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Social Networking Provides a New Avenue for Open Access in Academia
Posted on October 08, 2013 by Tadween Editors | 1 comment
Academia.edu CEO Dr. Richard Price (Photo Credit: Hadas Shema/Scientific American)
Academia, traditionally contained within the ivory towers of higher education and paywall-restricted academic journals, is continuing to transform and become more open to the public by creating public spaces online. Some online ventures, such as Academia.edu, are attempting to condense the gap between the public and academia.
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have played an instrumental role in transforming how educators and scholars connect with their audiences and their students. But websites like Academia.edu, a platform for sharing academic research which was launched in 2008, are attempting to push the public's interaction with Academia further and to change the static system of peer review. According to Academia.edu's website, "4,647,363 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 1,628,174 papers and 876,309 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 5 million unique visitors a month."
In September 2013, Khosla Ventures, headed by entrepreneur Vinod Khosla, invested $11.1 million in Academia.edu to support making academic research openly accessible, for free, online. "Academia is building a new infrastructure around scientific research that promises to reshape the way science is done, making it transparent, open, and collaborative, so that we can accelerate the pace of scientific innovation," said Khosla. Other examples of online databases and social networks that promote open access to academic research include ResearchGate, Zotero, Google Scholar, and Mendeley. But with the new investment from Khosla Ventures academia.edu is aiming to beat out the competition.
With a network of over four and a half million researchers, which is a quarter of the world's seventeen million academics according to Digital Journal, Academia.edu aims to provide a platform for academics and scholars to publish their research without having to become tangled in the prolonged peer review process of academic and scientific journals. The ultimate goal is to make research available for free so that anyone can discover it.
"Competition for grants and tenure is at an all time high," explains Richard Price, founder of Academia.edu, in an interview with Bloomberg. "So when you're applying for a grant its not enough to say 'Hey, I've been published in these fancy journals,' you also have to demonstrate impact."
According to Price, one way in which Academia.edu can aid scholars in gauging their impact is through the Analytics Dashboard, which allows scholars to see how many people are clicking to view their research (it iss the academic version of Facebook's "like" button). Based on how academics interact with the website and the research they publish, academics will have the ability to bolster their work's reputation. Cale Guthrie Weissman explains for PandoDaily, "Those who participate build an academic reputation on the site based on their participation. This means that academia's platform isn't merely a repository for papers, it's also a social network for academics."
Speaking in public, Price has discussed how he hopes that Academia.edu can create new avenues for breakthroughs in scientific research by exposing the work of lesser-known scientists. However, Academia.edu is not merely relegated to science, but expands across all disciplines, from history to economics. By signing up for a free account, users can search for research by looking up certain academics or areas of interest, or they can search for universities, a category that is then broken down into disciplines containing registered academics assigned to their network.
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But press, fans and celebrities in attendance quickly learned that Firebird X was much, much more than any guitar ever conceived. Speaking to an audience that included such guitar luminaries as Ace Frehley, The Roots' Kirk Douglas, Eddie Ojeda and Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister, Lou Pallo, Russ Paul and others, Juszkiewicz described an instrument light years ahead of anything ever built.


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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's Day One Update Adds Sub-Stories
By Vincent Arogya 01/15/20
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Even though the game hasn't released yet, we already know what's coming in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's day one update patch. The game will release for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC January 17. But, Bandai Namco has already prepared the massive 11GB day one update for the game. The patch is separated into two separate patches - 1.01 and 1.02, aimed at improving load times, includes quality of life improvements, and introduces sub-stories.
According to Wcfftech, the 1.01 patch is said to add "system features related to bonuses," and patch 1.02 is geared toward improving load times, addition of fast travel to Korin Tower Summit and Capsule Corporation from the world map, adjusting "the entry fee of the Time Attacks," and, of course, adds sub-stories and makes adjustments. The sub-stories can help create a robust story experience and expand upon the Dragon Ball Z lore.
The day one 11GB update is going to apply to the original game's 36GB minimum storage requirement, as per Steam. If you want to minimize some wait time or lower the hassle, it's best that you clear up some space and be prepared for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot dropping this Friday.
If you haven't heard about DBZ Kakarot, the game is an action RPG with a story that spans across the entire Dragon Ball Z universe - from the first Raditz fight to the Buu Saga. The game also features an in-depth skill tree, fishing, side quests, stat buffs, cooking, and story sections adding to the lore. The game scored 34 out of 40 on Famitsu's review. DBZ Kakarot features an open world and players are expected to be immersed in a 40 hours experience to complete the main story and up to 100 hours to fully complete the game. Players can expect a fast battle system and side-quests that develop the minor characters seen in the manga and anime.
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Amaranth is a traditional food used throughout Central and South America, primarily by the Aztecs. When the Spanish conquistadors invaded, they remarked at how strong, agile and healthy the natives were. Eventually they realized they were all consuming large amounts of Amaranth and subsequently banned them from using it. Today, however, the grain is becoming increasingly popular and is finally being recognized for its incredible nutritional profile.
You can also find it for a similar price in the bulk bins at your local health food store.
Rice bran is the byproduct of the milling process used to make white rice. To make white rice (aka polished rice), the outer layer of the rice grain known as the bran is mechanically separated so that only the endosperm (the inside kernel of rice grain, which is white) is left. The bran is what contains the vast majority of the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants found in rice (this explains why white rice is essentially empty calories). Rice bran is literally just the concentrated vitamins, minerals and antioxidants from brown rice. It tastes great! You could literally eat it straight out of the bag (I do!).
