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Q: ExpressJS/Node: 404 images I've set up a basic node/express server which serves public static javascript and css files fine, but returns a 404 error when attempting to serve images.
The strangest part is that everything works fine when run locally.  When run on my remote server (linode), the image problem arrises.
It's really got me scratching my head... What might be the problem?
Here's the server:
/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */

var express = require('express')
  , routes = require('./routes')

var app = module.exports = express.createServer();

// Configuration

app.configure(function(){
  app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
  app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(express.compiler({ src: __dirname + '/public', enable: ['less'] }));
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
  app.use(app.router);
});

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true }));
});

app.configure('production', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler());
});

// Globals

app.set('view options', {
  sitename: 'Site Name',
  myname: 'My Name'
});

// Routes

app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/*', routes.fourohfour);

app.listen(3000);
console.log("Express server listening on port %d in %s mode", app.address().port, app.settings.env);

A: if it works fine locally, maybe it's a case sensitivity issue, do your files have capitals etc?

A: I had this issue, but it ended up being that I had caps in the trailing .JPG extension and was calling .jpg in html.  Windows is not case sensitive on file types, CentOS is...

A: Alrighty, I got around the issue by renaming my images folder from "/public/images" to /public/image.  I don't know why the naming would cause an issue, but I'm glad that's all that was needed.

A: I had this exact issue. All user generated images uploaded to /static/uploads were not being rendered by express. The strange thing is everything in static/images, static/js, static/css were rending fine. I ensured it wasn't a permissions issue but was still getting a 404. Finally I configured NGINX to render all of my static file (which is probably faster anyway) and it worked!
I'd still love to know why Express wasn't rending my images though.
Here's my NGINX conf if anyone is having this issue:
server {

    # listen for connections on all hostname/IP and at TCP port 80
    listen *:80;

    # name-based virtual hosting
    server_name staging.mysite.com;

    # error and access outout
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

    location / {
            # redefine and add some request header lines which will be transferred to the proxied server
            proxy_set_header                X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header                X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header                 Host $http_host;
            proxy_set_header                X-NginX-Proxy true;

            #set the location of the web root
            root /var/www/mysite.com;

            # set the address of the node proxied server. port should be the port you set in express
            proxy_pass                      http://127.0.0.1:9001;

            # forbid all proxy_redirect directives at this level
            proxy_redirect                  off;
    }

    # do a case insensitive regular expression match for any files ending in the list of extentions
    location ~* ^.+\.(html|htm|png|jpeg|jpg|gif|pdf|ico|css|js|txt|rtf|flv|swf)$ {

            # location of the web root for all static files
            root /var/www/mysite.com/static;

            # clear all access_log directives for the current level
            #access_log off;

            # set the Expires header to 31 December 2037 23:59:59 GMT, and the Cache-Control max-age to 10 years
            #expires max;
    }
}

