Detlev Glanert's Theatrum bestiarum explores man's darker nature in a colorfully scored orchestral work laced with black humor and propelled by relentless dance-like rhythms. The opening funeral march lends darkness to Mahler's Fifth Symphony, but it's only an episode in a magnificent five-movement masterpiece that expresses both despair and joy. Mahler's symphony embraces all of life: There's folk-inspired dances, a waltz, and, in its final notes, raucous humor. Of course it is also the symphony with the Adagietto, the beautiful love letter for strings and harp the composer wrote for his wife, Alma.
This performance is sponsored by Mizuho Financial Group.
This concert presents two challenging and colorful works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Both display the possibilities of a modern orchestra in the most brilliant way, but are otherwise a study in contrast. Detlev Glanert's Theatrum bestiarum from 2005 is a dark, surreal commentary on violence and inhumanity. Glanert is strongly influenced by Mahler, but the Mahler symphony heard on this program—though full of funeral marches and dark colors—moves toward comedy and affirmation. The Adagietto, which Mahler composed for his wife, is one of the most serene and soulful things he ever wrote.
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) is one of the world's leading orchestras, lauded by critics for its unique sound. The orchestra's string section has been called "velvety," the sound of the brass "golden," and the timbre of the woodwinds "distinctly personal." The percussion section has an international reputation for excellence, with the exceptional acoustics of the concert hall playing an important role in this respect.
Equally important is the quality of each musician and the influence exerted on the orchestra by its chief conductors, of which there have been only seven since the orchestra was founded in 1888: Willem Kes (1888-1895), Willem Mengelberg (1895-1945), Eduard van Beinum (1945-1959), Bernard Haitink (1961-1988), Riccardo Chailly (1988-2004), Mariss Jansons (2004-2015), and Daniele Gatti (2016-2017). Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and other leading composers have conducted the orchestra on multiple occasions.
The RCO regularly collaborates with contemporary composers, including its three house composers: Michel van der Aa, Detlev Glanert, and Richard Rijnvos. In addition to some 90 concerts performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the orchestra gives 40 concerts a year at other leading concert halls around the world. The orchestra has made more than 1,100 recordings to date, many of which have won international distinctions. Since 2004, the orchestra has boasted its own in-house label, RCO Live.
In celebration of its 125th anniversary in 2013, the orchestra embarked on a world tour, visiting six continents in a single year. Between 2016 and 2018, all member states of the European Union will be visited during the RCO Meets Europe concert tour. In each EU country, the orchestra will perform at least one work side by side with a local youth orchestra.
As a pupil of the legendary Russian pedagogue Ilya Musin, Semyon Bychkov belongs to a select group of notable conductors who were trained at the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1975, at the age of 22, he left for the US to pursue an international career free from the limitations of the Soviet regime. He made his name as the music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Later, he became chief conductor of the Orchestre de Paris and the Semperoper Dresden.
In 1997, Mr. Bychkov became chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, a position he held for 13 years. In addition to symphonic repertoire, opera has played an important part in his career. In 2003, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Strauss's Elektra. He has also conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, and Salzburg Festival.
Mr. Bychkov is regularly invited to guest conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. He is also an annual guest at the BBC Proms.
Mr. Bychkov made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1984. In February 2015, he conducted the orchestra in Strauss's An Alpine Symphony, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major, and Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat Major with pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque.


This is a topic that comes up from time to time and it seems I have an unusual experience when it comes to them. I own five; one Alpha, two older Babolat, and two unbranded. If I had to guess, I'd wager that at least one is a Gamma.
* Four of them are the same size but the Alpha has a clamp/mouth that is up to 50% larger. The Alpha is also likely the newest of them all. I've used them all and the size is the least important factor.
* Four of them have two springs and one has three springs; at least, it did at one time. One of the Babolat clamps came to me missing a spring and I've mixed and matched to used the better clamps.
* Springs make the clamp. It's not the number of springs. It's the size and quality of the spring. One big, long spring is better than three small, skinny springs.
* Babolat uses non-chrome plated springs. They'll oxidize over time. It's not a big deal. It's just what they use. They're not better or worse.
* Four of the clamps use nothing but course metal in the mouths from their casting. One uses what looks like a gritty, sandpaper like insert on both sides of the clamp. That one is also the one with three springs. While it is the same size as the others, it appears to be of the least quality and came with the smallest springs.
Babolat springs vs three springs from cheap clamp.
Some are dirty. I'll clean soon.
I hope this helps someone in their determination of what makes a good starting clamp. I'm sure there are experts out there. My opinion is that any of them are good as long as they have big, strong springs and are not relying on inserts to hold the string in the mouth.
I have 3, an Alpha, a Tenex and a Gamma.
The Alpha is permanently set up as a bridge. To me it is too strong and leaves marks. Not an issue when used as a bridge.
The Tenex gets used constantly.
The Gamma is a piece of crap just as you've found. The red one with the inserts.
I have to disagree on the Gamma.
While it may not be the best, it isn't junk. I can start mains up to 60lbs (never tried higher) with the gamma and it never slipped except when the insert came out. Which while annoying was fixed easily with a drop of gel super glue.
The Pro's Pro clamp I have is junk … doesn't hold hardly anything. I think that is due to the springs mostly as I used the Gamma springs in the Pro's Pro clamp when I thought I had lost the Gamma insert and it was a little better, but still not great.
Compared to the others with the exception of the Pro's Pro, the Gammas are junk. The fact that you needed a glue or epoxy to hold it together speaks volumes of it being junk. It might be functional junk but it's still junk.
This is reminding me of conversations I had as a kid. It was okay for us to talk bad about our cars being crap but you better not tell me my car is crap! Those are fighting words!
I have a Gamma and a Eagnas (Pro's Pro).
I have a Gamma, a Babolat and a GSS. I'd rank the GSS and Babolat as close (slight preference for the GSS). As for the Gamma, the "plate issue" has never been a problem for me. It is not quite as strong as the other two but has been just fine. That stated, if I needed a new one tomorrow I would buy the Babolat as the GSS is no longer available.
I still want to know someone who has purchased (or heck, even used) the Kimony Starting Clamp. I'd love to know what it brings to the craft at $250!
That's sort of the way I think when I read about a home stringer who only strings for themselves wanting to know whether they should buy a Barairdo, Ghost 2, or wait for the newest Babolat machine.
The Kimony starting clamp is made by Toyo Zouki. The exact same starting clamp made by Toyo Zouki is available for $120 or something like that as part of a tool set from Yonex.
The Kimony/Yonex starting clamp is not diamond-dusted, and opens and closes just like fixed machine clamps do.
^^^so, I take it that it locks like a fixed clamp as opposed to using a set of springs to keep constant pressure. I see it is adjustable from "Tennis" to "Badminton"-- is it similarly adjustable for different gauges? What is the benefit versus say, the Babolat clamp? I would that I have been impressed by other Kimony products (I have used the grips, I have the string bed cutter and the starting block (which I really like) and order my Power Pads from them). Just couldn't wrap my head around that price for a starting clamp--had seen the Yonex version in another thread about this clamp. If you have one, how do you like it?
Yup, no volute spring on the Kimony/Yonex starting clamp. It is adjustable for different gauges, as fixed machine clamps are. I like the way it releases, between the mechanism and the lack of diamond dusting it seems to mark string less than the Babolat clamp does. I favor my Babolat starting clamp for starting mains, and I favor my Yonex starting clamp for holding the short side and for starting crosses.
I would never pay the Kimony price for the Toyo Zouki starting clamp. The Yonex price is fine because the other tools included in the set are very good and I use them all the time. The price for the Babolat starting clamp is fair. I have a couple lower-quality starting clamps - identical - sold by Gamma and I forgot the other source, that I use for stuff like manual prestretch.
I have an Alpha and an Eagnas (3 stiff springs). I only use the Alpha.
@dak95_00 I have 3 different clamps. An old VS, a 10 yo Gamma and an almost new pros pro. All three worked well to start with the VS and Gamma work well still. I took the springs out today just to look at them and had a hard time getting the VS spring back in. Compared to the Gamma and Pros Pro the VS springs are much harder to compress. As a matter of fact the VS springs were hard to get back in. The VS has 2 springs where the Gamma and Pros Pro both have three. Any way the Pros Pro has started to slip on me and I just keep it in the drawer. With the springs out the VS and Gamma close so there is no gap from top to bottom of the jaws. In the Pros Pro I can see about a 1 mm gap at the bottom of the clamp when closed. Not good! I put the springs out of the Pros Pro in the Gamma clamp and it seems harder to open now so I'm assuming the springs are not the issue but the clamp itself.
If you want a Pros Pro buyer beware. If you're in the market for new springs you may want to look at cannibalizing a Pros Pro clamp. Who knows you may end up with a good clamp for under $20.


