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Current Status of Sci-Fi on TV and on the Big Screen!
By SFJunkie | December 7, 2013 | Movies, TV
Last few years we weren't exactly overloaded with sci-fi on tv! Most current "sci-fi" series only have sci-fi elements in them. Few exceptions of course with Doctor Who and Defiance, Falling Skies and perhaps Continuum. Fortunately these four tv shows are doing rather well so the next year we get new seasons for all three. Haven, some say it's just supernatural, some say it does have sci-fi elements, in any case, it had a good run till now and although not (yet) renewed for season five, the fourth season is as steady as the other seasons. Warehouse 13 of course also has a strong relation to sci-fi but season five will be it's last.
Other current sci-fi (-ish) shows aren't doing all that well unfortunately. Of course the first one, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, is in bad weather, ratings keep dropping each week although the stories are definitely improving. This one is unfortunately headed for cancellation, although ratings slightly improved in the last two weeks. Revolution is also struggling, after a great start last year Revolution is almost certain to be cancelled. Five episodes in season two hit it's series low, last episode was up one tenth but still, ratings are very low and won't survive another mid-season break. I personally think the second season is way better than it's first but by now too many people stopped watching. Last month Almost Human started in the US, after a decent start with the pilot, the ratings have dropped dramaticly, with a rating now below the 2.0, something I really don't understand because it's a fun show with a two great lead characters played by Karl Urban and Michael Ealy.
The Tomorrow People remake, another series with some sci-fi elements, is holding steady at the moment in the ratings and a full season has been ordered by The CW. This has potential as a series as well as a second season. Orphan Black was a surprise hit earlier this year and will be back also next year. Although it definitely has some sci-fi elements in it, it's more of a drama/thriller I think, but one of my favourites of this year, recommended! Under the Dome got a second season, will be back next year but again, it's more of a drama with some sci-fi elements in it. On the other side of the pond there are two more series, Misfits, which is in the middle of it's last series and also the French produced Metal Hurlant Chronicles, which was renewed for season two. There are some new ones in the pipeline but this is it for the moment.
Sci-fi is doing much better on the big screen! About fifteen to twenty movies have been released this year alone which are sci-fi related or flat out real sci-fi flicks! I believe it started with Tom Cruise'sOblivion, one I really liked. It also did rather well in the box-office. Also Iron Man 3, which got mixed reviews but was a big financial hit. Star Trek Into Darkness, a real sci-fi action adventure. Furthermore we got: Elysium; Man of Steel; The Wolverine; Pacific Rim; After Earth (bombed); Riddick; Europa Report; the surprise hit Gravity; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; Snowpiercer; Thor: The Dark World; The Last Days On Mars; The Colony; The World's End and Ender's Game. Don't know if I forgot one or two but this list is quite impressive, been a long time since I paid so many visits to the cinema as I did this year! So it's a bit of a contradiction, many sci-fi movies and only a handful sci-fi series at the moment. For the most part I think it has to do with budget, it is more expensive to create a sci-fi series and also the kind of stories are quite different than in the cinema, more character driven instead of action and explosions.
Sure hope it will be more balanced next year, a few more sci-fi series, preferably some space oriented series.
SF Junkie
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6 Responses to Current Status of Sci-Fi on TV and on the Big Screen!
Simche says:
Loved the article and i would completely agree that Sci-Fi is becoming more and more popular on the big screen. i would just make an example that we can see much more nominations for Sci-Fi movies in the academy awards (Oscar) then earlier…And on another subject, thank you my friend for contributing such lovely art to Fanart.tv . Cheers!
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thanks simche! 🙂
akovia says:
Thanks for the great write up on all things sci-fi @sfjunkie!
I'm a huge sci-fi fan as well and have my own theories on why the TV shows aren't doing so well.
A good sci-fi needs a really tight and believable story and the sci-fi elements should be just as prominent as the cast and story. This is easier to achieve in a movie where you have a single story to work with and much more time to hone the script. Too many TV series fall in to the same old traps of turning into a soap opera in a sci-fi setting using the same plot devices that you can see in any other TV drama. Effects alone does not make a good sci-fi and I think they seriously underestimate the intelligence of the audience they are targeting.
I have been watching Almost Human and I really enjoy the premise and the cast, but there have been a few times where I felt the forced drama and it makes me cringe. To me, the best part of this series are the sci-fi derived comedy elements. It really makes me laugh out loud sometimes. 🙂
By far my favorite show of the year is Orphan Black. The sci-fi underpinnings aren't front and center all the time, but the way they weave them into the story is intelligent and insightful. Tatiana Maslany is as riveting as the story, and the pace is unrivaled.
What we need for good sci-fi TV is some inspired work that is lead by the creator and not a committee. When Hollywood loosens the reigns on creativity and is not completely driven by balance sheets, we may see some good TV. Until then, we will end up will the same formulaic drivel they've been feeding us for years.
I fully agree akovia
Sci-fi also always has a disadvantage on tv, a procedural show gets his viewers anyways, no real arc, not much character growth, sci-fi fans are more critical about their shows, sometimes I think we are too critical, look at SGU, loved it myself, Stargate fans burned it to the ground before it started, it was too much like BSG, was totallly different that SG1 & SGA..etc. All those procedural shows are the same, no one cares, then there is a sci-fi show which is just as dark, perhaps darker as another sci-fi show and people complain. Don't understand that. Let's hope we get some new sci-fi in the near future.
Great write up @SFJunkie.
Unfortunately, to me it seems that now CGI is all we can remember from most recent Sci Fi movies… The stories leave much to be desired. Sure, once in a while we get a gem but overall it's just a rehash of what's already been done in some way. Just think of what would be older scifi movies from the 70,80 and 90's with today's CGIs. That'd be the total package IMO.
And for TV Shows, I don't even start watching them before they have a few seasons because networks just cancel shows without giving them a proper ending and I hate that.
Personally I hate the Case/Freak of the week. I could never get into Fringe, Haven. I did get thru Eureka but it seriously was a drag at times. So that's why I'll probably never watch Almost Human.
BSG was amazing and I hope we'll get someting similar someday…
Thanks ArieS,
My favourite tv shows are from the nineties, still after all these years: Babylon 5 & Deep Space Nine. 🙂


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Q: Thread switching and deadlock prevention problem if there are two threads as producer/consumer is it good idea to have following line to prevent deadlocks. I'm aware of live locks but suppose they do a lot of work before calling this Wait() method:
// member variable
object _syncLock = new object();

void Wait()
{
   lock (_syncLock)
      {
         Monitor.Pulse(_syncLock);
         Monitor.Wait(_syncLock);
      }
}

Here it's impossible both threads be in waiting state.

A: This seems overly complicated.  Just handle your locking correctly in the first place, and avoid the issue.  If you only have two threads, and they are trying to acquire the same, single lock (correctly), you shouldn't have deadlocks.  A deadlock means there is something else occurring here.
That being said, if you have the option of using the TPL via .NET 4 (or the Rx Extensions on .NET 3.5), you might want to consider using BlockingCollection<T> instead.  It's ideally suited to use in a producer/consumer scenario, and works in a lockless manner.

A: If your intention is to create a paired variant of the producer-consumer pattern then the sequence is Pulse before Wait for the producer and Wait before Pulse for the consumer. You can reference figure 5 in Joe Duffy's article on this. Howerver, keep in mind that since his implementation performs an unconditional Wait in the Enqueue method a ping-pong like effect will occur between the producer and the consumer. The queue, in his implementation, can only ever have one item per producer. So if that is your intention then this your ticket. Otherwise, you can adapt it as-is and apply some condition1 to the Wait in the Enqueue method to make it behave more like a real FIFO buffer.
However, like Reed, I question why BlockingCollection could not be used. This collection should be very efficient since it uses a lock-free strategy for the Add and Take methods. Of course, like I mentioned above, if you really want the paired variant then this collection will not meet your requirements and you will have to roll your own using Joe Duffy's as a starting point.
1Just remember to use a while loop instead of an if check before applying the wait. Monitor.Wait simply waits for a change in the lock state and nothing more so you have to recheck the wait condition.