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Bending Genre
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Words with Hats–Matthew Batt
"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin."
—Luke, 12:24
My wife and I traveled recently to New York City with our six-year-old boy, and every so often he would point out a detail that, to him, was emblematic of the New York he'd seen in Spiderman comics, or on Night in the Museum, or in the beginning of the first Madagascar movie, or lord-knows-where. A detail of a mosaic while waiting for a subway, an advertisement for an Irish play starring two bowler-hatted English actors, the impossibly shiny spire of the Chrysler Building, the Easter Island sculpture at the Museum of Natural History, all of Times Square, the webwork of the Brooklyn Bridge . . . "that's awfully New Yorkish," he would say.
Technically, everything in New York is awfully New Yorkish, of course. But, for a moment, you might bicker. What about all the crappy tchotchke hawkers and their spangly wares of foreign provenance? What about all the Connecticut investment bankers who are just there on a day's business? The oafish Minnesota tourists (us)? The hopeless Irish busker outside a falafel shop in Dumbo (you)? The gilded heiress fighting with me over the last puffy-vested FAO Schwartz commemorative teddy bear (I lost)? Little Italy? Chinatown? Hell. Vast swaths of Manhattan don't even resemble themselves anymore. Chelsea? The Village? What Village, I ask. Most of the Village feels like a riff on a song co-written by Whole Foods, Lululemon, and Martha Stewart.
But still. Isn't that perfectly New York? All of it? After all, it's not meant to be a theme park of itself as though it were torn from a page of a George Saunders' story (with the conspicuous exception of Times Square, which is not so much a place as an occasion for data, aspiring actors, tzatziki sauce, and a continuous flash mob eager to prove that everything happening all at once is the same as a void). But New York is New York when it isn't Old York. There is no way for New York to remain itself without always redefining what's so, well, New Yorkish about New York.
The way to find this out, of course, is to wander. All of Manhattan and its surly boroughs too, you just can't take it all in at once. Which is true, of course, of everywhere, of everything, of everyone. Nabokov says we must read each work of narrative art at least twice because we don't know its frame nor its limits until we've reached its end, therefore its perspective, its balance, its priorities are unknown. So we must read and we must reread. In that fashion, as somebody vaguely famous said, all writing too is rewriting. But our cities and our lives and, when we think about it, our texts too, evolve. Not usually while we're looking at them—unless we're on some heavy duty pharmaceutical influence and/or trapped under something heavy and thereby able/forced to stare at the same thing until robbed of our consciousness—but rather change, evolution, difference emerges like the dew—from both above and without and also from beneath and within.
So wander we must. Wander to discover the change. Wander to make the change possible. Wander to be the change, you beautiful, hopeless Irish busker, you. You fierce Quatarian princess with your unquenchable affection for plush things sporting jaunty sleeveless outerwear. You silly, six-year old from St. Paul skipping through Hell's Kitchen. Change is the comet's tail. Change is the Doppler effect echoing ahead of us. Change, too, is the vacuum left when we're neither coming or going. When we've been there but aren't any more. The pivot, unwobbling. The world wobbling all around it.
There are, too, many ways to wander, and, if we're so inclined, we might crank up the stuffiness of this conversation and invite, say, Walter Benjamin and a few of his affected friends on this walking tour. For there is a word for this—a word for this literary wandering—this wavering—this wondering—and it is a word, too, with a bonus diacritical mark in the rough shape of a beret to make it not only French in etymology, but conspicuously, physically, concretely Super French. The Flânuer.
But the word comes not only with the regular baggage of its conspicuous Frenchiness—because there is no cognate, no English translation or equivalent—but it also comes with the fancy brass-cornered Louis Vuitton valise-style baggage of the 19th century aristocracy. To be Baudelaire or Benjamin's flaneur, one was not only intentionally wandering the city streets, one was idly strolling. Loafing practically. Egad.
To invoke Benjamin is to be pre-wearied for most but the supplementally-oxygenated. This notion of the flaneur as it steams across the Atlantic aboard the SS Condescension is staggeringly pretentious, studded like a tufted chaise lounger with pointless shiny buttons. I can barely even write the word Benjamin without trembling in anticipation of being slapped with a dough-white glove for yet again mispronouncing it—It's not been-JAM-ing, you silly tart, it's bin-ya-MEEEN!
But we need not be shamed to invoke a little French—think of how embarrassing it was when we tried out "Freedom Fries"?—after all, there is another very germane, very Frenchy word that goes right alongside flaneur—or rather right before it, alphabetically anyway: essay. Or rather: essai.
It is not as it was when we were in school: a tedious, strictly academic exercise in futilely trying to replicate in only thinly veiled original language the thoughts, prejudices, and other constipations of our teachers.
It is: a try, an attempt, an endeavor.
And, it is not only a noun (a paper).
It is a verb. Try. Attempt. Endeavor.
Whereas "flaneur" is the linguistic equivalent of spats, when coupled with "essay" and beat adequately enough with the disrespectful stick of Americanized English so that most of the Provencal mites are flung to their doom, we can take both back—from the 19th century Continental elitism, as well as from our very own slovenly selves. And we can both justify the seeming sloth of the wanderer, and praise and embrace the momentary ignoramus. We don't have to wear cravats or great velvet capes or dot our walks with silver-tipped canes or anything. Words, after all, are defined not by dictionaries, but by usage.
Just last week, after all, the phrase "'selfie' trumps 'twerk'" appeared as a headline in the New York Times.
We can flaneur if we want to. (We can leave our friends behind.)
In his acrobatic essay "Not Knowing," Donald Barthelme writes that "art thinks ever of the world, cannot not think of the world, could not turn its back on the world even if it wished to." However, he continues, "this does not mean that it's going to be honest as a mailman; it's more likely to appear as a drag queen." Because, when it comes down to it, unless we're only trying to learn cursive or its literary equivalent by simply tracing letters or words on the page, life, consciousness, and the literature that comes from it must be supple. "Art," Barthelme writes, "cannot remain in one place."
So then, neither should we. Not in terms of what we write about, nor where we sit, nor where we put our texts, nor in which genre our texts are situated.
Perhaps we can return then to Benjamin—howsoever the hell you pronounce it—who suggests that as the flaneur walks, "his steps create an astounding resonance on the asphalt. The gaslight shining down on the pavement casts an ambiguous light on this double floor. The city as a mnemonic for the lonely walker: it conjures up more than his childhood and youth, more than its own history." The writer, as he wanders, both discovers and remembers his past in his present, and his present, of course, inscribes a new story on the city. The city is a mnemonic for the walker, and the walker, too, is a mnemonic for the city.
We not only remember each other. We member each other too.
And in that fashion, all good writing is travel writing.
And all good travel is writing.
Text, after all, is no longer just a noun either, nor is it merely something our students do while we're jabbering away about past-participles and the like. Text is what we do to one another, with one another, to and with and through and because of our writing. We text one another.
We inscribe the world with our footprints and our trash, with our exhaust and our expired breath, with the texts we create and the texts we read and the texts we alter and the texts we are, and in that way, the world inscribes itself upon us. Upon our flesh, beneath our skin, into our eyes, and then—after that most complicated of upside-downing-and-backwarding of translations through various rods and cones and all the other metaphors and mysteries of vision—upon our minds where foreverafter—regardless of whether it was a physical or an intellectual or an olfactoral or whatever experience—regardless of the vehicle, LIFE has been texted upon our minds, and not through a lifetime of analysis and psychopharmacutical curing and aging will we ever be able to tell what was fact and what was fiction because—ask the neuroscientist—ask the psychiatrist—ask the seminarian—ask the poet—there is no difference between fact and fiction in the world of our memory and imagination. All of it is just bombardment—all that gregarious and grotesque and freakish and beautiful pornographicopia of data—all of it raining down like a waterfall of electric light on a triptych of paralytics—a little whorl of Midwesterners around which, for a moment, the whole of Times Square spins like a top, when then, in return, the string now taut, we spin right back.
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Marijuana Could Offer Relief From Migraine Pain
Headache and migraine patients, take note: medical marijuana may help ease your pain.
The findings follow an analysis of data collected by a Canadian phone app that gathered feedback offered by 1,300 headache sufferers and nearly 700 migraine sufferers who used marijuana to treat their head pain.
"We found that self-reported headache and migraine severity were reduced by nearly 50% from before to after cannabis use," said study author Carrie Cuttler. She is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash.
But a lot of unanswered questions remain. For one, it's not clear if pot was any better at cutting down headache pain than conventional medicine. "We didn't directly compare cannabis to conventional treatments," said Cuttler, "so we don't know if it is more or less effective."
Also, the jury remains out as to what particular compound might be causing the reductions. The team found that when it came to head pain control, it didn't matter how much tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or cannabidiol (CBD) was in a particular batch of pot. THC and CBD are the most commonly studied ingredients in marijuana, Cuttler's team noted.
"[So] it could be one of the other 100-plus phytocannabinoids in the cannabis plant," she said, adding that "there is simply not enough research on these other constituents to know right now."
At the same time, "I have always wondered whether cannabis simply reduces the emotional distress surrounding and exacerbating the pain, which makes the pain more bearable/tolerable," Cuttler said. "In other words, perhaps cannabis makes people care less about the pain?" But again, the study did not address this possibility.
"We did, however, find that cannabis was not associated with medication overuse headache," she noted, "which is a common pitfall of more conventional treatments." Such headaches can afflict patients who tend to use the same medication again and again to treat their headaches.
And the team also observed that when it comes to using pot to treat headaches, more did not seem to mean more. "We didn't find any evidence that higher doses were more, or less, effective than lower doses," said Cuttler, "which might suggest that micro-dosing could be sufficient for some people."
Still, while she described medicinal pot use as "fairly well-tolerated," Cuttler said her team found that, over time, patients reported using more and more pot while getting less of a headache-control benefit.
And these were patients who were more primed to hail the pain-reducing virtues of pot to begin with, given that they had proactively sought out marijuana treatment towards that end. (The study did not include a comparison group of non-pot users.)
Nevertheless, Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), suggested that the findings are not particularly surprising.
"The findings of this study are consistent with several previous studies, as well as with the historical literature," he said, "as cannabis possesses a long history of human use in migraine treatment."
On that score, Armentano highlighted two seminal studies: one out of the University of Colorado and a second from Florence, Italy. Both concluded that marijuana use was an effective intervention for providing migraine relief.
As to what it is about marijuana that helps to tamp down headaches, Armentano suggested that cannabinoids "possess well-established analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. Cannabis also possesses anti-epileptic properties, and they can also influence blood pressure, all of which may play a role in influencing migraine severity or frequency."
But he agreed with Cuttler that pinpointing the exact mechanism by which pot appears to help headache pain remains difficult, "since the mechanisms involving migraine and migraine treatment are not well understood at this time."
Nevertheless, Armentano described the results as "highly promising."
"These findings provide further evidence that cannabis may provide an effective, fast-acting, well-tolerated option for some patients," Armentano said.
Cuttler and her team published their findings online recently in the Journal of Pain.
Sources: Carrie Cuttler, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.; Paul Armentano, deputy director, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), New York City; Nov. 9, 2019, The Journal of Pain, online.
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The atmosphere resembled a free-wheeling Wild West town.
Madrid may be a sprawling, energetic city today, but it was an unlikely choice to be named Spanish capital in the 16th century—and nobody was more astonished than the residents themselves. In 1561, it was a small provincial outpost, hardly larger than a village, when King Philip II sent a letter announcing his royal court's imminent arrival. Local Castilian aristocrats had to scramble to purchase enough banquet food just for their monarch's table, and they (like the rest of Spain) were baffled to learn that Philip decided to remain permanently.
Unlike the great cities of Toledo and Seville, Madrid had no cathedral, no grand avenues, no university; it didn't even have one of the new-fangled printing presses, considered a symbol of progress at the time. But what it did have was its central location; from Madrid, letters could reach any point in Spain within five days. King Philip was a devout Catholic, painfully shy and austere; he had no talent for leading armies into battle and he also disliked traveling, so had decided to run the ever-expanding Spanish Empire by royal decree. A prince among bureaucrats, it was said that he would deal with 400 complex documents a day. As soon as the news was out, the once-sleepy Madrid was flooded with wealth of the court and its noble hangers-on; the city quickly became an enormous construction site, resulting in the ornate palaces and majestic and fabulously wealthy convents that we see in the historical center today.
Philip's rather dull, methodical nature did not make Madrid a quiet place—far from it. Hordes of artists and writers seeking wealthy patrons followed the aristocracy, as did as con-men, petty criminals, prostitutes, and famous picaros, Spanish adventurers who lived on their wits. The atmosphere resembled a free-wheeling Wild West town. One writer, Antonio Liñan y Verdugo, penned a guidebook in 1620 for gold-digging Spaniards flocking to the city, called Guide and Advice to Strangers Who Come to the Court. His description gave a more vivid idea of Madrid than history books. He suggested that Madrid had become a vice-ridden "Babylon" filled with tricksters and illusory wonders—"dreamed-up marvels, fairy-tale treasures and figures like actors on a stage."
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'I Surrender'. The track that broke a long silence. In the preceding years only a handful of collaborative tracks had been released and indeed Sylvian admitted that at times the (happy) circumstances of his life may have resulted in him leaving music behind altogether.
The previous David Sylvian solo album, Secrets of the Beehive (1987), had ended with a question: 'is our love strong enough?' His reappearance in 1999 was imbued with a sense of profound love discovered.. ..and embraced. The track was released as a single ahead of the album Dead Bees on a Cake, and is the opening track of that album both in its original form and in the extended 'as it was always meant to be' re-release of 2018. It started life as a composition for his wife, Ingrid Chavez, to respond to, but was then adopted into the material being prepared for Dead Bees.. The piece sets the tone for an album that, whilst it recognises an undercurrent of disturbing darkness in life, shines with images of the glorious nature of love and fulfilment. At over nine minutes long, it holds the listener in that sun-lit moment and the soloists are given free rein to respond to the spirit of the song.
All of this plays out beneath the heavens which are invoked in cinematic fashion: we have 'southern skies', 'open skies', bird-filled 'summer skies' and 'the stars are all aligned'. The imagery of stars is something that Sylvian often invokes to conjure a connection with the heavenly and the mysterious.
Musically the piece includes a rare use of solo flute with the expressive playing of Lawrence Feldman. Percussion is provided by Sylvian's brother, Steve Jansen – it's a significant collaboration being their first released music since the fall-out after the Rain Tree Crow project. Kenny Wheeler returns to play flugelhorn for the first time since Gone to Earth. His lyrical playing adds to the sense of joy and release in the track; I particularly enjoy those moments where he is playing right at the top of the register of the instrument, at the edge of a note and squeak of breath, straining with emotion as he performs. Ryuichi Sakamoto contributes rhodes and some beautiful orchestration which enhances the cinematic feel. For the first time, Marc Ribot appears. On an album where Sylvian found the right collaborative contributions hard to come by, he has spoken enthusiastically of how much great material was laid down in a relatively short session with Ribot, and his guitar contributions are heard on many of the tracks on Dead Bees..
When I listen to this track as part of my Vista playlist I precede it with the piece 'You Know, You Know' by Mahavishnu Orchestra (from The Inner Mounting Flame (1979)), a sample from which provides one of the driving motifs throughout 'I Surrender'.
I follow 'I Surrender' with the solo piece 'Hearken' by Kenny Wheeler from his album Dream Sequence (2003), which is produced by a later collaborator, Evan Parker. The track is a glorious opportunity to concentrate on Kenny's craft and includes some emotional playing which again takes him to the edge of his register and technique. I was privileged to hear Kenny play live a couple of times and was so saddened to hear of his passing in 2014. I played this track on the news of his death and do so again whenever I want to remind myself of his immense musicianship.
Music, lyrics and production – David Sylvian. From Dead Bees on a Cake, Virgin, 1999.