"That was a real game of two halves there." A common football cliche which, whilst sounding ridiculously simplistic, is used to describe a game in which the first and second half were so different it felt like you could have been watching two completely separate games. Well at tonight's Helmet show at Islington Academy we witnessed the gig equivalent.
Helmet's latest record hasn't been all that well received from fans and media alike. The band quite dramatically changed up their sound to far calmer territory, lacking any kind of bite and ruggedness you would have associated with them throughout their career. With that said, the new tracks tonight fell incredibly flat and managed to wipe out any level of excitement the crowd had when hearing some of the older, better, material. Obviously with this being a tour in support of that record it was safe to expect that a large chunk of the set would include tracks from it, but even the band must've felt it when the atmosphere in the room sunk harder than a lead balloon.
As noted though, this very much was a gig of two halves, on the other side of it all when they blasted through tracks from Betty like opening duo Beautiful Love and Speechless or the likes of Unsung and In The Meantime towards the end of the show the place went mad. It proved to be a bizarre, and kind of unsettling, dynamic - whilst that can tend to be a positive in live shows, this was being done completely unintentionally.
One thing is for sure, as a group Helmet is very much the Page Hamilton show now. Being the only original member left in the band he feels like the elder statesman on stage, directing traffic nicely amongst the rest of the group. As a band they do sound very tight, not missing a beat whether they were playing through old or new material, but there was something just missing in their performance.
Overall then, Helmet turned up the heat at times during their performance at Islington Academy tonight, but it did feel like watching a band just going through the motions for the most part.


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Arrest after pupils shot with air weapon at school
A teenager has been arrested after three pupils were shot at a school, police have said.
Sunday, 29th January 2017, 5:05 pm
Updated Sunday, 29th January 2017, 5:13 pm
Officers were called to Regis School, in Westloats Lane, Bognor, at about 1.30pm on Friday (January 27).
Police said staff reported three students had been shot with an air weapon. They suffered minor injuries.
Officers said an 18-year-old man has been arrested and a BB gun was recovered.
A spokesman for Sussex Police said: "This is an isolated incident and there is no ongoing threat to the local community."
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Detectives offer £20,000 reward for help finding Hackney man Alex Vanderpuye's killer
Alex was found stabbed on December 7, 2017 and police are appealing for help to find the murderer
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24-year-old Alex Vanderpuye was found stabbed in Hackney and died at the scene in 2017 (Image: Metropolitan Line)
A reward of £20,000 is on offer for anyone who can help detectives find the person who killed Alex Vanderpuye in 2017.
Alex, 24, from Hackney , East London , was found stabbed by police on December 7, 2017.
Police discovered him suffering from knife wounds at 4.45pm on Christie Road.
Despite paramedics treating Alex at the scene, he was pronounced dead from his wounds at 5:20pm.
The post-mortem examination that followed confirmed he died from stab injuries.
Detectives have now launched a fresh appeal for information to help them find and convict Alex's killer.
Detectives are asking anyone who was in the Christie Road area on 7 December 2017 to come forward if they have information which might help them (Image: Google Maps)
Anyone who can provide insight which leads to a conviction could receive a reward of £20,000.
A few days after the attack, on December 12, police arrested three men on suspicion of murder.
This included a 26-year-old man, a 21-year-old man, and a 25-year-old man.
The chilling database with the 264 unsolved deaths in London unable to be identified by police
A further five men were also arrested on suspicion of murder.
All men who were arrested were subsequently released under investigation.
Detective Inspector John Marriott, who is leading the investigation, said: "I believed that despite the passage of time, there are still members of the public who have information that is vital to our investigation.
"Our enquiries are continuing and the investigation remains live. I hope that now that some considerable time has elapsed, someone may feel that they can now come forward and assist the investigation.
"It is my hope that the reward, which is available to anyone who provides information leading to an arrest, charge or conviction of those responsible, will encourage anyone who can help to come forward.
"Hackney is a busy, vibrant borough and we know that the attack took place at a time when lots of people would have been around. Some of Alex's friends were with him at the time and we are also directly appealing to them to come forward as we believe they have vital information.
"We are also looking for anyone who may have seen or heard anything in the vicinity of Christie Road at the junction with Cassland Road from around the 16:30hrs on that day – Thursday, 7 December in 2017.
"Alex is survived by his father and his older brother who want, and deserve, justice."


Georgia Tech is preparing for the fast-paced Clemson offense by running two huddles on the scout team.
"They can go faster than Clemson with two huddles," Johnson said.
Georgia Tech was pretty much unscathed by injuries on Saturday, although the status of cornerback Step Durham is unknown after he sustained a leg injury against Vanderbilt. Right tackle Trey Klock dressed out against Vandy, but did not play. His status for the Clemson game may not be known until Thursday.
Players of the game: Honored by the school as its top players in the Vanderbilt game were quarterback Justin Thomas (offense), strong safety Corey Griffin (defense) and punter Ryan Rodwell (special teams).
Miami kickoff: The ACC announced that kickoff for the Oct. 1 game against Miami will be at noon. The network will be designated after Saturday's games are played.
That 81-yard touchdown: The 81-yard touchdown pass on the first play of Saturday's game against Vanderbilt set the tone for the game and was remarkable in many regards.
It was the longest pass of Justin Thomas' 39-game career, eclipsing the 79-yarder he threw against Pittsburgh in 2014. He was the longest play from scrimmage for Marcus Marshall, bettering his 64-yard run against Alcorn State, and almost doubled his career total for receiving yards in 13 career games of 42 yards.
The opening touchdown was the first time Georgia Tech had scored on the first play of the game since 2012, when Tevin Washington connected with Zach Laskey at Virginia for a 70-yard score. It was the first time the Yellow Jackets had scored on a one-play drive sine Matthew Jordan did it on a 65-yard run against Pitt in 2014.
The pass was the longest play from scrimmage since an 82-yard pass from Vad Lee to Jeff Greene against Presbyterian in 2012.


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IMDG (anglicky In-Memory Data Grid) je zkratka pro distribuované objektové úložiště. Data jsou uložena v operační paměti ve tvaru klíč - hodnota. Oproti tradičním systémům, ve kterých jsou typy klíčů a hodnot omezeny polem bajtů (byte array) nebo řetězcem (String), v IMDG žádné omezení není: lze použít jakýkoliv objekt. Tato vlastnost významně zvyšuje agilitu tím, že umožňuje ukládat jakékoliv objekty bez serializace/deserializace navíc.

Rozdil od IMDB
Na rozdíl od IMDB, In-Memory Data Grid osvobozuje uživatele od nutnosti používání ORM a umožňuje přistupovat v datům jako k obecné hash-tabulce. To se hodí pro snadné využití v nejpopulárnějších programovacích jazycích, jako Java, C#/.Net, Python, C++ atd.

Charakteristika
Úkolem, který řeší IMDG je zajištění rychlého přístupu k datům prostřednictvím jejich uložení do operační paměti (RAM) v distribuovaném stavu.

Moderní in-memory technologie umožňují spojení s existujícími úložišti dat jako například Hadoop nebo Postgresql. V takovém případě bude IMDG systém splňovat funkci cache.

Různé systémy mají různé mechanismy zamykání přístupu k datům, nejmodernější poskytují konkurenční zamykací mechanismus (jako například MVCC - Multi-Version Concurrency Control) a zároveň splňují ACID vlastnosti s největším výkonem.

Příklady použití
IMDG se dá použít buď jako datové úložiště, nebo jako cache vrstvu pro již existující databázi. Na obrázku je uvedena schema klasického použití IMDG.

V takovém konkrétním případě každý klíč s množinou hodnot patří do jednotlivého uzlu. Vnější databáze není povinná, ale pokud se vyskytuje, tak, zpravidla, IMDG bude automatické načítat a zapisovat data do databáze.

