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Nitish Chandra Laharry (1892–1964) was an Indian lawyer, social worker and film producer from Kolkata. He was the first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of Rotary International and was the producer of the first motion picture of Bengal, Bilat Ferat. It was during his presidency that Rotary International started its Youth wing, Interact Club. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1963, for his contributions to society.

Biography
Nithish Chandra Laharry was born in 1892 in Kolkata, in the undivided Bengal of British India to a school teacher as one of his three sons. His early schooling was in Kolkata, after which he studied at the St. Xavier's College and at the Scottish Church College, from where he obtained his graduate and master's degrees in English literature. Later he also secured a degree in law from the University of Calcutta, winning the J. M. Tagore Medal for Law for academic excellence. During his college days, he was involved in literary activities and was the editor of a literary magazine which had Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize winner, as one of its contributors. He started his career as a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court and worked for four years, only to abandon the career to turn to film industry. He founded a studio and produced a motion picture about the Bengali diaspora in England, the first motion picture produced in Bengal, Bilat Ferat. An economic depression prompted him to switch to film distribution, and it was during this time he married Bindubala.

Laharry joined the Kolkata chapter of Rotary International in 1926 and became its secretary the same year. His business travels took him to Mumbai in 1935, but he continued his association with Rotary International by becoming a member of the Mumbai chapter, and, on his return to Kolkata in 1939, he rejoined the Kolkata branch and became its president in 1944. The Bengal famine of 1943 had already set in by that time and the organization, under his leadership, set up food canteens and free medical camps for the people affected by the famine. He also served as the vice chairman of the Armed Forces Entertainment during World War II and, after the war, managed disbursement centres for the Government of India. In 1953, he was elected as the second vice president of Rotary International, served as the Rotary Information Counselor during 1955–56, and chaired the Asia Regional Conference, in 1958, at Delhi, which had over 2900 participants from 21 countries, reportedly the largest till then. He was elected as the global president of the organization in 1962, thus becoming the first Asian to hold the position. His contributions were also reported behind the founding of Interact Club, the youth wing of the organization.

The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1963. He was also a recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Order of Merit (Chile) and honorary doctorates from California College of Medicine and Baylor University, Texas. He died on 21 July 1964, survived by his two daughters; his wife had preceded him in death. Rotary Club of Kolkata honoured him by naming their children's library as Nitish Chandra Laharry Children's Library.

Filmography
 1921 : Bilat Ferat

See also
 Rotary International

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A SCOTTISH "NO", THE BORSE IS EUPHORIC AND STERLING FLIES, said a La Repubblica headline the day after the Scottish referendum. The Italian press reported the huge sighs of relief not only in the European Commission but also in countries discomforted by strong separatist groups of their own.
La Repubblica of the 19 September ran a longer article analysing the referendum. A sad-looking photo of Alex Salmond headed it. It listed the whoops of joy of everyone from Barak Obama to Beppe Grillo's M5S movement (our own Nigel Farage's EU Group colleagues). But in spite of the Scottish NO vote, M5S believe that, "the result will not close the wave of separatism in Europe". They see that Belgium, Spain, Holland and even Italy are being pressed by the demands of groups looking for anything from special treatment to complete independence.
La Repubblica gave the Italian President Matteo Renzi's views. They quoted from a letter that he had written to David Cameron. Renzi had done this not only from his standpoint as Italy's leader but also from Italy's current position as rotating President of the EU. His remarks were aimed very pointedly at the English. Renzi said that he valued the richness and diversity of the EU, not its fragmentation. He then went on to say that, "the response of the Scottish people, justifiably proud of their history and tradition, is given to us all. The Italian Government want to restate their strong wish to forge an even closer relationship with your Government in both Europe and Internationally". "With friendship", he concluded.
The same La Repubblica article gave substantial space to the Spanish and their separatist problems. Mariano Rajoy the Prime Minister was particularly anxious about the referendum because of his ongoing "domestic secessionist struggle" in Catalonia. Rajoy congratulated "the Scottish citizens who have decided to continue to be part of the United Kingdom and the EU in a clear and unequivocal way". Then, as a warning to his troublesome Catalonians at home, he continued, the Scots: "have avoided the grave economic, social, institutional and political consequences that could have followed separation". La Repubblica also focussed on the opinions of the President and Vice President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Artur Mas and Joana Ortega. The close Scottish vote was clearly a great encouragement to do better themselves.
To digress slightly, Rajoy should have referred to Scottish subjects rather than Scottish citizens. UK nationals lack the personal democratic status given to citizens of republics. It is sobering to hear that when Italians want to be sarcastic about the English (perhaps about incomprehensible things such as foxhunting or euroscepticism) they refer to them – to us – as "i sudditi di Sua Maestà", the subjects of Her Majesty.
Corriere della Sera published a long article on 17 September based on the European Free Alliance's map which showed around 40 movements with autonomous, separatist and nationalist aspirations. This includes the Cornish Mebyon Kernow. The UK, with its four distinctly separate countries, even with separate football teams, is seen as the most vulnerable to a split. Canada and the Quebeçois, Ukraine and Moldova were also mentioned in the same article.
Sciltian Gastaldi analyses the referendum results in his Il Fatto article. He said that he might be wrong but he considers that the victory will be a pyrrhic one. He thinks that "London" misjudged their tactics and that this will rebound on them to cause a profound break in British society. The tactics of the NO camp, what he and others call the "unionists", thought that they would win by scaring the electorate. In contrast, he said, the YES camp "had invited the electorate to dream, to be optimistic and to have hope". Unsophisticated analyses perhaps, but the recognition of English arrogance has not escaped him.
What didn't escape several writers, including that of an article of 19 September in Corriere della Sera, was that clear promises were made to the Scots during the campaign. The article had another crestfallen picture of Salmond with the headline: Alex Salmond announces his resignation: Cameron doesn't keep promises. The article said that Salmond justified his resignation saying that "Today David Cameron has refused to commit himself to a second reading at Westminster of a law to grant majority power to Scotland before 27 March 2015". The article said that this underlined the fact that the promise had been made by Gordon Brown during the referendum campaign. Franceschini quotes Salmond saying of "London", that "they have won the referendum with a deceit, I doubt that the promises will be kept" Isn't this part of the English national character? Perfidious Albion. And this is how others see us.
Franchescini has also noticed something interesting about the possible future of Scotland. They might have three female political leaders. He mentioned Johann Lamont (female), lawyer and Labour leader and Ruth Davidson, the Conservative leader. He talked at more length about Nicola (a female name in English, unlike Italian, he says) Sturgeon. He credited her (and Davidson) with being able to run a family and succeed at a taxing job – "the grit of Braveheart". Franchescini quoted Hugh McLachlan, a philosophy Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University saying that Sturgeon had "reached the heights" entirely on her own abilities.