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Which scene is ripped off most often???
Ashton Kutcher working with Crowe? say it aint so!
How do they vote on the Academy Awards???
Let The Awards Season Begin!
the movie industry in 10 years?
ok kiddies, what makes film aspire to greatness?
Best movie so far this decade?
Can watching bad movies make you a worse filmmaker?
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Q: How to batch sentiment with PYABSA I followed this tutorial to do sentiment inference. I could run the code with a list of sentences (in the section Aspect Sentiment Inference of the Colab Notebook). However, I don't know how to modify the following code (in the section Batch Sentiment Inference) to infer sentiment for a file of my own (containing just 2 lines, each has two sentences).
# inference_sets = ABSADatasetList.Phone # original code
inference_sets = 'test.dat.apc' # this is my own file that I want to infer sentiment for each sentence
results = sent_classifier.batch_infer(target_file=inference_sets,
                     print_result=True,
                     save_result=True,
                     ignore_error=False,
                     )

Running the modified code caused the following error
RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [56], in <cell line: 2>()
      1 test = 'test.dat.apc'
----> 2 results = sent_classifier.batch_infer(target_file=test,
      3                      print_result=False,
      4                      save_result=True,
      5                      ignore_error=False,
      6                      )

File ~\Anaconda3\envs\spacy\lib\site-packages\pyabsa-1.16.15-py3.9.egg\pyabsa\core\apc\prediction\sentiment_classifier.py:197, in SentimentClassifier.batch_infer(self, target_file, print_result, save_result, ignore_error, clear_input_samples)
    193     self.clear_input_samples()
    195 save_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'apc_inference.result.json')
--> 197 target_file = detect_infer_dataset(target_file, task='apc')
    198 if not target_file:
    199     raise FileNotFoundError('Can not find inference datasets!')

File ~\Anaconda3\envs\spacy\lib\site-packages\pyabsa-1.16.15-py3.9.egg\pyabsa\functional\dataset\dataset_manager.py:302, in detect_infer_dataset(dataset_path, task)
    300     if os.path.isdir(dataset_path.dataset_name):
    301         print('No inference set found from: {}, unrecognized files: {}'.format(dataset_path, ', '.join(os.listdir(dataset_path.dataset_name))))
--> 302     raise RuntimeError(
    303         'Fail to locate dataset: {}. If you are using your own dataset, you may need rename your dataset according to {}'.format(
    304             dataset_path,
    305             'https://github.com/yangheng95/ABSADatasets#important-rename-your-dataset-filename-before-use-it-in-pyabsa')
    306     )
    307 if len(dataset_path) > 1:
    308     print(colored('Please DO NOT mix datasets with different sentiment labels for training & inference !', 'yellow'))

RuntimeError: Fail to locate dataset: ['test.dat.apc']. If you are using your own dataset, you may need rename your dataset according to https://github.com/yangheng95/ABSADatasets#important-rename-your-dataset-filename-before-use-it-in-pyabsa

What did I do wrong?