Použití IMDG a Compute Grid
Typická in-memory architektura rozděluje data v klasteru pomocí IMDG, pak se spustitelný kód posílá do těch serverů, ve kterých jsou potřebná data. Integrace mezi IMDG a Computer Grid je velmi důležitá, protože získaný spustitelný kód (výpočetní úkol), obvykle je součástí gridových výpočtů (Grid computing) a musí být správně nasazen (deploy), sbalancován (load-balancing), mít vysokou stupeň odolnosti proti selhání (fail-over) a mít možnost být spustitelný podle předem daného rozvrhu.

Specifické funkcionální rysy
 Neomezený typ uložených klíčů a hodnot.
 Podpora distribuovaných ACID transakcí. Obecně řečeno 2-phase-commit (2PC) protokol zajišťuje konzistenci dat uvnitř klasteru. Systémy IMDG splňují ACID (atomicita (atomicity), konzistence (consistency), izolovanost (isolation), trvalost (durability)).
 Podpora stovek tisíc změn in-memory dat.
 Snadná horizontální škálovatelnost bez rozložení.
 Rychlejší přístup k datům díky uložení v RAM paměti.

Existující IMDG řešení
 Hazelcast IMDG
 GridGain (Apache Ignite)
 Redis
 Apache Geode
 Infispan
 Ehcache

Odkazy

Externí odkazy
 Co je IMDG. Habr (rusky)
 In-memory Data Grid vs In-memory Data Bases. InfoWorld (anglicky)
 Jak vybrat IMDG řešení. Habr (rusky)

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The ultimate choice of the fight game lovers Mortal Kombat is back with another feather in the game developers' hats. This sequel to the game series indeed takes the game to its pinnacle where the game doesn't only have more detailed action entwined with a great story to back it up but the effects, the strategy and the variations are also superb. All this combined in one package have taken the game to another level.
After the huge success of the Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings, Atari returns with the release of the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Based on the novel by Andrej Sapkowski, we follow the story of Geralt as he investigates the ensuing chaos left by the wild hunt in the Northern Kingdoms. CD Projekt Red released the single-role playing game on May 19, 2015 for Playstation 4, Microsoft Windows and Xbox one.
Fire! Steel! Grit! Tons of explosions! Add Tom Hardy into the recipe and you'll get yourself an adrenaline pumping action movie. Set in the post-apocalyptic desert wasteland, this visual masterpiece by George Miller follows the Mad Max franchise since 1979. Follow the wild adventure of Max Rockatansky played by Tom Hardy, as he struggles for survival in this merciless wilderness.
2015 has been the much awaited year for many Marvel fans out there. Three years since the release of Avengers on 2012, there has been a number of movies released in between to feed the appetite of the eager followers of the franchise. There was Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, giving us a hint to what's in store for us for the Age of Ultron.
Batman's hometown is set to be explored in greater detail than ever before. Gotham. It allows viewers to see Batman as a child traumatized by the murder of his parents. Setting the story at the very beginning of Batman's origins. The characters emerge in the Batman universe such as Catwoman, the Penguin, the Riddler, the Joker, Poison Ivy and Two-Face.
The movie is bigger and crazier than ever with a lot of action and truly will be hard to imagine anyone topping that. The movie also welcomes back the one and only Michelle Rodriguez and is joined by action stars Jason Statham and Kurt Russell.
After two nights full of slapdash adventure among the characters from history, Ben Stiller makes a comeback under Larry Daley's direction in the Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. If you have already seen the first two parts of the movie, you already know the plot, wherein the display items in a museum come to life at night hours and that's when a lot of adventure happens. This part is no different than the other two, but the adventure and the picturisation and the fun gets to yet another level.


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Rollback to Blog - the color of night Rev #9

Or: how big is the "greenhouse effect" really?
 +-- {: .standout} This page is a [[Blog articles in progress|blog article in progress]], written by [[Tim van Beek]]. =-- When we talked about putting the Earth in a box, we saw that there is a gap of about 33 kelvin between the temperature of a black body in Earth's orbit with an albedo of 0.3, and the estimated average surface temperature on Earth. An effect that explains this gap would need to 1) have a steady and continuous influence over thousands of years, 2) have a global impact, 3) be rather strong, because heating the planet Earth by 33 kelvin on the average needs a lot of energy. Last time, in [[a quantum of warmth]], we refined our zero dimensional energy balance model that treats the Earth as an ideal black body, and separated the system into a black body surface and a box containing the atmosphere. With the help of quantum mechanics we saw that: * Earth emits mainly far infrared radiation, while the radiation from the sun is mostly in the near infrared, visible and ultraviolett range. * Only very special components of the atmosphere react to infrared radiation. Not the main components $O_2$ and $N_2$, but minor components with more than two atoms in a molecule, like $H_2 O$, $O_3$ and $CO_2$. These gases react to infrared radiation: They absorb and re-emit a part of Earth's emission back to the surface. * This downward longwave radiation (DLR) leads to an increased incoming energy flux from the viewpoint of the surface. This is an effect that certainly matches points 1 and 2: It is both continuous and global. But how strong is it? What do we need to know in order to calculate it? And is it measurable?
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 There has been a lively - sometimes hostile - debate about the "greenhouse effect" which is the popular name for the increase of incoming energy flux caused by infrared active atmospheric components, so maybe you think that the heading above refers to that. But I have different point in mind: Maybe you heard about guiding systems for missiles that chase "heat"? Do not worry if you have not. Knowlegeable people working for the armed forces of the USA know about this, and know that an important aspect of the design of aircrafts is to reduce infrared emission. Let's see what they wrote about this back in 1982:
 The engine hot metal and airframe surface emissions exhibit spectral IR continuum characteristics which are dependent on the temperature and emissivity-area of the radiating surface. These IR sources radiate in a relatively broad wavelength interval with a spectral shape in accordance with Planck's Law (i.e., with a blackbody spectral shape). The surface- reflected IR radiation will also appear as a continuum based on the equivalent blackbody temperature of the incident radiation (e.g., the sun has a spectral shape characteristic of a 5527°C blackbody). Both the direct (specular) as well as the diffuse (Lambertian) reflected IR radiation components, which are a function of the surface texture and the relative orientation of the surface to the source, must be included. The remaining IR source, engine plume emission, is a composite primarily of C02 and H20 molecular emission spectra. The spectral strength and linewidth of these emissions are dependent on the temperature and concentration of the hot gaseous species in the plume which are a function of the aircraft altitude, flight speed, and power setting.
 This is an excerpt from page 15 of * Military Handbook SURVIVABILITY ENHANCEMENT, AIRCRAFT CONVENTIONAL WEAPON THREATS, DESIGN AND EVALUATION GUIDELINES, MIL-HDBK-268(AS), 5 August 1982 You may notice that the authors point out the difference of a continuous black body radiation and the **molecular emission spectra** of $CO_2$ and $H_2 O$. The reason for this, as mentioned last time in [[a quantum of warmth]], is that according to quantum mechanics molecules can emit and absorb radiation at specific energies, i.e. wavelengths, only. For this reason it is possible to distinguish far infrared radiation that is emitted by the surface of the Earth (more or less continuous spectrum) from the radiation that is emitted by the atmosphere (more or less discrete spectrum). Last time I told you that only certain molecules like $CO_2$ and $H_2O$ are infrared active. The authors seem to agree with me. But why is that? Since last time we had some discussions about wether there is a simple explanation for this, I would like to try to provide one. When we try to understand the interaction of atoms and molecules with light, the most important concept that we need to understand it that of a electric dipole moment
Why is the dipole moment important?
 Let us switch for a moment to classical electrostatic theory. If you place a negative electric point charge at the origin of our coordinate system and a positive point charge at the point $\vec{x}$, I can tell you the electric dipole moment is a vector $\vec{p}$ and that: $$ \vec{p} = \vec{x} $$ For a more general situation, let us assume that there is a charge density $\rho$ contained in some sphere $S$ around the origin, then I tell you that the electric dipole moment $\vec{p}$ is again a vector that can be calculated via $$ \vec{p} = \int \vec{x} \rho(\vec{x}) d \vec{x} $$ Okay, you say, so it is simple to calculate it, but what is its significance? Let's say that we would like to know how a test charge flying by the sphere $S$ is influenced by the charge distribution in $S$. If we assume that our charge density $\rho$ is constant in time, then all we need to calculate is the electric potential $\Phi$. In spherical coordinates and far from the sphere $S$, this potential will fall of like $1/r$ or faster, so we may assume that there is a series expansion of the form $$ \Phi(r, \phi, \theta) = \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} f(\phi, \theta) \frac{1}{r^n} $$ When our test charge is far away from the sphere $S$, only the first few terms in this expansion will be important to it. We still need to choose an orthonormal basis for the coordinates $\phi$ and $\theta$, that is an orthonormal basis of functions on the sphere. If we choose the spherical harmonics $Y_{l m}(\phi, \theta)$, with proper normalization we get what is called the multipole expansion of the electric potential: $$ \Phi(r, \phi, \theta) = \frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_0} \sum_{l = 0}^{\infty} \sum_{m = -l}^{l} \frac{4 \pi}{2 l +1} q_{l m} \frac{Y_{l m}(\phi, \theta)}{r^{l+1}} $$ $\epsilon_0$ is the electric constant The $l = 0$ term is called the **monopole term**, it is proportional to the electric charge $q$ contained in the sphere $S$. So the first term in the expansion tells us if a charge flying by $S$ will feel a net attractive or repulsive force. The terms for $l = 1$ form the vector $\vec{p}$, the **dipole moment**. The next terms in the series $Q_ij$ form the **quadrupol** tensor. So, for the expansion of the potential we get $$ \Phi(r, \phi, \theta) = \frac{1}{4 \pi \epsilon_0} (\frac{q}{r} + \frac{\vec{p} \cdot \vec{x}}{r^3} + \frac{1}{2} \sum Q_{ij} \frac{x_i x_j}{r^5} + \cdot \cdot \cdot) $$ For atoms and molecules the net charge $q$ is zero, so the next relevant term in the series expansion of their electric potential is the dipole moment. This is the reason why it is important to know if an atom or molecule has states with a nonzero dipole moment: Because this fact will in a certain sense dominate the interactions with other electromagnetic phenomena. If you are interested in more information about multipole expansions in classical electrodynamics, you can find all sort of information in this classical textbook: * John David Jackson: _Classical Electrodynamics_ (Wiley; 3 edition (August 10, 1998)) In quantum mechanics the position coordinate $\vec{x}$ is promoted to the position operator; as a consequence the dipole moment is promoted to an operator, too.
Molecular Emission Spectra or: Only Greenhouse Gases are infrared active? Really?
 For atoms and molecules interacting with light, there are certain selection rules. A strict selection rule in quantum mechanics rules out certain state transitions that would violate a conservation law. But for atoms and molecules there are also heuristic selection rules that rule out state transitions that are far less likely than others. For state transitions induces by the interaction with light, a heuristic transition rule is

