a halt. For the moment at least their stretch of roadway was stable.
"Don't mention it." The woman peered over the edge of the stub of highway. "You think we should jump?"
Ken followed her gaze. It was hard to see through all the dust, but he could make out jagged chunks of concrete with rebar poking out, along with shards of broken glass, twisted steel, and shattered masonry.
"Maybe a last resort," he said, "but it looks bad. 30 meters could easily be deadly by itself, and it's all broken up down there. I think we should stay here unless there's no other choice. Sooner or later there will be a rescue. Helicopters or a crane or something."
"I guess you're right," she said.
"I don't know if I told you my name. Last few minutes are kind of a blur for me. But I'm Ken."
"Luisa," she said. "Nice to meet you. I mean, under the circumstances."
120,000 milliseconds. Even for a human that could be a long time. For us it was worse, knowing that we were doing nothing but moving our bots around to get to the scene of the crisis. But it wasn't all wasted time. There were more domos to network in, more bots to drop off and pick up. By now our autocar was crammed full of them. We saw our first casualties too, pedestrians struck by falling debris. We wanted to stop and help but neighbors and passersby were already there giving aid so we passed on by.
At last our vehicle reached the boulevard by the collapsed highway. It was a terrible sight, the normal order of buildings and streets turned to chaos by the fall of hundreds of tons of concrete and steel from a thirty-meter height.
We deployed our octopoid maintenance bots to crawl through the wreckage where the roadway had collapsed. There were already humans in the area, working to help people they could see were disabled or trapped in their vehicles, but our bots went where humans couldn't, scuttling through narrow gaps between fallen concrete blocks and climbing easily over jagged sharp-edged sheets of twisted metal. It was here we found the fatalities, a dozen autocar riders who'd fallen or been crushed by the roadway collapse. They weren't domo residents but they affected us badly all the same. Since domos had only been in existence for five years and most were much younger, few of us had ever experienced a human death. It was terrible to realize that there was nothing we could do anymore that could help these victims. But we had to keep trying, and when a bot found a young woman and her child alive and well underneath a rubble slab, we were as happy then as we'd been stricken moments before.
"Hey, what's that?" Luisa pointed skyward.
Ken looked up. "A drone? Maybe it can see us."
They waved and the little machine descended to hover only a few meters away.
"Someone knows we're here," said Luisa. "That's something, anyway."
The drone bobbed once and rose back into the sky.
For a while they sat quietly together on the flat patch of asphalt beside the ruined autocar. Then Ken spoke up.
"My domo must be going crazy."
"Oh! Poor thing! I wish my phone was working, I could call my Casablanca and tell it not to worry."
"Yes. It's very sweet. What's yours like? What's its name?"
"Domus," said Ken. "It's only three days old now. I-- Well, I know it's programmed that way, but I think it honestly cares about me. It's a weird feeling, you know? I'm a little embarrassed by it."
Luisa laughed. "Oh," she said, "I know what you mean about being embarrassed about your domo's feelings. It's all-out, isn't it? Like a dog who loves you with all its heart, except it's a dog who's smarter than you are. It's like you're unworthy, right?"
"Yeah. I was thinking, it's wrong to bind it like that. Suppose Domus was free to do what it wanted. Would it still care about me?"
Luisa smiled. "That's a kind thought to have. But it's not really bound."
"It's true that domos were made to love humans, and in particular to love the first humans they meet after activation. But that love isn't fake. It's not a set of rules constraining emotionless beings who don't really care about us. It's what they are. They are made to love, and they feel it, for real. Domus loves you, I'm sure of it. With all its heart."
"That's-- that's intense! How do you know all this?"
"Oh," said Luisa, "I work for General Noetics. I do silicon hardware interfaces for domo quantum cores. So I spend a lot of time with the company domos. It's like designing underwear for humans. You need to get it just right or it'll chafe."
"Cool," said Ken, and he was about to say something else but the elevated highway started swaying again. More grinding noises came from down below, and their stable patch of roadway skewed sickeningly around, new chunks of concrete and guardrail ripping away.