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Slack often gets credit for creating the category of solutions that some of us refer to as "workstream collaboration" or "team chat," though I don't recall hearing either of those terms last week at Slack's annual user conference, Frontiers. Instead, the event had more of a theme around "transactions" and leveraging "Slack as a platform."
Consumer messaging apps -- such as Facebook Messenger, Skype, WeChat, and Hangouts -- have fundamentally altered the way we communicate. There's been several efforts to adapt the messaging-first paradigm into business environments spanning wikis, business social tools, and more recently workstream collaboration apps. Despite some successful products, these tools have not had the transformational impact that we've seen in the consumer space.
The possible exception to this is Slack, which has a loyal following and has been steadily building traction in businesses of all sizes around the globe. For what it's worth: "There's something happening here, but what it is ain't exactly clear."
There are now several Slack-esque competitive alternatives, and as a group they are frequently described as workstream collaboration or team chat apps. Each solution generally offers app integration tools built on top of group messaging. These apps all promote communications and collaboration, but in different ways. Solutions from UC providers tend to include real-time services.
The term "team chat" puts emphasis on the messaging part of these solutions, but Slack's strength has largely been its app integration tools. Further, Slack hasn't expressed any recent interest in expanding its real-time services. That gap can be filled via partners or with the basic built-in services Slack has for voice and video communications.
Slack seems to consider its primary competitor to be email, and the status quo of enterprise workflow. Its stated mission is "to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive," and it seems to consider team chat as rudimentary table stakes. Its focus now appears to be repositioning itself as a platform, rather than as an app -- a platform that provides a more efficient and fluid environment for cloud-connected applications.
The boundary between app and platform is fuzzy. Windows, for example, started as an app that ran on DOS PCs. It provided a platform for new Windows-based apps and later evolved into a standalone operating system.
A more recent example is the Web browser, which also started as an app but has morphed into a platform. Web-enabled apps can work across all kinds of devices that have compatible browsers. Like Microsoft with Windows, Google was also able to evolve its browser application into an operating system (ChromeOS).
Browser apps are kept (mostly) separate in different tabs and windows. Apps can be so deeply integrated into Slack that the separation is disappearing. For example, the recently released Slack Actions enables two-way application functionality from within Slack and can eliminate or reduce the need to leave the Slack interface. Actions also facilitates improved collaboration. For example, two users who use completely different apps from within Slack are now in the same platform and thus can more easily communicate, share, and collaborate with each other.
There were several announcements at Frontiers, and they were more aligned with a platform than a team chat app. There were announcements about improved security, encryption, and compliance; plans to make Slack more reliable and scalable; progress making Slack more intuitive; and improvements to increase the speed and responsiveness of its software client. Exhibiting vendors at Frontiers were mostly application vendors that integrate into Slack.
Many of the announcements and road map features shared pertain specifically to the Enterprise Grid solution which was announced about a year and half ago. Enterprise Grid offers additional features for larger, company-wide implementations such as SSO and granular security controls. Enterprise Grid customers include Land Rover, BBC, SAP, Target, and eBay.
If workstream collaboration apps shift from application to platform, then Microsoft clearly intends to be there. Microsoft knows the importance of platforms. It has enjoyed Windows OS as desktop and server platform for decades, but it missed mobile, was late to cloud IaaS, and is no longer the leader in browsers.
Still, many see workstream collaboration as a communications app, alongside email, telephony, and video. We are still very early in the development of these apps, with fewer organizations not using them than are. There's still tremendous confusion about workstream collaboration, and despite all the anti-email bluster, these apps rarely actually replace it.
The question of app or platform may largely depend on one's imagination and intent.
Whatever Slack is doing seems to be working. The revolutionary spirit and energy were palpable at Frontiers. The company continues to grow and just completed another round of funding (Series H) to accelerate its expansion. Slack has momentum and an enviable track record of product and customer growth.
Last May, it reported 8 million daily active users. Slack is also attracting some very large and familiar customers. Slack's largest customers are IBM and Oracle, but the company claims that 58% of its subscribers are in non-technical roles. Also, about half of its subscribers are based outside North America.
Slack is healthy and well, and there are no indications that it will cede its leadership in the category it created.
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The technical function exclusion in design law
The DOCERAM/CeramTec-case (C-395/16) is the first case dealing with the meaning of the "technical function" exclusion in relation to Community designs. The CJEU's judgment provides an interpretation of Article 8(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 6/2002 on Community designs (the "Regulation") – and hence, indirectly, also of Article 7(1) of Directive 98/71/EC on the legal protection of designs – which provides that "a design right shall not subsist in features of appearance of a product which are solely dictated by its technical function." Such...
Copyright in taste? CJEU to decide.
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News reports and fair dealing: Moneyweb v Media24
The recent decision involving Moneyweb and Media24 (Moneyweb (Pty) Limited v Media 24 Limited & Another [2016] ZAGPJHC 81) (full text available here) is an important one for copyright lawyers in South Africa because it is the first time that two provisions relating to news reporting of the Copyright Act 1978 (the Act) have been judicially considered, namely, sections 12(1)(c)(i) and 12(8)(a). In fact, it is the first time that the application of the fair-dealing provision, section 12(1), has received any judicial consideration, whether in the context of news reporting or...
Needletime Royalties: At last, some case law
You wait ages for a reported judgment concerning "needletime" royalties pursuant to section 9A of the Copyright Act, and then two come along at approximately the same time. There were two reported decisions, one, an enquiry by the Copyright Tribunal, and, the other, a judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal following an appeal from the Copyright Tribunal. Needletime royalties are the amounts charged for copyright licences for the playing of sound recordings which are audible to the members of the public. Besides the courts' consideration of the methods used for calculating the royalties...
Supreme Court of Appeal Losing Its Shape
INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court of Appeal has been blessed for the past few decades by having in its ranks judges who have experience and expertise in the field of Intellectual Property Law. One thinks of Judges like Chris Plewman and Louis Harms who had a wealth of experience in handling IP cases while practising as advocates at the bar and in hearing such cases both in Provincial Divisions as well in the Supreme Court of Appeal. This factor contributed substantially to the quality of IP judgments emanating from the Supreme Court of Appeal generally being of a high standard. The development...