 Transitions need to change the dipole moment by one.

 This selection rule is heuristic: Transitions that change the dipole moment are far more likely than transitions that change the electric quadrupole moment only, for example. But: If an atom or molecule does not have any diploe transitions, then you will maybe still see spectral lines corresponding to quadrupol transitions. But they will be very weak. +-- {: .standout} [[Tim van Beek]]: Compare black body radiation to the emission spectrum of CO2 and H2O. =-- Another important point is of course the part

 The spectral strength and linewidth of these emissions are dependent on the temperature and concentration of the hot gaseous species...

 Of course the temperature, pressure and concentration of atmospheric components are not constant throughout the whole atmosphere. We should keep that in mind for later, when we take a closer look at the theory of atmospheric radiation. But back to the continuous versus discrete spectrum part: Since we can distinguish surface radiation and radiation from specific gases, we can * point some measurement device to the sky, to measure what goes down, not what goes up and * check that the spectrum we measure is the characteristic molecular spectrum of $CO_2$, $H_20$ etc. and be fairly sure that we have indeed measured the part of the radiation that was re-emitted from the atmosphere to the surface. What would be a good place and time on Earth to do this?
Measuring DLR
 What is the place with the least water wapor, the clearest night sky, on Earth? +-- {: .standout} [[Tim van Beek]]: Insert measurement results from the antarctic region. * MICHAEL S. TOWN, P. WALDEN, STEPHEN G. WARREN: Spectral and Broadband Longwave Downwelling Radiative Fluxes, Cloud Radiative Forcing, and Fractional Cloud Cover over the South Pole here Also: * Dan Lubin, David Cutchin, William Conant, Hartmut Grassl, Ulrich Schmid, Werner Biselli: Spectral Longwave Emission in the Tropics: FTIR Measurement at the Sea Surface and Comparison with Fast Radiation Codes, online here. Also: * "Measurements of the radiative surface forcing of climate", online here. =-- Devices to measure the infrared radiation of the planetary surface are called pyrgeometer, for pyr = fire and geo = earth. +-- {: .standout} [[Tim van Beek]]: I would like to add radiation measurements, maybe some can be found here: * [Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility](http://www.arm.gov/) AlsÜ * Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) here. Also have a look [here](http://www.eppleylab.com/PrdPrecInfRadmtr.htm). =-- Just to have a number, the flux of DLR (downwards longwave radiation) is about 300 $W m^{-2}$. There is also the HITRAN database: You can look up radiative properties of different molecules there. HITRAN was founded by the US air force. Why? I don't know, but I guess that they needed the data for air craft design. Look out for the interview with Dr. Laurence Rothman for some background information. category: blog, climate [[!redirects The Color of Night]] [[!redirects The Color of the Night]]
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The Salzburg Festival kicked off on Thursday, with organisers hoping the classical arts extravaganza would give visitors some respite from the "troubled times" Europe is facing.
The 96th edition of the gathering, which runs until August 31, will stage close to 200 opera, drama and music performances.
Organisers want the event to help take people's minds off the recent spate of jihadist attacks in neighbouring Germany and France.
"The festival was born as a peace project in the middle of World War I when things were much worse than today. As such, it should provide soul food in troubled times," said festival president Helga Rabl-Stadler.
Some 200,000 visitors are expected amid tight security measures, Rabl-Stadler said.
Celebrities and senior officials attended the opening ceremony held at the Felsenreitschule, a 17th-century theatre carved into the Moenchsberg mountain and which was featured in the "Sound of Music" classic.
The official launch was crowned on Thursday evening with the world premiere of the opera "The Exterminating Angel", based on the 1962 black comedy by Spanish-Mexican filmmaker Luis Bunuel.
The work, adapted by 45-year-old British composer Thomas Ades, is a surrealist account of a formal dinner party which guests find they cannot leave.
Other highlights include new opera productions of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Samuel Beckett's "Endgame".
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Dinara is 14 years old and lives in a park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to some, there are no longer street children in Rio and certainly in the past two decades there has been a huge reduction in the numbers, but Dinara is part of one group of between 50 and 60 children who survive on the streets.
"We sleep in a park. Once the park closes, we go inside so that we are protected. We feel safe in the park. Sometimes we fight because we don't have enough blankets or food but the group is a family to me and if an outsider attacks us we are united and will protect each other," she said.
Dinara's story is one of intergenerational homelessness and tragedy; her mother was abandoned and took to the streets as a child. After giving birth to Dinara, she was able to buy a house but the building collapsed when Dinara was nine and she her brothers had no option but to seek food and shelter on the streets. Dinara knew some children who lived outside a local railway station and it was there that she spent her first night on the streets. She has been on the streets ever since.
"Dennis had started to use crack and he was caught stealing by the traffickers, they punished him by stabbing him 28 times right in front of me. I was 10 years old," she says. In describing how she moves on from this trauma, Dinara chooses the word "saudade" a word which has no English equivalent but is to do with feeling a soulful joy and sadness for a lost loved one.
Immediately after we spoke to Dinara, she ran off to play football with the other children at the drop-in-centre. Later that day, she would return to sleep on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.