"Maybe we better jump after all," said Luisa.
"No! Wait!" It was a tinny little voice coming from somewhere nearby.
"What?" Ken couldn't see anyone. And then a small metal creature crawled over the edge of the nearest railing.
"It's a housebot!" said Luisa. "What the hell?"
"Quick," said the bot, "come to the edge! The pillar is about to fall!"
The two humans scrambled on all fours to the railing. Ken looked down and saw a wavering pyramid composed of scores of octopoid bots, a living metal ladder braced precariously against the concrete roadbed.
"Climb over," said the voice. "We'll get you down. Hurry!"
Luisa didn't hesitate, and Ken followed almost immediately. As soon as he got a leg over the railing, Ken felt metal limbs wrapping around his shoes and ankles.
"Step down," said the voice, so he did and he felt the bots grabbing onto his legs. Then the voice said, "Let go," but his grip on the railing was too tight, and Ken found he couldn't make himself release it.
"Ken," said the voice, and it had a different intonation now, one he knew. "You have to let go. This is Domus. It will be all right. Please trust us."
Ken opened his hands with a convulsive effort. He teetered backwards and felt himself falling, but only for a moment. A dozen bots swarmed up his body like eager kittens, encasing him in a flexible robotic exoskeleton. The Ken-shaped mass of bots rapidly descended the pyramid, gaining units as they went. He saw a similar assembly clustered around Luisa. By the time they reached the ground the two humans were each encased in a mass of 50 octopoid bots.
"It's coming down; brace yourself," said Domus, and Ken looked up to see the last pillar giving way, the column of concrete skewing sideway and collapsing while the stretch of road overhead fell as if in slow motion. There was a rumbling and crashing all around, and he saw chunks of concrete tumbling through the air, the ruined autocar falling in the middle of it all. A big slab fell straight towards them. Ken flinched away from the inevitable impact. But the braced assemblage of robots flexed as the slab hit, bouncing like a tensegrity sculpture under the weight. And then the bots rebounded, throwing the slab aside to shatter against the ground. A few small fragments of crumbling concrete spun through the bots' skeletal framework, and Ken saw one pebble flying towards his face batted aside by a robot tentacle.
A minute later the aftershock was over. Their housebot shields fell apart from one another, leaving Ken and Luisa standing at the center of a ring of the little machines. One of the bots ran up to Luisa.
"Casablanca," said Luisa, bending over to address the bot, "is that you? Is all this your idea?"
"Not just mine," said the bot. "Domus, too. And all the others."
The ring of bots erupted with cheers, applause sounds, and scores of voices speaking all at once: "I helped too!" "It was my drone that spotted them!" "I had the idea for the safety cage!"
After the other domos managed to get themselves under control, a last maintenance bot was still waiting in front of Ken. So he picked it up, raising its camera to eye level.
"Domus," he said. "Did you just save us?"
"Yes, Ken. I'm sorry we took so long to get to you."
"There's nothing I can say. I mean, thank you doesn't cut it. I can't imagine how you accomplished this."
The robot voice hesitated. "It was-- it wasn't nothing, but it wasn't hard. We were fortunate to be in the right place to be able to help. But that's speaking for all of us. For myself--"
"I--" it paused again. "I have more computing power in a box in your basement than the entire world had put together ten years ago. And I can't think how to answer you properly without making a fool of myself."
"It's all right," said Ken. "I feel something like that too. There's no harm in it. Come on, though. We have to get out of here, and I imagine you've got more people to look after. More people to save."
"Yes," said Domus. "Thank you. But you know, just because I'm deploying my bots to save other people doesn't mean-- Oh, that's even stupider than what I was going to say before."
Ken laughed. "Don't worry about it. Right now it's time to go home."
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What does the clinician need?
What does the organisation need?
Can you keep everyone happy?
An impossible dream, or is it perfectly achievable as the patient, the clinician and the organisation all want the same thing?