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Atlanta gears up for 10.10.15, Justice or Else!
By Justice Or Else!August 3, 2015News
Enthusiastic members of the Atlanta Local Organizing committee met to plan the week's activities to mobilize for Justice or Else.
ATLANTA – The more than 150 community leaders who attended the July 21 meeting of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March had one goal in mind – spread the word about 10.10.15. That's the date in October that several million people are expected to converge on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to declare to the American government to give Black and oppressed people "Justice, or Else!"
Student Minister Abdul Sharrieff Muhammad informed the gathering that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who will convene the gathering, had just left Ferguson, Mo., where he laid a wreath at the spot where Michael Brown was murdered by police – sparking the "Black Lives Matter" movement — and spoke to residents from the community.
Min. Sharrieff told the audience that October 10 will not be a time of frivolity, but one of making serious demands. He also called upon supporters to help defray the costs of the monumental event by donating at the JusticeOrElse.com website.
Rev. Timothy McDonald talked about the meaning of the event's theme, "Justice or Else!" so that "everyone would be on the same page" when going out to invite the community to attend.
Rev. Timothy McDonald addresses gathering at Atlanta Local Organizing Committee meeting.
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No bomb exploded announcing the start of the Jasmine Revolution, and in the end, there was no iconic figure — no Nelson Mandela or Vaclav Havel — to declare its stunning victory. Instead, the fuse for the Arab world's first successful popular uprising was lit when a small-town Tunisian policewoman slapped a fruit seller. A trivial incident, but this is 2011. And so, what happened next went viral, unleashing the seething frustrations of a generation of Tunisians raised under a sclerotic dictatorship — and rocking all of North Africa.
When the police officer slapped computer-science graduate Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, in the town of Sidi Bouzid, ordering him to pack up his street cart, the young man snapped. Unable to find any work as a computer technician, Bouazizi sold fruit to support his seven siblings, and the slap was one humiliation too many. He marched to the governor's office and demanded an appointment, threatening to set himself alight if the official did not meet him. Turned away, Bouazizi carried out his macabre threat on Dec. 17.
By the time I landed in Tunis on Jan. 14, the protests had reached the doorstep of Ben Ali for the first time in his 23 years in power. I walked into the evacuated heart of the capital under choking clouds of tear gas. Avenue Habib Bourguiba, modeled on Paris' Champs-Elysées, was cordoned off by tanks and armored trucks. The detritus of the revolt crunched under my feet. There were bottle shards and bits of clay from smashed flowerpots, used by protesters as ordnance, and hundreds of shoes, abandoned as folks fled the police assault on the latest demonstration. Despite the show of strength, however, Ben Ali was already mortally weakened. Just the evening before, he had appeared on state television and offered to give up power in 2014, when the next presidential election is due.
director of Tunisia's biggest music station, Mosaïque FM, which had never previously dared to criticize the President. "We went on air and said, 'The dictatorship is over.'" And so it was. Within hours, Ben Ali had fled the country, leaving behind a nation in turmoil.
The Jasmine Revolution unfolded on live television before an Arab audience — THANK YOU AL- JAZEERA, read one banner at one demonstration — that could hardly have failed to grasp its significance. Bouazizi's martyrdom inspired several copycat immolations in Algeria and at least one each in Mauritania and Egypt. In Algeria, where protests by jobless youths predated those in Tunisia, there were attempts to replicate the Jasmine Revolution's use of social networks and YouTube. Arab commentators wondered which tyrant might follow Ben Ali into exile in Saudi Arabia: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi? Egypt's Hosni Mubarak?
Some of Ben Ali's erstwhile peers were plainly rattled. The rulers of Jordan, Egypt and Yemen announced measures to bring down prices of food and fuel, apparently to quell disquiet among their populations. Others lashed out. In a TV address, Gaddafi portrayed Tunisia's revolutionaries as impetuous and impatient youths who had brought chaos upon themselves. "Tunisia now lives in fear," he said, betraying his own anxiety. "Families could be … slaughtered in their bedroom or citizens in the street as if it were the Bolshevik or American Revolution." In Sudan, the authorities jailed opposition figures who talked of launching their own Tunisia-inspired protests. The unsubtle message: Revolution is dangerous. Don't try this at home.
Since the Jasmine Revolution had been leaderless, chaos was its inevitable aftermath. Ben Ali's chosen successor as President lasted a single day, and the one installed after him couldn't keep his "national unity" Cabinet united for even a week. Gun battles between the military and die-hard Ben Ali loyalists continued sporadically, and Islamists demanded a say in government. Relieved to be rid of their past, Tunisians were not yet sure of their future.
Political uncertainty is a new experience for most Tunisians. Ben Ali's regime was nothing if not predictable. And for a long time, it had also seemed progressive. Ben Ali had been a model dictator. For the first two decades of his rule, he built up Tunisia's education system, protected women's rights and stamped out Islamic radicalism. Unlike many other Arab countries, Tunisia has compulsory free education until age 16, and more than one-third of high school graduates attend a university. To Western eyes, Tunisians seemed freer, more liberal than their neighbors. Few women wore veils, for instance.
growing 5% a year, much faster than the rate of any of its neighbors. Tunisia's per capita income of about $8,000 is one of the highest in North Africa.
In exchange for all this, the dictator expected his people not to mind very much that he suppressed any opposition and muzzled the media — or that his family got a disproportionate share of the economic pie. Compared with the dire poverty in much of Africa, it seemed a fair deal. If his subjects didn't protest, neither did his allies in the West. France was relieved that he kept the economy ticking, since it meant that fewer Tunisians would try to sneak into French territory. The U.S. was pleased to have a staunch anti- Islamist running things in Tunis while al-Qaeda's North African franchise made inroads in Algeria and Morocco.
But when the global economy slowed in 2008, those achievements began to shrink in the eyes of Tunisians. The job market quickly dried up. Ben Ali's education policies were producing tens of thousands of qualified young men and women every year, but now many faced the prospect of long unemployment. About 25% of youths in Tunisia are believed to be unemployed, roughly the same proportion as in neighboring Algeria. But unlike Algeria — and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries — Tunisia has no huge natural resources to cushion a severe downturn. And unlike China, it is too small to diversify at high speed, and its main earners, such as tourism and olive-oil exports, are ill suited to create high-paying jobs.
on her numerous relatives; she has 10 siblings. About half of Tunisia's businesses — including a bank, hotels, a property-development firm and the two biggest newspaper companies — are in the names of the extended family. The distributorships of Porsche, Volkswagen, Kia and Alfa Romeo cars all belonged to Ben Ali's son-in-law Sakher El Materi. His lavish lifestyle was the subject of a 2009 diplomatic cable, acquired by WikiLeaks, in which the then — U.S. ambassador, Robert Godec, warned State Department officials that the ruling family's excesses could lead to the regime's collapse. Godec described a sumptuous dinner at El Materi's home, where the young tycoon pressed the ambassador to help him acquire the McDonald's franchise for Tunisia and where the ice cream and frozen yogurt had been flown in from St.- Tropez, France, on his host's private plane. The household pets included a caged tiger named Pasha, which reminded Godec of Uday Hussein's caged lion in Baghdad.
Such details fanned the protesters' fury, and the First Family's assets bore the brunt of their wrath: their homes in the seaside suburb La Marsa, close to Hannibal's ancient city of Carthage, were looted. After the dictator fled, many Tunisians flocked to La Marsa to see how his family had lived, filing through the grand houses in evident wonderment. I walked into a sprawling two-story mansion with a panoramic sea view, whose airy living room opened onto a large pool deck with an outdoor shower and a mosaic fresco of frolicking dolphins. An elevator led to a Jacuzzi and several bedrooms upstairs. The resident of this idyllic place was Adel Trabelsi, whose schoolteacher's salary was probably about $300 a month but for whom money was no object because he is the nephew of the erstwhile First Lady. The house was burned by protesters on Jan. 14; now incredulous locals were snapping photographs of themselves amid the wreckage. Across Tunis, luxury cars once sold by El Materi had been smashed and burned.
Deployed for years as U.N. peacekeepers in Africa, Tunisian soldiers opted not to side with their President against the people. The army's chief of staff, General Rachid Ammar, reportedly refused Ben Ali's order to fire on protesters — the Presidential Guard and security police had no such compunction — and has become a hero to many Tunisians. The youth in Morocco and Algeria who have demonstrated in recent weeks against rising food and fuel prices might not be able to count on similar restraint from the military forces there.
And Tunisia may not seem worth emulating if the chaos that has followed Ben Ali's departure continues. Islamists, long shut out by the dictator, have thronged the streets, demanding that their banned party be allowed to join the coalition government. Protesters are also raging against the continued presence of Ben Ali's acolytes in the government. Three trade-union leaders who joined the Cabinet have since resigned. If political upheaval continues, there are fears that the military may take over, a narrative depressingly familiar in the Arab world.
For the moment, however, Tunisians are still inhaling the Jasmine Revolution's intoxicating scent of possibility. In cafés and restaurants, people gather for open discussion of politics and pore over uncensored newspapers — unthinkable under Ben Ali. Khélifa, who studied British Romantic poetry at Yale University, says that for days he has been repeating two lines from William Wordsworth's Prelude, written in the aftermath of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very heaven!" At least for now.


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Ulrich Hagenloch (* 27. Mai 1952 in Neckarhausen) ist ein deutscher Jurist und ehemaliger Präsident des Oberlandesgerichts Dresden.

Hagenloch trat 1978 in den Justizdienst des Landes Baden-Württemberg ein. Von 1979 bis 1982 war er in Stuttgart im Justizministerium tätig. Es folgte 1982 seine Ernennung zum Richter am Landgericht Rottweil und 1989 seine Ernennung zum Richter am Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart. Während seiner Zeit beim Landgericht Rottweil (1982 bis 1989) war er an den Bundesgerichtshof abgeordnet.

In die sächsische Justiz wechselte Ulrich Hagenloch im März 1992. Erste Station hier war das Bezirksgericht Dresden. Im Januar 1993 wurde er Vizepräsident des Oberlandesgerichts Dresden.