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I wore this to the Niles Electric Light Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony in Fremont this past weekend, and it was very well received. We couldn't walk more than a few steps without stopping for photo ops, little girl hugs, and excited gawkers.
The dress has lots of different color modes, and magically changes between colors and animations whenever I twirl around, which is just so much fun -- yep, I added a "twirl" sensor!
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Many have spoken about living in the gift and most notably Charles Eisenstein has written at length about gift economies. There is also Michael Tellinger of the Ubuntu movement that speaks at length to living in a community driven by what he calls "Contributionism". Let us "do the right thing, and take action with awareness" regardless of money. We live in a world that is driven by commerce and commerce has truly proven itself to be warfare. Having vowed to live a life of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, and non-harming, I have found that being "in commerce" makes abiding by these vows extremely difficult. This is why the gift page is here.
In my time exploring the idea of the gift and gift economies it has come to light for me that there is still so much transformation and education that must happen before we can truly live in the gift. My understanding is that in order for a gift to be complete, it must be fully received without tension or stress, or else the purity of the offer is tarnished and violence occurs in some form, even if just in the mind. I am happy to receive your gifts in whatever form enables you to truly receive my gifts to you. The gift should be continually in motion and transforming from form to form remaining in essence a powerful moving energy that supports thriving life.
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Carleton to host advance screening of PBS documentary on Reinhold Niebuhr
In advance of its premiere on PBS this spring, Carleton College will host an early screening of Martin Doblmeier's highly anticipated documentary film, "An American Conscience: The Story of Reinhold Niebuhr" on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema.
Emmy Award-winning director Doblmeier will also be on hand to introduce the film. Following the screening, a panel discussion will be moderated by Richard Crouter, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, together with Anthony Bateza, instructor of religion at St. Olaf College; Carleton professor of religion Lori Pearson; and St. Olaf professor of religion and director of the Institute for Freedom and Community Edmund Santurri.
"An American Conscience: The Story of Reinhold Niebuhr," scheduled for release in March 2017, tells the dramatic story of one of the great American public intellectuals from the last century—and how Niebuhr emerged as a voice of conscience during the defining eras in American history.
This powerful, insightful and inspiring documentary—written, directed and narrated by Martin Doblemeier—is rich in archival material and features new interviews with former President Jimmy Carter, civil rights leader Andrew Young, New York Times writer David Brooks, activist and author Dr. Cornel West, author Susannah Heschel, and a host of notable historians and theologians. Actor Hal Holbrook is also featured in the film, as the voice of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Although he may be best remembered today as the author of the famed "Serenity Prayer," Reinhold Niebuhr—an outspoken American-born pastor, writer, and political activist—remains one of the most influential public theologians of our time, and his writings continue to offer guidance and inspiration on the most volatile and social issues of our time. Presidents from Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter have credited his impact on their thinking, as well as John McCain, countless historians, theologians, political thinkers, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who cited Niebuhr in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
Niebuhr rose from a small Midwest church pulpit to become the nation's moral voice — an American conscience—during some of the most defining moments in recent history. His books, Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Nature and Destiny of Man (1941–43) and The Irony of American History (1952), continue to influence theological and political thinking.
Niebuhr's career spanned some of the most tumultuous decades in American history, from World War I through Vietnam, from the Great Depression through the Civil Rights Movement. An early pacifist and socialist, he was closely monitored by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI throughout his life, but would later serve as a consultant to the State Department during the Cold War.
An American original, his unique insights into human nature and its relationship to political movements and social justice propelled him to speak openly, and often critically, to an America consumed by moral certainty. For Niebuhr the priority was always justice, his guiding principle was hope in a redeemer God, and his weapon was an extraordinary gift for clarity of thought that made him a leading voice of conscience for his time.
More information, including a trailer for the film, can be found at www.americanconscience.com.
This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Carleton College departments of American studies, religion, and Arts@Carleton, together with the St. Olaf College Institute for Freedom and Community and the Martin E. Marty Chair in Religion and the Academy.
The Weitz Center for Creativity is located at Third and College Streets in Northfield. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4232.
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Breaking Video of Brian Kemp in Front of Communist Flag, Talking About Business
A video has emerged of Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp standing in front of a Chinese Communist Flag, alongside two American flags, talking about Georgia's business opportunities with clips of Chinese Businessmen speaking in Chinese. There is no other information about the video, at the link, except for a web address that goes to a site www.Georgia business.cn where the video was first posted, and according to the website they promote Chinese businesses in America:
Welcome Chinese companies to settle in Georgia
Georgia has a thriving international community. The Georgia Economic Development Agency has representative offices in Qingdao and Shanghai. A first-class global business environment, preferential taxation, and policy support, the most developed logistics network in the United States, a large number of skilled workers, and emerging high-tech companies are all the reasons why Chinese companies have settled in Georgia.
Georgia Representative Offices distributed around the world will do their best to assist Chinese companies in developing new business in Georgia. We will communicate with you one-on-one and help your company provide the best office space information for free.
"We provide the following trustworthy services free of charge," the site reads.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF KEMP BEGGING FOR NEW BUSINESS FROM CHINA:
LINK TO WATCH: https://t.co/ZxUm8H63Ng
— Kari Baxter Donovan (@Saorsa1776) December 6, 2020
In the video Kemp said:
"China is a top source of imports and the third largest report market. We welcome thousands of Chinese visitors every year to the Peach State, and we are constantly helping to develop new opportunities for Chinese companies."
The rest of the video is Chinese subtitles.
The video comes on the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Executive Order dealing with the Chinese Businesses. I covered that executive order and also the news of researchers who are Chinese nationals and who are self deporting:
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There have been recent developments in the tense relationships between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo making an announcement on Saturday that follows a constant pressure the Trump administration has placed on the Communist regime.
Pompeo wants an end to propaganda.
Pompeo says State Dept. will terminate five exchange programs with China, calls them "propaganda" https://t.co/Jd5EFuj9Le pic.twitter.com/AOgjYE3ONt
— The Hill (@thehill) December 5, 2020
The U.S. is sanctioned four entities in China and Russia for their support of Iran's missile program, which remains a significant proliferation concern. We will continue to use all our sanctions tools to prevent Iran from advancing its missile capabilities.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) November 27, 2020
The State Department said Friday that it would now deny visas to Chinese citizens linked to overseas influence operations involving violence and other means of intimidation.
Yahoo News reported Sunday:
Pompeo said the restrictions would apply to Chinese Communist Party officials or anyone else taking part in such propaganda or influence campaigns affiliated with the United Front Work Department.
The United Front has been involved in efforts to put pressure on people outside China's borders who raise concerns about human rights abuses in the Uighur region, Tibet, and elsewhere. Its "coercive tactics" have included publicly releasing personal details about critics and their family members online as a means of intimidation, Pompeo said in announcing the new restrictions.
The measure is intended to show that "those responsible for actions that contravene the rules-based international order are not welcome in the United States," he said.
The restrictions are the latest punitive measure taken against China's leadership and economy in response to sharpening disputes over human rights, the coronavirus pandemic, trade, technology, Taiwan, and a host of other issues.
Chinese citizens would be denied a visa to enter the United States if they have taken part in United Front efforts using violence, threats, or other means of pressure against overseas Chinese communities, academics, or civil society groups in the U.S. or elsewhere to advance the "CCP's authoritarian narratives and policy preferences," the State Department said in a separate statement on the measure.
It wasn't immediately clear how many people would potentially be covered by the new restrictions.
The move comes the same week that the U.S. announced plans to place new time limits on visas for members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families, cutting the time that the travel documents are valid from 10 years to one month.
China responded to those restrictions by accusing the U.S. government of "an escalation of political suppression." Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Thursday that the travel restrictions were "totally inconsistent with the U.S.'s own interests" and would damage America's global image.
Oddly, Kemp has been at the center of bold political play to refuse Trump the opportunity to examine the massive numbers of absentee Mail-in Ballots in Georgia, in what Trump claim is an election full of voter integrity concerns.
A Twitter spat broke out on Saturday between the two over Trump's assistance to match ballot signatures to the envelopes they came in.
The interaction is scandalous, with Kemp being seen as a holdout.
As I told the President this morning, I've publicly called for a signature audit three times (11/20, 11/24, 12/3) to restore confidence in our election process and to ensure that only legal votes are counted in Georgia. #gapol https://t.co/xdXrhf1vI2
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) December 5, 2020
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He was a lovely little thing, I'm sorry for your loss.
Bolt was such a handsome boy. I'm so sorry for your loss. Sending hugs your way.
So sorry that you've lost sweet little Bolt. He certainly had a wonderful life with you, abeona, and lived to a good age. That's all we can ask for these tiny critters.
HoneyBee was one of seven self blacks in her litter, but you could always tell which one she was... she was a small girl, and her coat was never as perfect as her sisters'. She also had the best personality. She was so outgoing and fun. Her favorite spot was in my hood. When the rest of her litter went back to the nest, she liked to stay out and nap in my jacket for a bit.
Al wasn't mine, my sister took him in while I pregnant, but he was still one of my babies. He was named after his mom, Alison, but he was nearly an Arnold. His litter was nicknamed the Ali-gators. He was a hilarious, character-filled mouse even as a baby, and the stories my sister told of him made me wish that I got to spend more time with him. I did get to mouse sit him a couple times.
I remember the excitement when each litter was born, and the amazement at how quickly they grew up... Sometimes seriously impressed at the differences I noticed in only 12 hours. It's so sad to realize that of the 15 babies, there are only three left.
Noooooo. I'm so sorry, Abeona. That's a lot of loss. Honeybee was so sweet and Al was so funny. Those babies would have been lost without you... they had such a great life.
I'm sorry for your loss They're lovely photos of them both though.