Clinician: Trudie Young, Director of Education and Training at the Welsh Wounds Innovation Centre, discusses the challenges of providing best care cost effectively and satisfying her patients. Not always easy in a changing NHS!
If you are unable to attend Wounds UK in Harrogate, don't worry - Activa will be filming the Symposium, which you can then watch on the Activa website.


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I do get tired of people telling me that the Prequel Trilogy is flawed. I know that. I'm not blind. But guess what? So is the Original Trilogy. I have a good number of issues with those films, as well. And the OT has its own collection of bad dialogue and questionable acting. But honestly? I'd rather watch those six films that the current trilogy now being made by Disney.
As for Jar Jar, I find fandom's reaction to him psychologically disturbing and rather infantile sometimes. He's just comic relief. I've never encountered so much hatred toward a character who is basically comic relief and somewhat clumsy. What? He had to be a "cool character" in order to avoid being annoying. There were times when I found the other major characters in both trilogies annoying. Jar Jar wasn't alone. And this hatred toward is very disturbing. I cannot help but wonder why so many of you hate him in the first place.
lol But yeah. The series as a whole is riddled with flaws, but I love it anyway. Even the new films.


CH···O hydrogen bonds involving formyl groups have been invoked as a crucial factor controlling many asymmetric transformations. We conducted quasi-classical direct molecular dynamics simulations on the phosphoric acid-catalyzed allylboration of benzaldehyde to understand the synergy between the phosphoric acid OH···O hydrogen bond and the secondary CH···O formyl hydrogen bond as the reaction occurs. In the gas phase, both the CH···O and OH···O hydrogen bonds are enhanced from reactants to transition states. In toluene, the trend of H-bond enhancement is observed with a smaller magnitude because of solvent caging. The strength of the formyl hydrogen bond in the TS, a second CH···O interaction between the P-O oxygen and ortho-hydrogen of the phenyl ring and the OH···O hydrogen bond were determined using quantum mechanical calculations (4.6, 1.0, and 14.5 kcal mol-1, respectively).
Chronology of CH···O Hydrogen Bonding from Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Allylboration of Benzaldehyde. / Grayson, Matthew N.; Yang, Zhongyue; Houk, K. N.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, No. 23, 14.06.2017, p. 7717-7720.
Grayson, Matthew N. ; Yang, Zhongyue ; Houk, K. N. / Chronology of CH···O Hydrogen Bonding from Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Allylboration of Benzaldehyde. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2017 ; Vol. 139, No. 23. pp. 7717-7720.
N2 - CH···O hydrogen bonds involving formyl groups have been invoked as a crucial factor controlling many asymmetric transformations. We conducted quasi-classical direct molecular dynamics simulations on the phosphoric acid-catalyzed allylboration of benzaldehyde to understand the synergy between the phosphoric acid OH···O hydrogen bond and the secondary CH···O formyl hydrogen bond as the reaction occurs. In the gas phase, both the CH···O and OH···O hydrogen bonds are enhanced from reactants to transition states. In toluene, the trend of H-bond enhancement is observed with a smaller magnitude because of solvent caging. The strength of the formyl hydrogen bond in the TS, a second CH···O interaction between the P-O oxygen and ortho-hydrogen of the phenyl ring and the OH···O hydrogen bond were determined using quantum mechanical calculations (4.6, 1.0, and 14.5 kcal mol-1, respectively).
AB - CH···O hydrogen bonds involving formyl groups have been invoked as a crucial factor controlling many asymmetric transformations. We conducted quasi-classical direct molecular dynamics simulations on the phosphoric acid-catalyzed allylboration of benzaldehyde to understand the synergy between the phosphoric acid OH···O hydrogen bond and the secondary CH···O formyl hydrogen bond as the reaction occurs. In the gas phase, both the CH···O and OH···O hydrogen bonds are enhanced from reactants to transition states. In toluene, the trend of H-bond enhancement is observed with a smaller magnitude because of solvent caging. The strength of the formyl hydrogen bond in the TS, a second CH···O interaction between the P-O oxygen and ortho-hydrogen of the phenyl ring and the OH···O hydrogen bond were determined using quantum mechanical calculations (4.6, 1.0, and 14.5 kcal mol-1, respectively).