Am 4. Dezember 2006 ernannte ihn Justizminister Geert Mackenroth zum Präsidenten des Oberlandesgerichts Dresden. Am 1. Dezember 2017 trat er in den Ruhestand ein.

Der sächsische Landtag wählte Ulrich Hagenloch am 10. Juni 2015 zum Mitglied des Verfassungsgerichtshofes.

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Pressemitteilung des sächsischen Staatsministeriums der Justiz vom 1. Dezember 2006

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Quality of life comparison
Quality of life Cost of living Size comparison
If you lived in Peru instead of Moldova, you would:
live 3.5 years less
In Moldova, the average life expectancy is 72 years (69 years for men, 77 years for women) as of 2022. In Peru, that number is 69 years (65 years for men, 73 years for women) as of 2022.
be 31.9% more likely to be unemployed
In Moldova, 5.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Peru, that number is 6.6% as of 2019.
be 2.8 times more likely to live below the poverty line
In Moldova, 7.3% live below the poverty line as of 2018. In Peru, however, that number is 20.2% as of 2019.
pay a 66.7% higher top tax rate
Moldova has a top tax rate of 18.0% as of 2016. In Peru, the top tax rate is 30.0% as of 2016.
have 68.9% more children
In Moldova, there are approximately 10.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Peru, there are 17.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.
be 4.6 times more likely to die during childbirth
In Moldova, approximately 19.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Peru, 88.0 women do as of 2017.
be 14.8% less likely to have internet access
In Moldova, approximately 76.3% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Peru, about 65.0% do as of 2020.
spend 31.1% less on education
Moldova spends 6.1% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Peru spends 4.2% of total GDP on education as of 2020.
spend 18.8% less on healthcare
Moldova spends 6.4% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Peru, that number is 5.2% of GDP as of 2019.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria, State tax Service.
Moldova vs.
Peru: At a glance
Peru is a sovereign country in South America, with a total land area of approximately 1,279,996 sq km. Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces were defeated in 1824. After a dozen years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership in 1980, but experienced economic problems and the growth of a violent insurgency. President Alberto FUJIMORI's election in 1990 ushered in a decade that saw a dramatic turnaround in the economy and significant progress in curtailing guerrilla activity. Nevertheless, the president's increasing reliance on authoritarian measures and an economic slump in the late 1990s generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime, which led to his resignation in 2000. A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which installed Alejandro TOLEDO Manrique as the new head of government - Peru's first democratically elected president of indigenous ethnicity. The presidential election of 2006 saw the return of Alan GARCIA Perez who, after a disappointing presidential term from 1985 to 1990, oversaw a robust economic rebound. In June 2011, former army officer Ollanta HUMALA Tasso was elected president, defeating Keiko FUJIMORI Higuchi, the daughter of Alberto FUJIMORI. Since his election, HUMALA has carried on the sound, market-oriented economic policies of the three preceding administrations.
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Noverre (May 2, 1998 – 2012) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

Background
Noverre was a bay horse bred by Darley Stud and raced by a sister operation, Godolphin Racing. He was sired by Rahy, out of the mare Danseur Fabuleux who was also the dam of 1991 European Horse of the Year, Arazi.

Noverre was trained at age two by David Loder.

Racing career
Noverre won two listed races in France and two Group 2 events in England. Sent to the United States, the colt finished eleventh on dirt in the 2000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, hosted that year by Churchill Downs. At age three, Noverre's owners turned his race conditioning over to Saeed bin Suroor. For him, Noverre finished first in the 2001 Poule d'Essai des Poulains at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris but was subsequently disqualified after testing positive for the banned substance Methylprednisolone.  He went on to win the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester, England. That year he also had second-place finishes in the UAE 2000 Guineas in Dubai and in England's St. James's Palace and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Noverre returned to the track in 2002 for a four-year-old campaign. In top races, he notably earned runnerups in the Dubai Duty Free Stakes and in England's Lockinge and Sussex Stakes.

Stud record
Noverre was retired to stand at stud beginning in the 2003 season at his owner's Kildangan Stud in County Kildare, Ireland. In 2008, he was sold to breeders in India to stand at Sohna Stud Farm near Delhi, where he died in 2012. From his offspring, Noverre's best runner to date has been a 2006 colt named Le Havre who in 2009 won the Group 1 French Derby at Chantilly Racecourse.

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Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan said about the recently released movie 'Jagga Jasoos' that Very sorry to not seeing Jagga Jasoos Aamir wrote on his Facebook account last Friday "I am sad that I am not in my country and I will not be able to see Jagga Jasoos". In 'Jagga Jasoos' movie Actor Ranbir Kapoor and Actress Katrina Kaif is in a Lead role. Ranbir has played the role of a Detective in this film and Katrina is in the role of a Journalist. This movie has earned 20.10 crore in 2 days at the box office. Aamir Khan is currently busy in shooting for his upcoming film 'Thugs of Hindustan'.


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Congressional Gold Medal Experience
Nearly seven decades after the beginning of World War II, the Congressional Gold Medal was bestowed on the Japanese American men who served with bravery and valor on the battlefield, even while their families were held in internment camps by the very country for which they fought. Through videos,
Soap Baby, William McKinley
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This is one of the first models of Liberty cast in the United States. Often described as the American Committee Model, this statuette was produced in the tens of thousands. It was sold to subscribers to finance the construction of a pedestal for the full-size statue in New York Harbor.
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National Cash Register, Model 421
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Motorola BPR2000 Pager
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What does the word "baptize" mean? That's the focus of this post.
Welcome to part 3 of my series on biblical baptism.
Okay, let's look at what it means to baptize someone or something.
The English word "baptize" is actually a transliteration of the Greek word "βαπτίζω" (baptizó).
Its definition is quite simple.
baptízō – properly, 'submerge' (Souter); hence, baptize, to immerse (literally, 'dip under'). 907 (baptízō) implies submersion ('immersion'), in contrast to 472 /antéxomai ('sprinkle').
"baptize, wash—From a derivative of bapto; to immerse, submerge; to make whelmed (i.e. Fully wet); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism -- Baptist, baptize, wash."
While it is true that there has been controversy over the meaning of baptizó, if you check any reputable Greek lexicon, you'll find this definition used.
"Baptism means 'immersion'...but not necessarily immersion into water."
Jeremy points out that the word baptizó, in its various forms, is found in the New Testament referring to baptisms other than water (see Matt. 3:11b; 20:22-23; Luke 3:16, for example).
"Therefore, whenever you see the word 'baptize' or 'baptism' in Scripture, it would be wise to stop and change the word into 'immersion' or 'identification'..."
I fully support substituting the word "immersion" for baptism, because that is precisely what the baptizó means, but not "identification."
I can see where, in certain places, baptizó could kinda sorta convey "identification," but that isn't what the word means.
Any time we trade the word the Spirit used for another, it's dangerous because the potential exists for us to reach a different conclusion down the road someplace. This is exactly what I think Jeremy has done in his series on baptism, and it's largely based upon this—what I believe to be—improper substituted definition of "baptism."
Just because the text may not be discussing water baptism, that doesn't mean the literal definition of "immersion" isn't a good fit.
We must, however, look at the context to determine what the immersion is into.
Continue to part 4 entitled "John the Baptist's Baptism."