A: You need to rename your dataset file name, by ending with .inference


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Metal Sucks FUN TOUR RUMOR OF THE DAY: DETHKLOK WITH MACHINE HEAD, ALL... KISS/MÖTLEY CRÜE PYRO TRUCK GOES DOWN HARDER THAN VINCE...
Rampant Rumors
FUN TOUR RUMOR OF THE DAY: DETHKLOK WITH MACHINE HEAD, ALL THAT REMAINS, AND THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
September 6th, 2012 at 12:00pm
Axl Rosenberg
One of metal's collective biggest bummers of the summer was when Dethklok and Lamb of God were forced to cancel their co-headlining tour (with support from friggin' Gojira, no less!) due to the then-ongoing imprisonment of Randy Blythe. Lamb of God have since announced a new, equally-awesome tour with In Flames, Hatebreed, Hellyeah and Sylosis, and it looks like Dethklok are about to follow suit: according to The PRP, the band will headline a tour which will also feature Machine Head, All That Remains and The Black Dahlia Murder.
Obviously this should be treated as a rumor until it's officially announce, but The PRP has been very dependable with these kinds of stories in the past, and I doubt they'd run it if they didn't feel confident that it were true.
Of course, this tour, like the LoG trek, does have one weak spot, in the form of a certain auto-tuned metalcore band whose frontman loves guns. That being said, I still wouldn't skip this tour — thirty or forty minutes to take a breather at a show with three other awesome bands on the bill isn't a bad thing.
We'll let you know as soon as this thing is official, natch.
-AR
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Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use
National Cancer Policy Board (U.S.) ; Institute of Medicine Staff ; National Research Council Staff
National Academies Press, 1998
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National Research Council Staff
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1 電子ブック Improving the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data
National Research Council (U.S.). Ocean Studies Board., National Research Council Staff, Ocean Studies Board, National …
National Academies Press
7 電子ブック Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research : Part II. Implementation
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2 電子ブック Clean Coastal Waters : Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution
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8 図書 Policy options for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. transportation
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10 電子ブック Reducing Hazardous Waste Generation : An Evaluation and a Call for Action
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You have just created a Google Apps account and you have made all the changes to your MX records in DNS - everything is looking good - you give it 8 or so hours and you can see mail is flowing into your mailbox, however when you send mail you get bounce backs with strange SPF failure messages.
"v=spf1 +ip4:221.121.129.2 +a +mx -all"
+mx: Allow any MX records associated with the domain to send mail.
-all: Fail all other IPs trying to send mail for the domain.
"v=spf1 +ip4:221.121.129.2 +a +mx include:_spf.google.com ~all"
Allows google mail servers to send for your domain.
~all: Soft fail - allow the mail through - but issue a warning.
Once this DNS change has propagated - your email will work without an issue.


Democratic Education Committee Chair Senator Teresa Ruiz stated, "We have to change the culture of individuals who think their main priority is to protect the worst." We agree, politics is downstream from culture.
Our 2018 teachers union investigations have so far exposed two corrupt individuals: Dr. David Perry of Hamilton Township and Kathleen Valencia of Union City.


The mental health of our children is a natural and important concern for us all. The fact is, many mental disorders have their beginnings in childhood or adolescence, yet may go undiagnosed and untreated for years. We refer to mental disorders using different umbrella terms such as emotional disturbance, behavioral disorders, or mental illness. Beneath these umbrella terms, there is actually a wide range of specific conditions that differ from one another in their characteristics and treatment. The focus of this issue of NASET's Q & A Corner is to find out what different emotional disturbances have in common, how they are defined in federal law, and where to find more detailed information on specific disorders.
Hydrocephalus is a condition in which the primary characteristic is excessive accumulation of fluid in the brain. Although hydrocephalus was once known as "water on the brain," the "water" is actually cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) -- a clear fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
What is the name of the condition term tin which there is a decrease of oxygen supply to the brain even though there is adequate blood flow?
All answers must be submitted no later than Monday, January 30, 2012 at 12:00 p.m.
Smoking During Pregnancy Not Linked to Autism: But There are Many Other Reasons to Avoid Cigarettes while Pregnant.
The prognosis for patients diagnosed with hydrocephalus is difficult to predict, although there is some correlation between the specific cause of hydrocephalus and the patient's outcome. Prognosis is further complicated by the presence of associated disorders, the timeliness of diagnosis, and the success of treatment. The symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus usually get worse over time if the condition is not treated, although some people may experience temporary improvements. If left untreated, progressive hydrocephalus is fatal, with rare exceptions. The parents of children with hydrocephalus should be aware that hydrocephalus poses risks to both cognitive and physical development.
Why Are Kids Suddenly So Sick?


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Q: Postprocessing of FEM: extremely slow speed of NIntegrate I've gone through the documentation for NDSolve FEM. There are quite a lot tips and techniques for accelerating NDSolve, and only quite few tips for post processing. Somehow I found out that the numerical integral of the solution from NDSolve takes a great amount of time, even much longer than NDSolve itself.
Take this fluid/solid domain as an example.
Needs["NDSolve`FEM`"]
{L, b, h, ri} = {0.5, 9.3, 1.25, 0.01}
hi = 2/3 h
m2D = ToElementMesh[
  ImplicitRegion[-L/2 <= x <= L/2 && 0 <= y <= 1.25 && ! ((x^2 + (y - hi)^2 < ri^2)), {x, y}],
  "RegionHoles" -> None, "MeshOrder" -> 1, MaxCellMeasure -> Infinity]
coords = m2D["Coordinates"];
c1 = Join[coords, ConstantArray[{0.}, {Length[coords]}], 2];
c2 = Join[coords, ConstantArray[{b}, {Length[coords]}], 2];
ele = m2D["MeshElements"];
max = Max[ElementIncidents[ele]]
tohigherIndex[type_[inci_, marker___], max_] :=
 type[inci + max, marker]
sides = QuadElement[Map[Join[#1, Reverse[#1 + max]] &, #]] & /@
   ElementIncidents[
    Flatten[MeshElementSplitByMarker[m2D["BoundaryElements"]]]];
bm3D = ToBoundaryMesh["Coordinates" -> Join[c1, c2],
  "BoundaryElements" ->
   Join[ele, tohigherIndex[#, max] & /@ ele, sides]]
m3D = ToElementMesh[bm3D, MaxCellMeasure -> 1,
  "MeshElementType" -> TetrahedronElement,
  "MeshOrder" -> 1]

Here are the conservation equations and the boundary conditions.
w = 0.015
λs = 1.8;
ρs = 2104;
cps = 776;
te = 10;
ti = 20;

λf = 0.6;
ρf = 1000;
cpf = 4180;

eq = -Piecewise[{{w, x^2 + (y - hi)^2 < ri^2}}, 0] ρf cpf D[
     t[x, y, z, tau], z] -
   Piecewise[{{ρf cpf , x^2 + (y - hi)^2 < ri^2}}, ρs cps]/
      3600/24 D[t[x, y, z, tau], tau] +
   Inactivate[
    Div[Piecewise[{{{{λf, 0, 0}, {0, λf, 0}, {0,
           0, λf}}, x^2 + (y - hi)^2 < ri^2}}, {{λs,
         0, 0}, {0, λs, 0}, {0, 0, λs}}].Grad[
       t[x, y, z, tau], {x, y, z}], {x, y, z}], Div | Grad];
bc1 = NeumannValue[0, x == -L/2] + NeumannValue[0, x == L/2] +
   NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z, tau] - te), z == 0 && x^2 + (y - hi)^2 >= ri^2] +
   NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z, tau] - te), z == b && x^2 + (y - hi)^2 >= ri^2] +
   NeumannValue[0, z == b && x^2 + (y - hi)^2 < ri^2] +
   NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z, tau] - ti), y == 1.25] +
   NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z, tau] - te), y == 0];
bc2 = DirichletCondition[t[x, y, z, tau] == 40, z == 0 && x^2 + (y - hi)^2 <= ri^2];