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Choice of Airbus A380 engines comes home to roost
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Many, many factors come in to play when an airline decides what engines will go on the brand new airplanes it purchases. But right about now, I'm guessing that executives at Qantas, Lufthansa and Singapore are casting a wistful eye at Emirates and Air France, both of which opted not to put Rolls Royce Trent 900 engines on the Airbus A380 airplanes they operate, selecting the Engine Alliance GP7200 instead.
But the Rolls Royce engine customers are probably too busy thinking about their own decisions. Certainly much of their time these days is consumed trying to keep up with the investigation into why the left inboard engine on a Qantas A380 deconstructed in flight shortly after takeoff from Singapore last week. (I've blogged about some of the airplane-related issues that are coming to light, here.)
But they're also busy with on-again, off-again concerns about oil leaks and other peculiarities on these engines. After taking a second look at its Trent 900s, Lufthansa went back and had a third look and decided that one engine on this airplane, should be replaced "as a preventative measure" on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the airline said. Singapore Airlines, inspected, cleared and released as "okay" some of the eleven A380s in its fleet and then today recalled three airplanes with plans to swap out the engines.
By swap out, I am not suggesting that they're rollin' off the Rolls engines for the engine manufactured by Engine Alliance. Apparently, its not that easy.
Photo by S. Ramadier courtesy of Airbus
"Our design is unique to the GP7200 and thus has no correlation with the RR engine," communications manager Katy Padgett told me in an email. "Therefore, we do not offer 'backup' engines to A380 customers with Rolls Royce engines."
In my experience, aviation companies avoid beating up on the competition in safety crises like the one in which Rolls Royce finds itself. There's a well-ingrained sense of it's-them-this-time, it-could-be-me-next-time that keeps the behavior civil, at least publicly.
Still, its notable that while most of the A380s flying around these days are sporting the Trent 900s, Katy Padgett's numbers suggest that won't be the case much longer. The majority of the A380s on order call for her company's product. In addition to Emirates and Air France, Etihad, Korean Air, Air Austral and planes purchased by the leasing company International Lease Finance orders for the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney engine total more than 500.
Let's hope that rather than just watching the Rolls Royce investigation from the sidelines, the engineers at Engine Alliance are paying attention and checking every calculation and widget on their own behemoth products.
Captain Samir Kohli said...
Hi...Left outboard engine I think...
Samir.
Hi Samir, the outboard engine was affected because the pilots could not throttle down. The left inboard was the engine that failed.
geordie said...
This reminds me of Boeing's reaction when the A380 was having problems with the entertainment system wiring. Officially they had nothing to say, though the Seattle Times (just round the corner) had a great deal to say. Now the B787 is years late and just suffered an electrical fire and Airbus aren't saying a word. I expect RR may be firing a few people, or maybe they'll keep them on so they can make them suffer more.
The port outer couldn't be shut down, but I hadn't heard any suggestion that it was entirely out of control, that would have made life very difficult. When the fire service was trying to drown it the engine didn't look like it was at climb power.
Geordie,
I have heard several alarming details about the effect of the inboard engine failure on the performance of the outboard engine. I am trying to track down more details. Preliminarily I am underscoring the sentiments in my first blog on this subject,
http://christinenegroni.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-engine-new-airplane-new-jumbo-sized.html
There are a number of jumbo-sized reasons to believe this is about more than engines, its about the airplane itself.
When discussing aircraft incidents etc, it is best to stick to the language of the trade or industry. The Rolls Royce engine on the A380 did not 'DECONSRUCT', it failed!!
A dictionary check:.
deconstruct |ˌdēkənˈstrəkt|
verb [ trans. ]
analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity.
TR4MAN
Trevor Bock said...
I read on a pilot forum that the #1 engine could not be shutdown for some hours after landing and attempts to shut it down included pulling the fire handle. Even this was unsuccessful indicating wiring being severed by shrapnel from #2 engine. Just another complication for the very busy crew to contend with.
airlinestrategy.com said...
I would be VERY careful to slam the RR engines and hail the GP version, even if you are American and cannot hold back your malicious joy as it is your culture.
Howver, the EIS of the RR was smooth and nothing really happened to the engines of SIA which was the very first operator of the engine. Also, nothing happened to LH's engines. QF had several incidents in the past relating to Airbus and Boeing aircraft and several technical issues.
The EIS of the GP7200 engine with Emirates was one of the worst in history with the aircraft being grounded for days. Mr Clarke of EK was slamming the manufacturer at the time, but it emerged later that it was the engine that didnt work. by now it is working ok and so is the RR Trent900. the faulty part will be replaced and damages paid by RR.
Let's just stick to reality and not to Disney-style dreamland.
Judging from your characterization of Americans as prone to engage in "malicious joy" I will assume that English is not your first language and credit that for your misunderstanding of my blog post.
I have not slammed RR engines. I am saying that the Qantas event merits a thorough look - both for what it may be telling us about the engines and what it may be telling us about the airplane. That is the point of my post.
No need to credit my reply to your original posting. The tone has the somewhat overbearing reading that one would expect. No need to downgrade my language skills. If you are able to speak any other important language in a way that i can speak english, german and french, please come to the front of the queue. otherwise spare me.
There is nothing wrong with the aircraft, nor any major issue with the engines. Perhaps you ought to draw your attention at the way QF handles its maintenance.
FYI: a Qanatas 744ER with GE engines had to dump fuel and return to SYD today. Add to that the recent issues on another QF 744 and on an A330 and you can draw your own conclusions. The 744 of QF that was supposed to pick up the stranded pax of the A380 at SIN also had some technical issues...
Nikos said...
The RB211 has had a long development cycle (yes the Trent is certified as an RB211). It's a complicated 3 shaft design and its not the first time that oil fires have caused uncontained failures - in my day we were losing fans left right and centre (literally - RIP the L1011).
The EA7200 is just starting out.
What I learnt as an RR engineer was that it does not matter how much development testing has taken place, the moment it goes into airline service something "new" always hits you!
Oussama's Take said...
All new engines have problems some at EIS others at a later date. I remember, way back then, when both the RR RB211-524B4 on the L1011 and the GE CF6-50E2 on the B747 had problems ( bearing failures and the titanium HPT case ballooning respectively), it was not great fun coping but both RR and GE provided support.
However, I don't think the choice of the GP7000 was the result of extensive studies, AF was always a GE customer and EK was not happy with RR on other programs.
There is no way an operator can predict failure modes on any engine. Selections are based on predicted performance and Financing.

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One misunderstanding I see frequently is concern over occasional bugs that are discovered or changes being made to things you are basing something on, or in general not trusting the code or not liking the fact that additional work is required in some cases to make your own stuff continue to work based on changes, or be delayed because of a bug in something you need. Based on my experiences digging into these concerns, they are phantom concerns and is not the real issue. The real issue is the thought that there is a need for some sort of a stable set of code to work from, or that a strict isolation from the open source project is desired.
BE CAREFUL, THIS IS DANGEROUS! I say that in all caps because I really mean it. The fact of the matter is that the company is engaging in a development project, or more a customization project. You have a high level of collaboration happening within any company or group doing an OFBiz-based project, with sometimes one or two or sometimes dozens of people who will be making and committing changes to the company source repository. The aspect of this that I am talking about that is dangerous is the idea the you want to take a "snapshot" or somehow theoretical perfect set of code to use as a basis for your efforts. Unfortunately this theoretical perfect starting point doesn't exist, not in OFBiz, and not in any other piece of software open source or commercial.
A better way to look at this is that each person is working in collaboration with a number of other people, all of whom are working on projects that in one way or another move the software in the desired direction. The key thing to realize when working with an open source project like OFBiz is that there are many more resources than just those inside the company that are helping with a larger effort. Some of that larger effort (ie the set of all efforts going into OFBiz) is of interest to the company, and some of it is not. From an enlightened point of view, a LOT of things that might at first seem unimportant to the company and its specific project really are important and will over time save the company a lot of money, and the people involved with the project a lot of effort.
In other words, the fact is that OFBiz is a very large piece of software with many features and it is only because of those features that this specific project for this specific company can be a success for the effort being put into it. Software like OFBiz requires a LOT of work for maintenance and even though the company is putting a lot of resources into the effort, it is almost universally not near enough to maintain the entire set of software, fix bugs, create new solutions to problems that come up, modernize old code to make customization more efficient, and so on. Various groups have taken the "snapshot" approach and eventually they lose out on the thousands of hours of effort that result in improvements in OFBiz every single month.
The downside to this is that other people will work on new features that go into the open source project but that the company doesn't care about (not at that moment anyway), and in some cases those can conflict with what the company is doing. In most cases evaluation of the conflict results in a significant improvement in what the company ends up doing. But still, yes, there is some flexibility and reaction and conflict resolution that is required in the company to handle the side effects of what others in the community are doing. Still this cost is usually not even in the same order of magnitude (and often 2 orders of magnitude, in other words 100 times) separated from the effort that would be required to reproduce in the company everything that is going into the open source project that is of value to the company.
Some strategies to consider... Unless there is a specific reason for it, like getting a specific bug fixed or getting a new feature in place, it is best to only "sync up" with the open source project once every week, or every other week even. This is a very common tactic used in large development teams that are segmented into different teams with different purposes. In order for each team to move fluidly, they don't necessarily stay in sync continuously, but instead work in their smaller groups and continuously stay in sync there, and then frequently (but not continuously) combine all efforts into a single code base. Once the "feature freeze" happens (before the testing phase in preparation for a deployment) this process changes and typically only bug fixes are introduced, and everything is continuous.
There is a good book that I found recently on this topic that explains how to facilitate these sorts of things using Subversion. It is called: "Pragmatic Version Control, Using Subversion" by Mike Mason. There is also a CVS version of this book, but note that because things in CVS are less flexible (like not being able to move files and directories, for example), the approaches for CVS are much more difficult.
In general the key to success for any large project is: collaboration. When working with open source software effective collaboration is even more important, and at the same time the open source way of creating and maintaining software is a major facilitator of collaboration.
The trick is for people to recognize some of these key concepts and then embrace collaboration, and not fight it or fear it.
I hope that I am speaking to the real issue, and the real fears and anxieties that people are facing. From feedback I hear every day this is a VERY common fear and misunderstanding.