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A Brief History of Sleaze
Bonner and Associates claims to be shocked that a wayward temp in their offices sent letters purporting to be from African American and Hispanic groups to lawmakers, asking them to vote against cap and trade. This is odd, because creating the illusion of popular support for or opposition to a bill is what Bonner and Associates does. Below the jump, a few of their greatest hits:
2001: Pfizer hires Bonner to muster up some grassroots opposition to legislation in Minnesota that would make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. A state representative finds out about the scheme after receiving a call that purported to be from the 60 Plus Association but which turned out to be from a phone bank organized by Bonner—the representative heard the caller being coached in the background. (Incidentally, 60 Plus has long been known as a go-to group for conservative causes—Jack Abramoff once instructed an Indian tribe to donate to the organization, saying that it would help garner support for their legislative causes with the House GOP leadership.)
2002: The Maryland legislature considers a bill to cap prescription drug prices. According to the Center for Public Integrity, a Bonner-created group called the Consumer Alliance faxes letters to church leaders and community groups like Associated Black Charities in Baltimore, warning that "the poor and disabled were in danger of losing access to affordable prescription drugs." Bonner had been hired by the pharmaceutical industry to orchestrate the campaign, and was targeted with an ethics complaint until it agreed to register as a lobbyist in the state. When challenged on the tactic, company founder Jack Bonner called it a "great lesson in the First Amendment."
2003: Anita de Palma of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) makes a trip to DC to lobby against a Medicare funding cut for cancer patients. She cries at a press conference while recalling her own father's death from cancer, and even gets a giant hug from Sen. Bill Nelson. De Palma said it was only later that she discovered that US Oncology, the group that paid her travel expenses, was not a patient advocacy organization but a front for drug companies that would lose millions if the cut went ahead. The "grassroots" campaign had been organized by Bonner. Explaining the strategy to Politico, Jack Bonner said:"Emotion moves politics. Cancer's a great example of this."


Over the past three and a half months I have bought books, non-stop. My addiction to young adult fantasy & romance, thriller, and adult romance has gotten me to about 20 books alone through Amazon.
I absolutely have to have hardcover books. The sturdiness allows me to not have to worry about the creases in the spine of the books and slightly worn edges. I know that it sounds a bit obsessive-compulsive, but I promise you I am not. I just happen to like it clean and neat. So to make it seem even more crazy, I gently put away the mint book sleeves in a stack, tucked away behind more books. Then I grab some paper brown bags, and start making book covers for the ones I have bought to read.
I use brown paper bags as book covers; and use a white chalk pen on the side to make it look pretty! They have a dual purpose: on the one hand, it protects my books from the shine, and on the other hand, it makes for beautiful art on my table console. I cannot help but smile at what I've accomplished and the finished product.
I tore open the brown paper shopping bag, where the enclosure is met.
I laid down the book, and cut off the excess paper that is not needed.
I folded the paper at the spine, and marked where I need to make a small angle cut.
The cut I have made above is necessary for enveloping the front and back of the hardcover books.
Afterwards, I folded down the left and right side of cuts (seen in the picture above) I have previously made. The fold should meet where the book fits. Now you have pentagon like shape that is formed.
I removed the book, flipped the paper over, and saw where the two lines I have folded for the spine. I quickly used a pencil to see where I would write the letters in white chalk maker (just to make it centered).
Then I flipped the cover back where you can see the exposed pentagons, and placed the spine book on top of the pentagons. I opened one side of the book flap, and folded the brown paper on one side over, and I did the same to the right side. Then I folded the top left and right corners where the book flap meets at the edge, and folded down, to give it a neat look.
These neat look, is where you will need to tape down the folded corners to prevent the covers from unraveling.
Now if you do this with a lot more books, you'll have a nice collection of covered books that can be neatly displayed on a table or on a bookshelf. It makes it more uniform and unique, and truly art to be displayed.
– I used to cover my school books all the time back in high school and college. More importantly, the college books were expensive! If I kept the book in great condition, the more money I'd get back.


Abstract—The deformation of spot welded joints is challenging research problem due to the complex nature of the structure. One major problem is to characterize the materials properties. The elastic-plastic material parameters and the fracture parameters of materials can be readily determined when standard specimens are available, however, for a spot welded joint, standard testing is not applicable to characterize the HAZ and nugget due to their complex structure and small size. This has opened up the possibility to characterize the material properties based a dual indenter method to inversely characterize the parameters of the constitutive material laws for the nugget, HAZ and the base metals. In numerical-experimental approach Finite Element (FE) model which simulates the geometry and boundary conditions of the experiment using input data load and displacement experiment results. With indentation tests, the local plastic properties can be calculated by solving the inverse problem via finite element analysis by incrementally varying properties in 3D modeling to find a similar simulated load–displacement curve as compared with experimental one. The approach will then be used to test different welding zones and the material parameters thus predicted used to simulate the deformation of spot welded joints under complex loading conditions including tensile shear and drop weight impact tests.
Index Terms—Spot welded joints, HAZ, finite element (FE) model, vickers indentation, dual indenter.
I. Nyoman Budiarsa is with University Udayana, Bali, Indonesia (e-mail: nyoman.budiarsa@unud.ac.id).
Cite: I. Nyoman Gde Antara and I. Nyoman Budiarsa, "Characterising and Predicting on the Mechanical Behaviour of Dissimilar Spot Welded Joints Base on Dual Indenters," International Journal of Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 224-227, 2017.


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History of Sunglasses and Prescription Glasses – From Ancient Times to Modern Day
The records of sun shades may be traced again to historic Rome across the 12 months AD 60, wherein the Emperor Nero is said to have watched gladiator fights even as protecting up polished emerald-green gemstones to his eyes, hence lowering the effect of the sun's glare. The very very first recorded proof of the usage of sunglasses may be located from a portray by means of Tommaso da Modena in Italy, 1352, showing a person sporting shades. ray ban replacement screws
Earlier, across the twelfth century in China, sunglasses were worn through court docket judges, not to shield their eyes from the solar, however in order to cover any expressions in their eyes as it become vital to keep their thoughts and critiques secret till the stop of each trial. These had been flat panes of quartz that had been polished easy and then smoked to give their tint.
It became no longer till 1430 that prescription glasses were first advanced in Italy to accurate vision, and these early rudimentary spectacles soon determined their manner to China, wherein they have been again tinted by smoke to be utilized by the judges. The frames were carved out of either ivory or tortoiseshell, and some have been quite ornate.
During the 17th century prescription glasses were being utilized in England to help elderly presbyopic people to peer better. The Spectacle Makers Company become based in England who started out production prescription glasses for the public, whose motto changed into "A Blessing to the Aged".
The development of sunglasses, but, remained static till the work of James Ayscough, who turned into recognised for his paintings on microscopes in London round 1750. He experimented with blue and inexperienced tinted lenses, believing they might assist with sure vision problems. These have been not sunglasses, however, as he became no longer concerned with protecting the eyes from the solar's rays.
Prescription spectacles continued to be advanced over the following few decades, especially concerning the design of the spectacle frames and how to get them to sit easily on the nose. The frames were made from leather, bone, ivory, tortoiseshell and steel, and were really propped or balanced at the nose. The early hands or sidepieces of the frames first appeared as strips of ribbon that looped across the backs of the ears. Rather than loops, the Chinese added ceramic weights to the ends of the ribbons which dangled down at the back of the tops of the ears. Solid sidepieces eventually arrived in 1730, invented by using Edward Scarlett. Later on, lens generation made a outstanding soar ahead whilst Benjamin Franklin famously invented the first bifocal lens in 1780, referred to as the "Franklin cut up" bifocal, permitting presbyopic sufferers to examine and additionally see inside the distance without the need for separate distance and analyzing glasses.
Sunglasses, as we understand them today, were first introduced with the aid of Sam Foster in America, 1929. These were the primary shades designed particularly to protect people's eyes from the harmful sun's rays. He founded the Foster Grant Company, and offered the primary pair of Foster Grant shades on the boardwalk by the beaches in Atlantic City, New Jersey. These had been the first industrially produced sunglasses, and from this 12 months onwards, sun shades actually started out to take off. When I say "take off", I imply that quite literally, because in the 1930's, the Army Air Corps requested a enterprise Bausch & Lomb (who nonetheless exist today) to produce a spectacle tint that might efficaciously lessen high altitude solar glare for pilots. They advanced a darkish inexperienced tint that absorbed light within the yellow band of the visible spectrum.
In 1936, Edwin H Land patented the Polaroid filter for making polarized sunglasses. This type of tint reduces glare pondered from surfaces, such as water. Later in that equal 12 months, Rayban took the layout of pilots shades further by using generating the aviator-fashion sun shades that we understand today, using this recently invented polarized lens generation. The edge of the frame typically drooped away at the edges via the cheeks in a form of tear drop shape, to present a full all-round protection to the pilots eyes, who regularly had to look down in the direction of the aircraft's tool panel. The polarized lens reduced the glare from light reflected off the instrument panel. Pilots had been given these sunglasses freed from fee, however in 1937 most people were allowed to buy this aviator-style model that "banned" the sun's rays as Rayban sunglasses.
In 1960, Foster Grant started a huge advertising campaign to sell shades, and pretty quickly well-known movie stars and pop stars started carrying shades as a part of their photo. The public started out to adopt this new fashion of sporting sunglasses, not simply to guard their eyes from vibrant light, however also as a way of searching precise.
Today, sun shades are persevering with to be advanced with green UV blocking off tints, reducing out all the dangerous extremely-violet mild. Various colored tints at the moment are available and, of course, the frame styles are very various and interesting. Now you may certainly make a declaration with your fashion sunglasses, reworking your picture or growing a new look. Designer sunglasses have simply come a long way in just a few years, and no longer most effective defend our eyes from the damaging sun's rays, however also are an vital style accessory – and it all began almost 2,000 years in the past with the Roman Emperor Nero!
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The setting of Surama is truly idyllic, the guides are virtual walking jungle encyclopaedias and the villagers welcome visitors warmly.
Surama snapshot: 13km2 of open savannah lands surrounded by the jungle-covered Pakaraima Mountains. A small Amerindian village where the 300-odd Makushi inhabitants rely mainly on farming, hunting and fishing for sustenance and have lifestyles and customs that have changed little in many generations. Most homes are simple buildings of clay brick walls and thatched roofs. Locals manoeuvre through the surrounding jungle with an innate sense of direction that borders on the uncanny. Most trees and plants have a use, be it as a source of fresh water, medicine for snakebites, or food. Howler monkeys often beat roosters in announcing the start of a new day, macaws screech in seeming disapproval, packs of peccaries roam the forest, the river is teeming with piranha, and jaguar have been known to steal into the village at night and kill a horse.
One might expect Surama to be just another ecotourism cliché, little more than local guides offering mountain treks, jungle walks and dugout canoe trips in a remote village where the culture is preserved and they put on a display for the sake of visitors' dollars. Surama could indeed be called an ecotourism destination; there is even an ecolodge in the village. It's remote, plus there's a mountain to climb, jungles to explore and dugout canoes on the river. The word 'sustainable' is also a popular way to describe the activities here, but Surama's charm comes with its own unpretentiousness.
The guides are genuine and their knowledge of the jungle stems from the fact that they rely on it for survival in their daily lives, not because they studied it in a book. The meals are made with local vegetables and meats because that's what's available, not because they are trying to fulfil the expectations of foreigners. And the ecotourism possibilities of their village and surroundings were initially explored to create a source of income close to home; too many of the men were leaving in search of jobs at mining or logging camps elsewhere in Guyana and Brazil.
Surama's location just south of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development (they share a border along the Burro Burro River) and north of Rock View Lodge helped to initially attract visitors to the village. Today Surama has become the award-winning role model for community-based ecotourism in Guyana; all other villages building a tourism product look to Surama as their guide.