Whenever I tell someone I'm autistic, I often get one of three responses that are a bit offputting. They either ignore what I just said, completely change the subject (same thing in my book), or they say something like, "But you don't seem autistic!" Each of these responses is a bit unnerving, the first two because I'm really, really not good at pretending something didn't just happen, and the second because I'm not sure what I'm then supposed to say or do.
I'm not sure what the neurotypical world knows about autism. I tend to assume they don't know much. And, I don't know how NTs perceive our behavior. I can only tell that my behavior is innappropriate because I get the Oh, brother look.
Roll of the eyes here, sigh of disgust there — you get the picture that you're not acceptable after years of this kind of treatment. And it's rare that I actually know this right away. NTs have the benefit of virtual instant behavior modification when it comes to social interaction. They can read each others' expressions and body language and adjust — like magic!
Me? I can only fairly often tell something happened due to having lived so long, but I most often have no idea what happened, and it isn't until later when I get a chance to be alone and unravel the interaction that I might figure out what horrendous social faux pas I've committed. In this way, I live my life one embarrassment to the next. I'll admit the humiliation stings, but I've learned to have a sense of humor about it. I laugh at myself at least once a day. That's because I do things that are so damn funny.
What I may not know, though, is that when NTs say things like, "Oh, you don't seem like it," or completely ignore what I've just said, maybe that's their way of signaling that letting them know I'm autistic isn't considered good manners. What they may not know is that blurting is my specialty.
So, if there is a color for autism, color me confused.
This entry was posted in autism, Uncategorized and tagged asperger's, autism, autistic, confusion, neurotypical, NTs, social interaction on Friday, 25 July 2014 by autisticadjunct.
I'm up in arms about our treatment in the media. At this point, society conceives of autistics as violent loons ready to subvert the system in terrorist fashion via mass shootings and mad ravings. While there are many who know this perception to be patently false, the media chooses to wield its power like a weapon against us by feeding ignorance to the masses as if it were some rare delicacy of insider knowledge.
I used to cringe when reading that such and such a killer was on the spectrum because it forever links autism with violence and acts of extreme madness. Turned out I'd somehow internalized the oppression that there is some twisted truth to this absurd idea. Fortunately, it didn't take long for me to realize that this is just more of the same from society: we fear what we don't understand, and so it is with autism.
My first response now is: You don't know me.
I'm conceiving of a survey of media representation as an article, and perhaps a presentation for a conference at some point. Since I just got the idea due to being disgusted once again by the media's lack of knowledge and subsequent distribution of ignorance to the public, I can't really say what else I have in mind except I'm very disappointed at people's unwillingness to research for themselves before spouting off disinformation.
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Advanced energy employed 3.5 million Americans in 2018, and just over two-thirds of the jobs were in energy efficiency, national business group Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) reported last week.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed renewable energy and energy efficiency vastly outpacing the million jobs in coal, oil, and gas, AEE reports. [Those would be the jobs the fossil industry hasn't managed to 'de-man' yet—Ed.] Advanced energy also "employs more U.S. workers than retail stores (three million), [and] twice as many as hotels and motels (1.7 million)," the AEE release states.
AEE's research showed the fastest growth in advanced vehicles, at 15%, to 253,000 jobs. Within that category, employment in plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles grew 25%, compared to 10% in hybrids. Energy storage employment grew 14%, to 74,500. AEE's definition of "advanced energy" combines high-efficiency natural gas and nuclear with solar, wind, and hydro. In that category, the 695,000 jobs represented a 1% drop from 2017, with solar down 4%, wind up 4%, and combined-cycle gas jobs up 7%. Employment in advanced fuels, including corn ethanol, biofuels, biomass, and nuclear fuels, increased 11%, to 116,000.