Solving this equation takes only 26 seconds on my laptop.
end = 45;
(tDyn = NDSolveValue[{
      eq == bc1,
      bc2,
      t[x, y, z, 0] ==
       Piecewise[{{40, z == 0 && x^2 + (y - hi)^2 <= ri^2}}, 15]}, t, {x, y, z} ∈ m3D, {tau, 0, end},
     "ExtrapolationHandler" -> {Automatic, "WarningMessage" -> False},
      Method -> {"FiniteElement", "LinearSolveMethod" -> {"Pardiso"}},
     EvaluationMonitor :> (currentTime = tau; percent = tau/end),
     AccuracyGoal -> 4, PrecisionGoal -> 4];) // AbsoluteTiming
(*{26.1435, Null}*)

However, the integration of the solution takes more than a minute.
AbsoluteTiming[
 NIntegrate[
    tDyn[x, y, z, 0], {x, y, z} ∈ tDyn["ElementMesh"],
    Method -> {Automatic, "SymbolicProcessing" -> 0},
    AccuracyGoal -> 4, PrecisionGoal -> 4]/(L b h);]
(*{62.3974, Null}*)

I could imagine, it could last forever, if I want to plot the integration over the time variable tau. Is there any possibility to make the NIntegrate faster?
EDIT
Accelerating NDSolve by giving an initial condition from a steady state calculation.
(* initial condition from steady-state *)
(t0 = NDSolveValue[{
      Inactivate[
        Div[Piecewise[{{{{λf, 0, 0}, {0, λf, 0}, {0, 0, λf}},
             x^2 + (y - hi)^2 <= ri^2}},
{{λs, 0, 0}, {0, λs, 0}, {0, 0, λs}}].
Grad[t[x, y, z], {x, y, z}], {x, y, z}], Div | Grad] ==

       NeumannValue[0, x == -L/2]
        + NeumannValue[0, x == L/2]
        + NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z] - te), z == 0]
        + NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z] - te), z == b]
        + NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z] - ti), y == 1.25]
        + NeumannValue[0.1 (t[x, y, z] - te), y == 0]},
     t, {x, y, z} \[Element] m3D,
     "ExtrapolationHandler" -> {Automatic,
       "WarningMessage" -> False}];) // AbsoluteTiming
(*{0.792426, Null}*)

end = 45;
(Monitor[tDyn =
    NDSolveValue[{eq == bc1, bc2, t[x, y, z, 0] == Piecewise[{
         {40, z == 0 && x^2 + (y - hi)^2 <= ri^2}}, t0[x, y, z]]},
     t, {x, y, z} \[Element] m3D, {tau, 0, end},
     "ExtrapolationHandler" -> {Automatic, "WarningMessage" -> False},
      Method -> {"FiniteElement", "LinearSolveMethod" -> {"Pardiso"}},
      EvaluationMonitor :> (currentTime = tau; percent = tau/end),
     AccuracyGoal -> 4, PrecisionGoal -> 4];,
   Row[{ProgressIndicator[(currentTime - 0)/end], "   ",
     ToString[Floor[100 percent]] <> "%", "    ",
     "tau = " <> ToString[currentTime]}]]) // AbsoluteTiming
(*{18.5054, Null}*)

AbsoluteTiming[
     NIntegrate[
        tDyn[x, y, z, 0], {x, y, z} \[Element] tDyn["ElementMesh"],
        Method -> {Automatic, "SymbolicProcessing" -> 0},
        AccuracyGoal -> 4, PrecisionGoal -> 4]/(L b h);]
(*{48.3468, Null}*)

Plot[NIntegrate[tDyn[x, y, z, tau], {x, y, z} \[Element] tDyn["ElementMesh"]]/(L b h), {tau, 0, end}]
(* this plot takes forever *)


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Q: Confusion while using NOT IN clause in Postgres I am using the following query to get zero results on Amazon Redshift.
Query 1:
SELECT id
FROM flx2.groups
WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT groupid FROM flx2.lmsprovidergroups)

Now, the same query starts to give me results if I modify it slightly to:
Query 2:
SELECT id
FROM flx2.groups
WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT id
                 FROM flx2.groups
                 WHERE id IN (SELECT groupid FROM flx2.lmsprovidergroups))

I'm trying to exclude the id from lmsprovidergroups to get a subset from groups. Why would I have to include it first (as in the inner query in query 2) and then exclude it again?
As far as I'm concerned, query 1 is absolutely the same as query 2.
Why does query 2 work while query 1 does not?

A: If the sub-query for a NOT IN condition returns at least one NULL value the NOT IN evaluates to "unknown" which results in no rows being matched at all.
You need to eliminate the null values from the sub-query:
SELECT id
FROM flx2.groups
WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT groupid
                 FROM flx2.lmsprovidergroups
                 WHERE groupid is not null)

Your second query essentially does the same thing: it eliminates the null values from the sub-query (assuming groups.id does not contain any nulls)

A: NOT IN (SELECT ...) is almost always a bad choice. Not only does it exhibit "surprising" behavior with NULL values on either side (if you are not not familiar with the logic), it's also typically slower than the superior alternative with NOT EXISTS:
SELECT id
FROM   flx2.groups g
WHERE  NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM flx2.lmsprovidergroups
                   WHERE  groupid = g.id);

There are other standard techniques:

*

*Select rows which are not present in other table


The festival of Russian language being organized by the foundation Russkiy Mir in India attract a big number of crowd.
The fourth festival of Russian language and literature is being organised by the foundation Russkiy Mir and Pushkin centre of Russian language attracts the lovers of Russian language and literature in the Sothern region of India one of the main attraction of the festival was the Olympiad which was held in three cities, more than 400 students participated in the Olympiad out of which 150 endured into the last round.
The festival which also comprises round table discussions, seminars, get-together of Russian language teachers and students, literary evening etc. provided opportunity for Indians to know more about the culture of India's strategic partner, Russia.
Governor of Kerala who was the former chief justice of India Mr P. Sathashivam inaugurated the festival; in his inaugural address justice P.Sathashivam stressed the role language and culture in promoting bilateral ties 'Relationship between Russia Ns India is based on the people to people relation. role of organisations like Russkiy Mir contribute significantly to cement the relations among nations the festival which is being organized by the Russia Mir foundation is a model for the rest of the world', said the governor of Kerala. Mr Fyodor A. Rozhskiy, Head of the cultural department of the Russian Embassy in New Delhi who is the chief representative of Rossothrudnichestvo in India presided over the function in his speech he Mr Fyodor A. Rozvskity assured the assistance of the Russian embassy in carrying out such activities that will help the promotion of Russian language in India. The state secretary for cultural affairs Government of Kerala Mrs Rani George deliver key note address. Prof Abhai Maurya, former Vice chancellor of the university of English and forging languages in Hyderabad felicitated the occasion. The honorary Counsel of the Russian federation in Trivandrum Mr Ratheesh Nair welcome the gathering.
Round table discussions on various subjects like contemporary Russian Literature, Russian and Indian Literature – a comparative study, Role of social media in promoting Russian language where also held as part of The festival experts in Russian language from all over India participated in the discussions.
Former minister of state for forging offers who had also served as the under secretary general of the United Nations Dr Sashi Taroor Inaugurated the Olympiad for school and college students.
Minister of revenue, Government of Kerala Mr Adoor Prakash Inaugurated the closing ceremony of the festival in his inaugural address Mr Adoor prakash said that people in Kerala know Russian Literature and hence a bridge of friendship could be established between people of Russia and people of India.
Mayor of Trivandrum Sreemathi K Chandrika presided over the function. In her address the Mayor thanked the foundation Russkiy Mir for selecting Trivandrum as a venue for the festival of Russian language and literature. Prof Gorgey Tolaraya Regional Director (Asia and Africa) of The Foundation Russkiy Mir was the Guest of Honour. He presented the sixth Sergei Yesenin award to Mr K.Jayakumar for his contribution in popularising Russian Literature in India. The award is instituted jointly by Moscow state Yesenin Museum Prof Tatyana E.Perova, chief coordinator for the Russian Language institutes in India that come under the cultural department of the Russian Embassy, delivered key-note address.
Mr P.Gopinath who was selected for the special mentioning award for his role in promoting Russian culture in India was honoured in the function. Three members of Indo-Russian Youth club were also honoured by Prof Tolaria for their contribution in promoting Russian culture among the new generation.
Eleven newspapers and six TV channels in south India carried the news of the festival.