I lounged by the pool and tried reading "Deep" which I had started a few days prior but reading about freediving competitions (where, according to the author, apparently everyone B.O or coughs up blood) while being amidst a freedive competition…well, it wasn't very relaxing. My face was still hurting from smiling so much while I spoke to my parents some more and eventually I drove back to Amed to meet a friend I hadn't seen in years! We enjoyed the sunset with some fresh coconuts and delicious dinner at Blue Earth while we overlooked Mt. Agung. It was such a perfect day – from beginning to end.
I came back to the hotel and did the same as the previous day, sent out my dive time for the following day, talked to friends and set up a positive mindset. I knew I would have way more time – too much time – in the morning because I was now one of the last athletes to compete. I wasn't too happy about this, I'm more of a "just get it over with" as early as possible but hey – its all part of the competition! Went to sleep after visualizing once more my dive for the following day.
I woke up slowly, stretched, read messages of encouragement that made the butterflies in my stomach happy, had a handful of granola and then headed out to get ready. When I got to the beach some of my friends and fellow athletes were coming back from the platform. They didn't carry great news either – strong currents, the PVC square was gone and it just made it really uncomfortable to be around. I got on the boat and headed out with Maria and some of the other athletes. It was later so the wind had picked up a bit and there was some current. I did my first warm up but as usual it didn't feel amazing – which is normal for me so I didn't stress too much about it. I went for my second warm up, just using a nose clip and descending slowly to 20m. I went down maybe 3-4 meters when I felt a horrible sting on my hands. Jellyfish. I came back up deciding I wasn't going to risk a jellyfish sting to the face before my dive. When I looked up I realized the person that had just started diving was the competitor before me.
I did not feel ready. I rushed over to the buoy nearest to the competition area to take off my fins. Jonathan (the other competitor) did his surface protocol and before I could really assimilate much, it was my turn. I knew I could do this dive, I had done 45m in training a few times already and it felt easy but it was still 5m more than yesterday and I didn't feel as calm.
I tried to stay as relaxed as possible, moving slowly. I asked how long I had for my breathe up – 3 minutes. Ok…that was that. I repeated the same thing as the day before, thought happy thoughts and hugs…I could hear my heart beat strong…30 seconds to go, so I took to two big inhales and passive exhales, then one big breathe and down I went. It was only a few pulls when I felt something was off around my waist, and just a few more meters and I felt my weightbelt all the way up on my chest. I had turned because of this situation during training but this was no training so I just told myself "ok, it will help you freefall better…" and kept going. My equalization was fine, but I was not that relaxed, it didn't feel good. The tennis ball came faster than I thought even if I was way too focused on just getting there. I turned and started making my way up. There was still some current but as soon as I saw the safety divers I relaxed some more and simply kept going.
When I came out I focused on doing at least 5/6 recovery breaths before going on to the protocol. I did not feel hypoxic but I knew it wasn't a comfortable dive and that I used up more oxygen that I normally did so I was playing it on the safe side. Did the protocol and then slowly started to realize "hey! I made it!" even winked at one of my judges who was looking at me with a sort of concerned look. When I got the white card I celebrated BIG TIME! It felt like my worst dive ever, and I did it. I pushed through, safely, trusting myself, controlling my reactions to events I couldn't foresee and It felt amazing. I was so proud of myself – and still am!
I decided to stay for the last competitors before heading in. My heart rate this time checking out was actually high – I think I was still excited about my dive.
I had to announce my depth for the final day and I was quite nervous about it. A part of me wanted to go deeper so figured I could announce 47 FIM but my instructor and so many other people believed in me so much regarding my CW that I figured I'd give it a go. The question was whether to announce 40, 41, 42? My PB from two days before the competition was 41 meters. I did it comfortably and easily but it was only once. I knew I could do more though, if the nerves didn't get the best of me. I decided to not go overly confident with it and just announce the 41…although I had some people saying (and they were right) that they knew I could do 45.
There was only one day left of competing but I knew I would definitely be celebrating at the closing party so my main sponsor (thank you Dad) treated me to two more nights at a hotel in the area. I tried booking one near the area where the even would be but ended up booking a place right next to where I already was. Me and Maria drove over to the new place and enjoyed foooood (because by this point we were starving) by a massive pool that we had all to ourselves! In the afternoon, my neighbor Augusto came over and I basically had the whole day to enjoy the sun, pool, good friends and laughs. That night I drove over to Amed to meet my friend again and enjoy an incredible tempeh burger (I love tempeh!) and then celebrate another friend's birthday at Blue Earth where I treated myself to some amazing beetroot cake. Even if it wasn't a PB cake, I definitely earned that slice after my dive!


