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Q: How to read mutliple images in a for loop in MATLAB? I have segmented results in a folder. Those need to be read in a for loop and processed further in the loop. I tried reading as below:
for i=1:10
file_name=dir(strcat('C:\Users\adminp\Desktop\dinosaurs\'));
  im=imread(strcat('C:\Users\adminp\Desktop\dinosaurs\',file_name(i).name));
  %processing of read image
end

An error was thrown :??? Error using ==> imread at 370
Can't open file "C:\Users\adminp\Desktop\dinosaurs\." for reading;
you may not have read permission.
Please suggest where I have gone wrong.

A: I guess your problem is that:
file_name(1).name = .     % Stands for current directory
file_name(2).name = ..    % Stands for parent directory
file_name(3).name = your_file_name.jpg

Now, do:
images = dir('*JPG')
for i=1:numel(images)
file_name=dir(strcat('C:\Users\adminp\Desktop\dinosaurs\'));
  im=imread(strcat('C:\Users\adminp\Desktop\dinosaurs\',images(i).name));
  %processing of read image
end

A: If you have the R2014b release of MATLAB with the Computer Vision System Toolbox, you can do this in one line using the imageSet object.
images = imageSet('C:\Users\adminp\Desktop\dinosaurs\');

will create an object containing the paths to all the images in the dinosaurs directory. It will exclude any non-image files automaticaly.
Then you can process your images as follows
for i = 1:images.Count
  im = read(images, i);
  % process the image
end

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This case, in which oral argument was heard in September 2016 but which was held in abeyance pending decision first in United States v. Jones, No. 15-1518 __, F.3d __, slip op. (2d Cir. Oct. 5, 2017), then in United States v. Morales, No. 14-3661 (2d Cir. Jan. 22, 2018), presents the following questions: (1) whether the evidence at trial was sufficient to prove possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute; and (2) whether the New York offense of robbery in the second degree constitutes a "crime of violence" as that term was defined in the United States Sentencing Guidelines before August 1, 2016. The second question is one of first impression. We answer both questions in the affirmative and therefore AFFIRM the judgment of October 7, 2015 of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Katherine Polk Failla, Judge).
Daniel M. Tracer, Assistant United States Attorney (Thomas McKay and Karl Metzner, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.
Matthew B. Larsen, Federal Defenders of New York Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.
This case, in which oral argument was heard in September 2016 but which was held in abeyance pending decision first in United States v. Jones, No. 15-1518, F.3d, slip op. (2d Cir. Oct. 5, 2017), then in United States v. Morales, No. 14-3661 (2d Cir. Jan. 22, 2018), presents the following questions: (1) whether the evidence at trial was sufficient to prove possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute; and (2) whether the New York offense of robbery in the second degree constitutes a "crime of violence" as that term was defined in the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("Guidelines") before August 1, 2016. The second question is one of first impression. We answer both questions in the affirmative and therefore AFFIRM the judgment of October 7, 2015 of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Katherine Polk Failla, Judge).
Defendant-Appellant Edward Smith ("Smith") appeals from a District Court judgment entered on October 7, 2015 by Judge Failla. A jury convicted Smith of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C). The District Court imposed a term of one hundred twenty months' imprisonment for each of the two charges, the terms to run concurrently.
Smith argues: (a) that the evidence introduced at trial was insufficient to prove possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute; and (b) that the District Court miscalculated his base offense level under the Guidelines because second-degree robbery, in New York law, is not a "crime of violence" as the term is defined in the applicable version of the Guidelines.


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Dude that match was soooo close.Took it to extra time.
But then gotze made that great goal! Then Messi missed thier only chance to survive.
I can just say. SOOOO happy Germany won.
Win what? what world cup? what game?
I'm happy they won because I didn't want Argentina to win.
But I feel sorry for messi but I'm sure he will win it before he retires.
I bet they are now spanking messi for missing the goal.
Yeah, he hasn't smiled once since that final whistle went.
Even when he got best player at tournament.
Don't worry about it; its just dumb old soccer.
Explain how soccer is dumb please.
And don't compare it to American football, they're 2 completley different sports.
"Ya I hate baseball because in football you can tackle but you can't in baseball"
get the point? There's nothing to it except "kick."
This is most probably his last World Cup.
Messi doe, in an ad I heard he was the best player in Soccer, why Messi?


This year's Brussels 20km race attracted around 40,000 runners, who completed the circuit through the city's boulevards and parks in sweltering heat. At around its half-way mark the course runs throught the Bois de la Cambre, close to where I live, and I was there as the first contestants arrived. Soon, the road was packed solid with contestants.
Like all the best activities in Brussels, the 20km mixes participants and spectators from Belgium's Flemish-speaking and French-speaking communities with foreign residents and visitors, and it is conducted with universal good humour.
I love photographing people as they run. Their faces are concentrated and intense, expressing aspects of themselves that would often be hidden in posed portraits. But it is technically and emotionally challenging – I only had a second or two to select each face and focus, swinging the camera to track it as the person passed. I tried to acknowledge everyone I photographed, and exchanged smiles and a few words with many of them. At one point, firemen had tapped into the mains water supply to set up a makeshift spray, and I captured some fine expressions of shock as cold water drenched hot bodies.
After a couple of hours, I cycled across town to the Cinquantenaire where the race had started and where many of the people I had photographed were now arriving at the finish. I managed to speak with a few of them. I gave Claude my card and have since sent him the portraits that I took of him.


The Entertainment Consortium's African American Conservatory commences its Vintage Black Theater Festival with a production of Samm-Art Williams' Home. Home presents vignettes from the life of Cephus Miles as he moves from his home in rural North Carolina to New York City and back home again. As he experiences the unique ups and downs of country life, the joys and vulnerabilities of romantic love, the conflict between his religious beliefs and nationalism, and the fast-paced but disheartening anonymity of city life, Cephus eventually comes to see "home" as an affirming symbol of roots, community, and identity.
Jonathan Berry, highly regarded locally for his portrayal of August Wilson's troubled protagonists [Seven Guitars, etc] among other roles [Emmett Till, East Texas Hotlinks, etc], assumes the role of Cephus Miles. The two ladies, who portray various characters throughout Cephus's life, are undertaken by veteran actress Tracey D. Turner — whose long and varied career has encompassed leading roles in works by Shakespeare, Lynn Nottage [etc…] — and Sylvia Hatchin — whose return to the stage after a hiatus will mark her second time performing in this work. The cast of three is directed by award-winning director, David Minniefield, who brings his characteristic attention to fine detail and talent for conceptual originality to this play for the very first time in his multi-faceted 35 year career.
Performances will be held at Community Forge, 1256 Franklin Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221. Tickets are $10 and seating is General Admission. Performance dates and times are as follows: August 10th—7pm; August 11th—3pm & 7pm; August 17th & 18th — 7pm.


This is the year I want to watch more documentaries but know that many here watch them online.
Here you go Queen K. I've watched some on youtube but not since the "new" look, so not sure how quickly they load.
You should watch "Margin Call" grammy. It's not a documentary but I know you're sharp enough to pick up on a number of underlying themes. Good actors and good story and highly relevant to current times.
Where will I find that online?
grammafreddy wrote: Where will I find that online?
Here you go, lots of them here and free.
We just got Netflix and they have a whole bunch of documentarys on our health and the food we eat.Very similar to Super Size Me.there must be a dozen of them.I have watched a few already and some are pretty kookie but entertaining.Some are good and I want to get inspired to lose some weight.
Any archeology documentaries on Netflix?
Some of these I've downloaded, but some you may be able to find on Netflix.
Check out Crude Awakaning. It's on YouTube and Netflix.
I enjoyed the Terry Jones series "Medieval Lives" and "The Barbarians"
He's engaging in how he relates the stories,and I can't help but laugh abit thinking of him in Monty Python.
I've only found it on you tube which is abit of a pain having to watch it in increments.
I like to listen to documentaries while I work.
Motherhood Interrupted (Documentary) - what it was like to get pregnant as a teenager in the 1960s.