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What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for Jews. Part history and part travel companion, Leonard Barkan's personal love letter to the city shows how its long Jewish heritage, despite the atrocities of the Nazi era, has left an inspiring imprint on the vibrant metropolis of today.
Barkan, voraciously curious and witty, offers a self-deprecating guide to the history of Jewish life in Berlin, revealing how, beginning in the early nineteenth century, Jews became prominent in the arts, the sciences, and the city's public life. With him, we tour the ivy-covered confines of the Schönhauser Allee cemetery, where many distinguished Jewish Berliners have been buried, and we stroll through Bayerisches Viertel, an elegant neighborhood created by a Jewish developer and that came to be called Berlin's "Jewish Switzerland." We travel back to the early nineteenth century to the salon of Rahel Varnhagen, a Jewish society doyenne, who frequently hosted famous artists, writers, politicians, and the occasional royal. Barkan also introduces us to James Simon, a turn-of-the-century philanthropist and art collector, and we explore the life of Walter Benjamin, who wrote a memoir of his childhood in Berlin as a member of the assimilated Jewish upper-middle class. Throughout, Barkan muses about his own Jewishness, while celebrating the rich Jewish culture on view in today's Berlin.
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"After 1945, can there be a 'Berlin for Jews'? Can a Jew be a Germanophile? In his learned, deeply personal, culturally astute and thoroughly unclassifiable book, Barkan tackles these questions and others that many Jews of a certain age, education and temperament have also pondered."
"Barkan, in his elatedly poetic, meticulously erudite and irresistibly personal chronicle of his rapprochement to and re-appropriation of Berlin for a Jewish, nay, for a historically and morally authentic 21st-century conscience, probes unflinchingly that . . . question: can we visit, love, be enchanted and intrigued by Berlin after Auschwitz? . . . His answer is as full of life and promise as every word of this eclectic, highly absorbing, seriously engaging book: we must create more life, history, memory 'haunted, but also honored, by an indelible past.'"
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"Barkan confides that he hasn't always been comfortable with his Jewishness, conducts a fascinating historical tour that shows his great affection for the city. It's no secret that Berlin has a rich Jewish past, but to see the Bayerisches Viertel through his eyes will help modern travelers who are interested."
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Dubai police chief says Mossad behind death threats
Commander that led investigation into the killing of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh claims Israeli agents warned him he would be targeted.
Reuters: The police chief of Dubai has told a newspaper he received death threats from Israeli spy agency Mossad, after leading an investigation that fingered Mossad for killing a Hamas leader in the Gulf Arab emirate.
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Israeli forces physically assault, taser Jewish activists on Gaza-bound ship
The Halakha (Jewish religious law) does not permit the IDF to kill Jews – otherwise the outcome of this attempt, although severe, could have been a lot worse. It is good that these activists knew they would not be killed; too bad others do not have that assurance. –Jeff Goodall
"What happened to me in the Holocaust wakes me up every night and I hope we don't do the same thing to our neighbors," Moscowitz said, adding that he was comparing "what I went through during the Holocaust to what the besieged Palestinian children are going through."
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Israel cannot afford to stop stealing?
"…many Israeli Jews living within the recognised borders of Israel privately acknowledge that they are the beneficiaries of the seizure of another people's lands, homes, businesses and bank accounts… The real estate and construction industries, in particular, benefit from cut-price land – and increased profits – made available by theft from Palestinian owners."
America must end Israel's cynical and merciless exploitation
"In the damage assessment made after the arrest, it was determined that the espionage had been the most devastating ever experienced by the United States of America, both in volume and in the sensitivity of the information that had been betrayed… Pollard's Israeli handler, aided by someone in the White House who has up until now evaded arrest, was able to ask for specific classified documents by name and number… Compounding the problem, the United States has never actually been able to accurately ascertain all of the damage done by Pollard because the Israeli government has refused to cooperate in the investigation and has not returned the documents that were stolen."
The fact that America continues to provide massive amounts of military and economic aid to Israel, uses its veto power to back Israel at the United Nations, and favours Israel over others in arms sales, aid and foreign policy – and actually spends trillions of dollars and the lives of its youngest and best to go to war against Israel's enemies – illustrates the extent to which Israel has its tentacles tightly wrapped around America's throat.
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Norway stops German testing of Israeli subs
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The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs (UD) will no longer allow a German shipyard to test submarines built for Israel in Norwegian harbours and coastal waters, NRK reports.
– Norway has the strictest regulations possible on the export of goods and services in the defence field. And this means that we do not export materials or services to countries where there is war, or threat of war, says Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
The German shipyard Thyssenkrupp has since 1997 rented a former naval base near Kristiansand for the purpose of testing new-built submarines. The testing of subs for the Israeli Navy will now have to be carried out somewhere else.
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Britain's looney-left socialism and people-control
"England might have once expected every man to do his duty. Now it simply expects every man to do as he's told…"
And that's before Brussels gets into the act. Americans beware! You too can end up like this -JG.
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New Canadian group to study pitfalls of immigration
The Centre for Immigration Policy Reform (CIPR) will announce itself to the world with a news conference on Parliament Hill today. This consortium of heavy-duty experts is expected to express the hope that they can head off extreme nationalism and xenophobia by bringing some form of rationality to Canada's immigration policies, but in my opinion it may be a little too late for that. We shall see.
This entry was posted in Canadian Immigration Issues, Canadian Interest, White European Interest on September 28, 2010 by admin.
The cost of Muslim in-breeding
"Massive inbreeding among Muslims has been going on since their prophet allowed first-cousin marriages more than 50 generations (1,400 years) ago. For many Muslims, therefore, intermarriage is regarded as being part of their religion…. Intermarrying to protect the family and community from outside non-Islamic influence is much more important to Muslims living in a Western nation than integrating into that nation and supporting it."
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How to break Israel's stranglehold on America
"…it must be done from the bottom up as Israel cannot be challenged in the mainstream media, Congress, and in the White House… The American people must learn that Israel is and always has been a strategic liability that has done immense damage to the United States and its worldwide interests…" -Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer.
The Truth Will Set U.S. Free: Breaking Israel's Stranglehold over American Foreign Policy
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Maidhc O' Cathail: September 26th, 2010
(OSAKA, Japan) – If Israel's stranglehold over U.S. foreign policy is to be broken, Americans will need to be informed about the harm that Washington's unconditional support for the Jewish state is doing to American interests, say leading analysts of U.S.-Israeli relations.
Mafia crime families rule Toronto, Italy says
"I have nothing to do with engaging in any illegal activity. The police have investigated me for the past 40 years." – Cosimo Commisso
A New Mafia: Crime Families ruling Toronto, Italy says
Adrian Humphreys, National Post
Anti-Mafia prosecutors in Italy probing a powerful international crime network say they have uncovered the new face of the Mafia in Toronto, alleging there are seven dominant mob families in the city, each with a boss who sits on an influential board of control.
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I bought 2 HongMi cellphones in double 11.
iaomi Expects To Double Sales To 15 Million Handsets This Year
Posted Mar 11, 2013 by Victoria Ho
Chinese Android-based phone maker Xiaomi said it will produce 15 million handsets for this year, and expects no overstock. This is double the 7.19 million units that were sold in 2012, which netted the firm 12.6 billion RMB ($2 billion) in revenue after tax.
Its CEO and founder, Lei Jun, said that the firm is going to produce as many handsets as it expects to sell, because it doesn't intend to hold any overstock. Xiaomi has been accused of deliberately underproducing in order to falsely raise demand for its phones. Lei said that the company doesn't intend to waste resources overproducing, but admitted that producing only to demand has delayed delivery dates by about three to four months per batch.
The company's flagship phone, the Mi2, sells for just 1,999 RMB (US$318).
Hans Tung, a partner at Qiming Venture Partners and an investor in Xiaomi, has said in reports that Xiaomi makes about 10 percent profit on its handsets, translating to 1.2 billion RMB ($190 million) in profit for 2012. This exceeded the profit margins of other Chinese handset vendors such as ZTE, Huawei and Lenovo.
In double 11 sales:
Just 33 minutes into Double 11, one of China's biggest android-based mobile manufacturer, Xiaomi, saw over 100 thousand yuan in sales.
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KMT honorary chairman receives smartphones as gifts
Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien Chan meets Guo Jinlong, secretary of Beijing's Municipal Party Committee in Beijing on Tuesday, and receives two Xiaomi smartphones from Guo.
Lien met with Guo in Beijing and received the smartphones with the words "Mainland and Taiwan join hands to make profits from the world" printed on the back.
The gifts are Redmi phones, a new brand launched by Xiaomi.
According to Beijing Daily News, Lin Bin, president of Xiaomi, revealed that Redmi was chosen probably because it was the result of cooperation across the straits.
"The smartphone was designed and marketed by the mainland, but it was manufactured by Taiwan companies," Lin said.
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China smartphone Xiaomi Redmi sells out in less than 3 minutes after S'pore orders open online
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A lot of angry posts on Facebook have been generated.
By Belmont Lay
Online orders for the Xiaomi Redmi were open this afternoon in Singapore and within three minutes… and it's gone.
Retailing for S$169 without any plan, it has been touted as the Android-powered budget smartphone that will end all budget phones.
Get this: The spare batteries and portable battery charger for the Xiaomi are retailing for S$9.99 each.
In mainland China, 100,000 units of the phone sold in under four minutes after it went on sale
In Hong Kong, 10,000 units were sold in the first 36 seconds.
For those who failed to get their orders in, StarHub has said it will offer the Xiaomi Redmi at all its stores from Feb. 27.
In the meantime, Xiaomi Singapore's Facebook page has attracted hundreds of rants from angry buyers who couldn't buy the smartphone in time:


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City butts out of CBD smoking
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Camera IconThe City's all-purpose committee meeting ruled 8-3 against plans for the ban. Credit: Kalgoorlie Miner
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder councillors have voted down a proposal to adopt a smoke-free policy within Kalgoorlie's central business district.
The proposed area included the City's endowment block, which runs from the Kalgoorlie Town Hall to St Barbara's Square, the square itself and the thoroughfare connecting Coles and Kmart.
The matter was debated behind closed doors at the City's all-purpose committee meeting on May 16, but was the motion was lost 8-3.
The City's senior environmental health officer Alain Baldomero recommended the smoke-free policy to promote "healthy family-friendly environments".
Long-serving GP and former deputy mayor Mal Hodsdon also welcomed the proposal as a "step in the right direction".
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So to set the first LED, write the hex pattern 0x80. For the second LED, use 0x01; the third 0x02; fourth 0x04 and so on up to the last LED on the row being 0x40. I assume this is quirk of the wiring of the LED matrix to the driver pins of the HT16K33.
Everything else is built up from these basic commands. And with this knowledge, the data sheet for the chip makes a lot more sense! One final note – the data sheet has an input mode too – the chip can be used to scan a simple keyboard. Obviously in the case of the 8×8 LED matrix displays, this is not used. So, I'll take another look at the C and Python code, but at least now I know what is going on underneath all that. Kevin.


Demi Lovato strives to be original in the over saturated pop genre.
And her newly released music video for Heart Attack, the first single off her new album, only serves to reinforce that.
In the video, the 20 year-old pop star has two very extreme looks: one black, one white, both eerily intense.
In some shots, Lovato wears a white tunic-style blouse with her hair slicked back against her scalp and her hands painted an inky jet black.
The young singer-songwriter ultimately wipes her hands all over her bright white top as well as her chest, which seems to represent a certain destruction of her purity.
In other contradicting shots, Lovato wears all black and has let her hair down, wailing into the microphone with the soulful earnestness she has become known for in both her television personality and her music.
While 'Heart Attack' is a passionate pop love song on the surface, the emotional extremes of the lyrics and the black and white extremes of the music video may give even more insight into the volatility of Lovato herself.
The former child star has suffered from bulimia, self-injury and has been in and out of rehab due to drug and alcohol abuse over her 20 years of life.
Despite successfully completing a stint in rehab as recently as this past January, Lovato's career appears to be surging onwards and upwards.
Her upcoming fourth studio album Demi is set to be released on May 14th, with the aforementioned 'Heart Attack' blazing the way as it's lead single, with a peak position of 12 on the Billboard Top 100 since it's release in late February.
She will also be returning to her role as a judge and mentor on The X Factor, most likely in a more prominent role since Britney Spears and L.A. Reid, her fellow judges from last season, won't be joining her.