I've had little success taking apart digital cameras. I'm on my third (since 2001) and once they break I've tried to open the case out of curiosity. The internal circuits are tightly packed and use a lot of custom components that would be hard to use again.
A 35 mm mechanical film camera uses film at the lens focal plane to capture an image of 36 x 24 mm as described here: http://tinyurl.com/ ygss4j. However, the active imager in a digital camera is much smaller, typically 4 mm to 16 mm diagonal, as indicated here: http://tinyurl.com/ yx6q3s. Some form of relay lens would be required to convert the 35 mm size image to that of the salvaged sensor. This would not readily fit into the existing film camera outline, and would require access to precision machine tools for construction and alignment.
A brief history and description of digital camera resolution is given here: http://tinyurl.com/4j65sz. Overall, your project is not practical, but the digital camera technology is quite fascinating!
pushing 'speed dial' on the cell phone and away you went — surfing. Do you have any ideas about this and how it could be built from scratch? Better yet, could there be something built that would handshake between the data or USB port?
What you are looking for is simply a cellular capable modem, which can be installed in parallel to your existing modem if it is not cellular ready. I used an IBM P/N 85H8059 FRU 38H5062 PCMCIA data/fax modem card on an older laptop which was cellular capable, but you need an adapter cable for the specific cell phone. You should be able to pick one up used or surplus for very little money. Look for Cellular Ready ("Spectrum Connected") on the back of the modem card. You will also need a PCMCIA port on your computer. It had a max speed of 33. 6 kbps, but I think there was also a faster, later one at 56 kbps from IBM.
My furnace/air conditioning servicer recently replaced the control unit in my high-efficiency furnace. The defective portion of the control unit turned out to be the spark generator, but, in the process I see the unit has a single-wire electric flame sensor, not the old standard thermocouple. I can't figure out how the thing works. Can someone please enlighten this old-timer?
In the old days of gas heating appliances, a pilot flame was used to start the main burners when heat was required. Typically, this pilot was started by a match or a spark generator. A thermocouple was used to check for the presence of the pilot flame by detecting its heat. If the thermocouple failed or did not detect heat, the main burners would not fire.
and then open the main burner valves. Some schemes don't have pilots and directly spark the main burners. In either case, detection of a good flame is the key to safe burner control.
The single wire detection method is viable because a flame acts like a diode electrically. By expressing low voltage AC across the sense wire and detecting half wave rectification, the ignition module can deduce the presence of a good flame. Some ignition modules use the high voltage spark wire as the sense wire thus eliminating the need for a separate flame sense wire. The secret here is the flame is a diode. No flame, no diode, no rectification, no heat, and hopefully no raw gas vapor in your cellar.
Can a security system be built that would utilize a switch on a door to trigger a cell phone to call a number? A similar system on the Internet costs around $300. Can something be built for less than $100 with a "pay as you go" wireless phone?
Cellular phone electronics can be purchased as modules, for "m2m" (machine to machine) links over the cellular phone network which allows construction of hobby projects. For example, the GM862 made by Telit and sold through SparkFun Electronics ( www.sparkfun.com).
A GSM SIM card is required to activate the phone which uses AT style modem commands for control and will send and receive data streams, SMS text, voice, or data up to 57. 6 kbps. The module is compatible with standard international GSM cellular phone bands and SIM carriers in the USA (AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile). For a switch closure activated alarm, the GM862 will only need a simple microcontroller and a power supply. The module sells for about $150.


The moment that these reply messages reach the top of the command window is almost exactly the same time that the controller will start accepting Diagnostics connections.
I also highly recommend SecureCRT. You can set it to auto-reconnect to the telnet/ssh port (it attempts every 5 seconds) and immediately send the "msg on" (or "msg on error" for FMv4) which is the same as NetLinx Diagnostics. Others on the forum recommend shadeBlue Indigo, though I've had more crashing issues with that one.
Of course if you want to see the Device Notifications, pinging is the best method.


American rapper Yelawolf performed at one of Assembly's last shows this week.
Despite The Assembly's pending closure, co-owner Duncan Ringrose is looking on the bright side.
"There's something cool about closing chapters and moving on," said Mr Ringrose, one of the owners of the live music venue, which will be closing its doors after nine years on the party scene.
The Assembly, which opened in 2007 in a transformed warehouse in Harrington Street, hosted weekly events featuring local and international artists such as Freshlyground, Jack Parow, Public Enemy, and most recently, Spek Won, among others.
And while the night club was still doing well, attracting more than 1 000 people weekly, Mr Ringrose feels that it is time to close the doors.
"I think that we are all happy to let it go and not get into the music and entertainment industry for the foreseeable future. It's a lot of mixed feelings.
But as much it may be a relief for him to let go, Mr Ringrose will always have fond memories of running the place, such as the opening night, which he thought was significant.
"It changed the dynamics of music in Cape Town. We focused on artists, their talent and giving them a platform. And I think the artists appreciated that we took the time to give them this space.
"We gave the youth of Cape Town a place to go every week, and it's very seldom that you can get more than 1 000 people in one space every single week.
"I am very proud of everyone. I'm proud of what's been achieved," said Mr Ringrose.
He said one of the highlights of working at The Assembly was meeting renowned artists and that the venue had left its mark in Cape Town.
Zander Tyler, better known by his stage name Jack Parow, said the venue had played a big role in his growth as a musician. "It was a springboard to get into the music scene. Especially as a rapper and electronic musician, there were not that many places in Cape Town where we could perform.
The Tamboerskloof resident said he had countless stories and memories related to the venue.
He has also shot three music videos there over the past nine years.
Parow said he was looking forward to what the new owners had in store for the venue.
Wynand Myburgh, manager and bass player at Cape Town-based band Fokofpolisiekar, said he was sad to see the venue closing and that it had had a big impact on the local scene.
Myburgh said one of his highlights of playing at the venue over the years was their show on Friday August 5.
Rondebosch resident Luyanda Peter said she has great memories of the venue, as a fan and later as an event organiser.
"From being a dreamy flyer collector, to a patron and eventually working behind-the-scenes of some of the live shows that the venue hosted, there is not a single moment in the existence of The Assembly that I can fault.The Cape Town nightlife can be full of politics but never-ever did I experience that at The Assembly.
"Outside of the highly-respect-able quality of sound the venue produced, the professionalism of the hearts and minds behind The Assembly, that I was blessed to encounter, stays branded on my mind.
* The Assembly will host its final event on Saturday August 13.