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There are no Emoji versions 6.0-10.0 as a decision was made in 2017 to align emoji version numbers with their respective Unicode versions.


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Q: Convert dwg file into a high resolution bitmap I'm trying to convert an autocad drawing into a bitmap, that has better resolution than a simple screen capture.

A: You'll need a program that understands DWG format and allows print.
A search for "free dwg viewer" turned up a few. This one from Infograph was first on the list, though the print option doesn't appear to be available on the free version.
This one from Tucows is labelled as free and supports printing.

Drawing files can be viewed easily with full zoom / pan / eyeglass / layering controls. The viewer can save views to JPEG, and it supports accurate snap to point measuring.

Though you might struggle to find one that does high resolution prints unless you pay quite a bit.

A: Sorry it this comes up short and out of date, but you didn't say if you actually have AutoCad, and I haven't for a while, but when I did it seemed like there was an option to export to postscript and then I used Ghostview to convert to whatever raster format I wanted. Also if there isn't a postscript out option any more you could always use something like PDFCreator then take that into Gsview. But in the end I'm almost always going to use Ghostscript (command line) or Ghostview (gui) to make the really Hi-res images of almost anything.


I fully intended to ignore Spain this week. Really, truly I did. I had my letter all planned, but then a few notes drew my attention, and the more I reflected on them, the more I realized that the inflection point that I thought the ECB had pushed down the road for at least a year with their recent €1 trillion LTRO is now rushing toward us much faster than ECB President Draghi had in mind when he launched his massive funding operation.So, we simply must pay attention to what Spain has done this week - which, to my surprise, seems to have escaped the attention of the major media. What we will find may be considered a tipping point when the crisis is analyzed by some future historian. And then we'll get back to some additional details on the US employment situation, starting with a few rather shocking data points. What we'll see is that for most people in the US the employment level has not risen, even as overall employment is up by 2 million jobs since the end of the recession in 2009. And there are a few other interesting items. Are we really going to see 2 billion jobs disappear in the next 30 years?
In my book Endgame, co-author Jonathan Tepper and I wrote a chapter detailing the problems that Spain was facing. It was obvious to us as we wrote in late 2010 that there really was no easy exit for Spain. The end would come in a torrent of misery and tears. Tepper actually grew up in a drug rehab center in Madrid - as a kid, his best friends were recovering junkies. (For the record, he has written a fascinating story of his early life and is looking for a publisher.) His Spanish is thus impeccable, and he used to get asked to be on Spanish programs all the time. Until the day came when the government created a list of five people, including our Jonathan, who were basically named "Enemies of Spain," and pointedly suggested they not be quoted or invited onto any more programs.
In about ten days I will be sending you a detailed analysis of all this, courtesy of some friends, but let's tease out some of the highlights. True Spanish debt-to-GDP is not 60% but closer to 90%, and perhaps more when you count the various and sundry local-government debts guaranteed by the federal government, most of which will simply not be paid. Spanish banks are miserably underwater, and that is with write-offs and mark to market on debts that totals not even half of what it should be. If Spanish housing drops as much relative to its own bubble as US housing has so far (and it will, if not more), then valuations will drop 50%. The level of overbuilding was stupendous, with one home built for every new every person as the population grew. We know that unemployment is 23%, with youth unemployment over 50%. Etc, etc. We could spend 50 pages (which is what I will get you access to) detailing the dire distress that is Spain.
Which brings us to this week. It was only a few weeks ago that most everyone, including your humble analyst, thought that the ECB had bought a little time with its "shock and awe" €1-trillion LTRO. Lots of analysis said there would now be at least a year to put programs in place to deal with the coming crisis.
When rates rose last year to almost 7% for Italy and 6% for Spain, before the ECB let loose the hounds of monetization, they were approaching the limits of sustainability. Rates came back down as the ECB either bought directly or engineered the purchase of the bonds of the two countries. But now the LTRO effect appears to have worn off, and yesterday interest rates for Spanish ten-year bonds climbed again to 5.99%. There is a large auction for ten-year Spanish bonds next week, which the market is clearly anticipating with a bit of concern. Meanwhile, Italian interest rates are not rising in lock step, which shows that the anxiety is now clearly directed at Spain. Ho-hum, move along folks, nothing to see here in Rome.
"Spain led the loss in the number of self-employed workers in Europe in 2011. One in two of the self-employed to lose their jobs in the EU over the year was Spanish. Seven out of ten self-employed in Spain do not employ anyone else. Over 2011 Europe lost a total of 203,200 self-employed workers, 0.6% fewer than in 2010.
"Following the news that cash business transactions over 2500 € are to be banned, Hacienda has said they will not fine anyone who admits that they have been making payments of more than 2,500 € over the previous three months. The cash limit is part of the Governments anti-fraud plans which have been approved today, Friday. Those Spaniards who have a bank account outside the country now face the legal obligation of having to inform Hacienda about the account. The Government hopes its anti-fraud measures will bring in 8.171 billion €."
The only reason Germany and France, et al., cared about Greece is that their banks had so much Greek debt on their balance sheets, in many cases more than enough to render them insolvent. Bailing out the banks directly would have been costly, so better (thought the European leaders) to do it with bailouts from funds created with guarantees from the various governments (which is a backdoor way to get it from taxpayers) and the European Central Bank. A crisis was avoided and there was a more or less orderly Greek default - which anybody who bothered to look at the math saw coming well in advance.
So, in the effort to make sure that everyone pays their taxes and to stop tax fraud, the Spanish government is going to find out which of its citizens have moved their money out of Spain. And let's be clear, money has been flying out of the banks of Spain and Portugal (and to some extent Italy) as it did, and still is, in Greece.
Let me hazard a modest prediction: We will see a rather sudden and substantial need for physical cash in certain other "peripheral" countries, as now their citizens may not want to leave trails as they go about opening foreign bank accounts. What is to keep Italy from doing as Spain has done? Or Portugal? Or France? Or Germany?
Let me be clear about something. I am not suggesting that people should not pay their taxes. If you choose to live in a country, you should pay the taxes that are required. What Spain is trying to do is simply make sure that all their citizens pay the proper amount of taxes. If there was already 100% compliance, there would be no need for new regulations like Spain's. And the same goes for the US. Our penalties are rather stiff for not paying taxes, more so, I'm guessing, than in most of Europe. I have on more than one occasion noted that the national sport of Italy is tax avoidance.
Let's get back to the central point. Spain is too big to fail and too big to save. The bond markets are clearly getting nervous, much sooner than was planned. Spain is clearly attempting to demonstrate that it will do everything in its power to comply with the new European austerity rules. Yet Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has warned that the situation has created "a vicious circle that strangles Spain."
One can look at the amount of money Spain will need to refinance in the coming year and look at their financial ability, then look at how much can possibly be raised by the European community, even under the proposed new structures, and readily come to the conclusion that there is simply not enough money to save Spain if the market goes Bang!
The only possible solution I see is for the European Central Bank to step in with some new program. ECB President Mario Draghi has demonstrated a marked ability to come up with new, creative ways to kick the can down the road. Finding the money to bail out Spain is hopefully in his book of tricks. As fellow central banker Ben Bernanke has noted, Mario has a printing press. And the LTRO showed he knows where it is and how to use it.
The German Bundesbank is saying as loudly as it can, "QE? Nein!!" But I count only two German votes among the 23 that compose the board of the ECB. Spain is demonstrating to its European brothers and sisters that it is doing all it can. "We are not Greece" is the clear statement. And "We need and deserve your help." Yesterday, Rajoy pointedly noted again that "What is good for Spain is good for the eurozone."
One should not underestimate the willingness of politicians who are viscerally committed to a certain action (in this case European unity) to spend someone else's money in the pursuit of that action. Especially if that money is a hidden tax in the form of debt monetization.
The markets are moving up the time table on the next large monetization of Spanish (and eventually Italian?) debt. Germans will shout that this is inflationary, and for them it probably will be. But much of the rest of Europe is in the grip of deflation. Spain is clearly in a classic Keynesian liquidity trap. This is what can happen when you have very different economies operating under one monetary roof. This is not simply a banking or sovereign-debt crisis, it is about a massive trade imbalance and huge differences in the productivity of labor. The trade imbalance between the south - Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece - and the north (mostly Germany) must be solved before there can be any resolution of the economic crisis. This is Economics 101, which European politicians seem to have slept through.
There will be the attempt to create some sort of fund to buy Spanish debt, but it will prove to not be enough. And given recent market movements, it may not be able to happen fast enough. It will not surprise me if the ECB uses the promise of such a fund as a pretext for acting sooner.
I will end this letter with the beginning of what I intended to write originally and hope to finish next week. Work and employment is changing before our eyes in the US and much of the developed world. As the Baby Boomer generation reaches retirement age and finds out that either it cannot afford to retire or does not want to retire, the "trickle-down" effect to younger workers is starting to become apparent in the data.
Let's look at three charts (hat tip to John Hussman, who called this to our attention and got me looking at the details). The first shows the employment level in the US for the last five years. The gray area is the official period of recession. Employment growth since the end of the recession has been only a few hundred thousand jobs a month; but since employment is a lagging indicator, you can claim that we have recovered 4 million jobs since the employment bottom in late 2009 or about 2 million jobs since the 3 rd quarter of 2009. It all depends on where you want to start your count. But we are still down roughly 4.5 million jobs since the beginning of the recession. This has been the slowest "recovery" since the end of WWII.
Now let's look at the next chart. This is the employment level for those over the age of 55. Notice that it kept rising all through the recession and especially after. People over 55 have seen their total employment level rise by about 4 million jobs since the beginning of the recession, and over 3 million jobs since the 3 rd quarter of 2009. Almost any way you look at it, those over 55 have seen their jobs level improve over those who are younger. If you take the end of the 3 rd quarter as your marker, the Boomer generation has seen its jobs level rise by 3 million, while overall jobs rose by just 2 million! Those who are younger are actually falling behind!
And once last chart before we go. Last week we looked at how the civilian participation rate (the percentage of the population who have a job or want a job) for the US has been falling for a decade and especially since the end of the recession. You can attribute a high percentage of the apparent decrease in unemployment to the fall in the participation rate.
Except for one group or cohort. This next chart is the participation rate of those over 65. Their participation rate is rising. The graph is "noisy," but the trend is clear. Whether willingly or out of necessity, older workers are staying longer in the work force. And given the rather lackluster employment growth, they are taking jobs that would normally go to younger workers, which is why we are seeing higher rates of unemployment among the latter. We will go into the why of that next week, but a great deal of it has to do with work skills.
So I looked down. I was still wearing them. I laughed and remarked about it to the security guy at the tail end of the line and began to leave, when suddenly they stopped everything. Seems I had found a particularly zealous security person. Not only did I have to take off my shoes, but I had to go back through security and get scanned all over again. Next time I will try being funny with a more amenable crowd.
It is time to hit the send button. It is once again late, but I get to sleep a little later here in Frisco, so I can adjust. Have a great week.