You can also usually find it for a similar price in the bulk bins at your local health food store.
Yes, pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are taken for granted as just another tasty seed usually eaten around Halloween but ignored during the rest of the year. Not nearly as popular as sunflower or even hemp seeds for that matter, these delicious, highly nutritious green seeds pack a serious list of essential nutrients. Try them toasted for easier digestion and improved taste.
* This is the best price I could find for quality pumpkin seeds online, but you can definitely get them for less than $5 in the bulk bins at your local health food store.


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Q: ActiveDocument.SaveAs2 saving the document but can not ever open the document once saved (only some computer models) Currently I have a document template with macros endabled .dotm. The macro has a commandbutton in there that triggers the SaveAs2 object twice formatted as below.
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Now here is the interesting part that has me stumped now for about a week now. This code works but only on some computers. Older models it doesn't work on for some reason. It doesn't matter Windows 10 or Windows 7 or Version of Office itself. It doesn't work on computers that are older in models like a HP EliteDesk 1 or HP EliteDesk 2. The 1 won't work but 2 will.
I have never heard of the vba macro being affected by the model of the computer version of OS yes version of Word ofcourse but never version of model. I have googled left and right and went to documentation from 2010 (including microsoft's killing activex issue of 2014 which I already ruled out)
This is how blank I mean doesn't even open the white page underneath.
Any ideas? Or have you heard of some computer models not running vba code but having the same OS and same version of Office?

A: Cindy, Justin is right it does yield a proper path and handles correctly in the VBA console without the slash. In the first sub he seems to only be after the path for the folder and is saving on the next parent folder outside of the folder containing the template macro. I have seen this work elsewhere why it is not working on specific models has me at a loss.
The second seems to target the location more specifically than the second which makes since if the folder is targeting a co-worker. I am currently trying to recreate the issue but having no luck your code works perfectly on my two systems I have running, both are rather new.

A: Try changing the wdsaveformat to match an extension type the formatting might be handled differently on newer models (unlikely but worth a shot)
Or rewrite the vba and document on the older afflicted models to see if they handle the setup and formatting differently

A: Justin, I figured it out by chance were you trying to save a dotm as a docm. If the macro tries to save the dotm as a docm the formatting for the data is two separate instances. I followed through with this and noticed it in a test I ran on the document when right clicked and opened and got the same result try saving the template as a docm document instead this should resolve your issue.


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Traffic backup leads to road-rage fist fight
A motorcyclist intent on passing backed-up traffic on the Pat Bay Highway via the shoulder got into a fight with a fellow driver
A motorcyclist intent on passing backed-up traffic on the Pat Bay Highway via the shoulder got into a fight with a fellow driver who took exception to the biker.
The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday near Sayward Road, in the wake of a separate a rear-end collision. Passing motorists advised a Saanich police officers there was a fist fight going on down the road.
It began after a commercial truck operator attempted to block two bikers' attempts to drive down the shoulder.
One of the motorcyclists got off his bike, the truck driver exited the truck, and "the fight was on," wrote Saanich police Sgt. Dean Jantzen in a press release.
"The rider proceeded to run head long into the truck driver with his helmet. The truck driver defended himself by striking the rider in the helmet actually breaking his visor," Jantzen wrote.
Neither men was charged with assault, but the motorcyclist was issued a ticket for operating outside restrictions on his driver's licence.
"All motorcycle riders are reminded that it is an offence to pass a line of traffic on the shoulder of a roadway," Jantzen added.
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Welcome to the 5-a-Side Football competition for 2019.
Senior grades will be offered (subject to the number of team nominations received) in the following divisions:
Open Men's
Open Women's
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Open Mixed
Senior Player registration fees is $100 (per person).
The Senior competition will start on Tuesday 15th October, running for 10 weeks with the final night being Tuesday 17th December.
The rules for the Open Mixed competition will be there MUST be at least two female players on the field at all times (please refer to rule 6.4 of the T&C's).
Juniors Mixed age grades will be offered (subject to the number of team nominations received) from U8 up to U15 age divisions. Should an age division have insufficient team nominations for that division to proceed then age groups will be combined. The team contact will be notified if this is to happen to confirm that the team would still like to participate.
Juniors player registration fee is $75.00 (per person).
The Junior competition will start on Thursday 17th October, running for 10 weeks with the final night being on Thursday 19th December.
Note: Junior competition players must be no older than the age division that their team is registered in at the date of the start of the competition. Under age players will be considered on request subject to parental consent.
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Sources: Understaffing hampered response to Calif. prison suicide
About half of the federal prison's CO posts were filled by workers whose regular duties do not include monitoring inmates
Has your agency had to reassign other staff members (nurses, cooks, teachers) to cover CO staffing shortages? Take our poll to let us know.
By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak
WASHINGTON — The radios crackled with a frantic call for backup at a federal prison in California: An inmate was found hanging in his cell. Help was needed immediately.
But the prison, like many run by the U.S. government, is so chronically understaffed that other prison workers who would normally rush to the scene weren't able to leave posts where they were being forced to fill-in as correctional officers, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Monday's death was reminiscent of one of the worst crises in the history of the federal Bureau of Prisons — when Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York — and exemplifies the dangers of the agency's severe staffing crisis, nearly three years after Epstein's suicide cast a bright spotlight on an agency that has been besieged by serious misconduct in recent years.