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"Dangerous Close Encounters" – Skilled Aircraft Pilots Usually Cannot Spot an Encroaching Drone
Skilled pilots approaching a runway usually can't see small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) encroaching on their airspace, and they virtually never detect motionless drones, a newly published study shows.
During an airborne human factors experiment, certificated pilots failed to see a common type of quadcopter during 28 of 40 close encounters, researchers with Oklahoma State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University reported.
In other words, the pilots got a bead on the invading drone in 12 out of 40 cases, or only about 30 percent of the time. When the drone was not moving, the task became even more difficult. A mere three out of 22 motionless drones were spotted by the pilots. Drones were detected at distances of between 213 and 2,324 feet.
These findings, published in the International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace (IJAAA), illustrate a real and growing threat to aviation safety, said Dr. Ryan J. Wallace, assistant professor of Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle.
"Dangerous close encounters between aircraft and drones are becoming an increasingly common problem," Wallace said. "Statistics on pilot sightings of drones continue to increase year over year, and what is being reported by pilots is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of the time, unmanned aircraft are not being seen by pilots."
Even in a best case scenario, if a drone was spotted at the study's maximum detection range of 2,324 feet, the pilot would have only about 21 seconds to avoid a collision. "That might be enough time if the drone was hovering in one spot, but not nearly enough if it's in flight, headed for the aircraft," said Dr. Matt Vance, assistant professor of aviation and space at Oklahoma State. "The situation is far more dangerous when both aircraft are moving," he said. "Our eyes are attuned to movement. When a drone is not moving, it becomes part of the background."
An aircraft's final approach for landing is an especially risky time for a drone encounter because "it can catch you unaware and you have little time to react," explained Dr. Jon M. Loffi, associate professor of aviation and space at Oklahoma State. "You don't have the altitude to maneuver safely, and if an engine ingests a drone, that could bring the aircraft down."
The research examined what happens as a pilot prepares to land and switches from instrument-guided flight to visual flight. Pilot participants were selected from a collegiate flight-training program. During the experiment, pilots conducted an approach to landing in a Cessna 172S while a DJI Phantom IV quadcopter-type drone flew a scripted series of maneuvers along the approach path. Pilots were told that they might or might not encounter a drone.
A Growing Problem
Currently in the United States, there are more than 1.4 million registered, and likely many more unregistered drones, and they continue to proliferate, Wallace said. Close calls between drones and commercial aircraft are on the rise. On Oct. 21, 2019, for example, a commercial crew on approach to Boston's Logan International Airport reported a drone at about 3,500 feet above ground level – higher than U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations allow. The event took place a week after another crew spotted a drone after takeoff from the same airport.
While the FAA "has made strides to secure control airspace from UAS incursions," the study authors wrote, "their efforts have been met with mixed results." There is currently no reliable method for tracking UAS flights within the United States.
The research team's next project will involve rigging a drone with an electronic pinging device (UAvionics Ping), which uses ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) technology to track aircraft. The study will assess whether the technology helps pilots pinpoint and avoid a collision with the drone.
Leveraging UAS remote identification data has been proposed as a way to reduce the risk of aircraft-drone accidents. As of January 2020, Vance noted, no aircraft will be allowed to fly in controlled airspace near airports without ADS-B tracking technology, but the law does not extend to small unmanned aircraft. If all drones had such technology, pilots would have a more complete picture of the skies around them, thereby improving safety, Vance said.
The study, "Cleared to Land: Pilot Visual Detection of Small Unmanned Aircraft During Final Approach" was co-authored by Wallace, Vance, and Loffi, along with Jamey Jacob, Jared C. Dunlap, Tyler A. Mitchell, and Seabrook R. Whyte of Oklahoma State, as well as Robert Thomas of Embry-Riddle. The research can be found on the IJAAA website.
Reference: "Cleared to Land: Pilot Visual Detection of Small Unmanned Aircraft During Final Approach" by Ryan J. Wallace, Samuel M. Vance, Jon M. Loffi, Jamey Jacob, Jared C. Dunlap, Taylor A. Mitchell, Robert Thomas and Seabrook R. Whyte, 29 October 2019, International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace (IJAAA).
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I've made this recipe before for dinner and then most recently to feed a large group for breakfast. Its quick, easy and uses any scraps you may have lingering in your kitchen. I bake mine in a Nordic Ware dutch oven. You can also bake it in any oven safe dish or cast iron cookware.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Pan cook your onions and green pepper in butter until soft. Place frozen packet of spinach in the microwave, thaw, squeeze as much water out of it as possible and place in pan with onion and green peppers. Transfer to a bowl and let cool.
Whisk eggs, salt, pepper, bread crumbs until blended. Add onion, green pepper and spinach to eggs and stir in cheese. Once well blended pour into your oven safe dish.
Your eggs will rise so make sure whatever you are using gives about an inch around all edges. Poke with a knife to make sure it is cooked through and you have a nice brown layer on top.
Serve with a side of meat and sprinkle it with some sriracha sauce.