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Those are awesome additions!!! They are a great sideline focus!
Some very pertinent and rare photos from Robert Noss!!
An awesome RLB from Robert Noss!! Check out the Luftschutz Medal, second class!
Thanks for sharing this piece! It is a nice high rank and very rare!
Please have a look if interested!
This is my RLB Gorget, with label re Ortsgp Ost on reverse.
That is a great gorget!!! Nice!
This is an RLB visor I used to have!
That is a beautiful visor! Is it named? Who is the maker?
Sorry, I sold it last year and have no more images of it. It was un-named, but had a generic maker under the sweat shield. It was indeed, a quality visor!
Paul, I got this picture - If you interested I can post a much better scan.
Very nice!! I am envious. This is one of the best SHD photos I have seen. Looks like he is wearing a Westwall medal ribbon bar.
Please do post a better photo. If you ever sell it, I would love to be the new owner.
The photograph is very sharp and postcard size. There is no writing on the back to identify the individual.
Look at the details in the collar tabs!
That is one awesome photograph! I do appreciate you sharing it!
Here is a really cool RLB Luftschutzobertruppmann tab that I picked up at yesterday's show!!


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Professor Neil Ferguson warns of potential 'firebreak' lockdown in October
It comes as the government quashed reports of their being another lockdown
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Professor Neil Ferguson has warned that the country faces a difficult few weeks ahead as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.
The government shot down reports that a 'firebreak' lockdown would be coming in to effect next month.
However, Professor Ferguson, who created the idea of a lockdown, spoke out this week about what was potentially in store for the country.
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He warned: "I think we will see a difficult few weeks. We're expecting numbers to tick up," Birmingham Live reports.
"We need to monitor what's happening in the next few weeks, and if we start seeing something closer to the worst-case scenarios - case numbers at 100,000 or more - there may well need to be some course correction at that point.
A so-called firebreak lockdown in England is not being planned for October half-term, but there are contingency plans that would "only be reintroduced as a last resort" to protect the NHS, the Government has said.
Professor Robin Shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial College London, told Times Radio that next winter elderly people and the vulnerable may be given an updated booster vaccine.
Prof Shattock said the Delta variant will be observed to see if it "remains stable and globally dominant".
"If it does, then I think people will look to update the vaccine over time," he said.
"In the short term, we already know that the vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness from the Delta variant so there isn't a pressing need to rush quickly, although this can be done in a relatively short order, probably a period of six months."
He added: "I would imagine that as we come round to the winter of next year we will be looking to boost at least the elderly and vulnerable populations, most likely with an updated vaccine."
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DRAMeXchange reports pricing of NAND flash memory chips continued to slide in November. Pricing of 32Gb MLC NAND flash memory chips dipped at a rate of 1-3 percent in the second half of November, while 64Gb MLC NAND chips saw a decline of around 7 percent. The firm anticipates NAND flash memory pricing will see a mild downtrend in Q1 2013, as the company predicts a slight oversupply in the market.
According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, although NAND Flash manufacturers continue to use supply-restraint strategies as a means to stabilize prices, with the year-end replenishment demand from NAND Flash OEMs and channel market clients gradually declining after 2HNov, most mainstream NAND Flash average contract prices have continued to dip at a rate of 1-3%. In addition, following the increase of the 20nm 64Gb MLC shipments from some vendors, the 2HNov 64Gb MLC chip average prices have experienced a decline of approximately 7%.
As most NAND Flash clients will decrease their inventory levels under the year-end settlement effects, replenishment demand for December has begun to experience a continuous decline. Taking into account the slightly increased proportion of wafer production and new 20nm-class products from some suppliers, along with the effects of the promotion strategies implemented by NAND Flash vendors, TrendForce predicts that for December, NAND Flash contract prices will continue on a downtrend.
Despite the fact that only a few new smartphone models are expected to be released in 1Q13, and that some suppliers are employing production-cut or suspending capacity expansion strategies, the overall atmosphere toward the NAND Flash market demand remains conservative. As such, TrendForce projects that for the first quarter of next year, the NAND Flash market will experience a mild oversupply. NAND Flash contract prices, at the same time, are expected to exhibit a mild downtrend.