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Rising insulin prices impact on families and children
Reporter: Claire Galt
Writer: Paul Dolan
Published: August 10, 2022 7:19 PM EDT
Updated: August 11, 2022 9:03 AM EDT
32 kids from all over the world got the chance to play hockey with others just like them at Hertz Arena at the Type 1 Timer Hockey Camp.
Imagine if your child's life depends on insulin, the price of which has skyrocketed in the last few months. Kids with diabetes were getting time on an ice rink, for their parents, it isn't hypothetical.
"It's just something that I've fallen in love with just with at a young age," said Henry Hoffmann who has type one diabetes.
"I just got diagnosed with type one diabetes," said Hogan Cooper. "And it gave me an opportunity to meet more people that also play hockey and have the same things I do."
Medication for diabetes prices are on the rise. (CREDIT: WINK News)
Megan and Geoff Hoffmann founded the camp, and their son Henry was diagnosed when he was 7-years-old.
"The diagnosis of a type one diabetic is a little traumatic, and that it kind of comes out of nowhere," Megan said. Henry's parents wanted him to it's possible to do what he loves while living with diabetes, and know that he's not alone.
"When they're in the locker room, they're changing, they're getting ready for the ice, instead of kind of being the odd person out wearing a device or looking at their blood sugar. All sudden, that's common, and everybody's doing that," said Geoff.
The kids got life lessons from diabetes specialists, teaching them how to check their blood sugar and how to give themselves insulin during meals. Without insulin children suffering from diabetes would die. Which is the exact reason why Geoff said it's important to keep costs down.
Families are being hit hard by the rise in insulin prices. (CREDIT: WINK News)
"To have the medicine that's necessary for life, to have price restrictions on where it's affordable for people I just think is unacceptable," said Geoff. "And I think we got to continue to fight for it and advocate for it."
On Sunday Senate Republicans voted not to cap the price of insulin at $35 for people with private insurance, one of the parents, Jeanette Kelly said that decision is dangerous.
"Any type one whether they're a child adult, it doesn't matter," said Kelly. "They cannot live Without insulin and it's not their fault. Like to profit off of it. It's just it's so wrong. It's so wrong."
For people with Medicare, the price for insulin is capped at $35.
A Yale study found that 14% of people who use insulin in the United States face 'catastrophic' levels of spending on the drug. That means, they spend at least 40% of their income after paying for food and housing on insulin.
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New York Knicks 92 – Toronto Raptors 128 – Again, not a Game Recap
By Farfa - Published: 03/19/2019 - 30 Comments
Honestly I don't know what to tell you. This game was probably the worst of the season in terms of actual appeal (I think the Utah one was a bit worse thanks to that dismal first half, but I'm getting to the point where I'm not caring about anything Knicks related for the season. It's a side effect of the fact that we have so few rootable guys around, I guess) and I found my mind wandering around quite a bit during the game, so I'll do something different: I'll reverse engineer our roster, putting into Basketball Reference the exact combination of numbers from every Knick (points, rebounds, assists, minutes played) and selecting the matching performance with the lowest GameScore, just to see what sort of total failure would be needed to assemble a worst team than the one we have right now (hint: it's possibile that this exercise won't end with such a bad team).
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the Alternate History New York Knicks:
At starting center (DeAndre Jordan, GmSc 7.2): Mehmet Okur (6 pts, 6 rebs, 3 ast, 20 mp, GmSc 2.2). Do you remember Memo? He was a stretch big when stretch bigs weren't all the rage in the NBA. He wasn't also a bad player at all, finishing his career with a WS/48 of .142, or .065 less than what Mitch Lob is sporting right now. Memo won an NBA title with the Pistons in 2004 as a competent backup big and then proceeded to cash out with Utah, where he was a part of those post-Stockton to Malone iterations that were pesky in the playoffs but never amounted to much. The only Knicks-themed thing I can think of, about Memo, is that Bargs was supposed to be the better version of Okur. Of course, he ended up being just the worse version of BJ Mullens. Anyway, a good choice for starting center. AHNYK start with the right foot. Advantage: tie (prime DAJ would have better than average Okur, but current DeAndre isn't much better than the big Turk was in his full career).
At starting power forward (Mario Hezonja, GmSc 5.0): Bob McAdoo (8 pts, 5 rebs, 3 ast, 27mp, GmSc 2.9). Wow, really? So the combo PF-C of the AHNYK would be a good stretch five who made an All Star Game and an Hall of Famer? Uh, Mario, you might be in trouble here. Bob McAdoo, who has been a Knick for a full season and two half ones was, was a superb scorer in his heyday, leading the league in total WS in his third season and in PER in his second one, both with the Buffalo Braves. While he was at it, he went on and won ROY in 72-73 and MVP in 74-75. He's currently 58th ever in career PER. Advantage: AHNYK (but Mario, don't worry, that block will always be in our hearts).
At starting small forward (Kevin Knox, GmSc 6.9): Danny Manning (12 pts, 6 rebs, 1 ast, 28mp, GmSc 2.8). Oh, wow. Manning was a bit too tall to effectively play small forward even in his much less small-ball reliant era (he actually played just 47 minutes overall at SF since play-by-play data was available for B-R), but he was a pretty good player. The first overall pick in 1988, his career was effectively derailed by injuries, but he found a pretty good niche as a sixth man, winning the 6MOY award in 1997-98, but not before having made two All-Star Games in 1993 and 1994. In a weird stat, he's 90th ever in personal fouls in the NBA. If someone told me Knox would become a Danny Manning-like player, I'd slap him and myself on the face from joy. So, advantage: AHNYK.
At starting shooting guard (Damyean Dotson, GmSc 6.6): Nate Robinson (11 pts, 0 rebs, 0 ast, 18mp, GmSc 2.7). I don't think I have to tell you who Nate was, right? It would be strange seeing him start at SG, since he didn't play a single minutes outside of the PG position in all of his career (his height, or lack thereof, pretty much prevented him from playing his more natural role of combo guard). But, did you know that Nate posted a quite respectable .096 WS/48 for his career? If you asked me before this weird exercise which was the career WS/48 number for the three-time Slam Dunk Champion, I would have guessed .050. He was better that I (we?) remember. He also has a Player of the Week honor under his belt. Advantage: tie (for height purposes, but average Nate was a better player than actual Dot is now).
At starting point guard (Emmanuel Mudiay, GmSc 3.6): Andrew Toney (7 pts, 0 reb, 3 asts, 21mp, GmSc -3.8). I'm quite in awe of the fact that I didn't force any position in the B-R Game Finder search engine and it still found, in a total random way, a plausible starting five. I mean, I was quite sure this boxscore line (7/0/3 in 21 minutes) could have been posted by any single type of player. Amazingly, of the 23 such performances no single one was posted by a forward or a center. The tallest guy to post such a bad line was the 6'7″ Eddie Johnson. Anyway, Andrew Toney, the prototypical microwave scorer who was a very important cog in the 1983 NBA Champions 76ers, had a brief but prestigious career: two-times All-Star, one-time NBA Champion, an astounding 15th place in MVP votes in 1985. His Knicks ties reside in his running backcourt mate with the Sixers. Mo Cheeks, and the fact that TDDWTDD had Andrew's surname as his name. Advantage: AHNYK (and if you switched positions and put Toney at SG and Nate as PG, both positions would result in an advantage for the AHNYK, who are actually built, until now, like a 5-th place in the East team).
First three reserves:
First one (Allonzo Trier, GmSc 18.3): Danilo Gallinari (22 pts, 4 rebs, 3 ast, 31 mp, GmSc 12.8). It turns out it's hard to post a bad GameScore with these numbers, huh? Anyway, Gallo is another one I needn't tell you anything about, apart from my #feels every time I see him play. I always liked his game, and I suffered like hell when we traded him away in the Melo package. Oh, about Melo: don't look now, but the career WP/48 of Gallo is actually higher than Melo's one. Here's your curio about Danilo: he's currently 20th ever in the history of the NBA in TO% and 14th ever in ORtg (really, look it up). If we strike out in free agency, I would be glad to welcome him back somehow. Advantage: AHNYK (sorry Zo, kinda good game, but Gallo is too good for you).
Second one (Mitchell Robinson, GmSc -0.1): Solomon Jones (0 pts, 5 rebs, 0 ast, 14 mp, GmSc -5.8). Who? Well, actually Solomon Jones was a no-nonsense bruiser who ended up playing 281 games in the NBA (2 with the Knicks in 2012-13, and he even started one!) while doing nothing well enough to grant him a real place in some team's rotation. His career high in points scored is 14, in boards is 10 and in blocks is 5 (this one, not bad). Somehow, he ended his career with an average WS/48 of .078. You know who doesn't have a WS/48 of .078 this season? Every current Knick not named Mitch, DeAndre, Kadeem, and Noah. Anyway, advantage: Actual Knicks.
Third one (Kadeem Allen, GmSc -7.4): Chucky Atkins (0 pts, 1 reb, 1 ast, 26mp, GmSc -2.2). As you can see, actually the worst ever has been our own Kadeem last night, but for the sake of this exercise I went with the next one, the perennial journeyman Chucky Atkins, an 11 season veteran sporting a not so bad .077 WS/48 for his career. Somehow he ended up playing the 20th most minutes in the whole league in 2004-05. Advantage: tie (only because I'm feeling generous).
It's incredible: even cherry picking the worst outings in terms of Game Score with the same exact numbers, the Alternate History New York Knicks end up with this 8 man rotation: Okur/McAdoo/Manning/Toney/Nate Robinson with Gallo as their sixth man and two journeymen filling the other spots. They would simply crush us, like 128-92 crush us. In other news: we have a very, very bad team.
One quick note about the game: in the beginning of the third quarter, with the game already out of hand, Fiz elected to substitute the entire starting five out of the game at once. With 10:55 to go! I supported that move, but it goes to point out how much this game was a debacle.
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30 comments on "New York Knicks 92 – Toronto Raptors 128 – Again, not a Game Recap"
Owen March 19, 2019 at 11:54 am
Profoundly glad I didn't watch this game…
The Honorable Cock Jowles March 19, 2019 at 12:05 pm
First impression: This is the worst draft class I have ever seen.
In terms of peak talent, or the numerous scrubs slated to go in the top 10?
mase March 19, 2019 at 12:34 pm
I'm starting to feel the best players are late firsts early secound rounders. Both saminc and simanic are prime examples. Someone is getting lucky with one or both
The Honorable Cock Jowles March 19, 2019 at 2:14 pm