Photographs make a GREAT gift. And if you have a family with children, then a family portrait makes a great gift to give your parents.
Which is why I want to tell you about my wedding photographer's wife's site.
She's also a wedding photographer, as you can see if you click the link. She takes amazing photographs.
Some people say that there's an added bonus of having a female wedding photographer. I read an article the other day about how people didn't like the idea of female wedding photographers because it's a male dominated industry, but they realised that the brides really felt a lot more comfortable with a female taking the wedding preparation photos. Having a female around while they're getting dressed and having make-up done was a little better than having a male around.
She also does studio photography, specialising in portraits and children's portrait photography.
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The Anteater's Tongue Is an Evolutionary Masterpiece
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This is such a good animal!! (Image: Malene Thyssen/Wikimedia Commons)
Anteaters are very good animals. They somehow pull off the whole "slurp up ants with their sticky, noodly, bendy straw tongues" so confidently you forget how weird that is. And scientists agree that, yes, anteater tongues are weird. But they're also understudied.
A team of Brazilian researchers is therefore spending its time trying to understand these slimy ant-licking noodlemouths. How did anteaters end up with such silly appendages, while their close relatives like sloths and armadillos feature, well, more normal tongues? The answer is, of course, evolutionary adaptations to their ant-filled diets.
The general morphology of the Greater Anteater tongue (Image: Daniel Casali)
"All musculature involved in [chewing] is strongly related to the feeding habits of these organisms," study author Daniel Casali at the Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil told Gizmodo. "Armadillos are generalists, some specialize in insects and some are more specialized in eating ants and termites," called being myrmecophagous. "Anteaters are almost exclusively myrmecophagous. We think the selective pressures in this diet led to a gradual stretching of the tongue."
A stretching of the tongue whose incredible results look like this:
The author's latest study involved sampling 29 anteater specimens that had died in veterinary hospitals, or were collected as roadkill, from three species: the giant anteater, the southern tamandua, and the silky anteater. After examining the tongues in various ways and under a microscope, they observed an oval-shaped cross section of a long, narrow tongue. The part furthest from the skull was covered in bumpy protrusions, and the front part was rounded and smooth. The southern tamandua and the giant anteater's tongues had conical tips that made them look like, well, penises (the silky anteater did not).
The tip of the Southern Anteater's tongue (Image: Daniel Casali)
On top of that, the muscular structure of the tongue implied that it probably stretches a lot, according to the paper published recently in the Journal of Morphology. This suggests that the muscles are specifically designed to maximize the organ's speed and stretchiness to fit the feeding behavior.
And of course, the whole thing is covered in sticky mucous. But there aren't a lot of taste buds, as observed in this and in past studies—after all, anteaters are mainly eating ants and, accidentally, dirt. "It is, therefore, plausible to speculate that a tongue weakly adapted to taste function may be adaptive for their feeding habits," the authors write in the paper.
But separate from the tongue, Casali is most impressed with the anteater's tubular skull, which is specialized for the skinny tongue's movement. In fact, the whole animal seems to be adapted for its bug-eating purpose, ripping up ant nests with its strong arms, punching holes with its claws, and sticking its spaghetti tongue into the holes it made. The tongue even has horns that can help grab ants and termites while the anteater explores nests.
Horned structures for retaining ants (Image: Daniel Casali)
Casali also pointed out that the distantly related pangolin evolved a completely different tongue of the same shape. "The same organs in two different organisms provide a similar structure externally," he told Gizmodo. "But when we look into the details, they're very different and we see this evolutionary convergence. They achieve the same end product through different pathways."
Anyway, enjoy the miracle evolution has wrought to create such well-tuned, silly looking spaghetti-mouthed noodleheads.
[Journal of Morphology]
The Silky Anteater is Just Ridiculous
Meet The Pangolin, The World's Most-Trafficked Mammal
If You Like Anteaters, Root For UC Irvine
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Sixth Circuit Rules in NCAA Referee First Amendment Lawsuit
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A unanimous panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of all claims by an NCAA referee against popular sports radio hosts and a website, holding that the First Amendment barred the referee's state tort claims. The referee alleged that the defendants' commentary about his calls in an NCAA Elite Eight game, and about the fan reaction to his officiating after the game, encouraged fans to make harassing communications and post false negative online reviews of his roofing business. The Court held that the First Amendment protected the defendants' commentary because the comments constituted speech on a matter of public concern. It added that the statements alleged in the referee's complaint could not be characterized as "incitement" that was excluded from First Amendment protections, even at the motion to dismiss stage.
The suit arose from the fan reaction following the Elite Eight game in the 2017 NCAA Tournament between the University of Kentucky and the University of North Carolina, which Kentucky narrowly lost on a last-second shot by UNC. After the game, Kentucky fans and many in the media, including the defendants expressed widespread criticism of the referee's officiating. Some fans began posting negative and harassing comments about the referee's business online. Defendants discussed this fan conduct on-air and online. While the defendants repeatedly stated they did not condone or agree with efforts to disrupt the referee's personal life, the referee alleged that the content of the reporting on the fan conduct nonetheless signaled an implicit approval and encouragement.
The Sixth Circuit, in an opinion written by Judge Jeffrey Sutton, held the defendants' commentary was protected from state tort liability under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Court observed that the U.S. Supreme Court has afforded special protection from tort liability for speech related to matters of public concern, and concluded that public commentary about a high-profile college sports event, as well as coverage of fan reaction toward an official in such an event, fell within that category. The Court explained, "[p]ublic commentary about sports, some have said, is no less protected than commentary about 'economics [or] politics.'" Opinion at 6 (quoting Regan v. Time, Inc., 468 U.S. 641, 678 (1984) (Brennan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part)).
The Sixth Circuit also rejected the referee's argument that the defendants' speech constituted "incitement" of unlawful conduct, which would be excluded from First Amendment protection. The Court held that the referee's allegations did not satisfy the first element of the constitutional incitement test, because the defendants did not "specifically advocate" for listeners to take unlawful action. Opinion at 9. The Court noted that it may be possible to imagine cases when a speaker could use sarcasm or a "wink and a nod" to incite unlawfulness, even though the speaker's literal words did not advocate unlawful conduct, but concluded, "that doesn't describe this case." Opinion at 11-12. The Court acknowledged that the defendants may have done a "poor job dissuading listeners from mischief," but concluded, "a party cannot be sued for incitement merely because it failed to condemn the behavior of others with sufficient firmness or clarity." Opinion at 12.
The Court emphasized the dangers of hinging First Amendment protection for speech on the reaction of third parties who hear it: "We cannot curtail a speaker's First Amendment protection on the grounds that an otherwise permissible message might touch a nerve with an easily agitated audience…. Any other approach would especially burden the speech most in need of a safe harbor: discussions of hot-button and divisive social issues." Opinion at 12.
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How Transparency Limits Effective Governance
Hope BrusstarSeptember 19, 2018Leave a Comment
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D'Angelo demonstrated the eff ects of lobbyists on the House of Representatives. Photo provided by Stylianos Papardelas.
Congress' every move is subject to public scrutiny, and according to James D'Angelo, this can be a bad thing. On Thursday, Sep. 6, he gave his talk "How Government Transparency Limits Effective Government" for the first time.
"I've [researched] congressional transparency … over the last five years," said D'Angelo.
Government officials always risk being targeted by rulers and citizens alike. Currently living in Uganda with his wife, D'Angelo noted that Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni recently imprisoned politician Bobi Wine for speaking out against him. In the 1600s, King Charles I of England arrested many members of parliament, and the votes would change drastically in his favor when he attended parliament sessions. Representatives also risked being targeted by their constituents, whether confronted by mobs that wanted to hang them or chased across the country by a few armed individuals.
When America's founding fathers held the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention to discuss and draft the framework of the government, they assigned guards to the doors and covered every window.
Said James Madison, "No constitution would ever have been adopted … if the debates had been made public." And written in the constitution itself is Congress' right to secrecy: "Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings … excepting such such parts as may in their judgement require secrecy." And the Constitution itself "never stated that names should be attached to votes," said D'Angelo.
Much later, in 1970, President Nixon's administration brought forth the Legislative Reorganization Act, which opened the doors of Congress to constituents and introduced a state-of-the-art, million-dollar electronic voting system. Suddenly, every representative's vote could be easily tracked. Also as of 1973, large Jumbotrons were installed, giving long lists of names and color-coding them based on how they voted.
Madison once said, "It was best for the convention to sit with closed doors. By secret discussion, no man felt himself obliged to retain his opinions any longer then he was satisfied of their propriety and truth, and was open to the force of argument."
D'Angelo pointed out that now, our Congress could not be farther from this state. In House records, "There is no evidence of anyone changing their minds," said D'Angelo. "It was all partisan — it was all the opinions they had walked in with." Thus Congress' only function is now voting, and it is no longer useful for the exchanging of information and opinions in order to come to agreements.
D'Angelo then reviewed a series of changes that occurred within government and society after the Legislative Reorganization Act was passed. Federal tax rates, originally quite different for each economic class, converged to relatively similar tax rates for every class.
Said D'Angelo, the incarceration rate "has gone through the roof" since the 1970s. He stated that "prisons don't work," but when the things said in Congress are open to the public, no representative will be willing to say in front of his constituents that he chooses to be more lenient on crime. "People always think crime is worse than it is," said D'Angelo.
"Lobbying firms really take off after 1970," added D'Angelo. This was because lobbyists — originally corralled to the lobby — could be more successful when they had access to the interior of the House of Representatives, especially when they were able to see which votes needed to be changed with bribes.
"No one's gonna give you money if they can't confirm the vote," said D'Angelo. Therefore, a secret ballot prevents bribery. "Open up the votes, and money's flying in to change the votes." However, the money often is not used as a way to pay for a representative's vote, but rather as a means to fund the negative advertising campaigns with which lobbyists and other politicians can threaten a representative, should they not vote the way the lobbyists want.
"Almost all dark money goes to one thing," said D'Angelo. "It goes to negative advertising … the [lobbyists] don't beg anymore. They just go, 'We're watching you.'"
"I thought that [transparency involved] measures taken by the government to increase accountability … D'Angelo's argument is that transparency actually undermines the legislative process and benefits powerful lobbying groups more than regular citizens," said Adam Poyner, a senior math education major.
After 1976, a factor known as the "Mean Party Difference" also increased — meaning partisanship was on the rise. Also, as D'Angelo pointed out, because meetings of Congress are televised and heavily photographed, grandstanding is much more a problem. This occurs when a politician gets a chance to speak, but instead of trying to use the opportunity to understand other points of view better by asking questions or trying to clarify main points of a bill, he uses it to preach about his party's agenda.
"There is no one asking questions anymore," said D'Angelo. On television, he claimed, no representative will say they didn't understand a word, or ask for a brief summary of the bill in question.
Because the ballot is not secret, and anyone can check the way a representative voted in Congress, D'Angelo claimed that representatives are therefore vulnerable to threats on their career. Not only are they subject to negative ad campaigns against them during the next election cycle, but entire parties can threaten to undo the hardest work of their political career.
"These members are terrified of not getting what they want done," said D'Angelo, and therefore such threats can be potent.
"Even if you believe bribery is a problem, the secret ballot prevents that," D'Angelo repeated. "Corruption relies on transparency."
He gave an example in a CNN article titled "Kochs pledge millions to GOPers in 2018 — if they vote no on health care bill" from March 2017. This, D'Angelo pointed out, was a particularly flagrant circumstance of corruption.
About 14 students and faculty attended the talk, given in the fourth floor of the Earl K. Long Library. Poyner called it an "illuminating presentation."
"I especially appreciated his closing argument that the first step in making improvements … is to educate the public about … the necessity of secrecy in some areas of governing," Poyner concluded.
The lecture is one of seven in the Honors Program Fall 2018 lecture series, entitled "The Virtues of a Free Society." Said Chris Surprenant, Director of the Honors Program, "I'm especially thankful to the UNO Student Government Association [for funding] — not just this year, but the last six years since I've been here."
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Amos 2:14 (Young's Literal Translation)
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Israel relied, against God, on his own strength. "Have we not," they said, "taken to us horns by our own strength?" Amos 6:13. Amos tells them then, that every means of strength, resistance, flight, swiftness of foot, of horse, place of refuge, should fail them. Three times he repeats, as a sort of dirge, "he shall not deliver himself."
Therefore the flight shall perish - (Probably place of flight Job 11:20; Psalms 142:5; Jeremiah 25:35). They had despised God, as their "place of refuge" , so "the place of refuge, should perish from the swift," as though it were not. He should flee amain, but there would be no "place to flee unto." God alone "renews strength;" therefore "the strong" man should not "strengthen his force or might," should not be able to gather or "collect his strength" as we say. Fear should disable him. "The handler of the bow" (as in Jeremiah 46:9), and who by habit is a skilled archer, although himself out of the immediate reach of the enemy, and able, unharmed, to annoy him and protect the fugitives, "shall not stand" (as in Jeremiah 46:21; Nahum 2:8). Panic should overtake him. The "mighty" man, the "fleet of foot" should "not deliver," yea, "the horseman" should not "deliver himself;" yea, he who, "among the mighty," was "strongest of his heart," firm-souled among those of mightiest prowess, "shall flee away naked," that is, bared of all, armor or dress, which might encumber his flight "in that day" which the Lord made a day of terror His own day.
Saith the Lord - Probably literally, "the secret utterance of the Lord." Amos, more than Hosea, uses this special authentication of his words , which is so common in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah. He claims a knowledge, which those around him had not, and ratifies it by the express appeal to the direct, though secret, revelation of God; what those who were not of God, would deny; what they who were of God, would believe.
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The Bacchae (1981 - 1982)
The first version of Suzuki's The Bacchae was given only in Japanese (ID 1826); the second version which began life in Milwaukee was bilingual (ID 6148). The Milwaukee production featured twelve American actors whom Suzuki had taught as students, plus some members of SCOT (Allain, p.161).
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Why buy a 25mm lens if you can digitallly 2x zoom with 12mm?
Discussion in 'Native Lenses' started by dennisk, Oct 13, 2011.
I was doing some tests of the 2x digital zoom feature with the 12mm. It seems (by a slight margin) to capture more details from objects far away. I was wondering what am I gaining over the digital zoom other than the DOF being different.
You're going to need to post some pictures because you are bumping up against the laws of physics here.
Digital zoom reduces resolution. The only way what you describe would be possible is if the 25 mm lens you are using loses MORE resolution compared to the 12 than the binning of the pixels for digital zoom results in.
I don't have the 25mm yet. So in theory it should have twice the details of a 12mm that was digitally zoomed by 2x?
A 2X "digital zoom" will only use 1/4 the pixels of the original frame. Are you happy with getting a 3 megapixel image from your 12 megapixel camera?
Overall image noise will also be worse because obviously the per-pixel noise will be the same but there will be 1/4 as many pixels.
Digital zoom crops the image. Also, it's for jpeg.
The image may appear to be the same but it's not.
It won't work with a raw file.
Depends on your use -- small web photos it might be just fine. Larger actual prints, maybe not so much.
Darn you guys, I was trying to save a few hundred dollars! I'll look at the 2x feature the same as post processing cropping.
I don't know much about "digital zoom", but I know that there's a lot more to cropping the image than just losing resolution. You are also getting a different quality of exposure and DOF.
Digital zoom on these cameras is not crop. It's crop + resize. You're at the mercy of a resize algorithm on a small camera processor in a fraction of a second. You really think it's good quality, even for a digital algorithm? Obviously a 25mm lens will give the best results, but you'll actually do better than the camera by taking the photo raw and applying crop/resize on a PC. I use the digital tele myself when quality is not the critical goal, but don't mistake that for actual captured detail.
IIRC Panasonic has a crop-only mode.
panny has digital zoom and digital tele-converter mode in the newer ones.
Actually, they had them both in the old ones too, but only for stills... the crop mode was called EZ optical zoom or something like that. Now it works in video too, and it's called ext teleconversion or something.
why have a 25 1.4 rather than do a digital 2x zoom with a 12mm?
There is also the question of perspective.
An extreme example is the compression experienced when using a telephoto lens to take a photo of a long road that goes to the horizon. Going from 12mm to 25mm would be pretty subtle but it would be there. It would be more apparent with portraits.
And you can stay farther away from that dead pigeon using a 25mm over a 12mm to avoid the all-deadly Bird Flu. Better yet, use the 45mm!