Did you miss me? I know I've been gone a while. Where did I go, you ask?
Well thanks to Google Maps, you can see my path to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
go down to New Orleans with me.
my way to New Orleans.
twice (hey, where u at?), and arrived just in time for the Superbowl.
We won't talk about Philly losing. At all.
Number of beads I got? 11. Do I have more pictures? Nope. Thank goodness.
You wouldn't want to see how I got the beads, would you? ( I plead the 5th).
The drink of choice while in New Orleans? A hurricane.
is enough to make the mack daddy in me come out. Again, I plead the fifth.
a bar or stand outside, cavorting. Pound pound, sista, pound pound.
them? On second thought, don't answer that…..
concert….and I coudn't even meet up with him on Saturday. Damn, damn, damn.
worked, making up for my two days off.
I have to really figure out whether out I'm going to SXSW.
and not even 101 days have passed? Geeze. At least I completed another task.
And, lest we not forget, today is Valentines Day. Happy Valentines Day to all. Much love.
Whats with you and cars and electronics? You must have been some kind of electronic demolition man or something in a past life, LOL. About #5, you can just show/tell me and I will describe it for everybody…uhhh that didn't work did it? LOL. Glad you had a great vacation…well almost great.
That discussion we had on Saturday and your post above leads me to believe our Rodeos..belong in a rodeo…for real. Welcome back, bruh. LOL@Honey's e-demolition man comment!
At least you made it home in one piece – that was my concern. And it you decide to go to SXSW after our discussion yesterday, I will kill you.
Okay, perhaps "kill" is too strong a word.
LOL, I'm with Honey…what is it about you with cars and electronics?
i don't know about y'all, but i want to see how he got the beads.
Hope you have a splendid Valentine's Day!!
Hey, i'm jealous. Sounds like a great time.
Good on the vac time, bad on the car. At least it happened after the fun stuff. Happy Belated V-Day Papi.
I'm sorry about your car. I missed Eric too :-/. Not due to car trouble though. I was too lazy to leave home. Yep. That's all. A severe case of laziness was the cause of me missing the concert. $36 down the drain :(. Boo for me.
Now I know why my car stopped working after you was in it. Thanks bro.
sounds like you had a decent vacation so tell us Eric, how DID you get those beads, eh? lol!


So, what if you suddenly get involved in a car crash, see someone lying on the floor or your neighbor's kitchen is on fire? What would you do? Would you be prepared to react?
Up to 75% of cardiac arrests happen to be at home. And every minute a person is not breathing equals to a loss of 10% in chance for surviving. Around 8 to 10 minutes without resuscitation maneuvers and the brain will very likely have sequels for the rest of patient's life.
Small accidents and big disasters cause hundreds of casualties every year in our country, resulting from inappropriate population behaviour due, basically, to a lack of knowledge of Emergency Plans, skills and preparedness to respond to situations of this magnitude.
Just because few and very basic principles can be applied by any citizen in case of an emergency, it's crucial to train the Civil Society in order to have it prepared for such situations.
Protect. First things first. Bystanders shall follow a self protection attitude, identify sources of risk and peril and eliminate or, at least, mitigate them without compromising their own life and securiy and the one of the victims and people surrounding.
Alert. It's absolutely key that Emergency Services are early warned by calling 112, so Chain of Survival is activated right from the beginning, helping professionals to take over the situation as soon as possible.
Save. Checking responsiveness of the victim, assuring permeability of the airway and substantiating whether the person is breathing, are the first three steps to be executed by lay rescuers. Performing a Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, controlling severe bleeding and knowing what to do with a traumatic patient can be performed by any person, at any age, causing great benefits to the patient.
A group of Emergency Professionals (both workers and volunteers) believe in this idea and are defending a manifesto for the inclusion of Civil Defence and First Aid topics at School, aiming to help save lives. Current learning pathway and curricula shall incorporate these skills. And the Educational community must embrace the idea.
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As you say, many lives could be saved following three basic steps: protect, alert and save. To be able to cope with an emergency it is essential that citizens know what to do. And this is an issue that should be learnt at school. That is why I encourage everyone to join EdCivEmerg. With everyone's help, we may be able to save many lives.


After my house had been broken into, Tony and John installed a security gate at the side of the house. Had checked around for best pricing and Airmount were defininitely most competitive. Besides the gate looking great, it gave an added sense of security and a great deterrent to would be thieves. Thanks Guys!