Special investigative services Lt. Armando Cervantes, right, films protesters at the Federal Correctional Institution at Mendota during a demonstration over staffing shortages, near the prison entrance in Mendota, Calif., Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
The Associated Press reported last week that nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to monitor inmates. The expanded use of that practice, known as augmentation, has been raising questions about whether the agency can carry out its required duties to ensure the safety of prisoners and staff members while also putting in place programs and classes required under the law.
The 47-year-old inmate who died Monday at FCI Mendota, a medium-security prison just west of Fresno, was serving a more than four-year sentence for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
Juan Ramon Rodriguez-Barbosa was being held in the prison's segregated housing unit and was found hanging by officers who were making their required checks of inmates in the unit every 30 minutes, the people familiar with the matter said. They could not discuss the details of the incident publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
The Bureau of Prisons said responding staff members "immediately initiated life-saving measures" and called for emergency medical crews, but Rodriguez-Barbosa was pronounced dead at the scene.
The agency insists that there was an immediate response to the medical call and an appropriate number of staff members responded. But there were others who normally would've responded to such a call and couldn't.
At the time of the incident, about half of the prison's correctional officer posts were filled by workers whose regular duties do not include guarding inmates. The Bureau of Prisons says all prison workers are trained as correctional workers, regardless of position or job title. Fully staffed, there would have been more first responders rushing to the emergency call.
Just hours before Rodriguez-Barbosa's death, the prison's warden, Douglas White, wrote to the entire staff to complain about media coverage that he said "painted a negative image" of the prison. He told them it is "time to stop talking and printing negative information" about the staff there.
Federal regulations require all Justice Department employees — including those in the Bureau of Prisons — to report allegations of illegal activity or serious administrative misconduct to the Justice Department's inspector general or internal affairs.
The warden's email appeared to have been sparked by an AP story highlighting understaffing at Mendota and the protest by union officials. White had also sent other Bureau of Prisons employees with video cameras to record their fellow prison workers who were protesting and members of the media covering it.
"The Warden sent staff to determine what was happening. When they found out no threat existed, they returned to the institution," a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told the AP. The agency has refused to provide a copy of the video.
The Bureau of Prisons has been working to try to bring on more staff members — launching what it called a "hiring frenzy" — in February. The bureau says it hired nearly 4,000 new staff members in 2020 — more than in prior years — and that more than 500 additional hires are on the way.
And the bureau says it has been holding hiring events at several prisons across the country.
They included two on Wednesday: one at Mendota this week and another to attract staff to work at federal jails in New York City — facilities that a federal judge recently said were "run by morons" and left inmates in "inhuman" conditions.
But when The Associated Press visited the public park in downtown Manhattan where the event was supposed to be held, it was nonexistent. The Bureau of Prisons said the hiring fair was canceled "for safety and security" because of a rumor that a protest was going to happen in the same place.
The AP did not witness any large-scale protest in the nearly empty park; two people who were sitting at a table in the park said they were protesting police misconduct after being approached by an AP photographer.
The Bureau of Prisons said officials don't like to cancel hiring events and were hoping to reschedule. An agency spokesperson said the bureau held about 20 hiring events, both virtually and in-person this year, to try to attract new employees to work at New York City's federal jails.
"We absolutely would like to see as many hiring initiatives in the works as possible," the agency said in a statement. "Hiring events are only one component of our recruitment efforts, and while we want them to proceed as planned, due to institutional needs, they may be postponed."
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Michelle Obama's well-calibrated Met appearance.
May 19, 2009, 12:33pm
The Metropolitan Opera House got a taste of the control-freak White House Monday night when the American Ballet Theatre's Spring Gala welcomed its honorary chairman, Michelle Obama.
Clearly word of her attendance had spread ahead of time—police barricades held back both paparazzi and civilian snappers. But there was little chance of a stray sighting as the First Lady's appearance was a finely calibrated dance that left most in the Opera House's audience guessing. And as for official photos: there was one, taken by a White House-approved photographer and released the next day that showed a wooden Obama standing beside Met dignitaries, or barely discernable amongst a sea of ballet dancers.
"I think she's in the top box," said one woman before the evening's program as guests stood peering upwards, hoping for a glimpse.
It wasn't until mid-performance, after Balanchine's "Mozartiana," that she finally emerged. A red podium was rolled out and honorary chairman Caroline Kennedy took the stage to introduce her.
"Tonight is an evening of many firsts," began Kennedy, alluding to the First Lady's presence and also students from the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT who were making their debut at the Met.
When Obama finally walked out, she was greeted with a standing ovation and many a seemingly jaded ballet-goer took out their cellphone cameras to snap photos.
"My husband and I believe strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow," she said to much applause before returning to her box.
During intermission, Al Roker hobnobbed with White House social secretary Desirée Rogers, who echoed the First Lady's sentiments.
"I think tonight is a wonderful evening for all Americans and young people to support the arts—and to see the children dance is just wonderful, just wonderful," she said, adding that she and Obama would be missing the gala's post-performance dinner.