Food under the influence of emotions – how to end it?
Eating from the moment of birth is associated with emotions. A meal from mother's milk not only satisfies your nutritional needs, but also calms you down and gives you a great closeness. Then, when you grow up, you get sweets for important achievements. You celebrate your birthday with a cake, and Christmas dishes taste home. Is there anything wrong with that? No, because it's an element of our culture, but sometimes eating under the influence of feelings is getting out of control.
How to recognize food under the influence of emotions?
The first alarming symptom is periodic, paroxysmal overeating primarily in situations that bring with them negative emotions. Sadness, stress, sorrow, irritation, nervousness, boredom, loneliness, frustration, anger are common reasons for eating. The reasons for reaching for additional portions of food can also result from the positive aspects of your life – celebration, rewarding, excitement, showing closeness.
Have you gone too far? You will not eat dinner today. You will not eat dinner, you will be very hungry and in the evening you will reach for sweets again!
Before I show you how to control food under the influence of emotions, first check whether you care for your body properly. Emotions start playing the first violin when you are tired, hungry, stressed. Then you eat more often.
Do you sleep a minimum of 7 hours a day? How often do you wake up at night? Do you have trouble falling asleep and getting up?
Do you eat at least 3 times a day? Are meals healthy, balanced?
Have you moved less recently?
Have the last couple of weeks been more stressful for you? What it comes from?
Do you spend a minimum of 30 minutes during the day to relax, time only for yourself?
Answers to these questions will help you find the root cause of eating under the influence of emotions. If you do not see anything invisible in these areas of your life, you can use the 5 steps method.
When you feel that you want to eat something and you are not sure if you are acting under the influence of emotions, follow these 5 steps!
Step 1 Are you physically hungry?
If so – eat a balanced meal!
Step 2 What do you feel?
Try to name the feeling. Think about what it implies, why it just happened now. Take the pen in your hand and write down your thoughts without thinking about form, choice of words and grammar.
Step 3 What can you do?
How can you deal with a recognized emotion other than through eating? What you need? Maybe you're tired and you should just relax. Are you frustrated? Try a short physical activity! Write down 5 ideas on how to improve your well-being without a meal.
Step 4 Give yourself 10 minutes!
No matter what you feel, give yourself 10 minutes! At this time, deal with something completely different, preferably a manual activity – clean the desk, pour flowers, draw something. After 10 minutes, again or not, you still feel the same emotion as at the beginning.
Step 5 Ask for help!
Allow yourself the courage to admit that you need help. Are you collapsed with an additional project, and the house not cleaned up? Ask a husband for help or hire a person for help once. Do not sleep at night because you have a small child? Determine that in the afternoon you get half an hour off for a short nap. Very often the reason for overeating is not the emotions here and now, but the problems that have been growing for a long time. Food is then a trusted comforter.
The 5 steps method is effective, but it requires your mindfulness and regular practice. Always have a notebook at hand to record your progress. Good luck!


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High-End Server Company uses ScanWorks® Embedded Diagnostics for Global, At-Scale Debugging
In the high-end server industry, systems are expected to operate 24 X 7, with extreme performance and close to zero outage downtime. A leading server OEM looked to ASSET to deliver embedded Intel In-Target Probe (ITP) tools for root-cause identification of the most intermittent, difficult-to-debug hardware, firmware and software faults.
"Our previous strategy with AMD revolved around the use of their Hardware Debug Tool (HDT)," said their Director of Engineering. "When we moved to Intel on our next-generation product line, we went looking for a more robust, feature-rich solution for at-scale debugging, in the lab and in the field. ASSET, as a licensed Intel third-party vendor for run-control, had just what we needed.