Let our most experienced local guides take you to the best sites of the Białowieża Forest and Biebrza Marshes in the height of each season. Visit places you wouldn't find on your own and spend plenty of quality time out in the wilderness.
This tour takes you around the best sites of Poland's two most precious national parks, the Białowieża Forest and Biebrza Marshes.
In the Białowieża Forest we will go out tracking Wolves, Bison and birdwatching after rarities like White-backed Woodpeckers or Pygmy Owl. In the Biebrza Marshes, we will go for Elk (Moose) Safari, take a boat cruise down the river watching Beavers and watch some of the world's rarest birds.
What is more, the eastern Polish traditional landscape with small, wooden houses and local, gorgeous food as well as a short visit at the Warsaw old town will add a unique taste to this tour.
The best time for flooded meadows with Marsh Marigolds as well as Ruffs and other waders in breeding plumage. Very good for large mammals like Bison, Elk and Beaver. Best time for early migrants such as Collared Flycatcher, Bluethroat, Marsh Terns as well as some Woodpeckers and Owls. No mosquitoes in April!
The best time for late birds like Thrush Nightingale, Aquatic Warbler, Corncrake, Red-backed Shrike, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Barred & River Warblers, Rosefinch. Still a good time for large mammals like Bison, Elk, Beaver and others. Explosion of wildflowers, butterflies, dragonflies and other invertebrates.
Outburst of wildflowers, butterflies, dragonflies and other invertebrates continues. Only some birds are still active and mostly at dawns. Last months to see Storks and other birds before they leave. Bison mating season starts and large Bison herds can be found at glades. Perfect months for Beaver watching at our boat cruise but other mammals can be a bit more difficult to find and therefore we will focus on dusks and dawns more, as the days can be hot.
High activity of Woodpeckers and Owls, migration of waders, birds of prey and Cranes. Bison, Red Deer and Elk have their rutting season and males of Deer and Elk wear impressive antlers. This is also the best time of the year for numerous fungi. The foliage starts turning yellow but most of it still remains green.
The best time for picturesque autumn colours and wildlife in mist. Good for Bison, Beavers (during our evening boat trip), Elks (Moose) with antlers, large flocks of Cranes. Not many birds left at this time but the stunning autumn colours make up for it and there is more time to focus on mammal and landscape photography.
Day 5: Transfer to the Biebrza Marshes, several stops en route.
4 nights at a comfortable 4-star hotel › with a pool and sauna in the Białowieża Forest. 3 nights at a comfortable family run guesthouse in the Biebrza Marshes (Dwór Dobarz › or similar). Twin or single rooms with en suite facilities.
13.00 (at the latest) pick up from Warsaw F. Chopin Airport Okecie (WAW) and transfer to Białowieża Forest. After ca. 4 hrs drive we will check in at a comfortable 4-star hotel › in the Białowieża village. The hotel has a swimming pool and sauna and there should be enough free time in the course of our stay to use these facilities.
After a hearty Polish dinner the guide will introduce you to the area and talk about the plans. For the next three full days (Days 2 to 4) we will be exploring the Białowieża Forest and the surrounding areas.
If time allows, our guide will offer a short evening walk already on the 1st day so that you can get accustomed to the area and possibly see some wildlife!
At dawns and dusks we will go after wild European Bison, trying to get you close to these magnificent animals.
There are over 500 Bison living in the wild here and we have probably the best local knowledge on where to find them. We will transfer in our minibus through the forest and go for a few short walks and visit a number of different lookout sites in a more safari style. We may see individual old bulls, small herds of younger animals or large mixed herds of cows with calves. We have seen wild Bison on all our previous trips so far and have had some really close encounters, especially early spring and in autumn.
At middays, we will take you further into the wild. You will see some of our favourite trails that wind through a variety of different habitats deep in the centre of the Białowieża Forest. Species seen on such walks include some of the rare woodpeckers, birds of prey or mammals such as Bison, Red Deer or even Wolves and Lynx.
On one of the days in the Białowieża Forest our expert nature guide will invite you for a walk through the only accessible part of the Strict Protection Area of the National Park in Białowieża, the Man and Biosphere Reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a must-see for every visitor in Białowieża.
This trip takes you back in time a few thousand years, when most of Europe was covered with a similar forest. The dense forest of huge, centuries-old trees that host thousands of creatures on the verge of extinction. Our expert guide will share his great knowledge with enthusiasm that will change your view of nature. This excursion will awaken and educate. You will feel as if you have been transported into a BBC wildlife documentary.
You will also have a chance to see some of the rare woodpeckers like Black, White-backed or Three-toed as well as other birds, depending on the season. All our guides are experienced birders and will point out everything that there is to see.
Our guide will take you for a few more walks in the Białowieża Forest and the surrounding areas to show you season's best at a variety of habitats.
Early spring you will have a chance to watch the Three-toed and White-backed Woodpeckers, Hazel Grouse or Pygmy Owl while late spring is the best for Thrush Nightingale, Collared and Red-breasted Flycatchers, Rosefinch or the numerous Marsh, Barred and River Warblers.
In summer you will spend some time at the shores of the lakes where Black Stork, White-tailed or Lesser Spotted Eagles can be seen. Finally, autumn brings the numerous colourful fungi and rutting season of Bison, Red Deer and Elk.
But there is so much more to see: wildflowers, plentiful frogs and toads, snakes and lizards, butterflies, dragonflies and underwater invertebrates. Your days will start early and finish late – all to give you a full experience of the unscathed nature of north-eastern Poland.
After your last swim in the hotel pool and the usual hearty Polish breakfast, we will set off for a few hours journey to the Biebrza Marshes.
Driving through the countryside you will see some traditional wooden architecture and we will also have a chance to stop at one of the many colourful villages for a short walk and a full eastern Poland experience.
At spring and summer we will visit a few small ponds with abundant White-tailed Eagles, Marsh Harriers, Black and Red-necked Grebes and a lot more (the usual frogs, toads and insects).
We will end the day with a short walk in the Biebrza National Park and try to spot our first Elk (all seasons) or one of the rarest birds in the world – the famous Aquatic Warbler (spring and summer) at one of the largest peat-bogs of Europe.
We shall arrive at our comfortable guesthouse in the Biebrza area (Dwór Dobarz › or similar) on time for a substantial dinner after which we will again have a short talk about the plans for the next days.
This early morning we will go for an Elk (Moose) safari driving through the willow shrub and vast fens. We may also have a short walk to one of the wooden hides overviewing the marshes. There are over 1000 Elks in this area and our guides know the wetlands like the back of their hands. We have had some fantastic close encounters with Elks on most previous trips, especially in early spring.
After a hearty Polish breakfast we will continue visiting the best sites that Biebrza has to offer at a given season. We may take a walk in the bog alder forest for woodpeckers or scan the vast marshes for White-tailed, Lesser and Greater Spotted Eagles, Hoopoe, Black Stork and other common birds. We may also pay a short visit at a picturesque raised bog with its variety of rare flora.
We shall get back for an earlier (but still plentiful) dinner on this day and in the evening we will set off for a Beaver safari. When the time is right, just about sunset, we will board our stable flat-bottomed boat for a gentle cruise down the river. You will spend a good hour or more on the water having chances to spot several Beavers as they swim across the river, get out to the shores to mark the territory, groom their fur and feed on twigs. We have run this very popular trip for several years now and never missed a Beaver sight! It actually became a highlight of the whole tour for many of our previous participants.
This morning our guide will take you into the restricted area of the Biebrza National Park, the famous Red Bog Reserve, home for one pack of Wolves and plenty of other wildlife. You will learn the advanced tracking skills and see some of the most stunning landscapes. We will spend some time on the glacial sand dunes at the edge of the marsh where snakes and lizards are often found and we will have our packed lunch in the heart of the National Park overviewing the vast marshland.
In spring and autumn we may change the red bog trek for a drive around a few other sites in the Biebrza National Park where a lot more is likely to happen – the spectacle of lekking Ruff and Snipe, breeding White-winged Terns, Black-tailed Godwits or spawning frogs and flocking Cranes.
This morning, after our usual substantial breakfast (don't worry, you will get used to it by the end of the holiday) we will set off for a ca. 3 hours journey back to Warsaw. We plan to arrive at Warsaw by 12:00, have a short walk in the Old Town and sit at a small restaurant for a traditional Polish lunch.
The tour ends when we arrive in Warsaw. Participants book a hotel there and flights home at their own expense. Around 16:00 we will drive you to the WAW airport or drop you off at a hotel, if you stay in Warsaw.
Just a few videos and a few more photographs from our previous Primeval Forest & Marshes tours to give you an idea of what it's like here.
Great family holiday with outstanding wildlife and landscapes. Well informed, helpful and opened guide. We particularly liked the stillness of this beautiful region. A highlight was having a beaver glide right next to our boat on the beaver safari!
Everything about the trip exceeded our expectations, from the superb guiding, huge range of wildlife and the excellent accommodation and food. Our first experience of Poland has been a real joy and we would love to return!
Superlatives roll off the tongue for this trip. Excellent, amazing and extremely well organized will have to suffice. We had good views of so much wildlife with great birds and terrific mammals. The forest with immense trees, the Biebrza Marsh and flooded fields will stay long in the memory. Andrzej is a star. Considerate to all and coupled with a terrific sense of humour. He has superb knowledge and he worked hard for us. Our journeys were safely driven.
Perfectly organised trip! The highlights were Beaver watching boat trip and guided walk in the Bialowieza Forest Strict Protection Area with Irek.
Dawn walks. Beavers. Detailed information about habitat formation. Wild flowers. I enjoyed everything!
Quality from start to finish. I was lucky because we saw, for late August, good wildlife. Even without some of the sightings the trip would still have been outstanding because of what Lukasz taught us about the wonderful and varied habitats we visited and the wonderful views we got of most sightings. Can't wait to return at other time of the year.
The enthusiasm and great knowledge of our guide Peter – on par with that of renowned ornithologists in our party. The whole group very much enjoyed his positive approach to everything. His eagerness to show us everything nature holds in store and first and foremost his overwhelming friendliness. This holiday was a lifetime experience for everybody in the party.
Fantastic scenery, lots of gorgeous birds and mammals, great company and excellent guide, very knowledgable & with great sense of humour. Would recommend it to friends!
The excellent knowledge of guide, his helpfulness, nothing was too much trouble. Great views of the wildlife.
We were amazed by the richness and the variety of species we have seen and by the knowledge of our guide Piotr. He is an excellent guide and a bird wikipedia. Whenever a bird makes a sound he can immediately tell what and where it is. Białowieża and Biebrza National Parks offer the real wilderness.
We wanted to see Bison, which we did. But this holiday was so much more than this. Lots of great memories – getting close to Elk, Lynx footprints, the first Crane of the year all made possible by our excellent guide.
Great tour. I never knew it was possible to see so many animals in such a short timespan and learn so much about the animals and the Polish Country.
We had a wonderful trip to see birds and mammals in early spring in the Bialowiesza Forest and Biebrza marshes. We had excellent views of bison, elk, beavers and other mammals. The boat trip to see beavers at work was fantastic. We also saw lots of birds, the most memorable for us being the white-tailed eagle, all three types of spotted woodpecker plus black, white-backed, grey-headed and three-toed woodpeckers – quite a set!
Lucasz Mazurek is a knowledgeable naturalist and superb guide. Food and accommodation were very good. We recommend the holiday!
This was an action packed tour that contained every ingredient for success – wonderful outdoors, an abundance of interesting wildlife, a fantastically knowledgable and expert guide, and a carefully chosen and researched itinerary.
Perfect tour! Excellent guide and a fantastic view into wildlife in Poland. Feeding Beaver 10 m from the boat, grazing Elk and Bison very near and around 130 bird species and a lot of different habitats visited. Highly recommendable!
Absolutely fantastic! The guide was very knowledgable. Saw Bison, Lynx, Wolf, Wild Boar, Moose and many more. I would highly recommend this company!!
Poland turns out to be a new star on the ecotours firmament! The excellent guiding by Lukasz Mazurek opened the unknown/unexpected beauty of Polish wildlife. Close encounters with Bisons, Elks, Otters & Beavers were magical moments!
What a fabulous week we had under the expert guidance of Lukasz. His attention to detail was superb and his knowledge of the area was second to none.
He was able to take us to numerous wildlife sites in both the Biebrza Marshes and the Bialowieza Forest which allowed us to maximise the number of bird species (145) and mammal (9) sightings. He was able to find us Elk, Bison, Wild Boar and Beaver among others. The trip was intensive (early mornings and late evenings) but was very rewarding.
Lukasz is very client focused, nothing is too much for him. We cannot thank him enough and would recommend both him and his company to anyone.