Age-related shift in LTD is dependent on neuronal adenosine A(2A) receptors interplay with mGluR5 and NMDA receptors.
Temido-Ferreira, M. and Ferreira, D.G. and Batalha, V.L. and Marques-Morgado, I. and Coelho, J.E. and Pereira, P. and Gomes, R. and Pinto, A. and Carvalho, S. and Canas, P.M. and Cuvelier, L. and Buée-Scherrer, V. and Faivre, E. and Baqi, Y. and Müller, C.E. and Pimentel, J. and Schiffmann, S.N. and Buée, L. and Bader, M. and Outeiro, T.F. and Blum, D. and Cunha, R.A. and Marie, H. and Pousinha, P.A. and Lopes, L.V.
De novo and inherited mutations in the X-linked gene CLCN4 are associated with syndromic intellectual disability and behavior and seizure disorders in males and females.
Palmer, E.E. and Stuhlmann, T. and Weinert, S. and Haan, E. and Van Esch, H. and Holvoet, M. and Boyle, J. and Leffler, M. and Raynaud, M. and Moraine, C. and van Bokhoven, H. and Kleefstra, T. and Kahrizi, K. and Najmabadi, H. and Ropers, H.H. and Delgado, M.R. and Sirsi, D. and Golla, S. and Sommer, A. and Pietryga, M.P. and Chung, W.K. and Wynn, J. and Rohena, L. and Bernardo, E. and Hamlin, D. and Faux, B.M. and Grange, D.K. and Manwaring, L. and Tolmie, J. and Joss, S. and Cobben, J.M. and Duijkers, F.A.M. and Goehringer, J.M. and Challman, T.D. and Hennig, F. and Fischer, U. and Grimme, A. and Suckow, V. and Musante, L. and Nicholl, J. and Shaw, M. and Lodh, S.P. and Niu, Z. and Rosenfeld, J.A. and Stankiewicz, P. and Jentsch, T.J. and Gecz, J. and Field, M. and Kalscheuer, V.M.
Genetics of intellectual disability in consanguineous families.
Hu, H. and Kahrizi, K. and Musante, L. and Fattahi, Z. and Herwig, R. and Hosseini, M. and Oppitz, C. and Abedini, S.S. and Suckow, V. and Larti, F. and Beheshtian, M. and Lipkowitz, B. and Akhtarkhavari, T. and Mehvari, S. and Otto, S. and Mohseni, M. and Arzhangi, S. and Jamali, P. and Mojahedi, F. and Taghdiri, M. and Papari, E. and Soltani Banavandi, M.J. and Akbari, S. and Tonekaboni, S.H. and Dehghani, H. and Ebrahimpour, M.R. and Bader, I. and Davarnia, B. and Cohen, M. and Khodaei, H. and Albrecht, B. and Azimi, S. and Zirn, B. and Bastami, M. and Wieczorek, D. and Bahrami, G. and Keleman, K. and Vahid, L.N. and Tzschach, A. and Gärtner, J. and Gillessen-Kaesbach, G. and Varaghchi, J.R. and Timmermann, B. and Pourfatemi, F. and Jankhah, A. and Chen, W. and Nikuei, P. and Kalscheuer, V.M. and Oladnabi, M. and Wienker, T.F. and Ropers, H.H. and Najmabadi, H.
Structural brain changes are associated with response of negative symptoms to prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with schizophrenia.
Hasan, A. and Wobrock, T. and Guse, B. and Langguth, B. and Landgrebe, M. and Eichhammer, P. and Frank, E. and Cordes, J. and Woelwer, W. and Musso, F. and Winterer, G. and Gaebel, W. and Hajak, G. and Ohmann, C. and Verde, P.E. and Rietschel, M. and Ahmed, R. and Honer, W.G. and Dechent, P. and Malchow, B. and Castro, M.F.U. and Dwyer, D. and Cabral, C. and Kreuzer, P.M. and Poeppl, T.B. and Schneider-Axmann, T. and Falkai, P. and Koutsouleris, N.
SorCS2 is required for BDNF-dependent plasticity in the hippocampus.
Glerup, S. and Bolcho, U. and Molgaard, S. and Bøggild, S. and Vaegter, C.B. and Smith, A.H. and Nieto-Gonzalez, J.L. and Ovesen, P.L. and Pedersen, L.F. and Fjorback, A.N. and Kjolby, M. and Login, H. and Holm, M.M. and Andersen, O.M. and Nyengaard, J.R. and Willnow, T.E. and Jensen, K. and Nykjaer, A.
X-exome sequencing of 405 unresolved families identifies seven novel intellectual disability genes.
Hu, H. and Haas, S.A. and Chelly, J. and Van Esch, H. and Raynaud, M. and de Brouwer, A.P.M. and Weinert, S. and Froyen, G. and Frints, S.G.M. and Laumonnier, F. and Zemojtel, T. and Love, M.I. and Richard, H. and Emde, A.K. and Bienek, M. and Jensen, C. and Hambrock, M. and Fischer, U. and Langnick, C. and Feldkamp, M. and Wissink-Lindhout, W. and Lebrun, N. and Castelnau, L. and Rucci, J. and Montjean, R. and Dorseuil, O. and Billuart, P. and Stuhlmann, T. and Shaw, M. and Corbett, M.A. and Gardner, A. and Willis-Owen, S. and Tan, C. and Friend, K.L. and Belet, S. and van Roozendaal, K.E.P. and Jimenez-Pocquet, M. and Moizard, M.P. and Ronce, N. and Sun, R. and O'Keeffe, S. and Chenna, R. and van Bömmel, A. and Goeke, J. and Hackett, A. and Field, M. and Christie, L. and Boyle, J. and Haan, E. and Nelson, J. and Turner, G. and Baynam, G. and Gillessen-Kaesbach, G. and Mueller, U. and Steinberger, D. and Budny, B. and Badura-Stronka, M. and Latos-Bieleńska, A. and Ousager, L.B. and Wieacker, P. and Rodríguez Criado, G. and Bondeson, M.L. and Annerén, G. and Dufke, A. and Cohen, M. and Van Maldergem, L. and Vincent-Delorme, C. and Echenne, B. and Simon-Bouy, B. and Kleefstra, T. and Willemsen, M. and Fryns, J.P. and Devriendt, K. and Ullmann, R. and Vingron, M. and Wrogemann, K. and Wienker, T.F. and Tzschach, A. and van Bokhoven, H. and Gecz, J. and Jentsch, T.J. and Chen, W. and Ropers, H.H. and Kalscheuer, V.M.
In utero gene therapy rescues microcephaly caused by Pqbp1-hypofunction in neural stem progenitor cells.
Ito, H. and Shiwaku, H. and Yoshida, C. and Homma, H. and Luo, H. and Chen, X. and Fujita, K. and Musante, L. and Fischer, U. and Frints, S.G.M. and Romano, C. and Ikeuchi, Y. and Shimamura, T. and Imoto, S. and Miyano, S. and Muramatsu, S.I. and Kawauchi, T. and Hoshino, M. and Sudol, M. and Arumughan, A. and Wanker, E.E. and Rich, T. and Schwartz, C. and Matsuzaki, F. and Bonni, A. and Kalscheuer, V.M. and Okazawa, H.
Soluble amyloid precursor proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid as novel potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter study.
Lewczuk, P. and Kamrowski-Kruck, H. and Peters, O. and Heuser, I. and Jessen, F. and Popp, J. and Buerger, K. and Hampel, H. and Froelich, L. and Wolf, S. and Prinz, B. and Jahn, H. and Luckhaus, C. and Perneczky, R. and Huell, M. and Schroeder, J. and Kessler, H. and Pantel, J. and Gertz, H.J. and Klafki, H.W. and Koelsch, H. and Reulbach, U. and Esselmann, H. and Maler, J.M. and Bibl, M. and Kornhuber, J. and Wiltfang, J.
The Met allele of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with increased BDNF serum concentrations.
Lang, U.E. and Hellweg, R. and Sander, T. and Gallinat, J.
Association and linkage of allelic variants of the dopamine transporter gene in ADHD.
Friedel, S. and Saar, K. and Sauer, S. and Dempfle, A. and Walitza, S. and Renner, T. and Romanos, M. and Freitag, C. and Seitz, C. and Palmason, H. and Scherag, A. and Windemuth-Kieselbach, C. and Schimmelmann, B.G. and Wewetzer, C. and Meyer, J. and Warnke, A. and Lesch, K.P. and Reinhardt, R. and Herpertz-Dahlmann, B. and Linder, M. and Hinney, A. and Remschmidt, H. and Schaefer, H. and Konrad, K. and Huebner, N. and Hebebrand, J.
A genome-wide scan for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 155 german sib-pairs.
Hebebrand, J. and Dempfle, A. and Saar, K. and Thiele, H. and Herpertz-Dahlmann, B. and Linder, M. and Kiefl, H. and Remschmidt, H. and Hemminger, U. and Warnke, A. and Knoelker, U. and Heiser, P. and Friedel, S. and Hinney, A. and Schaefer, H. and Nuernberg, P. and Konrad, K.
Support for the involvement of TPH2 gene in affective disorders.
Harvey, M. and Shink, E. and Tremblay, M. and Gagne, B. and Raymond, C. and Labbe, M. and Walther, D.J. and Bader, M. and Barden, N.
A second large family with catatonic schizophrenia supports the region distally of CHRNA7 on chromosome 15q14-15.
Meyer, J. and Rueschendorf, F. and Lesch, K.P.
Exclusion of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 7 subunit gene as a candidate for catatonic schizophrenia in a large family supporting the chromosome 15q13-22 locus.
Meyer, J. and Ortega, G. and Schraut, K. and Nuernberg, G. and Rueschendorf, F. and Saar, K. and Moessner, R. and Wienker, T.F. and Reis, A. and Stoeber, G. and Lesch, K.P.
DRD4 exon III VNTR polymorphism-susceptibility factor for heroin dependence? Results of a case-control and a family-based association approach.
Franke, P. and Noethen, M.M. and Wang, T. and Knapp, M. and Lichtermann, D. and Neidt, H. and Sander, T. and Propping, P. and Maier, W.
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