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Prakash wins Gates grant for paper microscope development
November 5, 2012 - By Kris Newby
Manu Prakash
Manu Prakash, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering, has received a grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. GCE is designed to promote exploration of bold and innovative ways to improve global health.
The $100,000 award announced Nov. 1 will allow Prakash and his team to field test an ultra-low-cost paper microscope to aid disease diagnosis in developing regions.
Prakash's lightweight, print-and-fold microscope — or "Foldscope" as he calls it — can be shipped flat and assembled in minutes. The team will test the microscope in India, Thailand and Uganda, and will assimilate user feedback to help refine the design for mass production. If the pilot is successful, Prakash will have the opportunity to apply for a follow-on grant of up to $1 million.
To receive funding, Prakash and other Grand Challenges Explorations winners in this round had to demonstrate, in just two pages, a creative idea in one of five critical global heath and development topic areas. Among these areas were agriculture, immunization and communications.
Applications for the next round of grants are due Nov. 7. More information on applying for the grants is available online at http://www.gcgh.org/explorations/Pages/GrantsAwarded.aspx.
Kris Newby is the communications manager for Spectrum, the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education.
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Alan studied three dimensional design at Central Saint Martins School of Art specialising in jewellery. He gained a first class honours degree and won the award of 'student of the year' for his degree exhibition.
For the past 30 years Alan has worked at his studio at Hatton Country World creating jewellery, small sculptures and pictures using gold, silver, bronze, titanium, slate and enamels. In the 1980s he was fortunate to be given a series of commissions to make silver dhows for a Middle Eastern agent and this enabled him to develop expertise in making complex three dimensional objects. He has also sold his jewellery at Liberty & Co and Electrum.
Alan is a freeman of The Goldsmiths' Company and the City of London.