Maybe this is what you meant, but I think you're saying that the best players are (on average) *chosen* at the end of the 1st or beginning of the second. Why do you think that is?
ess-dog March 19, 2019 at 2:55 pm
I'm convinced we'll be picking 5th, in which case I like one of Hachimura/Hunter/Johnson – solid shooting, switchable wings. They might be role players, but we just need good players regardless of usage.
Z-man March 19, 2019 at 4:44 pm
I'm looking for a bias/heuristic to explain why NBA decision-makers may value draftees based on "expert" opinions that become mainstream and are deathly afraid of "reaching" for a player who is ranked much lower than the draft experts say. Maybe it's the "Availability cascade?" For example, drafting Kawhi Leonard at #1 would have seemed dumb at the time, even though he turned out to be the best player in that draft. Jowles really liked him pre-draft, but if he were a GM of an NBA team, would he have had the cohones to pick him at #1? Or even at #3? (some mock drafts had him as high as #7, but the consensus had him in the low lottery and no one had him in the top 3.
So once you are drafting outside the lottery, maybe pre-draft rankings matter less and players that fall through the cracks of the hype machine are safer to pick.
It is truly amazing how many guys drafted outside the top 14 have become top-10 players by VORP in the average draft:
2003: 4 (greatest draft ever?)
2005: 6 (4 pick #40 or later!)
2010: 1 (but a shitty crop and Hassan Whiteside is weirdly #12 on the list)
2011: 7 (including Kawhi)
2013: 4 (including Giannis)
2014: 5 (including Jokic)
2015: 5 (too early to tell though)
And lots of these guys were drafted in the very late first or second round, even at #60 (Isaiah Thomas).
So it seems that very few players are chosen in sharp contrast to composite rankings, and those who are tend to be busts (see: Anthony Bennett). OTOH, lots of players that are passed over for sketchy reasons (e.g. he's too old, can't draft a senior when everyone else is drafting freshmen and sophomores, even though the freshmen and sophomores available suck.)
geo March 19, 2019 at 5:18 pm
yay, frank is back practicing…he's with the westies, cuz the varsity squad got the day off…
I wonder if those g leaguers tuned frank up today…
djphan March 19, 2019 at 5:22 pm
this is absolutely not the worst draft class in recent memory… that distinction would probably goto 2016 with either 2013 or 2014 close behind…
zion of course rates very highly.. hes a true #1 pick… but morant and culver also rate to be good chance at stars… then white.. langford and barrett also have good shots to be solid to good players…
2016 was bad aside from simmons… even guys like brown, murray or hield werent really true blue chippers going in … this draft should be better than that at least…
Bruno Almeida March 19, 2019 at 5:29 pm
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It's very interesting data. I think the one thing about the draft we can't forget is that very often the worst teams will either have a GM that's on the hot seat after a terrible year, a new GM or a guy who inexplicably stays with the team despite being terrible at the job (Grunfeld, Wallace, Gar Forman etc). With these kind of guys, the media, fan perception and the thoughts of ownership groups on a pick can matter a lot, the promise of a seemingly very talented young player or a bigger name can buy these guys a couple more years at the job, make a good impression at the start of their jobs etc.
Of course the line gets blurred a bit when it comes to risk; 5 GMs passed on Steph Curry even though he was an extremely exciting player to watch who would certainly bring viewers and hype, because they didn't want to take the risk on the guy who seemed injury prone and physically challenged; so obviously this propensity to take risks versus potential excitement the pick brings varies from team to team and with each draft depending on the players themselves. Some GMs would rather try to not bust at any cost, even though they might end up drafting a lower quality player, some others will shoot for the stars trying to land the next big thing. But the situation the front office is in definitely matters the way I see it.
It's also such a different league post-Curry. The rule when drafting used to always be size and youth first, but the 3-pointer (and defending it) has skewed that a lot.
Looks like Culver's really raising his stock and Ja is maybe slipping a little. It will be really interesting to see which non-Zion picks go on to find success later on. Could be a guy no one's even considering like Jontay.
Hubert March 19, 2019 at 7:11 pm
Another thing to ponder: do these guys feel pressure by the perception of a player's draft status in the media, or are they sources of that player's perception in the media? I think a lot of the draft guys get their info from teams, and then a lot other draft guys just copy each other's work.
Googling "Knickerblogger availability heuristic" brings back some CONTENTIOUS threads. One where Ted Nelson calls half of us assholes and rama goes, "Uh, I think you're a little off there, bud."
I think both can be true to some extent. We hear stories all the time about GM's ignoring their own scouting staff advices and going with the guys they like the most, but there's a ton of reasons why that could happen. I think most GMs do understand that the NBA is a business and that definitely factors in the decisions they make, and you have to at least understand where the media is coming from to do that.
DRed March 19, 2019 at 8:55 pm
Part of it is that you can make a pretty good pick and have it fail terribly, like with Markelle Fultz. I thought it was a slight mistake to want to draft him #1, and it was definitely a mistake at the time to trade from #3 to #1 to draft him, but he was absolutely a worthy lottery pick and he's been completely terrible. Unless there was something your team doctors should have been able to see he was a perfectly good draft pick who didn't work out.
Knick fan not in NJ who thinks our rookies will lead us to a lousy lottery pick in 2019 March 19, 2019 at 9:03 pm
I wonder if Curry would be the same player if drafted by a different team. For example, would some coach insist he drive and dish all the time instead of developing his three point shot as a weapon?
DRed March 19, 2019 at 10:25 pm
Idk, Curry led the league in 3 point attempts for two years under Mark Jackson. You'd have to be completely incompetent at coaching to not want Steph shooting 3s.
Brian Cronin March 19, 2019 at 10:35 pm
Yeah, the only reason Curry was a top ten pick was because he shot threes really well. Granted, I guess if Jackson drafted him he might have had him shoot more long twos, but generally speaking, everyone knew that you had to let that guy shoot a lot of threes.
rama got that Fizdale Magic March 19, 2019 at 10:37 pm
Reading old threads is alternately amusing and depressing. I used to think JK47 had gone too dark on the team, and then you see a gem like this:
Assuming Noah is a done deal, Phil has succeeded in putting together exactly the kind of roster that I did not want him to put together: a win-now type roster that is not even close to good enough to compete for a championship.
And you're like yeah, even the darkest of us weren't dark enough. I mean, we all hated the Noah contract – but did we hate it enough? Because it was worse than anything we predicted.
And so on, and so on. What a persistent misery it is to actually care about this team.
Would Curry have been STEPH CURRY on any team? That's an interesting question, but he would have been really, really good anywhere I think (unless he got too hurt)
Z-man March 19, 2019 at 11:09 pm
I think Curry would have become pretty much who he is on any team because it would become clear that he could utterly dominate from beyond the arc. It would be clear in practice and in games. It's not like Mark Jackson is the most imaginative offensive mind out there, and Curry was well on his way to becoming a superstar on his watch.
What's funny about Steph is that you can reasonably argue that he was not the best player in that draft!
Hasheem Thabeet and Jonny Flynn lol. It was pretty disappointing Steph went one pick before the Knicks but it took some incredible stupidity for it to be that close.
Brian Cronin March 20, 2019 at 12:05 am
Seriously! At least no one can give OKC guff about passing on Curry that year.
DRed March 20, 2019 at 12:32 am
What an insane comeback by the Nets
Brian Cronin March 20, 2019 at 1:29 am
They're a really fun team to live vicariously through while the Knicks suck.
Man, Russell is going to get paid, huh? What I loved the most about him is that I thought his shot was so fucking pure coming out of college and then he came into the league and sucked at shooting for years until suddenly he seemed to have put it all together this season (after starting slow this year, as well, so his overall shooting numbers are still not all that great). What's funny is that he's been in a big slump recently this month before breaking out big tonight.
Bruno Almeida March 20, 2019 at 2:57 am
I watched the entire 4th quarter and there's no way Russell isn't getting the max next season. I still don't think it's a good idea by any means, but it was really fun to watch.
And yeah, Curry is simply way too good, he would have become a mega star anywhere he went. Guys who are at his level change the teams they go to, not the other way around. He might have never won a championship in an incompetent franchise who couldn't build anything around him, but the best shooter in the history of the NBA would have made it anywhere he landed.
Oh yeah, I think it's a bad idea, as well. Even with his improved shooting this year, his TS% is under 53%! His assist ratio, though, is at 40%! Holy shit! But if you max him out, you're betting that the shooting continues to improve and I don't know if you should take that bet.
Unless he was drafted by the Knicks, in which case he would have been traded to clear cap space to sign Lebron and another max free agent. ;)
Actually, I kid, I think Curry would have been so good that he would have been untouchable in both that deal and the Melo deal.
Z-man March 20, 2019 at 6:16 am
Well, Curry's career kinda got off to a rough start with his ankle injury. With the Knicks, who knows?
It's hard to fault the Clips for drafting Blake Griffin as well. He was the Zion of that draft and at least turned into a perennial all-star and probable HOFer. No one in their right mind would have picked him #1. Which is why a guy like Garland is so intriguing. Who knows where his ceiling is? In his few games, his shot looked pretty fucking pure.
Nick C. March 20, 2019 at 7:16 am
I think people are misrembering Steph Curry in college. He was a phenomenon. The negatives were size, switching to PG his junior year and bias regarding non-brand name colleges (he went to Davidson). He was first team All-American and NCAA scoring leader as a junior and had been MOP of his NCAA Regional as a sophomore. Back then one and done was not as ubiquitous as it it currently.
That wasn't until Year 3, right? Now, would the Knicks have given up on him in Year 3? Well…yeah, probably. ;)
Oh yeah, no one begrudges the Clippers Griffin, either. He was on the high end of hyped prospects (and he's obviously been an outstanding professional, just not a sure fire Hall of Famer like Steph and Harden). Just noting that that draft is often looked at as "Griffin and then four dumb teams," but obviously OKC ended up with a really great player, too.