Naturally, guests at the tented affair—who included Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, Blaine Trump, Renée Zellweger (who skipped the press line and eschewed photographers), Lee Radziwill, Mariska Hargitay, Kim Raver, Tory Burch and Anne Grauso—spent much of the evening chattering about the First Lady's appearance.
"I love her. I think she's wonderful," said Carolina Herrera, who co-sponsored the gala along with Graff.
"It was major! I mean, was there anyone in that room who didn't think the same?" queried Marjorie Gubelmann.
"It's always great to see Mrs. Obama speak," said a somewhat subdued Matthew Modine (it wasn't an evening of firsts for him: he had already seen her at the DNC and the Inauguration, among other occasions).
"She's a lot bigger than I thought she was—she made Caroline Kennedy look like a midget," mused one partygoer.
None seemed to articulate her appeal quite like Lipstick Jungle's Lindsay Price.
"I was definitely star-struck. I mean, she's like the coolest person ever right now, isn't she?" said the actress.


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Old Stone Fort
Map of the fort from Joseph Jones's Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee (1876)
Location in Tennessee
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The Old Stone Fort is a prehistoric Native American structure located in Coffee County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. The structure was most likely built between 80 and 550 AD during the Middle Woodland period. It is the most complex hilltop enclosure found in the South and was likely used for ceremonial purposes rather than defense.
The structure is now part of Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park, one of two archaeological parks in Tennessee (the other being at Pinson Mounds near Jackson). The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The structure of the Old Stone Fort
The Old Stone Fort in recorded history
The Old Stone Fort's builders and function
Who built the Old Stone Fort?
What was the purpose of the Old Stone Fort?
The Old Stone Fort Museum
Big Falls on the Duck River, below the Old Stone Fort's northwestern section
The Old Stone Fort is located on a peninsula created by the confluence of the Duck River and the Little Duck River (the section of the Duck River upstream from its confluence with the Little Duck is sometimes called "Barren Fork"). The Duck River forms the peninsula's northwestern boundary, the Little Duck forms the peninsula's southeastern boundary, and a westward bend in the Little Duck forms the peninsula's southern boundary. The walled area of the structure encompasses approximately 50 acres (200,000 m2). (Click for Map)
The Duck River system spills over a limestone-rich shelf of the western Cumberland Plateau known as the Highland Rim. As the Duck and Little Duck approach their convergence, they rapidly drop in elevation, and have cut relatively deep gorges around the peninsula upon which the ancient structure is located. Both gorges are highlighted by a series of substantial waterfalls and whitewater rapids. The natural waterpower in these two gorges attracted entrepreneurs and millwrights throughout the 19th century.
The Old Stone Fort is located entirely within Coffee County, and is situated just west of Manchester, Tennessee. Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park encompasses 876 acres (3.55 km2) and is managed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
The Old Stone Fort's entrance, with the "pedestal" mounds on the right and left
The interior of the Old Stone Fort
The walls of the Old Stone Fort consist of stone and earthwork, and are on average approximately 4–6 feet high. The walls originally consisted of an inner and outer layer of crudely stacked rocks and slabs with gravel and earthen fill in between. Over the centuries, the earthen fill has spilled over the rock layers, giving the walls their current mound-like appearance.
The walls can be divided into roughly three sections, with two sections running roughly parallel to the Duck and Little Duck Rivers, and a third section running parallel to the southern rim of the peninsula. The sections paralleling the rivers gradually move inward, away from their respective rivers, and approach one another in a pincer-like formation at the northeastern half of the peninsula. Here, both walls terminate just before converging, allowing for a small entrance. Two ancient "pedestal" mounds— one 35 feet (11 m) in diameter and the other 48 feet (15 m) in diameter— are located on either side of the structure's entrance. The entrance continues through a 120-foot (37 m) L-shaped corridor which opens into the structure's interior.
The fort's northwestern walls (following the Duck River) are approximately 1,394 feet (425 m) long, and the southeastern walls (following the Little Duck) are approximately 1,094 feet (333 m) in length. The southern walls, which are basically straight with the exception of an area where the ridge bulges outward, are 2,116 feet (645 m) long. Large open sections are found between both the southern wall and the northwestern wall and the southern wall and the southeastern wall. These areas were probably left open due to the fact that they overlook steep bluffs carved out by the Duck and Little Duck rivers whose waters probably performed the same function as the mounds.
A substantial ditch, known as the "moat", parallels the southern wall at the base of the ridge. This ditch is a natural feature and is actually an abandoned river channel. However, it is not known if this channel was artificially kept open in prehistory.
The ruins of the Stone Fort Paper Mill near Big Falls at the Old Stone Fort's northwestern section
Close up of the falls directly at the beginning of the trail--can be seen from on the patio above the museum, or close up if using a dirt trail adjacent to the concrete walkways
By the time white long hunters and traders arrived in the area in the mid-18th century, a system of well-worn trails traversed the Cumberland Plateau, connecting what is now Middle Tennessee with Georgia and Northern Alabama. One trail passed near the Old Stone Fort, closely following what is now U.S. Route 41. The ancient structure was no doubt an important landmark to early travelers in the Middle Tennessee area.
The Nickajack Expedition, led by Major James Ore in the latter part of the Cherokee–American wars, is believed to have encamped within the Old Stone Fort en route to the Chickamauga towns. The structure also had an important symbolic significance for early Coffee County residents. The county's first court was held at the "Old Stone Fort Tavern" in 1836, and the county seat was laid out upon "Main Stone Fort Creek."