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Q: Select cols from a list of list of data frames (with differing names) I have a list of lists of data frames that contain a lot of genetic variant information.
Now I would like to extract some cols from these DFs. A problem is that the names of the cols differ in some DFs.
Is there a recommended way to solve this issue?
# example data
df1 <- data.frame(Gene = 1:10, Consequence1= 11:20, other_stuff = 21:30)
df2 <- data.frame(Gene = 1:10, Consequence= 11:20, other_stuff = 21:30)
df3 <- data.frame(Gene = 1:10, Consequence= 11:20, other_stuff = 21:30)

family1 <- list(cpht = df1, hm = df2, ht = df3)
family2 <- list(cpht = df1, hm = df2, ht = df3)

gene_lists <- list(family1 = family1, family2 = family2)

The cols I would like to extract are named: 'Gene' and either 'Consequence1' or 'Consequence'.
A viable option would be to rename the col named 'Consequence1' into 'Consequence' but even this didn't work out so far.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Sebastian

A: Not sure about your final result but one approach would be to use lapply to loop over the lists and e.g. grepl to extract the desired columns:
# example data
df1 <- data.frame(Gene = 1:10, Consequence1= 11:20, other_stuff = 21:30)
df2 <- data.frame(Gene = 1:10, Consequence= 11:20, other_stuff = 21:30)
df3 <- data.frame(Gene = 1:10, Consequence= 11:20, other_stuff = 21:30)

family1 <- list(cpht = df1, hm = df2, ht = df3)
family2 <- list(cpht = df1, hm = df2, ht = df3)

gene_lists <- list(family1 = family1, family2 = family2)

gene_columns <- lapply(gene_lists, function(x) lapply(x, function(x) x[, names(x)[grepl("^(Gene|Consequence)", names(x))]]))

gene_columns$family1$ht
#>    Gene Consequence
#> 1     1          11
#> 2     2          12
#> 3     3          13
#> 4     4          14
#> 5     5          15
#> 6     6          16
#> 7     7          17
#> 8     8          18
#> 9     9          19
#> 10   10          20

EDIT To rename the column Consequence1 and only select Consequence you could do:
gene_columns <- lapply(gene_lists, function(x) lapply(x, function(x) {
  names(x)[grepl("^Consequence1$", names(x))] <- "Consequence"
  x[, c("Gene", "Consequence")]
  }
))

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Court v Conference? Irony Not Lost on Horticulture NZ
By: Horticulture NZ
Published: Tue 30 Jul 2013 10:14 AM
Court v Conference? Irony Not Lost on Horticulture New Zealand
It's a big week for Horticulture New Zealand, as it holds its national conference to celebrate industry growth on one side of Wellington while across town in the High Court it is battling against decisions which could stop the industry in its tracks.
The irony of this is not lost on the 400 delegates attending the industry conference, all of them either growers or industry suppliers determined to get horticulture to its goal of becoming a $10 billion industry by 2020.
HortNZ uses 30% of the levy funding it raises from all commercial fruit and vegetable growers to represent grower interests in regional and district council planning across the country.
At the end of 2012 HortNZ was working on 43 different actions with councils. By the middle of this year that number had risen to around 50, at an estimated cost of $750,000 last year alone. Officials in the Ministry for the Environment are also predicting a significant increase in plan changes between 2016 and 2020, giving even more cause for concern.
The High Court case this week is to hear an appeal against the Environment Court's decisions on the Horizons Regional Council's 'One Plan'.
"What has happened in Horizons is just the tip of an enormous iceberg of misunderstanding, misinformation and misguided old school thinking," HortNZ president Andrew Fenton said in his speech to the conference this morning.
"The case is being run to try and prevent these mistakes repeating around the country through other councils, affecting growers and the commercial viability of their horticulture businesses.
"Setting a precedent through the courts has become an accepted method of managing rights and interests, and this is unacceptably dangerous for growers and business certainty.
"This means you can't just say 'hey, that's not my region, it doesn't matter' because eventually, it will matter, for all of us."
The One Plan, as it now stands, will impose excessively harsh restrictions on horticulture and have a negative economic impact on the region's jobs, communities and the price of food production in New Zealand.


In the many years I have spent behind the counter or working trade shows, I have encountered many hunters who want to shoot deer with a .338 and go get their elk with a .243. Why?? I have no idea! But I have experimented both with light hyper velocity bullets and the other end of the spectrum the heavy bullets going fast. I have shot and killed game with 39-grain bullets all the way up to 750 grains. I have also successfully used the "hyper expansion" bullets on game and on the other end I have used solids as well. They all have their application and they all work well if they are placed in the correct place, but that doesn't make them a prudent choice in all situations.
As hunters, there a few things that we will never agree on such as the perfect caliber for that one gun to do everything or the best bullet made. I actually find myself studying the various aspects of bullet performance way too much.
You can call me to go hunting and I will say yes in an instant and then will spend weeks running various scenarios through my mind on which caliber and bullet to use only to make the decision and then find that the bullet and rifle that was my second choice shoots a 1/8" better.
Does that slightly tighter group make a difference? With all the other variables that come into play in most hunting situations, I would say not all but I know that but I will still stew on that decision for weeks, literally. I can't recall ever losing an animal due to bullet failure, but rather just plain dropping the ball and missing has left me many times heading for home empty handed, replaying the shot in my mind.
The game being hunted is what determines the bullet I use. I am not going to use a bullet with the same expansion characteristics when hunting coyotes for hides as I would use on deer or even a northern bison. Once has to balance expansion and penetration and with today's selection of bullets the choices are certainly there. I like to be able to reach the vitals from any reasonable angle. You have to remember that you might be called on to finish off a wounded animal. Not an ideal situation but it is a realistic one. Not only can you prevent a lost animal in that situation you may save yourself many hours of packing as well.


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Well. We've been working together for a little over two months now, so it's early days. But Randy tells me that already the accountability of our weekly meetings is keeping him on track. He expects to finish the year strongly and set himself up for a successful and prosperous next year.
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BioMod
BioMod is an extension of Y|yukichigai's excellent Shifter mod for Deus Ex. While I still think Shifter is a definite improvement over the original game, I sometimes felt while playing it that it was too conservative for my tastes. Eventually I decided to make my own mod which would contain some radical changes that might give some people pause, but would hopefully breathe new life into the game for everyone else.
As the name suggests, BioMod is primarily concerned with Deus Ex's augmentations, with the aim of making them more balanced, but also a lot easier to manage. Most augs are now automated, using energy only when they're actually doing their jobs. Some augs that were less useful or that would be a pain to manage have been made free or given extra abilities, while those that I thought were un-salvageable have been replaced with entirely new augs.
In addition to the augmentation system, BioMod also makes some general gameplay changes, such as the addition of pickpocketing, an autosave feature, achievement-like challenges, and a Thief style ledge grabbing system.
Sprint Mod
In the vanilla Fallout 3 game, the player's run speed is limited to a painfully slow jog. I wanted to find some way of increasing the player's speed without upsetting the balance of the gameplay too much. This mod, inspired by the ubiquitous feature in modern shooters such as the Call of Duty series, is my solution.
My goal with Sprint Mod was to have it integrate as seamlessly with the game as possible, as if sprinting was a feature that shipped with the original game, with very little to remind the player that they're using a third party mod.
To fit in with Fallout 3's RPG gameplay, sprint speed is determined by the player character's stats, and the amount of time a character can sprint for is based on their action points. The use of action points also allows me to balance sprinting in respect to the original game. Players can use the increased speed to run to safety, or to gain a tactical advantage in battle, but at the expense of AP, the resource used by the game's famous VATS system. In this way, sprinting adds to the existing gameplay rather than replacing it. I've also done a lot of tweaking to ensure that, regardless of a player character's stats, sprinting "feels right", without being too much or too little of an advantage.
Sprint Mod also contains advanced features such as field of view shifts, head bobbing, custom control mapping, and a "tackle" feature which enables players to knock enemies over by sprinting into them. Despite all this, I think I've stayed true to my original goal; Sprint Mod appears very lightweight to the player, being as unobtrusive and simple to use as possible.
Slower Backpedaling
Based on the scripts from my Sprint Mod, Slower Backpedaling adds a little bit of depth to the combat in Fallout 3. The player's speed is reduced when moving backwards, forcing them to decide whether to turn tail and run, or stand their ground and fight.
Achievements For All
Sprint Mod, as well as many other excellent Fallout 3 mods, requires the Fallout Script Extender (FOSE) for all of its features to work. FOSE is, unfortunately, incompatible with Games For Windows Live. This means that players using FOSE cannot earn achievements, which was a common complaint leveled against it.
Achievements For All allows players to earn achievements while playing with FOSE active, then turn them in for official GFW credit later.