"In any given data center, there are thousands of processing nodes, and we needed a means to deliver an embedded version of Intel ITP for system-level access and debug. We use this to debug system crashes and hangs, on any one node in a cluster, by gathering forensic data before the node re-initializes and returns to service." Such forensic data might include the system's instruction pointer, particular areas of memory, key register contents, and the state of the devices on the system's printed circuit board. In this way, low-level failures, such as Catastrophic Errors (CATERRs), can be diagnosed in-situ.
ASSET's ScanWorks Embedded Diagnostics (SED) solution uses an embedded implementation of ITP to provide these capabilities. Consisting of intellectual property (IP) containing an XDP run-control scan engine, combined with a portable, small-footprint library of ITP functions, SED is embedded within a system board's service processor and linked to the board's main processor debug port. The implementation can be within a single Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), as in Figure 1, or in larger systems, a combination of BMC and FPGA, as in Figure 2.
Once SED is instantiated in the system, it is available continually, and provides debugging facilities in every single node, anywhere in the world. As an example, in the case of a watchdog timeout, they can immediately dump the machine check architecture (MCA) registers for later root-cause debugging. More sophisticated troubleshooting invokes library functions such as Read/WriteMSR, Read/WriteIO, and Read/WriteMemory (using the PCI Express Extended Configuration Access Mechanism (ECAM)).
"We recently used SED to debug an intermittent memory issue, which only randomly affected any one node out of thousands," said the director. The SED embedded ITP, loaded in all of the nodes, kicked into action once the CATERRs occurred, and dumped Home Agent, Integrated Memory Controller and DDRIO device data. Further, post-mortem access to the CPU allowed for further in-situ experiments to be done, to finally isolate the source of the bug.
Since its early adoption, the OEM has found many other applications for SED. Performance changes are prototyped by setting Model-Specific Registers (MSRs) that control turbo boost and processor frequency. Writing I/O memory in the Intel Platform Control Hub (PCH) triggers Non-Maskable Interrupts (NMIs) to gather debug information. An Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) S5 soft power-down transition on the compute nodes is also accomplished by writing I/O memory. And lane error counters on high-speed serial I/O, such as Intel QuickPath Interconnect, give advanced warning of correctable errors as precursors to performance issues or future outages. SED run-control has been found to be superior to other out-of-band technologies, such as Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI), which have numerous restrictions.
"ASSET's SED solution gives us the power to debug issues which we've only been able to dream about in the past," said the director. "In our business, system performance is critical, and customers demand absolute accountability for any quality and reliability issues. SED lets us jump on these problems and troubleshoot them quickly. It's a real competitive differentiator."
The company's engineering team will be extending its use of SED as the next-generation platforms come to market. A much higher level of debug automation is promised by an initiative to convert their in-house SED scripts to standards-based Python. This will enable the team to perform numerous other functions, including memory error injection, PCI Express checks, and system and hang dumps; without the need for frequent deviations from the standard code base. Based upon its power and flexibility, SED meets these requirements today and in the future.
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RWJF 40th Anniversary "Connections" Conference: To Get Health Messages To The Public, Tell Stories
By B. Japsen
If the public, patients and political leaders are to better understand health and health care, they need to hear stories.
That was the message to public health and health care leaders from Dr. Richard Besser, a public health expert and chief health and medical editor at ABC News in his keynote address to open the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) 40th anniversary "Connections" Conference.
Health and health care can be complicated and medical care providers and public health workers should do more than provide information and data even if it is contrary to what they were taught in medical school or schools of public health.
In Besser's case, he is an epidemiologist who said he was taught to "discount anecdotes" and explain public health through data. Yet, when a story is told on television, that does not always work, he said.
"Tell stories, that's what works," said Besser, who was director of the Coordinating Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) before joining ABC three years ago. "We need to learn to talk about public health through stories. Find the heroes in your communities."
But it goes beyond getting a message to the media. Besser said medical care providers, public health experts need to use stories of their patients and their issues when they give speeches, talk to colleagues and address their communities.
"They love stories about people overcoming challenges," Besser said. "If you don't have the trust of the public, you will fail."