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Performance Assessment of a Newly Constructed Skewed Half-Through Railway Bridge Using Integrated Sensing
Weiwei Lin, Liam J. Butler, Mohammed Z.E.B. Elshafie, Campbell R. Middleton
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Half-through steel plate girder bridges are widely used across the United Kingdom's railway network. However, few studies have investigated their real in-service behavior. Concurrently, the use of advanced sensor systems, such as those utilizing fiber-optic sensors, have begun to find widespread use in structural health monitoring due to their high accuracy and long-term stability and durability. In this paper, the real performance of a newly constructed skewed half-through plate girder railway bridge was assessed using an integrated fiber optic monitoring system installed during the bridge's construction. Monitoring data recorded during the passage of 12 separate trains consisted of strains measured along the length of the main steel plate girders and crossbeams. Based on available design and construction information, a three-dimensional finite-element model capable of simulating the railway bridge's response was constructed and used to investigate and provide comparisons with monitoring results of the performance of such bridges under passing trains. The influence of track cant on load distribution between the two main girders was discussed, and the live load utilization percentage of the main girders was estimated to be approximately 37% of its design capacity. In addition, the effect of different transverse crossbeam end-connection details (pinned or moment connected) and the influence of axle load distribution through track ballast on the overall response of the bridge structure were evaluated. The results obtained in this study have not only led to the establishment of a comprehensive performance baseline for the newly constructed bridge for long-term condition monitoring but may also be used for improving the design and in-service structural evaluation of such bridges.
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Journal of Bridge Engineering
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Lin, W., Butler, L. J., Elshafie, M. Z. E. B., & Middleton, C. R. (2019). Performance Assessment of a Newly Constructed Skewed Half-Through Railway Bridge Using Integrated Sensing. Journal of Bridge Engineering, 24(1), [04018107]. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0001334
Performance Assessment of a Newly Constructed Skewed Half-Through Railway Bridge Using Integrated Sensing. / Lin, Weiwei; Butler, Liam J.; Elshafie, Mohammed Z.E.B.; Middleton, Campbell R.
:: Journal of Bridge Engineering, 巻 24, 番号 1, 04018107, 01.01.2019.
Lin, W, Butler, LJ, Elshafie, MZEB & Middleton, CR 2019, 'Performance Assessment of a Newly Constructed Skewed Half-Through Railway Bridge Using Integrated Sensing', Journal of Bridge Engineering, 巻. 24, 番号 1, 04018107. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0001334
Lin W, Butler LJ, Elshafie MZEB, Middleton CR. Performance Assessment of a Newly Constructed Skewed Half-Through Railway Bridge Using Integrated Sensing. Journal of Bridge Engineering. 2019 1 1;24(1). 04018107. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0001334
Lin, Weiwei ; Butler, Liam J. ; Elshafie, Mohammed Z.E.B. ; Middleton, Campbell R. / Performance Assessment of a Newly Constructed Skewed Half-Through Railway Bridge Using Integrated Sensing. :: Journal of Bridge Engineering. 2019 ; 巻 24, 番号 1.
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SMOKERS' CORNER: TRAITORS AND FIFTH COLUMNISTS
Nadeem F. Paracha Published November 8, 2020
Illustration by Abro
Ever since the creation of the opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), the word 'ghaddaar' (traitor) has been activated by the PTI government. Its targets in this context are mostly high-profile opposition leaders, and journalists who are highly critical of the current government (and its backers).
There is nothing new in Pakistan about those in power describing their opponents as 'traitors' or 'fifth columnists.' This has been going on since the 1950s. It began with a government describing communists as 'fifth columnists' and, then, in 1954 — after accusing the Communist Party of Pakistan of being on the payroll of the erstwhile Soviet Union's intelligence agency, it banned the party.
When the four provinces of former West Pakistan were abolished in 1955 to create a so-called 'One Unit,' the phrases 'ghaddaar' and 'fifth columnist' returned. But this time they targeted Sindhi, Baloch and Pashtun nationalist groups that protested against the creation of One Unit.
During the 1965 presidential election, the state media did not even spare Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founder of Pakistan, who was challenging self-declared Field Marshal Ayub Khan in the polls. She was crudely demonised for "working with anti-Pakistan elements whose sympathies lay with enemy countries." Yet, all this did not stop the fall of the Ayub regime (in 1969), and the state from being forced to abolish the One Unit.
But because of the antagonistic separation of East Pakistan in 1971, the alarmist exercise of labelling the opposition 'fifth columnists' and 'traitors' was revived once again, this time by an elected regime. In 1975, after declaring that its opponents in the National Awami Party (NAP) were working to further splinter the country ("at the behest of hostile foreign powers") the populist government of Z.A. Bhutto banned NAP through a court order.
Pakistan has a long history of governments accusing the political opposition of being externally funded, destabilising and treasonous. But Pakistan is not unique in having insecure regimes
Yet, two years later, Bhutto himself was toppled in a reactionary military coup engineered by Gen Zia. Just before Bhutto's execution in 1979 through a sham trial, Zia attacked Bhutto as the man who broke Pakistan (in 1971), even though, at the time of East Pakistan's secession, Gen Yahya Khan was at the helm as 'president' and chief martial law administrator.
Across the Zia dictatorship (1977-88), opposition leaders were not only banned from taking part in politics, but they were also constantly demonised as being Soviet and Indian agents. What's more, the Zia dictatorship added another dimension to this ploy, by describing his opponents as 'anti-Islam'.
Again, this did not stop the people from electing Bhutto's party, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), twice after Zia's death even though, during the 1988 election, Bhutto's daughter was vehemently attacked by the then pro-establishment Pakistan Muslim League (PML) of Nawaz Sharif for allegedly wanting to roll back Pakistan's nuclear programme. She was later accused by the right-wing press of 'inviting US intervention' when she was removed as PM by the 'establishmentarian' President Ishaq Khan in 1990.
Ironically, by 1999, Nawaz himself began to face the label of being a 'traitor' when his second government was toppled by Gen Pervez Musharraf. Yet, in 2008, it was Musharraf who was forced to resign.
During the fourth PPP government (2008-2013), pro-establishment groups continued to undermine the regime, accusing it of safeguarding the interests of the US in the region, even when, ironically, much of American aid was being pocketed by the Pakistani military to fight terrorism.
Today, one is again witnessing a similarly vicious anti-opposition campaign unleashed by the government, in cahoots with its sympathisers.' Many in Pakistan are of the view that the ploy of demonising opponents as 'traitors' or 'fifth columnists' is very much a Pakistani trait. Not quite.
A study published on May 24, 2018, by the British academic and author Dmitry Chernobrov, demonstrates that the aforementioned ploy has been regularly wielded in various countries, especially by current populist regimes in the US, UK, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, Pakistan and Hungary, and by overtly authoritarian set-ups in Egypt, Belarus, etc.
According to the Australian researcher and author Robert Loeffel, in his 2015 book The Fifth Column in World War lI, the term 'fifth columnist' first originated during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s between left-wing Republicans and the ultra-nationalists led by the Spanish military. The nationalist Gen Mola announced that, although four columns of troops surrounded Republican-held Madrid, the city would fall to a fifth column ready to strike from within.
By this he was alluding to secret sympathisers within the Republicans who would weaken them from inside. During World War II, Nazis in Germany and the fascist regime in Italy began to demonise and hunt down opponents by labelling them as 'traitors' and 'fifth columnists' who were working for their countries' enemies.
Does this ploy actually aid regimes to vanquish their opponents? History suggests that it does not. So, if it doesn't, why is it so constantly used? And does it gain any traction from the polity?
The answer to the last question is related to the answer of the first. Nazi Germany and fascist Italy fell in the most violent manner. And a majority of Germans and Italians turned against their fascist past whereas those once demonised as being 'fifth columnists' returned to rule and reconstruct these countries. One can say that, in the throes of intense crises, polities may get emotionally invested in looking for scapegoats and support the labelling of people as 'fifth columnists'. But this does not last.
In their 1997 book Security: A New Framework for Analysis, Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde write that the propensity of a regime to start describing opponents as 'traitors' and 'fifth columnists' often increases in times of political and economic crisis. They write that such regimes identify themselves as being expressions of the state's security and, therefore, their act of calling out opponents as traitors can be explained as a 'securitising move.'
By this the authors mean the regimes club together the government and those who agree with its point of view as patriots, and discard those who don't as traitors — because they reject a point of view which is supposedly 'in the best interest of the state and nation.'
Therefore, political opposition is typically blamed as externally funded, destabilising and treacherous. But as we have seen in Pakistan, this ploy often becomes a caricature of itself and an unintentional self-parody, especially when deployed by a regime which is fluent in rhetoric but entirely inarticulate and even stunted in ways of governance. It has nothing to offer to a polity in a crisis, other than lectures on patriotism and warnings about largely imagined 'traitors.'
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American R 'n' B stars The Stylistics – famous for hits like You Make Me Feel Brand New, You Are Everything and Betcha by Golly Wow – will play Gateshead Sage on 26th October.
A vocal group, The Stylistics formed in Philadelphia in 1966 from a merger of two bands, The Percussions and The Monarchs. The original line-up featured Herb Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, James Dunn and the distinctive falsetto of Russell Tompkins, Jr.
The Stylistics' first single, You're a Big Girl Now – though recorded with a budget of just $500 – was a number one hit in Philadelphia and several other cities. The 1971 follow-up album, simply entitled The Stylistics, was produced by the legendary Thom Bell.
The album was phenomenally successful, producing an incredible total of six hit singles, including the smashes Stop, Look, Listen to Your Heart, You Are Everything and Betcha by Golly Wow.
A second Thom-Bell-produced album, Round Two, further enhanced The Stylistics' reputation for sweet love songs. During the Seventies, the group had a string of 12 consecutive R 'n' B top ten hits, including I'm Stone in Love with You, Break Up to Make Up and People Make the World Go Round.
You Make Me Feel Brand New was the band's biggest hit, reaching number two in the US charts in spring 1974. In total, The Stylistics recorded five US gold singles.
The Stylistics have also had success in the UK and Europe, particularly in the latter half of the Seventies. They scored a UK number one with Can't Give You Anything and two of their greatest hits records have topped the British album charts.
Since the band's Seventies heyday, they have recorded with various producers and gone through several line-up changes. Their music has been used in the musical film Hair and in the Spike Lee film Crooklyn.
The band also had a surprise number one hit in Japan after Can't Give You Anything was used in a commercial for a hair-styling product in 2006.
The Stylistics are still going strong today, with Airrion Love and Herb Murrell the remaining original members.
The Stylistics play Gateshead Sage on Thursday 26th October 2017 at 7.30 pm. Tickets cost £36.50. To book, please go to http://www.sagegateshead.com/event/the-stylistics43925/ or phone 0191 443 4661.