The powerful Duck River made the Old Stone Fort's peninsula an attractive site for mills as early as 1823, when Samuel Murray built a rope factory on the Little Duck River. Although the factory burned in 1847, it was followed by W.S. Whitman's paper mill further downstream in 1852. In 1862, Whitman built a powder factory adjacent to his paper mill to supply the Confederacy during the Civil War; it was destroyed by Union troops the following year. In 1879, the Stone Fort Paper Company built a large mill near Big Falls on the Duck River. The mill supplied paper to newspapers throughout the Southeast— including the Nashville Banner and the Atlanta Constitution— until the early 20th century. The mill's foundations are on the bluffs overlooking Big Falls, and can be accessed via the Old Stone Fort Loop Trail.
The property containing the Old Stone Fort was eventually passed into the hands of the Chumbley family, who had ties to Stone Fort Paper. The Chumbleys, seeking to protect the Old Stone Fort, passed up numerous private offers for the land the ancient structure was located on. In 1966, the State of Tennessee purchased 400 acres (1.6 km2) of the Chumbley estate that became the core of Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park. The Old Stone Fort was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Looking across the Old Stone Fort's south wall
The Old Stone Fort remained a mystery until the University of Tennessee conducted archaeological excavations in 1966. Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, various theories tried to identify the builders.
In 1823, the Pioneer, a Jackson, Tennessee newspaper, argued the Old Stone Fort was built by Buccaneers from Seville after one of their ships wrecked off the coast of Florida and forced them inland. In the mid-20th century, the discoveries at L'Anse aux Meadows and the discovery of apparent Viking artifacts in various parts of North America led many to believe the Vikings built stone structures in the Eastern U.S.A., including the Old Stone Fort.
The first serious investigation of the Old Stone Fort was conducted by Joseph Jones for the Smithsonian Institution in 1876 and uncovered several prehistoric artifacts. He was followed by Tennessee State Archaeologist P.E. Cox in 1928, who dug several trenches and analyzed the fort's composition.
In 1966, after the purchase of the Old Stone Fort, the University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology investigated the structure's origins. Digging a series of trenches and test pits and conducting extensive research, the investigators determined the builders to be Native Americans of the Middle Woodland period. Charles Faulkner, a member of the excavation team, based this on three findings:
Radiocarbon analysis of charcoal samples found within the structure's walls all dated to approximately 30-430 AD, in the Middle Woodland period.
The structure's composition, setting, and layout is similar to other structures built by Middle Woodland cultures, such as the Hopewell people of Ohio and the Pinson Mound builders in West Tennessee.
Between 1966 and 1971, five Middle Woodland settlements were discovered within 20 miles (32 km) of the Old Stone Fort, including a substantial habitation area 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream.
The University of Tennessee determined the fort was built gradually over a period of several hundred years. The builders are believed to be two distinct local Middle Woodland cultures known as the McFarland and the Owl Hollow cultures, the first beginning work in the 1st century AD and the second completing it.
This picture was taken from one of the provided benches between the 7 and 8 map markers towards the end of summer and beginning of fall
For decades, it was largely assumed the structure was used for military defense. Evidence from the 1966 excavations, however, points more to a religious or ceremonial function. Faulkner based this on the following:
Defensive structures are typically constructed quickly in response to a threat, but the Old Stone Fort was constructed gradually over several centuries.
The walls are not high enough to have been used for defense, and no evidence of a palisade was found.
The area within the walls is large and its defense would require much more than a typical Middle Woodland fighting force.
The 1966 excavations turned up almost no cultural artifacts, which implies the enclosure was kept clean and not continuously inhabited by its builders.
The "moat" that parallels the base of the southwestern edge of the peninsula was originally considered artificial, although researchers now believe it may be a natural dry riverbed.
The Old Stone Fort Museum.
The Old Stone Fort Museum, built by Tennessee State Parks, is located near the park entrance. The museum's exhibits interpret the theories regarding the fort's builders, archaeological excavations at the site, small theater, small welcome/gift shop center, historical lineage of early Native Americans, and the culture of its builders. An observation deck atop the museum displays information about the Old Stone Fort and surrounding rivers and views of the Blue Hole Falls.
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Q: Django query get objects that are not in other object I have two Django models: Match and MatchRegister. I want to get list of all Matches that are not in MatchRegister object but I'm unable to do so. Could you please help me achieve it?
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class Match(models.Model):
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    match_number = models.CharField(
        max_length=10
    )
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        Team,
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class MatchRegister(models.Model):
    match = models.ForeignKey(
        Match,
        on_delete=models.SET_NULL,
        null=True
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A: You can use the __isnull filter with the correct related_query_name (which defaults to the lower case model name):
Match.objects.filter(matchregister__isnull=True)

A: You could take list of all the matches connected with a match register and then exclude it from the matches altogether, like this:
all_match_registers = MatchRegister.objects.all()

ids_to_exclude = []
for match_register in all_match_registers:
    ids_to_exclude.append(match_register.match.id)

Match.objects.exclude(id__in = ids_to_exclude)


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Utah Corporate Bylaws and other Corporate Documents
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On one level, a Utah Corporation does not need to set up a separate bank account. The law does not expressly require it. But as a practical matter it is necessary to separate things out and do your accounting. If your Utah Corporation has a separate bank account it will put you in a better position in the future should the separateness of you and the corporation be made an issue. As a practical matter, a Utah Corporation should set up a separate bank account.