DocuAsia Forum is an annual film event in Metro Vancouver focusing on sensitive and relevant social issues concerning contemporary Asia. By bringing together filmmakers, artists, academics, community representatives, and the general public, DocuAsia provides a platform for informed dialogue concerning the current cultural and economic development in Asia, and global implications for the future.
DocuAsia Forum tells stories about Asia in ways that brief news clips and often-polarized popular commentary simply cannot. Discussion in public spaces, initiated through interaction with thoughtful independent documentary film, provides a powerful opportunity for substantive reflection and communication that nurtures deeper intercultural understanding through a sense of shared purpose.
Where is 'Asia'? Where is 'East'?
What does it mean to be Asian in this globalized era where so many of us carry diasporic identities? In today's world, is 'Asian' a geographic marker, a racial marker, an ethnic marker, a political marker, a cultural marker, or some slippery combination of all of the above? And where exactly is Asia anyway?
For the 6th annual DocuAsia Forum, we boldly turn our lens on Syria, a nation of the Middle East, a.k.a the Near East, a.k.a West Asia, called to action by the urgency of the brutal civil war and the millions of people displaced from their homes.
A combination of documentary film, short films, animations, as well as book presentation, live music and past screening panels, each event offers rare glimpses into the lives of Syrians whose personal narratives speak to the dire conditions that continue to be faced by millions at home and abroad.
Through various cultural mediums we hear the voices of Syrian filmmakers and artists whose very survival and hope depends on self-expression through the arts. As the state of things continues to deteriorate for Syrians everywhere, DocuAsia seeks to open up critical discourse and dialogue on the global implications and the urgency of the Syrian crisis.
The 5th annual DocuAsia Forum was presented in major partnership with the City of Richmond, SFU's David Lam Centre, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and the Vancouver Singapore Film Festival, and focused on the intersection of culture, gender, and health.
The opening film "Mothers" looks at how China's family planning policy plays out on the ground level in a small village in rural China, where annual sterilization quotas are strictly enforced. "Menstrual Man" tells the story of a man who defied social stigma to bring affordable, disposable sanitary napkins to women in rural India, and empowered them to become small business owners while promoting feminine hygiene.
By turns funny and provocative, these two films open up conversations about the sensitive and often taboo topic of women's health. It raises important questions about cultural differences in attitudes towards health. We are reminded of challenges within our own healthcare system. At the same time, we are forced to consider the ethics of population control. A mental exercise that is made more complicated by our increasing awareness of the rapidly diminishing supply of natural resources and the heavy toll that human settlements place upon the natural world.
Not for the faint of heart, this year's DocuAsia Forum continues to challenge audiences by shedding light upon elements of culture that are often hidden from plain sight.
Extremely timely in light of recent backlash against the China-Canada FIPPA agreement and the presence of Chinese miners in Northern BC, the 4th DocuAsia Forum attempts to highlight the human stories behind broader social, political and economic shifts and envision a different kind of globalization – one that would move away from a model of cultural fragmentation to one of mutual understanding through discourse grounded in life and death concerns shared by all of us.
This year's program features Extraction, a bilingual (English and Mandarin) documentary-style play by Theatre Conspiracy. Extraction, winner of the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, delves deep into the heart of intertwined cultural phenomena: China's rise as an economic power and oil extraction in Alberta by mining the biographies of non-actor performers.
We have chosen two documentary films, described below, as companion pieces to Extraction. We hope these films would inspire discussion about what seems to be an emerging narrative containing conflicting elements. "Globalization" connotes unity and wholeness regarding economic and cultural forces, while the realities of national and culture-specific perspectives can lend themselves to fragmentation. In the zero-sum race to extract energy resources to feed growing, and in many cases shrinking and unstable economies, the films suggest it is easy to fall into a cultural and national myopia, obscuring a larger question of ecological consequences that unite us in a global web of interdependence.
This year's DocuAsia program does not confront ecological challenges directly. Rather, it raises questions about the troubling broader context of inter-cultural and inter-national miscommunication and the kind of impatience and aggression this so often yields.


I invite you to join us for relaxation week in picturesque village Prtovč in the Julian Alps. In the nature, away from polluted air we are going to connect to our body and mind with asana practice, relaxation and breathing techniques. During your free time you can take a stroll in the woods or have a hike to the nearest mountain Ratitovec.
CLOTHES: Warm clothes, rain coats and waterproof shoes are necessary.
YOGA EQUIPMENT: Comfortable yoga dress, socks, scarfs or blankets for meditation, bring your own yoga mat.
SHOPPING: The closest shop is in the valley, approx 15 minutes drive with a car. If there is something you know that you might need I recommend you buy it in advance.
Prtovč is a small village in the Julian Alps (1.000 m) above the town Železniki.
We are going to sleep in the old house with basic comfort. The temperature drops during the night and stays low in case of rain.
The Programme may change according to weather conditions.


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Q: CosmosDB Distinct query - slow performance We are using CosmosDB and I'm running a Distinct query as follows
Select Distinct c.SomeType, c.SomeName
From c
Where c.ptkey = 'WHATEVERPTKEY'
And c.SomeCategory = 'WhateverCategory'

...where ptkey is the field that holds the partition key.  The above works but takes around 1-1.5 minutes to complete (I'm assuming because some/many of the documents are very large) - I've tried filtering on the partition's unique key (id), using a "Group By", and played with "Order By" (restrictions apply when you combine the two and/or only one field is allowed in the Order By unless you have a composite key), but not much changes.
The one thing that does make a big difference is creating an Indexing Policy as follows
"compositeIndexes": [
    [
        {
            "path": "/ptkey"
        },
        {
            "path": "/SomeCategory"
        },
        {
            "path": "/SomeType"
        },
        {
            "path": "/SomeName"
        }
    ]
]

...however, my question is how do I limit this composite key definition to only apply to the specific partition key the above query is for ('WHATEVERPTKEY' - as we have around a dozen partition keys within our database/collection) and secondly is there any alternative/better option (other than re-modelling our data)
Note my Query Stats when running the query in Azure CosmosDB Data Explorer without an index are as follows
Query Statistics
746.96 RUs
1 - 12
Retrieved document count 0
Retrieved document size 0 bytes
Output document count 0
Output document size 1789 bytes
Index hit document count 0
Index lookup time 1.1900000000000002 ms
Document load time 366.48990000000003 ms
Query engine execution time 29.0101 ms
System function execution time 0.76 ms
User defined function execution time 0 ms
Document write time 0.02 ms
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*full indexing policy of the collection is below

{
    "indexingMode": "consistent",
    "automatic": true,
    "includedPaths": [
        {
            "path": "/*"
        }
    ],
    "excludedPaths": [
        {
            "path": "/\"_etag\"/?"
        }
    ],
    "compositeIndexes": [
        [
            {
                "path": "/ptkey",
                "order": "ascending"
            },
            {
                "path": "/SomeCategory",
                "order": "ascending"
            },
            {
                "path": "/SomeType",
                "order": "ascending"
            },
            {
                "path": "/SomeName",
                "order": "ascending"
            }
        ]
    ]
}

A: So the query metrics in the portal can sometimes not show accurate data when there are LOTS of multiple pages of results but it does often work.
With DISTINCT the cost can depend on how many results you're dealing with. If you're expecting just a few results the impact on cost is low. If you're into thousands, it can get very expensive. Work is happening to make that less expensive. It's a ways out before it will be released.
Can you try again with just this as your index policy?
{
"indexingMode": "consistent",
"automatic": true,
"includedPaths": [
    {
        "path": "/*"
    }
],
"excludedPaths": [
    {
        "path": "/\"_etag\"/?"
    }
],
"compositeIndexes": [
    [
        {
            "path": "/ptkey",
            "order": "ascending"
        },
        {
            "path": "/SomeCategory",
            "order": "ascending"
        }
    ]
]

}