The injuries just keep piling up, but Cal refuses to use them as an excuse.
The Bears returned to practice Monday after a 45-24 loss at Oregon, now knowing that star wide receiver Demetris Robertson will miss the rest of the season with a lower body injury.
"Next man up," said head coach Justin Wilcox. "Unfortunately injuries occur and guys have to step up... It's not just the receivers. It's the (offensive) line, it's the running backs, it's the defense, it's the kicking game, it's everybody.


I used the barcodes from Bruce Lee movie DVDs to create this 8 foot portrait of the Chinese martial artist. The mosaic tiles are arranged in a zig-zag pattern to break focus like a shockwave from a punch. I also made video interface to scan each barcode on the Bruce Lee face, and a computer plays short fight clip from that movie.


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My definition of "Thoughtful Service and Helpfulness" is a two way gift, which is not only given but we receive a gift of mindfulness, delightfulness and accomplishment as well. I have learned throughout this class that service and helpfulness does not have to be something defined and huge, it could be as little as just giving, loving, appreciating and celebrating, listening, forgiving, spreading peace, and last not least, sharing. Service does not to be assisting or providing help, it could be matter of celebrating, forgiving, listening, and/or making someone happy. It could be just as simple as smiling and spreading the positive energy around. Service does not have to be a huge profitable or nonprofit occasion; it could be as little as doing something for your own mother or a friend. Service and thoughtfulness, benefits us find spirituality and peacefulness within our inner self, which introduces a concept of self-care.
Gift of service brings the positive energy to the environment, you are giving a gift to others, at the same it is considered self-care thus, it is a two way process. As Post stated in his book-Why Good Things Happen TO Good People, "human needs are complicated, and you will find no shortage of opportunities to give" from post book chap 2. Giving is a gift that you cherish with family, loved ones, colleagues, and sometimes strangers. "Giving" invited the world for peace and love. "To celebrate we must connect deeply with others" post chapter 2, it is such a simple idea of service and giving but is considered generous. Idea of giving teaches us how important it is to appreciate others and our community, because that leads into greater good for the world. It invites happiness and cheerfulness. Loving is another gift that we contribute, "how love can bring happiness in one's life, it can be soothing and fulfilling" post chapter 1, which is considered a service and introduces idea of healing one's innersole.


The largest doctor group in the U.S. is calling for a ban on direct-to-consumer marketing for prescription drugs and medical devices.
You can't watch TV for long before seeing a commercial for a big pharma drug (with its comically long list of side effects). But the biggest medical organization in the U.S. would like that to change.
After wrestling with the issue for well over a decade, on Tuesday the American Medical Association (AMA) called for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices.
The announcement came from members at an AMA meeting in Atlanta.
"We want to spend our time diagnosing and treating patients, not rebutting marketing claims," Michael Miller, a delegate of the Wisconsin Medical Society, argued at the meeting, according to Bloomberg.
It's unclear how much effect this call will have, however, given that such a ban would require an act of Congress.
"It's important that the AMA is adding its voice to this issue, but Congress has shown no real interest in taking up this topic," Aaron Kesselheim, director of the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Harvard Medical School, told BuzzFeed News by email.
"There are important First Amendment jurisprudence hurdles related to commercial speech that need to be considered before such a measure could be enforced," he added.
The United States is one of only two countries (the other is New Zealand) that allows direct-to-consumer advertising, such as TV and magazine spots, for prescription drugs. Drug companies spent $4.5 billion on consumer marketing in 2014. This investment, according to the AMA, fuels higher drug prices.
The FDA requires only that a new drug perform better than a placebo. The agency does not test whether a new drug is better than an older (and generally cheaper) drug.
To get doctors to write prescriptions for new drugs that cost more and don't necessarily make people healthier than the ones they're familiar with, drug companies try a lot of tactics. They run training courses to convince doctors to switch, they meet with doctors in their offices, and they run ads in journals and magazines that doctors are most likely to read.
But they also ramp up pressure by targeting patients directly. "Talk to your doctor" is a phrase that every American TV watcher is familiar with.
American consumers are also concerned about these pharma ads: A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Health Foundation found that 89% of respondents thought that the FDA should review prescription ads before they air. Currently, it's against federal law for the agency to do so; instead, it relies on consumer complaints after the ads have run.
The AMA has been wrestling with direct-to-consumer ads since at least 2001. Members called for a temporary moratorium in 2006, then voted against a ban in 2007 and 2008. The previous policy on consumer advertising outlined what the AMA considered an acceptable advertisement.
The new policy does not specifically address the rise of social media advertising, such as when Kim Kardashian got a warning letter from the FDA for running a morning sickness advertisement on her Instagram without proper safety information.
"In the old days, DTC was the one way they tried to reach consumers. Even if you got rid of all the magazine ads and TV ads, there's still a tremendous platform to reach consumers" in social media, Steven Woloshin, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, told BuzzFeed News.
Critics at the meeting said that the ban would limit the free speech of drug companies and doctors, and that some advertising helps teach consumers about conditions they might not otherwise seek help for, such as depression, according to Bloomberg.
Others say that banning direct-to-consumer advertising isn't enough.
"It would have a much greater impact if it also went on to address promotion to physicians," Joel Lexchin, a professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University, told BuzzFeed News by email.
"In dollar figures the amount of money spent promoting drugs to doctors is 10 times more than the amount spent on [advertising]," Lexchin added. "And doctors are the ones who make the ultimate decision about what drugs to prescribe."
This post has been updated to include a comment from Aaron Kesselheim of Harvard.


Urist likes kakapo for their flightlessness.
Kakapo are small, flightless parrots who appear in a number of temperate biomes. A lone kakapo may occasionally appear in the map and do little else but meander around adorably - they are kea, except without all the bad parts. In adventure mode, male kakapo are one of the few creatures in the game who can be listened to from a distance, with the game describing their booms and chings as the player approaches them.
Kakapo can be captured with cage traps and trained into low-value pets. They can be used to produce a meager quantity of eggs, which is likely the most suitable use for them as tearing the adorable thing apart only provides enough meat to fill up six round little dwarves for a season. Kakapo are among the longest living animals in the game, some living up to 120 years, which makes them actually quite long-lasting companions to dwarves who adopt them.
Some dwarves like kakapo for their longevity, their flightlessness and their booming calls.
Admired for its booming calls.
Kakapo are also known to mate with humans given the chance : https://youtu.be/mU13O0gAVmA?t=27s They make good pets, but dangerous scapegoats.