Utah Corporation Setting Up a Bank Account
To set up its own bank account a Utah Corporation needs to acquire its own Federal Taxpayer Identification number, sometimes referred to as an Employer Identification Number or simply an EIN. The process takes about 5 minutes and can be done on line. There is no fee. It is done through the Social Security administration. The paper form is referred to as Form SS-4. The form can be filled out online at https://sa.www4.irs.gov/modiein/individual/index.jsp and if done online you obtain the EIN number immediately.
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So now that the Utah LLC has an Operating Agreement and set up a bank account, what are the recordkeeping requirements? They can be found are set forth in Utah Statues Section 48-2c-113, a link to which is here. For a laymen's discussion of the Utah LLC record keeping requirements, click here.
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Q: ODE45 in MATLAB with second order differential equations I was wondering how one would use ODE45 in MATLAB to solve higher (second) order differential equation initial value problems.
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When Is Real Not Real? – The Work, Jim Cornette, & Minoru Suzuki vs. Orange Cassidy
During half-time of the 2020 Superbowl, Joey Janela announced via Twitter that his Wrestlemania weekend Spring Break show would feature Minoru Suzuki vs. Orange Cassidy in a first-time ever match.
Predictably, this prompted performative outrage from legions of fans and the Twitter commentariat schooled by the likes of Jim Cornette to reject anything associated with Joey Janela out of hand, and to see Orange Cassidy and his ilk as an affront to everything wrestling purports to be. You see, Orange Cassidy is a comedy wrestler, wrestling is a serious business, and to a dullard, "serious" is the opposite of "funny". Routinely telling on themselves as having never actually watched one of his matches by complaining of wrestlers "forced" to sell for Orange Cassidy's offence – the central joke of Orange Cassidy's performances being that his opponent's selling of his ineffectual strikes rarely moves beyond a bemused detachment – these self-styled defenders of pro-wrestling's honour are evidently equally unfamiliar with the work of Minoru Suzuki, the opponent whose "aura" they claim to be speaking in defence of; Suzuki is a shoot-style pioneer, a veteran of Pancrase, and a truly intimidating presence, yes, but Minoru Suzuki is also the greatest straight man in comedy wrestling. Far from this match being an unexpected foray into funny business, it could be argued that comedy is the one consistent through-thread of Suzuki's post-Pancrase career – from competing in HUSTLE, to elaborate Empty Arena matches in DDT, by way of a recurring programme with Mecha Mummy (He's a robot! He's a Mummy! He's from Ancient Egypt, in the future!), to working as a literal "cosplay rassler" for NOSAWA Rongai's produce shows, dressing up alongside long-time partner in crime Yoshihiro Takayama as Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brody, or the Crush Gals, Suzuki has never shied away from letting his reputation be played for laughs.
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So why the outrage on behalf of Suzuki, or on behalf of wrestling as a whole? Spring Break will be just one of many shows taking place over Wrestlemania weekend, so as the old adage goes – if you don't like it, don't watch it, right? Perhaps the issue is that for fans partial to "comedy" wrestling, or to a more theatrical approach to the genre, or to the post-modern or "meta" approach that Joey Janela's Spring Break has made its bread and butter in previous years, that point is self-evident, but to those who insist that the only way for wrestling to be successful, credible, or worthy of our time, is as a simulacrum of professional sports, attempting to convince the audience that what they see is "real", then the existence of comedy wrestling, or any style of wrestling deemed to "expose the business" fundamentally undermines the perceived "reality" of all other wrestling. If one wrestling show is clearly fake, the logic seems to suggest, then it all must be. To follow this logic to its conclusion, a bland homogeneity that suited the tastes of one sector of the fanbase would be preferable to a diverse range of approaches. I have previously written, in a different context, about the dangers of the homogenisation of pro-wrestling.
The issue with affording primacy to the "Real" in wrestling is that there is simply no such thing. Not one person alive today – not wrestler, promoter, or fan – has lived in a world in which professional wrestling was a legitimate sporting contest. In a previous post, I discussed how criticisms of modern wrestling being showier, more acrobatic, and of more questionable integrity than its forebears dates back at least to the first half of the 20th century, and more than likely earlier still.
Wrestling has always existed in a hinterland between real and unreal, and has negotiated that division constantly, from the very first time a wrestler agreed to throw a fight, right up until the present day. There was no sweet spot, no magic moment when wrestling got the balance exactly "right", and those who plead the case for an imagined purity of wrestling's past make clear their own personal biases when that particular past just coincidentally happens to be in the precise time and territory in which they first became a fan. What luck!
To highlight Jim Cornette as the flag-bearer for this misguided nostalgia can provide a useful exercise. Cornette cut his teeth in Memphis, a territory widely derided by other wrestlers of the time as too gimmicky, too "pantomime", of, in short, not being "real" enough, or not being "proper wrestling". If one were to make that criticism today, Cornette will defend Memphis just as vociferously as he would have done in his debut year of 1982. To him, Memphis wrestling was wrestling done right, and "done right" meant that it was presented as "real" and sold to the fans as such. Any deviation from the formula of the wrestling of Memphis and, more broadly, the Southern states of the USA, in the '70s and '80s was a step in the wrong direction – a step away from wrestling as "real", and toward wrestling as spectacle. His lived experience was the baseline, and the time that wrestling got it right – anything before was an evolution to the sweet spot, everything since has been a degeneration to a maligned modern style. In Cornette's world-view, the only way for wrestling to make money is to convince the fans that it's real, and "real" looks like 1970-1985.