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Rihanna honored for style at annual fashion awards
Rihanna attends the CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday, June 2, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion rules are made to be broken, Rihanna told a glittering crowd of fashion industry leaders on Monday, and her outfit dramatically conveyed that message: a sheer fishnet gown, sparkling with thousands of embedded crystals, that left little underneath to the imagination.
The singer cemented her role as a fashion luminary by receiving the 2014 Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Her trophy was presented by Anna Wintour, the powerful Vogue editor, who said that with Rihanna, "the point is to be audacious — even jaw-dropping or button-pushing."
Accepting the award, Rihanna spoke of her origins in Barbados, where "I didn't have a lot of access to fashion." But, she said: "Fashion has always been my defense mechanism." Even as a child, she told the crowd, she used to think: "She can beat me, but she can't beat my outfit."
"I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion," she said, adding: "There are rules, but rules are meant to be broken."
Jennifer Hudson attends the CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday, June 2, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Also honored at the annual CFDA ceremony at Lincoln Center were a number of top designers. Joseph Altuzarra won the womenswear award, and the menswear prize went to Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the duo behind the Public School label. Sisters Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen of The Row won the accessories award.
The international award went to Raf Simons of Dior, and the CFDA lifetime achievement award went to designer Tom Ford, who quipped that he hoped it didn't spell the end of his career.
"Please have me back in another 25 years," Ford joked. "I promise I'll wear a toupee and walk with a cane."
An emotional high point of the ceremony was the bestowing of the prestigious Founders Award to Bethann Hardison, a former model and modeling agent who has been a vocal champion for diversity on runways.
She was introduced by model Naomi Campbell, who choked up when she described her admiration for Hardison. When Hardison came onstage to accept her trophy, so did 16 models of color, standing behind her and smiling. She spoke passionately of the need for diverse runways — "just let them model," she said — and added that things were improving throughout the industry on that score.
The annual CFDA show, hosted this year by director and screenwriter John Waters, always draws a mix of fashion insiders and Hollywood. This year, one of the biggest names was Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o, who presented the womenswear award to Altuzarra.
Lupita Nyong'o attends the CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday, June 2, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Nyong'o, who has become as famous for her choices on the red carpet as her skyrocketing acting career, told the crowd that if there was one thing she had learned in a year of film festivals and awards shows, "it is the power of fashion." She wore a cropped Suno jumpsuit, in multi-colored stripes.
Other Hollywood stars in attendance included Blake Lively in a short Michael Kors dress, and Emmy Rossum in a green chiffon J. Mendel gown. Greta Gerwig wore a bright orange Zac Posen gown.
But none made as big a splash as Rihanna, in her translucent outfit designed by Adam Selman that was embedded with more than 200,000 Swarovski crystals. The gown was accompanied by matching, elbow-length gloves and a glittering headscarf.
Speaking of Rihanna before the show, designer Posen called the pop star a fashion risk-taker who skillfully melds red carpet glamour with a rebellious streak.
"She takes risks and she marches to her own drum and she knows what she likes," Posen told The Associated Press.
Rihanna also has a great appreciation for designers, Posen added: "That's why people love to dress her."
Also singing Rihanna's praises was popular designer Alexander Wang, a nominee for both the womenswear and accessories awards.
"I love my girl RiRi," he said. "She's fearless. She has guts. Even in sweatpants, she owns it!"
Online: https://cfda.com/cfda-fashion-awards
Solange Knowles attends the CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday, June 2, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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There Was A Dance Plague That Killed People.
Knownsense posted by Hannah on Aug 01, 2018
While some things are hard to explain, there are certain situations like this are just plain unbelievable. It was basically the first silent disco that ever happened, except people died. In 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea started a dancing on the streets of Strausberg, France. She had so much passion in her step that she created quite a few dancing minions. It started to trickle in and within a week there were over 30 people dancing their tail feather off for days on end. By the end of the month, the dancing vigil gained a following of over 400 individuals.
What caused such an uproar of commotion one may ask? It could have strained from illness and underlying stress. This psychosis was caused by severe famine in the region and led to numerous deaths from starvation. The area was also riddled with cases of smallpox and syphilis which caused more than enough stress and superstition throughout the town. A more plausible reason for the deaths could have been people eating extremely poisonous psychedelic mushrooms from starvation.
It is difficult enough for healthy people to dance for a couple hours, let alone days. The fact that these starving individuals were dancing for that amount of time is completely unheard of. Strangely enough, this was not the only weird plague of its time. There were seven more dancing plagues in the same region during the medieval period. A laughing epidemic even popped up for about a year and a half in Tanzania. If dancing plagues still happened around the world, it sounds like the best way to go.


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Thomas Jacobsen is the founder of Papilio Services Ltd., and heads the organisation and the firm's private clients' department. He is the company's Money Laundering Reporting Officer and is also the company's accredited agent with Identity Malta for Malta's residence and citizenship by investment programmes. After graduating from the University of Oslo with a law degree specialising in International Tax, Thomas spent some time working as a lawyer for the Royal Norwegian Air Force.
Thomas relocated to Malta in 1997 and spent ten years working within the tax and legal department of PwC. He has, over the past years, assisted and advised a number of international and local clients with their tax compliance requirements and on various cross border issues. In 2007, Thomas was a co-founder of a boutique multi-disciplinary organisation that advised international clients and high-net-worth individuals on a variety of compliance, corporate, residence and tax issues. He has extensive experience in advising clients in the setup of complex cross-border structures through the use of Maltese Companies, Trusts, Funds, Partnerships and Foundations.
Besides income tax matters, including international tax optimisation, double tax treaties, capital gains tax and intellectual property structuring, Thomas has a great deal of knowledge about Maltese company law and corporate matters, including corporate governance and management and administration affairs.
Thomas is a fellow of the Malta Institute of Taxation (MIM) and a member of the Malta Institute of Financial Services Practitioners (IFSP), International Bar Association (IBA), the Investment Migration Council (IMC), the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).