Granted, the weather may sometime not seem a welcoming element, but I do not mind some wind, or a light showers. Midges poke my patience, but they are not around all day.It's summer in Ireland, usually not too hot or too cold, but a 'comfort'.
This is a season when I spend some time each day, spent laying somewhere, within one of the Labyrinth Gardens here. Being a weather lore fan I lay looking up at the clouds dancing while listening to the birds. Clouds change their 'images' quickly and set off new imaginative visions. They are amazing storytellers.
Do nothing but this for an hour, and through that time breathing deepens! calm cloaks, and sense of awareness becomes very fine tuned.No mobile phone. I never miss anything exciting on that. Meanwhile there are blossoms out that I may have missed, a frog jumping, a bird hunting, bees buzzing, landing and working.


Today Rocko and I were enjoying some of this lovely weather in our courtyard. Him in a dog bone print and myself in gingham...and both in red. He might not have been so happy that we dressed like twins...but I won this battle. Aren't we just adorable together!?!?!
I have been doing a bunch of shopping at Lord & Taylor lately. That's what happens when you work two blocks from their midtown location. Not that I really mind...they have been having amazing sales lately (and their show department is spectacular!). Stop by now because they are having their friends and family sale! You can thank me later!
So much going on in my neighborhood this weekend. We'll be stopping by the Northside Festival and it's festivities on Bedford Avenue. Art, music, food, and fun...sounds like a good time to me. Follow along on my Instagram and Snapchat (snapshotfashion) for my adventures!!!


New analysis of 3.46 billion-year-old rocks has found that structures once thought to be the Earth's oldest microfossils instead have the character of peculiarly shaped minerals.
In 1993, US scientist Bill Schopf likened tiny carbon-rich filaments within the 3.46 billion-year-old Apex chert from the Pilbara region of Western Australia to certain forms of bacteria. These "Apex chert microfossils" soon became enshrined in textbooks as the earliest evidence for life on Earth, and were even used to test and help refute the case against the presence of microfossils in the Martian meteorite ALH 84001.
Even so, their curious colour and complexity gave rise to suspicions that these curious structures were not true microfossils but pseudofossils formed by the redistribution of carbon around mineral grains during hydrothermal events.
Now scientists at The University of Western Australia have demonstrated that the Apex chert microfossils comprise stacks of plate-like clay minerals arranged into branched and tapered worm-like chains. Carbon that was later absorbed onto the edges of these minerals during the circulation of hydrothermal fluids gave a false impression of carbon-rich cell-like walls.
Dr David Wacey and Prof Martin Saunders of UWA used transmission electron microscopy to examine ultrathin slices of microfossil candidates and create nanoscale maps of their size, shape, mineral chemistry and the distribution of carbon.
It soon became clear that the distribution of carbon was unlike anything seen in authentic microfossils. "A false appearance of cellular compartments is given by multiple plates of clay minerals having a chemistry entirely compatible with a high temperature hydrothermal setting," Wacey said.


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On the Possibility of Alex Ovechkin Returning to Dynamo Moscow
September 4, 2013	12:01 am
Editor's note: Peter here. We've posted two translations in the last week about Alex Ovechkin possibly being wooed back to Dynamo Moscow while still under contract with the Washington Capitals. This idea seems outlandish, but given Ilya Kovalchuk's recent defection and the vagaries of international hockey regulations, I wanted to get a better handle on the issue. Below is a conversation I had with Fedor Fedin that was educational for me and I hope will be for you as well.
PETER HASSETT: Fedor, we recently heard the general director of Dynamo Moscow, Andrei Safronov, speak optimistically about the possibility of Alex Ovechkin leaving the Capitals and returning to Russia to play in the KHL one day. Presuming this would happen before Ovechkin's contract expires, are there any regulations or agreements between the NHL and KHL that would apply to a situation like this one?
(Readers: Feel free to skip this one if you don't care about the legal specifics.)
FEDOR FEDIN: First of all, there's a KHL/NHL Memorandum of Understanding. According to it:
The KHL and NHL respect each other's contracts. Both parties recognize and support the main principle: players under contract with a club from one league cannot fulfill any obligation to a club from another league during the term of the player's contract. In the event of any conflict or disagreement arising, both parties shall appoint their official representatives to hold negotiations.
Second, there's the IIHF International Transfer Regulations. In Part I, Chapter 6, "Transfers with Non-Member Organizations" (NHL is a member organization, while KHL, assigned to conduct Russian national tournaments by the Russian Hockey Federation, isn't), it states:
[A]ny player who wishes to transfer from a non-member organization to an IIHF member national association will be subject to the IIHF Statutes & Bylaws and Regulations upon signature of the ITC Card. Thus, these regulations including any sanctions will apply to the transfer of such players.
Skip to Part II, Chapter 3, "Breach of Contracts":
A one season ban on international transfers shall be imposed by the IIHF General Secretary on any club found to be inducing a breach of contract. It shall be presumed, unless established to the contrary, that any club signing a player who has breached his contract has induced that player to commit a breach.
However, according to the same chapter, individual (or "sporting") sanctions would not be imposed in this hypothetical case involving Ovechkin:
Sporting sanctions shall be imposed on players found to be in breach of contract (a) during the first three years of a contract for players aged up to and including 28 years of age, and (b) during the first two years of a contract for players aged 29 and over.
Also, according to Part II, Chapter 4:
The IIHF General Secretary will approve the ITC, should he ascertain that the player has not committed a breach of contract.
It seems the summary of these regulations means that IIHF would not approve such a transaction, but the player would not be subject to sanctions. His new club (e.g. Dynamo), however, might be.
PETER HASSETT: Earlier this Summer, Ilya Kovalchuk ostensibly retired from the NHL in the middle of his contract and immediately signed with SKA St. Petersburg. What happened there with respect to those same regulations? Are there parallels between that situation and Ovi (if he were to choose to go back to the KHL)?
FEDOR FEDIN: Kovalchuk, as you said, retired from the NHL. Therefore, he was free from any obligations with the Devils, just as they were from any contractual obligations to him. However, as reported by Nick Cotsonika, the NHL could've fought it if Devils chose to. They would most likely argue that Kovalchuk found a loophole to circumvent NHL/KHL agreement. That would probably end up a subject for interleague negotiations.
PETER HASSETT: So the Devils chose not to take action, perhaps because it was advantageous for them to be rid of Kovalchuk's contract. If they had taken action, or if the Capitals take action in the hypothetical circumstance we're talking about, what would happen? Could there be financial consequences to the KHL and its teams? Could contracts be invalidated?
FEDOR FEDIN: The NHL could (and probably would) force the matter in two ways.
First would be by way of NHL/KHL negotiations. The two sides would have to find some compromise, though it's difficult to see what would satisfy both sides in this situation. Maybe the KHL would stop hunting for Ovi and other Russian stars under contract in exchange for the NHL giving some ground on the transfer-agreement negotiations that have been pointless so far. Who knows.
Second, the NHL could probably seek sanctions through the IIHF against the club that signed the player and request to invalidate the transaction, assuming the IIHF would approve it in the first place.
The KHL, though, thinks the legal basis is in their favor. Commissioner Alexander Medvedev said on Monday:
NHL regulations provide a certain path for those who want for some reason to retire from the professional career in the American league. And when Kovalchuk returned, everything was done in accordance to those regulations. So if we assume that Ovechkin or someone else would want to continue his career not in the NHL, but in the KHL or some other league, there are legal options for that. It depends on player's desire to use that possibility. I want to note that in the Kovalchuk case the club nor the NHL put obstacles to prevent such a decision. You've got to give credit to the NHL regulations: What is written with a pen can't be cut with an axe [Ed note: a Russian idiom] there. No one had made such a step before Kovalchuk. But the precedent is there.
PETER HASSETT: Has anything like that ever happened in the past? Or has it happened in the opposite direction– with an active KHL player signing with an NHL team?
FEDOR FEDIN: Aside from Kovalchuk, there was the Radulov case. In 2008, Alexander Radulov signed with Salavat Yulaev Ufa while under an entry-level contract with the Nashville Predators. IIHF investigated the case and here's their decision:
A group of international lawyers hired by the IIHF concluded that Radulov was under a binding and valid contract with the NHL's Nashville Predators at the time when he signed a contract with Salavat Yulayev Ufa of the KHL.
The IIHF does not support the breach of valid and binding agreements. However, the current IIHF statutes and bylaws – as well the absence of an agreement regarding respect of valid contracts between the IIHF and NHL – does not give the IIHF legal base to sanction the player from professional domestic hockey.
In 2012, Radulov played out the rest of his contract with the Preds, coming to North America after Salavat Yulaev was eliminated from the KHL playoffs. He returned to Russia that summer.
It seems like the necessary updates were made to IIHF documents to avoid a repeat of such a situation, but there's still no transfer agreement between the NHL and KHL/Russian Hockey Federation.
The most recent conflict situation is the case of Russian prospect Nikolai Prokhorkin. After getting drafted by the Los Angeles Kings last year, Prokhorkin signed an ELC with the club while still under contract with CSKA Moscow in the KHL. CSKA decided to pursue their rights, and the interleague negotiating committee returned Prokhorkin to CSKA, rendering his deal with the Kings invalid.
PETER HASSETT: So do you think it's fair to say that we don't yet know exactly what would happen if an NHL player under contract defected to the KHL while his NHL team still wanted him?
FEDOR FEDIN: Yes, especially if he calls that a 'retirement.' The NHL would look to prove it was an attempt to circumvent his deal, but no one knows what the decision would be. It would set a huge precedent though, going a long way in the hockey landscape — long-term contracts would mean no guarantees for the club.
Another interesting option for the NHL is to preventatively agree on tweaking the CBA with the NHLPA to somehow discourage players from 'retiring' and signing in the KHL. But whether the players would agree to it or not, and how the NHL would try to police another league– those are difficult to imagine.
PETER HASSETT: Okay, final question: Assuming that, right now, Alex Ovechkin would not want to vacate a great contract with a good team in the world's best league, and that the Washington Capitals would not want to lose the best player in franchise history and the single biggest factor in their success this last decade, under what circumstances could you foresee Alex Ovechkin leaving the Capitals for Dynamo— and Washington letting him go?
FEDOR FEDIN: I could see it happening if Ovechkin's game completely falls apart, making his contract unbearable for the club. But even that is unlikely considering that the salary cap is expected to grow wildly in the next few years, limiting the potential damage from Ovechkin's $9.5M cap hit. Even if the Caps eventually decide to go to into rebuild mode, keeping an attractive player like Ovi on their roster would help attendance in the lean years.
Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Radulov, Ilya Kovalchuk, KHL