La Momia vs. Martin Karadagian, in the long and fine tradition of wrestling Mummies
But prior even to Jim Cornette's debut, the United States had seen multiple wrestlers work under cartoonish gimmicks, stretching any sense of credulity – multiple Egyptian Mummies and Frankenstein's Monsters, including Dr. Frank and Eddie Marlin under the mask of the Mummy, in Memphis. In Argentina, more than a decade prior to Cornette's debut in the wrestling business, Martin Karadagian of Titanes En El Ring had already wrestled with aliens, Mummies, and that veteran of "exposing the business", El Hombre Invisible. Long before Cornette was even born, Jack Pfefer had spoken openly about wrestling as a "show", and stacked his cards with monsters, freaks and human oddities, continuing the trend towards viewing wrestling as a near-literal "three ring circus" that had begun under the Gold Dust Trio's drive to create the "Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling" that was the blueprint for wrestling as "sports entertainment", under the guidance of former circus clown Toots Mondt.
Believable competition in Mid-South Wrestling
Cornette departed Memphis in late 1983, to start arguably the most significant portion of his career, debuting in "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling as the manager of The Midnight Express. While not averse to elaborate stipulation matches straight out of the Memphis playbook (for "Bill Dundee's Cadillac on the line", substitute "Loser Leaves Town Tuxedo Cage Match"), Mid-South made its reputation on high energy, hard hitting matches, on the blood and bruises that stand as signifiers of the "real" in the "fake" world of professional wrestling, on nuanced, and mature characters that stood in stark contrast to the one-dimensional gimmicks of the WWF and elsewhere, and on innovative use of television and production methods to create what Bill Watts almost certainly wouldn't have described as a Brechtian alienation technique. In short, the Mid-South territory was gritty, violent, and what passed for "real" in the world of wrestling in the United States.
Kick. Submission. Suplex. The three genders.
Prior to Mid-South rebranding as the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1986, another Universal Wrestling Federation has opened its doors in Japan. The Japanese UWF took Antonio Inoki's philosophy of "Strong Style" and expanded upon it, creating a "shoot-style" promotion, influenced more by legitimate martial arts than by the tumbles, tricks and pageantry the Gold Dust Trio had introduced into professional wrestling. This was Japanese wrestling shedding its American roots, while reaching in its own way for the same imagined past of "real" professional wrestling that Cornette et al pine for to this day. Laying the foundations for a succession of successful "shoot style" companies, including future iterations of the UWF brand that would provide an early proving ground for our old friend Minoru Suzuki, the UWF also set the ball rolling on what would become the Japanese Mixed Martial Arts boom, as well as forcing the major promotions on the Japanese scene to modify their own presentation to better fit the tastes of an audience now conditioned to expect a more hard-hitting, "legitimate" product. It cannot be reiterated enough, though, that the UWF remained, in every way, a professional wrestling product – the results just as predetermined, and the rivalries just as manufactured, as anything being offered by the WWF. When presented with two "fake" fights, is it valid, or useful, to judge which of the two unrealities is the most real?
Any viewer, presented with a choice between a Mid-South wrestling match pitting Jim Cornette's Midnight Express against arch-rivals The Rock N Roll Express or an Akira Maeda match from the UWF in the same year, asked to choose which looked the most "legitimate" or "real" would, I believe, almost invariably choose the latter. Yet it's to this period of southern American wrestling, not to the increasingly "legitimate" shoot-style promotions of Japan, or to any earlier period of less performative pro-wrestling anywhere else in the world, that the likes of Cornette point to as their baseline of wrestling being taken seriously, and perceived as legitimate. It is a position that is both historically and geographically illiterate, and utterly devoid of nuance – many people have written on the changeable nature of "kayfabe", on the development of differing approaches and ideologies behind professional wrestling, and on how both of these intersect with broader cultural trends, and it's frustrating to see key figures within the wrestling industry reject all of this out of hand in favour of pointing to a static point in time and place, a postcard of the past, as The Real Pro-Wrestling.
It's perhaps ironic to think that a sport which began as a legitimate athletic contest, which took to throwing fights in the name of maximising profits, then followed that path to the perhaps natural conclusion of incorporating carnival cons, gymnastics and clowning, prat-falls and broad vaudevillian characterisation, should still a century later be wrapped up in discourse around how to best convince the audience that all of those developments never happened, and that the stylised performance they're watching is in fact a legitimate contest. As I wrote in my tribute to Mike Quackenbush, wrestling is concerned with what is true, not what is real. Many of the greatest stories ever told weren't written with the intent of convincing the reader that what they're reading is real, but it doesn't make the lessons learned from them, or the emotions experienced, any less true.