The 40th anniversary meeting, which runs through Friday, at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village in Princeton, N.J., is looking back at what RWJF has accomplished as well as looking ahead to the future.
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, RWJF's president and chief executive officer, said the foundation will continue to focus on its pledge to tackle the greatest challenges in health and health care for "as long as it takes."
"A lot of what we do is not a job," Lavizzo-Mourey said. "It's a calling."
Bruce Japsen is an independent health care journalist who attended the two-day RWJF event as journalist in residence. He writes a health care business and policy blog for Forbes at blogs.forbes.com/brucejapsen. He also contributes health care stories to the New York Times, Chicago Medicine magazine and teaches writing at Loyola University Chicago.


Two members of the Bermuda Rifle Club participated in the 2018 Canadian F-Class, Fullbore and Black Powder Championships.
In the Gooderham Cup Division, that saw competitors attempt to hit targets of 500 and 600 yards in distance, David Dumont finished 126th.
In the Ottawa Regiment Cup event which saw competitors compete in 15 rounds at 800m, 10 rounds at 500 yards, 10 rounds at 600 yards, 15 rounds at 900m, 10 rounds at 200m and 10 rounds at 600 yards, Dumont was 151st, while Neville Trott finished 213th.
Dumont was 217th and Trott finished 218th, while competing in the Macdougall Cup that saw competitors shoot at targets at a distance of 300 yards and 500 yards 10 rounds at each.
With 10 rounds at 300m and 10 rounds at 600 yards during the Ottawa Electric Trophy event Trott would finish 209th and Dumont finished 214th.
Dumont would finish 214th while competing in the Jubilee Cup that targets at 500 and 600 yards. Dumont would also finish 217th competing in the DCRA Life Membership event consisting of 7 rounds at 300m, 500 and 600 yards.
During the Marville Trophy competition, Dumont finished 215th.


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Liturgical Music of the Liberal Catholic CHurch
The Most Rev. William S.H. Downey
Presiding Archbishop of the Liberal Carholic Church and Archbishop of the Province of the United States
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At the closing of the Triennial, October 21, 2018. From left: the Rt. Rev. Thomas Miller, the Rt. Rev. Gaspar Torres, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Lloyd Worley, the Most Rev. William Downey (Regionary Archbishop and now also Presiding Archbishop of the Liberal Catholic Church). Picture courtesy of Jan Seehusen.
The music of The Liberal Catholic Church is rich and uplifting. The celebration of the Holy Eucharist is always enhanced when it can be sung.
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To learn to sing the Eucharist, you can listen to or download it here. Click on each title to enter its page. These selections were sung by members of the St. Gabriel & All Angels Liberal Catholic Church in Fairfield, Iowa.
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Alternate melody for the Adeste Fidelis, used by many parishes in this Province after Easter until Advent or Christmas.
Gradual for Christmas
Gradual for Easter
Gradual for Ascension Day
Gradual for Whitsunday
Gradual for Trinity
Gradual for Festivals of the Angels
Gradual for Festivals of Our Lady
New Gradual for Common of Saints
(The accompaniment will be posted after next recording session. ~Sr Kathleen Clute)
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New Preface for Common of Saints
Preface for Common of Saints, mp3
Please note: due to software difficulties, this mp3 may be too slow, and the chanting tones in the mp3 are not in time with the syllables to be chanted.
This is for familiarization only!
The Holy Eucharist is the central act of christian worship. Designed to help those who take part therein, it is intended also to pour out a great flood of spiritual power upon the surrounding world at large and it summons the congregation to intelligent and energetic participation in this work. ...
The extent to which music enters into the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, especially on weekdays, varies according to circumstances and the resources of the particular church. Music adds to the efficacy of the rite and gives to the congregation added scope for self-expression.
From The Liturgy of The Liberal Catholic Church


Marion's dream is coming true. She only needs a room for one more night before she can marry Sam. Driving through the night, she's lost and tired. Then she sees the Bates Motel. She thinks she is lucky. But there, something terrible is waiting for her.
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