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1. It is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance.2. It is highly important to note the physical and mental condition of the experimenter or experimenters.3. The time and place of all experiments must be noted also the state of the weather, and generally all conditions which might conceivably have any result upon the experiment either asadjuvants to or causes of the result, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error.4. The AA will not take off... More >>>
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1. It is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance.
2. It is highly important to note the physical and mental condition of the experimenter or experimenters.
3. The time and place of all experiments must be noted also the state of the weather, and generally all conditions which might conceivably have any result upon the experiment either as
adjuvants to or causes of the result, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error.
4. The AA will not take official notice of any experiments which are not thus properly recorded.
5. It is not necessary at this stage for us to declare fully the ultimate end of our researches nor indeed would it be understood by those who have not become proficient in these elementary courses.
6. The experimenter is encouraged to use his own intelligence, and not to rely upon any other person or persons, however distinguished, even among ourselves.
7. The written record should be intelligibly prepared so that others may benefit from its study.
8. The book John St. John published in the first number of the "Equinox" is an example of this kind of record by a very advanced student. It is not as simply written as we could wish, but will shew the method.
9. The more scientific the record is, the better. Yet the emotions should be noted, as being some of the conditions. Let then the record be written with sincerity and care, and with practice it will be found more and more to approximate to the ideal.
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 - 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, prolific writer and poet, mystic, astrologer, drug experimenter, hedonist, aficionado of chess and mountain climbing, sexual revolutionary and social critic. He is perhaps best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the Argenteum Astrum, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). Crowley gained much notoriety during his lifetime, and was famously dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World."
Aleister Crowley founded the religion of Thelema, which became adopted by the Ordo Templis Orientis (O.T.O.) as well as the magical order Argenteum Astrum, the Order of the Silver Star. He was also a highly controversial member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where he was known by the magical name of Frater Perdurabo.
Crowley's lifestyle was absolutely shocking in the era in which he lived. Besides his interest in the occult, he was sexually promiscuous with both genders (at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in Britain), frequented prostitutes, was vocally defiant against Christianity and Victorian and post-Victorian prudishness toward sexual subjects, and was a drug addict.
While Crowley detested Christianity, he considered himself an immensely religious and spiritual person. His writings record incidents of experiencing deity, and Thelemites consider him to be a prophet. In 1904, he encountered a being known as Aiwass, described as a "minister" to Horus, the central deity in Thelema, and as a Holy Guardian Angel. Aiwass dictated the Book of the Law, which Crowley wrote down and published, becoming the central Thelemic text.
Crowley's beliefs included pursuing the Great Work, which included gaining self-knowledge and uniting with the larger universe. He also encouraged seeking out one's ultimate destiny or purpose, commonly referred to as one's True Will.
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"Need For Speed" actress Imogen Poots will star in Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films' "Beautiful Ruins" with Todd Field set to direct. Filming is set to start in May in Italy.
Based on the Jess Walter novel that became a bestseller after its publication in June 2012, the story follows an American ingenue who travels to Italy in 1962 during the production of "Cleopatra." Poots will star as the young actress Dee Moray. Casting is under way for the male roles, which include a young Italian hotelier, "Cleopatra" star Richard Burton, a WWII veteran working to complete a novel and a studio raconteur.
Field, who directed "Little Children" and "In the Bedroom," is writing the script with Walter. Field will produce through his Standard Film, along with Cross Creek's Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson and Smuggler's Brian Carmody and Patrick Milling Smith. Adam Kassan will oversee production for Cross Creek.
After breaking onto the scene in the horror pic "28 Weeks Later," Poots has become one of Hollywood's hot young actresses. In the next year she has films set to bow that include Focus' "The Awkward Moment" with Zac Efron, "Need For Speed," "A Long Way Down" and "All Is By My Side."
She recently completed lensing "Squirrels To The Nuts." She is repped by CAA and Independent in the U.K.
CAA, which packaged the film, will represent its domestic distribution rights.
"Beautiful Ruins" has sold more than a million copies and has been translated into 25 languages.


The Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) in collaboration with the Environmental Science Academic Program of North Carolina State University, USA, organized a two-week a training programme for 31 participants made of graduate students mostly from the University of Ghana, National Service Personnel, officials from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ghana and others (Appendix 1). The training covered the period 12th to 23rd June 2017. It was under the theme 'Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development in Ghana", and was facilitated by Dr. William. E. Winner, a Professor at the Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences and Director of Environmental Sciences Academic Programme at the North Carolina State University; and Ms. Heather Troutman, an Environmental Consultant based in Accra, Ghana.


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