A common criticism of wrestling deemed "unrealistic" is when a wrestler doesn't "sell" a move; if a wrestler gets slammed from the top rope through a table, then pops up to their feet with no sign of pain, it's "unrealistic", because that move should have knocked them out. But, of course, it didn't. We watched the wrestler flung from the ropes, watched them collide with the table, watched the table break into pieces beneath their body weight – all of this was undeniably real, and undeniably happened before our eyes, regardless of the circumstances by which it came to be – and then we watched that wrestler pop back up to their feet without so much as a second thought. It's clear that the "no selling" is as real as the impact, because we witnessed both take place – the criticism isn't asking for the match to give us more reality, quite the opposite, it's asking for the match to give us more illusion, in service of a greater truth than the "real".
A randomly selected UFC photo, courtesy of Forbes.com
Martial arts and legitimate combat sports, like ballet, are about masking your pain – the kind of selling we have to accept as "realistic" in professional wrestling, would never be seen in the UFC. It's extremely unlikely that you will hear a mixed martial artist grunting and groaning, or crying out in pain, as they struggle to escape a submission hold. The "playing to the back rows" hobble on an injured leg, the clutching of damaged ribs, the winces and grimaces of the wrestler holding back pain, that we all look to as evidence of the "real" in wrestling are nothing of the sort – but they all contribute to the truth of the story. They are, if anything, hyper-real.
Wrestling is ever-changing, and its entire history is one of navigating the space between sport and theatre. As every development within wrestling has changed the terms of this conversation, so too has the emergence of Mixed Martial Arts, and the UFC specifically, as a major player in mainstream sports and pop culture, altered that conversation on wrestling's behalf. Not only does wrestling borrow techniques from MMA, it adapts its own tropes in response to an audience better educated than ever as to what professional combat might look like – no longer do WWE referees lift a wrestler's arm three times to indicate that they have passed out in a submission hold, because the urgency at which an MMA referee would respond in the same situation has taught the audience that to risk a fighter to continue in that position would be extremely dangerous, and thus has been rendered "unrealistic" in the sphere of professional wrestling. The traditional structure of a wrestling match has been altered to appear more competitive, to better suit an audience more au fait with how a fight might realistically pan out.
Just as Japanese promotions of the 1980s had to choose whether to follow the path laid down by the emergence of shoot-style, and promotions of the early '00s had to reconcile what wrestling's place was in a world where MMA was emerging as a major factor, the promotions of today have to reconcile the perceived "reality" of professional wrestling in which MMA routinely highlights the absurdity of that position. A regression to the wrestling of the American South in the mid-1980s would do nothing to convince an audience schooled on Mixed Martial Arts that wrestling is any more "real" than the flips, superkicks and comedy spots that wrestling's premiere nostalgists spend so much of their time deriding. The question in its simplest form is whether professional wrestling should mimic MMA in the pursuit of the perceived credibility of being presented as "real", or to further separate itself from MMA in order to explore the possibilities of wrestling as a unique, creative form.
At a time where the concept of convincing people that professional wrestling is a legitimate sporting event seems rightly preposterous, I wonder of the value in further aping Mixed Martial Arts. If the best that professional wrestling can be is a facsimile of legitimate combat, why would any curious viewer choose to watch wrestling, when examples of genuinely legitimate combat are readily available? If there is money to be made in presenting combat sports as "real", then it is money already being made by the UFC, not by professional wrestling.
The strength of wrestling isn't in its reality. It's in its truth, and it's in the moments that only wrestling can create – where the barrier separating reality from the "work" is blurred. Where, even for an instant, the audience are left wondering if what they're seeing is "real" or "fake". A strike that lands a little snugger than expected, a promo that feels like it crosses a line, or a momentary break of character. These are moments that only professional wrestling, and no other art form, can produce, because no other art form so perfectly walks the tightrope between fiction and reality. But every one of those moments only resonates if it is in service of the story, of forging an emotional connection, in service of that greater truth.
The Manifesto of Cara Noir – available as a T-shirt from www.caranoir.com
Every one of those moments I mentioned is one tool in the storytelling belt of a professional wrestler or promoter, as useful a means of forging a connection with the audience as the eye contact made between a struggling babyface and a concerned fan, or a villainous heel's derisive promos. Each of these tools exist to communicate the story of one match, of one show, and of professional wrestling as a whole – to paraphrase from Cara Noir's manifesto, wrestling should tell its own history in every match.
It is here, again, that I think that Cornette et al are misled. The goal of forging that connection is not to convince the audience that what they are seeing is "real", but to convince them that the story you are telling them is true – that a story about pain, adversity, and struggle, contains all of those elements laid out in the correct order, to the right ends. We are not here to convince the audience that what we do is real, but like a professional magician, to make them forget for a moment or two that it isn't. Just as the audience for the magician buy their tickets wanting to be fooled, tricked and outsmarted, even if they spend some of their time trying to spot the inner workings, audiences watch wrestling because they want to be "worked". They want to be shorn of ironic detachment, and engage with the story fully on its own terms, because they believe in the truth of that story, even if they don't believe it to be necessarily "real". This is the same way that millions of people engage with movies, television, theatre and literature every single day, and there is no reason to suggest that wrestling should be any different.
The people who buy tickets to our shows aren't "marks" to be conned, but willing co-conspirators, and the best art that wrestling can create is that which takes the audience along for the ride. Whether that is through a violent, "realistic" approximation of a mixed martial arts contest, or a rivalry between two Invisible Wrestlers, or between a mixed martial arts legend and a robot Mummy from the future doesn't change that fact.
I'm Patrick W. Reed, and that's my opinion.
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It's not for everyone I know, but it is rather cute.
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